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By Mark Waldrep
The past week my local PBS station has been broadcasting an eight-episode series that explores the impact of the recording industry on modern culture. It’s called SoundBreaking: Stories from the Cutting Edge of Recorded Music and was the final project produced by legendary record producer Sir George Martin before his passing in early March of this year. I haven’t watched every show yet but I highly recommend the series for those interested in learning about the process of making commercial recordings and the forces that have influenced music production and the business. It’s very compelling stuff to hear from artists like Tom Petty, Bonnie Raitt but all the more informative to listen to producers like Robert Margouleff, Don Was, and Rick Rubin talk about the stuff that was going on behind the scenes. Most music documentaries don’t present the huge contributions that producers and engineers make to the ultimate sound of the records we love.
The focus on the role of record producers, the introduction of electric instruments, the magic of multitrackings, and the special environment of a record studio make this series worth the watch. I learned about the series from my friend Robert Margouleff a couple of years ago because he asked if Maro Chermayeff, who co-directed and produced the series, could use my main studio as the backdrop for his interview about introducing Stevie Wonder to synthesizers. The end result is very good — and I haven’t finished watching all 8 episodes.
What I found interesting is that there is almost no mention of fidelity or accuracy. Instead, it’s clear that the right musical motif or “hook” or the connection between the lead vocal and the audience are among the most important factors in the success of a hit record. This shouldn’t come as a big surprise — it certainly didn’t to me. Engineers are tasked with capturing the best rendition of the sounds produced by the musicians on their instruments. And those instruments can be acoustic or electrically amplified, synthesized or sampled, pristine or distorted beyond recognition. George Martin and The Beatles experimented with tape in very compelling ways. The ran the tape backwards, made tape loops or varying lengths to produce repetitive patterns, and edited segments of acoustic recordings out of sequence. The results were new sounds and textures that pop/rock records hadn’t possessed previously. Although, avant garde composers and sound artists had been doing this kind of thing for a couple of decades before Sir George and the fab four brought it to a popular audience.
There is magic to be heard when Giles Martin, Sir George’s son and a very well know producer and engineer in his own right, solos some of the tracks on the Rubber Soul album. Listeners of final mastered records never get a chance to hear all of the component parts AND the imagination and work that went into crafting them. The process is painstaking and requires artists to be musicians, engineers, sound artists, and critics at the same time. It turns out that the right combination of sounds at just the right time far outweighs the necessity for high fidelity. From all I’ve learned during my 40 plus years of making recordings it all boils to that. A great record doesn’t have to sound good to be a hit.
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Mark Waldrep, aka Dr. AIX, has been producing and engineering music for over 40 years. He learned electronics as a teenager from his HAM radio father while learning to play the guitar. Mark received the first doctorate in music composition from UCLA in 1986 for a "binaural" electronic music composition. Other advanced degrees include an MS in computer science, an MFA/MA in music, BM in music and a BA in art. As an engineer and producer, Mark has worked on projects for the Rolling Stones, 311, Tool, KISS, Blink 182, Blues Traveler, Britney Spears, the San Francisco Symphony, The Dover Quartet, Willie Nelson, Paul Williams, The Allman Brothers, Bad Company and many more. Dr. Waldrep has been an innovator when it comes to multimedia and music. He created the first enhanced CDs in the 90s, the first DVD-Videos released in the U.S., the first web-connected DVD, the first DVD-Audio title, the first music Blu-ray disc and the first 3D Music Album. Additionally, he launched the first High Definition Music Download site in 2007 called iTrax.com. A frequency speaker at audio events, author of numerous articles, Dr. Waldrep is currently writing a book on the production and reproduction of high-end music called, "High-End Audio: A Practical Guide to Production and Playback". The book should be completed in the fall of 2013.
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Hello Mark
I have seen three of the broadcast episodes, and will generally agree that the presentation is interesting. Unfortunately PBS just can’t help themselves when it comes to limiting the political commentary. If the recording process is the main focus, then stick to the subject matter and stop trying to attach some outside event into the story.
Kudos to Geoff Emerick (and Norman Smith before him) for their innovative engineering on those Beatles classics!
Hopefully, one day Jimmy Miller will get his proper due on his brilliant production during the Stones’ strongest musical period ’68 – ’73.
What a genius!
I watched the second episode yesterday.
The one, where George Martin says, that the goal of recording previously seemed to be to ‘take a picture of what is happening in the studio’. And that all the new possibilities gives the artist and the producers/mixers/engeneers the opportunity to ‘paint a picture with sound’.
Personally I think that good (recorded) music requires a collaboration of the (skilled) artists and the (skilled) producer etc etc.
It is, when the producers take over and create something with (often) less skilled or uncritical artists, that the trouble begins. When producers and the guys from the record companies are in charge – oh geez!
Definitely going to watch the other episodes as well.
Soundmind
‘Is torturing an electrical signal covered under the Geneva conventions?” There seems to be a disagreement about the importance of fidelity in making recordings. I knew a couple of photographers who used the images on their film as a starting point. By the time they were done, you’d have no clue as to what the photo was originally about. Creative destruction.
Personally I viewed the problem of duplicating what I heard live as a purely intellectual challenge. I was only interested in the sounds I liked, live symphonic concerts, choral works, some operas, and some other classical music including piano, violins, cellos, string quartets, and operatic voices. Others weren’t worth the bother. For them there is no right answer and therefore no best solution. Whatever floats your boat. But when it comes to adult music, don’t tell me the best this industry can do is very good because it isn’t, at least not to my ears.
Musicians, engineers, and producers can do anything they want to arrive at a “sound” that they want. I think it’s more important to them in many commercial instances than fidelity. Artists can and should push the boundaries of creativity without restrictions. Who says that using tape loops or distortion can contribute to a compelling sound? One man’s destruction is another’s inspiration. You seem to desire the sound to match the real world event — a sort of sonic documentary. You said it best with the statement, “whatever floats your boat”.
Once upon a time those who were interested in the serious end of this industry called their equipment high fidelity promising a successful if long march to being able to recreate the sounds of live performances of the most demanding and greatest musical performances of music by the most ingenious composers in what I call documented recordings. Manufactured recordings which are the mainstay of the market for recordings use increasingly clever and sophisticated methods to manipulate other kinds of music to appeal to a less sophisticated audience. There’s nothing wrong with that. This is not to say that documented recordings didn’t use manipulation but that was done in the service of getting what the engineers felt would be closer to their goal.
That was a long time ago. The truth is, to be perfectly blunt, the problem of understanding and engineering solutions to the goal of high fidelity has beaten all of the best minds who made a serious effort at it to a pulp. They’ve made very little progress in the last 50 or 60 years. They are about as clueless as they ever were. They just keep doing the same things over and over and over again trying to improve the results of their badly flawed models. Frankly I’ve met some of these people and I’ve also been surrounded much of my life by some of the best scientists and engineers in other fields. Sorry to say it and I know they will take it as in insult but IMO they are not even remotely intellectually up to the task. It’s small wonder they’ve failed so badly.
As for the mass market it is doing just fine with compressed downloads of the likes of Taylor Swift mp3 files played through earbuds. No more retail stores, no more middlemen, bits for cash in instant transactions over the internet.
“But when it comes to adult music, don’t tell me the best this industry can do is very good because it isn’t, at least not to my ears.”
Modern recordings sound far better than even the best in-concert performance. Today’s audiences are more distracted and disruptive than ever and I wonder why they even attend concerts if they’d rather play with a smartphone [sic] like a bored child. The last time I enjoyed a well-behaved audience was a recital by Vadym Kholodenko performed just weeks after his ex-wife murdered his daughters; maybe the morbid sense of occasion kept everyone alert and in the moment. He was interviewed post-concert and remarked that we were very respectful and appreciative, and we were: we applauded like crazy and he rewarded us with three encores.
Watching musicians play their instruments is about the only benefit of live concerts these days — virtually all SACDs and Blu-Rays, and even some RBCDs, are sonically superior to the real deal.
If you want live music to sound more like a hi fi set because that is what you are most accustomed to hearing, then you’re right. It’s a matter of taste. I prefer unamplified music played in a great concert hall like Carnegie Hall. To my hearing these beautiful sounds cannot be duplicated by hi fi equipment. Sounds from hi fi sets sound like pale imitations coming out of a box or panel Multichannel systems don’t work either. Everything about them is wrong. Wrong tone, wrong dynamics, no envelopment. Evidently those with a lot of money agree, otherwise why would they commission the construction of concert halls that can cost a hundred million dollars or more and hope for the best acoustics only to be frequently disappointed in the results. From your point of view they might just as well go to a place with a sound reinforcement system. Of course what I call children’s music needs electronic amplification because without it, most of these singers’ feeble voices wouldn’t be heard beyond the third row.
As for acoustic isolation, architects use special techniques to exclude outside noise and building systems like HVAC systems from intruding on the sound while still being effective. There are Architectural Institute of America standards for quietness of empty concert halls. They are usually specified as something like NIC 27 and are A weighted. The results are measured and compared with the specifications. Unfortunately those interested purely in architectural statements often overrule those who are knowledgeable about acoustics when concert halls are built. Avery Fisher Hall still has awful acoustics after 50 years and countless tens of millions of dollars of remediation later is a prime example of the disastrous results when that happens. You are right though, some in the audience can be rude and inconsiderate by unnecessarily making noise that reduces the enjoyment of others who are only interested in hearing the performance.
Let’s stick with “it’s a matter of taste”. I would agree that live concert experiences — including those featuring “adult music” — are routinely disappointing to this listener. I’ve attended many hundreds of live classical concerts in venues around the world. The sound in a large hall — even those with superior acoustics — is IMHO way too distant. The diffusion of the room blurs the details and tonal characteristics of individual instruments, reduces the impact of dynamic changes, and presents a very narrow spatial image. A live concert experience is about the magic of the moment, the glorious realization of a composition under the direct control of the conductor, soloist, or musicians. I’ve seen Yo Yo Ma in a small venue and that was much better but still not ideal. Can a recording provide accurate tone, impressive dynamics, and immersive envelopment? — absolutely! You and I are going to have to disagree on these points. I would much rather listen to my 5.1 recording of the Old City String Quartet playing Mozart or Bryon Pezzone improvising on “We Shall Overcome” on a Steinway Model D 9-foot Grand Piano than sit 30 feet away from the artists in any hall I’ve ever visited. Is it a different experience? Yes, certainly. Is it equally valid? Also yes.
Yes Mark, we will certainly disagree. Which experience is better? There is no such thing. For me it’s the live music when it is well performed, music I like, and in a place with great acoustics. For you it’s from a hi fi set. Nothing wrong with that but our goals are different and to be sure the qualities of sound are also very different.
I would however point out that many communities, colleges philanthropists, governments shell out a hundred million dollars or more to build a concert hall and a lot has been done to study them to find out why they sound different not only from recordings but from each other. There are no unanimous opinions on which is best or even an order to their relative levels of qualities but a couple that stand out is the Grossesalle Musikverein in Vienna Austria and Boston Symphony Hall. There is a large body of informed opinion that Boston Symphony Hall is the best room for listening to music in the United States and one of the two or three best in the world. One who holds to that opinion is Leo Beranek.
You’re right — designing and building mega million dollar performance venues (or sport stadiums of museums) is a big deal. But the recorded music industry is larger by far. They are two completely different market segments that share the art of music.
Mark, it all depends on how you define music. For me music is a direct communication between human beings. Recordings are merely facsimiles. For many if not most people recordings are also music. If nothing else even for them, the recording is a filter. Why do recording engineers sweat so much over getting exactly what they want in post production, that is after the “musicians” have performed? It all depends on what you have to work with. Often, in fact most of the time these days, IMO recording engineers have little or nothing of substance as starting material to work on. But luckily for them they have a vast array of powerful tools to work with. Too bad Accu-tune pitch correction equipment wasn’t around for Barbara Streisand. Evidently it didn’t matter to her fans that she couldn’t sing on key. IMO they couldn’t tell the difference anyway. For people like me, her voice makes us cringe. And things have only gotten worse since, much worse.
Mark, recording and production are also processes that require skill, creativity, technical skill, and imagination. It’s a very different process than capturing a live performance — with different goals. One isn’t necessarily any better than another. The particulars of an individual artist and the technology available at the time are variables. “Evergreen” written by my friend Paul Williams and sung by Barbara Streisand is a masterpiece in many ways.
Acoustics of venue affects many things, tonality being one of them. Timbre is only one part of tonality. Perceived power of the source is an example of another.
In a concert hall, it can take up to two seconds or more for sound to die out at 1 khz. But high frequencies die out faster. Typically a concert hall might have an RT 60, the time it takes sound to decay by a factor of 1 million 2 seconds at 1 kHz, 1 second at 8 kHz. The first arriving sound has the highest ratio of high frequencies to the rest of the spectrum. The sharp transient attacks give sound clarity and impact such as a cymbal crash. The more rapid falloff of high frequencies makes the sound mellower. Where the reflections are largely lost, that is in recordings, clarity and mellowness of tone appear to be two diametrically opposed qualities as designers struggle to get a suitable balance. In the 1960s Edgar Villchur rationalized the high frequency rolloff of his speakers by comparing them to the steady state transfer function of concert halls typically measured with what’s called an ILC fan. In the 1980s, BBC made the same mistake. It’s a dilemma of heads you lose, tails you lose. The timbre of sound is a dynamic phenomenon that cannot be duplicated by a steady state analysis and design based on it. The tone of musical instruments heard at a live concert in a large venue cannot be duplicated by current recording technology except binaural recording systems that fail for other reasons.
When powerful sounds like a full symphony orchestra play at loud levels, they create the impression of a very large powerful source filling a huge space for a considerable time, 2 or more seconds for each note to die out. This is why composers create and conductors exploit grand pauses, an orchestra building to a crescendo and then stopping waiting for the echoes to die out building tension for the next note. It is for the conductor to judge by the acoustics of a particular venue how long this should be which is why orchestras usually sound best “at home” in acoustics they are familiar with. With a recording that does not capture this, the rest (pause between notes) becomes a discontinuity destroying the effect the composer tried to create. An orchestra or other large source of sound that is so powerful sounding and enveloping in a large hall becomes an blaring, blasting, annoyance from near by small sources, that is loudspeakers in a small room from a recording. These are just some of the enhancements to sound suitable listening spaces create for live music that our best technology today cannot duplicate. There are many others.
jimf
I have been watching it so far…a very good series. Very interesting to see the history of advancements in recording and how they affected the music
The Decca Tree often used by BBC with a ton of other mikes that grew from acorns that fell from the tree.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBvVE6dMWcM
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jonathanliber
My music teacher and I are having a hard time locating this sound breaking series. Does anyone have a link?
Look on your local PBS station. That’s where I’ve been watching them.
You can watch these online on the pbs.org website.
Depending on your geographical location, you might need some kind of VPN service, though.
I watched all 8 episodes. Great series – I learned a lot.
Phil Olenick
Unfortunately, at least in the Boston area, this series was available to stream from the PBS website only for about two weeks, ending on November 28th. Other PBS shows are kept available for a year or two, or David Eagleman’s very provocative series on the brain, which was shown last year and is available for nine more years.
I find the debate about whether recordings are illegitimate if they don’t strive to duplicate the sound heard from a seat in the audience – with the ultimate expression of a binaural dummy head placed in the center of the hall, yielding a very muffled sound in my opinion – or can be a “god’s ear view” like AIX’s stage perspective surround mixes – or a completely “assembled” work of art like the later Beatles records that could never exist except as a recording ignores the lesson of the history of cinema.
Cinema may have shown stage performances from a seat in the audience in its early years, but rapidly moved to closeups, location shooting, and special effects. To say that modern film is not an art form independent of the theater would be laughed at – and the insistence that no recording is legitimate other than the placing of a binaural head in the center of a concert hall is no different.
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If you’re considering opening another restaurant outside of your current area, you may be in for a rude awakening. Changes ranging from minor menu redesign to a major concept overhaul are often required to stay competitive in a new location. And while change is never fun, history proves that those who adapt are more apt to survive.
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“When opening in a new city, our chefs keep 70 percent to 80 percent of the core STK menu, with the remaining 20 percent to 30 percent focusing on dishes the city is best known for,” says Jonathan Segal, c.e.o. of STK, which opened its first location in NYC in 2006 and has since expanded to L.A., Miami, Atlanta and beyond.
“In Atlanta, we feature Georgia peach cobbler, while in London we have a grilled prawns starter. Nuanced changes like these allow us to appeal to locals while staying true to our STK brand.”
Cibo Wine Bar, based in Toronto, entered the U.S. market in 2011, and Nick Di Donato, Cibo's founder and president and c.e.o. of Liberty Entertainment Group, says it was important to display the authentic Italian concept for the new clientele in Florida.
“In Coral Gables we have a partially open kitchen with visible charcuterie station,” he explains. “As we moved forward with new locations we also added an open pasta-making station so people can see how fresh made our products are.”
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“The biggest change was having to move from strictly QSR to implementing a full-service restaurant on nights and weekends; customers in Orlando were not receptive to our normal QSR format,” says Tung. “We then had to enhance our sushi menu to fit the palate of the more experienced sushi eater in the Orlando marketplace, and expand our beverage portfolio to compete with surrounding businesses.”
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Reworking can be difficult, especially with an established brand. So how can you predict what needs to change before opening in an unfamiliar location? Segal says that STK teams up with key partners in each location that understand the local landscape and can help the restaurant best approach the demographic.
“In each new market we adapt to meet the needs of local palates,” says Segal. “In London, you'll find dishes such as lamb rump and British cuts of meat, and in Las Vegas you'll find decadent options like Dover sole, which won't appear on most menus.”
Once each venue has opened, Segal says they are closely monitored to ensure they stay on trend. “Based on our assessments, we can develop or tweak further offerings and promotions that resonate with the regional audience for that location,” he says.
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Day 1: Amsterdam, Netherlands
The Amsterdam dancing houses over Amstel river in Amsterdam, Netherlands
Amsterdam delivers a sensory overload— from its welcoming gezellig Dutch spirit to the clinking of bicycle chains and tulips of every color. This is where 17th-century Golden Age estates meet gritty Red Light District alleys, all woven together by an elaborate system of canals. Stand amidst the bustle of Dam Square and pick fresh blooms at Bloemenmarkt. See where celebrated painter Rembrandt once worked and admire his masterpieces at Rijksmuseum. Nibble on Gouda amid the greenery of Vondelpark— or relax in one of the city’s quirky coffee shops. Here it’s easy to let go and give in to romantic adventures.
Glass top boat ride along the canals of Amsterdam, Netherlands
CRUISING FOR A PERUSING
No visit to Amsterdam is complete without a boat ride along its picturesque maze of canals. Gain a unique perspective of the city’s UNESCO-listed Canal Ring district as you float under historic bridges and past gabled mansions— whether in a glass-topped tour boat or in your own rented pedal boat.
The Van Hogh museum
GOGH FOR THE ART
Enter the world-renowned Van Gogh Museum to explore the life and greatest works of the Dutch post-impressionist painter Vincent Van Gogh. Home to the world’s largest collection of paintings by the artist, this inspiring space houses many of his famous self-portraits and paintings, like The Potato Eaters and Sunflowers.
Beautiful sunrise over Amsterdam, Netherlands, with flowers and bicycles on a bridge in spring
A statue of Anne Frank in Amsterdam, Netherlands
JOURNAL TO THE PAST
Relive the harrowing story of young Jewish teenager Anne Frank, whose diary entries during World War II became one of the best-selling books of all time. Step inside the annex where she lived in hiding with her family, viewing the converted museum exhibitions that detail their time in Amsterdam.
Aerial view of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Stack of fresh Stroopwafels with honey and coffee, in a shop in Amsterdam, Netherlands
Amsterdam delivers a mix of Michelin-rated restaurants, canal-side cafes, and quintessential “Brown Bar” pubs. Hit a street market for herring sandwiches, syrup-filled stroopwafels, or fries slathered with mayonnaise. You can’t go wrong with stamppot (veggie mashed potatoes) or bitterballen (fried meatballs). And if you’re thirsty, sip jenever (Dutch gin)— or taste beer at the Heineken Experience.
Tulips for sale at a flower market in Amsterdam, Netherlands
De Bijenkorf is the city’s most famous department store since 1870. Daily open-air markets span the city, including the aromatic Flower Market. Browse jewelry shops and boutiques among The Nine Streets— or pick up cannabis-inspired goods in the Red Light District. Also be sure to take home the region’s legendary blue Delft pottery.
Day 3: Geiranger, Norway
Aerial view of Geiranger, Norway and a fjord
Welcome to the Jewel in the Crown of Norway's fjords. Geiranger Fjord was made a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2005, but the area has been luring tourists since the turn of the 19th century. Take the Waterfall Walk to the heart of the cascades. Climb the Skywalk for Europe's highest fjord view with Norway cruises. Explore Geiranger by bike or on foot, or hop in a raft or kayak for a view from the water. Once you've taken in your fill of mountain air, stroll the quaint village center. Indulge your sweet tooth at the local artisan chocolate shop, or sit back at a cafe with a coffee and a krumkake — a rolled cake with whipped cream in the center — and enjoy the view.
View of a fjord from Dalsnibba Mountain
Airy Adventure
The Geiranger Skywalk, at the top of Mount Dalsnibba, offers unobstructed views of the fjord and the Blabreen glacier, as well as the surrounding mountains. The walk up stone steps cut into the mountainside is an adventure in and of itself.
Sit on the Queen Sonja of Norway throne at Flydalsjuvet near the village of Geiranger and enjoy spectacular views.
View of the winding Eagle Road in Norway
Ride the Eagle
Eagle Road, named after the eagles traditional to the area, features 11 hairpin turns. The highest point at Korsmyra is 620 meters above sea level. Take a bus tour to the top and enjoy panoramic views over Geiranger, the Geirangerfjord and the Seven Sisters Falls.
Hop on a rib boat for a blood-pumping safari through Geiranger fjord.
Multiple small boats docked at a pier in Geiranger, Norway,
Take a guided fishing boat, or rent one of your own. The lakes and rivers around Geiranger are brimming with salmon, trout and many other species. A day fishing license is a worthwhile investment and will only cost you about 20 Norwegian kroner.
Learn more about the history and culture of the fjords at the Norwegian Fjord Center, which also sells local delicacies and handicrafts.
A plater of roasted tiger prawns
Geiranger's restaurants take advantage of both the area's views and its natural bounty, including fish from the river, lakes and ocean and a countryside filled with wild berries and mushrooms. Sample local tiger prawns fried in olive oil. Or try one of the creative craft pizzas that have become trendy here.
Seven Sisters Waterfall in Norway
Assorted traditional bags in Norway
Geiranger has plenty of shops offering traditional Norwegian handicrafts, including wool garments and household and decorative items crafted from local wood. Take home some unique chocolate from Geiranger Sjokolade — a purveyor of handmade chocolate and the first ever chocolate factory to operate from a boathouse.
Day 4: Bergen, Norway
Colorful homes lining the coast on a winter day in Bergen, Norway
Set against the backdrop of seven mountains, Bergen's natural beauty and historical charm will stop you in your tracks. Stroll through the Bryggen neighborhood, with its medieval cobblestone alleyways and red, yellow and white painted houses. Take the cable car or a one-hour hike to the top of Mt. Floyen, and soak in dramatic views of the city and the surrounding fjords with Norway cruises. Encounter trolls — don't worry, they're only statues — in the Troll Forest. Later, learn why Bergen is a UNESCO City of Gastronomy with a meal at one of the city's forward-thinking restaurants, where chefs prepare cold-water seafood and local produce with modernist techniques.
Traditional homes in Bergen, Norway
Walk Through History
Wander alongside the wharf and through the narrow alleyways of Bryggen, the oldest part of Bergen. See the colorful UNESCO-listed wooden buildings, preserved or rebuilt in their original Medieval style. Curious to find out more about the city's history? Visit the Hanseatic Museum or the Bryggens Museum.
For rainy days, bring an umbrella or raincoat, or head indoors to one of the city's world-class museums.
A cable car going up a mountain over Bergen, Norway
Sights From the Summit
Head to the top of Mt. Floyen or Mt. Ulriken for dramatic views of the city, the fjords and the ocean. The cable car or funicular will take you there in just a few minutes. Want to stretch your legs? Mt. Floyen is an approachable one-hour hike up peaceful trails.
September is a great month for foodies to visit Bergen; the summer rush is over, and the season of food and beer festivals begins.
A park pavilion in Bergen, Norway
Bergen International Festival, Bergenfest and Bergen Live are among the many yearly festivals held here. Get to know the locals while listening to a rock or jazz band in one of the city's trendy nightclubs. Or indulge in a concert by the world's oldest symphony orchestra in modernist Grieg Hall.
Aerial view of Bergen, Norway
An assortment of seafood for sale at a fish market in Bergen, Norway
Treat yourself to a Skillingsbolle cinnamon bun for a breakfast. Don't miss the seafood-centric freshness of Bergen fish soup, traditional fish cakes and local king crab. At the dinner hour, head to the Bryggen district, where you'll find higher-end restaurants transforming local ingredients into refined, modern plates.
Coastal city of Bergen, Norway surrounded by lush mountains
Traditional rosemaling plates in Bergen, Norway
Bergen is known as the Norwegian shopping capital, so the chances are high you'll find what you're looking for. Check out one of the department stores — Bergen Storsenter is the largest — or trendy design stores stocked with cool gifts, souvenirs, homewares and fashion by local fashion designers, like Dale of Norway and Oleana.
Day 5: Alesund, Norway
Coastal view of Alesund, Norway
Alesund is a small but lively city with a unique modern feel. A rebuilding effort following a major fire in 1904 gave the city its distinctive Art Nouveau — or "Jugendstil" — architectural style, defined its ornate details, asymmetrical facades and curving forms meant to resemble plants, animals and flowers. From the city park, walk up the 418 steps to the city's peak, Aksla — you'll be rewarded with a gorgeous panoramic view on the city, the islands and the rugged Sunnmorsalpane mountain range. Alesund is the home base for Norway's largest cod fishing fleet, so you won't have to go far to try some of the delicious and fresh seafood dishes during your Norway cruise.
Several historic art nouveau buildings in Alesund, Norway
Art Nouveau Artifacts
Visit Jugendstil Senteret, a former pharmacy and the first listed Jugendstil monument in Alesund. Take an up-close look at this unique take on the Art Nouveau style, with its many floral patterns. Learn more about the rebuilding of the city after the great fire in 1904. Next door is Kube, Alesund's primary contemporary art space.
Norway is on its way to becoming a cashless society — you might actually find spots that accept only credit cards.
a person sitting in front of an aquarium display as fish swim by
Aquatic Adventure
Head to Atlanterhavsparken, a 4 million liter aquarium just three kilometers from the town center. The place is teeming North Atlantic undersea life. Kids can feed the fish at the touch pool, and there are also penguin and seal exhibits. Admire the coastal scenery from the walking trails that start here.
Get the booklet "Along the Streets of Alesund" from the Tourist Office — it'll guide you on a walking tour of the town's architectural highlights.
various trays with street food
Festival Frenzy
Alesund is well-known for the many concerts and festivals that take place here. Have a look at what's on when you're in town. Popular events include the Alesund Theatre Festival, the Norwegian Food Festival and art and music festivals such as Jugendfest and Trandal Country Festival.
Boats docked in a river in Alesund, Norway with colorful buildings on the shore
A bowl of fish soup
Alesund has several excellent top-end dining options — and naturally, seafood is the highlight. Try the salt cod, pan-fried cod tongues, mussels, poached salmon or tasty fish soups. For breakfast or an afternoon treat, sit down at a patisserie, cafe or espresso bar and enjoy a cup of strong coffee alongside a Solskinnskringle, a classic vanilla custard-based pastry.
Two boats docked outside of a red fishing hut in Norway
A blue traditional Norwegian bowl with fish decorations
Head to Moloveien Street in the old harbor district near the fishing museum. You'll find several buildings from the period before the big fire in 1904. Among them are unique local shops specializing in everything from collectible Norwegian antiques to handcrafted glasswork and home goods.
Salmon Salad bowl with Watercress served at Izumi, a fine dining Japanese Restaurant. One of our best vacation cruise dining.
Lamb Cutlet & Vegetables at the elegant Chefs Table restaurant. Enjoy cruise line fine dining menu with artisanal ingredients
Day 7 - 8: Reykjavik, Iceland
Aerial view of Reykjavik, Iceland with mountains in the background.
Reykjavik is the beating heart of Iceland. The city was founded in 1786, but it's also the site of Iceland's first permanent settlement, dating back to 874 AD. Check out the Settlement Exhibition, a combination archaeological ruin and museum based around a 10th-century longhouse, where interactive technology and archaeology reveal historical Iceland. The church Hallgrimskirkja dominates the skyline — admire its distinctive Expressionist-style architecture designed to mirror the nearby mountains and glaciers during your Iceland cruise.
View of the organ inside a cathedral in Reykjavik, Iceland
Reach for the Sky
Hallgrimskirkja Church towers over the city. Hop on the elevator to rise 75 meters into the spire, where you'll enjoy panoramic views. In the surprisingly understated interior, you'll find the vast 5,275-pipe organ, upon which an organist performs near-daily concerts.
Take a 30-minute guided tour of the glittering Harpa Music Hall, located on the edge of the port.
View of the Perlan in Reykjavik, Iceland
Worldwide Wonder
Grab the free shuttle bus every half hour from Harpa Music Hall to the Perlan Dome, which reveals the wonders of Iceland through exhibitions that include a man-made ice cave, a planetarium and an interactive glacier show. The observation deck puts your attention on the natural wonders of Iceland, including mountains, geothermal areas, the ocean and a glacier.
Kolaportio Flea Market is housed in an old industrial building by the harbor and offers everything from secondhand clothes to food and knock-off designer goods.
People enjoying the Blue Lagoon geothermal spa in Reykjavik, Iceland
Get Steamy
Built on a lava field and heated with geothermal energy, the famous Blue Lagoon is an easy 45-minute drive from Reykjavik. Pamper yourself with mud masks and massages while in the hot water. There's plenty to do on dry land as well with cruises to Iceland — relax in a steam room, dine at LAVA Restaurant or shop for skincare products to bring a piece of Iceland home.
The Hallgrimskirkja Cathedral in Reykjavik, Iceland
An Icelandic hot dog
Reykjavik holds culinary pleasures both high and low. Many local spots serve up hearty Icelandic meat stew, made with lamb, potatoes, carrots and lots of herbs. Seek out creamy lobster stew and locally caught langoustine tails. And don't miss out on the national street food: the Icelandic hot dog.
Waterfront homes in Reykjavik, Iceland
A wool sweater on a wooden floor
Laugavegur, or "the Wash Road," is the hippest shopping street in this compact city. An easy walk from port, the district offers a wide range of designer clothes, artisan wools and housewares. It's also home to an excellent bookstore and several spots for modern, design-driven home goods that bridge the gap between decorative and utilitarian.
Family Swimming and Enjoying the Pool
Girls Splashing and Running by the Pool
Soak up the sun or savor the shade on expanded pool decks, with complimentary loungers, live music, and the opportunity to enjoy a frosty cocktail.
Sunset at the Solarium Pool
Day 9: Akureyri, Iceland
Scenic countryside landscape in Akureyri, Iceland
For a city of 18,000 residents, Akureyri packs a lively punch. Situated at the head of Eyjafjordur, Iceland's longest fjord, the first thing you'll notice is the backdrop of dramatic snow-covered mountains. Take a stroll through the Old Town and admire the 19th-century turf houses. Sample some authentic Icelandic cuisine, or warm up in the steaming Akureyri Thermal Pool. Around the corner, you'll find Akureyri's basalt church, Akureyrarkirkja, with its striking, futuristic facade. Iceland cruises give you access to stroll through Lystigardurinn, the northernmost botanical garden in the world, and breathe in the fresh air and the scent of wild arctic flowers.
Colorful flowers at a botanical garden in Akureyri, Iceland
Find a wealth of plant life at a stone's throw from the Arctic Circle. At Lystigardurinn, the most northerly botanical garden in the world, you can walk along green pathways lined with colorful, sweet-smelling flowers, and take a look at Iceland's native species, as well as 4,000 foreign plants.
There's a free town bus service on four routes. Look for the yellow buses.
Buildings at the Laufas Rectory Farm Museum in Akureyri, Iceland
Turf Tour
Take a taxi 23 kilometers to Laufas, where you'll find quaint turf-roofed farmhouses built in the 1860s. They may remind you of the hobbits' houses in "The Lord of the Rings" — but more importantly, they're a window into how Icelanders once lived.
Several cafes and museums offer free Wi-Fi.
Clear blue water within a cave in Iceland
Heat It Up
The Akureyri Thermal Pool is one of Iceland's finest. Cruise to Iceland and splash about or relax in the indoor and outdoor pools, which are open year-round. Join the locals for a dip in the geothermal hot spots, the 25-meter pool or the Turkish bath. There are also water slides and a pool for younger children.
Chances are high that there will be a festival in town, such as the annual Akureyri Art Summer, Local Food Festival or Akureyri Town Festival.
Hardfiskur dried fish with a side of charcoal bread and butter
After sightseeing and bathing, you'll probably have worked up quite an appetite. Luckily, Akureyri has lots of restaurants nestled in its downtown center. Icelandic cuisine is based on fish, lamb, dairy, root vegetables and herbs. If you're brave enough, try hakarl (fermented shark). Wash it down with a local craft beer or a taste of Brennivin, the traditional schnapps.
The steps leading up to the Church of Akureyri
An assortment of wool sweaters at a store
You don't need to walk far when shopping in Akureyri: Most shops are in the city center along Hafnarsteti street and in the Glerartorg shopping mall. You'll find trendy designer brands, fun souvenirs and high-fashion labels. The Icelandic Kroner (ISK) is the official currency, and many stores accept credit cards.
Day 10: Cruising
Orchestra on red and blue lights stage during the Center Stage Cruise Show on Oasis of the Seas
Day 11: Lerwick / Shetland, Scotland
Lerwick / Shetland
View of the town hall in Lerwick/Shetland, Scotland
Lerwick is a seafaring town with a proud maritime and Nordic heritage. It's the only town on Scotland's Shetland Islands, which were a part of Norway until the 15th century. Originally a fishing village before becoming a major herring port, the town's harbor today is dotted with sailing ships, private yachts and boats. Explore the Shetland Museum to learn more about the islands' complex geology and see artifacts from the Iron Age and Viking era. Explore the rocky coastline and rolling green landscape by bike on the North Sea Cycle Route, and catch glimpses of the famous Shetland ponies roaming the open countryside. Cruise to Lerwick, Scotland and relax after your day of active adventure by toasting a pint at Lerwick Brewery.
A vintage textile loom
Be Tempted by Textiles
Learn more about the heritage textile skills unique to these islands at Shetland Textile Museum. The museum's collection includes hundreds of items, dating from 1870 to 2016. These include Shetland lace, Fair Isle knitting, Shetland Taatit rugs and woven tweed. The museum also has tools, papers and patterns on display.
Unless you want to cycle the North Sea Cycle Route, Lerwick's top attractions are within walking distance of each other.
A man bicycling on a road in Lerwick/Shetland, Scotland
Cycle the Isles
The North Sea Cycle Route runs through Norway, Scotland, England, Denmark, the Netherlands and Sweden. Visit one of Lerwick's bike hire companies and spend a day exploring the coastline along the section of the North Sea Cycle Route that stretches through the island during your Norway cruise. There are signposts around Shetland for directions.
Lerwick's average summer temperature is 54 degrees Fahrenheit, so pack warm layers for year-round travel.
Sliced black pudding on a fresh salad
Hay's Dock Cafe Restaurant is a waterfront dining option, located inside the award-winning Shetland Museum and Archives. Fjara Cafe Bar is also on the waterfront; serving breakfast, lunch and dinner, Fjara focuses on local produce. Here you'll find, pork, leek sausage, black pudding and espresso to satisfy your cravings. Lerwick Brewery is a family-run business with four beers on constant rotation.
The ruins of old stone homes in Lerwick/Shetland, Scotland
An assortment of Scottish wool
Shetland Museum and Archives' gift shop also has Shetland-theme books and maritime souvenirs. The Shetland Times Bookshop stocks both an array of books and gifts. On Commercial street, you'll find shops selling handcrafted homeware and items made from Shetland lace and wool — including hats, sweaters, scarves and even jewelry.
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Day 13: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Traditional old buildings and tulips in Amsterdam, Netherlands
Sunset shot of bridges over canals during Autumn in Amsterdam, Netherlands
The Royal Palace in Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Williams MAGNOLIA, Arkansas — Madeline Alysse Williams, of Ruston, graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from Southern Arkansas University at the Fall Commencement ceremonies held on Dec. 13, 2019.
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DEAR HARRIETTE: My children get mad at me because I’m old-school: I don’t care how old they are — I don’t want them leaving home without putting on lotion. I
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Research proves what we knew: Weather affects mood
Why is it that I only feel like going to the gym when the sun is shining? It’s hard enough to get motivated to go in the first place, but
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One dead in downtown Ruston shooting
A Grambling man is dead following a shooting early Sunday morning in downtown Ruston.
The Ruston Police Department in a release said that it responded to reports of a person shot at 12:08 a.m. inside of a party on West Mississippi Avenue.
The release said that Jeffery D. Early of Grambling was located and transported to the hospital where he later died.
No suspects have been named and the investigation is ongoing.
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GSU to host Prairie View A&M
Grambling State University’s basketball teams will play a home doubleheader vs. Prairie View on Saturday, Jan. 18. Justice Coleman (12, above), who tops the GSU women (2-13 overall, 1-3 Southwestern Athletic Conference) with 13.5 points per game, will lead the Lady Tigers into action at 3 p.m. at the Fredrick C. Hobdy Assembly Center while Ivy Smith Jr. (below), who tops the G-Men with 14.0 points per game, and the GSU men (9-13 overall, 3-1 SWAC) will play the Panthers around 5:30 p.m.
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Lady Techsters suffer road loss 60-47 to Owls
HOUSTON — One game after its best offensive performance of the year, Louisiana Tech saw one of its toughest as the Lady Techsters fell 60-47 to the Rice Owls Thursday night at Tudor Fieldhouse.
Tech (9-6, 1-3 Conference USA) shot just 26 percent from the field and hit only 3-of-21 3-point shots as the defending C-USA champion Owls (10-6, 5-0 C-USA) won their 21st straight regular season league contest.
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Bulldogs feast on Rice, 72-56
Louisiana Tech never trailed on Thursday night, getting doublefigure scoring from four players to cruise to a 72-56 victory over Rice inside the Thomas Assembly Center on Karl Malone Court.
Tech (13-4, 4-1 C-USA) used an early 9-0 run, with all nine of those points coming from DaQuan Bracey, to take an 11-2 lead. Once the lead got into double figures, it stayed there as the Bulldogs improved to 9-0 at home this season.
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Ronda Johnson, special outdoors advocate
When Mira resident Craig Long put the crosshairs on a giant buck on Dec. 8, he had a special lady and her husband to thank.
Ronda Johnson along with her husband, Larry, heads up a Wheelin Sportsmen program making it possible for physically challenged individuals like Long to get to enjoy outdoors activities such as hunting and fishing.
Long, who was born with a disability, was one of the hunters taking part in a special hunt in south Natchitoches Parish. He was successful in downing the big 10-point buck that scored 161-plus inches of antler.
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Donald Charles Kuehn
Donald Charles Kuehn, 74, of Tavares, Florida, who passed away Saturday, Dec. 21, 2019, at AdventHealth Orlando was born on June 17, 1945, in Los Angeles, California, to Robert Jasper Kuehn and Kathleen Belle January Kuehn. The family moved back to his father’s hometown of Natchez, Mississippi, in September of 1945.
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ADIEM 2020 Call for Award Nominations
Visionary Educator Award
To be presented annually to an individual that has demonstrated an extraordinary impact on the academic success of students or residents from under-represented minority groups.
Outstanding Academician Award
To be presented annually to an individual who by virtue of their scholarship has addressed health disparities in EM and/or promoted cultural competency and diversity in the workplace.
Outstanding Future Academician Award
To be presented annually to an underrepresented minority resident or medical student who has demonstrated a commitment to the principles of inclusion and diversity through his/her work in the fields of education, research or service.
To nominate someone please send the required documentation to adiemawards@saem.org. All nominees must be a current SAEM and ADIEM member. Self-nominations are welcome and encouraged. The deadline to submit is 4:00 pm CST on Friday, March 6, 2020. Awards will be announced at the annual ADIEM business meeting at SAEM20 in Denver, CO.
Nominee’s CV
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International Conference in Deaf Geographies June 27-28, 2016
Program (Abstracts below)
9.00 Registration
Session 1: Deaf Space/Deaf Gain: Atkins, Kocher
Session 2: Historical Deaf Geographies 1: Ennis, Robinson
Session 3: Historical Deaf Geographies 2: Edwards, Gulliver
17.30 ICDG Reception
Session 4: Deaf Space Tour: NTID
Session 5: Deaf Bodies & Deafscapes: Diflo, Walker
Session 6: ICDG – Futures, Challenges and Opportunities Discussion: Kitzel
2:30 Coffee Break
15.00 Conference Wrap-up
15.30 The ICDG 2016 Toast
ABSTRACTS:
The Social Networks of Deaf Entrepreneurs and Business Owners: A Preliminary Analysis
W. Scot Atkins, Ed.D
Business Studies, National Technical Institute for the Deaf
Little is known about the social ties between Deaf Entrepreneurs and Business Owners and how it helps these entrepreneurs in the creation and sustaining of their business ventures. Over time, the entrepreneurs accumulate social capital, which is important for the establishment of a business. Employing Granovetter’s framework based on embeddedness in ethnic entrepreneurial networks, the author interviewed Deaf and Hard of Hearing Entrepreneurs. Via video interviews, sociograms were created for each entrepreneur to depict a visual representation of their networks. The author will share his preliminary results of the data that he has collected so far through these interviews with Deaf and Hard of Hearing Entrepreneurs. The preliminary data collected through the interviews have been coded and analyzed. Preliminary analysis reveals that the nature of the networks of Deaf Entrepreneurs is based primarily on the general industry of which the business is a part. These networks vary among the Deaf Entrepreneurs and there are different types of networks for differing business and social needs. Both of these networks are critical for Deaf Entrepreneurs due to the close-knit nature of the Deaf community. These themes will be discussed along with other preliminary findings of the study.
Dasein and Survival: Making Space for Deafness
Elizabeth Diflo
Graduate Student, M.A. Deaf Studies
Dept. of American Sign Language and Deaf Studies, Gallaudet University
If, as Goffman (1963) says, the obtrusiveness of social stigma is what ruptures schema, where does deafness reside? Exterior technological markers imply that deafness resides nowhere, and that assistive hardware must be applied to fill the “missing” space. Visible stigma can appear to obtrude outward, taking up residence in the literal world as well as in people’s psyches. Deaf people occupy proximal space with their movement and signing, but also require space for their schools, space for their interpreters, space in their lawmakers’ minds to accommodate for them. Asserting ownership of access and accommodation can feel freeing, but allotted space is typically contingent on emulating hearingness. Technology and accommodations can then act as stigma markers, thus becoming deafness itself. Deaf bodies expand palpably into the world, absorbing machinery and filling the space around them (Cherney 1999), however, in the hearing framework of existence, the deaf person as a cyborg entity evokes emptiness. Despite the narrative that deaf people take up too much space, what they lack is emphasized. Passing for hearing can occur incidentally, but compulsory passing, in school, at work, or at home, redacts deaf lives to make hearing people more comfortable. Effectively, deaf people make themselves smaller in order to survive. Nevertheless, when they forgo external markers like hearing aids, it can illustrate valuing deafness, an active claiming of space in the Deaf World, and indeed being more Deaf.
Racializing Deaf Spaces: Tracing Black Deaf Lives in Nineteenth-Century America
R.A.R. Edwards, PhD
Department of History, College of Liberal Arts
Rochester Institute of Technololy
Founded in 1817 and 1818, respectively, both the American School for the Deaf and the New York School for the Deaf were committed to providing an education to deaf people, whether white or black. The schools were racially integrated from their earliest days. While only about a dozen black deaf people attended each school in the years before the Civil War, the number of hearing black children attending school with their hearing white peers in the antebellum public schools at the time was zero. Hearing schools were racially segregated, so having any level of integration was a remarkable turn of events. Historians know very little about life inside schools for the deaf in these years. Even less is known about how the Deaf community was structured in places, both physical and social, outside of deaf schools. That is, having gone to school together, was the Deaf community similarly racially integrated beyond the classroom? After graduation, as adults, did the community include its black members as Deaf? Or did white Deaf people now think of their former classmates as simply black and exclude them, insisting upon segregation, as their white hearing peers did? Did the Deaf community think about race like the hearing community? Or did it pursue a different path? It is impossible to answer these questions conclusively at this point, and this paper will not try to do so. Rather, it will take a microhistorical approach and trace the lives of a cohort of black deaf graduates to see what answers begin to appear. In this way, we can begin to see the racial contours of nineteenth-century Deaf spaces. We can also start to gain insight into the construction of Deaf identity in the nineteenth-century and to assess the role of educational institutions in this process of building both identity and community.
Contesting Deaf Spaces at Gallaudet University
William T. Ennis, III, PhD
In his annual “Report to Congress” in 1890, Dr. Edward Miner Gallaudet, included a request for $5,000 to establish a normal department at the National Deaf-Mute College. Gallaudet’s request for the funding of a teacher training department at the college was bitterly contested by Alexander Graham Bell. In spite of this contestation, Congress agreed to the request and in 1891 the normal department at the college began accepting hearing students only who were taught the oral methods to teach deaf children.
Using the establishment of the normal department at the National Deaf-Mute College as a historical backdrop, I want to further explore deaf spaces in education, specifically where deaf spaces intersect with hearing spaces in higher education. The deaf spaces created at the college were done so within the distinctly hearing-centric endeavor of higher education, which is further muddied by the presidency of E.M. Gallaudet. As the son of a deaf woman and one of the pre-eminent educators of deaf people, E.M. Gallaudet brought a unique and credible background to fostering the creation of deaf spaces at the college. His experience, network, and knowledge afforded him the ability to move fluidly between the deaf spaces and hearing spaces and, perhaps, provides historical insight as to his decision to establish a normal school that was only open to hearing students.
“As nothing of the church now remains…”: Addressing the very peculiar challenge of deaf heritage spaces.
Mike Gulliver, PhD
Department of Historical Studies
Univ. of Bristol
There is no doubt that deaf geographies represent a huge potential gain for wider humanity. An enduring question, however, is how to explain those geographies in terms that are significant for the hearing world. One way to do this is to demonstrate to hearing society that the spaces of their world are not uniquely their own, but have been shared over time, with the deaf community. By identifying buildings, locations and environments that have hosted deaf realities, and exploring them and how they have entangled with the surrounding hearing world, we can draw both deaf and hearing people into deaf spaces and bring them into an encounter with deaf people’s contribution to the heritage of a shared-world past.
Heritage practice frameworks would be an ideal way to begin to do this. Formal heritage approaches, however, often struggle to provide anything more than cursory support for deaf heritage environments. One reason for this is that they typically rely on some kind of unique architectural or design feature upon which they can hang recognition. In some cases these exist. In many, however, they don’t. Deaf people have often had little influence over their historical environments, they have also typically not been their owners. Many ‘deaf heritage’ sites are therefore either gone, or represent little material evidence of any explicit deaf design that can be ‘listed’ or ‘preserved’ or ‘protected’. Although hugely important to the deaf community for the spaces that they have hosted, they appear on the landscape as little more than unremarkable sites – spaces that are places in memory, but that have little intrinsic material ‘value’.
This paper presents some initial thinking from a UK project focusing on England’s first purpose-built deaf church, and the UK’s first PhD to focus specifically on the question of deaf heritage itself.
Critical Deaf Geographies: A critique of culture, and a culture of critique
Austin Kocher,
Deaf studies has an uneasy, even skeptical relationship with critical theory. On the one hand, Deaf studies has emphasized the historical, political, cultural and linguistic oppression of Deaf peoples by dominant hearing culture. Important books such as A Journey into the DEAF-WORLD, Understanding Deaf Culture: In Search of Deafhood, and Reading Between the Signs provide insight into the lives of people within the Deaf community, and advocate for benefits of a richly-informed Deaf-centric view of the world. These texts have provided many rich conceptual frameworks for rethinking Deaf culture, Deaf gain, and Deaf oppression. Oddly, these texts have largely ignored post-war critical theory that has made enormous strides in understanding systemic oppression in the modern neoliberal, postmodern, postcolonial world. As a result, Deaf studies has not fully engaged with broader critiques of heteropatriarchy, capitalism, state power, and social control. In this paper I argue that critical human geography is a key space within which to foster further crossover between Deaf studies and critical theory that I call “Critical Deaf Geographies.” I expand this argument through a critique of the term culture as it has been used in Deaf studies and suggest a more radical understanding of Deaf culture that draws attention to the complex material and ideological assumptions surrounding cultural politics. In the end, the purpose of the paper is not merely to improve intellectual understandings of the Deaf community, but to create knowledge which prompts Deaf and hearing allies to organize for greater justice for the Deaf community.
Opening Eyes to Deaf Writers in Deaf Periodicals
Joan Naturale, EdD
The Wallace Center, Rochester Institute of Technology
The presentation will focus on Deaf writers’ contributions to national Deaf periodicals such as the online and/or print versions of the Silent Worker, the Silent Cavalier, the Deaf American, and Deaf Life. The periodicals offer a glimpse into the documentation of the lives and culture of Deaf people during different time periods. Discoveries of intriguing personalities and events will be shared as viewed from the Deaf writers’ perspectives.
Ousting Deaf Tramps: Regulating Deaf Bodies in the Public Sphere, 1880-1950s
Octavian Robinson, PhD
Modern Languages and Literatures
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, mainstream able-bodied Americans undertook a campaign to eradicate the presence of disability in the public sphere through legislative measures. This legislation, later dubbed ugly laws, criminalized disability, particularly the disabled poor in gendered and racialized contexts by prohibiting the presence of disabled people in public places. Reproducing those anxieties surrounding marked citizenship, deaf cultural elites engaged in their own efforts to regulate and police the presence of deaf bodies and sign language in the public sphere through anti-vagrancy statutes and anti-peddling campaigns.
Those campaigns by deaf cultural elites, capitalizing on their whiteness, masculinity, and middle-class status, employed a particular brand of respectability politics. They sought to enact legislation prohibiting deaf tramps, vagrants, beggars, peddlers and impostors pretending to be deaf from appearing in public spaces or being publicly visible. Deaf elites also attempted to regulate the use or sale of sign language, such as the sale of sign alphabet cards, in the public sphere by impoverished deaf people in an effort to disconnect sign language from disability and poverty.
Campaigns for ugly laws governing the presence of deaf bodies and sign language in public spaces targeted deaf people of lower socioeconomic statuses, marking the “unworthy” deaf from the “worthy” deaf in efforts to make deafness an invisible disability. Those efforts reinforced ableist ideas along with a hierarchy of ability and non-ability. The rhetoric in those campaigns reveal potent ideological underpinnings of American Deaf culture that persists into the twenty-first century.
Material and non-material representations of the Deaf community in Brighton and Hove city: a photo elicitation exercise.
John Walker, PhD student
School of Global Studies (Human Geography)
Wylie’s postulation of sensory narrative (2005), framed by ‘the self, body and the urban’, offers an opportunity to observe the Deaf community under a different lens. As a post-positivist research, my Ph.D. will use a range of methods led from the community itself, such as: photo elicitation, a survey, mental maps and a Wylie walk; all of which address how the Deaf community represents itself through social and cultural mobilisations in urban spaces. The Deaf community is a minority community within a host society, who use British Sign Language and follow Deaf cultural norms and mores (Ladd 2003). Initial evidence already indicates that the Deaf community, in Brighton and Hove city, is not concentrated in one location but dispersed throughout the city. This indication leaves a question on how the Deaf community manifests itself, or what is the magnet that attracts individuals and keeps the community connected?
This presentation will share the results from the photo elicitation exercise, led by a community partner (Deaf Culture Outreach Group), whereby photographs are captured by professional and semi-professional photographers who are Deaf and reside in the city. The photographers were set with a task to create a representation of ‘what is the Deaf community?’ The participants were equipped with their smart-phones, which auto-captured GPS data, to reveal the material and non-material in the city; the selected images were supported with short descriptions on why the chosen photographs were central to the Deaf and/or Sign Language self. A non-intrusive camera was used to record their elicited deliberations.
National Technical Institue for the Deaf's Department of Deaf Cultural and Creative Studies
National Technical Institue for the Deaf's Department of Liberal Studies
International Conference in Deaf Geographies
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A new year, and a new book - Beyond the Secret Elephants,
the sequel of The Secret Elephants.
Here is a preview of the cover!
Available in-store in southern Africa week of January 20.
For international orders from Amazon, the book will be available as an e.book.
Exciting news! The Kindle e.book version of my new book, Beyond the Secret Elephants (Tracey McDonald Publishers), is now up on Amazon (please see the link below).
The book will be available in-store in Southern Africa end of next week!
https://amzn.to/2RibeAK
15/12/2019. The Secret Elephants Forest Experience.
With the arrival of summer, and the completion of my new book, Beyond the Secret Elephants (sequel of The Secret Elephants), I am once again conducting with guests my Secret Elephants Forest Experience.
For enquiries/bookings, please email me at gpatterson@wispernet.co.za.
Thanks to my guests (repeat guests!) Dirk and Daniela for the use of your photos here from a recent forest experience. It was great to share the forest experience with you both again!
I am very proud this week. The other day I learnt that my book about my rediscovery of the amazing Knysna Elephants, 'The Secret Elephants' (Penguin Books) has just gone into its fifth reprint. It was first published back in 2009 - a decade ago. The book has not made me a millionaire as I plow what I earn from books back into my wildlife work/research, but I am really thrilled about the awareness this book has created about these special elephants, and elephants in general. I am presently working on the sequel - 'Beyond the Secret Elephants'.
My thanks to everyone who have read this book over the past decade!
Those of you who might like to join me on The Secret Elephants Forest Experience, please email me at gpatterson@wispernet.co.za for details.
Scenes from one of my recent Secret Elephants Forest Experiences - with great guests, Dirk and Daniela.
For information on how you can also join me on The Secret Elephants Forest Experience, please email - gpatterson@wispernet.co.za
The Garden Route Wildfires and the Knysna Elephants - the worlds most southerly free roaming elephants.
With the news of the recent Garden Route wildfires, readers of my book The Secret Elephants, have over the past two weeks or so, contacted me enquiring about how the tiny Knysna elephant population (the world's most southerly free roaming elephants) might have been affected by the wildfires in the mountains (mountain fynbos comprises a large area of the Knysna elephants range, and fynbos species are a significant part of the elephants diet).
While the fires raged, I felt fairly confident that the Knysna elephants would have sought refuge from the mountain wildfires deep within the naturally protected indigenous forests - but I could not begin to determine this until this last Saturday (10/11/2018) when with the mopping up operations, I could begin to look for signs of the elephants.
Happily I can now confirm that from signs (spoor, droppings and feeding sign) I found in the forest between Diepwalle and Gouna, it seems that two of the elephants (one approximately 17 - 18 years old - age determined by hind foot track measurement, and the other being an older adult) moved together south into deep indigenous forest, and away from the mountain wildfires, approximately a week to ten days ago.
Should this be indicative (which I believe it could be) of the cautionary/intuitive reaction to the wildfires by other Knysna elephants, then I am fairly sure the elephants are safe. That said, of course, one cannot be entirely sure until overall assessments of the impact of the wildfires are completed. I am optimistic though.
While conducting one of my Secret Elephants Forest Experiences with guests yesterday, I found more signs of the two elephants that are moving together. Measurements of the hind foot track of the larger adult suggests that this elephant could be an adult bull. The two elephants had moved southwards then westwards into the central deep forest area. It seems, though I cannot confirm, that one other elephant is also in this part of the central forest area. Hopefully signs of the other elephants will be seen in other forest areas in the western portions of the elephants range.
Many thanks to Christa and Gilly for the use of photos taken last Saturday and yesterday - elephant footprints in mud puddle, Saturday, measuring hind foot tracks yesterday etc.
For information about the Secret Elephants Forest Experience, please email gpatterson@wispernet.co.za.
Donate Today! Gareth Patterson's Beyond the Secret Elephants research and book project.
Through the BackaBuddy crowdfunding platform, I am raising much needed funds for my Beyond the Secret Elephants research and book project. Beyond the Secret Elephants, the sequel to my book, The Secret Elephants, will not only update the story of the Knysna elephants, but for the very first time will reveal extraordinary information about other mysterious beings that I have discovered are also inhabiting the Knysna elephants forest and mountain fynbos home...
To know more about this exciting project and how you can contribute, please go the following BackaBuddy link - www.backabuddy.co.za/champion/project/gareth-pattersons-beyond-the-secret-eleph .
Many thanks to those of you who have already donated. Much appreciated.
THE SUSTAINABLE JUNGLE PODCAST - EPISODE 24 - GARETH PATTERSON, LIVING WITH LIONS, SECRET ELEPHANTS AND AFRICAN ENVIRONMENTALISM.
Sustainable Jungle is a wonderful eco-awareness platform.
Here follows the link to Sustainable Jungle's podcast episode number 24 - www.sustainablejungle.com/podcast/episode-24-gareth-patterson/
My thanks to Joy and Lyall of Sustainable Jungle for producing this lovely episode.
I hope you all enjoy listening to it.
This interview is dedicated to my bush dog, Tuli, who passed away on July 26th 2018.
Some very exciting news. I have just linked up with BackaBuddy (NPC) to fundraise for my Beyond the Secret Elephants research and book project. Here is the link for you to learn more and how to contribute - www.backabuddy.co.za/champion/project/gareth-pattersons-beyond-the-secret-eleph
Born to be Free and The Secret Elephants.
Signing copies of my newly released children's book, Born to be Free, at my local book shop, Bargain Books, in Knysna, South Africa. I was also signing copies of my book The Secret Elephants. This book is about my rediscovery of the amazing Knysna elephants, the world's most southerly elephants. I am very proud of The Secret Elephants. It was first published back in 2009, and recently has gone into its fifth reprint edition. Currently I am working on the sequel, Beyond the Secret Elephants.
Garden Route Walking Festival 2018. Gareth Patterson's Secret Elephants Forest Experience.
Upcoming Garden Route Walking Festival 30th March - 2nd April 2018. Fantastic walks in the wilds. I will be doing my Secret Elephants Forest Experienceeach day over the Easter weekend.
Please see the following website for details - http://walkingfestival.co.za/events/the-secret-elephants-forest-experience/ . For bookings for my forest experience, please email gpatterson@wispernet.co.za
The Secret Elephant Forest Experience takes place most weekends, but can usually also be arranged for during the week.
Excellent day of adventure yesterday with three great guests on my Secret Elephants Forest Experience. Knysna elephants x 2 (possibly 3) had been very busy pulling trees across the forest trail. Circumference of dung indicates age of elephant. At 42 cm, this suggests one of the elephants is approximately 16 years old. Elephants ripped a research trail camera from a tree. The elusive Knysna elephants are the world's most southerly elephants. Many thanks Heloise for the great photos. Should you like to know more about the Secret Elephants Forest Experience, please email
gpatterson@wispernet.co.za
My bush dog Tuli yesterday looking over 'her' domain, and that of the elusive Knysna elephants!
The wild surrounds are now looking green again, and I am taking bookings for my Secret Elephants Forest Experience.
For more information about the Secret Elephants Forest Experience, please email gpatterson@wispernet.co.za
Secret Elephants new edition
22/7/2017. After the Knysna wildfires.
Photo of my bush dog, Tuli, in a long cooled off burnt area. After much patrolling on the southern edge of the Knysna forest, thankfully, I have not come across any wildlife fatalities because of the fires.
Leopard, bushbuck, porcupine, baboon, mongoose and other creatures are now venturing back into the area.
I am busy back doing my Secret Elephants Forest Experience - for more information about the forest experience, please email gpatterson@wispernet.co.za
Knysna fires. Scenes from the edge of the Knysna Forest.
The large range of the Knysna elephants - comprising of hundreds of square kilometers of indigenous forest and mountain fynbos - was unaffected by the recent devastating Knysna wildfires. I am confident that the elephants are fine. This morning I was walking on hills on the edge of the southern Knysna forests, in areas of former (felled) pine plantations. Looking north over the elephants range, it was uplifting to see the vista was unchanged, unlike the areas where I was walking. Here are a few scenes from the hills. I saw a forest buzzard launch itself from a solitary tree. There were the footprints of small creatures such as genet and other animals, and in the north the elephants range looked magnificent.
Nearby, where I live, our resident family of vervet monkeys reappeared after the fires - they had made it too. As did our francolin and guineafowl families. And it was even reported that a leopard was seen nearby the other morning.
Forest, fynbos and mountains. The amazing range and home of the world's most southerly (and most secretive) elephants. The Knysna elephants.
And one elephant mangled gate!
So blessed to live here, and to have studied these amazing elephants.
Last week while doing one of my The Secret Elephant Forest Experiences with Trish Carter of Knysna Stays Guest House (http://www.knysnastays.co.za/) and guests, we heard one of these elusive elephants feeding less than fifty meters away from where we were walking in the forest.
For information about The Secret Elephants Forest Experience, please email gpatterson@wispernet.co.za
The Secret Elephants Forest Experience with Gareth Patterson.
Lovely photos from a Secret Elephants Forest Experience last week with Hermien van Schalkwyk and friends.
With us was excellent professional guide, Pete Collins of Venture Beyond Tours and Trails (note the tiny Knysna dwarf chameleon on Pete's hand - a forest dweller, and is endemic to this area. This little one was picked up from the track and put back into the safety of the forest).
For information about my Secret Elephants Forest Experience trips into the magical forest and fynbos home of the elusive Knysna Elephants, please email gpatterson@wispernet.co.za .
Thank you Hermien for the photos, and it was great meeting you all.
Gareth Patterson, winner of the SAB Environmentalist of the Year Award 2016 .
http://www.knysnaplettherald.com/news/News/General/175094/Environmentalist-Patterson-does-it-again
Forest Legends article by Martin Hatchuel. Garden Route Guide.
Knysna elephants and Gareth Patterson's Secret Elephants Forest Experience.
http://www.gardenroute-guide.co.za/forest-legends-the-elephants-of-knysna/
Gareth's recent Sky World News interview about the ADI rescue and airlift of the 33 lions to South Africa - https://youtu.be/39MPUlZ58sg
With certain relevance to the heartfelt events concerning elephants and lions this last weekend (30/4/2016), here below is an interview Gareth did for the May edition of the spiritual magazine, Aneis de Vida.
http://issuu.com/aneisdevida/docs/may_2016/11
Recently Gareth gave talks and had discussions about the Knysna elephants, with young pupils of the Oakhill School in Knysna. It was a great morning.
Grade 4 Experiential Learning By ADMIN | Published: MARCH 9, 2016
Grade 4 students were engaged and intrigued by three local animal experts – Gareth Patterson (author ‘Secret Elephants’), Louw Claasens (Knysna Basin Project) and Terry Kallis (Steenbok Nature Reserve) during a visit to the school’s Learning Commons last week. Through Project Based Learning the children experienced the joy of interviewing these experts and also engaging other sources of information; using the school’s iPad bank, video media and reference books to create digital books on the Knysna Elephant, Knysna Seahorse and Knysna Dwarf Chameleon. A huge thank you to these experts for their willingness and expertise!
22/4/2016.
A Special Earth Day Interview with Gareth Patterson, by Lisa Wogan, The Story by Kindle.
The Writer who Roared. In Recognition of Earth Day 2016. http://thestorybykindle.tumblr.com/post/143029709670/the-writer-who-roared-in-recognition-of-earth-day
4/2/2016 - The Trial.
For several weeks I have been working with the wonderful artist, Karin Saks, on the concept of this painting, The Trial. Now complete, I think this powerful artwork sums up the global collective efforts for lion preservation during 2015, and our hopes for 2016.
After the staggering public response to this artwork, Karin and I have decided to make The Trial available to buyers and collectors
Description: Oil and acrylic. Width 90 cm x 75 cm, mounted, unframed.
For more information, please contact : gpatterson@wispernet.co.za
Africa Geographic. New story about The Secret Elephants Forest Experience, hosted by Gareth Patterson, and an update on the Knysna elephants.
http://africageographic.com/blog/tracking-the-elusive-knysna-elephants/
Inquiries and bookings for the forest experience, please email gpatterson@wispernet.co.za
18/11/ 2015. Fantastic recent Secret Elephants Forest Experience!
While exploring the amazing Knysna forest with guests last week, we were very privileged to come across the very fresh tracks (and much feeding sign) of a Knysna female elephant and her large calf!
Inquiries and bookings for The Secret Elephants Forest Experience, please email gpatterson@wispernet.co.za .
Our documentary, The Search for the Knysna Elephants, screens again on Animal Planet, 28th November.
Gareth's recent US radio interview about Cecil the Lion.
https://soundcloud.com/life-elsewhere/le-hd-show-130-cecil-the-lion-donald-the-caricature-mama-africa
Also here is the link to Gareth's recent article on the global public response to Cecil's death, and trophy hunting.
http://www.oxpeckers.org/2015/08/perfect-storm-behind-cecilthelions-story/
Oxpeckers Investigative Environmental Journalism.
Science for Sale by Gareth Patterson.
In the wake of the killing of Cecil the lion by trophy hunter Walter Palmer and the global reaction to the lion's death, Gareth Patterson investigated how and why the US trophy-hunting industry has been funding scientific field research on lions, and a myriad of other species.
http://oxpeckers.org/2015/09/science-for-sale/
Huffington Post 4/9/2015
The Pastime of Psychopaths.
Serial killing and trophy hunting are terrifyingly similar. As wildlife researcher and author Gareth Patterson points out, both kinds of killers often immerse themselves in violent imagery.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ingrid-newkirk/the-pastime-of-psychopath_b_8084410.html
Sky News Interview. Cecil and Batian.
After Cecil the lion was killed by an American trophy hunter, the Zimbabwean government has suspended hunting activities for certain animals. Lion expert Gareth Patterson talks about the facts and figures of trophy hunting along with the impact it has on the lions themselves.
http://youtu.be/4L4cj5BnvtM
The Parallels of the Deaths of Two Well-loved Lions - Twenty-Four Years Apart.
Twenty-four years ago, Adamson male lion, Batian, who I had rehabilitated back into the wilds with his two sisters, Furaha and Rafiki, was shot dead.
These are the parallels of his death, and Cecil's.
Both lions were well-known, and well-loved by people worldwide.
Both lions were lured to their deaths.
Both lions were killed by US trophy hunters.
Both lions died under illegal circumstances.
Both lions died during the month of July - but twenty-four years apart.
Thank you everyone for the outpouring of emotion for Batian all those long years ago, and thank you everyone today for the outpouring of emotion for Cecil.
Let us collectively channel our thoughts and actions towards the final ending of lion trophy hunting.
Gareth Patterson
© Karien Eigner
Update on some of Gareth's Projects and Activities - January to July 2015.
Lion Awareness Speaking Engagements.
Over the past few weeks I have given several talks. Firstly to students of the Franklin University. I then undertook three speaking events at the recent Franschhoek Literary Festival, and last week, presented a sold out talk for charity in Johannesburg (see news report on this event at http://germistoncitynews.co.za/91476/lion-man-roars-into-germiston ). All events were capacity audiences. In total, I have spoken to over 1,600 people recently.
The two new books. New memoir, The Stories Untold. Sekai African Environmentalism book for the African youth.
Good progress has been made since I started writing my new book in March, The Stories Untold ( the first three chapters and the synopsis now completed). The Stories Untold, like my current book, My Lion's Heart, www.mylionsheart.com , is also an memoir, and comprises of entirely new material, and as the title suggests, are previously untold stories!
Important Sekai (www.sekaiafrica.com) book project. With academic journalist and Sekai colleague, Louise de Bruin, we have recently identified that it is vital that awareness about African Environmentalism must be created for the African youth/learners through a book. We are planning the contents and format of this book.
Knysna elephants and African lion issues.
All appears well with the Knysna elephants. Recently one night a log-loader was upturned, and two tyre's punctured by presumably the oldest bull (annual occurrence when in musth). Local Knysna transport company, Stander and Sons, took the incident really well, describing the damage as 'lekker damage' ( see news report, http://showme.co.za/knysna/news/proof-of-elephants-in-knysna/ ). These elephants are so well-loved locally, nationally and internationally.
On this subject, I heard that our documentary on the elephants, The Search for the Knysna Elephants, was screened once again, about three weeks ago, on Animal Planet.
Recently I submitted to South African Environmental Minister, Edna Molewa, my comments and objections to the Ministry's draft plan for the 'management' of lions in South Africa. Unbelievably, the draft management plan was pro-use of captive lions (canned hunting), and pro-trade in lion body parts to the East.
I have been attempting to deter trophy hunting of lions by a company investing in Mozambique, and who might acquire a concession of a vast tract of land bordering the Kruger National Park in neighboring South Africa.
A major international documentary exposing canned lion hunting, Blood Lions (www.bloodlions.org) which I was interviewed, and supplied information for, has now been completed. It will be screened very soon.
Other lion issues.
I have been trying to determine what caused the recent attack of a tourist at the Lion Park by a lioness. I now feel she had experienced some past extreme trauma, related to visitor vehicles, and related to the prohibited lowering of car windows. My thoughts and comments on this tragic incident will be published in a forthcoming edition of Animaltalk magazine (http://animalchannel.co.za/).
I was very concerned for a missing male lion that recently moved out of the Karoo National Park, and I monitored the situation closely. I was also in touch with South African National Parks, and offered to assist with the search and rescue.
Fortunately, after almost a month, he was located, rescued and returned to the safety of the Karoo National Park (see my comments in media http://www.pressreader.com/southafrica/dailynews6671/20150630/281517929775858/TextView
Other activities in the past months.
I was commissioned to write the script (lion section) for a German audio book about Africa's 'Big Five'.
I was consulted about a possible Jaguar rehabilitation project in Brazil.
I mentored a student on aspects concerning the Knysna elephants for his research project.
I was asked to commented on issues related to the endangered Florida Panther.
13/4/2015. Fine Music Radio. Cape Town, South Africa.
Gareth Patterson interviewed by Gorry Bowes-Taylor about his new book, My Lion's Heart.
http://www.fmr.co.za/book-choice/#lightbox/0/
Knysna. March 14 2015. Day after the Global March for Lions.
Gareth gave a lecture on his life with lions to international students of Franklin University, Switzerland. Happy faces after hearing about Australia's total ban on the importation of lion trophies! Well done Australia, and may the EU and USA follow soon.
(Photo : Conservation Global).
Book review: My Lion’s Heart by Gareth Patterson - November 18, 2014
http://africageographic.com/blog/book-review-my-lions-heart-by-gareth-patterson/
🐾 30/10/2014. Gareth Patterson Video Interview on Polity, with Shannon de Ryhove .
My Lion’s Heart is Gareth’s tenth book, and is probably the most important book he has written. It tells his life story, a story of tears and smiles, about his attempts to greater protect the iconic animal symbol of this continent, the African lion.
My Lion’s Heart – A life for the lions of Africa: click here
🐾 23 October 2014 - 1:35 PM
JENNY CRWYS-WILLIAMS: MY LION'S HEART
The author of : My lion's heart, Gareth Patterson joins JCW for a conversation about his love for elephants and lions, and his work to protect these wild animals.
Guest: Gareth Patterson
Position: Environmentalist and Author
Archive: Click to listen
🐾 23/10/14: Gareth Patterson with @SueGrantMarshal on Reading Matters: #MyLionsHeart (@T_iLOVEbooks)
Gareth Patterson discusses his autobiography "My Lion's Heart: A Life for the Lions of Africa".
Reading Matters hosted by Sue Grant-Marshall is broadcast on Thursdays from 10h00 to 10h30 (GMT+2) and repeated on Sundays at 16h00 (GMT+2). Radio Today broadcasts on 1485AM in Johannesburg and country-wide on #DStv Audio Channel 869. Radio Today also streams on its website
www.1485.org.za
and on 1485.mobi. Radio Today! Radio that delivers!
http://radiotoday.podomatic.com/entry/2014-10-23T03_08_41-07_00
🐾 The Pride and Patterson
28 October 2014 at 11:21 by Bronwyn Hardick-
Father, mother and custodian of the lion and elephant – Gareth Patterson shares his remarkable story of courage and conservation. Listen to the full interview here!
The man who walks with the king of the jungle
28 October 2014 at 06:30 by Bronwyn Hardick -
Wildlife researcher Gareth Patterson joins The Complimentary Breakfast to talk about his new book "A Life for the Lions of Africa" and the seriousness of future for African lion. You need to watch this video to truly understand what he does.
🐾 Gareth Patterson in studio chatting about his autobiography - My Lion's Heart. 14 October 2o04
https://soundcloud.com/pieter-cloete-1/gareth-patterson-my-lions-heart
23/10/2014 - Gareth Patterson.
Tracy McDonald Publishers invites to you the launch Gareth Patterson's autobiography
MY LION’S HEART – click HERE
An evening with Gareth Patterson
20/09/2014 - My Lion's Heart.
For readers living in Africa, the e.book of My Lion’s Heart is now available for download from Amazon.
I’m going to live forever In the brightest spot of your heart
I’ll find the place you’ve kept for me
I’ll lay my head and go to rest
Merge with your heartbeat
Bleed to keep it strong
And when all of me is finally at peace
I’ll be content knowing
I died for love in your heart.
The book ends with the poem,
My Lion’s Heart,by Cameroonian poet, Bernice Angoh.
http://www.mylionsheart.com
23/7/2014. Book Trailer Video of My Lion's Heart.
The book trailer video of Gareth's new book, My Lion's Heart. The book will be released in October 2014.
http://youtu.be/DH_PeSYwmyQ
Animal Talk Channel - May 30, 2014 - Gareth Patterson - working for lions http://cat.animalchannel.co.za/2014/05/30/gareth-patterson-working-lions/
Animal Talk Channel - May 30, 2014 - Lions - Bred for the Bullet
http://animalchannel.co.za/2014/05/28/lions-bred-bullet/
Gareth interviewed on Nancy Richards SAfm Enviro Show
http://iono.fm/e/77215?autoplay=1
28/2/2014 TRACEY McDONALD PUBLISHERS ACQUIRES GARETH PATTERSON’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY Patterson says:“My Lion's Heart is my tenth book, and is probably the most important book I have written. It tells my life story, a story of tears and smiles, about my attempts to greater protect the iconic animal symbol of this continent, the African lion. I am absolutely delighted that Tracey McDonald Publishers will be publishing My Lion's Heart.” For more information about My Lion's Heart, please visit the book’s page on www.traceymcdonaldpublishers.com.
Pieter Cloete – The truth about the Knysna Elephants with Gareth Patterson
http://knysnafm.co.za/2014/02/11/pieter-cloete-the-truth-about-the-knysna-elephants-with-gareth-patterson/
London conference 2014: The world wakes up at elephants' eleventh hourMichael McCarthy, The IndependentFebruary 9, 2014
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/london-conference-2014-the-world-wakes-up-at-elephants-eleventh-hour-9117081.html
Alarm as illegal bush meat trade hits all-time high
http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000102581&story_title=alarm-as-illegal-bush-meat-trade-hits-all-time-high
Elusive Knysna elephant caught on camera 9 January 2014
http://www.southafrica.info/news/elephant-100114.htm#.UtOWTfQW3zc
Logging has allowed poachers to pick off the African forest elephant at their will The Independent
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/logging-has-allowed-poachers-to-pick-off-the-african-forest-elephant-at-their-will-9013763.html
Elephant Declines Vastly Underestimated
By Trevor Jones and Katarzyna Nowak, A Voice for Elephants, National Geographic
http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2013/12/16/elephant-declines-a-view-from-the-field/
New project by 'elephant man' - The Herald 27 November 2013
http://www.peherald.com/news/article/21537
Ivory stockpile to be publicly destroyed as Obama seeks to end illegal trade
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/nov/11/ivory-smashed-end-illegal-trade-obama
Poaching Peace and Security By J. Peter Pham for Atlantic Council ISN. November 4, 2013
http://www.isn.ethz.ch/Digital-Library/Articles/Detail/?lng=en&id=172121
Boost for war on lion bone trade 3 November 2013
http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/boost-for-war-on-lion-bone-trade-1.1601337#.UndoZiSAvC5
Avaaz lion bones adverts were censored, finds ConCourt
http://mg.co.za/article/2013-10-25-lion-bones-adverts-censored
Rhino horn trade thrives in Jo'burg
http://mg.co.za/article/2013-10-04-00-rhino-horn-trade-thrives-in-joburg
Mystic Forest Giants
http://southmagazine.co.za/articles/environment/mystic-forest-giants-2/
Learners spot Knysna elephant
http://www.knysnaplettherald.com/news.aspx?id=50606&h=Learners-spot-Knysna-elephant#.UXAq4wKKCBh.email%3CUrlBlockedError.aspx%3E
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Blackhawks blank Blues 2-0 in Game 3
Chicago Blackhawks goalie Corey Crawford (50) celebrates with Brandon Bollig (52) and Ben Smith after the Blackhawks' 2-0 win over the St. Louis Blues in Game 3 of a first-round NHL hockey Stanley Cup playoff series game Monday, April 21, 2014, in Chicago
Charles Rex Arbogast
CHICAGO (AP) Corey Crawford was there every time. Slap shots, wristers, backhands and tips, he stopped each one of them.
The Chicago Blackhawks needed a rebound game from their goaltender, and he delivered in a big way.
Crawford made 34 saves in his third career postseason shutout, and the Blackhawks got back into their playoff series with the St. Louis Blues with a 2-0 victory in Game 3 on Monday night.
''I'm just going shot by shot,'' Crawford said. ''It's all I could do the whole game was worry about the next one and focus on the next shot and stop that. I don't want anything else going through my mind through that hockey game.''
Jonathan Toews and Marcus Kruger scored as the defending Stanley Cup champions bounced back after a pair of overtime losses in St. Louis. Toews' 21st postseason goal was only the second score by a Blackhawks forward in the series.
''Three games in a row. It's been a very intense series and extremely close,'' Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville said.
Ryan Miller shook off another slow start and finished with 23 saves, but Toews' shot at 4:10 of the first went through the goaltender's legs and was the only score for most of the game.
''It's not a good goal. We'll leave it at that,'' Miller said.
It was quite a turnaround for Crawford, who was upset with his play after Saturday's 4-3 loss. Barret Jackman's winning goal in Game 2 went through Crawford, prompting the goaltender to say he had to play better for Chicago to win.
Quenneville met with Crawford on Sunday, and he responded with one of the best games of his career.
''We have a lot of one-on-one meetings throughout the season, but we get ramped up at playoff time,'' said Quenneville, a former NHL defenseman. ''I generally stay away from the goalies. We chatted. Basically I was commending him on accepting that responsibility (for the loss).''
Crawford drew chants of ''Co-rey! Co-rey from the capacity crowd at the United Center. He was helped by a sound performance by Duncan Keith and Chicago's defensemen, who stepped up without the suspended Brent Seabrook.
The Blackhawks killed three St. Louis power plays, while the Blues' penalty-kill unit went 4 for 4, including a 5-on-3 disadvantage in the second.
''We knew this was going to be a long series, but we really played hard, we really played well,'' St. Louis coach Ken Hitchcock said. ''We did a lot of the things we needed to do to win the hockey game, but you've got to give their goaler credit. He was good, especially late.''
The Blues, who scored tying goals late in regulation in each of the first two games, pulled Miller with 57 seconds left, but the Blackhawks held on. Kruger stuffed home an empty-netter in the final seconds.
Game 4 is Wednesday night.
Each team was without a key contributor after Seabrook wiped out Blues center David Backes with a big hit in Game 2. The five-minute major and game misconduct penalty for Seabrook led to Vladimir Tarasenko's tying power-play goal with 6.4 seconds left.
Seabrook was suspended for three games by the NHL, putting Sheldon Brookbank in the lineup for the first time in the series. Playing with Keith, Brookbank turned in a solid performance in his 19th career playoff game.
While Backes was out with an upper-body injury, center Patrik Berglund returned for the Blues after missing three games. Berglund, who had 14 goals and 18 assists this season, skated behind the net for a nice wraparound opportunity in the first period, but was turned away by Chicago defenseman Nick Leddy.
Seabrook's hit on Backes, and at least one knee-on-knee blow by Bryan Bickell, increased the tension between Central Division rivals. But Game 3 was surprisingly civil, with each team wary of another penalty that could swing the series. There was a lot of chirping from each side, and that was about it.
Looking for a spark, Quenneville put Toews, Patrick Kane and Bickell on the same line for the start of Game 3. The trio had a lot of success in the Blackhawks' run to the title last year.
Toews connected from the top of the left point in the first, beating Miller with a shot that took an unusual bounce. Bickell also created a couple of quality chances with some slick passing.
''If that's how it's going to go in, then we're doing a good job of taking care of the clean chances and the easier ones for them,'' said Blues defenseman Kevin Shattenkirk, who was right in front of Toews on the goal. ''We just have to keep going.''
NOTES: Blues F Vladimir Sobotka went to the locker room after he took a power-play shot off his right arm in the second, but he returned later in the period. ... The announced attendance of 22,112 was the 268th consecutive sellout for the Blackhawks, counting the playoffs.
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CONCACAF powers USA, Mexico find frustration in Gold Cup group play
It hasn't been the easiest of Gold Cup's so far for the favored USA and Mexico. Liviu Bird breaks down what is holding the CONCACAF powers back.
Liviu Bird
With the United States’ recent success against big-name international competition, the team and its fans could be forgiven for thinking the CONCACAF Gold Cup would be a breeze. The U.S. did win the toughest group of the competition, but the results were far from comfortable.
A draw with Panama in the meaningless group finale followed one-goal wins over Honduras and Haiti that secured Group A, but the U.S. never looked entirely comfortable in its trio of matches. After smash-and-grab victories over the Netherlands and Germany in June, the Americans continued a troubling pattern of inability to dictate matches when opponents sit back.
Mexico found similar trouble in its group after blowing past Cuba. Guatemala frustrated El Tri in a goalless draw, before Trinidad and Tobago traded goals with Miguel Herrera’s side in a crazy 4-4 draw on Wednesday.
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It’s nothing new in CONCACAF competition in particular: the opponent sits back in a disciplined defensive shell, waits for the U.S. or Mexico to concede possession and bursts in the opposite direction. Individual quality usually takes over—this time it was Clint Dempsey’s three goals and vital role in a fourth in three games for the U.S.—especially as the opponent tires, but the wins can seem against the run of play even against much smaller nations.
Secrets are hard to come by in any intra-confederation competition, as the familiarity between nations and frequency with which they play one another eliminate many surprises. Perhaps in CONCACAF more than any other, though, competitions turn into a fight for survival for the bigger nations until they get to play each other, when they turn into less of a grind and more of a cerebral battle again.
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Both Mexico and the U.S. experimented tactically through the group stage, looking for their best player pairings and systems for a potential final matchup, which didn’t help their struggles. Herrera set his team up in a 4-4-2 for the first two games, but even after returning to the 5-3-2 that saw Mexico succeed at the World Cup, it failed to get the necessary result.
Mexico’s biggest problem was the chaos created by Herrera’s experimentation, and the U.S. also suffered from a lack of familiarity. Rather than being confused by the system, though, the Americans often looked as if their collective design simply hadn’t been properly choreographed despite playing similar formations as in the past.
In attempting to build up from the back, poor spacing often isolated players one-on-one in difficult positions, and all they could do was look for long balls into the forwards and wingers. Michael Bradley, whom manager Jurgen Klinsmann continues to play in more of a No. 10 role, dropped too far back to look for the ball at his feet, throwing the midfield into confusion.
Above: USA spacing vs. Honduras | Below USA's shape vs. Haiti
Failing to support the player on the ball also set the team up poorly for a quick transition to defense, eschewing the compactness that would allow for quick recuperation of possession or at least limit the immediate danger of losing the ball in the back.
A frustrating disconnect among players in possession followed, with a high-pressuring, physical Honduras causing problems as well as a patient Haiti making it difficult to play through a compact middle block. The U.S. could only score on two set pieces against Honduras and a fast break, similar to a counterattack, against Haiti.
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The Americans’ best example of proper spacing and build-up created their goal against Panama, with Alejandro Bedoya polishing off a combination near the penalty area by driving a pinpoint cross to Bradley at the back post. Bradley’s run was reminiscent of many of his late, surging runs from midfield that resulted in his goal against Slovenia at the 2010 World Cup, among others, and another rallying cry for those imploring Klinsmann to play him farther back.
The positive aspect of playing Bradley outside his best role is his ability to string the whole team together with his work rate. He connects defense to attack when much of the team looks disoriented, but he often falls into the trap of running simply to run instead of moving with a purpose.
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He also hasn’t been paired consistently with anybody to help rein in that tendency with Jermaine Jones’s recent injury concerns. When Dempsey plays as a shadow striker underneath one or two higher partners, it mitigates that concern a little, but another strong central-midfield partner for Bradley would further disperse his work load.
Herrera also played key men out of position, with Andrés Guardado and Héctor Herrera starting wider than normal in El Tri’s first two games. Rather than the top points of a central triangle, they played as wingers with two midfielders between them.
As such, Mexico was often outnumbered as opponents crowded out the middle of the field and forced it to change the point of attack with big, diagonal switches toward Guardado and Herrera. Mexico could not circulate the ball through the middle as quickly as it usually does, and the forwards became simple targets in the box rather than outlets for possession.
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Herrera and Klinsmann’s experimentation magnified the chaos of playing teams with less skill that will kick and scratch to keep the U.S. and Mexico from getting into the attacking third.
A system of play’s influence is often marginalized until at least the knockout round of the Gold Cup, and the group stage becomes about simply being in position to move on.
Listening to members of both teams talk about their early performances, the frustration has been palpable. However, now that they pulled through the uncertainty of round-robin play in a tournament such as the Gold Cup, they can build toward the final, 90 minutes at a time.
The U.S. won its group, regardless of whether it went as smoothly as planned, and Mexico is still on course to meet the Americans in the final, although a quarterfinal against Costa Rica and potential semifinal against either Trinidad & Tobago or Panama won't be cakewalks. With three matches remaining until the trophy is lifted, both of CONCACAF’s perennial powers have plenty of time left for redemption on the field.
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Finding Solace on the Roof of Iraq
Jan Bakker
From the rooftop of our guest house we gaze at the sharp ridgeline that jacks up on the southern horizon. The terrain looks complex and the steep couloirs seem inaccessible. The only feasible access is via the west buttress of the ridge – but this is the Autonomous Region of Kurdistan in the north-east of Iraq, and this mountain ridge is right on the border with Iran. At the height of the Iraq-Iran War in the 1980s Saddam Hussein covered most of the easy terrain that could allow the enemy to invade with landmines. That legacy is still present in many parts of the border area today and venturing into these mountains requires careful route planning in collaboration with the local Kurds. As the sun disappears behind the ridge, our host and fixer Omar snaps us out of our dreamy state and beckons us to join him and his family for a generous, hearty plate of Kurdish specialities.
I’m in the city of Choman (which we nickname Chomanix) in the heart of the Iraqi Zagros Mountains with a team of three US war veterans and a film crew. The aim is to climb Mount Halgurd, a 3,607m-high mountain close to the Iranian border, and make the first known ski descent from its summit. It’s just 4m lower than its neighbour Cheekha Dar, which is considered the highest mountain in Iraq. The summit of Cheekha Dar is shared with Iran – and there’s an Iranian border patrol permanently perched on the top. Climbing it is probably not a good idea.
The driving force behind this expedition is US Army veteran Stacy Bare. Stacy is an imposing human being. Standing 6’6” tall with a shaved scalp and a big, bushy beard, one would probably steer clear of him in a dark alleyway. When we meet on the top floor of a posh hotel in Kurdistan’s capital Erbil he cracks a smile and gives me a huge bear hug despite never having met me before. Stacy served as a captain in the US Army in Iraq and cleared landmines for the Scotland-based HALO Trust in Angola and Abkhazia. These experiences had a profound impact on his psyche and after his return to the US he developed severe PTSD, pushing him into alcohol and drug abuse, and eventually to the brink of suicide. An introduction to rock climbing was the turnaround moment and he developed an appetite for adventure sports. Now a National Geographic Adventurer of the Year, Stacy is an advocate for adventure sports as a way to heal the mental wounds of PTSD through his non-profit organisation Adventure Not War.
The terrain looks complex and the steep couloirs seem inaccessible. The only feasible access is via the west buttress of the ridge – but this is the Autonomous Region of Kurdistan in the north-east of Iraq, and this mountain ridge is right on the border with Iran.
As the team prepares for the summit bid I look at the flickering lights of the Iranian border posts on the shared summits in the distance. In return, I’m sure they’ll be keeping an eye on the movements of our head torches. It’s still well below freezing level and the skins underneath our skis have a hard time finding grip on the refrozen slopes.
The voice of the muezzin echoes through the Choman Valley as we load the beat-up Toyota Land Cruisers with food and equipment in the early hours. We set off as first light trickles in from the east and the contours of the mountains become visible around us. The dirt track winds its way up through the bleak terraced fields that are still in winter mode. We pass mud-brick farmhouses and fenced-off fields, littered with red triangular signs bearing a white skull. Minefields. Suddenly, the reality of a ski expedition in this part of the world sinks in, and our concerns shift from the lack of snow to the objective danger of unexploded ordnance scattered across these border mountains. ‘Don’t worry about landmines!’ our local guide Reband assures us with a smile. ‘We have done this route many times, just not on skis.’
The motorised part of the journey comes to an end when the track is swallowed by spindrift at an elevation of around 2,000m. It’s another 600m of vertical gain to our base camp at the foot of Halgurd. We skin up and start pulling the makeshift pulkas through the slushy snow. The sun is in full force now and we worry about the snow conditions higher up the mountain – it’s February but it seems that spring has arrived early this year. After four frustrating hours of ploughing through knee-deep, wet snow, we reach a small flat plateau below the craggy south summit of Halgurd. It’s a perfect spot for our base camp, including a snow wall to dig out the kitchen. I’m calling in with the home front to check the latest weather forecast on the mountain. A blizzard with a metre of snow is forecasted in 48 hours, which forces us to change our planned acclimatisation/recce day tomorrow into a summit day.
Team member Matthew Griffin, known as Griff to friends, tells about his time as an American Army Ranger in Mosul, which is only 160km west from our base camp. He is the co-founder and owner of Combat Flip Flops, a US-based company that puts part of its profits back into conflict zones by supporting small local businesses, women’s education, and rebuilding communities. Above all, Griff is a fierce advocate for peace and diplomacy, often asked to share his opinion on the big US television networks. After listening to his compelling tales of life in a combat zone we call it an early night.
The buzzer rudely awakens us at 3.00am. As the team prepares for the summit bid I look at the flickering lights of the Iranian border posts on the shared summits in the distance. In return, I’m sure they’ll be keeping an eye on the movements of our head torches. It’s still well below freezing level and the skins underneath our skis have a hard time finding grip on the refrozen slopes. The past week has been unusually warm, resulting in an unwelcome freeze-thaw cycle. It’s still dark and we’re contouring around a landmine zone, marked by barely visible markers. Our Kurdish guide Reband reassures us we’re headed in the right direction.
The effect of the warm weather becomes apparent with the daylight coming in. Our route suffers large snow-free patches, forcing us to strap the skis on our packs and hike up a steep part of Halgurd. An hour behind schedule we reach the foot of the summit ridge. We grab our axes, step in to our crampons, and start climbing the crux of the ascent: 300 vertical metres up mixed terrain to reach the corniced ridge between the north and south summits. Directly next to the spur that we are climbing is our main objective: a beautiful line through a wide couloir just underneath the summit. Robin, who served as a helicopter pilot in Fallujah, has a stern look on her face. ‘I haven’t been so scared since my time as a heli pilot in Iraq,’ she admits. Her aircraft was shot down on a mission near Fallujah and she barely made it out alive. The other team members nod in silence. Neither is a professional athlete and the exposure is intimidating.
The east-facing 45˚ slope is still in good condition and we decide to solo the route to make up for the time loss lower on the mountain. Behind us the Zagros Mountains unfold, washed in blistering sunlight. The summit of Cheekha Dar is just 1km away as the crow flies. It doesn’t seem to have any skiable lines – a large diagonal rock band blocks any possible descent. As we head up we aim for a small gap in the corniced rim, giving us access to the broad ridge between the two Halgurd summits.
After a short hike, the team reaches the summit of Mount Halgurd. Having been deployed in Iraq’s lowland deserts the veterans could never have imagined a place like this existed within Iraq’s borders. With relief and contemplation, fallen friends are remembered. The first ski descent of this beautiful mountain is only a bonus and a mere excuse for experiencing the war-torn country in a different way: ‘Rewrite my ending in Iraq,’ as Stacy would say. I never served in the Army but through the stories shared by Stacy, Robin, and Griff during this expedition I can begin to guess the inner struggle veterans deal with after coming back from active combat. Climbing mountains must help.
Jan Bakker was born in a Dutch village below sea level. After seeing his first mountain at the age of 16, he has been exploring and guiding in remote mountain regions across the globe ever since. He recently finished the first printed trekking guidebook to Tajikistan which includes trekking in the Afghan Wakhan Corridor.
Blog: trekkinginthepamirs.com
Instagram: @jb37north
This expedition was organised by Untamed Borders
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Finding Magic In Alaska Dave Gill
Volume Two Sidetracked Magazine
The Tao Of Pow Duncan McCallum
Himalayan Backcountry Michael Marquand
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The downtown San Jose dining, drinks and events…
The downtown San Jose dining, drinks and events that will dazzle WWDC developers
The crowds gather for Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference at the McEner= y Convention Center in San Jose, Calif., on Monday, June 5, 2017. (Gary Rey= es/ Bay Area News Group)=20
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PUBLISHED: June 5, 2017 at 2:32 pm | UPDATED: June 6, 2017 at 4:22 am
If you stop by the Hotel De Anza’s Hedley Club Lounge this week, you’ll notice a new drink being served: The Apple Sidecar. At other downtown bars like the Loft and Deluxe, you can get specials on apple martinis. And one of downtown’s biggest night spots, San Pedro Square Market, expects to be busy all week.
Apple CEO Tim Cook opened the company’s World Wide Developers Conference on Monday morning by saying it was great to be back in San Jose. And the Bay Area’s biggest city is certainly returning the compliment.
“We absolutely love having them here in San Jose,” San Pedro Square Market Manager Joe Horrigan. The market has two trivia nights, plus three bands lined up this week to entertain conferencegoers. One of them, Emergency Third Rail Power Trip, is made up of mostly current and former Apple employees.
An Apple Sidecar is being served at the Hotel De Anza’s Hedley Club loungein honor of Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference, which is being heldin San Jose June 5-9, 2017. (Courtesy Hotel De Anza)
It’s just one way that downtown San Jose is all about WWDC this week. The facade of the McEnery Convention Center has been re-skinned with WWDC’s logo — and it’s such an improvement, the city should find a way to keep it. Developers also will be spilling out into other downtown San Jose venues throughout the week. Though nearly, all the events are limited to registered conference participants, it could still make for some good people watching.
Monday night, The Loop’s Jim Dalrymple is hosting the Beard Bash — if you’ve ever seen his whiskers, you understand the name — featuring the tribute band Department of Rock and lots of Heineken flowing at the City National Civic.
Developers will be partying at the McEnery Convention Center plaza Tuesday at 6 p.m. with local craft beers and live music, and Wednesday’s they’ll be taking in the IMAX movie, “A Beautiful Planet,” at the Tech Museum’s Hackworth IMAX Dome Theater. Others might skip the Wednesday movie to take in James Dempsey and the Breakpoints’ benefit concert that same day at the City National Civic to support App Camp For Girls, organized by WWDCGirls.
Buddybuild is hosting the WWDC edition of its “buddybeers” event at craft cocktail lounge Paper Plane on Tuesday night (where it also happens to be Negroni Week), and former Apple Genius Bar employee and stand-up comic James Veitch has a geek-bent set Tuesday at the San Jose Improv. The party portion of the conference itself concludes Thursday night with a huge outdoor bash at Discovery Meadow, the park next to the purple Children’s Discovery Museum.
Downtown bars and restaurants also are welcoming WWDC attendees and Apple fans with open arms. Popular bars and venues including Forager, the Ritz and Haberdasher have been snapped up by developer events on various days this week, but there’s still a lot for the non-developer crowd to enjoy.
San Pedro Square Market has two acts playing Monday night — guitarist Jerry Sauceda at 6 p.m. and zydeco favorite Andre Thierry at 7 p.m. — and has opened its new Garage Bar just in time for WWDC, after a successful test run during last Thursday’s SPUR Member Party. Emergency Third Rail Power Trip plays wednesday at 6 p.m.
And if you just want to toast the conference, the Apple Side Car is on the Hedley Club lounge menu at the Hotel De Anza this week (It’s got Calvados apple brandy and is served with a small plate of sliced apples). Deluxe, Chacho’s and Loft Bar and Bistro all planned to have specials on appletinis, too.
Sal Pizarro
Sal Pizarro as written the Around Town column for the Mercury News since 2005. His column covers the people and events surrounding the cultural scene in Silicon Valley. In addition, he writes Cocktail Chronicles, a feature column on Silicon Valley bars and nightclubs.
Follow Sal Pizarro @spizarro
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Elizabeth Warren takes risk with ad blasting billionaires
Posted by: saywharadio Posted on November 16, 2019
New York (AFP) – Elizabeth Warren, one of the leading Democratic presidential candidates, has stepped up her assault on billionaires — a rallying cry popular with her base, but one that could stymie her efforts to garner wider support among US voters.
The 70-year-old US senator from Massachusetts on Thursday unveiled a new ad in an appearance on CNBC, a business news network that often criticizes her, in which she takes on the ultra-rich.
The one-minute campaign ad shows clips of several leading businessmen criticizing her plans for a wealth tax and predicting economic ruin if she is elected to succeed Donald Trump, a billionaire himself.
“The vilification of billionaires makes no sense to me. It’s bull,” says investor and hedge fund manager Leon Cooperman, one of the men targeted in the ad. After he speaks, a note appears on screen — “charged with insider trading.”
“I’m most scared by Elizabeth Warren,” chimes in Silicon Valley investor Peter Thiel, who is identified on screen as a “Facebook board member and major Trump donor.”
Then the viewer sees Warren at a campaign rally, challenging America’s most wealthy to pay up to help reduce income inequality in America.
“Pitch in two cents so everybody else gets a chance to make it!” she says to cheers from the crowd.
The ad marks a new phase in the White House strategy of Warren, who has put her fight against the rich at the heart of her campaign.
“All of this is a publicity stunt,” said Capri Cafaro, an executive in residence at American University’s School of Public Affairs and a former Democratic member of the Ohio state senate.
“She’s showing that she has the toughest talk when it comes to taking on the billionaires and standing up for working families,” she told AFP.
– ‘Billionaire tears’ –
In her campaign, Warren often fluctuates between using irony and outright scorn for those she doesn’t like.
When Cooperman blasted Warren as “disgraceful,” the Wall Street foe’s campaign Twitter account fired back: “ok billionaire” — a twist on the “ok boomer” meme that has gone viral among those fed up with their elders.
When Bill Gates expressed concern that he would have to pay $100 billion under her wealth tax, her team launched a tax calculator for billionaires on her website, and she offered to meet the Microsoft founder and philanthropist to explain her policy platform.
When one clicks on the tax calculator, you can enter your net worth and get a rough estimate. If you’re Gates, Cooperman or former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, there are dedicated links that automatically inputs net worth. For Gates, it’s $107 billion.
Bloomberg is meanwhile mulling his own presidential bid.
Warren is also selling anti-billionaire swag on her site. One mug has the mocking phrase “Billionaire tears.” Buttons promoting the wealth tax — which would be a two percent levy on fortunes exceeding $50 million — say “two cents” and show two pennies.
Cooperman is always ready to take a swing at Warren, but he’s not the only one.
Former Goldman Sachs chief Lloyd Blankfein — who also appears in the campaign ad — said he was surprised by being included, and noted: “Maybe tribalism is just in her DNA.”
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon lamented that Warren was “vilifying” the rich, telling CNBC: “I think we should applaud successful people.”
Mark Cuban, who owns the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks, accused the senator of “misleading the public” with proposals that he suggested would not work, criticizing in particular her Medicare for All health plan.
Amid all the swirling controversy and tit-for-tat attacks, will Warren’s strategy pay off?
After running neck-and-neck with former vice president Joe Biden in several opinion polls, earning more than 20 percent support in some surveys, a Reuters-Ipsos poll published Friday showed her trailing off at 13 percent, behind Biden and fellow Senator Bernie Sanders at 19 percent each.
According to Cafaro, some voters already skeptical about Warren’s many policy plans could be turned off by her harsh words for the rich.
“But if you’re someone that does feel that billionaires need to pay their fair share, this is going to make you even more firmly committed to her candidacy,” the analyst added.
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SBU School of Journalism spreads news literacy curriculum
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Stony Brook University’s curriculum from the Center for News Literacy is spreading to other schools and universities across the globe.
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After spending four years as a foreign correspondent in Moscow, Russia, Corey Flintoff visited Stony Brook University to discuss Russian-American relations.
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By Jonathan Romney2008-05-19T11:49:00+01:00
Dir: Pablo Larrain. Chile-Brazil. 2008. 98mins .
Chile’s darkest days coincide with the golden age of disco in Tony Manero, a disturbing character study with a trenchant edge of social satire. Director Pablo Larrain follows his 2006 debut Fuga with a film that works on at least three levels: notably, as the study of a warped loner, as a comment on fan fetishism, and as a portrait of Chile’s national traumas under the Pinochet dictatorship.
A gritty but sometimes elusively narrated drama, Tony Manero will become a fixture on the festival circuit, but commercial chances will be selective outside the Spanish-language art-house market. Niche distributors should warm to it, although they may have to stress either the disco-fever element or the dark crime content to make the film a plausible sell to audiences.
Tony Manero is set in Santiago in 1978, when Chile is under the sway of Pinochet’s regime. Co-screenwriter Castro - famous in Chile as a stage actor and director - plays Raul Peralta, a 52-year-old man obsessed, like many at the time, with the film Saturday Night Fever. A wannabe John Travolta, Raul is first seen signing on for a TV show’s search for a homegrown Tony Manero - the dancefloor dandy played by Travolta in that film.
The unprepossessing, ungainly-seeming Raul models himself on Tony, and leads a small troupe that performs disco routines in a run-down cafe. Other members are are his girlfriend, faded belle Cony (Noguera), her teenage daughter Paul i (Lattus), and a younger man, Goyo (Morales), with apparent left-wing leanings and some sleek dance moves.
While striving to perfect his routines, Raul pursues his latest fixation, the purchase of a large quantity of glass to recreate the famous dancefloors of the Travolta film. But unknown to his dance mates, the usually placid Raul is even more disturbed than his rages in rehearsal suggest. Early on, he helps an old lady in distress, then without warning turns violent. Going to the cinema to see Saturday Night Fever yet again, he finds Grease playing instead and vents his fury to shocking effect. Just as troubling is the rather more petty way in
which he decides to settle a score with a competitor.
Tony Manero confidently persuades us to accept certain wilful contradictions in its central character sketch. Raul is a wildly unprepossessing figure, sallow and rat-like, yet he seems to have a strange sexual appeal. Both Cony and elderly cafe owner Wilma (Poblete) find him irresistible, though he offers little in return, while even Paul i seems susceptible to him, as shown in a sequence that lowers Raul a few more steps on the ladder of humanity.
Meanwhile, the political background is introduced discreetly and gradually, with army forces glimpsed menacingly in the background. An early hint of an extreme-right status quo is Wilma’s complaint that Goyo’s plea for unity in the troupe sounds downright communistic.
Blind to the reality around him, Raul fixedly pursues his dream - which is eventually shown to be one of surpassing futility. Without making their political point explicit, Larrain and his co-writers offer a suggestive commentary on the way that societies retreat into fantasy and denial in times of repression. Faded colour and loose docu-flavoured camerawork heighten our sense of the drabness that Raul hopes to escape from. What’s more, Larrain pulls off the rare achievement of evoking the disco era without a shred of the customary kitsch.
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How to Get Laid While Traveling Quick How to Guide
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How to Get Laid While Traveling Quick How to Guide: read this to learn the way of the trade.
Publisher: Lulu.comReleased: Mar 15, 2016ISBN: 9781329972360Format: book
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It might be the hope, that finding someone, is somehow easier far away from home, the prospect of sex in particularly romantic locations, the idea of exotic beauties that are waiting just for you... or just the idea of combining two things a lot of people enjoy: sex and travel.
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PS4’s Days of Play sale sees big discounts on major games
Eric Abent - Jun 9, 2017, 3:10 pm CDT
Just ahead of E3 2017, Sony has kicked off its Days of Play sale on PlayStation Network. The idea we’re working with here is “quality over quantity” – there aren’t a ton of games being discounted, but the ones that are on sale rank among PlayStation 4‘s biggest recent games. Because of that, this is the first time we’re seeing significant discounts on some of these titles.
Some of the big games being discounted in this sale include Horizon Zero Dawn, Nioh, Final Fantasy XV, and Mass Effect: Andromeda. In some cases, such as with Mass Effect: Andromeda, discounts can get as deep at 50% off, though for most titles the discounts are a little more tame. Here’s the full list of discounted games:
MLB The Show 17 – $39.59 (34% off)
Horizon Zero Dawn – $39.59 (34% off)
Horizon Zero Dawn Digital Deluxe Edition – $49.69 (29% off)
Battlefield 1 – $29.99 (50% off)
Battlefield 1 Deluxe Edition – $39.99 (50% off)
Battlefield 1 Ultimate Edition – $77.99 (40% off)
Battlefield 1 Premium Pass – $44.99 (10% off)
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare – $44.39 (26% off)
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Digital Deluxe Edition – $89.99 (10% off)
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Legacy Edition – $59.99 (25% off)
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Season Pass – $44.99 (10% off)
Prey – $39.59 (34% off)
Final Fantasy XV – $34.99 (30% off)
Final Fantasy XV Digital Premium Edition – $52.49 (30% off)
Nioh – $39.59 (34% off)
Nioh Digital Deluxe Edition – $52.79 (34% off)
Watch Dogs 2 – $25.19 (58% off)
Watch Dogs 2 Deluxe Edition – $31.49 (55% off)
Watch Dogs 2 Gold Edition – $49.99 (50% off)
Mass Effect: Andromeda – $29.99 (50% off)
Mass Effect: Andromeda Deluxe Edition – $34.99 (50% off)
Yakuza 0 – $47.99 (20% off)
The Last Guardian – $26.39 (34% off)
Yooka-Laylee – $29.99 (25% off)
Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End – $19.99 (50% off)
So, while there aren’t a ton of different games on sale, the ones that are discounted a high-profile PS4 titles. Perhaps most notable is that 34% discount on Prey, the latest game out of Bethesda. When you consider that Prey is just barely a month old, that’s a hard discount to ignore.
Additionally, Sony is offering 10% off 12-month PlayStation Plus subscriptions, so if you’ve been needing to re-up, now might be a good time to do it. This sale runs until June 16 at 8 AM Pacific time, so you’ve got just about a week on the nose to take advantage of these deals. Are any jumping out at you? Head down to the comments section and let us know what (if anything) you’re picking up!
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I can't remember the day I started playing the violin, as it was when I was only three years old! My mother, who is a musicologist, went with my sister and I to music kindergarten and so for the first three years, music was pure fun for me and violin became a part of my life. After that, I went to the state music school in my town, and at the age of 13, I went with my sister to study in another city and attended my first international orchestral workshop: that was my first big musical experience.
I can't remember the day I started playing the violin as it was when I was only three years old! My mother, who is a musicologist, went with my sister and I to music kindergarten and so for the first three years, music was pure fun for me and violin became a part of my life. After that, I went to the state music school in my town and, at the age of 13, went with my sister to study in another city. Here I also attended my first international orchestral workshop: that was my first big musical experience.
After graduating from high school, I decided to study in Kraków and this was a game-changing time in my career. I learned how to play in chamber ensembles, and how to improvise: I spent three beautiful years completing my bachelor studies there.
In my first year of my master's degree, I went on the Erasmus programme to Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. And then the real studying began.
In London, I found out what a real performance is and what playing the violin means to me. In the beginning, I started identifying how complex performance can be and what I want to achieve when playing for another person. I started to learn about the violin, how to solve all the problems in my technique and how to solve my musical questions. I learned how to make friends with stage fright! And I started to search for my purpose in making music. And this work is still in progress...
In London, I also earn a living by teaching, so I learn a lot from children. They are my big inspiration. They make me think and analyse the many problems we are all struggling with.
In the future, I would like to play more Baroque music, as in Poland we learn a lot about this musical style. In 2014, I went to Bachwoche in Stuttgart and played in the Academy Orchestra, which was a very inspiring time. I would love to continue exploring this sometimes light, sometimes deep but also uplifting style of music.
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Virtuos partners with leading video games school
Shanghai, March 19, 2007 – Virtuos and Game Academy announced today that they have formed a tight and exclusive partnership by creating a Joint Class, named Virtuos Employment Training.
Game Academy is one of the most prestigious training organizations for Chinese students showing a strong desire to enter the video games industry. Under the terms of this unique partnership, Virtuos is involved in selecting the students, and key senior staff from Virtuos will conduct training during a period of 3.5 months directly on Game Academy’s premises. Virtuos will reimburse the tuition of any pupil joining the company after going through the Virtuos Employment Training.
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Uckfield team raise funds for charity with tasty treats
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Customers popping into Specsavers Uckfield recently were welcomed with tasty treats thanks to a cupcake sale in aid of the Alzheimer’s Society.
The team at the High Street store were inspired to raise funds for the charity after receiving training as Dementia Friends.
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Mandeep Nayee, store manager in Uckfield, said: ‘The training was eye-opening for the team, and it has really helped us all to work even more effectively with customers who may be suffering from dementia.
‘I think anyone who works with the public should become a Dementia Friend, as it can make a massive difference to a lot of people.’
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The tax strategy is guided by the Company’s priority to create and maintain shareholder value, whilst balancing its commitment to compliance with laws and regulations. The Company does not seek to take an aggressive approach to tax.
CSI acquires, manages and builds vertical market software businesses that provide mission-critical software solutions.
The Company has multiple operating groups, focussing on different sectors/markets and operates in a highly decentralised manner. In most cases, the different operating groups act autonomously with individual finance teams holding operational responsibility for tax management. As well as this operational management, wider tax governance and oversight of the tax strategy is provided by the CSI head office tax team (“CSI Tax Team”). To successfully combine these areas, the Company strongly encourages a culture of consultation.
The tax strategy of the Company is regularly reviewed and updated. Commitment is given to keeping abreast of new developments and changes in the law across the wide range of taxes to which the group is exposed; namely corporate income taxes, employment taxes, indirect taxes such as duties and VAT, and withholding taxes.
How the UK group manages its tax risk
The UK Group’s approach to UK tax risk management is based on the principles of reasonable care and a conservative risk.
The UK Group actively monitors the controls and processes in place. A tax audit register is populated and regularly reviewed by the CSI Tax Team. Quarterly updates on ongoing tax audits are presented to the CSI audit committee, alongside a review of current global tax issues and risks facing the Company. As the UK Group continues to grow, tax governance maintains a high priority on the CSI Audit Committee’s agenda.
The Company employs specific personnel with a responsibility for ensuring tax compliance across the group. The CSI Tax Team are responsible for keeping abreast of legislative changes and their potential impact on the group. As part of the culture of consultation, bi-weekly tax team calls are held to monitor any tax risks arising, and internal memos are prepared and used as a basis for educating the wider tax and finance teams across the global group.
This consultative approach ensures that the UK group operates with a consistent tax strategy, despite its decentralised operating structure. Significant decisions with a material tax consequence are approved by the CSI Tax Team, ensuring appropriate oversight is maintained.
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The UK Group adheres to relevant tax laws, whilst seeking to operate in the most efficient manner by making use of exemptions and incentives put in place by relevant tax authorities and OECD principles. Where applicable, clearances are sought prior to engaging in any planning activities to ensure the group is compliant. Regular communication is upheld with the UK Group’s tax advisors’ both on a local level and a global group level. This ensures the finance teams are kept up to date on developments and changes. Most significant tax sensitive matters are discussed with tax advisors and advice sought where required.
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Please note Craigellachie Distillery only opens it's doors to the public for special events during Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival in May each year.
The distillery was built in 1891 in Banffshire at the very heart of Speyside, between Rothes and Dufftown. Here the distillery is in close proximity to the blissful confluence of rivers Spey and Fiddich. From the whisky distillery, perched high on the rock of Craigellachie, one can gaze over the village and namesake, and the quaint John Telford - designed bridge, which crosses over the river Spey.
Co-founded by Alexander Edward of Aultmore fame, and Peter Mackie of the blending company "White Horse", the buildings were designed by the reputable Speyside architect, Charles Doig.
John Dewar & Sons Ltd. have owned the distillery since Bacardi Martini acquired the company in 1998. Along with independent bottling's and the 2004 official house bottling of Craigellachie 14, a brand new range of Craigellachie single malts have been produced as part of the "Last Great Malts" range, with age statements of 13, 17, 19 & 23 years old.
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This country’s National Under 17 Men’s Team will be taking the competitive international stage with the intentions of launching long, successful careers on the football pitch when they enter the field for tonight’s opening fixture against Haiti in the Caribbean Football Union Under 17s Final Round.
For the majority of the squad with the exception of W Connection midfielder Isaiah Hudson and captain John-Paul Rochford, the occasion will be their first at the international level. It is a similar stage that launched the careers of players like Kevin Molino, Sheldon Bateau, Dwight Yorke, Russell Latapy and many others.
And Latapy hopes this is the beginning of a new chapter in their careers.
“This certainly is a big point in their careers. I remember when I was coming up into the system, of course back then we were playing at the under 12 level but when we entered competition for the Under 17s and the Under 20s, it was a very exciting period for us as players. It was what he had dreamt of and worked towards and it will hopefully be the same for these players today.
These are the future players that will represent us going forward for the future national teams right into the senior team. And from what I have seen, there is a lot of talent around that needs to be nurtured and this is what we are doing at the moment,” Latapy said.
“Yes the game is about winning and we are here to complete a job which is to qualify for the next round but we are also concentrating on developing these young men to be ambassadors for the country and to prepare them for the life ahead both on and off the football field. For me it’s a critical but also exciting stage in the whole process and I am very keen to see how the players go through this,” Latapy added.
T&T had a final training session at the Manny Ramjohn Stadium main field on Thursday evening while Jamaica and Bermuda trained at the Ato Boldon Stadium training field. The Haitian team was scheduled to arrive in Trinidad on Thursday evening.
T&T meets Haiti at 7:30pm and Bermuda takes on Jamaica from 5pm at the Ato Boldon Stadium. Tickets can be purchase at the venue, priced at $30 (adults), $15 (children) and kids under 5 are free.
For Interviews with Latapy and skipper John Paul Rochford and his teammates, see below.
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By Jan Ozer Contributing Editor
NewTek Intros NDI 3 and NDI PTZ Camera
Since its launch in 2015, NewTek’s Network Device Interface, or NDI, has become a dominant technology for transmitting video and associated content between computer-based production stations, like graphics engines to live streaming video mixers. With NDI version 3.0, announced today, NewTek extends the technology to cameras and converter/capture devices, where it will supplement or supplant technologies like 3G SDI and HDMI. This brings NDI a huge step closer to NewTek’s vision of an end-to-end IP-based video production workflow. Leveraging features in NDI 3.0, NewTek also announced their own NDI-based A/V converters and a NDI-based PTZ camera.
About NDI
Here’s a quick primer on NDI, which we wrote about comprehensively last year in "NDI and Live Titling" on Streaming Media Producer. At its core, NDI is a technology for delivering high-quality, low-latency video streams over a local area network. NDI was originally developed by NewTek to enable products that produced content for the TriCaster to send video and other content to the TriCaster for deployment in a live production. So rather than connecting a graphics engine and a TriCaster on the same network with HD-SDI, you could use NDI and allow that graphics engine to deliver content to any NDI-capable live production systems on the network.
In September 2015, NewTek open-sourced NDI and made it royalty free. According to Michael Kornet, NewTek’s general manager for NDI and executive vice president, since 2015 more than 2,700 companies have downloaded the SDK and created commercial products now in the hands of more than 10 million customers.
With version 3, NewTek added embedded NDI support for hardware devices like cameras and signal converters, which is the first step towards NDI replacing SDI and HDMI as connection standards for cameras and capture devices. Why? Because NDI is a more flexible and easier to deploy. In essence, SDI/HDMI are cabled and point-to-point, while NDI can be cabled or wireless and is multipoint.
Imagine installing multiple cameras into a stadium, auditorium or even a meeting room. With HDMI and HD-SDI, you have to pull cables back to the mixer, careful not to exceed maximum lengths. Those cables only connect to that mixer, not to any other device in the facility unless you physically install a splitter and run multiple cables.
With NDI, so long as the camera is connected to the network, whether via Wi-Fi or Ethernet, any NDI compatible device on the network can access the signal. With multicasting, another new feature in Version 3, multiple devices can access the signal with minimum additional bandwidth hit on the network. So, you could record the video at one location, mix it in another, or even mix the output from the same camera on multiple video mixers, one for broadcast, one for the web, one for internal viewing.
Figure 1. NewTek's Connect Spark NDI-cabpable A/V converters
New NDI-Capable A/V Converters
Besides the embedded NDI support, version 3 adds a high-efficiency mode suitable for limited bandwidth wireless, remote, and large-scale networks. This mode was key to the two video converters NewTek also launched under the NewTek Connect Spark brand, one HDMI to NDI ($499), the other 3G SDI to NDI ($799), which both connect to the network via Wi-Fi or Ethernet cable. In addition to NDI conversion, both devices provide tally support, and can record MP4 to an SD card or USB drive, with a web interface for controlling the recording. Obviously, these converters allow traditional video cameras to transmit NDI into a network, where the video can be accessed by any NDI 3.0-compatible live streaming video mixer, or even Skype.
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Leveraging another new feature in version 3.0—PTZ camera support—NewTek also announced the “World’s First NDI Native Camera,” a full 3G 1080p60 PTZ camera that delivers audio, video, tally, PTZ control and power over an Ethernet cable (Figure 2). The camera has a U.S. retail price of $2,799 and like the video converters, will be available on August 1, 2017.
You won’t have to wait long for additional NDI-compatible cameras and switchers, as Panasonic, a launch partner, promised to add NDI to its line-up of professional integrated PTZ cameras and next generation switcher systems. Other companies listed on the press release as planning to support NDI 3.0 included BirdDog, Bluefish444, Microsoft, NewBlueFX, OBS, Panasonic, PTZOptics, SplitmediaLabs, Broadcast Pix, Ross Video, Telestream, and vMix.
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Assessing the Use of Composite Materials in Reinforcing Offshore Risers and Pipelines
Composite systems are a generally-accepted method for repairing corroded and mechanically-damaged onshore pipelines. The pipeline industry has arrived at this point after more than 15 years of research and investigation. Because the primary method of loading for onshore pipelines is in the circumferential direction due to internal pressure, most composite systems have been designed and developed to provide hoop strength reinforcement. On the other hand, offshore pipes (especially risers), unlike onshore pipelines, can experience significant tension and bending loads. As a result, there is a need to evaluate the current state of the art in terms of assessing the use of composite materials in repairing offshore pipelines and risers.
The paper presents findings from a joint industry effort involving the Minerals Management Service, the Offshore Technology Research Center at Texas A&M University, Stress Engineering Services, Inc., and several composite repair manufacturers was undertaken to assess the state of the art using full-scale testing methods. Loads typical for offshore risers were used in the test program that integrated internal pressure, tension, and bending loads. This program is the first of its kind and likely to contribute significantly to the future of offshore riser repairs. It is anticipated that the findings of this program will foster future investigations involving operators by integrating their insights regarding the need for composite repair based on emerging technology.
Alexander, C., “Assessing the Use of Composite Materials in Reinforcing Offshore Risers and Pipelines”, Paper No. OMAE2011-49425, The 30th International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, June 19-24, 2011, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
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Samsung Galaxy Grand 2: another phablet on the horizon
Yet another mid-range model arrives in the Galaxy range – and leaves us scratching our heads
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Samsung is showing no signs of slowing down in its hectic phone release schedule. The company today unveiled the Galaxy Grand 2, a 5.25in model that looks a lot like a Galaxy Note 3 but offers very little of that phone’s appeal.
Phabulous? Or phlat?
The Grand 2 is relentlessly mid-range (720p screen, 1.2GHz quad-core processor, 1.5GB of RAM, Android 4.3, 8MP camera) where the Note is powerful, and lacks the S-Pen stylus. So basically it’s just a really big, really averagely specced phone, with only its dual-SIM capabilities likely to raise a bit of interest. There’s no support for 4G LTE.
Samsung clearly believes there’s a market for it, but unless it’s incredibly cheap we can’t see it proving tempting to, well, anybody. The price and release date are both yet to be confirmed.
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How to end insecurity–Gov. Oyetola
Gov. Gboyega Oyetola of Osun State
Gov. Gboyega Oyetola of Osun on Wednesday said most of the crises across the world was as a result of disunity, poverty and ignorance which must be addressed in order to end the challenge of insecurity.
Oyetola stated this at the International Conference on the Biography of Prophet Muhammed organised by the Muslim Ummah of South West Nigeria (MUSWEN) in collaboration with Nusret Educational and Cultural Company and Hira Magazine in Ibadan.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the theme of the conference was “Impact of the Exemplary Leadership Style of Prophet Muhammed on Inter-Ethnic and Inter-Reoigious Harmony.”
The governor urged the people to leave in harmony with one another as no religion teaches violence.
He described Islam as a religion of peace, urging adherents to emulate the exemplary life of Prophet Muhammed.
Oyetola also said that government at all levels must be encouraged and supported by the people to ensure that they reduce poverty through empowerment and job creation.
He further called on government at all levels to be just in their dealings and keep the promises made to the people.
“In Islam, breaking promises is a grievous sin. There are several verses of the Holy Qur’an that emphasise the need to keep promises.
“Conscious of the above fact, as a Muslim whom God in His infinite mercies has chosen to steer the affairs of the State of Osun, I have not failed in my responsibilities to provide good governance to our people by delivering on my campaign promises.
“As a government, we are conscious of the fact that our administration is a product of Allah’s promise, the benevolence of the people of Osun and our mandate.
” I have also not disappointed this great organisation by being its good ambassador as a Muslim governor who has consciously comported himself within the dictates of our religion in our service to Allah and the people, ” he said.
In his lecture, Dr Kamil Kemanci of Nile University of Nigeria, Abuja, called on Muslims to live in harmony with the people of other faiths as practised by the prophet.
Kemanic said Muslims must set up a society where people love one another and live in peace and harmony irrespective of religion or ethnic origin.
In his remarks, the Executive Secretary of MUSWEN, Prof. Muslih Yahya, said good leadership had been identified as a major factor for the poor growth in developing countries.
Yahaya said inter-communal disharmony and crises resulting in violent clashes as well as lack of visible commitment to the welfare of the citizens on the part of political leaders had featured constantly.
“Politicians use the impoverished masses and manipulate religion and ethnicity to set the people against one another in order to perpetuate themselves in office.
” Ethnicity and religion remain the most ready instruments manipulated to fuel crises and perpetuate disharmony.
“Negative application of both ethnic and religious interests can be effectively controlled and put to the best use with adequate guidance that is certainly capable of putting the communities on the best footing if the examples in the life style of the Prophet Muhammad (SAW) are followed by the leadership of the communities.
” All challenges of human existence have their solutions in the legacy left for humanity by the Prophet in the Quran and the Sunnah,” Yahya said. (NAN)
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Obasanjo expressed optimism that the government would sign the AfCFTA in order to help its vibrant private sector benefit from the integration programme.
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Former president, Olusegun Obasanjo and Chairman, Advisory Board of the First Intra-African Trade Fair holding in Cairo, Egypt, yesterday, lamented Nigeria’s failure to sign the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA), despite its leadership role in the continent.
Obasanjo slams Nigeria, African countries over delayed ratification of AFCFTA
He said it was absurd for Nigeria that had played many leadership roles on the continent from 1963 not to be part of the AfCFTA deal.
He said the rest of Africa countries was ready to proceed with the implementation of pact without Nigeria.
On March 21, 2018, 44 of the 55 African Union (AU) member states gathered in Kigali, Rwanda, to sign the AfCFTA with a view to creating a single market in the continent. Once the agreement is ratified by all signatories, the trade bloc to be created would encompass 1.2 billion people and over USD $2 trillion in combined (Gross Domestic Product (GDP.)
Obasanjo who featured at one of the closing sessions of the first Intra Africa Trade Fair and Exhibitions titled “Conversation with former Nigerian president” and moderated by Nigerian journalist, Mark Eddo, regretted that at a time the country was needed to provide leadership by being on the table to sign the AfCFTA, even after debating it at the highest policy making organ of the Federal Government, the Federal Executive Council (FEC), the leadership suddenly developed cold feet thereby leaving other nations who were looking up to it for direction in quandary.
“I just sincerely hope and pray that Nigeria will be at the table before the implementation of the scheme begins. But the truth is that whether Nigeria is there or not, Africa has started to move forward and it cannot stop the rest of continent that have already signed the agreement.
He added: “We started it from 1963. From there we had the Lagos Plan of Action, then NEPAD, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and several others. But what has gone wrong today that Nigeria is taking the back stage in Africa’s economic integration initiative?”
Obasanjo, who also reminded his audience that Nigeria, as the largest economy in Africa, with one third of its the population living in virtually all parts of the world, expressed optimism that the government would comply and sign the agreement in order to help its vibrant private sector benefit from the integration programme. He expressed satisfaction with the heavy presence of the Nigerian private sector at the Fair and urged the Nigerian authorities not to allow the opportunity to slip off their hands.
According to him, the AfCTA is the economic salvation that Africa needs to redeem the wrong perceptions of it left by colonialism.
“I don’t care what people say about me but I believe this is the time that we need to rise together and prove to world leaders that go with the perception that Africans live in huts and that we are shit holes, that we are human beings and the only way we can do this is by improving the standard of living of Africans.”
He, however, called on the Afreximbank leadership to continue with its effort and commitment to changing Africa, stressing that it was high time the colonial structures left by Europe and America were dismantled.
According to him, it’s only when we do that that we can be seen as human beings and not “shit holes”.
Meanwhile, Obasanjo has called on African leaders to commit more to infrastructure development, stressing that such investment would help the private sector expand its operations.
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Richie Blackmore’s Rainbow / Memories in Rock II / 2CD+DVD or 3LP vinyl
February 20, 2018 by Paul Sinclairtags: 1970s, 1980s, Deep Purple, rainbow, ritchie blackmore
2CD+DVD set • coloured triple vinyl • new studio recording
Guitar legend Ritchie Blackmore brought his new Rainbow line-up to the UK last year for three concerts (in London, Glasgow and Birmingham) and those performances feature on Memories in Rock II a new live album that also features the first new Rainbow studio recording in over 20 years.
The band line-up featured Ritchie Blackmore (Guitar); Ronnie Romero (Vocals); David Keith (Drums); Bob Nouveau (Bass); Jens Johanssen (Keyboards); Candice Night (Backing Vocals) and Lady Lynn (Backing Vocals). The track listing includes live performances of Spotlight Kid, I Surrender, Mistreated, Man on the Silver Mountain/ Woman from Tokyo, Perfect Strangers, Black Night and Smoke on the Water.
This new release comes as a two-CD set which includes a new studio track Waiting For A Sign (with Ritchie Blackmore on guitar and Ronnie Romero on vocals). This package includes a bonus DVD, but do note that this DVD isn’t a video performance of the show, rather it is described as a ‘backstage pass’ and features 80 minutes of interviews with band and crew who talk about how this show came to life.
The audio is also available on triple 140g vinyl. Amazon should be listing this as a blue vinyl edition soon, and JPC in Germany are also listing a GREEN 3LP vinyl set and a RED 3LP vinyl set so if you don’t fancy blue, then there are other options!
Memories in Rock II will be issued on 6 April 2018
Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow;Rainbow
Memories In Rock II - 140g 3LP Blue Vinyl [VINYL]
Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow
Memories in Rock II - 2CD+DVD
Amazon uk 12.2 Order
2. Spotlight Kid
3. I Surrender
4. Mistreated
5. Since You’ve Been Gone
6. Man On The Silver Mountain/Woman From Tokyo
7. 16th Century Greensleeves
8. Soldier Of Fortune
9. Perfect Strangers
10. Difficult To Cure
1. Stargazer
2. Long Live Rock’n’Roll/Lazy
3. Catch The Rainbow
4. Black Night
5. Carry On Jon
6. Temple Of The King
7. Smoke On The Water
8. Waiting For A Sign [new studio track]
1. Ritchie Blackmore Interview
2. Ronnie Romero Interview
3. Jens Johansson Interview
4. Bob Nouveau Interview
5. David Keith Interview
6. Candice Night Interview
7. Lady Lynn Interview
8. Dave David Interview
9. Andreas Bock Interview
10. Michael Bockmühl Interview
11. Bonus Backstage Clip
12. I Surrender 2017 Backstage Clip
26 responses to Richie Blackmore’s Rainbow / Memories in Rock II / 2CD+DVD or 3LP vinyl
Woodsy Niles says:
I watched a couple of these Rainbow Redux concerts on Youtube. It seemed like they were all playing in slow motion. Ronnie Romero was desperately playing the cheerleader to get the crowd going. To me it just wasn’t working. I agree with the poster about the current King Crimson. There’s a right way and a wrong way to do these things.
Check out a Japanese female guitarist on Youtube called Akanohana69 playing an amazing cover version of Kill the King.
Robert Perry says:
Amazon U.S. shows this as a triple 180g vinyl release. No mention of colored vinyl.
https://www.amazon.com/Memories-Rock-Ritchie-Blackmores-Rainbow/dp/B079PT2YRH/ref=tmm_vnl_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
I am hoping this IS thecolored vinyl and they have just not yet added that detail.
Good price for $22.40 prime.
Paul Wren says:
There doesn’t appear to be much love on this forum for this product, does there? Interestingly, the triple vinyl is reasonably priced at c. £25. I suspect there will be left over supplies of the three coloured vinyl versions in due course, so maybe bide your time and pick it up sometime over the next year when the price drops beneath £20?
I don’t think Ritchie had any desire to be “pushed” by other musicians, which is a shame. He’s always made it clear these shows are just a quick blast from the past… set a few dates, knock out some old songs, and then get back into the tights for more Blackmore’s Night. And if that’s ALL it was, I wouldn’t be so disappointed.
But this is going to be the third release and these shows just weren’t that good. I can’t find the link that had the press release for this one, but it was rather funny how they made it out like these were the most amazing Rainbow shows ever.
You mentioned Child In Time which always struck me as an odd inclusion. I got the sense he does that song (in both this revamped Rainbow and when he does it with BN) just to poke at Gillan who long ago had to stop doing that song. If memory serves, there was one DP shows towards the end of his time where Gillan made it clear he couldn’t do the song, so Ritchie goes out there and starts playing it, forcing Gillan to do it.
To me, Child In Time was really Gillan’s song. Lord and Blackmore made it more interesting with their wild, drawn-out live solos, but the version Rainbow did in Birmingham was pretty tame. So what was the point? To make Romero strain his voice, or show Gillan that someone else can do that song as good as he could?
This may be a slightly unfair comparison, but I look at what King Crimson has been doing since reforming. They’ve released a number of live shows in the past couple of years with a new one hitting soon. Fripp surrounds himself with great musicians and from what I’ve heard from the releases I’ve bought, they’re killing it. I guess the motivation is different, but you’d think professional pride would cause Blackmore to make any Rainbow shows worthy of the legacy.
On the other hand, I might be really overthinking this. :)
The truth is, despite the self-loathing I’ll no doubt feel, I’ll be buying this. Ritchie is one of a handful of artists where I’m a sucker for anything they throw out. I’m at least trying to be excited for the new song.
Woodsey Niles says:
You are absolutely right about the new King Crimson. The new live releases get better and better and there is another one due in April. There is a right way and a wrong way to do these reformations.
I’m relieved to find that I’m not the only one who was disappointed by this half hearted Rainbow project when we were all hoping for the best. Ritchie should have surrounded himself with young, hungry musicians who would push him. Rather he settled upon a nondescript backup band who dare not emerge from the background lest they incur the wrath of the Man in Black. The set list I heard on the previous release doesn’t do Ronnie Romero any favors either. He just isn’t equipped to perform “Child in Time”. At times he sounds like a desperate cheerleader.
Paul Rodgers – my guess is facelift and hair plugs.
I had tickets for the cancelled Manchester gig. At the time I was disappointed as it looked like a great set-list, but judging by the comments I didn’t miss much.
madmickeyt says:
The “you had to be there” comment does have some weight – I was at Brum the first time and it was an electric atmosphere. The follow ups at O2 etc did not really push on from that and were in some ways worse, but it was still good to be there. However, in the cold light of day, Ritchie does not really have it any more and listening to a recording of the gigs in my front room does not really appeal. He should have done it while he could still play those old tunes properly. Karaoke/tribute stuff really.
James A Gates says:
That cover art (complete ripoff of Rising) screams NO!
Paul W says:
Your 100% the only reason it helps sell the album long live Dio he was rainbow
I don’t like new singer at all Ritchie sad he is great but he is awful ,the line up is poor and the man is getting old to me blacmore as good as good on the guitar and he give us so much great music rainbow rising is one of the best hard rock albums .I think Coverdale purple album is great and sounds fantastic . Richie is doing shitty job here
Pieter van der Velde wzn says:
I will always be a Blackmorian but the ivory tinkler is no Lord nor an Airey. The drummer is no Paice nor a Powell. Not even a Don Powell. The bassman is no Glover and the singer can’t do the Gillan. Ritchie used to be very demanding but since he fell in love with this lady from the colonies he seems a wee bit def. For example listen to Blackmore’s Night version of Long long time and compare it with Linda Ronstadt’s version. A superb singer and Candice merely nice but nothing more than that. A musician from Ritchie’s stature should only play with the top dogs. But then again. I’ll probably will buy this karaoke version of a once great band.
singer Romero up ian gillan.
A very splendid singer.
Crazy on live.
James T says:
I was at the Glasgow show and the keyboard player played the most awful keyboard solo I’ve ever heard. Really, absolutely awful. It actually sounded like he was testing the rig. Lots and lots and lots of groans from my part of the venue.
Graham Pollitt says:
Saw this line up 2016 in Lorelly Germany. It was nearly exactly 40 years to the day I’d seen Rainbow with Ronnie James Dio etc.
All I can say is I was feeling a lot happier 40 years ago.
schu says:
The cover art seems like a bit of misdirection from the actual content.
Cosmo Castanza says:
I saw Rainbow in 1980 , my first gig.
The albums with Dio , Bonnet and Turner are some of my all time favourites……Down To Earth may well be my fav.
I have no interest whatsoever in this version , might as well see a tribute band for a tenner in a small venue.
I’m a huge Blackmore fan, so I hope he was personally fulfilled revisiting his rock history in those shows, but…
Normally I’d welcome the release of as much content as possible. However, judging what I’ve heard on the prior releases I’ve bought, it’s hard to get excited about this new one. I’m told you had to be there for the shows and maybe that’s true. But as a listener (and viewer of the earlier DVD) those shows were a disappointment for me. A shame more time and effort isn’t spent to release other great sounding Rainbow shows from the 70s and 80s… or even from the White era.
As for the interview DVD… (yawn).
I’m pretty much in agreement with you on this one. As for the ‘you had to be there’, I’m not buying that. I was at the O2 London show, by which time the band should have been ‘bedded in’ but they just weren’t up to it. Bland musicians chosen no doubt so as not to upstage Ritchie. The singer sounding like he’d learned the lyrics from listening to the records (and not quite hearing some words properly) says it all really. I’m really disappointed to be honest, I really wanted to enjoy the show and the live CDs, wanted the man to go out with a bang, a show I’d never forget, rather than one I remember for all the wrong reasons (shakes head ruefully).
Colin Harper says:
I find these elderly rockers with plainly ridiculous wigs fascinating. There’s a lot of them about – Ian Paice, Hank Marvin, Jeff Beck, Paul Rogers, etc. Just get rid of it, chaps. It just makes you look silly.
SteveT says:
Last photos I saw of Paul Rodgers his head was shaved. No wig there.
A sebnsible idea. Though there’s a really awful official poster out there for a joint tour he’s doing in America this year with Jeff Beck (cue jokes about wig-outs onstage) – awful in the sense that it’s been appallingly Photoshopped and designed, looking like a 1970s end-of-pier variety bill in Bridlington – and Paul’s wig/weave/whatever is prominent on it.
Further to my previous reply Steve, I think you must be thinking of the fellow in UFO. No Google images or recent YouTube clips show Paul Rodgers with a shaved head.
What about paul stanley and big head gene
For the first time I will be giving a Rainbow release a wide berth. I am and have always been a fan of Ritchie since his Purple days but the last tour was dire. Poor singer, poor musicians and the man himself going through the motions. I bought Memories in Rock and Live in Birmingham both as souvenirs of the tour and because I thought those shows had to be better than the London one…I was wrong. Those shows were no better, going by the CDs. Quite simply, this is the poorest Rainbow line-up we’ve seen and I’m not convinced Ritchie’s heart was in it. The last thing we need is more poor live run-throughs of some classic tunes that exist in far superior versions.
martin brennan says:
these gigs were for the fans. there’s demand there and why wouldn’t Rainbow fans thoroughly enjoy it? I went to BOTH Birmingham gigs.
Ritchie and the band played well, RR acquitted himself very well – adept performances of six different vocals (Gillan, Cov, Hughes (Burn), Dio, Bonnet, Lynn Turner).
It doesn’t matter tho’s camp you sit in, but Ritchie is a much happier man these days and it shows.
The band should be commended for putting out a genuine live album – no tweaks, overdubs, fixes or enhancements.
My only gripe? no room for Burn on the triple LP.
now if someone, somewhere could locate the missing donington video
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The future is here: 2016’s most visionary superyacht concepts
Alexandra Groom
While concepts yachts rarely get built to their original specifications, it is not unheard of, and they are a wonderful way of firing the imagination of the next generation of yacht owners.
1. Hareide Design, 108m
The 108-metre concept features a main deck with double-height floor-to-ceiling window, creating what the design house calls “a grand hall” for guests to enjoy. Above the main deck is an elevated dining and viewing area, plus a 20-metre pool surrounded by a tranquil garden with climbing plants, as well as a grassed area. Three-hundred square metres of solar panelling provide the charge for the bank of lithium-ion batteries, delivering enough sustainable power for low-speed cruising in sensitive areas, the designers say. The yacht’s main engines will be diesel-electric.
2. Epiphany, Andy Waugh Design, 130m
Andy Waugh Design says that the Epiphany concept was inspired by “a simplification of the yacht form, with a minimum of styling lines and structures creating a dramatic, elegant effect that belies the practicality and large volumes of accommodation”. On the owner’s deck, the stateroom extends forward with views towards a private foredeck with seating areas and a hot-tub. Aft, there is a private cinema, and an office with cabin space for a PA or other staff. Below the owner’s deck is a dedicated VIP deck, with four huge VIP cabins each with private balconies. Other features on this deck include a cinema, gaming area, gym and spa, and there is alfresco dining aft.
3. Moonstone, Oceanco, 90m
Based on Oceanco’s existing 90-metre platform, Moonstone has been styled by Van Geest Design with a striking multi-faceted hull that makes a continuous play of light and reflections from the water. The visual play starts with custom hull panel lights that are triggered by 300 individually dimmable white triangles each side to create unlimited lighting possibilities. At night, these lights generate a shimmering and twinkling effect. This is supplemented by an overhead panel with a backlit surface linked to fish-eye cameras that can capture the magic of a night sky, a sunset or a sunrise. In the signature pool aft, and in the sundeck hot-tub, dimmable lights have also been employed. Further external lights play with the waterline of the yacht.
4. Dynasty Yachts, 128m
Arthur Barbeito Design has come up with this 128-metre for Dynasty Yachts with a striking axe-bow and bold exterior styling. The decks are packed with features, including an upper deck cinema, six main-deck VIP suites with private folding terraces and a 200 square metre owner’s suite. The sundeck is split between a fully-compliant helideck aft and a comfortable entertaining space with large seating areas. A sky lounge and hi-tech bridge are placed forward.
5. Sundance, Fincantieri, 89.9m
The 89.9-metre concept, designed by Gresham Yacht Design, has a host of features that makes the most of the available light. From the ten-metre pool and panoramic gym on the sundeck, to the dedicated owner’s deck, and the strengthened glass area set into the sundeck that serves as a skylight, the Fincantieri Sundance concept is designed to blur the distinctions between inside and outside: the main deck aft, which features a hot-tub and waterfall feature, has a series of sliding panels that enclose the open areas, allowing guests to stay out a little longer. With an aft-facing owner’s cabin on the dedicated owner’s deck, two VIP suites and four other guest cabins, there is room for 14 guests, looked after by 30 crew and staff.
6. Time, Henry Ward / BMT Nigel Gee, 66m
One of the radical features of the yacht is the 18-metre ‘floating lodge’ aft, designed to blend in with the superstructure. In shallow waters the ‘lodge’ is launched as an independent platform for expeditions in harder to reach environments. Used for transporting both people and provisions, a drone housed in a hangar in the bow of Time can transport up to four guests at the touch of a button, with all piloting and navigation taken care of. A large viewing platform accessed via the sundeck stands 15 metres above sea level for unparalleled views. For the daredevils, on the inner face of the Skydeck is an inverted climbing wall, which stands over the 8-metre swimming pool. On the wellness deck there is a gym, a massage room and a sauna. A bar area leads out to a terrace with a Jacuzzi and views forward over the bow.
7. Echo Yachts, 120m
Echo Yachts have partnered up with Sorgiovanni Design and One2Three Naval Architects on their latest project, a sleek 120-metre trimaran. The large interior volumes include a rotating master stateroom section, dining for 26 guests and a large cinema. There is also a private owner’s entertainment space with swimming pool, a fully-appointed gym and spa and one helipad on the sundeck and a second touch-and-go helipad on the bow.The yacht will top out at 20 knots, and be able to cover 5,000 nautical miles at cruising speed.
8. Choice, Feadship, 74.5m
Choice offers the owners of this Feadship concept options in how to cruise their yacht. The platform consists of a 74.5-metre mothership with two 24.5-metre tenders, Freedom Won and Freedom Too, incorporated onto either side, providing fast propulsion as a whole package or autonomous cruising vessels. If guests are in a hurry to reach a destination, they can cruise at speed to the location and the mothership can follow along behind at a more leisurely pace. The platform also includes a two person drone on the upper deck and an amphibious beach house which detaches.
9. Solaris, Duffy London, 44m
The 44-metre Solaris superyacht concept from Duffy London promises silent running and a 45-knot top speed, with ethanol power, solar panels and waterjets. The Solaris Global Cruiser project, designed by Duffy London, boasts a composite planing hull and six electric motors driving waterjets to harness the solar power. The 8.7-metre-beam yacht, covered in photovoltaic panels, will be able to gather and store power at anchor and in port. The ten guests will be accommodated in five cabins, serviced by seven crew, with open areas aft on the main deck and on the sundeck. With battery technology progressing in leaps and bounds, the designers say this could be a feasible project by 2020. An ethanol-powered turbine provides short bursts of extra power.
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UK’s biggest-ever yacht sets sail
Charlotte Bailey
TAGS: BurgessPendennisRedman Whiteley DixonRémi TessierVAVA II
The magnificent 96-metre VAVA II has left her Devon base after sea trials and handover, and is believed to heading to the Caribbean on her maiden voyage. The biggest-ever private yacht to emerge from a British yard, VAVA II launched at the Devonport Shipyard, now part of the Pendennis Group, in September. She features exterior styling by Redman Whiteley Dixon and an interior from Rémi Tessier. The build was managed by Burgess.
According to Devonport, the yacht features spacious tender garages forward and aft, and a variable-depth swimming pool, but there are few other details forthcoming about this very private yacht.
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Rihanna Trolls Body-Shamers on Instagram
She's an inspiration.
By Ella Cerón
PARIS, FRANCE - JULY 26: Rihanna arrives for a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron at Elysee Palace on July 26, 2017 in Paris, France. During the meeting they talked about contributing to education in developing countries. (Photo by Aurelien Meunier/Getty Images)Aurelien Meunier
Rihanna has been busy slaying red carpets left and right, starring in Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, shutting down music videos, and generally living everyone's best life. So you'd understand if she's just too busy and fabulous to be bothered about body-shamers trying to bring her down. (May we all channel her when haters come at us, TBH.) But while a number of Instagram trolls have taken it upon themselves to make Rihanna's body their business, she's so above the hate that it's — in a word — inspiring.
On Friday, a Rihanna fan account posted a throwback video of the superstar at a convenience store, arms full of snacks. When you go to a convenience store, that's what you do, after all. And while the singer's BFF Melissa Forde tells the person manning the camera, "You’re judging her — stop judging her," it's clear that Rihanna isn't bothered by what anyone thinks about her Cheetos.
And modern-day Rihanna feels the same way as the Rih from the throwback video. Yahoo pointed out that she commented on the fan account with a succinct “Somebody called me too fat? 😂😂😂" Fans understandably freaked out — it's not every day that a celeb actually slides into someone's comments — but it was the fan account that said it best.
"Ain't nobody calling you fat sis not on my watch," @RobynsBish wrote in a follow-up Instagram caption. "Thick woman matter too; be happy in your skin beautiful bishes." It's clear that Rihanna is happy in her skin; after all, size holds no bearing on someone's health, and it's not right for anyone to pass judgment on someone's body. That includes both strangers online, and people you know. Rihanna's clapping back at her haters in the most unbothered way possible, and we have a feeling she'd want you to do the same.
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> Nadal wins 500th match
Nadal wins 500th match
Five-time champion Rafael Nadal has reached the ATP's Barcelona Open final where he will meet fellow Spaniard David Ferrer.
Barcelona, 24 April 2011 | AFP
Five-time champion Rafael Nadal produced a decidedly patchy effort on Saturday in recording his 500th career win to reach the ATP’s Barcelona Open final where he will meet fellow Spaniard David Ferrer.
Nadal managed a 6-3 6-2 victory over 56th-ranked Croatian Ivan Dodig for the 24-year-old to become the second-youngest player to reach the 500-win milestone after Bjorn Borg, who was 23 years, 7 months.
“I’ve had many victories. I’m still young, but I’ve been around a few years,” said Nadal.
“My career has turned out better than I’ve ever dreamed possible. I’m grateful for my life and those who have helped me. I’m enjoying it because you never know when it all might end.”
The world number one will play for his sixth title in seven editions at the Real Club de Tenis against Ferrer, who shrugged off a calf injury worry to reach his second straight claycourt final by defeating Spanish compatriot Nicolas Almagro 6-3, 6-4.
“Today I played worse than yesterday, but despite of that I won and that’s very positive,” said Nadal. “But Ivan had a great tournament, a start of a spectacular season.”
Nadal beat Ferrer a week ago for an historic seventh straight trophy at Monte Carlo with Ferrer having won just four matches from 16 in their series. Nadal enters his title bid with wins in 74 of his 76 sets on clay with a Barcelona win-loss record of 29-1.
Nadal, Ferrer and Almagro are the top three-ranked Spaniards, with at least one home player into the final for a 15th consecutive year.
World number one Nadal lost breaks early in each of the sets against Dodig and had to fight through for his 33rd consecutive win on clay dating to a fourth-round loss to Robin Soderling at Roland Garros, 2009.
Last week Nadal mentioned the fatigue factor but managed to get past Dodig despite uncharacteristically throwing away the early margins which usually power him to quick victories.
In the first set, the top seed ended up breaking the Croatian three times to take it in 39 minutes, But the second set was equally tough for the Spanish crowd favourite, with Nadal forced to break back for 3-1 after losing serve in the previous game.
However, he kept his momentum to complete the win in a shade under 90 minutes with a total six breaks of his unheralded opponent who won a career-first title two months ago at home in Zagreb.
Ferrer reached his home title shot in just over 90 minutes against Almagro, earning victory on his fourth match point.
“It was a tough win physically,” said Ferrer. “It was only two sets but they were hard-fought. I was lucky to play my best in the important moments.
“I’m very happy to be in the final, this is a very important tournament for me. I had to play well to get past Nico. I’m hoping to still feel fully fit for the final,” said Ferrer, who has been bothered by a calf problem after two demanding weeks on court.
“The calf felt OK but I could feel it as the match progressed. But I can recover for Sunday.”
Rallying for Relief
De Minaur erases doubts with power game
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Aston Villa Beat West Brom On Penalties To Reach Playoff Final
15th May 2019 - by Louis Kalinga
However, the Baggies' hopes of an immediate return to the top-flight were dented when captain Chris Brunt was sent off 10 minutes from the end of normal time
Aston Villa FC striker Tammy Abraham. PHOTO/ChelseaNews
Aston Villa progressed to within one game of a return to the Premier League after edging West Midlands rivals West Bromwich Albion 4-3 on penalties in the Championship playoff semi-finals on Tuesday
West Brom won 1-0 on the night at the Hawthorns to level the tie at 2-2 on aggregate thanks to Craig Dawson's first-half header
The hosts held out manfully during extra-time, but Villa goalkeeper Jed Steer saved West Brom's first two penalties of the shootout from Mason Holgate and Ahmed Hegazi
LONDON, United Kingdom- Aston Villa progressed to within one game of a return to the Premier League after edging West Midlands rivals West Bromwich Albion 4-3 on penalties in the Championship playoff semi-finals on Tuesday.
West Brom won 1-0 on the night at the Hawthorns to level the tie at 2-2 on aggregate thanks to Craig Dawson's first-half header.
However, the Baggies' hopes of an immediate return to the top-flight were dented when captain Chris Brunt was sent off 10 minutes from the end of normal time.
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The hosts held out manfully during extra-time, but Villa goalkeeper Jed Steer saved West Brom's first two penalties of the shootout from Mason Holgate and Ahmed Hegazi.
"There's obviously a lot of luck involved but wow," Steer told Sky Sports. "We practise penalties, so I think I must've faced a 100 a day the last few days."
Conor Hourihane, Mile Jedinak, Jack Grealish and Tammy Abraham kept their cool from the spot as Villa set up a May 27 Wembley meeting with Leeds or Derby for a lucrative place in the Premier League.
Marcelo Bielsa's Leeds hold a 1-0 first-leg lead over Frank Lampard's Rams ahead of the second leg at Elland Road on Wednesday.
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Villa missed out in the playoff final last year, losing 1-0 to Fulham and Grealish, who has been linked with a summer move to Tottenham, is keen to make amends in what could be his final game for the club.
"The crowd made it tough with the atmosphere but in the end I felt we ran out worthy winners," said the midfielder.
"It’s no good getting to Wembley and falling at the final hurdle again, so fingers crossed. All of us are very hungry."
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2016-05-07 • 10 km Trail Run
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4811 Luca Cappellano Montreal M10-19 3 3 1 00:47:07.8 00:47:07.8
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Life Sciences Ecology
SpringerBriefs in Biology
Species Diversity and Community Structure
Novel Patterns and Processes in Plants, Insects, and Fungi
Authors: Sota, T., Kagata, H., Ando, Y., Utsumi, S., Osono, T.
Softcover 57,19 €
This book introduces recent progress in the study of species diversity and community structures in terrestrial organisms conducted by three groups at Kyoto University. First, it explains species diversity and the functioning of fungi in Asian regions as outlined by metagenomic approaches using next-generation sequencing technology. The advances in high-throughput sequencing technologies accelerate the speed of species inventorying, especially for microorganisms. Second, the study of complex interactions between herbivorous insects and plants in the community and ecosystem contexts is presented. Recent studies in community and ecosystem genetics shed light on these complex interactions with novel approaches incorporating genetic perspectives including genetic variation and phenotypic plasticity in plant defenses against herbivores. Finally, recent studies on speciation processes in insects are described, processes that are related to the evolution of particular life history strategies. Included is an examination of two hypotheses that may be important in understanding diversification of insect species in heterogeneous environments in space and time. This book is a valuable resource especially for ecologists who are interested in species diversity and community structure.
“The three studies deal with three different approaches combining genomics to ecosystems and three major components of biodiversity – plants, insects and fungi. … will be useful to all those interested in biodiversity and will stimulate further multidisciplinary research through collaboration between biologists working at molecular and macro levels.” (Brij Gopal, International Journal of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Vol. 41 (3-4), 2015)
Metagenomic Approach Yields Insights into Fungal Diversity and Functioning
Sota, Teiji (et al.)
Insect–Plant Interactions in Plant-based Community/Ecosystem Genetics
Accelerated Diversification by Spatial and Temporal Isolation Associated with Life-History Evolution in Insects
Teiji Sota
Hideki Kagata
Yoshino Ando
Shunsuke Utsumi
Takashi Osono
Springer Japan
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The Crossing - Hesperus Is Phosphorus | Open: 06/05/12 Close: 06/05/12
Linda Reichert, artistic director
Donald Nally, conductor
Hesperus is Phosphorus - Lewis Spratlan
When composers and musicians are inspired by words — by poems or stories or simple everyday talk between friends — they find new and expressive ways to make those words part of the music itself. In this collaborative program, the Philadelphia-based Network for New Music joins the dazzling singers of The Crossing, directed by Donald Nally, in the world premiere of a major new chamber work by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Lewis Spratlan, described by the New York Times as “a master of timbres and how to blend them.” Hesperus is Phosphorus takes the form of a secular Vespers service; drawing on the words of American poets, playwrights, and physicists, Spratlan’s beautiful new work explores growth and loss in our ever-expanding world of discovery.
This Is My Story, This Is My Song: A Musical Mélange | Open: 05/26/12 Close: 05/26/12
Jacquelyne Familant, soprano
Ryan Stoudt, bass
Susan Morton, piano
Vier ernste gesange - Johannes Brahms
Schwanengesang (selections) - Franz Schubert
Ausgewählte Lieder - Felix Mendelssohn
Tel jour, telle nuit - Francis Poulenc
I Hate Music! - Leonard Bernstein
Selected Songs - Francesco Paolo Tosti
Talented members of The Park's music staff present the final recital in a series curated around our season's theme. The program will explore a wide range of topics and moods - from Brahm's serious, contemplative Vier ernste gesange to a playful set of children's songs by Leonard Berstein. Works of Poulenc and Schubert plumb the mysteries of life and love, and speak to experiences and feelings that are deeply personal, but also part of our shared human story.
Recital: Three Tenors | Open: 05/20/12 Close: 05/20/12
Joseph Hudson, tenor
Jose Ruiz, tenor
LaVell Thompson,tenor
Present a joint recital ranging from Neapolitan art songs to Broadway. Including works by Schubert, Schumann, R. Strauss, Liszt, Hahn, Poulenc and Bernstein.
Little Mary Sunshine | Open: 05/17/12 Close: 05/19/12
The show is an affectionate parody of American and Viennese operetta as well as Broadway musicals of the first half of the 20th century. The show tells the story of Mary Potts, also known as Little Mary Sunshine, proprietress of the Colorado Inn in the early 20th century, and her romance without Captain "Big Jim" Warrington, the Captain of the Forest Rangers. Mary's maid, Nancy Twinkle, has an on-again, off-again relationship with Corporal Billy Jester.
Music Of Peteris Vasks | Open: 05/08/12 Close: 05/08/12
The Afiara String Quartet
Yuri Cho, violin
Valerie Li, violin
David Samuel, viola
Adrian Fun, violoncello
Paul Vasile, organ
Viatore (2005) - Peteris Vasks
Canto di forza (2002) - Peteris Vasks
String Quartet No. 4 (1999) - Peteris Vasks
We celebrate the work of acclaimed Latvian composer, Peteris Vasks, with the first New York City program dedicated entirely to his music. Known for deeply spiritual works which often incorporate elements from Latvian music and place them within a dynamic and challenging relationship with the language of contemporary music, the program will feature two monolithic works for organ and Vasks' alternatingly dramatic and tender String Quartet No. 4.
Organist Paul Vasile, the artistic director of Arts at The Park, will perform alongside the all-Canadian Afiara String Quartet, which is widely noted for its engaging, authentic presence and performances balancing “intensity and commitment” with “frequent moments of tenderness.” [The Montreal Gazette]. Winner of the 2008 Concert Artists Guild International Competition, the 2010 Young Canadian Musicians Award, top prizes at the Munich ARD International Music Competition and the Banff International String Quartet Competition, where they also took the Szekely Prize for best Beethoven interpretation, the Afiara String Quartet has lively interest in new works and fresh insight into core classical repertoire.
A Requiem For Extinct Birds And Music For Earth Day | Open: 04/22/12 Close: 04/22/12
Premier performance of Hannah Lash's "Requiem..." featuring
Kirsten Sollek, mezzo-soprano
Eric Brenner, countertenor
with the Park Avenue Christian Church Sanctuary Choir conducted by Paul Vasile
New Music"
Recital: The Italian Polish Connection | Open: 03/25/12 Close: 03/25/12
Michelle Trovato, soprano
Paul Vasile, piano
Songs and piano works by Ottorino Respighi, Karol Szymanowski, Francis Poulenc, Reynaldo Hahn, Frederic Chopin and Paul Vasile
Featuring members and friends of The Park's talented music staff, this unique program explores the idea of heritage and how it shapes us. The artists performing share both Polish and Italian roots and have programmed music by composers from those countries, as well as music by composers who have been inspired by Italian and Polish music and culture.
Manhattan String Quartet - All Mozart Feat. John Manasse | Open: 03/11/12 Close: 03/11/12
The Manhattan String Quartet
Curtis Macomber, violin
Calvin Wiersma, violin
John Dexter, viola
Chris Finkel, cello
with John Manasse, clarinet
String Quartet No. 18 in A Major, K. 464 - W.A. Mozart
Quintet for Clarinet and Strings, K. 581 - Mozart
Critically acclaimed as one of America's leading ensembles, The Manhattan String Quartet is celebrating its 41st season. Hailed by Michael Steinberg of the Boston Globe as “a national treasure”, the ensemble has appeared throughout the United States, Europe, Japan, Canada, Mexico and South America. Well known for their performances of 20th-century “classics”, the Manhattan String Quartet has established a significant international reputation as today’s pre-eminent interpreter of the fifteen string quartets of Dmitri Shostakovich.
The MSQ's second appearance on our Spring series features John Manasse, an internationally-recognized soloist and chamber musican whose performances are characterized by a uniquely glorious sound and charismatic performing style. The program contrasts the contrapuntal sophistication of Mozart's Quartet in A Major with the sublime and lyrical Clarinet Quintet.
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AN EVENING WITH JACK L
Date: 18th January
Price: €22.00 / €20.00 conc.
An Evening with Jack Lukeman
with Support Act: Rowlette
The UK based Kildare man with the multi-octave voice returns to Ireland for a string of exclusive intimate shows. Fresh from a series of sell-out performances (NCH, Cork Opera House) celebrating the 20th anniversary of Jack's first album 'Metropolis Blue' alongside a run of shows with Jools Holland Rhythm and Blues Orchestra.
Jack new show celebrates his career to date with road tales, and tall short stories spun in an evening that explores the globe-trotting joys and magic of 25 years of music-making. "An Evening with Jack Lukeman" features the most celebrated songs from his multi-platinum and number 1 selling albums like Magic Days, Metropolis Blue, 27 Club, Wax, Broken Songs, Burn on Universe to name but a few. Don’t miss, this one in a million artist, doing what he does best in a perfect venue.
Jack Lukeman is a multi-octave singer-songwriter, performer, raconteur and record producer. Lukeman is a number 1 platinum-selling, a critically acclaimed artist who continues to win a worldwide fan base with his unique voice and adventurous live shows.
Jack has toured as a special guest recently with artists such as Imelda May, Jools Holland, The Proclaimers and Aerosmith.
"Lukeman is a compelling, dazzling stage performer. Incorporating the theatrical and romantic sensibilities of the likes of Jacques Brel, Jim Morrison, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits but with his own genuine melodic appeal and a knack for creating a 'magic realist' world that is peopled by all manner of unusual, picaresque characters, Lukeman is a rare, unique brand of performer in the modern age" Edinburgh Spotlight Magazine
"Lukeman's voice is powerful and fluid. His range is impressive, from the deep baritone resonance of When The Moon Is High to the aching falsetto of the magnificent Rooftop Lullaby" Hot Press magazine
"Jack is one of the greatest interpreters of song lyrics I have heard in recent years" Christopher Riddle (Leader of The Nelson Riddle Orchestra)
"As with all great shows, it's over too soon" Edinburgh Evening News
"A gorgeous, versatile Baritone" The Washington Post
"Jack L's voice is an irresistible force of nature" The Irish Times
"What a voice…what a performer" The Los Angeles Times
CHRISTY MOORE
5th June
JASON BYRNE - WRECKED BUT READY
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Inequality in Europe
I repost this from Social Europe (which is a site I recommend) because I think it links to a book many readers here will find interesting (and it is free):
Then US President Barack Obama said inequality was the defining issue of our time at the end of 2013. Almost half a decade later we unfortunately have to conclude that it still is one of the defining issues of our time and that we have seen the beginning of a political feedback loop. The unresolved inequality challenges amongst other things contributed to the the Brexit vote in the United Kingdom and the election of Donald Trump in the United States. It was not just the persistent patterns of huge inequalities between different parts of society but also the growing frustration that political systems have become unresponsive to the concerns of people suffering from the current state of affairs. When analysing the challenge of right-wing populism it is crucial not to do so at a superficial level only trying to dissect the communication techniques and understanding the current electoral appeal of populists – as important as this is. It is at least equally important to try to understand the socio-economic and political conditions that enabled those communication techniques to develop electoral appeal. Inequality is a huge part of this background story.
Inequality will be an important public policy issue for years to come and we hope this dossier will promote understanding of some of the underlying issues and inform the development of effective policy solutions.For this reason, Social Europe teamed up again with the Europe Office of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and the Institute of Economic and Social Research of the Hans Böckler Stiftung in a project investigating various aspects of the inequality issue with a specific perspective on the European dimension of inequality. Over the course of several months we collected fifteen contributions by globally leading experts to help getting a grip on what inequality means today. These contributions form the three parts of this dossier starting with a general section on understanding inequality and related issues such as globalisation, migration and populism followed by chapters on inequality in Europe and a final part investigating the inequality dimension in specific policy areas.
Inequality will be an important public policy issue for years to come and we hope this dossier will promote understanding of some of the underlying issues and inform the development of effective policy solutions.
January 11 2018 at 8:59 am
Obviously there are lots of factors contributing towards inequality in Europe. The EU is obviously highly topical and most of the focus is on the economic advantages through trade. I voted for Brexit, on balance, because the EU and the single currency is inextricably linked and reading the work of Joesph Stiglitz (who I believe to be the most influential modern day economist) it really hammered home the inequality the single currency has created in Southern Europe in particular. The single currency isn’t going away and yet so many support EU as an entity and seem to ignore or are unaware of the inequality it’s framework causes.
Richard Murphy says:
So you voted using an utterly irrelevant criteria in the context of the question being asked?
Andy Crow says:
January 11 2018 at 11:19 am
Along with the rest of 52% of the electorate who thought jumping off a cliff into the dark was a good idea 🙂
What does it say exactly? We in Britain vote in favour because its better for us economically but to hell with the consequences for Southern Europe?. I am sure you have read Stiglitz, it is very conclusive isn’t it?…why support an entity which contributes to so much poverty and hardship?
But do we have more chance of protecting Southern Europe by being in or out?
There is only one answer to that
Simon Cohen says:
January 11 2018 at 3:52 pm
‘But do we have more chance of protecting Southern Europe by being in or out?
As you would expect, Richard, I have to steam in here and profoundly disagree. The root cause of inequality is monetarism, deregulation and the tolerance of rentier activity. The EU practices all three, and to think that there is a platonic EU existing behind the real one is to indulge in the worst excesses of idealistic and abstract retreat.
The problem with the referendum was the barrage of lies and illiteracy from BOTH sides. There IS another answer:
leave this ghastly neo-liberal shambles and show what a currency issuing government can actually do -that would then show the Eurozone countries that they are trapped and reduced to vassal states of the ECB like local councils, some of whom are being starved of cash.
The fantasy of some on the Left is that there is some sort of ‘social Europe’ that functions in any way at all.
1) Look what Germany did in 2004 onwards: it instituted horrendous welfare reforms (the Hartz reforms) that started the process of internal devaluation to intensify their mercantilist programme.
2) greek Youth unemployment: 39.5 percent
3) Spanish unemployment: 38.7% ( only reduce from 51% because they were ‘allowed’ to increase the deficit above the loony 3% rule).
4) Italian youth unemployment: 35.1%
5) Greek health crisis unabated.
DC has a good point -but it’s not the single currency per se (America has a single currency over a massive, culturally diverse are) it’s the reduction of countries to council status that is the issue and the lack of a social European policy that coordinates and balances out the economic weaknesses and strengths to produce a decent outcome. With the ECB obsessed with austerity and using ineffective monetarist tools none of the deeper issues are addressed while a banking and financialised elite carry on siphoning upwards. Witness the further and ongoing increase of inequality on Germany.
The answer, in my view is this: Get out and use out status as a sovereign currency issuer to put the brakes on austerity and show how a well focused deficit spend, re-nationalisation, job-creation, infrastructure and housing program can transform the landscape – this would then show the Eurozone countries what can be done and what is workable and could get a real social Europe going.
The worst outcome is leaving and carrying on the same.
The Left is making a big mistake wasting its breath on the EU issue -the focus needs to be on the change in the economic system-ditch monetarism, stamp on rentier activity, control unproductive capital flows and for heaven’s sake lift the boulders of stress off our people.
To be honest I’m heartily sick of the constant Cassndra-ing about how Brexit will do this or that: the balls-up and tragedy is with us NOW -the wasted lives, the environmental disaster, the 30,000 unnecessary deaths, the ghastly stress and deteriorating mental health, the 4 million children living in relative poverty.
The great danger now is that the Left will split over Brexit and allow the Neo-liberal wagon to creak on further – this is a real danger and a total waste of energy chundering on about it.
If the left is anything is is internationalist
Are we to leave those unemployed to their fate?
The EU isn’t Internationalist in the Left sense-it might have been prior to the rise of Delours and monetarism but not for the last 40 years. It became supra-national only in the sense of global capital, not social.
We can show more solidarity with the unemployed around Europe by giving the EU the finger and showing Europe what sovereign Governments can do and thereby giving them succour and support and forming meaningful alliances with the left in Europe.
It’s great opportunity but I fear the Left will divide because of an irrational sentimentality to some platonic EU that doesn’t actually exist. If the left divided over the EU you can be sure that neo-liberals will use it in their favour.
“[….]The root cause of inequality is monetarism, deregulation and the tolerance of rentier activity. The EU practices all three, and to think that there is a platonic EU existing behind the real one is to indulge in the worst excesses of idealistic and abstract retreat.
I do so love to hear Brexit supporters so strenuously making the case for Scottish Independence.
Get it right Andy it’s ‘LEXIT’ not Brexit.’
Is someone making a rational case for ‘LEXIT’?
They’re being very quiet about it.
January 13 2018 at 10:18 pm
‘Is someone making a rational case for ‘LEXIT’?
That really sums up the problem – the real Left argument for leaving was given close to zero air space-as a result I had to abstain because I didn’t want to associate myself with the hideous Brexit campaign. here’s the ‘movie’:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0kuJhkMLWs
Mariner says:
As the saying goes, better to be inside the tent pissing out than outside the tent pissing in…
It’s quite possible to deplore the way that the Southern European Eurozone countries have suffered whilst realising that leaving won’t help them, but will certainly hurt us.
Mariner -leaving COULD help them- we could lead the way by being the first country in Europe to break the market fundamentalist mould. There are EU laws that make it difficult to re-nationalise and for state aid to be used if it is deemed to affect market forces:
‘Article 107 TFEU allows for state aid only if it is compatible with the internal market and does not distort competition, laying out the specific circumstances in which it could be lawful. Whether or not state aid meets these criteria is at the sole discretion of the Commission – and courts in member states are obligated to enforce the commission’s decisions. The Commission has adopted an approach that considers, among other things, the existence of market failure, the effectiveness of other options, and the impact on the market and competition, thereby allowing state aid only in exceptional circumstances.
For many parts of the UK, the challenges of industrial decline remain starkly present – entire communities are thrown on the scrap heap, with all the associated capital and carbon costs and wasted lives. It’s high time the left returned to the possibilities inherent in a proactive industrial strategy’ (www.newstatesman.com/politics/brexit/2017/07/lexit-eu-neoliberal-project-so-lets-do-something-different-when-we-leave-it)
Kate Hoey has also pointed out how EU membership could inhibit re-nationalisation and rolling back the absurd level of privatisation of public goods ( the UK alone can clain 40% of the privatisations in the EU):
‘Since 1991 the EU has introduced three railway packages, which have imposed numerous legal requirements on the member states. A fourth package is on its way – which will further open up domestic passenger services to competition. All of these laws limit a UK Government’s freedom of action and will bind the hands of a future Labour Government. ‘ (www.newstatesman.com/politics/2015/08/renationalise-railways-what-no-one-will-tell-you-we-cant-while-were-eu).
The only pissing in the tent is the ECB and EU pissing on its own people from on high.
My point is virtually non of the debate surrounding the EU whether instigated by you, by politicians by Gina Miller or whoever ever focuses on the inequality in Europe caused by the single currency. As a result most people are blissfully unaware.
And you are ignoring that our leaving will make it worse
The single currency isn’t the cause in itself but it exacerbates the situation -in a monetarist and austerity obsessed EU that dances to arbitrary and irrelevant deficit rules- it forces countries into a vicious circle of ‘internal devaluation’ trying to earn Euros whilst lowering aggregate demand within the country – it is utter nonsense ( unless you work for financial service).
Marco Fante says:
“The single currency isn’t the cause in itself”
Sorry for the late reply but for God’s sake stop being arbitrary and familiarise yourself with concept of Optimal Currency Areas as well as the restrictions the Eurozone imposes on member states.
The have no monetary sovereignty and no central bank of their own – hence the sovereign debt crises. In the absence of their own exchange rates they are forced into an idiotically extreme trade imbalance with Germany while Germany does everything it can to reinforce that imbalance rather than alleviate it.
In being subject to the monetary union they lose monetary sovereignty and lose the balancing effect of having their own exchange rate – but they are expected to issue gilts at the national level! Which is sort of like: Oh sorry, you can’t issue your own currency, you can’t set your own interest rates but as far as the bond markets are concerned you’re an “independent” nation. That inconsistency is just one of the daft features of this completely dysfunctional currency arrangement.
As for German hegemony some have suggested that the euro currency has finished the job that Hitler started. That’s an insensitive exaggeration but I can see where they are coming from.
I’m perfectly familiar with the concept of Optimal Currency areas and have posted before on this as you should know from my other posts, so please don’t be condescending and fatuous.
The single currency COULD have worked more effectively with a properly federal arrangement as Mitchell has put it:
‘The ECB should not become a fiscal agent. Rather, if the Eurozone elites cannot implement (which they cannot) a full federal treasury function then it should disband the monetary union in an orderly way.’
A full federal treasury function could have been possible which is why I say the single currency is not inherently the problem bit IS a huge problem given the policy settings.
Marco, please be cognisant of the posting history-before you accuse someone of being ignorant of things they have clearly posted about before and you have occasionally acknowledged. We have enough people leaping around with pontificatory rectitude in economics!
Pilgrim Slight Return says:
I never really agreed with the creation of the euro – it was a bridge too far as they say and went too far beyond the original treaty framework. But to say that the euro and the euro zone has caused inequality to rise as the only causal factor is stretching things a bit for me.
We have friends in both France and Italy and they told us that from the onset of the Euro, prices started to rise.
It was not the EU putting up the prices but the markets themselves – the private actors in this whole affair. It underlines the idea that the Euro may not have been such a good idea after all but is the same as the idea of being able to move freely in the Euro zone that also got abused by profit seeking companies eager to reduce wage bills. It was not just about creating a flexible supply of labour but was also used to arbitrage down existing labour’s wages.
It is not just the EU or the Euro therefore; it is human behaviour in the markets that were created that also has to be taken into account and questioned.
The other issue is that the EU as an entity can be changed. It just falls back to the old chestnut that we are not talking about this thing called the EU; the EU is made up of member states who all think the same about these issues.
Change has to start to take place in each sovereign nation and then (and only then) will we see change in the EU.
Everything can be changed
It does not even start with the member states
It starts with ideas
And then everything is possible
But it helps if you’ve got an audience and membership does that
Craig Mackay says:
Surely the inequality attributed to the euro single currency zone is not intrinsic to the single currency but only to the way it is operated. Any successful currency must allow redistribution. In the UK the rich South transfers resources to the North and other disadvantaged regions. The managers of the Eurozone don’t do that and require countries to adhere to northern standards of what they imagine constitutes “prudent economics”. As long as countries like Germany are indifferent to the very different conditions in the southern European countries then the problems they have will persist. But it’s not the euro that is the problem, just the way it’s managed. Therefore I fear Dc was mistaken in voting the way he or she did.
The problem is Germany thinks everyone can run surpluses simultaneously
Which is as logical as Gove thinking everyone can be above average
“Surely the inequality attributed to the euro single currency zone is not intrinsic to the single currency but only to the way it is operated.”
I think that has to be right. It has to do with the ECB producing a centralised currency, but without there being a balancing centralised tax authority. (I think.) Mind you the tax authority would have to do its job or you’d end up with the same result anyway cf the economy of the UK.
If anyone has any firm beliefs on Europe then I suggest reading Joesph Stiglitz – the Euro: and its threat to Europe.,, then we might not believe we are “jumping off the edge of a cliff”. Here is a very short interview with him. http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/interview-with-joseph-stiglitz/. He states “the costs of keeping the Eurozone together probably exceeds the cost of breaking it up”…a loose union to promote peace and trade is a great idea. That is not what the EU is and it won’t be turned into something that works by us trying to reform from within. As well as Joseph Stiglitz, Roger Bootle’s “Why the EU isn’t working and what could take its place” is also very good.
I am familiar with the arguments
But you do not seem to have noticed we are not in the Euro and no one is asking that we should be
So all you are saying is utterly irrelevant
Bootle is an IEA sort of economist-I wouldn’t trust him.
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(Mis)Uses of Technology
from the regular-wikipedia-browns-these-guys dept
Thu, Jan 9th 2020 7:45pm — Tim Cushing
Once again, another crime has been solved with the help of smart devices that shows "going dark" is mainly just an FBI product it's having trouble moving in such a sunshine-y market.
Third party apps and a surveillance camera allowed investigators to solve one crime (by determining it never happened) and charge someone for the crime that actually happened. [via Slashdot]
A 26-year-old man faked his own stabbing at the West Bloomfield synagogue where he worked and then reported he was attacked because of his Jewish faith, authorities say.
Now Sean Samitt is facing a felony charge of filing a false police report, according to West Bloomfield Police.
Samitt claimed to have been attacked while leaving work at the Temple Kol Ami. Supposedly the attackers stabbed him while yelling things about "you Jews" and "too many immigrants." Investigators were unable to find a weapon, blood, or any other evidence of the crime in the parking lot that Samitt claimed the attack took place.
What they were able to find was a security camera attached to a house across the street that captured the crime that never happened. When they confronted Samitt with this, his story changed. He hadn't actually been hate crimed. Instead, he claimed he had passed out (due to an unnamed health condition) while doing dishes at the synagogue.
He then claimed that this was kind of a hate crime as well, because he had been "harassed" about his medical condition at the synagogue and felt compelled to create a cover story for his inability to do dishes without losing consciousness.
Sometimes the best surveillance is the surveillance we inflict upon ourselves.
Officers were able to obtain information from Samitt's cellphone health application that was synced to his Apple Watch, confirming he did not lose consciousness. Samitt then admitted to intentionally stabbing himself.
A wealth of data about people's lives is generated daily by anyone carrying a smartphone or wearing a smartwatch. Device encryption is only preventing investigators from seeing a very small slice of that. Almost every third party app generates records law enforcement can obtain from developers or in the multiple clouds storing data and communications. The few communication options that are completely locked down may impede a handful of investigations. But for the most part, law enforcement is coming out ahead in the so-called tech war, years after device encryption became a standard offering.
Filed Under: data, evidence, sean samitt, smartwatch, stabbing, west bloomfield
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from the how-much-'yes'-is-actually-impairment-tho dept
Breathalyzers have been in use for more than 100 years at this point and we still don't have all the kinks worked out. Testing equipment used by law enforcement frequently isn't calibrated or maintained correctly. Some devices have been set up improperly, which leads directly to false positives when the tests are deployed.
Unfortunately, impaired driving isn't going away. And neither are the tools cops like well enough to deploy in the field, but apparently not well enough to engage in routine maintenance or periodic quality control testing. This is already a problem for citizens, who can find themselves behind bars if the testing equipment is faulty. The problem is only going to get worse as marijuana legalization spreads to more states.
There's currently no field test equipment that detects marijuana impairment. A company in California thinks it has a solution.
By mid-2020, Hound Laboratories plans to begin selling what it says is the world’s first dual alcohol-marijuana breath analyzer, which founder Dr. Mike Lynn says can test whether a user has ingested THC of any kind in the past two to three hours.
“We’re allowed to have this in our bodies,” Lynn said of marijuana, which became legal to use recreationally in California in 2018. “But the tools to differentiate somebody who’s impaired from somebody who’s not don’t exist.”
We won't know if these claims are true until the testing equipment is deployed. And even then, we still won't know if the machines are accurate or the drivers they catch are actually impaired. Marijuana doesn't work like alcohol, so impairment levels vary from person to person. In addition, there's no baseline for impairment like there is for alcohol. That will have to be sorted out by state legislatures before officers can begin to claim someone is "impaired" just because the equipment has detected THC. At this point, the tech pitched by Hound Labs only provides a yes/no answer.
There's a very good chance this new tech will go live before the important details -- the ones safeguarding people's rights and freedoms -- are worked out. The founder of Hound Labs is also a reserve deputy for the Alameda County Sheriff's Office. And it's this agency that's been test driving the weedalyzer.
The Alameda County Sherriff's Office agreed to test the Hound Breathalyzer in the field.
"What we've seen trending with the addition of the legalization of cannabis in California is that we are coming across more and more marijuana-impaired drivers," said Alameda County Sheriff spokesperson Sgt. Ray Kelly.
"It's not hard to determine if there is THC on someone's breath if they have been smoking it," Kelly said. "It's when they're ingesting it through edibles, which have become much more popular. That's extremely valuable to law enforcement."
These tests are completely voluntary and drivers who submit to them won't be criminally charged even if the device says they're under the influence. But in a few months -- if everyone agrees they're good enough to be used on civilians -- the tests will no longer be voluntary and the consequences will be very real.
Impaired driving that doesn't involve alcohol is going to increase with the legalization of marijuana. But this new tech should be greeted with the proper amount of skepticism. Breathalyzers that detect alcohol have been around for decades and are still far from perfect. A new device that promises to detect recent marijuana use just because researchers say consumption can be detected for up to three hours shouldn't be treated as a solution.
The device is stepping into a legal and legislative void with no established baseline for marijuana "intoxication." It can only say it does or does not detect THC in a person's breath. It can't determine whether the amount is a little or a lot, and no one has any guidance stating how much of a THC concentration should be considered impairing or illegal. But it's pretty much a given these will hit the roads before the law is ready for them, and that should concern drivers in every state where marijuana is legal.
Filed Under: breathalyzer, false positives, field tests, marijuana, police, testing
Companies: hound laboratories
Chinese Court Says AI-Generated Content Is Subject To Copyright Protection
from the uh-oh dept
Thu, Jan 9th 2020 12:21pm — Mike Masnick
Just last week we wrote about the good news that the European Patent Office had decided to reject AI-generated inventions for patent applications and explained why this was good. As we noted, prior to that, most of the discussion on AI and monopoly protections had been focused on copyright, and there are various lawyers and law firms eagerly pushing the idea that AI should be able to obtain copyrights, despite it going against the entire basis of copyright law. So far, we haven't had a real test of the issue in the US (though the monkey selfie case could be seen as a trial balloon for copyright for non-human creators), but apparently at least one Chinese court has already gone in the other direction.
A court in Shenzhen has decided that articles generated by AI are entitled to copyright protection, according to the National Law Review. The case involved the popular Chinese site Tencent, and a news article generated by an AI software called Dreamwriter:
On August 20, 2018 , the plaintiff first published on the Tencent Securities website a financial report article titled “Lunch Review: Shanghai Index rose slightly by 0.11% to 2691.93 points led by telecommunications operations, oil extraction and other sectors.”
Tencent personnel used the Dreamwriter AI to draft the article and when the plaintiff published the article on its website, it stated that the article was automatically written by the Tencent Dreamwriter AI. The defendant, Shanghai Yingmou Technology Co., Ltd., disseminated the same article to the public through a website operated by the defendant on the same day the plaintiff published the article.
Thus, the lawsuit, and the court decided that the article met all the qualifications for copyright, which apparently does not include "being created by a human" as per the law in the US and elsewhere. Instead, the court said that since it was a written work, it was enough to get a copyright. This is troubling for all the reasons we've discussed before. Again, the point of copyright is to create incentives to create. An AI does not need the incentive of a monopoly and the ability to charge monopoly rents for access to that content. So it makes little sense to have copyright in such situations, but in a world where people think that everything -- even ideas -- must be "owned" I guess that's what you get. Seems at least a bit ironic that this would happen in China, though perhaps less so that it happened in Shenzhen, which industrialized rapidly by becoming a more capitalistic "economic zone" within China.
Filed Under: ai, china, copyright
Shocking Absolutely No One, Ring Admits Employees Improperly Accessed Customers' Data
from the who-could-have-seen-this-coming dept
Thu, Jan 9th 2020 10:45am — Tim Cushing
Ring never fails to disappoint. And by "disappoint," I mean never fails to be disappointing. This pleases me. So, I guess Ring never fails to please… by being incessantly disappointing.
I realize this is beginning to resemble a beating that continues long past the point the victim has lapsed into unconsciousness. But if Ring hadn't made itself such an inviting punching bag, I would not continue to rain down printed blows on its oh so very soft body.
Ring first grabbed our attention by offering up a snitch app that encouraged neighbors to start talking about suspicious people in their neighborhood. This app also happened to be a portal for the voluntary sharing of footage captured by Ring cameras, most of which were built into Ring's "smart" doorbells.
From there, things went from bad to worse to godawful to horrendous to PR-team-on-constant-suicide-watch. It has been super-enjoyable for me (and hopefully for Techdirt readers) for two reasons:
1. Ring promiscuously got in bed with over 600 law enforcement agencies, selling them "free" cameras to hand out to homeowners with some implicit/not-so-implicit strings attached. In return, law enforcement agencies gave up their authority and autonomy, granting Ring permission to write their press releases and statements for them.
2. Ring does not care about its customers. It enjoys a commanding lead in the market, but it has produced yet another internet-connected thing that it does not bother to secure properly. When breaches happen -- and they are unimaginably horrifying breaches that involve hijacked cameras -- the company says customers should have done more to secure their devices, rather than accept any responsibility for doing as little as possible to prevent this sort of thing from happening.
So, the latest news is more fuel for the dumpster fire. It's not just cops grabbing footage without bothering with the Fourth Amendment niceties. There's also abuse happening internally -- the sort of abuse you'd expect when you give people access to a wealth of personal information.
The doorbell-camera giant Ring has terminated employees in recent years for improperly accessing users’ video data, parent company Amazon told lawmakers this week, an admission that could increase pressure on the firm to prove it protects customer privacy.
The company has investigated four complaints regarding employees abusing their access to camera data over the past four years, Brian Huseman, a vice president of public policy at Amazon, wrote in a letter to five senators this week.
The company did not provide any detail about the data that was improperly accessed, but considering how much data Ring collects -- along with footage from millions of cameras -- the imagination is free to run wild.
This is the latest unsurprising development for Ring. Give enough people access to intimate recordings and data, and abuse is bound to happen. Maybe the Ring employees were just following the lead of their law enforcement partners, who also have access to a great deal of personal info and abuse this access with alarming frequency.
I'm sure Ring will weather this news cycle as it has every other over the past 12 months: by claiming it takes everyone's security seriously and sending out tweets to anyone tagging the company with the latest bad news saying the coverage is inaccurate. But no one believes Ring, especially when its defensive tweets talk their way around direct questions and link to talking points delivered by Ring reps.
Ring is no longer just a dumpster fire d/b/a a security camera company. Its flaming dumpster existence is mounted to every flatbed car on a never ending train wreck. It can't pull the plug on its thousands of buddy cops. And it appears to be far more interested in market growth than properly serving the customers it already has. Things will get worse. That's it. There's no "before it gets better." At best, Ring can only hope to fade from the public eye before it alienates any more of its past and future customers.
Filed Under: abuse, doorbells, employees, police, surveillance, video
Companies: amazon, ring
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from the good-deals-on-cool-stuff dept
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Civil FOSTA Suits Start Showing Up In Court; Prove That FOSTA Supporters Were 100% Wrong About Who Would Be Targeted
from the who-would-have-guessed dept
Thu, Jan 9th 2020 9:25am — Mike Masnick
During the run up to the passage of FOSTA, we were told two key things: (1) the law was absolutely necessary to stop sex trafficking websites like Backpage, and (2) that there was no way that the law would be abused to go after perfectly innocent websites. It's pretty easy to show that both of these claims turned out to be utter bullshit. The first one was especially easy, seeing as the Feds seized the site and arrested its founders a week before FOSTA became law. The second has taken somewhat longer to show, in part because for a long while no one actually seemed to be making use of FOSTA. For a law that we were told was absolutely necessary and that any delay in passing it would mean lives put at risk, it has been notable just how few actual lawsuits have been filed under FOSTA in the 18 months or so since it became law. State attorneys general, who pushed strongly for it, claiming they needed this hole in Section 230 to go after bad actor websites have still never used the law. Not once.
However, a few civil suits have just started to show up, as highlighted in a guest post at Eric Goldman's blog by FOSTA expert Alex Yelderman. She first points to two nearly identical lawsuits filed in state courts (one in Washington, one in California) against Craigslist and a bunch of hotels. Craigslist has sought to remove both to federal court as of early December. Both cases push, as Yelderman notes, "radical theories of liability" aimed at Craigslist. They also target activities that happened prior to FOSTA becoming law (as you may recall, Craigslist shut down its "erotic services" section all the way back in 2010, and then shut down all dating after FOSTA became law, noting that the liability risk was just too much).
That hasn't stopped the company from getting sued under the law, though, with it claiming that just the mere fact that Craigslist had such a section a decade ago proves that it was engaged in sex trafficking under FOSTA. As Yelderman points out, the fact that FOSTA is apparently retroactive and can reach back to such things, will almost certainly be found unconstitutional. As you may recall, even the DOJ told Congress this part was unconstitutional.
Even beyond that aspect, though, the claims in the lawsuit are crazy. They assume that FOSTA removed the requirement for knowledge on the part of intermediaries like Craigslist, even though supporters of the law insisted that wasn't the case. Indeed, a key part of the DOJ's defense of FOSTA in the Woodhull case that challenged the law (and which the district court rejected), was that FOSTA made no such change. As Yelderman explains:
The plaintiffs do not allege that craigslist knew anything about them specifically being trafficked — in fact, they count themselves among “thousands of victims” — but rather claim that the website was aware “that its erotic services section was well known to commercial sex customers throughout the United States as a place to easily locate victims for [SIC] as commodities, unpunished, anonymous, sexual abuse of children” and that once craigslist had been put “on notice of the human sex trafficking” (“from numerous sources, including but not limited to; lawsuits, government action, public outcry, news media, victims, activities and employee observation”), its ongoing operation “amounted to a venture with sex traffickers to efficiently market victims such as [the] Plaintiff.” (emphasis added)
This is a radical theory of liability, and raises the question: did FOSTA’s definition of “participation in a venture,” codified in 18 U.S.C. § 1591(e)(4), eliminate the requirement that federal trafficking defendants (including, now, intermediaries) have actual knowledge of trafficking? The government in Woodhull assured that court that “FOSTA changed nothing about Section 1591’s scienter standard,” and that a plaintiff “cannot credibly fear criminal or civil liability [if] it has no specific knowledge about the content of any of the material it obtains” or “be prosecuted under FOSTA [if] it has no knowledge about any individual webpage nor criminal intent.” (Defendants’ reply and supplement at 7, 8, emphasis added)). But even if craigslist ends up prevailing, the fact that the cases were filed at all sounds the alarm on FOSTA’s reach, and shows the Woodhull plaintiffs’ fear to be entirely reasonable
The other case that Yelderman highlights deserves even more scrutiny. It was filed against Mailchimp back in November, and I had meant to write it up at the time, but did not get the chance. It was filed by the same lawyer who has been filing a bunch of similar cases, including the nonsense cases against Salesforce, because Backpage used Salesforce. The lawyer behind those cases, Annie McAdams, even got herself quite a profile in the NY Times, where she meets the NY Times reporter at "her favorite Tex-Mex joint in Houston" and proceeds to brag that "she had acquired the restaurant’s secret margarita recipe in legal discovery when she sued the place for serving a man too much alcohol."
Bragging about abusing the law and the courts for personal gain in a NY Times profile says something about you. For what it's worth, McAdams' Twitter account currently has exactly two tweets (it's possible she's deleted others), with the first one being her getting angry at me for referring to her lawsuits as "nuisance suits." Quite a person there.
Either way, the claims against Mailchimp are absolutely the kinds of things we all warned would happen when FOSTA was being debated, and which FOSTA supporters insisted would never happen. The crux of the lawsuit is that when a Backpage clone, called YesBackpage, tried to startup after Backpage was seized, the site used Mailchimp for emails, and thus that makes it liable under FOSTA.
YesBackpage used Mail Chimp technology to enable efficient and targeted communication between itself and sex traffickers.
MailChimp was thereby an active party in the process of soliciting and fulfilling acts of sex trafficking.
MailChimp’s integrated communications software was used together to track postings of illegal advertisements, encourage greater use of these advertisements by traffickers, and effectively promote sex trafficking on an unprecedented scale.
MailChimp was the key technology used to unify the various digital components of the sex trafficking transaction, including the use of email to increase more advertising, more consumption of those ads, and thereby facilitate more sex trafficking.
Even if this lawsuit gets tossed out (as it should), the theory behind it is scary and worrisome. As Yelderman writes:
This case alleges that MailChimp — a marketing platform — “made available its marketing resources and expertise” to a Backpage copycat website and that “MailChimp’s marketing relationship with YesBackpage makes it responsible for its natural consequences — the sex trafficking of Jane Doe.” (Doe v. MailChimp complaint at 12). This view of “natural consequences” is breathtaking. Once MailChimp became “[a]rmed with knowledge of activity occurring through YesBackpage,” any services performed for the website would presumably constitute “participation in a [sex trafficking] venture.” There is no limiting factor in sight.
When sex trafficking is somehow construed as the “natural consequence” of a virtually any action, virtually no person or entity is safe from the threat of liability.
These are the kinds of things many of us worried about (and warned Congress about) in the run-up to SESTA/FOSTA, and we were told we were crazy. Yet, looking at the actual lawsuits filed under FOSTA seems to prove we were 100% correct.
What's even more troubling, through, is that they also show just how wrong the district court judge in the Woodhull case was to dismiss that case. The judge dismissed that case insisting that FOSTA included clear language that barred such widespread interpretations:
... plaintiffs ignore key textual indications that make clear that FOSTA targets specific acts of illegal prostitution not the abstract topic of prostitution or sex work.
That's certainly not how the lawyers who filed the lawsuits above see it. At the very least, one hopes that the DC Appeals court recognizes this in deciding the Woodhull appeal. If not, then hopefully one of these or related cases makes its way up to an appeals court and gets FOSTA itself tossed for any of the variety of problems the law has created for speech online.
Filed Under: cda 230, fosta, intermediary liability, section 230, sex trafficking
Companies: backpage, craigslist, facebook, mailchimp, salesforce
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Ajit Pai Hits CES... To Make Up Some Shit About Net Neutrality
Say That Again
from the regulatory-capture-is-just-so-hot-right-now dept
Thu, Jan 9th 2020 6:18am — Karl Bode
In 2018, you might recall that Ajit Pai had to cancel his CES appearance due to clearly idiotic death threats. In 2019, Pai had to cancel a scheduled appearance due to the government shutdown. Fast forward to 2020 and Ajit Pai finally made it back to CES, and he used the opportunity to... make up some nonsense about net neutrality.
In a cozy, unchallenging chat with the CTA's Gary Shapiro, Pai once again trotted out the canard that modest net neutrality rules crushed US broadband sector investment, insisting that his hugely unpopular decision to kill net neutrality has resulted in, by golly, some amazing things for American consumers:
"Since we made the decision in December 2017, broadband speeds are up 60 percent according to Ookla, infrastructure investment is up, more Americans are getting connected to the internet than ever before. More fiber was laid in 2019 to homes and businesses in the United States than in any year since they’ve been keeping records, breaking the record we set in 2018.”
But as we've been over repeatedly, there's absolutely no evidence that Pai's net neutrality repeal actually contributed to those improvements, and the claim that net neutrality hurt broadband investment is indisputably false. It's simply not debatable. SEC filings, earnings reports, numerous investigations -- even the public statements of countless CEOs have shown Pai's not telling the truth:
"Last September, a massive study reviewed telecom earnings reports and SEC filings between 2009 to 2018 and found absolutely no evidence that the repeal helped spur US broadband network investment. The findings mirrored another major study by consumer group Free Press, which found some ISPs actually invested more while the rules were active. Numerous journalists have come to the same conclusion after digging through industry earnings reports. Even telecom industry CEOs have admitted repeatedly to investors—who by law they can’t lie to—that the rules had no impact on their broadband investment strategies."
While broadband speeds have increased, there too is zero evidence that killing net neutrality was to thank for it. Some of the bump is thanks to cable operators upgrading to DOCSIS 3.1, something the FCC had nothing to do with. Some of it is thanks to community broadband fiber builds, something the current FCC actively opposes. And some of it is thanks to merger conditions affixed to AT&T's 2015 merger with DirecTV by the previous FCC, bringing fiber to 12.5 million homes by an act of regulatory action (ironic given Pai is trying to frame those gains as the product of regulatory restraint).
Pai's clearly been informed that he's wrong on most of these points, but like so many in the post-truth era apparently doesn't care, hopeful that repetition somehow forges reality. Much like he did in 2017 when he celebrated the giant middle finger he'd just given consumers by dancing with a pizzagate conspiracy theorist, Pai took the opportunity at CES to make light of a justifiably pissed public:
“I would like to say that thanks to our efforts, more Americans than ever before, faster than ever before, are able to hate-tweet their favorite FCC chairman."
Guffaw. It's worth repeating that the net neutrality repeal didn't just kill net neutrality, it obliterated the FCC's ability to hold ISPs accountable for all manner of shady bullshit, be it false advertising, location data privacy scandals, or charging consumers rental fees for modems they already own. That's before you get to the litany of identity theft and fraud that accompanied the repeal itself, something that doesn't get any more hilarious in hindsight.
Filed Under: ajit pai, ces, fcc, net neutrality
San Bernardino 2.0: FBI Asking Apple To Crack Encryption On Phones Owned By Pensacola Naval Station Gunman
from the encryption-is-letting-dead-men-get-away-with-crimes-they-already-committed dept
Thu, Jan 9th 2020 3:17am — Tim Cushing
It looks like the FBI wants to relitigate the San Bernardino shooting. After that tragedy, the FBI tried (and failed) to obtain legal precedent forcing cellphone manufacturers to crack open seized phones at the drop of a warrant. Finally, a third party sold a solution to the FBI that opened the phone and allowed it to recover nothing useful whatsoever from the shooter's device.
The FBI was displeased that it didn't get this precedent. Internal communications showed FBI officials were doing everything they could to avoid using a third-party solution. The theoretical existence of evidence related to a tragic shooting was the only leverage the FBI had and a private company's cracking service took that leverage away. It could no longer claim approaching Apple directly was the only way to access the contents of the phone.
The FBI is trying again. It has more locked phones and another shooting to use as leverage.
The FBI is asking Apple Inc. to help unlock two iPhones that investigators think were owned by Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, the man believed to have carried out the shooting attack that killed three people last month at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida.
In a letter sent late Monday to Apple's general counsel, the FBI said that although it has court permission to search the contents of the phones, both are password-protected. "Investigators are actively engaging in efforts to 'guess' the relevant passcodes but so far have been unsuccessful," it said.
Apple is helping the FBI but it's not doing the only thing the FBI really wants it to do. Apple's statement says it's already turned over "all the data in [Apple's] possession." But it's not going to break the devices' encryption.
And no matter what legal precedent the DOJ obtains -- should it decide to force the issue by seeking a court order compelling decryption -- it still may not find anything useful, or indeed anything at all, if it manages to unlock the devices. There's a twist in this case that sets it apart from the San Bernardino shooting.
A law enforcement official said there's an additional problem with one of the iPhones thought to belong to Alshamrani, who was killed by a deputy during the attack: He apparently fired a round into the phone, further complicating efforts to unlock it.
Shooting someone right in the evidence is a new logistical hurdle -- one that probably can't be cleared with a stack of legal paperwork and precedent. But this is the FBI's latest attempt to undermine device encryption. Attorney General Bill Barr has made it clear he feels encryption is only good for criminals. If the DOJ decides to take another run at this, it will be less likely to back down even if presented with a third-party solution.
The FBI and DOJ are always on the lookout for another tragedy to use as leverage for anti-encryption precedent. Unfortunately, this country produces more than its share of mass shootings, so the FBI and DOJ will always have plenty to work with.
Filed Under: doj, encryption, fbi, going dark, pensacola
Companies: apple
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Toast’s a Certified B Corp
16 Apr Toast’s a Certified B Corp
We’re delighted to share the news that Toast Ale has become the first UK beer company to become a Certified B Corp, joining a global movement of people using business as a force for good.
The B Corp certification is for business what Fair Trade is to coffee – a signal of a more sustainable way of doing business. There are more than 2,400 Certified B Corps in over 130 industries and 50 countries with 1 unifying goal – to redefine success in business. They include large brands like Ben & Jerry’s, Patagonia and Ella’s Kitchen and many smaller social enterprises like Divine Chocolate. And now Toast too!
We’ve had environmental responsibility at our heart since launching in 2016 – it’s part of Toast’s DNA. After all, our mission is to end food waste, one of the biggest environmental challenges we face, by brewing great beer with surplus fresh bread and donating all profits to charity. However, B Corp certification is about way more than just our impact on the environment. To become certified, we had to prove we met rigorous standards that measure a company’s impact on its employees, suppliers, community and the environment.
We completed the B Impact Assessment in September 2017 and have been working hard to put in place progressive policies. For example, we’ve formalised our flexible working culture so the team can work from home or from our growing number of locations around the world, we’ve introduced paid volunteering days and have made a legal commitment to diversity.
The assessment is a public benchmark our performance – you can see how we scored here. We’ll use it as a roadmap for improvement as we continue to grow and innovate, learning from leading companies, sharing our experience and challenging ourselves to do better. We’ll be reassessed every two years and are determined to improve our score each time.
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The Kennedy Trail begins at the northwest corner of the 68-acre campus of John F. Kennedy Catholic High School in Somers. The town, which sits 30 miles from White Plains and 55 miles from New York...
NY 1.7 mi Cinder
The Kings Park Hike & Bike Trail runs for 1.5 miles between Old Dock Road at Church Street in Kings Park and Nissequogue River State Park. The trail is a town of Smithtown park and follows an...
The Larkin State Park Trail meanders 10.8 miles through the woods and around the lakes and low hills of southwestern Connecticut. The rail-trail follows the route of the New York & New England...
CT 10.8 mi Cinder, Crushed Stone, Dirt, Gravel
The Laurelton Greenway is a short but well-maintained multiuse path connecting the neighborhoods of Jamaica and Rosedale in southern Queens, NY. The two-lane paved trail starts in Jamaica, and travels...
Owned by the Metro-North Railroad, the Maybrook Trailway starts at the Connecticut state line in Farringtons Park, and spans 5 miles into the town of Brewster. The trail follows what was once part of...
In the early 1830s the Morris Canal opened across northern New Jersey, from Phillipsburg on the Delaware River to Newark, and later to Jersey City on the Hudson River. It provided a thoroughfare for...
NJ 4.1 mi Dirt, Grass
The Mosholu-Pelham Greenway connects several parks and recreational opportunities in New York City's north and central Bronx neighborhoods. A portion of the trail is also part of the growing East...
The Naugatuck River Greenway will one day span 44 miles from Torrington to Derby in western Connecticut, but is currently open in a few short disconnected segments totaling just over 5 miles. The...
CT 5.4 mi Asphalt
The New Springville Greenway stretches just over 3 miles, primarily paralleling Richmond Avenue on New York's Staten Island. A highlight of the paved pathway is its proximity to Freshkills Park, a...
The former “Old Put” commuter rail corridor that ran from the Bronx to northern bedroom communities in Westchester and Putnam Counties is popular once again, only this time it’s for people riding...
When completed, the Norwalk River Valley Trail will run from Danbury to Long Island Sound in southwestern Connecticut, for a total of about 27 miles. Currently, several disconnected sections totaling...
Like Wantagh State Parkway, Ocean Parkway was built in the postwar 1930s to provide access to the crown jewel of the state park system, Jones Beach State Park. Unlike the former road, however, this...
The Ocean Parkway Trail closely follows its eponymous thoroughfare nearly 5 miles through several Brooklyn neighborhoods, ending only a block from the popular Coney Island boardwalk. Those traveling...
At first glance, there’s no evidence that an aqueduct ever existed along the Old Croton Aqueduct Trail. The trail is often a singletrack dirt pathway that winds through communities and trees and...
NY 26.5 mi Crushed Stone, Dirt, Grass, Gravel
The Old Erie Path reveals spectacular views of the Hudson River Valley as the rail-trail rolls along cliffs that border the river’s western shore. Although fairly short, it joins two other...
NY 3 mi Dirt, Gravel
Splayed over 1,146 acres in northwest Bronx, Van Cortlandt Park has a lot going on. The park is New York City's fourth largest and is home to the oldest municipal golf course in America. There are...
NY 1.25 mi Cinder, Dirt, Grass
The Pequonnock River Trail is not a name you will see on the ground along this developing trail in southwestern Connecticut. Formalized in 2001 by the state, the regional trail pieced together...
CT 13.6 mi Asphalt, Crushed Stone
The old New York Central rail line that ran from the Bronx to northern bedroom communities in Westchester and Putnam Counties carried commuters during the workweek, but on the weekends tourists...
The Quarry Trail is currently a 600-foot long unimproved strip of land along what is known as Quarry Road in the Village of Hastings-on-Hudson, NY. The trail links Old Croton Aqueduct State Historic...
NY 0.1 mi Dirt, Grass
The Ramsey Bike Path is a recreational path built on the former Paterson to Suffern trolley line right-of-way. The path extends along a north-south route from one end of Ramsey to the other....
NJ 1 mi Asphalt
Randall's Island Park Trails offer a series of interconnected paved loops on an island in the New York City borough of Manhattan. The park offers a quiet setting, especially enjoyed by runners, with...
NY 8.75 mi Asphalt
The Raymond G. Esposito Memorial Trail travels from one end of the village of South Nyack to the other in 1 mile but greatly expands its reach by connecting with the Old Erie Path and a new shared-use...
NY 1 mi Crushed Stone
The Ridgefield Rail-Trail meanders for nearly 2.5 miles through the forested exburbs of Ridgefield, Connecticut. The trail passes among suburban acreages, along a creek at one point, and past a couple...
CT 2.3 mi Gravel
Roosevelt Island Greenway, a little-known gem in the Big Apple, was named after President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1973. To reach this scenic pathway, board New York City’s only aerial tram,...
The Saddle River County Park Bike Path is a beautiful suburban trail that winds alongside the Saddle River. Most of the trail runs through moderately dense suburban development, with residential and...
NJ 7.6 mi Asphalt
A former right-of-way of the NY & NJ Railroad. Near historical Mount Ivy which was the center of a Quaker settlement in the 18th century. Hiking along railroad bed and wildlife observation and...
NY 2 mi Ballast, Cinder, Dirt, Grass, Woodchips
The Sandy Hook Multi-Use Pathway travels 8.7 miles alongside the picturesque beaches and historical monuments of the Sandy Hook peninsula. The pathway begins in the Gateway National Recreation Area...
The Savin Rock Trail offers just over a mile of paved pathway along West Haven’s coastline. Along the way, you’ll enjoy picturesque views of Long Island Sound and access to its sandy beaches. The west...
CT 1.2 mi Asphalt, Concrete
The Setauket-Port Jefferson Station Greenway Trail stretches just over 3 miles along Long Island’s north shore. Construction was completed in two phases with the first trail section opening in 2009...
The two diverse sections of the Shore Parkway Greenway Trail blend urban and scenic, offering views of sights ranging from the Statue of Liberty to wildlife refuges. Following the Belt/Shore Parkway,...
NY 13 mi Asphalt, Concrete
When complete, Connecticut’s Shoreline Greenway Trail will be a scenic 25-mile route through four quaint New England towns off Long Island Sound. From Lighthouse Point to Hammonasset Beach State Park,...
CT 4.1 mi Crushed Stone, Dirt
The South County Trailway rolls 14.4 miles through one of the most densely populated parts of New York, but its route through pocket woodlots, parks, and golf courses and along riverbanks makes it...
At 2.6 miles, the Staten Island Greenbelt Multi-Purpose Trail offers a nice jaunt for joggers, walkers, and cyclists alike. The crushed-stone path is 6-feet wide and runs from Rockland Avenue to...
Tallman Mountain State Park Bike Path is partially paved and bisects the Tallman Mountain State Park. The route provides a motor-vehicle-free way for bicyclists using US Route 9W to connect with...
NY 2.1 mi Asphalt, Cinder, Dirt
Just an hour north of New York City, the Timp-Torne Trail offers a scenic hike through Bear Mountain and Harriman State Parks with panoramic vistas of the Hudson River. The rugged blue-blazed trail...
NY 5.4 mi Dirt
This trail is the legacy of the first elevated roadway in the United States, constructed by William K. Vanderbilt in 1904. Vanderbilt created the parkway to get to his family’s estate in Long...
The West Essex Trail follows a short distance (just under 3 miles) of the former rail bed of the Caldwell Branch on the old Erie-Lackawanna Railroad. The trail runs between the EssexPassiac county...
NJ 2.84 mi Cinder, Gravel
The paved pathway running through West Hudson Park offers a scenic, tree-lined escape between Harrison and Kearny, NJ. The trail provides access to the park’s stocked lake, water park, athletic...
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Hook Mountain trai
January, 2020 by josephinevitiello
My favorite trail for nice long walks. Beautiful views of the hudson.
Great multi use park
December, 2019 by niwrad001
Fun park for walks. Has fountain and ducks and paved trails for walking biking or running
Very well maintained trail
November, 2019 by rickschmidt0325
Plenty of curves and turns not to mention hills. Visiting from Florida and fairly new to cycling so the hills were a good challenge! Most of the street crossings have detectors that automatically stop traffic. Good signage for approaching hills. Pavement in excellent condition.
Jones Beach Trail Extension
November, 2019 by fboynj
The trail along the boardwalk has been extended west by an asphalt path to the west end and to the nature preserve.
great walk with the pup
November, 2019 by dewhite27
Perfect walk for our standard poodle. Just the right length. Friendly people . A few hills
October, 2019 by waxnwally
Beautiful in fall, but a workout going from Brewster. A few major hills.
October, 2019 by SPanny
Enjoyed a ride from Simsbury past the Mass line and back. As always, well maintained, a few frost heaves here and there but nothing major. As we were riding we noticed some trail widening in progress in Simsbury/Granby. The area across the Mass line is very well maintained and passes some fields and a nice golf course. Thoroughly enjoyable!
September, 2019 by rjcastronuova
Been on this trail many times! Will return!
Some sections are worse than others with tree roots under the pavement, signs are not located thru Matawan, (train station, etc.) need clean bathrooms along the route.
Beautiful scenery. (some points you can see NY!)
Poorly maintained asfalt
September, 2019 by sosna101
Only acceptable for the large wheels bikes. Can not enjoy rollerblading or a ride on a smaller bikes.
Great Route!
September, 2019 by cappacrush
This is a great, scenic route that weaves its way through at least 3 different parks in the area, and under quite a few bridges. Mainly flat and most of the trail is covered by nice tree canopy to keep you shaded. We had a great time traveling the entire length of the trail (and back) today. However, that said, I do have to agree with some of the other posts on this site...the path can get a bit congested in areas (like the trail head by the duck pond, and as you ride through the parks). This is the only reason i didnt give a 5 star review. A lot of the walkers didnt honor the keep right except to pass rule, others walked 2 sometimes 3 abreast taking up the majority of the pathway, and still others stopped in groups in the middle of the trail. My advice would be to hit this on off peak days/hours, but if you do go on a weekend or holiday, and your on a bike, just make sure you announce yourself and advise those in front of you that you are passing on the left. The majority of trail users were considerate and moved over to the right when needed. All in all, it was a great ride, and i would recommend it to beginner to intermediate cyclists.
Great View and Relaxing
September, 2019 by xshanichanx
It’s mostly flat and has lots of great scenery, especially towards the south of the tail. I biked with my friend for 7 miles before we realized it would take another 7 to get back to the car. We loved it anyway! Great workout without feeling you worked out!
Our Favorite Bike Trail
September, 2019 by greggcollichio
This trail is just 1.2 miles from our home and is by far our favorite trail to ride. We enter the trail at the northern endpoint in Dutchtown in Haverstraw and ride to Nyack Beach Park and back. The 12.3 mile ride can be done in less then an hour or you can ride up the mountain and include the loop around Rockland Lake State Park where you can also park and enter the trail from. This trail winds up and down along Hook Mountain State Park with views from high over the Hudson River and then down along the rivers edge to Nyack Beach State Park. If you can get out during the week you can have the trail to yourself. Hybrid or mountain bikes are the better choice but you can make the trip on a road bike if your carful. If you live in this area you shouldn't miss this hidden gem.
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The Story of the Seabourn Encore
Cruise Line & Cruise Ship Seabourn Kristina Rundquist August 01, 2016
Seabourn, the award-winning small-ship cruise line, has long set the standard for luxury at sea, and with the upcoming launch of the Seabourn Encore, it’s raising the bar even higher. The ship, set to launch in December of this year, expands on the cruise line’s Odyssey-class ships, which set a precedent for ultra-luxury cruising in their own right when they were first introduced in 2009.
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The 40,350-GRT Encore will continue this rich tradition, and with a maximum capacity of 600 guests (based on double occupancy), those sailing aboard the Encore will enjoy highly personalized service and the finest in accommodations and amenities keeping in line with Seabourn’s tradition of understated elegance.
Underscoring the tranquil ambiance onboard the ship will be The Retreat, a new sanctuary that will make its debut on the Encore. Outfitted with bespoke details, The Retreat will be centered on a whirlpool with step up access to the water, all housed under a flower-shaped canopy. The Retreat will also feature 15 private cabanas designed as individual living spaces complete with large HD flat screen TVs and a refrigerator stocked with a personalized selection of beverages, a Spa Treatment Cabana and room for 28 guests to stretch out on sun loungers.
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The ship was designed by Adam D. Tihany, known throughout the hospitality industry for his innovative work. Tihany’s aesthetic exudes serenity with curved lines and tasteful fabrics that invite guests to live, explore and socialize on board. The fact that guests of the cruise line are onboard for at least a week — and some for considerably more time — Tihany worked to infuse a sense of playfulness while maintaining an overall sophistication by incorporating nautical and design elements on par with those seen on private yachts.
“I realized how much of Seabourn’s overall product is dedicated to satisfying their guests’ appetites for surprise,” Tihany said. “From the planning of itineraries to the cuisine to their style of service, they are always focused on surpassing expectations and eliciting the sort of delight that results from the unexpected. With that in mind, I have designed a ship that is imbued with a sense of spontaneity and exhilaration, to elicit surprise and delight that will complement the rest of the guests’ travel experiences.”
The ship will kick off its maiden season on Dec. 4 with a 16-day pre-inaugural cruise originating in Athens, making stops in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem; Petra, Jordan; and Muscat, Oman before arriving in Dubai. The return 18-day voyage will depart Dubai on Dec. 20 with stops in Arabia, India and Southeast Asia before arriving in Singapore. After the gala naming ceremony slated to take place on Jan. 7, 2017, the ship will set sail on its 10-day inaugural voyage, to Bali, with stops in Surabaya, Java; Celukan Bawang, Bali; and Slawi Bay, Komodo, Indonesia. The remainder of the maiden season will see the Seabourn Encore making a series of 16-day voyages, cruising the Pacific Rim in Australia and New Zealand.
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Splatoon For Nintendo Wii U
Last month, Nintendo released its latest action shooter Splatoon, a family-friendly game that promotes cooperative play. In this game, players choose a customizable Inkling character that can transform into squids and swim through their own ink. The goal of the game is to claim as much turf as possible by splatting opponents and cover the level with their team's coloured ink.
To test out Splatoon, Nintendo generously sent over a Wii U bundle which included the coordinating amiibo set. My little Nintendo kid reviewers were overjoyed to be able to try out some new Wii U games and also play some of their old Wii favourites. Setting up the console was pretty straightforward. The only thing was that we still have an old tube TV so I had to use the AV cable from our old Wii. The Wii U bundle only includes the HDMI cable. Configuring the system was easy enough thanks to the Quick Start Guide but I felt it was a very long process. Either that or I was just plain anxious to get playing. Once the Game Pad and Wii U Pro Controller were paired with the console, we were able to follow the on-screen instructions and then registered using the Nintendo Network ID I had recently set up for our Nintendo 2DS.
My seven-year-old son was the first to try out Splatoon. There are lots of ways to play but he prefers the four-on-four online "Turf War" mode. This is when he gets to team up with players from around the world to cover the most ground with their team’s ink. Using the Wii U GamePad controller, he can see a top-down view of the map as it is covered in ink in real-time. Learning to manoeuvre through the level and getting used to the large controller was tricky for him at first but fun to watch him twist his body as he waved the controller from side to side. Since we've installed the Wii U, Splatoon has been his game of choice and now he is a pro with the GamePad controller.
Me: What do you like most about Splatoon?
Paolo: I like how you can roll over the other characters with the giant paint roller and how you get to play with other teammates.
Me: What do you like the least about the game?
Paolo: I don't like how we sometimes lose. (Insert sad face here.)
The "Ranked Battle" mode uses a player's wins in 4-on-4 multiplayer matches to rank and match players in a highly competitive online battle. In “Battle Dojo,” players can take on friends in a local 1-on-1 battle. One player plays on the GamePad controller, while the other plays on the TV using a separate controller. Whoever pops the most balloons wins! Splatoon also has a single-player campaign that teaches players how to splatter, swim, leap, hide and climb walls, while trying to defeat the Octarian army. And finally, the Splatoon amiibo figures (sold separately) can be used to gain access to special challenge stages. By tapping Inkling Girl, Inkling Boy and Inkling Squid amiibo figures to the GamePad, players can receive special missions to unlock weapons and gear that you won't find anywhere else in the game.
Meet & Greet With Chef Stefano Faita
Add a Little Joy
Yesterday, the kids and I headed to the Toronto Zoo to check out the Nutella Summer Truck Tour. It was part of the #AddALittleJoy campaign I am working on and so it was a special treat to be able to interview Chef Stefano Faita of Montreal. He was on site helping prepare samples of waffles and fruit skewers drizzled with Nutella. I asked him what his favourite Nutella recipe was and was half-expecting him to say it was his Nutella Croissant French Toast recipe. He replied that he loves them all but that he was particularly fond of the Nutella Breakfast Panini with ricotta cheese since it brought back memories of the panini his grandmother would make for him as a child. Me? I'm adding both these recipes to my must-try list.
If you're in the Toronto area this week, the nationwide Nutella Truck Tour will be at the Toronto Zoo until July 2 before making its way to Quebec City. Bring the kids to have some fun and even have personalized labels printed out on site. (Also, I am giving away FOUR Nutella prize packs. But get those entries in today as it closes at midnight.)
Don't forget to check out more Nutella recipes and add a little joy to your next breakfast!
The Microsoft OneNote Project - Ensuring Success For All Students
It goes without saying that carefully planned implementation of technology in the classroom can benefit students in many ways. In fact, I believe that technology is crucial in the education of our 21st century learners. Today students can gain greater insight more quickly and work together more efficiently than ever before, all the while developing collaborative, communicative and creative thinking skills through the use of technology. But what about students with special needs?
Recently, the Toronto District School Board teamed up with Microsoft on an initiative that will help ensure success for all students, in particular those that require assistive technology. Part of this initiative is the Microsoft OneNote Project which was designed to help students with learning disabilities alleviate anxiety and help them focus on learning, all the while preparing them for their transition to high school. Every student can benefit from it but those who are dyslexic, have ADD/ADHD, or other learning disabilities can achieve greater success by using this program.
Since organizational skills can improve the learning process, the OneNote software is an excellent tool to help students get organized and, in turn, build their confidence. Modelling the use of the software is also key, which is why Angie Scarano-Iuorio, Assistive Technology Central Coordinator with the TDSB, has put together an internal task force that provides resources, training and workshops to help teachers incorporate technology into their classrooms. It's all in the name of helping to pave a new road to higher success for all students.
Kyle, a OneNote pilot project student, shares the benefits he has experienced from using Microsoft OneNote in the following video:
How OneNote helps students:
Students can take notes faster, create keyboard shortcuts and customize the tool bar for their specific needs.
It keeps all of their information in one place and accessible to them wherever they might be.
They can take notes while recording lectures that can be played back at a later time.
OneNote automatically saves student work.
The search feature is extremely easy to use.
All of their classes can be tabbed at the top and then subsets of the tab on the right to access or add any information needed for the classes.
OneNote can help students who have accessibility issues feel empowered and more organized.
They can take these skills post-graduation into a work setting (ie. put together proposals, create business plans, work on engineering designs, develop lesson plans)
Introducing UGO Wallet Moblie Payment App
Attention, shoppers! How many times have you switched wallets and then found yourself at checkout looking for a loyalty card you swore you had placed in your new one? Maybe it's your credit card you couldn't find. This has happened to me on numerous occasions. I tell myself that if I plan on shopping at a store where I use a loyalty card, I'll just pull it out of my old wallet beforehand. But that rarely never happens. The alternative of lugging around a bulky wallet isn't an option for me, either. Surely, there must be a better solution. Enter UGO Wallet, a free mobile payment app where you can store loyalty cards within a single app on your smartphone. How convenient is that!
And just when I thought the app gods had answered my prayers, UGO Wallet takes it a step further and combines loyalty card organization with credit card storage all in one place. Since this mobile payment app has the capability to store your tap and pay TD credit card or PC Financial Mastercard, you can use it for virtually any transaction via select compatible NFC-enabled phones, usually up to a $100 limit. So, if you know the store accepts Visa payWave or Mastercard PayPass, you can rely on UGO Wallet to make your purchase easier. No more scrambling through your purse while at the register.
It's nice to know that UGO Wallet helps to simplify things by de-cluttering your wallet and ensuring that you never miss out on the opportunity to save or collect points. The other day, I used UGO Wallet to collect PC Plus points at my local Valu-Mart and pay for my purchase. As part of this campaign, I was sent an HTC One M8 courtesy of UGO Wallet since the app is not compatible with my current phone, the LG G3. Installation and setup was a cinch as was uploading a digital copy of my loyalty cards. In less than fifteen minutes, I had added eight rewards cards and had begun setup of my TD Visa, which took about another ten minutes for verification.
Cooking with Master Chef Graham Elliot #TasteFresh
Chef Graham Elliot
Last month, I had the great privilege of cooking with Master Chef Graham Elliot at the Nella Cucina Cooking School here in Toronto. This exclusive experience provided us with the chance to prepare recipes from his new cookbook Cooking Like A Master Chef using Walmart’s revamped fresh food. One of my favourites was his Pan-Seared Salmon With Cabbage Cole Slaw and Whole Grain Mustard. I hope to share the recipe with you very soon. It was SO good!
My daughter really wanted to come with because she is a huge fan of Master Chef and when I mentioned this to Chef Graham, who is incredibly nice in person, he recorded this special message for her:
Nutella Summer Truck Tour and a Breakfast Banana Split Recipe
You know when two things come together so perfectly, it was like it was always meant to be? That's how I feel about Nutella and banana. I love Nutella and banana on toast. I love Nutella and banana with crepes. And now I have a new combo to add to my breakfast menu that just blew me away: Nutella Breakfast Banana Split! What can I say? I go bananas over Nutella and banana. Nuts, isn't it? If I feel a little ambitious over the weekend, I may even attempt Chef Stefano Faita's current recipe - Grandma's Nutella Breakfast Apple cake. I am hoping he will have some samples available when he comes to Toronto as part of the Nutella Summer Truck Tour. More on that in a bit. Right now, let's get back to how you can add a little joy to your breakfast with a recipe that will wow your family.
Nutella Breakfast Banana Split Recipe
1 banana, peeled and halved lengthwise
1/3 cup (80 ml) vanilla Greek yogurt
1 tbsp (15 ml) Nutella
2 tbsp (30 ml) muesli cereal or granola
Other great topping ideas: cherries, strawberries, coconut, and chopped nuts.
Split banana down the middle to make a "boat."
Add 3 dollops of yogurt down the middle of the banana and spoon 3, 1 tsp (5 ml)-sized dollops of Nutella on top of yogurt.
Sprinkle with muesli or granola and enjoy immediately with a glass of orange juice.
Isn't that amazingly simple? The kids gave me two thumbs up on this one and my daughter doesn't even like bananas! My version is a mini version since I don't have any bowls that were long enough. And, instead of Greek yogurt, I used plain vanilla yogurt since I wasn't sure the kids would like the consistency of it. Because regular yogurt is a little more runny than the Greek kind, my Nutella Breakfast Banana Split didn't look as perfect as in the photo featured on the addjoy.nutella.ca site (which is full of other delicious breakfast recipes) but that didn't stop my kids from digging right in. The granola I used had bits of coconut and chopped nuts in it and added a nice crunchy texture.
Nutella Summer Truck Tour
To help add a little joy to the mornings of Canadians, Nutella will be heading out on a Nutella Truck Tour this summer. The tour runs from June 27 to August 12 and will be a great opportunity for you to try fresh samples of waffles and fruit skewers with Nutella. Best of all, Chef Stefano will be making special appearances at each of the city-stops of the Nutella Summer Truck Tour. These events are perfect for the whole family since there will be personalized Nutella labels printed on-site, coupons, fun games with instant prizes, a personalized photo experience and kid-friendly activities for those waiting in line for samples. The schedule is listed below but you can find more information by visiting addjoy.nutella.ca.
Toronto: June 27 – July 2 at the Toronto Zoo
Quebec City: July 10 – 12 at the Festival d’été
Edmonton: July 23 – 26 at K-Days
Montreal: August 8 – 12 at Balloon Canada
Yoga in the City with OmT.O
Today not only marks the beginning of summer but it just so happens to be the inaugural International Yoga Day. The weather was perfect for celebrating the Summer Solstice as many Torontonians gathered at the Distillery District for a full day of free yoga classes organized through omT.O. As a V.I.P. guest, I partook in the first class of the day lead by @Jelayna_in_yoga of Yoga Tree using mats provided by B Yoga.
This was the first time I had experienced outdoor yoga and I couldn't be more grateful to be able to share in the experience. The sun slowly began to peak through the overcast skies while dozens of birds twittered overhead. A welcome breeze served as a reminder to focus on our yoga breaths as we saluted the sun in unison.
This is post-yoga class no.1 #ilovesummer #iloveyoga #omTO2015 @OmToronto @Distillery_TO pic.twitter.com/lNkv1BnhMW
— Diana M. (@TeacherMomOfTwo) June 21, 2015
Following my first yoga class, I visited some of the booths and enjoyed free samples from Flow, Giddy YoYo and U-Be-Livin-Smart, who makes the best-tasting health candies I have ever tasted. I even purchased a Karmawear cover up that was on sale at the Flow Active booth.
What a great way to get your yoga on! Namasté!
Cheers to 100 Years, P&G Canada!
When I was invited to attend Cascade Blogger Day in Cincinnati last summer, I had a chance to visit the P&G Heritage Archives. It was there that I first learned about how P&G came to be, with a formal partnership agreement between William Proctor and James Gamble in 1837 and a product still known today as Ivory Soap. What I didn't know was that P&G first incorporated in Canada nearly 80 years later in 1915. Total number of employees - 75.
Since this month marks P&G’s 100th anniversary in Canada, we are looking back on some of the major milestones and iconic products that Canadians have come to know over the past century:
RSVP for the #LetsDoPicnic Twitter Party!
#LetsDoPicnic
What are you doing Wednesday night? There's a virtual picnic going on, rain or shine, and you're invited! It’s the #LetsDoPicnic Twitter party with @MapleLeafFoods, @PepsiCanada, @LaysCanada, @TostitosCanada and @WonderBreadCA on Wednesday, June 24 at 8pm EDT. Join in as we chat about yummy picnic food and give away summerlicious prizes. Plus, our special guest Chef Andrea Nicholson (@Andrea_n) will be serving up suggestions for your next picnic.
During the party, ten lucky winners will receive a cooler jam-packed with all your picnic essentials (pop, chips, t-shirts, hats, picnic umbrellas, coupons and gift cards) – each worth over $100! RSVP below for a chance to win!
New to Twitter and/or Twitter parties? I have written the following tutorials to help you out, complete with screenshots:
OmT.O. Yoga Celebration in the Distillery District
This weekend, Tonic Magazine invites you to celebrate the summer solstice at Om T.O., a full day of non-stop yoga classes held outdoors in the beautiful Distillery District. Led by dynamic and popular instructors from top yoga studios in Toronto, classes are free and open to yogis from across the GTA. You can choose from eight different 40-minute yoga classes that include hatha, vinyasa, moksha and more. Be sure to bring your yoga mat and your appetite. There will be food and snacks sponsors on site including Live Organic, SoLo Gi, and Lady York.
What: OmT.O. 2015
Where: The Distillery District - 55 Mill Street, Toronto
Date: Sunday, June 21, 2015
Click here for the class schedule.
Cricut Create a Critter Dalmatian Invitations
You know what I miss? Making my own cards using my Cricut. So when I was asked to make invitations for my nephew's first birthday, I couldn't resist. My sister-in-law chose the dalmatian cut from the Create a Critter cartridge, which was perfect because the hat has a number 1 on it. Aren't they just adorable? Head on over to my craft blog dianasdesigns.ca to find out how I made them: Cricut Create a Critter Dalmatian Invitations.
C'est l'aviron - Song Lyrics Cloze Activity
The cultural component of the Grade 6 Ontario curriculum focuses on intercultural awareness of French-speaking communities in eastern, western and northern Canada. As such, I have recently introduced my students to the Festival du Voyageur. I tried to find some online resources and came across the Language and Culture weebly, initially developed by a team of Core French elementary school teachers. It references several links of cultural relevance for grades 4 through 8 and includes a unit on the festival. After having shown a video on les voyageurs, some of my students showed an interest in the song "C'est l'aviron / M'en revenant de la jolie Rochelle" which les voyageurs sung throughout the video. I thought this was a perfect time to break out les cuillères and teach them how to play the spoons. They slowly began to take an interest in the song lyrics and so I decided to create a cloze activity based on the lyrics. I showed them two videos (see below) I had found on YouTube that included a more traditional version of the song and one that was more modern. The latter is actually a video from Kids CBC and features Patty, Sid, and Saumon de Champlain. I was worried my grade 6 students would find it too childish but in fact, they found it more amusing because the characters re-enact the lyrics and it also includes captions in English.
I created the cloze activity seen above and wanted to share it since my students really enjoyed it. To download a copy, just click on the thumbnail above to access it via Google Drive. (Hover your cursor over the YouTube player and click on the YouTube logo to watch it on YouTube.com where you can add it to your playlist.) Here are the videos I found on YouTube, which you may want to add to your own personal playlist for ease of reference.
LifeExperiences Gift Ideas for Dad
Have you heard of LifeExperiences.ca? It's a website where you can choose from a variety of gift ideas such as Scandinavian spa treatments or driving an Indy-style Formula 101 race car. Instead of giving knick-knacks or items that may end up lost forever in storage, you can give the gift of an unforgettable experience. Because really, how many coffee mugs do we need?
Whether you use the LifeExperiences.ca Gift Matcher or browse randomly in a daydream like I do, I'm pretty sure you'll find the perfect experience for that special person on your list. You can narrow your search by selecting a price range, a particular type of experience, a specific region in Canada or a special occasion. For example, are you scratching your head looking for a gift idea for Father's Day? Surprise him with a Flying Club flight lesson or a Stunt Driving experience. At the very least, you can always purchase a LifeExperiences.ca gift card at Walmart and other participating retailers and let dad create his own experience!
This Father's Day, I will be treating my husband to a Craft Brewery Tour courtesy of LifeExperiences.ca. We will be touring three craft breweries in the Toronto-area and learning all about the brewing process while sampling their fine beers. Full disclosure: I do not love beer. I can tolerate it, you could say. But I'm willing to make this sacrifice for my husband because he's a definite connoisseur with a palate for handcrafted ale and deserves a special night out on the town. Plus, it will be an intimate tour of up to only ten guests and will include return transportation from the Royal York Hotel.
What would be your ideal life experience?
It's a Fisher-Price #FPMommyMoments Twitter Party!
Many moms will agree that those special moments you share with baby are among the most memorable moments we will ever have. Whether it's enjoying baby's first bath or watching baby roll over for the first time, we will never forget the emotions that arise when we witness a special milestone. To help today's busy mom make the most of her time together with baby, Fisher-Price, the world's most trusted brand in toys, is there to support parents with toys geared to each and every stage of your child’s growth, including all those special milestone moments. Their wide range of innovative baby gear and engaging toys continues to expand to support babies as they grow and help ensure those unforgettable #FPMommyMoments.
To celebrate, we will be chatting about those special moments and giving away some incredible Fisher-Price prizes at the #FPMommyMoments Twitter party and you're invited!
Date: Thursday, June 11, 2015
Party Hashtag: #FPMommyMoments
Hosts: @Listen2Lena and @thesocialcommon
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A Sparkling Dinner Party With Chef Michael Smith
#SparklingClean
When you get an invitation to shuck oysters and enjoy a sparkling dinner party with Chef Michael Smith, it's very hard to find a reason not to go. Let me tell you, this guy knows how to throw a party. From a fancy venue and a delectable menu to sabering champagne and setting bananas on fire, what more could you ask for? The #SparklingClean event, hosted by Cascade, took place at The Chase Fish & Oyster in downtown Toronto. Upon arrival, guests were invited to join Food Network's Chef Michael Smith and learn how to properly shuck oysters. But not just any oysters. PEI oysters! Upon successful completion, we partook in the Oyster Society Oath that ended with a salty kiss. Figuratively speaking, of course.
Following this interactive activity, we gathered together to officially kick off the dinner party with a bang. We watched as Chef Michael coached a guest in the art of sabering a bottle of champagne. Can't say I've ever seen that done in person before. It sure wowed the crowd.
As we took our seats, I couldn't help but notice how everything sparkled. The drinking glasses and table décor definitely set the tone for the dinner party. Chef Michael also made sure to add a special touch by including fresh flowers and letter blocks arranged to spell words such as "sparkle" and "wine". I thought it was a creative idea to include the blocks. It wasn't long before it became clear that he had put much thought and effort into planning this party. He even took great care to write out his Sparkling Dinner Party Tips on the chalkboard using his excellent penmanship.
As an hors d'oeuvre, we were served a portion of his delicious Bacon Potato Casserole which was followed by the restaurant's rendition of Chef Michael's Sunny Southwest Salad. As an entrée, we enjoyed some Greek chicken stuffed with oregano and lemon butter, caramelized onion and creamer potatoes with herb roasted tomatoes. It was incredibly delicious! The only part I didn't eat was the skin. But it was crisped to perfection and so Chef Michael, who sat next to me, couldn't resist adding it to his plate. He convinced me, though, that it's one of the best parts so I'll be sure to give it a try next time.
My Son Looks Like Jay Leno
I found this photo in my stream today. My guess is my son was playing around with the Photo Booth on my iPad. Either that, or he had a growth spurt and oddly resembles Jay Leno.
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Portraits of Princess Leia
What is more Fandomental than Star Wars, especially around Christmas time?
It seems only fitting that in honor of Rogue One coming out, we revisit the character of Princess Leia the most beloved (and for a long time only) prominent female character in the Star Wars film franchise. She may have gotten short shrift in the films, but the Extended Universe (EU) novels have to be better right?
Not so much. There are quite literally hundreds of Star Wars books in Legends, the name for old canon EU. Leia has plot arcs in many of them, but that’s about it. A new canon EU novel Bloodline by Claudia Gray, published earlier this year, is the very first novel entirely centered around the character and perspective of Leia Organa. I wish I were joking.
The paucity of Leia materials in Legends is a travesty, especially when compared to the fact that the new EU not only has Bloodline, there’s also Star Wars: Moving Target a children’s/young adult novel. She also has her own comic book miniseries (Star Wars: Princess Leia) and several prominent arcs in other ongoing comic book series as well.
The only book from old canon EU that comes close in terms of Leia’s centrality is the novel The Courtship of Princess Leia (Courtship) by Dave Wolveton, one of the most notorious of the Legends books. It has Rancor riding Force witches, a love interest based literally on Fabio, and a whole hell of a lot of 90s era anti-feminism. It’s quite different from Bloodline to say the least. Difference in content doesn’t necessarily mean difference in character, though. Given how inconsistent her character has been in the films, what better what to flesh out her portrait than to sit down with two novels purportedly about her and see what we come up with. Just who is EU Leia Organa?
Protagonist vs. Prize
Set roughly 20 years after the end of Return of the Jedi, Bloodline follows Senator Leia Organa as she navigates a gridlocked intergalactic senate seeking to rebuild after the Empire has crumbled. She’s a war hero and a well-respected politician; she takes the lead in investigating a new cartel that has gained power since she killed Jabba (Leia Huttslayer being canon is one of my fave things about this book tbh).
Ransolm Casterfo, a young, handsome and charismatic politician from the other main political party helps her, and together they forge a friendship and working partnership to try and take out the cartel. They uncover a paramilitary organization—and remnant of the Imperial Order—called the Amaxine Warriors in the process. Leia has to deal with assassination attempts, the first stirrings of what will become the New Order, and the backlash once her father’s identity is revealed. It’s undisputedly her story.
Written after the old EU already had canon materials after the Han/Leia marriage, Courtship is a flashback novel to how they got together. An emissary from the matriarchal culture of Hapes has proffered Leia the royal son Isolder as a gift in marriage in exchange for their help fighting the remnants of the Empire. Annoyed at her apparent interest in Isolder, Han kidnaps Leia and takes her to Dathomir (a planet he won gambling) in an attempt to win back her love. Luke and Isolder chase Han and Leia down, and they all have a run in with evil Force witches and a former Imperial warlord Han had previously pissed off with his gloating. Leia falls ‘back’ in love with Han in the end, and he wins marries her. While ostensibly about Leia, it focuses primarily on her men, with her relegated to barely more than a McGuffin. Even Luke has more POV pages than she does. In novel with Leia’s name in the title. Go figure.
Hero vs. Helper
Courtship opens with a promising investigative storyline for Ambassador Princess Leia in the form of an intergalactic dispute between the Barabels and the Verpines. Once she’s gotten the marriage proposal that subplot is dropped like a hot potato as soon as possible. Her marriage is more important than an alien species massacring the other for edible body parts. She takes a backseat in the rest of the novel, existing mostly as a prize for Isolder and Han to fight over. She helps save the day to be sure, but most of the major plot advancements and victories are accomplished by Luke, Han, and Isolder. She’s good at occasionally shooting a blaster and telling her men how much she needs them, though. So that’s something.
In Bloodline, on the other hand, Leia’s investigation into Rinnriven Di’s cartel takes center stage, and it is through her continued efforts that the connection between Di and the Amaxine warriors is uncovered. Where Han and Luke fire the shots that save the day in Courtship, Leia does so in Bloodline. Yes, Han comes to rescue her in one of the most Star Wars-ian moments of the book (an A New Hope head nod), but she gets to be the one who makes the Perfect Shot that destroys the base with the power of the Force. She doesn’t just join the Resistance, she starts it. Because that’s precisely what Leia would do. She’s a woman of action and will not sit on her hands when there’s shit to do. She works with a team, but she’s leading it instead of cheering the men on from the sidelines.
Psychology vs. Presence
Hers is also the primary character point of view in Bloodline. We get time with other characters perspectives—Ransolm Casterfo, Leia’s assistant Greer Sonnel, and the unintentional Luke 2.0 crack pilot Joph Seastriker—but Leia’s is the primary lens. The novel begins and ends with her perspective. Her struggles, her fears, and her aspirations are foregrounded. Her deep seated struggle to reconcile her birth father Vader with her choice to follow the path of politics like her adoptive father Bail Organa is the main theme of her psychology throughout the novel. It’s compelling as shit to read. She has trauma folks! And is bitter and angry with her bio dad for torturing her and destroying her planet! She resents him for his legacy of genocide and violence, and others for assuming she’d go bad just because he’s her father.
She and Vader even share the same tragic flaws (temper, impulsiveness, holding grudges, fierce protectiveness of loved ones), which is the reason she never pursued life as a Jedi. It’s also why she throws herself into her political career. Because she’s a Dutiful Princess. It’s so good you guys. Would I have liked more internal thoughts about her biological and adoptive mothers alongside that of her fathers? Yes, but at least we got a consistent, intimate psychology that makes sense and does justice to her character.
In Courtship, the male characters’ points of view overshadow hers. Her internal characterizations are sketchy at best, inconsistent at worst. Wolverton has his moments of insight into her character—like when he has Han think about how Leia buries her feelings—but they never coalesce into a consistent psychology. Heck, we know more about how Isolder feels about his mother’s political machinations than we do about why Leia is even attracted to him. Remember, this is a book supposedly about Leia choosing between two men vying for her hand. And we don’t really know why she ‘stops’ loving Han. I guess Isolder is that pretty?
And don’t even get me started on how she only mentions her grief about Alderaan twice and never mentions Vader or his torture of her ever. This is supposedly only four years after Return of the Jedi, and yet here we are still not dealing with her trauma. Leia doesn’t even get a perspective until the third chapter. Han’s perspective opens the story and Luke’s closes it. She’s an extension of the (more) important men in her life rather than the main focus. She exists in the story, but less as a true perspective and more as a secondary participant.
Politician vs. Figurehead
Leia Organa in Bloodline is a career statesman. She’s diplomatic when she needs to be, aggressive and fearless when that’s called for. She stands strong in the face of enormous political and personal pressure and is clearly one of the most qualified and intelligent persons in the Senate room. She may not be the suavest public speaker like Casterfo, but she can hold her own. She knows how to use her political position to her advantage, but is dismissive of her royal heritage, calling it an empty title. She wants to make her own mark on the galaxy and be her own person, not rely on her parentage for her status.
While introduced as Ambassador Leia Organa on page 3 of Courtship, Leia is little more than a figurehead. She’s primarily a royal figure, not a political one, especially once her ambassadorial subplot is handed off to Mon Mothma. She prefers to be called Princess Leia (and will remind people of that), which could not be more different from Leia’s preference for her political titles in Bloodline.
She does actively negotiate with the Force witches, but only about her men. Even that is a bit haphazardly done and requires input from Luke at one point. She’s young, yes, so a certain level of inexperience or emotional overriding is understandable.
Then again, this is Leia Organa, so it isn’t. Courtship seems to forget that Leia had been participating in politics all her life. She faced down Vader and Grand Moff Tarkin without blinking until they threaten her planet. She makes mistakes on the battlefield (e.g., taking rebel fighters that were being actively tracked by Imperials back to the rebel base), but not politically. She definitely doesn’t need Luke to tell her to do her job and how to do it.
War Hero vs. Wilting Damsel
Let me back up a bit and say there’s nothing inherently wrong with Leia preferring to go by her royal title. She is, after all, a princess. The best Disney Princess, in my opinion, but I digress. Leia being a princess doesn’t automatically make her a damsel in need of rescue. Even in A New Hope she was far from the stereotypical helpless damsel, preferring to snark at her rescuers rather than fall into their arms weeping with gratitude. I’m not even sure she has working tear ducts.
In Courtship, Leia cries. A lot. And she wilts. When she’s frightened, she shrinks or shrieks. It flies in the face of the visual canon, where Leia is more likely to snark to mask her fear. We all know what Leia would say to herself if she cried when she got scared.
In the original trilogy, Leia knows her way around a blaster, survived excruciating torture, waltzed into Jabba’s palace to save Han, single-handedly killed a notorious crimelord, and is also Force sensitive (quite possibly strongly so). She’s strategic, tactical, pragmatic, and cool under pressure. She’s level headed, decisive, and logical (there’s a reason why she’s labeled the ENTJ of the Star Wars canon). Only Han seems capable of ruffling her pristinely controlled feathers, and this is exactly what you expect from someone who has been leading up the Rebellion for years. As a teenager.
Bloodline Leia feels like more of an organic character development from the visual canon. We see her using similar skills and tactics as in the original trilogy, only they’ve matured. She uses the Force for things other than finding her brother! The Force actually runs strong in her like Luke says in Return of the Jedi! She’s a leader, not a wilter. She’s frustrated by the inefficiencies of the senate and seeks solutions. Her experiences leading the Rebels against the Empire directly play into how she handles her political duties, both for good or ill. Compare this with Courtship, where it would be easy to forget she was ever a military leader at all.
Leia and Han
Bloodline actually goes a long way toward explaining and fleshing out the distance depicted in The Force Awakens, though your mileage may vary. Years of snark have turned into more of a language of love than actual frustration, and their unconventional relationship looks precisely like what I would expect based on what we saw in the original trilogy (and in line with Julia’s interpretation of Empire).
Leia works all the time and Han flits all over the galaxy doing his thing. With this as a baseline, you can understand how it would worsen under stress: Leia throws herself into work and Han into danger and thrill-seeking. Still, they love each other very much and you can tell they’ve had to work through their differences to find a balance. It’s a good marriage, a healthy relationship, but not overly rose colored.
While Courtship depicts Han’s stress behaviors consistently, it does not do justice to Leia’s. She’s more harpy-like and waspish than snide. She tells Han he doesn’t know the Hapans at all instead of making a crack about how far his instincts got him with Lando for example. I expect more along the lines of, “Oh and I’m supposed to trust your instincts about people when the last time it almost got us killed?” than “You don’t know them at all!” *petulant door slam*.
Leia of the original trilogy doesn’t cringe away or sass back weakly, she throws cutting remarks like blaster bolts because it’s how she masks her feelings. We get some of this in Bloodline, but more with Casterfo than with Han since she’s actually had time to work on her marriage with the latter and the former is a political antagonist for the first third of the novel.
The Han and Leia of Bloodline have a partnership of equals with their own lives and careers. This sidelines Han from the main plot (and Luke, who is absent the entire novel), but it is better than Han trying to either dominate her or paternalistically protect her like we get in Courtship. Plus, there’s no uncomfortable kidnapping of Leia against her will using a magic gun that forces the target to do what you want (not even kidding). Han is…problematic in Courtship.
Leia’s Men: Shadows vs. Saviors
Having now read Courtship, Bloodline almost feels like a specific reaction to it. You have similar plot elements—a handsome and charismatic young male politician, a plot important sabacc game, taking on a warlord and criminal element in another galaxy that end up being related, assassination attempts—only Bloodline has given the plot to an older, more experienced Leia who is capable of taking on and handling all the situations without the men in her life to do it for her. Her age in and of itself is groundbreaking, as middle aged women are usually the hero’s mother in science fiction stories, not the hero herself.
Furthermore, the male members of the trio function more as extensions of Leia than she is of them. Han is supportive in Bloodline where he’s questioning and paternalistic in Courtship. Luke is looking for Jedi lore in both, but Leia in Courtship has to rely on Luke to help her to her job (and ultimately save the day), rather than rely on herself and her small circle of friends to support her as the hero. Leia actually struggles with her brother’s legacy and choices in Bloodline. Rather than seeing him as an infallible source of wisdom and strength, she resents his prolonged absence and silence on his Jedi quest. Even more so since it leaves her facing the brunt of the backlash to the revelation of Vader as their father. But she sublimates it because she’s Dutiful.
Despite my overall strong endorsement of Bloodline, my opinion about the absent male characters is actually mixed. On the one hand, I love the focus on Leia as protagonist and hero of her own story. It’s a novel we’ve been in dire need of for decades. On the other, I would have liked a Leia who can interact with her men on her own terms rather than them having to be absent in order for her to come to the fore. Although not the intention, the absence of Han and Luke can at times look suspiciously as if they have to be gone in order for Leia to be the hero.
Leia By Any Other Name
What emerges are two completely different characters that go by the name Leia Organa, one infinitely more complex and compelling. Courtship Leia has much more in common with her scripting in Return of the Jedi; she’s unphased by her trauma from Alderaan and Vader, accepting that the latter is her father without so much as an “oh shit.” She’s more openly emotional, alternately wilting at the sight of danger and bickering with Han for no consistent reason. She’s not even deflecting her feelings so much as harping at him. The male arcs dominate hers, and she takes a backseat to their heroics for the most part. She might be a politician in name only, but at least that fares better than the utter erasure of her military experience and expertise. She’s a 90s action hero love interest who exists to be claimed as a prize once the dust settles.
Bloodline, on the other hand, gives us everything I love about Empire Leia. She’s a Dutiful Princess to a T: self-deprecating, hiding her emotions behind layers of snark and social performance, conflicted about her family and heritage. She’s a deeply compassionate, pragmatic, and frustrated leader who puts the needs of the galaxy above personal desire. She’s hot-headed, flawed, and coping with trauma; a war hero, statesman, and rebel leader. Her relationship with Han is unconventional, but it works. They love each other and the early marriage flashbacks kill me.
It may create a few new issues with her scripting in TFA (and heighten the existing ones), but that’s not a bad thing. Leia has gotten shafted for far too long. If her getting her own novel means that people start to notice she hasn’t been written with care all the time, I approve.
All I can say is I want more of this Leia. If I never see another wilting, weeping, and objectified Leia it will be too soon. Serve me up another portion of my Dutiful Princess stuffing her feelings and saving the day, please. I’m so ready.
Bloodline is the Leia Novel We Deserve
I could end it here, but I won’t. Because this is a portrait, not a pencil sketch and you deserve a landscape to set Leia against.
Bloodline gives Leia a cast of female characters to interact with who are not romantic or political rivals where Courtship portrays female relationships primarily as catty and petty.
Bloodline has more persons of color and non-human protagonists (though Courtship does a better job with physical descriptions of aliens).
Bloodline casually normalizes the gender and sexuality spectrum. New Canon in general is a canon where being a person of color, LGBT, or gender-non-conforming is as normal as being cis, het, and white.
Courtship has a strongly 90s anti-feminist streak in its portrayal of women in power: they’re either conniving manipulators who repress male intelligence or seek to enslave men. Bloodline has women of all kinds in power, both positive and negative. The main antagonist of Bloodline is a woman, yet she’s more nuanced in her portrayal than Leia is in Courtship.
The same goes for the male characters in Courtship, who all suffer from patriarchal attitudes and varying degrees of toxic masculinity. Basically, Courtship is a time capsule of 90s gender norms and it has not aged well.
Thematically, Bloodline’s focus on genetic heritage vs. choice (a theme I think The Force Awakens undercuts, but that’s a different article) is far more compelling a storyline for Leia than that of wearing a woman down via forcible romantic gestures and constant verbal pressure. Then again, I’m a sucker for narratives about found family and overcoming violent or traumatic heritages. And for characters related to a villain that choose to be heroes, even when the whole world is against them.
Basically, Bloodline is everything I wanted in a Leia novel and everything that Courtship isn’t. If you like Leia the Dutiful Princess, and complicated female psychologies, you should read it.
Images courtesy of Lucasfilm and Disney
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Published On: Thu, Sep 6th, 2018
Hometown News / Politics / US News | By Brandon Jones
Cory Booker breaks Senate rules to disclose confidential documents for an ‘I am Spartacus’ moment
Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh is back at the Senate confirmation table Thursday for a third day as Cory Booker did some grandstanding for the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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New Jersey Democrat Booker showcased a “racial profiling” document daring the forced exodus from the Senate, he knows there’s a “possible penalty of expulsion from the Senate.”
“I understand the penalty comes with potential ousting from the Senate,” Booker said in making clear he planned to break the rules. “I openly invite and accept the consequences of my team releasing that email right now.”
Later Booker made his motivations quite clear:
“A senior senator who is in leadership, I think he’s the number two in leadership has, in effect, called for my expulsion from the United States Senate and and again I just say, ‘Bring it.’ If he wants to go through that process I fully accept responsibility for what I have done, and again I’m new in this place. This senator has been around a long time. He’s in leadership. I think he was just like a lot of bullies are, a lot of talk and no action. And so let’s see what he does. I’m willing to accept responsibility for my actions, but I don’t know what, I don’t know what that senior senator will do.”
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, read the Senate rule about expulsion for disclosing secret or confidential business or proceedings of the chamber and its committees.
“Cory said this morning that he was releasing committee confidential documents, and that’s exactly what he’s done,” Booker spokeswoman Kristin Lynch said in an email to NPR.
“Last night, he was admonished by Republicans for breaking the rules when he read from committee confidential documents. Cory and Senate Democrats were able to shame the committee into agreeing to make last night’s documents publicly available, and Cory publicly released those documents as well as other committee confidential documents today. And he’ll keep releasing them because Republicans are hiding Brett Kavanaugh’s record from the American people.”
From the emails:
In a 2002 email, Kavanaugh writes that security procedures adopted in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks should ultimately be race-neutral, where he acknowledged that developing such procedures which take everything into consideration before implementing plans.
In a 2001 email, Kavanaugh addresses a legal challenge to an affirmative action program within the Department of Transportation.
Kavanaugh in 2003, questioned whether the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion should be described as “settled law of the land.”
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Review: Kevin Connolly's Xiphoid Process, Linda Besner's Feel Happier in Nine Seconds and Gary Barwin's No TV for Woodpeckers
Feel Happier in Nine Seconds By Linda Besner
Globe and Mail Update
Published June 16, 2017 Updated June 16, 2017
Xiphoid Process
By Kevin Connolly
House of Anansi, 88 pages, $19.95
Feel Happier in Nine Seconds
By Linda Besner
Coach House Books, 88 pages, $18.95
No TV for Woodpeckers
By Gary Barwin
Wolsak and Wynn, 104 pages, $18
How do we relate to ourselves and our cultural past? What role do language and the senses play in our experience of the world? Inquiring minds want to know! Three new books by mid-career and veteran authors – let's call them the Crazy Canucks of poetry – employ zany language, humour and pathos to open up and examine these philosophical questions.
Kevin Connolly's fifth book, Xiphoid Process, presents itself as a cohesive collection of individual poems about the wheeling mess and near futility of human existence. Poems are built out of rock lyrics, e-mails, quippy har-hars from stand-up comedy ("Hipster, I don't hate you because you're young, I hate you because you're you") and reworked poetry nuggets ("In the room the fat men come and go, talking of Ida Lupino"). But don't be fooled: These are tears of the clown. Within the seemingly random, wisecracking stream is a terrible sadness about growing older and a bleak apprehension of empty, predictable patterns in life and art.
… it's a short stumble from muse to groupie.
Waves are neither ornate nor plainspoken.
[…] Cue the shorebirds.
Many poems involve wry meta-thoughts ("Can't take a walk now after a rain without someone yelling, 'cliché!' "), which can be funny but frustrating for readers who want poems to just get on with the business of being poetry. The book's two middle sections – celebrity voice recordings put into line breaks, a redaction of Whitman's Song of Myself – are not to my taste (they lack wit) and there is a world of emotional weather that doesn't make it into Connolly's showroom. But over all, Xiphoid Process is charming, and when they work well, as in the title piece and the impressive final section, these poems are masterful elliptical meditations. Connolly's glum speaker has read too many poetry manuscripts ("Make your point as if it seems worth making"), fears artistic irrelevance ("Destiny's Child is yesterday's news, but someone's busy making Oreo portraits") and doubts his own DNA-worthiness ("Mate and you might pass the trouble on"). But these vulnerabilities – and the way he swims through a pleasant Hellespont of classic movies, nature documentaries and eighties rock – only make him more likeable and human. And when they happen, Connolly's poetic flights are short, beautiful and speak back to the darkness: "But is it so wrong to want? So terrible to love the rain? Beautiful as it always is."
Linda Besner's Feel Happier in Nine Seconds continues the idiosyncratic fireworks of her impressive debut The Id Kid.
Peak joy is at nine
times nine – saddle up, dear.
An asteroid of happiness
is blasting through
As with many rewarding poets, Besner speaks metaphorically, but long gone are the days of "like" or "as": When it's working well, everything in Besner's world is a metaphor. This can take some getting used to. Add to this staccato rhythms, oblique subjects, sardonic puns and a riptide of surreal perspectives, and readers can be left feeling blind and molested in an ocean of cold, salty language, like the speaker in Helen Keller Swimming, Smoking, Crying. But initial strangeness gives way to freedoms of tone and phrase few poets achieve, as in the brilliant Zouaviana:
Morning Glory, you're tapping
at my window. I get it, already,
I'll never be the winning trivia answer
with this pillow smothering
my greatness face.
The most memorable section of the book is a bejewelled, stately experiment called Magnetic Variations on One and Six. Superficially reminiscent of Christian Bok's Eunoia, individual letters are printed in full colour, following a synesthetic pattern. The beauty of the design makes this an instant collector's item, but what impresses more is the fervid, Arctic summer of entrancing language triggered by the formal constraint. This is brave art, raw not cooked, a pure pleasure to experience.
The emotional core of Feel Happier is a tension between the life of the serious (female) artist and the painful human consequences of melting relationships. Love disappoints or becomes a cheap trick, and the lovers who dot these poems are always getting some comeuppance, literal or otherwise. This tension could have been explored more, but perhaps it wasn't because, like Marianne Moore, Besner's mind launches out of a sublimated frustration with past and present toward (brief, quick-collapsing) linguistic utopias. Whatever the reason, the result is a fine, unfamiliar art.
With almost two dozen titles to his name, Gary Barwin is a veteran of the Canadian publishing scene, but his new book of poems, No TV for Woodpeckers, is not his best work. The opening 20-page section called Needleminer lists names of animals found in and around Hamilton, where Barwin lives, and fuses them with a lexicon of body parts: "Refrain to the distalwolf, a thoracic minksong down and down the porcupine of ventral ectolight." I don't know what this means, but incomprehension is not a fatal flaw – this is poetry, after all, not a press release. What's lacking is a sense of urgency, shapeliness and a vision to transform the word-paste from poetic nonsense into luminous arcana. That's because, at heart, Barwin is a comedian, not a prophet, at his best when seriously clowning around:
it [the centaur] was wearing gloves and I said
"with those gloves, the centaur cannot hold"
and really, like Yeats said, things fall apart
but today reminded me: not everything
Barwin's creative process seems quick and breezy, and his poems resemble artful shopping lists, written and forgotten daily. Easy come, easy go. The ad-hoc aesthetic of Barwin and similar troubadours might be (apologies to Groucho Marx): Here are my poems, if you don't like them, I have others. The challenge for prolific Pierrots is not production, it's knowing what's worth publishing. In its best pieces (including Grip, In Memoriam, the eerie Autopsy, the intriguing Foot, Gaspar and a monologue called Alien Babies), Barwin yokes his clowns to a serious chariot and arrives somewhere unique and utterly surprising. But a more judicious selection would have made this a better book.
These poets demonstrate how skiing on the edge of language can produce great results and the occasional spill. Like the original Crazy Canucks, it's the fearlessness, as much as the finish, that sticks in the mind.
Derek Webster is the founding editor of Maisonneuve and author of the poetry collection Mockingbird.
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Venice film festival 2019
The Painted Bird review – savage, searing three-hour tour of hell
5 / 5 stars 5 out of 5 stars.
Stellan Skarsgård, Harvey Keitel and Udo Kier star in this phantasmagorical horror about eastern Europe that saw half the Venice audience walk out. I couldn’t look away
Xan Brooks
@XanBrooks
Tue 3 Sep 2019 13.09 EDT First published on Tue 3 Sep 2019 11.30 EDT
Pitiless chronicle … Barry Pepper in The Painted Bird. Photograph: Jan Dobrovský
One day they’ll make a film about the first public screening of The Painted Bird, inside the Sala Darsena at the 2019 Venice film festival. It will feature the man who fell full-length on the steps in his effort to escape and the well-dressed woman who became so frantic to get out that she hit the stranger in the next seat. The centrepiece will be the moment 12 viewers broke for the doors only to discover that the exit had been locked. I’m seeing this film as a disaster movie along the lines of The Towering Inferno, or perhaps a slapstick comic version of The Painted Bird itself.
Film festivals need masterpieces to marvel at and turkeys to laugh about. But they also need a film like The Painted Bird, a film that makes a mockery of star ratings. I can state without hesitation that this is a monumental piece of work and one I’m deeply glad to have seen. I can also say that I hope to never cross its path again.
Czech director Václav Marhoul spins war-torn history into phantasmagorical horror, rattling around ravaged eastern Europe for just shy of three hours. The Painted Bird is adapted from a 1965 novel by Jerzy Kosiński, which was cobbled together from survivors’ accounts, and takes its title from a scene in which a starling daubed with white paint is mistaken for an enemy and pecked to death by its flock. The movie shows this incident in complete grisly detail. It’s one of its lighter, gentler moments.
Tormented … Petr Kotlar in The Painted Bird. Photograph: Jan Dobrovský
Petr Kotlar plays the unnamed Jewish stray, identified in the credits only as Boy. He’s part Odysseus, part Job in that the tale has him caught in the eddies of the second world war, washed from one nightmarish episode to the next. Marhoul shot the film over several years, so that we watch Kotlar ageing as the movie progresses. He fills out on screen as the audience thins out.
The first mass walk-out is prompted by Udo Kier’s jealous miller, who gouges out a man’s eyes and then feeds them to his cats. The second, most violent exodus occurs when the local nymphomaniac (Jitka Čvančarová) is set upon by the townsfolk, while the third is so perfectly synchronised to a Cossack attack that the desperate dash of the spectators mirrors that of the villagers on screen. After it’s over, the auditorium is hardly half full. Those who remain have decided to ride the rollercoaster right through.
Judged purely on visual terms, The Painted Bird is gorgeous: a lush black-and-white tour of birch forests and bulrushes and remote rustic hamlets. Judged as drama, it is brazenly brutal, a pitiless chronicle of a land red in tooth and claw, so steeped in primitive suspicions that it’s startling to suddenly see a 20th-century plane or a truck, or spot actors from less threatening pictures. Look, there’s Stellan Skarsgård playing a foursquare German; Harvey Keitel as a misguided Catholic priest; Julian Sands as the paedophile parishioner who is eager to take the boy in. Sands is in a death scene that may haunt me for weeks.
Watch a trailer for The Painted Bird
Marhoul’s film is unremittingly savage and searing. It knows exactly what it’s doing and, by that logic, never puts a foot wrong. What this sets out to depict is an eastern Europe in crisis, rocked by war with its core melting down and psychosexual radiation bleeding into the surrounding countryside. The boy is so tormented and traumatised that it’s small wonder he eventually becomes a tormentor, too.
The Painted Bird plumbs the depths, but rest assured that those hardy souls who stay the course are rewarded with the smallest glimmer of hope. This takes the form of a few lines drawn in the condensation of a bus window. After three hours in hell a lone crumb of comfort can fill us up like a banquet.
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Cummins partners with Ben Davis High School for its first youth apprenticeship program
By: Shakkira Harris
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INDIANAPOLIS — Central Indiana high school students will have the opportunity to get a head start in securing a high-paying job through a new partnership with Cummins Inc.
Cummins announced its first Youth Technician Apprenticeship Program, approved by the U.S. Department of Labor, in partnership with Area 31 Career Center at Ben Davis on Tuesday. The Area 31 Automotive Program, however, is the second Cummins Youth Technician Program in the nation.
Through the work-based learning program, qualified students will gain experience in the automotive and diesel fields. The program is designed to help students obtain certifications and resources that will help assist them in making informed decisions about future career paths.
Area 31 serves high school students from Avon, Ben Davis, Brownsburg, Cascade, Danville, Decatur Central, Monrovia, Mooresville, Plainfield, Speedway, and Tri-West.
"This program provides high school students with the chance to build valuable skills in a technical field with extraordinary career opportunities," Ken Hurst, Cummins Area Manager for the Indianapolis and Evansville Sales and Service Branches, said. "Our service technicians are a critical part of our business, and they're the experts who keep the equipment running that keeps America's economy moving."
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Journalists and Journalism
Frank Bruni, the Plutocrats’ Pundit
October 7, 2013 Issue
All too often, the most prestigious perch in journalism—the New York Times op-ed page—is given to those who flatter the powerful.
Frank Bruni (AP photo/Yanina Manolova)
Even given the precipitous decline in both the circulation and the influence of all print media, the New York Times op-ed page remains the most prestigious perch in all of journalism. It’s a mystery, therefore, that it is treated so casually by those in charge of its composition. The Times can hire almost anyone its editor and publisher want, and yet—with a few obvious exceptions—they appear more comfortable settling for mediocre writers and thinkers who merely flatter the prejudices of the politically powerful.
I could make my case with a number of Times columnists, but today’s exhibit is Frank Bruni, who is as clear an example of “failing upward” as can be found in the upper reaches of print journalism.
Bruni was named to the op-ed page in 2011 following the departure of Frank Rich, and he occasionally adopts a cultural approach to politics, though his default position is a Maureen Dowd–like obsession with the personal-as-political. He has been the paper’s restaurant critic and its Vatican correspondent, but he became best known to political readers for his coverage of the 2000 election and the Bush presidency, which often read as if written for Teen Vogue. He focused, laser-like, on the candidates’ personal mannerisms—often going to the trouble of inventing them—to the near-complete exclusion of the policy implications of their potential presidencies. In his book on the 2000 campaign, he recorded precisely how many seconds George and Laura Bush danced at each of their inaugural balls, but next to nothing that might help the reader judge what Bush would do as president the following day. Typically, Bruni blamed the public for this choice, arguing, “Modern politics wasn’t just superficial because the politicians made it so. It was superficial because the voters let it be.”
Bush nicknamed Bruni “Panchito” and repeatedly told him he “loved” him and that he was a “good man.” Bruni more than earned this affection. In his front-page coverage of Bush’s first 2000 debate with Al Gore, Bruni complained—I kid you not—of the latter’s correct pronunciation of the names of the combatants in the former Yugoslavia, during which he was, according to Bruni, “barely able to suppress his self-satisfied grin.” Got it: Gore, the showoff pronouncer, did suppress the “self-satisfied grin” that Bruni imagined, but just barely? Later, in his book, Bruni described Bush at that debate as “at best mediocre…vague,” demonstrating “an eerie blankness” and making “ridiculous statements,” all of which led Bruni to conclude “that Bush was in the process of losing the presidency,” though he somehow managed to mention none of this in the Times, when it mattered.
Bruni’s coverage of the Bush presidency often veered beyond reality into his own fervid imagination. During Bush’s trip across the border to Mexico, Bruni imagined the presidential boots “peek[ing] out mischievously” from beneath his trousers. When Bush met with Tony Blair, Bruni discerned in the president “an irreverent, towel-snapping” attitude together with a “playful dynamic” between the two men. When Bush met with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, Bruni wrote: “Rarely have the two nations’ leaders so surpassed the limited expectations of their meeting.”
A dozen years and one catastrophic Bush presidency later, Bruni remains remarkably enamored of the Bush family’s apparently limitless ability to surpass “limited expectations.” Writing hopefully about a potential Jeb Bush presidential candidacy recently, Bruni admitted that the former Florida governor’s handling of the immigration issue had been a “mess,” but even so, he opined, Jeb had been “a more articulate advocate of a new tone and direction for the Republican Party than have [Rand] Paul, [Ted] Cruz, [Chris] Christie or others currently in the foreground of the 2016 race.” In Bruni’s view, Jeb has managed to do this because he has “rightly emphasized the importance of social mobility to America’s fortunes and has rightly sounded an alarm that such mobility is on the wane,” albeit without proposing any policies that might address it. Bush’s voice “stands out” in this classy company, moreover, as “less strident, more reasonable and more forward-looking than his potential rivals.” Bush has even “registered concern with the way the party can come across as ‘anti-science’”—though, again, Bruni fails to offer even the barest suggestion of what policies a “pro-science” Republican Party might pursue.
Bruni’s gift for plutocratic empathy emerged again in his next column—this one a heartfelt defense of the feelings of billionaire Michael Bloomberg. That poor fellow has been the victim of “a clutch of would-be successors appraising you with the kind of warmth accorded the Wicked Witch of the West. Ding-dong.” (You read that right: “Ding-dong.”) Now nasty “Bill de Blasio is here to wipe clean the civic memory of you.”
True, Bloomberg accused de Blasio of running a “class-warfare and racist” campaign. But what do you expect? De Blasio let the people of New York see his biracial family. And, yes, while ”income inequality in New York City has worsened during the Bloomberg years, to an extent that’s morally unacceptable and perhaps socially untenable,” and while the mayor did happen to worship “at the altar of Wall Street” during this period, so what? So did Charles Schumer and Cory Booker, and you don’t see de Blasio being such a meanie about them. This may have something to do with the fact that de Blasio happened to be running to replace Bloomberg, but that’s apparently no excuse. So maybe “more passion about the gap between rich and poor is a virtuous thing,” Bruni allows, but damn it, “making Bloomberg the heavy isn’t.” Has de Blasio no sense of decency after all?
Of course, it is perhaps a mistake to blame Bruni for doing what he was presumably hired to do. The real question is, what is the Times telling its readers by allowing him to do so?
Nicholas Kristof, also of The New York Times, is still pressing for US military intervention in Syria, as Greg Mitchell reported earlier this week.
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Love Rings in Literature
Many great romances have been depicted in literature and have been a real-life muse for authors.
History & Love Rings In Literature
Love and marriage have inspired storytellers, poets, playwrights, and novelists for centuries. Below are a few literary references involving wedding and betrothal rings that stand out as exemplary:
The title page of Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare, from the first quarto edition.
Love Books of Ovid
Robert Dodsley’s The Toy Shop
Joseph appearing before the Pharaoh.
After Joseph interprets the dreams of the Pharaoh, he is rewarded with a ring–a symbol of fidelity, friendship, and the Pharaoh’s power and authority. As the Bible reads:
Genesis chapter 41, verse 40-44:
When So Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Since God has shown you all this, there is none so discreet and wise as you are; you shall be over my house, and all my people shall order themselves as you command; only as regards the throne will I be greater than you.” And Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Behold, I have set you over all the land of Egypt.” Then Pharaoh took his signet ring from his hand and put it on Joseph’s hand, and arrayed him in garments of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck; and he made him to ride in his second chariot; and they cried before him, “Bow the knee!” Thus he set him over all the land of Egypt.
Publius Ovidius Naso (43 B.C.–17 A.D.) was a Roman poet known to the English-speaking world as Ovid. His works were highly influential and imitated in the Middle Ages when he was known as magister amoris, or “master of love.”
Portrait of Ovid by by Luca Signorelli.
Excerpt from The Love Books of Ovid (Translated by J. Lewis May, 1930):
“O little ring that art going to encircle my fair mistress’s finger, thou that no value hast save the giver’s love that goes with thee, be charming in her sight. May she with delight receive thee and straightway slip thee on her finger. May thou fit her, as well as she fits me; and may thy circle, nor over-tight nor yet too loose, softly gird her finger.
Elegy XV: To The Ring Which He Is Sending To His Mistress:
Happy ring, thou wilt be touched by her I love. Ah me, already I begin to envy my own gift’s happy lot…..Go forth, little gift, upon thy way, and may my mistress see in thee the symbol of my changeless love.”
A portrait of William Shakespeare.
According to Kuntz (1916) “in no period was jewelry worn more ornately, or with greater display, we might almost say ostentation than in the age of Shakespeare.” Therefore, it is not surprising that Shakespeare includes many references to rubies, diamonds, pearls, rock crystal, and coral, among other gemstones. He also gives us ample evidence that a wedding ring carried special significance.
In The Merchant of Venice (c. 1596), wedding rings exchanged by two couples play an important role. Both of the men, Gratiano and Bassanio, were forced to part with their rings as a result of intrigue. Little do they know that their respective wives, Nerissa and Portia, were disguised as the clerk and lawyer to whom the rings were relinquished! In Act V, Scene 1, Gratiano tries to make light of the fact that his ring is missing, only to be rebuked by his wife Nerissa.
GRATIANO:
About a hoop of gold, a paltry ring
That she did give me, whose posy was
For all the world like cutlers’ poetry
Upon a knife, ‘Love me, and leave me not.’
A drawing of the two couples at the heart of The Merchant of Venice from a 1914 illustrated edition of the play.
NERISSA:
What talk you of the posy, or the value?
You swore to me, when I did give it you,
That you would wear it till your hour of death,
And that it should lie with you in your grave;
Though not for me, yet for your vehement oaths,
You should have been respective and have kept it.
Gave it a judge’s clerk! No, God’s my judge,
The clerk will ne’er wear hair on’s face that had it.
A portrait of poet Robert Herrick.
Robert Herrick was a 17th century lyric poet famous for poems that stressed that the world is beautiful, love is splendid, and life is short and should be lived to the fullest. In his most famous collection of poetry, Hesperides, Herrick included the following lines referring to the gift of a gimmel ring:
“Thou sent to me a true love-knot, but I
Returned a ring of jimmals to imply
Thy love had one knot, mine a triple tye.”
Robert Dodsley, detail of a painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds (c. 1760).
Robert Dodsley was an influential author, bookseller, publisher, playwright, and editor in mid-18th-century England. The Toy Shop is a satirical farce wherein the dealer makes moral and social observations about the nature of his merchandise.
Excerpt from The Toy Shop:
Gentleman: I want a plain gold ring, Sir, exactly this size.
Master: Then, ‘tis not for yourself, Sir?
Gentleman: No.
Master: A wedding ring, I presume.
Gentleman: No, sir; I thank you kindly; that’s a toy I never design to play with. ‘Tis the most dangerous piece of goods in your whole shop. People are perpetually doing themselves a mischief with it. They hang themselves fast together first, and afterwards are ready to hang themselves separately, to get loose again.
A portrait of Charles Churchill.
Charles Churchill was a well-known British poet and satirist. In The Rosciad, a poem published in 1761, the faults and merits of well-known stage actors were satirized.
“Oh! how many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring.”
(The Rosciad: l. 1,005)
A portrait of Lord Byron by Richard Westall (1813).
Although George Gordon Byron, later Lord Byron, is regarded as one of the greatest European poets, he is equally famous for his extravagant living and scandalous behavior, which included numerous love affairs and marital exploits.
Lord Byron’s thoughts on marriage (from “Journal,” 1813):
“But I never see any one much improved by matrimony. All my coupled contemporaries are bald and discontented.”
His thoughts on wedding rings (from an unfinished satiric poem based on the life of Don Juan, written c. 1818-1823):
“…the damnedest part of matrimony…”
A portrait of Lady Annabella Milbanke Byron by Charles Hayter (1812).
His memories of his wedding to Lady Byron, nee Miss Anne Isabella Milbanke:
“I shall never forget the 2nd of January, 1815, Lady Byron was the only unconcerned person present; Lady Noel, her mother, cried; I trembled like a leaf, made the wrong responses, and after the ceremony called her Miss Milbanke…”
And on a mysterious family ring found on his wedding day:
“There is a singular history attached to the ring. The very day the match was concluded a ring of my mother’s, that had been lost, was dug up by the gardener at Newstead. I thought it was sent on purpose for the wedding; but my mother’s marriage had not been a fortunate one, and this ring was doomed to be the seal of an unhappier union still.”
An 1856 photograph of Gerald Massey.
Gerald Massey rose from humble beginnings to become a well known Egyptologist and poet. He was also intensely spiritual, and some believe he was a practicing druid.
On a Wedding Day
Cling closer, closer, life to life,
Cling closer, heart to heart;
The time will come, my own wed Wife,
When you and I must part!
Let nothing break our bond but Death,
For in the world above
‘Tis the breaker Death that soldereth
Our ring of Wedded Love.
More than any other type of jewelry, rings have solidified their rank as most popular for representations of love. In the next section, learn more about Rings for Men and Women | An Introduction to History and Style.
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It's Big Oil vs. landowners on the Sandhills of Nebraska and the underdog is near defeat. How far will the ranchers go to protect one of the most sensitive eco-regions in the US against oilsand crude and the Keystone XL pipeline?
Keystone XL: How Canada’s pipeline splits the U.S.
By Mitch PotterStaff Reporter
Sat., June 9, 2012timer21 min. read
WHITEWATER, MONTANA—Three years ago, when the Canadian pipeline people first came round Bob Math’s cattle ranch in northernmost Montana, the conversation was brittle.
The TransCanada emissaries were pleasant enough. But it soon became apparent their Keystone XL pipeline was more than a proposal. They were talking fait accompli.
“It wasn’t a request, it was an announcement: ‘This is what we’re going to do on your land,’” Math says of that initial overture to trench through his 600-head Black Angus operation tucked up tight on the Saskatchewan border.
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Fast-forward to 2012 and Math is onside, having palmed a TransCanada cheque to seal the deal. And so the Canadians have this most important of neighbours — the first one on the American side — on board. And thousands more besides.
Two factors swayed Math to surrender permission on land homesteaded by his great-grandfather in 1915: The promise of KXL taxes for his local county government, which badly needs the help; and the fact that there is already a natural gas pipeline running beneath his property, one that hasn’t given him a speck of trouble since it was laid in the 1980s.
After Math, 52, signed his rights away, he was awakened one morning last year by a deafening scream.
The gas pipeline on his property had blown a valve, sending a pressurized white plume high into the air. He sounded the alert and plugged his ears, taking cold comfort as the gas erupted skyward, up, up and away from his livestock and the water table they depend on.
You don’t have to tell Bob Math that when oil bursts from a pipeline it doesn’t go up.
“I’m not too worried about it,” says Math, with some degree of uncertainty and the knowledge it’s too late to change his mind. “Maybe I should be . . . ”
Welcome to the first stop on the Star’s 4,000-kilometre journey into the heart of Keystone XL. Brace for a bumpy ride as we zigzag the length of the scheme to pipe Alberta’s oilsands through America like never before.
At its essence, Keystone XL is just a pipe — a 91-centimetre diameter hard steel fact, like so many others already embedded in the American landscape. Priced at a cool $7 billion (some of that already spent on legal fees, design, logistics and payouts to people like Bob Math), it would stretch more than 2,700 kilometres from Hardisty, Alta., to the refineries of Port Arthur, Texas, where the world will be its oyster — a tax-free exit point to global markets.
Running under high pressure, a maximum flow of 750,000 barrels a day of granular diluted bitumen would also be hot, as steamy as 66 Celsius by some estimates, through sheer friction. Unquestionably, it would bring employment to job-starved America — something in the range of 3,500 to 4,200 temporary construction positions for two years before staffing levels fall to a minimal maintenance workforce, according to U.S. State Department estimates. Other estimates, like the industry-lobbying American Petroleum Institute’s fabled “one million new jobs,” belong in the fiction section.
But in the fever swamp of election-year America, the myth-addled Canadian project has morphed into an oil-fired political battering ram — one so powerful it could well take down President Barack Obama.
In delaying his KXL decision beyond November’s election, Team Obama was hoping to put the Alberta oilsands on a shelf. But the Republicans won’t let him.
Nor indeed will Mitt Romney, who two weeks ago set it right back on the table in a campaign video titled Day One . Approval of the KXL pipeline will be the first order of a Romney administration.
Ironic, no? This is the same Obama who bailed out Detroit even as Romney prescribed bankruptcy for his hometown. And now, with a gassy flourish, Romney is bailing in on the pipeline that Obama just cannot bring himself to love.
At least not while keeping his environmental constituency fired up for the polls of November.
Some might say it’s a perfect match, contemporary U.S. politics and Alberta oilsands. Both are toxic, both laced with harmful byproducts, both require immense energy to sort good from bad.
Yet here along the Great Plains, the geo-politics match up almost perfectly on both sides of the border. From Tory-blue Alberta, the pipeline path passes through an unbroken string of safely Republican states all the way to Texas.
Don’t hold your breath looking for a conversation on the climate. These are pro-energy people in the main, ready to embrace the promise of jobs, lower gas prices, and energy security no matter how inflated.
There are pockets of holdouts up and down the line. Most vividly in the fragile and water-rich Sandhills of Nebraska, where landowners vow this pipeline will run over their dead bodies.
But even Nebraska, once you get beyond the delicate Sandhills ecosystem, tells another story. Like the corn farmers around Steele City, near the border with Kansas, who have nothing but praise and welcome for KXL.
Or the landowner who met us at his 65-hectare patch of Merrick County with a .357 Magnum on the seat of his truck. His first gesture was to hand over a stack of printouts from WorldNetDaily, the leading outlet for Obama birther conspiracies. “Here’s some truth for you,” he said. He too had nothing but good to say about Keystone XL. And nothing but scary to say about Obama.
Deeper still down the Keystone XL trail, Kansas is so completely behind the pipeline that the state signed off on an astonishing 10-year property tax holiday for TransCanada, a concession worth millions. Every other state on the route will get a cut — ostensibly an easy negotiation considering how pipeline builders tend to prefer straight lines.
As for Oklahoma, well, once you get to Cushing that’s the end of the energy-crazed line. Though Keystone XL’s final destination is the Gulf Coast, the last leg is a done deal, given that it does not cross a U.S. border and therefore skirts the presidential permit process.
It’s the northern route that isn’t quite sealed yet.
Nashua, Montana
You don’t plan 2,700 kilometres of pipeline without obstacles. And 90 minutes deeper into Montana, there’s a huge one called the Missouri River.
Thomas Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark up these waters 208 years ago. And right here on the north bank, a few clicks southeast of Nashua, the Garwood clan settled a century later, as the homestead era took hold.
Which brings us to Edgar Garwood, 91, who has been painstakingly leveling this land for more than six decades in a continual quest for the perfectly irrigated farm.
Edgar is still a working man, with a lithe body to prove it. But his face shows the stress of KXL, a project that has him boxed in whether he likes it or not.
Such is the luck of the draw on this stretch of the river. To Garwood’s east lies the massive Fort Peck Indian Reservation. And to the west, the massive Fort Peck Dam and Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge. Both are no-go zones for the pipeline and Garwood’s land appears to be the only viable alternative for Keystone XL.
During an afternoon visit, Garwood proudly showed what a lifetime’s work is all about: neatly carved channels that feed Missouri water into his gently sloping fields, most years doubling his yield of alfalfa and barley. And right next to the house, a prized personal patch of organic grain, which he harvests for his morning ritual of homemade whole wheat pancakes.
“I’m not signing anything. My biggest worry is my own water. I’ve depended on it my entire life and if anything goes wrong with that pipeline I’ll be ruined,” says Edgar.
Garwood’s son Ron, who farms near his father, is just as deeply set against the project over fears for the safety of the Missouri.
“Last year’s rains were so great that the pressure had to be released down the dam spillway — it came straight at us with such force it changed the shoreline right where they plan to bury the pipeline,” says Ron.
“Then just look at the other side — the pipeline has to climb hundreds of feet up through unstable glacial hills. Where do you think the oil goes if there’s an event that ruptures the pipe?”
TransCanada has tried to address such concerns, insisting the pipeline will plunge from its normal depth of 1.3 metres to a full 8 metres as it passes beneath the Milk, Missouri and Yellowstone rivers. Heavier-gauge pipe, valve shutoffs on both sides of the rivers and reduced pressure are also part of the plan.
The Garwoods aren’t convinced. But like the rest of the holdouts up and down the line, they may have no choice.
“They threaten to use eminent domain (expropriation) if we don’t go along with it,” says Ron.
The forced surrender of one’s land is a sensitive subject anywhere. But the issue takes on added meaning here in the deeply conservative Great Plain states, where property rights are next to Godliness — and landowners normally count on Republicans to protect them.
The Garwoods have joined dozens of other Montana holdouts to form the Northern Plains Landowners Group to negotiate with TransCanada. But what they’re looking for is assurances, not money.
“If there was a huge benefit for the country it might be different,” says Ron. “But I just don’t see it. The jobs claims are wildly overstated and most of the oil seems intended for export from the Gulf Coast to the global market.”
Williston, N.D.
A slight detour east is in order. Because nobody can truly appreciate the intensity of the KXL until they take a look at the Bakken, America’s most frenzied domestic oil boom.
Though the epicentre of the rich Bakken shale is just over the North Dakota border near the town of Williston, wildcatters are now spilling into eastern Montana, South Dakota and even southern Saskatchewan. And the first glimpse of activity — a Koch Industries semi-trailer — is evident on Highway 2 barely 45 minutes down the road from the Garwoods.
Suddenly, as we continue eastward, the whole world begins to change. By the time we reach Culbertson, the road is jammed with oil tankers, industrial duty pickups and crew cabs. We scramble to find the last motel room in a three-hour driving radius.
“Incredible, isn’t it?” says Dave Rudh, 68, a transplanted Californian who left his two struggling restaurants behind for a slice of the Bakken boom.
“There’s a truck going by every 10 seconds. I love it. My brother and I are buying houses and fixing them up to rent out to the crews. Nobody can find a place to stay. Everywhere you turn, there’s an opportunity to make money.”
Three weeks ago, North Dakota eclipsed Alaska to become America’s second-leading oil producer behind Texas — 17.8 million barrels in March, or a daily average of 575,490. And while the frenzy has driven North Dakota’s jobless rate to the lowest in the nation, those barrels are selling at a substantial discount. The infrastructure has yet to catch up with the production, forcing Bakken producers to rely on truck and rail to transport the oil to market.
That’s where Keystone XL comes in, with a planned intake pipe at Baker, Mont., that TransCanada pledges will absorb as much as 65,000 barrels of Bakken oil each day, adding it to the Alberta flow all the way to Texas.
Like all booms, this one comes with controversy. Clusters of “man camps” have sprouted throughout the region as hundreds of companies scramble to keep the now more than 7,000 wells in service.
Williston has mushroomed to more than twice its normal size, as have the surrounding oil towns, and the influx has brought not only congestion but crime to a region where many never before locked their doors.
The growing pains came into high relief in March with the grisly discovery of missing Montana schoolteacher Sherry Arnold, who was kidnapped, strangled and buried in a shallow grave after vanishing during a morning jog in the oil town of Sidney. Two men from Colorado who arrived looking for work in the oil fields have been charged with abduction and murder.
The other dimension of controversy is fracking — hydraulic fracturing — which together with recent developments in horizontal drilling technology have enabled the runaway Bakken boom. Fracking involves unleashing an explosive chemical cocktail at depths of 4,000 metres, thereby blasting the shale apart to release trapped oil and gas. The oil is gathered, awaiting outlets such as KXL. But as much as a third of the gas is simply wasted through flaring due to the absence of infrastructure.
The sheer pace of activity amounts to a fracking free-for-all. North Dakota state officials recently warned they are “understaffed, overwhelmed” and struggling to provide adequate oversight of the thousands of waste disposal sites sprouting throughout the oil patch.
Yet the Bakken boom is expected only to accelerate as oil companies deepen their involvement. It has left towns like Tioga, an hour northeast of Williston, wondering what hit them.
All around Tioga the gravel roads are thick with the dust of passing trucks. And a “man camp” of white trailers stretches the length of town. The fracking has set some in this once-sleepy farm community on edge while others suddenly are finding themselves on easy street, thanks to monthly cheques from the mineral rights of the new resource.
Ella Strahan is among those whose finds herself with extra money, thanks to a lucky strike on her family homestead just west of Tioga. She’s reluctant to speak numbers, except to say “it’s not enough to live on” and in any event, she’s passing it on to younger members of the family.
Now in her late ’80s, Strahan can speak from the experience of having witnessed two oil booms in these parts — the original wave that followed the discovery of oil in 1951 and the present-day frenzy. And to hear her tell it, the first time around was far less frantic.
“The oil companies had patience in the 1950s. Houses were built, the school was expanded, the town got ready for the influx — and then the men came in with the families,” says Strahan.
“That’s not the way things are now. The men move in and find a place wherever they can. They leave their families behind. Prices are going up for everyday things like milk and bread and rent and hitting people the same, no matter whether they’re on a fixed income or working in the oil business. It’s all happening in too much of a hurry this time.”
Tioga Mayor Nathan Germundson is just 32 and never lived through the first boom. But he says Strahan’s assessment is right on the money.
“The horse has left the barn on this one. And now we’re trying to play catch-up with our planning.
“We want to keep an eye on the fracking so no lasting harm is done. And at the same time, a lot of these guys are literally choking down wells to wait things out because there’s no capacity to move the oil.
“That’s why you won’t hear any objections to Keystone XL around here. We need all the help we can get with infrastructure and capacity. We’re bursting at the seams.”
Cogswell, N.D.
Another detour, this one longer, sadder. Over to the other end of North Dakota, picking up the path of TransCanada’s original Keystone pipeline.
Launched into service in June, 2010, Keystone 1 is a narrower pipe than the XL version now under discussion. But it too carries Alberta bitumen, though the line terminates in Illinois.
But in its short lifespan, Keystone 1 has already proven time and again the golden rule of pipelines — they leak. No fewer than 14 times since the ribbon was cut, in the case of Keystone 1.
That’s an ugly number for a two-year-old pipeline. And while most of the releases were tiny, the one that left the most chilling impression happened early one morning in May, 2011, when 20,000 gallons of crude burst from a pumping station near the tiny hamlet of Cogswell.
It could have been worse. Much, much worse. Like what happened a year earlier, when TransCanada’s competitor Enbridge leaked 20,000 barrels of Alberta’s finest— barrels , not gallons — into Michigan’s Kalamazoo River, contaminating 55 kilometres of the waterway and costing, thus far, $765 million in remediation.
We meet up with nearby farmers Bob Banderet and Paul Matthews at the Cogswell spill site. It was Banderet who first witnessed the gusher spouting “two tree-tops high” — 20 metres — and immediately called TransCanada’s spill hotline.
“The first thing they said to me was, ‘Is this a hoax?’” recalls Banderet. “Eventually, I was put through and reported the emergency.”
Thirty minutes later, TransCanada’s engineers were able to stop the gusher with an emergency shutdown. Five hours later, the first cleanup trailer arrived, eventually swelling to a 24-man crew.
Not a trace of the spill can be seen today. Except on the faces of Banderet and Matthews, who both look like they have seen a ghost.
They’re upset, not only because TransCanada’s final summary on the incident scrubbed Banderet’s role as mere visual confirmation of a problem their monitoring teams were already aware of and remedying. But also because a senior TransCanada executive subsequently gave an interview dismissing reports of a gusher on Keystone 1 as fallacy.
“They said my call didn’t matter because they already were in the process of shutting down, which I highly doubt. Then they said I didn’t see what I saw — oil shooting into the sky,” says Banderet.
Adds Matthews: “My idea of good faith is to say, ‘Okay, TransCanada — release the recordings.’ Show us the tape with the date-stamp proving you were on the case. If they want to rebuild trust, that would be a great first step.”
Sisseton, S.D.
We could use some comic relief at this point. And we find it a few hours later at the Buffalo Wallow Bar & Grill in Sisseton, S.D., as we head south back to KXL proper.
Four lads in full hunting regalia are well into the beer, partying amongst themselves — until they overhear a Star team discussing Keystone XL.
“We’re a pipeline crew from Michigan. That’s what we do! Can you get us a job on Keystone XL?” one shouts.
Probably not, we answer. But we ask about their story anyway. It turns out the boys are not welders, engineers, crane operators or pipelayers, per se. They are non-specialized labourers who do whatever else needs doing. Hard work. And pay so generous that it enables them to wander to places like South Dakota to hunt turkey between jobs.
Their last paying work was in the fracking fields of Pennsylvania’s Marcellus shale, building a gas pipeline. They loved the work but hated the way they were treated.
“People don’t like pipelines in Pennsylvania. They called us ‘gasholes.’ That’s why we want to get to Keystone XL. Around here, people are just friendlier to working guys like us.”
Newport, Neb.
Nebraska. All this way, and not once has a single person we have encountered brought up the phrase “climate change.” Not even to deny it, let alone compare believers to the Unabomber.
Odd, that. But soon to change, as we intersect with the inestimable Jane Kleeb, co-founder of Bold Nebraska. A thirtysomething Nebraskan mother of three, Kleeb and her team have fought an astonishing battle these past four years, effectively drawing the line against Keystone XL in the Sandhills.
Kleeb’s group has been engaged in an epic battle of wills with Keystone XL, exposing the project’s potential to export Alberta oil overseas, challenging exaggerated estimates of job creation and skewering the claim that the pipeline will bring lower gas prices to the U.S.
Yet Kleeb’s most effective work came in rousting Nebraska’s ranchers to rise up against Keystone XL on behalf of the Sandhills, where the all-important waters of the Ogallala aquifer are at their most vulnerable.
Walking alongside those waters with Kleeb and her self-styled band of stewards, it is easy to see why TransCanada lost its initial bid to traverse this delicate terrain. In certain areas of the Sandhills, the landscape is dotted with “flowing wells” — pumpless wonders that require only a pipe for pure, clear water to rise freely to the surface on its own.
What’s more, the people walking with Kleeb are anything but tree-huggers. Rather, they are fiercely independent cattlemen, the sort that in any other context would be voting Republican.
People like Karl Connell, a fifth-generation rancher from Newport, Neb., who is putting his everything into blocking KXL. Connell, like many ranchers, never goes near a computer. But Kleeb is a major tweep, with substantially more Twitter followers than TransCanada itself.
For TransCanada, that combination was deadly. And the noise these Nebraskans made, resounding and rebounding on social media, proved the clincher in Obama’s decision in January to cancel the original Keystone XL application.
Kleeb and her Nebraska rancher friends managed to deliver what more than 1,000 high-profile arrestees could not when they stormed the White House last summer in protest against the oilsands — give Big Oil a black eye.
“I don’t think they ever suffered a defeat like they did when Obama blocked the pipeline,” says Kleeb.
She describes the opposition as a “unique and powerful coalition — it can’t just be the tree-huggers. We need moms, we need ranchers, we need farmers to win this fight.
“There was no secret to it. Right from the beginning, we were meeting landowners in living rooms and church basements. We weren’t just an environmental group looking to use a rancher’s face on a poster. We truly believe we are standing together to defend their land and our water.”
Yet barely two months later, under withering Republican attack as an “anti-energy, anti-job” president, Obama all but crushed the spirit of the Nebraskan rejectionists by traveling to Cushing, Okla., to tout his administration’s “all-of-the-above” energy policy. Though he had no direct jurisdiction over the matter, Obama vowed he would do everything possible to accelerate construction of the southern half of the Keystone XL pipeline.
Simultaneously, TransCanada officials huddled anew with Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman. And by May, seemingly unkillable Keystone XL was alive again — TransCanada submitting fresh applications with a slightly modified plan to skirt the outer edge of the Sandhills.
A 70-kilometre detour is not a victory in Bold Nebraska’s eyes. And it’s especially grim for Connell, whose sandy ranch north of the town of Newport — though not technically Sandhills, as defined by the state — looks to be in the crosshairs of Keystone XL just as they were before. He may actually end up with more pipe this time.
And so now they have entered the lawsuit phase, with Bold Nebraska challenging the constitutionality of Heineman’s decision to drive through a new law, LB 1161, that essentially grants him sole authority to approve TransCanada’s plan for Nebraska.
For many who oppose the pipeline, the David-vs.-Goliath achievements of these Nebraska holdouts remain a thing of wonder. But there are others who are beginning to regret the whole anti-oilsands campaign.
Carrie La Seur, a blogger with the Plains Justice group, went ballistic, declaring that by turning Keystone XL into a big election-year political issue, “Big Green played it all wrong.”
“It’s weakened the standing of one of the best environmental presidents,” La Seur wrote, pointing to Team Obama’s regulatory action on everything from coal ash to air quality.
“It’s not paradise, it’s politics. But it’s a far cry from the regressive environmental and energy policies we’d get from anybody in the GOP primary. Did we really need to kneecap the president over this project?”
One might expect both sides in this fight to grasp at whatever ammunition they can find, rhetorical or otherwise. And while there’s no denying Canada has a massive stake in it all, the framing of the battle as a plain vanilla bilateral issue rings ludicrous. At least when groups like Bold Nebraska go on about TransCanada as a “foreign corporation” ramming something on unsuspecting Americans.
Alberta’s oilsands production is now more than two-thirds foreign owned, according to new research by the B.C.-based Forest Ethics Advocacy, with more than half of the oil and gas revenues flowing out of Canada to people like the aforementioned Koch brothers.
Likewise, the Gulf Coast refineries lining up to absorb and process the surge of KXL bitumen range from American to Saudi interests. Put another way, if this was about, say, Canadian softwood lumber, do you really think Newt Gingrich would be screaming like a steaming kettle about the urgency of bringing it south every time he steps up to a microphone?
It is Big Oil that wants it and Big Oil knows no country. And on this even Kleeb agrees.
But regardless of how the odds are beginning to stack up against them, KXL’s opponents vow at least one last battle awaits.
Says Kleeb: “You will see people protect their land at all costs. We’ve tried to explain how emotionally tied people feel to this land. Landowners will take direct action and I expect people from all over the country will come to Nebraska to join them. Safety should be a concern.”
For rancher Connell, the prospect of losing his rights through eminent domain suggests all bets are off. “You come in to my land, I’ll say, ‘No. You git.’
“Will it get physical? It might get physical. It might in fact get pretty ugly. Most people agree you should have the right to say, ‘No, leave me alone.’ Don’t be pushing me around.”
WHITEWATER, MONT.—Two orange pylons. A laughably scalable strand of knee-high barbed wire. A few deer in the distance. And not another human for miles.
That’s all that separates Canada from the United States here in northernmost Montana, where an unmarked gravel road meets the point where Keystone XL intends to cross south.
Looking north from Montana, a mere stumble will get you to Saskatchewan. One very easy step. But an illegal crossing is no way to begin a 4,000-kilometre journey into the heart of Keystone XL. So we took photographs and left.
“Watching how? By drone? By satellite?” I ask.
A smile is his only answer.
- Mitch Potter
Barack Obama, Alberta
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EXCLUSIVE by Danny Higginbotham: FINDING a No 10 to unlock defences and getting more from their full-backs could be the difference between Manchester United making the top four or not.
We have seen how devastating they can be when allowed to play on the counter.
But they had 67 per cent possession against Everton and once again struggled to break down a defence who sat deep and narrow.
When you have more of the ball playing a 4-2-3-1, that No 10 position is key. The likes of Anthony Martial, Marcus Rashford and Dan James will constantly stretch the game with their pace.
In turn, there will be no space in behind the defence — instead it will be in between the defence and midfield.
Therefore you need that player who can pick up those positions and thread passes through.
RYAN GIGGS has slammed Anthony Martial following the 1-1 draw against Everton.
The Wales boss told the Premier League: “He is talented, and he’s not a bad kid, but the problem he has is that he looks lethargic all the time. He looks casual, as if he’s not bothered.
“When it comes off, and he’s doing brilliant things, you say it just comes naturally. But when it’s not, you think: he’s not running, he’s not trying, he’s not working hard enough, he’s not holding the ball up.
“So in my eyes he has to try extra hard because of his persona, because of the way that he moves.
“But he doesn’t look like he breaks sweat and when United are chasing a game you want someone to get across the front post – you might not score, but your teammate might score.
“It’s all these sort of things that you’re not getting off him at the moment.
“With Mason coming on and doing that, getting in positions to score goals, he [Martial] is going to be under pressure, because he’s not giving you anything defensively and he’s not giving you anything offensively either.”
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer had praise for @_MasonGreenwood as #MUFC reached an #MUAcademy landmark… pic.twitter.com/qv0aVt4bjK
— Manchester United (@ManUtd) December 15, 2019
VERDICT by Martin Blackburn: Anthony Martial and Jesse Lingard need to watch their backs.
Mason Greenwood has been quietly knocking on the door to become a first team starter at Manchester United for a few months now.
But in the last three days the 18-year-old has pretty much barged it down.
On Thursday against Alkmaar he scored twice and won a penalty as United blitzed the Dutch side early in the second half.
Here he was at it again – scoring the equaliser 12 minutes after climbing off the bench – just when it looked like it could be one of those days for United.
All the home forwards were guilty of missing chances until Greenwood came on and showed them how it should be done – with a low left footed shot which flashed past Jordan Pickford.
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Windows Phone 7 MarketPlace Apps cross 5000
The Windows Phone 7 MarketPlace, launched with 1,000 odd apps in October 2010, has added over 4000 more apps to date.
There are now 5100+ WP& apps available for Windows Phone 7. In the last 8 days itself, over 1000 more apps were added.
According to WP7Applist.com, 28% of these are Free apps while the remaining 72% are Paid apps with almost 50% of them being priced at $0.99; although some do go upto even $5.00.
You can also find the total number of Windows Phone 7 apps in the Zune software, under Marketplace > Apps or see the total number being displayed at MarketplaceBrowser.com, which currently shows the apps at 5149.
The WP7 MarketPlace has really taken off! The Android market place needed over 6 months to touch this figure when it was launched, although it currently boasts of 200,000 apps.
Wonder when the 10000 figure will be breached at WP7 Marketplace!? Any guesses?
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16 Expert Opinions on the Future of Tech In Atlanta
By Adam Levenson
It’s a beautiful Monday evening in December. Ivy Rueb, Thinkful community manager decides to take the first parking spot she sees and enjoy the scenery along tree-lined Spring St. She passes by a Barnes and Nobles and some cool loft apartments before entering into a large two story building with giant silver letters that spell “TechSquare Labs.” The decor and atmosphere are just what you expect from a tech incubator - concrete and steel softened by warm wood accents, Warby Parker doting millennials typing away on Macbook Pros, and a shared excitement that someone here might be onto the next big thing. What makes this scene particularly special for Ivy is that she didn’t have to move to Silicon Valley to walk amongst this cornucopia of entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and engineers. This is all happening in her hometown of Atlanta.
“Atlanta is working its way up the list of top tech cities” says Jason Rubottom, CEO of Ally Commerce and advisor board member of Atlanta Tech Leaders. Jason’s e-commerce company employs approximately 40 and has raised nearly $10m in venture funding. With nearly $732 million dollars invested in Atlanta companies in the third quarter of 2017 alone, however, Ally Commerce’s success is anything but an anomaly.
To an outsider, Atlanta ascendance can be a bit of a mystery. How did a city known for producing hip hop artists, hosting Final Fours, and headquartering huge conglomerates like Coca Cola and UPS become the next big tech mecca? To answer this question, we asked 16 experts (CEOs, VC’s and other leaders) to weigh in on what makes Atlanta unique and what the future of tech in Atlanta holds.
What makes Atlanta special?
"Just look at Atlanta's history. In the 1800s, we were named Terminus, which was mile zero for the nation's transportation network and commerce. We've grown into a hub for industries as varied as logistics, financial services and cyber security. We are also home to the biggest brands -- with world-class talent coming out of the state schools and more smart capital setting up shop here everyday. It's a big Southern technology puzzle and all the pieces have finally clicked into place."
- Marc Gorlin, CEO, Roadie
“Atlanta is working its way up the list of top tech cities. There's a lot of untapped tech talent in Atlanta, which is also more affordable than other top tech cities. Historically there wasn't as much funding here, but even now that is changing. I think all of that is going to create a lot of growth in tech, from startups to mature companies.”
- Jason Rubottom, CEO, Ally Commerce
“Atlanta has fostered a very healthy tech ecosystem through the talent coming out of the high quality educational system such as Georgia Tech. Numerous tech incubators are also cultivating top tech talent in the city. This attracts venture and private equity capital to scale innovative high growth tech companies. The future for tech in Atlanta has never been more exciting.”
- Asif Ramji, CEO, Paymetric
“Atlanta has an undeniable spirit of hospitality and resilience, if we can play a part in that energy and legacy, we’re all in. Atlanta has always been an incredibly important city for our company in general; it’s where we were founded and home to our largest group of employees and technologists. It is why we continue to invest in the tech and startup community here – from our partnership with ATV to our hosting Girls Who Code and their summer immersion program.”
- Maigh Houlihan, Developer Evangelist, Turner
“Corporate involvement, diverse founders, and a cheap cost of living are the perfect storm of Atlanta's greatest strengths bolstering our startup ecosystem. The people here are what's special. They have hustle and a competitive drive, but fiercely support each other and welcome newcomers with open arms.”
- Tricia Whitlock, Director, Your Ideas Are Terrible
“Atlanta entrepreneurs are in a unique position to take advantage of new technologies like IoT, blockchain and AI that are reshaping every industry—from logistics and supply chain to film and entertainment. For companies testing and validating their products, Atlanta’s diverse economy gives entrepreneurs many case studies for unique applications of technology. Having the third highest concentration of global Fortune 500s and more than 20 corporate innovation centers in the city provides access to a broad global customer base to help companies scale their business faster.”
- Noelle London, Manager of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Invest Atlanta
“Atlanta is positioned to become the most inclusive innovation, entrepreneurship and investment ecosystem on the planet. The world will look to us to solve the macro issues related to the authentic diversification of the innovation economy. We have the historical precedence. Accelerated access to training, markets and money is key. Together, we must build an ecosystem for all for the benefit of all.”
- Rodney Sampson, Executive Chairman & CEO, Opportunity Hub; Investor, TechSquare Labs
“Atlanta, as a venture market, is white hot. But this didn’t’ happen overnight. The city’s venture market is benefitting from a number of factors that are necessary to create a vibrant startup ecosystem– world-class research and technology institutions, a robust pool of engineering talent, a friendly business and regulatory environment, the relatively low cost of labor, a solid base of local venture and angel investors, and a growing appetite for sophisticated risk-taking in the community. The other thing that is providing fuel for the Atlanta startup scene is that state leaders and private market participants have collaborated in thoughtful ways to create the necessary conditions for a startup ecosystem to thrive.”
- Mark Buffington, CEO, BIP Capital
“Atlanta is in a interesting position to be a tech center. Having GA Tech located here give us a special position in developing technical talent. We have clusters of cybersecurity, logistics, healthcare, sales automation and IoT companies. Cost of living, transportation and quality of life are also a plus for Atlanta.”
- Sig Mosley, Managing Partner, Mosley Ventures
“Right now there is a buzz around Atlanta about the future. We’re implementing the foundation for smart city initiatives, making the destination short list for big tech players, attracting global luxury corporations, expanding our incubator ecosystem and building a metro infrastructure to attract young talent across a variety of sectors. Atlanta is well poised to position itself as the innovation hub of the South, by stewarding our growing diverse and inclusive STEM base, and strengthening our academic, startup and business community partnerships.”
- Bronwyn Morgan, CEO, Subkulture Innovation
What does the future of tech in Atlanta look like?
“In many ways I think future of tech in Atlanta has arrived - I see it every day I walk through our offices. The Atlanta tech community has changed remarkably in the 9 years since we started the company, and I see it in places like ATV, Ponce City Market, Tech Square and the new Coda building. What I’d like to see in the future is more local venture firms to fund the many startups that have incubated around the city; while things have improved most successful tech companies still rely on funding from the west coast or northeast.”
- Kathryn Petralia, Co-Founder and COO, Kabbage
“Designated by Forbes as the #3 city poised to become a tech mecca, Atlanta has all the ingredients to be a top 5 global technology hub. Major corporations are already locating and expanding their IT operations here, universities are spinning out top tech talent, and entrepreneurs are building new companies around cutting-edge, technology-based solutions. In the near future, Atlanta will be synonymous with technology.”
- Jennifer Sherer, Vice President, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Atlanta Chamber of Commerce
“The future of tech in Atlanta is about skills. It won't matter where or how you acquire them, just that you have them. It’s not about the pedigree, and it’s also not about 'paper' skills on a resume --- its about demonstrable talent.”
- Edwin Marcial, Investor, Former CTO, ICE
“Atlanta has all the key ingredients to be a leading innovation hub with top-notch tech talent, world class research universities including the nation's largest and most diverse engineering university in Georgia Tech, a growing base of successful entrepreneurs and investors, and home to an increasing number of corporate headquarters and innovation centers. The future of Atlanta is about bringing the leaders of the technology community and the executives of our large companies that dominate their markets together to drive innovation and foster our innovation ecosystem. That's why we launched Engage. What entrepreneurs need most is access to markets and customers - and for that, Atlanta is the place to be!”
- Blake Patton, Managing Partner, Tech Square Ventures & Engage Fund
“I have the lens of a long history in Atlanta personally beginning with Peachtree Software, when there was no venture capital in the South, when startup was not a term, and resources for entrepreneurs were scarce at best. Each new generation of Atlanta tech entrepreneurs has built on the achievements of their predecessors, tracing back to Scientific Atlanta in 1951. Our long series of successful tech companies has created not only jobs, but careers, and they have launched many offspring. That is very much evident today, and the numbers compound with each new wave of brilliant leaders building companies of consequence. Georgia Tech as the anchoring institution for this wave of innovation has led, not followed, and continues to do so. The abundance of human capital in the Atlanta tech community portends a very bright future.”
- Ben Dyer, Partner, TechSquare Labs
“I’m very bullish about our tech community and moreover our staying power in the years to come. Specifically, this recent economic cycle has deepened our bench of investable talent (seasoned and new), cemented our areas of domain expertise, and attracted brand name capital and executive leadership to the market. I also believe that the contributions from this sector will become a more meaningful component of our economic growth and diversity.”
- Ashish Mistry, Managing Partner, BLH Venture Partners
Help Us Continue The Conversation
Now that that the experts have weighed in, we’d love to hear your thoughts about what makes Atlanta unique and what the future of tech in Atlanta looks like. When doing so, please make sure to mention that this story was compiled by Thinkful’s Atlanta coding bootcamp.
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Velvet Buzzsaw Explained (2019 Movie Ending and Analysis)
This is the Netflix film written and directed by Dan Gilroy (director of Nightcrawler). The Velvet Buzzsaw cast includes a long list of popular actors – Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Toni Collette, Zawe Ashton, and John Malkovich to name a few. The Velvet Buzzsaw sundance premier happened in January 2019, and the movie belongs to the genre of horror. It’s interesting how the fright is presented in the film. Usually, a scary flick puts the entire emphasis on the paranormal event, and the characters are either caught in it or trying to fight/stop it. Velvet Buzzsaw has a lot more going on as far as the main plot is concerned and meets the supernatural side of things a while later. The film is pretty straight-forward, so let’s get down to business right away. Here’s the explanation to the plot and ending of the movie Velvet Buzzsaw.
There is a pretty significant message the film drives home – the value of an artist is measured by the money that can be made from selling his/her art, and the people who are in charge of selling them are, many a time, art-morons. To add to this, we have critics who have either sold their souls or have no clue what they are talking about yet have the power to control the market. A great analogy would be the film world today. You have many struggling film-makers, and dozens of films are released on various platforms. Audiences use critics’ opinions to make a decision whether or not to watch a movie. Year on year, amazing films go unnoticed either because the distributor doesn’t want to promote it or a set of critics choose to score it poorly because they are too busy going gaga over some other film that makes critique portfolio look good. The same applies to the music industry as well. In a nutshell, Velvet Buzzsaw is set in a world where the people who abuse their power meet with a gory demise.
Velvet Buzzsaw Plot Synopsis: Characters and Context
Piers (John) and Damrish are the only artists in the film. Piers’ is someone who could produce sell-worthy art when he was a drunkard. After he decides to go sober, he’s developed a creative block. Damrish is from an underground art movement and is entering the high-profile world of art.
Morf Vandewalt (Jake) is a highly respected art-critic. Rhodora Haze (Rene) is the owner of Haze Gallery; she sells art. Gretchen (Toni), a former artist, is currently an art curator for a museum and has recently decided to become an art advisor for a wealthy person. Josephina (Zawe) works for Rhodora and is a young woman striving to make it big. What is common between these four is that while they might have entered the art industry for the right reasons, over time they have let their greed make decisions for them.
Velvet Buzzsaw: Hoboman
The film opens in an art exhibition where we are shown Morf passing through. Cloudio, an artist, has displayed his work, Hoboman, which is a satire presented as a superhero without limbs. Hoboman symbolizes an old homeless person who was once a person of great use (such as a railroad constructor) who eventually became homeless. To represent, Hoboman says stuff like “Have you ever felt invisible?” and “Once, I built a railroad”. Morf is condescending and tells Cloudio that there is no originality and no courage, even though Hoboman has been getting a good response at the exhibition. Eventually, Morf publishes a terrible review of Hoboman, and it leads to the art’s death.
Morf Vandewalt is a bumbling critic
At the exhibition, Gretchen meets Morf to ask about one of Piers painting. Assuming that the work is current Morf mentions that sobriety hasn’t done well for Piers. Gretchen says that the art is 15 years old when Piers was at the peak of his alcoholism. So you see, Morf is not critiquing the painting, he’s saying something is good or bad based on the knowledge of Piers’ creative block and alcoholism. The conclusion is, if it was done during his drunkard days, it must be fantastic, here’s 5 million for it.
Velvet Buzzsaw: Sphere
This piece of art is a large metallic sphere with holes. Based on who you are and which hole you stick your hand in, it creates a unique sensation. There are a few moving parts inside the sphere, but most of the feeling is all in the person’s head. The art has a unique sell value. Morf is instantly happy to write a positive review.
Who is Jon Dondon in Velvet Buzzsaw?
Piers’ has recently decided to leave Rhodora and move to Jon Dondon to have his art represented. Jon comes across evidently as someone who’s well known in the art circles to make sells but is a complete art-moron. He uses “cutting-edge analytics” to maximize “deal flow and global demand”. You know the kind.
Wait, what is the meaning of Velvet Buzzsaw?
A long time ago, Rhodora was part of a Punk Rock band called the Velvet Buzzsaw. While the initial days were excellent and true to the music, the group split because their music was no longer appreciated. Rhodora has a tattoo on her back which is, well, a velvet buzzsaw. Why the film is called that is perhaps because velvet is soft and buzzsaw can cut through hard materials. The characters in the film who are market makers are not artists. All of them have, at the core of it, a soft skill that they use to influence the art market (reviews, networking, personal relationship, etc). But the effect this has on the artists is devastating and cuts like a knife, or better yet, a buzzsaw.
Who is Damrish?
Damrish is a street artist who’s suddenly getting the attention of Jon Dondon and Rhodora because they feel they can make a killing by selling his art. He eventually takes Rhodora’s deal to display his art.
Morf and Josephina
Morf is bisexual and has recently broken up with his boyfriend, Ed. Josephina’s boyfriend has been cheating on her. The two of them decide it is best if they enter a physical relationship.
Velvet Buzzsaw: What is Rhodora’s arrangement with Morf?
While Morf doesn’t know this, his ex-boyfriend Ed is paid by Rhodora to give her heads up on positive reviews that Morf was going to publish (everyone in this film is in a superficial relationship). Based on this, she would buy the art ahead of his review, and once she owned it, Morf’s review would cause the price of the art to skyrocket.
Velvet Buzzsaw: What is Gretchen’s relationship with Morf?
Gretchen is shown to be a close acquaintance of Morf’s who’s leaving her job at the museum to become an art advisor for the person who’s bought the Sphere for 7 million. She’s going to be quite wealthy. She’s noticed that the artwork that Rhodora purchases invariably lands a positive review from Morf. Quite naturally she assumes there is a monetary arrangement between them and Gretchen offers money to Morf to give her a heads up before he published positive reviews. Remember, Morf has no clue that Ed has been selling his reviews behind his back, and so, Morf is appalled by the very idea.
Who is Bryson in Velvet Buzzsaw?
He’s a self-proclaimed artist who works for Rhodora. He’s nosey and you know he’s probably going to be the first one to die.
Velvel Buzzsaw: Who is Coco?
Coco works for Rhodora too as her personal assistant. She moves to do freelance back-office work because Rhodora fires her.
Now that we’re done with all the living characters and their dynamics let’s get to the crux of the film …
Velvet Buzzsaw: Who is the artist Vetril Dease?
Okay, so first off, Dease is not an artist. When he was a child, he lived in a low-income home with his parents and sister. After a few years, he and his father are listed as the only survivors of a suspicious fire which swept their house. As a child, he was abused by his father and hence grows up in an orphanage. After that, he was drafted in the army for two years. Finally, he snapped and went hunting for his father, found him, and tortured him to death. After that Dease was taken to a psychiatric hospital for the criminally insane. Now this place ended up using him for medical experiments for 20 years – injections, shocks, and God knows what else. The courts eventually closed the hospital and Dease was finally released. After that Dease lived off the grid working the veterans home where he allegedly killed his supervisor for being rude to him.
Now, as you can see, Dease is not really the artistic type. However, he pours all of his vengeance and hatred into artwork using his own blood for that perfect shade of red. What Dease creates is a set of paintings dripping with retribution. I believe what he created was so evil, that he realizes that this is probably pretty bad for the world. Dease sets up an instruction in his house that these paintings need to be destroyed. He even tries to burn some of them. I believe that his own art takes his life. It’s like a really messed up person transferring all of his evil into a set of paintings and the dude left behind is killed off by that very evil.
Dease’s paintings are found, everyone wants a piece
Josephina finds Dease
Dease cat leads Josephina to his house after his death, and she finds all of his paintings which she takes. She shows them to Morf who is “ensorcelled” by the work.
Bryson wants to steal Dease
Bryson finds some of the paintings at Josephina’s desk. He presses her to give up where she got the art. When she doesn’t yield, Bryson tells on her (to Rhodora). Bryson has an eye on those paintings and wants to get his hands on a few.
Rhodora wants to sell Dease
Rhodora shows up at Josephina’s house threatening her to give up the artist and the source of the artwork. The two of them shake hands on selling it and getting rich. Rhodora is now planning to hide a set of Dease’s painting and sell the rest, this way she can increase the demand and hence the price. She asks Bryson transport it but doesn’t tell him what’s in the boxes.
Morf wants to write Dease
Morf uses fancy phrases like “a metamorphosis of spirit into reality” with no clue what’s in store for him, but finally says he wants the rights to the book and a part of the artwork for him to cash out on it. Later, Morf uses his power to give a terrible review of Josephina’s ex-boyfriend’s (Ricky) work because she asks. As a result, Ricky gets drunk and crashes his car and goes into a coma. Morf also begins doing research on Dease’s life for his book. He finds out from forensics that the paintings have actual blood in them.
Gretchen wants to buy Dease
Gretchen tells Rhodora about her new client and makes a deal with her to buy some Damrish’s work and then a few Dease. She arm-twists her ex-museum folks to showcase the art owned by her new employer. She promises them Dease’s work but in return wants the showcase to be immediate and also wants them to display the Sphere.
Jon Dondon wants to diminish Dease
Jon Dondon, who now represents Piers, goes to meet him. Right here we are shown Jon quick to stop and admire a bunch of garbage bags assuming it’s artwork. Jon is as bad as middle-men come, they sell art and artists in the worst possible fashion. I think this alone warrants a death by Dease. He ends up hiring Coco because she has insights into who have purchased Dease’s work. Jon hires someone to collect background information on Dease. His move is to release that to the press to diminish the value of the paintings.
Josephina has been working with Rhodora to sell Dease’s artwork. She is done seeing Morf and moves on to Damrish who she fancies for the sake of his artwork and the money she can make out of that. Also, a booty call wouldn’t be too bad, she feels.
Velvet Buzzsaw: Deaths
Dease’s art has the power to create illusions and animate items from the painting and the real world to perform the fatalities.
Bryson gets taken by grease monkeys
As promised, Bryson is the first to go. He suspects the contents of the boxes he’s been asked to transport and has a peek. Bryson finds Dease’s work and steals a few for himself. The cigarette ash sets the painting on fire and he crashes into an abandoned gas station. Now, this gas station might be real, but the art inside with the monkeys just shows up from nowhere. After that, the monkeys come to life and attack Bryson. We aren’t shown, but I believe he’s sucked into the painting to become art for life.
Rhodora assumes Bryson has run away with the paintings.
Jon Dondon gets tied up
The night before Jon plans to go to press, the projector in his office comes on, and we see a few frames of Dease’s face. Jon’s surroundings change and is locked inside the area which was otherwise open moments ago. As he’s drawn to a flickering bulb a hand shows up from nowhere and hangs Jon to death by his tie. Coco, poor Coco, finds her new employer’s dead body the next morning.
She moves on to work with Gretchen. Piers has a talk with Rhodora after this, and she offers him her beach house so he can get away from the art world and remove his creative block. He takes the offer. This is actually sweet of her but is minuscule in comparison to her greed.
Gretchen, it costs her an arm
The night before her client’s art display, Gretchen is prancing about the museum and decides to try out the sphere. We can see the eyes coming to life in Dease’s paintings. In a display of lights, screams and fine blood mists, Gretchen’s hand is severed right off. She falls to the floor and bleeds to death. What’s more, the next day the exhibition opens and people think her blood and body are part of the showcase. Children start stomping on her blood until Coco shows up, poor Coco. She howls her lungs out seeing the bloody sight.
Josephina calls Rhodora to tell her the news about Gretchen. But she’s also excited to say how Dease’s artwork was being mobbed, and it’s a massive hit. After that, she bangs Damrish and dumps Morf. Morf goes to a sound exhibit to critique it. When in the soundproof room, he begins to hear all of his negative career-ending reviews he’s jammed upon artists. He goes to Rhodora and tells her that the paintings are cursed and all the deaths are connected to them, and pleads to not sell them. He says that he’s going to be publishing an article explaining Dease’s painting methods and the related deaths, and also asks Josephina to stop selling Dease. They don’t listen to Morf.
Josephina becomes street art
Damrish and Josephina head out to a pub, and he tells her that he’ll be leaving Rhodora to go back to his underground art movement. He is faithful to art and doesn’t want to involve himself in high society art exhibitions. Josephina leaves but notices her car is trapped in the parking lot; she calls for a tow-truck. Her phone hangs with one of Dease’s art. The area behind her turns into a gallery. She’s drawn towards it and enters. When inside, her phone resumes working and she calls Rhodora to tell her about Damrish while not noticing that the paint from all the paintings around her are making their way to her. The different colours enter her, and soon she becomes part of a graffiti on the wall.
Morf gets to do the twist
Morf hires Coco to catalog a few things. At his storage facility, Morf is visited by none other than Hoboman, the artwork that collects dust thanks to his spiteful review. Morf understands that he’s been merely shooting out a barrage of adjectives as an excuse for art reviews. He understands how his being so full of himself kills good art. He understands that his greed suppresses good artists from shining. But Hoboman doesn’t care, it’s not about the critic Morf intends to become, it’s the critic he has been so far. In a swift crack, Hoboman snaps Morf’s neck and kills him. Next morning Coco shows up, poor Coco.
Rhodora goes through the grind
Rhodora is finally beginning to get affected by one of the paintings of Dease in her house. She takes it down. She has a narrow miss and just escapes a falling artwork. Next morning she learns about Morf and is convinced that the paintings are evil. She has her house cleared of all artwork and basks in the sun feeling free of the evil only to become the exact scene of the Dease’s painting she took down. The velvet buzzsaw on her shoulder begins to spin and grinds right through her, killing her.
That about concludes most of the kills that Dease has for the ruthless folk who try to benefit from his art. In a nutshell, in life or death, Dease kills people who abuse their position of power. His father was an adult abusing a child. His boss was a supervisor using his power to abuse Dease. The people we see die in the art world are all ones with power, misusing it to abuse good art. Which brings us to that very end.
Velvet Buzzsaw Ending Explained
Damrish is safe
He loathes the high society art culture and the general abuse of artists. That’s why he goes back to his underground art movement. Which also ensures that he’ll get to keep his life.
Piers is at the beach
He ends up being far from all of the Dease fiasco and is in Rhodora’s beach house. Piers is free and is enjoying drawing curves on the sands by the beach, and he is engaged in the moment. Piers doesn’t care for the outcome, he doesn’t care that the waves are washing his lines away. He understands that art is transient and is apparently finding himself. He too gets to keep his life.
I’m in love with the Coco
Poor Coco, she loses it after finding the dead bodies of all her bosses. She doesn’t die because she’s only been part of the Dease’s artwork indirectly. Importantly, she’s not abused anyone or anything. So she’s safe for the moment.
Coco has had it with all the dead bodies, she’s leaving town. Just then she sees a street side sale of the artwork of Dease that was in Bryson’s truck. Someone has found it and is selling it for a mere $5. Are the sellers and buyers all going to die? Well, it all depends on the intention. If anyone in contact with the art has been abusive, they are going to die. The first buyer seems genuinely interested in the art and purchases it.
In a small but sure way, Dease has helped to make it a better world.
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The Origin of Wildfires and How They Are Caused
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Steve Nix is a natural resources consultant and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. He is a member of the Society of American Foresters.
It is interesting to note that, of the four billion years of earth's existence, conditions were not conducive for spontaneous wildfire until the last 400 million years. A naturally-occurring atmospheric fire did not have the chemical elements available until major several earth changes occurred.
The earliest life forms emerged without needing oxygen (anaerobic organisms) to live about 3.5 billion years ago and lived in a carbon dioxide based atmosphere. Life forms that needed oxygen in small amounts (aerobic) came much later in the form of photosynthesizing blue-green algae and ultimately changed the earth's atmospheric balance toward oxygen and away from carbon dioxide (co2).
Photosynthesis increasingly dominated earth's biology by initially creating and continuously increasing the earth's percentage of oxygen in the air. Green plant growth then exploded and aerobic respiration became the biologic catalyst for terrestrial life. Around 600 million years ago and during the Paleozoic, conditions for natural combustion started developing with increasing speed.
Wildfire Chemistry
Fire needs fuel, oxygen, and heat to ignite and spread. Wherever forests grow, the fuel for forest fires is provided mainly by continued biomass production along with the resulting fuel load of that vegetative growth. Oxygen is created in abundance by the photosynthesizing process of living green organisms so it is all around us in the air. All that is needed then is a source of heat to provide the exact chemistry combinations for a flame.
When these natural combustibles (in the form of wood, leaves, brush) reach 572º, gas in the steam given off reacts with oxygen to reach its flash point with a burst of flame. This flame then preheats surrounding fuels. In turn, other fuels heat up and the fire grows and spreads. If this spreading process is not controlled, you have a wildfire or uncontrolled forest fire.
Depending on the geographic condition of the site and the vegetative fuels present, you might call these brush fires, forest fires, sage field fires, grass fires, woods fires, peat fires, bush fires, wildland fires, or veld fires.
How Do Forest Fires Start?
Naturally caused forest fires are usually started by dry lightning where little to no rain accompanies a stormy weather disturbance. Lightning randomly strikes the earth an average of 100 times each second or 3 billion times every year and has caused some of the most notable wildland fire disasters in the western United States.
Most lightning strikes occur in the North American southeast and southwest. Because they often occur in isolated locations with limited access, lightning fires burn more acres than human-caused starts. The average 10-year total of U.S. wildfire acres burned and caused by humans is 1.9 million acres where 2.1 million acres burned are lightning-caused.
Still, human fire activity is the primary cause of wildfires, with nearly ten times the start rate of natural starts. Most of these human-caused fires are accidental, usually caused by carelessness or inattention by campers, hikers, or others traveling through wildland or by debris and garbage burners. Some are intentionally set by arsonists.
Some human-caused fires are started to reduce heavy fuel buildup and used as a forest management tool. This is called a controlled or prescribed burn and used for wildfire fire fuel reduction, wildlife habitat enhancement, and debris clearing. They are not included in the above statistics and ultimately reduce wildfire numbers by reducing conditions that contribute to wildfire and forest fires.
How Does Wildland Fire Spread?
The three primary classes of wildland fires are surface, crown, and ground fires. Each classification intensity depends on the quantity and types of fuels involved and their moisture content. These conditions have an effect on fire intensity and will determine how fast the fire will spread.
Surface fires typically burn readily but at a low intensity and partially consume the entire fuel layer while presenting little danger to mature trees and root systems. Fuel buildup over many years will increase intensity and especially when associated with drought, can become a rapidly spreading ground fire. Regular controlled fire or prescribed burning effectively reduces the fuel buildup leading to a damaging ground fire.
Crown fires generally result from intense rising ground fire heat and occur in the higher sections of draping trees. The resulting "ladder effect" causes hot surface or ground fires to climb the fuels into the canopy. This can increase the chance for embers to blow and branches to fall into unburned areas and increase the spread the fire.
Ground fires are the most infrequent type of fire but make for very intense blazes that can potentially destroy all vegetation and organic manner, leaving only bare earth. These largest fires actually create their own winds and weather, increasing the flow of oxygen and "feeding" the fire.
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About Aurangabad
Aurangabad, named after the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb is a tourist hub with so many historical monuments. The city lies along the banks of river Kham and is one of the fastest growing cities in the world. The famous caves of Ajanta and Ellora are situated here which have been recognized by UNESCO as the world heritage sites. Other tourist attractions include the various museums which house the art treasures of the region.
Budget Hotels in Aurangabad
Being one of the major tourist destinations of the region, Aurangabad has a lot to offer when it comes to the provision of staying facilities. Hotel Janaki Executive is located at a distance of 5.2 Kms from the Aurangabad Railway Bus Stand on the Nagpur Aurangabad Mumbai Highway and costs a price range of around Rs. 2036. The Manor Hotel is situated at a pebble throw distance of 2.4 Kms from Aurangabad Railway Bus Stand on Bhanudas Sabhagarh Railway Station Road and the price is Rs. 1983 for the single night stay. Another place to stay is the Key Hotel which lies at a distance of 2Kms from Aurangabad Railway Bus Stand on Bhanudas Sabhagrah Railway Staion Road and charges a sum of Rs. 2961. The luxury hotel Taj residency is located at 8Kms from the Aurangabad Railway Bus Stand and costs a price of Rs. 5844. Hotel Classic is located quite nearby the Aurangabad Railway Bus Stand and costs just Rs. 832.
The main language spoken here is Ahirani which is similar to Marathi and Andh.
Events in Aurangabad
With so many festivals going throughout the year, Dussehra is celebratd in the month of September-October for a period of 10 days. Ganesh Chaturthi is an important festival with a celebration continuing for over 10 days. Another festival is the birth anniversary of Chhatrapati Shivaji and celebrated in the month of May with quite zeal.
Places to See in Aurangabad
The main tourist attractions are Bibi Ka Maqbara, lying at a distance of 6.5 Kms from Aurangabad Railway Bus Stand and Panchakki is placed at around 4 Kms from the same. The other place worth visiting is Aurangabad Caves which is placed at 8.9 from Aurangabad Bus Stand.
One can reach the town of Aurangabad by air easily with Aurangabad airport lying across.
The city of Aurangabad owns a railway station connecting all the major cities through train routes.
The Aurangabad Bus Stand provides quite an efficient bus service connecting and commuting the tourist passengers from all over the adjacent regions. Avail book bus online service offered by TicketGoose.com to get to Dausa without hassle. To get discounted bus tickets you will have to book your tickets in advance.
About Badnapur
Badnapur is a town as well as a tehsil located 25.3 km away from the Jalna district in the state of Maharashtra. On the civic infrastructure part, Badnapur is equipped with a post office, medical dispensary apart from educational facilities such as schools. Road and rail are the best modes of travel to Badnapur.
Badnapur is a small village and hence does not have many hotels nearby. However, local home stays are available. Few budget hotels such as Hotel Galaxy (Tariff - Rs. 500 onwards), Hotel Chandralok (Tariff - Rs. 500 onwards) are located in the nearby Jalna district.
The official language of Badnapur is Marathi. The alternative language spoken is Urdu.
Some of the major local festivals of Badnapur include Shivarathri (February), Holi (March), Ganesh Chaturthi (September), Navaratri (October), Dussehra (October), Deepavali (November).
Moti Talab (3 km away), Ganesh Temple (60 km away), Jamb Samarth (76 km away), Jalna Fort (77 km away) are some famous tourist spots situated in Jalna.
Chikkalthana Airport (31 km) in Aurangabad is the nearest airport to Badnapur.
Badnapur has a railway station that exists on the Manmad-Aurangabad-Hyderabad rail route.
Badnapur is well connected to some of the major cities of India thanks to its road connectivity to Aurangabad, Nagpur, Ahmednagar, Beed and Mumbai. Royal Travels, Saini Travels, Shree Khurana Travels, Dolphin Travels are few good bus operators connecting to Badnapur at affordable bus tariffs. Opt for online bus reservation through Ticketgoose.com and avail of a number of discounts
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When it comes to quality wineries, what is the most important factor for consumers? Vander Plaat Limos wants to help our clientele answer this question with ease.
Whether you are interested in a vineyard for its awards, amenities, or pleasing atmosphere, Vander Plaat’s wine tours are catered specifically to your group. This means that no matter the size or concerns of your party, we are able to provide a luxury wine tour that meets and exceeds your expectations. Vander Plaat Limo will arrange your party's reservations for and transportation to each winery.
In addition to the packaged wine tours we have available (link to tours on blog), the following vineyards and wineries each have their own ambience and atmosphere that we believe you would love to gather your friends and spend an afternoon exploring.
Alba Vineyards
For the overall winery experience, Alba Vineyards gets top billing.
Open since 1982, Alba is not only New Jersey’s largest vineyard, but it also just won the Winery of the Year for 2013. Just last year, wine critic Hugh Johnson included Alba in his prestigious Pocket Wine Book, calling it a “leading estate” of New Jersey. Likewise in 2013, American Wine: The Ultimate Companion to the Wines and Wineries of the United States, a book by international wine reviewers Jancis Robinson and Linda Murphy, claimed that Alba was a “superstar” of the East Coast.
Locals know these accolades are due to Alba’s excellence in service and quality products. Aggregated wine critic ratings show Alba as the number one ranked producer of red wine, predominantly for high scores on its 2011 Chambourcin and 2010 Heritage. The vineyard is also ranked number three for its white wine, including its award-winning 2012 Dry Riesling and 2012 Gewurztraminer.
Affordability is not an issue either, with wines starting at only $9 and tastings from $10. Reservations are not required for groups of five people or less. Private tours are allowed for groups of four or more people. These tours do require reservations, as you are given a guided tour through the vineyard and winery and allowed to taste each wine with an appetizer pairing. Guests who choose the private tours are also given an etched wine glass as a complimentary souvenir.
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Plagido's Winery
One is not able to compile a list of New Jersey’s finest vineyards without including Plagido’s Winery.
Although this winery is relatively young, having only been founded in 2007, Plagido’s has become a leading name in the industry. The winery has already won multiple awards, such as New Jersey Monthly’s Jersey Choice Top Wines 2012 and Excellence in Tourism 2012. Their wines are also just as noteworthy, with the Concetta's Casalinga 2014 and Cranberry 2014 earning Gold at the Finger Lakes International Wine Competition. Other honors include winning Double Gold and Best of Class at the San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition with their Cranberry 2011.
Wine critic Charlie Toms stated, “Unlike most of the state's wineries which do better with fruit wines and white wines, Plagido has mastered the reds.” Considering that Plagido’s is currently ranked number eight in New Jersey for its red wines, many must concur with Toms’ sentiment.
Other benefits of Plagido’s are their easy to remember schedule, open from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. every day, and reasonable prices, ranging from $9.99 to $34.99 per bottle. Reservations for Plagido’s wine tastings are not required. Furthermore, if you fall in love with their wines, you do not have to wait until you come back to the vineyard to enjoy their products. Case Club members receive four wines delivered to their homes three times a year. Membership also allows customers invites to exclusive events and the ability to purchase pre-released wines. The Case Club is free to join; members only have to pay for their wine shipments.
570 N. First Road
Hammonton, NJ 08037
Hawk Haven Vineyards
If a fun atmosphere is just as imperative to you as a good wine, look no further than Hawk Haven Vineyards.
In just five short years, the winery, started by married couple Todd and Kenna Wuerker, has grown exponentially. Hawk Haven now has 12 different varieties of wines, half red and half white, all grown on their 13 acres of vineyard on their 100 acres of land. Wanting to oversee every aspect of their business, the Wuerkers ensured that all phases of production, from harvesting to bottling, would be accomplished on site. This is one of many reasons that aggregate critic ratings have placed Hawk Haven as one of the top five producers of both red and white wines, number two and number five respectively.
Customers can do tastings for only $7. If you are looking to taste limited editions or something more exclusive from the winery, you should sample their Signature Series Collection, which often includes their Reserve Merlot, Reserve Chardonnay and other specialty wines in rotation.
For those who would like to learn more about the vineyard, tours are usually held every Saturday and Sunday at 1 p.m. for only $25, souvenir glass included. Starting June 28, tours will be provided daily. Reservations are required for the tour.
Wine tastings, however, only require a reservation if you have a group of six or more. It can grow crowded in the tasting room, especially on weekends. A group that size can take up an entire bar, so you will want to make arrangements ahead of time to accommodate your group.
This vineyard is open from 11 a.m.-7 p.m.during the summer, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. during the spring and fall and 12-5 p.m.during the winter.
During the summer, guests can enjoy Sangria Sundays, which includes live music and food from local vendors. Similarly, from May 24 through October 26, Hawk Haven hosts Saturdays on the Crushpad. This event allows visitors to try the vineyard’s latest wines while listening to local songwriters. They provide wine by the glass, bottle and wine flights. For help soaking up the wine, the Crespella Gourmet Creperie cart serves up sweet & savory crepes on Saturday and Sunday.
600 South Railroad Avenue
Rio Grande NJ 08242
Auburn Road Vineyards
Connoisseurs of food and wine alike will relish Friday nights at Auburn Road Vineyards.
The award-winning estate, ranked No.1 in the state for its white wines, has paired with local restaurant Severino’s to host the popular series What’s for Dinner Friday. At these events, guests are provided with a five-course food and wine tasting for only $29.99. Some of the sampled wines include the World Wine Championships Silver Medal winning Classico 2011 and the 2013 BTI Northeast Regional Review’s Best New Jersey White Wine and Gold Medal winning White Bottle 2012.
Another special feature at Auburn Road is the Enoteca, their European style wine bar, which boasts house specialties like the tomato bruschetta and homemade gelato. The Vineyard Stage is housed inside Enoteca and hosts everything from open mic nights to theatrical performances. Wine tastings and tours are available daily, but reservations must be made in advance.
Tastings are $5 per person with all 14 varieties available for sampling. Visitors are also gifted an etched Auburn Road souvenir wine glass. Tours are $15 and include a discussion with the winemakers and selection of Enoteca’s artisan breads and cheeses, as well as the above mentioned amenities.
117 Sharptown-Auburn Road
Pilesgrove, NJ 08098
856.769.WINE (9463)
Cape May Winery And Vineyard
For the past 20 years, Cape May Winery and Vineyard has been a competitor on both the state and national levels.
Ranked by critics in the New Jersey top ten for both its red and white wines, this winery possesses awards as the 2012 Governor’s Cup (Isaac Smith Port) and the 2013 Gold Medal in the Finger Lakes International Wine Competition.
Every Wednesday during the summer, Cape May holds Grill Night. This event costs between $32-$36 and features buffet items such as mahi-mahi and organic flatiron steak paired with a vineyard specialty. Each dinner’s menu is different and reservations are required. Likewise, First Friday is a special event held every month featuring happy hour drink specials from 3-6 p.m.
Other benefits of visiting include a self-guided vineyard walk and deck venture; the latter being a popular destination for picnickers. The Six for Six tasting, in which guests receive six wines from Cape May’s current menu for just $6, is available from 12-6 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and open until 7 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. Cape May souvenir glasses are provided free of charge and reservations are required for parties of eight or more.
711 Townbank Road
Natali Vineyards
Is there anything better than free?
Natali Vineyards hosts free events all during the summer starting in June. Wine it Down Wednesdays, from 4-9 p.m., brings local food vendors and craft artisans to the vineyard along with live music and games. This family and pet friendly series encourages guests to pack a picnic and come watch the sunset. Music in the Vines Monday, also from 4-9 p.m., is a set of music centered community events, where you can try wine slushies while playing bocce ball, horseshoes, and baggo. Natali does not need any supplemental entertainment to keep the customers coming though.
Renowned for its fruit wines, the winery is the only one in the state to cultivate plum and banana wine. Even more impressive is the fact that Natali is the only vineyard in the world to use beach plums (Prunus Maritime) in wine. Customers can try these varieties and more in the “5 for 5,” which includes five wine samples for $5. Bottles are affordable as well, with prices starting from $14. Tours of the grounds are available for $10; reservations are not required, but are recommended.
221 North Delsea Drive (North Route 47)
Cape May Courthouse, NJ 08210
A New Jersey leader in both red and white wine production for the past twenty years, Unionville Vineyards is a must for wine aficionados and novices alike.
Critical acclaim is in great due to winemaker Vintner Cameron Stark, who worked as an apprentice in Napa Valley while studying at UC Davis to perfect his art. Principal wines include the Vat 18 Port, a 2013 Gold Medal & Governor's Cup Winner, and the 2012 Pheasant Hill Chardonnay, a Gold Medal winner at the San Diego Sommelier Challenge and the Beverage Tasting Institute. Tastings are available from 12-5 p.m., seven days a week. Guests pay $10 to sample eight of Unionville’s signature wines, no reservations necessary.
Unionville is also known for fun community oriented events, such as its annual Sunset Lobster Bake. The dinner is $88 per person and features catered food from Tiger’s Tale and live music from Acoustic Road.
9 Rocktown Rd
Ringoes, NJ 08551
Amalthea Cellars
Inspired by his Italian immigrant grandfather, Louis Caracciolo made the decision to found Amalthea Cellars more than 30 years ago. Critics and wine lovers alike appreciate Caracciolo’s carefully crafted wines.
Amalthea’s red varieties are even ranked fifth in the state by aggregate critic ratings. Also, with bottles priced from $12.99, anyone can enjoy these quality wines. Amalthea Cellars is so confident in their products that they even offer a complimentary flight tasting, one of four different tasting packages. In the complimentary flight, guests can try up to six house dry or house semi-dry wines. The VIP flight, which can be from 12-16 wines and totals $11 per person, allows the customer to add the Reserve & Legends Edition wines for just $6. The $8 Platinum option includes new releases, while the Special Value flight allows visitors to try all wines on site.
For group wine tours, you will want to reserve seven days in advance to allow the 'taster' to prepare the selected tasting your group chooses. They will, however, try to work with groups that provide less notice.
Reservations are not required for parties of less than 15 people. However, there is a limo policy that requires all passengers to pay a $5 fee, but this fee provides said passengers with their choice of house dry flight (six to seven wines) or house semi-sweet flight (five to six wines). Amalthea is also known for outdoor events, such as their recurring “The Mysteries of The Green Dragon Tavern.” This activity includes bonfires, live music, a wine garden, and an antipasto bar for only $15.
Adventurous wine aficionados should check out Amalthea Cellar’s annual Run the Vineyards 5K and 10K. The run, arranged around the vineyard, costs between $40-$45 and participants receive a t-shirt and wine tasting.
209 Vineyard Road
Renault Winery
Renault Winery is most famous for being the oldest vineyard in the state of New Jersey.
Founded in 1864, this winery features many amenities that help Renault to stay fresh amid the architecture and old-world elegance of their facilities. Among their facilities, Renault has its own golf course, in which you can play for just $40 every day after 4 p.m.
The grounds also boast two renowned restaurants, Renault Gourmet and Joseph’s Restaurant. Renault Gourmet features a $23.95 Sunday brunch option, which won this year’s Open Table Diner’s Choice award. They also offer a three course dinner with wine selection for $32 per person. Joseph’s Restaurant is also a local favorite, serving everything from seafood to burgers for over ten years.
Renault also hosts many community events, such as the annual Renault Summer Wine Fiesta. This free outdoor event features traditional Spanish fare and alcoholic beverages; Corona and margaritas are provided, along with their signature wines. Another special happening this year is Renault’s 150th Anniversary Celebration Gala on July 18. For $150 per couple, guests will enjoy a cocktail reception with open bar and a multi-course dinner with filet mignon and butter poached Maine lobster.
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On Tuesday, I’ll be joining three other lady scribes in the release of a new Regency anthology, A GENTLEMAN FOR ALL SEASONS. Shana Galen, Kate Noble, Theresa Romain, and I have all penned four new full-length novellas set in the lovely village of Hemshawe. The anthology has a holiday twist, too. The four couples featured in the interconnected stories play out their courtships against the backdrop of seasonal festivities, both in Hemshawe and at a stately country manor nearby.
My novella is called The Season for Loving, and it’s a Regency Christmas story to wrap up the anthology. It was really fun to work on this joint project, weaving the romantic tales of four separate couples into a holiday extravaganza.
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A Flying Saucer Discovered By Russian Coal Miner
Tripzibit November 15, 2019 Coal Mine, Flying Saucer, Outer Space Connection, Russia, Siberia, UFO
Four years ago, Russian coal miners claim to have discovered a bizarre flying saucer while completing excavation work in Siberia’s Kuznetsk Basin, Russia. Almost perfectly circular in shape with a diameter of 1.2 metres and weighing roughly 200kg, the unusual object was found hidden 40 metres underground. Given the position of the finding, it is suggested the object may be older than mammoth bones, which have been discovered in the same location at a depth of 25 metres.
Boris Glazkov, 40, the excavator who found the object, said it stood out because of its distinctive shape and size.
According to UFOlogist Scott Waring, who runs the website ETDatabase.com, he is confident that he has stumbled upon what he believes to be a UFO drone ship or smaller spacecraft that are said to be used by the larger mothership to scout areas to explore.
In the report, Waring pointed out that he has evidence of these drones being used before and cited photos and videos that show baseball-size orbs rotating around unidentified aircraft and acting as a protective shield.
“Many such UFO disks have been found around the world, always heavy and appear to be made of stone.
“However I do not believe it really is stone, but a condensed nanorobotis micro material that strengthens the UFO-like stone, but actually is a complex network.
“I believe if we looked at its material under an electron microscope, we would find evidence of micro alien tech.”
https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/two-men-have-discovered-a-ufo-found-in-russian-coal-mine/news-story/53e5827cf7060ab8105c60f9d32ccbb4
https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/1175842/ufo-sighting-alien-flying-saucer-buried-russia-today-coal-miners
https://www.ibtimes.com/ufo-discovered-underground-russian-coal-mine-expert-claims-2821709
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Home » NEWS » UP civil engineering students’ environmentally friendly concrete wins championship in international competition in Quebec, Canada
UP civil engineering students’ environmentally friendly concrete wins championship in international competition in Quebec, Canada
April 4, 2019 | Posted by UP Media and Public Relations Office
UP Civil Engineering students raised the Philippine flag high as they were awarded first place in the Eco-Concrete Competition. L-R: Engr. Froilan Martillano (ACI Philippines director); Engr. Justin Seranilla (coach); student winners, Angelica Anne Munar, Alexis Declaro, Ryan Ramelo and Paulo Santos; Engr. Christian Orozco (coach and ACI Philippines vice president); Engr. Ramon Allado (ACI Philippines president)
Students from the Institute of Civil Engineering, University of the Philippines Diliman won the championship in the Eco-concrete Competition at the American Concrete Institute (ACI) Spring 2019 Convention in Quebec, Canada. The students used locally abundant Diliman tuff as partial replacement to cement and waste glass in making an environmentally friendly concrete. The students won over schools from North and South America, Europe and Asia.
The students were: Angelica Anne Munar, Ryan Ramelo, Paulo Santos and Alexis Declaro. They were advised by Asst. Prof. Justin Jesse Limbo Seranilla and Asst. Prof. Christian Orozco. The delegation to Canada was led by ACI Philippines Chapter President Ramon Allado joined by ACIP Director Froilan R. Martillano.
About the competition: The eco-concrete competition aims to promote the idea of environmental performance in concrete mix design as an important aspect of sustainability. Teams thus have the mission to develop an innovative concrete mixture, which will have the lowest possible environmental impacts while maintaining optimal mechanical and durability performances.
About ACI: the American Concrete Institute is a leading authority and resource worldwide for the development, dissemination, and adoption of its consensus-based standards, technical resources, educational & training programs, certification programs, and proven expertise for individuals and organizations involved in concrete design, construction, and materials. These share a commitment to pursuing the best use of concrete.
UP Diliman’s environmentally friendly concrete
About the Concrete Invention from UP Diliman: Rapid global urbanization boosts the demand for concrete at an unprecedented rate. This means that the environmental footprint of concrete production can no longer be ignored. The conventional concrete mix, which consists only of cement, gravel, sand, and water, must be revisited to achieve environmental sustainability in the decision-making process. This study compares a base-case scenario (BCS) concrete mixture consisting of gravel, sand, water, and Portland cement, with an alternative-case scenario (ACS) concrete mixture composed of recycled, co-product, and locally sourced raw materials that replaced conventional concrete materials. An average improvement of 23.9% was observed in the environmental performance of concrete using five parameters, namely, global warming, carcinogenic impact, ozone depletion, ecotoxicity, and fossil fuel depletion. Concrete testing after 14 days of curing showed a compressive strength equal to 41.30 and 32.40 MPa for the BCS, and ACS, respectively. The BCS and ACS, after 14 days of curing, had a resistivity of 3.52 and 18.41 kΩ-cm. This study shows that an environmentally friendly, yet strong and durable concrete can be produced.
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Udaipur – Land of Minerals
Udaipur is a well known name famous for its Lakes, Palaces, Architecture, Temples, Natural beauty, Eco trails, Romantic evenings and its Golden History. But it’s a place lot more famous around the world not just for it’s beauty but also as place endowed with natural minerals.
Udaipur being Major Tourist Hub of the Country is also a Commercial Hub of the world with handicrafts and marble mining and processing as important occupation of people. Nature has endowed Udaipur with natural minerals. Our city tops in mining of natural minerals listed below:
Talc (soapstone)
Wollastonite
Pyrophyllite & Sillimanite
Marble Industry:
Udaipur stands 1st in the world for mining and processing of white marble. It is the Asia’s largest market for white, green, pink and other marble. All these marble’s are exclusively mined, processed and exported around the World. Udaipur and Rajasthan comes first in marble mining and tops the list in this segment in the country. The marble industry is well set and established over hear with proper infrastructure and technological support for mining and processing. It is the largest sector giving employment to many people of the city and those immigrants from small villages. The business is very vast; the mines and processing units are extended in the adjoining areas namely Sukher, Rajsamand, Rajnagar, Kesrayaji, Chittor , Kishangarh etc. In total there are approximately 5,000 small and big units working in field of mining, processing, exporting and trading of marble.
The marble being produced is sold in all the states and across borders with R.K marble as largest producer of marble in the world with 60,000 square meter per day has earned the company a place in Guinness Book of World Records.
Though mining was once banned in the Aravalli region but the association of so many people with this industry as an employment agent cannot be denied and government had to cancel their order because of this.
Zinc:
The only company producing zinc is Hindustan Zinc. Formerly it was managed and run by Government of India and is now a part of big public company called Vedanta Group. Their Head offices are located amidst the city and the plants or projects run in outskirts of the city. It is one of the Largest producer of Zinc in the Country which accounts to 7,54,000 Tonnes P.A. It’s a Big organization and provides employment to hundreds of people. Their mines operate in Dariba near Udaipur where the Products Zinc Concentrate and Lead Concentrate which has a Ore product capacity 0.30 milion tonnes per annum.
Rock Phosphate:
Rock phosphate is another such mineral been mined and processed by RSMML. The major activity of RSMML is the mining of Rock phosphate ore. It operates one of the largest and fully mechanised mines in the country at Jhamarkotra, 26 Kms. from Udaipur.
In India the economy being predominantly based on agriculture, the fertilizer production plays a pivotal role. Only about 35% to 40% of the requirement of raw material for phosphatic fertilizer production are being met through indigenous sources and the rest is met through import in the form of rock phosphate, phosphoric acid & direct fertilizers. In such a situation Jhamarkotra plays an important role by contributing 98% of rock phosphate production of India.
White Industrial Minerals:
The minerals Talc , Dolomite, Calcite, China Clay are of same category, composition and use and mainly used as fillers, strengthening agents , whiteners for manufacturing in paints , plastics , paper , detergents , cosmetics etc. These minerals come under the category of white industrial minerals. These minerals are mined in neighboring villages and been processed into fine powder to be used for industrial purposes all around the world. The demand for these minerals is very high all around the world with high consumptions from Europe and Middle East nations. Udaipur is the lead producer of these minerals Wolkem India is a leading name in the mining and processing of Calcite and Wallastonite across the World and Golcha Group is the top name when someone thinks about Soapstone (Talc). Whereas Shri Kailash Khanij Udhyog is the only miner and producer of mineral Pyrophyllite and Sillimanite in this region. Both these minerals are widely used in refractories and other industrial applications around the World.
Mewar Industrial Area in Udaipur is full of Grinding Units these Minerals and New Industrial Areas are developed to accommodate the growth of these Industries. Around 500 units are involved into Mining, Grinding and Processing of these Minerals in and around Udaipur city.
Impact on Nature and Societal Perspective:
Mining and Mineral Industries are also a cause to natural hazard, degrading land resources and natural surroundings. Although mining in Aravalli range has been banned but illegal mining is still going on in these regions and causing problems to natural surroundings. But these industries are so prominent as they give employment to a lot of people, the benefits arising out of them cannot be ignored too. So many people from all economic strata are associated with these industries and if the industry is banned and shut down then surely too much of unemployment, which the state cannot afford. As long as it keeps on giving employment to people the industry will survive and so do the people.
UdaipurBlog team is Thankful to Mr. Ashok Chohan of Shri Kailash Khanij Udhyog for his Valuable insights About the Mineral Industry.
Author Sanjit ChohanPosted on June 5, 2010 April 20, 2013 Categories Featured, Udaipur SpeaksTags Aravalli, Chittor, degrading land resources, dolomite, impact of minerals, Kesrayaji, Kishangarh, Land of Minerals, marble, marble udaipur, mewar industrai area, minerals, mining, natural hazard, Rajnagar, rajsamand, Sukher, talc, Udaipur Speaks, vedanta, zinc udaipur7 Comments on Udaipur – Land of Minerals
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Fury Within, formed in February of 2007, is a punk band from Hackettstown, New Jersey. They started as a four man band, with members that have been long-time friends all coming together from various other local bands.
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The band would like to thank everyone for their constant support and encouragement! "We are grateful for all the friends and fans who have always been there for us, come to the shows and support us! Shout out to the many bands (big and small) we have shared stages with over the years, there is just too many to name. We'll catch up with you at the bar." - Fury Within.
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Okanagan College is helping students withcosts by offereing free access to online textbooks. (Stock Photo).
Okanagan College professors introduce e-textbooks to ease student costs
Okanagan College ranks sixth in the province for open textbook adoption.
Morning Star Staff
An online solution to lower post-secondary students’ costs is spreading at Okanagan College.
Professors are helping to turn a new page in the rising costs of post-secondary education by giving students free access to online textbooks. Open Educational Resources — also known as OER — are high-quality resources, often in the form of open textbooks, are available in digital formats and at a very low cost to print.
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The latest provincial statistics show Okanagan College ranks sixth in the province for open textbook adoption. By fall 2018, the College reported 147 courses that have adopted open textbooks, helping 2,875 students to save $437,212. These numbers are from 95 courses using online texts, impacting 1,673 students with savings of $248,522. Many professors have committed to continue using and expanding their use of online texts at each of the College’s campuses in Kelowna, Penticton, Vernon and Salmon Arm.
“It is fabulous to see initiatives like this become a reality,” said Andrew Hay, Okanagan College’s Vice President, Education. “Student success is of the utmost importance to Okanagan College and the combination of better student learning with reduced costs is most welcome.”
Okanagan School of Business Professor Michael Orwick is one of many professors at the College who has introduced online textbooks to his classes and he can already speak to the educational benefits.
“Generally, the first mid-term grades in the Intro to Marketing classes I teach average 57 to 61 per cent,” said Orwick. “This year, my first mid-term just averaged 73 per cent and I heard from students who said they felt the annotated textbook was a major reason for improved scores.”
Orwick has supplemented the text he is using – Principles of Marketing – with his own notes that provide students with additional insights into the subject matter.
“The textbook change for this class alone means a savings of $6,000 and every student is guaranteed to be able to get the textbook,” Orwick said. “There are four sections of this class running this term, so that adds up to $24,000 in savings just for this course. Next semester there may be 12 sections running which amounts to $72,000.”
The savings fit with the Province’s and the College’s agenda, as well as the Okanagan College Students’ Union, which presented to the Select Standing Committee on Finances and Government on Sept. 27 about the very issue.
“The high cost of textbooks has become a serious obstacle to accessing post-secondary education in B.C.,” said Jennifer Meyer, 2017-18 OCSU Board Member. “Textbook prices rose by 82 per cent between 2002 -2012 and now, typically cost more than $200 per book. For the many students and families already struggling to afford education and the cost of living, this unpredictable expense can be a huge burden, causing students to take on additional debt or work longer hours for their required books.”
OC student Andre Dominguez is enrolled in Orwick’s Marketing class and has experienced the financial help that comes with the advent of online textbooks.
“The e-textbook has been a real asset because I can access it anywhere I go, both on mobile or on my laptop, and the fact that it was free is extremely helpful,” said Dominguez. “Expenses accumulate for college and it takes a toll on your bank account which brings unwanted stress that affects your personal and academic life.”
E-texts bring serious savings while also offering a custom approach to teaching and learning. P
rofessors can annotate the online texts, leaving detailed notes, highlights, comments and provide specialized information. Students can choose to access the text online or can choose to have it printed from the College’s bookstore for just $20.
“It’s such an incredible bonus that my textbook is annotated by my professor,” said Dominguez.
“There is more retention when reading and I know I wouldn’t be doing as well as I am and learning as much if it wasn’t annotated. If every teacher had annotated textbooks, it would help students out very much.”
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Home/ Positive omens for VfL ahead of Frankfurt trip
Positive omens for VfL ahead of Frankfurt trip
The key facts and figures ahead of Sunday’s visit to the Commerzbank Arena.
The Wolves' Bundesliga Matchday 13 fixture away to Eintracht Frankfurt on Sunday (kick-off 18:00 CET) presents a tough task for head coach Bruno Labbadia's charges, with the hosts in outstanding form. The Eagles have won 19 of the last 21 points available to them, a haul matched only by league leaders Borussia Dortmund. Nevertheless, history is firmly on VfL's side going into this meeting.
Frankfurt's bogey team
The Green-Whites have won 16 of their 32 top-flight encounters with Frankfurt, drawing ten and losing six. Furthermore, VfL have only lost two of the last 11 against Sunday's hosts, most recently a 3-1 reverse at home on Matchday 19 last season. As such, the Wolves have won an average of 1.81 points per game in this fixture, a tally higher than against any other Bundesliga team they have faced at least four times.
Gerhardt set for milestone
Yannick Gerhardt will make his 100th Bundesliga appearance if he takes to the field this weekend. The midfielder, who helped Germany lift the Under-21 European Championship in 2017, made 45 top-flight outings for 1. FC Köln and has so far chalked up 54 for VfL. He has registered 12 assists – five for Köln and seven for the Wolves – and scored four, netting his only goal for Wolfsburg to date in a 3-1 victory over SC Freiburg last season.
Frankfurt head coach Adi Hütter was full of praise for VfL's defence in his pre-match press conference and is aware his side will have their work cut out to find a breakthrough: "VfL don't concede many goals and are among the best teams in the league in terms of tackles won and distance covered. As a result it won't be easy to break them down."
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Applicants of first Express Entry draw will get Permanent Residency within three months
Reforms made to Canada’s economic immigration process are yielding successful results in choosing people and offering them permanent residency status at a faster pace. After the launch of Express Entry, the Citizenship and Immigration Minister of Canada, Chris Alexander invited three of the first Express Entry candidates to become permanent residents.
CIC has stated in a press release that the first three applicants to obtain permanent resident status were Irish and two Chinese citizens all of whom are currently working in skilled occupations in Ontario.
On 31 January 2015, Canada has conducted Express Entry first draw has sent 779 invitations to apply for permanent residency. CIC has conducted seven such draws till date. Although CIC confirmed that most applicants under the Express Entry system will be processed within six months. Apparently, the number of applicants who have filed a complete application after being invited will be given permanent residency within few weeks. Notably, 6,851 Express Entry candidates have obtained an initiation to apply for Canadian permanent residency.
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Home/All News/Pedestrian Dies After Being Hit By Intoxicated Driver
Pedestrian Dies After Being Hit By Intoxicated Driver
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APPLE VALLEY-(vvng.com): On Sunday, December 14th at approximately 7:55 pm a 22 year-old female Apple Valley resident was walking on the outer roadway of Bear Valley Road and Mohawk next to her brother, who was on his bike. The female, who was heading westbound was struck by a driver who was also heading westbound on south outer Bear Valley Road in his 2004 Silver GMC truck. The male on the bicycle was not injured.
The female victim, Jillian Dean. sustained life-threatening injuries and was airlifted to Arrowhead Regional Hospital where she died of her injuries at 10:04 pm. The brother of the victim later left the scene on his bike according to the Apple Valley Sheriff’s Public Information Officer, Trish Hill. The driver, 29-year-old Apple Valley resident, Bryan Angell was arrested for driving under the influence.
The collision is currently under investigation by the Major Accident Investigation Team (MAIT). Anyone with information is encouraged to contact Deputy William Gibbons at 760-240-7400.
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my little stage diva
you guys, it was an extra awesome week for this proud mama wan. a couple of weeks ago, the bean had excitedly brought home a flyer from school that she couldn't wait to show me - it was a permission form for the second annual talent show. after last year's showcase, i'd talked her into signing up and showing off some hula, and she was all psyched up for it.
and then at one of her regular classes, we managed to talk her instructor into coming to the show to accompany her on the ipu. so way better than recorded music, amirite?
there was an "audition," during which the kids got to perform their number for a handful of school staffers behind closed doors. she emerged triumphantly with her "golden ticket" in hand...of course. M
earlier this week we attended a mandatory rehearsal, during which the kids got to run through their acts up on stage and get a feel for how the performance would go. she was introduced as "quite a unique act," and amongst the singers and gymnasts and other dancers, i suppose she was exactly that.
the big show was last night. we spent a bit of time working on her hair and a little lip stain, which was all the primping i was able to get away with. she really really really really really really really really really really really hates hair and makeup.
but as always, once we arrived and she got to hang out with her friends and accepted a ton of compliments on her costume and everything, she was all smiles. i don't know where she gets it.
she performed about 3/4 of the way into the show. the kids were all so much fun to watch, and then it was her turn. she got up there and struck her pose and i was totally beaming with pride as she began. her instructor was singing live and playing the ipu, and it all just came together so beautifully.
afterwards, she joined the rest of the performers onstage for a group photo.
and of course, she happily posed with us too.
she's already talking about what she might do for next year's show. she loves the stage. i definitely don't know where that comes from.
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amor October 9, 2015 at 9:35:00 AM PDT
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The Best Reactions to the Demand for a #HeterosexualPrideDay
Jun 29, 2016 at 2:00 pm | By Aaron Daniels
When every day is Pride Day.
LGBT Pride Month hasn’t even come to a close, and, yet, the world’s gender majority is already trying to take it away from the people who so joyously and solemnly celebrated it.
Marked by tragedy at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub and the victorious aftereffects such as the inception of Gays Against Guns, this has been a Pride Month to remember. Sadly, a new trending topic on Twitter wants people to forget how far the gay community has come, simultaneously showing us how far there is left to go.
What started perhaps as a tongue-in-cheek movement has led to both a humorous and upsetting display of ideology and logic on both sides of the argument that is now ensuing on social media, where June 29th is being hailed as Heterosexual Pride Day. But do straight people need their own holiday?
Source: Twitter @BlaineStewart
These are the best reactions we’ve seen.
Source: Twitter @_JackNForTweets
Here’s the guy who’s credited with starting the hashtag a few weeks ago. What may have been taken for sarcasm initially clearly has transformed into anger and misplaced victimization.
After all, it’s a tricky subject. Everybody on this planet should be proud of who they are, but the concept of pride–an acceptance of oneself, not to be mistaken with the deadly sin that so many consider it to be–comes from a place of needing to remind others that even the most persecuted of minorities have dignity. Yes, majorities should be proud of their identity, but in a world made to suit their every need and push them to the top, having parades and holidays to celebrate their social superiority seems a little, well, pointless.
Nothing to Be Proud Of
Source: Twitter @samwhiteout
Social commentator Sam White perfectly captures how privilege often involves victimizing oneself and that gay pride only comes from a place of having to defend their inherent dignity.
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Healthy Chicken
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BIRDS ON A MISSION Roasted to perfection and sourced of the most natural, freshest, and tastiest chicken, Healthy Chicken was created to bring healthy choices to food conscious eaters with little or no time to prep meals or cook healthy meals thro
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112 Pak Sha Wan, New Territories, Sai Kung, Hong Kong
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HEXA is a contemporary Chinese restaurant located in Ocean Terminal Extension 101, Ocean Terminal, Harbour City, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong. Launched on 7 November 2017, HEXA is a game changer of Hong Kong’s dining and entertainment scene. HEXA offer
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ho lee fook “good fortune for your mouth” is a funky Chinese kitchen inspired by old school Hong Kong Cha Chaan Tangs and the spirit of late-night Chinatown hangouts in 1960’s New York. Taiwanese-born chef Jowett Yu’s inventive approach to Ch
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Teens celebrate five years of flower deliveries to hospitals, nursing homes
Their mission: to bring smiles to patients dealing with illness
Updated: 2:37 PM EDT Jul 10, 2018
Two 15-year-old girls from Baltimore, Maryland, have been putting smiles on the faces of hospital and nursing home patients by bringing them gifts of flowers for the last five years.Abby Levin and Lexi Thomas created Flowers for Powers, a nonprofit with a mission to deliver flowers to people dealing with illness. The girls started delivering flowers when they were 10 years old. Even though they live separate lives and go to different high schools now, the girls say they've always made Flowers for Powers their top priority.Watch the video above to see how these two teens bring joy to hospital and nursing home patients.
Two 15-year-old girls from Baltimore, Maryland, have been putting smiles on the faces of hospital and nursing home patients by bringing them gifts of flowers for the last five years.
Abby Levin and Lexi Thomas created Flowers for Powers, a nonprofit with a mission to deliver flowers to people dealing with illness. The girls started delivering flowers when they were 10 years old. Even though they live separate lives and go to different high schools now, the girls say they've always made Flowers for Powers their top priority.
Watch the video above to see how these two teens bring joy to hospital and nursing home patients.
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World Travel Guide > Guides > Europe > United Kingdom > England > Beaches in the Scilly Isles, Cornwall
Introducing Beaches in the Scilly Isles, Cornwall
About Beaches in the Scilly Isles, Cornwall
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Beaches in the Scilly Isles, Cornwall Travel Guide
This idyllic archipelago of 140 tiny islands is like another world. The islands lie 45km (28 miles) off Lands End, the most southwesterly point of the British Isles, and have a mild climate and miles of peachy sand beaches. This is the place to head if you harbour dreams of Robinson Crusoe-style solitude, or crave adventure and back-in-time family holidays.
The best beaches are found on the third-largest island of St Martin's. In fact, a contender for Britain's best is the tropical-seeming, white-sand Par Beach. Other brilliant beaches are Lawrence's Bay and Great Bay - from where you can walk across to White Island at low tide.
St Mary's is the largest island, and has several attractive spots, including the sandy Town and Porthcressa beaches. Less-inhabited Tresco has lovely Appletree Bay and the gentle sandy arc of Pentle Bay. Wild Bryer island feels the most remote and harbours the tranquil Rushy Bay.
Beyond the beach:
Over on the mainland, visit one of the world's most extraordinary theatres, above beautiful Porthcurno Bay, around 14km (9 miles) southwest of Penzance. The cliff-edge auditorium of the Minack Theatre (www.minack.com) is set on the rocks, while the stage is backed by endless views of sea and sky. It was built by a theatre-loving Englishwoman, Rowena Cade, who created it for a performance of The Tempest in her back garden. The season runs from around May to September, though you can visit all year.
Family fun:
Aside from swimming, sand and surf, there are plenty of adventures to be had here. Check out the amazing Abbey Garden (www.tresco.co.uk/stay/abbey-garden) on Tresco, which includes a wealth of botanical riches and artefacts found from shipwrecks. You can arrange diving, speedboat rides and snorkelling trips on St Mary's; diving and snorkelling is particularly good around Bryer. Scilly Walks (www.scillywalks.co.uk) has nothing to do with Monty Python, but arranges themed walks around the isles.
Exploring further:
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The Modern West 23: The Native West, Part 1
By Wyoming Public Media • May 16, 2017
Credit Aaron Schrank
Part one of two-part series, featuring stories that take us into the heart of the Wind River Reservation.
Wind River Indian Reservation
By Wyoming Public Media • Jun 20, 2017
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Part two of a two-part series on the Wind River Reservation, focusing on housing issues on the increasingly populated Wind River Reservation.
The Modern West 22: Climate Change In A Fossil-Fuel State
By Wyoming Public Media • Apr 20, 2017
Ken Koschnitzki
Wyoming’s economy revolves around energy production. But climate change raises questions about what role fossil fuels will play in the state’s future.
The Modern West 21: Wyoming's Immigrants And Refugees
By Wyoming Public Media • Mar 23, 2017
Caroline Ballard
Wyoming is home to many immigrants, migrants, and former refugees. It is the only state, however, without a refugee resettlement program. But the current political climate has immigrants questioning their place in Wyoming and the U.S.
The Modern West 20: U.S. Citizens Incarcerated In The West
By Wyoming Public Media • Feb 20, 2017
Discover Nikkei
It’s the 75th anniversary of an executive order that incarcerated thousands of Japanese Americans in internment camps across the nation. This episode includes first-hand accounts from this era.
The Modern West 19: Women Run The West, Part 2
By Wyoming Public Media • Jan 18, 2017
In the final part of this series, we ask why Western women still lag in political power even though they got the right to vote almost 150 years ago?
Department Of Education Works To Build Trust With Tribes
By Tennessee Watson • May 1, 2017
Wyoming Indian High School
This past week, the Wyoming Department of Education held listening sessions at tribal schools to see how the state can better serve Native American families. Rob Black, social studies consultant with the WDE and liaison to the Native American community, said students on the reservation are a vulnerable population. Graduation rates and achievement levels there lag behind non-native communities.
Black said before addressing specific issues the WDE wanted to open up dialogue.
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Daniel Craig's Secret Cameo in 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' Revealed (SPOILERS)
Gwynne Watkins
Writer, Yahoo Entertainment
Warning: The Force Awakens spoilers below.
Did Daniel Craig defeat SPECTRE only to join the First Order? Turns out that rumors of a Craig cameo in Star Wars: The Force Awakens are true — and if you’ve seen the film, you’ll be delighted to learn which baddie he plays. (So stop reading if you haven’t seen the movie!)
Entertainment Weekly is reporting that the James Bond actor plays a Stormtrooper in a pivotal (and very funny) Force Awakens scene. At one point, heroine Rey (Daisy Ridley) is taken captive by Kylo Ren (Adam Driver), who believes he can use the Force to extract some top-secret information from her brain. When Kylo leaves the room, she attempts to use the Force herself, to escape from the Stormtrooper who is guarding her. The scene is an homage to Obi-Wan Kenobi’s “Jedi mind trick” from A New Hope (“These aren’t the droids you’re looking for,” remember?) And, according to EW, the trooper is none other than Craig.
Daniel Craig at the London premiere of ‘SPECTRE’ (Joel Ryan/Invision/AP, File)
What makes this piece of news especially fun is how adamantly Craig denied it while promoting SPECTRE this summer. Even though Simon Pegg (who also has a Force Awakens cameo) spilled the beans to the London Sun — and SPECTRE was filming concurrently with The Force Awakens at London’s Pinewood studios, giving Craig ample opportunities to drop by — Craig insisted that the report was rubbish. “Why would I ever bother doing something like that?” he snapped at EW in July. “F—ing hell! Pffft. Play an extra in another movie?”
Related: Read our complete ‘Star Wars’ coverage
Craig wasn’t the only star lured into a minor Force Awakens role, though he is the biggest: Scream Queens actress Billie Lourd (daughter of Carrie Fisher) plays a Resistance member, 30 Rock comedian Judah Friedlander is a bar patron, and comic actors Bill Hader and Ben Schwartz contributed to the voice of BB-8.
Watch the ‘Force Awakens’ cast demonstrate how to play with their action figures:
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This, says Kaczynski, is where we all find ourselves, until and unless we choose to break out. To be sure, if we go back to group selection as an explanation of group traits, particularly cultural ones, then it's easy to see how a group that successfully coerced or manipulated a renewable supply of its own members to launch suicide attacks might expand relative to other groups.
It was the Roman Empire that took over most of the ancient world, not a group that splintered off from a group that splintered off from a group that splintered off from the Roman Empire, each baby Roman Empire very much like the parent Roman Empire except for a few random alterations, and the branch of progeny empires eventually outnumbering the others.
But many scientists have come to see this as an outdated dream that thwarts bold new plans to save the environment and prevents us from having a fuller relationship with nature. Sex and the Shaheed: The architecture of human kin detection. This does not, contrary to a common understanding, mean that people love their relatives because of an unconscious desire to perpetuate their genes.
Wilson's dictum that groups of altruistic individuals beat groups of selfish individuals is true only if one classifies slaves, serfs, conscripts, and mercenaries as "altruistic.
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People invoke it to refer to many distinct phenomena, so casual users may literally not know what they are talking about.
To take this idea one step further, one should be able to predict that if children experience abuse, for instance, they will become characterized by certain personality traits. My noumenal self is an uncaused cause outside of time, which therefore is not subject to the deterministic laws of nature in accordance with which our understanding constructs experience.
Because I found modern life absolutely unacceptable, I grew increasingly hopeless until, at the age of 24, I arrived at a kind of crisis: The False Subtlety of the Four Syllogistic Figures rehearses criticisms of Aristotelian logic that were developed by other German philosophers.
Empirical judgments are true just in case they correspond with their empirical objects in accordance with the a priori principles that structure all possible human experience. A second version of the two-aspects theory departs more radically from the traditional two-objects interpretation by denying that transcendental idealism is at bottom a metaphysical theory.
For Kant, however, the cause of my action can be within my control now only if it is not in time.
Chapter ten in this book focuses on "Abuse of Words. Locke connects words to the ideas they signify, claiming that man is unique in being able to frame sounds into distinct words and to signify ideas by those words, and then that these words are built into language.
Each improvement in our knowledge or in our technology will create new problems, which require new improvements. In defence of inclusive fitness theory. Sure, some things last longer or do better in competition than others because they have traits that help them last longer or compete more effectively.
Ideas, however, are still an important part of the picture.
The myth of progress manifested in tool form. One can just say that some things are stronger, or longer-lasting, or more stable than others.
The vast majority of this book is spent analyzing the specific subcategories of our ideas. That lack of mastery, and the promise of one day reaching it, is part of the complex beauty of the tool.
Evolution "for the good of the group". In contrast, the relation between secondary qualities e. Others include reproductive versus somatic effort, mating versus parenting, and present versus future offspring. One is the normative moral theory in which virtue is equated with sacrifices that benefit one's own group in competition with other groups.
Ideas of secondary qualities do not resemble their causes, as is the case with color, sound, taste, and odor.
The two instincts can either operate against each other through repulsion or combine with each other through attraction Freud,p. So reason deserves the sovereignty attributed to it by the Enlightenment.
Although a few intellectuals rejected some or all of these beliefs, the general spirit of the Enlightenment was not so radical. If a group is annihilated, all the people in it, together with their genes, are annihilated.
He also classifies our ideas into two basic types, simple and complex with simple ideas being the building blocks of complex ideasand then further classifies these basic types into more specific subcategories.
Insights from the life Sciences on Islamic suicide terrorism. Modern advocates of group selection don't deny that selection acts on individual organisms; they only wish to add that it acts on higher-level aggregates, particularly groups of organisms, as well.
Farrell and other critics believe that it is increasingly important for analysts to be aware of common sense and the role that it can, should, and does play in psychoanalysis p. However, many experts contend that psychoanalysis can also be used to describe or explain a vast array of other concepts outside of the realm of the psychological field.
In a way the Inaugural Dissertation also tries to reconcile Newtonian science with traditional morality and religion, but its strategy is different from that of the Critique. I don't think it makes sense to conceive of groups of organisms in particular, human societies as sitting at the top of a fractal hierarchy with genes at the bottom, with natural selection applying to each level in parallel ways.An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Book II: Ideas John Locke Small ·dots· enclose material that has been added, but can be read as though it were part of the original text.
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Photos: Steve Jobs unveils the iPhone
During his keynote address at Macworld 2007, Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the long-rumoured iPhone.
The quad-band device features a touchscreen, 2-megapixel camera, OS X operating system, Safari Web browser, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and integration with Google Maps. While Americans will be able to purchase the smartphone from June (at US$499 for the 4GB version on a two-year Cingular contract, and US$599 for the 8GB model), Australians will have to wait until 2008.
At the 2007 edition of Macworld Expo in San Francisco, Apple CEO Steve Jobs took the stage Tuesday local time (early Wednesday morning in Australian time) and told the eager audience, "We're going to make some history together today."
Published: January 10, 2007 -- 00:54 GMT (16:54 PST)
Photo by: Declan McCullagh/CNET News.com
Caption by: ZDNet Editors
Then came the moment everyone was waiting for. Jobs unveiled the long-awaited iPhone -- yes, that's what he's calling it, even though Cisco Systems owns the trademark.
The slender device runs Mac OS X -- "a software breakthrough," he said, referring to the use of the full-fledged operating system, "software that's five years ahead of what's on any other phone." A new technology called "multitouch" means users don't need a stylus -- "and it is far more accurate than any pointing device that's shipped," Jobs said.
The phone is also a music device that shows album art. "It's a video iPod and a regular iPod, plus a phone. And it's widescreen when you hold it in landscape mode, on its side," Jobs said.
During the presentation, Jobs makes what he says is the first public phone call with iPhone, calling Jony Ive, Apple's design chief.
The phone's numeric keypad, writ large. For the phone service, Apple is partnering with Cingular Wireless in the United States -- see the small print at the top of the screen. There is yet to be an announcement on what Australian networks the phone will be available on when it hits local shores in 2008.
The browser of choice for the mobile device is Safari. Jobs loaded the Web site of The New York Times and touted the ability to scroll around easily, as on a larger screen. Users can zoom out to accommodate a big site like that of the Times.
Want music? You've got it. Want album art? You've got that, too.
The touchscreen interface of the iPhone continues the Apple tradition of packaging innovative input technology with its computing devices.
Google search functions are built into the iPhone, which also makes use of Google Maps. Jobs calls Starbucks and orders 4,000 lattes to go -- then cancels the order.
Some of the iPhone's many options.
Oh, yes. There's also a camera.
Another look at the Apple phone. Even if it is the "ultimate" digital device, there probably are a few things it can't do -- like double as an acquarium.
Did Apple really reinvent the phone? You be the judge.
All three halls of San Francisco's Moscone Center are taken up this year by Macworld, including the newer Moscone West hall (pictured here).
Photo by: Tom Krazit/CNET News.com
Macworld visitors to the Moscone Center's South Hall, home to the exhibition floor, are greeted by a banner highlighting Apple's 30 years in the computer business. The company has been running a similar graphic on its home page for about a week prior to Macworld, which is expected to attract over 40,000 visitors.
This year's Macworld has had to compete with the gargantuan Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas for attention. Around 150,000 visitors are expected to attend CES this year, but next year the two shows will fall during different weeks.
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How One Wisconsin Hospital Was Saved Amid Rural Health Crisis
How One Wisconsin Hospital Was Saved Amid Rural Health CrisisTo survive, Wisconsin's rural hospitals are consolidating, getting creative about doctor recruitment and tapping new segments of the medical market. urlrural hospitals, rural health care2019-10-11T00:00:00-04:002019-10-11T00:00:00-04:00
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Marshfield Medical Center-Neillsville in Neillsville, Wis., has 17 hospital beds that remain mostly empty. (Coburn Dukehart/Wisconsin Watch)
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When Ryan Neville was brought on as the chief executive of Memorial Medical Center, the sole hospital serving Clark County, Wisconsin, it could not get a bank loan.
At that time, in 2013, rural safety net hospitals – those located more than 35 miles from another hospital – had a nationwide average of 69 days of cash reserves. But the Neillsville hospital lost $3 million that year and had enough reserves to pay its expenses for just four days.
The hospital needed new equipment to boost revenue. With few other options, it took the unusual step of turning to city hall, which helped the hospital get a $1.5 million loan.
Ryan Neville is the chief executive of the Marshfield Medical Center-Neillsville in Neillsville, Wis. He leads a daily morning safety huddle with the staff where they discuss the upcoming day. (Coburn Dukehart/ Wisconsin Watch)
“We are very thankful for that,” Neville says. “I think without that loan that the city helped us get or backed us on, we potentially could’ve closed or been significantly downsized.”
The hospital in central Wisconsin provides 24-hour trauma care in a county of 34,000 people spanning 1,200 square miles.
Had it closed, residents of the farming community would have had to drive 40 minutes to Marshfield or an hour to Eau Claire, turning some medical emergencies into catastrophes.
Nationwide, 155 rural hospitals have closed in the past 15 years, according to the North Carolina Rural Health Research Program. Nearly half of the remaining rural hospitals lose more money than they make, says Michael Topchik, national leader of the Chartis Center for Rural Health, a Chicago-based consulting firm.
Wisconsin has fared better than many states: Just one of its rural hospitals has closed in the past 10 years. Others have cut services or merged with larger systems to stay alive.
But as of 2017, one-fifth of Wisconsin’s 76 rural hospitals were operating in the red, according to a report from Chartis and iVantage Health Analytics. According to Navigant, another Chicago-based health care consultant, nine such hospitals were in danger of closing, including two that are considered essential to the local community.
And a report from the Wisconsin Hospital Association Information Center found unpaid medical bills continue to climb as 150 Wisconsin hospitals reported $1.2 billion in “bad debt” and charity care in fiscal year 2018 — an increase of nearly $90 million from fiscal year 2017.
Ryan Neville, chief executive of the Marshfield Medical Center-Neillsville in Neillsville, Wisconsin, walks with his service dog, Liam. (Coburn Dukehart /Wisconsin Watch)
Rural hospital closures can be deadly: Mortality rates for time-sensitive conditions like heart attacks and strokes increased by nearly 6 percent after a rural community lost its hospital, according to a new report on California’s hospitals by University of Washington researchers.
Trapped under antiquated policies and infrastructure in communities with dwindling populations, some rural hospitals cannot afford to adapt to a rapidly evolving health care system.
“And we know that the politics right now around health care are as divisive as ever, so don’t hold your breath,” Topchik says. “But there’s a lot of agreement that we need to do something ... because otherwise you’re going to see a dust bowl vision … with all these small towns just drying up and blowing away like tumbleweeds.”
Keeping Beds Open — But Empty
The federal Critical Access Hospital designation is vital for many small rural hospitals. If hospitals meet requirements, including 25 or fewer inpatient beds, 24-hour emergency care and located more than 35 miles from another hospital, Medicare reimburses them at 101 percent of allowable cost, although the number is closer to 90 percent in reality because of cutbacks and what is deemed allowable, Topchik says.
That higher reimbursement is the only thing keeping some rural hospitals open. But it also locks them into a model of inpatient-focused care that no longer makes sense, says Dave Mosley, managing director of Navigant Health Care. Mosley says several hospital leaders have told him the only reason they maintain inpatient beds is to keep their critical-access designation.
Supplies are seen in the emergency area of Marshfield Medical Center-Neillsville in Neillsville, Wisconsin, on Sept. 19, 2019. The hospital in central Wisconsin provides 24-hour trauma care to its rural residents. (Coburn Dukehart/ Wisconsin Watch)
Most rural and urban hospitals operate on a traditional fee-for-service model. Revenue is based on such items as the number of cases of pneumonia treated, broken arms fixed or vaccines administered.
Compared to urban hospitals, rural hospitals treat more patients with government insurance, which generally pays less than private insurance, or without any insurance at all.
In Wisconsin, a private insurer will pay the hospital nearly three times what Medicare would pay, according to a 2019 Rand Corporation study. Medicare pays hospitals 88 cents for every $1 spent, while Medicaid pays 90 cents for every $1 spent on average. States set Medicaid reimbursement rates, and they can range from 81 percent to 130 percent of cost, according to a 2016 Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission report. And many uninsured cannot pay at all.
Technology has made health care easier and faster to deliver. For example, detecting a disease like colon cancer requires analyzing a strand of DNA from a stool sample. And where a full hip replacement would have meant a five-day hospital stay in 1985, it now can be done as an outpatient procedure, Mosley says.
But such technological advances can push rural hospitals into financial distress. In 2010, 71 percent of a hospital’s revenue came from inpatient care while just 21 percent came from outpatient care. Five years later, that number had nearly flipped, with 60 percent coming from outpatient services, which bring in less revenue per patient than hospitalizations.
“So if you have Medicaid that pays less than cost, and you have Medicare that pays less than cost, in most cases, and then you have uninsured individuals, how exactly is the hospital supposed to make money? And the answer is: They very often cannot,” Mosley says.
Four Patients A Night
The Neillsville hospital, for example, serves a county where 18 percent of residents are uninsured — the highest rate in the state. The county has high rates of poverty, too: 22 percent of Clark County’s children live in poverty — significantly higher than the statewide average of 16 percent.
Cassie Symons, a physical therapist assistant, works with patient Peter Langreck, who recently had a bilateral knee replacement, at Marshfield Medical Center-Neillsville in Neillsville, Wis. (Coburn Dukehart /Wisconsin Watch)
Hospitals spend money day-in, day-out on maintaining inpatient beds, running air conditioning and keeping the lights on regardless of whether they have any patients. Many rural hospitals, including Neillsville’s, were built in the 1950s for a future rural America that never materialized.
“At that time, these rural areas were seen as bastions for further growth, so they built these hospitals, not just to serve the population that existed at that time, but to also serve what was expected to be a growing population,” Mosley says. “And now we’ve seen, of course, in many areas the rural communities are not growing. In fact, they’ve shrunk.”
In Wisconsin, 31 of the 34 counties that lost population since 2010 are rural.
Neillsville has 17 hospital beds that remain mostly empty; it has an average of just four patients a night, although the beds are used for other services during the day. Some smaller community hospitals have less than one patient a day on average, Mosley says.
Low volume and adverse payer mixes have helped to plunge 16 of Wisconsin’s 76 rural hospitals into the red. In some states, the picture is even worse: More than 70 percent of rural hospitals in Alabama, Kansas and Missouri lose more money than they make.
Topchik says hospitals with good management can face tough situations and still survive, but “You can only get so lean and so mean.”
Wisconsin's Endangered Hospitals
In 2018, Neillsville’s hospital board faced a hard decision.
The multibillion-dollar Marshfield Clinic Health System and its state-of-the-art hospital were drawing away patients. Many businesses were choosing Security Health Plans, Marshfield’s own insurer, which did not cover services rendered at Neillsville.
The hospital board debated whether the Neillsville hospital should remain independent or be absorbed by Marshfield. They chose the latter.
Dr. Amy Schneider, a primary care physician, talks with patient Nancy Embke, 82, during an appointment at Marshfield Medical Center-Neillsville in Neillsville, Wisconsin. (Coburn Dukehart /Wisconsin Watch)
Neville calls it the “best move we’ve made,” allowing the hospital to utilize the larger system’s services including IT and human resources, increase the volume of patients and bring a rotating cast of specialists into the hospital, now named Marshfield Medical Center-Neillsville. In fact, Neillsville will soon get a new $46.8 million medical campus funded by the health system.
The deal Neillsville made is increasingly common. Mergers, acquisitions and affiliations of small, rural hospitals with large health systems have reduced the number of independent rural hospitals in Wisconsin to less than a dozen.
On average, rural hospitals that are affiliated with health systems have significantly improved operating margins, higher quality and outcomes and better patient satisfaction, Topchik says.
But for some hospitals, the loss of independence has meant the loss of care. Units such as obstetrics and surgery have also been shuttered. A total of 152 communities in the United States have lost access to OB services since 2011, according to Chartis. Eleven of Wisconsin’s rural obstetric units have closed in the past decade, including Neillsville’s.
But in Wisconsin, only one rural hospital has closed in the past 10 years: Franciscan Skemp Medical Center in the western farming community of Arcadia, which closed in 2011.
Two of Wisconsin’s most essential safety-net hospitals – one in Grantsburg and one in Durand — are at high financial risk, according to a Navigant report. University of Wisconsin professor emeritus Dr. Pat Remington was placed at the hospital in Grantsburg during his residency in the 1980s. It was thriving then, but he saw signs of what it would face in the future.
“I could see how that hospital, with that small rural community, would be challenged four decades later,” says Remington, who runs the UW’s preventive medicine residency program.
More Income, Better Health
States like Wisconsin, with below-average poverty rates, have mostly avoided the rash of hospital closures that have swept across the South, Topchik says.
“There is absolutely a Lake Wobegon effect, where the women are hard-working, the men are good-looking and the children are all above average. And then I like to add: And people tend to pay their hospital bills,” he says. “And what do we attribute that to? Poverty. Poverty drives many of the health disparities we see around the country.”
Researchers have estimated that flawed medical care is responsible for just 10 percent to 15 percent of preventable deaths. The rest is driven by non-medical social factors such as income, education and the neighborhoods in which people live. Disadvantaged neighborhoods have less access to fresh foods, higher concentrations of fast food restaurants and fewer opportunities for exercise.
Researchers including Topchik point to poverty as the most forceful factor; some epidemiologists call it the “cause of causes,” ranging from bad cholesterol to brain function. Race can also have an independent, compounding effect.
Remington says the crisis in rural America is not shuttered hospitals, but lack of employment opportunities and the exodus of young people with education, leaving older people and the disadvantaged behind.
In Iron Co., community leaders have recognized the connection and embarked on a trail building project they hope will improve the health and economy of the sparsely populated area in northern Wisconsin.
“Yes, you could save someone if you have good emergency medical services, but much of the death and disease that is attributed to rural communities is not from failure to have a hospital,” he says. “Most of the death and disease and the increase in disparities is from the increased incidence of disease, from social and economic factors, from diabetes, from heart disease, substance abuse.”
Tim Size, executive director of the Rural Wisconsin Health Cooperative, says “we all need to double down” on addressing such root causes. Of the 10 counties with the shortest life expectancy, nine are rural. Socioeconomic factors are more strongly correlated with poor health than clinical care, physical environment or health behaviors, according data from the Robert Wood Johnson County Health Rankings.
“It’s such a complex topic, and you can come at pieces of it, but to really understand any one piece you really have to have conversations, questions and answers around a whole bunch of different aspects,” Size says. “It’s so systemic.”
Rural Areas Lack Providers
For many of the same reasons young people move away from rural Wisconsin, such areas also have a hard time drawing and keeping doctors. Sixty-eight of Wisconsin’s 72 counties qualify as Health Professional Shortage Areas for primary, dental or mental health care, according to Health Resources & Services Administration data.
Scenic Bluffs Community Health Centers in western Wisconsin are among the few places in the area that accept Medicaid for dental care. The waiting list is hundreds of people long, says Kim Cable, a housing and community services director of the community action group CouleeCap, Inc.
“I meet with people whose teeth are rotting literally out of their mouth because they can’t get care,” Cable says. “Getting care when you need it is just not a reality.”
Mental health providers are in similarly severe shortage. Sixteen rural counties do not have a psychiatrist, according to Wisconsin Medical Society data.
Topchik says not only are rural populations aging — a trend he described as a “silver tsunami,” — but “we have a silver tsunami of aging providers as well.”
Physicians in rural America are older than their urban counterparts. A report from the Wisconsin Council on Medical Education and Workforce projects physician shortages in many rural and urban areas by 2035.
“It’s a double whammy. Not only do you have greater need because of the Baby Boomers aging out, but you’re going to be hamstrung by less capacity as your own providers retire,” he adds.
Health Insurance Out Of Reach For Some
Jim Servais, 81, walks around his Stoddard dairy farm, barn cats slipping in between his feet. The barn sits at the top of a ridge with 1,000 acres of farmland draping down both sides.
Jim Servais is seen on his 1,000-acre farm in Stoddard, Wisconsin. Jim has been an organic farmer for decades. Still, he and his son, Tim, struggle to make ends meet. Jim says most farmers struggle to pay for insurance. (Parker Schorr/Wisconsin Watch)
He started milking 18 cows in 1974. Today, the organic farm has more than 300.
Servais says the health of farmers dips around age 60. His cousin, a rancher in Montana, said “they ranch until they die.” Servais himself has his share of ailments.
“Everything's shot. Knees, hip and back. Ankle too,” he says with a laugh.
Servais says he would not have been able to afford to get his knees replaced had it not been for his wife, who worked at the local school to get health insurance.
“And you know, I don't think there’s any farmer today that can farm without somebody on the farm having a job with insurance,” he says. “There’s no way.”
His son, Tim, now runs the farm. His son’s family has qualified for BadgerCare, the state’s Medicaid program for low-income residents.
“He goes through a lot of money, but with our prices depressed … it keeps him at the poverty level,” Jim says.
Congress Eyes New Health Care Models
Congress is considering several bipartisan bills to change models of care to help rural hospitals, but they stand little chance of passing a divided Congress, Mosley says. He says rural hospitals may have to give up on inpatient services, but they lack a way to make the transition.
One proposal, stalled in Congress, would allow rural safety-net hospitals to operate as standalone emergency departments, without maintaining beds. They would be reimbursed by Medicare at 110 percent of cost.
He says the federal government spends a lot of money maintaining unused inpatient hospital beds in rural areas, and “the money that Medicare would save is just unfathomable.”
Another strategy to boost services is telehealth, in which providers check on patients through digital devices. But rural hospitals may not fully embrace the new technology until it is reimbursed by Medicaid as much as in-person visits. A recent bill backed by the Wisconsin Hospital Association aims to do that.
Some states, like Pennsylvania, have worked with the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation to craft alternative payment models. Pennsylvania’s “global budget” gives rural hospitals a fixed amount of money to use as they see fit to improve community health. If it results in fewer hospital stays, the hospital does not lose money. Mosley says states could embark on similar projects without waiting for Congress.
Expanding Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act also could help rural hospitals. States that did not expand Medicaid saw more hospital closures, Topchik says. Rural hospital profits improved in states that did expand, according to researchers at the North Carolina Rural Health Research Program. Wisconsin was unique in that it partially expanded Medicaid under the ACA.
Non-expansion states, many of them in the South, also suffer under “bad debt” and “stingy” Medicaid programs, Topchik says.
”They're getting clobbered, they’re just getting absolutely clobbered,” he says of states that declined to expand Medicaid. “Their politics have made them poorer.”
Size is optimistic that Wisconsin will solve the challenges facing rural health care.
“If we do nothing, and we just kind of cry in our beer, I don’t think it’s a very good future.”
Hospital Closing Hits Arcadia
Wisconsin’s lone rural hospital closure since 2005 was in 2011 in Arcadia, located between La Crosse and Eau Claire. The area’s nursing home closed soon after the hospital was shuttered, and the town’s pharmacy recently closed when Shopko went out of business.
Family physician Dr. Bert Hodous works at the Mayo Clinic Health Systems' clinic in Arcadia, Wisconsin. He used to work at the Arcadia hospital, and says when it closed it was "the saddest day of my life." He meets with patient Michael Waters on Sept. 19, 2019. (Coburn Dukehart /Wisconsin Watch)
Family physician Dr. Bert Hodous used to work at the Arcadia hospital. He now works at the Mayo Clinic Health Systems’ clinic in Arcadia. He acknowledges that the hospital was old and required upgrades. The payer mix included a large number of Medicaid patients, and the nursing home lost money week after week, he says.
Since the hospital and pharmacy closed, Hodous says it is not uncommon for people to drive an hour to La Crosse to get their prescriptions. And that, he believes, is not good for the community.
“There’s a lot of elderly people here and we also have families with kids … and their perception and the confidence that you feel in your heart is affected by your sense of the community having resources in place that you can access,” Hodous says. “And the loss of the hospital kind of gutted that confidence and that sense of safety.”
This project was made possible with support from the Institute for Nonprofit News and the Solutions Journalism Network. The nonprofit Wisconsin Watch (www.WisconsinWatch.org) collaborates with Wisconsin Public Radio, Wisconsin Public Television, other news media and the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication. All works created, published, posted or disseminated by the Center do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of UW-Madison or any of its affiliates.
This report is part of a collaborative project titled Seeking a cure: The quest to save rural hospitals. It includes the Institute for Nonprofit News and INN members IowaWatch, KCUR, Bridge Magazine, Wisconsin Watch, Side Effects Public Media and The Conversation; as well as Minnesota Public Radio, Wisconsin Public Radio, Iowa Public Radio, The (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) Gazette, Iowa Falls Times Citizen and N'west Iowa Review. The project was made possible by support from INN, with additional support from the Solutions Journalism Network, a nonprofit organization dedicated to rigorous and compelling reporting about responses to social problems. For more stories visithospitals.iowawatch.org.
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Female Angler Lands Monster 55-Inch Lake St. Clair Muskie [PICS]
Posted by Justin Hoffman
This lucky lady landed the fish of a lifetime. Check out these photos to see what a true trophy muskie looks like!
Christine Cope, an avid multi-species angler from Ottawa, Ontario Canada, headed out Oct. 10 for a day of muskie fishing. What she came home with was a new personal best fish.
Spending the day with long-time fishing partner Darryl Crossett, owner of Reel Busy Sport Fishing Charters, the duo were trolling the fish-rich Ontario side of Lake St. Clair.
The day started early, with the boat hitting the water at 7:30 a.m.
Eight-and-a-half hours of straight trolling resulted in the first fish of the outing - a 42-inch beauty - that struck at 4 p.m.
One hour later the trophy fish hit.
At the time, Cope had chosen to run a Bucher Depth Raider in a secret color pattern she had received a tip on. They were marking shad in the area, and as is usually the case, big predator fish are often close by.
Trolling at a speed of three to four miles per hour, the boat was working water between 10 and 20 feet deep. All of a sudden, a muskie stopped Cope's bait dead in its tracks.
The fish was too large for the net, meaning Crossett had to expertly hand-land it after the monster fish burned through 200 feet of line.
"The fight felt like forever," Cope said. "It had incredible strength."
The trophy fish was carefully handled, and after a few quick pics for posterity, it was released back to the cold St. Clair water.
The tale of the tape? An incredible 55 inches long!
Caring more for the safety of the fish than any records, a girth measurement wasn't taken in order to get the fish back into the water as quickly as possible. But as you can see from the photos, this was one fat fish.
"Some are saying it is one of the biggest out of Lake St. Clair," Cope said. "For me it is definitely a dream fish and a memory I won't soon forget."
All photos via Christine Cope
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Borough man arrested in international operation into website used by cyber criminals
The tool allowed hackers full access to a computer
Gaynor Clarke
Detectives investigating a website which sold a hacking tool purchased by cyber criminals in 124 countries have arrested a man in the borough.
An international operation was launched after 14,500 people across the world bought the Imminent Monitor Remote Access Trojan (IM RAT) from imminentmethods.net for as little as $25USD.
Once covertly installed on a victim’s computer, IM RAT allowed the hacker full access to the infected device, enabling them to disable anti-virus software, steal data or passwords, record key strokes and watch victims via their webcams.
The operation was led by the Australian Federal Police (AFP), with the North West Regional Organised Crime Unit (NWROCU) leading the UK investigation supported by the National Crime Agency (NCA).
An international week of action has taken place with enforcement activity across nine countries targeting sellers and users of the tool.
It saw 21 search warrants executed across the UK, in Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Milton Keynes, Hull, London, Leeds, Walsall, Lancashire, Nottingham, Surrey, Essex and Somerset. All targeted suspected users of the RAT.
Those warrants lead to the recovery of more than 100 exhibits and 14 people arrested or interviewed.
Among them was a 24-year-old man from Leigh arrested for offences contrary to the Computer Misuse Act
Europe-wide there were 85 warrants executed, with more than 400 items seized.
Australian police effected a takedown of the website this morning and the IM RAT tool can no longer be used.
Phil Larratt, from the NCA, said: “Working with the NWROCU, AFP and a range of international and European partners, we were able to support the takedown of a website that was distributing malware and facilitating hacking offences.
“The IM RAT was used by individuals and organised crime groups in the UK to commit a range of offences beyond just the Computer Misuse Act, including fraud, theft and money laundering.
“Cyber criminals who bought this tool for as little as $25 were able to commit serious criminality, remotely invading the privacy of unsuspecting victims and stealing sensitive data.
“As part of Team Cyber UK, the NCA works with a wide range of law enforcement, government and private sector partners to effectively disrupt and deter this type of criminal activity.”
Ch Con Andy Cooke, national lead for crime, said: “Cyber crime is increasingly part of the serious and organised crime landscape and this example of international co-ordinated law enforcement activity shows the UK’s absolute commitment to tackling and undermining this constantly evolving threat.”
Det Insp Andy Milligan, from the NWROCU, said: “This has been a complex, challenging cyber investigation with international scope. We have been supported throughout by the AFP, the NCA and our partners in Europol and Eurojust. The UK’s regional organised crime unit (ROCU) network and force specialist cyber crime units were pivotal during this phase of enforcement activity.
"The illicit use of IM RAT is akin to a cyber burglary, with criminals stealing data, including images and movies, secretly turning on web cams, monitoring key strokes and listening in to people’s conversations via computer microphones.
“Cyber crime is not an anonymous victimless crime as some believe. There are real world consequences to people’s actions in cyber space and the international activity this week has shown how serious the UK treats this sort of criminality.
“People should protect themselves by following National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) advice, ensuring operating systems are always up to date, that they use anti-virus and they don’t click on links or attachments in suspicious emails. NCSC guidance is available here www.ncsc.gov.uk."
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Kids, music and dance
A collection directed by Tony Gatlif, Jérôme-Cecil Auffret, Patrick Glaize, Xiao Ling Zhu, Anita Bonan and Barthélémy Fougea
“If you want to get to know a people, you must listen to their music.”
Documentary collection
Children's novel
Musical book
There are eight of them, these children from distant lands. Some live in China, others in India or in Mali. Though very different, they all share the same passion: music.
From the Chinese lusheng to Indian tablas, and the kora of Mali to the drum of Cuba, this documentary series A child’s passion takes us on a journey of discovery of music and the intimate relationship of each child with their instrument.
The portrait of each child is painted like a story. In it, the details of a still-living tradition are revealed, and also the history and the secrets of how the instruments are made. At the same time the unusual situation of each child, their relationship with their family and their teacher is shown.
The documentary series Kids, music and dance has met with international success and has won numerous accolades:
genre: 8×26′ documentary series
Written by Barthélémy Fougea
broadcast on Canal+, La Cinquième, Canal J
Directed by Tony Gatlif, Jérôme-Cecil Auffret, Patrick Glaize, Xiao Ling Zhu, Anita Bonan et Barthélémy Fougea
Children’s novel
Donell, young pan player
Donell is 10. He plays the pan in a steel band. Pans are large metal drums struck using wooden batons. This year, his band are taking part in the Panorama competition that opens the carnival.
Will they win the competition? This film is a terrific portfolio for showing the adventures of Donell, his family, his friends, and the carnival.
A booklet shows Donell’s home country: Trinidad and Tobago – a world full of colour, where Africans, Creoles, Indians, Chinese and Whites rub shoulders within the Lesser Antilles…
Publisher: Michèle Mira Pons
Written by Hachette Jeunesse
Photos by Jean-Baptiste Avril
Antòn and the music of Cuba
Since his very early age, Anton has played percussion. They say in Havana that he was born clasping bongos. He has been spotted by the famous musician El Piano. El Piano is keen to hear him and know what this young prodigy can really do. Anton is shaking like a leaf as he walks into the old concert hall with its red velvet hangings, dominated by a grand piano… El Piano starts to play, and Anton makes the skin of his instrument vibrate. A great percussionist is born.
This is a story of childhood and music, with illustrations to make one dream and a CD with music to escape to. And a true account of a child musician living in today’s Havana. The songs on the CD have been translated into French on what is a collection of the greatest Cuban singers and musicians.
Written by Emmanuel Viau
Illustrations by Olivier Tallec
Publisher: Gallimard Jeunesse
Photographs Stéphane Lagoutte
“The true journey of discovery is not about searching for new landscapes, but seeing with new eyes.” Marcel Proust
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Reporter: Melinda Lee
Writer: Michael Mora
Published: January 9, 2020 4:00 PM EST
Updated: January 9, 2020 4:52 PM EST
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Julian Sundby loves making music with his heroes. They could be veterans, active military or first responders.
“They’re risking their lives to protect us,” Sundby said. “They’re heroes. It’s that simple and they deserve the ability to make music.”
Sundby, 35 years old, helps them find their tune in a Fort Myers studio that he built as part of his non-profit, Hero Song. The 1,600 square foot studio was built for around $20,000 using volunteer assistance primarily. Sundby’s non-profit provides veterans and first responders with a place to express their emotions by recording music at no cost.
“Music is a healing thing,” Sundby said. “A lot of people come to us with suicide stories and anxiety and PTSD and we try to help people write about these issues.”
Sundby, a man inspiring people, empowers Air Force First Lt. Michael Sheck by helping him write a song about preventing veteran suicide. When you hear the man who is on his 14th year of service in the military say the powerful words — “It only takes one call to set you free” — from his song, it hits you in the heart. Sheck, 34 years old, said he feels an emotional connection to his songs and the words he puts out.
“It doesn’t matter if you’re a beginner or an expert musician,” Sheck said, “if you have a message you have something to say Hero Song is a good way to get it out there.”
Sundby wants to expand Hero Song to more markets and bring more people to Fort Myers. If you want to submit a song or get involved with the non-profit, email: [email protected]
“We just love sharing it with the community and sharing the music that these people write,” Sundby said.
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Pallister unaware of premiers' pact on nuclear energy
By: Dylan Robertson
Posted: 12/3/2019 2:39 PM | Comments:
MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister was blindsided by news three of his counterparts were pursuing studies into small-scale nuclear reactors, a technology a Manitoba town sees as its economic future.
"I was surprised about it, as much as a number of my colleagues were," Pallister told the Free Press, at the sidelines of Monday’s premiers’ conference.
“I was surprised about it, as much as a number of my colleagues were,” Premier Brian Pallister told the Free Press. (Nathan Denette / Canadian Press files)
On Sunday, the premiers of Saskatchewan, Ontario and New Brunswick signed an agreement to promote small modular reactors (SMRs) — leaving Manitoba as the only province under Trudeau's carbon tax to not be part of the effort.
SMRs are auditorium-sized reactors that can power remote communities. The pieces are built in one spot and shipped to an assembly point, where multiple units can connect to power large towns.
The three premiers argued this technology could power carbon-capture systems for coal and oil plants, and replace diesel in remote communities.
They say this could reduce emissions independent of Ottawa imposing a carbon levy, though experts believe it may take a decade to actually create and install commercially viable SMRs.
Manitoba has an abundance of hydroelectricity, which Pallister noted, saying he doesn’t see his government actively supporting SMRs at this point.
"We may have more to say on this at a later time, but right now we're focused on issues of a national concern that unify us (…) at this meeting, and probably for the foreseeable future," he said Monday.
The Whiteshell town of Pinawa has a former federal nuclear plant that is in the years-long process of being decommissioned. Last year, an American company filed an application to build a $150-million SMR demonstration site on the grounds.
Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe (from left), New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs and Ontario Premier Doug Ford signed an agreement Sunday to promote small modular reactors (SMRs) — leaving Manitoba as the only province under Trudeau's carbon tax to not be part of the effort. (Chris Young / Canadian Press files)
The mayor of Pinawa, a town 113 kilometres east of Winnipeg, is meeting with provincial officials next week about those efforts.
Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe said the reason only three premiers were part of the agreement is because his province produces uranium while the other two have large-scale nuclear efforts underway. He said other provinces are welcome to get on board.
"This is exactly the innovation and technology that I think is necessary in addressing what is a global challenge," Moe told the Free Press.
He said no physical locations have been pinpointed for SMR production, though Pinawa might have a role to play in producing these units.
"They very may have, and likely will have, a role, as many of the private entities are doing the research with respect to where this technology is going."
Last year, an American company filed an application to build a $150-million SMR demonstration site in Pinawa. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press files)
In Saskatchewan, "we have some catching up to do, quite frankly," Moe said.
The Sunday agreement, which includes no funding commitments and precludes "legally binding or enforceable rights or obligations," has the three provinces committing to work to support the development of SMRs.
The memorandum they signed suggests they will lobby Ottawa to help regulate the sector, and provide support for research and testing through public energy companies.
The premiers also aim "to positively influence the federal government to provide a clear unambiguous statement that nuclear energy is a clean technology and is required as part of the climate change solution."
dylan.robertson@freepress.mb.ca
Three premiers to announce deal on small reactors
Ontario Premier Doug Ford, centre, speaks to reporters as Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe, right, and New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs look on during a meeting of Canada's premiers in Montreal, Thursday, December 6, 2018. Three of Canada's premiers will announce they'll fight climate change by working together on small nuclear reactors, a company that's developing the technology says. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes
TORONTO - Three of Canada's premiers will announce Sunday a plan to fight climate change by working together on small nuclear reactors, a company that's developing the technology said Saturday.
New Brunswick-based ARC Nuclear Canada said in a news release that its president will attend a signing ceremony Sunday between the provinces of New Brunswick, Ontario and Saskatchewan to work in collaboration on the modular reactors "in an effort to mitigate the effects of climate change."
U.S. nuclear company seeks to make Pinawa home to its reactor demonstration site
Whiteshell Laboratories in Pinawa opened in 1965.
A nuclear energy company has applied to make the Manitoba community of Pinawa a global hub in small modular reactors that can be used to power off-grid communities and mining camps.
StarCore Nuclear Ltd. submitted its application June 11 to build a $150-million SMR demonstration site on the Atomic Energy Canada Ltd. grounds near Pinawa, about 110 kilometres east of Winnipeg.
Download Provinces' agreement on small nuclear reactors
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Vijay starrer 'Bigil' to not get a digital release?
WION Web Team New Delhi Dec 06, 2019, 08.33 PM(IST)
A poster of 'Bigil' Photograph:( Twitter )
A Hyderabad based filmmaker has claimed that he had acquired exclusive copyrights for making a film on the life of slum-footballer Akhilesh Paul on whom 'Bigil' is based on.
Vijay starrer 'Bigil' is facing troubles getting a digital release. A court in Hyderabad has issued an interim injunction order barring the digital release of the Tamil movie and its Telugu version 'Whistle' after a petition was filed by Hyderabad-based filmmaker Nandi Chinni Kumar, who had sought orders to stop its theatrical, satellite and digital release.
The film was scheduled to be screened on Amazon Prime Video later this month.
"The court had restrained Amazon Prime from uploading and streaming the film `Bigil/Whistle` on YouTube or other modes of the broadcasting system until further orders," Kumar told a news agency on Thursday.
Claiming that he had acquired exclusive copyrights for making a film on the life of slum-footballer Akhilesh Paul, Kumar had given complaints of copyright infringement against makers of 'Bigil' to the Telangana Cinema Writers Association, the South Indian Film Chamber of Commerce, the Tamil Film Producers Council, and the regional officer of the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC), Chennai.
Kumar filed a lawsuit against the film`s director Atlee and actor Vijay, apart from the film`s producers, stating they have violated a copyright agreement which he had signed with Akhilesh Paul.
He claimed that there are striking similarities between the main character and plot events of 'Bigil' and the exclusive life story copyright of Akhilesh Paul.
Kumar had earlier served a legal notice to Akhilesh Paul, Hindi movie 'Jhund' makers Nagraj Manjule, Bhushan Kumar (who is also CMD of T-Series), Savita Raj, and megastar Amitabh Bachchan. He alleged cheating, criminal intimidation, breach of contract and copyright infringement.
Kumar who is an independent filmmaker, also sent notice to Slum Soccer founder Vijay Barse, on whose life the film is said to be based on.
Alleging that he was cheated and criminally intimidated by makers of the film, Kumar plans to move the court to stop the screening of the movie in theatres, television and all digital platforms.
The filmmaker claims that he bought exclusive rights in 2017 to make a movie on the life of Akhilesh Paul, a slum soccer player who was the Indian captain at the Homeless World Cup.
He claimed to have registered the story and script with Telangana Cinema Writers Association on June 11, 2018.
(With inputs from agency)
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The LeRoy Neiman Art Center Hosts ART SPLASH 2013
05/15/2013 (press release: sperlingreene) // Karen Sperling
The Arts Horizons LeRoy Neiman Art Center located at 2785 Frederick Douglass Boulevard in Harlem, is hosting its second annual ART SPLASH fundraiser on Thursday evening, June 6th from 6 – 9 PM.
The festive event includes a cocktail reception, hors d’oeuvres from Harlem’s leading restaurants, music, and an awards ceremony for a distinguished audience of art lovers, supporters, businesses and professionals from all over New York City. The evening will be framed by a private viewing of the very special LARGER THAN LIFE art exhibition, highlighting the works of LeRoy Neiman and a host of notable contemporary fine artists.
Honorees receiving awards at the reception – some of whom have had special relationships with Mr. Neiman – are being recognized for their larger than life contributions to humanity and community. They include Muhammad Ali, Councilmember Inez Dickens, Walter J. Edwards, CEO of Full Spectrum, and Londel Davis of Londel’s Restaurant.
“LeRoy Neiman was drawn to larger-than-life figures in sports, entertainment and history,” said Marline Martin, Director of the LeRoy Neiman Art Center. “Through his life and creative expressions, he spoke broadly to the zest and beauty of living, championed the underrepresented in bold compositions, and left an indelible legacy, not only through the magnitude of his work, but through his unparalleled giving during his life and now through his Foundation.”
The LARGER THAN LIFE exhibition opened at the LeRoy Neiman Art Center on May 6, and is on view until Saturday, June 8. The exhibition includes works by LeRoy Neiman, Janet Byrne, Romare Bearden, Faith Ringgold, Otto Neals, Ramona Candy, Donovan Nelson, Tafa, Al Johnson, Paul DEO, Curtis James and Sir Shadow.
“The ART SPLASH 2013 reception and fundraiser is an opportunity to recognize individuals who are making a difference in our community and beyond, and to generate support for the work of The Center and its role in the community as an active art center for learning and engagement in the arts for people of all ages,” said Ms. Martin.
All proceeds from ART SPLASH 2013 will go towards The Center’s programs and activities. Now in its fifth year of operation, The Center’s mission is to strengthen the community by providing quality arts programming that supports life-long learning experiences, and building sustainable partnerships and collaborations.
The ART SPLASH reception and awards ceremony is Thursday, June 6, 2013 from 6:00 – 9:00 PM at the LeRoy Neiman Art Center, 2785 Frederick Douglass Boulevard at 148th Street, in Harlem, NY 10039. To register, purchase tickets and learn about different levels of sponsorship for the event, please visit the event page at www.neimancenter.org.
The LARGER THAN LIFE exhibition is on view to the public until June 8, 2013. For more information about viewing hours, call: 212-862-2787.
The LeRoy Neiman Art Center is made possible by a generous gift from the renowned painter and on-going support from The LeRoy Neiman Foundation, corporations, individuals and other organizations. It has become an integral resource in the Central Harlem community.
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Letter to the Editor: Early childhood development and the opioid crisis
Appeared in the Concord Monitor on July 9, 2017
Updated: 9:24 AM EDT Nov 1, 2017
New Hampshire had one of the highest rates of opioid-related fatalities in the country last year. Communities across the state are reporting that there is a surge in grandparents raising their grandchildren because of both the chaos and tragedy the crisis has had on families.Most New Hampshire citizens know at least one person affected by the opioid crisis, and so there is emerging public support for prevention. Unfortunately, most discussions about prevention look at intervening in middle school at the earliest. While prevention in middle school is important, we have to set our focus much earlier in children’s developmental trajectories if we are to effectively prevent the kind of crises we are now experiencing.Science tells us that brains are built over time, and from the bottom up, with simple circuits and skills providing the scaffolding for more advanced circuits and skills that develop later. Early experiences literally shape the architecture of the developing brain, and skill begets skill. We also know that experiences such as abuse, neglect and exposure to violence can cause toxic stress responses in the brain, with lifelong consequences in health, learning and behavior. The active ingredient in healthy brain development, and the very thing that protects against toxic stress, is children’s engagement in relationships with their parents and other caregivers in their family or community.That is why effective early childhood programs and services can protect against a range of problems later in life – including substance misuse. In addition to buffering toxic stress, early childhood programs also help to link children to the services they and their families need.Intervening early can shape developmental trajectories by piling on protective factors and minimizing risk factors – even for children most at risk. Programs like evidence-based home visiting, and high- quality child care, preschool and Head Start can help promote the development of cognitive and social skills which are protective factors against later substance use. These programs teach children to manage their own emotions and cope with adversity, and can help parents and other caregivers develop the skills to be supportive in ways that steer children away from substance use.(Laura Milliken is director of Spark NH and Nick Willard is Chief of the Manchester Police Department)
N.H. —
New Hampshire had one of the highest rates of opioid-related fatalities in the country last year. Communities across the state are reporting that there is a surge in grandparents raising their grandchildren because of both the chaos and tragedy the crisis has had on families.
Most New Hampshire citizens know at least one person affected by the opioid crisis, and so there is emerging public support for prevention. Unfortunately, most discussions about prevention look at intervening in middle school at the earliest. While prevention in middle school is important, we have to set our focus much earlier in children’s developmental trajectories if we are to effectively prevent the kind of crises we are now experiencing.
Science tells us that brains are built over time, and from the bottom up, with simple circuits and skills providing the scaffolding for more advanced circuits and skills that develop later. Early experiences literally shape the architecture of the developing brain, and skill begets skill. We also know that experiences such as abuse, neglect and exposure to violence can cause toxic stress responses in the brain, with lifelong consequences in health, learning and behavior. The active ingredient in healthy brain development, and the very thing that protects against toxic stress, is children’s engagement in relationships with their parents and other caregivers in their family or community.
That is why effective early childhood programs and services can protect against a range of problems later in life – including substance misuse. In addition to buffering toxic stress, early childhood programs also help to link children to the services they and their families need.
Intervening early can shape developmental trajectories by piling on protective factors and minimizing risk factors – even for children most at risk. Programs like evidence-based home visiting, and high- quality child care, preschool and Head Start can help promote the development of cognitive and social skills which are protective factors against later substance use. These programs teach children to manage their own emotions and cope with adversity, and can help parents and other caregivers develop the skills to be supportive in ways that steer children away from substance use.
(Laura Milliken is director of Spark NH and Nick Willard is Chief of the Manchester Police Department)
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Feds step up cybersecurity ahead of midterms
LAKE MARY, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35) - As early voters head to the polls for the midterm elections, the federal government is stepping up cyber security.
"The 2018 midterm elections remain a potential target for state and non-state actors and we remain prepared to respond," said Matthew Masterson, senior cybersecurity advisor for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
DHS is rolling out a new federal cyber attach detection system, called ALBERT Sensors, designed to detect hackers before they get into the election system.
"The vulnerability is if they get into the system they can attack our voter registration system where all the voter records are held and obviously that could create chaos for us on Election Day,” said George Nunez, the director of internet technology for the Broward County, Florida Supervisor or Elections Office.
Every county in Florida now has an ALBERT, which alerts officials to suspicious computer IP addresses that are trying to get into the election system.
“In Seminole county we call it building a cyber mote around our office, but every county in Florida has this similar cyber mote blocking against any cyber intrusion that shouldn’t be happening,” said Seminole County Supervisor of Elections Mike Ertel.
According to a recent Pew Research Center Poll, 67 percent said it’s “somehwhat” or “very” likely that Russia or som other foreign agency is trying to influence voting. Just 8 percent of respondents were confident in the election system.
“There’s always a concern. Always a concern just based on previous elections and what we’ve heard that the elections were manipulated and rigged in a way,” said Hanif Hakimjee, who cast an early ballot in Seminole County.
“We would be ignorant to think that [the attempts] aren’t happening. The question is what are we doing to prevent it?” said Joy Fieulleteau, a voter from Lake Mary.
The ALBERT sensors aren’t 100-percent effective. The system’s only capable of blocking known threats that it’s programmed to identify.
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In 1984 he was the USA National 10,000 meter track champion and a finalist for the 5,000 meters in the 1984 Olympic Trials along with qualifying for both 1988 and 1992 Olympic Marathon Trials. He is the former U.S. record holder for the 5km and 12km on the roads. Among numerous international team-racing achievements, Jon Sinclair is the all time cumulative men’s point leader in the Runner’s World Road Race Rankings. In 1995, he co-founded Anaerobic Management, an internet based coaching business he runs with his wife Kim Jones.
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NAVITEL E500 MAGNETIC
Modern navigation
NAVITEL E500 MAGNETIC is a modern car GPS navigator with a magnetic mount and a large selection of pre-installed offline maps. The device has a bright 5-inch TFT-display. The internal memory of the device is 8 GB.
The key advantage of NAVITEL E500 MAGNETIC is a revolutionary magnetic mount with continuous power supply. The suction cup mount base that is included in the package attaches firmly to the windscreen of the car. Through the USB port, it is connected to the car lighter socket via NAVITEL car charger that is also included.
Automatic launch and switch-off
It is enough to bring the device and the base into proximity to securely fix the GPS. After that, it will automatically turn on and launch the navigation software. The strong magnet holds the device securely while driving. The GPS turns off automatically 15 seconds after its removal from the base. Installation and removal take only a few seconds.
Maps of 47 countries
The package of maps preinstalled on NAVITEL E500 MAGNETIC includes 43 European countries, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine. Additional maps can be purchased and installed with the help of Navitel Navigator Update Center. The device uses microSD up to 32 GB to store additional maps and media files.
NAVITEL E500 MAGNETIC Personal Navigation Device
Car holder (windscreen)
Car charger 12 V
Mini-USB cable
Navitel Navigator
Pre-installed maps
Albania, Andorra, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Isle of Man, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, North Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Vatican City State
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when the device is connected to the base
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3.5 mm (mini-jack)
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138х85х17 mm
NAVITEL E500 MAGNETIC is delivered with pre-installed maps of 47 countries.
Every map includes residential and industrial infrastructure with address search and detailed road network with traffic direction, interchanges, roundabouts, and other relevant information. There is also a huge POI database (filling stations, ATMs, restaurants, etc.) and an extensive SPEEDCAM database.
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