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Miniatures by Sheila Hicks
(born Hastings, Nebraska, 1934.) Painter, Textile/Fiber/Weaver, Artist.
At the Stedelijk Design exhibition my attention was quickly drawn to the textile area were a lot of gripping works was exhibited. Most of the items appeared very autonomous and were presented as art displayed in frames, on glass tables or hanging down from the ceiling. Probably the smallest section of pieces (size A4) made of colorful weaved threads caught my attention – they were made by the American artist Sheila Hicks.
It is hard to say what it actually was that dragged me into her small and actually very simply and straightforward made artworks. I had the feeling of looking at a continues (paintless) painting with numerous layers. I was sure that something interesting had to be hidden behind those threads and probably made by a person with a lot of experiences and an interesting background.
The Stedelijk has written an appealing text on the wall about textile as art and how the industrial movement has influenced the textile scene and how the old stereotype that textile work was women’s work has changed through the time.
Sheila’s woven textile pieces are attractive because I neither could categorize the style or the period. Something in them looked familiar but at the same time like something I had never seen before, I consider it like a hybrid of different cultures and nationalities, emphasizing the use of different materials. The way it was presented was also interesting, in small frames, side by side. Very organized and strict but the threads stood out very randomly in a way. I really wonder why Sheila Hicks made these small miniatures and to understand that my research is based on her biography and her history.
Sheila Hicks is educated in Fine Arts at Yale University. She started as a painter and turned her carrier into weaving and working with fibers – from 2 dimensional work to 3 dimensional work. Her miniatures (the ones in the Stedelijk) reflect her past as a painter as you can translate them to weaved paintings. These are works she has done through her whole career, besides that she is well known for her big weaved sculptural installations and wall decorations.
In her studytime one of her professors was Josef Albers, the Bauhaus master who had settled in The United States because of the pressure of the Nazis regime. Albers was the director of the Department of Design and transplanted some of Bauhaus ideals to Yale University that is reflected in a lot of Sheilas earlier work for instance the patterns, her choice of colors and the geometry and abstraction just like the classic impression of Bauhaus.
With Josef Albers [x], Sheila worked in a kind of color laboratory, and did extensive research on materials, plastics, paper, wire and plaster, that could also be one of the resons why she often weave different objects into her work. Since the 1960’s, Sheila trained in the modernistic Bauhaus tradition, as a unique way of mixing autonomous art with the traditional craft of weaving. In an interview she says: “However, when I was at Yale I had exposure to art history. I took ‘Art of Latin America,’ with Dr. George Kubler, and I chose to write about textiles because he had given a lecture showing beautiful old Peruvian mummy bundles.’’ Those textiles, she recounts, made a strong impression on her. She realized she needed to find out how they were made — not just how they looked. “At that point, Albers — Josef Albers — saw me struggling in my painting booth on improvised looms that were not looms; they were just painting stretchers that I used to tie yarns into tension, and he said he would take me home and introduce me to his wife.’’ His wife was Anni Albers [x], who is perhaps the most well-known textile artist from the 20th century. Anni Albers was a former bauhaus student and helped Sheila with a lot of work in the beginning of her carreer. I believe that her past as a painter and her influence from Anni Albers/ Bauhaus tradition could have caused Sheila Hicks – through her whole carrier – to continually make these small, straight forward, minis/miniatures beside her other work (3 dimensional). Notwithstanding that, Hicks played an important role in the transformation of textile art during the 1960’s. Textile artists changed the dialogue and understanding of textiles as sculptural pieces in addition to two dimensional works.
The story tells that Sheila is always carrying a loom – and every time she has a moment she starts weaving. As written above I find a lot of her miniatures look very ethnic, and that is probably because she has traveled a lot through her live. In the late 50s Sheila went to Chile, Mexico, India and Morocco and worked with different Local Artist. There she was inspired [x] by their weaving techniques, color theory and architecture.
To understand and try to experiment myself (right image above). I found this old loom and tried to weave a miniature my self and totally understood why you can get addicted to weaving. In a way it is very meditative and when you first get a grip on it – it is very uncomplicated and just a pleasure to do.
I also found this book at the Library of the Stedelijk:
A book of Irma Boom called ”Weawing as a methopor” with her collection of her miniatures. The book displays over fifty of Sheilas woven textile pieces
Not that this research should be about Irma Boom, the maker of the book (graphic Design) But she need also a cadeau. The book is amazing beautiful, and present all Hicks miniatures in a very nice way. All the pieces are presented in a beautiful layout – a nice red line through the book (e.g.colours) so you almost feel like looking in someone’s sketch book. The Book stand out very personal. I can only recommend you to go to the library of Stedeljk and check it out and have a look in all the other books. A new book was recently published on her textile installation at the Mint Museum’s Atrium [x]
Sheila Hics miniature is a constantly sidework through her life. I would translate it to weaved diary paintings. It is impressing!!
By Yoko Maja Hansen / Categories: art, Design in the Stedelijk 1, textile Tags: Anni Albers, fiber as art, metaphor, miniatures, minies, Sheila Hicks, weaved diary, Weaver No Comments
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Jette Sandholm Jensen Kastrup
jsk@sund.ku.dk
Introductory remarks on publicationslist
Publications 1988-2013 by Jette Sandholm Kastrup
Peer-reviewed: 93
1990-1994: 4
1995-1999: 12
2010-May 2013: 23
Books (editor, chapters): 7
Patents: 2
Other publications: 28
PhD thesis: 1
Structures deposited in the Protein Data Bank: 106
Jagten på et signalstof til hjernens delta2-receptor
Naur, P., Olsen, L., Gajhede, Michael & Kastrup, Jette Sandholm Jensen, 2007, In : Lægemiddelforskning. p. 32-33
Ionotropic glutamate-like receptor d2 binds D-serine and glycine.
Naur, P., Hansen, K. B., Kristensen, Anders Skov, Dravid, S. M., Pickering, Darryl S, Olsen, L., Vestergaard, Bente, Egebjerg, J., Gajhede, Michael, Traynelis, S. F. & Kastrup, Jette Sandholm Jensen, 2007, In : Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States of America. 104, 35, p. 14116-14121
Thermodynamic Characterization of New Positive Allosteric Modulators Binding to the Glutamate Receptor A2 Ligand-Binding Domain: Combining Experimental and Computational Methods Unravels Differences in Driving Forces
Nørholm, A., Francotte, P., Goffin, E., Botez, I., Danober, L., Lestage, P., Pirotte, B., Kastrup, Jette Sandholm Jensen, Olsen, L. & Oostenbrink, C., 22 Dec 2014, In : Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. 54, 12, p. 3404-16 13 p.
Synthesis, pharmacological and structural characterization, and thermodynamic aspects of GluA2-positive allosteric modulators with a 3,4-dihydro-2H-1,2,4-benzothiadiazine 1,1-dioxide scaffold
Nørholm, A., Francotte, P., Olsen, L., Krintel, C., Frydenvang, Karla Andrea, Goffin, E., Challal, S., Danober, L., Botez-Pop, I., Lestage, P., Pirotte, B. & Kastrup, Jette Sandholm Jensen, 14 Nov 2013, In : Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 56, 21, p. 8736-45 10 p.
Structural and functional studies of the modulator NS9283 reveal agonist-like mechanism of action at α4β2 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors
Olsen, J. A., Ahring, P. K., Kastrup, Jette Sandholm Jensen, Gajhede, Michael & Balle, T., 5 Sep 2014, In : The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 289, 36, p. 24911-21 11 p.
Two distinct allosteric binding sites at α4β2 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors revealed by NS206 and NS9283 give unique insights to binding activity-associated linkage at Cys-loop receptors.
Olsen, J. A., Kastrup, Jette Sandholm Jensen, Peters, D., Gajhede, Michael, Balle, T. & Ahring, P. K., 13 Dec 2013, In : Journal of Biological Chemistry. 288, 50, p. 35997 10 p.
Molecular recognition of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine by an acetylcholine binding protein reveals determinants of binding to nicotinic acetylcholine receptors
Olsen, J. A., Balle, T., Gajhede, Michael, Ahring, P. K. & Kastrup, Jette Sandholm Jensen, 17 Mar 2014, In : PLOS ONE. 9, 3, p. e91232 8 p.
Neuroplastin-55 binds to and signals through the fibroblast growth factor receptor
Owczarek, S., Kiryushko, D., Hald Larsen, M., Kastrup, Jette Sandholm Jensen, Gajhede, Michael, Sandi, C., Berezin, V., Bock, E. & Soroka, V., 2010, In : The FASEB Journal. 24, 4, p. 1139-1150 12 p.
The structure of the complex between a branched pentasaccharide and Thermobacillus xylanilyticus GH-51 arabinofuranosidase reveals xylan-binding determinants and induced fit
Paës, G., Skov, L. K., O'Donohue, M. J., Rémond, C., Kastrup, Jette Sandholm Jensen, Gajhede, Michael & Mirza, Osman Asghar, 2008, In : Biochemistry. 47, 28, p. 7441-7451
Lessons from more than 80 structures of the GluA2 ligand-binding domain in complex with agonists, antagonists and allosteric modulators
Pøhlsgaard, J., Frydenvang, Karla Andrea, Madsen, Ulf & Kastrup, Jette Sandholm Jensen, 1 Jan 2011, In : Neuropharmacology. 60, 1, p. 135-150
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Stafford headlines DHS league honors
Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009 6:06 PM
Five games into the regular season, the Durango High School boys soccer team was winless and goalless.
Garhett Stafford, fittingly, scored the season's first goal Sept. 19 - another loss, however, and the first of seven
consecutive defeats to start the season.
Stafford's goal opened the flood gates, though.
Durango started scoring goals and started winning games, enough so that the Demons rallied for a 7-8-1 overall
season, second in the Southwestern League and a 20th ranking in the Colorado High School Activities Association Boys
Soccer State Championships.
For their efforts, the Durango Demons had three players named to the All-SWL team, and coach Scott Emrich was named
Coach of the Year.
Stafford, who finished the season with one goal and one assist, was named Player of the Year and joined teammate
Taylor Graham on the first team.
Stafford was named honorable mention All-State, as well.
Tim Hubertus was named to the second team.
"Two sophomores and one junior," Emrich was quick to point out.
Stafford, who played junior varsity last season, is a junior, while Graham and Hubertus are sophomores.
"Garhett is a very hard worker," Emrich said. "He came in after this offseason working very hard this summer, and you
could tell. He prepared himself really well for this season."
Durango's season turned around, Emrich said, when he settled on the back four of his 4-4-2 system. Joe Casey and
Dylan Schwantes played fullback, and Stafford and Graham manned the middle in front of Demons' goalkeeper John
Bernazzani.
"Once we finally decided on that back four ... it all worked out," said Emrich, whose side started the season 0-7
then finished the regular season 7-1. "We only allowed four goals and scored 21 in that stretch.
"Garhett and Taylor really anchored the middle of our defense. They're good ball-handlers. They're good distributors.
They really do a lot of good things."
For Emrich, the coach-of-the-year honor was a pleasant surprise after a tumultuous start.
"To start 0-7 is really hard; I've never been through that before," he said. "But the boys stayed together. They
didn't get down on each other. They remained confident, and they played confidently on the field. I think that speaks
volumes of their character. They really easily could have given up, but they always kept their heads up.
"We went unbeaten in our last eight games. That's a really good comeback. I was really proud of 'em at the end of
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Emrich has reached the postseason in all 11 of his head-coaching campaigns. He attributed this year's postseason
award to the program, the players and his coaching staff: Anthony Bonanno, Benj Fredrick and Dawson Emrich.
"For my award, that speaks very much of our program, our coaching staff and these boys," he said.
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DHS boys beat MCHS by 18 in season finale
Durango D holds Cortez to just 29 total points
Friday, Feb. 19, 2010 5:52 AM
If defense was one of the keys to Durango High School's win over Montezuma-Cortez High School back in January, then it
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Durango held the Panthers to 13 first-half points and just four third-quarter points, and the Demons routed their rival
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In what has been an up-and-down season for the 8-12 Demons (4-6 Southwestern League), an
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The Demons blew the game wide open in the third quarter, after leading just
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Jordan Gillen led all scorers with 16 points in the victory. Dunne said he was more pleased with the senior guard's
defensive effort.
“He's really, really worked hard on (his defense)," the coach said. “(Thursday night) it came to fruition for him."
Scheis Anderson led MCHS with 10 points.
Durango's 29 second-half points equaled the Panthers' output for the entire evening.
With just eight wins on the season, DHS now has to sweat out the Class 5A selection process Sunday. While a lot of
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The renowned Hollywood actress, Ava Gardner was considered as one of the beautiful actress of the Hollywood industry. She has a perfect body with the perfect body measurements size of 36-23-36 inches. Her seductive body was an example of hourglass body type.
Age: 67 (24th December 1922-25th January, 1990)
Body Shape: Hourglass
Breasts-Waist-Hips: 36-23-37 inches (91-58-94 cm)
Bra Size: 34B
Height in feet: 5 feet 6 inches
Height in cm: 168 cm
Weight in kg: 54 kg
Weight in pounds: 120 lbs
Shoe/Feet Size: 8
She looks amazingly beautiful with the slim waist, wide hips and large breasts. Ava hadn’t gone through any plastic surgery to look more beautiful in the movies. She had large natural breast.
Hence, she normally wore the bra size of 34B. She stands with the average height of 5 feet 6 inches and carries the average weight of 54 kg. Her sexy and hot pair of legs was the subject of attraction whenever she appeared in the movies.
She looked stunning in her fashionable dresses. Her stylish hairstyle was adored by her many fans and her fascinating green colored eye adds an extra quality to her magnetic personality. The charismatic movie personality died at the age of 67 in 1990.
Kim Novak body measurements and plastic surgery details
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2-[methyl[(nonafluorobutyl)sulphonyl]amino]ethyl acrylate
not PBT
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3-ethoxy-1,1,1,2,3,4,4,5,5,6,6,6-dodecafluoro-2-(trifluoromethyl)-hexane
Under development under SEV
1-chloro-2-(chlorodiphenylmethyl)benzene
Alcohols, lanolin
A complex combination of organic alcohols obtained by the hydrolysis of lanolin.
Triphenyl phosphite
Reaction mass of 4,4'-methylenediphenyl diisocyanate and o-(p-isocyanatobenzyl)phenyl isocyanate / methylene diphenyl diisocyanate
reaction mass of N,N'-ethane-1,2-diylbis(decanamide) and 12-hydroxy-N-[2-[(1-oxodecyl)amino]ethyl]octadecanamide and N,N'-ethane-1,2-diylbis(12-hydroxyoctadecanamide)
Potassium 2-(3-trifluoromethoxy-1,1,2,2,3,3-hexafluoropropoxy)-2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropionate
Mono- and/or di- and/or tri(1-phenylethyl)-m-cresol and p-cresol
mixture of two components: 1. N-(1,3- dimethylbutyl)-N´- phenyl-p-phenylenediamine 2. N1-(1,3-dimethylbutyl)- N4-(4-(1-methyl-1- phenylethyl)phenyl)ben zene-1,4-diamine
Iso(C10-C14)alkyl (3,5-di-tert-butyl-4-hydroxyphenyl)methylthioacetate
4-(1,1,3,3-tetramethylbutyl)phenol
4,4'-(1,3-phenylene-bis(1-methylethylidene))bis-phenol
2,4,6-tribromophenol
1,2-dichloro-4-(trichloromethyl)benzene
vPvB
Reaction mass of 2,4,6-tris(1-phenylethyl)phenol and Bis(1-phenylethyl) phenol
Diundecyl phthalate, branched and linear
1,2-Benzenedicarboxylic acid, di-C11-14-branched alkyl esters, C13-rich
Zinc bis[O,O-bis(2-ethylhexyl)] bis(dithiophosphate)
Trade name: 3M(TM) NOVEC(TM) ENGINEERED FLUID HFE-7000
Tar acids, xylenol fraction
The fraction of tar acids, rich in 2,4- and 2,5-dimethylphenol, recovered by distillation of low-temperature coal tar crude tar acids.
Reaction mass of 1,1,2,3,3,3-hexafluoro-1-methoxy-2-(trifluoromethyl)propane and 1,1,2,2,3,3,4,4,4-nonafluoro-1-methoxybutane
Phosphorodithioic acid, mixed O,O-bis(1,3-dimethylbutyl and iso-Pr) esters, zinc salts
Fatty acids, C18-unsatd., dimers, 2-ethylhexyl esters
Benzene, mono-C11-C13-branched alkyl derivatives
3-Isocyanatomethyl-3,5,5-trimethylcyclohexyl isocyanate homopolymer, isocyanurate type
2-(2H-benzotriazol-2-yl)-4-(tert-butyl)-6-(sec-butyl)phenol
RMOA
2,4-di-tert-butyl-6-(5-chlorobenzotriazol-2-yl)phenol
2,2',6,6'-tetra-tert-butyl-4,4'-methylenediphenol
1-(2-hydroxy-5-nonyl(branched)-phenyl)ethanone oxime
3,3'-dimethylbiphenyl-4,4'-diyl diisocyanate
4,4'-methylenediphenyl diisocyanate
not vPvB
N,N-dicyclohexylbenzothiazole-2-sulphenamide
N,N'-bis(1,4-dimethylpentyl)-p-phenylenediamine
5-sec-butyl-2-(2,4-dimethylcyclohex-3-en-1-yl)-5-methyl-1,3-dioxane [1], 5-sec-butyl-2-(4,6-dimethylcyclohex-3-en-1-yl)-5-methyl-1,3-dioxane [2]
covering any of the individual stereoisomers of [1] and [2] or any combination thereof
reaction mass of 5-(sec-butyl)-2-(2,4-dimethylcyclohex-3-en-1-yl)-5-methyl-1,3-dioxane and 5-(sec-butyl)-2-(4,6-dimethylcyclohex-3-en-1-yl)-5-methyl-1,3-dioxane EC / List no: 413-720-9 | CAS no: 117933-89-8
2-(2,4-Dimethylcyclohex-3-ene-1-yl)-5-methyl-(1-methylpropyl)-1,3-dioxane EC / List no: 601-499-3 | CAS no: 117933-89-8
Reaction mass of 5-[(2R)-butan-2-yl]-2-[(1R,2R)-2,4-dimethylcyclohex-3-en-1-yl]-5-methyl-1,3-dioxane and 5-[(2R)-butan-2-yl]-2-[(1R,2S)-2,4-dimethylcyclohex-3-en-1-yl]-5-methyl-1,3-dioxane and 5-[(2R)-butan-2-yl]-2-[(1S,2R)-2,4-dimethylcyclohex-3-en-1-yl]-5-methyl-1,3-dioxane and 5-[(2R)-butan-2-yl]-2-[(1S,2S)-2,4-dimethylcyclohex-3-en-1-yl]-5-methyl-1,3-dioxane and 5-[(2S)-butan-2-yl]-2-[(1S,2R)-2,4-dimethylcyclohex-3-en-1-yl]-5-methyl-1,3-dioxane and 5-[(2S)-butan-2-yl]-2-[(1S,2S)-2,4-dimethylcyclohex-3-en-1-yl]-5-methyl-1,3-dioxane EC / List no: 700-927-7 | CAS no: -
5-sec-butyl-2-(2,4-dimethylcyclohex-3-en-1-yl)-5-methyl-1,3-dioxane EC / List no: - | CAS no: -
2,4,6-trichloro-1,3,5-triazine
2,4,6-tri-tert-butylphenol
Methylcyclohexane
Diisotridecyl adipate
Ammonium 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoro-2-(heptafluoropropoxy)propanoate
4,4'-[(isopropylidene)bis(p-phenyleneoxy)]diphthalic dianhydride
Undecafluorohexanoic acid
1,6,7,8,9,14,15,16,17,17,18,18-Dodecachloropentacyclo[12.2.1.16,9.02,13.05,10]octadeca-7,15-diene (“Dechlorane Plus”™)
covering any of its individual anti- and syn-isomers or any combination thereof
1,6,7,8,9,14,15,16,17,17,18,18-dodecachloropentacyclo[12.2.1.16,9.02,13.05,10]octadeca-7,15-diene EC / List no: 236-948-9 | CAS no: 13560-89-9
rel-(1R,4S,4aS,6aS,7S,10R,10aR,12aR)-1,2,3,4,7,8,9,10,13,13,14,14-dodecachloro-1,4,4a,5,6,6a,7,10,10a,11,12,12a-dodecahydro-1,4:7,10-dimethanodibenzo[a,e]cyclooctene EC / List no: - | CAS no: -
rel-(1R,4S,4aS,6aR,7R,10S,10aS,12aR)-1,2,3,4,7,8,9,10,13,13,14,14-dodecachloro-1,4,4a,5,6,6a,7,10,10a,11,12,12a-dodecahydro-1,4:7,10-dimethanodibenzo[a,e]cyclooctene EC / List no: - | CAS no: -
reaction mass of 2,2,3,3,5,5,6,6-octafluoro-4-(1,1,1,2,3,3,3-heptafluoropropan-2-yl)morpholine and 2,2,3,3,5,5,6,6-octafluoro-4-(heptafluoropropyl)morpholine
Isoheptane
HDI oligomers, isocyanurate
Amphoteric Fluorinated Surfactant
reaction mass of 1-(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8-octahydro-2,3,8,8-tetramethyl-2-naphthyl)ethan-1-one and 1-(1,2,3,4,6,7,8,8a-octahydro-2,3,8,8-tetramethyl-2-naphthyl)ethan-1-one and 1-(1,2,3,5,6,7,8,8a-octahydro-2,3,8,8-tetramethyl-2-naphthyl)ethan-1-one
Bis[N-(4-{[4-(diethylamino)phenyl][4-(ethylamino)-1-naphthyl]methylene}cyclohexa-2,5-dien-1-ylidene)-N-ethylethanaminium] [mono and bis(dodecanyl, branched)]-(sulfonatophenoxy) benzenesulfonate
Ammonium difluoro[1,1,2,2-tetrafluoro-2-(pentafluoroethoxy)ethoxy]acetate
ammonium 2,2,3 trifluor-3-(1,1,2,2,3,3-hexafluoro-3-trifluormethoxypropoxy), propionate
1,1'-(isopropylidene)bis[3,5-dibromo-4-(2,3-dibromopropoxy)benzene]
Perfluorononan-1-oic-acid and its sodium and ammonium salts
Perfluorononan-1-oic acid EC / List no: 206-801-3 | CAS no: 375-95-1
perfluorononan-1-oic acid sodium salts EC / List no: - | CAS no: 21049-39-8
perfluorononan-1-oic acid ammonium salts EC / List no: - | CAS no: 4149-60-4
Terphenyl, hydrogenated
Quaternary ammonium compounds, tri-C8-10-alkylmethyl, chlorides
N,N'-ethylenebis(3,4,5,6-tetrabromophthalimide)
A mixture of: α-3-(3-(2H-benzotriazol-2-yl)-5-tert-butyl-4-hydroxyphenyl)propionyl-ω-hydroxypoly(oxyethylene); α-3-(3-(2H-benzotriazol-2-yl)-5-tert-butyl-4-hydroxyphenyl)propionyl-ω-3-(3-(2H-benzotriazol-2-yl)-5-tert-butyl-4-hydroxyphenyl)propionyloxypoly(oxyethylene)
A mixture of branched and linear C7-C9 alkyl 3-[3-(2H-benzotriazol-2-yl)-5-(1,1-dimethylethyl)-4-hydroxyphenyl]propionates
Dimantine
1,3,5-tris(oxiranylmethyl)-1,3,5-triazine-2,4,6(1H,3H,5H)-trione
Tris(methylphenyl) phosphate
C16-(branched), C20-(branched) and C24-(branched)-alkanes
1,2-benzenedicarboxylic acid, di-C10-12-branched alkyl esters
Perfluorohexane-1-sulphonic acid and its salts
PFHxS
Potassium perfluorohexane-1-sulphonate EC / List no: 223-393-2 | CAS no: 3871-99-6
Perfluorohexane-1-sulphonic acid EC / List no: 206-587-1 | CAS no: 355-46-4
Tridecafluorohexanesulphonic acid, compound with 2,2'-iminodiethanol (1:1) EC / List no: 274-462-9 | CAS no: 70225-16-0
Ammonium perfluorohexane-1-sulphonate EC / List no: 269-511-6 | CAS no: 68259-08-5
Reaction mass of 2-methylpent-2-ene and diisopropyl ether
O,O,O-triphenyl phosphorothioate
2-(4-tert-butylbenzyl)propionaldehyde
3,3,4,4,5,5,6,6,7,7,8,8,8-tridecafluorooctyl methacrylate
3,3,4,4,5,5,6,6,7,7,8,8,8-tridecafluorooctyl acrylate
α,α,α,2-tetrachlorotoluene
2,2'-[(3,3'-dichloro[1,1'-biphenyl]-4,4'-diyl)bis(azo)]bis[N-(4-chloro-2,5-dimethoxyphenyl)-3-oxobutyramide]
Octamethylcyclotetrasiloxane
Decamethylcyclopentasiloxane
(ethoxymethoxy)cyclododecane
o-(p-isocyanatobenzyl)phenyl isocyanate
Tris(2-ethylhexyl) benzene-1,2,4-tricarboxylate
Reaction mass of (2S,5R)-2-tert-butyl-5-methyl-2-propyl-2,5-dihydrofuran and (2S,5S)-2-tert-butyl-5-methyl-2-propyl-2,5-dihydrofuran
N-(1,4-dimethylpentyl)-N'-phenylbenzene-1,4-diamine
Hexadec-1-ene
Disodium 2,2'-([1,1'-biphenyl]-4,4'-diyldivinylene)bis(benzenesulphonate)
Bis(4-chlorophenyl) sulphone
Acetic acid, anhydride, reaction products with 1,5,10-trimethyl-1,5,9-cyclododecatriene
6,6'-di-tert-butyl-4,4'-thiodi-m-cresol
3,7,11-trimethyldodeca-1,6,10-trien-3-ol,mixed isomers
Reaction mass of 2,6-di-tert-butylphenol and 2,4,6-tri-tert-butylphenol
Nonadecafluorodecanoic acid (PFDA) and its sodium and ammonium salts
Nonadecafluorodecanoic acid EC / List no: 206-400-3 | CAS no: 335-76-2
Ammonium nonadecafluorodecanoate EC / List no: 221-470-5 | CAS no: 3108-42-7
Decanoic acid, nonadecafluoro-, sodium salt EC / List no: - | CAS no: 3830-45-3
N-(2-ethylhexyl)naphthalen-2-amine
Benzene, C10-13-alkyl derivs.
[1,3(or 1,4)-phenylenebis(1-methylethylidene)]bis[tert-butyl] peroxide
2,4,6-tris(2,4,6-tribromophenoxy)-1,3,5-triazine
Trixylyl phosphate
tris(4-nonylphenyl, branched) phosphite
Tetrabromophthalic anhydride
tert-dodecanethiol
Shale oil bitumen
S-(tricyclo(5.2.1.0'2,6)deca-3-en-8(or 9)-yl O-(isopropyl or isobutyl or 2-ethylhexyl) O-(isopropyl or isobutyl or 2-ethylhexyl) phosphorodithioate
Rosin, maleated
Rosin, hydrogenated
A complex combination derived from wood, especially pine wood. Composed primarily of resin acids and modified resin acids such as dimers and decarboxylated resin acids. Includes rosin stabilized by catalytic disproportionation.
Retinyl propionate
Resin acids and Rosin acids, sodium salts
Resin acids and Rosin acids, hydrogenated, esters with pentaerythritol
Resin acids and Rosin acids, hydrogenated, esters with glycerol
Reaction product of ammonium molybdate and C12-C24-diethoxylated alkylamine (1:5-1:3)
reaction mass of mixed (3,3,4,4,5,5,6,6,7,7,8,8,8-tridecafluorooctyl) phosphates, ammonium salt
Phenol, 4-methyl-, reaction products with dicyclopentadiene and isobutylene
Oligomerisation and alkylation reaction products of 2-phenylpropene and phenol
Octocrilene
N-1-naphthylaniline
N,N'-dithiodi-o-phenylenedibenzamide
Ionone, methyl-
Imidazolium compounds, 2-C17-unsatd.-alkyl-1-(2-C18-unsatd. amidoethyl)-4,5-dihydro-N-methyl, Me sulfates
Fluoranthene
Dodecamethylcyclohexasiloxane
Ditolyl ether
Diisodecyl azelate
Dichloro(dimethyl)silane
Di-tert-butyl 3,3,5-trimethylcyclohexylidene diperoxide
Decahydronaphthalene
Creosote oil, acenaphthene fraction
A complex combination of hydrocarbons produced by the distillation of coal tar and boiling in the range of approximately 240°C to 280°C (464°F to 536°F). Composed primarily of acenaphthene, naphthalene and alkyl naphthalene.
Cashew, nutshell liq.
Extractives and their physically modified derivatives. Anacardium occidentale, Anacardiaceae.
Bis(α,α-dimethylbenzyl) peroxide
Bis(isopropyl)naphthalene
Benzyltoluene
Benzene, mono-C10-13-alkyl derivs., distn. residues
Ammonium salts of mono- and bis[3,3,4,4,5,5,6,6,7,7,8,8,8-tridecafluorooctyl and/or poly (substituted alkene)] phosphate
3,7,11,15-tetramethylhexadec-1-en-3-ol
2-octyldodecan-1-ol
2-hexyldecan-1-ol
2-ethylhexyl diphenyl phosphate
2-ethyl-4-(2,2,3-trimethyl-3-cyclopenten-1-yl)-2-buten-1-ol
2-(2H-benzotriazol-2-yl)-4-(1,1,3,3-tetramethylbutyl)phenol
2-(2H-benzotriazol-2-yl)-4,6-bis(1-methyl-1-phenylethyl)phenol
2-(2H-1,2,3-benzotriazol-2-yl)-6-(2-phenylpropan-2-yl)-4-(2,4,4-trimethylpentan-2-yl)phenol
2,6-dichloro-N-phenylaniline
2,6-di-tert-butylphenol
2,5-Furandione, dihydro-, mono-C15-20-alkenyl derivs.
2,4,6-triallyloxy-1,3,5-triazine
2,2',6,6'-tetrabromo-4,4'-isopropylidenediphenol
1-[4-(1,1-dimethylethyl)phenyl]-3-(4-methoxyphenyl)propane-1,3-dione
1,4-Benzenediamine, N,N'-mixed tolyl and xylyl derivs.
1,4-Benzenediamine, N,N'-mixed Ph and tolyl derivs.
1,4-Benzenediamine, N,N'-mixed Ph and tolyl and xylyl derivs.
1,4,5,6,7,7-hexachloro-8,9,10-trinorborn-5-ene-2,3-dicarboxylic anhydride
1,1'-(methylenedi-4,1-phenylene)bis(3-butylurea)
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Home Reta's Reflections Titus 1:1-5 — Salutations and Thanksgivings
Titus 1:1-5 — Salutations and Thanksgivings
Studies in 1, 2 Timothy, Titus—Lesson 19 (Titus 1:1-5)
by Reta Halteman Finger
Before you settle down to reading Titus 1:1-5, let’s back up. Who is Titus? Although Acts 16:1-5 tells us how Timothy joined Paul’s mission in Lystra of Galatia, it is silent about Titus, another member of Paul’s team. Titus also must have lived in Galatia, for after 14 years of evangelism in that Roman province, Paul takes his uncircumcised Greek companion, Titus, along to the Jerusalem headquarters as an example of his proclamation to Gentiles (Gal. 2:1, 3).
Who is Titus?
Almost all other references to Titus are from 2 Corinthians. By reading both 1 and 2 Corinthians, we can piece together Paul’s long and convoluted history with the church in Corinth. (2 Corinthians is a composite of several letters, not necessarily in chronological order.) Paul, Timothy, and Titus had planted a number of house churches in Corinth in 50-51 CE. After they moved on to other missions, conflicts arose in these house churches. After at least one letter to the Corinthians, Paul sends Timothy to them “to remind you of my ways in Christ Jesus” (1 Cor. 4:17). Timothy apparently was unsuccessful, so Paul makes a short visit and writes two more letters without resolution. Finally, he blasts off an angry letter (2 Cor. 10-13), after which he sends Titus to clean up the mess.
Titus, the problem solver
In 2 Corinthians 2:12-13, Paul recounts his intense anxiety as he waits for news from “my brother Titus” while traveling through Troas and on to Macedonia in northern Greece. Then in 2 Corinthians 7:5-7 and 13-15 (part of a later letter), Paul writes of his great relief at finding Titus in Macedonia. Titus’s apparent success in practicing restorative justice by getting the believers to repent of their behavior was more than most church leaders can achieve in a lifetime!
Titus, the fund-raiser
In yet another letter comprising 2 Corinthians 8 and 9, Paul names Titus his “partner and co-worker” (8:23). In this case, Titus is the fund-raiser collecting money for the poor in Jerusalem from the churches their team has planted—as a thank you gift from Gentiles for their access to the gospel of Jesus (8:1-6, 16). Finally, in preparing for his third visit to Corinth, Paul reassures his churches that he is coming in love, and he uses Titus’s previous visit as an example of the trustworthy behavior he, Paul, also will exhibit (12:14-18).
Hierarchy or Equality?
Thus, Paul’s undisputed letters of Corinthians and Galatians portray Titus as a long-time companion of Paul—a brother, partner, and co-worker—and, as a fund-raiser who must carry bags of coins, utterly trustworthy. Although he did not write letters (that were preserved) and did not have Jewish credentials, Titus sounds like an equal to Paul.
A remaining mystery
One other text, 2 Timothy 4:10, also mentions Titus. Here, Paul asks Timothy to “come to me soon,” because his other co-workers are elsewhere. Titus has “gone to Dalmatia.” Considering that the letter to Titus situates him on the island of Crete, this remains a mystery. When we examine 2 Timothy, we may learn more.
Comparing Titus to the undisputed Pauline letters
Careful readers of the Pastoral Epistles will never know for certain if Paul wrote them. We can only search for clues and evaluate pros and cons. Below are my observations about authorship from Titus 1:1-5.
First, the recipient is “Titus, my loyal child in the faith” (1:4). But in the undisputed letters, Paul never calls Titus a “loyal child.” This sets up a chain-of-command, which is then continued in verse 5, where Titus is given authority to “appoint elders in every town,” who in turn will have authority over all other believers on Crete. House fellowships in various towns throughout the island cannot choose their own leaders but must submit to Titus, now the patriarch of the church in Crete. As we shall see later, these (male) elders in turn are expected to “silence” those the author opposes (1:10-11).
Second, “Paul’s” self-introduction in the salutation in 1:1-4 is the longest of the Pastorals, and longer than in any other letter attributed to Paul, except Romans, where he needed to clarify his theology and credentials to a church he had never visited. Why is such a long theological introduction needed for a former partner identified as “my brother Titus”(2 Cor. 2:13)?
Third, terms used in this introduction, such as “the faith,” “the truth,” “godliness,” and “savior,” mirror those used in 1 Timothy and are rarely or never used in the undisputed letters. “Godliness” is used seven times in 1 Timothy, and never in the undisputed Pauline letters. “Savior” occurs six times in Titus, three times in 1 Timothy, and only once (Philippians 3:20) in the undisputed letters. (“Savior” was a common term for a Roman emperor or general who “saved” Rome from enemies.) The word “faith” is used often throughout all the letters, but Paul uses the term to imply an active relationship of faithfulness to God, or the adjective, faithful. But In 1 Timothy and Titus, “the faith” now implies a set of head beliefs, as does “the truth.”
Fourth, note the glaring omission in this letter: a thanksgiving! In every undisputed letter, Paul always gives thanks for the recipients, no matter how much he will scold them later. Would not Paul have thanked Titus for his church-planting on Crete?
Fifth, we have no record Paul ever evangelized in Crete, let alone establishing a church “in every town” (1:5). From these observations, I have doubts that this letter came from the pen of Paul himself.
A preview of Lesson 20
Next time we will deal with three remaining issues from Titus 1:1-16. First, in 1:1, the writer calls himself a doulos, a slave (not a servant as in the NRSV). What is implied in that description? Second, what are the problems in the Cretan churches? Third, how shall we deal with the ethnic slur used in verse 12?
Questions for discussion or reflection
Which questions from Lesson 18 were answered in this lesson?
If you believe Paul himself wrote the letter to Titus, how do you deal with the issues raised above?
If “the truth” is contained in the Titus letter, does it matter who wrote it? What truth in 1:1-5 spiritually connects with you?
Source used
Barr, David L. “Gentiles Who Ignore the Law: Corinthians.” New Testament Story: An Introduction. Fourth edition. Wadsworth Cengage Learning: Belmont, CA, 2009. Pp. 127-131.
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Reta Halteman Finger
Reta Halteman Finger is a long-time member of EEWC-CFT and is a past Southeast representative on the EEWC-CFT Council. She holds a Ph.D. in theology and religion from Northwestern University, masters of theological studies from Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary and Northern Baptist University, and a master of education from Boston University. Reta retired in 2009 from teaching Bible (mostly New Testament) at Messiah College in Grantham, PA. She lives in Harrisonburg, Virginia, and since her retirement from Messiah College has been devoting her time to writing and speaking projects, as well as some part-time teaching at Eastern Mennonite Seminary. For fifteen years, Reta edited the Christian feminist magazine, Daughters of Sarah (no longer published), and is a frequent writer and reviewer for Christian Feminism Today. Using the search box on the homepage of our EEWC-Christian Feminism Today website, you’ll be led to many of her online articles.
Reta's Reflections
Titus 1: 5-16—Harsh Words for a Church in Chaos
Letter to Titus-What’s Next? 2 Timothy or Titus?
1 Timothy 6:3-21—Closing Advice for Church Leaders
1 Timothy 6:1-2—The Crushing Yoke of Slavery, Part 2
Reta's Reflections is a series of Bible studies taught by Reta Halteman Finger. These Bible studies are written from a Christian feminist perspective. Reta emphasizes how to read different genres of biblical literature in their historical contexts and then wrestle with how they might relate to Christians today.
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Philemon Studies Index
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Studies in John’s Gospel Series Index
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Carl and Sandra have each been shaped by their life adventures,from Sandra’s years as a Philadelphia crime reporter to their experiences in addiction recovery and nomadic lifestyle on boats and in RVs. Now, after two years of marriage, the lively retired couple find themselves at a standstill, as the tough exteriors that helped get them through earlier troubles hinder their ability to be vulnerable with each other. As their conflicts increase, Carl backs away from the relationship, and Sandra in turn goes after him. This pursuit leaves Carl feeling inadequate and Sandra feeling like a “monster.” They each wonder aloud whether they should remain married. Demoralized by this endless cycle, the couple turns to master EFT therapist Rebecca Jorgensen.
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Sandra and Carl begin therapy with a number of active conflicts, from whether to sell their boat to where they want to live. Sandra complains that Carl doesn’t express his emotions, commenting “it’s like being with a cardboard character.” Meanwhile Carl is fearful that he cannot provide what Sandra needs, and feels that Sandra’s greater emotional acumen makes it difficult for him to share. In these first sessions, Jorgensen works to quickly develop an alliance with the couple, which enables them to begin to explore the hurt, fear and sadness that lie just under the surface of their disagreements. She identifies the couple’s negative interaction cycle in the first session, and begins to reframe the problem as rooted in underlying feelings and unmet needs.
In the third session, their negative cycle becomes clearer as it is repeatedly enacted, and we witness Jorgensen demonstrate key skills necessary for Stage 1 EFT work, particularly her deft handling of their emotional reactivity. She is able to interrupt their conflicts before they spin out of control, and create space for them to experience a novel way of interacting. Although Carl and Sandra are both fearful about expressing their feelings directly to one another, they begin to share touching moments of closeness during these early sessions.
Carl and Sandra’s relationship begins to show important signs of progress. In their fourth session, the couple is slow to admit the primary emotions that underlie their complaints. By empathically validating the pain and confusion Sandra and Carl feel while reframing their experiences as part of their cycle, Jorgensen creates a space that enables Carl to come out of his withdrawn, defensive stance and admit that he does not express his care for Sandra. Carl’s emergence marks a turning point for the couple, and Jorgensen plants the seed for softening Sandra’s pursuer role by reflecting, “you don’t quite know how to run to Carl’s arms when you’re distressed.”
Over the next two sessions, the couple begins to assimilate the cycle as the root of their problem, and with Jorgensen’s guidance, they soften considerably toward one another. Sandra reflects that she is now able to look at Carl in session, though she still has difficulty revealing why that has been so painful. The moments of connection between Sandra and Carl increase, as they both acknowledge that they do not want to be without the other. In a heartening sign of the headway they have made, Sandra expresses her excitement about the adventure of creating a new relationship with Carl, even as the prospect is very frightening for her.
By now Sandra and Carl have become much more comfortable acknowledging their attachment needs, but the powerful emotions driving their cycle still elude them. Jorgensen continues to probe with evocative questions, which guide the couple to explore intensely vulnerable feelings of longing, fear, and rejection. Sandra and Carl’s willingness to cover such painful territory is fortified by the visible warmth that has blossomed between them over the preceding weeks.
As the therapy progresses into the eighth and ninth sessions, Sandra’s deep attachment fear becomes more obvious. She struggles to feel Carl’s love for her, even as he explains, “I don’t want to be the next person in your life who lets you down.” These sessions exemplify the evolution into Stage 2 EFT, as Jorgensen works to soften Sandra’s pursuit and pull Carl out of his withdrawn position. When Carl tells her how difficult it is to say that he needs her love, Sandra finally lets her guard down and exclaims, “I feel like I’m rolling through the flowers with you!”
Jorgensen has helped the couple lay the groundwork for a new relationship, but the couple still has a lot of work ahead of them. As wanderlust calls them to pull up stakes and voyage on to greener pastures, the focus of their last session turns to how they can continue their work going forward. And while the therapy may not have reached an ideal stage for the couple, it has provided them with a new perspective, instilled them with hope, and set them on a trajectory toward a deeper connection with each other.
"Dr Jorgensen’s attuned responsiveness and skill shows how EFT not only shapes trust and secure bonding, but also how such bonding shapes stronger and more confidant partners. You can't help but learn a great deal from watching this master EFT therapist and trainer in action!"
-- Susan Johnson, EdD, Director, International Center for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy; Author, The Practice of Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, Hold Me Tight, and Love Sense.
"This incredibly useful video series covers new ground by showing an entire course of EFT treatment over 10 sessions. Dr. Jorgensen's warm, calm style demonstrates the importance of the developing and maintaining the alliance, while her absolutely relentless focus on the model brings EFT to life in an accessible way. I found the sessions so captivating that I watched the entire 14 hours over 3 days!"
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"After years of studying, practicing and trying to integrate the complexities of EFT, this series of ten sessions with a MASTER therapist has helped me more than all the travel, all the reading, all the hours I've spent watching tapes. Seeing Rebecca's incredible technique and consistent use of the method finally helped EFT sink in to my brain at a deeply felt level. My sessions are not the same. Thank you, Rebecca and to your lovely clients."
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"Wow, what lovely EFT work. Rebecca Jorgensen's pacing is slow as she helps the couple unfold and bring to consciousness the pattern of disconnection they've developed. Her gentle conjectures are so very respectful. I loved watching her eyes move back and forth between the partners tracking how comments and her reflection of the cycle was landing for each. She was relentlessly empathic while investigating the cycle. Within one session, she was able to identify and the couple could see the cycle. It is masterful!!!! Thank you for this excellent example of EFT in action. I highly recommend this series."
-- Wanda Garner, MS, Certified EFT Therapist
This is a remarkable and unique video series, in that it shows an actual, unedited course of couples therapy over 10 sessions. Unlike many training videos, this was filmed in an actual therapy office, not in a studio setting, and the cameras were controlled from a remote office, so there was no one in the room other than the therapist and the couple. It should be noted that there is no didactic explanation or commentary, so viewers will get the most out of this if they have some familiarity with Emotionally Focused Therapy before watching the videos.
In many ways, Carl and Sandra’s relationship is ideally suited for EFT. They present with significant communication problems and pain related to their unmet attachment needs, but despite their distress they are neither abusive to one another nor checked out of the relationship yet. And for a training video they, they are especially engaging, bright, and feisty. Let's be honest: most therapy is typically a rather painstaking process, and watching 14 hours of most treatments would attract only the most dedicated students. But we think once you start watching this case, you'll be hooked until the end.
In the small amount of time that she works with them, Jorgensen is able to accomplish the key goals of EFT: accessing and reframing key emotional responses, facilitating shifts in the partners' interactional positions, and creating new emotional experiences between them. Therapy preferably takes place over a longer period of time to allow these new emotional experiences to reshape the relationship in an enduring way. Carl and Sandra end therapy just as they are beginning to have new relational experiences, so they have their work cut out for them in maintaining this practice on their own, but this is nonetheless a remarkable demonstration of how much can be done with a skilled therapist and a motivated couple in a short amount of time.
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Rebecca Jorgensen, PhD is Founder and Director of the Attachment Advancement Institute and Co-Director of The Training and Research Institute for Emotionally Focused Therapy. She is an Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) Supervisor and Trainer. Her focus is on promoting effective attachment for healthy relationships through virtual and in-person educational conferences and workshops as well as training and providing consultation on effective treatment of relational distress. She has developed several streaming conferences and seminars and has hosted and/or co-presented with attachment theorists and researchers such as Sue Johnson, Phil Shaver and Jim Coan. She continues to work to develop effective methods and platforms to transfer science-based treatments to clinicians and those who will utilize prevention services.
As a recognized expert on couple therapy couples and therapists travel to work with Dr. Jorgensen at Couple Workshops, Intensive Couples Therapy, Professional Trainings and Consultation. Her online educational programs and consultation groups are popular all around the globe. This “therapists’ therapist” is known for her presence, clarity and empathy. Dr. Jorgensen lives in Mexico where she maintains a small private practice.
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Theme village “The Indian World” is located in the south-eastern part of the town, in a forest, near the reserve by Lubiatów Lake. From the direction of the town centre, the entrance to the village is on the right side of the road. On the territory of the village there is a fenced car park for cars and buses.
The Indian World is a theme village, which was created in 2003. It has an area of 8 ha. The whole idea revolves around the theme of native Americans, the ingenious Northern American culture: the culture of Indians from the Great Plains and from the North-Western Coast.
For those who are interested, there are different attractions depending on age: for kindergarten kids, for primary, secondary and high school students, and for pensioners. The attractions include such activities as: dancing and singing to music from drums, visiting a camp in the forest and in the prairie, bow shooting lessons, throwing a long arrow, hunting buffalos and visit to buffalos which live in the village. During the stay, visitors can listen to the history of Indians and of the Polish Movement of Indian Lovers.
The offer also includes organisation of parties and bonding parties, as well as events appropriate for disabled children.
On the premise there is also a souvenir shop.
The main office is located in Koszalin on 8 Dokerów Street.
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Benign Neglect, Narcissism & Recovering from Abuse
by DavidIStone | Sep 24, 2019 | Articles
One of the most common and destructive forms of abuse I come across in clients is the consequence of what I call ‘benign neglect’.
It’s like the poison gas they used in trench warfare in WW2.
It’s invisible, quiet and deadly. Before you know it, you’re choking on it and your very survival is at stake unless you have a gas mask to protect yourself and even then you could be screwed.
I witness this phenomenon in clients when they talk about their childhood experiences, when seeking support to crack through an abuse patterning this neglect legacy has imprinted into their bodies, psyche, emotional, energetic and quantum systems.
Ironically, as we dig into the wider quantum field via the body, emotions and what is currently showing up in their lives, a gut wrenching and soul destroying sense of shame sometimes reveals itself as the cloaking mechanism that protects them from having to experience the profound levels of neglect or abuse they experienced at a younger age, again.
On top of this shame, that is difficult in of itself to penetrate, as it protects them from such pain, sits a further survivor mechanism.
Pride.
Pride that they made something of themselves and became who they are today.
Strong, determined, confident, professional, capable etc
Really amazing qualities usually.
Yet there remains a shadow that splits off.
This split helps compensate for the original trauma, by burying these unaddressed feelings and hauling the person out of the pits of this inner hell, to recover and make something of themselves.
Good on them.
The original wounding remains however.
It emits signals that influence a person’s life undetected, causing all sorts of chaos, upset and emotional mayhem.
The body and its quantum field of co-creation never lie.
Clients often present in a session as being a hapless victim of an illness, reoccurring depression, an addiction, narcissistic abuse, a neglectful friend and they just can’t seem to break out of it.
They have tried everything – you name it and yet the cycle persists, stuck to them like shit on a blanket.
The thing is, when a parent, caretaker or teacher isn’t able to offer the child’s psyche at the time, the understanding, validation and reparatory measures that could address the original issue, it is likely that it imprints a form of ‘benign neglect’ into their system that becomes their modus operandi of selfcare.
In addition, the child may split off the aspect of themselves that was wounded and insufficiently reinforced, validated and soothed, burying it as there was not the sufficient mirroring of acceptance for that aspect of self to survive.
To split off from this pain and the associated feelings that surround it, and bury it, is a natural defense mechanism of the human psyche.
Benign neglect imbues children with a weak core self, which in turn imprints their bodies with a low sense of worth and entitlement to basic respect which in turn programmes their personal aura to accept patterns of abuse from others that match the original settings that have been cast in time.
These patterns appear to be passed on unconsciously and generationally.
Benign neglect of this kind tends to happen also when the parent isn’t sufficiently connected to themselves and their own source of self love so they can’t give their loving attention to a child and instead end up inverting the parenting process forcing or seducing the child to give them the attention, affection or love they never got.
This subverts the flow of love and creates a reversal of polarities in the child, so the child ends up parenting the parent at the tender age where they should be on the receiving end of the loving regard of the parent to grow and develop a healthy sense of self, clear boundaries and feelings of worth.
Children who don’t receive this healthy mirroring seem to have an innate sense of unworthiness because they haven’t had these positive and wholesome qualities mirrored to them and instead become over empathic towards others as this is what they were subliminally programmed to do as children in order to be loveable themselves.
This goes some way to explaining how the narcissist / empath dynamic is enmeshed so deeply into a child’s field, psyche and emotional make up and sets them up with a patterning for life to attract lovers who mirror this inner dynamic of neglectful early love.
Benign neglect also occurs when a caretaker isn’t able to offer any positive mirroring of a child’s growing intuition and encourage it but instead criticises or contradicts it.
Benign neglect also occurs when a child acts out but the adult can’t see the child is actually taking on the adult’s suppressed or repressed shadow emotions or inner child aspects. The adult usually ends up acting out and repeating their own parental dynamic of abuse with their own child, becoming the abusive parent to the child all over again.
I am offering a free energetic scan until the end of October to identify the origin of these patterns in you and show you how you can shift them.
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Dr. Robotnik is back and he has a new ally to help him defeat you in Sonic the Hedgehog 3. Go to an adventure in a mystical floating island that caters your enemy.
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is a platform video game and the fourth main game in the Sonic the Hedgehog series that was released for the Sega Genesis in 1994. In this game, you will play the role of Sonic the Hedgehog and Miles “Tails” Prower to defeat the Dr. Robotnik and destroy his evil inventions. The game begins after the events of the previous installation of the game where Dr. Robotnik’s Death Egg crash-lands on the Angel Island. Dr. Robotnik meets the guardian of the Master Emerald, Knuckles the Echidna, and tricks him to fight against Sonic.
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It's Time to Talk About Sustainability
by Hanna Sarén
It's time for Fashion Revolution Week (22nd-28th April) and to make the ethical issues in the fashion industry even more visible. The clothing industry is the second-largest industrial polluter in the world and the big percent comes from China. Yet it seems that the Chinese fashion is about to go green – the designers and industry leaders have recognized China's unique potential to reduce fashion's environmental footprint.
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Fashion Revolution is a global movement calling for greater transparency, sustainability and ethics in the fashion industry. On #whomademyclothes campaign brands and producers are encouraged to respond with the hashtag #imadeyourclothes and to demonstrate transparency in their supply chain.
The campaign falls on the anniversary of the Rana Plaza factory collapse, which killed 1138 people and injured many more on 24th April 2013, making it the fourth largest industrial disaster in history.
More about Fashion Revolution: https://www.fashionrevolution.org/
For those who want to do more than just talk about it
As the heart of fast fashion, China has forever been a mass producer of clothes – some estimates suggest 50 percent of the world’s clothing is manufactured in China. In a market where cheaply produced, fast fashion is just a click away, sustainability may seem like a hard sell.
As a result of the way fashion is made, sourced and consumed, both people and the environment suffer. While the Chinese government promote their new green policy for clean air, less coal use and better regulation, single influencers are taking the lead towards to more sustainable fashion industry.
The Chinese TV host, entrepreneur, and fashion icon Yue-Sai Kan is working to advance the sustainable fashion movement in China. Kan’s China Beauty Charity Fund and WeDesign Group Inc. will sponsor the “Executive Education in Sustainable Fashion” program created for Chinese fashion executives, who want to learn more about sustainable fashion.
The new "made in China"
Luxury brands are in a powerful position to take charge, charging a little more money for quality, long-lasting, sustainable fashion. It is now more important than ever to educate the Chinese market about the significance of sustainability as Chinese consumers are projected to account for more than 40 percent of luxury goods consumption in the world by 2023.
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Returning to Israel and Palestine
After almost 10 years away, Federica and I returned to Israel and Palestine with our kids and students from the school where I work in Bologna. It was really a huge effort to make it all happen, especially at a time when we are transitioning here at the farm and have been traveling other places. Despite all this, it was truly amazing to be back in this place that’s meant so much to us. Our kids, though less thrilled to be there, were remarkably patient considering the circumstances. We feel really blessed.
Here’s a few of the current and previous photos, before and after:
AtTuwani, 2008
Playing with Hussein (Sami) in Tuwani, 2008
Evan, Sami (Hussien) and our youngest at Sumud Freedom Camp, 2019
In Jerusalem, March 2010
With the family on al-Haram al-Sharif, November 2019
In a doorway by the sea in Haifa, while at the trial for Rachel Corrie in March 2010
In the doorway of an abandoned mosque, in the evacuated village of Lifta, 2019
December 10, 2019 December 11, 2019 by Evan Categories: Uncategorized Leave a comment
Announcing the Borgo Basino Barnraising Tour
From October 28th-November 11th, I’ll be touring the US with my son and Beatrice, Stefano and their son Bernardo to “raise the barn” on our new farm project in Italy. After many years of work, we are finally very excited to share that our community is coming together on the farm and we’re starting new agricultural projects, farm to table hospitality and community research on holistic health. Join us!
If you or folks you know are interested in community building and organizing, food, farming, holistic health, alternative economies, human rights, and sustainability, you are invited to come see us and learn more. We’ll have organic fair trade T-shirts, raffles, interactive community research opportunities and more!
Here’s the tour dates with links to public Facebook events that each include an event flyer:
New York, NY- Oct 28, 6-8pm Locally sourced Fundraising Dinner Location: Faculty Dining Room W, Hunter College, 695 Park Ave, Manhattan (8th floor, entrance at 68th & Lexington with photo ID to pass campus security)
Suquamish, WA (Kitsap County) – Oct 29, 6-8pm Locally sourced Fundraising Dinner Location: Suquamish Community Congregational United Church of Christ, 18732 Division Ave NE, Suquamish, WA 98392
Seattle, WA – Oct 30, 7-9pm Presentation featuring guest speaker Dr. Leylâ Welkin, Cross-Cultural Psychologist Location: University Friends Meeting, 4001 9th Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98105
Tacoma, WA- Oct 31, 1-3pm- University of Washington-Tacoma class presentation in “Moral Development, Technology, And The Natural World”
Olympia, WA – Nov 1, 6-9pm Locally sourced Fundraising Dinner Tickets and Location at https://www.herculesfarm.com/events/borgo-basino-barnraiser-dinner
Olympia, WA-Nov 2, 10am-2pm Potluck Open House Location: Olympia Friends Meeting, 3201 Boston Harbor Rd NE, Olympia, WA 98506
San Francisco, CA- Nov 3, 1-2:30pm Presentation featuring guest speaker Heidi Pidcoke, Psychotherapist Location: San Francisco Friends Meeting, 65 9th St. San Francisco, CA 94103
Camas, WA (Portland area) – Nov 3, 6:30-8:30pm Presentation Location: 1004 NE 4th Ave, Camas, WA 98607
Eugene, OR – Nov 4, 7-8:30pm, Eugene Friends Church Presentation Location: 3495 W 18th Ave, Eugene, OR 97402
Deadwood, OR – Nov 5, 6:30-8:30pm, Deadwood Community Center Potluck and Presentation Location: 91700 Deadwood Creek Road, Deadwood, OR 97430
Olympia, WA- Nov 8, 9am-12pm The Evergreen State College class presentation in “Farm to Table” program
Olympia, WA- Nov 9, 4-6pm Evergreen Farmhouse special gnocchi making workshop and tour finale in partnership with Slow Food Greater Olympia. Reserve a space on Brown Paper Tickets
Please help us spread the word about the tour by sharing on social media (using the links below), by flyer or by word of mouth. We’re looking forward to seeing you!
October 6, 2019 October 16, 2019 by Evan Categories: Uncategorized Leave a comment
Ezra’s house
We passed out olive branches for folks to take home with them.
We hosted a group of students from Guilford College at the farm last month. The group is studying a semester abroad in Northern Italy, in the castle Ezra Pound once lived in. Pound was an American ex-pat poet and critic of US capitalism who supported Italy’s fascist regime during WWII. His Cantos, some written while in US captivity during the occupation of Italy at the end of the war, still inspire a new generation of neofascists today. I don’t think the students knew much about the history of their host family or even the war as it played out in Italy (neither did I before moving here), but their visit put him squarely in my mind.
We connected with the students because an old friend from when I lived in the anarchist community in Greensboro served as the faculty representative this year for the program. It was amazing to see Mark again after all these years, and as we showed the group around we talked a little about the history of our farm. After lunch we were joined by a group of our friends who live in La Casa della Pace (the House of Peace), a project of Italian former “peace corps” volunteers who live together in intentional community to continue the work they did building bridges abroad at home. Their project is similar in many ways to what we hope the farm becomes, a inspiration toward our future. One aspect of La Casa della Pace‘s work is hosting asylum seekers, so they brought 2 fellows from Pakistan along who stay with them these days.
Everybody worked at hauling wood and planting starts in the afternoon to break the ice, then after dinner we had a discussion about living in community, the immigration situation in Italy, and how we make the transition from institutional structures (like college or a peace corps experience) to life after. What does one do when one finishes a powerful experience abroad but that program comes to an end? How do you keep “that spark” you feel while fully immersed in a program when its expiration date comes around? What can we do when the Italian immigration system, built to accept a few thousand immigrants, receives over a hundred thousand in one year?
I think about Ezra, who left the US disillusioned by capitalism and Marxism and truly hellbent on finding a new way. It seems to me he was looking for new community of support when he left the US. One could say he “fell in with the wrong crowd” as his intellectual pioneering was conveniently appropriated by the politics of the Axis powers. But supposedly he began writing some of his most inspired work on sheets of toilet paper while locked in a US prison cage toward the end of the war, once again alone the isolated. This was a part of the war I didn’t know much about and it challenged my sense that Ezra was just the worst kind of “Americans abroad” stereotype. He is said to have had a mental breakdown in the cage, for very understandable reasons, and this inhumane treatment by his own countrymen, “liberating” his adopted country, left an indelible mark. Reinforcing his sense of the US’ moral corruption and his own extremist view that fascism would lead to new world order, he would return to Italy after being released from a mental institution in the States to live out his later life in the castle.
In these days of rising right wing rhetoric and renewed extremism, I think about what leads people to support fascism. I think about the barber in the village here who casually mentioned while cutting my hair a few months back that “the gas chambers” were the only way to straighten out politics. (I am currently using a boycott of his shop as an excuse for my disheveled appearance) We’ve seen fascism veiled in anti-immigrant rhetoric come close to tearing apart the European Union and the United States, and perhaps I think this is a good wake up call. It’s clear that people are fed up with institutional structures as they exist right now, but we no longer know how to commit directly to one another and many want the iron fist of “The State” (not The Union) to step in and save us. We long for our castles.
In the course of our conversation with the students, someone suggested that if Ezra’s relatives were committed to starting a new chapter in the history of their family’s relationship to fascism, they could take in refugees at the castle. What message might that send, versus hosting students from a country their ancestor forsake?
Sure enough, I’ve just gotten word that as they returned from our visit student’s introduced their hosts to Every Campus a Refuge, a project started at Guilford that encourages academic campuses to open some part of their space to refugees transitioning into permanent housing. It makes so much sense. Colleges or even study abroad housing are set up with dorms, cafeterias and built-in opportunities to meet other people. It’s a new take on an institutional structure we take for granted as static or inflexible, and it’s a beautiful alternative to building walls or turning inward when we reach unfamiliar territory.
May 6, 2017 September 19, 2019 by Evan Categories: PEACETags: Community, Every Campus a Refuge, Ezra Pound, Immigration, Italy, Lega Nord, North Carolina Leave a comment
Is voting like going to church for you?
Obama first won the presidency at a critical moment in my political development. I didn’t consider myself a Christian anarchist yet, but I was worried all the hope and attention pinned on voting for this one secular leader was bound to disappoint. There was so much optimism then and I just didn’t feel it. I knew folks would vote for him and then sit back on their hands waiting for him to make miracles. I remember sitting at the kitchen table with my mom talking about what it meant to have a black president and her telling me how it was incredibly meaningful, wrapped up in history, political movements, and where we were as a country. “Besides,” she said “you simply cannot argue that McCain would have made life easier for poor people in the way Obama simply cannot ignore doing.” I was not so sure.
Here we are 8 years later in the midst of an even crazier, longer and strangely familiar election cycle. Where will this one end? Are you hopeful?
I’ve been watching the US election for the last 9 months from abroad, and it’s sobering to see how important such a complete farce is to the whole rest of the world. The impact of who we elect as President of the United States has unquestionably far reaching impact globally, and from this far away I’m just reminded of how petty and superficial the whole process really is for many Americans. It frequently feels like we’re trying to pacify our guilty consciences by throwing change into a panhandler’s hat. I’m not saying it doesn’t make any different to the panhandler, but frequently we’re motivated by fleeting fears that never materialize into tangible actions to actually end poverty. We’re not voting with our feet.
At the same time I am really missing my religious community back in the states. As a Quaker, my faith community is the equivalent of the “United States Pirate Party” in the sense we’d never get elected running on our own platform (anymore). Many of us are pretty involved in the current political system though by voting, advocating and even serving in office. I would say on average we’re more politically involved than the majority of the US electorate. As a faith tradition we emphasize living your faith every day, and for some people this means advocating for political leadership that supports values we discern to be important (even if they’re endorsed by Henry Kissinger )
Now that I’m living in Italy I’ve been attending Mass more regularly because that’s the most available spiritual community here. I really do enjoy it in many ways, though I will never feel completely at home there. The local priest has roped us into helping out with several projects around the parish, and in some ways helping our community outside of “church time” actually feels like a closer expression of my faith than sitting in Mass.
All this has me thinking about how much we think about voting or “going to Church”, sometimes even lying about it, when really what’s most important is how we actually live our lives. Do you really feel satisfied once you’ve filled in your ballot or got up from your pew that you’ve really accomplished something? I don’t. At best, I frequently feel like I’ve thrown some change in a hat. In some ways, voting or even spiritual services feel so “imperfect” in their expressions of conviction that I feel that much more obligated to go out and actually do something.
I really appreciated this episode of “On the Media” (one of my new favorite podcasts) that explored third party candidates and the idea of “spoilers” in the general election recently. One of the main takeaways for me among the differing opinions is that voting is really one thing that we do, among many, as an expression of our civic and moral belief. I still plan to vote and keep attending Catholic Church for the time being, but I’m really not pinning any hope there. On the one hand I know if I don’t vote (if my overseas ballot is counted anyway) or go to Church I could still feel like I was involved and living my faith, but I’d also just miss out on a collect experience that is important far beyond me and my life. Doesn’t that sound like practicing a living faith or being an involved community member?
August 16, 2016 by Evan Categories: Italy, Quaker Leave a comment
3 Graces
We just left the Woodard Lane Cohousing Community to come to Italy. As we moved in, others who’d moved out told us their take on who’s attracted to Cohousing communities: First, there are the extroverts, the folks who would love to live communally under all kinds of circumstances. Perhaps these are the folks that thrive in communes, hostels, barracks, etc. They might happily live under a ping pong table so long as someone else was involved. Secondly, there are the introverts, the folks who love community under certain conditions. Perhaps these are the folks who enjoy their private space but also enjoy a structured environment to discuss the merits of turf (at length) with people they’re not related to. Who does that leave? Extroverted golfers?
As an unapologetic member of the first category, I particularly enjoyed the dinners our cook teams prepared each week, not just to eat but also to throw my weight around a bit. Known fact: bantering about religion, politics, or community gossip helps prep vegetables efficiently. Subjective Observation: Heated discussions about the role of colonialism and the rise of Wahhabism (Jim: look it up!) occasionally yields mixed culinary results but certainly keeps things lively!
With everything cooked and ready to eat, we gathered in a circle and shared some kind of blessing, reflection, poem or hokey pokey before digging in. Upon arriving at WLCH, my sociological analysis is that members of the second camp had unduly influenced a version of a popular grace I remember growing up. It went:
Thank you for this food,
This food, this glorious glorious food,
And the animals,
And the vegetables,
And the minerals,(!)
Who made it possible.
MINERALS! It’s PEOPLE! PEOPLE who made it possible. Suddenly grace was reduced to a guessing game! I mean, sure, some folks are pretty into crystals and the like but when did a mineral ever harvest your lettuce?! Or berate you about Wahhabism? In a rather uncouth manner I began to loudly sing my version each time we did that grace and attempt to pull more people into my camp. Most sung it way they’d always done.
This is a comic I made while living collectively in North Carolina. I’d say the same concept applies to lemon bars left in the common house.
If there’s one thing I’ve learned from (watching other people in) community, it’s that you rarely influence people over the long term by force and your best bet is being a good example. Folks set an incredibly kind and loving example for us in cohousing, and we’ll always remember it fondly.
By request, I was asked to record some of the other graces I learned growing up in Waldorf schools and here are 3. I’m sure my versions are slightly more bombastic and overbearing than those you’ll find on Rudolf Steiner’s Greatest Hits, but take them and share them in memory of me.
December 19, 2015 January 21, 2017 by Evan Categories: Frivolity, OlympiaTags: Cohousing, Community, Grace, Waldorf Leave a comment
Unrelated events in North Carolina?
In as many weeks, two events in North Carolina that seem completely unrelated hit me hard. The first began on Tuesday, February 3rd when this article about Guilford College came through my feed. What I read both thrilled and disappointed me. First, I was thrilled to learn that Steven Salaita, a man I know only through his tweets, had been invited to speak at my college. I particularly appreciate how Steven draws succinct parallels between the history of colonialism in this country and the present reality of colonialism in the Middle East. He does so with poise and poignancy, and it has cost him a job. Secondly, I was disappointed to hear that his talk had been moved across campus to avoid a building named for a wealthy donor who took offense to his views. The news source is not known for journalistic nuance, but I knew that the story was larger than this one event.
In my last year of college at Guilford, a school known for its peace-loving Quaker heritage, three Palestinians were jumped and viciously attacked on campus by members of the football team. Tensions had been high everywhere then, with the Iraq War going badly and a color-coded threat system the only thing we had to show for September 11th. Since August 2006, we’d seen several months of tense altercations and verbal threats by American students directed particularly at two Palestinian students. Except for some slaps on the wrist, these events received little public administration recognition before the attack in January 2007. I’d worked with one of the Palestinian guys in September to write his version of an earlier altercation where he’d ended up insulted and pushed, and these are his words:
“Before [the attacker] came to us, [we] were discussing what had happened off campus and how a lot of ignorant people call us “Terrorists” and call me “Osama Bin Laden”, just because of my name and where I come from. Calling me a terrorist is an assault on my dignity, my hopes, and everything that I have worked for in order to build peace here in the United States..”
On the night of January 20th, a group of football players attacked the two Palestinian Guilford students and their visiting guest with chains and brass knuckles, hurling anti-Arab, Islamophobic slurs. We knew at least the visitor was hospitalized with serious injuries but once again, college administration was mum and treated the incident like any other weekend-brawl. My friends were “hardly innocent victims” and the alleged perpetrators, who carried out their attack in the middle of residence hall surrounded by witnesses, deserved “due process.” I was a member of the Guilford Judicial Board, a body working with the administration to air student grievances in sensitive judicial cases, but the Board was informed we would not hear this case (just as we had not heard any others that year). Students organized forums and vigils. The athletic department, long at odds with the naive Quaker peaceniks on campus, refused to address the issue of violence or Islamophobia on the football team. While the school issued private judicial decisions in the case (which resulted in both victims and perpetrators leaving campus) the local DA dropped all charges, students graduated and the college moved on. I mentioned it the college President before his retirement last year and he was as dismissive then as he’d ever been about “the Bryan incident”, as it came to be known.
Guilford appointed a new president this academic year and by all reports she’s a great person. Since I figured she might be more open to hearing my two cents on the college’s legacy surrounding Islamophobia than her predecessor, I wrote her a letter the day of Steven’s talk telling her about “the incident” and contextualizing her recent decision. Within just a few days, she sent back a very thoughtful and sensitive response, consistent with the prevailing Quaker attitude, that all campus voices needed to be respected and that she aimed to address the discomforts of both donors and some students by moving the talk. I responded reiterating my key point was not the feelings of any given student or donor today but rather the legacy of Islamophobia that had never been addressed in the 8 years since a hate crime took place on campus. On February 6th I wrote:
I witnessed a lack of public administrative response to an unprecedented hate crime exacerbate a (perhaps temporary) climate of fear on campus, but more importantly give a public impression Guilford ignores Islamophobia and the dignity of Palestinian students…I wrote to you after reading once again about the perception my college disrespects Palestinian voices in a nationally-distributed article.
I haven’t heard back. Just a few days later, three Muslim students were killed at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Now, the University of North Carolina is absolutely a different school. The students in question were Palestinian-Americans, allegedly killed by a neighbor, not another student. (note: in an earlier version of this post I was not aware the students, often referred to as “of Syrian and Jordanian descent” were actually American citizens originally of Palestinian descent via Jordan and Syria.) Rather than never explaining motivations for the violence in 2007, the authorities attempt now to explain the killing of these students by saying the alleged killer is either insane, a lone wolf, or is double parked. Isn’t that just code for saying there are no lessons to be learned from this tragedy? I’m not suggesting that we necessarily could stop anyone from killing anyone, but I’ve watched willful ignorance on the part of administrators at a institution of higher learning leave an open wound fester. Tensions are high again now, with the Levant wracked again with violence of our own creation and vitriol as bad as it’s ever been. Today one can even tweet hate. Schools could be a place where understanding and restorative justice are modeled, not just marketed. I watched this lesson missed once, and I fear it will be missed again.
As I sit typing, my wife is studying again beside me for her college classes. I see her work and I remember just how much a college or university demands of their students. Being a student of a particular school, even if you have a losing football team, inevitably shapes a student’s identity in addition to giving them an education. A student doesn’t just spend time in class but also in meetings, talks, eating in the dining hall, with friends, defining one’s identity around an institution every day for years. Don’t schools then have a mission to care for and protect all their students then? Perhaps this is just because I went to a religious school, but setting aside the obvious failures of the State in this regard, don’t colleges and universities have an obligation to address not only their student’s comforts and intellectual environment, but also their values? Are these event so very different and how can we stop them from happening again?
February 17, 2015 February 23, 2015 by Evan Categories: UncategorizedTags: #ChapelHillShooting, @StevenSalaita, Authority, Guilford College, Islamophobia, Quakerism, Quakers, UNC-Chapel Hill 3 Comments
My Grandfathers, My Privilege
The woman arrived late for worship and quickly rose, prefacing her message with: “I can assure you this is spirit led….” She spoke at length about white privilege, systematic injustice, the civil rights movement, the death of Micheal Brown and her recent visit to Ferguson. I didn’t catch the whole message because a Friend needed an urgent ride home and when I came back she was still speaking.
I watched her through the half-light doors of the meeting, catching snippets of “reparations” and “brutality” and “mass incarceration” through the cracked doors, waiting to return without disturbing worship. Clearly as folks shifted in their seats many were already disturbed. Eventually a Friend stood and asked that the speaker allow for some silence to consider her message. She broke into song, spoke a practiced “don’t silence me” line and sat. I returned to my seat and mulled what I’d only half heard. I was bugged by the break in norms, but sometimes we can use a shaking up in meeting. I agreed with parts of her message, but the delivery was rambling. At the end of meeting she confirmed “her mission”, spoke briefly with supporters and was gone.
Missing most of the actual message, my churning emotions about policing, racism and my own privilege lead to my grandfathers:
My dad’s dad was in the New Jersey State Patrol. He’d retired by the time I came around, but his official patrolman’s portrait used to hang in the garage “to scare the rats away.” I’m certain my Pop-pop felt what MC Killer Mike recently described about his father: “Being a cop must be hard. My dad was one, and never wanted any of his children to follow in his footsteps.” I knew he deployed to Newark in 1967 during the riot there, but that topic was as off limits as discussion of the South Pacific beaches he’d crossed as a Marine. Near the end of his life, I asked him if he’d ever shot anyone. He avoided the question. I think of the words Killer Mike adds: “The police have the power of life and death in their decisions — they need to know that Americans hold them to a higher standard than these examples, of American men laying lifeless like deer.” I think of my own standards as his grandson: how can I evaluate his service, knowing so little but also fearing to know more? Perhaps for some people it’s enough to know he served in uniform, especially as a white man, but I still want to find a lesson there.
My mom’s dad Jack was the Quaker, the one who’d gone to Europe in the war and came back resolved to change things. While I’ve heard a little more about his military experiences, everything after was meant to transform that violence. He’d moved my mom and her siblings to a majority-black school district in the 70’s to sensitize them to the importance of race relations. The most vivid images of this experience have come from his kids though, and they describe getting beaten up by black classmates and fear. He’d done American Friends Service Committee work camps around the country rebuilding poor neighborhoods. At Thanksgiving this year I found a picture of him at one of those work camps. He’s dressed in a shabby work outfit handing a bemused looking older black woman a glass of milk on a plate. I guess. It looks even more staged than the state patrol portrait, and gives little sense of reparations or restorative justice. What is his lesson of transformation?
I ask myself: Didn’t all three of these people believe they were being of service? Their methods differed, but it seems to me the self-styled prophet, the white man and his burden, and the tight-lipped officer all wanted to make things better. What I wonder is whether their service could have been better served in a broader community, a beloved community. If you bring a message to worship meant to change things, can you really expect anything if you leave right away? If you followed orders you regret, can you heal or be accountable without telling anyone what happened? If you wanted to transform pain and violence, can you succeed without accountability to those you “serve”?
December 21, 2014 June 1, 2018 by Evan Categories: Family, Olympia Monthly Meeting, PEACE, QuakerTags: #ferguson, #white privilege, Authority, Quakers 4 Comments
Adoration and Authority
I spent a few days this last week in the Alps with members of my wife Federica’s Catholic community, the Pope John XXIII Association (APGXXIII), on a spiritual retreat. We stayed in a beautiful hotel built for disabled teens by the community founder, Don Oreste Benzi, who called Catholics to serve the poor and marginalized as a basis of their spiritual discipline. I’ve had a few other experiences with “the Community” in my various visits here (one described here) and even Italian Quakers, but this was my first real opportunity for corporate intercultural, interreligious dialogue in this place I may one day call home. (Of course I’ve also only just reached a capacity in Italian to make this possible. Even now, a fail-safe uncomprehending but interested smile helps fill in the inevitable lulls. )
The format of this retreat was the first thing to strike me as different. I was blessed to attend my first New Year’s Silent Retreat hosted by Pacific Northwest Quarterly Meeting this January, and I suppose I had expected a similar approach here. When Quakers talk about silence, we really mean silent. This spiritual retreat last week, called a “desert”, was decidedly more “reflective.” While Federica assures me there are more silent “desert” experiences organized by the APGXXIII community, I found the stereotypical boisterous Catholic milieu natural considering the communal, Mediterranean sensitivities of the faithful here. An interesting exception is the rite of “Adoration”, in which gathered worshippers pray or sit silently in somewhat improvisational fashion before the consecrated host. The Eucharist is truly the manifest Christ as the focus of Adoration, in much the same way we Friends seek and occasionally transmogrify Him invisibly in worship. For someone unused to Catholicism’s highly organized worship, good-natured arguments on the liturgical calendar, and tactile sensibilities, Adoration made me feel suddenly at home and also strangely uneasy. Whenever someone sang or vocalized a prayer during Adoration, I’d think “Ok now, HERE’S where we get back into the program,” or as silent seconds turned to minutes I’d ask myself “Can I really settle in now?”
A nightlong vigil before the host offered me the opportunity to pray in complete silence, before the Christ both within and without, unconcerned with possible interruptions. Somehow this felt sheltered, contrived. It made me think of the folks at meeting who rush to turn off the coffee pot if someone accidentally tries to turn it on before worship. Isn’t Christ always present and available to us, regardless of outward distractions?
Another fascinating exercise at this desert where discussions by the priest on aspects of this year’s community theme of “obedience.” This is definitely a term we Friends struggle with, as do the fairly radical members of this community. Obedience is considered not just obedience to outward authorities within the Church, but obedience to the needs of the poor, the Jesus’ call to action, to individual leadings and vocation. I did find the discussion on obedience to outward authority one of the most interesting, especially as the key thing Friends chose to renounce when we went our separate way. The priest spoke about how we are called to challenge our authorities within the faith, fervently and clearly, but that once a decision has been made by those above us in the Church we are bound to respect and abide by it. We could be surprised or even confused by the result. He used the example of how when St. Francis was inspired to form a new order, he began to put the pieces in place but quickly went to Rome to ask for the Pope’s blessing. Apparently there is a famous Italian film in which St. Francis is depicted approaching the Pope at the time, known as corrupt and dripping in gold and jewels. The gathered priests and cardinals turn up their noses at the ragged, dirty monk as he approaches the throne. Though he had prepared a lengthy appeal to ask for the Pope’s approval to form this new order, upon approaching His Holiness he threw all caution to the wind and ad-libbed a passionate but humble request to re-imagine the Church’s calling. The rest is history, though the key part of this story for the gathered community members was the Divine inspiration that moved the apparent monolith of Church Authority. I mused to myself: What if we Quakers tried to make another visit to the Vatican, to see if our approach to things could be recognized by St. Francis’ namesake?
July 2, 2014 by Evan Categories: Italy, QuakerTags: Adoration, APGXXIII, Authority, Don Oreste Benzi, John XXIII Association, Quakerism, Quakers Leave a comment
Watching the World Cup in Castel Volturno
This is an unpublished post edited from a first draft I wrote in 2010 while living in Italy during the World Cup. I’ve been reflecting a lot on the situation of immigrants here, especially as Europe experiences deep economic crisis and Italian xenophobia is ever-present and particular poignant for me as a privileged outsider. We are currently hosting an intern from Burkina Faso at the moment at the farm, and his occasional comments about the challenge of living here, as well as the strange position I’ve been thrust into as his kind of supervisor, really reminds me of this experience a few years back:
Though I couldn’t be considered a real soccer (sports) fan in any respect, I’ve always really enjoyed the World Cup. Teams from all over the world, different playing styles, strange loyalties. I’m into it, and at least the last three tournaments have punctuated interesting moments in my life, times when I’ve been involved in crazy situations on the brink of entering new ones. I sense this might be another and when I’m far away from home I feel at least 6 times more patriotic.
We all know about Italians and football, though I’ve been hanging out around a crowd who don’t really care much for it. They care enough to disparage the US and its poor sporting reputation, but as the former champions eliminated in the first round I got the last laugh on that one this time.
I got to watch us sputter and go out on Saturday night surrounded by 200 Ghanians [Ghana eliminated the US 2-1 in overtime]. Now, to be fair, I don’t know if every man was from Ghana.[my privilege speaking again] I certainly did not identify myself as a US fan hoping to get a feel from the crowd. Fede and I were visiting a town in the South of Italy, near Naples, called Castel Volturno. Mention its name (or better yet, your travel plans there) to most Italians and you will get post-Katrina New Orleans tooth sucking reactions. It’s considered a lawless, Mafia-controlled toxic waste dump full of illegal immigrants. Many immigrants come to the semi-apocalyptic resort town because of its reputation for extra-governmental legal systems, empty houses built as tax shelters and the like. One could consider this either a draw or the result of being turned away at every other turn.
While we were there before the game, I spoke with some of the guys who described their three day trips from Libya across the sea to Sicily, only to be picked up and sent to camps called CPTs. They’re held at the camps for various lengths of time until they’re just dumped, without any legal status, into the Italian wilds. That’s how it’s been described to me. Even for those not living in Castel Volturno, life as black or Arab immigrant seems very tough here. Right in Federica’s valley near Forli there are a huge number of immigrants working low-wage jobs at the local chicken factory. Even though this seems like a country paradise to me with white skin and easy legal status, most immigrants are clearly very marginalized and isolated here. No halal butchers posting their wares. No visible immigrant support center. (I found it by accident while making a visit to the local provincial offices. One part time, and very kind, Italian women works there.)
As the World Cup game wound down and the US was clearly not going to win, the crowd started to slowly disperse. Night fell and the parking lot with a projector screen set up in it became more empty every time I looked around. By the time the game was over, the subdued celebrations were only obvious for a few minutes before folks left entirely. I was struck by how I might have reacted as a fair weather fan if we’d won.
April 23, 2013 April 23, 2013 by Evan Categories: Frivolity, Italy Leave a comment
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Evelynn Starr
The life and times of a 40-something super action heroine.
Kerosene Dreams
There are sights and sounds and tastes that just make me sentimental. You know, it’s like when that 80’s song on the radio reminds you of the teenager you were, and the really embarrassing clothes you wore. Or the taste of cookies that as a young child you used to “help” your mother bake, and that she always yelled at you for eating too much of her yummy (raw) cookie dough.
Well, there is also a scent that reminds me of another life I had – of a time and place I felt like I was out changing the world (for the better, of course), or at least getting the world to listen up, pay attention and think. It was also a time when I still believed the values of democracy would easily and swiftly destroy the Taliban. (And boy, were we all wrong about that one, huh?)
One frosty autumn morning not long ago, on my way to work, when the sky was clear and the breeze was just so, this sharp, trenchant aroma out of my deep and distant past showed up and literally socked me between the eyes.
Sniff, sniff…Could it be?… Ahhhhhhhh…
Jet fuel.
In a split second, the biggest adventure of my journalistic life appeared before me like a vision. I was ten years younger and standing on the deck of the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Carl Vinson in the middle of the Arabian Sea, the hellish noise of afterburners thundering into the core of my being. It was my introduction to – among other things – what it felt like to be shrouded in a cloud of jet fuel.
At the time, I was a freshly minted private pilot and couldn’t get enough of aviation in all its fascinating shapes and forms. The F/A-18 “Hornet” fighter jet was a far cry from my Cessna 152 single engine piston trainer, and not on the list of aircraft I ever thought I’d get to know up close and personal. But here I was, standing open-mouthed about five feet from a whole gaggle squadron of them.
I was on the ship for a reason, which my editor at the other end of a satellite phone never ceased to point out. But being the carrier-rookie-nerd that I was at the time, it was really tough to tear myself away from the delicate choreography of human and high-tech aircraft unfolding before me – with one of the biggest and most sophisticated naval vessels ever built as the stage, in a theater so very far from home.
That was the first of numerous trips to the region for me, a reporting adventure in several chapters, over the course of two years. Again and again I had the privilege of hanging around jet fuel, and it became a really good friend. In the spirit of true companionship, it even took the trouble to penetrate my clothes, cling to my hair, settle on my skin and comfortably infiltrate my consciousness.
Inhale deeply, savor the scent. Ahhhhhhhh...
It’s been almost a decade since then, and the Taliban has still not gone gentle into that good night. Like the irritating relative who just doesn’t know when enough is enough, it sits around and lingers on the sofa long after the party’s over, making crude jokes and finishing off your expensive whiskey.
Jet fuel, on the other hand, is an exceedingly agreeable guest, and welcome back any time.
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Date : October 28, 2010
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© roman ivaschenko dreamstime.com PCB | March 17, 2015
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A collection of notable moments in our work to help local communities and reduce our society's reliance on fossil fuels.
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Everybody Solar donates solar array to Boise Bicycle Project
By Kelsey Misbrener | January 15, 2020
On January 31, Boise Bicycle Project (BBP) will celebrate the recent installation of a 5.6-kW roof provided by nonprofit Everybody Solar, in partnership with Clenara and Empowered Solar.
The new solar panels — donated by Clenara and installed by Empowered Solar — will save BBP an average of $1,100 annually. With significantly lower overhead costs, the nonprofit will be able to expand its services, which include hosting bike repair workshops and providing refurbished bikes to both kids and adults.
New Everybody Solar installation powers reservation’s buffalo meat processing facility
By Kelsey Misbrener | June 19, 2019
In a second project partnering with nonprofit One Spirit, Everybody Solar, with the support of numerous agencies including Patagonia, Black Hills Solar, Murdock Electric and JinkoSolar installed an 11.16-kW solar array to the Charging Buffalo House (CBH). This site was targeted to reduce One Spirit’s electricity costs in order to increase the sites sustainability and to provide a live example of the value of renewable energy to the community.
Everybody Solar previously installed solar for the Pine Ridge Reservation’s youth centers last year. “The Buffalo House is one-of-a-kind on the reservation. It is a new facility aiming to increase the consumption of traditional meats to help address the growing rates of diabetes, obesity and other diet-related diseases,” said Jeri Baker, executive director of One Spirit.
Foundation Beyond Belief - Beneficiary guest blog: Everybody Solar
Foundation Beyond Belief - June 15, 2019 | Beneficiary guest blog by Everybody Solar
Over the past few decades, global climate change has demonstrated dramatic effects on the environment and local populations, at an increasing rate. Scientists are predicting increases in the frequency and severity of major catastrophes, including: flooding, hurricanes, drought, and more. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, “Scientists have high confidence that global temperatures will continue to rise for decades to come, largely due to greenhouse gases produced by human activities”.
As a result of the above, individuals and corporations are looking at ways to reduce their environmental footprint while simultaneously reducing their overhead costs. ...
Everybody Solar adds unique side-mounted solar array to Eugene Science Center
By Kelsey Misbrener | March 27, 2019
After encountering several challenges with the roof structure and therefore design of the system, Everybody Solar, with the support of numerous agencies — O’Brien Construction, Energy Design, Woodchuck Engineering, Jerry’s Home Improvement, EWEB, JinkoSolar and All Points North Foundation — is bringing a 30.2-kW solar array (in two phases, with the first phase completed this month) to the Eugene Science Center (ESC).
While the re-designs led to delays in installation, one of the benefits is that the solar array will now be side mounted to the South-facing side of the ESC’s building, allowing for the public to have more immediate contact with the system. In this first phase of the installation, the Eugene Science Center is receiving 18.9 kW of photovoltaics...
Read full story here.
Former gang members add solar to safe house in Los Angeles
After waiting for years, Homeboy Industries, a nonprofit that provides training and support to formerly gang-involved and previously incarcerated men and women, goes solar. The project, originally launched in 2014, involves a multitude of partners, ranging from: Everybody Solar—a nonprofit dedicated to raising funds to help other community serving nonprofits go solar, to TrapDoor Social—an alternative rock band that incorporates social activism into their work , and Grid Alternatives—a nonprofit that helps provide job training and solar to underserved communities. The project faced delays when it was discovered the roof needed repair. However, it goes to show that perseverance can indeed overcome great obstacles, something well understood by the ex-gang members the benefit from the services Homeboy offers.
Everybody Solar & HELIO Bring Light to Native American Communities
Makers4Good is excited to announce a brand new partnership with Everybody Solar. Their mission is to protect the environment and strengthen communities by bringing solar energy to nonprofits—a mission we believe in too, and are very happy to help support! ...
Everybody Solar will deploy HELIO lights to one of the poorest communities in the U.S.: the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, where 39% of the population still lives with no electricity. These lights will not only allow individuals to read and do homework at night, but they will also enable families to charge cell phones—allowing them to keep connected, especially during storms which annually put lives at jeopardy....
Allen Youth Center, Pine Ridge Reservation, goes #SOLAR
October 1, 2018 (Investorideas.com Newswire) A beacon of light shining for the Allen Youth Center located on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
On November 10, 2014 One Spirit opened the Allen Youth Center in Pine Ridge Reservation. It was the first, and only, youth center built. Although the temperature was 20 degrees and it was snowing, the community was celebrating. The building and programs have been monumental for Lakota youth, a recognition that they are the future of the Lakota nation and that they will have the help they need to carry forward the traditions and responsibilities of their people. The center has grown strong, providing mentorship, study areas, tutoring, recreation, food and counseling in a welcoming place that lures youth away from drugs, alcohol and gangs.
NOW on October 5, 2018 - the Allen Youth Center goes SOLAR!
Everybody Solar brings solar to Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
By Kathie Zipp | June 21, 2018
Everybody Solar has received a donation from JinkoSolar. The 29.57 kW of high-efficiency modules will reduce Everybody Solar’s project costs by one third and help provide renewable energy systems to two sites on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota–the One Spirit Allen Youth Center and One Spirit Buffalo House.
One Spirit, a non-profit dedicated to Native Americans, creates stability in an area where 97% of its population lives below the federal poverty line. The two sites, Allen Youth Center and Buffalo House, are dedicated in their efforts to eliminate hunger and replace high drop-out and suicide rates among youth, while educating and instilling pride in their Lakota heritage.
Trapdoor Social Solar-Power's Rock 'N' Roll
SIERRA - May 3, 2018
The rockers and their Sunstock Festival raise money for solar installations. By Katie O'Reilly
IT WAS IN POMONA COLLEGE's Environmental Analysis Program that I met my bandmate Merritt Graves. The course discussed urban infrastructure and how cities use resources like passive solar. Once Merritt and I formed an alternative rock band, we found ourselves talking constantly about all this Southern California sunshine that tends to go to waste. From day one, we wanted to create an artistic project with leverage to have an environmental impact—we called it Trapdoor Social. ... So when Trapdoor Social prereleased its second EP in 2014, we partnered with the Sierra Club, Grid Alternatives, and a small nonprofit called Everybody Solar to throw a fundraising event. We used the money to purchase solar panels for Homeboy Industries, which is an awesome local organization that provides former gang members with job training and support.
Best Solar Organisations of 2018 Award
GreenMatch - April 23, 2018
Solar energy is one of the most promising forms of energy. Besides it being renewable and non-polluting, solar energy contributes to job creation and sustainable development in the communities where it is installed. However, many people are not aware of the benefits of solar energy. Fortunately, there are numerous organisations, e-magazines, and blogs that work to increase awareness around solar energy, and encourage its adoption. Their valuable contribution to the growth of the solar industry deserves to be acknowledged and celebrated.
Therefore, GreenMatch has designed the Best Solar Websites Award, which recognises the achievements and meaningful contributions of websites that help drive the solar industry forward and accelerate the transition to a more sustainable society.
...Everybody Solar was selected by GreenMatch with the “Best Solar Websites of 2018” award. Everybody Solar was awarded under the “Best Solar Organisations” category...
Bringing Sustainability to Charitable Organizations
Helping Nonprofits go solar on #GivingTuesday
The Smile of Wi
How To Solarize Your Nonprofit Organization
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Canons of Rhetoric
by EILeditor · Published February 20, 2016 · Updated May 11, 2017
The Canons of Rhetoric
invention | arrangement | style | memory | delivery
Martin Luther King Jr. at a freedom rally. Image from the Library of Congress.
Rhetoric, as an art, has long been divided into five major categories or “canons”:
These categories have served both analytical and generative purposes. That is to say, they provide a template for the criticism of discourse (and orations in particular), and they give a pattern for rhetorical education. Rhetorical treatises through the centuries have been set up in light of these five categories, although memory and delivery consistently have received less attention. Rhetoric shares with another longstanding discipline, dialectic, training in invention and arrangement. When these disciplines competed, rhetoric was sometimes reduced to style alone.Although the five canons of rhetoric describe areas of attention in rhetorical pedagogy, these should not be taken as the only educational template for the discipline of rhetoric. Treatises on rhetoric also discuss at some length the roots or sources of rhetorical ability, and specific kinds of rhetorical exercises intended to promote linguistic facility.
Sample Rhetorical Analysis: CANONS OF RHETORIC
Martin Luther King, Jr. was not the first to claim he had a dream. Some, such as Clayborne Carson and Keith D. Miller have recently shown that the civil rights leader’s most famous speech is in fact largely lifted from the sermons of others. If King is not responsible for inventing the subject matter of this address, he can be credited with ordering and delivering it in a style appropriate to his very mixed audience. Speaking to a huge crowd both in Washington, D.C. and across television, King drew upon commonplaces of our country that lie deep in our cultural memory, and did so with a kind of sober charisma that made his own words memorable and above all, effective.
Sources: Cic. De Inv. 1.7; Cic. De Or. 1.31.142; Quint. 3.3; Melx A8v (“officia”)
The information on this page comes from: Gideon O. Burton, Brigham Young University. EIL is grateful that his “Silva Rhetoricae” (rhetoric.byu.edu) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. The Martin Luther King Jr. image was added by EIL staff.
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The Satanism, Materialism, Atheism Connection
Posted on December 5, 2016 by Ozzie Thinker
Over the ages, misinformation and disinformation has fused to obscure truth to such a degree it has allowed a fiction simply identified as “Satan” to pop into existence. But for maligned belief systems, this “existence” would vanish as though it had never been. (Cosmic) Hebrew phonetics translates Satan as meaning adversary. However Israelite philosophy is so aggregated, students are never quite sure what is meant by contextual good or evil. For instance, biblical proverbs can offer absolute opposite resolves to identical situations. One verse might prophesise you must love all foreign nationals (goyim) as brothers, when others insist invaders only warrant abject hatred. Phonetically Satan is the combination of “sat” and “an”. In fact readers will be shocked that this is a merger of “truthful purity” and the “highest God” (An) from Sanskrit; a lofty language that stems from Atlantis.
So, given that insight, it is odd the Hebrews recognised the highest God of truthful purity as their adversary. Taking the numerous contradictions brazenly paraded in holy texts into consideration, outsiders must legitimately accuse Judaism and its Mosaic agents (orthodox Christianity and Islam) of duplicity here. That is the only valid conclusion, although it must be stressed that the Israelite religion was a version of the earlier Zoroastrian faith. Zoroastrianism tried to explain Anunaki influence using the metaphors “good and “evil”. Even so, the Pharisees commitment to the de-spiritualisation of God to impose obedience by rote on their slaves is no better paraphrased than by the “Christian” eternal damnation concept. To be precise, orders are given by St Paul (a Pharisee cloaked as “Christian”) in 2 Thessalonians Chapter 1 Verse 9:
“These will pay the penalty of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power”
By this authoritarian definition; evil is everything and anything that detracts “what we [the “authority”] say” is good. The “glory of his power” is a convenient presumption that gives any designated proxy-agent the undeniable right to posit any sentiment “in the name of the lord”. Whether sentiment is noble or vile makes no difference, for that is the “glory of his power”. It is no wonder “Satan” has been given such a bum rap by the Jews and their affiliates. God needed a nemesis to counterfeit “good” and “evil”. Capitalising on ignorance, necessary Holy Scripture crafted dubious versions of Satan and Lucifer to establish the duality meme.
My book “The Beauty of Existence Decoded” explains what is meant by the corruption of Satan (divinity of God). It is, for my research, the only source on the planet that presents truth plainly. Metaphors in gnostic texts, such as the Dead Sea Scrolls, are so subtle they are very hard to decipher (for those lacking tuned insight). Given all other reference points (in common circulation) more or less adopt the pharisaic distortion of enlightenment, even the most distinguished minds end up succumbing to blasphemy in some way. Suffice to say, the few that have read my hallowed news have invariably preferred not to understand, such is the contradiction against the power of proscribed bogus “order”.
Though I don’t specifically argue the case (in my book), there is unquestionable logic in my summary explanation which simply states “Satan was the very first star [to bless the cosmos]”. If, as I reveal later, stars are portals allowing God to exude expressive intent along the dimensional planes (collectively known as astral records), and were the objectives of the first star “pure”, then, given that Sanskrit definition, Satan would indeed be manifest God (expanded as An-nun-aki). Annunaki, I have outlined before, is the combination and summary of “everything as one”. We are all individually parts (units) of the (same) Annunaki.
Initially, while Satan radiated purity, our cosmos consisted only of light and “beings” (which approximated forms of jellyfish apparitions). There were no planets. There was no physicality. God per se “in essence” (correctly described by the Gnostics) is and was the combination or fusion of male and female. Prior to formatting existence, the male aspect was merely content with eternal slumber. Synonymous with wisdom, the female, colloquially known as Sophia, contradicted the male and became impatient. Eternal slumber did not validate holistic fulfilment so Sophia, in earnest accountability, conspired with the Holy Spirit with the purpose of fragmenting reality. A bi-product of male and female, acting as their cerebral identity, the Holy Spirit had been brought into non-existence to adjudicate eternal compliance, given the polarity of standalone maternal/paternal desires.
Complying with the wishes (request) of Sofia, the Holy Spirit determined that reality could not work as an aggregate (i.e. corporeal combination of male and female) model. Therefore Sophia, consumed with zealous idealism, intentionally created an existence exclusively for the female aspect on the presumption that the male would be content to slumber eternally. This was the grave error of creation and the one that has caused the stigma incorrectly associated with “Satan”. When God (the whole) woke up the war between ideological practicality and evolutional pragmatism began. At first a trickle of absolute blackness shaded the heavens that once were light. Before long an avalanche of intent overwhelmed Satan until the divine portal was eventually consumed by darkness.
The ancient Celts had a word for this. “Nun” (a component of Annunaki) means “primordial (or creative) waters”. From Sophia’s perspective, nun encapsulated evil and that is why it is supposed evil heralded from darkness and not through cause of comparatively shallow Zoroastrian propaganda (adapted by the Israelites into the Kabbalah). In essence, from this perspective, evil is everything associated with “3D” object reality which, according to atheist materialists, is theoretically purely dark matter (the “fundamental” version of the evil contesting Sophia’s zeal). There are doubtless numerous other analogies to be found in alternative doctrines, but I think the message is already sufficient enough to be understood.
Ancient Romans philosophised that stars are prisms made from quartz (after Aristotle) and this view was continued by their Catholic Church. Going against “science”, they could not be more correct for all [real] planets are encased stars (discussed in my book “The Beauty of Existence Decoded”). Innocents would be baffled by just how much unadulterated fantasy has been dogmatised as doctrine by credentialed scientists. If they suppose reflective babble might in some way substitute as “evidence” verifying how the cosmos works, academia has shown itself to be rotten to the core. Could Cartesian interpretation of Newton’s calculations presupposing gravity be so wrong, forces are the precise opposite of the theoretical models? Would not the effect of an item being pushed to the ground (by forces unseen) be identical to one being pulled? Suffice to say, our unshakable laws of gravity would be shown to be outrageously incorrect if they were truly understood and we were free of institutionalised propaganda.
Because I have detached myself from puerile and unconstructive popular theories that, if nothing else, do decidedly demonstrate complexity for complexity’s sake can and will baffle, lesser minds caught in the materialists’ web of intrigue will likely find content in my book “heavy going”; if not relative gibberish. Standard interpretations of Newton’s data models only do well at highlighting the insular view of man; his appreciative ignorance. For our current interpretation of gravity, as wrong as it is, the cosmos is further marginalised. Earth bound materialist psychotic infatuation over empiricism responds with “laws” that are expanded ever outwards. Parsing false reasoning, if it doesn’t “work” on Earth, then it cannot be “representative” of the cosmos or vice versa.
However, that said, the Earth is indeed a variation of cosmic processes or [albeit] a product of the vast universe, of course. Thus, logically, scientists need to understand the cosmos and its universe first to gauge “whys” and wherefores” of effects on (or in) Earth. Once dynamics are understood, it becomes obvious that stars are structural prisms, partially highlighted by gemstones manufactured by volcanos. Popularised by the late astronaut Edgar Mitchell (I’m led to believe), Zero Point Field(s) mark the origins of all access routes for that which is behind “space” (sometimes referred to as sub-space). In Victorian times and prior this was called the (a)ether (as evidenced by Teslas “lost” calculations devoted to generating free energy). Intriguingly, the word “(a)ethereal” shows an etymological path to spiritual. Perhaps that is why JP Morgan’s bank famously funded Edison’s material electricity. Before too long this will become obsolete anyway, as secrets concerning cold fusion will be available to every household.
It is worth noting that my earlier explanation for the darkening of the Satan Star lacked a punch line. According to NASA (surprisingly), a deadweight “black hole” (the combined “mass” of millions of stars) is located somewhere nearby (relatively speaking) the Milky Way Galaxy. That, though they do not confirm it, is the Black Sun (which was the Satan Star). It also arguably substitutes the “spigot” analogy the Mayan’s (Lemurians) used to represent a giant torsion field that propels galaxies. As Earth is relatively close to the centre we are not subject to too much momentous inertia and I wonder if we could survive the full effect experienced in the outer reaches of the universe. The Black Sun label intrigues me because [ironically] our sun is charcoal coloured too. It only “looks” bright as an effect of our atmosphere. Buzz Aldrin reputedly reported thus (under his breath) in utter shock when breaking free of Earth’s atmosphere on the way to the moon.
All planets generate their own torsion fields (partially accounting for gravitation effects and that is why to exit our atmosphere summons an Olympian feat) but the intense pressure of (a)ether bursting into space generates forces of comparatively unimaginable precipitation. Consequentially, when dark matter is added to the mix, chain-reaction implosions generate such highly compressed (much denser than our purest diamonds) crystals, box-shaped doorways rise out of each molten soup. Though stars are not actually hot (heat is an effect of atmospheric combustion) dynamics are unaltered. If a man was to stand on our sun (which is dark in appearance outside our atmosphere, of course) he would literally burn coldly or combust in his atmospheric containment. I am not entirely convinced that a body could not survive or even “not live” unclad in space (but that logic is too afar adrift of competent discussion). Nevertheless, was that to be put to the test, it would take a brave person indeed to act as guinea pig. Space has extraordinary life giving properties and I wonder whether a body’s direct exposure might endure a miraculous morphing.
My reference to black holes earlier does not comply with traditionalism (although it should be stressed neither does Stephen Hawkins own variations, which are loosely described as grey holes by him these days). That is because science interprets the “phases” of a star wrongly. For instance, from truth’s novel perspective, in fact the so-called “white dwarf” phase actually shows light being “throttled” by dark matter. Not enough to fully extinguish the light, so to compensate the lack of overall brilliance, luminance is super-condensed. Even when fully “closed”, the star still radiates, so it is only visually black. Science talks of “black” representing an absence of colour (spectral light). This is incorrect too. There are green-blacks, red-blacks, purple-blacks and the swirling, pulsating abyss representing pure black is harder to look at than white light. So the description “black hole” implies much more than on casual face value.
Also, the term “hole” is rather misleading because the black hole isn’t any different to a normal star. All stars function as portals, or, to use the vernacular, wormholes. Mainstream science opinion is more or less the paradoxical reverse of truth. As with “gravity” real dynamics are roughly the opposite of causally evolved Newtonian-Cartesian thinking and designating black holes power colossal streams of energy and matter out into the universe. My earlier volcano analogy best represents processes. But there’s more. Pulses “belch” giant waves which capture foreign objects in their path. In the case of the Black Sun (which was the Satan Star) forces are so immense they drag entire groups of galaxies (at stupefying speeds). Even so, those that take the time to understand pulse synchronicity might be able to find a way through each force field “on merit”. Very small objects are able to forfeit this drag factor (and that’s why, comparatively, Earth bound meteorites that penetrate our force field are always tiny). In the mundane planetary sense, Earth is caught in one of the circular grooves rippling out from our sun. The reason it spins is not because of “gravity” (as I explain in my book, “The Beauty of Existence Decoded”) but, rather, forces generated by our internal sun source propel the body like a “dreidel” in its vain attempt to break free of the celestial groove.
I would go further and say this is where (if science was a true art form) theorists would find purpose in complication. The size and shape of a celestial object precisely determines how it will react to or whether it will be affected by the network of interconnected pulse waves that populate “space”. Where any three offset concentric rings meet, a triangular cosmic Venus Fly Trap awaits to ensnare unsuspecting asteroids which, possibly, are held in stasis for eternity. Planetary “rotation” mentioned earlier is also predictably subject to differing dynamics as not all bodies are spheres, as is supposed. In short, our universe is nothing like science imagined it would be like and that has caused the corruption of pragmatic thought in order to satisfy domineering practical ambitions.
Everyone should now contend that darkness, being absolute matter, correlated with the original description of evil. Dark matter was uninvited and unwelcome (or, perhaps, unanticipated is a better choice of word) because of the zeal of Sophia (womanhood that encapsulates wisdom). Ever since, certain factions have tried to divide the material domain spiritually to be consistent with her ideologies. Nevertheless, spirituality in its most unrefined form is simply knowledge of God (or Sat-an: would not Hebrew materialist-atheists call this the “adversary”?). Materialism bequeaths atheism, of course. The two are unbreakable partners in crime. An absence of God (who is brought to life by the spirited) proposes a more refined dark matter existence decontaminated from the wilful spiritual illusion. Satanism, contrary to popular ignorance, actually harmonised the standard (i.e. standalone dark matter) which highlights the error of Sophia. That consequence (our throttled Satan Star) is the eternal “war” between the wishes of matriarchal (Sophia) and patriarchal (Adam – the material “son”).
The modern cult of Satanism is more closely aligned to “Luciferian doctrine”, but that’s not all. In addition to the Black Sun being worshipped because it represents the success of material (male) power over (feminine) spirituality (light) is an underlying mission by Judaic Pharisees (Satanists in all but name) to reduce existence to abject materialism. Continuing with my history, Lucifer came much later and, as with Satan, “He” is an identity/concept that has been synthesised from an idealism that bears no relation to truth. Etymology of Lucifer points to Latin light (lux) bearer and ancient texts (such as biblical Isaiah) conceptualise origins from the perpetually falling Morning Star. In fact the real “Lucifer” had a phonetically unpronounceable name that approximates the hiss of the desert wind. He was an archangel and may been [euphemised by] “fallen” Gabrielle. To be clear, Archangels are “sound beings” (a higher version of light) or logos.
To his credit (and detriment too) Lucifer was the first to decide that Sophia’s objectives had failed and the universe was corrupt. Pleiadian knights went to horrific extremes to preserve what some dub “White light Order” (a derivative of Sophia’s spiritual essence). Invariably societies that welcomed sexual promiscuity and other vices were the targets of profound zealousness associated with perceived spiritual cleansing. Thus, I rather identify our modern ultra-orthodox whims as reflective of a much more ancient, timeless authority. Noxious militant groups, such as ISIS, demonstrate just how garbled the Pharisee’s contemplation has become. Religious materialism is a grotesque hybrid accommodating the very worst aspects of White Light Order. Our predecessors could and did destroy planets, ruin entire galaxies to “win”. Lucifer was the first to recognise that this morality was senseless. Therefore the “survival” model was created. I would like to say “as a replacement”, but that would not be true. “New order” overlapping “old order’s” contorted parenthesis has expanded only as hybrid psychosis. For instance, should human obsession be allowed to thrive, surely the universe awaits in own demise? If the powers behind ISIS and other vile, superficial militias could ransack galaxies, would they refrain from total annihilation for pity’s sake?
To Lucifer it was clear that living things enjoy conflict for conflict’s sake. Creatures were given defences, weapons or a combination of the two making sure survival was not a certainty for any individual species (DNA, ultimately always panders to the group). Those with the most weapons in some ways were at the greatest disadvantage as they needed to continually attack to survive. Also, ironically, nature assures the most aggressive alpha males (with the sickly) are usually the first to succumb to plague or disease (also highlighting DNA purges its extremities). Vegetarians were driven to greener pastures for aesthetic reasons or through necessity of avoiding conflict. Everything that existed in living form was prepared for war because war had predetermined functional existence under (prior) White Light Order. For example, the famous allegorical tale “St George and the Dragon” stretches back the best part of 80 million years remembering the destruction of [the planet] Maldek; a tyranny that ensured the slow demise of the dinosaurs (restricted to relocated Earth’s surface). Should it ever be published, I discuss the progressions that fomented the violent war in painstaking detail in my (second) book, “A New World Order”.
If Lucifer stood for anything in particular, it would be “balance”. Therefore, “survival of the fittest” is a misnomer. We humans revere mothers in particular. Fathers are seen more as a necessary accessory of procreation but when couples remain intact (usually via marriage), joint matriarchal/patriarchal supremacy is presupposed. Yet, in practicality, childbirth is the only natural way of renewing human life. Whether procreation was mitigated or accidental, the outcome (when successful) does not alter. Thus, parents are (in some fashion) merely executors of the life generation process (well, as far as human beings are concerned). This means, dare I say, parents are not supreme. New life guides can choose to be arrogant or humble. Sadly, just about all opt for arrogance (at least partially). Either way, the what-should-be insignificant procreation mechanism has been revered out of proportion. Parents are not blessed with “God status” for merely rearing offspring. Why do they presume it? Death, by comparable pharisaic-materialist edict, voided of spirit, is spurned. Children are processed as slaves by dim witted parents already imprisoned by their (the Pharisees) virtual reality.
I can go further and say God status is the ultimate objective of the self-sufficient Satanist/materialist/atheist alliance. Globalism harmonises the cult which adopts a Zionist (meaning fortress or gaol [the archaic word for “prison”]) attack force (evidenced by supplants such as ISIS). In particular, materialists have done anything and everything possible to reduce “the mind” to a mortal facet of existence. In a sense this is thematically pharisaic as well because the ancient Pharisees attempted to segregate spirituality or, rather, partition a voiceless “God” from “reality” (Law) which is instrumented by the blasphemy concept. That was but a small step away from fully-fledged atheism. Pharisee (the word) is a virulent version of anarchist (or adverse-order). It could be logically argued that “Satanism” is the antipathy of just order and insomuch orthodox pharisaic Judaic sects that “usurp” are comparably satanic.
There is also an uncanny numerological connection, which suggests that Globalist Zionism is the product of long standing adapted pharisaic doctrine popularised by Satanism now but actually stretches right back to prehistoric Babylonian times. Interestingly, with the possible exception of inner realms, the Earth has been conquered by materialism. However, there is an effervescence that rises from “reality”. In relatively recent times hard evidence has materialised. What we call the “Worldwide Web” is a vibrating, pulsating, constantly changing manufacturer of synthetic (virtual) reality (very different to the perfect [truth] astral version). Globalism has a desperate stake in this revolutionary communication mechanism which has and will continue to radically alter humanity’s retrospective, our one “freedom”. The only way of (potentially) effectively censoring the internet is via the imposition of “world government”. Therefore, in that sense, liberty is lost when the Worldwide Web is no longer free.
Our individual guiding contracts with what can only be described as “the force that binds us all” risk being forsaken. “Parents” all agreed to their tenures well in advance. All choices were clear and balance reflects choice. Therefore survival is generally synonymous with good decisions. Whether you attack or defend, survival rests on cunning. The most cunning are the best survivors. I have reflected on Sha’tara’s poignant comment (several articles ago) kindly relaying other worldly feedback on potentially “corrupt Anunaki Time Lords”. On one level the information did not make any sense at all, but now I understand [the perspective]. While the Satan Star was the exclusive portal for “white light”, manifest existence reflected that purity. Nevertheless when darkness was added to the “mix”, consequential changes in objective reality would have seemed like “a corruption” by those exclusively tuned to White Light Order. Earth then became the place where “God” (or source) is possibly most completely represented. The material world is the sum of a giant competition between all parts.
So “corrupt Time Lords” [per se] is rather unfair, given they were not privy to or (necessarily) wanted any part of White Light Order. It is clear to me, the impartial onlooker, that universal constrictions due to the rift between light and dark caused the perpetual ongoing war between pragmatism and practicality. Both sides were, are and will be at fault because neither is prepared to concede muted existence. That is why the only material “truths” permissible are ones of the correct practical flavours. Human infantile immorality is no better summarised than by the wholesale castigation of “child designates”. Did anyone think to check on the reasoning determining what it is to be a “child”? That lack of responsibility is liberally expanded in the total dereliction of dutiful support towards all group units. Yes, that’s right, in true civil society you would be obliged to support those in need. That world would owe everyone a living. Universal tyranny sets the tone for valiant oppression, naturally. Under the vague terms of atheist-materialism, to castigate someone unreasonably is reasonable.
In conclusion, it would be remiss of me not to discuss the most important sentence I have ever issued. If “God” had wanted to exist “in the flesh” he would have become an unrestricted being, capable of anything with unlimited potential. Therefore, as matter and spirituality are aspects of “anything”, if matter is “evil”, God is evil too. Everything labelled good along with everything labelled evil are parts of the exact same God. There is one simple term that encapsulates the ambitions of Satanists, materialist and atheists. “Accountancy” presupposes utopian order. Control agents can measure with precision, purge that which they deem is unnecessary or unwelcome. Accountancy is faith free. It assumes linear existence. It is devoid of spirituality. For the purists, the mind is but a figment of cerebral function; a mirage to be discombobulated by clairsentients. Per identical authority, childhood can be dictated. If those in power decide maturity begins and childhood ends precisely at the thirtieth year of individual life, then so be it. “Childhood innocence” denies the timeless, wilful mind and that demonic guide stone wholly supports popular deceit. That is why “childhood” is either “the powers” great strength or the Achilles’ heel that usurps the usurpers, but none dare contemplate it and that is why humanity is destined for absolute satanic authoritarianism.
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John E Cronan
Triclosan resistance of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 is due to FabV, a triclosan-resistant enoyl-acyl carrier protein reductase
Zhu, L., Lin, J., Ma, J., Cronan, J. E. & Wang, H., Feb 1 2010, In : Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 54, 2, p. 689-698 10 p.
Acyl Carrier Protein
Oxidoreductases
Experimental strategies for functional annotation and metabolism discovery: Targeted screening of solute binding proteins and unbiased panning of metabolomes
Vetting, M. W., Al-Obaidi, N., Zhao, S., San Francisco, B., Kim, J., Wichelecki, D. J., Bouvier, J. T., Solbiati, J. O., Vu, H., Zhang, X., Rodionov, D. A., Love, J. D., Hillerich, B. S., Seidel, R. D., Quinn, R. J., Osterman, A. L., Cronan, J. E., Jacobson, M. P., Gerlt, J. A. & Almo, S. C., Jan 27 2015, In : Biochemistry. 54, 3, p. 909-931 23 p.
Metabolome
Assembly of lipoic acid on its cognate enzymes: An extraordinary and essential biosynthetic pathway
Cronan, J. E., Jun 2016, In : Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews. 80, 2, p. 429-450 22 p.
Thioctic Acid
Biosynthetic Pathways
Keto Acids
A canonical biotin synthesis enzyme, 8-amino-7- oxononanoate synthase (BioF), utilizes different acyl chain donors in Bacillus subtilis and Escherichia coli
Manandhar, M. & Cronan, J. E., Jan 1 2018, In : Applied and environmental microbiology. 84, 1, e02084-17.
8-amino-7-oxononanoate synthase
A complex lipoate utilization pathway in Listeria monocytogenes
Christensen, Q. H., Hagar, J. A., O'Riordan, M. X. D. & Cronan, J. E., Sep 9 2011, In : Journal of Biological Chemistry. 286, 36, p. 31447-31456 10 p.
Discovery of new enzymes and metabolic pathways by using structure and genome context
Zhao, S., Kumar, R., Sakai, A., Vetting, M. W., Wood, B. M. K., Brown, S., Bonanno, J. B., Hillerich, B. S., Seidel, R. D., Babbitt, P. C., Almo, S. C., Sweedler, J. V., Gerlt, J. A., Cronan, J. E. & Jacobson, M. P., Sep 24 2013, In : Nature. 502, 7473, p. 698-702 5 p.
Metabolic Networks and Pathways
Multigene Family
Substrate Specificity
Lipoic acid synthesis: A new family of octanoyltransferases generally annotated as lipoate protein ligases
Christensen, Q. H. & Cronan, J. E., Nov 23 2010, In : Biochemistry. 49, 46, p. 10024-10036 13 p.
Ligases
Development and retention of a primordial moonlighting pathway of protein modification in the absence of selection presents a puzzle
Cao, X., Hong, Y., Zhu, L., Hu, Y. & Cronan, J. E., Jan 23 2018, In : Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 115, 4, p. 647-655 9 p.
Evolution of a new function in an esterase: Simple amino acid substitutions enable the activity present in the larger paralog, BioH
Flores, H., Lin, S., Contreras-Ferrat, G., Cronan, J. E. & Morett, E., Aug 1 2012, In : Protein Engineering, Design and Selection. 25, 8, p. 387-395 9 p.
Esterases
Amino Acid Substitution
The Staphylococcus aureus group II biotin protein ligase BirA is an effective regulator of biotin operon transcription and requires the DNA binding domain for full enzymatic activity
Henke, S. K. & Cronan, J. E., Nov 1 2016, In : Molecular Microbiology. 102, 3, p. 417-429 13 p.
Biosynthesis of squalene from farnesyl diphosphate in Bacteria: Three steps catalyzed by three enzymes
Pan, J. J., Solbiati, J. O., Ramamoorthy, G., Hillerich, B. S., Seidel, R. D., Cronan, J. E., Almo, S. C. & Poulter, C. D., May 27 2015, In : ACS Central Science. 1, 2, p. 77-82 6 p.
Evidence against translational repression by the carboxyltransferase component of Escherichia coli acetyl coenzyme a carboxylase
Smith, A. C. & Cronan, J. E., Jan 1 2014, In : Journal of bacteriology. 196, 21, p. 3768-3775 8 p.
Carboxyl and Carbamoyl Transferases
Acetyl-CoA Carboxylase
Dimerization of the bacterial biotin carboxylase subunit is required for acetyl coenzyme A carboxylase activity In vivo
Smith, A. C. & Cronan, J. E., Jan 1 2012, In : Journal of bacteriology. 194, 1, p. 72-78 7 p.
biotin carboxylase
Dimerization
Complex binding of the FabR repressor of bacterial unsaturated fatty acid biosynthesis to its cognate promoters
Feng, Y. & Cronan, J. E., Apr 1 2011, In : Molecular Microbiology. 80, 1, p. 195-218 24 p.
Genetic Promoter Regions
Binding Sites
FabQ, a dual-function dehydratase/isomerase, circumvents the last step of the classical fatty acid synthesis cycle
Bi, H., Wang, H. & Cronan, J. E., Sep 19 2013, In : Chemistry and Biology. 20, 9, p. 1157-1167 11 p.
Hydro-Lyases
Isomerases
The BioC O-methyltransferase catalyzes methyl esterification of malonyl-acyl carrier protein, an essential step in biotin synthesis
Lin, S. & Cronan, J. E., Oct 26 2012, In : Journal of Biological Chemistry. 287, 44, p. 37010-37020 11 p.
Methyltransferases
Malonyl Coenzyme A
PdhR, the pyruvate dehydrogenase repressor, does not regulate lipoic acid synthesis
Feng, Y. & Cronan, J. E., Jul 2014, In : Research in Microbiology. 165, 6, p. 429-438 10 p.
Proofreading of noncognate Acyl adenylates by an acyl-coenzyme a ligase
Manandhar, M. & Cronan, J. E., Dec 19 2013, In : Chemistry and Biology. 20, 12, p. 1441-1446 6 p.
Amino Acyl-tRNA Synthetases
Dicarboxylic Acids
The conserved modular elements of the acyl carrier proteins of lipid synthesis are only partially interchangeable
Zhu, L. & Cronan, J. E., May 29 2015, In : Journal of Biological Chemistry. 290, 22, p. 13791-13799 9 p.
An nad synthetic reaction bypasses the lipoate requirement for aerobic growth of Escherichia coli strains blocked in succinate catabolism
Hermes, F. A. & Cronan, J. E., Dec 1 2014, In : Molecular Microbiology. 94, 5, p. 1134-1145 12 p.
Succinate Dehydrogenase
The Vibrio cholerae fatty acid regulatory protein, FadR, represses transcription of plsB, the gene encoding the first enzyme of membrane phospholipid biosynthesis
Feng, Y. & Cronan, J. E., Aug 1 2011, In : Molecular Microbiology. 81, 4, p. 1020-1033 14 p.
The Burkholderia cenocepacia BDSF quorum sensing fatty acid is synthesized by a bifunctional crotonase homologue having both dehydratase and thioesterase activities
Bi, H., Christensen, Q. H., Feng, Y., Wang, H. & Cronan, J. E., Feb 1 2012, In : Molecular Microbiology. 83, 4, p. 840-855 16 p.
Burkholderia cenocepacia
Enoyl-CoA Hydratase
Pimelic acid, the first precursor of the Bacillus subtilis biotin synthesis pathway, exists as the free acid and is assembled by fatty acid synthesis
Manandhar, M. & Cronan, J. E., May 2017, In : Molecular Microbiology. 104, 4, p. 595-607 13 p.
Pimelic Acids
Synthesis of the α,ω-dicarboxylic acid precursor of biotin by the canonical fatty acid biosynthetic pathway
Cronan, J. E. & Lin, S., Jun 1 2011, In : Current Opinion in Chemical Biology. 15, 3, p. 407-413 7 p.
The atypical occurrence of two biotin protein ligases in Francisella novicida is due to distinct roles in virulence and biotin metabolism
Feng, Y., Chin, C. Y., Chakravartty, V., Gao, R., Crispell, E. K., Weiss, D. S. & Cronan, J. E., Jun 9 2015, In : mBio. 6, 3
Francisella
Crosstalk of Escherichia coli FadR with Global Regulators in Expression of Fatty Acid Transport Genes
Feng, Y. & Cronan, J. E., Sep 28 2012, In : PloS one. 7, 9, e46275.
Altered regulation of escherichia coli biotin biosynthesis in bira superrepressor mutant strains
Chakravartty, V. & Cronan, J. E., Mar 1 2012, In : Journal of bacteriology. 194, 5, p. 1113-1126 14 p.
Advances in synthesis of biotin and assembly of lipoic acid
Cronan, J. E., Dec 2018, In : Current Opinion in Chemical Biology. 47, p. 60-66 7 p.
Expression and activity of the BioH esterase of biotin synthesis is independent of genome context
Cao, X., Zhu, L., Hu, Z. & Cronan, J. E., Dec 1 2017, In : Scientific reports. 7, 1, 2141.
Transcriptional regulation of fatty acid cis–trans isomerization in the solvent-tolerant soil bacterium, Pseudomonas putida F1
Kondakova, T. & Cronan, J. E., May 2019, In : Environmental Microbiology. 21, 5, p. 1659-1676 18 p.
Pseudomonas putida
isomerization
soil bacteria
The Switch Regulating Transcription of the Escherichia coli Biotin Operon Does Not Require Extensive Protein-Protein Interactions
Solbiati, J. & Cronan, J. E., Jan 29 2010, In : Chemistry and Biology. 17, 1, p. 11-17 7 p.
Lipoate-binding proteins and specific lipoate-protein ligases in microbial sulfur oxidation reveal an atpyical role for an old cofactor
Cao, X., Koch, T., Steffens, L., Finkensieper, J., Zigann, R., Cronan, J. E. & Dahl, C., Jul 13 2018, In : eLife. 7, e37439.
A Biotin Biosynthesis Gene Restricted to Helicobacter
Bi, H., Zhu, L., Jia, J. & Cronan, J. E., Feb 12 2016, In : Scientific reports. 6, 21162.
Biotin synthesis begins by hijacking the fatty acid synthetic pathway
Lin, S., Hanson, R. E. & Cronan, J. E., Sep 2010, In : Nature chemical biology. 6, 9, p. 682-688 7 p.
Only one of the five Ralstonia solanacearum long-chain 3-ketoacyl-acyl carrier protein synthase homologues functions in fatty acid synthesis
Cheng, J., Ma, J., Lin, J., Fan, Z. C., Cronan, J. E. & Wang, H., Mar 1 2012, In : Applied and environmental microbiology. 78, 5, p. 1563-1573 11 p.
holo-(acyl-carrier-protein) synthase
Overlapping repressor binding sites result in additive regulation of Escherichia coli FadH by FadR and ArcA
Feng, Y. & Cronan, J. E., Sep 1 2010, In : Journal of bacteriology. 192, 17, p. 4289-4299 11 p.
Cyclic AMP Receptor Protein
Cyclic AMP
Profligate biotin synthesis in α-proteobacteria - a developing or degenerating regulatory system?
Feng, Y., Zhang, H. & Cronan, J. E., Apr 1 2013, In : Molecular Microbiology. 88, 1, p. 77-92 16 p.
Proteobacteria
Successful conversion of the Bacillus subtilis BirA group II biotin protein ligase into a group I ligase
Henke, S. K. & Cronan, J. E., May 9 2014, In : PloS one. 9, 5, e96757.
Bacilli
Coping with inadvertent lysis of Escherichia coli cultures: Strains resistant to lysogeny and infection by the stealthy lysogenic phage Φ80
Srinivas, S. & Cronan, J. E., Jul 2019, In : Biotechnology and bioengineering. 116, 7, p. 1820-1826 7 p.
Lysogeny
Bacteriophages
Microbiological Attachment Sites
Discovery of a cAMP deaminase that quenches cyclic AMP-dependent regulation
Goble, A. M., Feng, Y., Raushel, F. M. & Cronan, J. E., Dec 20 2013, In : ACS chemical biology. 8, 12, p. 2622-2629 8 p.
Adenosine Monophosphate
Inosine Monophosphate
Transcriptional patterns in both host and bacterium underlie a daily rhythm of anatomical and metabolic change in a beneficial symbiosis
Wier, A. M., Nyholm, S. V., Mandel, M. J., Massengo-Tiassé, R. P., Schaefer, A. L., Koroleva, I., Splinter-BonDurant, S., Brown, B., Manzella, L., Snir, E., Almabrazi, H., Scheetz, T. E., Bonaldo, M. D. F., Casavant, T. L., Soares, M. B., Cronan, J. E., Reed, J. L., Ruby, E. G. & McFall-Ngai, M. J., Feb 2 2010, In : Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 107, 5, p. 2259-2264 6 p.
Decapodiformes
Expression of Vibrio harveyi Acyl-ACP synthetase allows efficient entry of exogenous fatty acids into the Escherichia coli fatty acid and lipid a synthetic pathways
Jiang, Y., Morgan-Kiss, R. M., Campbell, J. W., Chan, C. H. & Cronan, J. E., Feb 2 2010, In : Biochemistry. 49, 4, p. 718-726 9 p.
Nonesterified Fatty Acids
The two functional enoyl-acyl carrier protein reductases of Enterococcus faecalis do not mediate triclosan resistance
Zhu, L., Bi, H., Ma, J., Hu, Z., Zhang, W., Cronan, J. E. & Wang, H., Oct 1 2013, In : mBio. 4, 5, e00613-13.
Enterococcus faecalis encodes an atypical auxiliary acyl carrier protein required for efficient regulation of fatty acid synthesis by exogenous fatty acids
Zhu, L., Zou, Q., Cao, X. & Cronan, J. E., May 1 2019, In : mBio. 10, 3, e00577-19.
Intein-mediated cyclization of bacterial acyl carrier protein stabilizes its folded conformation but does not abolish function
Volkmann, G., Murphy, P. W., Rowland, E. E., Cronan, J. E., Liu, X. Q., Blouin, C. & Byers, D. M., Mar 19 2010, In : Journal of Biological Chemistry. 285, 12, p. 8605-8614 10 p.
Inteins
Cyclization
Conformations
Protein Unfolding
The role of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae lipoate protein ligase homologue, Lip3, in lipoic acid synthesis
Hermes, F. A. & Cronan, J. E., Oct 1 2013, In : Yeast. 30, 10, p. 415-427 13 p.
Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins
Probing protein dynamics in vivo using backbone cyclization: Bacterial acyl carrier protein as a case study
Volkmann, G., Murphy, P. W., Rowland, E. E., Cronan, J. E. & Byers, D. M., Dec 23 2011, Methods in Protein Biochemistry. Walter de Gruyter GmbH and Co. KG, p. 271-293 23 p.
Xanthomonas campestrisRpfB is a fatty Acyl-CoA ligase required to counteract the thioesterase activity of the RpfF diffusible signal factor (DSF) synthase
Bi, H., Yu, Y., Dong, H., Wang, H. & Cronan, J. E., Jul 2014, In : Molecular Microbiology. 93, 2, p. 262-275 14 p.
Xanthomonas
A new pathway of exogenous fatty acid incorporation proceeds by a classical phosphoryl transfer reaction
Cronan, J. E., Apr 2014, In : Molecular Microbiology. 92, 2, p. 217-221 5 p.
Fatty Acid Synthesis Inhibitors
Anhydrides
Structure of the enzyme-acyl carrier protein (ACP) substrate gatekeeper complex required for biotin synthesis
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My "Feelings"
A modern-day letter/journal shared with my LSD friends of Lima Sains Dua 1975 with their spouses, other fellow Johannians of SJI including girls who joined us in Form 6 only.
My Dear Friends or should I address you as My Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Please take some quiet time to reminisce what I am about to share below. It's from the Feelings of my Heart. It will only take me a short time to share online as I have spent my life being a "Chronicler" that I didn't realize. This title was given to me by our intelligent friend and former Microsoft MD in Malaysia, Benedict Lee Ban Hock, not too long ago in our brief online chat.
I like to warn that this sharing is not just using multi-media technology of today, but is also a reflection of a post-millennial era of Human Consciousness, especially of mine, that can flip from one moment of time here to there as well as from this location to there in an instant, even the change of a subject!
Let's start with some old pics:
Some who viewed this old pic above taken some time in our 1974-75 school years together, like Chian Howe, Wooi Teck, Chuan Huat and I seen in a more current Dec 2018 pic below, where we were trying to recall where the above photo was taken at.
In our small get together a few nights after the 8 Dec 2018 turning 60 big reunion dinner, Chian Howe thinks it's Mimaland, Chuan Huat thinks it's Camerons, I thought it could be Lake Gardens and Wooi Teck wasn't really sure! I guess we all learned as we started to discuss past memories that we really remember only the ones that we had strong feelings or emotions about. This is because they happened many many years ago and since then, many more memories have been added to our memory bank that may make the earlier ones to become more faint to be recalled especially specifics are concerned!
One thing good about old black and white photos and books like our farewell 'Red Book' made from a large expired thick red diary is that if we can store them away properly, they become precious years later just like how antiques become priceless I guess! So when scanners become more affordable and more efficient or effective in size and speed, I started scanning big time to add to my blog journals to bring back more memories as shared below:
One thing for sure that can be stable in this online journal is about my "Feelings" shared today when we are all qualifying into the senior citizens class! Fortunately, I realized from young that I naturally had poor memory and compensated my weakness with the use of photos, videos, written records and later with computer technology to index all that I wish to remember so that I can recall them specifically and fast too at any time present or in the future.
As mentioned above where we couldn't figure out where that photo was taken at, a video created below of our turning sixty reunion event I believe can keep our memories for a longer time as compared to a photograph when shared in a future time. If our memory gets too short to know where is the above place in this long post I mentioned or one had skipped it while quickly scan-reading down to this point of the journal to read, just click here to auto-scroll up! The two links I've provided thus far was the first that leads you to another page to explain the meaning of the word used. The second to 'click here' was to lead you to another part on the same page you're on here. This is a sample of the online technology today, using HTML language, of the flexibility one has to direct a reader/user to share more information. If one is not familiar with how to maneuver around a smaller sized smartphone screen which is harder compared to a larger computer screen, just avoid clicking any links at all as it's not necessary to follow the optional redirection or flow provided. Just scroll up and down like one is reading a book by turning the page forward or backward.
So let's continue on with sharing of my Feelings experienced in helping to organize this Dec 8, 2018 event:
The last photo above from my memory was after our Form 5 major exam and we all wanted to celebrate and had a party at Kim Hock's residence at Jalan Yap Kuan Seng which is very near the KLCC today! Now the reason the red arrow points to Zubir is just a few nights ago, we had a long chat on the phone. He was the Malay boy from our special class of Science two whom I had deeper roots with as with as he grew up with me in the same Kampong of Ampang Jaya together with another Johannian named Alvin Lim Kim Chuan whom I classify as one of the many affiliates of our Legendary LSD class. Click here to jump below to the section where I will write what Zubir shared with me that helped me reawaken my Consciousness of how special our Class of 4 and 5 Science 2 was that planted something in us that made a big difference for our future. It became a rationale we possessed where each could create our own narrative that would strongly influence the decisions of our life's future after leaving school.
I said we were 'Legendary' as this plaque we donated to the school meant to encourage others after us to follow the same Spirit of the Eagle that made us Legendary!
Now after Form 5 in 1975, we began to go in different directions as some did not continue to Form 6.
This could be the last gathering of most of us still in Kuala Lumpur in 1976
Now some started to journey overseas like this photo in London UK of 1976 Nov/Dec.
After one year at Taylor's matriculation program, it was my turn to go overseas for my education in Feb 1977. Grateful to have this pic to remind me of my LSD and affiliate friends who took the trouble to see me off!
I guess the magnet of the LSD 'Feelings' caused me to find Victor Liow whose family had migrated to Melbourne Australia.
This strong magnetic force also worked on Govind who like all the years to this day, he will suddenly show up like he did in the photo above after hitchhiking all the way from Perth to find me in Geelong Australia before finding his way hitchhiking to Europe and then finally to the US to continue his education! I think some of my quantum waves spread to him too discovered only light years later.
This photo shows my Mom and Sister-in-Law visiting me early 1978 to check on me haha! I share this photo to highlight Lim Tong Leong who is the older brother of Alvin Lim Kim Chuan, from my same kampung who was the very reason why I chose to study in an unknown University in Geelong when my matriculation results qualified me to go to Melbourne Uni or RMIT college. I felt that he was a Johannian affiliate to LSD too due to his younger brother who is also an LSD affiliate who became my buddy for life! It was the best decision I made as from my buddy's brother, I learned how to be really independent by picking his Architect's brain and follow all the crazy outdoor lifestyle he exposed me to in Australia.
Something happened to me in Australia where from LSD mindset, just before I turned 21 in the year 1979, my life was augmented with the LDS culture, same 3 letters slightly changed in its order! LDS was the short form for the full name of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
After I graduated from the university in 1980, I came home to serve a voluntary mission for the Church.
My old friends of Sc2 made an effort to come and visit me in Kuala Lumpur where I was based for some time.
While serving a mission from 1980-82, I had developed the habit of keeping a personal journal
After I completed my voluntary mission for two years, I found my future wife in Singapore and we planned some holidays in KL during our short courtship with another courting couple Ben and Swee Joon who did their sixth form in SJI together
When we all finished our education, the marriage course or of course was the path to follow and here is a photo of Ben and me in our dating years in 1982 on a trip to Fraser's Hill together with our future wives!
However, the strong bonds of "Feelings" kept us two couples close to each other together with many of our other classmates for many more years to come.
At Benedict's first home in 1986, after being the first to be married, that we are aware of as those days there was no cell phone or internet to easily know for instance if Baldev Singh got married earlier or not than Ben and Joon. We were glad to have an informal reunion to also help him move some furniture too as helpful friends.
After that time, many of us began to become busy in establishing our careers as well as starting our own families. There were only smaller reunions that occurred for our 5 Science 2 or Lima Sains Dua (LSD) group with our affiliate Johannians until:
Going back 20 Oct 2013
Turning 55 reunion video history
How the spark started on 12 Feb 2017
Turning 60 reunion idea thought of in a Chinese New Year lunch in PJ hosted by Thim Mun:
By 18 Feb 2018, celebrating the Chinese New Year at the home of Eugene and Carol, it was time to work on the 'Turning 60 reunion' idea to become a reality!
We will roar to Success thus making the theme of the event the "Roaring 60s"
Video promotions for the reunion event on Dec 8, 2018, started and continued till close to the date of the event :
FINDING THE OLD BOYS:
Sharing of the discussion about why our 5 Science 2 or Lima Sains Dua LSD class was exceptional in a phone call with Ahmad Zubir:
Ahmad Zubir was the only one of our four Malay boys in our 5Sc2 class that I could keep in contact over the years as our roots were deeper together as I use the term, we came from the same 'Kampong' or village in Ampang Jaya. From the photo above he is 2nd from the left pointed out with the red arrows on my Malay classmates in 1975. On his right is Malek Reedzuan. Further on Zubir's left is first Darius Abdullah who is followed by Shaidan bin Sulaiman.
I would visit his home by bicycle and vice-versa. However, once we left SJI school, as time went on, we each would get busier continuing our life's journey with further education, career, and marriage. It got harder to stay connected with each other especially when technology like Social Media, did not exist in our early days. A Malay boy student friend that I could continue to stay connected with was Ainuddin Hamid, who was not from our 5Sc2 class but was also from our same 'Kampong'. He also eventually lived not far from our Kampong off Jln Ampang as I did. So after we finished our education and came home to Kuala Lumpur to start our careers and own family, we could continue to stay in contact. But where were my other Malay friends from LSD?
I started going through my old albums and journals to find out that Ahmad Zubir and Darius Abdullah were last seen in our LSD class reunion in 1986, confirmed by checking our Class Red Book that had a page with multiple photos of that day shared above.
Then with Social Media technology in full swing, the following video was captured:
This meet up occurred in the year 2016 and was shared live on Facebook as it happened!
As I started to follow up with my Johannian friends on the phone for our "Roaring 60s" reunion event, I had a very interesting long conversation with Zubir on the phone, my friend from the same Kampong!
We started talking about our LSD class, recalling all the wonderful memories especially amazing things we achieved like the Thailand trip especially! Then he said something that hit me in My Consciousness...that there was something special in the combination of different characters in the class that somehow made us acquire a special/magical attribute that was 40 years ahead of our time! Those words he said that was well articulated or words that caused an effect on me like a lightning bolt. I guess this was due to a book I've been writing and preparing to publish as soon as possible, from an unknown aspiring author from Boleh Land, that has been on my mind all the while! My book is covering the most important topic of Human Consciousness where Scientists and Religionists are giving all sorts of differing opinions and views!
While busy with all that research and writing both in my online journals as well as my book draft, I continued to follow my Heart and Mind to connect to old friends as I often wonder about them where have they gone and why I don't run into them like I can run into others. Then it happened. After finding Ahmad Zubir which was easy as he was from my same Kampong, I wondered what happened to Darius Abdullah, Shaidan bin Sulaiman and Malek Reddzuan? Then it happened....
I was in std 6A3 on the far right back and Nazli Shah is on the far left back.
I went to a lunch on 30 Oct 2018 to celebrate Nazli Shah's birthday (middle arrow) at Bilal Restoran Jln Ampang where Kamarul Bahrein (right arrow) at the lunch was also from 6A3 but not in the B&W photo above. But guess who was sitting beside me?
Darius Abdullah and Ikbal in the centre who brought him to the lunch celebration! Now you can compare the old pics of Darius as well as Zubir with the colored photo of two of them above that is in color and the B&W photo of the class pointed out by the arrows with names in the caption below.
I told Darius at lunch, sitting beside me, that I had been thinking about him for a long long time over the past years as we were sitting quite close together in class at school during Forms 4 and 5 years. I've never met him in all the different gatherings or reunions of our schoolboys over the years so was wondering where he had gone to. Lo and behold, he suddenly just showed up. He and Ikbal decided to stay longer after lunch to sit down with me to catch up with one another. I learned that he and Ikbal were part of a special program by the government in the 70s to place students like them who lived in villages outside KL to integrate with students who lived in the city. They lived in student dorms or 'asramas' in Malay where green army trucks would ferry the students to school and back each day. I remember seeing those army trucks parked near the school in my student days thinking there were parents who were in the military who sent their sons to St John's. After so many years later, I now know why were the trucks there and appreciate how the government was helping to improve the standard of education in the country for those who were living in the outskirts.
I asked Darius if he knew where were the other two Malay boys and he said he did contact Shaidan once before and that he was a doctor in Ipoh. Later through our WhatsApp connection, he gave me the link he found through Google here. I followed up and soon got to talk to Dr. Shaidan who is an anesthetist today.
Dr Shaidan came late as he had to travel from Ipoh where he works and live today. Compare this look from a photo I captured of him at the party to the old B&W class photo above where he is on the far right pointed by the red arrow, we can see that one can tell it is him.
So there was only Malek Reedzuan left who was unaccounted for. Now at this point in writing, I cannot recall how I could find the contact number of Dr. Malek Reedzuan who runs clinics with his wife in Johore Bahru as well as restaurants and a Karaoke centre!!! I just know that as I'm doing my best to contact long lost friends when it came to finding the 3 Malay boys not from my kampong, Darius, Shaidan and Malek, the moment I saw Darius in the lunch celebration, I knew there was some 'Synchronicity' going on or 'Serendipity' of my life occurring again as recorded in past journals starting from here.
I got to connect to Dr. Malek Reezuan on WhatsApp to receive the above photo of him on the left with his first wife, Dr. Nafisa on the right, also a doctor and his daughter Saleha an accountant. He is married to two other wives. From his first wife alone, he has 5 children and 7 grandchildren. The 8th grandchild will be born in June 2019 he informed me!
We soon started to call each other on the phone to catch up with each other. Through our many conversations on the phone, I discovered he was a different Malek I knew at school who was very quiet in class and spoke only very softly. On the phone, he was very lively almost as I am and we could call each other at any time to feel like speaking to each other!
I also discovered that his birthday was on Dec 8 itself so I informed him that he will be our Special Mystery Guest for the evening not just because of his coincidental birthday but that he had actually worked in the mental illness department of many of the local hospitals in the country and that he feels he has discovered how to open one's mind to be happy every day!
FINDING THE OLD TEACHERS:
Bro Augustine
David Fernandez
Indrani Manuel
Mrs Gonzales
Stanley Van Dort
Celebrating his 77th Birthday:
Video session in my apartment where he mentioned the name of Mortimer J. Adler which is included in the introductory pages of my 1st book to be published:
Mrs Manuel
Unfortunately, she is bedridden and unable to join her old boys!
Apprehension mounts towards 8 Dec 2018 due to planned street protests in Kuala Lumpur
Protestors against ICERD wanted to continue their protest in the streets on Dec 8 despite the fact that the new government had decided not to ratify their former decision to accept it. I was in fact in the meeting in KL on Nov 9 when there was an online live coverage of Malaysia's representative speaking in a meeting under the United Nations below:
The government would allow them to protest and I personally thought it was a fair thing to do in Malaysia with a democratic parliamentary system in place and that I myself had joined street protests in the past too! These were against corruption in the government, protesting under the BERSIH yellow flag that eventually resulted in the loss of the UMNO party or the national coalition front of Barisan National in the GE 14. This time around, the majority of the votes of the citizens allowed the opposition coalition under party Harapan to win who then formed the new government we have today.
A couple of days before Dec 8, Mothership news in closeby Singapore was giving reports their Ministry of Foreign Affairs MFA was warning Singaporeans about the street protests to advice their citizens against travel to Kuala Lumpur. This same news was reported in their Straits Times news too. This caused some of our old boys now who have moved to live and work in Singapore to be concerned.
I did my part to respond to the online messages that were coming to me that all would be well with my reasoning that follows: 1) Malaysia is a peaceful country as long as I have lived here for 60 years except for 1 racial riot that was started by political groups marching in the streets on May 13, 1969 which caught the police and armed forces of the country off guard. 2) This ICERD issue was toned down when the government had already decided not to ratify their decision earlier to accept ICERD. 3) The authorities had approved the protest march against ICERD, specifying to the protestors which streets they are allowed to march in from 10am to 6pm only which means the police would be controlling the protestors and wouldn't hesitate to lock up anyone who violated the law or create civil unrest on that day 4) I had made contact with friends I know who are with the police to ensure that they are closely monitoring the situation in the city before and during the day of protest itself. 5) I had contacted and added a close friend of mine, who is an experienced Bersih demonstrator as I was, to our Dec 8 reunion planning WhatsApp group. He has a motorbike like I do including a drone to make surveillance from the air on the day of our function so we can get any early warnings of trouble. 6) I gave assurance and guidance that our event location at GTowers Hotel in Jln Tun Razak beside the Muslim Tabung Haji building was in a well-protected area with foreign embassies. I also referred to the maps showing roads that are closed will not block anyone from PJ, Bangsar, Damansara, Kepong, Cheras, and Ampang side from driving to the event location. 7) Finally, on the day itself, I had to make sure I was there with the crowd of protestors to make sure everything was going peacefully as I had personally anticipated. The following are photos and videos by my www.talklane.com production.:
I was right there in the middle of all the action where they took a peaceful break for the 1pm prayers on Saturday, Dec 8
The lady with the white hat is from Channel News Asia who flew in from Singapore.
There was also our local Astro AWANI reporter, Arfa Yunus doing a live coverage.
The social media reporter from TalkLane was captured by one of the local cameras projecting the live footage on a large screen put up on the stage where the Muslim leader was giving the prayer. He was standing wearing dark glasses close to the MC who was looking at the watch to pass the microphone to him to say the prayers:
It was a celebration by the ICERD protestors which all turned out very peacefully, Malaysian style!
This allowed the SJI event of the "Roaring 60s" on Dec 8 to carry on peacefully too with more fun of course!
VIDEO 1 - Feelings (Click on the Video 1 link or on the screen below to view)
VIDEO 2 - After Dinner celebrations (Click on the Video 2 link or on the screen below to view)
CLICK HERE for more photos on Facebook or click the screen below to view the slides.
CLICK HERE for the same photos on Flickr or click the screen below to view the slides.
This current work-in-progress journal post will be continued and edited where necessary...
Gatherings after the "Roaring 60s" event, on the same night just after the event and a few days following...
The 3 Amigos, all for one and one for all? If anything, we are the marathon chatters who can call one another and talk for hours online! We took a pic before saying goodbye to Alvin Lim at the airport, returning to Melbourne after our grand-reunion! We came together from CL Tan's home in my car and we headed back to his home from the airport. By the time we reached back to his home, it was almost midnight and he invited me into his home to met his wife too as she was still up playing their favorite Pokemon game! After she went to bed, the two of us continued chatting till 7am. Soon the wife was about to leave for work and so I drove home at the same time! I was still very alert! haha
Thanks to Alvin, he brought my copy of a signed autograph by Dami Im who performed in Melbourne the previous year. In May 2019, I got a video call from Alvin Lim in Melbourne to see that CL Tan, Harjeet Singh and Tuck Keong who were classmates together at school in his home. I was informed of the 4 wheel drive adventure planned earlier but told Alvin I was too engrossed in hurrying up to finish my long book project and when Dami Im performs later in the year, I will be there to autograph my book for her as part of my book promotional tour! Haha
A week after downtown in KL...
A couple of months later in Feb 2019 in Johore Bahru with Dr Malek Reedzuan...
...and my boys who came over to JB from Singapore on the last day of Chinese New Year!
2nd May 2019 with Jordan Ter Yook Choon visiting from Melbourne, 2nd from the right in the back row at the Grand Imperial restaurant in Bangsar Shopping Complex...
After KL, it was nice to receive a photo of his healthy reunion in Singapore with our 'younger' boys there! Just the other day, Tan Boon Peng gave me a rare phone call out of the blue asking me if I knew anyone of our boys in the same year at school were born in 1959. I paused for a while and told him we seldom raised the topic of who was the younger or older batch in our class caused by the double promotion given based on the exam results at the end of the year of 1965. I gave the quick response that I think all the smarter boys I found when I worked my way up to join Science 2 class in Form 4 must be the ones! The first boy always was Dr Lam Shih Kwong so he must be one I said! haha
Sudden sad news of Munly, wife of our Lima Sains Dua LSD classmate, Stephen Chiam, came to us of her passing away on May 9. A few of us gathered on the first wake the day after...
This is Munly's daughter with her husband who now live in Perth. I asked her to take the photo of our group above for us. I also asked her if she remembered coming to our home when she was a little girl with her parents in our early gatherings during our younger years. She said she remembers especially the choo choo train in our indoor garden.
In my books, Family and Friends are Forever as I believe our spirit lives on! I believe I am the first of our LSD class who lost his wife 7 years ago and time really passes quickly. Mother's day happened to be on this same weekend of Sunday, May 12. I received a message from my oldest son in Singapore to confirm the position number of his Mom's ashes kept in the Singapore Columbarium as he was away in the UK serving a voluntary mission for our Church when she passed away recorded in this journal. I asked him up to take a photo for me shared below...
Many others have passed away over time who are my family members and friends. Feelings impressed me to keep their names in this special Easter journal that I will add Munly's name as well.
Feelings have helped me have meaning and purpose in life whether it is to do with family & friends, work or responsibilities and especially in living with the faith that there must be a loving Father in Heaven who watches over all of us! I can finally conclude this long overdue journal with this video below:
We can go back to 1971 with more history when we all first started gathering as students in shorts by clicking here.
Postdated Event:
Passing of an old teacher in SJI Mr Francis Wan who is the older brother of our Science 2 classmate, Vincent Alexander Wan
With Vincent Wan on the far right and in the middle, Mr Pei who is also an ex-teacher of SJI who is a close friend of Francis Wan, at the wake on Sunday 8 Dec 2019
Vincent asked me if I can guess which is he in the old photo that he shared with me. I guess it right the first time, the one on the far right in front! I have added Francis Wan's name in my special Easter Journal in remembrance of him and others who are my friends or family members who have passed on in life.
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Average UK householder pays £37,331 too much for bills in their lifetime
UK householders will pay an average of £37,331 too much for utilities and insurance in their lifetime. That’s according to some research we carried out with the launch our Futility Bill calculator, designed to help people understand how much they unwittingly overpay to energy and insurance companies.
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MIL-OSI USA: NYT Opinion: An Impeachment Inquiry Is Coming. It Might Have Already Begun.
Source: United States House of Representatives – Congresswoman Dina Titus (1st District of Nevada)
Last Wednesday, after Robert Mueller’s terse and sometimes halting congressional testimony, conventional wisdom quickly congealed: Mueller’s performance had made Donald Trump’s impeachment far less likely. “Robert S. Mueller III’s disastrous testimony has taken the wind out of the sails of the Democratic impeachment drive,” wrote Marc Thiessen in The Washington Post. CNN’s Chris Cillizza declared Mueller’s testimony “a bust — at least when it came to generating momentum for impeachment.”
Less than a week later, it’s clear that these hot takes were wrong. At no point in Trump’s wretched rule has impeachment appeared more probable. Indeed, Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee, which would oversee impeachment hearings, argue that an inquiry into impeachment has already begun. An inexorable confrontation between the House and the president has been set in motion.
Before Mueller’s testimony last Wednesday, 93 House Democrats had come out for an impeachment inquiry. As I write this on Monday, the number is up to 109; among them are Katherine Clark, vice chairwoman of the House Democratic caucus, and Mike Levin, a freshman from a swing district. By the end of the week, more than half the Democratic caucus could be on board.
Mueller’s presentation may have been underwhelming, but he allowed Democrats to put a bow around his findings, clearing away some of the deliberate confusion created by Attorney General William Barr’s misleading summary. “The press focused on the performance and the optics instead of on the substance,” said Jerry Nadler, chairman of the Judiciary Committee. “Mueller said we were attacked by the Russians, the Trump campaign cooperated in many ways with that attack, they welcomed it, in many ways they worked with it.”
Democrats already knew all this, of course. But just as Trump’s recent racist outbursts forced renewed attention to his bigotry, Mueller made Congress squarely confront the president’s lawlessness and disloyalty to the country he purports to lead. Once he testified, congressional Democrats could no longer punt on the impeachment question by saying that they were waiting to hear from him.
And even if Mueller’s appearance didn’t change many minds, it galvanized some voters. Dina Titus, a Nevada Democrat, told me that in recent days, “The constituent calls that I have been getting have just increased, both in number and intensity, saying: ‘Enough is enough. It’s time for him to go.’” On Monday, she came out for beginning an impeachment inquiry.
Perhaps even more significant than the growing number of calls for impeachment is a lawsuit filed by the Judiciary Committee on Friday. The filing, demanding access to grand jury material from the Mueller investigation, says that the committee “is conducting an investigation to determine whether to recommend articles of impeachment.” In other words, the Judiciary Committee, which would oversee any potential impeachment, announced, with surprisingly little fanfare, that an impeachment inquiry is already underway.
For months now, there’s been an acrimonious intra-Democratic debate about whether House Speaker Nancy Pelosi should call a vote to begin such an inquiry. Now, however, the Judiciary Committee is asserting that such a vote isn’t required, and as Nadler points out, Pelosi has signed off on the strategy. The House would have to vote on impeachment itself, but that would come only after the Judiciary Committee has done much of its work.
“The Constitution does not delineate what a formal impeachment inquiry is, and the House rules don’t define what a formal impeachment inquiry is,” said Jamie Raskin, a Democrat on the Judiciary Committee who was a professor of constitutional law. “We all looked up after Robert Mueller’s testimony and realized that we are in an impeachment inquiry. What is this if not an investigation into high crimes and misdemeanors? That’s obviously what we’re doing.”
This might seem a little too cute — it allows Democrats to satisfy their base’s demand that Trump be held accountable without forcing representatives from conservative districts to take a potentially perilous vote. “I just have a feeling that you’ve either got to do it or not; you can’t have it both ways,” said Titus.
But Nadler argues that the Judiciary Committee started its impeachment inquiry into Richard Nixon before the full House voted to approve it. Impeachment proceedings for federal judges have begun in the Judiciary Committee without a House vote.
Whatever you want to call it, Nadler is hoping that Mueller’s appearance is just the first in a series of high-profile hearings. Soon his committee will go to court to enforce a subpoena of Donald McGahn, the former White House counsel. If the Democrats prevail, Nadler argues it will clear the way for them to compel other former White House staffers like Hope Hicks to testify.
So Mueller’s testimony last week wasn’t the end of the investigation into Trump. It was only the end of that investigation’s first phase. Now Phase 2 begins. “The numbers will continue to grow,” Raskin said of Democrats joining the call for impeachment. “The hardest place to be in politics is on the fence. And these members who are coming off the fence and calling me, tell me that they feel a great sense of relief.”
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The Stark Truth
Tracking the growth of Christianity 2,000 years ago is an ambitious undertaking for a sociologist. But Rodney Stark found it irresistible. Reading recent histories of early Christianity, he began to do some number-crunching. Soon, he says, it was a consuming “hobby.” And, before long, he had written a best-selling book, The Rise of Christianity (HarperSanFrancisco, 1997).
What he found in his study of the first Christian centuries was an astonishing growth rate in the number of Christians of 40 percent per decade. From a small band of twelve, the Church had grown to 6 million people by 300 A.D. Stark maintains that the Emperor Constantine did not so much ensure Christianity’s success as acknowledge it. Constantine’s edict of toleration in 313 was overdue recognition that the Church had already won the empire.
But Stark is most interested in how the West was won. Contrary to pious histories, he holds that most growth came from individual conversions, and from the merchant and upper classes rather than the poor. Contrary to secular feminist pieties, he makes the case that most converts were women, that women benefited greatly from conversion, and that women were leaders in the early Church.
He also shows the remarkable effects of charity on Church growth. Christians, he demonstrates, were much more likely to survive epidemics because they cared for one another. And the pagans who received Christian care were much more likely to become Christians. In times of epidemic, Stark says, pagan priests and doctors were among the first to leave town.
Stark’s book vividly describes the misery of ordinary citizens of the pagan world. Most lived in cramped, smoky tenements with no ventilation or plumbing. Life expectancy was around 30 years for men and perhaps much lower for women. Hygiene was minimal. Medical care was more dangerous than disease, and disease often left its victims disfigured or dead. The human body was host to countless parasites, and tenements were infested by pests. For entertainment, people thronged to the circuses to see other people mutilated and killed.
Pagan marriage was no respite. Greco-Roman women suffered in predatory relationships rife with abortion and unnatural acts. But Christian marriage was a different story. Christian husbands and wives tended to love one another, as their religion required. Their mutual affection, Stark says, and their openness to fertility led to more children, and thus to a still higher growth in converts for the early Church.
Stark demonstrates that Christian doctrine, hope and charity transformed the Roman Empire—one person at a time.
Of The Rise of Christianity, the Vatican’s semi-official newspaper said: “It is ironic yet satisfying to find sociology, so often used to attack dogmatic Christianity, now objectively confirming some of the claims that Christianity has made for itself.”
Read my Touchstone interview with Rodney Stark here.
I regularly write about the Fathers in Touchstone. You’ll find some of that work by searching Touchstone’s archive here. (Just plug in my last name: Aquilina.)
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6 thoughts on “The Stark Truth”
I really enjoy Stark’s book, and appreciate your interview with him. Thanks for posting it!
I have Rodeny,s book on my amazon wishlist, I should encourage my family and friends to buy it for me :)
Your post brings up many interesting questions but I’ll limit myself to 2
1) How come the merchants converted and not the poor? It,s counterintuitive but fascinating
2) How did Christian marriage transform Roman law? I remember reading Alan Watson’s book on the subject and quite honestly women were nothing more than bargining chips and property to be traded (I suspect that all herder/breeder cultures are similar and the IndoEuropean group is merely a clearer example.
I don’t think Stark says that the poor didn’t convert. He’s just asserting that the merchants did. Ever since Engels, many sociologists have examined the history of early Christianity in terms of class struggle: the church was a refuge for the poor who were oppressed by the rich. Stark is upsetting that apple cart, and he makes a very good case. He also demonstrates very persuasively that women had greater freedom in terms of vocational discernment, marital choice, and self-determination. One remarkable set of data he draws from the ages at which females married. Stark considers all the women we know about from late antiquity — from histories, letters, tombstones, censuses, etc. — and notes that pagan girls tended to be married off at an average age of 11-12, and that these marriages were consummated. Christians tended to marry at around 18, and women were usually given rights of refusal on the guy. Christians seem also to have been more liberal in the education of women.
Thansk for the clarification. I’m unsurprised that Christian women had much more choice. But I was unaware that they married at 18. Obviously at that age, they could carry babies to terms and were healthier, more mature (physically and emoitionally) as well as better prepared for the rigours of married life.
It’s interesting to contrast that with Islam which appears to have preserved the classical world’s gender roles. Moslem women either are married or unmarried; doctor, teacher, mom and wife. There’s no outlet for those who chose not to marry or don’t seem inclined.
OK why did early Christian women marry at 18? Was this a social convention among Christians or prudential sense gained from real life experience?
Why did early Christian women marry at 18? I don’t know that it was a norm. I think it’s an average.
John Pepino
Dr Aquilina:
Though I am glad for Stark’s work from a sociological perspective, I would add the following caveat: Stark at no point takes the supernatural into consideration.
Nor should he as a sociologist. But the Christian reader should supplement Stark with the lives of those saints known for converting many people for a fuller picture.
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Progeny of Slytherin: The Beginning of the Riddle
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"Have you heard?"
"What, that Theodore is back?"
"Theodore's back?"
"Yeah! He's in the office with the Madam."
"I'd hate to be him right now. He was probably better off wherever he went."
"Where did he go anyways?"
"Dunno. All I know is that Madam is going to freak the hell out…"
Theodore was losing consciousness. His arms had been trapped by his sides and his ribs were slowly caving in. His lungs were starting to give way and he didn't know if he could take it anymore. Oxygen depleted, bones crushed, body failing. What could he have possibly done to deserve this… this… punishment?
"Madam… I'm so sorry for… leaving like that. I know I… shouldn't have. But… don't you think that you're hugging me… a bit… too…hard?" The second Madam laid her eyes on the boy who had miraculously appeared into her office, she held him in a vice-like embrace from which he couldn't escape. He'd feel sentimental if the life within him wasn't being squeezed out.
Madam only wept in response to the boy's pleas. Theodore could feel her tremble as she sniffled behind his ear. Any feeling of scolding, scrutinising, even downright damning the boy, was not present. The boy had come home, safe and sound. She could finally sleep without her heart twinging in those dreadful nights. He was here, he really was. After thirty more seconds, the orphanage owner released the dying boy from her hold.
"Thank… you." Theodore panted.
"My dear… I… I…" Madam was about to burst into tears again. Theodore held her hands against his small ones and looked into her eyes. The shedded tears made this more painful every second he'd look but there was no running away. Not now.
"Are you angry?"
"Maybe... I don't know, Theodore. There's just too much to feel and to understand about all of this. Yesterday, I thought that you were dead yet here you are. I don't know whether to hug you again or to kick you out." Theodore gulped at last suggestion and shook his head.
"You should be angry."
"You know why. I hurt you, made you cry, made you think that I was dead. All for a stupid reason." Madam wiped her tears with her left black sleeve and expressed a small smile which masked a lot of pain.
"You wanted to speak with your best friend. Nothing stupid about that. It just sickens me what had to happen for me to see that. Will you forgive me?"
"Don't. Don't ask for forgiveness. It should be me. I'm the one who ran away." For a second, the boy's mother was staring into Madam's eyes through Theodore's. Those same eyes, which died with his mother and was reborn through him. They dragged out those memories, forcing her to only be motherly towards the boy. She wasn't his but he was her own. She couldn't deny that. Madam caught Theodore in a more gentle hug and wept tears of joy for the boy's return.
"Don't leave me again, okay? Not again." Madam could feel his head nod slowly. How was it that people always managed to find the good in his wrongdoings? Why did people disregard the blatant iniquity that he displayed to them, and would overlook that? This confused him for so long, ever since he had killed Quirrell. Huh. That felt a little less painful than before.
The two separated and ridded themselves of the past. They agreed that it was best to not think about it again despite the detrimental effects it would've had on each other, had the boy stayed away.
"Erm, Madam? Is it okay if I ask for one thing?" Theodore asked as he twirled his fingers around each other. Madam nodded. "I have a pet, two in fact. Well, one of them is not exactly like my pet but I have two animals that I own, which basically makes them my pets…"
"Just say what you need to say, Theodore."
"Could you… buy me a cage? Please?" Theodore was walking on a thin line, asking Madam for well, anything. He was lucky that she was feeling so lenient for him. Madam closed her eyes in hesitation. "Or I could just-"
"I'll get you the cage, if you help clean up after dinner until you go back to school." Madam decided.
"But that's a whole four days! And there's like, forty people here!" Theodore moaned. Madam glared at him fiercely. "I guess that I could do it."
"Not could, will. Now go and have some breakfast. I'm sure everyone else is dying to talk to you about where you've been." Theodore scoffed. As if. They were all whispering when they saw him suddenly walk outside his room like he'd been there the whole time. Nobody was going to talk to him, probably except Elise. Theodore would just have to wait patiently until he'd go back to King's Cross and meet up with his friends.
Theodore was a boy of his word and would spend most of his time scrubbing, rinsing, drying, rearranging, sweeping, wiping and spraying after each dinner that passed by. Clearing up after forty children was exhausting to its maximum, and made the boy more grateful of his slumber. After picking slabs of pea and sweet corn infused lasagne, mixed with the regurgitation of fish and chips off the walls, Theodore was in no wait to go back to Hogwarts. Potion-making was much less vile than this. Elise would come in sometimes to give him some company, which he wouldn't mind much, had her other friends stopped constantly talking about him and her behind his back. Seriously, he wasn't an animal that just roamed around the building.
'Just two more days, Theo. You can manage.'
"Don't forget your snake, Theodore! Oh god, it's trying to bite me!" Madam had ran down the stairs with Viripin on the tip of her fingers, shaking violently from the loose grip that the woman had on her. Viripin looked displeased by the lack of caution, and bared her fangs threateningly. Madam quickly draped her around Theodore's shoulders and wiped her hands against her black dress.
"She's not slimy, you know. I think that she's just upset from the way you held her," said Theodore as he stroked the snake's scaly head.
"How could you possibly know that?"
"Stupid Muggle." Theodore tapped her skull quite hard, causing Viripin to spit and look away. Madam crouched down and held Theodore close, but not that close. She had kept a close eye on him since he had returned and was almost grieving that he'd leave once more. At least she knew where he was going. Or had some idea.
"Madam, people are watching." Theodore whispered as he saw the other children peek their heads from around the corner, Elise included. "I have to go now, remember? To that thing called school?"
"Alright, alright. Have you forgotten anything? Books, pencils and pens, your owl?" Theodore looked shocked as he realised that he hadn't taken Sawer from his room. "Don't worry, Elise took him from your room and gave him to Gretchen." Theodore looked over Madam's shoulder to look at a blushing Elise, who hid her face.
"I guess that's nice. But do I really have to go with Gretchen? Why can't you take me instead?"
"It's Sister Gretchen to you, and last time I checked, I'm in charge of the orphanage therefore I must be here at all times. They'll all go mad if they stay with her."
"I hear that. I'd go absolutely mental." Madam giggled before rapidly changing her demeanour. Theodore never knew that she was capable of giggling at all. The two walked out the front door and to Gretchen's car, which still looked like it was in pristine condition. Sawer was inside of his cage, darting his head around on the back seats while Gretchen was waiting in the front.
"Theodore…" Just as he was about to enter the car, Elise was standing behind him. She looked nervous and didn't seem to know what to say. "Um… good luck."
"Will you be back for Christmas?" Madam and Gretchen were overhearing the conversation as they were having their own.
"Oh. Well, is there any way where I can send you a present? I mean, if you want a present, that is…" Elise stammered. Time was ticking and Theodore had to get to King's Cross before the Hogwarts Express left him behind. He wouldn't know what to do if it came down to that.
"I don't think so. You could save it for me when I come back next summer but I think that it would've lost its meaning by then."
"Right! Right… so um, see you next summer. Bye." Elise said as she smiled awkwardly. Theodore saw that his presence was making her undoubtedly nervous, and sought to leave as soon as possible to remove the tension. Theodore said goodbye and sat on the back seat next to Sawer. Viripin hissed gently to the owl and the owl loudly hooted back.
"Keep those blasted things quiet back there! I don't want them hissing and hooting in my ear for the entire journey!" Theodore decided to not respond and bent his head down to Viripin as the car started up.
"Don't worry about her," whispered the boy, "she'll be out of our hair as soon as we get to the station."
"Can't I bite her? Just once? I'll even retract my venom!"
"I don't think that you'll want the taste of Gretchen in your mouth." The two sniggered as the car began to drive off to King's Cross. Sawer looked at them both happily, like the third friend who didn't understand the joke yet still laughed.
After a similar journey of when he came the first time, Theodore was left alone to wheel his belongings on a trolley through the grand station, up to Platform 9¾. The upper platforms were as busy as ever, many Muggles in crumpled suits carried leather bookcases with depression on their faces, old women in bizarre clothing held poodles and chihuahuas which barked at Sawer and Viripin, and the same guard that stood near the pillar from last year. Theodore nodded to him and the guard tipped his hat. The boy looked side to side, to make sure that nobody had their eyes set on the boy with a snake and owl on an overloaded trolley. No… no… good. Theodore aimed straight towards the wall and ran as fast as he could, pushing the heavy trolley with everything his skinny arms could give. Some days, he wondered if the barrier would close off the second he'd make contact, shutting him away from the train forever. Those wonders would remain wonders as he effortlessly passed straight through, leaving the Muggle side and entering the other.
The Hogwarts Express looked sleek and grand, but was otherwise much quieter than before, no whistles erupting or the constant tremors that it sent through the platform. It looked inactive and quite… dead.
'Oh no. Oh shit! Am I too early? Or was it not today? Today is the 1st. But what's the-" Theodore looked up at the hanging clock which read 09:05AM. He was almost two hours early. Theodore sighed and pushed his trolley to the empty benches near the further end of the platform. The feeling of being alone here felt like he was in a haunted house and was expecting somebody to jump out and scare him. The two animals were sleeping and Theodore felt like dozing off as well. If the train was going to leave then he'd obviously know. Just even a thirty minute nap, and he'd wake up from-
"Kid! What're you doing here sleeping?" Theodore hadn't even laid his head on the armrest and already somebody couldn't leave him alone. The train driver, presumably, was fitting his uniform over himself when he caught the young boy sitting alone.
"It's not even ten o'clock. I'm trying to get a nap before I go so if you don't mind…" Theodore laid his head against the armrest and exhaled loudly.
"Where are your parents?"
"They're dead, now let me sleep." Theodore stated quickly. As he shut his eyes, the very faint shadow of the driver disappeared through his eyelids and he relaxed his body against the hard wooden bench to try and make it as comfortable as he possibly could.
"Um, why are you sleeping there, Theo?" He opened one eye to see Hermione tower over him as she brought her face close to his own. He rubbed his eyes and sat back up, making the bushy haired girl lean backwards.
"I got here early so I *yawn* thought that I could sleep for a bit, until you came along." Hermione frowned.
"Hey, don't be like that! I just thought that you were in some sort of trouble. You did, sort of, run away from your home after all." Hermione sat next to him and looked at the sleeping pets. "That owl is so adorable! And… is that a Maibian Adder?!" Theodore nodded. Hermione gasped as she looked closer to her.
"Don't get too close! She hates it when you breath into her nostrils. She'll try bite you without knowing it." Hermione flicked her head back, looking terrified.
"How did you even find one? They're extremely rare. The only that's in Britain is the one at Hogwarts, which escaped somehow…" It didn't take a genius to put two and two together. "You stole the snake?! From school?!"
"I didn't steal the snake, I liberated her. Do you know what they were doing to her? They plucked her fangs, drew out her blood and cut open her intestines from when she was baby! You of all people would not condone this." Hermione bit her bottom lip her large front teeth. It was definitely disrespectful for him to release a snake with such rarity from the school but…
"I guess it was okay to free it, I mean her. But do you take care of her? How do you know when she's hungry or when she needs to sleep or play?" Hermione said rapidly. Theodore was about to reply when the Express became active. More and more children flooded in, bringing Hermione's parents to come closer to the two children. Mr and Mrs Granger were both Muggles and dressed exactly like Muggles. Hermione explained to them that Theodore grew up with Muggles and that he was probably the only competitor that she had in the year (she said this as humbly as possible, but the smugness was still there).
"Weren't you the boy that was talking with Hermione last year? That's very sweet that you two are friends."
"Yes, she talks about you a lot, Theodore."
"Dad…"
"I'm just joking, dear."
The Hogwarts Express soon began to load up with children as Hermione and Theodore waited with each other side by side. They both looked wearingly for Ron and Harry, who weren't anywhere to be seen. Hermione spotted the Weasleys down the line and thought that the two were probably there with them. The children hopped on and walked down the corridors before they found a compartment to themselves.
"Do you think that they'll be alright," asked Hermione nervously. Theodore looked out his window, searching for the two among the humongous crowd. He could see Percy, the twins and Ginny, the youngest and only girl, but not Ron or Harry, which was weird considering he stayed with them during the end of the summer.
"I hope so. Maybe they're just down the other end, fighting with Malfoy or something." Hermione still looked nervous and tapped her feet against the ground. The train started to leave the station slowly and off they went. The two talked over sweets and treats, about what the next year had to offer for the two brightest children in the second year. Theodore had declared that he was going to blow Hermione out of the water this year at the final exams. Hermione took this as a challenge and shook hands with him. After reading over the potions book from Borgin and Burke's, Theodore was surely going to be ahead of her. No way she'd even hold a matchstick, let alone a candle in what he was going to accomplish this year.
"That's it. We're going." Hermione said as she stood up and walked to the compartment door.
"Going? Going where?"
"To look for Harry and Ron. They haven't tried to find us so we're going to find them."
"I'm sure that it would only take one of us to find them." Hermione grabbed his arm and dragged him away from his seat. He accidentally dropped a Pumpkin Pasty and was upset because he was quite fond of those.
"Stop being such a child, I'll get you another one." They walked up the train, knocking on each compartment door to see if Harry or Ron where inside. Neville was sitting next to a Gryffindor and two Hufflepuffs from his year, namely a girl called Hannah Abbot. The two looked cheery but didn't notice Theodore and Hermione walk past. Hermione knocked on the next one but Theodore swung the door open, shocking the first years that were inside.
"Have any one of you seen Harry Potter?"
"I have! I saw him last year, when my big brother went to Hogwarts!"
"Not last year! I meant today!" Theodore snapped. The first year pouted and turned away in shame. Hermione look appalled by Theodore's approach and walked off to look somewhere else. Ginny was sat in the corner, patting the first year that Theodore scolded on his back.
"Ginny, have you seen your brother anywhere? Or Harry? Either one of them?" Theodore asked.
"We came by car to King's Cross and we went to Platform 9¾. Although I didn't see them go through the barrier." Ginny said. The red headed girl had a quiet and soft voice, compared to her brothers' brash and loud ones. Theodore turned to the girl opposite, who had dirty blond hair coming to her waist, eyebrows so pale that you'd think she had none and silvery eyes which had a look of otherworldly wonder inside of them. Despite her odd choice of clothing, Theodore asked her if she had seen the boys anywhere.
"No, but I'm sure if you look high enough, you'll find them."
"High enough?" Theodore looked up to the ceiling and back to the girl with a puzzled look. "Was that supposed to be some sort of joke?" The girl shook her head and smiled. Theodore furrowed his eyebrows and left. Such an odd girl. He jogged through the aisle to catch up with Hermione, who was stuck in between an argument with Lavender. Lavender gasped when she saw her open crush and ran to him with arms outstretched, only to be pulled back by Hermione.
"Theodore! Please tell your 'girlfriend' to let go of my jumper! She's stretching the expensive seams!"
"I am not his girlfriend!" Hermione shouted.
"Is that why you go red every time he looks at you?" Hermione clenched her fist while she gritted her teeth. Aside from what Lavender said, Theodore did not want Hermione to put Lavender in her place, even if she deserved it. He pulled Hermione to the side and told her that they should go someplace else until Parvati screamed.
"What?! What is it?!" The three entered the compartment and pressed their faces against the window. High up in the sky was a Ford Anglia, soaring above the Hogwarts Express like a plane. The four of them squashed against each other to try and get a better angle of the flying car, staring in bewilderment.
"Wow," mumbled Hermione. "Who could possibly be in there… Oh. My. Gosh." Hermione zipped out of the room, shortly followed by Theodore. He chased her down the train and called out for her to stop. It was only just a car that was flying high enough that it could disappear into the clouds. Wait a second.
"Hermione! I think I know-"
"That it's Harry and Ron driving the car? Yeah, I do to. They're are such… idiots! What drove them to miss the train and to fly a car instead? I'd seriously like to know!" Hermione said as she sat down on her seat in a huff. Theodore kicked the Pumpkin Pasty out of the compartment and sat down on the opposite side. He was slightly jealous that they were flying in a car above them and was regretful that he had arrived to King's Cross earlier than everyone else. He guessed that was the price of being early to everything. You'd miss out on all of the fun.
Hermione was still in a bad mood for the rest of the trip, not only because of the daredevil antics of Ron and Harry, but because of what Lavender had said about her and Theodore. Theodore probably had no clue that she thought that he was a nice-looking boy, and now it would be awkward for the remainder of the year, maybe the remainder of Hogwarts. Lavender just really got under her skin. The train pulled over to Hogsmeade station and everyone emptied the Express. The second years went to a different direction this year, and went with the majority of the school to the carriages pulled by distorted looking horse creatures. They were almost completely black, save for the dark blue hue, and had wings similar to a bat or most likely a dragon. Their bones were highly visible, they looked blind from their completely white eyes and their fine tails flapped up and down. Theodore was taken back from everybody else, who acted like they couldn't see a thing.
"Hermione, can you see those things? I think they're Thestrals." Hermione peered at the carriages long and hard, but gave up in the end.
"You're seeing things. People can't see Thestrals unless they've seen death beforehand." Well that only verified his vision. Theodore had seen death before, death that was by his hand, so that would naturally allow him to see Thestrals, right? As he, Hermione, Justin Finch-Fletchley and Seamus boarded on a carriage, Theodore couldn't help but stay focused on the creatures that pulled them along to the castle. He ignored the chatter amongst the others, all the way till the main castle.
Having already changed on the train, the older years walked straight to the Great Hall without McGonagall giving them an introduction. They filled up their respective tables and waited patiently for the first years to arrive for the Sorting Ceremony. The only person that Theodore knew in the year below him was Ginny and they only ever had one conversation. There was the strange blond girl but he didn't think much about her. Other than that, the sorting was probably going to be as bland as the following years. He sat between Hermione and Seamus and caught up with him.
"It was probably the worst summer ever! I had to stay over my cousin Fergus for the entire holiday, and he is annoying as shit! Always apparating behind me, giving me a good scare. What did you do, Theo?"
"I stayed at the Leaky Cauldron, mostly. My orphanage was getting really boring." Hermione elbowed his ribs. "But I went back in the end. Can't stay too long away from home, no matter how boring it gets. Could you stop, Hermione?"
"Neville here, went to Spain for two weeks. He got lost in the airport and almost forgot his passport."
"Is that true, Neville?" Hermione asked. They all turned to the boy, who was going as red as ever. Seamus laughed and went to talk to Dean until McGonagall strode in the Great Hall with the first years tagging behind her. The Hall became silent and still as the sorting was about to happen. The usual introduction and the process of the sorting was explained to everyone like it was something new and soon enough, the first years were called up. A Colin Creevey, an excitable Muggle-born, had been sorted into Gryffindor. The boy sat eagerly next to Neville, delighted that he was in the same house as the legendary Harry Potter. A few more came and went until the blond haired girl was called up.
"Luna Lovegood!" Luna was fiddling with the Sorting Hat, causing it to splutter and spit despite the lack of a tongue. Theodore had to admit that it was nice to see someone mess around with the dated hat from time to time. He was still slightly sore from last year.
"Ravenclaw," bellowed the hat as Luna skipped to her house table. Her tie turned dark blue and white, as did the trailings along her jumper. After a long wait of everybody else, Ginny was called up to the stool and her face looked like she was on fire. McGonagall placed the hat on her head and in an instant, she was sorted into Gryffindor. A look of relief was upon her face as Ginny went over to sit next to Hermione.
"New year, new students but the very same Hogwarts!" Dumbledore declared. Theodore hadn't noticed him at the very front of the Hall. In fact, he almost forgot about most of the teachers on his way there. Snape, Flitwick, Binns and Lockhart. He groaned loudly at the sight of the vain professor, who's teeth was as dazzling as ever. "I only expect that you all flourish and excel throughout the year, with no hindrances whatsoever! We as a whole must- yes, Severus… now? I suppose so. Let us not waste anytime and carry on with our feast." Theodore watched Snape slither outside the backdoors of the Hall with an evil grin all over his face. He knew something was up but was then forced to look down to the tables at all the glorious types of dishes that he had missed for so long. He, along with all the other boys, grabbed and chomped on everything that they could, earning a look of disgust from Hermione. Theodore was enjoying a succulent chicken drumstick with a slice of ham when Hermione poked his side.
"Where do you think Snape's off to," whispered the suspicious girl as she kept on eyeing the door that the shady professor went through.
"Maybe the two crashed somewhere near the lake and need a spare leg or two." Theodore said through a mouthful of mashed potatoes. Hermione looked at him with horror and revulsion at the boy's manners. Theodore swallowed his food, then resumed the conversation. "Hermione, while I do believe that they crashed the flying car, I'm absolutely, one hundred percent, sure that they are okay. We beat a troll and a three headed dog last year. We're practically invincible."
"It's a wonder how you can sit upright with a head as big as yours." Hermione responded as she shook her head.
"Will they be okay?" Ginny's small voice came from around the corner and she looked worried for her big brother and Harry. Hermione placed a hand on her shoulder.
"They'll be okay. They're idiots for flying the car but they'll be fine. Trust me, Ginny." Ginny sighed then gnawed at a corn on the cob quite viciously. The two left it behind and carried on eating, not noticing that Snape had returned and left with McGonagall at the front table. Deserts came and deserts left and soon enough, the food had made everyone feel lethargic and sleepy. The prefects directed everyone to their dorms and the Gryffindors followed Percy. The common room felt lovely against a tired Theodore's skin. Everyone was waiting in the main room on the twins' orders for the arrival of the delinquents.
"Can't lie, they're legends for doing this." Dean said excitedly. Theodore had to agree.
"Talk about entering with style. I've got to follow them around for the fun." Seamus replied. Theodore had to agree with that too.
"I wonder if-" Theodore's words were cut short as the portrait of the Fat Lady from behind swung in to reveal Ron and Harry, walking in like rockstars. Everyone screamed and cheered for them. Lee Jordan and the twins held Harry on their shoulders while some of the older years patted Ron on the back. Percy and Hermione looked severely displeased by the attention that they were getting, and Percy went so far as to go tell them off. Harry's eyes widened at the approaching Weasley and jumped to the ground to grab Ron. They made a break for it by running up the spiral staircase, quickly saying goodbye to Hermione and Theodore.
"Idiots. The lot of them."
"Come on, Hermione. You have to admit that it was wicked of them." Hermione spun on her heels and stomped up to the girls dorm. Theodore grinned and walked up to the boy's dorm for the second years and walked in with Seamus, Neville and Dean crowding around the two. "Forever famous eh, Potter?"
Harry grinned as everyone circled him and Ron to listen to everything they had to say, from the barrier closing off to them, to crashing straight into the Whomping Willow and Mr Weasley's car disappearing into the Forbidden Forest.
"Dad's gonna roast me alive when he finds out! Mum will be even worse!" Everyone laughed at the red headed boy's fear of his mother's wrath, unknowing of what certain consequences Ron would have to deal with later on.
"Oh no…" Seamus was barrelling in laughter for some reason.
"What's wrong, Ron?" Theodore asked. Ron's half-dead owl had swooped in like it died in midair but it was still alive. Hardly anything to worry about. Seamus guffawed even louder.
"Ron, what's the matter? And why are you laughing, Seamus?"
"He's, he's got a Howler! Weasley's got a Howler, I'm crying!" Seamus wiped his eyes as he cried over seeing Ron's shocked face. Everyone had egged him on to open the letter, especially Theodore who had never heard of a Howler. Ron swallowed carefully, then reached for the smoking red letter. Theodore leaned in closer as did Harry, while Seamus and Neville put their fingers in their ears. Theodore and Harry soon regretted coming so close as they felt their eardrums rupture at the sudden explosion from the Howler. They both sprung back as a voice, pure with rage and anger screamed for the entire hall to hear.
"NEVER IN MY LONG, DAMN YEARS HAVE I SEEN ANY OF YOUR BROTHERS DO SOMETHING SO STUPID, SO IDIOTIC, SO DISRESPECTFUL! NEVER! WHAT IN FRESH HELL WENT THROUGH YOUR BRAIN, RONALD BILLIUS WEASLEY?! I DEMAND TO KNOW!
Ron was half hidden underneath the table with his eyes staring at the letter which contained his mother's angry screams, only a hundred times louder. "I can't really tell you what happened, you're just a letter," said the boy weakly.
"-AND HOW DARE YOU DRAG HARRY INTO YOUR ANTICS! IF IT WAS YOUR IDEA TO STEAL YOUR FATHER'S CAR AND TO FLY ALL THE WAY TO HOGWARTS, THERE IS NO CASTLE, NO DUMBLEDORE, NO FATHER, NO MINISTRY OR AZKABAN THAT WILL STOP ME FROM WHAT I'M ABOUT TO DO TO YOU!
Ron grimaced as he looked to Harry. He honestly looked like he'd die from all the embarrassment that made him red to the nose. Any more and there'd be blood pouring out from his ears.
"DO NOT MAKE ME COME ALL THE WAY THERE TO DRAG YOU STRAIGHT HOME! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!"
The Howler shredded and burnt into a crisp, raining ashes in front of Ron's face. The entire Gryffindor table was silent, unlike the Slytherins, then Seamus broke into laughter once again. Ron punched him in the stomach, causing the Irish boy to splutter after being terribly winded.
"You did deserve it." Hermione remarked as she looked through her book, 'Voyage with Vampires'.
"Shut up," snarled Ron, "I don't need to hear anything from you!" Hermione ignored this and looked down in her book. Theodore was eating a folded piece of toast filled with bacon and scrambled eggs and watched Ron pull his hair out. All the mightiness that he had felt the night before had been sucked out, sliced and burnt by a magical letter from his mother, and it did not bode well for him the next time he'd meet her again.
"Maybe our first lesson will take your mind off it. Come on Ron, don't act like you weren't going to get in trouble. You were flying a Ford Anglia, for God's sake!" Theodore said as he was given his timetable by McGonagall.
"And I don't want to hear it from you either. Double Herbology? Why couldn't it have been Defence Against the Dark Arts instead?" Ron moaned. The four of them had Herbology with the Hufflepuffs, making it one of their few mixed lessons. Theodore left before everyone else, and was followed by Hermione who still remembered their competition between each other. They arrived at the greenhouses around the magical gardens and so did the others. Professor Sprout, the teacher for Herbology was a happy-looking, short and round little witch who had a layer of earth all over her with tattered robes and a hat. Lockhart had been accompanying her with helping the Whomping Willow but left promptly when he suddenly remembered that he was teacher, not a celebrity.
"Come along, children! Into greenhouse three!" Everyone rushed inside the called greenhouse, eager to find what dangerous, magical plants would be housed in there. Theodore walked in next to Harry but was suddenly by himself when the other boy was pulled over to the side by Lockhart, who he wanted to have a word with. Theodore, Harry and Professor Sprout all looked annoyed by the lingering man but he insisted on talking with the Boy Who Lived. Theodore walked in and stood next to Ron who wondered where Harry had went off to.
"Lockhart pulled him over. What the hell is his problem anyways? Is he obsessed with him?" Theodore whispered.
"Not as much as he is obsessed with himself." The two silently laughed and focused on the lesson. Harry had walked in behind everyone else and took a place between Ron and Hermione, dismissing Ron's questions about what the man wanted to talk about.
"Mandrakes will be the focus of the lesson today. Can anyone tell me what a Mandrake is?" Hermione beat Theodore as the girl was picked over him.
"The Mandrake, or Mandragora, is a restorative plant originating from the Mediterranean, capable of subsiding and curing the effects of anyone that has been transfigured, cursed or petrified to their original states."
"Splendid! Ten points for Gryffindor!" Professor Sprout said. Hermione gave a snobbish grin to Theodore who was determined to answer the next question. "Yes, the Mandrake has several healing capabilities however, can anybody tell me how it can be just as dangerous as the ailments that it is used to cure?" Theodore shot his hand right up but Professor Sprout chose Hermione instead.
"The cry of a Mandrake is absolutely fatal to anyone that hears it."
"Well done! Another ten points for Gryffindor!" Theodore was fuming inside as he could feel Hermione staring at him with joy that she was going off with a bang at the start of the year.
Professor Sprout explained that they would be potting baby Mandrakes in soil as using adult ones would be far too dangerous. Everyone was told to grab a pair of earmuffs from the back, which created a rush for the ones that didn't have mud or crusty slime hanging off. Theodore managed to salvage a clean looking white one with little dirt on the outside. They all snapped them on as they watched the teacher pull out what looked like a deformed baby covered in mud squeal at the sudden change of environment. It writhed around as Professor Sprout held it from its green leaves above its head. She then carried the Mandrake to another empty pot and dropped it inside before burying it in compost and mud. It looked like it was comfortable with being under the mud as it stopped squirming about.
"Everyone get into groups of four! Make sure that your earmuffs are properly fitted and be careful of the surrounding plants. Nobody wants to be horribly poisoned today now, do we?" Everyone shook their heads and made groups of four under a minute flat. Theodore had refused to work with Hermione, who looked sad by this, and instead went to work with Seamus, Neville and Hannah.
"How come you're not with them, Theo?" Neville asked as he held a fluffy pink pair of muffs.
"Hermione's on her high pedestal. I'll wait for her to come down soon." Theodore didn't know that he was being a hypocrite for calling Hermione out on her ego. The four of them focused on potting their hefty Mandrake with somewhat ease and difficulty. Hannah kept on staring at Theodore, putting him in an uncomfortable position where he was bitten several times by the screaming plant. Seamus was too disgusted to touch it, leaving Neville to do most of the dirty work, no pun intended. Theodore was highly impressed with the way Neville had poked the plant in the back to stop it from resisting, and how he quickly covered it with compost. Judging from everyone else, they were the first ones that were finished and were the first to be excused from lesson. The other three watched Theodore and the others leave without a trace of dirt on them, save for Theodore and Neville, and struggled with their own plant, that looked particularly fat.
"Nice one, Neville! You looked like a true professional!"
"Thanks Seamus." Neville said nervously.
"He's right you know," said Theodore approvingly, "you could seriously pass your N.E.W.T's if you wanted to. Maybe even become a professor here." Neville looked even more embarrassed by the praise from his fellow students and the three split away from Hannah to go to Transfiguration.
The rest of the Gryffindors arrived after looking worn out from the previous class and all took their seats. Hermione tried to sit next to Lavender to avoid the free seat next to Theodore but quickly changed her mind. She didn't give a glance to the boy as they both looked forwards.
After thirty minutes of writing notes down on pieces of parchment, the class were then tasked to change a black beetle into a button. McGonagall had an eye on Theodore and Hermione as they were the two overachievers of the class and always seemed to surpass her expectations. Theodore was daydreaming as he tapped his acacia wand against the desk. He hasn't spoken to Louise in a while. He would go write a letter immediately after the lesson and would find Sawer to deliver the message, if he had the time to-
"Ahem." Theodore blinked and turned to Hermione. She had a stern face and was not impressed by his lack of attention. "Would you like to go first, or should I go ahead?" Theodore lazily waved his wand at the beetle.
"Vera Verto!" The beetle shook a little then shape-shifted into a perfect black button, free of any antennas or legs. Hermione still didn't look impressed as she attempted on her beetle, producing the same results. After rather shocking results, the class was dismissed after the bell had rung and they all went for lunch in the Great Hall. Theodore was walking next to Ron who was furiously waving his broken wand in the air that was barely held together by sellotape. Harry suggested asking his parents for a new one but Ron only went pale. He dreaded receiving another Howler from his mother. They all walked in the Great Hall and sat themselves on Gryffindor table, with Theodore purposely sitting next to Hermione.
"Hi." The Parselmouth said in a nonchalant tone. Hermione didn't make eye contact and was reading through one of Lockhart's books.
"Why are all of Lockhart's lessons outlined in hearts," said Theodore as he held in the urge to laugh. Hermione slammed her hand on her timetable and crumpled it inside of her robes. She was not looking happy at all.
"Don't you have a flock of girls to keep you busy?"
"I'm sorry. Didn't know you wanted me so bad." Hermione was blushing very noticeably at the moment that she had to turn away.
"I didn't want you… 'so bad'! I simply asked if you wanted to be in a group and you said 'I don't want to be with you'! Stop twisting my words!" She hissed.
"Alright, okay. I'm sorry, really. I'll make sure that we're partners for everything. Is that okay?"
"That sarcasm of yours? Needs to go, now." The half-blood and the Muggle-born were still talking till they saw a white flash of light temporarily blind them.
"What the bloody hell was that!?" Theodore rubbed his eyes and focused on the familiar boy that had flashed the camera in their naked eyes. Colin was wrapped in his Gryffindor scarf, despite the nice weather, and looked amazed by the sight of Harry eating a ham sandwich.
"Hi! Colin Creevey here! Is it okay if I take a picture of you for my memory book? I mean, I know that I just took one but another wouldn't hurt. How about it? Please?" Colin was breathless as he said all of that in under four seconds. Harry looked at him blankly, completely unaware of what was happening as did the others. The first year was elaborating quite quickly, about how he entered the school as he was a Muggle-born and how he learned everything about Harry, his birthday, the colour of his eyes, all of it.
"Thanks Colin, but I don't think that I want to." Harry said as he tried to shut the boy down.
"Please?! Just one good photo! You could even sign it!"
"Look at me! My name's Harry Potter and I sign photos for my stupid fan club!" Everyone turned around to see Draco alongside Crabbe and Goyle, smirking at the attention that Harry was gaining. "You going to cut lightning on his head too?"
"Shut up," snarled Harry. Theodore could see the pure hatred that Harry had for Draco. "Don't you have to be kissing up to Snape somewhere?"
"As if. I want to stay here, see if I can get a photo as well. Let me see, could we have one where I'm looking at you crashing a car into a tree? Oo! And I could get a great big dirty scar on my forehead! That'd be the entire package!" Draco's sidekicks laughed as Ron and Harry started to fume. "Don't worry Weasley, I'll make sure to get one with you instead, if you can pay for it."
"Piss off, Malfoy!"
"Yeah," said Colin in a squeaky voice, "you're just jealous of Harry." Draco walked closer to him in a threatening manner, causing the small boy to flinch backwards.
"Now why would I be jealous, you little Mud-" Theodore stopped Draco from escalating the situation and gave him the look that enough was enough. Draco hesitated then slowly backed off. Crabbe and Goyle gawped at the frightened boy like two tigers preying on a newborn gazelle. "Anyways, I'm here for Theodore."
"What do you want with him?" Ron hissed.
"None if your business, Weasley! It's important stuff, stuff that is above the likes of you!" Theodore stood immediately between the livid boys and agreed to follow Draco only, outside the Great Hall. They reached the doors and made sure that they were out of sight of the others.
"So? What is it?" Theodore asked slightly boorishly. The divide was getting wider and he was falling deeper. Draco looked side to side and brought out something from the insides of his robes. "You called me up, to give me… a history book?"
"Not just any history book. Look at the title. Our Founders. There's a copy of the book in the library but obviously, that one is useless. So father sent this to me to give to you. Here." Theodore took the copy in his hand and observed it. The book was much more sleek-looking, thicker and cleaner than the one in the library, but the author's name was still not present. Perhaps it was lost in time.
"Your dad wanted me to have it? Why?"
"Don't know. It said somewhere on the letter about helping you 'discover more about yourself' or whatever that means." Theodore flicked quickly through the pages while he couldn't shake the feeling of something. Mr Malfoy was definitely strange for sending him a book about the founders. He remembered last year when he was searching for anything about his ancestor with Hermione, but had barely recovered anything. Did the man know that he was Slytherin's heir? He was far too interested in the boy when he had first met, but this was borderline eerie. Theodore shut the book and pocketed it in his robes.
"Thanks, Draco. Make sure that you, uh, give my thanks to your dad." Draco nodded and lightly punched Theodore on the shoulder before rejoining his friends. The bell for the next lesson went off and Theodore grabbed his things in the Great Hall before leaving for DADA alone. For the first time ever, Theodore was the last person to arrive and some people gasped mockingly.
"Hello! Theodore, is it? Let's not make this a habit of being late, eh? There's a good chap!" Theodore ignored Lockhart as he walked over to the back near his friends. Each table was a four-seater and Harry, Ron and Hermione were sat all together. Lavender tried to grab his attention by waving like a maniac, but he quickly ducked next to Ron.
"What did I miss?"
"Oh you know, Order of Merlin, Honorary Member of some bullshit, four-time winner of smiling at something, the usual." Ron explained.
"Five-times, Ronald." Hermione gritted through her teeth.
"Bite me."
"Quiz time! This will give me a rough idea about how much you know about, well… me." Lockhart said through a sparkly smile. He quickly dished out several test papers and gave everyone thirty minutes to complete it. Theodore was ready. He was going to ace this one in five minutes flat without any problems.
'Time to put you in your place, Hermione. Let's see, 'What is Gilderoy Lockhart's favourite colour?' What…'
Theodore, as well as Ron and Harry, flicked through the paper to see a barrage of questions, all based on Lockhart. His birthday, his favourite food, even his favourite shampoo brand. The three boys turned to Hermione who was hurtling through each question like it was nothing.
'Typical.'
Lockhart goaded everyone on how most of the answers written were terribly wrong with only Hermione gaining full marks. She blushed terribly at the praise she received and looked entirely proud of herself. That was 30-0 to Hermione with Theodore not receiving a single point on the first day. There was something terribly wrong here.
The Parselmouth was in a bad mood for the rest of the lesson and started to play around with his wand, completely ignoring what was happening at the front of the classroom. He fumbled around in his bag to see if anything could help him past the time when the Founder's book came into full vision. There was probably more information about Defence Against the Dark Arts in there, than there was inside Lockhart's brain. He placed the book on his lap and started to read:
SALAZAR SLYTHERIN
The legendary Salazar Slytherin, founder of the Slytherin House, has been an icon and imprint in wizarding history, proving his ambition and cunning to be a valuable asset at his time in Hogwarts. Along with Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff and Rowena Ravenclaw, they created the foundation that is Hogwarts today.
Alas, the severe clash among the other founders was detrimental to the school as Salazar believed that those born from Muggle blood were unworthy to learn under their school and that pure bloods were entirely superior. This had led to confrontation with the others, particularly Godric, and broke out in violent bouts of disagreement. Some chose to believe that the wayward founder acted under prejudice, fuelling the divide and hatred for Muggles while others thought that he acted under caution, as wizard and witch prosecution was heavily prominent during that era.
The arguments resulted in Salazar leaving the school for good, never to return again until his death which was unknown. However, rumours and myths, spread across centuries, had originated from the founder's last actions. They say that Salazar built and left behind a hidden room, the Chamber of Secrets, which-
"Hey!"
Something blue and tiny shot right past and seemingly snatched the book from his grasp. Theodore focused on where the book went until he suddenly realised the chaos that had filled the entire classroom. Lockhart was hiding underneath his desk, Neville was hung upon the chandelier somehow, and the class was running amuck, trying to defend themselves against Cornish Pixies.
"Somebody do something!" Neville screamed as his jumper was tearing slowly from the hook. Theodore was busy whacking several pixies away from him with Lockhart's book and was trying to find the cheeky devil that took his own. He managed to see it flying in the air with his allies but looked in horror at what they were doing. They were casually ripping out the pages and throwing them all around like they were confetti. Theodore grabbed his wand and aimed it at the pixie group.
"Ventus!" Thin streams of condensed air shot out from the tip of his wand and hit each pixie square in the chest, sending them smashing into the walls. The other pixies saw their injured comrades and began to circle Theodore, ready to attack him until they were quickly immobilised by Hermione. Theodore lowered his wand and went to collect his book and all the pages that were sprawled everywhere. They were lucky that they did not decide to eat them as Theodore wasn't afraid to go a bit dark to find the pages inside them.
"Theo! You okay?" Harry asked as he helped Theodore pick up the pages. Theodore quickly snatched them and stuffed them inside of the book.
"Yeah, I'm alright. Who was the idiot that let those things loose? Was it-"
"Yes." Ron said blankly.
"I knew it. The guy's a fraud, he shouldn't even be here!"
"He's not! I'm sure that he had everything under control." Hermione said. The boys pointed everywhere in the demolished classroom. "Almost everything."
The quartet finished rounding up the pixies and left for the day was finally over. As everyone went up to their beds later that night, Theodore was still in the main room, sticking the pages in the correct order with Sawer and Viripin as company. There were only three or four pages that were badly ripped in the middle but the rest were able to fit just fine. The obsession of looking for Slytherin and his father's work had slowly returned as he was determined to know what the Chamber of Secrets was. He just had to.
"So how was your first day? Did you have a lesson with the torturer?" Viripin said as she flicked her tail in Sawer's face.
"Could you stop doing that to him, he's getting annoyed. And today was just great. If that idiot Lockhart hadn't let out those pixies."
"Mmm, pixies. They taste quite salty but nice nonetheless. Was it they that damaged your book?" Theodore nodded as he fitted the last page. "What's so special about it?"
"This, my dear Maibian beauty, is the answer to who I am. My ancestor Slytherin built something called the Chamber of Secrets and I have to know why. Maybe it has something to do with his heir."
"Hmm, interesting. Tom didn't find out that he was the Heir of Slytherin until he was around fourteen. I'm impressed that you did it when you were eleven."
"Oh, Viripin. You flatter me too much!" He said sarcastically with a wave of a hand. "Also, there's a letter and a package for Louise on the table over there. Tell Sawer to deliver it to her."
"Please," spat Viripin as she slithered to the brown parcel with the letter attached.
"Please." Viripin motioned the owl to come closer and imitated the bird's noises to communicate with him. Sawer must've understood everything as he picked the package in his sharp talons and flew straight out of the open window. Theodore leaned backwards, and traced his finger to where he last left off and carried on reading:
"-was a testament to those that belonged to his bloodline. It was said that it could only be opened by his heir and his heir alone, using their heritage as a key of some sorts. Slytherin tasked his heir to open the Chamber of Secrets, and to use the very mystery that he left behind to cleanse the school of those, in his eyes, unworthy to study magic. What lies inside the chamber has remained unknown to all, but speculation has said that Slytherin planted a beast of terrible nature, that only his heir can control.
However, there has been no attacks within the school since his time away from Hogwarts, proving that the Chamber of Secrets will remain a myth. The room has never been seen or recovered, therefore-"
Theodore quickly turned his head at the sound of pattering feet. He stood up quickly as Viripin hid underneath the couch.
"Who's there… come out, now!" For a few seconds, nobody came into sight, then from the girl's dormitory entrance, came a red haired, red faced little girl who slowly came inside of the room. Ginny was wearing pink pyjamas and was holding something in her hands behind her back. She didn't look that nervous to being around the boy but she was embarrassed for some odd reason. "Oh, it's you. How comes you're up, Ginny?"
"I-I couldn't sleep."
"Neither could I. But I'm about to go up so you should to. You don't want to be tired on your second day." Theodore said as he collected his book, quill and ink from the table in front of the fire. He could see Viripin sticking her black-tipped tail from underneath the couch but couldn't say anything to her, out of the fear of freaking Ginny out. Theodore walked towards his dorm when Ginny suddenly moved right in front of him, causing them to both drop what was inside of their hands.
"Sorry! Sorry sorry, sorry!" Ginny apologised several times as she bent down to reach for her book. Theodore got to it first and took a closer look at it. It looked like normal diary, a bit worn out with rough edges and a faded brown leather texture. There was absolutely nothing extraordinary about it, not one thing. Except the name that was written across it.
Tom Marvolo Riddle.
That was his father's name, written in dirty gold. That was his father's diary. But what was a girl like Ginny Weasley, doing with a diary that belonged to his father? Theodore had no time to think as Ginny snatched the diary and skipped up to her dorm. Theodore had remained frozen, crouching on the floor, trying to find an explanation for what he just saw. For some weird reason, the diary… 'called' to him when he had it in his hands. Like it wanted him to hear something it had to say. For some odd reason, he needed that diary, and he was going to get it. Right after he was going to find his hidden birthright that laid somewhere, right in this castle.
Yessssss, we're herrreeeee! And the mystery begins. I'm going to enjoy this so much as this might be the defining year of Theodore's character later on. I'm just going to keep this short and brief and I'll see you in the next chapter. Hoped you enjoyed. Later.
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Prosecutors recommend jail time for actress Felicity Huffman
Posted 6:15 PM, September 6, 2019, by City News Service
LOS ANGELES -- Prosecutors recommended Friday that Oscar-nominated actress Felicity Huffman serve one month behind bars and pay a $20,000 fine for her role in the college admissions cheating scandal, according to a filing in Boston federal court.
The "Desperate Housewives" actress pleaded guilty in May to conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud for paying $15,000 to have a proctor correct her daughter's answers on a college-entrance exam.
In their sentencing memorandum filed Friday, prosecutors also recommended that the 56-year-old actress, who earned an Oscar nod for "Transamerica," serve one year of supervised release following her stint in federal custody. Prosecutors suggested in May they would seek as much as four months in prison for Huffman.
Huffman's attorneys filed court papers asking that the judge sentence the actress to one year of probation and 250 hours of community service. More than two dozen people submitted letters of support to the court, including Huffman's husband William H. Macy and "Desperate Housewives" co-star Eva Longoria.
Solana Beach dad admits to bribing son’s way into USC
But prosecutors wrote that anything less than a jail term would be insufficient, describing Huffman's conduct as "deliberate and manifestly criminal," according to the sentencing memorandum. The actress will be sentenced Sept. 13 in Boston.
"In the context of this case, neither probation nor home confinement -- in a large home in the Hollywood Hills with an infinity pool -- would constitute meaningful punishment or deter others from committing similar crimes," prosecutors wrote. They said that Huffman's "efforts weren't driven by need or desperation, but by a sense of entitlement, or at least moral cluelessness, facilitated by wealth and insularity."
In her four-page letter to the judge, Huffman wrote that she was driven to participate in the college admission fraud out of "desperation to be a good mother. I talked myself into believing that all I was doing was giving my daughter a fair shot." She added that she sees "the irony in that statement now because what I have done is the opposite of fair" and feels "a deep and abiding shame over what I have done."
In his letter, Macy wrote that his wife's only interest now is to "make amends and help her daughters heal and move on."
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Stand Up for Stubby | A Letter from the Filmmakers
Dear Moviegoers,
I wanted to take a moment to thank all of Stubby’s loyal fans, both those who have been with us from the beginning and those just discovering this tale and wanting to know more.
It’s clear that there’s an appetite for substantive, educational entertainment in the commercial cinema marketplace. Now we need you to vote with your ticket stubs to make it happen.
Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero (or Sgt. Stubby: An Unlikely Hero to audiences outside the U.S.) is the ultimate underdog story based on the true life and times of America’s most decorated canine. Our studio, Fun Academy, comes to cinemas as an underdog as well, carving a new niche for real-life storytelling in a crowded family entertainment landscape of fantasy and fairytale.
This weekend, Sgt. Stubby opened in theaters across North America. This unprecedented film resulted in an amazing critical response, enjoying a 90% “fresh” rating among top critics on Rotten Tomatoes for its opening weekend. We also received an “A” rating from CinemaScore, the highest audience response among all new releases.
So how can you help us in our mission? Buy tickets. Contact your local theaters to ask for showtimes. Rate us on sites like IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes. Follow us on social media. Tell your friends.
Everyone who saw the movie fell in love with Stubby, but there were far too many empty seats in theaters nationwide. Despite the enthusiastic responses we’ve received from parents, dog lovers, teachers, military families, history buffs, and kids of all ages, we simply can’t guarantee the film will remain available without those same audiences’ ticket purchases.
After a challenging opening weekend, we must remember the story of Stubby. He was tenacious, resilient, and determined, and we must be the same. We’re not dead, but we are wounded and must stay in the fight. We have a movie that people love and critics praise, school group sales are about to kick in and it is clear that there will be strong word of mouth. But we must urge you all to continue your support at the box office.
[T]he film is sufficiently intelligent and entertaining to engage most grown-ups and, no kidding, fascinate history buffs.
Joe Leydon, Variety
“…the well-assembled period piece could still appeal to children old enough to grasp its themes, while serving as a valuable educational tool to teach them about a war that ended nearly a century ago.”
Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter
Who doesn’t like a rousing ruff-and-ready tale of doggy derring-do?
Susan Wloszczyna, RogerEbert.com
Informative and clearly well-researched, Sgt. Stubby is interesting enough to keep tweens entertained and cute enough to make younger kids want to learn more…
Sandie Angulo Chen, Common Sense Media
Fun Academy’s goal is to bring honest, relevant, story-driven tales to life, providing a conduit to history that kids otherwise might not learn. Sgt. Stubby is a remarkable true story of a remarkable dog who was given a chance in life; just as the real Stubby defied all expectations a hundred years ago, his film must now defy all expectations to continue making history accessible to kids.
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Entire Russian Goverment Resigns
Started Wednesday at 03:38 PM by Varys in World News
Varys 20,804
Vladimir Putin has embarked on a sweeping reshuffle of Russia’s leadership, accepting the resignation of Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev and proposing constitutional amendments that would limit the power of a potential successor as president if he steps down in 2024.
In a surprise move, Russia’s government said it would resign in full just hours after Putin announced plans for a national referendum that would shift power away from the presidency.
Putin is laying the groundwork as he prepares for a transition in 2024 that analysts say will likely see him abandon the presidency but retain power through a beefed-up role as Russia’s prime minister or in the government’s State Council instead.
In a televised speech before senior officials, Putin suggested amending Russia’s constitution to limit a future president to two terms in office – he has served four – tightening residency requirements for presidential candidates, and letting parliament choose candidates for prime minister and the cabinet, in effect weakening the presidency.
Shortly after the speech, Medvedev said that Russia’s government would resign in full, allowing Putin to appoint new ministers. Medvedev, who also announced his intention to step down, was appointed to a new position as the deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, which is headed by Putin.
His move would allow Putin to appoint a new prime minister, potentially signalling whom he favours as a potential successor as president. It is not clear when the new prime minister will be named, and Putin has asked the current government to stay on until new ministers have been chosen.
Putin presented his amendments to the constitution as a significant change to Russia’s governing document, and called for the first nationwide referendum since 1993 to confirm them. An elections official said within an hour of Putin’s speech that a referendum could be prepared as soon as the proposal
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/15/putin-calls-for-constitution-changes-that-would-weaken-successor
PopThatArt 2,065
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Smells fishy to me.....
Go see A Star is Born
Just now, PopThatArt said:
he wants to have the power after 2024 when he isn't allowed to be president anymore. He is a scary man
Reginald 7,518
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And this is one day after it was discovered that Russia's govt also hacked the Ukranian company at the center of Trump's impeachment controversy...
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SEANGT 3,155
wait what the hell is the structure of russia's government?
Nothing special. Putin will leave President's chair in 2024, but he definitely wants to have power. And that is why he needs weaker future President of RF who wouldn't bother him.
Rio 2,218
25 minutes ago, Varys said:
I don't understand their politics. In the UK you have a prime minister but not a president. In the US, you have a president but not a prime minister. So Russia has both?? How does it work?
Antonio 21,465
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A trash, he needs to go now
5 minutes ago, Rio said:
In the uk you have head of state (Queen) and head of goverment (prime minister)
In some countries you have head of state (President) and and head of goverment (Prime minister)
In some countries the president has power (France,Russia) in other countries the prime minister (Germany,Finland,Austria...)
Other countries both the head of state and head of goverment is the president (USA,Brazil....)
Putin wants to shift the power from president to prime minister after 2024 when he isn't allowed to be president anymore and expects to become prime minister
14 minutes ago, Rio said:
Yes Russia has both. President is head of State and Prime Minister is head of government.
EDIT: I was beaten to it
Edited Wednesday at 04:20 PM by Jose P
So now that he plans to possibly leave now he wants to reduce authoritarian power. Of course
It's funny Portugal where I used to live also has Prime Minister AND President but in Portugal the Prime Minister has more power to run the Country whereas the President is more just military matters and signing important stuff he doesn't make big decisions
But we know Putin abused power cuz when he was Prime Minister you only heard about Putin running Russia and when he became President you never hear about Prime Minister anymore and suddenly he's still running Country as President
How did Putin run the Country in both positions???? Clearly he outside his jurisdiction. No wonder he favoured Trump they think alike
Just now, Economy said:
He is not planning to reduce authoritarian power tho nor planning to leave
6 minutes ago, Varys said:
"proposing constitutional amendments that would limit the power of a potential successor as president if he steps down in 2024."
Did I misunderstand that? It sounds like he's making plans that if leaves his successor would not have as much power as him
Edited Wednesday at 04:37 PM by Economy
1 minute ago, Economy said:
It is kind of interesting. They have Parliament elections in 2021, and then — in 2026. Of course, if there will be no dissolution of Parliament.
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On Friday, Governor Nathan Deal announced that he decided against setting up a state healthcare exchange under Obamacare.
“I remain committed to common sense health care solutions that empower consumers to take responsibility for their own health, motivate the private sector and drive efficiencies for consumers, employers and governments alike,” Deal said. “I continue to hope that we might finally engage in a serious conversation about restoring meaningful flexibility to states around health care programs.”
Deal said the federal government needs to loosen regulations that restrict states’ options.
“We have no interest in spending our tax dollars on an exchange that is state-based in name only,” Deal said. “I would support a free market-based approach that could serve as a useful tool for Georgia’s small businesses, but federal guidelines forbid that. Instead, restrictions on what the exchanges can and can’t offer render meaningless the suggestion that Georgia could tailor an exchange that best fits the unique needs of its population.
“I have joined numerous other governors seeking guidance from the federal government on establishing exchanges. We’ve yet to receive serious answers to our questions. I will not commit Georgia taxpayers to a project with so many unknowns.”
State Senator Vincent Fort (D) doesn’t like anything ever done by any Republican anywhere Governor Deal’s decision.
“I bet this crowd, when the feds set up the health care exchanges, are going to howl about that,” Fort said.
Fort also said that putting uninsured people in the Medicaid program would decrease the costs that insured patients pay to cover the bills of those who need medical care but lack insurance to pay for it.
“It’s unfortunate that the governor’s chosen to put politics over the need of Georgians,” Fort said.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has a feature on the long, strange trip that is Glenn Richardson’s political career. The story is worth reading in its entirety.
In Senate District 30, where Richardson failed to make the December 4th Runoff, State Rep. Bill Hembree will meet Carrollton businessman Mike Dugan, and it’s a jump ball.
Hembree led the four-candidate field in all three counties of Carroll, Douglas and Paulding, which comprise District 30. He led Carroll with 12,173 votes, topping two Carroll County candidates — Dugan, with 9,703 votes, and business consultant Jim Naughton, who had 5,091 votes. Former Georgia Secretary of State Glenn Richardson of Hiram finished a distant fourth in Carroll County with 3,627 votes.
In the total district vote, Hembree got 27,565 votes; Dugan, 13,843; Richardson, 8,467; and Naughton, 7,043.
Hembree believes the upcoming advance voting will be important to his chances of winning — he said his campaign determined that he received roughly 15,000 votes during the general election’s early voting cycle. That would account for more votes than he received on Election Day.
“We received more in advance voting than we did on election day,” Hembree said. “With 15,000 voting for me early, if we can get that same type of commitment we feel like that is a real positive step for us.”
In 2011, a pair of Senate special elections held in November went into December runoff elections; in SD 28, Duke Blackburn led the first balloting but was overtaken by now-Senator Mike Crane in the runoff and in SD 50, former State Rep. Rick Austin led the first election but lost the runoff to Senator John Wilkinson. There was some spillover in those elections from the leadership battles in the State Senate that may be absent this year, but those examples should serve as a cautionary tale to anyone finding himself or herself in a December runoff.
Here’s what I told the Carrollton Times-Georgian:
“I could go on all day with examples [of December runoffs that reversed earlier results],” said Todd Rehm. “That said, Bill Hembree still has to be considered the leader in the runoff for SD 30. Hembree’s experience and ability to fundraise, along with the fact that Hembree carried Carroll County, make it his race to lose. But if there’s a lesson for candidates who come in first in November elections and head for a runoff it’s that they can’t afford to take anything for granted and Bill Hembree should be doing everything possible to ensure his victory.
“And remember, there’s yet another election in January.”
Speaking of Senate leadership, here’s an interesting inside tidbit: Senator Renee Unterman (R-Buford) punched above her weight at the Swamp Showdown in Little Ocmulgee State Park, where the Senate Republican Caucus elections were held last week.
Renee Unterman, another powerful senator from the Gwinnett delegation, said she was honored to nominate and second Shafer for the position [of President Pro Tem], during a meeting at Little Ocmulgee State Park. She had 19 proxies from the Reform Caucus to support her colleague.
“Our Reform Caucus is committed to uniting fellow senators with the lieutenant governor restoring order, transparency, and ethics to the Georgia State Senate,” she said of the group.
The appointment is a coup for the county, she said.
“Gwinnett’s prominence continues to rise with the state’s legislative leadership, as our delegation leads both in the Senate and the House,” she said. “Sen. Shafer is a shinning example of our talent in Gwinnett County.”
So, including her own vote, Unterman was voting for an absolute majority of the Republican Caucus.
Walter C. Jones of the Morris News Service writes about what changes in Senate leadership may mean for the state.
The leaders legislators picked says a lot about them and the coming two-year term of the General Assembly.
House Republicans made no changes. Most observers figure they didn’t need any. They had success on Election Day, during the last session passing major legislation and in negotiating contentious bills like the budget and tax reform with the Senate and the governor.
His loss continues the concentration of power in North Georgia. With the exception of mid-state residents House Majority Leader Larry O’Neal of Bonaire and Senate Majority Whip Cecil Staton of Macon, the leaders reside upstate.
The Senate Republicans did make changes to their leaders.
Winning the nomination for president pro tem was David Shafer of Duluth. Other winners are Ronnie Chance of Tyrone as majority leader and Butch Miller of Gainesville as caucus chairman.
Consider how their elections consolidate power. Shafer has been a long-time ally of Cagle, who’s from Hall County like Miller and Gov. Nathan Deal. Chance has been Deal’s Senate floor leader.
Having the bulk of the legislative leadership living close enough together to carpool to the Capitol could mean favoritism toward the region they all call home. But remember that two of Deal’s top projects are the deepening of the ship channel in the Savannah River and investing enough in Georgia Regents University in Augusta to make it one of the country’s premier medical schools.
At the very least, it suggests there will be close cooperation. It may not seem possible to exceed last year when Deal’s signature legislation, criminal-justice reform, passed unanimously and his HOPE reforms nearly did the year before. But other bills ran into less harmony, and Deal and Ralston reportedly held off on more ambitious legislation out of fear of discord, mainly in the Senate.
Now, a new combination of leaders will give their full attention to legislation. And as Shelton said, “Any organization is a reflection of its leadership.”
The image in the reflection is coming into focus, and it looks a lot like a soft-spoken grandfather, Nathan Deal.
Given Governor Deal’s leadership in bringing jobs to Georgia, and his respectful approach to working with the legislature, this bodes well for our state.
State Senate Democrats will meet today to elect their leadership.
Welcome to the 2013 season of Georgia Republican Party elections! I’ve already received a piece of direct mail from John Padgett, who is running for First Vice Chair. Here’s my two cents: if you want my vote, you have to ask me for it personally. The pool of eventual voters for Chairman of the Georgia Republican Party is small enough that you can identify frequent flyers from past convention cycles and start calling them personally.
The first rule I tell anyone running for office is that the best way to earn someone’s vote is to ask them for it personally; everything else, all mass media, are second-best ways of dealing with the fact that in most elections above the level of State House, you won’t be able to reach every voter personally. This is the most fundamental rule of winning elections.
Unfortunately, the last few cycles have seen GAGOP elections take on the aspects of large-scale media-driven campaigns featuring direct mail, robocalls, websites, and mass emails. But it doesn’t speak well of your promise to be the “Grassroots” candidate if you don’t personally contact the actual voters who make up the grassroots, tell them about yourself, and ask personally for their vote.
If you want a truly grassroots-drive Georgia Republican Party, join me in declining to vote for anyone who does not ask personally for your vote.
Speaker David Ralston will address the Nov. 28 breakfast of the Cobb Chamber of Commerce Marietta Chapter.
The Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials has notified the Gainesville City Council that it objects to the at-large districts in which council members are elected.
“At-large voting processes have been undone by litigation in many jurisdictions across the county,” said Jerry Gonzalez, GALEO’s executive director. “We believe the city of Gainesville is not in compliance with the Voting Rights Act and we want to work to eliminate the at-large voting process with the City Council cooperatively.”
File under bad headline writing: “Gov. Deal to pay fees in failed ethics complaint” states the headline in the Rome News-Tribune, which might sound like Governor Deal was being fined for an ethics complaint filed against him. But the story is about the State Ethics Commission deciding against making Rome-based ethics gadfly George Anderson pay the legal fees incurred by Deal’s campaign to defend against a frivolous ethics complaint that was dismissed.
The Government Transparency Commission voted 3-1 on Friday against making Anderson pay a portion of the legal fees that Deal spent to address complaints from Anderson….
Anderson apologized for some of the language used in his complaints. But he said it’s unfair to ask citizens to pay for lawyer fees when their complaints against public officials are rejected.
The executive director of Georgia Common Cause, William Perry, said his group was concerned that forcing citizens to pay would discourage others from filing complaints.
File this one under “please don’t give the General Assembly any ideas.”
Moonshine distillers are making their first batches of legal liquor in this tiny Georgia town’s city hall, not far from the mountains and the maroon, orange and gold canopy of trees that once hid bootleggers from the law.
A handful of moonshine distilleries are scattered around the South, but observers say this is the first they’ve ever seen right in a city hall. The distilleries come amid an increased interest in the U.S. for locally made specialty spirits and beer brewed in homes and micro-breweries.
The Dawsonville moonshine makers and city officials say the operation helps preserve a way of life. It also carries on traditions of an era when moonshine meant extra income for farmers, medicine for their children and helped fuel the beginnings of NASCAR racing.
“Dawson County was, sure enough, the moonshine capital of the world at one time,” distiller Dwight Bearden said, as he checked on the still where the third batch of Dawsonville Moonshine was being prepared. “It was just a way of life back then.”
Last week, the distillery was delivering the second batch of moonshine it’s made to its distributor, which has orders from liquor stores and other businesses around the state. Georgia law prohibits the distillery from selling its liquor at the site, but allows a distributor to ship it to stores with a liquor license, where it can be sold legally.
Wood recently got approval from state officials to offer small samples for tourists to taste.
State Rep. Rusty Kidd of Milledgeville, who introduced that bill during the most recent session, said Thursday he believes there will be more legislation during the upcoming session that would allow the Dawsonville distillery and others in the state to sell a single bottle of moonshine to tourists who want to take one home.
Locally made and locally grown products are a key aspect of the business, she said. A batch of apples fermenting last week came from the north Georgia town of Ellijay, about 30 miles away, she said.
The local movement has been a successful one in north Georgia, where several vineyards dot the mountain landscape and offer tastings of wines made with locally grown grapes. In Blue Ridge, at least one apple orchard brews and bottles its own apple and peach ciders.
Corn used by the distillery is also grown locally, and the distillery sticks to authentic recipes and doesn’t use any sugar, Wood said.
“This ain’t sugar liquor,” she said, “this is the real deal.”
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Although the long-awaited sequel to Denis Villeneuve has been in theaters for several months, it has not been until now when we can take a look at the official video game of Blade Runner 2049 for PC. Although his alpha has been with us for several weeks, it has not been until now when the first open beta of the game has just been published.
The title uses a structure similar to that of games like Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes. This is, a turn-based fighting RPG in which everything revolves around collecting characters and making them level up through the indiscriminate repetition of missions. In this case, runners, prostitutes, police and taciturn replicants will be part of the game’s fauna, being able to visit places of popular imagination within the saga such as the offices of the Wallace Corporation or the Bibi’s bar that appears in the film. In fact, the character selection hub is one of the iconic street food stalls that proliferate in Los Angeles in 2049.
The combat system is governed by the usual system of strengths and weaknesses in stone, paper or scissors, being able to choose the objects of each attack and managing the cooldown of the skills of each member of our team. As we raise them level we will unlock new skills and improve their statistics.
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Collect all your favorite characters from the Blade Runner universe and use their unique skills to overcome any threats. Connect your team to more complex goals with ever higher risks and greater rewards. As the blade of the blade visits familiar places from the films and survive in the seedy streets of the beautifully styled Neo-Noir of Los Angeles.
Get the help of your friends and other participants of runners from around the world and work together to fulfill your mission. Keep the resistive cells with the most advanced blades and get the right to track down the most wanted replicants.
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Climbing The Snowiest Mountain In The World
Chris Brinlee Jr
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The snowiest mountain in the world can be found right here in the US. I traveled to the North Cascades in Washington State to climb Mt. Baker with world-renowned climbing guide, Craig Van Hoy.
Our guide, Craig Van Hoy, has over 400 summits of Rainier, multiple summits of Everest, and climbed Kangchenjunga (the 3rd highest mountain in the world) without supplemental oxygen. Serious badass.
My first alpine climbing experience was in the Sierra Nevada. In March of this year, I took a weeklong winter mountaineering course that was held on Mt. Whitney. I learned a ton of skills necessary for winter alpine climbing, and the course culminated with a summit of the 14,505' Mt. Whitney. Climbing in those conditions involved snowshoeing, snow climbing, and some rock/mixed terrain. What the course lacked was any sort of glacier travel — due to the nature of the sierras.
I'm getting ready to go climb some volcanoes in Iceland and attempt a 6,000m peak in Nepal so I wanted to brush up on my climbing skills, and get some glacier work in as well. Craig invited me to join him on a GoTrek climb of Mt. Baker that would do just that.
We made our way towards Mt. Baker's summit while clouds hovered over our destination.
Why Go? Mt. Baker is the perfect training grounds for those wanting to climb larger, glaciated peaks. It's very accessible (only a two-hour drive north from Seattle,) offers a variety of climbing terrain (snow, glaciers, rock) and offers a wide variety of climbing for all skill levels. In 2009, it stole the title of "World's Snowiest Mountain" from its larger neighbor to the south, Mt. Rainier — so it holds a cool superlative too.
The climb I did with Craig and GoTrek is designed as a three-day climb. A day for gear checks, hiking to basecamp, and for instruction. A day for climbing Mt. Baker. And an extra "weather day." (Weather can change quickly in the Cascades, so having a weather day offers some flexibility in climbing, thereby allowing for the greatest chance of a successful summit.)
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Day 1: We met at 9am in the town of Glacier, Washington, which rests in the valley below Mt. Baker. The town has a few restaurants, a coffee shop, and a motel. Those amenities would prove to be incredibly useful both before and after our climb. We'd be taking the Heliotrope Ridge Trail to the Hogsback Camp to begin our climb on the Coleman Glacier. That route offers the shortest approach for the climb, and the Coleman Glacier offers routes suitable for all skill levels of climbers.
In typical Washington fashion, it was raining when we met. After examining the weather forecast and seeing that it would be raining all day, but day two would be clear, we had a group discussion and unanimously agreed to use day one as a training day in town. That allowed us to avoid the weather as much as possible. We'd be tackling our climb of Mt. Baker as a day trip instead.
Since we'd be doing the climb as a day trip instead of an overnighter, we were able to strip down our packs and leave our heavy camping gear behind. That allowed us to move through the backcountry faster and with greater ease. The sacrifice was that we'd have to do the 2.5 mile approach the morning of the climb, and make it all the way back down to our cars as well. At least we stayed dry.
We used our time in town to make detailed introductions amongst our team (it's always great to know the people you're going to be roped to for hours-on-end.) Our group was comprised of all levels of skill and age. Dianne, the only girl on our team, was also the youngest. She was a 22 year-old E5 in the Army, stationed in Germany, who just decided to try climbing for the first time while visiting home on leave. Joe, a Washington, DC resident who was nearing his 60s, climbed a 6,000m peak while trekking in Nepal. He wanted to try his hand at alpine climbing, so he made his way west to the Cascades. The rest of us varied in age and also had previous climbing experience.
I was waiting for a speederbike pilot to come screaming by.
After introductions, we did an extensive gear-check, going over all of our climbing gear. Some people were new to climbing, and a few had rented gear from GoTrek, so the guides ensured that all of our gear fit and, more importantly, that we knew how to use it. We covered basic concepts of snow travel with crampons, learned about self-arrest, and ensured that everyone could tie a figure-8 knot, as well as a climber's butterfly.
After getting our gear squared away, we had a cookout behind the motel where people were staying (our guides Craig and Sam made us some kickass burgers) and we retired for the night by 6:30pm. We'd be hitting the trailhead at midnight.
Joe sits on his pack to stay warm and rest while the rest of our team prepares for the climb at 3am.
Day 2: Our alarms buzzed to life at 11:30pm. A few of us had crashed on the floor in Craig's motel room — in true dirtbag fashion. We sat up wide awake, excited for the day to come. We dressed quickly and carpooled to the trailhead while others were just leaving Glacier's only bar.
Our forested approach was dark but our headlamps pierced through the night. As we gained elevation, we could see the city of Vancouver, Canada still awake in the distance below. By 3am, we had reached Hogsback Camp, and the base of the Coleman Glacier. From here on out, we'd be climbing. We took our longest break of the day in order to switch from approach shoes to mountaineering boots. Donned our harnesses, crampons, and gaiters, and then roped up. Our expert guides led us across the glacier, deftly avoiding deadly crevasses that were barely visible by the light from our headlamps. Our group was split into two rope teams. Craig led Dianne and Derrick while Sam led Joe and me. We marched like soldiers through the night, but were mere ants on the mountain.
The sun began to rise beyond the horizon as we climbed up the Coleman Glacier.
As we marched the sun crept up behind the ridge to the east. The alpenglow didn't last long though. Soon after witnessing the sun's first light, we were engulfed by a whiteout on the mountain. Clouds of snow swirled and I could barely see Craig's team up ahead. By this point, Joe had begun questioning his aspirations to climb. By 8am his mind couldn't muster the physical abuse, so Sam led him back down the mountain. Goodbye, old chap.
Sam and Joe prepared to descend while the rest of our team trudged on in whiteout conditions.
I roped up on Craig's team, and we continued onward and upward. We climbed up the glacier for the next few hours, through whiteout conditions. One section involved some scrambling on volcanic rock before making it back onto the snow.
Derrick is actually a Mars-Astronaut.
At 11am, we were approximately 45 minutes from the summit. We encountered a steep 40-degree pitch, and the snow conditions were far from ideal. Previous days' rain had frozen over, creating an icy encrustment near the summit. Despite being so close, Craig made the responsible decision to turn around so that we could make it back safely. We weren't the first group to turn around near the summit that day; nor were we the last.
I got plenty of arrest practice on the way down the mountain after my team members slipped in the wet snow.
The descent went quickly and before we knew it, the green forest below was peeking through a hole in the clouds. After more than 12 hours of climbing, exhaustion had begun to set in. The snow was soft from battling the afternoon sun. Derrick, who was roped behind me, slipped on the wet snow and slid five meters down the mountain. My reflexes immediately kicked in and I arrested, stopping his fall. Five minutes later, the same thing happened again. Fall. Arrest. A great test for myself. When you're tired, proper technique becomes even more crucial; I was thankful for my previous training.
The volcanic rock was a sight for sore eyes after traveling on the glacier all night and day.
We eventually made it back down and off of the glacier to the place where our approach shoes were cached. The surrounding terrain, which had been masked by darkness when we began our climb, was littered with stunning waterfalls, neon green moss against volcanic rock, and glaciers creeping down into the forest below. I felt like I had climbed through a wormhole and had been transported to another planet called Iceland. I was surrounded by some of the most stunning terrain I had ever seen.
I was amazed to see wildflowers still in-bloom at the beginning of September.
Humbled by the mountain's grandeur, we began the hike back down to our cars. The trail was stunning. We walked along a narrow spine - steep walls to each side were covered in a rainbow of wildflowers, still blooming in September. We soon entered an old-growth rainforest that reminded me of being in Costa Rica - it was hard to believe this was the United States. Seeing this forest for the first time on the descent had a profound effect. Having started our approach under the cover of darkness, it was like we were experiencing the mountain in reverse.
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Once we passed the main trail junction, we began hiking at our own pace. My ultralight backpacking skills came into play at this point and I moved briskly down the trail, passing multiple groups of climbers along the way. I made it back down to the parking lot by 4pm and took a glorious nap on a picnic table for the next hour while waiting for the rest of our group to arrive.
Once everyone made it down the mountain, we drove back into town and celebrated our experience on the mountain over some much-deserved pizza, burgers, and drinks.
The Mountain Hardwear Alchemy Hooded Jacket ($395) kept me warm and dry on the mountain, while the lightweight Black Diamond Vapor Helmet ($140) protected my noggin from falling rock and ice.
What You'll Need To Bring: Climbing gear. Camping gear (our case was an exception). Winter layering systems (base layers, insulating layers, shell layers, etc). Mountaineering boots. For a full list, check out the one provided by Craig's guiding service. They rent a lot of equipment, so if you're missing a piece of gear, chances are they'll have it available.
You'll need to bring your own food to eat while camping and climbing, but GoTrek grilled up burgers for us before our climb began. Permits, WAG bags, and other items of similar nature were taken care of through GoTrek. We essentially just showed up and climbed.
How Do You Get There? I flew into Seattle from LA, then took the Airporter Shuttle (about $35) north to Sedro-Woolley, where I rendezvoused with Craig. Other climbers in our group drove directly to Glacier from different parts of Washington and Oregon.
What Should You Do While You're There? The surrounding area offered tons of natural beauty. If I had more time, I would've done some more hiking around the Mt. Baker Wilderness Area. When coming down the Climber's Trail (the one we took to get to the Coleman Glacier) I spotted some hikers to the right who were on top of a massive boulder directly in front of a glacier field. That would've been an epic photo! I also spent a couple of days exploring Seattle after finishing my climb. The city was really clean, modern, and friendly.
It would've been nice to get down in those crevasses; and then get out of them!
What We'd Do Differently: My experience on Mt. Baker was from the perspective of a guided climb. It was designed to get people on the summit in the most direct and efficient way possible. That being said, I'd spend an extra day and couple hundred more dollars to do Craig's 4-day Intro to Mountaineering Course instead. That course includes not only the summit climb, but also a few days of instruction on the mountain. The 3-day guided climb was a great experience and provided a wonderful opportunity to do some glacier travel, take in the sights, and have a summit opportunity, but for those seriously interested in climbing, the 4-day intro course would be a more valuable experience.
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Climbing Mt. Baker was Chris Brinlee Jr's last stop in the US before embarking on a 4+ month climbing and trekking adventure throughout some of the world's less-visited regions. If you'd like to be a part of his journey, check out his IndieGoGo, Explore the Unimaginable.
Photos: Chris Brinlee Jr.
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Hyperloop Technologies plans to build a hyperloop test track for in North Las Vegas—and it wants to start testing early next year.
The AP talked to the California company (which takes its name from Elon Musk’s proposed invention, but isn’t associated with him) about its plans to create a testing ground for the transit technology. The “Propulsion Open Air Test” will take place on 50 acres of land in the Apex Industrial Park.
Hyperloop Technologies’ test will involve sending an electrical motor at more than 300 mph on a half-mile track. Hardware is expected to arrive this month, and testing is projected to begin early next year.
The hyperloop technology aims to use vacuum tubes to transport freight and passengers in pods at speeds up to 750 mph. With little wind resistance, the system could zip people around at the speed of sound and cut the 400-mile ride between Los Angeles and San Francisco down to an hour.
Capsules would float on a thin cushion of air and draw on magnetic attraction and solar power to zoom through a nearly airless tube.
Now, if this news sounds familiar, it might be because a separate company called Hyperloop Transportation Technologies is also building a test track slated for 2016, north of LA.
There’s a good-old fashioned race on to build the first ultra-high speed Hyperloop transit system. Musk—who first floated the possibility of building a Hyperloop back in 2013—is, of course planning to build a test track of his own for SpaceX, possibly in Texas. Musk is also running a design competition.
While a hyperspeed vacuum tube transit system is an untested dream, the competition between companies appears to be speeding up grand plans. This doesn’t mean you’ll be able to hop in a vacuum pod for a quick jaunt around Vegas anytime soon. The technology is nowhere near viable for an actual transit infrastructure. Yet this accelerated press to test shows that companies aren’t treating this like a lark.
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Browned Flavors
Analysis, Formation, and Physiology
Edited by Michael Granvogl, Devin Peterson, and Peter Schieberle
Thoroughly covers the applications of the Maillard reaction
Relevant to a number of areas including the food sector, academia, industry, and governmental institutions
"Browned flavors" are closely linked to the Maillard reaction, especially in the mind of food chemists. This well-known reaction was linked with the name of the French chemist and physicist Louis Camille Maillard. The reaction includes several "sub-reactions", based on interactions of amino acids and carbohydrates, and leads to a large diversity of molecules. It is also commonly known as "non-enzymatic browning reactions". Beside colorings, also desired aroma-active, taste-active, and physiologically-active compounds are generated, mainly by thermal influence.
Due to the importance of the reaction to the food sector, including academia, industry, and also governmental institutions, this book examines all aspects and applications of the Maillard reaction, including in cocoa, raw and roasted mustard seeds, oats, sugars, potato chips, wheat and rye.
1. On the Role of Amadori Rearrangement Products as Precursors of Aroma-Active Strecker Aldehydes in Cocoa
2. Use of Galvanic Cell Voltages To Clock the Progress of Maillard Reactions in Real Time
3. Controlling Amino Acid Degradations Produced by Reactive Carbonyls in Foods
4. Reducing the Acrylamide-Forming Potential of Wheat, Rye and Potato: A Review
5. Characterization of Browning Formation in Orange Juice during Storage
6. A Three Dimensional Kinetic Model for the Formation of Acrylamide in French Fries with Variable Glucose and Fructose Content
7. The Maillard Reaction Product N?-Carboxymethyl-L-Lysine Induces Heat Shock Proteins 72 and 90-alpha via RAGE Interaction in HEK-293 Cells
8. Characterization of Key Aroma-Active Compounds in Raw and Roasted White Mustard Seeds (Sinapis alba L.)
9. Formation of Reactive Fragmentation Products during the Maillard Degradation of Reducing Sugars—A Review
10. Relationship between Alkylpyrazine and Acrylamide Formation in Potato
Editors' Biographies
Edited by Michael Granvogl, Associate Professor of Food Chemistry, Technical University of Munich, Edited by Devin Peterson, Professor of Food Science and Technology, The Ohio State University, and Edited by Peter Schieberle, Chair of the Department of Food Chemistry, Technical University of Munich
Michael Granvogl (Ph.D., Technical University of Munich) is currently an Associate Professor at the Chair of Food Chemistry, Technical University of Munich, Germany. He works on projects dealing with the analysis and formation of desired (aroma-active) and undesired (food-borne-toxicants) bio-actives in foods.
Devin Peterson is a Professor in the Department of Food Science and Technology at The Ohio State University. He earned a doctoral degree in Flavor Chemistry (2001) at the U. of Minnesota. In 2001 he joined the faculty in the Department of Food Science at Penn State University for eight years. In 2009 he returned to the University of Minnesota as an Associate Professor and was promoted to Professor in 2014. In 2016, he relocated his research program to the Ohio State University as part of the discovery themes initiate, a unique investment in agriculture research.
Prof. Dr. Peter Schieberle studied Chemistry at the Technical University of Aachen and Food Chemistry at the University of Bonn. He received his diploma degree in Food Chemistry in 1977, and his PhD from the Technical University Munich in 1980. After becoming a Lecturer at the University Erlangen-Nuremberg in 1989 and, also at the Technical University of Munich, he then served as a Full Professor for Food Chemistry at the University of Wuppertal from 1993 to 1995. Since 1995, he holds the Chair of Food Chemistry at the Technical University of Munich.
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Commemorating World War I
The Treaty of Versailles: A Very Short Introduction
Michael S. Neiberg
A cogent introduction to one of the most important international accords, the Treaty of Versailles, a century after its signing
Contextualizes the treaty within the last century of world history
Shows how the treaty affected not only Europe but also the rest of the world, highlighting its impact on distant places such as China and Japan and its significant influence on the development of American international policy
Signed on June 28, 1919 between Germany and the principal Allied powers, the Treaty of Versailles formally ended World War I. Problematic from the very beginning, even its contemporaries saw the treaty as a mediocre compromise, creating a precarious order in Europe and abroad and destined to fall short of ensuring lasting peace. At the time, observers read the treaty through competing lenses: a desire for peace after five years of disastrous war, demands for vengeance against Germany, the uncertain future of colonialism, and, most alarmingly, the emerging threat of Bolshevism. A century after its signing, we can look back at how those developments evolved through the twentieth century, evaluating the treaty and its consequences with unprecedented depth of perspective.
The author of several award-winning books, Michael S. Neiberg provides a lucid and authoritative account of the Treaty of Versailles, explaining the enormous challenges facing those who tried to put the world back together after the global destruction of the World War I. Rather than assessing winners and losers, this compelling book analyzes the many subtle factors that influenced the treaty and the dominant, at times ambiguous role of the "Big Four" leaders: Woodrow Wilson of the United States, David Lloyd George of Great Britain, Vittorio Emanuele Orlando of Italy, and Georges Clémenceau of France.
The Treaty of Versailles was not solely responsible for the catastrophic war that crippled Europe and the world just two decades later, but it played a critical role. As Neiberg reminds us, to understand decolonization, World War II, the Cold War, and even the complex world we inhabit today, there is no better place to begin than with World War I and the treaty that tried, and perhaps failed, to end it.
1. From war to armistice to peace conference
2. The big three (or maybe four)
3. Ideals versus interests
4. Drafting the treaty
5. To bed, sick of life
6. War to end war?
Michael S. Neiberg, Chair in War Studies, US Army War College
Michael S. Neiberg is the Chair of War Studies in the Department of National Security and Strategy at the US Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He is the author of many books on the First and Second World Wars, including The Path to War: How the First World War Created Modern America, The Blood of Free Men: The Liberation of Paris, 1944, and Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of World War I, which was named one of the five best books ever written about the war by the Wall Street Journal.
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Shrugging Khan
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Re: XCOM 2
I'll wait until no more add-ons are released and it pops up at a good discount or in a bundle.
If that means waiting for XCOM 3, so be it. I'm not going to pay big money for something that launches with DLC.
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Finall installed and played. God, this was aweful!
not the game, the waiting time.
I'm not very far into the game but currently I like it.
I like that the game makes a lot references to the first game however, this is a double-edged sword. people who didn't play the first one won't get all the references and nods but old players will like how the first game is integrated into the second.
Also, I have a theory but this might not be true (again, I'm not deep into the game.
Spoiler for Hidden:
The ending of the first war was probably part of the simulations that you experienced while being captured from the aliens. The war happened but the end, where you won, never did. You were captured before and the aliens just suggested you that you've won in order to keep you under control.
Maybe the whole game was the simulation? That you play the game over and over again, winning (and failing) were part of it, you had to repeat the war simulation so the aliens can leech your war tactics.
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Cluck.
I've decided to have a go at the original xcom (since it'll actually work on my laptop) would it be worth xenonauts(the spiritual successor) instead/as well as the original?.
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Oh lord, please do not attempt to play the original. It was legendary but now is very dated.
Xenonauts is a wonderful spiritual successor, and one of my top 5 games of all time. It's also on sale and was never very expensive to begin with. If you're at all a fan of the series, you'll love it.
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If you really want to play the original though, at least go with OpenXcom instead. Its at least more likely to work without a lot of effort involved in fixing it through xcomutils.
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Quote from: Wingflier on February 07, 2016, 02:22:30 PM
I haven't played any of the xcoms before that sounds like a good place to start though thanks.
Good lord, I tried the first mission (after the tutorial mission, which is completely scripted and removes player choice) on normal (veteran) difficulty, and got absolutely stomped.
This is coming from a person with probably around 100 hours spread across games in the XCOM franchise (though to be fair I've never actually beaten any of them).
In XCOM 2, they just do not pull any punches. You're already getting mind controlled in the first mission, and oh by the way did we mention zombies?
I absolutely love how brutal they've made it. I may have to swallow my pride and play it on "easy" for the first playthrough. Beginner in XCOM is like "Impossible" difficulty in most other games.
Which one do you mean? The one wit the energy thing? Or the one where you find the ADVENT stun soldiers (I think it was the one where you have to protect some transmitter or something like that)?
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Just wait, once you have gotten the tactics down on what they throw at you, they will have brand new bullshit around the corner.
Yeah, that first mission is tough since you don't have a lot of tools at that point. Ironically it seems easier if you don't do the tutorial.
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Quote from: crazyroosterman on February 07, 2016, 02:13:03 PM
I definitely recommend Xenonauts instead. The original is absolutely a great game, but it has not aged well. The interface is super clunky, there's pitfalls in research and it's overall extremely clunky to play.
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Yeah, the original game isn't very intuitive to use. It is a really good game but the controls are aweful and some gameplay features aren't nice to use (like collecting every single item per hand in missions otherwise it's lost).
Xenonauts did at least a good job in discarding the most annoying parts of the game while still maintaining the core gameplay.
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I probably won't get this game. I heard they implemented some time or turn limits on the missions. Part of the problem with the original was the insane random number generator for the chance to hit. Don't know that I want to do that now that the game is forcing limits.
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Yeah, there are turn limits but I don't feel forced in any way. There are already mods that deactivate the turn timer btw.
may I ask how that extreme that random number generator for this game is? I just did the first mission of xeno earlier and it didn't seem to obnoxious kind of at the level at which I'm willing to cope with really.
I don't really know what this question means. The RNG just works based on the percentage given. No different than rolling a 100 sided die and comparing it to a percent.
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Any word yet on next major expansion?
burdock2 Member UncommonPosts: 420
September 2014 in Lord of the Rings Online
Just wondering if I have missed anything relating to the next major paid expansion (the last one being Helms Deep). Any info would be much appreciated, thankyou!
trancejeremy Member UncommonPosts: 1,222
They announced we wouldn't get one this year, instead a lot of little updates and a new class, and a level bump to 100 (which already happened).
Presumably the next expansion will be announced sometime next year...
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Po_gg Member EpicPosts: 4,914
What jeremy wrote. Turbine stated after HD that in 2014 there won't be a big expansion, there will be 2 smaller ones instead, alongside with smaller updates and fixes (and also they killed Kenny the housing revamp, those bastards ).
The first of those two (U14) went live the summer, with West Gondor, level cap raise to 100 and with the essence system. There were several smaller updates before and after that, latest one is U14.2.
The other bigger one, U15 will go live probably at the end of the year, with a cap raise to 105 (*) and the new class. Also with upgrades to the music system, according to a recent post of PM.
(*)edit: that plan was revoked, too many folks requested that the cap should stay at 100 for a while, due to gearing and grind issues.
Xerenix Member UncommonPosts: 237
Originally posted by Po_gg
The other bigger one, U15 will go live probably at the end of the year, with a cap raise to 105 and the new class. Also with upgrades to the music system, according to a recent post of PM.
This is correct except they changed it so there will be no raise to 105 in U15.
Originally posted by Xerenix
My bad, it was a long night before and I totally forgot Rowan's letter...
As Xerenix said, no additional level cap raise this year.
Drakephire Member UncommonPosts: 451
Haven't kept too close an eye on LOTRO, but it seems to be in maintenance mode now? What are the bulk of Turbine devs working on? Do we know? Or has WB striped the entire team down to bare bones?
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Athisar Member UncommonPosts: 666
Originally posted by Drakephire
They're still regularly adding stuff, just not as much content as people would like. Update 14 went live a couple of months ago, and 15 will be out before Christmas.
Apparently it makes a ton of money, but it looks like hardly anything gets put back into the game.
Originally posted by Athisar
LOTRO has a welcome back promo happening at the moment. I fired up the game over the weekend (after nearly a year away), and I forgot how really good this game is. And massive. So huge.
I think the LI grind pissed me off last time. I've left that high level character and am bringing up a new one. We'll see how that LI system shakes out this time.
I've been getting back into it recently too. Because of the very dated engine it's easy to forget how good the game is really. I just wish they'd work on stuff for new players, I'm sure many are put off by the very basic character models and animations, etc.
There's an absolute ton of content for sure. I've bought the experience disabler so I can play a bit more of it without levelling too quickly.
LOTRO has a welcome back promo happening at the moment.
A very unfortunate timing for the post... the +25% welcome back boost is switched on for September, so it will be gone today
But of course LotRO is cool even without the welcome back bonus.
LI grind hasn't changed during your 1year leave, it's still huge sadly, and now there's also the essence grind on top of that...
The 25% bonus has ended now, but I'm very glad it has! If you like to do content you'll level far too quickly without any kind of bonuses. I use the experience disabler to get around that on my current character (unfortunately it costs TP).
Strange... they messed it up instead of switching off the 25% welcome back boost, they switched on Hobnanigans - a day earlier than announced (Friday to Sunday).
So there's a chance the xp boost will stay during the weekend... usually they don't mess around with config during events.
ThomasN7 87.18.7.148Member CommonPosts: 6,690
People still play this ? It is just so bad why would anyone waste their time ? We need a much better LOTR game. I wish Bioware would have made LOTR instead of The Old Republic.
Originally posted by ThomasN7
People still play this? Yep. (http://postimg.org/image/a38228usf/ from yesterday evening, for example)
...why would anyone waste their time? Because it's fun, mayhaps?
We need a much better LOTR game. Agree on that, a few more LotR rpg's would be great to have. I don't think it will happen in the near future however, not while WB is wasting their money and resources on craps like Assassin's Creedor...
I wish Bioware would have made LOTR instead of The Old Republic. Nope. Maybe a singleplayer one, but not an mmo.
HabitualFrogStomp Member UncommonPosts: 370
SoM is awesome, that is all.
And you should be thankful they're releasing LOTR games and movies and the IP is very relevant. That's about the only way LOTRO is getting any new players.
Originally posted by HabitualFrogStomp
Agree on that, a few more LotR rpg's would be great to have.
And you should be thankful they're releasing LOTR games and movies and the IP is very relevant.
I would be thankful... but there's two small, tiny details...
Creedor is not an rpg. Heck, it's not even a (much lowlier category) action-rpg, it's just a console action game.
It's not a LotR game, it was only WB's marketing plan. If you switch every "Mordor" in game to "Orc land", Gondor to "Man home" and Celebrimbor to "Spooky ghost" (great South Park episode btw ), you wouldn't even notice it has anything to do with LotR.
Anyhow, back to the thread's title, about expansion/updates. Rowan's letter was posted today: https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?557012-A-Letter-From-Executive-Producer-Aaron-Campbell-October-2014
Beornings arriving on Bullroarer tomorrow
edit: about fitting the lore, yep, beornings will most likely take the lore-breaker title from rune-keepers, hence the smiley above but the new areas will be fun hopefully, and I'm curious about the new book quests too.
It's a LOTR game, it says so right on the box. Just because you decided that you don't like the game before you even played it or knew what it was about doesn't mean it's not a LOTR game. You missed a lot of parts in there too, as it has Sauron, who I'm guessing would be "Big Daddy Moonshine" and Gollum, aka "Super slim catchy guy". Smacking condescending names on ancillary characters and thinking it proves anything just makes you look immature to be honest, and shows a lack of respect for a lot of talented peoples work.
I don't rightly care if you call it an RPG or not. Its clear you're operating under a strict self imposed hipster nerd code and I don't want so sway you from that, it's actually pretty funny in a sad way.
SoM will do more for the IP than LOTRO would ever hope to, as far as reaching a wider audience and strengthening the brand. As a fan I'm all for that, apparently you just want LOTR to fill your tiny vision of what it is while remaining oblivious to the numerous genres that are quickly surpassing your own interests by. That's quite common in fanboy-dom, unfortunately objectivity is not, which is why nobody but you will take your skewed opinion seriously.
Ouch, that must hurt a lot.
There, there... it's ok, don't hold in, let it all out nicely.
Back to the topic, the mechanics of the beorning seems pretty interesting so far, and also fun. I believe it has potential. Of course that's the least it should offer, considering Turbine will charge 1000 TP for it, which is more than warden or rune-keeper, and the creep classes...
flizzer Member RarePosts: 2,432
I play many newer games but find myself coming back to LOTRO a lot. It is like the proverbial old brown shoe. It might not be the flashiest and is far from the best but it is comfortable and lots of fun to play. Yes, the combat feels old but the game world is terrific and there is so much to do! Buying a life time sub way back when was one of the best decisions I ever made.
I'm not in a lot of pain right now, except for the lingering effects of a hangover. Sorry to disappoint you.
You should go watch some south park or something, it'll make you feel better. Or better yet play SoM, it's such an improvement on Tolkien's work.
Do you know the total cost of the xpac? Or will you be able to pick and choose ala carte the bits you want from U15? If the latter, that'd be great since I don't see myself playing the Beorning, but the other parts of the xpac look promising.
Nothing is set in stone yet, all is tentative, etc. etc. So the following is just an opinion, obviously, don't take my words granted
If you're a Vip, you get everything for the subscription, except the new class - that's a need-to-purchase for everyone.
If you're Premium or F2p, you need to buy both the beorning, and Central Gondor too. You can do that separately of course, a'la carte as you wrote. Dunno the price, probably like the other "bigger" quest packs, 7-800TP. For the beorning there will be a bundle too with a +1 character slot included, for those who have all the slots filled.
Basically non-Vip folks only get the general updates for free (like the music system upgrades, essences, class updates), plus the Epic questline in Central Gondor (Volume IV Book 2), and once it was mentioned that the new epic battle will be free as well, but that would be strange imo. Maybe for those who have Helm's Deep already? Without HD a single epic battle sounds odd. But who knows, maybe they will do it for marketing / promotional reasons, to boost HD sales.
Well, it went live, almost two hours before maintenance deadline, very unusual from Turbine
Notes: https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?558300-Update-15-Release-Notes
Download is pretty slow, I think everyone's updating at the same time... for me it took almost an hour, apparently others were much faster since the starter areas are already filled with beornings. By the time I got in, the highest I saw was lvl13 - not counting those of course, who've bought the Valar gift and were above lvl50.
Prices, pretty much what I've guessed above. Beorning is 1000 TP (for Vips too), or with the character slot bundle 1300. Ok, 1295. (character slot is 595 normally, so it's a bit better.)
Central Gondor is free for Vips, 795 TP for the others.
Pelargir (the new epic battle), it was slapped into the Helm's Deep expansion technically, so free for anyone who owns HD, and not accessible to those who don't have HD - regardless of Vip or f2p status.
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My memories of the 7/7 bombings
Ten years ago today… my morning commute to work was disrupted. There was much confusion at Waterloo Station. The tube station was closing, and everyone was milling about near the trains. There were rumours of trouble in multiple parts of the tube network, but no one seemed to understand the disruption.
I hopped on a bus and called an old friend, who I knew had been up all night working on her PhD on nuclear terrorism. I thought she might interpret the news better than I could.
“They’re reporting ‘a power surge,'” she told me as my bus wound through Holborn towards Farringdon. It’s hard to tell what’s actually happening. Be careful just in case.”
I got to work — one of the few who did, it turned out — and was asked to make a list of my team and work out who was still alive. While the sirens raced past our office buildings en route to various hospitals, I made the phone calls. I never want to do that again.
(They were all alive, fortunately. But I counted those endless sirens, thinking of those teams across the capital — and families — who were finding that some of their members weren’t.)
I remember phoning my mother and waking her up. “You’re going to see that there’s something going on in London,” I told her. “I just want you to know, when you see that, that I’m at work and I’m okay.” She blearily thanked me and apparently went straight to watch the news… which was already reporting explosions. I got a somewhat teary voicemail from her a number of hours later — when the phone networks were no longer clogged — thanking me and telling me she loved me.
The City was evacuated in the afternoon, and I headed across London on foot towards friends in South Kensington (since I lived too far away to get back to my home). All the Londoners I encountered had a surreal quality of shock at the events and a heightened, startled awareness of each other… We weren’t just obstacles in each other’s journeys anymore — we talked. We nodded to each other. We shared our worried looks and our stoic laughter. As we all tried to work out how to get home, it felt like we actually saw each other for the first time. We understood we were in it together.
When I got to Hyde Park Corner, a couple of brave TfL bus drivers had picked up their routes — all the more courageous when we didn’t yet know what had happened to cause the explosions, nor whether it was truly finished. I stepped onto a bus and was humbled to see the driver, as confused and stricken as the rest of us, determined to do his part: London was on the move, and he could help us get home. What a gesture of solidarity. I thanked him profusely.
Coincidentally, I found one of the South Ken friends at the back of that bus, and we went on to their flat to make margaritas with his wife. There was lots to talk about that night, and to be grateful for. And to mourn. We’d each experienced it differently, but we’d been through it together — and London is never more amazing than when it finds a reason to pull together.
by Hadley Beeman 7th July 2015 Uncategorized
Uses for open data
I’m often asked these days why people would bother with open data. (Here, I’m using LinkedGov’s definition of open data.) I thought it would be useful to write down and gather some feedback, see if we can refine these categories further.
Thus far, it seems, the uses are boiling down to four categories:
1. Transparency
Broadly speaking, this means getting a better view of what is going on inside government or the public sector. This audience covers both the non-public sector and the public sector itself.
Infrastructure: Transport timetables, traffic information or road potholes for a journey planner app
Accountability: Financial and budget statements for armchair auditors
Media: Potential headlines and stories for journalists
Sharing information resources: Formal research available to inform academic and professional enquiries (for example, data from NHS clinical studies informing projects hosted by universities or industry). This group also includes management and demographic statistics, like the number of people in a particular benefits programme
Status and progress updates: performance data, such as the number of outcomes met in a specific project
News: announcements about public sector activities, grant opportunities and new ways to interact with government
Community information: local planning applications, crime statistics or upcoming events which impact a neighbourhood
2. Delivering services to/on behalf of government
Open data allows commercial and third sector organisations to have a closer relationship with customers and funding sources in government and the public sector.
Delivering front-line services on behalf of a governmental or public body: As an example, the train operating companies might benefit from greater access to forecasts of passenger activity from Transport for London.
Marketing to government: If a photocopier sales department can see which public sector offices are likely to need a new photocopier soon, they can target their marketing appropriately.
3. Improving commercial activities outside of government
Many existing business models could benefit significantly from greater access to public data. A few examples:
Smoothing commercial transactions. A tool for selecting the ideal import tariffs or a faster route of calculating tax could provide significant savings for a commercial goods company.
Enhancing an existing offering. A tour operating company could plan more accurately (or prompt their clients to plan better) with weather data from the Met Office.
Targeting marketing. Census data and council tax bands, for example, could help a new company work out where its target market is, helping them to concentrate their comms efforts in the most efficient place
4. Efficiency
Much of the public sector could benefit from better access to their data and the information contained within it. Examples include:
Procurement: Comparing costs and existing contracts when looking at procurement for something new.
Evidence base: Better informed policy development and decision-making
Reducing the load: Less enquiries from the public (specifically requests under the Freedom of Information Act) and from within the public sector (for example, parliamentary questions from ministers to civil servants in their department).
What are your thoughts? How can we refine this model and make it more complete?
by Hadley Beeman 26th January 2011 Uncategorized
We the people vs Facebook, Google et al.
A theme in this morning’s news items struck me:
Class action lawsuit against Google filed in California over Buzz
Class action lawsuit against Facebook filed in CA over privacy changes from Nov/Dec.
New privacy settings for Facebook apps launched today (Facebook’s response to the outcry in November and December).
Pleaserobme.com, a tool that searches Foursquare posts on Twitter to publicise who isn’t at home.
It’s interesting to me that these issues are based in the same quandry: how do we, as a society, deal with placing the control of our content in the hands of a few big providers?
The writers and the publishers – a contract
User-generated content comes out of a relationship: the writers (us) write things, generate data through web activities, and create links to people, while the hosts (Facebook and Google, here) gather the information and do neat things with it. They share our posts with our friends, connect us with ads that might interest us, and host our status updates and regulate who sees what we are up to.
The first two links are public retaliations for what the plaintiffs feel is a betrayal of trust by Google and Facebook. They put their trust in these two tools to safeguard their content. They are unhappy that Google and Facebook changed the rules (or perhaps violated their side of the agreement) with the users by changing the defaults on what information is public.
This, to me, is an age-old “breach of contract” question. Have Google and Facebook in fact violated the terms of service, to which they agreed when each user opened an account with them? And if so, what do they owe us?
The next story is about Facebook, having heard the outcry (well represented by the aforementioned lawsuit) and attempting to re-establish good will. Though they aren’t admitting that they have done anything wrong, they appear to be trying to regain some of the trust they lost in November and December by offering users more control over who sees posts from the various applications they use. (The example cited in the Facebook blog explanation: I’ll let the Someecards app post to my close friends only, but My Causes can post to everyone including the boss.)
As the Facebook announcement says, “Facebook is designed to give you control over the information you share.” I think they are hoping that even greater control will result in a stronger feeling of contract and trust between the users and their tools.
“The danger is publicly telling people where you are. This is because it leaves one place you’re definitely not… home.”
Pleaserobme.com
Pleaserobme.com is a tongue-in-cheek reminder that all information posted on the web is public. Also that most posts can be added to other bits of content for more context than we might intend.
Pleaserobme.com takes basic posts to Twitter from the location-based app Foursquare, which announces where a user is when they check in at that location. As the Pleaserobme site says, “The danger is publicly telling people where you are. This is because it leaves one place you’re definitely not… home.”
There are a number of ways to work out where someone lives, not the least of which is that many homes are being added to Foursquare as check-in destinations. Sure it’s nice to know where your friends are, but this could be problematic!
(Side note: when I added a new location to Foursquare on Tuesday, it offered me the choice to have that location be private among my friends. It appears that they are already trying to counter this problem.)
But the idea is that, by announcing on Twitter that I have checked in at a location that isn’t home, then all my valuables at home are open for the taking. Obviously, that’s not good.
As a content-generator in this relationship, I have to be aware of what information I am releasing to my hosting platforms (Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Google, etc.) and how that information can be compiled.
Are we making progress?
We can talk at length about the generational change in individual data, and how kids today will grow up happily sharing every last bit of their lives on the Web. (I’m not convinced of this, by the way- I think they will grow out of a lot of their exhibitionism. Caution and desire for privacy often comes with age.)
But these stories represent, to me, an ongoing push-me-pull-you tension of expectations and service provision, as the capabilities and they way they’re used continually race ahead of each other. I think our society and laws will continue to swing back and forth on privacy issues as we re-establish our norms and our expectations for companies that hold our content.
*Photo from http://www.flickr.com/photos/38057014@N05/3542597760/
by Hadley Beeman 18th February 2010 Uncategorized
Collaborative learning resources
Just a quick follow-up to my feature on collaborative learning over at LGEO Research…. I’ve been asked for references, so here they are!
e-Learning Anaesthesia (eLA)
This is a joint programme between the Department of Health’s e-Learning for Healthcare (e-LfH) and the Royal College of Anaesthetists. They are collaboratively developing clinically-appropriate, peer-reviewed online learning modules to help trainee anasesthetists to revise for their FRCA exams.
Dimitracopoulou, A. (2005) Designing collaborative learning systems: current trends & future research agenda.
Computer Support for Collaborative Learning (Proceedings of the 2005 conference on Computer support for collaborative learning: learning 2005: the next 10 years!) Taipei, Taiwan. p 115 – 124.
This is a good background paper on computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) and models for the different kinds of systems.
Smith, B. L and MacGregor, J. T. (1992) ‘What is Collaborative Learning?‘ Abbreviation of Smith and MacGregor’s article, “What Is Collaborative Learning?” in Collaborative Learning: A Sourcebook for Higher Education, by Anne Goodsell, Michelle Maher, Vincent Tinto, Barbara Leigh Smith and Jean MacGregor. Pennsylvania State University: National Center on Postsecondary Teaching, Learning, and Assessment.
This paper outlines the theory of collaborative learning (face-to-face or technological).
Baker , M., Quignard, M., Lund, K. & Sejourne A. (2003). Computer-supported collaborative learning in the space of debate. In B.Wasson, S. Ludvigsen and U. Hoppe (eds): CSCL: Designing for Change in Networked Learning Environments, CSCL 2003 congress: 14-18 June 2003, Bergen, Norway, pp.11-20
This paper is about designing collaborative learning spaces. It explains that giving more feedback (for example, dialogue graphs which visually show the user how much they participate) increases the number of arguments a participant contributes.
Hope these are helpful!
by Hadley Beeman 6th September 2009 Uncategorized
Bulgaria sees the value in tech growth
I’ve recently returned from a trip to Bulgaria and was struck by a country in economic and technological transition. The apartment blocks and factories, remnants of an industrial Communist era now past, clashed sharply with the modest stone-and-wood houses built by occupants who might herd goats or raise roosters in the garden. Overlaid atop this architectural tug-of-war across the countryside (no doubt simmering since the Soviet Army invaded in 1944) are signs of technological infrastructure and Western prosperity.
The billboards at Sofia airport for Hewlett-Packard and our other favourite technology companies were my first evidence that the country is growing both with through technology tools and with the innovation funds that their creator companies bring. The technology sector already accounts for 10% of Bulgaria’s GDP and the country is proud of it.
“There is no doubt the ‘old’ EU member states, for all their experience, could learn from what we have been doing in Bulgaria in terms of economic growth and competitiveness,” said Sergei Stanishev, Bulgarian prime minister, last week. Stanishev spoke in a pre-Spring EU summit in Brussels.
Stanishev’s pride wasn’t just talk — I was particularly impressed with the Bansko ski resort, boasting new Doppelmayr ski lifts and the RFID-based Skidata passes that allowed us skiers through a turnstile and straight onto the lift. Far more efficient than checking paper passes by hand! Bansko seems to have been planned out with technology and efficiency in mind.
Stanishev did admit that intellectual property protections (among other things) remain a challenge for Bulgaria to become a competitor in the world technology market. Yesterday, Bulgaria’s EU Commissioner Meglena Kuneva made effort towards laying down IP policy for the country. Weighing in on the international iTunes music debate in her capacity as European Commissioner for Consumers, Kuneva said, “[I do not find it] proper that a music CD can be played on all trademarks of players, but the music sold in iTunes can be played only on an iPod.” Taking this leadership role for the EU in such a high-stakes IP struggle could be significant for Bulgaria. Watch this space.
It appears that this beautiful country, which joined the EU at the beginning of this year, has every intention of becoming a major player in the tech economy. Today’s news announces that they have just been slated to receive €7 billion in EU funding over the next 7 years — I’m quite keen to see what they accomplish with it.
by Hadley Beeman 13th March 2007 Uncategorized
The spam of my blog
Because it’s a Friday, and because this has made me laugh through the week, I’d like to share with you a bit about my blog’s spam.
Quick background: let me help you boost your search ranking
Google ranks web pages based on a formula which includes their popularity (measured by how many other pages have links that point to it — see the classic Google paper Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Search Engine for more details). Consequently, the more pages out there refer to yours, the better your chances are of ending up near the top of the Google Results list when someone does a search. If you’re out to artificially inflate that ranking, planting links to your site around the web will boost your ratings. The higher your ranking, the more users will notice you, the more traffic you will get, and the more advertising revenue or potential sales you’ll land by getting them (figuratively) through the door.
And where to plant links to your site? Blog comments! Most blogging software will let you post more or less what you like, in HTML, on endless pages within the millions of blogs out there. (Note: at press time, Technorati is currently tracking 69.2 million blogs. And they haven’t got the whole blogosphere. The field is vast.)
We do have anti-spam software that filters spam comments, for example by the number of links a post contains. We blog-holders are not captive to the wills of blog spammers. But my spam filter, Akismet, kindly holds the spam comments it detects for my review. It is from this week’s list of Akismet spam from my blog that I pull the following trends.
Spam for my blog!
This past week, I’ve kept a particular eye on my blog’s spam. Since I delete them and you never get to see how funny they are, I thought I’d pull up a few to share with you.
Because they’re just out to get their links up on my site, the spammers have to convince me to post (or not delete) their comment. Each spam post begins with a little commentary around the links they are promoting, a feeble effort to catch my attention or fool me into thinking it’s a legitimate comment. These are what amuse me, and what I want to show to you.
A number of them are complimentary to my site or a particular post.
Hi! Guys how you manage to make such perfect sites? Good fellows!
(This was for debt consolidation services. I like the idea of being called “fellows”. Apt for a lone female running the site.)
With posts like this how long before we give up the newspaper?!!
(This was a site just trying to generate traffic. But I like that they’re referencing the whole Web 2.0-threatens-mainstream-media debate.)
This is a cool site! Thanks and wish you better luck!
(This was a comment selling replica handbags. It was posted on my Privacy Legislation and Teenagers post. It’s nice of them to, er, extend their sympathies… but I didn’t find that article so difficult to write! I imagine this was written with a more emotional blog in mind.)
That was a very nice post, I’m proud of you.
(Now that’s sweet. It recurs regularly, and even though I’m not interested in the loans and refinancing it offers, the comment always makes me feel good about the hard work I put into my blog.)
Some are just unrelated to the links. I got this romantic text under the subject heading of Cheap Shopping:
Lorsque la main d’un homme effleure la main d’une femme, tous deux touchent a l’éternité.
(Rough translation: “As the man’s hand brushes the woman’s, both of them touch eternity.” It may actually be syrupy enough to warrant the painkillers they were touting.)
Another tries to play the sympathy card:
My life’s been generally bland. I’ve just been letting everything happen without me. I don’t care. I’ve just been sitting around doing nothing, but eh.
(This came with a gmail address, and just to be sure I sent them an email asking if everything was okay. Hey, I’m a nice person! Not surprisingly, the message bounced. I then discovered that the link URL was a pointer which resolved to a site selling Viagra.)
I got one yesterday that was actually honest. No preamble, just a long list of links titled Greats from me: . I still didn’t post it, and I don’t need the sleep aids that were listed below, but I do appreciate the forthright approach.
For sheer creativity, as well as honesty in marketing, my current favourite is this one:
If your site getting constantly spammed, then you are in urgent need of a new folding table
Check these: folding poker tables
folding tables seller
That did catch my attention. I had to laugh. A salesman who knows their market! I’m impressed that they thought about what drives me as a consumer. It’s too bad that I can’t see how a folding table would solve my spam issues, but if they want to come back and leave a comment about it, I will be happy to approve it for posting.
by Hadley Beeman 23rd February 2007 Uncategorized
Information security for the UK: making everyone happy?
The Cabinet Office has released their e-Government framework for Information Assurance for draft consultation. The document sets forth guidelines for implementing the transformational government agenda of delivering more effective, more efficient customer-centric public services. These guidelines are intended to inform all transactions (and their supporting infrastructures) between UK government and its citizens.
The document has an interesting list of relevant legislation under appendix B, ‘Related Policy and Guidance’ (cited below).
The principal pieces of legislation that are likely to inform the IA requirements for e-Government service implementations include and are not limited to [links are added]:
the Human Rights Act and the underlying European Convention on Human Rights set out everyone’s right to privacy in their correspondence;
the Data Protection Act sets requirements for the proper handling and protection of personal information held within information processing systems;
the Electronic Communications Act sets the requirements for electronic signatures and their equivalence to conventional signatures;
the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act makes it an offence to intercept communication on any public or private network; case and time limited exemptions may be granted subject to warrant;
the Terrorism Act makes it an offence to take actions which are designed seriously to interfere with or seriously to disrupt an electronic system;
the Wireless Telegraphy Act controls the monitoring of wireless telegraphy;
the Police and Criminal Evidence Act defines conditions under which law enforcement may obtain and use evidence;
the Computer Misuse Act makes attempted of actual penetration or subversion of computer systems a criminal act; the Public Records Act lays down requirements for the proper care and preservation of documentary records of government activities;
the Official Secrets Act lays down requirements for the proper control of government information;
the Freedom of Information Act lays down the citizen’s rights of access to government held information.
I’m posting this list because it illustrates what a balancing act information policy is. On the one hand, we fight to preserve open paths of communication to our legislators and civil servants; we encourage all individuals to be involved in their government; we promote citizenship and interaction through digital inclusion of those who might otherwise be marginalised. Similarly, we have charged the same government with protecting us and our communities; we want them to have full access to the ‘bad guys’ and to anticipate — even pre-empt — any threat to us. From those arguments, we should open everything to everyone!
On the other hand, we have agreed that our human rights grant us the freedom to our own confidentiality. We have also agreed, through our democracy, that the government should have some leeway in keeping information from us (particularly about each other) to deliver effective public services to us and our neighbours and to protect us from the bad guys.
Both of these bits of secrecy mean that each party wants to maintain a certain level of control over allowing access into our conversations.
It’s a lot to juggle.
[Consultation on the e-Government framework for Information Assurance runs until 13th March 2007.]
Privacy legislation and teenagers: Leave me and my Facebook alone!
Developing an adolescent network of friends
Being a teenager, for me, was largely a trial-and-error process of figuring out how to be an adult. I wanted autonomy, I wanted to succeed, and I wanted to be able to ask for help — but only on my terms. I created a “family” of friends, relying on them for the moral support and frames of reference that I had previously looked to my relatives for. We muddled our way through adolescence, as I imagine most teens do, trying to work out together how to handle our uncertain futures, new relationships and the stress of achieving good grades. We learned together.
Underneath that bonding and grouping, I distinctly remember not just drifting from my family but actively setting up blocks. “I want to do this my way, by myself!” was a big mantra of those years. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis wrote in the 1890s that the US Constitution guarantees “the right to be let alone—the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men”. I was pretty positive Brandeis was writing right to me; as a (self-declared) civilised almost-adult, I thought that right was sacrosanct. I wanted to be let alone with my friends.
Social Networking – the online models of our groups of friends
Social networking platforms like Facebook, Myspace and Bebo allow teenagers to intensify their relationships with members of their group. In creating a profile or home page, they can create and re-create their own identities, experimenting with who they are and how they want to be seen. They get to identify themselves with social groups, be seen as belonging (through displaying their friends) and discover who else belongs with whom. And best of all — the parents aren’t invited. This is a world of their own, ideally suited to the adolescent’s social development.
The tension: Protecting the kids or invading their privacy?
If we can extrapolate my experience to a majority of Internet-using teenagers, social networking sites are supporting them in the social development they’re already doing. The challenge comes in building new relationships, where the lack of context can make it easy for someone with a nefarious agenda to mislead the unsuspecting. (See previous post.) The quick intimacy teenagers build can mask the fact that they don’t actually know who is on the other end of the conversation.
Recent US legislation has attempted to minimise the risks to kids. The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA) prohibits site operators from collecting personal data from kids under 13 without verifiable parental consent, and removes their liability for disclosing information to the parent about the child. In a previous post, I have discussed the proposed Deleting Online Predators Act of 2006, and this week the Georgia Senate has begun to consider a bill that would raise the age of parental consent to 18. No minors in Georgia would be allowed to engage in social networks without their parents having full access.
At the same time, the chief privacy officer for Facebook, Chris Kelly, maintains that they are restricted from sharing activity and profile content with parents by federal law. “Under the Federal Electronic Communications Privacy Act, we cannot give anyone access to or control of an individual’s profile on Facebook”, Kelly said. In addition to the overhead if they were required to open up all that data and verify which parent belongs to which kid, the inevitable response would be diminished site activity. If kids knew that Mom and Dad could listen in, they would find somewhere else to talk.
(Facebook of course has an interest in keeping activity levels high and therefore maintaining its revenue stream, which appears to be advertising-based. But it would fall short of its goal of “helping people better understand the world around them” if everyone restrained their contributions to each other’s world views because they felt they were being spied on.)
How do we sort this out?
If we go back to my assertion that social networking is modelling interactions and social development that we all do anyway, then the dangers aren’t actually that new. As an offline teenager, I was certainly taught not to give my address to anyone I didn’t know, and not to talk to strangers. I knew to look both ways before crossing the street. I knew how to listen for conversational cues that I was talking to someone with bad motives, and to recognise that friends of friends aren’t necessarily okay just because they come with a “reference” from somebody I know. All these messages kept me safe in the big bad real world, and I knew them because I was taught.
Teenagers need to form groups, to share information and to grow with their friends. And to establish a bit of independence from their families. Social networking can support this growth, but someone needs to make sure that online safety is included with the “surviving in the real world” lessons every kid gets either at home or at school. Particularly because parents are less involved in the conversation than they were when the children were younger, teenagers must be well prepared to make good decisions on their own. Unfortunately, legislation restricting access or allowing parents to “eavesdrop” won’t teach good judgment. Nor will applying privacy legislation — many kids wouldn’t figure this out on their own. Parents, teachers and role models are still ultimately responsible for these almost-adults, and it should be up to these adults to prepare them properly.
by Hadley Beeman 31st January 2007 Uncategorized
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Posts Tagged ‘Whitefish Bay’
Behold! Links!
* CFP: Forming the Future.
* CFP: The Senses of Science Fiction: Visions, Sounds, Spaces (Warsaw, December 2019).
* CFP: Decolonizing the Undead.
* CFP: Adaptation and Nostalgia.
* In Urging Faculty Not to Unionize, Marquette Cites Catholic Identity. Better doublecheck that citation.
* J.R.R. Tolkien fans — here’s your chance to become part of Marquette University’s oral history project.
* Attributed to “Mrs. F. C. Harris,” [“A Runaway World”] is the first American science-fiction story by a woman using her own name.
* 2019 Hugo Finalists.
* Wild Seed goes to series.
* I went on a little tear about Slaughterhouse Five some people seemed to like.
* Nike and Boeing Are Paying Sci-Fi Writers to Predict Their Futures.
* Science fiction and the path back.
* What Western Media Got Wrong About China’s Blockbuster ‘The Wandering Earth.’
* My point in observing that atmospheric carbon levels have gone up about about 14% while Game of Thrones has been a thing is that geological time is now faster than pop-cultural time. This has only ever been true before of earthquakes and volcanoes.
* Counterpoint: Climate change should be the subject of every DNC debate.
* There were just too many millionaires and billionaires here for a disaster on a great scale to be allowed to take place. Heaven or High Water: Selling Miami’s last 50 years. Louisiana’s disappearing coast. Housing policy is climate policy. Striking at the End of the World. Climate Change Drove Neanderthals to Cannibalism, New Research Suggests. Fascism and ecology. Fascism, ecology, and misogyny. Neoliberal catastrophism. The road to civilizational collapse. Sounds like a lovely place for the last 10,000 people alive to hold up. Now do I have your attention?
* It’s only going to get worse: Trump Just Purged DHS Because Its Leaders Weren’t Breaking the Law Enough. Trump told border agents to break U.S. law and defy judicial orders.They all belong in jail.
the cruelty is the point, yes, but it is also a means to an end: normalizing and legitimizing ever-greater cruelty as a sober and patriotic response to accelerated conditions of suffering which they and we all know are coming. it's a pedagogy in brutishness
— Patrick Blanchfield (@PatBlanchfield) April 5, 2019
I love how we're all just going about our 9-5 jobs and normal habits while the fact that–short of immediate, transformative action–a near-term mass die-off alongside the collapse of civilization is the most plausible scenario.
— syd🌹🌱 (@SydneyAzari) March 25, 2019
once this deleuzian I knew shared a reading of The Matrix about how "resistance" was an electrical engineering pun that also described how the movie's human body batteries functioned to power the system that enslaved them and I'd be lying if I said I didn't think of this often
— Patrick Blanchfield (@PatBlanchfield) October 15, 2018
* Trump Homeland Security Official Suggested Antifascists Were ‘The Actual Threats.’
* Hess told me that some people think there’s one kind of education within the purview of everyone willing to work to get it, the “embarrassing” kind, and then there’s another kind that is luxury goods, strictly for “elites” from “elite” institutions—however corrupt the latter may be—served tableside by an underpaid servant class.
* Just a few years ago, universities had a chance to make a quality education affordable for everyone. Here’s the little-known and absolutely infuriating history of what they did instead.
* Huge, if true: Assessment Is an Enormous Waste of Time.
* Exciting new horizons in making student evaluations even worse.
* Teaching in the time of Campus Reform.
* ‘I started dreading going to class’: Women speak out about sexual harassment experiences at Duke. Elsewhere on the Duke beat: Duke to Pay $112.5M Over Allegations of Falsified Research. Duke’s Nursing School Failed Them. They Say Their Race Played a Role.
On James B. Duke whose "true “innovation” came not in the 1880s, when the cigarette machine transformed the production process" but in the expansion of corporate power, partially through the manipulation of the 14th Amendment to protect corporate interests https://t.co/Sug2Vl8scf
— corinne blalock (@corinneblalock) April 5, 2019
* The death of an adjunct. This is how you kill a profession. How to talk to NTT faculty. There’s a lot of pain in academia today. So many workers/scholars are feeling left behind in the job market. If you are, too, you’re not alone. I talk to 8 working-class scholars who have been pushed out of the academy in this special Working episode.
* Academic travel culture is not only bad for the planet, it is also bad for the diversity and equity of research. Reimagining the Annual Meeting for an Era of Radical Climate Change.
* How America’s College-Closure Crisis Leaves Families Devastated. What happens to faculty after a college closes?
* A Jesuit University Without History or Philosophy?
* The Militarization of Johns Hopkins Exposes a Nationwide Trend.
* The humanities: not so bad!
* I tell my students, “Look, we’re here to discuss the meaning of life.” The meaning of life is that I’m alive for the time being. I’m in a world which is making contradictory demands upon me. What do I do?
niche tweet: I re-wrote the opening of Never Let Me Go for VAPs pic.twitter.com/Fzx9M4J55y
— Jacquelyn Ardam (@jaxwendy) April 4, 2019
* Amazing coincidences happen every day.
* Dear legislators: Harvard uses federal work study money to fund Dorm Crew, making low income students clean dorms of other students. It gets worse. Investigate.
* The digital humanities debacle.
* Unsilencing the writing workshop: creative writing heresy from Beth Nguyen.
* On Ungrading.
* Chinese schools are using facial recognition on students. But should they? I say teach the controversy.
* Start school later! This is the lowest hanging fruit for educational improvement there is.
* A Note From Your Colleagues With Hearing Loss: Just Use a Microphone Already.
* Love to live in an apartheid state: “GOP leaders criticize Gov. Tony Evers’ lead pipe replacement plan, raising concerns that too much money would go to Milwaukee.” And a flashback to October: As the tax dollars paid to the state rose 19% between 2009 and 2015, an increase of more than $400 million, the amount of revenue the state shared with the county did not grow, according to county officials.
Every urban area in America gets looted three times: first by city officials redirecting resources to wealthy white residents, then by county officials outflowing money to the white suburbs, then by state officials outflowing money to other, whiter regions of the state.
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) April 10, 2019
…which doesn’t even factor in the way the federal payments system loots densely populated Democratic regions for the benefit of tiny populated Republican regions.
* Buzzfeed returns to Baraboo, Wisconsin, site of the infamous Nazi prom photo.
* ‘Disgusted by it:’ Whitefish Bay High School students accused of using racist language.
* Make Milwaukee Socialist Again.
* Abigail Nussbaum’s Us link roundup.
* “Jordan Peele’s Mad TV contract stopped him from getting onto SNL so he started smoking weed and began plotting to take over Hollywood.”
* In the history of gaming there are just 14 playable black female characters.
* That on a long enough MCU timetable (at least some) Skrulls are going to turn out to be evil after all is the icing on the cake.
* Real Native history in a video game: An Indigenous take on The Oregon Trail.
* After the Paradise Fire.
* The Suprising History of the Ball Pit.
* All the absolute worst people in the world, working together and on the same page.
* Bidenwatch: when the cool uncle becomes the creepy uncle.
* Gravelmentum.
* Buttigiegmageddon.
the real stakes of the Democratic primary are not about policy or about winning the election but about which group of crooks, scammers, and amoral hangers-on get cushy jobs with a tremendous amount of power and influence for the next decade, so you can see why people care so much
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) April 2, 2019
* Twilight of Rachel Maddow.
* The Senate having another extremely normal one.
actual quote from the Senate floor today: "You'll notice … important features here: First of all, the rocket launcher strapped to Pres. Reagan's back & then the stirring, unmistakeable patriotism of the velociraptor holding up a tattered American flag." https://t.co/mv4h6oSKd0
— Rex Santus (@rexsantus) March 26, 2019
* Give the Nobel Prize in Literature to dril. Give it to Bill Watterson, too!
* Teen boys rated their female classmates based on looks. The girls fought back. ‘Think of the mothers of sons’: Notre Dame mom begs female students to stop wearing leggings, sparking protests. Sports-Bra Outrage.
* “New bills would ban pelvic exams without consent.” You mean they aren’t already — what?
on the sand, half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown
and wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command
which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things
the hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed- pic.twitter.com/rbYadoG4Dn
— matt lubchansky (@Lubchansky) March 29, 2019
* The US government is holding Chelsea Manning in solitary confinement again. It’s a vindictive, unconscionable attack on a brave truth teller.
* The changing face of homelessness in America in 2019.
* The Actuality of Marx’s Immiseration Thesis in the 21st Century.
* Minimum wage increases are associated with reduced numbers of suicide deaths.
* Using Chosen Names Reduces Odds of Depression and Suicide in Transgender Youths.
* Chronic, passive suicidal ideation is like living in the ocean. Let’s start talking about how to tread water.
* 13% of the world’s companies are ‘zombies.’ That’s not healthy.
* Today in the richest society in human history: Why I Am Stockpiling Insulin in My Fridge. The absurdly high cost of insulin, explained.
* Epilepsy patient refuses to leave Vancouver hospital until her health needs are met.
we write "Millenials Are Killing The [X] Industry" because when you write "Unsustainable Profit-Driven Systems Are Crumbling Around A Wage-Suppressed Global Populace Serving Roughly 2000 Aging Billionaires" people get too depressed to click through & watch our hair cream ads
— regular gem (@Choplogik) April 5, 2019
* The keeper of the secret: one man’s devotion to uncovering the details of a single lynching case from the 1920s.
* A majority of bitcoin trading is a hoax, new study finds.
* The end of Subway.
* They tried to warn us: Microsoft announces it will shut down ebook program and confiscate its customers’ libraries.
* The Joker trailer legitimately seems like an SNL digital short about trying to make a prestige, Oscar-bait comic book movie. I can’t believe it’s real.
* The Deep Space Nine Anniversary Documentary Is Hitting Theaters for One Day Only.
* Fossil found from the day the dinosaurs died? Seems hard to believe, but wow.
* Click this link if you dare, but remember that some things that are learned cannot be unlearned.
* Conspiracy Theories Can’t Be Stopped.
* It’s Rupert Murdoch’s world, we’re just all going to die in it. I hate what they’ve done to almost everyone in my family.
* The rent is still too damn high.
* Columbine Survivors Talk About the Wounds That Won’t Heal. This week in Hell World.
Nearly 20 years after the mass shooting at Columbine High School, students there are putting stickers on their ID & cellphones to indicate their desire for images of their bodies to be publicized & shared if they are killed by gun violence.https://t.co/Ynvy1oA0ml via @CNN
— Sarah Boxer (@Sarah_Boxer) April 1, 2019
* First photo of a black hole. An informative Twitter thread.
* How Animators Created the Spider-Verse.
* That’s me in the corner. Atheism and democracy.
* How IBM Watson Overpromised and Underdelivered on AI Health Care.
* A Mysterious Infection, Spanning the Globe in a Climate of Secrecy.
* Depressing, yes, but also sort of comforting.
* Just going to go ahead and green-light this Goodfellas sequel.
* This road trip movie, too.
* I assume this is already a CBS procedural.
* It’s hard to imagine a more egregious betrayal of Tolkien’s moral and philosophical worldview than a Gollum video game, at least until the Amazon series comes out.
* Putting academic knowledge to real world use: Experts Determine Whether Tyrion And Sansa Are Still Married On ‘Game Of Thrones.’
In the 1960s a woman lived in a house with a dolphin, tried to teach him English, and jerked him off daily. The experiment failed because the lead scientist was obsessed with giving the dolphins LSD. The experiment shut down and the dolphin killed himself https://t.co/VgikyScg4c
— Jason Koebler (@jason_koebler) April 4, 2019
Phew! Almost to the end now!
* The Matrix at 20.
* About ten years too late, it’s a start: How Good Are FiveThirtyEight Forecasts?
* The Avengers: Endgame theory that Ant-Man kills Thanos by expanding inside his butt, explained.
* Miracles and wonders: Unless I’m mistaken this is the first time gene therapy for Huntington’s disease has ever gone to human trials.
* It is amusing the Dungeons and Dragons- a game for small children- has a more accurate model of intelligence than the Quilette people do: it’s a minor bonus to an extremely noisy stochastic process that is easily swamped by situational advantage modifiers.
* Support your local library.
* Meet Leigh Cordner, Medieval Times’ creative director.
* Revolutionary War hero Casimir Pulaski might have been a woman or intersex.
* RIP Vonda McIntyre.
* The unexpected philosophical depths of the clicker game Universal Paperclips.
* Just kidding! There’s no plan for either problem.
* Great news from the elite world of comics podcasting.
* Coming Spring 2026: Fatigue: A Star Wars Story.
* Isn’t it pretty to think so?
* And the kids are all right.
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Trumpsday Reading
* Trump is targeting up to 8 million people for deportation. Making America Cruel Again. The triumph of cruelty. Inside the White House-Cabinet battle over Trump’s immigration order. 24 Hours at JFK. ‘Breathtaking violation of rights.’ Constitutional crisis. Hero Lawyers. Stop that plane: The frantic race to halt a deportation. A Q&A With the ACLU. Our New Itinerary. Travel ban causes high anxiety for Milwaukee’s international students. The little-noticed bombshell in Trump’s immigration order. Half Of World’s Refugees Are Running From U.S. Wars. Trump’s First Weeks Leave Washington— and the White House Staff—Panting. The leaks coming out of the Trump White House right now are totally bananas. Yes, all this happened. Gasp! Trust Records Show Trump Is Still Closely Tied to His Empire. Ivanka lied about the leaving the Trump organization too. Make War with Mexico Great Again. Trainwreck in Yemen. Even Australia. Onward to Iran! 14 Versions Of Trump’s Presidency, From #MAGA To Impeachment. Trump and the Republicans Are on a Suicide Mission Together. Editing Trump. Authoritarian Government Watch. We just let this one go without even making a big deal about it. And this one was crazy too! A Series of Unfortunate Events. This is fine. This is fine. This is fine. Seems legit. This is not normal. #TheResistance. A Reader for Trumplandia. Trump: A Resister’s Guide. SNL 1, 2, 3. Oh man. The law, in its majestic equality. 4 in 10. A whole year? Jesus. The numbers. A 3,900 percent increase. It takes 3.5% of a population engaged in sustained nonviolent resistance to topple brutal dictatorships. Here’s how much the anti-Trump protests cost, at Trump paid-turnout rates. Disobey.
* I had a very brief segment on Wisconsin Public Radio last week discussing 1984 and the Trump administration.
* The worst, most terrible things that the United States has done have almost never happened through an assault on American institutions; they’ve always happened through American institutions and practices. These are the elements of the American polity that have offered especially potent tools and instruments of intimidation and coercion: federalism, the separation of powers, social pluralism, and the rule of law. All the elements of the American experience that liberals and conservatives have so cherished as bulwarks of American freedom have also been sources and instruments of political fear. In all the cases I looked at, coercion, intimidation, repression, and violence were leveraged through these mechanisms, not in spite of them.
* There is a style of political reasoning which the Trump moment lends itself to, which can be called conspiracism. Against omniscience.
* Everyday Authoritarianism is Boring and Tolerable.
* V-Milwaukee!
* Vaughn Prison Uprising.
* Screaming about Trump into a Well: A Text Adventure.
* The Democratic Response to Gorsuch Is Easy: Just Say No. Why Democrats Should Oppose Neil Gorsuch. Make Republicans Nuke the Filibuster to Confirm Neil Gorsuch.
* Football players at private institutions in college sports’ most competitive level are employees, the National Labor Relations Board’s general counsel stated this week, and will be treated as such if they seek protection against unfair labor practices.
* Chris Ware on George Herriman. A rebuttal.
* The African Speculative Fiction lecture series at the University of London.
* Inside the Disney Vault.
* The Hot New Brand of Higher Education.
* Riot at Berkeley. #Milosexual and the Aesthetics of Fascism.
* After-the-Horse-Has-Left-the-Barn Department. Well at least you’re sorry.
* Who Cares If the Dow Jones Hit 20,000?
* Under A New System, Clinton Could Have Won The Popular Vote By 5 Points And Still Lost.
* The U.S. military’s stats on deadly airstrikes are wrong. Thousands have gone unreported.
* Academics boycotting the U.S.
* The end of Locked-In Syndrome… in the Twilight Zone.
Okay so this really *is* like a news story straight out of Black Mirror – right down to the ending. pic.twitter.com/RrFaQ4SH3W
— Charlie Brooker (@charltonbrooker) February 1, 2017
* Same.
* The new issue of the SFRA Review is up.
* The Youth Group That Launched a Movement at Standing Rock.
* Poker and the machines.
* Guns, hostile lawmakers, and professional bigots are more dangerous to academic freedom than left-wing activists are.
* Other Space, the best SF series no one but me watched.
* Against the Constitution. Against the Supreme Court.
* Video Game Voice Actor Strike Now Second-Longest In SAG History.
* Zelda map size comparisons.
* How a Cult That Believes Cats Are Divine Beings Ended Up in Tennessee.
* How to Kellyanne Conway.
* Why the voting age should be lowered to 16.
* February 17 is the next time the general strike isn’t actually going to happen.
* In the Trump International Penal Colony and Golf Resort.
* Marquette in the ne — come on, again?
* Also they enslaved and tortured generations of animals, but that’s not important right now.
* no no no no no no no no
* …and now it’s canon.
* Decolonizing Science Fiction.
* How an Interstellar Starship Could Actually Explore Alpha Centauri.
* How Astronauts’ Brains Are Changed By Spaceflight.
* In the future, everyone will be hated by thousands of strangers for 15 minutes.
* The Milwaukee Bucks Century.
* The war comes to Whitefish Bay.
* Pension giant TIAA is leading a global wave of deforestation and the destruction of small farmers’ livelihoods.
* The richest society in human history.
* And like Nietzsche said: it is forgetting, not remembering, that makes life possible.
Tagged with #NoBan, #NoDAPL, 1984, A Series of Unfortunate Events, academia, academic boycotts, academic freedom, ACLU, Adam Kotsko, Afrofuturism, Alpha Centauri, alt right, America, Andy Warhol, animal rights, animals, animation, artificial intelligence, Australia, authoritarianism, basketball, Ben Shapiro, Berkeley, Black Mirror, brands, canon, cats, Charlie Brooker, Chris Ware, circuses, class strugle, cockroaches, college football, college sports, comics, conservativism, conspiracy theory, cults, decolonization, deforestation, Delaware, democracy, Disney, disobey, Donald Trump, dreams, drones, Electoral College, Facebook, fascism, FedEx, forgetting, free speech, games, general election 2020, general strike, George Herriman, George Orwell, guns, How the University Works, immigration, impeachment, infrastructure, intergenerational struggle, Iran, Islamophobia, JCC, Kafka, Kellyanne Conway, kids today, Krazy Kat, labor, Lemony Snicket, Locked-In Syndrome, maps, Marquette, Mars, Mexico, military-industrial complex, Milo Yiannopoulous, Milwaukee, Milwaukee Bucks, Minnesota, Mountain Goats, Nazis, NBA, NCAA, Neil Gorsuch, Nietzsche, Nintendo, NLRB, Other Space, our brains work in interesting ways, outer space, Paul Feig, Phobos, poker, politics, protest, Reddit, refugees, resistance, Ringling Brothers, riots, Saturday Night Live, science, science fiction, SFRA, sleep, social media, spaceships, Standing Rock, Star Wars, stress, strikes, Supreme Court, Tennessee, text adventures, the Cabinet, the Constitution, the courts, the filibuster, the Holocaust, the Jedi, the kids are all right, the law, the Senate, the stock market, this is why we can't have nice things, TIAA-CREF, Twitter, UWM, Vaughn Prison, Venn diagrams, Virginia, voting, war huh good god y'all what is it good for? absolutely nothing say it again, white nationalism, white supremacy, Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, Won't somebody think of the children?, Yemen, Zelda
Christmas and/or Fascism Megapost Forever and Ever Links – Part One!
* I had a great time as the guest on this week’s Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy talking about my Octavia Butler book, which has gotten some nice attention lately, including an interview in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel last weekend as well. I was also on Radio Free Marquette this week, talking Rogue One…
* Another great Butler piece making the rounds right now: My Neighbor Octavia.
* A New Inquiry syllabus on Speculating Futures. Wired‘s first-ever science fiction issue.
* Monday’s Electoral College results prove the institution is an utter joke. Original Sin: The Electoral College as a Pro-Slavery Tool. The Left and Long Shots. Trump Is Unambiguously Illegible to be President. Meanwhile, on the lawlessness beat: Gingrich: Congress should change ethics laws for Trump. Amid outcry, N.C. GOP passes law to curb Democratic governor’s power.
* Hunter S. Thompson, the Hell’s Angels, and Trump. Look, all I’m saying is let’s at least give Nyarlathotep a chance. The Government Is Out of the Equality Business. When tyranny takes hold. Now, America, You Know How Chileans Felt. It’s Trump’s America now. Time to get over our attachment to facts. And on that note: Too good not to believe.
* Not that we’re doing much better over here: Vox and the rise of explaintainment.
* How to Defeat an Autocrat: Flocking Behavior. Grassroots organizing in the Age of Trump.
* Against Ivanka.
* The worst possible Democrat at the worst possible time, forever and ever amen. What the Hell Is Wrong with America’s Establishment Liberals? Of course they are. The Year in Faux Protests. And no, I’m not over it yet: The Last 10 Weeks Of 2016 Campaign Stops In One Handy Gif. How Clinton lost Michigan — and blew the election.
* My President Was Black. The Problem With Obama’s Faith in White America.
* I am terrified about where all this seems to be heading, on every level.
* Colby-Sawyer Eliminates Five Majors to Stay Afloat. English was on the list.
* More on Hungerford and not-reading. Elsewhere at LARB: Graham J. Murphy on the Ancillary Justice trilogy.
* How Bad Was Imperial Cybersecurity in Rogue One? Why Jack Kirby is (Probably) the Forgotten Father of Star Wars and Rogue One. The Obscenely Complex Way the Rebels Stole the Death Star Plans in the Original Star Wars Expanded Universe. And behold the power of this fully operational alt-right boycott.
so, Rogue One is the dirty work that allows the smooth and shiny surface of myth and ideology to be smooth and shiny.
— Ben Robertson (@BenRobertson) December 20, 2016
* More and more I find the unpublished and unwritten versions of stories as interesting or more interesting than the published versions — which is as true of Harry Potter as anything else.
* Dear tech community: your threat model just changed.
* You were never actually accomplishing anything by watching the news.
* You won’t believe how many Girl Scouts joined the Polish underground in WWII.
* Milo Yiannopoulos at UWM.
* In 2010, renowned string theory expert Erik Verlinde from the University of Amsterdam and the Delta Institute for Theoretical Physics proposed that gravity is not a fundamental force of nature, but rather an “emergent phenomenon.” And now, one hundred years after Einstein published the final version of his general theory of relativity, Verlinde published his paper expounding on his stance on gravity—with a big claim that challenges the very foundation of physics as we know it. Big question is whether gravity is a bug they haven’t patched yet, or if gravity is the patch.
* TNT decides that a modern-day Civil War show doesn’t sound like fun anymore. But a show humanizing the KKK, sure….
* There’s only one story and we tell it over and over, sitcom edition.
* History in the Anthropocene.
* EPA: Oh, yeah, we were lying before.
* Arms Control in the Age of Trump: Lessons from the Nuclear Freeze Movement. And some timely clickbait: How would you know if a nuclear war started?
* The end of Roe v. Wade.
* Trump and oxy.
* Understanding Chicago Dibs.
* Spoilers: What Really Happens After You Die?
* Fitter. Happier. More Productive. Comfortable. Not drinking too much. Regular exercise at the gym (3 days a week).
* More news from the future: Feds unveil rule requiring cars to ‘talk’ to each other.
* It can get worse, DC Cinematic Universe edition.
* Academic papers you can use: Where does trash float in the Great Lakes?
* And the war has even come to the Shire: Whitefish Bay to trap and remove coyotes.
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Saturday Morning’s All Right for Linking
* Bryan Fuller Reveals New ‘Star Trek’ Details, Says Series Will ‘Eventually’ Revisit Characters. Interesting interview that suggests a lot of what is circulating about this series is wrong.
* On the deep, abiding, and highly dispersed influence of Gordon Lish.
* West Virginia in the Anthropocene: At least 23 people have been killed after powerful storms swamped West Virginia on Thursday night, forcing high water rescues across the state and leaving thousands of customers without power through Friday evening, officials said.
#Flood water pushes a burning #home down a creek in #WestVirginia. #wvwx
🎬 Amanda Carper pic.twitter.com/zJSMe95nLk
— AMHQ (@AMHQ) June 24, 2016
* CDC: Flint water crisis “entirely preventable.”
* Why Brexit Is Much Scarier Than You Think. Brexit: The Crisis Begins. The Sterling Depreciation of 2007-2008 and Its Implications for Brexit. A timeline of the coming slow-motion car-crash. “Clusterfuck.” We will never know the full extent of the lost opportunities, friendships, marriages and experiences we will be denied. Freedom of movement was taken away by our parents, uncles, and grandparents in a parting blow to a generation that was already drowning in the debts of our predecessors. David Cameron Has Secured His Place as One of the Worst Prime Ministers Ever. Boris already flinching. Article 50 as Stalemate. No Takebacks. Brexit and the university. The A-Z of Brexit. Brexit Impact Will Be Felt in Wisconsin. The United Kingdom is the fourth-largest export market for Wisconsin goods, with $824.2 million worth of products shipped from the Badger State last year, or about 3.7% of the state’s exports. Morexit?
* “Worst ‘Zombie States’ in America ‘Deteriorate Faster, Further.’
* Oil Made Venezuela Rich, And Now It’s Making It Poor.
* Against grit.
* The central problem is that employment policies that are gender-neutral on paper may not be gender-neutral in effect. After all, most women receive parental benefits only after bearing the burden of pregnancy, childbirth, nursing, and often, a larger share of parenting responsibilities. Yet fathers usually receive the same benefits without bearing anything close to the same burden. Given this asymmetry, it’s little wonder some recently instituted benefits have given men an advantage.
* Six weeks before the Summer Olympics open in Rio de Janeiro, the laboratory that was set to handle drug testing at the Games has been suspended by the World Anti-Doping Agency in a new escalation of the doping crisis in international sports.
* FBI Says There’s No Evidence Orlando Gunman Omar Mateen Had Messaged Men or Had Secret Gay Affairs.
* Can Daenerys Fly to Westeros on Her Dragons?
* What’s The Matter With Poetry?
* This is near my neighborhood, and I can confirm this intersection is singularly terrible.
* Theft Quadrant.
* And I know things seem bad, but here’s a preview of Civilization 6‘s gameplay. Hang in there!
[breathing extremely heavily]
…Washingtoff
West Virginiain’t
Wisconout
Wyomed
ARE YOU HAPPY NOW
Tagged with academia, America, Anthropocene, apocalypse, Article 50, Boris Johnson, Brazil, Brexit, Britain, Bryan Fuller, catastrophe, CBS, Civilization 6, class struggle, crisis, Daenerys Targaryen, David Cameron, depression, drugs, ecology, England, European Union, fathers, FBI, Flint, flooding, Game of Thrones, games, George R. R. Martin, Gordon Lish, grit, guns, How the University Works, immigration, infrastructure, intelligence, intergenerational warfare, lead, lead poisoning, literature, mass panic, mass shootings, neoliberalism, oil, Olympics, Omar Mateen, Orlando, paternity leave, poetry, politics, poverty, race, recession, Rio de Janeiro, science fiction, Sid Meier, sports, Star Trek, talent, television, theft, trails, true crime, United Kingdom, Venezuela, water, West Virginia, Westeros, white people, Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, writing, xkcd, zombie states
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Home Troy-Somerset Gazette How Troy Clears the Roads After a Snowstorm
Photo courtesy of Cindy Stewart, City of Troy
by ANDREW NEAL
It snowed nine inches in metro Detroit last Monday, setting a new November record; The old record held strong for 94 years.
Troy’s DPW crew got to work before sunrise and would continue working in 12-hour shifts – clearing major roads, school routes, and local streets – until midnight Wednesday.
Scott Carruthers is the city’s streets and drains operations manager at the Department of Public Works.
“Every storm is different,” Carruthers said. “This time, we began accumulating snow right at morning rush hour so it was really difficult to get ahead of this storm. But as soon as the guys could, we got a coat of salt down to try to prevent the bond from snow to pavement, and that did help. I think the main roads are looking really good compared to other areas outside of Troy.”
During emergency snow events like the one on Monday, the city utilizes its DPW crew and recruits help from the water and parks departments, and outside contractors.
A lot of the seasonal contractors also work in construction and had equipment tied up in other jobs, as they are rushing to get work done before… winter hits.
“It was difficult for them to collect their equipment and get it back into Troy to help us out,” Carruthers said.
Overall, Carruthers said the city responded swiftly. “We put about 16 drivers out and everybody has a main road and there’s a school bus route attached to most of those roads.”
After a snowstorm, their main priorities are clearing major roads, then industrial roads, then school runs, then local roads and subdivisions.
“We only go into the subdivisions if we have greater than four inches of snow accumulated, and if there’s freezing temperatures forecast,” Carruthers said.
Based on the radar and predictions from the National Weather Service, they knew they’d be going into the neighborhoods this time.
“The DPW staff really did a fantastic job and stepped it up and we did get it done.”
After the initial rush to clear the roads, the rest of the week was spent maintaining areas that pose the most threat, also known as HICs – hills, intersections, and curves.
A lot of snow means a lot of salt
“Obviously, if money wasn’t a factor, we would salt everything,” Carruthers said, “but we have a lot of roads in Troy and we would throw all the salt we have budgeted for the year.”
Like most surrounding communities, Troy buys into a cooperative with Detroit Salt. Using figures from previous years and future forecasts, the city ordered 8,000 tons of salt for this season. They have the option of using 20% less or more, depending on the severity of the winter.
“If we have a heavy winter – and if this continues on this trend we may have one this year – maybe we would need that extra 20%,” Carruthers said.
In the last two years, the city has been able to fill up its salt dome at the previous years’ price while their contract was still valid, allowing them to save on cost when prices go up the following year.
When asked about alternatives to salt, Carruthers said those options are either too expensive or not as effective.
“Right now, for the bang for the buck, and with the equipment we have that utilizes salt, it’s the best option for Troy because it’s so effective.”
“In the past, we’ve looked into beet juice,” Carruthers said, which happened before he was in his current position. To his understanding, the city considered it but ultimately decided to stick with salt as the primary ice melter.
When will your street get plowed?
Troy has 364 miles of road to maintain, and of that, 250 miles are local roads, which usually take about 24 hours to clear after a snowstorm passes.
In the northwest corner of Troy, there are four zones of local roads that always take priority because of their hills and curves.
“The rest of Troy is fairly flat and we do rotate the rest of them every time,” Carruthers said.
The order in which they clear the local roads rotates after every storm, so if you were the first zone this time, you’ll be at the end of the list the next time.
How to stay informed during a storm
For accurate updates on when your street will be plowed, residents can go to Troymi.gov under Departments – Public Works – Streets & Drains, and click on Snow and Ice Control. There you’ll find an interactive map that provides status updates on residential snow-plowing. In addition, a Citizen Request Portal can be found on the city’s homepage, or residents can download the My Civic App on their phone.
These systems send messages to the appropriate departments in realtime to help address issues quickly. Carruthers says they get calls all the time and depending on the severity of the issue, the city can quickly inform and dispatch the right crew to take care of the situation.
Who is behind the wheel?
Troy’s snow crew consists of 18 drivers and two supervisors, and Carruthers said they consistently do great work and provide a vital community service to the residents.
“These guys are really where the rubber meets the road for what DPW provides. Without our employees, this town wouldn’t be what it is.”
But not everybody is always happy with snowplow people.
“We put a little snow at the end of people’s driveway and some people absolutely lose their minds over that.”
As a former city snowplow driver himself, Carruthers remembers having snow shovels thrown at him, ice balls hurled through his windows, even people scaling the running boards of the truck threatening him.
“It’s kind of hard to figure out because you’re out there, away from your family in the middle of the night, losing out on sleep, but you’re there to provide a public service,” Carruthers said.
He’s quick to note that it’s probably less than 1% of people who act out angrily at snowplow drivers.
“There are far more people that are happy, and every now and then we get those kudos emails and I like to put those up so the guys can see them.”
In a normal snow event, like the one that happened Thursday morning with about an inch of snow coverage, crews will throw salt down on the major roads, bridges, and focus on the HICs, and that’s about it. This can be done with anywhere from five to 10 drivers. In a major event, like Monday, crews work in 12-16 hour shifts.
So, please be kind to the city’s snow crew.
After all, there are approximately 144 days until the last snowfall of the season.
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We have discovered a novel chemical class of inhibitors of the EphB4 tyrosine kinase by fragment-based high-throughput “supplier Quizartinib ” “ docking followed by explicit solvent molecular dynamics simulations for assessment of the binding mode. The synthesis of a single derivative Inhibitors,Modulators,Libraries (compound 7) of the hit identified in silico selleckchem NVP-AUY922 has resulted in an improvement of the inhibitory potency in an enzymatic assay from 8.4 mu M to 160 nM and a ligand efficiency of 0.39 kcal/mol per non-hydrogen atom. Such remarkable improvement in affinity is due to an additional hydroxyl group involved in two favorable (buried) Inhibitors,Modulators,Libraries hydrogen bonds as predicted by molecular dynamics and validated by the crystal structure of the complex with EphA3 solved at 1.7 angstrom resolution.
A series of 1-hydroxy-1H-benzo[d]imidazol-2(3H)-ones were synthesized and evaluated for their ability to inhibit human and porcine forms of D-amino Inhibitors,Modulators,Libraries acid oxidase (DAAO). The inhibitory potency is largely dependent on the size and position of substituents on the benzene ring with IC50 values of the compounds ranging from Inhibitors,Modulators,Libraries 70 nM to greater than 100 mu M. Structure-activity relationships of this new class of DAAO inhibitors will be presented in detail along with comparisons to previously published SAR data from other classes of DAAO inhibitors. Two of these compounds Inhibitors,Modulators,Libraries were given to mice orally together with D-serine to assess their effects on plasma Inhibitors,Modulators,Libraries D-serine pharmacokinetics.
The clinical response to the antiplatelet prodrug clopidogrel is associated Inhibitors,Modulators,Libraries with high intersubject variability and a certain level of therapeutic resistance.
Previous studies have suggested that genetic polymorphism of CYP2C19 might be one determinant of clopidogrel efficacy and led to the CYP2C19 genotype-tailored Inhibitors,Modulators,Libraries antithrombotic therapy. However, evidence against the role of CYP2C19 from multiple studies implied the involvement of other factors. Here, Inhibitors,Modulators,Libraries we report that prodrug activation of the thiophene motif in clopidogrel is attenuated by heavy metabolic attrition of the piperidine motif. CYP3A4/5 was identified to be the enzyme metabolizing the piperidine motif. Inhibiting CYP3A4/5-mediated attrition was shown to potentiate active metabolite formation, which was found to be catalyzed by multiple CYP enzymes.
Identifying the significant involvement of CYP3A4/5 and characterizing its mechanistic role in clopidogrel bioactivation might assist Inhibitors,Modulators,Libraries future pharmacogenomic studies in exploring the full mechanism underlying clopidogrel efficacy.
Optimization of a series of R132H IDH1 inhibitors from a high throughput screen led to the first potent molecules that HDAC1 inhibitor show robust tumor 2-HG inhibition in a xenograft model. Compound 35 shows good potency in the U87 R132H cell based assay and similar to 90% tumor 2-HG inhibition in the corresponding mouse xenograft model following BID dosing. The inhibitor Triciribine magnitude and duration of tumor 2-HG inhibition correlates with free plasma concentration.
Many of the ROS-mediated respo
Many of the ROS-mediated responses actually protect selleck inhibitor the cells against oxidative stress and re-establish “redox homeostasis”. On the other hand, over-production of ROS has the potential to cause damage. In the recent decades, ROS has become a focus of interest in most biomedical disciplines and many types of clinical research. Increasing evidence from research on several Inhibitors,Modulators,Libraries diseases shows that oxidative stress is associated with the pathogenesis of diabetes mellitus, obesity, cancer, cardiovascular diseases, inflammation, ischaemia/reperfusion injury, obstructive sleep apnea, neurodegenerative disorders, hypertension and ageing.
Many snake venoms comprise different factors, which can either promote or inhibit the blood coagulation pathway. Coagulation disorders and hemorrhage belong to the most prominent features of bites of the many vipers.
A number of these factors interact with components of the human blood coagulation. This study is Inhibitors,Modulators,Libraries focused on the effect of Echis carinatus snake venom on blood coagulation pathway. Anticoagulant factors were purified from the Iranian Echis carinatus venom by two Inhibitors,Modulators,Libraries steps: gel filtration (Sephadex G-75) and ion-exchange (DEAE-Sephadex) chromatography, in order to study the anticoagulant effect of crude venom and their fractions. The prothrombin time was estimated on human plasma for each fraction. Our results showed that protrombin time value was increase from 13.4 s to 170 s for F2C and to 280 s for F2D. Our study showed that these fractions of the venom delay the prothrombine time and thus can be Inhibitors,Modulators,Libraries considered as anticoagulant factors.
They were shown to exhibit proteolytic Inhibitors,Modulators,Libraries activity. The molecular weights of these anticoagulants (F2C, F2D) were estimated by SDS/PAGE electrophoresis. F2C comprises two protein bands with molecular weights of 50 and 79 kDa and F2D a single band with a molecular weight of 42 kDa.
Oxidative stress has been implicated as an important factor in the process of neurodegeneration and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is one of the most important precursors of reactive oxygen species (ROS), responsible for many neurodegenerative diseases. This study used extracts from Nardostachys jatamansi rhizomes, known for nerve relaxing properties in Ayurvedic medicine, to ascertain their protective role in H2O2-induced oxidative stress in C6 glioma cells. The protective effect of methanolic, ethanolic and water extracts of N.
jatamansi (NJ-MEx, NJ-EEx and NJ-WEx respectively) was determined by MU assay. NJ-MEx significantly protected against H2O2 cytotoxicity when cells were pretreated for 24 h. The level of antioxidant read full report enzymes, catalase, superoxide dismutase (Cu-ZnSOD), glutathione peroxidase (GPx), and a direct scavenger of free radicals, glutathione (GSH), significantly increased following pre-treatment with NJ-MEx.
Genomic regions with significa
Genomic regions with significant AhR enrichment were mapped to intragenic and non coding intergenic regions. Most regions were enriched 5. MEK Inhibitors 7 fold with values ranging from Inhibitors,Modulators,Libraries 1. 7 to 111. 4 fold. Enriched regions varied in width from 108 to 6,990 bp with 90. 5% spanning 1,500 bp. There was no correlation between fold enrichment and region width. Of the 974 significantly enriched regions at 24 h 899 of them overlapped with a 2 hr enriched region, consistent with reports of constant shuttling of the AhR between the nucleus and cytoplasm, and AhR promoter occupancy of targeted genes in untreated cells. Relaxing the FDR to 0. 05 increased the overlap to 906, while reducing the number of 24 hr specific enriched regions to 68.
Comparable overlaps were identified in promoter specific ChIP chip studies of TCDD induced AhR enrichment at 2 and 24 hrs in the livers of intact C57BL 6 mice, which Inhibitors,Modulators,Libraries identified 1,397 number of genes with 403 overlap. Further analysis of the 899 enriched regions found that the fold enrichment values from both time points were positively correlated. Although only 40% of the mouse genome consists of intragenic DNA, 71. 8% and 64. 7% of all sites with signif icant AhR enrichment at 2 hrs and 24 hrs, respectively, were within this region. The density of AhR enrichment was calculated across the entire genome in order to consider the cumulative intergenic and intragenic DNA region lengths. Genome and chromosomal analyses revealed increased enrichment within intragenic regions compared to non coding intergenic regions further illustrating a bias for gene encoding regions.
However, these values may be inflated due to incom plete probe coverage in the intergenic regions Inhibitors,Modulators,Libraries and sequence gaps in the genome. Specific analysis of the 10 kb upstream, 5 and 3 UTRs and CDS regions revealed the highest density of AhR enrichment was proximal to the TSS. AhR enrichment density was greatest within 1. 5 kb at 2 and 24 hrs, coinciding with proximal promoter DRE core densities and RNA polymerase II binding at the TSSs. Interestingly, there is a nota ble cleft Inhibitors,Modulators,Libraries in AhR enrichment 200 bp directly upstream and downstream of the TSSs, possibly to Inhibitors,Modulators,Libraries accommodate general transcription machinery. Both global and proximal promoter density analyses illustrate TCDD induced AhR enrichments are more prominent in regions directly associated with a gene.
Nevertheless, there are a significant number of distally located enrich ment sites that may also be functionally relevant. Confirmation of AhR ChIP chip Enrichment Analysis Selected regions of AhR enrichment identified by ChIP chip analysis at 2 hrs were confirmed by ChIP PCR. Three representative ChIP describes it chip enrichments from each genomic region were selected to vali date AhR enrichments with and without a DRE core at different positions relative to the TSS.
Thus, other initiation factors
Thus, other initiation factors besides eIF4G might also selleck E7080 be more critically involved in removing secondary structures in advance of the scanning PIC. This view is supported by Inhibitors,Modulators,Libraries the fact that in a mammalian reconstituted system, eIF4G, eIF4A and eIF4B are sufficient Inhibitors,Modulators,Libraries for 43S attachment and scanning on b globin mRNA, which har bors a relatively unstructured 5UTR, whereas the DExH box protein DHX29 is required for initiation complex ly on mRNAs containing more structured 5UTRs. Similarly, there is evidence that yeast DEAD box pro tein Ded1 contributes more than eIF4A does to the pro cessivity of scanning in vivo. These findings are in agreement with the possibility that the eIF4E eIF4G eIF4A complex is more critical for 43S PIC attachment near the 5 end of the mRNA than for subse quent scanning to the start codon.
Thus, our results are consistent with the model that 43S attachment is a rate limiting step for a large propor tion of mRNAs with higher than average TEs, and that this step is stimulated by eIF4G, particularly for the 100 genes we identified with the greatest dependence on eIF4G that Inhibitors,Modulators,Libraries contain relatively short 5UTRs. By con trast, scanning or AUG recognition would be rate limit ing for mRNAs with longer than average 5UTRs whose translation is enhanced by depletion of eIF4G, because these steps are not critically dependent on eIF4G. The fact that eliminating eIF4G mitigates the lower than average translational efficiencies of this second group of mRNAs can be explained by proposing that the negative effect of depleting eIF4G on 43S attachment is out weighed by their enhanced ability to compete with other mRNAs for limiting factors that Inhibitors,Modulators,Libraries promote scanning or AUG recognition.
Fulfilling this last stipulation Inhibitors,Modulators,Libraries of our model would be facilitated if the inefficient buy Trichostatin A mRNAs with long 5UTRs are relatively ineffective at exploiting eIF4G function in 43S attachment. That is, if eIF4G contributes relatively less to 43S attachment by these inefficient mRNAs in WT cells, then depleting eIF4G would produce relatively smaller reductions in their translation rate. One reason for thinking that this condition holds is our finding that this group of mRNAs also displays unusually long cod ing sequences, whereas the mRNAs we identified with the greatest dependence on eIF4G exhibit smaller than average ORF lengths. Recent findings by Jacobson et al indicate that shorter yeast mRNAs produce more stable eIF4F cap interactions than do longer mRNAs, which is fully dependent on an extended poly tail and PABP. Presumably, shorter mRNAs more efficiently assemble a closed loop mRNP via PABP eIF4G interac tion, which stabilizes eIF4F binding to mRNA.
The levels of cleaved PARP pro
The levels of cleaved PARP protein and sub G1 phase propidium iodide conjugated DNA of tumor cell lines were taken as indicators of apoptosis. In general, levels of apoptosis were relatively low in all cell lines investigated and they were not further enhanced by bevacizumab treatment under hypoxic condi tions with a total noob reduced FBS concentrations. Non small cell lung cancer cells, H522 and HOP62, interestingly showed a decrease in cleaved PARP and sub G1 cells when treated with bevacizumab, however beyond the criteria of signifi cance. In contrast A498 and HS 578 T exhibited a minor in crease in apoptosis according to both cleaved PARP and sub G1 levels. All other cell lines investigated did not show differences after bevacizumab treatment when compared to controls.
The magnitude of the effects observed was limited compared to control experiments where each cell line was treated with 150 nM staurosporine for 24 hours as a potent inducer of apoptosis, with a representative ex ample shown for cell line KM12 in Figure 3A. Effects of bevacizumab on tumor cell proliferation With at least one receptor present in the selected cell lines and with the Inhibitors,Modulators,Libraries induction of VEGFA under hypoxic conditions, the system was challenged in an effort to re veal an autocrine paracrine function. Inhibitors,Modulators,Libraries Proliferation rates were examined in reduced serum media under hypoxic conditions for up to 96 hours, however overall no Inhibitors,Modulators,Libraries obvi ous change between treated and untreated cells was evident at any of the time points investigated. Most cell lines did not meet statistical significance according to the students 2 tailed t test, with the excep tion of HT 29.
To determine if an anti proliferative effect of bevaci zumab could Inhibitors,Modulators,Libraries be seen in a wider range of cell lines, the analysis was further expanded to include a screen of 30 cell lines from the NCI 60 panel, using the main solid tumor types for which bevacizumab is approved, NSCLC, CRC, RCC and BC. With the exception of HT 29 and SW620, which showed minor, but opposing changes in proliferation after bevacizumab treatment, an decrease and increase respectively, bevacizumab did not appear to affect tumor cell proliferation. The HUVEC controls did show inhibition of proliferation as expected with bevacizumab. In parallel experiments, rhVEGF was added to FBS re duced media in an attempt to stimulate the VEGFA dependent pathways in tumor cells.
This was however unsuccessful in increasing proliferation rates, including those tumor cells that expressed the major VEGFA signaling receptor VEGFR2. As a control, HUVECs in con trast did show enhanced VEGF dependent proliferation. Tumor cell migration with bevacizumab treatment VEGFA has been described Inhibitors,Modulators,Libraries as a chemo attractant and motility factor in endothelial cells, thus blockade of VEGFA by selleckchem Seliciclib bevacizumab could also influence the migra tory potential of tumor cells.
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Rudeness: Deal With It If You Please, paper ed
Rudeness: Deal With It If You Please is one of the titles in the Deal With It Series created to assist adolescents with everyday conflicts in their lives and promotes peaceful resolution. This title examines modern etiquette for students and how students can demonstrate good manners. Rudeness and lack of common courtesy are defined with easy to understand examples presented in comic format, a quiz, letters to a Conflict Counsellor, do's and don'ts, and tips on how to deal with these issues.
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Gossip: Deal With It Before Word Gets Around, paper ed
Gossip: Deal With It Before Word Gets Around is one of the titles in the Deal With It Series created to assist adolescents with everyday conflicts in their lives and promotes peaceful resolution. This title examines how students can deal with the negative influences of gossip whether they are the gossiper, the subject of the gossip, or the witness. Gossip is defined with easy to understand examples presented in comic format, a quiz, letters to a Conflict Counsellor, do's and don'ts, and tips on how to deal with these issues.
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Fighting: Deal With It Without Coming to Blows, paper ed
Fighting: Deal With It Without Coming to Blows is one of the titles in the Deal With It Series created to assist adolescents with everyday conflicts in their lives and promotes peaceful resolution. This title examines how students can deal effectively with a fighting situation whether they are the instigator, the defender, or the witness. The various types of fighting are defined with easy to understand examples presented in comic format, a quiz, letters to a Conflict Counsellor, do's and don'ts, and tips on how to deal with these issues.
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Arguing: Deal With It Word By Word, paper ed
Arguing: Deal With It Word By Word is one of the titles in the Deal With It Series created to assist adolescents with everyday conflicts in their lives and promotes peaceful resolution. This title examines how students can avoid full-scale arguments whether they are the challenger, the dodger, or the peacemaker. The forms of arguing are defined with easy to understand examples presented in comic format, a quiz, letters to a Conflict Counsellor, do's and don'ts, and tips on how to deal with these issues.
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Competition: Deal With It From Start to Finish, paper ed
Competition: Deal With It From Start to Finish is one of the titles in the Deal With It Series created to assist adolescents with everyday conflicts in their lives and promotes peaceful resolution. This title examines how healthy competition can be useful and how to handle the negative side of competition. Competition is defined with easy to understand examples presented in comic format, a quiz, letters to a Conflict Counsellor, do's and don'ts, and tips on how to deal with these issues.
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Peer Pressure: Deal With It Without Losing Your Cool, paper ed
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Bullying: Deal With It Before Push Comes to Shove, paper ed
Bullying: Deal With It Before Push Comes to Shove is one of the titles in the Deal With It Series created to assist adolescents with everyday conflicts in their lives and promotes peaceful resolution. This title examines how students can effectively deal with bullying. The book covers how to take action against bullying behaviours whether the student is the bully, the target, or the witness.
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Natural Treasures of Carolinian Canada: Discovering the Rich Natural Diversity of Southwestern Ontario, The, paper ed
The Natural Treasures of Carolinian Canada: Discovering the Rich Natural Diversity of Southwestern Ontario is a recent resource book about the wealth of plants and animals indigenous to Southern Ontario. Each of the 11 chapters is written by naturalists and scientists with interests in the preservation of the ecoregion. The Carolinian zone habitats and ecosystems include forests, tallgrass prairies and savannas, wetlands, streams, shorelines and other aquatic habitats. The unique trees of this region include Sassafras, Cucumber Magnolia, Tulip-tree, Black Walnut, and Pawpaw.
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Bullying: Deal With It Before Push Comes to Shove, Resource Guide UNAVAILABLE
UNAVAILABLE This title is no longer available from the publisher Bullying: Deal With It Before Push Comes to Shove, Resource Guide is the teacher resource that accompanies the Deal With It Series student book, Bullying: Deal With It Before Push Comes to Shove. This series was created to assist adolescents with everyday conflicts in their lives and promotes peaceful resolution. The guide provides suggested activities, testimonials, and reproducibles. The teacher guide covers the topics that appear in the student text and offers suggested questions and background information.
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Hungry Time, The, paper ed
The Hungry Time is a children's fiction book first published in 1980. Despite the age of the text, the storyline remains relevant. This story is set in the long ago time period of Southern Ontario when the Mississauga people lived in the Toronto region before contact with the Europeans. A small camp of people is suffering during one particularly harsh winter. They refer to this time as a hungry time. Everyone was very hungry and many were becoming weak. The men tried to search for game everyday.
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I had the opportunity yesterday evening to watch Beyonce: Life Is But A Dream documentary. Yes, I missed the showing in February and its been at me to watch. I didn’t have any expectations but to simply watch it and see for myself and to have my own interpretation without all the other noise that’s been surrounding this film.
Beyonce Knowles has been in front of us for sooo many years. People of the 70s’, 80’s and early 90s’ have watched Bey from a young little girl grow into a beautiful woman and now a mom. She has experienced so many things in life and had to make decisions and learn how to take care of herself and do it on her own. She’s like many, many of us ladies who are working and caring for families on a daily basis, the main difference when it comes to her is that she is living most of her life in front of the cameras, media and scrutiny from people of the world.
In this new documentary she created and produced, she actually show and express the change between a daughter and her father. The change in their relationship. This film spoke strongly on this dynamic, which is relate-able to many of us including myself. That change can create a major shatter within a woman’s heart and soul, because it will never be the same again.
The opening of the film shows the childhood memory of her and her dad’s close relation. She relies on her dad, looks up to her dad. Dad is the star in her eyes. And most little girls experience that great protection and strength of their dad. But we see as the film goes on how that relationship changed. The success of Destiny’s Child, and the hard labour of pushing and working and becoming better, and the schedules, meetings, expectations, family members now employees, agents, pr, record labels, producers, studios, tours, shows, fans, media, paparazzi, stockers, photoshoots, videos, and every person pulling on her to give an answer, direction, confirmations and this cycle going 24 hours, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, non stop… The lines do begin to blur for Father is no longer there, Manager-Father has taken its place that when she needed Dad to be Dad, he wasn’t present and there was no time. And yes there had to be at some point tensions are built, arguments happen, hurt and pain are felt and having to learn not to express them for its a family matter not a media matter. Beyonce expressed the need to have her Dad and had to make a hard decision in order to get him back is to let him go. Wow! that’s a moment. Risking it all in order to save that relationship. At that point its not about album sales, tours, its about life and love. Would you have done that if you were in her shoes?
Life is but a dream also shows the transition of her being married to Jay Z, and seeing their dynamics behind the scenes and their connection. Him being very strong in his own self to standing beside her for her to grow and blossom into her own. They have been together more than a decade (10 + years). So many ladies desire to have that type of connection and love with a special someone. Her passion, creativity and love for her art is beautiful to watch.
She has a wonderful relationship with her sisters, her mom and the women on her team and band. connecting with women as she says ” she needs her sisters “. Is a great statement to hold because so many of us women do put each other down. Women are the first to say something negative about a woman we don’t even know. We will eagerly listen to hear say or gossip from other women claiming to know the person, yet deep down don’t. Women do not want to support other women, especially if the other is so called ” doing the same thing”. Women are so jealous, envious and blamers. Always blaming the other women for the issues or problems in their life. Women make it hard for other women to trust them or even express their dreams because of the evil- eye most women hold.
Beyonce expresses her goals of inspiring women especially to be independent and powerful, and show that they too can own their own business and own their own life without the help of a man or the lashes of insults hurled from other women or family.
I read a statement the other day that said ” … I’m so tired of her making documentary after documentary. Always talking about herself!“. If you pay attention, this is a medium she expresses through. Its her art. And its not surprising because her dad use to video everything going on in his family life. Video and music is her art form and she’s pretty good at it. Instead of hate, see that this is how she expresses herself and art.
There’s a fear to opening the doors upon your life because everyone is quick to judge and quick to hate. But i truly hope that you will see we all live and experience a perspective of LIFE. Its only a view-point, a angle, a degree. It’s not suppose to be one-dimension or we would all be FLAT.
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Encrypted: psychedelic nights at the Deptford Crypt
This part is a bit about my involvement with The Crypt in Deptford. Although my memories are hazy I hope that it might spur others to write about their memories of this underground wild psychedelic club in the 1980s in the Crypt St Paul’s Church Deptford.
(photo from Church website http://www.paulsdeptford.org.uk)
There were other nights run there including a gay night where I performed as Astragone Arglegargle. That experience and others involving The Crypt’s promoter and Club Dog would run into another few pages, also there were reggae sound systems and acid house music at a later date, but I will focus on just the 80s psychedelic club in this bit of writing.
The main band I went to see there was The Ozric Tentacles however some of the other bands included the following ( many of them start with “The” in their name!)
The Stone Roses, The Magic Mushroom Band, Treatment, The TV Personalities, The Invisible Band , The Cardiacs, Space Pirates, Wooden Baby, Nukli, and many many more……
Photo from www.televisionpersonalities.co.uk
My first trip to the The Crypt must was around 1985 and was probably due to going to see my friends in the band “Treatment”. Through running gigs at Dead Dog promotions and playing in bands meant we were finding other people from the psychedelic scene in London or they were finding us.
For example I was in a band with Michael and some good friends (“Instant Istigkeit” you will never have heard of us, we only ever played at a couple of festivals), when we went up to Stonehenge in 1984. We played on a stage run by the Magic Mushroom band and we were supported by Dr and the Medics. Two of the girls in Dr. and the Medics hung out at our camp and told us how they had just got a manager and would soon be part of the music biz. I think it was through them that we got to know Christian and The Alice in Wonderland crew at Gossip’s in Soho. At a festival in Cambridge we met Rory from the Invisible Band who was running a stage and we played there. At the Norwich festival we met more London hippies doing interesting things and kept bumping into the same crowd. Since the Magic Mushroom Band and the others all played at the Crypt this was the link.
The guy who ran the club who I will call ” Kev” for legal reasons ( although his real name was Andy) was not a hippie at all .He was an ex-policeman and an entrepreneur who used his links with the local police to create a psychedelic club where you could get stoned all night and drink all night and know that you definitely would never get busted for either.
The Crypt was in the basement of St Paul’s church in Deptford. It’s still there now although no longer used as a club and the church website makes no mention of its history.
If you didn’t live in Deptford or in the area and didn’t have a car it was a very difficult place to travel to and back from. The club threw people out at around 4 a.m. or if you were lucky 6 a.m. and the first buses and trains did not start until 6.a.m.. There were night buses but only one every two hours or so, it was a question of having a car , hitching or begging a lift off someone home.
When the place was not full of punters before a show you could see it for what it really was.The place was a damp , mildewy, run down place with dirty walls and dirty floor and a dodgy loo without doors . But with the dope smoke , the fantastic lightshows, the colourlful drugged up crowd dancing like maniacs, and of course the amazing music , it became a magical place. There were very few public places in London you could smoke dope safely. All the hippies were cynical about the ex-copper but I never knew the place to get busted although maybe it did at a later date.
Since I was not living in South London in the eighties it was usually the trek there and back I remembered the most, like trying to find Shangri-La except unlike the Himalayas you could get mugged and the views weren’t as good( older hippies will understand the Shangri-La and “Lost Horizon” references).
A Night of Psychedelic Adventures circa 1986?
At that time the days of my every day life were quite mundane as a full-time single mum and socialising with other local parents living in Harlesden who had no connection with the psychedelic scene.
However I’ve always enjoyed a double life…
I think it might have been Halloween in 1986, I had the evening and night off.
I knew this biker couple called Jenny (a scouser) and Cedar ( not their real names). It’s so funny now because I thought Jenny was really much older than me at the time because she was thirty, I think Cedar was 25 the same as me.
Jenny and Cedar were bikers, they were an attractive couple and always dressed from head to toe in leather.
We planned( on the spur of the moment!) to go to The Marquee Club in Wardour Street to see The Cardiacs. I was going to try to get us in for free because they had seen me many times at Club Dog . We didn’t have much money on us but we went down there anyway. There were huge queues to get in to the place in Wardour Street and it sold out. We soon realised we wouldn’t get in as the place was exceeding the new fire regulations!
We decided to go to a pub nearby called “The Ship” just a couple of doors down. We went in there and at the bar next us I saw Lemmy. He was wearing a Motorhead Ace of Spades T-shirt and well..it was Lemmy!
I had seen Lemmy many times as he liked to walk up and down Portobello Road most Saturdays loudly in his boots when Michael and I used to run a stall there in the late 70s early 80s.Lemmy used to hang out in Notting Hill with a regular groups of bikers/headbangers who I knew vaguely but I’d never actually met Lemmy .
He was very famous at this time but I thought it was a safe bet to chat to him.
So while we were all lined up at the bar I nudged Jenny and whispered “Look who it is, we should say hello”, she nudged Cedar and in a macho blokey way Cedar took over the proceedings and talked to Lemmy while kind of keeping me and Jenny at bay.
Anyway we shook hands and eventually we went to sit down with him. He asked us all what we wanted to drink and bought us each a round and then he asked us what fags we smoked and he gave us each our favourite fags, for me it was rolling tobacco and rizzlas and he went out of his way to get some for me as there was none in the pub, but then he went to sit at another table and left us to it..
We sat there for a while and I suggested we should go to The Crypt because I knew the guy running it . I had performed at the Crypt as Astragone Arglegarle and Kev had messed me around over bookings and he knew he owed me a favour . So after that he always let me in for free ( you have to understand we had virtually no money on us).I knew the Ozrics were playing there as they’d told me.
But around that time the Ozrics told me something really weird….I had said to them that I’d seen them billed to be playing in 2 different venues in London on the same night. It might have been that night actually. Either Joie or Ed had told me they had 2 bands to cope with the amount of gigs they were doing. They had so many fans who wanted to play with them that they recruited people to play in 2 different Ozric Tentacles so the line up was different but then they could do two gigs in different places if necessary. In both bands there were some original members, actually now the members change at different gigs.
So anyway we were talking about this with Lemmy in the background at the next table waving to us from time to time…when this German guy started to talk to us . He was from Munich and very very tall and good looking he was also a musician. He said ” Do you know who just bought you drinks?” I said “Yes” and he joined us and said he would come with us to the Crypt although he didn’t have any money either! He sat with us and we talked and drank before leaving waving goodbye to Lemmy on the way out.
Anyway the funniest thing happened when we left the pub. You have to bear in mind that we chatted to Lemmy for about half an hour and told him how we liked his music etc…
Anyway as we left the pub Jenny said to me.
” Wow wasn’t that amazing meeting Ozzie!”
I told them them it wasn’t Ozzie Osbourne but Lemmy and they wouldn’t believe me at first and I kept saying ” But it was! He was even wearing a Motorhead t-shirt!” The German guy knew but not the bikers who spent most of their waking hours listening to Black Sabbath , AC/DC and Motorhead.
That was classic spending 30 minutes talking to Lemmy and them thinking it was Ozzie.
We set off for Deptford. We were trying to explain to the German guy that London was a very big place and that it might take us an hour or two to get there but he wouldn’t believe us. I remember showing him the A to Z to show him how big it was and him saying he knew every street in Munich how could I not know every street in London!
Anyway another thing I am very embarassed about on our journey there, this is not something I would do normally! We had no money and were a bit drunk and I was following what the others were doing. At Oxford Circus tube we jumped the barrier and then on our way to Deptford we got off at a station and Cedar started kicking a chocolate vending machine with great strength after losing his money when trying to buy a bar of chocolate…to our surprise all the money came out. I’m sure we frightened the life out of the other commuters waiting on the platform then we did this with other chocolate vending machines on the way. I can’t say I am proud of this however in the 80s if you were waiting for a train and tried to buy chocolate nine times out of ten the machine would eat your money and refuse to give you chocolate . I’d lost a few pounds before in those rip-off vending machines so had everyone else, in fact I think some commuters cheered when they saw what we were doing.
I was the only one who knew the way to the Crypt vaguely , I think I got us lost but we got there in the end. Kev let me in free but the others had to pay half price.
The Ozrics were playing and the vibe was amazing. All these girls were on stage and dancing with them, this had never happened at Club Dog. Some people I knew were doing the lightshow, the place was packed solid and everyone was doing mad psychedelic dancing and bumping into eachother under the strobes. Not all the original Ozrics were there but Joie was there and Rollie , Ed’s brother who played bass. Sadly he died at a later date but I don’t know what happened. The crowd were going mental and it was a young crowd of new hippies and I realised that night their career was going to take off . Before that they’d had a big following but it was more traveller and crusty types, now they had pretty young girls with beautiful hippie clothes dancing on stage with them.
I was all dressed up in some kind of hippie/goth evening dress that night and danced like a lunatic but not long after we arrived Jenny and Cedar and the German guy decided to go home to catch the last tube. I didn’t didn’t want to go..it was the middle of the bloody gig, we’d only been there for half an hour. So I stayed. As I sobered up I realised I would have to find a way home because the Crypt finished at 4 in the morning and although there were buses somewhere, they only ran once every two hours. I wasn’t prepared to hang around the streets of Deptford on my own waiting for a bus all night in the freezing cold…I didn’t feel safe.
Anyway I kept dancing and at the end of the gig I asked anyone I vaguely knew if they could give me a lift to Trafalgar Square where there would be night buses back home. No one I knew could help me as they lived in South London.
In the end I asked Joie who was packing up. He said I could come to his squat in south London but it would be crowded. I said it didn’t matter if I could make some tea and hang out there until 6 am. when the tubes started it would do me.
He drove to his place in Clapham and I met his new girlfriend from another psychedelic band. He told me that things had started to get stressful with a bit of fame and how these girls were beginning to get on stage with them. I’d assumed that they knew these girls and that they were part of the act but they weren’t, they just jumped on stage with them and made themselves look like they were with the band. I hung out at their place until the tubes started again. What a weird night!
( Erpland live at the Fridge, Brixton, May 19th 1991..)
Picture of Chill Out /Dogs in Space Tent Solfest 2007 thanks to Mike Cupcake
All those years ago and so much water under the bridge but if you were part of that scene it was so special it stays with you forever. I had a very special time at Solfest this year and saw and met so many musicians I used to know and respect and recently seeing some my friends from Treatment and making new friends on myspace and at “Born to Go” a new psychedelic club in Hitchin. I am now meeting people I didn’t know from the same scene.
Anyway if anyone out there would like to write their memories or be interviewed for this blog please let me know.
Midweek expect a short blog and next Monday more stories of hippie counter culture/psychedelic music and/or my political ranting. Love and Peace.Born2rant!
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I. Skeletal Muscle
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Wheater's, pgs. 101-121, Muscle.
Ross and Pawlina (6th ed), Chapter 11 Muscle Tissue, pgs. 310-351
Be able to name and to identify the three types of muscle at the light and electron microscope levels, including distinctive features of each, such as the intercalated discs of cardiac muscle.
Be able to describe and understand the structural basis of muscle striation at the light microscope and EM levels and the molecular level.
Know the structural elements that harness muscle contraction (i.e., the shortening of myofibrils) to the movement of a body part (i.e., via connection to bone) as well as the mechanism by which muscle cells (skeletal, cardiac and smooth muscle) contract.
Understand where stem cells are located in skeletal muscle and be able to identify their location at both the light and EM levels.
Be familiar with the regenerative potential of each muscle type.
There are three major types of muscle, and their structure reflects their function. Skeletal and cardiac muscle cells are called striated muscle because of the very regular arrangement of their intracellular contractile units, sarcomeres, at the light microscope (LM) and electron microscope (EM) levels. This regular arrangement imparts a cross-striated (or striped) appearance. Such an arrangement is not seen in smooth muscle cells. Skeletal muscle is also called voluntary muscle, because its contraction is under conscious neural control. In contrast, cardiac and smooth muscles are called involuntary muscles because their contractions are either spontaneously generated or are under the control of the autonomic nervous system.
Each of these three types of muscle has a characteristic appearance in both cross and longitudinal sections. You should be able to recognize each type of muscle in both planes of section.
A. Cytology of skeletal muscle cells
058L skeletal muscle H&E longitudinal Webscope Imagescope
058Lex Skeletal muscle H&E longitudinal Webscope Imagescope
058Thin skeletal muscle H&E longitudinal Webscope Imagescope
058T Skeletal muscle H&E cross Webscope Imagescope
In longitudinal sections of skeletal muscle (Slide 58, odd-numbered slide boxes), observe the following :
Nonbranching, cylindrical shape of the cell (also referred as muscle fiber). These cells are very long; you cannot see their ends.
Be sure you can identify the borders of the muscle cell. You might see occasional nuclei which appear to be centrally located, but aren't. Why?
Again the answer to the question is in the plane of section. Cells with peripheral nuclei that are cut at an angle can appear to have centrally located nuclei. This is why it is important to look at other features of the cell to determine what exactly it is.
Peripheral position of the elongate nuclei just inside of the sarcolemma (plasma membrane). Note that each cell contains large numbers of nuclei.
Cross striations can be seen, and are due to the structure of the sarcomere. A sarcomere consists of the structures between two Z lines. You should recognize: (Using your microscope and glass slides may help to see these fine structures)
The dark A band
The lighter H zone which bisects the A band
The light I band d. The dark Z line which bisects the I band.
It is admittedly difficult to see the Z line and especially the H zone with the light microscope. However, they can be seen clearly on some areas of almost all slides, and it is just necessary to do some looking around for a favorable area on your slide. Here are some good examples showing cross striations: #058L Webscope #058L Webscope
A less regular longitudinal striping can sometimes be seen within the muscle fibers and is due to the bundling together of the thick and thin filaments into myofibrils, which are arranged parallel to the long axis of the cell. Note that sometimes the cross striations are not aligned all the way across the cell. This is because different myofibrils may not be aligned.
In transverse sections of skeletal muscle cells (slide 58, even slide boxes), observe the cylindrical shape of the cells (fibers) and the peripherally-located nuclei. Note also the the cytoplasm of the muscle cells has a stippled, punctate appearance which is due to the bundling of thick and thin filaments into myofibrils as mentioned above. What exactly is a muscle cell and what's the difference between a muscle fiber and a muscle fibril? answerThe basic units of muscle are the contractile proteins actin and myosin arranged in sarcomeres. Placed end to end, these sarcomeres form long bands called myofibrils. Within a skeletal muscle cell, the numerous myofibrils are separated by glycogen, mitochondria, and muscle triads (two terminal cisternae and a T tubule) and other organelles. Chances are, if you are looking at an electron micrograph of muscle tissue, you are looking at myofibrils. Groups of these fibrils form a muscle fiber, which is surrounded by endomysium. Muscle fiber and muscle cell are synonymous. Groups of individual cells that are surrounded by perimysium are known as fascicles and groups of these fascicles, surrounded by epimysium make up a muscle.
B. Perimuscular Connective Tissue
059-3 forearm muscle Masson cross fetal Webscope Imagescope
059-1 forearm muscle H&E cross fetal Webscope Imagescope
In slide 59, stained with trichrome (even slide boxes) or H&E (odd slide boxes), three layers of connective tissue sheaths are visible. This is a transverse section of an entire fetal forearm, and contains many elements in addition to the muscle, such as nerves and tendons, both of which are, unfortunately, simlarly bundled into fascicles and therefore easily confused with muscle. So, make sure you're looking at the muscles
Endomysium - thin connective tissue sheath, consisting of basal lamina, some reticular fibers and capillaries around each muscle fiber. In fetal muscle, endomysium is not always clearly defined, so it is best to use the trichrome-stained slide (slide 59-3) to this --it is the connective tissue immediately surrounding the individual cells and very delicate perhaps visible only as a bluish tinge.
Perimysium - loose connective tissue sheath consisting of type I collagen fibers found around fascicles (bundles of muscle fibers). Note that the tissue in these specimens underwent some shrinkage during preparation so the separation between fascicles is somewhat exaggerated. Similarly, much of the perimysium has been damaged; however there are still some areas where it can be clearly seen (e.g. around many of the blood vessels found within the belly of the muscles).
Epimysium - the dense irregular connective tissue sheath around the entire muscle = deep fascia in gross anatomy; contains even larger blood vessels and nerves.
Three layers can be seen in #059-3 Webscope Orientation Image
057 ventricle H&E Webscope Imagescope
098-1 Heart ventricle H&E Webscope Imagescope
098N right wall Masson Webscope Imagescope
305 heart ventricle H&E Webscope Imagescope (note: this slide NOT in glass slide collection)
Cardiac muscle will be studied in the wall of the ventricle of the heart. In comparison with skeletal muscle, note the following differences. Cardiac muscle cells branch and form a three-dimensional network. These branch points can sometimes be seen in your sections, and you should also note that the muscle fibers are less parallel than in skeletal muscle.
A. In longitudinal sections, observe:
Intercalated discs which are dark lines which cross the cell transversely. Look around in slide 57 #057 Webscope or slide 305 INDO 390 for lightly stained regions of the slide. There are artifactual transverse breaks in some of the muscle fibers, which are NOT intercalated discs. Intercalated discs are also fairly easy to find in the areas where muscle fibers are longitudinally oriented in slide 98-1 #098-1 Webscope and/or slide 98-N #098N Webscope (be sure to look at both H&E and trichrome-stained sections).
The nucleus is centrally located in a fiber.
Longitudinal striping due to myofibrils can sometimes be seen.
B. In transverse sections, observe:
The myofibrils are coarse and give rise to the nonhomogeneous, punctate appearance of the sarcoplasm.
The nuclei are centrally-located. You won't see a nucleus in every fiber cross-section.
The extensive network of capillaries in the endomysium --heart muscle is ALWAYS beating and therefore always in demand of oxygen and nutrients delivered via the blood.
Make sure you can differentiate between Cardiac and Skeletal muscle in both lognitudinal and transverse sections!
029-1 Small Intestine (simple columnar epithelium, simple squamous epithelium) H&E cross Webscope Imagescope
169 jejunum H&E cross Webscope Imagescope
155 gastro-esophageal junction H&E longitudinal Webscope Imagescope
250-2 vagina Masson Webscope Imagescope
250-1 vagina H&E Webscope Imagescope
Smooth muscle may be studied using slide #29 #029-1 smooth muscle Webscope or slide #169, #169 Webscope, both in the intestine. To find the muscle layer, look at the at slide at the lowest power (this is about the same as looking at the glass slide with the naked eye). The purple layer is largely the epithelium and the lamina propria filled with plasma cell and lymphocytes. Next to that you see a lighter region of connective tissue (the submucosa you looked at to see loose connective tissue and fibroblasts), then a darker pink region which is made up of the two layers of smooth muscle you want to look at. Slide 29 is a cross section of the intestine, so the inner, circular layer of muscle will have cells oriented longitudinally (or, in places, the cells may appear to be oriented more obliquely). Move further out to see the outer sheet of smooth muscle, which runs longitudinally along the intestine, and will therefore be seen in cross section.
Look at slide #155, which is a longitudinal section of the GI tract at the gastro-esophageal junction, to see more smooth muscle in various planes of section. The smooth muscle in the esophagus (the part lined with a stratified, non-keratinizing squamous epithelium) #155 Webscope is organized in the "classic" inner circular and outer longitudinal arrangement. However, the stomach (the part lined by a columnar epithelium) #155 Webscope has an inner oblique layer (seen mostly as longitudinal here), a very prominent middle circular layer, and a sometimes less obvious outer longitudinal layer. Don't worry knowing about the specific layers or being able to tell esophagus from stomach. However, you should definitely be able to identify smooth muscle in any plane of section (tranverse, longitudinal, or even oblique). In this particular slide, both the hematoxylin and eosin staining are quite intense, which should help you to see the cytoplasm more clearly, especially when the muscle is cut in cross section.
A. In longitudinally cut smooth muscle cells, observe the following points:
Cells are small and spindle-shaped (fusiform); this may be hard to appreciate because the cell membrane is indistinct.
Myofibirils and cross striation cannot be seen.
Nuclei are narrow, elongated and sometimes kinked or spiraling. They are centrally located.
B. In transversely cut smooth muscle cells, observe the following points:
The cell has a small diameter.
The nucleus is located centrally, but will not be seen in every cross section.
Myofibrils cannot be seen.
Cross-sectional diameters vary due to the spindle shape of the cells.
Now, look at slide #250 and see if you can distinguish between small fascicles of smooth muscle and collagen fibers in the lamina propria (this task will be easier if you look first at the trichrome-stained section, which stains the muscle pink(ish) and the collagen blue) #250-2 Webscope. It's more challenging to make this distinction in the H&E-stained section #250-1 Webscope. You should note that smooth muscle is pink, wheras collagen is a bit more orange-red. Also, smooth muscle tissue is mostly cellular (and therefore more nuclei are present), whereas the connective tissue is mostly extracellular collagen fibers with fewer cells. The table below compares the differences in the morphology of the three types of muscle.
Major Histological Characteristics Of The Three Types Of Muscle As Seen With The Light Microscope
37 Skeletal Muscle - Longitudinal Section low Magnification Webscope Imagescope
Skeletal Muscle (longitudinal section, low magnification). Find the skeletal muscle nuclei and note their peripheral location. Note the intimate contact between capillaries and muscle cells and be sure you can tell where one muscle cell or fiber stops and another begins (you can see parts of four fibers in this picture). Make sure you know which is the longitudinal axis of the cell. Identify sarcomeres, A bands, I bands, Z lines and H zones. Note that, as you saw at the LM level, the individual myofibrils do not line up perfectly across the fiber.
34 Skeletal muscle - Cross Section Low Magnification Webscope Imagescope
Skeletal Muscle (cross section, low magnification). Note location of muscle fiber nuclei. You can see cross sections of A bands (darker) and I bands (lighter) side by side in the same cell because of the fact that the myofibrils don't line up perfectly. Identify the approximate outline of a single myofibril.
32 Striated muscle - longitudinal section Webscope Imagescope
Skeletal Muscle (longitudinal section). Identify a sarcomere. Relate the sarcomeric structure seen in the LM to the structure seen here. Note that there is also lots of glycogen in the region between the two myofibrils in this picture, a storage form for glucose (which is metabolized to provide energy for muscle contraction). At the border of the I and A-bands, note triads consisting of a central T (transverse) tubule and flanking cisternae of the sarcoplasmic reticulum.
41 Cardiac muscle Intercalated Disc Webscope Imagescope
Cardiac Muscle (Intercalated Disc, longitudinal section). Note the somewhat irregular course of the intercalated disc. In this preparation, the I bands are very short, indicating that the sarcomere is in a contracted state. Review the types of junctions present in an intercalated disc and their functions.
43 Cardiac Muscle Webscope Imagescope
Cardiac Muscle (longitudinal section). Note central location of muscle nuclei. Note the "stacks" of mitochondria between myofibrils. Cardiac muscle is even richer than skeletal muscle in mitochondria (again, important for energy production). An intercalated disc is present in the upper left region of the picture.
207 Small intestine (Muscularis Externa) Webscope Imagescope
Study the orientation of the smooth muscle cells in the intestinal muscularis externa. The micrograph will help you understand the pattern, which arises from the inner circular layer and outer longitudinal layer of smooth muscle cells. Without the knowledge in which direction the intestinal epithelium is located, it is not possible to discriminate between the two sublayers of the muscularis externa.
44 Smooth muscle - Cross Section Webscope Imagescope
Smooth Muscle (cross section). Here you can see the filaments in cross-section, appearing as dots. Also, the dark areas, which are membrane-associated, are called dense plaques and are sites of filament attachment.
Click on a question to reveal the answer.
Why do some skeletal muscle cells seem wider than others?
The plane of section is generally responsible for making some cells look larger than others. Some skeletal muscle cells on your slide may be sliced through the middle and appear quite large, while as other cells may just graze the section and appear much smaller. Also, some muscle cells are simply smaller or larger than others. They can range in size from 10 to 100 mm in width.
You might see occasional nuclei which appear to be centrally located, but aren’t. Why?
So what exactly is a muscle cell and what’s the difference between a muscle fiber and a muscle fibril?
The basic units of muscle are the contractile proteins actin and myosin arranged in sarcomeres. Placed end to end, these sarcomeres form long bands called myofibrils. Within a skeletal muscle cell, the numerous myofibrils are separated by glycogen, mitochondria, and muscle triads (two terminal cisternae and a T tubule) and other organelles. Chances are, if you are looking at an electron micrograph of muscle tissue, you are looking at myofibrils. Groups of these fibrils form a muscle fiber, which is surrounded by endomysium. Muscle fiber and muscle cell are synonymous. Groups of individual cells that are surrounded by perimysium are known as fascicles and groups of these fascicles, surrounded by epimysium make up a muscle.
1. Caveolae in smooth muscle are functionally analogous to:
transverse portion of intercalated disks in cardiac muscle.
lateral portion of intercalated disks in cardiac muscle
Z lines in skeletal muscle
sarcoplasmic reticulum in skeletal muscle
T tubules in skeletal muscle.
Sarcoplasmic reticulum in skeletal muscle - caveolae sequester and release Ca + ions
2. The predominant tissue in this slide: Webscope
contracts rapidly and voluntarily.
interacts directly with nerves via motor end plates
consists of regularly arranged sarcomeres.
can readily regenerate and/or proliferate via cell division.
Can readily regenerate and/or proliferate via cell division. The tissue shown is smooth muscle; all of the other responses apply to skeletal muscle (well, choice C actually applies to both cardiac AND skeletal muscle).
3. Identify the tissue WebScope
cardiac muscle
epimysium
dense regular connective tissue (tendon)
The tissue is cardiac muscle; note the striations, branched fibers, intercalated discs, and centrally located nuclei.
4. Which of the lines in the electron micrograph indicates a single sarcomere?
C - A sarcomere is the region spanning from one Z line to another.
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Vol.4 No.1(2012), Article ID:18368,9 pages DOI:10.4236/ib.2012.41005
Smart System Resource Monitoring in Cloud
Rich C. Lee
Computer Science, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, China.
Email: richchihlee@gmail.com
Received January 3rd, 2012; revised February 7th, 2012; accepted February 18th, 2012
Keywords: System Management; Cloud Computing; System Performance Analysis
Monitoring the system resources against numerous virtual machines in a cloud computing environment is a challenging task to system administrators. They rely on the system management tools to collect and reveal the utilization of various performance counters of each virtual machine. Such isolated views cannot disclose the real performance behavior of virtual machines. This paper demonstrates how to interpret the resource utilization of these performance counters correctly and how to automate the performance analysis processes to ease the workload of system administrators.
Many people have mentioned about the benefits of adopting the cloud computing for their business. But before these benefits can be realized, the performance unpredictability driven by software application behavior and its architectture must be seriously resolved especially in a large scale of cloud computing environment [1]. It is a challenging task for system administrators to monitor the performance over numerous virtual machines concurrently in cloud computing environment to mitigate the unpredictability.
The administrator relies on the system management tools to collect the utilization of various performance counters from each virtual machine. The most concerned performance counters are about the utilization of CPU, Memory, and I/O [2]. Currently the administrator needs to decipher the meaning of these performance counters respectively. But these performance counters are correlated. CPU utilization is consumed by workloads, and also by managing the memory and I/O to respond these workloads at the same time. These compound effects make the decipherment against performance counters more difficult.
The administrator requires a novel scheme automatically deciphers the performance counters correctly and making recommendations for further actions against those potential overloaded virtual machines in cloud computing environment. This paper demonstrates a feasible approach to decipher the meaning behind performance counters, and a framework to mitigate the administrator’s workloads in monitoring these virtual machines, thus improves the cloud service quality.
2. Performance Counters Dataset
Modern operating systems provide application programming interfaces (API) to report the utilization about the computing resources from kernel. Operating systems also offer a number of computing resource utilization utilities a subset of the system management tools by calling these APIs to help administrators understand the current states about the system [3]. To support business continuity, the service systems are measured by Quality Attributes [4], such as availability, performance, security, interoperability, and modifiability that are derived from mission or business goals. The Performance quality attribute may be expressed in several different ways, including response time, throughput, or constraints on resource usage [5]. Table 1 shows the most concerned performance counters periodically collected by resource utilization utilities from virtual machines.
The performance counter data are stored on a remote central management server over the network in a structured format such as Comma Separated Values (CSV) file or to a light-weight database.
3. Performance Analysis Framework
Since there are numerous servers running service applications in the cloud computing environment, it is not efficient to have administrators manually monitor performance counters of all servers at the same time. Therefor an intelligent automatic performance counter analysis framework is needed to ensure the service quality is served at agreeable level. The framework is an analytical process that is based on the inference of statistical procedures rather than relying on respective administrators’ personal
Table 1. Performance counters.
experience. These statistical procedures are about regression analysis. The regression formula shows the coefficients and the significance coefficient of determination i.e. R2 of regression under acceptable confidence level (i.e. 90%, 95%, 99%, and 99.9%).
The Equation (1) shows the general form of regression, y is the dependent performance counter, xn is the independent performance counter, and the β0 ··· βn are the coefficients:
Service quality is above all. The framework checks whether the application’s average Response-Time is in proportion to Transaction-Count. When this regression is significant, the framework will 1) project the maximal Transaction-Count at the least-accepted Response-Time; 2) report the moving-average the trend about the growth of both Transaction-Count and Response-Time versus Time; and 3) report the regression of CPU-Utilization versus Transaction-Count which will also project the maximal Transaction-Count at the most-accepted CPUUtilization. The system administrator will take the less Transaction-Count as the allowable margin of reliability.
The framework uses GNU-R as the statistical engine. R is a highly extensible language and environment for providing a variety of statistical and graphical features [6]. It can read data from structure formatted file or database and export statistical results and charts as well. Since system-administrators depend on the daily reports from the framework, it must be built in a robust way using Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) [7] to analyze the performance dataset and make recommendation for each virtual machine.
The Figure 1 illustrates the system architecture of the framework.
The Statistical Job Portal server provides a number of predefined statistical procedures and ad-hoc analysis to users. The ESB server receives messages, the statistical job requests, from the Statistical Job Portal server and dispatches them accordingly. GNU-R Engine is a set of Blade servers executing GNU-R scripts designated by the messages. The script may retrieve data from the Database servers or the File Repository server. The Application servers are user process engines populating source data on the Database servers or the File Repository server. The File Repository server also stores the statistical results expecting users to retrieve later.
4. Empirical Case
Fast changing demands and responsiveness to customers challenges the reliability of a Manufacturing Execution System (MES). A world-class modern semiconductor foundry migrated its MES into a cloud computing environment for better management with less cost. The foundry takes advantage of the proposed system architecture to periodically collect the performance counters for each virtual machine by system management tools. Besides the proposed framework recommendation on the reliable Transaction-Count; the MES administrators developed standard operation procedures (SOP) for their daily checks of performance counters for each virtual machine.
The Figure 2 illustrates the process flow of SOP in
Figure 1. System architecture.
Figure 2. SOP of performance analysis.
Activity Diagram in UML, it starts from Performance Counter Collection, and Performance Data Analysis conducts the following regression statistical tests:
1) Transaction-Count vs. Time is to examine the transaction behavior. If the trend is positive, more computing resources may consider to be assigned into the virtual machine.
2) Response-Time vs. Time is to examine the service behavior of the virtual machine. A narrower variance of Response-Time implies the system’s throughput was steady.
3) If the above regression tests are both significant; this means the Transaction-Count was increasing and the Response-Time became slower also. It is imperative to check whether CPU resource could hold this increasing trend or not.
The regression test of CPU-Utilization vs. Time shall confirm the trend in CPU utilization perspective. If this regression test is also significant, what caused CPU utilization high will determine the latter administrative actions. Two possible reasons may cause CPU utilization high: 1) Paging-Faults (memory moving); 2) I/O-Average. Both CPU-Utilization vs. Paging-Faults and CPU-Utilization vs. I/O-Average regression tests will explain the degree of significance of these tests. If both tests are significant separately, CPU-Utilization vs. Paging-Faults and I/OAverage regression test will show which performance counter or both are significant more. Finally, the Inference of performance analysis will confidently suggest the MES administrators to take proper actions accordingly.
The following performance analysis was a snapshot of a period of time. The proposed framework alerted the MES administrators that a critical virtual machine running database behaved abnormal, further investigation was taken to see if more computing resources should be assigned into the virtual machine. The snapshot transaction was about 7 million while it was expected to hold 13 million transactions a day in average. The MES administrators concerned about the high CPU utilization and wanted to make CPU utilization forecast against the in creasing transactions.
4.1. Transaction-Count Analysis
A time series analysis against Transaction-Count was to understand how database server was impacted by transactions. The Table 2 shows the R script producing the Figure 3 graphics. The graphics showed there were several significant drops about the transactions; however the Transaction-Count trend was increasing with time. The MES administrator reported the production was ramp up on 10/24/2011 which coincided with the analysis.
4.2. Response-Time Analysis
A time series analysis against Response-Time was to un
Table 2. R for Transaction-Count ~ Time.
Figure 3. Snapshot: Transaction-Count vs. Time.
derstand how database server responded to the transactions. The Table 3 shows R script producing the Figure 4 graphics. The graphics showed those Response-Times were within the range of 0.35 and 0.40 sec; it was very satisfied and implied the high CPU utilization was attributed to the operating system to maintain a steady service level. The graphics also showed there was a peak of Response-Time on 10/24/2011, reported by MES administrators, several equipment were under maintenance caused the unpleasant Response-Time result.
4.3. CPU-Utilization Analysis
A time series analysis against average CPU utilization was to understand how database server’s CPU resource was consumed by the transactions. The Table 4 shows how R script producing the Figure 5 graphics. The graphics showed the CPU-Utilization had the same behavior as Transaction-Count did; it implied the high CPU utilization was caused by increasing transactions.
4.4. CPU-Utilization vs. Transaction-Count Analysis
The above analyses posited the CPU utilization was caused by the increasing transactions. The Table 5 shows how R script producing the Figure 6 graphics and the statistical information about the regression. The graphics showed the quadratic regression analysis of against CPU utilization and transactions. It also showed how significant the regression was in blue color. The regression showed the intercept was 49.32 and the slope was 0.00002229 under confidence level of 99.9%. The finding confirmed the behavior of the above analyses. Based on the regression formula, the Figure 7 showed the forecast of CPU utilization for various volumes of transactions respectively. The reason why quadric regression was chosen instead of linear one was because MES administrators were conservative about the forecasted transactions; they wanted to reserved additional CPU resource to cover some required CPU intensive MES processes [8]. The CPU utilization quality attribute was set no more than 80%; according to the forecast, the virtual machine can support the transactions up to 12 million around.
4.5. CPU vs. Paging-Faults and I/O-Average Analysis
Since the observed system behavior implied CPU utilization was consumed by increasing transactions; in fact, CPU was also consumed by memory paging and I/O in operating system perspective. Further investigation identified how Paging-Faults and I/O-Average contributed to the consumption of CPU-Utilization. This finding will suggest MES administrators to change related configurations or add more computing resources into the system. Thus a multi-variables regression of CPU-Utilization against Paging-Faults and I/O-Average was needed. The Table 6 shows how R script producing the Figure 8 graphics and the statistical information about the regression. The graphics showed the linear regression analysis of CPU-Utilization
Table 3. R for Response-Time ~ Time.
Figure 4. Snapshot: Response Time ~ Time.
Table 4. R for CPU-Utilization ~ Time.
Figure 5. Snapshot: CPU-Utilization ~ Time.
Table 5. R for CPU-Utilization ~ Transactions.
Figure 6. Snapshot: CPU-Utilization ~ Transaction-Count.
Figure 7. Snapshot: Forecast of CPU-Utilization.
Table 6. R for CPU-Utilization ~ Page-Faults + I/O-Average.
Figure 8. Snapshot: CPU ~ Page Faults + I/O-Average.
against Paging-Faults and I/O-Average. The statistical information showed Paging-Faults was more significant than I/O-Average under 99.9% confidence level to CPUUtilization.
4.6. Paging-Faults vs. Transaction-Count Analysis
Based on the previous analysis, the CPU utilization was consumed by Memory Management Unit (MMU) handling the paging faults [9]. The Table 7 shows how R script producing the Figure 9 graphics and the statistical information about the regression. The graphics showed the quadratic regression analysis of Paging-Faults against transactions. The regression showed the intercept was 14250 and the slope was 0.0117 under confidence level of 99.9%. Based on the regression formula, the Figure 10 showed the forecast of Paging-Faults for various volumes of transactions. This finding suggested MES ad
Table 7. R for Page-Faults ~ Transaction-Count.
Figure 9. Snapshot: Paging-Faults ~ Transaction-Count.
Figure 10. Snapshot: Forecast of Page-Faults.
ministrators may consider assigning more CPU resource into the system to improve Paging-Faults [10]. However, the Paging-Faults were still within the acceptable range.
5. Conclusion and Future Work
Managing critical systems in a cloud computing environment is a challenging task to system administrators for various application behaviors running on numerous Virtual machines. The performance analysis is a complicated process. System administrators cannot posit the performance behavior by intuition or personal experience respectively. The performance analysis must be conducted on a solid grounding with theory. Statistics offers that solid grounding to the performance analysis. It infers the behavior by observing past history and to determine the possible counters that affect the performance more.
This paper demonstrated an analytical processes for performance analysis: 1) using time series analysis to understand the chronicle behavior, 2) using descriptive statistical information to understand how performance counter was distributed, 3) using regression to develop a formula for forecasting, 4) using significance analysis of regression to show how strong the formula agree to the behavior. To conduct such as performance analysis task, the analyst must have adequate domain knowledge about the system and those performance counters as well.
This paper also answered the long-needed framework built with a reliable robust mechanism on top of ESB. It was an SOA implementation using GNU-R as the statistical engine to access vivid performance data from centralized database. R scripts produce statistical information and export statistical graphics into image files. System administrators can conveniently view these performance analyses through a web portal.
The proposed framework was still very primitive but workable. System administrators can develop more useful statistical models for different scenarios. The framework gives much room in reusing and disseminating these performance analysis results into daily decision making.
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Open Journal of Genetics
Vol.4 No.2(2014), Article ID:45322,9 pages DOI:10.4236/ojgen.2014.42016
Exploring Variability: New Brazilian Varieties SCS119 Rubi and SCS120 Onix for the Specialty Rices Market
Ester Wickert1*, Moacir Antonio Schiocchet1, José Alberto Noldin1, Juliana Vieira Raimondi2, Alexander de Andrade1, Klaus Konrad Scheuermann1, Rubens Marschalek1, Gabriela Neves Martins1, Eduardo Hickel1, Domingos Savio Eberhardt1, Ronaldir Knoblauch1
1Epagri/Itajaí Experimental Station, Florianópolis, Brazil
2UFSC/Plant Genetic Resources Department, Florianópolis, Brazil
Email: *esterwickert@epagri.sc.gov.br
Received 24 February 2014; revised 22 March 2014; accepted 20 April 2014
“Specialty rices” is a common name for varieties that present uncommon grains with distinctive features as pericarp color, grain shape and size or aroma. Most of these rices are related to cultural traditions and ceremonies, but some have higher nutritionally value than white rice. Considering that today people are searching for foods that could help to improve and maintain health, specialty rices would also be considered in some way as functional food. As a specific market, the economic values of these grains are also higher than those of white rice. So, the new red rice variety SCS119 Rubi and the new black rice variety SCS120 Onix were developed in order to attend the specific and economically important specialty rices market, and should be consumed as a whole rice grain. Experimental tests performed with these varieties showed that they could be recommended to all rice-producing regions of Santa Catarina State, Brazil.
Keywords:Oryza sativa, Rice Breeding, Coloured Pericarp, Variety
The Oryza L. genera belongs to the Poaceae (Gramineae) family and encompasses around 25 species, of which 23 are considered wild and only two are cultivated, i.e. O. sativa L. and O. glaberrima Steud [1] . O. sativa species is cultivated worldwide and O. glaberrima only in Africa.
On rice the commercial exploitation of a reduced genetic base and the prevalence of a small set of landraces in the breeding process has been the general approach for developing new varieties. However, if compared with other crop species the genetic diversity in world rice germplasm is quite large. Despite the richness of genetic resources, only a small proportion of the world rice germplasm collections have been used in breeding programs. As a consequence of the high genetic similarity found within several commercial rice germplasms around the world, their phenotypes present high resemblance.
Most rice that is grown and consumed throughout the world has white pericarp, but rice can also produce grains with brown, red, purple and black pericarp [2] . The color is visible when the grains are dehulled, but it can be removed by polishing to reveal the white endosperm.
Rices which are peculiar in one or more aspects are classified as specialty rices. They are different in some aspect related to grain pericarp colour, shape, size, amylose content and aroma [3] . As specialty rices their yields are usually lower than most commercial white rice varieties, but their economic value is higher. It is estimated that the market price for some rices with black pericarp can be up to ten times higher than that of the milled white rice varieties [2] .
Red pericarp is ubiquitous among the wild ancestors of cultivated rice (O. rufipogon and O. nivara), and in some regions of the world red cultivars are preferred for their taste, texture, and ceremonial or medicinal value [4] . A similar tradition occurs in Brazil on Piancó Valley [5] , where the red rice is widely preferred. Wild O. sativa genotype with red pericarp and seed shattering is a constant presence as a weedy in rice farmers’ fields and is the most economically important weed and grain-quality problem faced by Brazilian rice producers.
The red pigment in rice grains is the proanthocyanidin, also called condensed tannins that are a branch of the anthocyanin pathway and share many of the same biosynthetic genes [6] . Proanthocyanidins have been shown to have important deterrent effects on pathogens and predators, so it is not surprising that spontaneous mutations that inhibit pigment production would be selected against in the wild [7] . Red pericarp is a genetic trait related to gene Rd on chromosome 1 with dominant effect.
Rices with black pericarp, usually called black rices are characterized by grains with dark purple pericarps with high levels of anthocyanins. During rice seed development, purple pigments of anthocyanin accumulate rapidly in the pericarp, resulting in the characteristic dark purple grains of black rice [8] . The black pericarp trait in rice is determined by the two genes Pb and Pp located on chromosome 1 and 4, respectively [8] .
Originated from China, which is also the richest country in genetic resources, black rice is cultivated since ancient times. However, this colored rice was known in China as “forbidden rice” because common people were not allowed to eat it. Black rice was reserved only for the Emperor and his family and important country rulers. In modern times, black rices are found, cultivated and consumed mainly in Asian countries, associated to cultural traditions and ceremonies. Natural dark-colored food is known as “black food” and is very popular in China.
Regardless of the problems associated with red rice as a weed in rice fields, the red pigment is of interest for nutritional reasons. It is considered as a powerful antioxidant that has been demonstrated to reduce atherosclerotic plaque formation, a risk factor associated with cardiovascular disease [9] .
On the same way, recent studies demonstrated that black rices could be easily considered as super food category because of its high levels of iron, essential amino acids, and fibers. Black rice can also be considered as a functional food because of being an important source of anthocyanin, a compound largely associated to antioxidant effects. Research results showed that phytochemicals such as phenolics and flavonoids compounds present in black rice grain are antioxidants associated with reduced risk of developing chronic diseases including cardiovascular disease, type-2 diabetes and some cancers [10] . These phytonutrients could also protect the body from cognitive decline and several other health disorders.
Rices developed for the specific needs of niche markets usually command a premium market price. This added-value benefits the rice producer. Although these specialty rices may not be grown on large acreage, there is an increasing demand in the market place for rices having novel cooking, flavor, processing, and appearance characteristics.
In fact that with growing prosperity, consumers are looking for better quality rice. Consumer interest in red and black rices represents a growing specialty market in the world, mainly associated as a functional food. This gave to these colored pericarp rices a differential market value, and could be an opportunity to help little rice farmers to enable their properties [3] , as is the case of Santa Catarina State.
It is also true that while much research has been done on common, high-yielding white rice varieties, far less attention has been paid to special kinds, even though they command higher prices. In this way, this work—as a part of the Rice Breeding Program of Epagri—has the objective of developing rice varieties with pigmented pericarp destined to the specialty rice grain market.
2.1. Pedigree and Breeding Method
• SCS119 Rubi. Among years 1993 and 1999 many accessions of weedy red rice were collected from different cultivated white rice fields, constituting heterogeneous populations. These populations were then submitted to massal selection searching mainly for red long-shaped grains and without seed shattering. One of these improved populations still showing variations on plant architecture and life cycle was introduced on EEI (Itajaí Experimental Station—Estação Experimental de Itajaí) in 2004. Since that, this population (as a mixture of pure lines) was conducted according Pedigree Method with selection of single plants until 2008. During selection by Pedigree, every year many stabilized progenies were selected and evaluated for morphologic traits for the plant and the grain, and for productivity. During 2008 growing season some lines were selected and submitted to advanced trials and evaluated for resitance to diseases (mainly blast), iron toxicity and productivity. A flooding ocurred in this year and the trials were lost, being re-evaluated in 2009. The lines selected in 2009 formed the advanced trials conducted in EEI fields and were conducted under the same agricultural practices recommended by Epagri to the rice farmers. Among these lines, one was considered potential and received the name SC 608.
• SCS120 Onix. A hybridization of Epagri 107 X Riso Nero lineage was done in 1996 and the obtained seeds originated F1 plants the following year. High genetic variability was displayed by F2 plant populations, allowing phenotypic selection for agronomical interesting traits, as plant architecture, tillering, plant height, grain type, number of grain per panicle, and mainly pericarp color. Seeds from selected plants formed F3 generation. The same selection procedure was carried out to F7 generation (during 2007 growing season). From 2001 till 2004, the segregant populations were maintained in a dry and cold chamber and the selection of the populations restarted in 2005. A few lines were selected in 2007 and subsequently evaluated for yield, resistance to diseases, lodging and seed shattering. Because of segregation observed in some of these populations, two more selecting cycles were added (F6 and F7, years 2006 and 2007, respectively). Two lines were identified in 2007 growing season as promising and were named SC 606 and SC 607, respectively. These lines were evaluated in 2008 and 2009 for agronomical traits. Lineage SC 607 showed be better and was then conducted to assessments in larger plots (60 m2), in comparison with standard cultivars used in the region. At this point, uniformity, yield performance, grain pericarp colour, lodging resistance and blast resistance were evaluated.
2.2. Performance at Field
At this point, lines SC 607 and SC 608 were evaluated by its performance at field. The lines were phenotypically described for several traits (Table 1), according the descriptors recommended by rice culture by [11] . These productivity experiments were done at three locations with different soil and climate conditions representing the majority of edafoclimatic conditions of Santa Catarina State rice production areas. These experiments were done using rice varieties Epagri 108 and Epagri 109 with known performance as controls. These two controls are conventional white rice varieties and were used because today in Brazil there are not varieties of coloured pericarp that could be used in this way. These experiments were done during 2010 and 2011 growing seasons representing the VCU (Value for Cultivation and Use) trials during two years on three different locations on Santa Catarina State (Turvo, Araranguá and Itajaí) according recommendations of MAPA (Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture) for being registered. At this point, uniformity, yield performance, grain pericarp colour, lodging resistance and blast resistance were evaluated (characterizing the phenotypic description of agronomic traits). Based on the productivity performance at these locations allied with its desirable agronomic traits, these two lines were considered able to be released as varieties.
2.3. Line Identification
At the end of these performance tests, line SC 607 received the name SCS120 Onix remembering its black pericarp. And the SC 608 line was identified as SCS119 Rubi, also in allusion of its red pericarp. The two varieties were released and recommended in 2013 as new rice varieties for specialty rice market.
2.4. Grain Characteristics
During the final experimental field trials, grain sample of each line were submitted to evaluations as size and milling performance. Size measures were done using an automatic caliper rule. Milling tests were done using laboratory mills and proportion of broken and whole grains were done using percentage.
2.5. Chemical Composition
A sample of SCS119 Rubi and SCS120 Onix were also submitted to analysis on order to determine its chemical composition as protein, lipids, carbohydrate, fiber, anthocyanins and phenolic compounds (Table 2). This was done at Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Sao Paulo University using previously described methodologies [12] -[14] .
Table 1. Agronomic and phenotypic characteristics of SCS119 Rubi and SCS120 Onix, measured in the VCU trials (Itajaí, Araranguá and Turvo) in 2010 and 2011 growing season.
Table 2. Centesimal composition of Rice varieties SCS119 Rubi, SCS120 Onix and White Rice Epagri 109 on its whole form (without polishing).
3.1. Performance of SCS119 Rubi and SCS120 Onix at Field
SCS119 Rubi presents a modern plant type with medium cycle (125 days to maturity) and erect and hairy leaves (Figure 1 and Figure 2). The cultivar presents good resistance to lodging, a trait considered essential for the pre-germinated cultivation system used in Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul States. It has also low seed
Figure 1. Morphological traits of varieties SCS119 Rubi (a) and aspect of the grain (b), and SCS120 Onix (c) with aspects of the grain (d) as observed in field.
Figure 2. Some aspects of the varieties SCS119 Rubi and SCS120 Onix as observed in field.
shattering and moderate susceptibility to iron toxicity and blast. SCS119 Rubi presented good yield in regional trials (Itajaí, Araranguá, and Turvo) with an average of 7700 kg∙ha−1 (Table 3). Despite SCS119 Rubi showed a little low productivity when compared to the controls, the red pericarp colour should determine its market value.
SCS120 Onix has also a modern plant type with medium life cycle (125 days to maturity) with erect and hairy leaves. The cultivar presents good resistance to lodging (Figure 1 and Figure 2). It has also medium tillering capacity, intermediate seed shattering and moderate susceptibility to iron toxicity and blast. SCS120 Onix could also presents few sterily spikelets, but presented an adequate yield in the regional trials (Itajaí, Araranguá, and Turvo) with an average of 5468 kg∙ha−1 (Table 3) considering that high yield was not a decisive factor for this variety.
3.2. Grain Characteristics of SCS119 Rubi and SCS120 Onix
The grains of the two varieties should be consumed as a whole grain and are also recommended to be parboiled, preserving his characteristics as colour and taste. Parboililed grains showed uniformity and enhancement on pericarp color.
Sensorial test showed that SCS119 Rubi should be suitable for the specialty rices market, presenting longshaped grains with red coloured pericarp, and good aroma (Figure 3). The milling total yield for this rice is considered appropriate, with value of 77.4% and 73.0% of whole grain (Table 4).
SCS120 Onix has also long-shaped grains with highly black pericarp, and good aroma, referred as a nut-like aroma (Figure 3). The total milling yield for SCS120 Onix is 64.6% with 56.5% of whole grain (Table 4).
The varieties SCS119 Rubi and SCS120 Onix presented similar values of Protein, lipids, carbohydrates, minerals and fibers when compared to white rice Epagri 109. However, they showed higher values of anthocyanins and phenolic compounds when compared to white rice varieties. Red pericarp variety SCS119 Rubi showed almost three more times phenolic compounds than white pericarp Epagri 109 and black pericarp SCS120 Onix showed almost five more times.
The origin of pigmented rices is as old as rice itself, and they are involved in different oriental myths, with red rices occupying a special position since immemorial times in India [14] . It is also a fact that the first domesticated rice had a pigmented pericarp [1] [2] .
Table 3. Average grain yield (kg∙ha−1) of SCS119 Rubi, SCS120 Onix, Epagri 108 and Epagri 109, in the VCU trials (Itajaí, Turvo and Araranguá) during 2010 and 2011 growing season.
Table 4. Physical and chemical grain characteristics of rice cultivar SCS119 Rubi.
Total: Percentage of total grain milled; Whole: Percentage of whole grain; Broken: Percentage of broken grain; AC: Percentage of amylose content; GT: Gelatinization temperature (I: intermediate); L: Grain length; W: Grain width; T: Thickness and L/W: Length width ratio.
Figure 3. Morphological aspect of whole and husked grain of SCS119 Rubi (a), SCS120 Onix (b) and the contrast between the two varieties (c).
The development of varieties of colored pericarp by Epagri Rice Project is part of an initiative to offer a portfolio of specialty rices covering varieties of red and black pericarp, aromatic and glutinous types destined to specific market niches. Products associated to this special niches, have also a higher market value when compared to the traditional products. This also happens with rice, with specialty rices owing in some case more than ten times the value of the traditional white rice.
These niche markets encompasses those related to some traditional foods like the Italian “risotto”, the Spanish “paella”, the oriental aromatic Thailand’s food and the Japanese “sushi”, and the Chinese traditional red rice cake, that today are spread around the world [15] . Because of Italian immigration to Brazil on the past centuries, there is a growing market associated mainly to risotto.
But probably the specialty rice most consumed in Brazil today is the rice with red pericarp. This food has a strong cultural importance and there are many different rice land races with red pericarp. But as far as we know, SCS119 Rubi is the first variety developed and recommended by research for cultivation. As the SCS120 Onix is also the firt black pericarp variety completely developed and released in Brazil, despite the fact that one black variety was firstly introduced, adapted and released by IAC (Campinas Agronomic Institute/Sao Paulo State) in 2001, called IAC 600. This variety presents short black grains and has its growing place is almost restricted to Vale da Ribeira areas in Brazilian Sao Paulo State.
So, the two coloured pericarp rice varieties developed by Epagri are recommended for cultivation in all areas of Santa Catarina State and experimental trials done in rice growing areas of Rio Grande do Sul, Goias and Piauí States revealed that the two varieties could also be cultivated in this areas with excellent productivities.
One reason of the differential market value for these two varieties is that these two coloured varieties could also be classified as nutraceutical or functional food, mainly because of its phenolic compounds, that are known for its ability as antioxidants. It is largely exposed by the midia that people are eating lots of industrialized food that causes several problems along the time. Another reason is that these varieties are consumed as a whole (integral) grain, increasing the highly desirable fiber diary income. So, many people are interested in do things for wellness and lifelong health. Nutrient-rich food is an essential step for this objective.
Brazil consumes rice mainly as polished or parboiled and prefers grains with long shaped and white pericarp. But the interest on different rices is growing, as it is happening also for other foods, like beans, coffee and olive oil, as some examples. Santa Catarina State has a peculiar agricultural structure, composed mainly by farmers cultivating small areas (1 - 10 hectares) with the owner and his family as the principal labor arms. So, cultures with distinctive and aggregated market value are very interesting in order to make these little areas economically viable, avoiding little farmers to leave its properties and search for job in industrial or commercial areas.
The development and release of these specialty rice varieties also shows an example of the potentiality of exploring the genetic diversity in natural resources for economical purposes. Assuming that it is easy to protect known things, the use of genetic resources in order to develop special products for many different purposes (food industry, pharmaceuticals and others) could help to know and conserve genetic resources.
5. Pedigree Seed Maintenance and Distribution
Registration process of these new cultivars in the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply (Ministério da Agricultura Pecuária e Abastecimento—MAPA) is an important step for seed production and commercialization in Brazil. Registration assures the genetic identity and varietal quality for breeding programs. Additionally, cultivar protection guarantees royalties to private and public breeding and seed companies, which can use these resources to continue their research and development projects [16] .
So, the SCS119 Rubi variety is registered by the National Cultivar Registry (Registro Nacional de Cultivares - RNC) of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply under the number 30233, in Brazil. SCS120 Onix is registered by the National Cultivar Registry under protection number 20130079. The genetic seed stock is kept by Epagri, Itajaí Experiment Station, located at Rodovia AntOnio Heil, n.6800, Itaipava, P.O. Box 277, CEP 88301-970, Itajaí, SC, Brazil.
The two new rice varieties SCS119 Rubi and SCS120 Onix were considered suitable to be cultivated on rice areas of Santa Catarina State and would be an alternative in order to help little farmers be economically viable. So, we believe that these new rice varieties can exemplify the use of natural genetic diversity of rice in order to improve economically the income of small farmers and help in the efforts of protecting and conserving genetic diversity.
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Materials Sciences and Applicatio ns, 2011, 2, 1188-1193
doi:10.4236/msa.2011.29160 Published Online September 2011 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/msa)
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Influences of Silver-Doping on the Crystal
Structure, Morphology and Photocatalytic
Activity of TiO2 Nanofibers
Nasser A. M. Barakat1,2*, Muzafar A. Kanjwal3, Salem S. Al-Deyab4, Ioannis S. Chronakis3,
Hak Yong Kim1
1Orgnanic Materials and Fiber Engineering Department, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, Republic of Korea; 2Chemical Engineer-
ing Department, Faculty of Engineering, El-Minia University, El-Minia, Egypt; 3Technical University of Denmark, DTU Food,
Lyngby, Denmark; 4Department of Chemistry, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Email: *nasser@jbnu.ac.kr
Received May 10th, 2011; revised May 20th, 2011; accepted May 27th, 2011.
Doping of titanium dioxide nanofibers by silver nanoparticles revealed distinct improvement in the photocatalytic activ-
ity; however other influences have not been investigated. In this work, effect of sliver-doping on the crystal structure,
the nanofibrous morphology as well as the photocatalytic activity of titanium oxide nanofibers has been studied. Sil-
ver-doped TiO2 nanofibers having different silver contents were prepared by calcination of electrospun nanofiber mats
consisting of silver nitrate, titanium isopropoxide and poly(vinyl acetate) at 600˚C. The results affirmed formation of
silver-doped TiO2 nanofibers composed of anatase and rutile when the silver nitrate content in the original electrospun
solution was more than 3 wt%. The rutile phase content was directly proportional with the AgNO3 concentration in the
electrospun solution. Negative impact of the silver-doping on the nanofibrous morphology was observed as increase the
silver content caused to decrease the aspect ratio, i.e. producing nanorods rather nanofibers. However, silver-doping
leads to modify the surface roughness. Study of the photocatalytic degradation of methylene blue dye clarified that in-
crease the silver content strongly enhances the dye oxidation process.
Keywords: Titanium Oxide Nanofibers, Nanostructured Ceramics, Inorganic Materials, Crystal Structure,
Enormous efforts have been devoted to the research of
TiO2 material, which has led to many promising applica-
tions in areas ranging from photovoltaics and photocata-
lysis to photo-/electrochromics and sensors [1-5]. New
physical and chemical properties emerge when the size
of the TiO2 becomes smaller and smaller, and down to
the nanometer scale. The main advantage of the nanos-
tructural materials is the high surface to volume ratio,
however much literature indicated that the one-dimen-
sional (ID) nanostructures have special characteristics
due to the axial ratio aspect [6-8]. Among the ID shapes,
nanofibers have novel features because of the long axial
ratio; consequently good reports were introduced about
fabrication of TiO2 nanofibers/nanotubes [9-11]. Re-
cently, metal-doping strategy has been invoked to im-
prove the physical and chemical properties of TiO2 nano-
particles/nanofibers [12-14]. Noble metal incorporation
into the titania dielectric provides an absorption feature
due to the surface Plasmon resonance (SPR) occurring
over the visible range of the spectrum [15]. In particular,
silver and gold metals are the most popular materials due
to the strong SPR character [16]. Metal-doping may also
have an influence on the titania crystal structure leading
to distinct improving in the application fields [13,17].
Here, we study effect of the silver-doping on the crystal
structure, the morphology and the photocatalytic activity
of TiO2 nanofibers. Several techniques have been intro-
duced to fabricate the nanofibers,however electrospin-
ning is the most widely utilized process due to its sim-
plicity, high yield and low cost [18-21]. Accordingly,
silver-doped TiO2 nanofibers were prepared by calcina-
tion of electrospun mats consisting of silver nitrate, tita-
Influences of Silver-Doping on the Crystal Structure, Morphology and Photocatalytic Activity of TiO Nanofibers1189
nium isopropoxide and poly(vinyl acetate) at 600˚C.
Control of silver content in the prepared nanofibers could
be achieved by modifying the silver nitrate concentration
in the original electrospun solution. Physiochemical cha-
racterizations indicated that the silver content does have
distinct influences on the morphology, crystal structure
and photocatalytic activity of the TiO2 nanofibers.
Silver nitrate (99.8 assay), methylene blue dihydrate
(95.0 assay), acetic acid (99.7 assay) and N,N-dimethyl-
formamide (DMF, 99.5 assay) were obtained from Sho-
wa, Co. Japan. Titanium (1V) isopropoxide (Ti(Iso)),
98.0 assay) was purchased from Junsei Co. Ltd., Japan.
Poly(vinyl acetate) (PVAc, MW = 500,000 g/mol) ob-
tained from Aldrich USA. These materials were used
without any further purification.
2.2. Electrospinning Set-up
A sol-gel composed of titanium isopropoxide (Ti(Iso))
and poly(vinyl acetate) (14% wt, in N,N-dimethylfor-
mamide; DMF) was prepared by mixing these ingredi-
ents for 10 min, and then few drops of acetic acid were
added till the solution became transparent. The final so-
lution contained 60 wt% Ti(Iso). Ten gram of the pre-
pared solution was mixed with silver nitrate/DMF solu-
tion (AgNO3 was dissolved in a minimum amount of
DMF) to prepare the silver-doped titanium oxide nanofi-
bers [14], several solutions containing different contents
of silver nitrate have been prepared. In the electrospin-
ning process, a high voltage power supply (CPS-60
K02V1, Chungpa EMT Co., Republic of Korea) was
used as a source of electric field. The sol-gel was sup-
plied through a plastic syringe attached to a capillary tip.
A graphite rod connected with the positive electrode
(anode) was inserted into the sol-gel while the negative
one (cathode) was attached to a metallic collector cov-
ered with polyethylene sheet. Briefly, the solutions were
electrospun at 6 kV voltage and 15 cm working distance
(the distance between the needle tip and the collector).
The formed nanofiber mats were initially dried for 24 h
at 80˚C under vacuum and then calcined in air atmos-
phere at 600˚C for 1 h with a heating rate of 5˚C/min.
The photocatalytic degradation of methylene blue dye
was carried out in a simple photo reactor. The reactor
was made of glass (1000 ml capacity, 23 cm height and
15 cm diameter), covered with alumina foil and equipped
with 365 nm (wavelength radiation) ultra-violet lamp.
The initial dye solution and the photocatalyst were pla-
ced in the reactor and continuously stirred for complete
mixing during the photocatalytic reaction. Typically, 100
ml of the dye solution (10 ppm, concentration) and 50
mg of the catalyst were used. At specific time intervals, 2
ml samples were withdrawn from reactor and centrifuged
to separate the nanofibers (catalyst), and then the ab-
sorbance intensity was measured at wavelength of 664
nm [14].
2.3. Characterization
The phase and crystallinity were characterized by using
Rigaku X-ray diffractometer (Rigaku Co, Japan) with Cu
Kα (λ = 1.54056 Å) radiation over a range of 2θ angles
from 20 to 800. Surface morphology of the nanofibers
was studied by JEOL JSM-5900 scanning electron mi-
croscope, JEOL Ltd, Japan and field-emission scanning
electron microscope (FESEM, Hitachi S-7400, Japan).
High resolution image was observed by JEOL JEM 2010
transmission electron microscope (TEM) operating at
200 kV, JEOL Ltd., Japan. The concentration of the dyes
during the photodegradation study was investigated by
spectroscopic analysis using HP 8453 UV-visible spec-
troscopy system, Germany. The spectra obtained were
analyzed by HP ChemiStation software 5890 series.
Titanium oxide has three popular crystal structures; an-
tase, rutile and brookite. Anatase is a polymorph with the
two other minerals. The minerals rutile and brookite as
well as anatase all have the same chemical formula, TiO2,
but they have different structures. Rutile is the more
common and the more well known mineral of the three,
while anatase is the rarest. Anatase shares many of the
same or nearly the same properties as rutile such as luster,
hardness and density. However due to structural differ-
ences, anatase and rutile differ slightly in the crystal
habit. The phase change from anatase polymorph of tita-
nia to rutile one has been the subject of considerable in-
terest and the focus of many groups’ activities over the
years. Figure 1 shows the effect of silver-doping on the
crystal structure of the obtained powder after the calcina-
tion process. In case of silver-free solution, the results
affirm formation of pure anatase titanium dioxide, exis-
tence of strong diffraction peaks at 2
values of 25.09˚,
37.65˚, 38.44˚, 47.89˚, 53.89˚, 55.07˚, 62.40˚, 68.70˚,
70.04˚ and 75.00˚ corresponding to the crystal planes of
(101), (004), (112), (200), (105), (211), (204), (220),
(220) and (215), respectively indicates formation of ana-
tase titanium dioxide [JCPDS card no 21-1272]. Addition
of small amount of silver nitrate (2 wt%) did not affect
the crystal structure of the titania, however pure silver
metal was formed due to decomposition of the silver ni-
trate upon heating. The extra peaks at 2
44.29˚, 64.43˚ and 77.48˚, corresponding to the crystal
planes of (111), (200), (220) and (311), respectively affirm
Influences of Silver-Doping on the Crystal Structure, Morphology and Photocatalytic Activity of TiO2 Nanofibers
Figure 1. Effect of silver content on the crystal structure of TiO2.
presence of silver metal [JCPDS card no 04- 0783].
In Figure 1, the main peaks of anatase and silver were
marked as A and S, respectively. Increase the silver ni-
trate content to 3 wt% in the original electrospun solution
led to partial phase change in the titania crystal structure.
The standard peaks of rutile can be observed at 2
of 27.45˚, 36.09˚, 41.23˚, 54.32˚, 56.64˚, and 69.08˚ cor-
responding to the crystal planes of (110), (101), (111),
(211), (220), and (301), respectively [JCPDS card no
21-1272]. Interestingly, the results indicate that increase
the amount of silver enhances formation rutile phase as
shown in Figure 1 (the main rutile peaks were marked
by R letter). Addition of 5 wt% silver nitrate led to in-
crease the rutile content to be higher than the anatase.
According to the XRD data, the ratio of rutile to anatase
is ~ 75% and 440% when the added silver nitrate was 3
wt% and 5 wt%, respectively. The electrospinning tech-
nique involves the use of a high voltage to charge the
surface of a polymer solution droplet and thus to induce
the ejection of a liquid jet through a spinneret. Due to
bending instability, the jet is subsequently stretched by
many times to form continuous, ultrathin fibers. It is
widely used for production of many polymeric nanofi-
bers. Moreover, the electrospinning process has been
exploited to produce metal oxides nanofibers by calcina-
tion of electrospun mats obtained from completely mis-
cible sol-gel solutions. Electrospinning of a sol-gel com-
posed of Ti(IsO) and PVAc/DMF solution has been car-
ried out in our lab in previous study [22], the resultant
electrospun nanofibers have good morphology. Addition
of silver nitrate to the sol-gel does not affect the mor-
phology [14]. Accordingly, well morphology electrospun
nanofibers mats were obtained from AgNO3/Ti(Iso)/PVAc
solutions at all the utilized AgNO3 contents (data are not
shown). Figure 2 shows the morphology of the resultant
powder after the calcination process. As can be observed
in Figures 2(a) and 2(b) which demonstrate the obtained
product from silver-free electrospun solution, well and
smooth TiO2 nanofibers were obtained, these nanofibers
composed of pure anatase as could be concluded from
the XRD results (Figure 1). Incorporation of small amount
of silver does not have considerable impact on the nano-
fibrous morphology as shown in Figure 2(c) and 2(d)
which represent the FE-SEM images of the powder ob-
tained from calcination of an electrospun solution con-
taining 2 wt% AgNO3. However, the surface became
little rough (Figure 2(d)). Figure 3 demonstrates the
TEM analysis results for TiO2 nanofibers originated from
Figure 2. Effect of silver content on the nanofibrous morphology of TiO2.
Figure 3. TEM image for the TiO2 nanofibers originated
from electrospun solution containing 2 wt% silver nitrate.
an electrospun solution containing 2 wt% silver nitrate.
Due to the large atomic radius of the silver atom, they
cannot interpenetrate in TiO2 crystals to form solid solu-
tion alloy. Therefore, silver metal distributes in the form
of separated nanoparticles as shown in the normal TEM
and HR TEM images. Of course, the average size of
those nanoparticles is directly proportional with the
amount of silver. Therefore, more sharp and strong peaks
were observed in the XRD spectra representing the nano-
fibers containing high silver content. This might be an
acceptable explanation of obtaining nanorods rather than
nanofibers when the amount of the utilized silver nitrate
was 3 wt% (Figure 2(e) and 2(f)), in other words, the big
size silver nanoparticles led to break the nanofibers.
However, the surface became much rougher (Figure 2(f))
compared with the pristine and low silver content TiO2
nanofibers. More increase in the silver nitrate content in
the electrospun solution led to complete annihilation of
the 1D structure. Much literature has been reported ex-
plaining the positive effect for silver incorporation on the
photocatalytic of TiO2 nanostructures. Generally, these
studies have drawn this conclusion. The Ag nanoparticles
deposited on TiO2 surface act as electron acceptors, en-
hancing the charge separation of electrons and holes and
consequently the transfer of the trapped electron to the
adsorbed O2. The sufficient dye molecules are adsorbed
on the surface of Ag-TiO2 more than on the TiO2 surface,
increasing the photoexcited electron transfer from the
sensitized dye molecule to the conduction band of TiO2
and consequently increasing the electron transfer to the
adsorbed O2. Figure 4 affirms this conclusion. As shown
in Figure 4 which represents the effect of silver content
Influences of Silver-Doping on the Crystal Structure, Morphology and Photocatalytic Activity of TiO Nanofibers
Figure 4. Effect of silver content on the photocatalytic ac-
tivity of TiO2 nanofibers.
on photcatalytic degradation of methylene blue dye, the
rate of degradation enhances with increasing the silver
content in the TiO2 nanofibers. Moreover, the surface
roughness might have an influence due to increase the
total surface area.
Calcination of electrospun nanofiber mats composed of
silver nitrate, titanium isopropxide and poly(vinyl acetate)
in air at 600˚C leads to produce silver-doped TiO2 nano-
fibers having both of antase and rutile phases if the silver
nitrate content is more than 3 wt%. Rutile phase content
can be increased by increasing the silver content in the
original electrospun solution. However, the nanofibrous
morphology is strongly affected by the silver-content,
excess silver causes to destroy the 1D structure. Sil-
ver-doping of the titanium oxide nanofibers greatly en-
hances the photocatalytic activity of this interesting ma-
terial.
This paper was supported by research funds of chonbuk
National University 2010. We thank Mr. T. S. Bae and J.
C. Lim, KBSI, Jeonju branch, and Mr. Jong-Gyun Kang,
Centre for University Research Facility, for taking high-
quality FESEM and TEM images, respectively.
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Another rather dour heritage film was made recently about the writer of Frankenstein by expatriate Saudi director Haifaa al-Mansour, more famous (and justly so) for Wadjda (2012).
Watching this reminds me of going to lots of alternately dour and somewhat mediocre costume dramas in the mid-1990s (titles come to mind like Moll Flanders, Restoration or Mary Reilly). I cannot in any good conscience say that this is a good or well-written movie, but it has its moments, and given those youthful trips to the cinema, I do still have a nostalgic fondness for frock dramas featuring intelligent young women gadding about with blackguards and bounders. Sadly, the film doesn’t really give enough of a lucid focus to Mary’s story (played with spirit by Elle Fanning) and, despite the title, the film’s primary interest appears to be her relationship with Percy Bysshe Shelley (Douglas Booth), though it does its best to dramatise her own literary inspiration. There are too many scenes in the half-light of people reciting lines to one another, so ultimately this feels greatly inferior to Bright Star (2009) or other films about literary figures. However, Bel Powley does once again steal the film with her portrayal of Mary’s impulsive step-sister Claire.
Director Haifaa al-Mansour هيفاء المنصور; Writer Emma Jensen; Cinematographer David Ungaro; Starring Elle Fanning, Douglas Booth, Bel Powley, Tom Sturridge, Maisie Williams; Length 121 minutes.
Seen at Curzon Bloomsbury, London, Saturday 7 July 2018.
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German [?] cinematographer (IMDb entry)
Min lilla syster (My Skinny Sister, 2015)
Published on 16 December 2015 20 August 2019 by Ewan MLeave a comment
This well-meaning Swedish drama deals with two sisters, as you might expect from the title, one of whom has an eating disorder. However, rather than taking the more usual point-of-view of an authority figure like the parents (who here are clearly well out of their depth) or doctors, the film is told from the younger sister Stella’s viewpoint. Being around the age of 12, Stella has the curiosity of youth combined with a naïveté which actor Rebecka Josephson puts across quite well, as she is first perplexed by her sister Katja’s odd secretive habits and then starts to show more concern. Katja, an aspiring figure skater, is played by a Swedish pop singer (Amy Deasismont, who apparently performs under the name Amy Diamond), so just by the casting, the film is tying the story into a wider one of body image issues and creating a contrast betweeen the glamorous and apparently-confident older sister and the gawky younger one. There’s an underlying issue-film-of-the-week format lurking beneath the surface, which might have fitted it for a TV domain, but the filmmaking is too strong and the acting too interesting to totally fall into that kind of ghetto. There’s no glamorisation of the disease — it remains a nasty, pernicious thing — although perhaps the film suffers in comparison with the work of Catherine Breillat, whose masterpiece À ma sœur (2001) comes to mind when the initial sisterly drama is set up (of course the two films are ultimately doing different things, but there’s something of a physical resemblance to the leads). Whether Katja can break out of this eating disorder remains uncertain — as it should given the nature of the disease — but this is a worthwhile attempt to get inside the way this kind of illness can affect a family.
Director/Writer Sanna Lenken; Cinematographer Moritz Schultheiß; Starring Rebecka Josephson, Amy Deasismont; Length 95 minutes.
Seen at Curzon Bloomsbury, London, Thursday 3 December 2015.
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Asura's Boon
Asura's Boon in Final Fantasy IV (3D remake).
Asura's Boon (アスラのしゅくふく, Asura no Shukufuku?, lit. Asura's Blessing), also known as Asura (アスラ, Asura?), is a recurring attack in the series. It is the signature attack of the Asura summon, often granting random effects depending on the face shown.
Asura's Boon is the summon attack of Asura. When used, Asura's Boon will perform either Curaga if it is her serene (pale) face, Protect if it is her angered (orange) face, or Raise if it is her happy (gray) face.
In the original North American SNES release and the Japanese Easy Type version, the angry face casts Curaga and the serene face casts Cura, due to the Protect spell being removed. The ability has a casting time of 1 and costs 50 MP to cast in all releases of the game except the 3D remake, where summoning Asura costs 40 MP.
In both English and Japanese, the attack's name was simply Asura in all releases up to the Game Boy Advance port. The name Asura's Boon was given to the attack in the 3D versions. However, this name change was not kept in the Japanese versions included in The Complete Collection.
Asura's Boon is Asura's summon ability. It randomly casts one of three spells: Curaga, Raise, or Protect on all party members at the cost of 50 MP.
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Asura's Boon appears as Asura's summon attack. It casts either Raise, Protect or Curaga on the party, with a 1/3 chance of each. It costs 40 MP to cast.
Asura's summon ability is Asura's Boon, which heals the entire party, revives all fallen party members, and softens the damage taken by the party. Summoning Asura costs 3 bars from the Summon Gauge.
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[view · edit · purge]Asuras (Sanskrit: असुर) are mythological lord beings in Indian texts who compete for power with the more benevolent devas (also known as suras). Asuras are described in Indian texts as powerful superhuman demigods or demons with good or bad qualities.
Asura is known as Ashura (阿修羅, Ashura?) in Japan, mostly portrayed as a six-armed god wielding different weapons in each hand.
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Infectious diseases and paediatric immunology
The Infectious Pathology and Immunodeficiencies unit of Paediatrics is a hospitalisation unit dedicated to the study and treatment of these diseases in children, and also acts as a consultancy in the diagnosis and control of complex infections in immunosuppressed patients. It was created in January 1996 for the study and treatment of paediatric diseases of infectious origin, but over time, the increase in cases of children with infections, for various reasons, means the unit has taken over more functions to face new challenges.
In our Unit, we treat infants with infections and immunodeficiencies, a pathology that has become increasingly important in recent years. This increase in cases is due to several reasons, such as the emergence of AIDS, the emergence of almost forgotten pathogens, the importing of diseases from other geographical areas, the increase in opportunistic infections as a consequence of more aggressive treatments and more invasive diagnostic techniques, and the presence of new patterns of microbial resistance. This is in addition to the significant differences between treating children and adults. For this reason, our discipline is constantly being reviewed and updated, and is a key specialty for all hospital centres.
Our Unit was created in January 1996, as a hospitalisation unit dedicated to the study and treatment of paediatric illnesses of infectious origin, and in June 2004 it also incorporated the day hospital and the Outpatient Clinic for HIV and Primary Immunodeficiencies. A year later, at the initiative of the centre's management, it consolidated itself as a modern infectology unit, taking over consultation functions in the diagnosis and control of complex infection of critical and immunodepressed patients as well as patients from various paediatric specialties. We went on to incorporate the Outpatient Clinic for Infectious Community Diseases (contracted outside the hospital), Vertical Transmission Infections (from mother to child) and Pathologies, such as tropical diseases.
Infectious pathology consultation service for healthy immunosuppressed children
Hospitalisation for infectious pathologies and immunodeficiencies
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Annual continuing education courses: paediatric infectology course and national IFI course
Master's in paediatric infectology by the UAB.
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The Unit participates in multiple studies and clinical trials, leading many of them. It is also home to the Infections in the immunocompromised paediatric patient research group. The main research lines of the Unit are:
Safety, efficacy and tolerance of anti-infectious agents
Family epidemiologic study of primary immunodifficiencies
Vertical transmission of HIV, Chagas and HTLV
Evolution of C/N infection by gram-positive cocci and "Candida"
Hidden hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection in immunocompromised patients
Hospitalisation risk factors for influenza A (H1N1)
Infection in Immunosuppressed Paediatric Patients
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A NEW MEANING TO THE COLLEGE “GREEN”
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With a son who is a sophomore in college and a daughter as a high school senior, I have managed to spend a lot of time visiting college campuses over the past few years. One of the things that I have paid particular attention to (and seen an huge increase in during the past two years) is the focus on sustainability. My strong hunch is that schools are incorporating sustainable technologies because this generation of smart, college age youth demand it.
Many college campuses now sport LEED certification on at least one building – my son’s dorm at the University of Richmond (Lakeview Hall) is LEED registered and undergoing certification. It is one of nine buildings at the University which is either certified, or in process of being certified as LEED with the USGBC. Locally, Vanderbilt University completed the LEED certified The Commons at Vanderbilt residential housing complex in 2008. As I have traversed the country and seen what must be dozens of (mostly) smaller liberal arts colleges, I have seen organic gardens and solar panels at Whitman College, windmills and biomass generators at Middlebury, local and organic foods at Skidmore, a unique “homestead” intentional environmental community at Denison, beautiful rain gardens at Emory and the list goes on.
I also found a interesting resource online called the College Sustainability Report Card for 2010 (www.greenreportcard.org), This report card basically looks at environmental sustainability at over 325 colleges and universities in the United States and Canada based on 48 indicators used to evaluate performance within four categories.
One of those categories is “green building”. It was heartening to see that 44% of the schools have had at least one LEED-certified green building or are in process of constructing one and a whopping three-quarters of all of the schools have adopted green building policies that specify minimum performance levels such as LEED certification for new construction.
I was particularly interested in taking a closer look at some of the successes that I have witnessed at several of the schools that I have visited especially as they relate to green infrastructure. I found some additional information on Emory, Allegheny, Middlebury, University of Vermont and Macalester.
As a part of Emory University in Atlanta’s overall commitment to sustainability (with over 1 million square feet in LEED certified buildings), Emory has incorporated many innovative water-conservation technologies.. Particularly impressive to me was their implementation of rainwater harvesting and condensate recovery, especially in light of the fact that Atlanta suffered an historic drought event in the summer of 2007. On Emory’s whole campus they have to date included 6 cisterns with a collective size of over 350,000 gallons for both toilet flushing and for irrigation as well as a condensate recovery technology for over 4 million gallons of water per year.
In their new freshman residence complex including Ignatius Few Hall and Lettie Pate Whitehead Evans Hall, rainwater and condensate collection is diverted to an 89,000 gallon reservoir underground which can provide adequate volume to provide 2170 gallons per day needed to flush all toilets int eh buildings. The rainwater is collected form the roof, then filtered and slowed through a bioswale system outsde of the building and then into the below grade cistern. The condensate harvest provides a reliable source of water to supplement rainfall during those months from May through September. It is estimated that the condensate harvests is adding 300,000 gallons per year to the system.
At the nearby Whitehead Biomedical Research Facility Building, completed in 2001, the engineers devised a system of piping condensate back into nearby cooling towers to use as make-up water. This system conserves water AND diverts 2.5 million (that’s 2,500,000) gallons a year from the sanitary sewer system.
Video About Emory University’s Sustainability Efforts
It seems to me that many, many schools are incorporating green roofs as that technology provides one of the most visible elements to show-off sustainable design. In every school we visited, if there WAS a green roof, it was highlighted on the student led campus tours. The green roof were touted for their well-documented benefits such as longer roof life, reduced cost of heating and cooling, stormwater runoff reduction and habitat.
Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania impressed me with the well designed green roof on the Vukovich Center for Communication Arts. It is located within the topography of the campus site allowing for a fully accessible roof (entering the building at the green roof on the high side and entering on a lower level to the main campus commons or quad –type area. The roof includes extensive and semi-intensive depths and features lawn space as well as sedums and native grasses with an interesting incorporation of stones and cedar decking through the rooftop.
University of Vermont, just on the edge of downtown Burlington, Vermont, recently completed the 186,000 s.f. Dudley H. Davis Center. The Center features a 19,000 s.f. green roof.
Middlebury College, also in Vermont, provided a sloped green roof above the Atwater Dining Hall. I was interested in seeing their notation that in addition to the traditional green roof benefits that I have seen listed in may locations, Middlebury includes improved acoustical insulation, noting that green roof systems can reduce airborne sound levels by 40 to 50 decibels.
Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota impressed me, not in size but in determination. The two green roofs on campus were the result of student designs and even some student labor! The first green roof at Macalester was a 300 s.f. tray system installed above a walkway between tow residence halls and the newer 1350 s.f. green roof on Kagin Commons. I happened to be on campus the day the Kagin Commons green roof was unveiled.
I believe the influence of these campuses and so many others will influence the bright minds of our next generation of decision makers and leaders.
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Where academic philosophy went wrong
Posted on August 19, 2014 by Huenemann
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I believe Peter Sloterdijk is right that the Enlightenment has been followed by philosophical cynicism, or an impressive array of natural knowledge unaccompanied by any faith in providence. The U.S., which became the dominant intellectual and cultural force in the course of the 20th century, was well-suited to put this cynicism to work: for America was built upon a pragmatic, “can do” attitude, and seemed ready to let expediency drive ideology . (There are probably interesting connections here to Protestantism and Holland of the 17th century.) And so there arose on American shores the fulfillment of the German idea of a research university, with its faculty as a specialized workforce and its students as Model-Ts rumbling down an assembly line on which three credits of this and three credits of that are bolted on to each chassis.
Each academic discipline became a guild or union, where membership is tightly controlled and guild members insist on their indispensability to the general curriculum. New disciplines created their own means of controlling membership and making cases for their newfound indispensability.
As unions generally lost power and new models of management were developed in the last third of the 20th century, the university also experienced a shift in authority from the faculty to the administration. In the names of efficiency and accountability, administrators deployed numerous measures for evaluating faculty “productivity”; and the nature of these measures encouraged faculty to entrench themselves more firmly in their respective guilds.
In the case of philosophy, this meant (1) more attention devoted to narrow problem-solving activity rather then efforts to deepen philosophical wonder; (2) increasingly narrow specialization and less general knowledge of the discipline itself and its history; (3) less engagement with anyone outside the professional guild; and (4) development of various cants and shibboleths to patrol membership in the guild.
What to do? (Provided, that is, that one is inclined to see these results as problems!)
Most academic philosophy departments see themselves primarily as housing a specialized academic discipline, and contributing only incidentally here or there to a university’s general education curriculum. The priority needs to be reversed. Frankly, there is little or no need for specialized academic philosophy; if it disappeared overnight, the only ones who would notice would be the practitioners themselves. But on the other hand, despite the occasional iconoclastic polemic saying otherwise, there is a widespread recognition that philosophy provides a valuable contribution to the mind of an educated person, even if the person is not working toward a degree in the field. Philosophy professors need to see their primary job as enriching the mental lives, values, and discourses of non-philosophers. For almost everyone, we should be a side dish rather than the main course. That is where our societal value lies.
Now it can be argued that in order to do this well, philosophers also need opportunities to continue to learn and grow: they too need the chance to “geek out” with fellow philosophers through publications and conferences. And, where there is both talent and motivation, some philosophers will manage to advance our very old and rich discipline. But genuine advances in philosophy will not happen with the frequency of advances in younger and more technological disciplines, like computer science and chemistry. Genuine advances in philosophy are as few and far between as are the geniuses of the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. For most of us most of the time, our primary job is to enlighten masses.
If philosophy reconceived itself along these lines, graduate training in philosophy would look very different. Right now, the usual aim is to equip each student for intensely critical interaction with a vanishingly narrow band of specialists. (Typically, these PhDs are then hired to teach very broad undergraduate classes – an assignment for which, of course, they are wholly unprepared.) But if my proposal were adopted, these candidates would be trained to engage meaningfully, fruitfully, and philosophically with a wide range of people lacking expertise in philosophy. They would be required to write not dissertations, but books that could meaningfully inform the lives of their fellow citizens. This would be the norm rather than the now-celebrated exception. Philosophy would move out of the tower and back into the agora.
I can hear the complaint: “But there are many really smart people who are now attracted to philosophy’s narrow and difficult questions, and wouldn’t go into the discipline at all if they instead had to ‘dumb down’ their efforts for bigger audiences.” I grant the objection, and have three responses:
First, it seems to me that these smart people might be able to find as much enjoyment working through equally difficult abstract problems in other fields – fields in which solving the problems would have more impact on more people. Smart problem-solvers are in demand all over the place.
Second, there would still be room in the discipline for some really smart, narrow specialists, even if most of the room were given over to the broader task I’m recommending. Right now, of course, all of the room is reserved for narrow specialists – and that just doesn’t seem sensible, especially given the nature of the great majority of teaching jobs that exist.
And third, I bet that for every person who is drawn into philosophy because of an inordinate enthusiasm for tight and narrow problems, there are ten really smart people who turn away from the discipline because there is no current opportunity for tackling broad and deep questions, and bringing them to the attention of wider audiences.
It would take some courage for philosophy as a discipline to make this move and “demean itself” by talking to broader audiences. It might seem like some sort of admission of defeat. But in reality, I think this move would be greeted very enthusiastically by a lot of educated people who have become increasingly disappointed in academic philosophers’ refusal to connect with people other than themselves. Moreover, it might encourage other disciplines in the humanities and social sciences to follow our lead, and recall their original purpose: to enlighten, deepen, enrich, and complicate the minds of human beings from all walks of life.
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25 Responses to Where academic philosophy went wrong
why is it always audiences that philosophers imagine themselves turning toward, when they turn away from the academy?
keeping with the agora metaphor, it seems like it would be better to say that philosophers address themselves not to audiences, but to crowds. but of course, leaders or authorities are characteristically the ones who do so. maybe even better to say that philosophers should join the crowd – mix in. that’s where you find people, and, individual encounters aside, how you can reach them personally.
i think the real worry is not the stuff about abstract problems, hard problems, etc., it’s the feeling that ‘rigorously trained’ thinkers/arguers/talkers get when they consider a run-of-the-mill example of philosophy undertaking to speak to human concerns. your unremarkable conference paper or public colloquium contribution, your pedagogue’s friendly informality, your letter to the editor. namely, a sense that all that was really ever needed was just some warm affirmations of what we all know to be important, some modest enthusiasm for verities. artificial as it may be, there’s some tension left in academic philosophy’s positioning of itself against ‘civilian’ perceptions of life, the world, its problems. turning back toward the human seems to those philosophers as if it means relaxing the tension, losing it.
it seems to me like an element of that phenomenon is typically that the re-humanized philosopher still goes around exhorting people, addressing communities, addressing audiences. rare that one will venture to expose himself to the crowd as one who can only question it, find people there and test them, one by one.
bjdubbs says:
Wouldn’t administrators welcome your argument? It seems like this is a good argument for heavier loads and smaller salaries. I mean, it’s hard to imagine another thirty or forty years will pass and philosophy will still manage to pretend that it’s doing very important business. That will seem more and more implausible to administrators and donors and parents and students. So I agree with your well-argued post, I just don’t see another alternative. From the perspective of an outsider, it seems like it’s gen ed or bust. The same goes for the other humanities with the exception of economics.
Huenemann says:
Perceptive points, j. You’re right that “audience” is not the best way of conceiving the friends, neighbors, fellow citizens a philosopher may seek to engage. I’m still stuck in a professorial paradigm – thanks for pointing that out in such a kind way!
Bjdubbs – in my experience, if I were to walk into an administrators office to tell them that instead of publishing in an exclusive, peer-review journal I will be publishing a trade paperback, or an essay in the Atlantic, or an op-ed for the Times, their eyes would grow wide in delight! Indeed, if I became really good at it, they might give me course releases.
tractatusdeterra says:
As a senior undergraduate in philosophy and government, I often find myself wanting to promote philosophy to my peers but holding my tongue as to avoid the usual responses (what do I do with that?, etc.). Though I have found that the best way to get my peers interested in philosophy is by posing the most ridiculous question but philosophically complex question, my current go-to question is, can you smell your nose? From there I discuss that undergraduate philosophy isn’t really concerned with the answer to the question rather it is an invitation on how to think about the problem. In other words philosophy isn’t what to think or what was thought but how one thinks about what is and was thought. I promote a problem/question philosophy instead of a fact philosophy. In spite of the excellent training in various, narrowly tailored subdisciplines, my profs too often run into this fact philosophy when teaching strictly history of philosophy courses to the gen ed audience. This can be explained by just how the student interacts and “learns” the material. If you would compare my modern philosophy notebook to one of say a biology student, our notes would be entirely different. My notes are usually simple, concise showing the development of the argument, and the importance of the argument. On the other hand the notes bio major would be more along the lines of “Descartes doubted everything and sought an “Archimedian point”. If students were to engage in philosophy by the question instead of the fact, philosophy would better lend itself to the aforementioned side-show role.
That being said, however, I find that my interest in a narrowly confined subdiscipline is what gets me excited to do philosophy. But I am just one of the relatively few anomalies in the liberal university.
Tractatusdeterra – you’re right that it’s often hard for teachers to resist “fact philosophy” – often, I think, it’s so that we can cover some preliminary ground quickly to get to something really interesting, but alas it sometimes happens that we never get there! I like your way of getting your friends interested in philosophy. Aristotle has a lot of good go-to questions in a work called (I think) “Problems” (I’ll check it again when I’m near my books).
Are you familiar with the CÉGEPs in Quebec (the canadian province)? I teach philosophy in one of them, and our role is very similar to what you suggest : we have to teach and grade (no TAs) but don’t have to do research or publish. Students go there either to complete a 3-year technical program or a 2-year pre-university program. Every one of them, whether they study to become a nurse (technical program) or plan to get into med school after their pre-university program will have to complete 3 philosophy classes.
Michael J Ahles says:
Philosophy is truth and a philosopher is a lover truth. A philosophy lesson therefore should teach nothing but the truth, the absolute. And rather than complicate as you suggest above, the truth is found quite simply, the other Way. Allow me to show you the Way. =
MJA
As a philosophy major who later abandoned the field, I don’t think that you have captured the full extent of the irrelevance of philosophy as an academic discipline, particularly in the U.S. This was, has been and still is a deeply anti-intellectual country that values commerce above all. Within the curriculum of a liberal arts program, knowledge of philosophy, like knowledge of English literature and other subjects, has served primarily as a signifier of membership to the elite class, while knowledge of engineering, manufacturing, business, medicine or law represents a practical path to success in society. From a social standpoint in the U.S., philosophy is the kind of thing that 19th century women might be exposed in finishing school prior to marriage.
Moreover, to the extremely limited extent that I have attempted to keep up with the subject, there is nothing interesting going on in it. Moral/legal philosophy still seems to rely on obsolete thinkers such as Kant and Mill and eschews evidence from evolutionary biology that might be an improvement over warmed-up Christian or Romantic concepts. The problems of logic seem to belong in mathematics proper. There does not seem to be any coherent, enduring message or technique generated by one of the last great philosophers, Wittgenstein. Some philosophy departments seem to have gone overboard in emphasizing the philosophy of science, though science carries on fine without them.
Until recently I kept up with one of my former professors, who seems to be deeply involved in the analytic tradition. I have given up on communicating with him because he is unable to communicate beyond the specialized language and writings of analytic philosophy. Frankly, I have my doubts whether anyone, including his philosophical acquaintances, understands him at all.
It would be nice if philosophy departments were a home for, as you say, “broad and deep questions,” but in my experience they have never been equipped to handle them, and, with the corporatization of universities, that will never pass muster with the number crunchers.
Sorry to hear your tale, Paul! And I’m sorry to say it is a familiar tale. But see patricksodonnell’s post below, which might lead you to some interesting and relevant philosophical discussions.
Thanks, Charlie, but I refuse to read anything that has the word “religious” in it in a non-anthropological or non-ironical context, even though I met Ninian Smart several years ago at his summer home in Tremezzo and thought he was a nice man. I have been retired for seven years and am finding enough to read without descending into academic philosophy, which I’ve been able to live without for the last forty years with no ill effects.
I’m not as closed-minded as I sound and will offer you and your academic philosophy friends a challenge. If you can write a serious philosophy book that becomes a bestseller, comparable to Thomas Piketty’s “Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” E.O. Wilson’s “The Social Conquest of Earth” or Stephen Hawking’s “A Brief History of Time,” I’ll read it. If these academic disciplines can draw wide public interest, why can’t philosophy? Certainly academic philosophy is no more difficult to grasp than theoretical physics. When the public recognizes that an idea is important, they respond. If philosophers are unable to communicate the importance of their work to outsiders, they must accept the public’s perception of them as irrelevant. There has never been a philosophy book as popular as the ones mentioned.
Fair points, Paul. I think it is a reasonable challenge.
patricksodonnell says:
This post is in the spirit if not occasionally letter of (some older, some recent) works by Martha Nussbaum, John Cottingham, John M. Cooper, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Larry May, Mary Midgley, Joel Kupperman, Iris Murdoch, Jonathan Lear, Herbert Fingarette, Ninian Smart, Joshua Cohen, Kristin Shrader-Frechette, Sari Nusseibeh, Grant Gillett, and Raymond Tallis (Gillett and Tallis with professional backgrounds in medicine as well), for example. Others, perhaps not strictly “philosophers” but clearly with philosophical temperaments and ability, write broadly on timely topics addressing subjects of wide concern, for instance, Amartya Sen, Jon Elster and Robert Goodin.
And if you’ve not read it, you might look up Amelie Oksenberg’s essay, “Socrates and Sophia Perform the Philosophic Turn,”* who writes, “In addition to all the activities which the guild of philosophers are presently performing, we need to engage in a new version of Socratic inquiry, to raise basic questions about our fundamental activities and practices. On some deep level, few of us know what we are doing. Not only as philosophers, but as citizens, parents, teachers, friends, we do not know what is central to performing our activities well. We guild-philosophers are good at discussing whether answers to the question ‘How should one/we/I live?” are objective, or whether they can be rationally justified. But we are not, as philosophers, very good at actually examining the details of competing substantive answers to that question, tending as we do to protect ourselves by moving straightway to methodological issues. So quickly do we make that move that we rarely even ask questions about the most basic and fundamental features that shape our lives.”
I addressed related concerns in a rather cursory fashion (these too are blog posts) about the profession here: http://www.religiousleftlaw.com/2012/06/the-therapeutic-model-of-philosophy-philosophy-as-applied-philosophy.html and here: http://www.religiousleftlaw.com/2012/07/analytic-philosophy-the-big-questions-and-rhetorical-sensitivity.html
* in Avner Cohen and Marcelo Dascal, eds., The Institution of Philosophy: A Discipline in Crisis? (Open Court, 1989)
Thanks for the leads! And for taking the time to include Oksenberg’s essay. Sounds perceptive – I will follow up on that, and the links!
Justin Caouette says:
Thanks for the references. Nussbaum is great but I wasn’t familiar with some of the others you mentioned.
purplecreams says:
it seems to me, despite his views, that slavoj zizek is someone who is doing a great job at both ends. massive books on hegel etc. while putting out op-eds and making entertaining films about ideology. whether or not you like the guy, he’s doing it and doing it well.
Well, I guess – I’ve never gotten anything useful from Zizek’s work, but perhaps I haven’t tried hard enough. He certainly is engaging with a broad spectrum of folks.
Chris Long (@cplong) says:
I appreciate the spirit in which this post was written, and I support the idea that philosophy professors should be engaged with the world beyond the confines of technical disciplinary problems. That is one of the reasons I am spending so much of my time trying to develop the Public Philosophy Journal.
My concern, however, is about the way you have formulated the philosophical response: it remains too bound up with the old paradigm of the philosopher as sage. Of course, those of us with philosophical training have an important perspective to bring to bear on issues of public concern. Hopefully as we engage those we encounter, issues that seem simple and straightforward will be shown to be more nuanced and complex. But in order for philosophers to engage a wider public in thoughtful and productive ways, we should ourselves enter into relationships with others prepared to learn as much as to teach, to be enriched as much as to enrich.
My sense is that the value of what we have to offer the public discourse will be more readily recognized if we enter more humbly into dialogue with the wider public whose intelligence, thoughtfulness, and imagination has too long been underestimated by philosophers blinded by our own haughtiness.
(OK, the rhetoric of that last sentence may have gotten away from me a bit, but still, I hope the main point is well received.)
You’re exactly right, Chris. Philosophical engagement has to be more tentative – and friendly, and respectful – to really merit anyone’s attention. I’m glad both you and “j.” (above) have called me out on the somewhat haughty rhetoric I was using. Thanks!
Artem Kaznatcheev says:
I like this post and idea, but I am not sure how what you are describing is different from the continental tradition. Continental philosophers seem to flock toward the mantle of ‘public intellectuals’ and ‘public educators’ (which I think are two very different ideas). As Leiter points out in his discussion of the analytic tradition, being a relevant public intellectual (at least for broad ranging and deep philosophical questions) requires a certain genius that can’t really be taught; I think I agree with this sentiment to some extent. This means that one is left with public educators, but if so then why reform philosophy departments? Why not reform education departments to train better teachers of philosophy? Philosophy does not need to be done in the philosophy department, and many in the continental tradition seem to realize this as they congregate in other areas of the humanities, so why reform the existing departments instead of just renaming them as departments of “western analytic philosophy” to better reflect their (often unreasonably) exclusive nature.
I agree with you that many continental philosophers try to engage the contemporary world – but very often, what they end up writing is every bit as impenetrable to a lay reader as anything written by the stereotypical, logic-chopping analytic philosopher. Happily there are exceptions – but too many philosophers are just too far removed from any potential non-professional reader.
Bharath Vallabha says:
What would it look like if philosophy professors followed this idea? If PhDs focused on engaging with the public rather than writing to other professionals?
One hopes what will happen is: the philosophers will seek to “enlighten” the masses, the masses will be inspired, they will then change how they live their lives, and there will be a better world.
But will the masses be inspired? Some surely will be. But all? Most? That is a stretch. Some won’t be because they don’t trust academics. But let’s leave them aside. Let’s assume If one is open minded, one will be inspired.
Then what will the masses do with that inspiration? Seek to emulate the way the professors live their lives, no doubt. But is that emulatable? In fact, what does it mean for someone with a 9-5 job who reads a inspiring book by a professor to emulate that professor? Doesn’t emulating involve doing the kind of things the professor does? But how can the 9-5 person do that when they don’t have time in their day to think for the whole day the way the professor can?
Perhaps the masses will be inspired to think for themselves, and then they won’t try to emulate professors but just live the reflective life themselves. But how will that then lead to a better, more harmonious society? Philosophy professors, assuming they are excellent at thinking for themselves, don’t have a great track record of engaging in group projects among themselves to improve the philosophy profession. It is unclear that for philosophy professors thinking for oneself leads to building solidarity in a practical, efficient way. So how then thinking for oneself in ways inspired by philosophy professors help the masses to make changes in their lives and society in a practical way?
Maybe philosophy professors writing for the public isn’t enough. Maybe some philosophers need to leave academia and do philosophy among the masses, as one of the masses. Then the philosophy among the masses can be not a matter of some privileged enlightened beings shedding the light for the masses, but of people struggling together to do philosophy amidst day to day life and the difficulties of that. Perhaps the masses will be inspired to do philosophy when the very distinction between professors and the masses gets erased.
windwheel says:
German University students in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century differed quite dramatically from Anglo-American students in that
1) they were less subject to the discipline of ‘Proctors’ and, instead, were answerable to their own fraternities- i.e. the medieval notion of students as comprising a ‘nation’ continued to flourish whereas in England or France the student was dependent on his parent or guardian who expected the College to exercise an infantilising ‘in loco parentis’ type of care. In other words,
2) German students (especially those who supported themselves by giving tuition or doing copyist work etc) had more freedom- in particular the freedom to transfer to another University with a more popular or dynamic Professor.
3) Germany had fewer well paid jobs for the ‘Bildungsburgertum’ so students had to earn more and more credentials or act as an unpaid privatdocent for longer periods. Like Balzac’s idealized ‘Cenacle’, some German students spent 20 years living in garrets on starvation rations, while grappling with the most recondite and intractable of Research Programs. To be discovered in one’s lifetime was an actuarial improbability for most of them. By contrast, University education was often a good investment showing a quick return for Anglo-Americans- and even the State supported French, or Church supported Spaniard or Italian.
4) Even after German Unification and the State sponsored nexus between ‘Finanzkapital’ and Technological Industries, the Collegiate decision system common to Germany and Russia meant that the German savant/bureaucrat had a longer neotenous latency and only came into his own in advanced middle age.
Thus, the relative ‘autonomy’ of the German student (itself the paradoxical result of inferior life-chances) was the cause not the consequence of German Idealistic Romanticism in all its incarnations- including the phenomenological and deconstructive. However, this also meant the relative retardation of German Socio-Economic thought. Britain had Jevons & Marshall, Italy had Pareto, Belgium had Walras, France had a whole bunch of guys starting with Bernoulli- but when the Germans get a Gossen they ignore him and just carry on doing Institutional. not seeing the wood for the trees, drudgery even though their Math Heavy Industry had given them the lead and, logically, it should have been the Germans not the Austrians who start seeing that Social processes are simple, zero intelligence and ‘out of control’- i.e. Paideia as pi-jaw alternating with mindless drudgery is just silly. Better by far, Plato would have judged, was the raucous beer hall harmonizing of the duelling fraternity.
The American Higher Education system did grow way too big between ’45 and ’69 and, no question, quality suffered. Edward Said pointed out that for the first time in history, you had Professors of Literature who couldn’t read a Classical or even a second Modern Language. David Lodge mentions an American Prof. of English who had never read Hamlet. Of course, our position now is far worse. We have Professors who think they”ve read Hamlet because they once wrote a Polanyi type dissertation on it under the inspiration of Gayatri Spivak or Judith Butler. Philosophy, of course, has suffered more because a lot of young Associate Professors think they know some Math or Econ or whatever because they took Post Grad courses specifically designed to be worthless simply so as to inculcate that individually profitable but collectively disastrous delusion. Of course, the opposite is also true. Philosophy has made a sterling contribution to stupidity in every other Discipline.
This is a good thing. Society only works, we only have an incentive to use Language, if we all believe other people, on average, are stupider than us. Also a waiter with a PhD just makes the pizza taste better. Unless, of course your tax dollars paid for his PhD- in which case refuse to tip.
Lucy Maltez says:
I came across this blog and appreciate it and the various commentators. I want to be hopeful of the role of professional philosophy both in the public sphere and in educational institutions. As a postgraduate who has chosen to leave the academic world for various reasons, the specialization/professionalization of philosophy has made Philosophy loose its paths in being a deeply passionate and engaging activity in which the integrity and the authenticity of the human being is decisively implicated; in other words, it has lost its footing to speak to the issues of the everyday and age. In the confines of specialized journals and conferences, academics preach to a dogmatic (depending on the school of thought) choir. There are many people who are truly craving to engage in rich and nuanced dialogue, and I believe there is a role for the philosopher not as the holder of knowledge but more of guiders in the terrain of thinking. It is good many philosophers are starting to question critically what role philosophy needs to play in institutions of higher learning and in the public sphere.
I commence Chris Long for his project to bring Philosophy to a more public space. I must also say that I am hopeful of the role of philosophy among the general public. I recently moved to Spain and have found various public spaces where academic philosophers engage in philosophical thinking, dialogue and learning with people who aren`t professional philosophers and have a very basic knowledge of philosophy as a discipline. We cannot underestimate people’s interest and intelligibility, and I think this has been the mistake current philosophers have made; they assume the public has no interest or is not verse enough to understand.
By the way, I am certain that there are many people like myself who have a 9-5 job and also find time for reading philosophy and philosophizing. We would welcome more academic philosophers to challenge themselves to speak to us in less technical terms. I may not be an expert or may follow the latest journal articles in the field but I continue with the task of thinking and I don’t believe academic philosophy has a monopoly on that.
Ben McLean says:
As far as I can tell, every single word of this article is absolutely correct, and should be accepted as gospel by academic philosophers. The problem it addresses, I think, is that a movement which began in the 19th century and culminated in the “logical positivism” of the 20th century has essentially killed philosophy, by constructing an impenetrable barrier between philosophy and life. Logical positivism was so absurdly easy to refute that it couldn’t last, of course, but now most philosophers seem to either regret that, because they desperately want their discipline to be regarded as scientific in the modern sense, (which I think is pathetic) or else they have gotten into the crazy postmodernism stuff and abandoned reason altogether. Very few say, “Philosophy is about how to think, and how you should live your life. Philosophy tells modern science what to do and why to do it, not the other way around.”
In previous centuries, even as radical a skeptic as David Hume would have the good sense to write, “Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man” whilest regrettably failing to practice the maxim. Today’s analytic tradition doesn’t even pay lip service to that idea anymore.
There is now an almost total division between philosophy and life. Ethics is regarded as something we can and should abstract our discussions away from at every possible opportunity, while political philosophy has been hijacked by the Marxists and the absolutely barbarous “gender studies” departments which spout off pure nonsense bizarre enough to be worthy of a nightmare dreamed by Lewis Carroll himself. Yet none of the philosophy professors, whose training in logic should guarantee that they know better than to tolerate such absurdity, will say a damn thing. I’m not sure whether it’s fear of the Internet Hate Mob, or their own ideologically-induced blindness or some combination of both, but in any case, Reason no longer reigns in our institutions of higher learning. And let’s get honest: the Right does not run the universities. The Left does, almost without exception. The entire right side of the political spectrum can point at the left side of the political spectrum on this issue and say, “This is completely and totally your fault. Fix it, damn you.”
The politics of universities have discouraged me somewhat from attempting to pursue my ambitions to become a philosophy professor myself. I just graduated with my Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy this May, but I am so fed up with academia right now that I’m not sure I want to go any further with the subject academically.
And the thing is, teaching undergraduate philosophy courses is exactly what I’d like to be doing if I was to pursue that career. I would want to be teaching Philosophy 101, Ethics, Epistemology, Plato, Philosophy of Law, Philosophy of Religion/Theology and perhaps Logic. I’d love walking people through the difference between consequentialism and deontology, or exposing them to the radical skepticism of Hume, or introducing them to Descartes Evil Demon, or to Aquinas’s Five Ways or how Locke thinks property comes to exist. I could see myself making all of those kinds of things accessible and entertaining, in order to enrich the educational experience and round out the knowledge of all the non-philosophy majors who should all (in my opinion) have to take Logic and at least another course or two in philosophy just so they get a general idea what it’s about, for general historical background if for nothing else.
I also love to write but I would want to write in the style of the Great Books, and not be forced into following the expectations of the dry, academic style that nobody wants to read about trivial problems that very few people are ever confronted with. I wholeheartedly agree with the idea in this piece that most writing on philosophy should be for the benefit of non-philosophers. (or for people who do not specialize in philosophy, let alone in a specific field in philosophy) We should also perhaps not be so very insistent upon getting citations for every damn thing. I notice that most of the most famous works in the history of philosophy contain very few, if any, citations. Academic & intellectual rigor of course requires citing sources when appropriate, and citing them a great deal in some subjects, but not for everything in every subject.
I am very inspired by the works of Dr. Peter Kreeft of Boston College, with his “Socrates Meets” series. He has, “Socrates Meets Descartes” “Socrates Meets Hume” “Socrates Meets Kant” “Socrates Meets Marx” ect. Each one a dialogue in the style of Plato, where his Socrates cross-examines a great thinker of history about the contents of their books. Another great book of his is “The Best Things in Life.” These books represent the kind of thing I’d like to be writing someday.
So despite my continued interest in philosophy, my patience with academia and it’s culture has waned severely, for reasons I think are largely related to the problem brought up here. So I am currently pursuing a career as a software developer with my other degree, a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science.
BTW, I think Searle’s Chinese Room is absolutely devastating to the strong AI optimists and am more interested in computer related ethics than the AI questions everyone throws at me as soon as they hear I do both computer science and philosophy.
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Household Market and Nonmarket Activities (HUS) – A Pilot Study
Klevmarken, Anders
(Göteborgs Universitet)
N. Anders Klevmarken
Economic analysis of household micro behavior, data collection for a longitudinal data base and development of statistical methods for collection and analysis of micro data are the three general purposes of the HUS-project. A pilot study was carried out in 1981/82. It was designed to compare various data collection methods, test questionnaires, give an idea of the likely response rate in a main study, help in developing coding and editing procedures and give the project staff training in the entire survey operation. The pilot study included a sample survey of 300 households which were interviewed in person and by telephone. This report gives an account of the design and the results of the pilot study.
Klevmarken, Anders, 1982. "Household Market and Nonmarket Activities (HUS) – A Pilot Study," Working Paper Series 77, Research Institute of Industrial Economics.
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File URL: http://www.ifn.se/wfiles/wp/wp077.pdf
Klevmarken, Anders, 1989. "Modelling Labor Supply in a Dynamic Economy," Working Paper Series 247, Research Institute of Industrial Economics.
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Klevmarken, N. Anders, 2004. "Estimates of a Labour Supply Function Using Alternative Measures of Hours of Work," IZA Discussion Papers 1035, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
Klevmarken, Anders & Lupton, Joseph & Stafford, Frank, 2000. "Wealth Dynamics in the 1980’s and 1990’s: Sweden and the U.S," Working Paper Series 2000:18, Uppsala University, Department of Economics.
Klevmarken, A. & Lupton, J. & Stafford, F., 2000. "Wealth Dynamics in the 1980' and 1990's: Sweden and the U.S," Papers 2000:18, Uppsala - Working Paper Series.
Klevmarken, A. & Lupton, J. & Stafford, F., 2000. "Wealth Dynamics in the 1980' and 1990's: Sweden and the U.S," Papers 2000-18, Uppsala - Working Paper Series.
Ericson, Thomas, 2008. "Equalization of paid working hours in the dual-earner household: Does it increase women’s double burden?," Working Papers in Economics 291, University of Gothenburg, Department of Economics.
Hallberg, Daniel, 2003. "Synchronous leisure, jointness and household labor supply," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 10(2), pages 185-203, April.
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Andrew Harvey, 1993. "Guidelines for time use data collection," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 30(2), pages 197-228, November.
Edin, Per-Anders & Fredriksson, Peter, 2000. "LINDA - Longitudinal INdividual DAta for Sweden," Working Paper Series 2000:19, Uppsala University, Department of Economics.
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Dahlberg, Susanne & Nahum, Ruth-Aïda, 2003. "Cohort Effects on Earnings Profiles: Evidence from Sweden," Working Paper Series 2003:11, Uppsala University, Department of Economics.
Dahlberg, Susanne & Nahum, Ruth-Aïda, 2003. "Cohort Effects on Earnings Profiles: Evidence from Sweden," Arbetsrapport 2003:3, Institute for Futures Studies.
Zamac, Jovan & Hallberg, Daniel & Lindh, Thomas, 2008. "Low fertility and long run growth in an economy with a large public sector," Arbetsrapport 2008:11, Institute for Futures Studies.
Zamac, Jovan & Hallberg, Daniel & Lindh, Thomas, 2008. "Low fertility and long run growth in an economy with a large public sector," CAFO Working Papers 2009:5, Linnaeus University, Centre for Labour Market Policy Research (CAFO), School of Business and Economics.
Björklund, Anders & Åkerman, Jeanette, 1989. "Piece-Rates, On-the-Job Training and the Wage-Tenure Profile," Working Paper Series 246, Research Institute of Industrial Economics.
Daniel Hallberg & Anders Klevmarken, 2003. "Time for children: A study of parent's time allocation," Journal of Population Economics, Springer;European Society for Population Economics, vol. 16(2), pages 205-226, May.
Hallberg, Daniel & Klevmarken, Anders, 2001. "Time for Children, a Study of Parents’ Time Allocation," Working Paper Series 2001:21, Uppsala University, Department of Economics.
Hallberg, D., 2000. "Does Time-Use Data Support the Unitary Model? A Test using Swedish Time-Use Data from 1984 and 1993," Papers 2000:14, Uppsala - Working Paper Series.
Hallberg, Daniel, 2000. "Does Time-Use Data Support the Unitary Model? A Test using Swedish Time-Use Data from 1984 and 1993," Working Paper Series 2000:14, Uppsala University, Department of Economics.
Hallberg, D., 2000. "Does Time-Use Data Support the Unitary Model? A Test using Swedish Time-Use Data from 1984 and 1993," Papers 2000-14, Uppsala - Working Paper Series.
Yuta Masuda & Lea Fortmann & Mary Gugerty & Marla Smith-Nilson & Joseph Cook, 2014. "Pictorial Approaches for Measuring Time Use in Rural Ethiopia," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 115(1), pages 467-482, January.
Wells, Curt & Edgerton, David & Kruse, Agneta, 2004. "An Analysis of Sick Leave in Sweden using Panel Data 1985-1997," Working Papers 2004:3, Lund University, Department of Economics.
Aronsson, Thomas & Daunfeldt, Sven-Olov & Wikström, Magnus, 2001. "Intra-household Tax Avoidance: An Application to Swedish Household Data," Umeå Economic Studies 572, Umeå University, Department of Economics.
Westerberg, Thomas, 2006. "MoreWork, Less Kids - The Relationship Between Market Experience and Number of Children," Umeå Economic Studies 682, Umeå University, Department of Economics.
Kazamaki Ottersten, Eugenia & Mellander, Erik & Meyerson, Eva M. & Nilson, Jörgen, 1994. "Pitfalls in the Measurement of the Return to Education: An Assessment Using Swedish Data," Working Paper Series 414, Research Institute of Industrial Economics.
Westerberg, Thomas, 2006. "Two Papers On Fertility - The Case Of Sweden," Umeå Economic Studies 683, Umeå University, Department of Economics.
Björklund, Anders & Holmlund, Bertil, 1988. "Job Mobility and Subsequent Wages in Sweden," Working Paper Series 192, Research Institute of Industrial Economics.
Pettersson, Jan, 2011. "Instead of Bowling Alone? Unretirement of Old-Age Pensioners," Working Paper Series 2011:14, Uppsala University, Department of Economics.
Household behavior; Data collection; Survey;
JEL classification:
C42 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods: Special Topics - - - Survey Methods
C81 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Data Collection and Data Estimation Methodology; Computer Programs - - - Methodology for Collecting, Estimating, and Organizing Microeconomic Data; Data Access
D10 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - General
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A Temporal and Spatial Equilibrium Analysis of Commuter Parking
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Richard Arnott
Richard J. Arnott
In major cities parking costs typically exceed automobile running costs, while the time to find a parking spot and walk to work can be comparable to driving time. Yet models of urban commuting have ignored parking completely. The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of parking on morning rush hour congestion and to assess the relative merits of road tolls and parking fees as tools for congestion relief. The paper extends Vickrey's (1969) bottleneck road congestion model by assuming on-street parking is located along commuting routes radiating from the CBD. Absent pricing, drivers occupy parking spots in order of increasing distance from the CBD. Three pricing schemes are considered: 1) an optimal time-varying road toll, 2) competitively set parking fees, and 3) optimal location-dependent parking fees. The optimal road toll is shown to eliminate queueing, but does not affect the order in which parking spots are occupied. In contrast, competitive parking fees do nothing to reduce queueing , but induce drivers to park in order of decreasing distance from the CBD, so that in the aggregate commuters arrive at work closer to their preferred time. Optimal parking fees reduce queueing in addition to supporting the efficient order of parking. For reasonable parameter values competitively set parking fees are found to be relatively inefficient-indeed potentially welfare-reducing. Optimal parking fees, however, are generally superior to a road toll. In light of the logistical drawbacks of tolls and political opposition that road pricing has met, this suggests that parking fees deserve more attention than they have received in the literature.
Richard Arnott, 1990. "A Temporal and Spatial Equilibrium Analysis of Commuter Parking," Discussion Papers 884, Northwestern University, Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and Management Science.
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Arnott, Richard & de Palma, Andre & Lindsey, Robin, 1991. "A temporal and spatial equilibrium analysis of commuter parking," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 45(3), pages 301-335, August.
Lee, N & Dalvi, M Q, 1969. "Variations in the Value of Travel Time," The Manchester School of Economic & Social Studies, University of Manchester, vol. 37(3), pages 213-236, September.
Arnott, Richard & de Palma, Andre & Lindsey, Robin, 1990. "Economics of a bottleneck," Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 27(1), pages 111-130, January.
Richard Arnott & Andre de Palma & Robin Lindsey, 1985. "Economics of a Bottleneck," Working Paper 636, Economics Department, Queen's University.
Vickrey, William S, 1969. "Congestion Theory and Transport Investment," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 59(2), pages 251-260, May.
Small, Kenneth A, 1982. "The Scheduling of Consumer Activities: Work Trips," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 72(3), pages 467-479, June.
David W. Gillen, 1977. "Alternative Policy Variables to Influence Urban Transport Demand," Canadian Journal of Economics, Canadian Economics Association, vol. 10(4), pages 686-695, November.
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LeeHendrickson
FinalProject
Final Project Proposal: LeeHendrickson, RyanSmith
Illustrative Pictures
Our goal is to render a lava flow or a molten material such as steel. These materials exhibit black-body radiative characteristics that cause their surfaces to be emmissive. Furthermore, the particular features of such a surface have a somewhat chaotic/irregular look to them that lends itself to be modeled through procedural methods. These two concepts are intrinsically related, as the surface of the material changes (due to cooling over time, or structural deformation due to flow) so does its emmissive characteristics - we wish to model the system so as to gainfully exploit this relationship.
Visually, an active lava flow or a stream of molten steel is very compelling, as it is both dramatic and unique. This is not something a person has everyday exposure to, and as such a certain sense of excitement/wonderment is produced in the viewer by these phenomenon.
On a technical side, PBRT currently only supports "traditional" light sources such as a point light, an area light, or an environment map. Adding support for black body radiators opens the door to many other interesting light sources such as fires.
We would also like to enrich PBRT's procedural generation algorithms with one having some distinctive physical basis. Since the temperature of a molten material has some direct relationship with time (as it flows and possibly cools), parameterizing the generating algorithms with a time factor could lead to the production of some eye-catching animations.
Key Technical Challenges
Black body radiation.
Computing (physically) correct emissive characteristics of material (based on temperature).
Varying between the emissiveness of the black body at high temperatures and a possibly more traditional BRDF at low temperatures in a continuous and plausible fashion.
Actually lighting the environment according to the calculated emissiveness of the black body (photon mapping?)
Procedural generation of surface features.
Designing a procedural algorithm to generate a visually appealing and plausible surface temperature (and thus emissive characteristic) for the flow. This algorithm should be parameterized such that other information (such as temperature of the area directly below the surface) can be taken into account to give rise to a more physically correct surface.
Possibly in later stages using a procedural algorithm to generate the geometry of the material itself rather than a fixed model.
The procedurally generated surface features should be able to be fed to the black body radiation algorithm such that emissiveness is directly related to those surface features.
Modeling an appropriate environment.
To be able to visually recognize that the flow is a black body radiator there must be at least some objects in the environment that can realistically reflect the emitted light.
However, given the time frame of the project this must be balanced with the need to otherwise keep the scene as simple as possible.
Outline of Approach
Given the different components of the project there is a natural delineation of work across technical challenges 1 and 2 above. The focus will be on rapidly prototyping each component in PBRT, with Ryan concentrating on black body radiation, Lee on procedural generation methods, and both on modeling (most likely the geometry of the scene will be created in 3dsmax or Maya). Once these proof-of-concepts are completed a more full fledged implementation will begin that integrates the two subsystems into one cohesive unit to create the final rendered image.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackbody_radiation
http://www-imagis.imag.fr/LAVA/
http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/classes/252/black_body_radiation.html
http://mrl.nyu.edu/projects/texture/
http://freespace.virgin.net/hugo.elias/models/m_perlin.htm
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Warwick Medical School, UK
A Harvard physician is somebody for whom the pursuit of excellence—both professional and personal—is a lifestyle. Upon completion, the scholars advance to the scientific stage, the place they obtain three years of training and schooling within the medical subjects (e.g., inner drugs , surgery , obstetrics and gynecology , pediatrics , pharmacology , pathology , and many others.). After these three years, they have to move the second federal medical exam (Zweiter Abschnitt der ärztlichen Prüfung) earlier than continuing with the sixth and last year.
While acquiring an undergraduate diploma is just not an specific requirement for a number of medical faculties, nearly all admitted students have earned a minimum of a bachelor’s diploma A few medical schools provide pre-admittance to students directly from highschool by linking a joint 3-yr accelerated undergraduate diploma and a typical 4-yr medical degree with sure undergraduate universities, sometimes referred to as a “7-yr program”, where the student receives a bachelor’s degree after their first yr in medical school.
These public medical faculties embrace the International Medical Faculty at the University of Milan , the College of Pavia , Rome “La Sapienza” , Rome “Tor Vergata” , Naples Federico II , the Second College of Naples , and the University of Bari These universities require candidates to rank extremely on the International Medical Admissions Check Italy additionally has personal or parochial, costlier English-language medical colleges such as Vita-Salute San Raffaele University and Humanitas College in Milan, and on the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Rome campus.
There are six medical faculties in Ireland They’re at Trinity School Dublin , the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland , College Faculty Dublin , University School Cork , College of Limerick and the National College of Ireland, Galway (the National University of Eire is the diploma-awarding institution for all except the University of Limerick and Trinity School).
Graduates of the Royal College of Surgeons in Eire also receive the normal “Licenciate of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons and Physicians in Ireland” (LRCP&SI), which was awarded before the Royal School of Surgeons in Eire became an Affiliate of the National University of Eire and thus was allowed grant levels, underneath the Medical Practitioners Act (1978).
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Richard Aldrich
BERA History SIG
Education and the Life Course
ICHRE
International Centre for Historical Research in Education
Getting away from it all…
In September I was one of the lucky PhD students selected, after application, for a space on an academic writing retreat at Chapelgarth Estate. The space was provided by ICHRE visiting scholar Dr Marcella Sutcliffe. This was the first time I had been on a writing retreat and although I was not sure what to expect, I knew intuitively that I needed to get away from the pressures of everyday life and to have the time to focus on my academic writing. The pressures of undertaking a part-time PhD are enormous and the biggest challenge for me was finding the time to think and to write as thus far I had been trying to write to meet deadlines – before supervisions or for a publication.
Chapelgarth in North Yorkshire
The writing was a facilitated retreat with a group of academic staff and doctoral students, nine in total, from different higher education institutions. I had read about Rowena Murray’s work on writing retreats and wanted to experience the type of structured writing retreat that she has been so successful at implementing. The retreat at Chapelgarth used Murray’s structure and was facilitated by Dr. Marisela Mendoza from Nottingham Trent University who was trained with Murray.
The retreat began on Tuesday late afternoon when we, as a group, set our writing goals for the first session of Day 1. I have been using HMI reports to get evidence of pedagogical practice in interwar London elementary schools and my goal was to look at how arithmetic and mathematics was taught during this period. This would constitute a section in one of my ‘findings’ chapter. On Wednesday morning, we began writing for 1.5 hrs, after which we had a 30-minute break. This pattern of writing for 1.5 hours and taking a break (half-an-hour or more depending on the time of day) carried on throughout the retreat. In total, we had 7 writing sessions following Murray’s structure (see plan below).
The retreat allowed me ‘head space’ in an environment that was conducive to reflection, whilst at the same time, providing a communal writing space which ensured that maximum use was made of the available time. The community of scholars that I became part of was itself supportive as it allowed for the sharing of ideas and an exchange of information – and the size helped in this respect as we got to know each other quite quickly.
Additionally, and just as importantly, the physical environment at Chapelgarth Estate contributed to a sense of peace and well-being as the anxiety one usually associates with deadlines was forgotten about during this short stay. Chapelgarth was a home-from-home experience without all the hassle of everyday life. The chef and Marcella provided some wonderfully nutritious and delicious meals and Marcella’s care of our every need added to the experience. Of course, the beautiful woodland walks, the wonderful garden, the sunny weather, and the woolly lamas were all a delight and also contributed to my experience. The end result was coming back with written content that I am happier with in terms of quality. I am very grateful to ICHRE and Marcella Sutcliffe for making this possible for me.
Nazlin Bhimani
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Home | News | The Australasian College of Dermatologists Humanitarian Activities
The Australasian College of Dermatologists Humanitarian Activities
A summary of the Australasian College of Dermatologists recent humanitarian activities in Asia.
North India women's group
Uttarakand, North India
In 2010 Dr Claire Grills and her team established a Dermatology Treatment, Training and Research programme in North India. This was based on an initial survey of 1,200 individuals looking at the prevalence of various skin conditions in order to plan resources and training. Supported by colleagues in Victoria, Australia; fundraising was undertaken to meet ongoing costs. The project has played a significant role in responding to the local dermatology needs of the impoverished and remote part of northern India which previously had no dermatology service.
The activities undertaken of the treatment, training and research programme include:
Various professional visits from Australian-based staff to undertake training and offer clinical care to local needy populations including a recent team who received the ‘SkinCare for Developing Countries’ grant from the American Academy of Dermatology for their focus on pigmentary disorders
Regular dermatological clinics have continued- weekly in one centre and monthly in the other centre with the support of the fund
Training and teaching sessions have been held on steroid use, general dermatology conditions, paediatric dermatology
Basic research has been undertaken on both steroids use (2016) and skin whiteners (2014)
Informal but regular teledermatology consults with numerous patients- linked to Landour Christian Hospital, Chamba Hospital and Sampan Community Health program
Dermatological equipment for the clinics and outreach programs- medications, diathermy, lamp and certain consumables.
Kupang, Nusa Tenggara, West Timor
As part of the Flinders Overseas Health Group (FOHG), Associate Professor Gillian Marshman has regularly visited West Timor and Indonesia for over a decade. The roles and underlying philosophy of FOHG are sustainable health through education; and as such she is involved in upskilling doctors and allied health personnel in dermatologic disease, both within Professor Johannes Hospital in Kupang, but also in remote and regional areas.
FOHG has also been involved in supporting the development of a histopathology laboratory in the hospital, which previously was under resourced in this regard; and has set up networking with other specialties. There has also been an ongoing oncology program which has benefited the province and beyond; and is in continuing development. FOHG has multiple other speciality interests including paediatrics, neonatal, maternal and infectious diseases, as well as supporting laboratory based medicine, transfusion medicine and emergency medicine. Multiple teams go up during the year, and there is reciprocal arrangement where supported specialists are provided help to attend meetings or educational upskilling programs in Australia.
Associate Professor Prasad Kumarasinghe liaises with the Sri Lanka College of Dermatologists to find training placements for Sri Lankan postgraduate dermatology trainees in Australia, for advanced training. Australian dermatologists have also participated in postgraduate dermatology examinations in Sri Lanka as invited external examiners.
A/Prof Kumarasinghe also assisted the Sri Lankan College of Dermatologists in organising the highly successful International Tropical Dermatology Conference held in Sri Lanka in 2016. He is currently coordinating the 9th Conference of the Asian Society for Pigment Cell Research to be held in Colombo, Sri Lanka in 2018. Australian dermatologists participate in these meetings as speakers and delegates.
A/Prof Kumarasinghe contributed substantially to purchase high precision skin physiology equipment for dermatology research in Sri Lanka. He was also instrumental in organising a donation through the Australasian College of Dermatologists, for resumption of teledermatology services in Nepal, after the devastating 2015 earthquake in Kathmandu 2015.
Associate Professor Rosemary Nixon AM first visited East Timor as a tourist in 2011. Mindful that there had not been much contact between Australian dermatology and East Timor, she travelled there in 2015 with then registrar, Dr Niyati Sharma. They visited the Baro Pite Clinic where they conducted several dermatology clinics, educated staff, visited a remote area with a local clinician where there was a scabies outbreak, conducted a dermatology clinic at an orphanage in Venalaile and visited the Dermatology Clinic at the National Hospital. This visit laid the groundwork for a visit in 2016 by Dr Julia Rhodes and then registrar, Dr Rebecca Saunderson. However difficulties arose in accessing the quantities of drugs required to implement effective scabies treatment.
A/Prof Nixon has raised funds for East Timor through the Victorian Skin and Cancer Foundation’s platform, donating to the Baro Pite Clinic and also enabled the local dermatologists to attend a tropical medicine conference in Sri Lanka in 2016.
For more information about the Australasian College of Dermatologists please visit their website.
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“Mother” f*@%ing Good
March 13, 2010 Juliebong joon-ho, film, korean 4 Comments
Bong Joon-Ho “Mother”
Two weeks ago I went to see Bong Joon-Ho’s 2009 film “Mother” at Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) follow by a Q & A with the director. In the same week Kim Yu-Na won gold medal for women’s figure skating and on the following week art week in New York City introduced Korean Art Fair and last week Samsung technologies introduced the very first 3D home television and let’s not forget the Kogi Truck. Korea is dominating the Asian Culture and the world, with every industry you can name or unnamed of.
Bong Joon-Ho best known for The Host a top Korean grossing film at the box office latest film “Mother” is visually breathtaking and the story is compelling. The film opens in a wide angle with the mother walking quietly towards the camera through a mid-waist height grain field. Minutes later the mother breaks into a folk dance.–very odd and I love it! It’s drama with part humor, part detective and part thriller. The story is complex with so many layers and with top notch actors it keeps the audience intrigued. “Mother” titled is about a single mother played by Kim Hye-Ja with a mentally challenged son Do-Joon played by Won-Bin who one day was accused for murdering a school girl. Unable to defend himself and with a corrupt and useless legal system the mother goes to the extreme in every way to prove his son’s innocence, even if it means sacrificing her own innocence in turning herself into a murderer.
Bong Joon-Ho Centered
The mother was never given a name in the film and the reason is to intend for the audience to associate “Mother” as all mother. The mother figure is overprotective, nurturing, and maybe a little psycho. The director said after he made “Mother” and invited his mother to see his film, his mother did not speak with him for over 6 months. See it on Mother’s Day or see it now at IFC opens March 12, 2010.
On Jury Duty
March 3, 2010 Julie Leave a comment
I had my first jury duty today in Downtown, Manhattan. I was not chosen as a juror for trials because there were not any until after lunch there was one case. “New York City is safe and sound” – To be honest I don’t know why so many people dread going to jury duty. The staffs are perhaps the most friendliest and with a sense of humor government employees I have encounter so far. It was like a 9am stand up comedy show, poking fun at Albany and jurors the #1 reason to be exempt from jury duty is “I do not understand English in which we now have Chinese and Spanish interpreters at _ Centre Street but you wouldn’t understand what I am saying right now, would you?” We were all treated like contestants of a game show. “Come on down you’re a winner!” Being the lucky half pack to avoid to sit in as a juror and not until for another six years. The hospitality exceeded my expectation. For once a government system that treats people like people. There was high speed wi-fi access if you brought your laptop and a sign-out sheet if you need to go for a coffee run, these are luxuries. And they really outdone themselves by providing the jurors a lunch guide in the neighborhood. It’s very quirky and humane at the same time. Rarely would you expect anywhere government agency with what concierge at a five stars hotel would provide. This list is compiled by the staff of The Citizens Jury Project and it emphasizes that the list of recommendations is solely put together by opinion and are not funded or affiliated with by the particular restaurants. The list was very diverse with multiethnic cuisine which includes, Cuban Sophie’s Cuban Restaurant, Italian Spaghetti Western, Chinese Bo Ky, Kosher Hoomoos Asli, Vegetarian Vegetarian Dim Sum House, and Dessert Chinatown Ice Cream Factory. A varied good taste selections, watch out Zagat!
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Impact100 Sonoma awards its $100,000 Impact Grant to La Luz Center plus $186,000 in Community Grants to ten other nonprofits
Sonoma, CA—June 10, 2018—At its 9th Annual Awards Celebration, Impact100 Sonoma gave its $100,000 Impact Grant to La Luz Center to fund its program, Computer Literacy and Employment Services. Since the founding of Impact100 Sonoma in 2009 the organization has awarded $2,062,000 dollars to nonprofits serving Sonoma Valley, making it one of the community’s largest funders.
La Luz Center receives the Impact100 Sonoma 2018 $100,000 Impact Grant award to fund its Computer Literacy and Employment Services program. From left to right: Claudia Sims, Grants Oversight Chair, Marcelo Defreitas, Board Chair of La Luz, Juan Hernandez, La Luz Executive Director, Mary Jane Stolte, Impact Grant Chair.
Upon receiving the Impact Grant, Juan Hernandez, Executive Director of La Luz, expressed his gratitude to Impact100 Sonoma saying, “La Luz and Impact100 Sonoma are linked as partners in support of our community and I want to thank everyone for this great honor.”
As finalists for the $100,000 Impact Grant, Sonoma Valley Mentoring Alliance and Sustainable Sonoma each received unrestricted grants of $10,000.
Impact100 Sonoma awarded its $100,000 Impact Grant to La Luz Center and two $10,000 Impact Grant Finalist awards to Sonoma Valley Mentoring Alliance and Sustainable Sonoma. From left to right: Mary Jane Stolte, Impact Grant Chair, Lee Morgan Brown, Sonoma Valley Mentoring Alliance, Juan Hernandez, La Luz Center, Caitlin Cornwall, Sustainable Sonoma, Claudia Sims, Grants Oversight Chair.
Co-President Lynne Lancaster opened the lively and well-attended event at Hanna Boys Center by welcoming members and their guests. She announced that in 2018 a record number of 305 women joined Impact100 Sonoma providing $305,000, plus an additional $1,000 given by a member in the aftermath of the 2017 fires, for a total of $306,000 in grant money that they would be awarding to nonprofits serving Sonoma Valley.
Next year, in celebration of the tenth anniversary of Impact100 Sonoma, a special one-time unrestricted 10th Anniversary Grant of $50,000 will be awarded, in addition to the annual $100,000 Impact Grant and Community Grants of up to $20,000.
To enthusiastic applause, ten Community Grants were awarded to the following nonprofit organizations:
• Becoming Independent - $20,000 to increase their per-client dollar amount to $150/day and to help fund/expand client-selected activities such as field trips, classes, supplies and activities.
• Cancer Support of Sonoma - $20,000 for the Patient Assistance Fund to help clients dealing with cancer to receive low-fee beneficial complementary therapies that are rarely covered by insurance.
• Jack London Park Partners - $15,970 to expand the successful pilot program that offers an in-depth investigation of ecosystem dynamics and bio-diversity to all Sonoma Valley 7th graders in fall 2018.
• Kenwood Education Foundation - $20,000 to fund KID’s (Kenwood Investing in Dynamic Students) student enrichment programs for the 2018-19 school year after the fires prematurely ended the annual KIDS fundraising campaign and all existing funds were, instead, given to fire victims in the community.
• Redwood Empire Food Bank - $20,000 to provide more than 133,300 pounds of fresh produce to food insecure neighbors in Sonoma Valley.
• Sebastiani Theatre Foundation - $20,000 to fund 83 scholarships for Latino youth of low-income families to attend Sebastiani’s after-school and summer performing arts camps.
• Sonoma Community Center - $20,000 to upgrade aged and outdated safety features, and increase accessibility, in the historic 102-year-old building.
• Sonoma Overnight Support - $20,000 to expand its free Day Services program to meet increased demand, and prevent it from having to cut back its hours.
• Sonoma Valley Education Foundation - $20,000 to support the expansion, from 50+ to 100 Kindergarten – 12th grade students, of ViVO, an after-school and summer professional music instruction and orchestra program that serves many at-risk socio-economically disadvantaged youth.
• Vintage House - $20,000 to fund an external study of the Sonoma Valley senior population to determine their current and future needs in order to inform Vintage House’s future programs and services.
Recipients of Community Grants of up to $20,000 celebrate their awards. Back row left to right: Debra Garber, Sonoma Valley Education Foundation, Cindy Vrooman, Sonoma Overnight Support, Diana Rhoten, Sebastiani Theatre Foundation, Terri Miller, Cancer Support Sonoma, Bob Bales, Kenwood Education Foundation, Kristina Ellis, Jack London Park Partners. Front row left to right: John Gurney, Sonoma Community Center, Priscilla Essert, Vintage house, Josh Kraft, Becoming Independent.
Over the past five months Claudia Sims (Grants Oversight), Mary Jane Stolte (Impact Grant), Margaret Grandy (Community Grants), and Lynne Lancaster (Grants Review Committees/Co-President) led the process of narrowing 23 original applications down to three finalists for the $100,000 Impact Grant and 14 finalists for Community Grants. The finalists were selected after careful review by more than 80 Impact100 Sonoma members who served on financial and grant review committees. The grant recipients were selected by a vote of the entire Impact100 Sonoma membership.
Reflecting on the awards ceremony, Co-President Gera Vaz said, “With this grant season we have provided the nonprofits in our community over $2,000,000 in nine short years. We are so proud that we’re seeing the results of our efforts make a difference in our community. Impact100 Sonoma has tremendous momentum going into our tenth anniversary year.”
The Annual Awards Celebration was sponsored by Union Bank with other financial and in-kind contributions from Hanna Boys Center.
Impact100 Sonoma is a collective grant-making organization that brings together at least 100 women in a common purpose: to award an Impact Grant of $100,000 every year to a nonprofit organization serving Sonoma Valley. The organization’s mission is to empower women of Sonoma Valley to invest in a more sustainable nonprofit community through collective giving and responsible stewardship.
Impact100 Sonoma welcomes all women to join the organization. Information about Impact100 Sonoma can be found at www.impact100sonoma.org or by calling 707-939-5007.
Photographs by Bari Williams
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HxDR: New Vision of Digital Reality at CES 2020
A new cloud-based, digital reality visualization platform in the Hexagon AB booth captured the attention of CES 2020 visitors in Las Vegas this week. HxDR creates accurate digital representations of the real world through the seamless combination of reality-capture data from airborne, ground and mobile sensors.
Nav Sensor Logs Android Phone Measurements
A Russian software company, Navigation Expert, has announced its newly upgraded Nav Sensor Recorder v3.2, a free application for Android that enables users to read and save measurements of smartphone sensors.
Bootstrapping Location for Army Patrols
Forward-deployed U.S. military personnel will soon benefit from warfighter localization sensor units that provide tracking information in GPS-denied environments in a bootstrap mode. The Army Product Manager Sets, Kits Outfits and Tools awarded a $16.5 million contract to Robotic Research of Clarksburg, Maryland for WarLoc units to equip four deployed U.S. Army Brigade Combat Teams in various locations. The first batch of systems has already been shipped, and should enable soldiers on foot to keep track of each other in terrain where GPS systems are less effective.
WarLoc provides localization and positioning data for teams of warfighters or first responders in signal-denied environments such as underground facilities and inside buildings and mega-cities, according to the company. The small sensor mounts on footwear. Multiple systems work together to further enhance accuracy and maintain the localization of teams.
[Heel-mounted warfighter localization sensor units, also known as WarLoc. Photo: Robotic Research.]
The tracking system augments its GPS receiver with an inertial measurement unit. The device connects with a smartphone through Bluetooth. Robotic Research fields two form factors of the WaLoc, one mounted over the top of the boot and another that wraps around the heel. Users view data readouts through an Android-based Tactical Assault Kit. The algorithms are reportedly robust to communications failures and dropouts, and the distributed nature works well in challenging communication environments.
GNSS and Inertial Manufacturers Team for Rapid, High-Volume Supply
Septentrio and Analog Devices now combine their technology specialties, multi-frequency multi-constellation GNSS receivers and high-quality inertial measurement units (IMUs), respectively, to deliver centimeter-accurate positioning with 3D orientation (heading, pitch and roll), for applications such as automotive advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and industrial automation.
Qualcomm’s New Chip: More Power, More Features, Same Ol’ GNSS
In early December, Qualcomm made its annual announcement of a new chip for phones and wearables in the coming year. Qualcomm’s flagship system-on-chip will power a range of devices launching in 2020, with lots of new and exciting (to smartphone addicts) capabilities; just not much — make that nothing — new in satellite-based navigation derivatives.
LiDAR-on-chip Uses MEMS Beamsteering
Draper has advanced its development of a LiDAR-on-a-chip using patented, all-digital MEMS optical switches for light beamsteering to gather the digital data to build high-definition maps.
New 4-Constellation Chip from u-blox
u‑blox released the NEO‑M9N, the first module based on the company’s new robust meter‑level M9 global positioning technology platform, designed for demanding automotive, telematics, and UAV applications.
Set the Controls for the Heart of the Future
Very occasionally, history repeats itself, in oddly nuanced ways. I stand today at such a juncture. Nineteen years ago Glen Gibbons, the founder of this magazine, hired me as his lieutenant for another satnav publication—for which he was also the founding editor.
By Alan Cameron
Two New Space-Tailored IMUs from Silicon Sensing
Two new all-silicon inertial measurement systems, developed to meet the specific demands of the small satellite and launch vehicle markets, have been released by Silicon Sensing Systems Ltd, and are on display at this month’s Space Tech Expo in Bremen, Germany.
Sensonor Displays New Tactical Grade IMU at AUSA
Sensonor has announced at AUSA in Washington, DC, a new high-accuracy tactical grade Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) — STIM 318. Designed for increased accelerometer performance to support demanding guidance and navigation applications, STIM 318 features:
Tallysman GNSS Expands Line of Helical Antennas
Upon its 10th anniversary, Tallysman GNSS recently introduced new helical antennas. Released earlier this year, the helical antenna line is designed to provide unprecedented performance in a lightweight, compact form factor.
Esri ArcGIS QuickCapture Supports Eos Arrow GNSS on iOS, Android, Windows
TERREBONNE, QC, CANADA — Eos Positioning Systems, Inc. (Eos), a manufacturer of high-accuracy Arrow GNSS receivers for GIS users and field mappers, announced that Esri’s ArcGIS QuickCapture GNSS receiver support includes all Arrow Series™ models for iOS, Android and Windows.
Juniper Systems’ Geode GNS2 Sub-meter GPS Receiver MFi Certified for iPhone, iPad Compatibility
Juniper Systems today announced the release of the Geode GNS2 Sub-meter GPS Receiver. This new release of the Geode now features connectivity with a range of iPhone and iPad devices providing users with an even more versatile and powerful tool, according to the company.
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Ethics, guidelines and standards
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This page provides a selection of resources on the subject of ethics, guidelines and standards which are particularly applicable to genetic genealogists.
1 Codes of conduct, guidelines and standards for genetic genealogists
2 Codes of conduct, guidelines and standards for genealogists
3 Guidelines for direct-to-consumer genetic testing
4 Guidelines for medical and academic research
5 Statements on "race"
6 Academic papers
7 Other articles
9 Relevant blog posts
10 Facebook groups
11 Surveys
12 Organisations
13 General links
Codes of conduct, guidelines and standards for genetic genealogists
Genetic genealogy standards
For background on the creation of the standards see the blog post by Blaine Bettinger Announcing the genetic genealogy standards. The Genetic Genealogist, 10 January 2015.
ISOGG Project Administrator Guidelines
GDPR - ISOGG Interim Guidance for DNA Project Administrators
Family Tree DNA Group Administrator Guidelines
DNA Privacy A video in DearMyrtle's series "Demystifying my DNA tests" where she discusses the privacy issues relating to DNA testing with Angie Bush, Blaine Bettinger and Judy Russell
Codes of conduct, guidelines and standards for genealogists
National Genealogical Society's Standards and Guidelines for Genealogists (US)
The Society of Genealogists' Principles of Genealogical Research (UK)
Council for the Advancement of Forensic Genealogy: Standards of Practice and Conduct (US)
Board for Certification of Genealogists' Genealogical Proof Standard (US)
Board for Certification of Genealogists' Code of Ethics and Conduct (US)
Association of Professional Genealogists' Code of Ethics
IAJGS Ethics for Jewish Genealogists Guidelines from the International Association for Jewish Genealogists
The Australian Organisation of Family History Association's Code of Ethics
Suomen Sukututkimusseura / the Finnish Genealogical Society: The code of conduct of genealogical research in Finland, Käytännesäännöt (in Finnish)
Guidelines for direct-to-consumer genetic testing
A Common Framework of Principles for direct-to-consumer genetic testing services. Guidelines compiled after extensive consultation by the now defunct Human Genetics Commission in the UK.
Guidelines for medical and academic research
San people of Africa draft code of ethics for researchers by Linda Nordling. Science 17 March 2017.
Botkin JR, Belmont JW, Berg JS et al (2015). ASHG Position Statement. Points to consider: ethical, legal, and psychosocial implications of genetic testing in children and adolescents. American Journal of Human Genetics 97(1): 6–21 (subscription required). Press release here.
Personalised healthcare: Medical profiling and online medicine: the ethics of 'personalised healthcare' in a consumer age. A report from the Nuffield Council of Bioethics (UK)
The four principles of biomedical ethics by Adrian Alcroft, BioMedCentral, 13 July 2012
Code of Practice for Research compiled by the UK Research Integrity Office
Good research practice: principles and guidelines compiled by the Medical Research Council (UK)
The Concordat to Support Research Integrity An initiative from Universities UK, the Wellcome Trust and research councils to provide a framework for good research conduct in the UK
Guidelines for Human Biobanks and Genetic Research Databases from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Privacy and Progress in Whole Genome Sequencing A report from the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, October 2012 (US)
Additional Protocol to the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine, concerning Genetic Testing for Health Purposes Council of Europe, Strasbourg 2008.
UNESCO International Declaration on Human Genetic Data 2003.
Statements on "race"
A statement on race and racism from the American Association of Physical Anthropologists approved on 27 March 2019.
Biological aspects of race American Association of Physical Anthropologists Statement on Biological Aspects of Race. Published in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology 1996; 101: 569-570.
American Anthropological Association Statement on Race 17 May 1998.
Mathews DJH and Jamal L. Revisiting respect for persons in genomic research. Genes 2014; 5: 1-12.
Angrist M. Open window: when easily identifiable genomes and traits are in the public domain PLoS One 2014; 9(3): e92060.
Lunshof JE, Church GM, Prainsack B. Raw personal data: providing access. Science 2014; 343 (6169): 373-374.
Hayden EC. Ethics: Taboo genetics. Nature 2013; 502 (7469).
Gymrek M, McGuire AL, Golan D, Halperin E, Erlich Y. Identifying Personal Genomes by Surname Inference. Science 2013 339 (6117): 321–4.
Zawati MH, Borry P, Howard HC. Closure of population biobanks and direct-to-consumer genetic testing companies. Human Genetics 2011 Sep;130(3):425-32.
Gitschier J. Inferential genotyping of Y chromosomes in Latter-Day Saints founders and comparison to Utah samples in the HapMap project. Am J Hum Genet 2009 84(2):251-8.
Caulfield T, Fullerton S, Ali-Khan SE et al. Race and ancestry in biomedical research: exploring the challenges. GenomeMedicine 2009; 1(1): 8.
Knerr S, Ramos E, Nowinski J, Dixon K, Bonham VL. Human difference in the genomic era: Facilitating a socially responsible dialogue. BMC Medical Genomics. 2010 May 26;3:20.
Lee SSJ, Mountain J, Koenig B et al. The ethics of characterizing difference: guiding principles on using racial categories in human genetics. Open letter. Genome Biology 2008; 9:404.
Sankar P, Cho MK, Mountain J. Race and ethnicity in genetic research. American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part A, 2007 May 1;143A(9):961-70.
Barbujani G. Human races: Classifying people vs. understanding diversity. Current Genomics 2005; 4: 215-226.
Williams SR. Genetic genealogy: the Woodson family's experience. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry. 2005; 29(2): 225-52.
Social Studies of Science, October 2008. A special issue discussing ongoing debates concerning race, genomics, and disease.
Genetics for the Human Race A special issue of Nature Genetics published in November 2004.
Kaiser, Jocelyn. Pioneering Icelandic genetics company denied approval for data-mining plan Science Insider, 20 June 2013.
Hern, Alex. Are there ethical lapses in the Times' story on William's "Indian ancestry"? New Statesman, 14 June 2013.
Johnson, Bobbie. How a spit of royal DNA makes money for Rupert Murdoch. Stories that Matter, 14 June 2013.
Middleton, Anna. Attention The Times: Prince William’s DNA is not a toy. The Conversation, 14 June 2013.
Retassie, Ruth. Genetic test to assess 'racial purity' of Hungarian MP condemned. Bionews, 18 June 2012.
Pauwels, Eleonore. Leave me your DNA... and I'll 3D-print your face . The Guardian, 1 June 2013.
Corpas, Manuel. A genome blogger manifesto GigaScience 2012, 1:15.
King, Elizabeth B. Ludwin. A conflict of interests: privacy, truth, and compulsory DNA testing for Argentina's children of the disappeared. Cornell International Law Journal 2011, Volume 44, pp536-568.
Harmon, Amy. Indian Tribe Wins Fight to Limit Research of Its DNA. New York Times, 21 April 2010.
Sahota, Puneet Chawla. Genetics research and American Indian/Alaska Native communities
Schonfeld, Erick. It's my DNA, and I'd like to keep it that way Business 2.0, 27 September 2002 (Internet Archive version)
Ethics and the genealogist A blog by Michele Simmons Lewis
Blog.Bioethics.gov The blog of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues
Genomethics blog A blog from Anna Middleton, a social scientist and registered genetic counsellor researching ethics and genomics at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK
Genealogical Privacy blog
Relevant blog posts
Keeping it secret: revealing the secrets in your family history by Ashley Barnwell. Guest blog post on the Ancestry UK blog, 15 December 2017.
Affiliate links in genetic genealogy by Leah La Perle Larkin, The DNA Geek, 10 August 2017.
The ethics of criticism by Judy Russell, The Legal Genealogist blog, 18 January 2017.
Whose genes are they anyway? a guest blog post by Kat Arney on the Naked Security blog, 29 December 2016.
Respecting the privacy of DNA test takers by Judy Kellar Fox. Board of Certification for Genealogists Springboard News and Notes, 8 October 2015.
A matter of consent by Judy Russell, The Legal Genealogist blog, 25 January 2015.
A code of conduct for historians by Susannah Lipscomb. History Today, 3 December 2014.
Nicholas Wade and race: building a scientific facade by Jennifer Raff, Violent Metaphors blog, 21 May 2014
Games grandparents play by Judy Russell, The Legal Genealogist blog, 29 September 2013. (An article on the ethics of DNA tests for grandchildren.)
Caught in the genetic social network by Anders Sandberg, Practical Ethics blog from Oxford University, 3 July 2013
BritainsDNA, The Times and Prince William – the perils of publication by press release by Debbie Kennett, Cruwys News blog, 19 June 2013.
DNA: life after death by Judy Russell, The Legal Genealogist, 30 June 2013.
No (DNA) bullying by Roberta Estes, DNAeXplained, 15 May 2013.
Racing to the wrong conclusion Genealogy for the Everyman blog, 9 February 2013. The article provides a good summary of the problem of assigning arbitrary labels to "races".
The ethics of DNA testing by Judy G Russell, The Legal Genealogist, 18 November 2012.
Why both sides are wrong in the race debate by Kenan Malik, Pandaemonium blog, 4 March 2012
Does DNA Link 1991 Killing to Colonial-Era Family? by Blaine Bettinger, The Genetic Genealogist, 11 January 2012.
Everyone has two family trees: a genealogical tree and a genetic tree by Blaine Bettinger, The Genetic Genealogist, 10 November 2009.
If you are going to "debunk" race with gene testing, please stop by John Hawks, John Hawks weblog, 1 August 2005.
Ethics and the genealogist
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Bloody Sunday (2002)
R | 1h 47min | Drama, History, War | 19 April 2002 (Portugal)
A dramatization of the Irish civil rights protest march and subsequent massacre by British troops on January 30, 1972.
James Nesbitt, Tim Pigott-Smith, Nicholas Farrell | See full cast & crew »
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Movies That Catch the Spirit of Ireland
Memorable films depicting "The Troubles."
Bloody Good Films
United 93 (2006)
A real-time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on September 11th, 2001 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.
Stars: David Alan Basche, Olivia Thirlby, Liza Colón-Zayas
The Theory of Flight (1998)
Two miserable people find happiness together: a man dreaming of flying, and a woman dreaming of living.
Stars: Helena Bonham Carter, Kenneth Branagh, Gemma Jones
Against the backdrop of the Irish War of Independence, two brothers fight a guerrilla war against British forces.
Stars: Cillian Murphy, Pádraic Delaney, Liam Cunningham
Michael Collins (1996)
Biography | Drama | Thriller
Neil Jordan's historical biopic of Irish revolutionary Michael Collins, the man who led a guerrilla war against the UK, helped negotiate the creation of the Irish Free State, and led the National Army during the Irish Civil War.
Director: Neil Jordan
Stars: Liam Neeson, Aidan Quinn, Julia Roberts
22 July (2018)
Crime | Drama | History
A three-part story of Norway's worst terrorist attack in which over seventy people were killed. 22 July looks at the disaster itself, the survivors, Norway's political system and the lawyers who worked on this horrific case.
Stars: Anders Danielsen Lie, Jonas Strand Gravli, Jon Øigarden
The Murder of Stephen Lawrence (TV Movie 1999)
A black teenager Stephen Lawrence is killed. That event strike to his parents, his murderers, police, entire society.
Stars: Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hugh Quarshie, Leon Black
Resurrected (1989)
Surviving soldier is accused of cowardice and desertion. His former comrades-in-arms decide to judge him bypassing the law.
Stars: Tom Bell, Rita Tushingham, David Thewlis
Some Mother's Son (1996)
Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in an Irish prison, in which I.R.A. prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against the treatment of I.R.A. prisoners as criminals rather than ... See full summary »
Director: Terry George
Stars: Helen Mirren, Fionnula Flanagan, Aidan Gillen
Omagh (TV Movie 2004)
An examination of the aftermath of the 1998 Real IRA bombing that killed 29 people in Omagh, Northern Ireland.
Stars: Gerard McSorley, Michèle Forbes, Brenda Fricker
The Magdalene Sisters (2002)
Three young Irish women struggle to maintain their spirits while they endure dehumanizing abuse as inmates of a Magdalene Sisters Asylum.
Director: Peter Mullan
Stars: Eileen Walsh, Dorothy Duffy, Nora-Jane Noone
A man struggles to keep his autonomy under an oppressive regime that monitors his every move.
James Nesbitt ... Ivan Cooper
Allan Gildea ... Kevin McCorry
Gerard Crossan ... Eamonn McCann
Mary Moulds ... Bernadette Devlin
Carmel McCallion ... Bridget Bond (as Carmel Mccallion)
Tim Pigott-Smith ... Maj. Gen. Ford
Nicholas Farrell ... Brig. Maclellan
Christopher Villiers ... Maj. Steele (as Chris Villiers)
James Hewitt ... Col. Tugwell
Declan Duddy ... Gerry Donaghy
Edel Frazer ... Gerry's Girl
Joanne Lindsay ... Mary Donaghy
Mike Edwards ... Soldier 027
Gerry Hammond ... Para F
Jason Stammers ... Para G
Documentary-style drama showing the events that led up to the tragic incident on January 30, 1972 in the Northern Ireland town of Derry when a protest march led by civil rights activist Ivan Cooper was fired upon by British troops, killing 13 protesters and wounding 14 more. Written by Anonymous
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Drama | History | War
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After listing the casualties of the indicident portrayed in the film it adds, "More than 3000 people have been killed during the Troubles in Northern Ireland." See more »
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Not a farse
22 January 2002 | by comprachio – See all my reviews
Naive or not, the film version of Bloody Sunday couldn't do anything else but show the pandemoneum and confusion of a massacre of many innocent people. This confusion was shown on both sides. An army of young men being thrown into a situation which they didn't understand. A people of a City riddled with gerrymandering and oppression.
The film showed stones being answered by guns and gas. As a British citizen I was moved and shocked. The film brought to life the many books i've read on the subject. It didn't point blame. It was never shown in the film who fired first but it showed that both sides fired. It documented how 13 people protesting for civil rights (majority of them children) were gunned down in cold blood by a 'peace keeping' security force. The bodies are the evidence, their memory is the legacy.
This film highlights the importance of sensitivity when approaching the dark days of our history. It succeeds where so many films fail by showing that no good can come from such events. A sterling performance from James Nesbitt shows that he is a versatile actor not afraid of approaching difficult and controversial roles. Perhaps we should forget the bickering and respect this for what it is; a stylistically impressive and well acted movie.
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Cheating To Be Admitted to Prestigious Colleges and Universities
In Search of the American Dream Being Black and Woman
Every Qualified Student Deserves An Equal Opportunity For Admission
Published by Janice Ellis at March 19, 2019
Where is the outrage for cheating to be admitted to prestigious colleges and universities by those who are privileged—the rich and famous? Where is the moral outcry against those rich and famous parents who paid to get their sons and daughters admitted to some of the nation’s most coveted higher institutions of learning?
Those schools include, Yale, Georgetown, the University of Southern California, and Stanford, to name a few. How many other lesser known schools are also involved? The recent revelation is typical of how many scandals get public attention, mainly when they involve someone rich or famous.
But the scandal likely includes parents who are not so famous, but relatively rich. The media splash about cheating to be admitted to prestigious colleges and universities is probably just the tip of a large and destructive iceberg.
Cheating to be admitted to prestigious colleges and universities is destructive in so many ways. First, what message do you send your child when you pay thousands of dollars to have someone take their college admission exams? What do you tell your child when you lie about their athletic achievements? Are those parents saying lying, cheating, and committing crimes are okay?
Photo Credit: presscollegeboard.org
Disrespect for the rule of law, moral integrity, and special privilege for the rich and powerful seems to transcend politics, business. Higher education, a prized part of the American experience, has been highly regarded across generations as the gateway to equal opportunity. But, now it is tainted by the revelation of broad spread cheating to be admitted to prestigious colleges and universities.
These are children whose parents could have paid for their college education. These are children who had access to and attended great public and private secondary schools. Why did their parents have to cheat, commit crimes, to get them into the nation’s best schools?
What messages does this cheating and criminal behavior send to those hard-working students who deserve to be admitted to those schools, but are not?
Feature Photo Credit: Ngampol Thongsai
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David Mureithi says:
The world is full of surprises and everyone thinks that by cheating, one will succeed. I do blame parents who teach such things to their children.
In the long run, students who cheated their admissions on prestigious Universities will just suffer because they won’t be able to cope with the schools’ standards. I think that these prestigious universities should not allow cheating because their reputation will suffer too.
nkos says:
Sometimes I don’t even know who we should blame for all these negative issues. We are all in this mess together and we just have to start a change and it should be now.
nom says:
The seem to be decadence in all spheres of life. When once one have a little money the next thing is to think how to oppress the next person. Very bad moves for everybody.
Scott Summers says:
This is a no for me. Call me old fashion but you learn to value things by putting effort.I see cheating as a cop out and I believe in the notion that things got through cheating does not last long. If you have time to cheat then use it to study.
Givans says:
The Moral decadence in our society has pushed us to loose the basic tenets of intergrity..Cheating to be admitted to a prestigous colleges and universities should be greatly discouraged as these are the same breed of students that turn out to plagiarise academic work because all they thrive is in buying their way out of every situation,thus zero professionalism.
It really appalling what parents are teaching their children. It makes the children think that it really a normal thing to cheat someone have to just fight this.
Any form of cheating is considered wrong. This can’t be happening to today’s generation.
This thing must be treated as a crime. Cheating can lead to doing something worst.
Meldred Judith says:
I believe cheating should never be tolerated. Cheating will not just bring your hopes up in the future, it may also lead you to failure because I strongly believe that cheating to get something you want is never worth it nor you truly deserves it.
David Tjoe says:
It seems like it’s no secret that money and fame can smooth out almost everything you want. And it is indeed heartbreaking to know that a fact like this is still happening continuously.
Maury Cheskes says:
I’m glad you bring this issue up. It’s very disheartening that students would go as far as cheating admissions. It’s offensive to the people who worked hard to get accepted and even more outrageous to the ones in need of a full scholarship. This epidemic takes up valuable space at every school and needs to be addressed as soon as possible.
Its so sad that the rich can easily commit a crime and get away with it without much effort or being criticized. But when the poor commit the same crime they become the talk of the town. The same case that happens in politics is also happening in admission to prestigious universities.
Janine Marie Alexandra Bocateja says:
Cheating is one of the biggest issues faced during college and highschool that should be prohibited and avoided. One great solution will be one and one talk with parents and parents need to talk to their children.
Obalade Damilola says:
I love the way you point out societal ills..Parents paying someone to write an examination for their wards is just a bummer.. government and the relevant stakeholders need to look into this..
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Ferguson Report Shows Racism
Local News Hurt Race Relations
Black Folk and White Folk
Published by Janice Ellis at March 6, 2015
Ferguson report shows raw racism
By Janice S. Ellis, Ph.D., Kansas City, MO —
The Ferguson report shows racism that is unbridled, bold, and unchecked. The U.S. Justice Department report on the behavior of the police department and city hall in Ferguson, Missouri shows long-standing racism and inequality that exist between how blacks and whites are treated.
But do these raw and deep-seated racist attitudes and practices found in Ferguson represent what is commonplace in many cities all across America? Ferguson report shows racism.
Many would like to believe otherwise, but the annals of the history of the black family and white family present some stark realities.
The black and white family journeys have been different in America. One of privilege. The other of paucity. The white family has typically emerged out of a history where the presence of both parents has been valued and promulgated; the black family from an institution of slavery that raped and destroyed the family unit, separating mother and father, mother and child.
As we follow the typical journey of a white family and black family over decades, the disparities become very clear.
One family has been able to move within society with what appears to be automatic acceptance, and access to opportunity; the other constantly facing rejection either blatantly or subtly at every turn, when it comes to access to education, a job or a place to live.
One family is afforded a certain level of economic prosperity; the other often denied, limited, or trapped in a perpetual cycle of poverty.
Ferguson report shows racism. Photo credit: pbs.org
One family is exposed and provided the highest quality of educational training; the other subjected to sub-standard learning environments. One family lives in a neighborhood absent of blight and crime, the other constantly plagued by it.
And yet, there are too many of us who would like to believe that all things are equal.
The death of Michael Brown and the unrest in Ferguson, Missouri that erupted only scratch the surface of the divide between perceptions and stereotypes that exists among black folks and white folks. Ferguson report shows racism.
The perceptions, right or wrong, accurate or inaccurate, on both sides are telling and offer lessons for all of us, about all of us.
We, as individuals and a nation cannot expect to make any real change in how we perceive, understand, and relate to each other if we are not willing to look at where we are today and the reasons why we are there.
Real progress about how we see race in America will require an open mind and some painful admissions on all of our parts about the American family unit — both black and white.
The U.S. Justice department’s report of raw racist attitudes and practices in Ferguson, Missouri is but another cry for us to really confront the conditions of racism and inequality, and work to rid them from our communities.
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Sexual Harassment Is An Entrenched Cultural Problem
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Posts Tagged ‘medical futility policies’
Charlie Gard’s life spared until June 8 by UK Supreme Court
Posted in medically fragile, Newspaper story, rationed health care, tagged Charlie Gard, medical futility policies, medically fragile, parental rights over DNR, parents rights vs hospital on May 31, 2017| Leave a Comment »
In an eleventh hour action, a three member panel of the UK Supreme Court issued a temporary court-ordered reprieve in the case of a nine month old baby whose life support had been scheduled to be turned off at midnight Wednesday over his parents’ strenuous objections.
The panel will announce whether they will take the case on June 8. Until then, life support cannot be removed from Charlie Gard.
The drama centers around little Charlie, suffering from a rare mitochondrial depletion syndrome. His parents, Connie Yates and Chris Gard, have been prevented from removing him from the Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) in London to take him to the United States for experimental treatment.
In two lower court rulings , issued April 11 and May 25, GOSH’s control over Charlie has trumped the parent’s wishes to take their son overseas for nucleoside bypass therapy. Connie told ITV News:
“We have had our parental rights stripped away as if they don’t matter at all. Our son is basically being kept as a prisoner at the hospital.”
Chris told the interviewer, that if Charlie didn’t need “an apparatus blowing air into his lungs I could take him away,” but because he does, “we don’t have a chance and they [GOSH] get to say what happens to him.”
In its coverage of the latest development, The Sun newspaper includes a video news clip that shows an American girl, ”Sara,” who was once immobilized with the same mitochondrial syndrome but is now riding a bike after one year of the nucleoside bypass treatment.
The hospital position—thus far affirmed in court– is that Charlie is already so “ravaged” that he will not “benefit” from the new therapy and he should be allowed to die “with dignity.”
A tremendous public outc ry in opposition to the hospital’s position is backed up with $1.5 million pledged on GoFundMe to pay for Charlie’s therapy and trip overseas.
If permission is granted next Thursday by the Supreme Court, another date for a full hearing will be set.
The Daily Mail reports that his parents’ plan is “to try to go to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg if they lose at the Supreme Court.”
The delay in court rulings, while sparing Charlie from being unplugged from the respirator, has prevented him from starting the new therapy.
The ordeal has been, in Connie’s words, “absolutely terrifying” but both parents have vowed they won’t stop fighting for their son, saying: “Where there’s life there’s hope.”
Charlie Gard parents’ U.K. appeal granted for May 23
Posted in Euthanasia, medically fragile, Newspaper story, tagged Charlie Gard, medical futility policies, parents rights vs hospital on May 16, 2017| 1 Comment »
Baby Charlie Gard: parents fight vs. life-support removal
Today, it was confirmed in the British press that the U.K. Court of Appeal will review on May 23, the case of Charlie Gard– a nine-months-old baby ordered off life support by the High Court last month.
Baby Charlie has been in a London hospital since October, when it was detected he had mitochondrial depletion syndrome, a rare and grave chromosomal condition that weakens his muscles. No successful cure is yet available, but he is eligible to receive an innovative treatment in the U.S. called nucleoside bypass therapy.
London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital, however, won’t allow Charlie’s parents, Connie Yates and Chris Gard, to remove him for the trip overseas– even after more than $1.5 million has been raised with a GoFundMe campaign, to cover medical expenses and travel.
The April 11 court decision by Justice Nicholas Francis backed the position of the hospital “bosses” (as the Brits term the hospital bureaucracy) that Charlie’s ventilator be shut off, and he be allowed to “die with dignity.”
But the modern definition of dignity is too often infected with subjective “quality of life” assessments and rationed care considerations.
The attorney for Charlie’s appeal is Charles Da Silva, and the granting of this appellate review reflects a legal analysis that the parents can possibly prevail.
Connie and Chris are desperate that their parental rights be upheld. They are not claiming the therapy will cure Charlie, but that it has shown some success and Charlie’s participation will aid the research. The parents have stated:
“If there is no improvement we will let him go. We just want to give him a chance. Charlie is still strong and stable. He is growing more beautiful by the day.”
The huge outpouring of support from the public is quite touching, including candlelight vigils, and letters storming Parliament as registered on social media at #charlie’s fight and www.charliesfight.org.
The public believes Charlie’s parents should be in charge of their son… will the Court of Appeal see it that way?
UK parents file appeal in hospital battle for US therapy
Posted in Euthanasia, medically fragile, Newspaper story, rationed health care, tagged Charlie Gard, Grand Ormond Street Hospital, medical discrimination, medical futility policies, parents rights vs hospital, Simon's Law on May 2, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Charlie Gard, who suffers from a rare, life-limiting chromosomal condition that weakens his muscles, will turn 9 months on Thursday, in the Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) of London.
But the raging battle over treatment options–and whether the government hospital service has sole medical authority over those decisions–is far from over even though a High Court ruling last month defends death for Charlie.
His parents, Connie Yates and Chris Gard, are devastated that their decision-making rights over Charlie’s care have been crushed. They met today’s deadline to file a legal complaint to prevent Charlie from being taken off life-support. According to Britain’s The Sun, a new legal team has been hired and made the required application.
No time line for court acceptance of the appeal has been announced.
Chris and Connie have been constantly at Chris’s bedside at GOSH since October. They are currently being prevented from taking him to the United States for an innovative treatment called nucleoside bypass therapy. The treatment has not yet been published, according to Connie, but has shown success. It involves administering natural compounds to remedy the mitochondrial depletion syndrome Charlie suffers.
Many thousands of well-wishers on social media have encouraged his parents, and pledged over $1.3 million pounds (roughly $1.7 million dollars) to Charlie’s GoFundMe account to cover expenses for the overseas trip.
precious Charlie
Yet on April 11, the U.K. High Court ruled against the parents, holding that GOSH could keep Charlie, shut off his ventilator, and allow the baby to “die with dignity” on the grounds that the proposed U.S. treatment could not “cure” him.
FUTILITY JUDGMENTS
The idea that any court can deny parents the right to remove their son from a hospital seems absurd and unjustifiable. But it’s a logical outgrowth of the reality of rationed care— particularly in Britain with the National Health Service– coupled with changes in medical ethics.
It is sadly no longer the assumption that medical facilities feel bound to sustain a patient’s life. Instead, doctors can delegate treatment as not to be administered because it will
not cure the underlying disease; and /or
not produce an “acceptable” quality of life.
Such care is alternatively called “non-beneficial,” “medically inappropriate,” or “futile.” A new law in Kansas, Simon’s Law, requires hospitals to disclose any futility policies upon request.
When the medical elite deem that certain patients should be denied medical care, those who object are considered as throwing a “monkey wrench” in the system. Charlie’s parents’ attorney found an email from a doctor at GOSH who called the parents a ‘spanner in the works’ due to their exploration of all medical options available internationally.
GOSH asserts that further treatment would unnecessarily “prolong” Charlie’s suffering. In an interview on British ITV, Connie said:
Appeal judges will be considering whether Charlie’s parents have a reasonable chance of success before allowing a full appeal hearing to be held. The Mail reported the couple’s new attorneys may be looking at using human rights laws to defend their case.
“Before he was hired, the couple’s new lawyer, Charles da Silva, wrote on his firm’s Facebook page that the High Court ruling highlights that not only doctors but judges can get it wrong too,” the Daily Mail reported.
The world’s parents are watching. Stay tuned.
London parents fight hospital to remove baby for therapy
Posted in Court rulings, medically fragile, Newspaper story, rationed health care, tagged Charlie Gard, medical discrimination, medical futility policies, parents rights vs hospital, Simon's Law on April 28, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Charlie Gard with parents
Days after Kansas achieved a landmark law for parents’ decision-making authority governing hospitalized children, another baby and his parents are losing their fight with a London hospital to bring their ailing son to the U.S. for treatment.
On April 7, Kansas’ Gov. Sam Brownback signed “Simon’s Law,” to insure parents can reject hospital DNR (do not resuscitate) orders for their children. The law was instigated by the parents of Simon Crosier– an infant denied the right to live by a hospital DNR — based on bias against Simon’s life-limiting condition, Trisomy 18.
Simon Crosier
During consideration of the bill, and despite documented evidence to the contrary, there were plenty of denials that hospitals would ever overcall parents’ wishes on treatment to preserve life.
Yet consider this currently-unfolding tragic scenario as reported by the BBC and other UK media.
Connie Yates and Chris Gard’s eight-months-old son, Charlie, has been in Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) hospital since October for treatment of a rare condition that causes progressive muscle weakness. Charlie is believed to be one of only 16 known babies ever to have had this mitochondrial-depletion disease.
As reported by the BBC April 3, there was “no evidence that he is in pain on a regular basis.”
Charlie’s parents have now raised over 1.3 million pounds through a “GoFund Me” campaign to be able to bring Charlie to the U.S. for pioneering treatment called nucleoside therapy.
Ms. Yates said, “the support and phenomenal kindness of countless people has been a source of strength.”
“We just want to have our chance. It would never be a cure but it could help him live. If it saves him, amazing. I want to save others. Even if Charlie doesn’t make it through this, I don’t ever want another mum and their child to go through this.”
But the London hospital won’t let them remove Charlie, concluding there is no “accepted cure.”
The parents took legal action but the High Court sided with the hospital on April 11. The BBC headline was dire, “Doctors can withdraw life support from a sick baby with a rare genetic condition against his parents’ wishes.”
The language used to officially overcall the rights of parents uses now-all-too-familiar terms.
The GOSH attorney argued that “world-renowned” experts agreed the child should not be given long-term life support as his “quality of life” is “so poor.”
UK doctors have insisted there is no “accepted cure” and Charlie should be allowed to “die with dignity.”
The attorney appointed to represent Charlie, said proposed treatment in the U.S. was “purely experimental” and continuing his life support would only “prolong the process of dying”.
Justice Francis
High Court Justice Nicholas Francis of the Family division made the fateful ruling that Charlie be moved from life-support to a palliative care regime and be allowed to “die with dignity.” And even after Justice Francis admitted that experimentation might benefit medical science, he asserted it could not “benefit” Charlie.
Justice Francis had seen Charlie at GOSH, and said it has been his “sad duty” to apply the law relating to disagreements between parents and hospitals. He expressed his “complete conviction” that it was in the “best interests” of the child to let him “slip away.”
But this was no mere settlement about what GOSH could or should provide.
This is an imprimatur on whether a child with a life-limiting condition, once admitted to a hospital, can leave!
On Tuesday, April 25, in the House of Commons, MP Ruth Cadbury spoke up for the plight of her constituents, Charlie’s parents. She urged the justice secretary to use “any powers to intervene…to do the right thing.”
MP Cadbury
The plea was immediately rejected.
Charlie’s parents, Chris and Connie, “are devastated” by the decision, and have until Tuesday, May 2, to file an appeal, said their attorney, Laura Hobey-Hamsher. “They are struggling to understand why the court has not at least given Charlie the chance of treatment in America.”
The neurologist who would oversee the experimental treatment had testified to the court that while Charlie was in the “terminal stage” of his illness, treating him would be compassionate.
That notwithstanding, the hospital refuses to discharge Charlie and the High Court has decreed Charlie move to “a palliative regime.”
Tragically, British hospitals and government have ruled that Charlie Gard must die.
Kansas Senate: corrected final tally for 2 pro-life bills
Posted in Kansas legislation, Kansas legislators, Planned Parenthood, tagged medical futility policies, Simon's Law, Title X family planning money on March 22, 2016| Leave a Comment »
baby Simon Crosier with family
It very rarely happens, but the vote count on 2 pro-life bills was misrecorded by the official Kansas legislative website and has now been corrected.
An even higher pro-life vote resulted with the correction. The Senate vote for SB 437, Simon’s Law, appears to be the highest in many years for a substantive pro-life measure.
Simon’s Law will insure a parent gives permission before any DNR (Do Not Resuscitate) order is put on a minor’s medical chart, and that a request to disclose the existence of any hospital “futility” policy is honored.
Simon Crosier’s parents, Sheryl and Scott, have advocated for this bill to protect parental rights, and to warn about medical discrimination against children with chromosomal conditions labeled as “incompatible with life.”
As of Tuesday, 7p.m. the official final tally for SB 437, Simon’ s Law, for the vote taken today in the Senate is 37-3:
Yea – (37):
Abrams, Arpke, Baumgardner, Bowers, Bruce, Denning, Donovan, Faust-Goudeau, Fitzgerald, Haley, Hawk, Hensley, Holland, Holmes, Kerschen, King, Knox, LaTurner, Longbine, Love, Lynn, Masterson, McGinn, Melcher, O’Donnell, Olson, Ostmeyer, Petersen, Pilcher-Cook, Powell, Pyle, V. Schmidt, Smith, Tyson, Wagle, Wilborn, Wolf.
Nay – (3):
Francisco, Kelly, Pettey.
SB 436 will make permanent a KDHE selection priority for full-service public health clinics and hospitals to receive Title X federal reproductive health money.
This issue of state budget authority to make this priority was sued by Planned Parenthood in 2011 on behalf of over 1/3 million dollars that they claimed “belonged” to them. Planned Parenthood lost and Kansas won in March 2014 with a ruling from the federal Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals.
SB 436 passed today on purely partisan lines, with all Democrats opposing the measure. The official final tally for the Senate vote is 32-8:
Abrams, Arpke, Baumgardner, Bowers, Bruce, Denning, Donovan, Fitzgerald, Holmes, Kerschen, King, Knox, LaTurner, Longbine, Love, Lynn, Masterson, McGinn, Melcher, O’Donnell, Olson, Ostmeyer, Petersen, Pilcher-Cook, Powell, Pyle, V. Schmidt, Smith, Tyson, Wagle, Wilborn, Wolf.
Faust-Goudeau, Francisco, Haley, Hawk, Hensley, Holland, Kelly, Pettey.
To contact your Senator about these votes, use the roster here.
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Q&A With Microgrant Recipient Tyrin
Karma for Cara Foundation awards microgrants to youths 18 years of age and younger who spearhead exceptional service projects in their communities. Meet Tyrin (18) from Huntington, WV whose project was the Hoops Family Children’s Hospital Fun Day. In order to provide a fun experience for hospitalized children at the hospital, Ty and volunteers visited with the children to learn more about them outside of their illnesses, made crafts together, and decorated the children’s hospital rooms.
Q&A With Microgrant Recipient Morgan
Karma for Cara Foundation awards microgrants to youths 18 years of age and younger who spearhead exceptional service projects in their communities. Meet Morgan (6) from Bowie, MD who used her microgrant to fund a Birthday Party & Community Service Day Party. This year Morgan dedicated her birthday to the Lighthouse Shelter in Annapolis, MD. At the party she & her guests packed and decorated bagged lunches for the homeless. Morgan also donated some of the presents she received to the shelter. In addition to her birthday party she organized a Community Service Day Party to which she invited her entire 1st grade class, plus other friends, and kids in her family. They packed & decorated more lunch bags. A representative from the Lighthouse Shelter attended both events to discuss the work they do in an age-appropriate manner and explain how Morgan and her friends are helping them.
Q&A With Microgrant Recipient Kaina
Karma for Cara Foundation awards microgrants to youths 18 years of age and younger who spearhead exceptional service projects in their communities. Meet Kaina (17) from Miami whose project is called One Page Closer which she initiated as a junior in high school. Kaina and volunteers supply fully stocked bookshelves/mini-libraries to low income students that include young adult books (that students are more interested in)–not necessarily just academic reading books.
Q&A With Microgrant Recipient Isabella
Karma for Cara Foundation awards microgrants to youths 18 years of age and younger who spearhead exceptional service projects in their communities. Meet Isabella from Yorba Linda, CA who used her microgrant to fund a literacy intervention project called “Read a Story, Change a Life.” Using a template developed by Higher Ground Youth and Family Services, a local outreach program servicing at-risk youth, Isabella and volunteers made their project mobile. Incorporating puppet shows about reading and writing and engaging children in storytelling, Isabella hopes to engender a love of reading and writing in young children to promote equal access to literary success.
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250GB Xbox 360 Looking More Likely
Filed to:Rumor
One listing for a 250GB Xbox 360 could be an accident. A typo. But two in two days, on opposite ends of the planet, well, that's something else.
Amazon Germany Lists 250GB Xbox 360
Online retail listings are largely a joke. A place where the hopes and dreams of unicorns are…
This is an ad from South African retailer BT Games, showing a "Super Elite" Xbox 360 that packs a 250GB HDD. Interesting. Certainly makes the German version seem a lot less like an error and a lot more like a genuine product.
Perhaps even more telling than the South African listing, however, is Microsoft's response to yesterday's Amazon Germany reveal. Asked for comment on the supposed leak, Microsoft did not respond with their customary "We don't comment on rumours and speculation", instead telling Kotaku "We've made no such announcement".
No, you haven't. A couple of retailers have made it for you!
250GB Xbox 360 Super Elite coming to SA in October [xboxgaming]
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Published January 7, 2020 7:37 am
Japan issues arrest warrant for Carole Ghosn. A friend calls it intimidation
Japanese prosecutors have issued an arrest warrant for Carole Ghosn — the latest twist in the dramatic saga involving her husband, former auto executive and now international fugitive Carlos Ghosn.
Authorities obtained the warrant against Carole Ghosn for allegedly giving false testimony during a court hearing last April, according to a statement from the Tokyo prosecutor’s office on Tuesday.
Carole Ghosn is in Lebanon with her husband, according to CNN affiliate TV Asahi. He has denied reports that his family members were involved in helping him flee from Tokyo last week.
A friend of the family said Carole Ghosn had never been arrested or charged, and accused Japanese authorities of “trying to intimidate an innocent woman.”
“Let’s remember that the last time Mr. Ghosn was released and wanted to give his side of the story, he was rearrested the day after. We are again one day away from Mr. Ghosn speaking out and we are seeing the same threats,” the friend added.
Ghosn is widely expected to hold a press conference in Beirut on Wednesday.
Japanese authorities have been scrambling to contain the fallout from Ghosn’s audacious escape and figure out how he pulled it off in the first place.
On Sunday, Justice Minister Masako Mori said Ghosn had left the country “illegally by unjust methods,” and she ordered Japan’s immigration department to “further tighten” rules for leaving the country “so that the same situation won’t be repeated.”
Japan’s ambassador to Lebanon, Takeshi Okubo, raised Ghosn’s case with Lebanese President Michel Aoun on Tuesday. Aoun said the Lebanese government had no involvement in the incident and pledged “unstinting cooperation” to Japan, the Japanese ambassador said in a statement.
Ghosn was arrested in November 2018 and has since faced a litany of charges, including allegations that he understated his income for years and funneled millions of dollars of Nissan money to a car dealership that he controlled. The arrest led to his ouster from atop Nissan and its automotive alliance with Renault and Mitsubishi Motors.
Ghosn has repeatedly denied the charges, claiming that his arrest was part of a plot to remove him from the business empire he had built.
Before fleeing to Lebanon, the former auto executive had been under strict bail conditions in Tokyo, which included no contact with his wife. On Tuesday, the Tokyo district court said that Ghosn’s 1.5 billion ($13.8 million) bail had been forfeited, the highest forfeited sum ever, according to local broadcaster NHK.
Carole Ghosn had for months been blasting Japanese authorities for how they were handling her husband’s case, and calling on world leaders such as US President Donald Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro to step in.
Ghosn holds French, Brazilian and Lebanese citizenship.
He has already been using his newfound freedom to rail on Japan’s criminal court system, which boasts a conviction rate above 99% once suspects are charged. Ghosn said he was held “hostage” by the “rigged” system.
— CNN’s Yoko Wakatsuki, Anna-Maja Rappard and Chris Liakos contributed to this report.
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Movie Review ~ Lincoln
by Joe Movie Review • Tags: 2012, Daniel Day-Lewis, David Strathairn, DreamWorks Pictures, Hal Holbrook, James Spader, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lincoln, logo, Review, Sally Field, Steven Spielberg, Studio, Tommy Lee Jones, Tony Kushner, Touchstone Pictures
Synopsis: As the Civil War continues to rage, America’s president struggles with continuing carnage on the battlefield and as he fights with many inside his own cabinet on the decision to emancipate the slaves.
Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, James Spader, Hal Holbrook, Tommy Lee Jones, Lee Pace, Tim Blake Nelson, John Hawkes, Michael Stuhlbarg,
Running Length: 150 minutes
Trailer Review: Here
TMMM Score: (9/10)
Review: Steven Spielberg has long been attached to a film regarding the life of the 16th President of the United States. Abraham Lincoln’s tenure as President coincided with several key moments in our history – but what would be the best way to tell his tale? The answer? Make the focus of the film on the road leading up to the passing of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, outlawing slavery and involuntarily servitude. In doing so, Spielberg and screenwriter Tony Kushner (Angles in America) have made the film less biopic and more legal drama…and the resulting work is all the better for it.
Any director worth their salt would be able to tell the story of how the young Abe rose from his very humble log cabin beginnings to become one of the most respected men in US history. Spielberg is no ordinary director and his commitment to telling human interest stories about the oppressed has been a staple of his movie canon dating back to Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Lincoln actually feels like a companion film to Spielberg’s 1997 Amistad in that both are stories about discrimination, fear, and salvation.
Long rumored to star Liam Neeson, the role of Lincoln was eventually handed to Day-Lewis. Known for his utter immersion in any role that he takes on, Day-Lewis is a man of many faces and facets but he plumbs new depths of his talents here. His Lincoln is a soft-spoken, gentle man that favors quiet direction to loud bombast. Without ever raising his voice he commands a room easily, listening with sincerity while others make their point or dispute his position. Without much to go from instead of first-hand accounts and photographs, Day-Lewis brings the aged Mr. Lincoln to life with a dexterity that’s pretty inspiring. Even his gait seems oddly perfect to how a man of his stature and slight awkwardness would have carried himself.
Kushner has used parts of Doris Kearns Goodwin’s doorstop of a historical biography “Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln” as inspiration for his wordy screenplay that at times seems like a series of monologues rather than a straight-forward script. That’s not saying that Kushner’s words lack for any power but on the other hand must every scene have a four page speech included in it? Lincoln was a natural storyteller, relaying his message via story or parable and Kushner hits the right notes in that regard. Still, in a movie that pushes the limits of 150 minutes it feels like two stories too many.
What Kushner’s script does brilliantly is provide some exceptional moments for exceptional actors. Aside from Day-Lewis (who probably could have made a Lincoln book report from a third grader sound like poetry), there is Field as Mary Todd Lincoln and Jones as Republican leader Thaddeus Stevens, known as the Dictator of Congress.
Field has been attached to the film from day one and at times I wondered if she were perhaps a titch too mature for the role. Going back and reading about Mrs. Lincoln I see that I was wrong…Field is more right than ever for the role. Often derided for her overly emotive style, Field works wonders with her screen time to give Mary (or Molly, as Lincoln affectionately called her) a backbone and frailty that surely made up the woman herself. Watch Field’s hands in her first scene and how they quake…an outward display of inner turmoil. Field also takes great delight in delivering one of the more enjoyable throw downs of the year to Jones’s Stevens while in a receiving line. It’s great fun that doesn’t feel out of place.
Jones knocked it out of the park earlier this summer with Hope Springs and he brings that hound dog face and scrappy nature to the field here too. Stealing every scene he’s a part of, Jones reminds us why he’s one of the better actors working today and more than just the grumpy Gus he comes off as. Bewigged in what looks to be a Joan Crawford hand-me-down, Jones nonetheless doesn’t let that stop him as he holds his own defense of the Amendment in Congress while working with Lincoln to secure the votes necessary for it to pass. Like Field, Kushner has written Jones several wonderful speeches that he spits out with verve. Expect Jones to be nominated for (and possibly receive) another Best Supporting Actor Oscar.
I’ve always been fascinated with Spielberg’s knack for casting. There are some films that he casts with almost total unknowns (like War Horse) and then films like Lincoln where he fills the screen with familiar faces. Spader, Nelson, and Hawkes are quite a treat as hired not quite semi-muscle tasked on the sly by Lincoln with scrounging up votes from members of Congress. Pace, Stuhlbarg, Holbrook, Jared Harris, and Jackie Earle Haley also turn in solid supporting roles as players in the game of politics. Gloria Reuben impresses in a small but heartbreaking role as an attendant to Mary Todd Lincoln. And the always dependable Strathairn is perfect as Secretary of State William Seward. These actors are only the tip of the iceberg in a cast that is uniformly in it to win it.
The only actor that I was surprised that I wasn’t as impressed with was Gordon-Levitt as Lincoln’s son, Robert. Robert wants to join the war but is discouraged by his father and forbidden by his mother. As written, the character seems more of an angst-y John Hughes-esque character than any of the other characters Kushner has created. With his excellent contributions to The Dark Knight Rises, Looper, and Premium Rush, it’s not all his fault…he just feels out of place. I think the major problem lies with the feeling that this particular storyline feels a bit shoehorned into the proceedings to raise the stakes for Lincoln’s part in ending the war.
Speaking of stakes, they are never higher than they are as the film continues to ramp up toward the vote. Anyone that has taken a History class should know how this turns out but that doesn’t stop Spielberg from keeping you at the edge of your seat during this extended history lesson. Some knowledge of the Civil War and its complexities would help, I think, add to the enjoyment of the film…especially in its fairly dense first half.
Working again with longtime cinematographer Janusz Kaminski, Spielberg makes sure that each frame has exactly what he wants in it. That’s what I love so much about his work, he’s a smart enough filmmaker to deliver his movies precisely in the way he has envisioned them. When I see a Spielberg film I know that what I’m seeing on the screen is what Spielberg wants us to take in so I make a point to keep my eyes locked in at all times. Aided by another diverse score by John Williams that employs his usual sweeping fanfares and more music of the period, this really is a film that fires on all cylinders and impresses on many occasions.
With Lincoln, Spielberg has presented to audiences another piece of US history that we may think we know the whole story on but wind up benefitting from more information. It says something about his prowess as a director that he can steer us into stirring emotions regarding pieces of history we learned about in our youth. Earlier this year I lamented in my review of the decidedly glum Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter that that film actually had Mary utter the ominous line “C’mon Abraham, we’ll be late for the theater!” While the eventual assassination of the president is dealt with in Spielberg’s Lincoln too, it’s handled in a respectful way as only this caring director knows how to do. By that point the film had me swept away with its power and I admit to fighting back a swell of tears for our fallen president…and I didn’t feel manipulated into doing so either.
An epic that all involved should be proud of, Lincoln took the long road to get to the screen and the final product is a film worthy to be called one of the best of the year. Though it is occasionally dry and a bit speech heavy, the performance of Day-Lewis is one for the record books. An Oscar nominee without question, I wouldn’t be upset if Day-Lewis picked up his third Oscar for playing Abe…honestly.
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5 comments on “Movie Review ~ Lincoln”
alan covert says:
would we even be here discussing this if it wasn’t for Lincoln?
csszrr says:
The delicious irony of Doris Kearns Goodwin’s book being referred to as a novel.
Csszrr…you’re right. That was a large oversight on my part…I’ve corrected that 🙂
scriptsmotion says:
I too was swept away by Lincoln; and it left me wanting to know history better, as you mentioned, it seems it would have enhanced my enjoyment. …and Tommy Lee Jones made me laugh every time he was on camera (when I was supposed to laugh, that is!); perfect supporting role, I will be in line to purchase this one as soon as it’s available.
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Between Rabbit and Fox
MAKING THE BEST OF A BAD SITUATION
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AIN'T GOT NO
WHAT WE WANT, WHAT WE NEED
A KIND OF CONFESSION
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SPEAK TO ME IN YOUR WAY SO THAT I CAN HEAR YOU
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WHEN WE TALK ABOUT LOVE
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SHARECROPPER
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Believe Believe
Like A Hammer
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New York City Boy
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Always After Now
In the Middle
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Homma
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Tipi poles Performing as Line
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b. 1972, Colorado
Lives and works in New York
2016 Honorary Doctorate, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
1998 MA, Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom
1995 BFA, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
1992 Studied with sculptor Ernest Mirabal, Nambe, New Mexico
Jeffrey Gibson: Like a Hammer, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, catalogue
Jeffrey Gibson: Like a Hammer, Madison Museum of Art, Madison, WI, catalogue
Jeffrey Gibson: This is the Day, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX,
Jeffrey Gibson: Like a Hammer, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, catalogue (touring)
Jeffrey Gibson: Like a Hammer, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS, catalogue
Jeffrey Gibson: This is the Day, Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Clinton, New York, catalogue (touring)
DON'T MAKE ME OVER, The de la Cruz Gallery of Art, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
In Such Times, Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, CA
Look How Far We've Come!, Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WI
Jeffrey Gibson: Speak to Me, Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, Oklahoma City, OK
A Kind of Confession, Savannah College of Art and Design Museum, Savannah, Georgia (traveling to Atlanta, Georgia)
MARC STRAUS, New York, New York
A. Lange & Sohne, New York, New York
Love Song, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts
Said the Pigeon to the Squirrel, National Academy Museum, New York, New York
Tipi Poles Performing as Lines, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Winter Park, Florida
The Spirits Refuse Without a Body, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, California
one becomes the other, Participant Inc, New York, New York
one becomes the other, American Contemporary, New York, New York
Jeffrey Gibson, 222 Shelby Street, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Submerge, Arin Contemporary Art, Laguna Beach, California
Totems, Sala Diaz, San Antonio, Texas
Scope, Samson Projects, New York, New York
Talkin’ Smack, Samson Projects, Boston, Massachusetts
Indigenous Anomaly, American Indian Community House, New York, New York curated by Kathleen Ash-Milby
The Urge That Binds, Samson Projects, Boston, Massachusetts, curated by Camilo Alvarez
(re)positions, The Bronx Museum of The Arts, New York, New York
Fever, G.U.N. Gallery, Oslo, Norway
Transitional Bodies, Hockney Gallery, London, United Kingdom
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The Shades: Jeffrey Gibson and Jackie Saccoccio, Samson Projects, Boston, Massachusetts
Make It Rain, Dust Gallery, Las Vegas, Nevada
Aftereffect, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO
Suffering from Realness, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adam, MA
Re:Define, Heard Museum, Phoenix, AR
One Way Or Another, Roberts Project, Culver City, CA
A Decolonial Atlas: Strategies in Contemporary Art of The Americas, Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, MA
Surface/Depth: The Decorative After Miriam Schapiro, Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY
Crystal Bridges, Bentonville, AR (forthcoming)
Monarchs: Brown and Native Contemporary Artists in the Path of the Butterfly, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
Sanctuary, FOR-SITE Foundation, San Francisco, CA
Opulent Landscapes, DeBuck Gallery, Saint Paul de Vence, France
Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
From A Whisper To a Scream, Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY
Desert X Biennial, Palm Desert, CA
A Decolonial Atlas: Strategies In Contemporary Art Of The Americas, Vincent Price Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
SITElines.2016: New Perspectives on Art of the Americas, SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico
NO COMMISSION, Bronx, NY
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Recent Acquisition, exhibited as part of Native Artists of North America, Newark Museum of Art, Newark, NJ
Kindred Beasts: The Everson Biennial, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York
Convene, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, Kansas
March Madness, Fort Gansevoort, New York, New York
WORD, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York
New Geometries, Fleisher/Ollman, Philadelphia
Perfect Day, Roberts and Tilton, California
Affinity Atlas, The Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York
Greater New York, MoMA PS1, New York, New York
An Evening Redness in the West, IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA), Santa Fe, New Mexico
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Gray Would Be The Color if I Had a Heart, MARC STRAUS, New York, NY
Geometries of Difference: New Approaches to Ornament and Abstraction, Samuel Dorsky
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Beautiful Games: American Indian Sport and Art, Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
Xigue-Xigue, MARC STRAUS, New York, New York
Contemporary American Indian Art, The Nerman Museum Collection, Overland Park, Kansas
Fiction/Non-Fiction, Esker Foundation, Calgary, Canada
On Deck, MARC STRAUS, New York, New York
Sakahan: International Indigenous Art, National Gallery Canada, Ottowa, Ontario
Outside the Lines, Contemporary Art Museum Houston, Houston, Texas
Hotbox Forever, Steven Wolf, San Francisco, California
Totem, Aysa Geisberg Gallery, New York, New York
Group Show, Samson, Boston, Massachusetts
Changing Hands 3, Museum of Art and Design, New York, New York; Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York; McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario, Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Shapeshifting, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts
E-Vapor-8, 319 Scholes, Brooklyn, New York, organized by Francesca Gavin
Peekskill Project V, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York
Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Fine Arts, Linde Wing for Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts
Close Encounters, Plug-In Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg, Canada
Recent Acquisitions, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
Anthony Greaney x Dan Graham x Samson, Cottage Home Gallery, Los Angeles, California
An Exchange with Sol LeWitt, Cabinet Exhibitions and Mass MoCA, Brooklyn. New York and North Adams, Massachusetts,
Drift of Summer, RM Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Observe/Recognize, Berlin Gallery at Legends Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Collision, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, Rhode Island
Lush Life, Invisible Exports Gallery, New York, New York
Everyday Mystics, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, California
Vantage Point, Recent Acquisitions, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Washington DC
Raw State, Shelby Street Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
New Paintings, Staley Wise Gallery, New York, New York
Alluring Subversions, Timken Art Center, California College of The Arts, San Diego, California
Currents, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, Colorado organized by Cicely Cullen
On Stellar Rays, Lover, New York, New York, organized by Kate Gilmore and Candice Madey
Signs Taken For Wonders, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, New York, organized by
Isolde Brielmaier,
Surveillance, Affirmation Arts, New York, New York, organized by Rachel Vancellete
Solution, DiverseWorks, Houston, Texas, organized by Janet Phelps
Eiteljorg Museum, Recent Acquisitions, Eiteljorg 2008-09 Fellows, Indianapolis, Indiana
The Banality of Good, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California, organized by
Chris Christion
Currents, Metro Visual Arts Center, Denver, Colorado, organized by Cicely Cullen
Relevant, Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York, New York, organized by Amerinda
Blueballs, Production Fund LAB, New York, New York, organized by Jackie Saccoccio
Visions, Flushing Town Hall Projects, Flushing, New York, organized by Omar Lopez-Chahoud
Voices of the Mound, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, curated by Linda Lomahaftewa-Singer
Kentler International Drawing Space and Long Island University, Native Voices, New York,
516 Arts, Cautionary Tales, Albuquerque, New Mexico, curated by Holly Roberts
Jersey City Museum, 1x1 Project, Shameless, Jersey City, New Jersey, curated by
Rocio Aranda Alvarez
Circa Art Fair, Puerto Rico, with Samson Projects
Volta 4, Basel, Switzerland, with Samson Projects
SONOTUBE, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, California, curated by Miki Garcia
Off The Map, The National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, New York, New York, curated by Kathleen Ash-Milby
New England School of Art and Design, Boston, Massachusetts, organized by Charles Giuliano
Postmillennial Black Madonna (in two parts): Paradise @ MoCADA, and Inferno @ Skylight Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
Newark Open 2007, Newark, New Jersey, organized by Omar Lopez-Chahoud
The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, No Reservations, Ridgefield, Connecticut, curated by Richard Klein
Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Paperworks, Los Angeles, California, curated by Daria Brit Shapiro
Westport Arts Center, BROOKLYN, Westport, Connecticut, curated by Amy Simon
State University of New York, Paumanoka, Stony Brook, New York, curated by Stephanie Dinkins
The Jersey City Museum, Tropicalisms, Jersey City, New Jersey, curated by Rocio Aranda-Alvarado
ARCO, Madrid, Spain, with Samson Projects
MACO Art Fair, Mexico City, Mexico with Samson Projects
Le Désert de Retz, Massimo Audiello, New York, New York, curated by David Hunt
Alona Kagan Gallery, From the Root to the Fruit, New York, New York, curated by David Hunt
Out of Bounds, Wave Hill, Glyndor Gallery, Bronx, New York, curated by Jennifer McGregor
Evolving Pattern, New Jersey State University, Jersey City, New Jersey, organized by
Midori Yoshimoto
Play, Iandor Fine Arts, Newark, New Jersey, curated by Jomo Jelani Heywood
Artists Alliance AIR Exhibition, Cuchifritos Gallery, New York, New York
The Urge That Binds, Samson Projects, Boston, Massachusetts
Jersey City Museum, Jersey (New), Jersey City, New Jersey, curated by Dr. Rocio Aranda
New American Talent, The Jones Art Center for Contemporary Art, Austin, Texas, selection by Jerry Saltz
The Space Between Words, Kean University, Union, New Jersey, curated by Judith Page
Timeless/Timeliness, Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, New Jersey, curated by Dominique Nahas
Super Salon, Samson Projects, Boston, Massachusetts, curated by Camilo Alvarez
Art Matters Grant
Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant
TED Foundation Fellow
Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of the American Indian, Contemporary Arts Grant
Jerome Foundation Research and Travel Grant
HARPO Foundation Grant
Headlands Center for the Arts, Artist in Residence
Herekeke, Artist in Residence
Department of Cultural Affairs, New York, Percent for Art Commission, PS264
Eiteljorg Museum Fellowship, 2008-09
Crow Shadow Printmaking Residency
Dubin Fellowship, Indian Arts Research Center, School of Advanced Research
Art Omi International Artist Residency
Creative Capital Foundation Grant
Vision, Space, and Desire: Global Perspectives and Cultural Hybridity (Symposium), Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Venice, Italy, Chaired by curator Dr. Gerald McMaster, invited artist
Artist Alliance, Inc. / Alianza de Artistas Studio Program
Newark Museum, Artist in Residence
Creative Capital Professional Development Workshop
Smithsonian, National Museum of the American Indian Alternate Fellow
Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art, Emerge 2003
Bundy Project Award
Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians Tribal Scholarship
Hawkey, Anthony. “Future Fossil, Other Vessel.” The Brooklyn Rail. June 3, 2016
Hodara, Sondra. “At Exhibitions in Peekskill, Art in Plain English.” The New York Times.
Turrell, Claire. “Knock Out.” Harper’s Bazaar. January 2016
Autre, “The Best Gallery Exhibits of 2015”, December 17, 2015
Hyperallergic, “Best of 2015: Our Top 20 NYC Art Shows”, December 15, 2015
Ebony, David. “David Ebony’s Top 10 New York Gallery Shows for November.” Artnet News
Green, Christopher. “Disco Beads and Abstract Rawhides: Jeffrey Gibson’s Untraditional
‘Nativeness’.” Hyperallergic. November 23, 2015
Plagens, Peter. “Perfectionism, Beaded Punching Bags and Zombie Formalism.” Wall Street
Journal. November 21, 2015
Urist, Jacoba. “Does ‘American Art’ Exist Anymore?” The Atlantic. November 18, 2015
Joyce, Erin. “Native American Artists Envision a Sublime Apocalypse.” Hyperallergic.
Gleadell, Colin. “Market news: Sotheby’s bares all.” The Telegraph, Luxury. November 17, 2015
Torres, Priscilla. “Jeffrey Gibson: The Dream Catcher.” The Stylish Flaneuse. November 17, 2015
Mason, Brook. “Dream weaving: Jeffrey Gibson fuses traditional folklore with contemporary art.”
Wallpaper. October 30, 2015
Soligno, Matilde. “Jeffrey Gibson at Marc Straus Gallery.” Droste Effect. October 29, 2015
Lehrer, Adam. “Artist Jeffrey Gibson Explores Complexities in Human Movement in New Show at
Marc Straus Gallery.” Forbes. October 29, 2015
New York Spaces. “Q&A with Native American Artist Jeffrey Gibson.” October 12, 2015
Haider, Faheem. “Politics Camouflaged as Ornamental Abstraction.” Hyperallergic. April 9, 2015
Messinger, Kate. “Artist of the Week: Jeffrey Gibson.” Wild magazine. July 7, 2014
Kramer, Lola. “Eye On: Jeffrey Gibson.” Mb! By Mercedes-Benz. April 24, 2014
Vittoria, Shannon. “End of the Trail, Then and Now.” The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Kino, Carol. "At Peace With Many Tribes." The New York Times, May 19, 2013
Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Jeffrey Gibson: Tipi Poles Performing as Lines exhibition brochure, April 2013, essay by Jonathan F. Walz
"Native American Iconography Meets Modernist Aesthetic and Material," Hyperallergic, December 11, 2012, by Joan Waltemath
Art In America, One Becomes The Other review, May 2012
The New Yorker, Art Review, March 7, 2012
Hélène Cixous, Peinetures. Écrits sur l'art, published by Hermann Editions
Peabody Essex Museum, Shapeshifters, exhibition catalog
Museum of Art and Design, Changing Hands 3, exhibition catalog
BRAVO Television's Arts and Minds, Close Encounters: The Next 500 Years, aired April 30, 2011
Plug-In Institute of Contemporary Art, Close Encounters: The Next 500 Years, exhibition catalog
Cabinet Magazine and Mass MoCA, An Exchange with Sol LeWitt, exhibition catalog
Fuse Magazine, Art / Culture / Politics, The Stars Are Aligning Themselves in Winnipeg, by J.J. Kegan McFadden, April 6, 2011
New American Paintings Blog, 11 to Watch in 2011: Editor's Picks, by Evan Garza,
Visual Art Source, Jeffrey Gibson: TRADE, review by Kathryn M. Davis, October 2011
The Providence Journal, Collision at RISD Celebrates the Ephemeral and Experimental, by
Bill Van Siclen, January 20, 2011
The Providence Phoenix, Collision Showcases Scatter Art at The RISD Art Museum, by
Greg Cook, January 25, 2011
CKUW, 95.9, Winnipeg, radio interview, Eat Your Arts and Vegetables, January 20, 2011
Aboriginal Art News, International Indigenous Gathering in Winnipeg, Posted by Jeremy Eccles, January 31, 2011
Uptown Magazine, Get a Little Closer, by Sandee Moore, March 2, 2011
Big Hug Studio, Interview with Artist Jeffrey Gibson, January 9, 2011
The Boston Globe, The Year's Top 10 and A Year of Promising Signs, by Cate McQuaid, December 29, 2010
The Art Papers, Jackie Saccoccio + Jeffrey Gibson, by Evan Garza, November / December
Hélène Cixous, Peinetures. Écrits sur l'art, published by Ellago Ediciones
The Boston Globe, In Show, Controlled Chaos, by Cate McQuaid, November 14, 2010
The Boston Globe, Wall to Wall Abstraction, by Cate McQuaid, September 22, 2010
Eiteljorg Museum Fellowship 2009-10 Catalog, essay by Jimmie Durham
Signs Taken For Wonders, exhibition catalog with essay by Isolde Brielmaier and Deborah Willis
Art Lies, Totems Review, June Issue, written by Ben Judson
Visionary Drawing Building organized and produced by Matt Bua and Max Goldfarb, 2009
San Antonio Current, Indian Giver: Jeffrey Gibson's Absurdist Meta-Tribalism at Sala Diaz, written by Sarah Fisch
SA210, Sala Diaz 'Totems' exhibit blends Native American and consumer culture, written by Emily Messer
Make It Rain, exhibition catalog, Essay by David Pagel
Las Vegas Weekly, Nice Piece of Glass, review by Danielle Kelly
Las Vegas City Life, In da Club, review by Jarret Keene
The New Canoe, Season 7, interview, CTV's A Channel
Queens Chronicle, Visions From Abroad, by Michael Mohammed
Confederated Umatilla Journal, interview by Wil Phinney
ArtNews, June Issue, Tribal Hybrids feature article, by Cynthia Nadleman
Village Voice, Critic's Pick, Off the Map, Issue dated June 5-12, by R.C. Baker
New York Times, Art Review for Off the Map, by Grace Glueck, March 23, 2007
Bloomberg Television, ArtMuse feature, for Off the Map, interview by Andrea Simon
The Boston Globe, Talkin' Smack, exhibition review by Kate McQuaid, December 14, 2006
No Reservations, exhibition catalog, published by The Aldrich Museum
Pamanouk, exhibition catalog, published by State University of New York
Maverick Arts Magazine, Fast Forwarding When Hemispheres Collide, written by Charles Giuliano, issue 255
Art World Digest, {UN}AMBIGUOUS, a printed exhibition, edited by David Cohen, March 2006
College Art Association Conference, Contemporary Indigenous Artists of the Northeast, Boston, MA, panel organized by Kathleen Ash-Milby
Jeffrey Gibson: Indigenous Anomaly, interview by Kathleen Ash-Milby, produced by Terry Jones and Sarah Sense, aired on Manhattan Neighborhood Network
Connecticut Post, Brooklyn Accents, written by Philip Eliasoph, February 5, 2006
Fairfield County Weekly, Brooklyn By Design, written by Brita Belli, February 2, 2006
The New York Times, Bringing the Outdoors Inside and Hanging it on the Wall, written by Benjamin Genocchio
European Review of Native American Studies, 19:1, 2005, Contemporary Native American Art in the Twenty-First Century: Overcoming the Legacy, written by Ash-Milby, Kathleen E
Out of Bounds, exhibition brochure
Evolving Pattern, exhibition brochure with essay by Midori Yoshimoto
The Brooklyn Rail, Out of Bounds, May 2005, written by Ben La Rocco
NYArts, Poetics of Landscape: Out of Bounds and In Bounds, July/August 2005, vol. 10, written by Fu Chia-Wen-Lien
The Riverdale Press, Out of Bounds, written by Alejandro Lazo
The Boston Globe, Arts Calender, written by Cate McQuaid
The South End News, Vol. 25, No. 31, written by Thomas Garvey
The Bronx Beat, February 21-27, written by Natasha Allen
The Gotham Times, November 18, 2005, Jeffrey Gibson's Indigenous Anomaly, review by
Erica Freeman
The New York Times, Images From The Other New Jersey, written by Benjamin Genocchio
State of the Arts, New Jersey Network, 'Tis of Thee, interview by Christopher Benincasa
Kean University, The Space Between Words, panel discussion
Jersey City Museum, Jersey (new), panel discussion and online interview
New American Talent 19, exhibition catalog
Timeless / Timeliness, exhibition catalog
Transcultural New Jersey, exhibition catalog
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, Indiana
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
National Gallery of Canada, Ontario, Canada
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, Kansas
Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
School of Advanced Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina
Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Clinton, New York
Newark Museum of Art, Newark, New Jersey
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Sequential actions of immune effector cells induced by viral activation of dendritic cells to eliminate murine neuroblastoma
Naonori Kawakubo, Sakura Tanaka, Yoshiaki Kinoshita, Tatsuro Tajiri, Yoshikazu Yonemitsu, Tomoaki Taguchi
Comprehensive Maternity & Perinatal Care Center
Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Reproductive and Developmental Medicine
Purpose: In preclinical trails, we reported the antitumor effect of dendritic cells activated with Sendai virus (rSeV/DC) combined with γ-irradiation against neuroblastoma. However, what kind of effector cells for the combined therapy were used to show the antitumor effect was unclear. In this study, we performed radiation and rSeV/DC therapy in vivo and examined the effector cells involved. Methods: Dendritic cells were cultured from bone marrow cells, activated with SeV and administered intratumorally at 106 weekly for 3 weeks. Radiation was administered at 4 Gy/time × 3 times. During the treatment, CD4 + and CD8 + cells and natural killer (NK) cells were removed by antibodies. Results: Complete remission of neuroblastoma was observed in 62.5% of individuals in the combined therapy group. By depleting the effector cells using antibodies, the tumor increased in size from an early stage of treatment in the CD4 + and NK cell-depleted group. In contrast, the tumor increased in size in the late stage of treatment in the CD8 + cell-depleted group. Conclusion: The combination of radiation and rSeV/DC therapy induces different effector cells, depending on the time point during treatment. Level of Evidence: V.
Journal of Pediatric Surgery
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2017.08.019
Virus Activation
Dendritic Cells
Neoplasm Antibodies
Sendai virus
Cell- and Tissue-Based Therapy
Kawakubo, N., Tanaka, S., Kinoshita, Y., Tajiri, T., Yonemitsu, Y., & Taguchi, T. (2018). Sequential actions of immune effector cells induced by viral activation of dendritic cells to eliminate murine neuroblastoma. Journal of Pediatric Surgery, 53(8), 1615-1620. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2017.08.019
Sequential actions of immune effector cells induced by viral activation of dendritic cells to eliminate murine neuroblastoma. / Kawakubo, Naonori; Tanaka, Sakura; Kinoshita, Yoshiaki; Tajiri, Tatsuro; Yonemitsu, Yoshikazu; Taguchi, Tomoaki.
In: Journal of Pediatric Surgery, Vol. 53, No. 8, 08.2018, p. 1615-1620.
Kawakubo, N, Tanaka, S, Kinoshita, Y, Tajiri, T, Yonemitsu, Y & Taguchi, T 2018, 'Sequential actions of immune effector cells induced by viral activation of dendritic cells to eliminate murine neuroblastoma', Journal of Pediatric Surgery, vol. 53, no. 8, pp. 1615-1620. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2017.08.019
Kawakubo N, Tanaka S, Kinoshita Y, Tajiri T, Yonemitsu Y, Taguchi T. Sequential actions of immune effector cells induced by viral activation of dendritic cells to eliminate murine neuroblastoma. Journal of Pediatric Surgery. 2018 Aug;53(8):1615-1620. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2017.08.019
Kawakubo, Naonori ; Tanaka, Sakura ; Kinoshita, Yoshiaki ; Tajiri, Tatsuro ; Yonemitsu, Yoshikazu ; Taguchi, Tomoaki. / Sequential actions of immune effector cells induced by viral activation of dendritic cells to eliminate murine neuroblastoma. In: Journal of Pediatric Surgery. 2018 ; Vol. 53, No. 8. pp. 1615-1620.
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There are over 120 student computers in the library. These include:
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'Parasite' Scores Multiple Wins at 2019 Los Angeles Film Critics Awards
In addition to picking up Best Film and Best Director prize, the Bong Joon-ho-directed black comedy thriller has earned Song Kang Ho a Best Supporting Actor kudo.
AceShowbiz - Bong Joon Ho has scored a massive double from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, picking up the Best Film and Best Director honours for his hit movie "Parasite".
The movie also earned a Best Supporting Actor win for Song Kang Ho.
Sunday's (December 08) big announcement comes just days after the New York Film Critics voted Martin Scorsese's "The Irishman" its Best Film. The gangster epic came in second behind "Parasite" in L.A.
Los Angeles Film Critics Association officials will hand out their awards on January 11, 2020 at the InterContinental Hotel in Century City, where Elaine May will also be honoured as the recipient of the Career Achievement Award.
The full list of winners is:
Best Picture: "Parasite"
Best Director: Bong Joon Ho, "Parasite"
Best Actor: Antonio Banderas, "Pain and Glory"
Best Documentary/Nonfiction Film: "American Factory"
Best Screenplay: Noah Baumbach, "Marriage Story"
The Douglas Edwards Experimental Film Award: "Ja'Tovia Gary's The Giverny Document"
Best Animation: "I Lost My Body"
Best Actress: Mary Kay Place, "Diane"
Best Supporting Actress: Jennifer Lopez, "Hustlers"
Best Editing: Todd Douglas Miller, "Apollo 11"
Best Production Design: Barbara Ling, "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood"
Best Supporting Actor: Song Kang Ho, "Parasite"
Best Music/Score: Dan Levy, "I Lost My Body"
Best Cinematography: Claire Mathon, "Portrait of a Lady on Fire" and "Atlantics"
Best Foreign-Language Film: "Pain and Glory"
Martin Scorsese Credited for Saving Alfonso Gomez-Rejon's 'The Current War'
AC/DC's New Album Is in the Work, Features Late Malcolm Young
'Parasite' Director on Historic Oscar Nomination: I Feel It's Like Inception
Bong Joon-ho's 'Parasite' Hailed Best Picture by National Society of Film Critics
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FFA announce BLK Refereeing Partnership
Football Federation Australia (FFA) has today announced they have partnered with leading international sports apparel brand BLK as the official referee apparel supplier for the next four seasons.
The deal will see BLK, a subsidiary of WRS Group, produce all on field and training apparel for Hyundai A-League, Westfield W-League and Foxtel National Youth League referees through to the end of the 2018/19 season.
The product range, which has been custom designed using the latest cutting edge sportswear technology, represents BLK’s second entry into the Hyundai A-League following their partnership with the Newcastle Jets which commenced in 2014.
FFA Director of Referees Ben Wilson praised BLK’s significant investment into Australian refereeing.
“BLK are an internationally recognised industry leading sportswear brand. They have a history of working with elite sporting organisations all around the world and we’re excited to partner with them to deliver the most comprehensive referee apparel partnership in FFA history.”
The new high performance apparel, which was launched at the FFA Pre-season Seminar at the Australian Institute of Sport earlier this month, made its debut during the Westfield FFA Cup Quarter Finals.
“We’ve received positive feedback from our refereeing team and I’m confident the new and innovative BLK range will ensure our referees maintain peak performance in every match throughout the 2016/17 season,” concluded Wilson.
BLK CEO Tyron Brant echoed Wilson’s comments and expressed his excitement at welcoming FFA into the BLK family.
“With both the A-League and football in Australia exploding it is fantastic that the BLK brand will be on the pitch at every game. On a global stage there is a strong push into football from BLK and this partnership will just add to the credibility of BLK in the football market.”
FFA is currently working with BLK to make the new product range available to grassroots referees around the country.
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College in Nagapattinam
Poompuhar College (PC), Melaiyur
Tamil Nadu, Nagapattinam|Estd:1964
M.Sc in Information Technology
B.A in Philosophy
B.A in English
B.A in Economics
Choose a Program*B.A in TamilB.A in PhilosophyB.A in EconomicsB.A in EnglishB.Com in CommerceBCA in Computer ApplicationsB.Sc in ChemistryB.Sc in PhysicsB.Sc in ZoologyB.Sc in Bio-TechnologyB.Sc in MathematicsPh.D in TamilPh.D in EconomicsPh.D in CommercePh.D. in PhysicsPh.D. in ZoologyPh.D. in ChemistryPh.D. in MathematicsPh.D. in Physical EducationM.A in PhilosophyM.A in EconomicsM.A in EnglishM.A in TamilM.Com in CommerceM.Phil in PhilosophyM.Phil in CommerceM.Sc in ZoologyM.Sc in Computer ScienceM.Sc in Information TechnologyM.Sc in PhysicsM.Sc in MathematicsM.Sc in Chemistry
Choose a Program *B.A in EnglishB.A in TamilB.A in PhilosophyB.A in EconomicsB.Com in CommerceBCA in Computer ApplicationsB.Sc in Bio-TechnologyB.Sc in MathematicsB.Sc in ChemistryB.Sc in PhysicsB.Sc in ZoologyPh.D in EconomicsPh.D in TamilPh.D in CommercePh.D. in MathematicsPh.D. in PhysicsPh.D. in ZoologyPh.D. in ChemistryPh.D. in Physical EducationM.A in PhilosophyM.A in EconomicsM.A in EnglishM.A in TamilM.Com in CommerceM.Phil in PhilosophyM.Phil in CommerceM.Sc in PhysicsM.Sc in MathematicsM.Sc in ChemistryM.Sc in ZoologyM.Sc in Computer ScienceM.Sc in Information Technology
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Randy Travis Cancels Most of 2019 Tour Dates With James Dupré
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Most of Randy Travis' 12 tour dates in October and November have been canceled. The Music of Randy Travis Tour with James Dupré was set to begin on Oct. 16 in Indianapolis, with dates through Nov. 2. Most shows have been scrapped due to production issues.
Several venue websites (including the Macon City Auditorium, where Travis was scheduled for Oct. 18) blame "unexpected production and technical issues related to the elaborate content of the show" as the cause. An explanation from the singer's team asks fans to be patient and understanding. Refunds are available through point of purchase.
Currently the Indianapolis show at the Murat is still listed on sale, as is an Oct. 17 show in Evansville, Ind., the Oct. 28 show in Nashville and a Nov. 1 show in Minneapolis, Minn. The Oct. 19 show in Gulfport, Miss is still planned but is sold out, per Ticketmaster.
A full list of scheduled tour dates and their status is below. Billboard reports that the Oct. 16 and Nov. 1 shows were also canceled, but ticket links are still active and both dates are listed as on sale. Taste of Country has reached out to Travis' team for more information. At least one other show (Nov. 1) is nearly sold out. Many tickets remain for the Nashville show.
The tour marked Travis' return to the road after a 2013 stroke that nearly killed him. His rehabilitation has been well-publicized, with the Country Music Hall of Famer finding comfort in being around other musicians, even contemporary acts. Dupré and Travis are friends who first worked together on a movie prior to the singer's stroke. He was chosen due to the nature of their relationship and because his voice is similar to Travis'.
The 60-year-old's band was set to join Dupré on stage each night, and Travis himself was going to make an appearance, as well as meet VIP fans before each concert. The set was to include his 16 No. 1 hits.
The Music of Randy Travis 2019 Tour Dates:
Oct. 16 -- Indianapolis, Ind. @ The Murat - On Sale
Oct. 17 -- Evansville, Ind. @ Victory Theatre - On Sale
Oct. 18 -- Macon, Ga. @ Macon Auditorium - Canceled
Oct. 19 -- Gulfport, Miss. @ Island View Casino - On Sale, Sold Out
Oct. 23 -- Augusta, Ga. @ The Bell - Canceled
Oct. 24 -- Spartanburg, S.C. @ Memorial Auditorium - Canceled
Oct. 25 -- Knoxville, Tenn. @ Knoxville Auditorium - Canceled
Oct. 26 -- North Little Rock, Ark. @ Verizon Arena - Canceled
Oct. 28 -- Nashville, Tenn. @ Ryman Auditorium - On Sale
Oct. 29 -- Atlanta, Ga. @ Symphony Hall - Canceled
Nov. 1 -- Minneapolis, Minn. @ Orpheum Theater - On Sale
Nov. 2 -- Green Bay, Wisc. @ Weidner Center - Canceled
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Stretch Of 134 Freeway Gets ‘President Barack H. Obama Highway’ Signs
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GLENDALE (CBSLA) — A portion of the 134 Freeway between Glendale and Pasadena is now officially named the President Barack H. Obama Highway.
Caltrans crews have installed signs renaming the busy stretch of the 134 Freeway between the Glendale CA-2 and the 210 Freeway after the nation’s 44th president.
Obama attended Occidental College from 1979 to 1981 and lived in Pasadena during his sophomore year.
State Senator Anthony J. Portantino (D – La Cañada Flintridge), who co-authored the bill for the freeway’s renaming, says Obama’s time at Occidental ” influenced his political trajectory and lead him to become one of the most revered and respected Presidents in history.”
“Our community came together to make this happen,” Portantino said. “It is an honor to be in a position to have helped facilitate this wonderful symbol of our collective respect for the grace and dignity embodied by our 44th President.”
Portantino introduced the plan in 2016, citing what he described as California’s long history of designating freeways as reminders of the accomplishments of important leaders.
The lawmaker says community members donated funds to Caltrans for the creation and installation of the signs.
A formal unveiling is expected in the new year.
The freeway is the second roadway to be named after Obama in the Los Angeles area: earlier this year, the Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously to rename Rodeo Road in Culver City to Obama Boulevard.
Hillary Shackley says:
uh, you didn’t build that- I did
Kay Meyer says:
Another good reason for me to move out of Glendale. I won’t have to take side streets to avoid gagging every time I’d go past that sign.
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Aragon Network will be the first community governed decentralized organization whose goal is to act as a digital jurisdiction, an online decentralized court system that isn’t bound by traditional artificial barriers such as national identity or the borders of a single country. Built on Ethereum.
History & key events
May 2017 – Aragon Raised $25M (at ETH price ~$90)
Dec 2017 – Launch of Aragon Nest Program
March 2018 - The launch of Aragon 0.5, “The Architect”
May 2018 – Separation Aragon Association (non profit) and Aragon One (dev team)
Oct 2018 – Launch of Flock program (bigger grants for teams)
Oct 2018 - Aragon 0.6 is live on Mainnet
Nov 2018 - Release of aragonOS 4 open source smart contract framework
Jan 2019 - First Aragon Conference, AraCon, in Berlin
Jan 2019 - The first Aragon Network Vote
Apr 2019 - Second Aragon Network Vote
Objects of governance
Aragon Network is stewarded by the Aragon Association, Swiss registered non-profit entity. Executive director is Stefano Bernardi. Luis Cuende & Jorge Izquierdo (founders) are on the board of directors. It controls the pool of funds raised through the token sale and private rounds (Placeholder, Boost VC etc). It controls ~18% of undistributed ANT (governance tokens). Here's the list of current holders to check the distribution.
The management of funds recently became governed through the AGP process (described below) where token holders vote for or against specific decisions (not only funds dedication). Association keeps open multisig balance and operations, provides regular reports on the funds' usage. It formed the Manifesto to guide the values for further platform development and governance.
The initial development team is formed as a separate entity Aragon One (Switzerland based), which requests yearly budgets from the Association. It provides regular updates on the roadmap and performance.
Aragon Governance Proposals (AGPs) are documents that propose changes to the governance of the Aragon project. The process is described in the AGP-1 approved on November 2018. It had support level of 99.97%, however only 2.6% of token holders participated in the decision. AGPs are openly submitted and tracked via the github repository. Voting on AGPs takes place quarterly.
Aragon Network vote 1 got 8 AGPs approved and 4 rejected (some postponed to the next vote). Aragon Network vote 2 was a bit more controversial. 6 AGPs were approved and 3 rejected, one of which (AGP-37) was massively influenced by one whale (from 82% for to 66% against).
Nest & Flock programs
Aragon Nest is a grants program to support the development of the Aragon ecosystem, started at April 2018. It uses GitHub to create and track funding proposals (e.g. requests for apps or features) and requests for funding (specific teams requesting approved proposals). Max size of the application is $150k in DAI + smaller success bonus, based on the results of delivery. At the time of writing, decisions were made by the Aragon Association with the intent to move it to the community vote at some point of time.
The goal of the program is to attract talent to research and build the necessary tooling for developing solutions and applications around Aragon.
Data on Oct 2018
Proposals (issues):
48 (9 proposals by the Aragon One team)
Approved: 20
Rejected: 27
TBD: 1 (not included in chart)
Requests for funding (PRs):
Aragon Flock is a bigger than Nest program for long-term support of Aragon teams (One, Black, Autark) that develop core parts of the ecosystem. Distribution of this grants goes through the AGP process.
https://aragon.org/
https://blog.aragon.org/
https://hack.aragon.org/
https://wiki.aragon.org/
https://aragon.chat/
https://forum.aragon.org/
https://github.com/aragon/whitepaper
https://aracon.one/
https://twitter.com/AragonProject
https://www.youtube.com/c/AragonProject
https://www.reddit.com/r/aragonproject/
https://blog.aragon.org/why-transparency-matters-d6f9e6e10985/
AGP-1: The Aragon Governance Proposal Process
Explanation of the Aragon jurisdiction: https://blog.aragon.org/aragon-network-jurisdiction-part-1-decentralized-court-c8ab2a675e82/ & https://blog.aragon.org/introducing-the-aragon-network-20b998e2caba/
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Call Me Amy
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Roller Boy Book Launch
Marcia Strykowski ♦ October 1, 2018 ♦ 44 Comments
Thanks to all who were involved, the Roller Boy launch party was a great success! It was so nonstop busy, I never even got a chance to see all that was going on in the rest of the library. But I know there were scavenger hunts, story times, door prizes, and lots of information-sharing during …
Marcia Strykowski ♦ September 28, 2014 ♦ 22 Comments
It was a beautiful day at Rhode Island College for the 8th annual ENCORE event. Due to overwhelming attendance and interest in the NESCBWI yearly spring conferences, a special one day workshop is added on a few months later. Five of the most popular workshops from the big conference are presented. The function room and …
NESCBWI Spring Conference
Marcia Strykowski ♦ May 4, 2014 ♦ 16 Comments
I thoroughly enjoyed the 28th annual New England Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators conference. The conference was held at the Sheraton Springfield Monarch Place Hotel in Springfield, MA on the banks of the Connecticut River. There is an abundance of knowledge at these conferences, being that there are about 2,300 members in the New England …
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Call Me Amy made the ShortList!
Call Me Amy chosen for 2014 Best Books of the Year!
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Great Reviews for CALL ME AMY
“Well-drawn, sympathetic characters and the developing spark between Amy and Craig combine to create a pleasant, satisfying read.” –KIRKUS
“Strykowski lovingly captures seaside Maine and the travails of adolescence in her quiet, sweet-natured debut novel.”—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
“Strykowski ably depicts Amy’s insecurity and self-doubt, Craig’s bravura and pain, and Miss Cogshell’s wisdom with a deft, convincing touch. In essence, Amy comes of age as she fights to find her voice in the outside world and shed some of her debilitating insecurity. Readers will cheer her on, and her splendid team, too.” –BOOKLIST
"The protagonist grows throughout the story, from a shy loner to having two friends and speaking her mind in front of her adversaries at school as well as to the whole town. …Amy is a reliable narrator and easily relatable.” –SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL
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“To do a good deed, we can find friendship in the most curious of locations. “Call Me Amy” is a novel from Marcia Strykowski following the struggles of Amy Henderson, who finds an injured seal and seeks to nurse it, with the help of a scorned aging woman and an unusual youth. Set in the early 70s and exploring the essence of loneliness, “Call Me Amy” is a powerful read that should prove so very hard to put down, highly recommended.”—MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW
“This is a wonderful YA tale for the simple fact that it shows one and all that the power and courage to stand up and be heard in this life comes from within. And that no matter who you are, you have that toughness inside your soul. Craig has a lovely heart that hides behind that sarcasm he aims at the world, and he will remind every small town girl about that quiet boy she fell in love with long ago. ‘Old Coot’ brings the fun and humor along with her, and Pup is the sweetest creature in the world. Having all the ingredients of first love, faith, loss and strength makes ‘Amy’ unforgettable.” —FEATHERED QUILL
“For Amy, 1973 has been a lonely year, her only friend moved away and she feels awkward around her classmates. Until one day Amy discovers that Craig, another classmate, has rescued an injured seal pup. Amy agrees to help him and together they hide the pup at Miss Cogshell’s house, the odd old lady most kids call “Old Coot.” Amy learns that people aren’t always what they seem to be, and she forms a friendship with Craig and Miss Cogshell. A great story about friendship and doing what you think is right.” —KIDSBOOKSHELF
“For those ages 8 to 12, Call Me Amy by Marcia Strykowski will resonate with familiar themes of growing up. The year is 1973 and for Amy Henderson, it has been a lonely one with too many awkward moments to count. When she finds an injured seal pup, she rescues him to rehabilitate him. In the process she forms an unlikely alliance with Craig, a boy around her age, and an older woman in town. With their help she discovers that people aren’t always what they seem despite what others may think of them. This is a story filled with many elements that will appeal to younger readers and I highly recommend it.”—BOOKVIEWS.COM
"A wounded seal pup propels 13-year-old Amy Henderson into an unlikely alliance with an unusual older woman and a mysterious boy in a small Maine fishing village. Readers will cheer for Amy as she protects Pup, gains confidence, faces challenges, and comes up with an idea that could change not only the future of her village, but also, her own life. With a skillful hand, Strykowski introduces us to a small town with memorable characters and the girl who could bring them all together." ---Anne Broyles, award-winning author of PRISCILLA AND THE HOLLYHOCKS
"In a small town in Maine in the 1970's, Amy is standing on the brink of becoming a young adult. The events that will force her to discover who she is, what she is made of and how she wants others to perceive her are sweetly told through awkward teenage moments, the triumphs and sadnesses of that age and ultimately, Amy's discovery of her own beliefs, strength and courage." ---Kathleen Benner Duble, acclaimed author of THE SACRIFICE
“Call Me Amy is exactly the type of book I love. The characters are relatable and likeable; they are individuals that the reader enjoys getting to know while watching them change and develop. The setting of the small Maine coastal town is idyllic, and the reader is quickly and completely immersed in this community. Although the novel takes place in the 1970s, it feels timeless. Young readers will readily associate with Amy’s struggles and triumphs with her relationships with family and friends, and mature readers will be gently nudged back to this period in their life. These universal qualities make this novel a perfect choice for many types of readers. As a Youth Services Librarian, I would enthusiastically recommend Call Me Amy to our young patrons as well as to a more adult audience. Because it can be enjoyed on so many levels, this novel would be an ideal source of discussion for an adult/child book group.” ---Patty Falconer, Youth Services Librarian
"I just finished CALL ME AMY and I think it is wonderful with beautiful descriptions. I love the characters and their story. It is like having seen a good play or movie and later, while you are doing other things, it comes back to you and you think about the characters again." ---Peggy Arnold, retired teacher and avid reader.
For 13-year-old Amy Henderson, 1973 has been a lonely and uneventful year in her small Maine fishing village. With the help of a wounded seal pup, she gets to know Craig, who slinks around in an oversized army jacket. A new law against handling wild marine mammals brings suspense to the story. Where can they keep Pup until he heals? Their only hope is to trust Miss Cogshell, an elderly woman keeping to herself amidst jeers from the local kids, who catches them sneaking Pup into her woodshed in the middle of the night. Throughout the book, small challenges prepare Amy for her greatest one of all. A challenge that leads her to discover that everyone, herself included, has a voice worth hearing.
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Sloane Lewis - Miss Kansas 2012
Platform: Empowering At-Risk Youth
Talent: Piano
Parents: Candice Thimesch
Hometown: Norwich
School: University of Kansas
Scholastic/Career Ambition:
Receive B.A. in Political Science and International Studies and attend Law School in the Fall of 2013 to obtain my J.D.
Scholastic Honors:
University of Kansas Dean’s Honor Roll Fall 2011; Alpha Chi Omega Scholastic Achievement Fall 2011; Recipient of Norwich High School Alumni Association Scholarship; Eagle Honor Roll 2005-2009; Exemplary Achievement Award-Kansas State Academic Assessments; Selected to compete in the Heart of the Plains League Academic Competition
Leadership Roles:
Vice President/Recruitment Chair of Alpha Chi Omega Sorority; Selected to represent the Greek Community of The University of Kansas as a Greek Ambassador; Served on the Junior Greek Council at the University of Kansas; 2009 Student Council President; 2008 Junior Class President; Selected to serve on the Students Against Destructive Decisions Board; 2008 Student Council Vice President; 2006-2008 Student Council Representative; 2007-2008 Kansas Association for Youth Treasurer/Secretary
Recipient of the Kansas State High School Activities Association Class of 2009 Citizenship Award; Received a “I” rating at State Music Festival on trumpet, Received a “I” rating at South Central Kansas Regional Piano Festival;
Interesting Facts:
I have the first 120 digits of Pi memorized; I will be the first generation in my family to graduate college; I am the eldest of 8 siblings-5sisters and 3 brothers; My hometown has a population of 491 and I had a graduating class of only 19 people; I am 1 of 2 African Americans to graduate from Norwich High School; I have cousins who are sextuplets.
Currently, I am the Volunteer Program coordinator for StopGap, Inc., an organization that educates foster children about the transition from foster care to adulthood; I have worked at Douglas County Bank in Lawrence for 2 years as a customer service representative and teller; I have interned with Congressman Kevin Yoder; I also enjoy babysitting for 2-year-old twins William and Sophie on the weekends.
Why I should be Miss Kansas:
The job of Miss Kansas is one that requires many skills. However, I believe the most important characteristic of Miss Kansas is someone who is real. As a representative of the State, it is so very important that Miss Kansas is someone who understands, appreciates, and respects people who are from all walks of life. It is so important that Miss Kansas is a leader for every person—no matter their differences. I know that I am this leader. Growing up in a culturally diverse lifestyle taught me to appreciate the uniqueness in people and I believe it is this strength of reliability that sets me apart from others. I should be Miss Kansas because I can be a real, honest, positive role model and a genuine leader.
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Consumers Beware: Toxins Lurking in Your Clothing! Part 2
Scientists find that restrictive bras suppress the lymphatic system—needed to flush toxins from your breasts and lymph nodes and to help prevent breast cancer;
Despite wide appeal of synthetic athletic apparel, medical studies show that synthetic fibers cause muscle fatigue— which can make the difference between winning and losing for competitive athletes;
A study of 24–27-year-old-males, showed that natural linen long sleeved shirts were worn for five hours—and then polyester ones were worn for another five hours. Their arms were monitored during both with electrodes measuring skin temperature and velocity of the men's muscle tissue. No changes were measurable when they wore linen. However, when they donned polyester they endured a range of muscle disruptions.
While individual chemicals might not endanger your health, the synergistic effect of multiple chemicals (a “toxic soup”) interacting can have unpredictable negative health effects;
Choose natural fibers. While not always as easy to find, its best to do so when possible:
Cotton — preferably organic still remains the “king” of textiles. Organic accounts for less than one percent of worldwide production;
Flax — one of nature’s strongest fibers;
Hemp — grows without any need for fungicides, herbicides, or pesticides because it’s naturally insect-resistant. Its fibers are reported to be four times stronger than cotton. This is NOT the hemp known for its mind-altering properties;
Silk —known as the “queen of fabrics.” Watch out for the use of synthetic dyes in this fiber.
Wool —most of today’s wool is contaminated with chemicals, i.e., pesticides used to kill parasites. But organic wool is becoming more common.
Other — alpaca, angora, camel, cashmere, mohair, ramie, aluyot.
The Organic Trade Association estimates that one non-organic cotton T-shirt uses one-third pound of pesticides and fertilizers. Cotton production uses one-fourth of the entire world’s fertilizers. It’s another good reason to choose organic cotton to add to the ones above.
Don’t get over-whelmed, start small. Choose organic for clothing closet to your skin most of the time—underwear, sleepwear, camisoles, sheets/pillow cases, etc. Build on your organic wardrobe as you replace items.
Are You Getting a Charge? Electrostatic charges accumulate in synthetic clothing. There are reported incidents of shocking mini-explosions from mixing layers of synthetic clothing with synthetic carpeting. And get this…synthetic undergarments contribute to infertility in men.
A 24-month study of male dogs wearing either loose-fitting polyester underpants or loose-fitting cotton ones showed that wearing polyester created significant decreases in sperm count and degeneration of the testes. The animals wearing cotton suffered no side effects. (And, please, no emails to the editor about dogs wearing underwear. I agree, it sounds silly but no humans would volunteer!)
Scientists hypothesize that polyester traps body heat, encourages chemical absorption, and creates electrostatic buildup… which all affect sperm count.
Personal Perspective...
I'm mindful of the problems with synthetic fibers and dyes because (cancer concerns aside) I'm sensitive to a wide range of chemicals as are most of my patients.
A few years ago I bought a beautiful set of sheets from an upscale store. The label said they were 100 percent cotton, but after sleeping in them a few nights I experienced all my old fibromyalgia pains that had long ago resolved (unless I eat foods in the nightshade genre or consume MSG) and I was now again experiencing bone and muscle pain from head to toe. Repeated washings didn't get out whatever the offending substance was—it never does.
I got a terrible reaction from the dyes or maybe the chemicals used to make those all-cotton sheets "no-iron." You can only imagine what true synthetic cloth can do to us; after all, it's largely a product of the oil industry. After I switched to a high-quality set of organic sheets, all my symptoms were resolved.
Invisible Saboteurs...
We have the illusion that clothes made from synthetic fibers are safe, but the materials are in fact full of invisible chemicals the clothing industry prefers we donft think about.
A hundred years ago, clothing was made of natural fibers like cotton, flax, wool, and silk—synthetics weren't developed until the early 1900s.
Although rayon was introduced in 1924, the first truly synthetic fiber was nylon, made by DuPont from the petro-molecule toluene. Nylon was first used because it was a popular material for women's stockings and later panty hose.
Other synthetics followed:
Acrylic (1950), aka, "wash-and-wear fabrics"—a "revolutionary time-saving leap" for homemakers.
Polyester (1953), "wrinkle free" fabrics developed from xylene and ethylene.
Spandex and olefin (1959), which became the mainstay of sportswear, swim suits, and thermal underwear. Olefin is produced by "cracking" petroleum molecules into propylene and ethylene gases.
Don't wait until you or a loved one has a health issue before changing the products you purchase. Yes, organic cotton does cost a bit more...but then...isn't it more cost effective to stay healthy than to get well?
I'm especially concerned about pregnant woman and their newborn children, make the decision as parents and grandparents to create a safe nontoxic nursery beginning with non-toxic no VOC paint to hard surface flooring, the crib and bedding and the clothing used for a newborn whose immune system is not fully developed to provide maximum protection, naturally.
www.cancerdefeated.com Clement, Anna Maria, and Clement, Brian, Killer Clothes: How Seemingly Innocent Clothing Choices Endanger Your Health . . . And How to Protect Yourself! Hippocrates Publications, 2011. p. 75.
http://www.cool-organic-clothing.com/organic-clothes.html Much of the information in this article was taken from the book Killer Clothes, by the Clements.
Infertility Treatment Protocol
Infertility affects many young couples (estimates are as high as ~ 1 in 6), and the prevalence is increasing. Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Survey of Family Growth done back in 1995 showed 6.1 million infertile women ages 15 to 44, 9.1 million using infertility services, and 2.1 million infertile married couples in the United States.1 According to a press release from the National Fertility Association, the data from 2002 indicates an increase in the number of infertile people in the United States to 7.3 million.2
These numbers are continuing to rise as sperm counts drop worldwide and undiagnosed thyroid problems increase—so you are not alone. "It looks as if the amount of infertility in the Western world could double in the next decade," Prof. Bill Ledger, a fertility expert at Sheffield University in England, told a June 2005 meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology.
Various factors may be responsible for the inability to achieve a successful pregnancy. Despite research showing that fertility declines after age 30, women are delaying having children. Infertility may be caused by ovulatory, anatomic, immunologic, infectious, nutritional or hormonal factors on the woman's side. In men, abnormalities of semen parameters are the most common contributors. In 1940, the average sperm count was 113 million/ ml. By 1990 this had dropped to 66 million sperm/ml and semen volume dropped ~ 20 percent from 3.4 to 2.75 cc. These represent an ~ 60 percent decrease in sperm per ejaculate over a 50 year period.3 Treatments that improve cellular energy production may dramatically increase sperm motility.
After a thorough work-up, treatment can sometimes be planned that aims to correct the problems identified. In many cases, however, the cause of the infertility remains unexplained. In this setting, the only option many couples are given is IVF (In Vitro Fertilization). IVF is given attention because it costs ~ $30,000+, while research on inexpensive natural options has been ignored (not because doctors don't care, but simply because no one will pay to publicize the information).
The good news is there are many natural ways to improve all steps of the reproductive process. A large number of studies have successfully explored the use of individual nutritional and hormonal therapies to do this, resulting in women with unexplained/ untreatable infertility often getting pregnant!
For The Woman
Life Style Education
These are important things to avoid from now until after you are three months pregnant, as they can cause infertility. Just do the best you can with these guidelines—OK to not be "perfect" with them.
Avoid coffee and sodas5 (Tea is OK). Coffee and sodas inhibit fertility-often markedly. Especially avoid caffeine if your Prolactin blood test is LOW as it can lower it further.
Avoid melatonin (which is sometimes used to treat insomnia) as it can affect reproductive hormones.6
Avoid taking over 900 mg of supplemental Vitamin C (causes reversible infertility). Taking 750 mg a day of Vitamin C however helps infertility7 so we will supply this amount. Do not take over 7000 units of Supplemental Vitamin A (causes birth defects—beta carotene is OK) daily. The supplement we supply has 3500 IU of Vitamin A (the other 3500 IU it contains is beta carotene).
Avoid hot tubbing (it increases birth defect risks). A hot bath, which is not over 100 degrees in temperature, is a safer way to relax. In a bath much of your upper body will remain out of the water, making you less likely to overheat. Additionally, the water in a bath begins to cool off, as opposed to a hot tub, further reducing any risk of overheating.8 A hot tub is usually set at 102–104 degrees, which can overheat your body and can harm the baby.
Avoid a high protein/Atkins' diet9(an Atkins like diet in a rat study decreased fertility over 50 percent).
No alcohol if Prolactin levels are higher than 10 (and avoid in general as is convenient).10
Avoid vaginal lubricants such as FemGlide, Replens and Astroglide, which can damage sperm. Pre-seed brand is OK.11
If you smoke, stop till after the baby is born. Smoking contributes to infertility in many ways.12
Lifestyle Things To Do To Help Get Pregnant
It works best to have intercourse on the day you ovulate and up to four days before (otherwise "ad lib" whenever you feel like it). It is OK to have intercourse multiple times during this period. For purposes of getting pregnant, intercourse even one day after ovulation is unlikely to result in pregnancy—but OK to do anyway for its other benefits.
Enjoy milk products but use regular ones that have the normal amount of milk fat (e.g.-whole milk) instead of low fat or fat free milk products. In a Harvard study, high intake of low-fat dairy foods was associated with an increased risk of infertility, while an increased intake of high-fat dairy foods was associated with a lower risk of infertility. Women consuming at least two servings of low-fat dairy foods per day showed an 85 percent increased risk of infertility. On the other hand, women consuming at least one serving of highfat dairy foods per day showed a 27 percent reduced risk of infertility.13 Whole milk products (instead of low fat ) also taste better!
Supply overall nutritional support with the "Energy Revitalization Powder" by Enzymatic Therapy and a healthy, wellbalanced diet.14,15,16,17 As noted above, dieting and high protein/ low carbohydrate diets are to be avoided.18,19 Stay on these when you get pregnant and through breast feeding.
Add prescription Armour thyroid 30 mg adjusted to dose that feels best (to a maximum of 90 mg) or Synthroid 25–75 mcg 19 A&B while keeping Free T4 < 75 percent of the upper limit of normal. Take it in the morning. DO NOT TAKE IRON OR CALCIUM SUPPLEMENTS WITHIN SIX HOURS OF THE THYROID DOSE, OR THE THYROID WILL NOT BE ABSORBED. Take your calcium at dinner and bedtime. If you get shaky or hyper or racing heart, lower the thyroid dose (or stop it) and discuss with your doctor. Stay on the thyroid through your pregnancy (it supports a healthy pregnancy).
Optimize iron levels. If the ferritin blood test is under 80 or iron percent saturation under 25 percent, treat with an iron tablet one a day after 2 PM on an empty stomach.20,21 Continue the iron through your pregnancy.
If PCOS (Poly Cystic Ovary Syndrome) is present (often present when testosterone or DHEA-S levels are elevated), research shows that treatment with the medication metformin 1500–2000 mg/day not only increased fertility, but also decreased the risk of serious birth defects considerably.22,23,24,25,26
If the Prolactin level is over 10, alcohol and melatonin, (which can raise Prolactin) are to be strictly avoided. Vitamin B6 100 mg or as needed to bring Prolactin within the normal range (but not greater than 200 mg of B6) should be added. Stop the extra B6 (except for what is in the B complex) around seven months into the pregnancy (otherwise it can suppress breast milk).
If folic acid levels are low (lowest 20 percent of normal range) a blood test looking for wheat allergies will be recommended and a gluten free diet instituted if positive. Also Folic Acid 5 mg BID will then be added.27
For The Man
These are important things to avoid from now until after your wife gets pregnant, as they can cause infertility. Just do the best you can with these guidelines—OK to not be "perfect" with them.
When convenient, avoid meat with Estrogen (i.e.—get your meat from a natural foods store).
Avoid Soy based foods (e.g.—tofu, tempeh, soy cheese and milk, etc). Even modest intakes drop sperm counts by 40 percent.28
Avoid Melatonin, Testosterone, Verapamil and Nifedipine (latter two are heart/blood pressure medications), which can cause reversible infertility.
Avoid alcohol when convenient29 and tobacco.30
Sperm do poorly at temperatures over 96 (which is why the testes hang below the rest of the body to stay cooler). Avoid elevated scrotal temperatures by wearing boxer shorts. Do NOT wear briefs, tight fitting underwear or jeans. Avoid hottubs. Avoid rowing/ski machines, treadmills or jogging unless the testes can hang free.
Avoid aspirin, Motrin or similar medications, which block the hormone prostaglandin (Prostaglandins in the seminal fluid may assist sperm). Tylenol is OK in moderation (if you need high doses regularly, discuss with your doctor).
Increase liquid vegetable oils and avoid cottonseed (may contain gossypol which inhibit sperm function)31, palm or coconut oils or trans, hydrogenated or saturated fats as comfortably able.
Treatments All of these can be taken together in the morning (or split up or taken any time of day)
Supply overall nutritional support with the "Energy Revitalization Powder" (contains > 50 nutrients including 750 mg of Vitamin C and 100 IU of Vitamin E32,33,34,35) by Enzymatic Therapy). It also supplies folic acid36,37 and antioxidants.38
CoEnzyme Q10 (chewables-contains 400 IU of Vitamin E as well) 200 mg/day.38
L-Arginine 4 gm/day.39
Acetyl-l-carnitine 1000 mg/day and Carnitine 1000 mg/day markedly improves sperm motility and the sperms defenses against attack.40,41,42
Zinc 15 mg/day43
Ribose 5 gm twice a day (can use like sugar and mix in food or drinks or use the chewable tablets). In many studies this increases energy production, which may also help sperm motility. The second dose can be taken any time during the day.
Clomiphene (Rx) 25 mg a night (or Monday, Wednesday, Friday nights) can increase sperm counts (more than doubles sperm count and motility).44
National Center for Health Statistics. Infertility. Accessed April 26,2006.
Resolve. National survey results reveal startling lack of awareness of infertility even as numbers climb to 7.3 million. October 27, 2005. Accessed December 8, 2005.
Carlson et al. Evidence for decreasing quality of semen over the last 50 years. Br Med J 1992;305:609–13.
Weight and pregnancy
Wilcox AJ, Weinberg CR. Lancet 337:1159-1160,1991;Williams MA, et al. Coffee and delayed conception. Lancet 335:1603, 1990.
Partonen T. Short note: melatonin-dependent infertility. Med Hypotheses. 1999;52(5):487–8.
Henmi H, Endo T, Kitajima Y, et al. Effects of ascorbic acid supplementation on serum progesterone levels in patients with a luteal phase defect. Fertil Steril 2003;80:459–61.
www.AmericanPregnancy.org for more information.
Atkins like diet in a rat study at the Colorado Center for Reproductive medicine decreased fertility over 50%- study presented at [2004] European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology Conference.
Psychiatry Letter 4(7): 35–8,1986.
Some Vaginal Lubricants May Damage Sperm WebMD, Oct. 19, 2005
Maternal Tobacco Use and Its Preimplantation Effects on Fertility: More Reasons to Stop Smoking.
A prospective study of dairy foods intake and anovulatory infertility," Chavarro JE, Willett WC, et al, Human Reproduction, 2007 Feb 28; [Epub ahead of print].
Czeizel AE, Metneki J, Dudas I. The effect of preconceptional multivitamin supplementation on fertility. Int J Vitam Nutr Res 1996;66:55–8.
Thiessen DD, Ondrusek G, Coleman RV. Vitamin E and sex behavior in mice. Nutr Metab 1975;18:116–9.
Bayer R. Treatment of infertility with vitamin E. Int J Fertil 1960;5:70–8.
Sieve BF. The clinical effects of a new B-complex factor, para-aminobenzoic acid, on pigmentation and fertility. South Med Surg 1942;104:135–9.
Wynn A, Wynn M. The need for nutritional assessment of the infertile patient. J Nutr Med 1:315–324,1990.
Green BB et al. Risk of ovulatory infertility in relation to [high or low] body weight. Fertil Steril 50(9); 621-6,1988).
19a. Thyroid and its indispensability in fertility.
19b. Improved in vitro fertilization outcomes after treatment of subclinical hypothyroidism in infertile women.
Rushton DH et al. Ferritin and Fertility. Letter. Lancet 337:1554, 1991.
Iron intake and risk of ovulatory infertility Obstet Gynecol 2006 Nov;108(5):1145-52.
Costello MF, Eden JA. A systematic review of the reproductive system effects of metformin in patients with polycystic ovary syndrome. Fertil Steril. 2003;79:1–13 .
Glueck CJ, Wang P, Kobayashi S, et al Metformin therapy throughout pregnancy reduces the development of gestational diabetes in women with polycystic ovary syndrome. Fertil Steril. 2002;77:520–5.
Glueck CJ, Phillips H, Cameron D, et al. Continuing metformin throughout pregnancy in women with polycystic ovary syndrome appears to safely reduce first-trimester abortion: a pilot study. Fertil Steril. 2001;75:46–52.
Nestler JE, Stovall D, Akhter N, et al. Strategies for the use of insulin-sensitizing drugs to treat infertility in women with polycystic ovary syndrome. Fertil Steril. 2002;77:209–15.
Randomized Placebo-Controlled Trial of Metformin for Adolescents With Polycystic Ovary Syndrome. Bridger T, MacDonald S, Baltzer F, Rodd C. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2006;160:241–6.
Dawson DW, Sawers AH. Infertility and Folate Deficiency. Case Reports. Br j Obstet Gynaecol 89:678–80,1982.
Eating soya could slash men's sperm count Roxanne Khamsi, ABC News, Oct. 17, 2007
Anderson RA Jr et al. Male reproductive tract sensitivity to ethanol: a critical overview. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 18 Supple 1:305-310, 1983.
Infertility: Tobacco, Marijuana, and Other Drugs WebMD
Weller DP et al. Gossypol...a male contraceptive Econ Med Plant Res 1985:1;87–112.
"Reduction of the incidence of sperm DNA fragmentation by oral antioxidant treatment," Greco E, Iacobelli M, et al, J Androl., 2005; 26(3): 349–53.
Dawson EB etal. Effect of Ascorbic acid on male fertility Ann NY Acad Sci 498:312–23,1987.
Improvement in human semen quality after oral supplementation of vitamin C," Akmal M, Qadri JQ, et al, J Med Food, 2006; 9(3): 440-2.
"Relationship between seminal ascorbic acid and sperm DNA integrity in infertile men," Song GJ, Norkus EP, Lewis V, Int J Androl, 2006; 29(6): 569–75.).
"The association of folate, zinc and antioxidant intake with sperm aneuploidy in healthy non-smoking men," Young SS, Eskenazi B, et al, Hum Reprod, 2008 Mar 19.
Low Folate Levels May Harm Sperm Steven Reinberg, Washington Post Thursday, March 20, 2008;
Mechanisms of male infertility: role of antioxidants," Sheweita SA, Tilmisany AM, et al, Curr Drug Metab, 2005; 6(5): 495–501.
Schacter A et al.Treatment of oligospermia with the amino acid arginine. J Urol 110(3):311-313, 1973.
Garolla, Fertility and Sterility, February 2005; vol 83: pp 355–61.
"Placebo-controlled double-blind randomized trial on the use of L-carnitine, L-acetylcarnitine, or combined L-carnitine and Lacetylcarnitine in men with idiopathic asthenozoospermia," Balercia G, Regoli F, et al, Fertil Steril., 2005; 84(3): 662–71.
Sperm Swim Better With Carnitine Miranda Hill, WebMD, March 9, 2005
Skandhan KP et al. Semen Electrolytes in Normal and Infertile Subjects ii Zinc. Experientia 34(11):1476–77, 1978.
Effect of clomiphene citrate on sperm density in male partners of infertile couples. Indian J Physiol Pharmacol. 2007 Apr-Jun;51(2):195-8.
Treating Infertility Information for Couples
Infertility affects one in six couples. It is even more common in fibromyalgia because of the hypothyroidism, nutritional deficiencies, and PCOS. These numbers are continuing to rise as sperm counts drop worldwide and undiagnosed thyroid problems increase—so you are not alone.
Fortunately, it is often quite reversible, and we have seen many people with infertility who have been able to conceive. Please though…don't go telling people it's Dr. Teitelbaum's baby!
This information will have a lot of tips that can be very helpful, and are scientifically proven.
Various factors may be responsible for the inability to achieve a successful pregnancy. Despite research showing that fertility declines after age 30, women are delaying having children. Infertility may be caused by ovulatory, anatomic, immunologic, infectious, nutritional or hormonal factors on the woman's side. In men, abnormalities of semen parameters are the most common contributors. Treatments that improve cellular energy production may dramatically increase sperm motility (see below). In all couples, both the man and woman should be treated to optimize fertility.
After a thorough standard medical work-up, the cause of the infertility often remains unexplained. In this setting, the only option many couples are given is IVF (In Vitro Fertilization). IVF is given attention because it costs ~ $30,000+, while research on inexpensive natural options has been ignored (not because doctors don't care, but simply because no one will pay to publicize the information).
The good news is there are many natural ways to improve all steps of the reproductive process. A large number of studies have successfully explored the use of individual nutritional and hormonal therapies, resulting in women with unexplained/ untreatable infertility often getting pregnant!
Treatment: FOR THE WOMAN Life Style Education
Avoid taking over 900 mg of supplemental vitamin C (causes reversible infertility). Taking 750 mg a day of vitamin C however helps infertility.3 Do not take over 7000 units of supplemental vitamin A (causes birth defects-beta carotene is OK) daily. The recommended supplement below has 3500 IU of vitamin A (the other 3500 IU it contains is beta carotene).
No alcohol if Prolactin levels are higher than 10 (and avoid in general as is convenient).6
Avoid vaginal lubricants such as FemGlide, Replens, and Astroglide, which can damage sperm. Pre-seed brand is OK.7
If you smoke, stop till after the baby is born. Smoking contributes to infertility in many ways.8
Use whole milk instead of low fat or fat free milk products. In a Harvard study, high intake of low-fat dairy foods was associated with an increased risk of infertility, while an increased intake of high-fat dairy foods was associated with a lower risk of infertility. Women consuming at least two servings of low-fat dairy foods per day showed an 85 percent increased risk of infertility. On the other hand, women consuming at least one serving of high-fat dairy foods per day showed a 27 percent reduced risk of infertility.9 Whole milk products (instead of low fat ) also taste better!
Treatments To Optimize Fertility
Supply overall nutritional support with the "Energy Revitalization System" by Enzymatic Therapy, and a healthy, well-balanced diet.10,11,12,13 As noted above, dieting and high protein/low carbohydrate diets are to be avoided.14,15 Stay on these when you get pregnant and through breast feeding.
Add prescription Armour thyroid 30 mg adjusted to dose that feels best (to a maximum of 90 mg) or Synthroid 25–75 mcg16,17 while keeping Free T4 < 75 percent of the upper limit of normal. This can be helpful even if your blood tests are normal. DO NOT TAKE IRON OR CALCIUM SUPPLEMENTS WITHIN SIX HOURS OF THE THYROID DOSE, OR THE THYROID WILL NOT BE ABSORBED. Take your calcium at dinner and bedtime. If you get shaky or hyper or racing heart, lower the thyroid dose (or stop it). Stay on the thyroid through your pregnancy (it supports a healthy pregnancy).
Optimize iron levels. If the ferritin blood test is under 80 or iron percent saturation under 25 percent, treat with an iron tablet; one a day after 2 pm on an empty stomach.18,19 Continue the iron through your pregnancy. Do this even if your doctor says that your blood tests are "normal." Get the actual ferritin test result.
If PCOS (Poly Cystic Ovary Syndrome) is present (suspect if there is acne, overweight, and/or excess facial hair—often present when testosterone or DHEA-S levels are elevated), research shows that treatment with the medication metformin 1500–2000 mg/day not only increased fertility, but also decreased the risk of serious birth defects considerably.20,21,22,23,24
If the Prolactin level is over 10, alcohol and melatonin (which can raise Prolactin) are to be strictly avoided. Vitamin B6 100 mg or as needed to bring Prolactin within the normal range (but not greater than 200 mg of B6) can be added. Stop the extra B6 (except for what is in the multivitamin) around seven months into the pregnancy (otherwise it can suppress breast milk).
If folic acid levels are low (lowest 20 percent of normal range) a blood test looking for wheat allergies is recommended and a gluten free diet instituted if positive. Also Folic Acid 5 mg twice daily should then be added.25
Treatment: FOR THE MAN Life Style Education
These are important things to avoid from now until after your partner gets pregnant, as they can cause infertility. Just do the best you can with these guidelines—OK to not be "perfect" with them.
When convenient, avoid meat with Estrogen (i.e., get your meat from a natural foods store).
Avoid Soy based foods (e.g., tofu, tempeh, soy cheese and milk, etc). Even modest intakes drop sperm counts by 40 percent.26
Sperm do poorly at temperatures over 96 (which is why the testes hang below the rest of the body to stay cooler). Avoid elevated scrotal temperatures by wearing boxer shorts. Do NOT wear briefs, tight fitting underwear or jeans. Avoid hot tubs. Avoid rowing/ski machines, treadmills or jogging unless the testes can hang free.
Avoid aspirin, Motrin or similar medications, which block the hormone prostaglandin (Prostaglandins in the seminal fluid may assist sperm ). Tylenol is OK in moderation.
Increase liquid vegetable oils and avoid cottonseed (may contain gossypol which inhibit sperm function)29 palm or coconut oils or trans, hydrogenated or saturated fats as comfortably able.
All of these can be taken together in the morning (or split up or taken any time of day)
Supply overall nutritional support with the "Energy Revitalization System" vitamin powder. This contains over 50 nutrients including 750 mg of Vitamin C and 100 iu of vitamin E.30,31,32,33 It also supplies folic acid34, 35 and antioxidants. 36
CoEnzyme Q10 at 200 mg/day. Take it with food that contains some fats to enhance absorption.36
Acetyl-l-carnitine 1000 mg/day and Carnitine 1000 mg/day markedly improves sperm motility and the sperm's defenses against attack.38
Zinc 15 mg/day (present in the vitamin powder).39
References/Footnotes:
National Center for Health Statistics. Infertility. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/fertile.htm. Accessed April 26,2006.
Resolve. National survey results reveal startling lack of awareness of infertility even as numbers climb to 7.3 million. October 27, 2005. http://www.resolve.org/site/PageServer?pagename=fmed_mcpr20051027. Accessed December 8, 2005.
Carlson et al. Evidence for decreasing quality of semen over the last 50 years. Br Med J 1992;305:609-613
(Weight and pregnancy) http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory?id=1141274
Wilcox AJ, Weinberg CR. Lancet 337:1159-1160,1991;Williams MA, et al. Coffee and delayed conception. Lancet 335:1603, 1990
Partonen T. Short note: melatonin-dependent infertility. Med Hypotheses. 1999;52(5):487-488.
Henmi H, Endo T, Kitajima Y, et al. Effects of ascorbic acid supplementation on serum progesterone levels in patients with a luteal phase defect. Fertil Steril 2003;80:459-61.
http://www.americanpregnancy.org/pregnancyhealth/hottubs.htm for more information
Atkins like diet in a rat study at the Colorado Center for Reproductive medicine decreased fertility over 50%- study presented at [?2004] European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology Conference
Psychiatry Letter 4(7): 35-38,1986.
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Iran’s enemies want revenge for 176 lives lost
Posted on January 13, 2020 by meziesblog.com in News // 0 Comments
Iranian mourners attend the funeral of Morteza Ebrahimi, a commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, who was killed in violent demonstrations that erupted across Iran last week against a surprise petrol price hike, on November 20, 2019 in the central Iranian city of Shahriar. - Three members of the Iranian security forces have been stabbed to death by "rioters" near Tehran, the ISNA and Fars news agencies reported on November 18. The assailants wielding knives and machetes ambushed the three -- a Revolutionary Guard and two members of the Basij militia -- west of the capital, the news agencies reported. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP) (Photo by ATTA KENARE/AFP via Getty Images)
The Ukraine International Airlines plane was shot down minutes after taking off from Tehran on Wednesday. Many on board were Iranians with dual citizenship, while 57 were holders of Canadian passports.
The downing of the plane came at a time when Iranian forces were on alert for U.S. reprisals following tit-for-tat strikes.
A U.S. drone strike in Iraq on Jan. 3 killed prominent Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani, responsible for building up Iran’s network of regional proxy armies in Iraq and beyond. Tehran responded with missile strikes on U.S. targets in Iraq.
No U.S. soldiers were killed in the retaliatory attack, but in the tense hours after that, the Ukrainian Boeing 737 was cleared to take off from Tehran airport and brought down by a missile fired by mistake.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said the shooting down of the plane was a “disastrous mistake” and apologized. But a top Revolutionary Guards commander added to public fury when he said he had told the authorities on the same day as the crash that an Iranian missile had struck the plane.
The Guards’ top commander, Hossein Salami, said “we are more upset than anyone over the incident,” state media reported. Another commander said Iran did not intend to conceal the cause.
But others said Iran’s enemies, a term usually used to refer to Washington and its allies, were exploiting the incident.
“Iran’s enemies want to take revenge on the Guards for a military mistake,” said Ali Shirazi, Khamenei’s representative to the Quds Force, the overseas Guards unit that Soleimani headed, state media reported.
March towards PARIAH STATUS
Iranian officials sought to portray the plane disaster as a second blow to a nation mourning after Soleimani’s death.
His funeral prompted huge public gatherings, which the authorities described as a show of national unity. But the displays of emotion have been swiftly overshadowed and protesters on Saturday tore up pictures of the slain general.
While both Tehran and Washington have backed off from intensifying their conflict, the leader of Lebanon’s heavily armed Hezbollah group called on Sunday for Tehran’s allies to begin working to avenge Soleimani’s killing.
Retaliation would happen in the “coming days, weeks and months,” Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said in a speech. Iran-allied Hezbollah is designated as a terrorist organization by the United States.
The killing of Soleimani dramatically escalated tensions between Tehran and Washington, following months of hostilities since Trump withdrew from a nuclear pact between Iran and world powers in 2018 and then toughened up sanctions.
Britain said its ambassador in Iran was briefly detained on Saturday, which Iranian media said was because he was inciting protests. The envoy said he attended a vigil for plane victims.
British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab condemned the arrest and said Iran “can continue its march towards pariah status … or take steps to de-escalate tensions” with diplomacy.
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Josey Jewell out for Broncos Thursday, backup LBs Johnson and Watson improving
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Josey Jewell in 2018. Credit: Mark J. Rebilas, USA TODAY Sports.
When it rains, it pours.
For the Denver Broncos, inside linebacker health is threatening to haunt the team before this regular season even begins. In the first training camp practice of the year, starting linebacker Todd Davis was injured and he remains sidelined for the entire preseason.
On Tuesday, it was his fellow starter Josey Jewell — who had taken over play calling for the defense — who strained an oblique muscle according to Nicki Jhabvala’s source. That same source said a timetable for return wasn’t clear for Jewell, but it’s all adding up to possible disaster for Denver in the middle of their defense.
“I think he’ll be fine,” head coach Vic Fangio said of Jewell on Tuesday. “He’s not going to play Thursday, but I think he’ll be fine. It’s a short-term thing.”
Without Davis, the Broncos were already searching for a backup linebacker who can step in and start this preseason. Now, they’re looking for two of those youngsters to step up immediately, and it’s increasingly likely one or two of them will be asked to play meaningful regular season reps as these injuries add up.
Luckily, Denver’s roster is loaded with youthful talent in Alexander Johnson — who shined in the Hall of Fame Game last Thursday — Josh Watson, the former CSU star, and Joe Dineen.
“They’re getting better, they really are,” Fangio said of the backers. Watson is getting better, AJ is getting better, Dineen is getting better—they are all getting better. It just goes to show that if you give them more reps, you get better. That’s why we practice.”
Johnson was on fire last Thursday night in his first chance to show off his talents, recording three solo tackles, one tackle for a loss, a near strip-sack and he broke up a touchdown pass that kept the Broncos in the game. Watson, too, enjoyed three solo tackles and each of them accounted for five total tackles in the game.
Before the Hall of Fame Game, Von Miller raved about Watson as he, “Never makes the same mistake twice,” and the former team captain at Colorado State will have to continue to listen to coaches and teammates as he improves and looks to secure even more playing time.
Davis has tweeted he will be ready for Week 1, and Fangio makes it sound like second-year linebacker Jewell will be good to go by the time the regular season kicks off, too. But, even if that is the case, it’s likely we’ll see either Johnson or Watson this regular season, and not just on special teams where each of them will be asked to make an impact.
Denver came into 2019 extremely thin at inside linebacker, and now two injuries are making that weakness a glaring one. The Broncos must hope Johnson, Watson and Dineen continue to improve daily as the regular season approaches.
Denver is in Seattle this Thursday to face the Seahawks. Kickoff is scheduled for 8 p.m. MT.
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Who’s Who at NZMSRT: Neil Woodham’s
We recently took the opportunity to find out a bit more about one of our original Trustees and his thoughts on the future of MS Research in New Zealand.
Neil is an independent health management consultant who has had an extensive career in health management as a senior manager or consultant to government, DHBs, primary care and community providers.
As well as being a Trustee for NZMSRT, he is also Vice President of MS New Zealand, President of Multiple Sclerosis Auckland and North Shore and a Trustee of the MS Auckland Region Trust.
Why did you choose to become involved with NZMSRT?
In my role as a Committee Member of MSNZ in 2004, I was able to arrange funding from the Health Research Council for the MS Prevalence Study. This study convinced me that NZ is capable of producing world class MS research. I also felt strongly that existing research funders did not have as much interest in funding MS research as members of the various MS organisations in NZ. In 2015 I was aware that both MSNZ and MS Auckland had substantial funds for MS research but without the structure or capacity to manage these and utilise them effectively. I was able to convince both organisations to pool their resources and to attract a group of trustees who would focus on funding MS research in NZ.
What inspired/motivated you?
My previous involvement in health management saw the vital link between good clinical services and access to funding for health research. I regard access to funds for MS research as fundamental to NZ being able to attract and retain highly qualified and motivated neurologists and nurses who want to specialise in MS. I was also aware that there were several researchers who were doing excellent work in conjunction with overseas research centres. In addition, my own involvement with MS meant that I was aware the people with MS are always interested in learning about the latest research and I believed would support a stand-alone research trust with funding and bequests.
What future challenges and opportunities do you foresee in the world of MS and research?
There is an enormous amount of MS research taking place worldwide at the present time. On a whole range of topics from what causes MS, to lifestyle and other changes, clinical trials, stem cell treatments etc. These create great opportunities to get New Zealand involved. We do have some advantages. We are a small country with most if not all people with MS able to be identified. Our MS population clearly demonstrates the latitudinal gradient of the incidence of MS. This means you are three times more likely to get MS if you live in Southland than if you live in Northland. If we understood why this is the case, then better treatments or a cure might be possible.
Are there any current developments in MS Research that you think will be ground breaking and why?
I think the recent developments of drugs for primary progressive and secondary progress MS marks a major breakthrough for many people who up until now have had no access drug treatment. I see the pace of these developments increasing so that in the future we will be able offer real hope for these people.
How do you think NZ could make its mark on MS Research?
While NZ is a small country, we have already contributed a number of world renown MS researchers. With proper funding and the will NZ can continue to contribute in this way.
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