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Researchers have found that plants need the help of friendly fungi to thrive more than it depends on the quality of its own leaves, and on bacteria that adds nitrogen nutrients to the soil.
The researchers, including those from the University of Tennessee in the US, found that certain root-associated, or mycorrhizal, fungi that associate firmly with the cells in plant roots are one of the largest influences on plant tissue nutrient concentrations.
The study, published in the journal PNAS, noted that there are two main types of mycorrhizal fungi -- arbuscular and ectomycorrhizal.
An arbuscular mycorrhiza, the researchers said, penetrates the cells in the outer layer of the roots of a plant.
Ectomycorrhizal fungi, they said, do not penetrate the plant's cell walls, instead forming a netlike structure around the plant root.
According to the researchers, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi increased plant nutrient concentrations in plant leaves, litter, and roots more than the non-penetrating counterparts, and has more influence on a plant's nutrient levels than plant leaf traits, or plant associations with nitrogen-fixing bacteria.
The researchers analysed more than 17,000 traits from nearly 3,000 woody plant species in six categories, and observed how readily the plant uses nutrients: nitrogen and phosphorous concentrations in green leaves, senescent leaves (leaves that are about to fall off or have recently fallen off), and roots.
The researchers said that plants live in symbiosis with the root associated fungi which provide up to 80 per cent of the nutrients and water a plant needs to grow.
They added that up to 30 per cent of the food substance the plants make through photosynthesis is needed by the fungi.
"To optimize plant nutrition, we need to incorporate mycorrhizal associations into our agricultural and management frameworks," said study co-author Stephanie Kivlin from the University of Tennessee.
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Shriram Transport Finance raises around Rs 3,556 cr via bond issue
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Mumbai, Jan 10 () Non-banking lender Shriram Transport Finance (STFC) on Friday said it has raised USD 500 million (approximately Rs 3,556 crore) through dollar bond, making it the first international public social bond issuance from the country.
The money was raised through issuance of 144A/Reg S bonds having a tenor of three-and-a-half years and offering a coupon of 5.1 per cent from investors.
It received interest from marquee social bond investors including those from Hong Kong, Singapore, London and the US.
"The proceeds from the bond would be used for employment generation including through MSME financing and microfinance," the company said in a statement.
The bond was initially priced at 5.375 per cent, but owing to good demand from investors, the company fixed the price at 27.5 basis points lower to 5.1 per cent.
The bond got overwhelming response from investors with the final order book in excess of USD 2.20 billion and oversubscription of over four times.
The transaction witnessed 50 per cent participation from the US, 37 per cent from Asia and 13 per cent from Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) with 85 per cent investment from asset managers and five per cent each from banks and insurance, and 5 per cent from private banks among others.
"Social impact continues to remain a focus area for the company and we are pleased to have received significant interest for our inaugural social bond," STFC's managing director and CEO, Umesh Revankar, said.
The joint book-runners and joint lead managers to the issue were Barclays, BNP Paribas, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Emirates NBD Capital, HSBC, ING, J P Morgan and Standard Chartered Bank.
With this issuance, the company has raised USD 1.65 billion through dollar bonds since 2019.
It had raised USD 400 million in February, USD 500 million in April and USD 250 million in July.
Besides, it also raised USD 145 million in November 2019 and USD 90 million in January 2020, through loan route from multilateral agencies.
The company raised these funds under its USD 2,000 million global medium term note programme (GMTN).
STFC, through its 1,669 branches, provides finance to commercial vehicle industry.
As of September 2019, its total assets under management stood at Rs 1,08,120.24 crore as compared to Rs 1,04,379.83 crore in the year-ago period.
Its net profit increased by 25.50 per cent to Rs 765.05 crore in the second quarter of the current fiscal from Rs 609.58 crore in the same period of the previous year. HV ANS ANS
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Here Are 20 Headlines Comparing Meghan Markle To Kate Middleton That May Show Why She And Prince Harry Are Cutting Off Royal Reporters
Over the years, Meghan has been shamed for the same things for which her sister-in-law, Kate, has been praised.
Ellie Hall BuzzFeed News Reporter
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The Duke and Duchess of Sussex (aka Prince Harry and Meghan Markle) didn't just shockingly "step back" as senior members of the royal family this week — they gave the UK media a big "fuck-you" for years of what they said was biased and unfair coverage.
The couple's new website on breaking up with years of royal protocol laid out — among a lot of other things — their media strategy, stating that they will no longer participate in the traditional royal press system that grants exclusive access to a select group of UK outlets.
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Britain’s royal correspondents, they said, are seen as reliable sources of information. "This misconception propels coverage that is often carried by other outlets around the world, amplifying frequent misreporting," they wrote. Removing themselves from "royal rota" coverage has sparked an outcry among UK media and drew a protest from the National Union of Journalists.
This isn't a new complaint from the royal couple — they just took an unprecedented step to do something about it. Harry and Meghan have said publicly that they believe they have been treated unfairly by the UK press since the moment news broke of their relationship — that they are bullied, that there are racist undertones to coverage of them, and that they have been held to a different standard than Harry's brother and sister-in-law, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge (aka Prince William and Kate Middleton).
The UK media outlets that currently make up the royal rota are the Daily Express, the Daily Mail, the Daily Mirror, the Evening Standard, the Telegraph, the Times, and the Sun.
Here is a look at 20 stories from these outlets that appear to show a double standard between press coverage of Meghan and Kate. BuzzFeed News has reached out to all of the outlets featured below for comment.
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Kate: "Bumping along nicely! The Duchess was seen placing a protective hand on her tummy as she exited the event." Daily Mail: March 22, 2018
Meghan: "Personally, I find the cradling a bit like those signs in the back of cars: Baby on Board. Virtue signaling, as though the rest of us barren harridans deserve to burn alive in our cars." Daily Mail: Jan. 26, 2019
Express / 2017, Express / 2019
Kate and William: "Prince William was given one of the green fruit – wrapped up in a bow – by a little boy who's mother is suffering during her pregnancy too... 'He said he'd take it to [Kate] and see what happens – and said good luck for [the boy's] mummy.'" Express: Sept. 14, 2017
Meghan: "The pregnant Duchess of Sussex and so-called 'avocado on toast whisperer' is wolfing down a fruit linked to water shortages, illegal deforestation and all round general environmental devastation." Express: Jan. 23, 2019
Kate: "Royal sources said yesterday that the Queen understood and endorsed William and Kate’s decision not to spend Christmas Day with her. One said: ‘Her Majesty understands that it is a dilemma that many young couples face and acknowledges how close Catherine’s relationship is with her family." Daily Mail: Dec. 16, 2016
Meghan: "The fact is the Queen expects to have the family around her for the festive season... to the Queen, for whom the tradition of the family gathering is a key date in her calendar, Harry and Meghan’s absence will be a matter of great sadness. It will also be a source of frustration." Daily Mail: Nov. 13, 2019
Kate and William: "Creating their own companies will allow William and Kate to bring out, should they ever chose to, myriad items of officially-endorsed merchandise from tea towels to coffee cups... Kensington Palace officials said they were doing the ‘sensible thing’ in protecting the couple’s rights." Daily Mail: Jan. 17, 2014
Meghan and Harry: "The Sussexes want to stamp their name on dozens of products including T-shirts, hoodies, journals and gloves for their newly-created foundation Sussex Royal... Experts said Harry and Meghan were actively preparing to quit the Royal Family months ago by filing trade mark applications to commercially protect their brand." Daily Mail: Jan. 9, 2020
Kate and William: "Prince William yesterday backed brother Harry’s brave admission of his mental anguish — and blasted the monarchy’s 'stiff upper lip' tradition... William said: 'There may be a time and a place for the ‘stiff upper lip’ but not at the expense of your health... '
"'Catherine and I are clear we want both George and Charlotte to grow up feeling able to talk about their emotions and feelings. Over the past year we have visited a number of schools together where we have been amazed listening to children talk about some quite difficult subjects in a clear and emotionally articulate way, something most adults would struggle with. Seeing this has really given me hope things are changing and there is a generation coming up who find it normal to talk openly about emotions.'” Sun: April 19, 2017
Meghan and Harry: "Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have bucked royal tradition once again with their latest TV interview — in which they claimed they were 'existing, not living.' The couple ditched the stiff upper lip of previous Royal Family generations and flew the flag for 'Generation Therapy' as they revealed their emotions to the world - but were they right to do so?
"What you make of 'fragile' Prince Harry and Meghan's comments may depend on your generation. Sun parents and kids reveal what they think of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex airing their emotions in public - and whether they have the right to moan in such positions of privilege..." Sun: Oct. 23, 2019
Kate: "It was reported that new Duchess of Cambridge requested her favorite scented candles and toiletries from luxury fragrance brand Jo Malone be delivered to scent the Abbey. A selection of candles, handwashes and lotions was requested, specifically in citrus spring scents including Orange Blossom, Grapefruit and the ever-popular Lime, Basil & Mandarin." Daily Mail: May 4, 2011
Meghan: "'Meghan wanted staff to go around with these atomizers, like spritzer guns, and spray the chapel with scent before anyone arrived. Royal Household staff stepped in and told her office politely, but firmly, that this was the queen's chapel and it simply wasn't appropriate. I don't believe they said no because they thought it could affect the chapel in any way. It was simply the principle of the thing. This is a place that has held royal weddings, funerals and even contains the royal vault. I don't believe a request of that nature had been made before.'" Daily Mail: Nov. 30, 2018
Kate: "As far as bridal bouquets go there was nothing particularly regal about Kate Middleton’s modest arrangement of simple, seasonal flowers. Like the bride herself the bouquet was effortlessly elegant and understated.
"Yet behind that modest posy lay a secret story. Kate, the commoner-turned-duchess, had painstakingly selected blooms with real meaning. She is evidently well-versed in the language of flowers, a little-known romantic relic from the 19th century.
"Hence the use of lilac in her bouquet, which signifies the first emotions of love, the lily of the valley meaning a return of happiness, hyacinth standing for constancy, myrtle meaning love and the ivy, which represents fidelity. Then of course there was the suitably named Sweet William, which is shorthand for gallantry." Express: Aug. 29, 2011
Meghan: "[Meghan Markle] was holding a wedding bouquet which flowers were replicated in Princess Charlotte and the other bridesmaids’ flower crowns. Express.co.uk can now reveal the children’ crowns were made of flowers that can be deadly, especially for children. Meghan’s bouquet was made of forget-me-nots as well as sweet peas, lily of the valley, astilbe, jasmine, and astrantia...
"Lily of the valley is a highly poisonous woodland flowering plant and ingestion could be deadly... As Meghan’s bridesmaids were so young, having this flower on their heads could be considered a dangerous decision. Other brides have also used this flowers including Kate Middleton, Princess Eugenie and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall." Express: Oct. 13, 2019
Kate and William: "The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh missed the small family affair. The decision is understood not to have been taken on health grounds, and to have been mutually agreed by the Queen and the Cambridges some time ago. The Queen, 92, has a busy week ahead, with high-profile celebrations in central London marking the centenary of the RAF on Tuesday, and a visit by US President Donald Trump in Windsor on Friday." Daily Mail: July 9, 2018
Meghan and Harry: "The situation has surprised some senior staff at Buckingham Palace, who feel that the duke and duchess should have planned the day better. ‘There is huge support for the couple in not wanting to conform to tradition. They are young, they are striking out on a different path from other members of the Royal Family and there is enormous goodwill for them. But they shouldn’t do that without regard for tradition,’ said one. ‘Her Majesty was already scheduled to be in Scotland for her annual Holyrood Week and had a prior engagement at the weekend. There is a feeling amongst some that they should have been more accommodating about the date.’" Daily Mail: July 4, 2019
Kate: "It is a fashion conundrum not many of us will ever face, but what exactly does one wear for tea with the Queen? The Duchess of Cambridge met this challenge head on yesterday by co-ordinating her outfit with the Queen’s powder blue ensemble... The Queen, on her first official event to mark her Diamond Jubilee, was dressed in a pastel hat and two-piece coat dress with military-style rows of gold buttons designed by Angela Kelly. Looking relaxed and elegant, her outfit was perfect for what looked like a fun official engagement with the girls." Mirror: Feb. 14, 2013
Meghan: "The Queen's aides had told [Meghan] she would be wearing a green hat as a mark of respect to those who died in the Grenfell Tower fire. The Queen is said to have been 'baffled' when Meghan turned up without a hat as she didn't realize she was supposed to wear one too. A senior aide said: 'I don't think the Duchess fully understood. This was not a request. Those are for others to make, not the Queen.' The Queen's staff are said to have noted the Duchess's mistake or 'lack of deference.'" Mirror: Oct. 29, 2018
Daily Mail / 2019
Kate: "We see a woman in her prime: stylish, confident and positively radiant, nailing outfit after outfit in the style stakes — and it’s a joy to witness... That old uniform of girlish dresses, tan tights and nude heels has been replaced by dazzling super-chic outfits to satisfy even the most exacting fashionista." Daily Mail: June 16, 2019
Meghan: "Proper royalty is about tradition and duty, self-effacing service and loyalty — year after year after year, season after season... That is not to say that a monarchy cannot or must not move with the times — simply that it has to resist the temptation to be buffeted by passing cultural trends. Fashion is the exact opposite. And as fashion’s most famous bible, Vogue exemplifies the transient nature of the beast." Daily Mail: July 29, 2019
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The steps a sailor took to fulfill a dream (published June 2014)
The plan to make an expedition to Antarctica started brewing in January, 2008, when I began steadily building Quijote, a 12 meter steel yacht based on Bruce Roberts’ Voyager 388 with modifications to the deck, pilothouse, keel and interior.
A view of Ushuaia Bay from the Nautical Club dock during a windy day spent waiting for a good forecast.
I launched Quijote in September 2010 and initial sea trials were around Buenos Aires, then to Uruguay, and finally the biggest test was a trip to Brazil. As the miles passed below the keel, new needs became apparent and once back in Buenos Aires after the six-month shakedown trip, I started on them before heading south. The improvements included the installation of a broadband radar, four reels on deck for 110 meters of floating lines each, a hard aluminium spray hood and the installation of a second antenna for the SSB radio. I also added more anchor chain to give a total of 135 meters, completed the installation of the stove and completed the supply of food, which turned into a stowing challenge.
In early December, my wife Laura and I left Buenos Aires for Ushuaia, the southernmost city in the world, and our starting point of adventure for the White Continent.
The crew at Foyn Harbour (L-R) Patricia, Laura, Federico and Erik.
The initial idea was to have a crew of four or five people, preferably four due to space, but five was more conservative so if someone dropped out we’d still have enough. Laura and I started brainstorming candidates, which was not an easy task. We needed crew who knew how to sail, who could spare six weeks, and most importantly, whom we actually wanted to spend six weeks aboard with! Having enough free time was of the utmost importance to us, as we didn’t want to be forced to make bad safety decisions just so a crewmember could make a flight.
After long lists were narrowed down, we invited two Argentine women, Pato and her twin sister Myriam, and Erik Østrem, a Swedish friend who is very fond of adventures. Just before the trip started, Myriam had to pull out for work reasons, which left us with the four we had originally planned. But, we, of course, were quite sad to lose a crewmember at the last minute.
DEPARTING FOR THE DRAKE
In the last week of January, Pato and Erik arrived in Ushuaia and the crew was complete and Quijote was ready to set sail. Our final step, though, was to wait for a weather window that would allow us to cross the infamous Drake Passage.
Much has been said about Cape Horn and the Drake Passage over weather unpredictability. And it was precisely this that kept me from sleeping many nights. As we waited and days passed by, I had the opportunity to compare weather forecasts against reality and finally came to the conclusion that we were going to be safe, as the forecasts and the reality were matching up. We downloaded the GRIB files daily via our Iridium phone connected to our PC and opened the files using the zyGrib program.
Quijote approaches Primavera Station in Cierva Cove.
After waiting several days in Ushuaia and then a few more in Chile in Puerto Williams and Puerto Toro, we departed to cross the Drake. It was lumpy, but a complete success. And we found the weather forecasts to be precise to within three hours for both the wind strength and direction.
Laura and Federico relax in thermal waters at Whaler’s Bay on Deception Island, their first stop after crossing the Drake.
We learned that we were often too cheap on the Iridium airtime and missed out on key weather details. To save on Iridium connecting time we had set the forecast intervals to every 12 hours, but during that time a whole storm can come and go. We then decided to download with data intervals of six hours and a projection of four days. We also used our Iridium connection to send and receive emails, update Facebook, the blog of Quijote and update our position on a Google map, and were usually able to accomplish this in less than two minutes of connection time.
Our Iridium phone also allowed us to receive free text messages from friends and family sent via the Iridium website. Receiving those messages became a breakfast ritual and all the messages were saved from the previous day until breakfast when everyone was gathered around the table. These became our source of news from family and friends, but also our source of news from the world and other bits of information friends decided worthy to send us.
KEEPING WATCH FROM THE PILOTHOUSE
The navigational watches on Quijote are perhaps a bit different from the average 40-foot sailboat. She was designed with a pilothouse and steering control inside. Years of being cold and miserable on crossings of the Rio de la Plata dictated having an inside steering position. However, in addition to comfort, it’s also a safety feature when crossing large and dangerous bodies of water. We made full use of the pilothouse and the pilot’s seat, from where we have access to all the instruments and a clear view of the bow.
At first, Pato took a while to adapt to this system and she often wanted to go outside. Soon, as the outside temperatures dropped and the waves rose and swept across the deck, she discovered the benefits of keeping watch and running the boat from inside the pilothouse. Of course, one still needs to take a peek and see how everything is on deck, but, for safety reasons, it was best to stay inside and was quite difficult to look ahead from a cockpit swept continually by sea spray and pounded by the cold wind.
For the four of us, we established three-hour shifts, leaving nine to rest, so each crewmember had their own fixed routine of work, rest and food. This allowed enough time for each person to make an attempt at getting a good amount of sleep.
Erik preparing snacks before dinner.
We struggled with planning for meals and learned much in retrospect. We ate much less than expected, but I gained weight. Often in cold weather, one increases their caloric intake and can even double it, however, the full doubling was not true in our case. The good heating on Quijote helped reduce the need for a huge increase in calories. In addition, the temperatures that we experienced always hovered just around freezing. Perhaps with colder temperatures or windier conditions our experience and needs might have been more pronounced.
Living, and more importantly, eating, as a group can have its challenges when trying to keep everyone happy and we proposed that each crewmember could bring one snack to call their own and not be obliged to share—so we wouldn’t have to hide in our bunks to eat candy! Laura brought salty-sweet Chinese rice crackers, Pato enjoyed the evenings with her special liquor, Erik brought some Swedish liquorice candies that did not interest anyone other than Erik, and I did not bring anything special because I knew that the bowels of Quijote were packed with several kilos of chocolate.
We turned off the refrigerator once we arrived in Antarctica. It made no sense to “eat” amps to cool the refrigerator to 8 degrees when outside it was hovering around freezing. A plastic basket became our “daily refrigerator,” which we placed outside next to the companionway. The rest of the items that we needed to be kept cold were placed in the bilges.
In Ushuaia we found vacuum-packed meat that was good for two months. These were the perfect solution for us. We brought 37 pounds of rib eye and rump roast, packed in 2.2-pound bags, which lasted the whole trip.
We assigned roles to each crewmember prior to the trip and Erik gladly became the expedition chef. We were grateful, and he more than spoiled us (think beef bourguignon, goulash, curries, etc). In addition to Erik cooking, the plan was that once a week each of us would cook something to give him a rest. Laura prepared Pad Thai, among other oriental dishes and Saturday night became Captain’s Pizza Night when I had my turn in the galley. Pato offered to do the dishes each day on the condition of not cooking during the trip. We all accepted the deal immediately.
No trip is perfect—and if a captain tells you so, he is not telling the truth. We faced our share of problems, all of which we fortunately managed to solve, and from which we were able learn something.
The night before entering the South Shetland archipelago the primary fuel filter got blocked due to water. This caught my attention because on Quijote we have several filters: between the main tanks to the daily tank there is a water filter separator so the diesel reaching the daily tank should be water-free. The daily tank is located in a heated area, it is made of plastic and I never let it get empty beyond half, so the risk of condensation should be minimal. Nevertheless, the primary filter in-between the daily tank and final filter got blocked. The solution was to purge the daily tank and the primary filters every day and we never had the problem again. All of this must have been due to condensation given the temperature extremes between Quijote and the outside air.
Quijote alongside the Governoren in Foyn Harbour. The Governoren was originally a whaling ship whose captain took her aground to save the crew from a fire onboard.
Another unexpected problem came when we set sail from Foyn Harbour after two days of heavy snow. Because the sea temperature was at or near freezing, the surface of the water was covered with half an inch of snow, which continued as a slushy consistency below the surface. The snow even started forming the famous “pancakes.” This slushy snow managed to block our sea strainer even though the intake is located about 70 cm below the waterline. As the engine uses a keel-cooler system, the seawater is only used to cool down the exhaust system, but we still had to stop the engine for a minute to unclog the filter.
On another occasion a much more serious and scary problem occurred. At every anchorage we used four shore ties in addition to the anchor. Many boats use wire slings around the rocks on the shore and we used large strops normally used in crane lifting operations. We found them equally strong, but much easier to handle. One night after a tiring, frustrating search for a good spot to spend the night, we decided that two lines to shore were good enough. It was the first night we ever decided to do this during the trip and exhaustion and hunger had clouded our thinking.
Just before midnight, one of the strops slipped off its rock, leaving the boat attached by only the stern line. We heard the keel touch the bottom and quickly realized that we had ended up on the leeward shore. We were in a very protected cove and the shore was very steep and rocky. This meant that we were merely leaning up against the rocks and it was very easy to remove the boat from its unfortunate position. We launched our dinghy, passed the rope to a different rock and then winched the new line to pull us off the rocks. Fortunately, the boat was not aground; its keel was merely “alongside” the shore. We were lucky, but the potential risk of this situation was very high. From then on we always used four moorings, no matter how tired we were or how safe it seemed.
Our heater also caused a few problems. Whenever we used the engine, the heater went off and we thought this was due to the diesel engine sucking a lot of fuel, most of which then returned to the tank. However, I believe that when it was sucking the diesel, it “stole” the fuel from the stove as they shared the daily tank. Once in Antarctica it was not an issue, as we stopped the stove during the day and we were not motoring at night. I had to address the problem to make sure we were ready to cross the Drake on the way back when we might be using both at the same time. We solved this issue by making a dedicated tank for just the heater.
PASSAGE PLANNING
Erik relaxing as Quijote passes through the Peltier Channel after visiting Port Lockroy.
The actual sailing in Antarctica, as far as route planning was concerned, was much easier than it may seem, which of course comes with many stars and asterisks. I say easy, as there is minimal choice due to the lack of safe and accessible harbors. The lack of choice may make the initial planning simpler, but it unfortunately becomes less so when those options disappear due to weather or sea conditions.
Many of these sheltered spots (again, sheltered is relative down in Antarctica) are located no more than 40 or 50 miles apart, making them accessible in a day of sailing. Once leaving the previous night’s location, the difficulties begin. Ice conditions can often make what calculates out on paper to be a 10 hour, 50 mile sail into a 14 or 16 hour slow day of maneuvering at one knot through the ice. At times the ice made it impossible to continue to certain places.
Due to the potential for ice during the day and the resulting loss in speed, we always tried to sail at first light to have the whole day ahead, no matter how close the next place was. Had we gone earlier in the season, with nearly 24 hours of daylight, this might have been less of an issue, but by mid-February, there was already six to seven hours of darkness.
One of the “easy” choices was the journey between Deception Island and Foyn Harbour, a distance of about 120 miles without reliable anchorages or alternatives. We attempted to stop at Cierva Cove, about two thirds of the way along the journey, but the high amount of ice hinted otherwise. By the time we determined it was a “no go” at Cierva Cove, there was only two hours of daylight left and 30 miles to go to the next potential safe anchorage. I was not happy with the situation we were in—we were too far to make it before nightfall and sailing in the dark was out of the question due to the potential of hitting ice. Our solution was to drift overnight in the Gerlache Strait and hope that we drifted along with the ice rather than into it. We took watches to keep an eye on the radar for larger chunks of ice and were lucky to have a very calm night. The Gerlache can be very rough due to wind, waves, ice and the combinations thereof, which can lead to an unwelcome nightmare. Fortunately, this was the only night while in the peninsula that we “sailed,” as the risk was just too high.
QUIJOTE & SCIENCE
Whaler’s Bay on Deception Island and the remains of the whale station that once dominated the island.
In addition to exploring and discovering, we wanted to do more than just gaze at the wonders around us, which can feel like a selfish endeavour. With a geology background, Laura was in charge of the science for the trip. Quijote partnered with the non-profit Adventurers & Scientists for Conservation (ASC), whose mission is to bring science to citizens, and specifically to partner adventurers with scientists. Scientists often need basic data from faraway places, but don’t have the funding or time to go everywhere they want or need. Adventurers are going to these places and can often make basic observations or collect simple data that the scientists can then use. We partnered with a scientist in Alaska to make observations for two projects, one involving penguins and another involving whales. The penguin research was on “lateralization” in penguins and how they subsequently relate to each other and the whale project was on the potential ability of baleen whales to smell and how they might use that ability for finding food.
These two projects required us to make only observations, with no interaction or interference with these animals. Both projects forced us to observe these animals in a deeper manner than we would have if we were merely “tourists.” Once back from the trip, all data that we collected was sent to the scientists.
Antarctica is an achievable dream. But like any dream it involves work and dedication. Any boat thoroughly prepared can go, as many have proven over the last decades. But there are two key words—thoroughly and prepared.
No matter how prepared the boat and crew are, there will always be many things that only the captain knows, feels and thinks. It is not easy to explain, as only those who have been in command understand the weight of this responsibility. For a boat to go and return home safely means long nights of anguish and doubt as well as non-stop thinking, planning and running through everything in your head. It is not enough to know or to be told “all is well,” you have to be (silently) pessimistic and distrustful. Nothing guarantees success, but as Amundsen said on his return from the South Pole: “Victory awaits him who has everything in order, luck, people call it. Defeat is certain for him who has neglected to take the necessary precautions in time; this is called bad luck…”
Personally, I am proud to have built and prepared a sailboat that left port heading for the White Continent and returned with all its feathers more or less in place. I fulfilled the dream and left a lifetime of memories to four adventurers.
Federico Guerrero has been sailing with his family since he was 12. When not sailing and working on Quijote, he works on merchant ships where he holds a Masters Unlimited License. He lives with his wife Laura on Quijote in Ushuaia. He receives questions and comments at www.SyQuijote.com.
Statistics & Curiosities
• 1,750 miles sailed round trip from Ushuaia to Ushuaia.
• 200 engine hours. With the exception of two occasions, all navigation within the peninsula was motoring, either due to total lack of wind or due to its direction on the bow.
• 800 litres of diesel consumed (leftover 400). We used regular car diesel rather than Antarctic diesel, since the temperature in the summer time does not require special fuel—although it is very important to have a daily tank in a heated place to prevent the diesel from becoming waxy.
• 1,000 litres of water used for drinking, cooking and a short shower. We never re-supplied while down there and dishes were done with seawater.
• South 65 º 15’ was the most southerly latitude reached, at Vernadsky Station.
• -3 °C was the lowest temperature recorded.
• 15°C, the interior temperature of Quijote during the day without the stove, provided we had some sun. The pilothouse has all double glazed windows and acted as an excellent greenhouse!
• 35 knots, wind intensity peak in the Drake Passage and Antarctica. Although another sailboat sailing not far from us recorded gusts of over 50 knots.
• 2 tons of snow was what we got on deck one night in Foyn Harbour (considering the fresh snow was weighing around 200 kilos per m3).
Safety & Permits
Three of the four crew work in the offshore industry and thus it was logical that we maintain the same safety-related practices while in Antarctica. Here are some that we felt were quite successful:
• Before each operation, such as mooring or un-mooring, we did a tool box meeting where we explained the task, debated the options, defined the roles and cleared up any doubts. We also reviewed the risk with the operation, such as winds, currents, looming darkness, etc.
• At the end of the activity we held a debrief to search for areas of improvement on the next operation.
• We always did the work under the slogan of “Safety First.” This meant that our decisions were guided by safety and nothing else—not going a bit further on a hike, nor leaving Antarctica just to get back for a flight. This also meant that we all wore inflatable life vests whenever we went on the tender—it wasn’t really necessary while sailing in the peninsula as the seas were flat calm, but safety is for the unexpected. While sailing, if the seas were rough we would stay inside the pilothouse or in the fully enclosed cockpit, from where you could reef all the sails and adjust the sheets.
• In terms of preparation for this trip I attended the Antarctic Navigation course put on by the Argentine Navy. For two weeks they provided me with abundant information and experiences for navigation in Antarctic waters.
• With regard to the formalities, we had to submit an environmental impact statement which is required by the Argentine Antarctic Institute. This was our permission request, based on the requirements of the Madrid Protocol.
Recommendations & Lessons learned
Engines are indispensible: Exploring Antarctica can be done almost purely by sailing, as many explorers have done in the past. However, having an absolutely reliable engine with ample power and plenty of diesel capacity not only made our life much easier but it also allowed and encouraged us to explore more and get into places that would otherwise not be possible.
Having a good rubber-bottomed tender with a reliable outboard engine, along with good handheld communication: We specifically used this for sending the tender ahead to explore tight and shallow anchorages and then getting the lines to shore. We found the rubber bottom to be better than a hard bottom, as it is much lighter. Our tender did quite well even with the ice we encountered. Our boat is PVC, not hypalon, and did very well.
Sending someone up to the spreader as a lookout for ice made ice navigation much easier and was often necessary: From sea level everything can look like a big white wall, but with a few extra meters you see hope!—6 meters proved to be enough to find the way.
Communicating with all vessels crossing our path: The exchange of information was very important to learn about ice conditions or specifics of crossing a small strait. However, we never took any information as an absolute truth—ice conditions change so fast that what was true yesterday will probably be false today.
Having a good heater, and if possible one that can be on 24 hours: We found it important to keep it on all night—if it’s turned off at night there is a risk of condensation when the temperature drops below the dew point and this continued condensation and flux in temperature every night is not good for everything and everyone onboard. Our Refleks heater in pilot mode consumed a few litres per day, was silent and did not consume electrical power. It also always worked. The important part of the diesel heater was spending time and money to make a good chimney.
We did not use any special clothes or super expensive waterproof clothing. We used good Merino wool long underwear, one or more layers of fleece, and then some windbreakers, often doubled as our waterproof outer layer. Waterproof mittens with liner gloves were a must, as was a fleece neck gaiter and wool hat. We often wore two pairs of wool socks and a good pair of rubber waterproof boots. We used the MuckBoots that are insulated for cold climates. It’s amazing how warm you can have your feet with proper footwear. Obviously if one does not have the protection of a pilothouse then the requirements might change a bit, especially while crossing the Drake.
Putting the mooring ropes on reels made life infinitely easier.
Navigational Charts & Software
During our trip we used a variety of devices and charts for navigation. At the start of our trip we used the Argentine chart of Deception Island, which is the best at the moment since it is new, and WG84. For the rest of the Peninsula we also had the Argentine charts but as a reference only. In the Peninsula itself we used the United States charts, as they compile information collected from hydrographical surveys from Argentina, Chile and UK, all on the same chart.
Our system while underway was to plot a GPS position at least once an hour on the chart. We then corroborated the position with bearing and distance from the radar. We were impressed with the chart accuracy, considering that the scale of the charts does not allow great detail.
We also used the free Open CPN software with CM93 vector charts. The performance was satisfactory. It usually gave us a decent position, and we treated it as another aid to navigation just as anywhere in the world where you navigate in restricted waters. We used the software more for passage planning, distances, timings and ETA’s. For this purpose it did quite well.
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Voters in Nederland Colorado legalize pot, oust mayor
Nederland became the second municipality in Colorado to legalize marijuana within its borders on Tuesday night.
The mountain town’s residents went further than Breckinridge, which last year legalized possession of less than one ounce of marijuana, and by a vote of 259 to 218, removed all criminal penalties against buying, selling, possessing, consuming, growing and transporting marijuana for anyone age 21 or older. Nederland voters also chose Trustee Sumaya Abu-Haidar to replace incumbent Mayor Martin Cheshes, making Cheshes the fourth mayor in a row to not win re-election.
Marci Wheelock, appointed to fill a vacancy just a few months ago, won election to her seat, along with newcomers Kevin Mueller, Chris Perret and Rob Joseph. When a new trustee is appointed to fill the vacancy left by Abu-Haidar, that makes for four new faces on the six-member Board of Trustees.
Boulder County law enforcement officials said the marijuana vote was largely meaningless because state laws against the non-medical use of marijuana remain in effect.
“The issues we focus on are drug-dealing and trafficking, and we don’t get very many cases like that involving marijuana,” Boulder County District Attorney Stan Garnett said.
Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle, whose deputies work closely with Nederland town police, said his department enforces state, not local, laws.
“Marijuana enforcement for small quantities and personal use is not a priority for our department or for our community, but we’ll continue to investigate and enforce trafficking,” he said.
For “Michigan Mike” Torpie, who gathered the signatures to put the issue on the ballot, such distinctions miss the point.
“It’s entirely symbolic, but it gets people’s voice out there,” he said. “As more and more communities do this, it sends a message to the state legislature that people believe this to be largely harmless.”
Garnett agreed about the political ramifications.
“I’ll pay attention if it passes,” he said Tuesday afternoon, before the votes were counted. “Marijuana enforcement is a sensitive issue, and it’s important to gauge public sentiment.”
Abu-Haidar, the mayor-elect, said she favors decriminalization of marijuana, but she thinks the initiative was a bad idea.
“We don’t need to take this on at a local level,” she said. “We’re a statutory town, so we’re still bound by state laws. We have more important things to worry about.”
Melanie Dougherty, a stay-at-home mother of two who voted to decriminalize marijuana, said she knows overturning local laws won’t change anything, but she still wanted to vote her conscience.
“I just don’t like all the hoopla around it,” she said after voting. “What people do in their own homes is their own business.”
Town Clerk Christi Icenogle said turn-out was high, with 482 people out of a population of a little more than 1,300 people voting. Votes were counted by hand, and results were not released until after midnight.
Abu-Haidar, a stay-at-home mother of two, said that as mayor she would focus on maintaining a positive vision for Nederland, promoting economic development and encouraging cooperation between various entities in the town.
She also said she’d be a more consistent presence on the board than Cheshes, a retired diplomat who has had several extended absences, one related to his wife’s health and two others related to brief returns to foreign service.
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HomeNewsPress ReleasesThis Saturday, Caramoor Launches 2016 Operatic Season with U.S. Premiere of Rossini’s Aureliano in Palmira (July 16), Followed by Beethoven’s Fidelio (July 31)
This Saturday, Caramoor Launches 2016 Operatic Season with U.S. Premiere of Rossini’s Aureliano in Palmira (July 16), Followed by Beethoven’s Fidelio (July 31)
July 14, 2016 Press Releases
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This Saturday, July 16, sees the launch of the Bel Canto at Caramoor season with the centuries-overdue American premiere of Rossini’s Aureliano in Palmira. This will be led by Caramoor’s Director of Opera, Will Crutchfield, whose interpretation of the long-neglected opera was recognized at last year’s International Opera Awards as Best Rediscovered Work. On Sunday, July 31, Caramoor complements the historic revival with an account of Beethoven’s sole opera, Fidelio, an audience and critical favorite since it premiered in its final form during the same season as Aureliano. Mounted in the superb acoustics of the outdoor Venetian Theater on Caramoor’s idyllic Westchester estate, both semi-staged productions feature the resident Orchestra of St. Luke’s, whose Principal Conductor, Pablo Heras-Casado, takes the podium for Fidelio. Likewise, both operas showcase singers making Caramoor opera debuts in the title roles: the Rossini stars young American tenor Andrew Owens, whose “powerful, yet supple, tenor voice [is] capable of tossing off Rossini’s high notes with ease” (Der Neue Merker, Austria), and the Beethoven stars South African soprano Elza van den Heever, winner of the 2008 Seattle Opera International Wagner Competition and a familiar face at the Metropolitan Opera. Both presentations will be preceded by a rich array of free auxiliary events, as detailed below. As the New York Times observed last summer, Caramoor’s “bucolic, picnic-friendly settings and a programming philosophy that balances hedonism and exploration have made this festival a must for music lovers.”
Caramoor is justly celebrated for nurturing young talent and offering sterling follow-up support, through young artist programs that include the Bel Canto Young Artists. Each year, approximately twelve Bel Canto Young Artists receive training in vocal technique and interpretation, before taking part in the season’s two opera productions and auxiliary events. These take place in the afternoon preceding each of the two opera performances, in the Rosen House’s Spanish Courtyard. Before Aureliano in Palmira (July 16), Rossini Foundation editorial coordinator Daniele Carnini joins Crutchfield for “Detective Story,” a conversation about the year they spent reconstructing Rossini’s original manuscript (3pm), and gives a pre-opera Introductory Talk (7pm). In “The Road to Rossini,” the Bel Canto Apprentices perform selections from Italian opera during the years between Mozart’s last operas and the emergence of Rossini (4pm), and, in “The Last Castrato,” the Bel Canto Young Artists pay tribute to Giovanni Battista Velluti, opera’s last castrato superstar, for whom the role of Arsace was originally created (5pm). Similarly, before Fidelio (July 31), the Bel Canto Young Artists explore the path from Leonore to Fidelio in “Beethoven’s Wrestling Match with Opera” (1pm); the Bel Canto Young Artists and Apprentices offer a capsule view of “Bel Canto in Milan and Vienna, 1814” (2pm); and Crutchfield prefaces Beethoven’s masterpiece with an Introductory Talk (3pm). Tours of Rosen House will also be provided on both days.
The Bel Canto Young Artists also showcase their development in a pair of summer recitals. The first of this season’s offerings was last week’s “The Intimate Rossini: Ensembles and Choruses,” a program pairing ensemble pieces from the composer’s post-operatic Parisian period with little-known gems from his years in Italy and Vienna. Held in the intimate outdoor space of Caramoor’s Spanish Courtyard, this will be followed by “Beethoven in Song,” which explores the master composer’s legacy as one of the founding fathers of the German lied (July 21). As NPR notes, “Opera mavens flock to Caramoor, as the festival often gives plum roles to important young singers.”
Looking ahead to the summer, Will Crutchfield explains:
“It is a season of firsts for us: The first performance anywhere in America for Aureliano; our first guest appearance by Pablo Heras-Casado, principal conductor of the Orchestra of St. Luke’s; our first German opera (though before our ‘Bel Canto’ program was established, Caramoor did give Fidelio’s predecessor, Leonore, in 1989); and festival debuts for several notable singers.
“None of us knew quite what to expect [of Aureliano]; the history books depict it as an obscure flop among Rossini’s 39 operas. But … this is a fully-developed work by Rossini at the height of his youthful powers, unique in the Romantic color it brings to the old opera seria style, thrilling in its broad use of orchestra and chorus. It fell by the wayside through unfortunate circumstances surrounding the premiere; today it is ready to be welcomed to the Rossini canon.
“Fidelio as a companion opera may seem surprising, but after all it dates from the same year, and many traveling opera-goers heard both works when they were new (Milan was under Austrian rule at the time). Beethoven knew some Rossini and Rossini knew some Beethoven. Today, when we know them both to be as distinct as two great composers can and must be, it is fascinating to hear them in the juxtaposition that their own audiences experienced.”
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For more than 70 years, Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts has been a leading destination for music lovers. Comprising a Mediterranean revival villa on 90 acres of gardens and serene woodlands in Westchester County, NY, the estate is just 40 miles north of Manhattan. Summer concerts take place in two outdoor theaters – the 1,546-seat, acoustically superb Venetian Theater, and the more intimate, romantic 500-seat Spanish Courtyard – as well as in the picturesque gardens, which include a Sense Circle for the visually impaired, Sunken Garden, Butterfly Garden, Tapestry Hedge, and Iris and Peony Garden. Audiences are invited to come early to explore the grounds, tour the historic Rosen House, enjoy a relaxing Sunday afternoon tea, or unwind with a pre-concert picnic. In addition to the summer season, Caramoor presents concerts all year round in the magnificent Rosen House Music Room. Through an impressive range of education programs, Caramoor serves more than 6,000 students in the New York metropolitan area, besides boasting an array of highly successful mentorship programs designed for young professionals who have completed their conservatory training. Over the past 20 years, alumni from these programs have become leaders of the next classical generation, whose accomplishments include winning a MacArthur Fellowship, becoming first violinist of the Juilliard String Quartet, and appointment as the Concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic.
Getting to Caramoor is simple by car, train or public transportation. All parking is free and close to the performance areas. Handicapped parking is also free and readily available.
By car from New York City, take the Henry Hudson Parkway north to the Saw Mill River Parkway north to I-684 north to Exit 6. Go east on Route 35 to the traffic light (0.3 miles). Turn right onto Route 22 south, and travel 1.9 miles to the junction of Girdle Ridge Road where there is a green Caramoor sign. At the junction, veer left and make a quick right onto Girdle Ridge Road. Continue on Girdle Ridge Road 0.5 miles to the Caramoor gates on the right. Approximate drive time is one hour.
By train from Grand Central Station, take the Harlem Division Line of the Metro North Railroad heading to Southeast, and exit at Katonah. Caramoor is a 3.5-mile drive from the Katonah station, where taxi service is always available and free shuttle service is available for every event Thursdays through Sundays. For current information, check the Metro North schedule.
For the opera performances, Caramoor offers ticketed, round-trip transportation from NYC on the Caramoor Coach, a luxury air-conditioned coach traveling from Grand Central/Lexington Ave to Caramoor’s front door and back. To learn more, contact the Box Office.
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Bel Canto at Caramoor, summer 2016
Sat, July 16
Aureliano in Palmira: pre-opera events
Tickets are free of charge
3pm: Talk: “Detective Story” (Daniele Carnini & Will Crutchfield)
4pm: Recital: “The Road to Rossini” (Bel Canto Apprentices / Lucy Yates)
5pm: Recital: “The Last Castrato” (Bel Canto Young Artists / Will Crutchfield
7pm: Talk: Introduction to Aureliano in Palmira (Daniele Carnini)
Sat, July 16 at 8pm
Rossini: Aureliano in Palmira (U.S. premiere)
Tickets are $20, $50, $70, $95, $110
Venetian Theater
Aureliano: Andrew Owens, tenor
Zenobia: Georgia Jarman, soprano
Arsace: Tamara Mumford, mezzo-soprano
Orchestra of St. Luke’s / Will Crutchfield
Thurs, July 21 at 7pm
“Beethoven in Song”
Tickets are $15, $24, $32, $40
Spanish Courtyard
Bel Canto Young Artists / Rachelle Jonck
Sun, July 31
Fidelio: pre-opera events
1pm: Recital: “Beethoven’s Wrestling Match with Opera” (Bel Canto Young Artists & Timothy Cheung)
2pm: Recital: “Bel Canto in Milan and Vienna, 1814” (Bel Canto Young Artists & Apprentices)
3pm: Talk: Introduction to Fidelio (Will Crutchfield)
Sun, July 31 at 4pm
Beethoven: Fidelio
Leonore: Elza van den Heever, soprano
Florestan: Paul Groves, tenor
Marzelline: Georgia Jarman, soprano
Rocco: Kristinn Sigmundsson, bass
Jaquino: Andrew Owens, tenor
Don Pizarro: Alfred Walker, bass-baritone
Orchestra of St. Luke’s / Pablo Heras-Casado
All concerts made possible, in part, by ArtsWestchester with funds from the Westchester County Government.
All concerts made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
The 2016 Summer Music Festival is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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The Policing Futures Masterclass Series is a unique collaboration between the Universities’ Police Science Institute (UPSI) and South Wales Police (SWP), designed to provide the knowledge, skills and experience required to develop critical thinking and evidence-based practice among those considered future leaders within the force.
A cohort of 20 officers and staff, of all ranks and functions, are nominated and selected by SWP to take part in the programme. In the first sessions, delegates hear from internal SWP speakers on the challenges for policing in the next five years and the force’s strategic Policing 2020 vision.
This is supplemented by external speakers from industry, other public service organisations and the College of Policing regarding the management of change and research evidence-based interventions. Participants then self-align to a force strategic priority area of particular interest to them, before designing a small research project to answer a key question in relation to that priority area.
The groups embark upon their research with the objective of creating innovative solutions to problems, creating cost or time saving implications, improving processes or creating policy change.
"From inception, the aim of the programme has been to bring together academia and practitioners of policing to combine and share their knowledge to help address pressing issues facing policing in South Wales today, which may not only affect us, but can have a national context. Based around the three themes of People, Prevention and Partnership, this work will help to develop our response, so that we can tackle areas of crime more effectively, particularly around the key area of vulnerability."
Matt Jukes, Chief Constable, South Wales Police
Each project group is allocated an academic ‘Mentor’ from UPSI to advise on study design, methodology and analysis, together with a senior force ‘Shepherd’ to provide internal governance, operational input and aid the data access/generation process.
The groups conduct their research in their own time, meeting regularly over a nine-month period with both Mentor and Shepherd for input and guidance.
Every month the groups present their progress to their peers, a wider academic audience and chief officers, providing an opportunity for reflection and adaption of their research, to ensure it stays on track.
The series of masterclasses during the research period provides an opportunity for participants to hear more academic, internal and external speakers on topics related to research, policing and change management.
The series culminates in a formal presentation to the SWP Chief Officer Group, together with a short, written report on their findings, interpretation of the evidence and recommendations in relation to the force's strategic direction. Participants also have the option to submit their work to the Chartered Management Institute for a formal external accreditation.
“Recent headlines in the media have clearly indicated how there are new challenges and demands for policing emerging. Set against this backdrop the research projects undertaken as part of this year’s Policing Futures programme are especially exciting because of how they directly respond to some of these contemporary high-profile issues.”
Professor Martin Innes Director, Crime and Security Research Institute and Director, Universities' Police Science Institute
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Sermon LXXXVIII
The content of Augustine’s sermons is rich and varied, embraces all the themes of Scripture and the liturgy and serves as a valuable commentary on the great dogmatic and exegetical works. They are a model of popular eloquence which is at the same time clear yet profound, lively and incisive, direct and effective. (Agostino Trapè) Sermon 88 is on Matthew 20:30 ff, about the two blind men sitting by the wayside and calling “Lord, have mercy on us, son of David.”
1. YE know, Holy Brethren, full well as we do, that our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ is the Physician of our eternal health; and that to this end He took the weakness of our nature, that our weakness might not last for ever. For He assumed a mortal body, wherein to kill death. And, "though He was crucified through weakness," as the Apostle saith, "yet He liveth by the power of God." They are the words too of the same Apostle; "He dieth no more, and death shall have no more dominion over Him." These things, I say, are well known to your faith. And there is also this which follows from it, that we should know that all the miracles which He did on the body, avail to our instruction, that we may from them perceive that which is not to pass away, nor to have any end. He restored to the blind those eyes which death was sure sometime to close; He raised Lazarus to life who was to die again. And whatever He did for the health of bodies, He did it not to this end that they should be for ever; whereas at the last He will give eternal health even to the body itself. But because those things which were not seen, were not believed; by means of these temporal things which were seen, He built up faith in those things which were not seen.
2. Let no one then, Brethren, say that our Lord Jesus Christ doeth not those things now, and on this account prefer the former to the present ages of the Church. In a certain place indeed the same Lord prefers those who "do not see, and yet believe," to them who see and therefore believe. For even at that time so irresolute was the infirmity of His disciples, that they thought that He whom they saw to have risen again must be handled, in order that they might believe. It was not enough for their eyes that they had seen Him, unless their hands also were applied to His limbs, and the scars of His recent wounds were touched; that that disciple who was in doubt, might cry out suddenly when he had touched and recognised the scars, "My Lord and my God." The scars manifested Him who had healed all wounds in others. Could not the Lord have risen again without the scars? Yes, but He knew the wounds which were in the hearts of His disciples, and to heal them He had preserved the scars on His own Body. And what said the Lord to him who now confessed and said, "My Lord and my God"? "Because thou hast seen," He said, "thou hast believed; blessed are they who do not see, and yet believe." Of whom spake He, Brethren, but of us? Not that He spake only of us, but of those also who shall come after us. For after a little while when He had departed from the sight of men, that faith might be established in their hearts, whosoever believed, believed, though they saw Him not, and great has been the merit of their faith; for the procuring of which faith they brought only the movement of a pious heart, and not the touching of their hands.
3. These things then the Lord did to invite us to the faith. This faith reigneth now in the Church, which is spread throughout the whole world. And now He worketh greater cures, on account of which He disdained not then to exhibit those lesser ones. For as the soul is better than the body, so is the saving health of the soul better than the health of the body. The blind body doth not now open its eyes by a miracle of the Lord, but the blinded heart openeth its eyes to the word of the Lord. The mortal corpse doth not now rise again, but the soul doth rise again which lay dead in a living body. The deaf ears of the body are not now opened; but how many have the ears of their heart closed, which yet fly open at the penetrating word of God, so that they believe who did not believe, and they live well, who did live evilly, and they obey, who did not obey; and we say, "Such a man is become a believer;" and we wonder when we hear of them whom once we had known as hardened. Why then dost thou marvel at one who now believes, who is living innocently, and serving God; but because thou dost behold him seeing, whom thou hadst known to be blind; dost behold him living, whom thou hadst known to be dead; dost behold him heating, whom thou hadst known to be deaf? For consider that there are who are dead in another than the ordinary sense, of whom the Lord spake to a certain man who delayed to follow the Lord, because he wished to bury his father; "Let the dead," said He, "bury their dead." Surely these dead buriers are not dead in body; for if this were so, they could not bury dead bodies. Yet doth he call them dead; where, but in the soul within? For as we may often see in a household, itself sound and well, the master of the same house lying dead; so in a sound body do many carry a dead soul within; and these the Apostle arouses thus, "Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light." It is the Same who giveth light to the blind, that awakeneth the dead. For it is with His voice that the cry is made by the Apostle to the dead, "Awake, thou that sleepest." And the blind will be enlightened with light, when he shall have risen again. And how many deaf men did the Lord see before His eyes, when He said, "He that hath ears to hear, let him hear." For who was standing before Him without his bodily ears? What other ears then did He seek for, but those of the inner man?
4. Again, what eyes did He look for when He spake to those who saw indeed, but who saw only with the eyes of the flesh? For when Philip said to Him, "Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us;" he understood indeed that if the Father were shown him, it might well suffice him; but how would the Father suffice him whom He that was equal to the Father sufficed not? And why did He not suffice? Because He was not seen. And why was He not seen? Because the eye whereby He might be seen was not yet whole. For this, namely, that the Lord was seen in the flesh with the outward eyes, not only the disciples who honoured Him saw, but also the Jews who crucified Him. He then who wished to be seen in another way, sought for other eyes. And therefore it was that to him who said, "Show us the Father, and it sufficeth us;" He answered, "Have I been so long time with you; and yet hast thou not known Me, Philip? He who hath seen Me, hath seen the Father also." And that He might in the mean while heal the eyes of faith, he has first of all instructions given him regarding faith, that so he might attain to sight. And lest Philip should think that he was to conceive of God under the same form in which he then saw the Lord Jesus Christ in the body, he immediately subjoined; "Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me?" He had already said, "He who hath seen Me, hath seen the Father also." But Philip's eye was not yet sound enough to see the Father, nor consequently to see the Son who is Himself Coequal with the Father. And so Jesus Christ took in hand to cure, and with the medicines and salve of faith to strengthen the eyes of his mind, which as yet were weak and unable to behold so great a light, and He said, "Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me?" Let not him then who cannot yet see what the Lord will one day show him, seek first to see what he is to believe; but let him first believe that the eye by which he is to see may be healed. For it was only the form of the servant which was exhibited to the eyes of servants; because if "He who thought it not robbery to be equal with God," could have been now seen as equal with God by those whom He wished to be healed, He would not have needed to "empty Himself, and to take the form of a servant." But because there was no way whereby God could be seen, but whereby man could be seen, there was; therefore He who was God was made man, that that which was seen might heal that whereby He was not seen. For He saith Himself in another place, "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." Philip might of course have answered and said, "Lord, lo, I see Thee; is the Father such as I see Thee to be? forasmuch as Thou hast said, 'He who hath seen Me, hath seen the Father also'?" But before Philip answered thus, or perhaps before he so much as thought it, when the Lord had said, "He who hath seen Me, hath seen the Father also;" He immediately added, "Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me?" For with that eye he could, not yet see either the Father, or the Son who is equal with the Father; but that his eye might be healed for seeing, he was to be anointed unto believing. So then before thou seest what thou canst not now see, believe what as yet thou seest not. "Walk by faith," that thou mayest attain to sight. Sight will not gladden him in his home whom faith consoleth not by the way. For so says the Apostle, "As long as we are in the body, we are in pilgrimage from the Lord." And he subjoins immediately why we are still "in pilgrimage," though we have now believed; "For we walk by faith," He says, "not by sight."
5. Our whole business then, Brethren, in this life is to heal this eye of the heart whereby God may be seen. To this end are celebrated the Holy Mysteries; to this end is preached the word of God; to this end are the moral exhortations of the Church, those, that is, that relate to the correction of manners, to the amendment of carnal lusts, to the renouncing the world, not in word only, but in a change of life: to this end is directed the whole aim of the Divine and Holy Scriptures, that that inner man may be purged of that which hinders us from the sight of God. For as the eye which is formed to see this temporal light, a light though heavenly, yet corporeal, and manifest, not to men only, but even to the meanest animals (for this the eye is formed, to see this light); if anything be thrown or fall into it, whereby it is disordered, is shut out from this light; and though it encompass the eye with its presence, yet the eye turns itself away from, and is absent from it; and through its disordered condition is not only rendered absent from the light which is present, but the light to see which it was formed, is even painful to it. So the eye of the heart too when it is disordered and wounded turns away from the light of righteousness, and dares not and cannot contemplate it.
6. And what is it that disorders the eye of the heart? Evil desire, covetousness, injustice, worldly concupiscence, these disorder, close, blind the eye of the heart. And yet when the eye of the body is out of order, how is the physician sought out, what an absence of all delay to open and cleanse it, that that may be healed whereby this outward light is seen! There is running to and fro, no one is still, no one loiters, if even the smallest straw fall into the eye. And God it must be allowed made the sun which we desire to see with sound eyes. Much brighter assuredly is He who made it; nor is the light with which the eye of the mind is concerned of this kind at all. That light is eternal Wisdom. God made thee, O man, after His own image. Would He give thee wherewithal to see the sun which He made, and not give thee wherewithal to see Him who made thee, when He made thee after His own image? He hath given thee this also; both hath He given thee. But much thou dost love these outward eyes, and despisest much that interior eye; it thou dost carry about bruised and wounded. Yea, it would be a punishment to thee, if thy Maker should wish to manifest Himself unto thee; it would be a punishment to thine eye, before that it is cured and healed. For so Adam in paradise sinned, and hid himself from the face of God. As long then as he had the sound heart of a pure conscience, he rejoiced at the presence of God; when that eye was wounded by sin, he began to dread the Divine light, he fled back into the darkness, and the thick covert of the trees, flying from the truth, and anxious for the shade.
7. Therefore, my Brethren, since we too are born of him, and as the Apostle says, "In Adam all die;" for we were all at first two persons if we were loth to obey the physician, that we might not be sick; let us obey Him now, that we may be delivered from sickness. The physician gave us precepts, when we were whole; He gave us precepts that we might not need a physician. "They that are whole," He saith, "need not a physician, but they that are sick." When whole we despised these precepts, and by experience have felt how to our own destruction we despised His precepts. Now we are sick, we are in distress, we are on the bed of weakness; yet let us not despair. For because we could not come to the Physician, He hath vouchsafed to come Himself to us. Though despised by man when he was whole, He did not despise him when he was stricken. He did not leave off to give other precepts to the weak, who would not keep the first precepts, that he might not be weak; as though He would say, "Assuredly thou hast by experience felt that I spake the truth when I said, Touch not this. Be healed then now at length, and recover the life thou hast lost. Lo, I am bearing thine infirmity; drink thou the bitter cup. For thou hast of thine own self made those my so sweet precepts which were given to thee when whole, so toilsome. They were despised and so thy distress began; cured thou canst not be, except thou drink the bitter cup, the cup of temptations, wherein this life abounds, the cup of tribulation, anguish, and sufferings. Drink then," He says, "drink, that thou mayest live." And that the sick man may not make answer, "I cannot, I cannot bear it, I will not drink;" the Physician, all whole though he be, drinketh first, that the sick man may not hesitate to drink. For what bitterness is there in this cup, which He hath not drunk? If it be contumely; He heard it first when He drove out the devils, "He hath a devil, and by Beelzebub He casteth out devils." Whereupon in order to comfort the sick, He saith, "If they have called the Master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of His household?" If pains are this bitter cup, He was bound and scourged and crucified. If death be this bitter cup, He died also. If infirmity shrink with horror from any particular kind of death, none was at that time more ignominious than the death of the cross. For it was not in vain that the Apostle, when setting forth His obedience, added, "Made obedient unto death, even the death of the cross."
8. But because He designed to honour His faithful ones at the end of the world, He hath first honoured the cross in this world; in such wise that the princes of the earth who believe in Him have prohibited any criminal from being crucified; and that cross which the Jewish persecutors with great mockery prepared for the Lord, even kings His servants at this day bear with great confidence on their foreheads. Only the shameful nature of the death which our Lord vouchsafed to undergo for us is not now so apparent, Who, as the Apostle says, "was made a curse for us." And when as He hung, the blindness of the Jews mocked Him, surely He could have come down from the Cross, who if He had not so willed, had not been on the Cross; but it was a greater thing to rise from the grave than to come down from the Cross. Our Lord then in doing these Divine, and in suffering these human things, instructs us by His Bodily miracles and Bodily patience, that we may believe, and be made whole to behold those things invisible which the eye of the body hath no knowledge of. With this intent then He cured these blind men of whom the account has just now been read in the Gospel. And consider what instruction He has by their cure conveyed to the man who is sick within.
9. Consider the issue of the thing, and the order of the circumstances. Those two blind men sitting by the way side cried out as the Lord passed by, that He would have mercy upon them. But they were restrained from crying out by the multitude which was with the Lord. Now do not suppose that this circumstance is left without a mysterious meaning. But they overcame the crowd who kept them back by the great perseverance of their cry, that their voice might reach the Lord's ears; as though He had not already anticipated their thoughts. So then the two blind men cried out that they might be heard by the Lord, and could not be restrained by the multitudes. The Lord "was passing by," and they cried out. The Lord "stood still," and they were healed. For "the Lord Jesus stood still, and called them, and said, What will ye that I shall do unto you? They say unto Him, That our eyes may be opened." The Lord did according to their faith, He recovered their eyes. If we have now understood by the sick, the deaf, the dead, the sick, and deaf, and dead, within; let us look out in this place also for the blind within. The eyes of the heart are clossd; "Jesus passeth by" that we may cry out. What is, "Jesus passeth by"? Jesus is doing things which last but for a time. What is "Jesus passeth by"? Jesus doeth things which pass by Mark and see how many things of His have "passed by." He was born of the Virgin Mary; is He being born always? As an infant was He suckled; is He suckled always? He ran through the successive ages of life unto man's full estate; doth He grow in body always? Boyhood succeeded to infancy, to boyhood youth, to youth man's full stature in several passing successions. Even the very miracles which He did are "passed by," they are read and believed. For because these miracles are written that so they might be read, they "passed by" when they were being done. In a word, not to dwell long on this, He was Crucified: is He hanging on the Cross always? He was Buried, He Rose again, He Ascended into heaven; "now He dieth no more, death shall no more have dominion over Him." And His Divinity abideth ever, yea, the Immortality of His Body now shall never fail. But nevertheless all those things which were wrought by Him in time have "passed by;" and they are written to be read, and they are preached to be believed. In all these things then, "Jesus passeth by."
10. And what are "the two blind men by the way side," but the two people to cure whom Jesus came? Let us show those two people in the Holy Scriptures. It is written in the Gospel, "Other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also must I bring, that there may be one fold and One Shepherd." Who then are the two people? One the people of the Jews, and the other of the Gentiles. "I am not sent," He saith, "but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel." To whom did He say this? To the disciples; when that woman of Canaan who confessed herself to be a dog, cried out that she might be found worthy of the crumbs from the master's table. And because she was found worthy, now were the two people to whom He had come made manifest: the Jewish people, to wit, of whom He said, "I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel;" and the people of the Gentiles, whose type this woman exhibited whom He had first rejected, saying, "It is not meet to cast the children's bread to the dogs;" and to whom when she said, "Truth, Lord, yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their master's table;" He answered, "O woman, great is thy faith, be it unto thee even as thou wilt." For of this people also was that centurion of whom the same Lord saith, "Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel." Because he had said," I am not worthy that Thou shouldest come under my roof, but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed." So then the Lord even before His Passion and Glorification pointed out two people, the one to whom He had come because of the promises to the Fathers; and the other whom for His mercy's sake He did not reject; that it might be fulfilled which had been promised to Abraham, "In thy seed shall all nations be blessed." Wherefore also the Apostle after the Lord's Resurrection and Ascension, when He was despised by the Jews, went to the Gentiles. Not that he was silent however towards the Churches which consisted of Jewish believers; "I was unknown," he says, "by face unto the Churches of Judaea which were in Christ. But they heard only that he which persecuted us in times past, now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed, and they glorified God in me." So again Christ is called the "Corner Stone who made both one." For a corner joins two walls which come from different sides together. And what was so different as the circumcision and uncircumcision, having one wall from Judaea, the other from the Gentiles? But they are joined together by the corner stone. "For the stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner." There is no corner in a building, except when two walls coming from different directions meet together, and are joined in a kind of unity. The "two blind men" then crying out unto the Lord were these two walls according to the figure.
11. Attend now, dearly Beloved. The Lord was "passing by," and the blind men "cried out." What is "was passing by"? As we have already said, He was doing works which "passed by." Now upon these passing works is our faith built up. For we believe on the Son of God, not only in that He is the word of God, by whom all things were made; for if He had always continued" in the form of God, equal with God," and had not "emptied Himself in taking the form of a servant," the blind men would not even have perceived Him, that they might be able to cry out. But when He wrought passing works, that is, "when He humbled Himself, having become obedient unto death, even the death of the cross," the" two blind men cried out, Have mercy on us, thou Son of David." For this very thing that He David's Lord and Creator, willed also to be David's Son, He wrought in time, He wrought "passing by."
12. Now what is it, Brethren, "to cry out" unto Christ, but to correspond to the grace of Christ by good works? This I say, Brethren, test haply we cry aloud with our voices, and in our lives be dumb. Who is he that crieth out to Christ, that his inward blindness may be driven away by Christ as He is "passing by," that is, as He is dispensing to us those temporal sacraments, whereby we are instructed to receive the things which are eternal? Who is he that crieth out unto Christ? Whoso despiseth the world, crieth out unto Christ. Whoso despiseth the pleasures of the world, crieth out unto Christ. Whoso saith not with his tongue, but with his life, "The world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world," crieth out unto Christ. Whoso "disperseth abroad and giveth to the poor, that his righteousness may endure for ever," crieth out unto Christ. For let him that hears, and is not deaf to the sound, "sell that ye have, and give to the poor; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not;" let him as he hears the sound as it were of Christ's footsteps "passing by," cry out in response to this in his blindness, that is, let him do these things. Let his voice be in his actions. Let him begin to despise the world, to distribute to the poor his goods, to esteem as nothing worth what other men love, let him disregard injuries, not seek to be avenged, let him give his "cheek to the smiter," let him pray for his enemies; if any "one have taken away his goods," let "him nor ask for them again;" if he "have taken anything from any man, let him restore fourfold."
13. When he shall begin to do all this, all his kinsmen, relations, and friends will be in commotion. They who love this world, will oppose him. What madness this! you are too extreme: what! are not other men Christians? This is folly, this is madness. And other such like things do the multitude cry out to prevent the blind from crying out. The multitude rebuked them as they cried out; but did not overcome their. cries. Let them who wish to be healed understand what they have to do. Jesus is now also "passing by;" let them who are by the way side cry out. These are they "who know God with their lips, but their heart is far from Him." These are by the way side, to whom as blinded in heart Jesus gives His precepts. For when those passing things which Jesus did are recounted, Jesus is always represented to us as "passing by." For even unto the end of the world there will not be wanting "blind men sitting by the way side." Need then there is that they who sit by the way side should cry out. The multitude that was with the Lord would repress the crying of those who were seeking for recovery. Brethren, do ye see my meaning? For I know not how to speak, but still less do I know how to be silent. I will speak then, and speak plainly. For I fear "Jesus passing by" and "Jesus standing still;" and therefore I cannot keep silence. Evil and lukewarm Christians hinder good Christians who are truly earnest, and wish to do the commandments of God which are written in the Gospel. This multitude which is with the Lord hinders those who are crying out, hinders those that is who are doing well, that they may not by perseverance be healed. But let them cry out, and not faint; let them not be led away as if by the authority of numbers; let them not imitate those who became Christians before them, who live evil lives themselves, and are jealous of the good deeds of others. Let them not say, "Let us live as these so many live." Why not rather as the Gospel ordains? Why dost thou wish to live according to the remonstrances of the multitude who would hinder thee, and not after the steps of the Lord, "who passeth by"? They will mock, and abuse, and call thee back; do thou cry out till thou reach the ears of Jesus. For they who shall persevere in doing such things as Christ hath enjoined, and regard not the multitudes that hinder them, nor think much of their appearing to follow Christ, that is of their being called Christians; but who love the light which Christ is about to restore to them, more than they fear the uproar of those who are hindering them; they shall on no account be separated from Him, and Jesus will "stand still," and make them whole.
14. For how are our eyes made whole? That as by faith we perceive Christ "passing by" in the temporal economy," so we may attain to the knowledge of Him as "standing still" in His unchangeable Eternity. For then is the eye made whole when the knowledge of Christ's Divinity is attained. Let your love apprehend this; attend ye to the great mystery which I am to speak of. All the things which were done by our Lord Jesus Christ in time, graft faith in us. We believe on the Son of God, not on the Word only, "by which all things were made;" but on this very Word, "made flesh that He might dwell among us," who was born of the Virgin Mary, and the rest which the Faith contains, and which are represented to us that Christ might "pass by," and that the blind, hearing His footsteps as He "passeth by," might by their works "cry out," by their life exemplifying the profession of their faith. But now m order that they who cry out may be made whole, "Jesus standeth still." For he saw Jesus now "standing still" who says, "Though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we Him no more." For he saw Christ's Divinity as far as in this life is possible. There is then in Christ the Divinity and tire Humanity. The Divinity "standeth still," the Humanity "passeth by." What means, The Divinity "standeth still"? It changeth not, is not shaken, doth not depart away. For He did not so come to us, as to depart from the Father; nor did He so ascend as to change His place. When He assumed Flesh, it changed place; but God assuming Flesh, seeing He is not in place, doth not change His place. Let us then be touched by Christ "standing still," and so our eyes be made whole. But whose eyes? The eyes of those who "cry out" when He is "passing by;" that is, who do good works through that faith, which hath been dispensed in time, to instruct us in our infancy.
15. Now what thing more precious can we have than the eye made whole? They rejoice who see this created light which shines from heaven, or even that which is given out from a lamp. And how wretched do they seem, who cannot see this light? But wherefore do I speak, and talk of all these things, but to exhort you all to "cry out," when Jesus "passeth by." I hold up this light which perhaps ye do not see as an object of love to you, Holy Brethren. Believe, whilst as yet ye see not; and "cry out" that ye may see. How great is thought to be the unhappiness of men, who do not see this bodily light? Does any one become blind; immediately it is said; "God is angry with him, he has committed some wicked deed." So said Tobias' wife to her husband. He cried out because of the kid, test it had come of theft; he did not like to hear the sound of any stolen thing in his house; and she, maintaining what she had done, reproached her husband; and when he said, "Restore it if it be stolen;" she answered insultingly, "Where are thy righteous deeds?" How great was her blindness who maintained the theft; and how clear a light he saw, who commanded the stolen thing to be restored: She rejoiced outwardly in the light of the sun; he inwardly in the light of Righteousness. Which of them was in the better light?
16. It is to the love of this light that I would exhort you, Beloved; that ye would cry out by your works, when the Lord "passeth by;" let the voice of faith sound out, that "Jesus standing still," that is, the Unchangeable, Abiding Wisdom of God, and the Majesty of the Word of God, "by which all things were made," may open your eyes. The same Tobias in giving advice to his son, instructed him to this, to cry out; that is, he instructed him to good works. He told him to give to the poor, charged him to give alms to the needy, and taught him, saying, "My son, alms suffereth not to come into darkness." The blind gave counsel for receiving and gaining light. "Alms," saith he, "suffereth not to come into darkness." Had his son in astonishment answered him, "What then, father, hast thou not given alms, that thou now speakest to me in blindness; art not thou in darkness, and yet thou dost say to me, "Alms suffereth not to come into darkness." But no, he knew well what the light was, concerning which he gave his son instruction, he knew well what he saw in the inner man. The son held out his hand to his father, to enable him to walk on earth; and the father to the son, to enable him to dwell in heaven.
17. To be brief; that I may conclude this Sermon, Brethren, with a matter which touches me very nearly, and gives me much pain, see what crowds there are which "rebuke the blind as they cry out." But let them not deter you, whosoever among this crowd desire to be healed; for there are many Christians in name, and in works ungodly; let them, not deter you from good works. Cry out amid the crowds that are restraining you, and calling you back, and insulting you, whose lives are evil. For not only by their voices, but by evil works, do wicked Christians repress the good. A good Christian has no wish to attend the public shows. In this very thing, that he bridles his desire of going to the theatre, he cries out after Christ, cries out to be healed. Others run together thither, but perhaps they are heathens or Jews? Ah! indeed, if Christians went not to the theatres, there would be so few people there, that they would go away for very shame. So then Christians run thither also, bearing the Holy Name only to their condemnation. Cry out then by abstaining from going, by repressing in thy heart this worldly concupiscence; hold on with a strong and persevering cry unto the ears of the Saviour, that Jesus may "stand still" and heal thee. Cry out amidst the very crowds, despair not of reaching the ears of the Lord. For the blind men in the Gospel did not cry out in that quarter, where no crowd was, that so they might be heard in that direction, where there was no impediment from persons hindering them. Amidst the very crowds they cried out; and yet the Lord heard them. And so also do ye even amidst sinners, and sensual then, amidst the lovers of the vanities of the world, there cry out that the Lord may heal you. Go not to another quarter to cry out unto the Lord, go not to heretics, and cry out unto Him there. Consider, Brethren, how in that crowd which was hindering them from crying out, even there were they who cried out made whole.
18. For observe this too, Holy Brethren, what it is to persevere in crying out. I will speak of what many as well as myself have experienced in Christ's name; for the Church does not cease to give birth to such as these. When any Christian has begun to live well, to be fervent in good works, and to despise the world; in this newness of his life he is exposed to the animadversions and contradictions of cold Christians. But if he persevere, and get the better of them by his endurance, and faint not in good works; those very same persons who before hindered will now respect him. For they rebuke, and hinder, and withstand him so long as they have any hope that he will yield to them. But if they shall be overcome by their perseverance who make progress, they turn round and begin to say, "He is a great man, a holy man, happy he to whom God hath given such grace." Now do they honour him, they congratulate and bless and laud him; just as that multitude did which was with the Lord. They first hindered the blind men that they might not cry out; but when they continued to cry so as to attain to be heard, and to obtain the Lord's mercy, that same multitude now says, "Jesus calleth you." And they who a little before "rebuked them that they should hold their peace," use now the voice of exhortation. Now he only is not called by the Lord who is not in labour in this world. But who is there in this life who is not in labour through his sins and iniquities? But if all labour, it is said to all, "Come unto Me, all ye that labour." Now if this is said to all, why ascribest thou thy miscarriage to Him that so inviteth time? Come. His house is not too narrow for thee; the kingdom of God is possessed equally by all, and wholly by each one; it is not diminished by the increasing number of those who possess it, because it is not divided. And that which is possessed by many with one heart, is whole and entire for each one.
19. Yet in the mysterious sense of this passage, Brethren, we recognise what is expressed most plainly in other places of the sacred books, that there are within the Church both good and bad, as I often express it, wheat and chaff. Let no one leave the floor before the time, let him bear with the chaff in the time of threshing, let him bear with it in the floor. For in the barn he will have none of it to bear with. The Winnower will come, who shall divide the bad from the good. There will then be a bodily separation too, which a spiritual separation now precedes. In heart be always separated from the bad, in body be united with them for a time, only with caution. Yet be not negligent in correcting those who belong to you, who in any way appertain to your charge, by admonition, or instruction, by exhortation, or by threats. Do it, in whatsoever way ye can. And because ye find in Scripture and in the examples of Saints, whether of those who lived before or after the coming of the Lord in this life, that the bad do not defile the good in unity with them, do not on this account become slow in the correction of the bad. In two ways the bad will not defile thee; if thou consent not to him, and if thou reprove him; this is, not to communicate with him, not to consent to him. For there is a communication, when an agreement either of the will or of the approbation is joined to his deed. This the Apostle teaches us, when he says, "Have no communication with the unfruitful works of darkness." And because it was a small matter not to consent, if negligence in correction accompanied it, he says, "But rather reprove them." See how he comprehended both at once, "Have no communication, but rather reprove them." What is, "Have no communication"? Do not consent to them, do not praise them, do not approve them. What is, "But rather reprove them"? Find fault with, rebuke, repress them.
20. But then in the correction and repressing of other men's sins, one must take heed, that in rebuking another he do not lift up himself; and that sentence of the Apostle must be thought of, "Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth, take heed lest he fall." Let the voice of chiding sound outwardly in tones of terror, let the spirit of love and gentleness be maintained within. "If a man be overtaken in a fault," as the same Apostle says, "ye which are spiritual restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. Bear ye one another's burdens, and so shall ye fulfil the law of Christ." And again in another place, "The servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; and that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are held captive by him at his will." So then be neither consenting to evil, so as to approve of it; nor negligent so as not to reprove it; nor proud so as to reprove it in a tone of insult.
21. But whoso forsaketh unity, violateth charity; and whosoever violateth charity, how great gifts soever he have, he is nothing. "If he speak with the tongues of men and of angels; if he knew all mysteries, if he have all faith, so as to remove mountains, if he distribute all his goods to the poor, if he give his body to be burned, and have not charity; it is nothing; it profiteth him nothing." He possesseth all things to no useful end, who hath not that one thing by which he may use all these things well. So then let us embrace charity, "studying to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace." Let not those seduce us who understand the Scriptures in a carnal manner, and who in making a bodily separation, are separated themselves by a spiritual sacrilege from the good corn of the Church which is spread over the whole world. For throughout the whole world hath the good seed been sown. That good Sower, the Son of Man, hath scattered the good seed not in Africa only, but everywhere. But the enemy hath sown tares upon it. Yet what saith the Householder? "Let both grow together until the harvest." Grow where? In the field, of course. What is the field? Is it Africa? No! What is it then? Let us not interpret it ourselves, let the Lord speak; let us not suffer any one to make his guess at his own pleasure. For the disciples said to the Master, "Declare unto us the parable of the tares." And the Lord declared it: "The good seed," said He, "are the children of the Kingdom. But the tares are the children of the wicked one." Who sowed them? "The enemy that sowed them," said He," is the devil." What is the field? "The field," said He, "is this world." What is the harvest? "The harvest," said He, "is the end of the world." Who are the reapers? "The reapers," said He, "are the Angels" Is Africa the world? Is this present time the harvest? Is Donatus the reaper? Look then for the harvest throughout the whole world, throughout the whole world "grow unto the harvest," throughout the whole world bear with the tares even until the harvest. Let not perverse men seduce you, that chaff so light, which flies out of the floor before the coming of the Winnower; let them not seduce you. Hold them fast even to this single parable of the tares, and suffer them not to speak of anything else. This man, one will say, surrendered the Scriptures; no, not so: but this other man surrendered them. Whosoever it might be who has surrendered them, has their faithlessness made void the faithfulness of God? What is "the faithfulness of God"? That which He promised to Abraham, saying, "In thy seed shall all nations be blessed." What is the faithfulness of God? "Let both grow together until the harvest." Grow where? Throughout the field. What is throughout the field? Throughout the world.
22. Here they say; "It is true both kinds did once grow throughout the world, but the good wheat is diminished, and confined to this our country, and our small communion." But the Lord doth not allow thee to interpret as thou wilt. He who explaineth this parable Himself, shutteth thy mouth, thy sacrilegious, profane, and ungodly mouth, that is counter to thine own interests, while thou runnest counter to the testator, even as he calleth thee to the inheritance. How doth He shut thy mouth? by saying, "Let both grow together until the harvest." If the harvest hath come already, let us believe that the wheat has been diminished. Though not even then shall it be diminished, but gathered up into the barn. For so He saith, "Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into My barn." If then they grow until the harvest, and after the harvest are gathered in, how are they diminished, thou wicked, thou ungodly one? I grant that in comparison with the tares and chaff the wheat is less in quantity; still "both grow together until the harvest." For "when iniquity aboundeth, the love of many waxeth cold;" the tares and the chaff multiply. But because throughout the whole world wheat cannot be wanting, which "by enduring unto the end shall be saved, both grow together until the harvest." And if because of the abundance of the wicked it is said, "When the Son of Man cometh, thinkest thou, shall He find faith on the earth?" and by this denomination are signified all those who by transgression of the law imitate him to whom it was said," Earth thou art, and unto earth shalt thou return;" yet because of the abundance of the good also, and because of him to whom it was said, "Thy seed shall be as the stars of heaven, and as the sand of the sea;" is that also written, "Many shall come from the East and West, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, in the kingdom of God." "Both" then "grow together until the harvest," and both the tares or chaff have their passages in the Scriptures, and the wheat theirs. And they who do not understand them, confound them and are themselves confounded; and in their blind desire they make such an uproar, that they will not be silenced even by the clear manifestation of the truth.
23. See, they say, the Prophet says, "Depart ye, go ye out from thence, and touch no unclean thing;" how then for peace sake should we bear with the wicked, from whom we are commanded to "go out and depart that we touch not the unclean thing"? We understand that "departure" spiritually, they corporally. For I also cry out with the Prophet (for however mean a vessel I am, God maketh use of me to minister to you); I also cry out and say to you, "Depart ye, go ye out from thence, and touch not the unclean thing;" but with the touch of the heart, not of the body. For what is it to "touch the unclean thing," but to consent to sin. And what is it to "go out from thence," but to do what appertaineth to the rebuking of the wicked, as far as can be done, according to each one's grade and condition, with the maintenance of peace? Thou art displeased at a man's sin, thou hast not "touched the unclean thing." Thou hast reproved, rebuked, admonished him, hast administered, if the case required it, a suitable discipline, and such as doth not violate unity; then thou hast "gone out from thence." Now consider the actions of the Saints, lest perhaps this should seem to be an interpretation of my own. As Saints have understood these words, so surely ought they to be understood. "Go ye out from them," says the Prophet. I will first maintain this meaning of the words from their customary use, and will afterwards show that that meaning is not my own. It often happens that men are accused; and when they are accused they defend themselves, and when the accused defends himself with good reason and justice, the hearers say, "He has got out of this." Got out; whither has he gone? He abides still in the place where he was, yet has he "got out of this." How has he got out of it? By the good account he has rendered, and by his most satisfactory defence. This is what the holy Apostles did when they "shook off the dust from their feet" against those who did not receive the message of peace which was sent to them. That watchman, "got out from thence," to whom it was I said, "I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel." For it was told him "If thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his way, that wicked one shall die in his iniquity, and thou shalt deliver thy soul." This if he do, he "goes out from him," not by a bodily separation, but by the defence of his own work. For he did what it was his duty to do; though the other, whose duty it was to obey, obeyed not.This then is that, "Go ye out from thence."
24. So cried Moses and Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel. Let us see then if they acted thus, if they left the people of God, and betook themselves to other nations. How many and vehement rebukes did Jeremiah utter against the sinners, and wicked ones of his people. Yet he lived amongst them, he entered into the same temple with them, celebrated the same mysteries; he lived in that congregation of wicked men, but by his crying out "he went out from them." This is "to go out from them;" this is not "to touch the unclean thing," the not consenting to them in will, and the not sparing them in word. What shall I say of Jeremiah, of Isaiah, of Daniel, and Ezekiel, and the rest of the prophets, who did not retire from the wicked people, lest they should desert the good who were mingled with that people, among whom themselves were able to be such as they, were? When Moses himself, Brethren, was receiving the law in the mount, the people below made an idol. The people of God, the people who had been led through the waves of the Red Sea which gave way to them, and overwhelmed their enemies who followed after, after so many signs and miracles displayed in plagues upon the Egyptians even unto death, and for "their" protection unto deliverance, yet demanded an idol, obtained an idol by force, made an idol, adored an idol, sacrificed unto an idol. God showeth His servant what the people had done, and saith that He will destroy them from before His Face. Moses maketh intercession for them as he was about to return to this people; yet had he a good opportunity of retiring and "going out from them," as these persons understand it, that he might "not touch the unclean thing," might not live among them; but he did not so. And that he might not seem to have acted thus from necessity rather than from love, God offered him another people; so that He might destroy these: "I will make of thee," He said, "a great nation." But he did not accept it; he cleaveth to the sinners, he prayeth for the sinners. And how does he pray? O signal proof of love, my Brethren! How does he pray? Mark that, as it were, mother's fondness, of which I have often spoken. When God threatened the sacrilegious people, Moses' tender heart trembled, and on their behalf he opposed himself to the wrath of God. "Lord," he says, "if Thou wilt forgive their sin, forgive; but if not, blot me out of Thy book which Thou hast written." With what a father's and mother's fondness, yet with what assurance said he this, as he considered at once the justice and the mercy of God; that in that He is just, He would not destroy the righteous man; and that in that He is merciful, He would pardon the sinners.
25. It is now surely plain to your discernment, in what manner all such testimonies of the Scriptures are to be received; so that when Scripture says, that we must depart from the wicked, we are bid to understand this in no other sense, but that we depart in heart; lest by the separation from the good, we commit a greater evil than we shrink from in the union of the wicked, as these Donatists have done. But if they were truly good, and so had reproved the wicked, and not rather being themselves wicked, had defamed the good, they would for peace sake bear with any, be they who they might, seeing they have received the Maximianists as sound, whom they condemned before as lost. Undoubtedly the Prophet has said plainly," Depart ye, go ye out from thence, and touch not the unclean thing." But that I may understand what he said, I pay attention to what he did. By his own deeds he explains his words. He said, "Depart ye." To whom did he say so? To the righteous of course. From whom, did he bid them depart? From sinners and wicked men of course. I ask then, did he depart from such himself? I find that he did not. So then he understood it in another sense. For surely he would be the first to do what he enjoined. He departed from them in heart, he rebuked and reproved them. By keeping himself from consenting to them, he "did not touch the unclean thing;" but by rebuking them he "went out" free in the sight of God; and to him God neither imputeth his own sins, because he sinned not; nor the sins of others, because he approved them not; nor negligence, because he kept not silence; nor pride, because he continued in unity. So then, my Brethren, how many soever ye have among you, who are still weighed down by the love of the world, covetous, or perjured persons, adulterers, spectacle hunters, consulters of astrologers, of fanatics, of soothsayers, of augurs and diviners, drunkards, sensualists, whatever there is of bad that ye know ye have among you; show your disapprobation of it all as far as ye are able, that ye may in heart "depart;" and reprove them, that ye tray "go out from them;" and consent not to them, that "ye touch not the unclean thing."
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Helping Hands: Be the Change Permian Basin
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Posted: Wed 3:43 PM, Jan 15, 2020 |
Updated: Wed 4:40 PM, Jan 15, 2020
ODESSA, Tx (KOSA) -- Be the Change Permian Basin is a non-profit organization that is dedicated to creating a positive shift in youth culture.
Courtesy: Be the Change Permian Basin website
"Our mission is to empower students to be the change they desire to see in the world," Executive director Wesley Don Juan said.
Be the Change visits a few local schools each year to give students a day-long program that rocks their worlds. After winter break, the group stopped by to work with OCTECHS students.
"We were put into groups and I actually made a lot of friends that I keep in touch with," student Kalyssa Castillo said.
"I feel like we just came closer together, because now we know what [our classmates] have gone through. We can understand their life a little more." Stephanie Alvarado added.
"They let you share your emotions," student Angel Ortiz explained. "They let you have your emotions, I guess you could say, instead of leaving it all in."
The OCTECHS students are talking about Challenge Day - a day that takes students through different group activities that helps them build bridges of unity and respect for one another.
"Challenge Day is pretty much just a social-emotional workshop," Don Juan explained. "The point of it is to get students to feel. It's not this touchy-feely thing, but it's this thing where it shows students, 'hey, whatever you're going through, you're not alone.'"
He said Be the Change Permian Basin is always in need of community leaders and role models to work with students on program days.
"We need one adult for every four students. We serve about 100 kids every challenge day - that's a need of about 30 adults per day," Don Juan said.
If you're interested in volunteering with be the change, you can contact them at volunteers@btcpb.org or visit their website.
"I feel like it's something that is meant for everybody - even if you feel like it's not," OCTECHS student Stephanie Dominguez said. "I feel like I'm able to smile more, be able to talk to different people that I didn't before. Now, I see people the way I see myself. I'm glad things like [Be the Change] exist, because they're opportunities for us to expand out mindset and helps us grow as people."
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Song Collection: Chojuu Sentai Liveman
Welcome to my series of reviews where I talk about Tokusatsu Song Collections. I'm breaking the seal and doing my first Super Sentai review! This time around I am visiting the song collection of 1988's Chojuu Sentai Liveman. I'm especially fond of 1988 as a year for a myriad of reasons... The cars were rad, the Sony D-88 was out, and some of my favorite music was released. You know what else was great? Liveman!
How exactly did I pick Liveman? Well, my Youtube Channel recently hit it's 12-year milestone. I figured...why not hit up the 12th Super Sentai? Coincidentally that series is Liveman, which I am delighted to review. That's not to say there are many subpar Super Sentai song collections in the 1980s...but we are approaching the nebulous early-90s Super Sentai Song Collections. I love the shows, but the songs leave a lot to be desired there...
For this post I'll be listening to my Complete Song Collection disc from 1997. The first twelve tracks are vocal with the remaining seven being Karaoke versions of select songs. I'll denote those song with an asterisk(*).
01. Chojuu Sentai Liveman* / Daisuke Shima
Was there a bad Tokusatsu theme song in the 1980s? Even the Fushigi Comedy Series had some good ones. Chojuu Sentai Liveman probably goes a step further by being probably the all-time best theme song sung by a lead cast member. It helps that Daisuke Shima has some singing chops versus how they plopped a fresh-faced Tetsuo Kurata in front of a microphone just a few months prior to this to sing the Kamen Rider Black theme song.
This one has a lot of energy and the perfect pacing for a Tokusatsu theme song. The only detraction I can possibly think of is that it isn't different enough from the Maskman theme song. If you listen to theme back-to-back you might feel what I'm feeling with the beat.
02. Susume! Live March / Koji Kaya & Koorogi '73
Koji Kaya is a large part of this song collection. Considering he was a large part of Metalder's excellent song collection, I see this as a big plus. His first appearance here is a little subdued, but a song I genuinely enjoy for it's somewhat brooding instrumentals. It's easily my favorite Tokusatsu song with the word "March" in the title. It may not be above name-dropping some of Liveman's toys, but it is still a nice groove.
03. Knock! Nekkyo no Live* / Koji Kaya
An action song...and a great one! The intro carries the energy through most of the song, but the horns, rockin' guitar, and Koji Kaya definitely assist in it's greatness. It sounds a little bit unconventional for what a lot of action songs of the era sounded like, but this is what makes the Liveman song collection stand out.
04. Utsukushiki Dreamer / Daisuke Shima
The lone non-theme song by Daisuke Shima. While it's my least favorite of his trio of tunes, I love this song dearly. Hell, if you visited my Youtube channel on day one, this is the song that would have greeted you. Come to think of it, it would have greeted you on my 10th anniversary as well. Fond memories...
This is a rock tune that honestly is probably the best-sung of the three Shima songs (note the lack of reverb). He *really* gets into it...and I can appreciate it solely on that merit. The only problem is that his other two songs are the themes...and they're just dynamite. This sweet rock song is easily one of the brightest highlights on the IN/IM songs, though!
05. Dash! Liverobo* / Koji Kaya
I don't remember what I ranked this on my list of Top Seven mecha songs, but I do know it was there and will have a permanent spot on the list. The intro? Perfect. The mood? Epic. It manages to be a favorite in a sea of mecha songs. For perspective, I think the Sentai Mecha song is the one they spend the second most amount of time on outside of the themes. This is the song that sells the toys between the theme songs. It *has* to be great...and this one is!
GATTAI!
06. Seigi wa Fumetsu sa Liveman / Koji Kaya
Ehhhh...I typically skip over this one. It's kinda lame and boring. Listening to it now, yeah... I think I'll continue skipping it. The guitar work in the middle is pretty good, but other than that it's Koji Kaya singing over a synthetically weak beat.
07. Spark! Umi e* / Megumi Mori
Love it. In a disc full of heavy hitters, this one manages to shine a little bit brighter. Like Daisuke Shima, Megumi Mori had the chops for this and does just as well crushing it. Like damn. Honestly, this song is too good for a Super Sentai song collection. It truly is. How this never got a single on it's own is a missed opportunity. If they did that, we at least could have gotten another track from Megumi...
08. Live Century ~Oretachi no Shiseiki~ / Koji Kaya
A strange song that kinda feels like something we would have heard on the Flashman song collection. The structure is just...strange. It's not a bad song, though. It just exists in a weird place...
09. Hop Step Love Jump! / Makoto Kosaka
Another cast member song...but this one is a little unexpected. This is Koron's theme song. I typically hate the theme songs of robot helpers, but this one is pretty solid. The instrumentals are good and the vocals are there as well. This isn't gimmicky like previous songs like Bioman's Peebo or Flashman's Mag. Koron was given the dignity of a genuine ally like Dappu from Carranger with a decent song...and I appreciate that.
I also appreciate that Kosaka can sing. What's with seiyuu that can't sing? It's shockingly common and, especially these days, they usually end up singing a track on the song collection... Yeah, yeah, yeah... Singing and acting are two different things...
10. Ashita ni ikiru ze!* / Daisuke Shima
Who knew that a Super Sentai ending song could have such a beat? I love all three of Shima's songs, but this one is easily my favorite. This track is a perfect storm of weirdness. Part dance song, part action track. I think early in my CD collecting I sought out everything Liveman first so that I could have every version possible of this song.
The intro is just magic. I know the cool kids these days will say that this one has a "bubble sound", but I always found that to be a bit dismissive when music is described that way. Just enjoy the damn song. Heh. Though, it has taken me a lot of restraint not to call The Beatles "Boomer crap" at times...
11. Makenki Manten! Liveman* / Koji Kaya
A later song that I kinda question. This song is a little too cheesy-upbeat, but it isn't terrible. This song and the Liveboxer theme were released after the initial Hit Song disc were released. For as special and progressive as the rest of this song collection is, this is a step back almost.
12. Liveboxer no uta* / Koji Kaya
A mecha theme song that is *almost* as good as the other mecha song. Liveman? 2 for 2 on mecha theme songs. While it isn't too different from the Liverobo theme song, it is amazingly good. It didn't make the Top 7 list back in 2012 (yeah, I decided to check), but it definitely would have made a Top 10 I think.
This is probably as close to perfect as a Super Sentai song collection gets on paper, but I don't know if I can call it my favorite. Immensely great? Absolutely. A regular on the playlist? Definitely. I don't get the greatest amount of pleasure from it, though. It's just a little bit dry. What I will give it massive points for is being incredibly timely. While there is always a childish aspect to soundtracks from, well, children's show, it doesn't mean they can't be contemporary.
I kinda tapped out of being a hyper fan of Sentai song collections after listening to the dogshit Dekaranger song collection. It's truly the antithesis of great song collections like Liveman's where it can be for kids without pandering to them. The Liveman song collection is a genuine good listen. There isn't a single song that is poorly sung and the duds are scarce. This is definitely a recommended listen.
Skyrider Song Collection
Kamen Rider Super 1 Song Collection
The CD Collection
12 Years of CCLemon99
It's that time of year...
June 25th is the anniversary of the day that I started my Youtube channel. Usually I have some kind of celebratory video to mark the occasion, but I'm afraid I have nothing this year. Don't get me wrong, I have plenty of toys that haven't been reviewed yet. It's all just kinda...waiting.
Last July was something of a wake-up call. Within a week I found myself with two copyright strikes and my channel teetering on the edge of oblivion. I made the conscious effort to preserve my channel as best as I could by setting questionable content to "unlisted" status. What hasn't been struck down over the past year is still available, it's just a little bit less straight-forward than it's been in the past.
Even in it's current protected state, I do find myself losing a random video every few months. I'm currently without any strikes...which is a nice feeling, but one that can change at any moment.
The thing that this year off has allowed me to do is to really observe Youtube.
For all of those years of weekly uploads, I never really caved or buckled to trends. Looking back, I'm glad that I put the blinders up. Content can fall somewhere between dogshit and mediocre and still have unjust exposure thanks to the whims of some pretentious dev implementing new changes to the boogieman algorithm. There are some stellar channels out there like this guy that have some proper quality videos and never really took off despite having some random hits. I know cars aren't everyone's cup of tea, but the auto scene on Youtube is HUGE and it really doesn't take much for some low-end creators to get big. To see a channel featuring basically every surviving Back To The Future car and then some sitting at only a smidge over 65K is genuinely baffling...
The fight for relevancy has become pretty desperate. One MASSIVE channel in particular (that I guarantee you know) is currently living out this godawful zombie-like existence. The face of the channel clearly has zero interest in carrying on with making content to the point where a company has taken over every aspect of production. The creator has the new role of "talent" and no longer contributes his unique voice--which is what made his content special in the first place. What you will see on the channel is his mug in the thumbnail of every video despite his only contributions to said videos are him saying "Yep..." to the bunch of randos who run his business.
You should never hang up doing something you love. However, when the spark isn't there, you're not fooling anyone but yourself. This section really doesn't have to do with me or my uploads since I was genuine whenever I made a video, but I feel like it was worth stating since the people who work *really* hard to get a foothold never get anywhere while the ones coasting on their past fame are just aimlessly plodding along. Is anybody happy on Youtube anymore? Nobody is having a good time...I'm convinced. Shit on TV all you want, at least cancellation is a thing there. When you have a Youtube series about a group of four people talking about a movie that only three of them watched ("talent" couldn't be bothered...despite the silly face he's making in the thumbnail) it could theoretically go on well past the point where anybody is really watching.
So I may not have uploaded more than a handful of videos since my 11th anniversary last year, but I've tried to understand this void that I've been throwing my videos into all of these years. Yeah, it's really depressing. I did my own thing all this time, but I guess I need to get my personal affairs in order before I return with new content. Viewers can smell the discontent no matter how well you try to hide it...
That said, I really miss making videos. Some things need to be better before I get back into it. You can always catch up with me here on the site at least. Yeah, I know going from Youtube to a personal site is a backwards thing to do these days, but at least I can sit down and enjoy some kind of Tokusatsu thing for the site.
Oh, and hey...thanks for being around all this time. For watching all of the videos, for reading everything on the site...I thank you.
Thank you for these twelve years.
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First permanently porous liquid created
By Kira Welter2015-11-13T00:00:00+00:00
Clever trick enables the design of a new class of material with interesting properties
Liquids with permanent porosity were created by combining a functionalised organic cage molecule and a bulky solvent
The combination of a rigid organic cage molecule and a bulky solvent has allowed researchers to produce liquids with permanent porosity.1 This new class of porous material combines the benefits of a liquid with those of a solid adsorbent framework and may find applications in important areas such as catalysis or carbon capture.
Porous solids, such as zeolites or metal–organic frameworks (MOFs), are commonly used in various chemical processes. These materials are structurally rigid and contain permanent cavities of regular sizes and shapes. By contrast, the ‘porosity’ in conventional liquids is limited to poorly defined and transient cavities between their molecules. Despite their many uses, the solid nature of zeolites and MOFs can impose limitations in several areas, so materials that combine both fluidity and permanent porosity are of great technological interest.
An international team involving scientists based in the UK, France, Germany and Argentina has now been able to design and prepare ‘permanently porous liquids’ using rigid organic cage molecules. These cages have the advantage that they can be dissolved in another material without breaking any of their chemical bonds, thus serving as soluble porous units. The authors point out that their porous molecular liquid differs fundamentally from porous macromolecular liquids containing hollow colloidal silica spheres.2 ‘We took these cage-like molecules, which have a hollow space inside that can be accessed through small windows, and dissolved them at very high concentration in a solvent whose molecules are too large to fit through the windows,’ explains lead author Stuart James, chair of inorganic chemistry at Queen’s University Belfast, UK. ‘In that way we created a liquid which has empty pores floating around in it.’
The authors first dissolved the cage molecules in a liquid composed of crown ethers – cyclic chemical units containing several ether subgroups. To achieve high solubility in the bulky solvent, the team functionalised each cage with six crown ether groups. Through this approach, they were able to obtain a concentrated liquid phase that flows at room temperature despite the high concentration of cages.
Trapped gas
‘The work by James and colleagues is important because it shows for the first time that a liquid can be made permanently porous,’ says Michael Mastalerz, professor of organic chemistry at Heidelberg University, Ruperto Carola in Germany. He explains that the challenge in creating such a liquid was designing a molecule that is either liquid by itself or highly soluble in a solvent that cannot penetrate the molecular pores. ‘This is not trivial,’ he says. ‘Usually, long or branched alky chains are employed to increase the solubility or lower the melting point of a larger molecule, but linear alkyl chains can penetrate into the cavities of adjacent molecules, resulting in non-porous liquids. James et al used a clever trick to solve this problem: they combined a porous crown-ether-decorated molecule with a crown ether.’
The researchers characterised the new material by combining molecular dynamics simulations with positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy – a technique commonly used to study voids and defects in solids – and found that the porous liquids could dissolve unusually large amounts of gas. ‘Small gas molecules such as methane were able to get through the windows into the pores, so what we saw was that the pores massively increased the solubility of this gas,’ James says. The team demonstrated that cages with small peripheral groups could also be used to create porous liquids. This was achieved by making ‘scrambled’ cages from a mixture of commercially available reagents. In both cases, the secret was to avoid functional groups that could penetrate into the molecular cage cavities.
But according to Mastalerz, the surface area and the overall uptake of gases in the porous liquids are still much lower than those in most zeolites and MOFs. ‘At the moment this material cannot compete with those solids,’ he says, adding that permanently porous liquids should instead be seen as a prototype of a new class of substance. ‘Nevertheless, this material bears many advantages because it is a fluid and can for example be pumped through tubing and pipes. This may someday find technological applications in gas separation or transport.’
1 N Giri et al, Nature, 2015, DOI: 10.1038/nature16072
2 J Zhang et al, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed., 2014, 54, 932 (DOI: 10.1002/anie.201409420)
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Organic cage
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First liquid MOF could get material discovery flowing
Data and modelling show framework and porous structure are retained after melting
Chemists pore over zeolites and watch holes open up
Scientists observe the development of mesoporous structures in real-time
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Bart Radolinski, M.D. Designated a UroLift® Center of Excellence
May 28th, 2019 | Chesapeake Urology
Home›Press Releases›Bart Radolinski, M.D. Designated a UroLift® Center of Excellence
Chesapeake Urology Announces Dr. Bart Radolinski’s Designation
as a UroLift® Center of Excellence
Designation Recognizes Dr. Radolinski’s Commitment to Exemplary Care,
Deep UroLift Experience
(May 24, 2019) – Chesapeake Urology announced that Bart Radolinksi, M.D., has been designated as a UroLift® Center of Excellence. The designation recognizes that Dr. Radolinski has achieved a high level of training and experience with the UroLift® System and demonstrated a commitment to exemplary care for men suffering from symptoms associated with Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia or BPH. He joins Chesapeake Urology’s Sankar Kausik, M.D., in this prestigious recognition.
“The UroLift System is a breakthrough minimally invasive treatment that typically takes less than an hour and can offer multiple benefits for men with enlarged prostate – no cutting, heating, or removal of tissue, minimal downtime, no compromise of sexual function, and no need for continued medications,” said Dr. Radolinski, whose office is located in the Bethesda, MD area. “I am proud to be a national leader offering this treatment option for men.”
About BPH and The UroLift System
Nearly 40 million men in the United States are affected by BPH or an enlarged prostate. Not to be confused with prostate cancer, BPH occurs when the prostate gland that surrounds the male urethra becomes enlarged with advancing age and begins to obstruct the urinary system. Symptoms of BPH often include interrupted sleep and urinary problems and can cause loss of productivity, depression and decreased quality of life.
Medication is often the first-line therapy for enlarged prostate, but relief can be inadequate and temporary. Side effects of medication treatment can include sexual dysfunction, dizziness and headaches, prompting many patients to stop using the drugs. For these patients, the classic alternative is surgery that cuts, heats or removes prostate tissue to open the blocked urethra. While current surgical options can be very effective in relieving symptoms, they can also leave patients with permanent side effects such as urinary incontinence, erectile dysfunction, and retrograde ejaculation.
Five-year data from a randomized study shows the UroLift System offers not only rapid improvement but also durable relief for patients with BPH. After five years, patients treated with the UroLift System continue to experience symptom relief with minimal side effects, with few patients requiring an additional procedure for relief.[1]
For more information about BPH and the UroLift Treatment offered at Chesapeake Urology, men can visit https://bphrelief.chesapeakeurology.com/.
About Chesapeake Urology
Chesapeake Urology is a fully integrated urology practice providing a comprehensive array of urologic services to its patients. The Company operates 24 medical offices and 17 AAAHC-certified ambulatory surgery centers in Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Harford, Howard, Carroll, Montgomery, Prince George’s, Wicomico, Worchester counties in Maryland, Baltimore City, and Sussex County, Delaware, and has a staff of more than 800 including 87 physicians, 80 who are urologists. Chesapeake Urology has been named one of the top places to work in healthcare nationally by Modern Healthcare magazine and Becker’s ASC Review, and locally by the Baltimore Sun, Baltimore magazine and the Baltimore Business Journal.
Patricia Schnably, Vice President, Marketing & Communications
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[1] Roehrborn et al. Can J. Urology 2017
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The right to an attorney [and your attorney’s rights] in China
2017/10/16 Jeremy Daum CLT Originals 0
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China is testing new rules aimed at ensuring that all criminal defendants have access to a lawyer. This is a big deal.
The criminal representation rate now is generally said to be somewhere between 30-50%, and access to an attorney is essential to meaningful exercise of procedural rights. The rules even go so far as to make failure to appoint counsel grounds for receiving a retrial.
To understand the larger meaning of this reform, however, it needs to be considered in context, and that means discussing two trends that may seem in direct contradiction with each other.
First, is an ongoing pattern of absolutely unacceptable government action against Chinese lawyers. Well-respected law firms have been searched, and lawyers have been disbarred, detained, or even disappeared. When formally prosecuted, lawyers have sometimes been denied access to their families or the legal counsel of their choosing. Repressive rules of professional conduct have limited all lawyers’ ability to do their jobs and have restricted their civil rights.
At the same time, China’s leading legal institutions have continued to release a series of documents billed as protecting lawyers from retaliation and facilitating their ability to meaningfully serve clients.[i] Criminal procedure as a whole is being rapidly reformed to allow more meaningful trials in contentious cases. Lawyers’ ability to meet with clients, access case files, conduct independent investigations, and (less frequently) call witnesses, are all the focus of reforms which have recently gained momentum.
Critics will see the first trend as entirely obscuring any progress, saying that procedural rights are irrelevant where the State can bypass them at will and where lawyers are afraid to provide a vigorous defense. At worst, the reforms might even be viewed as nothing but disingenuous lip service to rule of law.
Supporters won’t deny the crackdowns, but will dismiss them as applying to only to a very small number of politically sensitive cases. They will counsel patience, saying that eventually even these atypical cases will be handled in accordance with law, but that progress is necessarily gradual.
While there is a certain intuitive logic to both of these positions, they both feel incomplete because they simply disregard what doesn’t fit their expectations. The more direct way of understanding how China can be bolstering the defense bar at the same time as it thins their ranks is to read the recent reforms as envisioning a fundamentally different notion of the role of defense lawyers.
The lawyers that the Party wants are not independent advocates, but ‘socialist legal workers’.[ii] Lawyers are meant to be functionaries guiding clients through the legal process along established paths, not criticizing existing policies, rules, or their implementation. [iii] Those who attempt to use the law, or their professional stature, as a platform for accelerating social change or furthering legal reforms may be viewed as overstepping their role and held accountable.
In criminal cases, lawyers are a part of the criminal justice system first and their clients’ representatives second. Their job is to facilitate the trial process by clearly presenting the facts and guiding correct application of the law. Lawyers who make cases more complicated by obfuscating the facts or introducing uncertainty are unwelcome, and this explains in part why they aren’t allowed in interrogations. Casting doubt on adverse testimony that the lawyer personally suspects is true may be considered disruptive and even unethical.
The new documents promoting defense practice aren’t meant to uproot this conception of lawyers, they are meant to codify it. They empower lawyers to play their limited role, but remind them to go no further. Even in the new pilot rules guaranteeing counsel, a document more about allocating legal resources than discussing practice rights, Article 21 contains an intimidating litany of vague and subjective limitations on defense counsel, saying they must not:
incite defendants’ family and friends to express their demands in unlawful ways;
maliciously sensationalize cases or give misleading commentary;
disclose important information and evidence that they learn of through handling the case;
Instigate the defendants to recant confessions; [making it difficult to ever challenge coerced confessions]
exhibit any other conduct that disrupts judicial proceedings and activities.
This doesn’t mean that criminal defense reforms are meaningless, but concerns the scope of their impact. To entirely write off what lawyers are able to do would be needlessly insulting to the courageous lawyers and legal reformers who are struggling to aid individual clients and to make the system fairer. Lawyers are essential to informing clients of what options they do have at trial. While a not guilty verdict is unlikely in China, lawyers are often able to help defendants get a reduced sentence by presenting evidence of mitigating circumstances. Their participation at any level can also help increase the professionalism of police and prosecutors even just by having critical eyes reviewing their work and by bearing witness to the treatment of defendants.
Providing defense counsel in a large number of cases really is a big deal. That doesn’t suggest it indicates a shift toward rule of law. ‘Rule of Law’ requires equal access to justice, equality before the law [including the government and political actors], and use of legal rights as a limit on government power. A leadership that insists on clamping down on any alternative power and influence bases is never going to fully embrace those ideals. At the same time, legitimizing the criminal process, particularly preventing wrongful convictions, has been identified as critical for maintaining public confidence and social stability, and a dedicated and professional corps of defense lawyers might well make an impact in a great number of individual criminal cases.
[i] See eg https://www.chinalawtranslate.com/lawyers-practice-rights/?lang=en
[ii] A term, strikingly similar to the pre-1979 phrasing of “State Legal Workers”, and which is used regularly in documents on the legal profession, such as draft legal practice norms. At article 5.
[iii] There are causes of action or grounds for appeal by which lawyers can challenge government action, but these are best understood as helping the government find officials who have abused their power or discretion, rather than challenging the official government stance.
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Islamic State Takes Hundreds of Young Yazidi Women Captive
Carrie Dedrick | Editor, ChristianHeadlines.com | Monday, August 11, 2014
The Islamic State (IS) continues to wreak havoc in Iraq with acts of violence and terrorism. In the latest act of religious persecution, IS militants have kidnapped hundred of young Yazidi women, likely to be kept as sex slaves or to be sold for profit.
The Yazidi are a religious minority reports Christian Today, and being heavily persecuted alongside Christians in the Muslim majority nation.
The militants targeted women under 35 in the mass kidnapping; the exact number of captured women is unknown.
Members of the Iraq Human Rights Ministry are working with families of the victims in hopes of free the women, some of whom may have already been married to militants or sold into slavery.
"We think that the terrorists by now consider them slaves and they have vicious plans for them. We think that these women are going to be used in demeaning ways by those terrorists to satisfy their animalistic urges in a way that contradicts all the human and Islamic values,” Human Rights Ministry spokesman Kamil Amin said.
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DCMT/Lone Star: Best of British
The history of DCMT/Lone Star.
Die Casting Machine Tools Ltd (DCMT) has a unique place in the history of the British toy industry as it is at this company that two legendary figures in the world of diecasting first got to know each other. That friendship, formed between Rodney Smith and John (Jack) Odell, changed the face of the British toy industry following the birth and subsequent growth of Lesney from January 1947. But more of this fascinating link later.
Unlike Lesney/Matchbox, DCMT is not a household name in the world of toys. Many of its early toys were crude by today’s standards and some remain extremely obscure. Indeed, some early DCMT toys can only be identified by collectors with significant experience as they may not be marked. DCMT is far better known, however, for the toys it manufactured from 1949 under the banner of Lone Star.
DCMT was formed in June 1939 by Bob Mills who rented two large subterranean lock up spaces beneath The Bridge filling station in Green Lanes, North London, close to the North Circular Road. These were located down a side ramp where Mills simply called the business ‘Toys and Houseware’. He was a clever man designing and building his first diecasting machine himself, which he later sold on for a healthy £100 profit. During the war Mills made zinc-alloy castings for the Ministry of Defence and, after going into partnership with Sidney Ambridge, continued to make diecasting machines as well as taking on contract diecasting jobs of all descriptions. During the 1940s DCMT developed a good working relationship with Crescent Toys whose roots date back to 1922. As Crescent modernised its production from hollowcast lead to zinc-alloy diecasting, DCMT supplied it with its diecasting machines and took on contract diecasting of toys. It was this that led DCMT to venture into the toy market as a sole manufacturer in its own right. Known early creations included a range of diecast figures, simple flat-bed trucks and various motor cars including a Jaguar that came with a lifting ramp. Toys were in great demand after the war and the profit to be made from selling these somewhat crude diecastings caught the imagination of two DCMT employees with their own diecasting ambitions.
As previously mentioned, DCMT played a significant role in the formation of Lesney Toys as, by 1946, it employed both Jack Odell and Rodney Smith. As a teenager Jack Odell had experienced several jobs including that of a cinema projectionist. At 19 he was called up to the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME) and served in North Africa and Italy. When the war ended he went in search of a job and didn’t have to look very far. His parents rented out a flat above their own house on Weatherill Road, Muswell Hill, to Sidney Ambridge who just happened to be the co-founder of DCMT. Odell’s father William, who was a London bus driver, arranged for Jack Odell to be taken on by DCMT as a ‘die caster’ (machine operator) on a wage of 3s3d per hour. Odell worked at DCMT for nine months during which he learned a lot about the diecasting industry. Rodney Smith was a few years older than Jack Odell and had been employed by DCMT prior to being called up for service. He also served in the Armed Forces during hostilities and returned to his old job after the war. In 1946 Rodney Smith left DCMT and joined forces with namesake Leslie Smith to create Lesney Products. Several months later they were joined by Jack Odell and the rest, as they say is history. Lesney bought its first diecasting machines from DCMT who, by 1947, had expanded into new larger premises just up the road from Bridge Filling Station at the River Works 152 Green Lanes, Palmers Green. These premises were subsequently enlarged as toy production grew and in an attempt to help market its products DCMT adopted the name SLIKKA PLAYTHINGS. The toys produced under this brand included a mobile crane and a cement mixer, which is very similar to the early Lesney version.
The company soon realised that it had to make the most of the post-war cowboy craze created by popular western films and TV series much loved by kids of the day. By the late 1940s toy rifles and pistols were becoming hugely popular playthings and in 1949 DCMT produced its first cowboy cap pistol calling it the ‘Lone Star’. It sold well and ‘Lone Star’ was subsequently adopted as the brand name for all its subsequent toys in place of ‘Slikka’. Toy cap-firing guns became the mainstay of Lone Star production over the next two decades with more than 220 different designs being made. These cap guns all had names linked to the Wild West such as Trail Boss, Wyatt Earp, Cisco Kid, Texas Ranger, Night-Rider, Law Man, Gunslinger, Maverick and Cowpoke. To promote its toy guns the company launched the ‘Lone Star Roadshow’ fronted by resident staff actor/cowboy Steve Larrabee and it also published the Lone Star Comic.
Along with the Lone Star guns, cap firing pistols and cowboy related toys came a large range of diecast road vehicles. These included the ‘Roadmasters’ series of cars and trucks, which included an articulated tanker and an RAC Land Rover and Mobile Office that I fondly remember having as a kid. The ‘Modern Army’ series rivalled some of the military toys being made by Dinky and the ‘Impy Toy’ range was launched to mirror Matchbox Toys along with Lone Star ‘Flyers’ which clearly competed with Matchbox ‘Superfast.’ Speed wheels were also fitted to the later ‘Kings of the Road’ and ‘Impy Major’ models made by Lone Star and the company also made model trains and a range of ‘000’ scale miniature locomotives and rolling stock.
The 1980s sadly saw the slow demise of DCMT/Lone Star. In October 1983 the company entered receivership, another victim of the crippling recession and difficult trading conditions in the British toy industry largely due to cheap foreign imports. There followed various takeovers and rescue attempts but the last remaining Lone Star factory finally closed its doors for the last time in June 1988. Of the old factories all but one have now been demolished and all that remains is the original Bridge Works in Green Lanes.
Company founder Bob Mills died in 1973 followed by Sidney Ambridge in 1980. While DCMT/Lone Star might not be as famous as the likes of Dinky and Corgi it nevertheless played an equally significant role in the rise of the great post-war British toy industry and it will never be forgotten by collectors throughout the world who are still as keen as ever to add those elusive Lone Star toys to their collection… myself included!
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Game Recap: Memphis Grizzlies 120, Portland Trail Blazers 111
The Memphis Grizzlies trailed the Portland Trail Blazers by 16 in the first quarter before clawing back, taking a late lead and holding on for victory.
Game Recap: Memphis Grizzlies 120, Portland Trail Blazers 111 The Memphis Grizzlies trailed the Portland Trail Blazers by 16 in the first quarter before clawing back, taking a late lead and holding on for victory. Check out this story on commercialappeal.com: https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/sports/2019/03/05/game-recap-memphis-grizzlies-120-portland-trail-blazers-111/2097506002/
David Cobb, Memphis Commercial Appeal Published 9:33 p.m. CT March 5, 2019 | Updated 9:41 p.m. CT March 5, 2019
Mike Conley clenched his fists, looked up and roared "let's go!"
A few moments later, fans chanted "MVP" as he stood at the free-throw line on the verge of completing a four-point play befitting of the chant.
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After trailing by 16 in the first quarter, Conley led the Grizzlies on a furious rally on Tuesday night at FedExForum against the Trail Blazers.
The end result was a 120-111 victory and a banner night for the franchise point guard who has endured the worst of a trying season.
Memphis Grizzlies guard Mike Conley shoots ahead of Portland Trail Blazers center Jusuf Nurkic (27) in the first half of an NBA basketball game, Tuesday, March 5, 2019, in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo/Brandon Dill) (Photo: Brandon Dill, AP)
Conley led all scorers with a career-high 40 points, including 19 in a fourth quarter that brought an announced crowd of 13,801 to its feet.
The Grizzlies got within a point late in the third and early in the fourth quarter but did not tie the game until a Conley floater with 5:22 remaining.
A 3-pointer from C.J. Miles with 4:01 left put Memphis ahead 101-100 for its first lead of the game.
A crucial Delon Wright block and Conley 3-pointer on successive trips helped the Grizzlies surge ahead for good, 107-102, with 2:24 left.
Conley slipped a dagger in at the 1:38 mark when he converted the four-point play, which extended the lead to 113-107
With the win, Memphis improved to 26-40, scoring a crucial victory in its hopes of conveying a top-eight protected pick to the Celtics this season as stipulated as part of a 2015 trade.
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The Trail Blazers fell to 39-25.
Big names: Conley made 12-of-18 shots from the floor and 10-of-15 free throws. Fellow point guard Wright contributed 25 points on 9-of-13 shooting.
Notable: The Grizzlies announced before the game that Kyle Anderson is scheduled to receive an anesthetic injection in an effort to alleviate soreness in his right shoulder. Anderson has missed the last 13 games due to the shoulder issue that has bothered him off and on for months. The team announcement said another update on Anderson's status will be provided in two weeks.
Quotable: "We're just working through that. We spent time in shootaround today working through it. We expect to get better at it. That's how you finish basketball games, because you have a continuity of what you're trying to get done." - Grizzlies coach J.B. Bickerstaff on how the team can finish strong in close games after faltering in the fourth quarter at Oklahoma City on Sunday.
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Up next: After playing three times in the season's first month, the Grizzlies and Jazz conclude their season series Friday at FedExForum (7 p.m.). Memphis leads the season series 2-1.
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Top 10 desktop computing articles of 2013
In the desktop area, there has been a continued decline in PCs. Lenovo and HP have battled for the top spot in a market where people are taking longer to upgrade
Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
Published: 30 Dec 2013 1:15
The past year saw a further decline in sales of PCs. Lenovo and HP have battled for the top spot in a market where people are taking longer to upgrade.
As bring your own device (BYOD) programmes become more popular, enterprises are thinking less about upgrading desktops.
Because of BYOD, people no longer stick with a Windows desktop operating system (OS): they are happy to use iOS, Android, Mac OS and Windows, depending on the device they use. Microsoft has clearly lost out here. Its once dominant OS position in the enterprise is under attack from alternative client operating systems. It has attempted to stem this decline by reinventing itself as a software, hardware and services company, to bridge enterprise software, operating systems, cloud software, Windows Phone OS and the Xbox console.
Computer Weekly found the Surface Pro to be an excellent hybrid tablet device, but at almost £900 it was extremely expensive. Microsoft slashed the price of its tablets, and wrote down $900m, but the damage had been done. Surface Pro is expensive compared to an iPad or an Android tablet, even if it runs a “proper”, enterprise-class OS.
The desktop software market has taken an interesting turn. More enterprises are taking Google’s offering seriously, and Microsoft’s Office 365 Saas product is gaining momentum. Computer Weekly was particularly impressed by the approach Telegraph Media took in offering its staff both Microsoft and Google products, with integration between the two. This points to how IT departments may support office productivity tools in the future.
In 2014 the desktop sector will be affected by the end of support for Windows XP. Many organisations are battling to get their desktop PCs and laptops on to Windows 7. Not many have jumped to Windows 8 – a missing Start button did Microsoft no favours, and the 8.1 update made only a slight improvement. Organisations will need to assess how to maintain a locked down, virtualised XP environment, or use emulation tools, to help them through the next year, as they continue to use Windows XP.
CIOs used to refresh PCs because they wanted to run the latest software. Now, software is not compelling enough to justify a PC upgrade.
Businesses and consumers will not be buying more PCs for the next two years, according to the latest predictions from analyst IDC.
The continuing economic malaise is curbing IT budgets. While some argue that the popularity of tablets, such as Apple's iPad, have resulted in the PC's demise, the decline has been a long time coming. The PC is not dead; it will remain a useful business tool, but there is less need for CIOs to equip most business users with the latest powerful desktop or laptop computer. The killer app that will make everyone go out and buy the latest PC no longer exists in business.
Read Computer Weekly's top 10 desktop computing stories of 2013 here:
1. Pearson integrates Google Enterprise and Office 365
Publisher Pearson, which owns the Financial Times, book publisher Penguin and Pearson Education, has introduced cloud-based collaboration using Google and Microsoft products.
The project and deployment demonstrates how an IT department can remain relevant to users. “It has been a long time since IT at work was better than at home. We wanted to challenge traditional IT, and make mobile, social and cloud prerequisites. We wanted to build a vibrant environment where the stuff at work would be better than home PCs,” said Graham Calder, chief technology officer, global platforms & services at Pearson.
User choice was a key requirement, which meant Calder and the Pearson IT team had to offer both Microsoft Office and Google Apps, and the products needed to be integrated. However, 80% of the users chose Google over Microsoft. Calder adds: “I do not regret doing the integration as a mechanism to engage users. Giving them choice was more important.”
2. How improved user experience yields returns on investment
User experience (UX) is most often seen as relating to e-commerce or at least public-facing websites and applications. But it should be considered within enterprise applications.
The average enterprise employee will probably use numerous applications during the working day, all built especially for their company’s needs. In many cases those employees will tell you how poor those applications are to use and how that negatively affects productivity. So why is this and why do companies with such extensive resources fail to fix it?
3. Microsoft to bring back the Start button in Windows 8?
Amid lacklustre take-up of Windows 8 and a declining PC industry, Microsoft could be set to rethink its strategy for Windows 8. But it does have its uses according to Ollie Ross, head of research at IT manager's group, the Corporate IT Forum. She said the touch user interface is more intuitive compared to a normal graphical user interface. "It is a particularly attractive quality for those looking to deploy business intelligence or where the user requires additional information in the field, such as in a shop floor-type scenario."
4. Steve Ballmer launches Microsoft 2.0
Prior to announcing his retirement and plans to step down as CEO, Steve Ballmer unveiled a new strategy for Microsoft to link consumer tech with enterprise IT.
Prior to announcing his retirement, Ballmer sent a letter to staff discussing his vision for changing Microsoft. Addressing the success of Apple in creating a homogenous hardware and cloud environment with desirable devices, Ballmer said: “No technology company has as yet delivered a definitive family of devices useful all day for work and for play, connected with every bit of a person’s information available through one cloud.”
The company has also repositioned Bing from internet search into a knowledge repository. He said: "Our machine learning infrastructure will understand people’s needs and what is available in the world and will provide information and assistance."
5. Business Reimagined
Are you happy with the way you work? Are you engaged, energised in the office? Or do you sometimes feel that your days are dominated by process and technology?
Reimagining business is about waking up to a new environment, based on collaborative and flexible working, writes Dave Coplin, Chief Envisioning Officer at Microsoft UK.
The future of work must be based on being open, on focusing on results, not process and on empowerment, not hierarchy.
6. Windows XP migration: Reassess your desktop IT strategy
The cost of PCs has remained pretty stable over the past year, but people are expected to pay a big premium for hybrid devices. Is it time to rethink desktop IT? Mark Ridley, CTO of Reed.co.uk, has rolled out Chromebox devices to the job site's 100-strong sales team. They are using a desktop Chrome OS machine to access Salesforce.com and Google Apps. Ridley said these devices are considerably cheaper than Windows PCs.
A Forrester report titled It’s Time To Reconsider Chromebooks urges IT departments to take a closer look at the Chromebook as an alternative to a PC running Windows.
Certainly, Chromebooks offer a cheap alternative to Windows. HP's Pavillion Chromebook costs around £250, but when Computer Weekly spoke to HP, the device was only available in retail. But this will change as more corporate organisations see the benefit of such devices to provide low-cost computing with a low maintenance requirement.
7. Interview: Martin Russell, head of IT services, Just Eat
Martin Russell, head of IT services at Just Eat, is test driving a £1,000 Google ChromeBook Pixel and tells Computer Weekly about his experiences of going Google. Russell did not give the staff any choice over whether to opt out of Google. "We didn’t tell people we were moving off Microsoft Office, and we tend to challenge any requirement for Microsoft Office." When people ask for Microsoft Word he explains to them how Google Docs can re-save Word files. "If you have complex spreadsheets then you can have Microsoft Excel. But for general use, we tend to challenge any requirement for Office."
8. Gmail outage: CIOs must be prepared for the unexpected
The recent outage of Google's Gmail service shows that even class-leading cloud services can and will fail. Google has been winning business over Microsoft by targeting the huge costs associated with running on-premise Microsoft Exchange servers. Analyst Forrester's Forrsights Hardware Survey for North American and Europe showed that cloud adoption between 2009 to 2012 increased from 9% to 46%.
However, given the scale of Google, a small problem can quickly escalate. The company experienced a major problem causing its dual redundant network to fail. The impact of the failure was that some users were unable to download email attachments and experienced delays of up to two hours.
9. Cern uses ITIL to rethink facilities management
Cern, the home of the Large Hadron Collider, is using IT service management to support operations outside the IT function. Cern is using ServiceNow to provide a unified process for handling facilities management helpdesk requests. The CERN Service Portal provides an interactive interface that allows employees and visiting scientists to request services from facilities management. The services covered include office and laboratory infrastructure, safety services – including medical services and the fire brigade – and computing infrastructure.
10. The challenges of using mobile devices in the public sector
The government is officially allowing public sector organisations to introduce BYOD schemes for employees to access data and applications using their own mobile devices.
The Cabinet Office wanted to ensure that to join the PSN, certain thresholds of security standards were met. So it instigated a process of auditing local authorities' security with a deadline of the end of the year. Councils were finding it difficult to become compliant by this time and Computer Weekly understood local councils were at risk of being disconnected if they missed the deadline.
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Late burst helps Shawnee Heights end four-game skid with 3-1 win over Seaman
With only three seniors on his roster, Shawnee Heights' girls soccer coach Nic Simons knew there might be some ups and downs this season.
Sure enough, Heights has experienced both. The T-Birds started the season with five straight wins. They followed with four straight losses.
"We went through a rough stretch where we took some losses we didn't think we should," Simons said.
That funk carried over early into Monday night's home game against Seaman, when the T-Birds gave up an early goal to the Vikings to fall down 1-0. Instead of staying mired in their doldrums, however, the T-Birds pulled themselves up.
A late first-half burst broke a 1-1 tie and gave Heights all it need to end its four-game skid, taking a 3-1 win over the Vikings.
"It's nice to see the girls bounce back," Simons said. "We've been working and talking about keeping that mentality of staying positive and working through our adversity and learning from every game. It's been a process, but tonight the girls put it together and it paid off."
Avary Polter scored in the game's first seven minutes to put Seaman up 1-0. It didn't take long for Heights to get the equalizer as freshman Sydnee Hadley scored on an assist from Fayth Boucher at the 33:30 mark.
The goal was the lift the T-Birds needed. Heights didn't ride the momentum right away, but kept the pressure on Viking goalkeeper Emma Meinholdt for much of the half. The T-Birds finally broke through when Tatum Hoge played a through ball to senior teammate Lauren Fleischer, who got a one-on-one with Meinholdt and deked right, burying the shot left with 5:44 left in the half.
After Fleischer was denied on another shot on goal a minute and a half later, she sent a corner kick that freshman Bella Lejurrene blasted home with 1:24 left in the half for a 3-1 lead.
"We came out really hoping to press them in the first half, put them under pressure hoping they'd make some mistakes in the back," Simons said. "We did that pretty well late in the half and were able to put it in when it counted."
Heights couldn't generate much in the way of offense in the second half, despite having the wind, but didn't let the offensive woes carry over to the defense. Seaman got three solid scoring chances in the second half — the best look a direct kick from Emma Bauguess at the 22:20 mark — but came up empty.
Bauguess' shot sailed over the top of the goal, and shots on goal in the final seven minutes by Jaidyn Yingling and Riley Cowan were snuffed by Heights keeper Bailey Hughes.
"We're both kind of in a similar boat, getting everybody healthy and really trying to find out again who we are," Seaman coach Tim Collins said. "We had a couple key mistakes that allowed them two goals. At halftime, we corrected some things and did ever so well in the second half. We've had moments where we've played teams we're evenly matched with and allow ourselves to get dug into a hole and can't get out."
SHAWNEE HEIGHTS 3, SEAMAN 1
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Seaman — Goal: Polter. Assist: Mosqueda.
Shawnee Heights — Goals: Hadley, Fleischer, Lejurrene. Assists: Boucher, Hoge, Fleischer.
Records — Seaman 4-6; Heights 6-4.
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We’ve Signed up to the #Padlock Pledge
Clark IT has signed up to a new campaign to build safer business – and a stronger Scotland.
We’ve pledged our commitment to the Scottish Business Resilience Centre drive which has the backing of Police Scotland and Scottish Fire and Rescue.
This is a national network approach that’s committed to making businesses safe from fire, crime and, in our increasingly digital working lives, cybercrime.
Small businesses are far from immune from online fraud or cyber criminality and research shows that almost two-thirds of UK companies employing between 10 and 49 people – the equivalent of 130,000 businesses UK wide – fell victim to some form of cyber-crime last year. The average cost of cyberattacks to small businesses was £65,000 in damaged assets, financial penalties and business downtime.
In Scotland, research shows that 6 out of 10 small to medium sized-businesses (SMEs) which are victims of cyber-attacks do not recover, and close within six months.
Yet three quarters of SMEs in Scotland have spent nothing on cyber fraud prevention – the highest across the UK.
Clark IT welcomes this heightened awareness of the potential risks, and see this as a positive, pro-active approach to unite businesses, safeguard their interests and help build safer, stronger communities.
To assist SMEs in Scotland reduce their vulnerability to cyberattacks, the Scottish Government introduced CyberEssentials and CyberEssentials Plus.
As a trusted partner, Clark IT has helped many businesses towards gaining this important validation which aims to help organisations implement basic levels of protection against cyberattack, demonstrating to their customers that they take cyber security seriously.
There are two tiers to the scheme:
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Cyber Essentials has become a minimum requirement for bidding for some government contracts.
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35. Elgar - Symphony No. 1 (Halle Orchestra/Sir John Barbirolli)
The question of whether Elgar was an old romantic or a formal modernist is, as yet, still unanswered. But when you've got an orchestra as good as the Halle and a conductor as steeped in the work as Barbirolli, it doesn't really matter. This is scintillating stuff.
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Designed around the preservation and restoration of Hollywood Palladium, the development of Palladium Residences is proposed to complement the iconic concert venue and to serve as its backdrop. Envisioned by world-renowned architect, Stanley Saitowitz, Palladium Residences will feature two 32-story towers with 731 residential units. Welcoming the community in, beautifully landscaped courtyards and open-air paseos will provide an enriched pedestrian experience, connecting the adjacent streets into and throughout the project. Hollywood Palladium will continue to host performances during construction, which will not conflict with scheduled events.
“Not only is developer Crescent Heights trying to get the 1940s-era venue named a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument, it's also proposing to make some enhancements to the Streamline Moderne venue, including updates to the ballroom and lobby that are in step with the building's more recently updated exterior” - Curbed
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Matthew Lamb brings up his century
Essex 31 for 1 trail Warwickshire 517 (Lamb 173, Hain 82, Patel 51*) by 486 runs
Essex have not conceded so many runs since Hampshire piled up 525 for 8 in the first innings at Southampton in the opening match of the season, when they lost by an innings and 87 runs. Having gone unbeaten since, chalking up eight victories and eyeing up a second County Championship in three years, this would not be a timely moment to become reacquainted with defeat.
Such an eventuality is some way off. Unless Jeetan Patel can coax a greater response from a slow pitch than Simon Harmer achieved in 60 overs of trying, the likeliest result is a draw. Nonetheless, with leaders Somerset building a considerable advantage against Yorkshire at Taunton, this could be a critical moment in the race for the title.
For Warwickshire's part, a draw and a handful of bonus points would do very nicely, almost certainly banishing any lingering anxiety about relegation with Nottinghamshire heading for yet another defeat.
At the heart of Warwickshire's rare prosperity was a magnificent innings from 23-year-old Matthew Lamb, who turned his maiden first-class century into a seven-hour marathon that eventually saw him out for 173, which is, after Dom Sibley's double-hundred at Canterbury in June, the highest score by a Warwickshire batsman this year.
Lamb's potential has long been waiting to blossom. Warwickshire identified his talent when he was only 11 and he made his Birmingham League debut at 13. His first-class debut for the county came in 2016 but although he made a couple of half-centuries the following year he has not been able yet to nail down a place. Although he made a good impression in T20, his first six first-class innings this year yielded just 29 runs in total and he would not be involved in this match but for four batsmen being injured.
There is a fair chance he will be picked for the next one, having batted with a solid technique and considerable maturity in the face of an Essex attack not helped much by a slow pitch but who nonetheless offer one of the bigger tests he will have faced thus far. Jamie Porter and Sam Cook had bowled well without much luck on the opening day and Simon Harmer, as he has demonstrated time after time in taking 200-plus wickets in three seasons with Essex, tests a batsman's skill in any conditions.
Lamb had some moments of fortune, although not before he had recovered from the setback of losing Sam Hain's company in the seventh over of the day and held his nerve to complete a 211-ball hundred with his 15th boundary. He was caught at slip off a Ravi Bopara no-ball on 104, survived a huge appeal for caught behind off Porter on 106 and was dropped on 110 in an incident that also saw Essex appeal for a run-out, which was upheld and then rescinded.
Alastair Cook, moving to his left at first slip, spilled the chance when Porter found the edge. Harmer, standing next to him at second slip, retrieved the ball and threw down the stumps. Lamb was well out of his ground but, after the umpires conferred, was invited to continue his innings, the apparent conclusion being that he had deserted his crease only under the misapprehension that he was out caught, in which circumstances under a recent tweak to the Laws, a batsman can be deemed to be not out.
Harmer said later that he had been happy to withdraw the appeal and Lamb confirmed that the Essex fielders had made it clear to him that, as far they were concerned, he should not be out.
How he made the most of that let-off, adding a further 10 boundaries and, having helped Hain add 150 in 49 overs for the fourth wicket, enjoying the benefit of another resilient partner in Henry Brookes, with whom he shared a 105-run partnership for the seventh wicket that was the key passage of the day in securing such a strong position for their side.
Immediately before they came together, three wickets had fallen for seven runs in the space of 22 balls. Michael Burgess had followed Hain in edging into the slip cordon, Harmer grabbing a superb catch low to his left at second slip, before the debutant Ethan Brookes - Henry's younger brother - popped a ball from Harmer into the hands of leg slip.
Brookes the elder proved to be the perfect partner, although Lamb ultimately repaid him by calling for a risky single to leg and running him out four runs short of what would have been his fourth career half-century. "I owe him an apology for that," Lamb said after Harmer had gathered and scored a direct hit with his throw. "It was my fault completely."
Patel further turned the screw with a half-century of his own before Harmer, who had only once bowled 50 overs in an innings for Essex and never 60, dismissed Olly Hannon-Dalby and George Garrett to finish with 6 for 143.
"It was a pretty frustrating day for us," Harmer said. "There is not much in the pitch. If we can bat well then you would expect the match to end in a draw but you never know what could happen when we get to day four."
The Essex reply, though, did not get the start they wanted in the 15 overs they had to negotiate before the close, Patel striking an early blow when Cook edged him to second slip.
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Injury-Free India Can Dominate 50 Overs Cricket: Krishnamachari Srikkanth
Krishnamachari Srikkanth feels that provided Indian cricket team remains injury-free, it has the potential to dominate the one-day format.
By India.com Staff
| Updated : December 15, 2019 9:25 AM IST
After winning the T20I series, India square off against West Indies in a three-match ODI series from Sunday in Chennai. However, they will be missing the services of opener Shikhar Dhawan and pacer Bhuvneshwar Kumar, as both have been ruled out due to injuries.
Srikkanth though is concerned over the constant injuries to Indian pacers and the lack of quality backup options.
“The Indian unit… is a smooth machine and one that should look at getting better with every opportunity,” Srikkanth wrote in his column for The Times of India. “Add Shikhar Dhawan and Jasprit Bumrah, and this becomes one of the best combinations. However, the speedsters meeting with constant injuries and the backup seamers not exactly firing can be a cause for slight concern against better opposition, especially away from home.”
He continued, “Bhuvneshwar Kumar’s absence could be felt. He brought in his experience in the T20I series and its is unfortunate that he would be missing the one-day leg. The return of Jasprit from the next series is heartening news and so is the reported comeback of Hardik Pandya. I would love to see India’s best combination turn out regularly. I can see this side dominating 50-over cricket if they remain injury free.”
The first ODI of the three-match series will be played in Chennai. Although it was raining for the past two days but no rain is expected on Sunday.
Despite losing the T20I series, West Indies gave a solid account of themselves but Srikkanth feels they aren’t as strong when it comes to ODIs. “The biggest challenge for West Indies has been to find a way around 50-over cricket. As for Test cricket, they have found a separate set of personnel that might carry them but the One-day format throws an array of questions at them consistently,” he wrote.
“A big part of the problem for the West Indians has been their inability to sustain momentum over a considerable period of play. They have power-hitters and bowlers blessed with speed through the air and variations. The poor results are primarily because they have not found a game plan,” he added.
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Fedra is a classic style piece, with a V neckline and long sleeves, which defines the female silhouette without giving up the maximum volume at the bottom of the skirt.
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The more lines the waist draws, in this case, the better I can make it feel. Each seam is an opportunity to define the woman’s bust; in the front, the cleft that precedes the top of the chest, the convex curve that follows, the contour of the chest under the chest to reach the waist, and in the back the subtle arch that is guessed from the base of the neck and scapula to the lumbar zone.
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Activist Archives: Youth Culture and the Political Past in Indonesia
Doreen Lee
In Activist Archives Doreen Lee tells the origins, experiences, and legacy of the radical Indonesian student movement that helped end the thirty-two-year dictatorship in May 1998. Lee situates the revolt as the most recent manifestation of student activists claiming a political and historical inheritance passed down by earlier generations of politicized youth. Combining historical and ethnographic analysis of “Generation 98,” Lee offers rich depictions of the generational structures, nationalist sentiments, and organizational and private spaces that bound these activists together. She examines the ways the movement shaped new and youthful ways of looking, seeing, and being—found in archival documents from the 1980s and 1990s; the connections between politics and place; narratives of state violence; activists’ experimental lifestyles; and the uneven development of democratic politics on and off the street. Lee illuminates how the interaction between official history, collective memory, and performance came to define youth citizenship and resistance in Indonesia’s transition to the post-Suharto present.
The Oil Palm Complex: Smallholders, Agribusiness and the State in Indonesia and Malaysia
Edited by Rob Cramb and John F. McCarthy
The oil palm industry has transformed rural livelihoods and landscapes across wide swathes of Indonesia and Malaysia, generating wealth along with economic, social, and environmental controversy. Who benefits and who loses from oil palm development? Can oil palm development provide a basis for inclusive and sustainable rural development?
Based on detailed studies of specific communities and plantations and an analysis of the regional political economy of oil palm, this book unpicks the dominant policy narratives, business strategies, models of land acquisition, and labour-processes. It presents the oil palm industry in Malaysia and Indonesia as a complex system in which land, labour and capital are closely interconnected. Understanding the oil palm complex is a prerequisite to developing better strategies to harness the oil palm boom for a more equitable and sustainable pattern of rural development.
Electoral Dynamics in Indonesia: Money Politics, Patronage and Clientelism at the Grassroots
Edited by Edward Aspinall & Mada Sukmajati
How do politicians win elected office in Indonesia? To find out, research teams fanned out across the country prior to Indonesia’s 2014 legislative election to record campaign events, interview candidates and canvassers, and observe their interactions with voters. They found that at the grassroots political parties are less important than personal campaign teams and vote brokers who reach out to voters through a wide range of networks associated with religion, ethnicity, kinship, micro enterprises, sports clubs and voluntary groups of all sorts. Above all, candidates distribute patronage—cash, goods and other material benefits—to individual voters and to communities. Electoral Dynamics in Indonesia brings to light the scale and complexity of vote buying and the many uncertainties involved in this style of politics, providing an unusually intimate portrait of politics in a patronage-based system.
Catastrophe and Regeneration in Indonesia’s Peatlands: Ecology, Economy and Society
Kosuke Mizuno (Editor), Motoko S. Fujita (Editor), and Shuichi Kawai (Editor)
The serious degradation of the vast peatlands of Indonesia since the 1990s is the proximate cause of the haze that endangers public health in Indonesian Sumatra and Borneo, and also in neighbouring Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand. Moreover peatlands that have been drained and cleared for plantations are a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. This new book explains the degradation of peat soils and outlines a potential course of action to deal with the catastrophe looming over the region. Concerted action will be required to reduce peatland fires, and a successful policy needs to enhance social welfare and economic survival, support natural conservation and provide a return on investment if there is to be a sustainable society in the peatlands. This book argues that regeneration is possible through a new policy of people’s forestry that includes reforestation and rewetting peat soils. The data come from a major long-term research effort—the humanosphere project—that coordinates work done by researchers from the physical, natural and human or social sciences.
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Reaction: Duff on Morecambe
Michael Duff after Cheltenham's 0-0 draw at Morecambe
Robins boss Michael Duff discusses his team's goalless draw at Morecambe.
Having seen his side compete well to earn a point on the road at Morecambe, Robins boss Michael Duff was pleased by his team's showing, despite lacking the cutting edge in the final third.
His side picked up their first point on the road this season, in just their second League Two away fixture overall, against a resolute Morecambe outfit where only a few months before Cheltenham had suffered a disappointing heavy defeat.
However this season's trip to the Globe Arena was a much improved one for Duff.
"I thought first half we were the much better team, similar to the first half last week," he said.
"We got into really good areas. A little bit more quality is all we needed to make the 'keeper work. In saying that, Gav [Reilly] I've been told has had an unbelievable chance that just didn't drop for him, which sort of summed us up in front of goal today.
"I thought we moved the ball well - they had to change their shape because they couldn't cope with us. It was just that last 20 yards of the pitch we couldn't quite find the cross. Again similar to last week where we did in the second half.
"So it shows that we can get into those areas. It shows the two sides to us where we can find that end product and today we didn't quite.
"But I thought we were in control for most of the game. Second half got a bit scrappy but I didn't feel threatened at any real point and towards the end I thought there was only going to be one team that was going to score and it was going to be us.
"We've had two away games - against Leyton Orient we looked comfortable for 70 minutes until the referee got involved and I thought we looked comfortable today so that's positive signs."
Watch more from Duff's press conference above on iFollow.
The Robins return quickly to action on Tuesday when Carlisle United are the visitors to the Jonny-Rocks Stadium. Kick-off against the Cumbrians is at 7.45pm.
Get your tickets for that match online here, or from the ticket office on Tuesday, and also from the turnstiles on the night.
Morecambe vs Cheltenham Town on 17 Aug 19
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Cody Nagel
Sports Journalist at Enid News & Eagle (November 2018)
Past Employers:
Stillwater News Press — August 2018 : November 2018
Hail Varsity — September 2017 : May 2018
The Voice News — May 2017 : September 2017
Omaha World-Herald — August 2016 : December 2016
Daily Nebraskan — January 2015 : May 2017
Awards: 2019 Hearst Sports Writing (1st), 2018 Hearst Sports Writing (10th); 2017 Hearst Sports Writing (T-1st); Nebraska Publications Board: First Place Sports Feature; Daily Nebraskan Story of the Semester
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Why Are Female Athletes Some of the Best Students on Campus?
Kelly Hunter - two-time National Champion, All-American setter, PrepVolleyball.com National Player of the Year in 2017 - started a typical day as an undergraduate at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln during the season at 7:30 a.m. with a workout. Then classes. Next, lunch. If there was time before practice, she'd try and take a quick nap.
How Does Scott Frost's Profile Stack Up Against Previous P5 Hires?
With the announced firing of Nebraska football coach Mike Riley on Saturday, the Huskers are officially riding the Coaching Carousel. There are a handful of rumored candidates for the open position, but none more popular than current Central Florida head coach, and Nebraska alum, Scott Frost.
Keep it Under 40
Mike Riley's teams, including stints at Nebraska and Oregon State, have won just two of the last 20 games in which they attempted more than 40 passes. Northwestern comes to Lincoln Saturday poised the challenge the Huskers to prove they can run it.
Huskers' Defensive Efficiency is Dismal Right Now
Ohio State scored a touchdown on each of its first eight drives Saturday night against Nebraska. The Buckeyes offense totaled 41 first downs, four shy of the NCAA record set by Texas Tech in 2003. With 5.9 yards per rush and 9.1 per pass attempt, it racked up 633 yards of total offense.
Huskers' Good Plays Are Bigger in 2017, But Efficiency Still Lags
It is pretty obvious Nebraska's offense has been less successful this season compared to the previous two under coach Mike Riley, something not many anticipated. Through six games in 2017, the Huskers' offense has a success rate of 40.14 percent. At this same point last season, it had a 48.53 success rate, more than eight percentage points higher.
Huskers Seeing Declining Returns in the Screen Game
Screen passes have been responsible for a decent portion of Nebraska's passing game since coach Mike Riley and offensive coordinator Danny Langsdorf arrived in Lincoln, but the numbers of attempts are steadily decreasing. In 2015, nearly 18 percent of the Huskers total pass attempts were screens plays.
The Map of Nowhere
Fourth Down
It's early spring and the middle of calving season. Six miles west of Harrisburg, Brady, 24, and his dad, Joel Cross, 57, load a tagging kit into a Chevrolet flatbed truck. Joel drives through several herds of cattle in a pasture west of his house, looking for untagged newborn calves.
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On Feb. 3, a ringing phone awakened Jordan Burroughs early in the morning. Half asleep, he answered. The coaches told Burroughs, Green and the other 11 wrestlers to continue training. There was still a possibility the team could go. "At that point we knew we could go," Burroughs said.
Parting the Sea of Red
The following story by Cody Nagel appeared in Volume 6 Issue 12 of Hail Varsity, and was recently accounced as a top-10 winner in sports writing in the 58th annual William Randolph Hearst Foundation's Journalism Awards Program.
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NOC Enid's Romio Harvey working hard to get to next level
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Super Bowl 50 through the eyes of former Husker Clete Blakeman
Lady Gaga finished singing her two-minute and 20 second National Anthem at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California, for Super Bowl 50 on Feb. 7. Inside the stadium were 71,088 fans who paid an average of $4,369 per ticket. With the 111.9 million people who watched it on TV, it was the third most-watched Super Bowl in history.
NU wrestler has gone fishin'
There's a saying in Tim Lambert's house back home that "everything is an adventure." When he isn't wrestling for Nebraska, he wants to be on the mat. When he isn't fishing, he wants to be outdoors. Tim has enjoyed fishing and wrestling equally ever since he was a kid.
Lady Jets claim first Region II title since 2014
SHAWNEE, Okla. - Two games and two losses into the season, head coach Scott Morris worried a long year was in store for him and the Lady Jets. "I genuinely, with every ounce of my being, believed that. It wasn't just a skeptic coach," he said.
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Splunk’s “Hunk” makes dealing with Hadoop big data easy
By Ryan Daws
26 June 2013, 12:12 p.m.
Applications, Developers, Enterprise, SaaS , Storage
Earlier this week we got to speak with Sanjay Mehta, VP of Product Marketing, and Clint Sharp, Senior Product Manager, Big Data; concerning the (beta) launch of a new product, “Hunk”, making exploring data stored in Hadoop easy.
In fact, one of the taglines randomly generated on the company’s website is “taking the ‘sh’ out of IT”, solutions which work for clients in the real-world is a clear priority.
Sanjay gives an interview of the company’s background: “What we are all about is making machine-generated data accessible using a valuable to different kinds of users in an organisation.”
To re-affirm their current products are a trusted solution used by many businesses already, Sanjay states: “We have a flagship product called Splunk Enterprise, which is deployed to around 5,600 customers around the world.”
So how is Splunk’s current, industry-leading platform being used today? He explains: “It’s used across a whole variety of industries; from telecoms, to financial services, to online retail, public sector, health care and so on...”
He continues: “How organisations tend to use the platform is for IT management, application management, or for security to protect against unknown threats and for website intelligence.”
The premise of the application sounded exactly like a standard analytics platform; for which I wanted to know what the differences were of Splunk’s new ‘Hunk’ offering, and why readers should choose their solution over any other.
Sanjay clarifies: “What we are announcing this week is a standalone product for enabling users or organisations of Hadoop; to easily explore, analyse, and visualise data.”
It was made very clear, the company has the experience to create a reliable, scalable solution: “We’ve had lots of experience with unstructured data, or big data, real-time masses of data. Our flagship product brings in tens of terabytes of data a day, at the multi-petabytes scale at rest.”
Customers were asking for a solution such as Splunk Enterprise which could work for Hadoop; the company last year released a way of copying data from Hadoop into Splunk but this caused its own issues and failed to be a capable solution.
“Those customers said ‘look, we have got to the point where our data is quite simply too big to move from Hadoop, can you offer your technology natively?’ That’s why we are announcing this product.”
But are organisations aware of the potential these products can have? Sanjay talks about findings from research firm Gartner. Analysts have seen big data going through what they call a ‘Trough of Disillusionment’ whereby it’s essentially “make or break”.
Splunk hopes their services will take away the “disillusionment” and prove to businesses the promise of the technology.
Of course developers will want to know how they can integrate the services offered by ‘Hunk’ into their own applications.
Sanjay explains how this works: “All of this technology is exposed through an API, then we have SDK’s in; Java, Javascript, Ruby, Python, PHP, C# and the goal is to offer these pre-packaged capabilities of analysing Hadoop data through our product to developers.”
As product manager, Clint Sharp took me on a more technical tour of the software and explained how easy it is to integrate Hunk with Hadoop: “Getting applications up and running on top of Hadoop can be complicated, so we set out with a goal of making this ridiculously easy to set-up.”
In the demo Clint took me on the basis of how to configure the product, and for a solution as powerful as Hunk, they really have made installation a breeze even for those with little experience.
Within seconds (it seemed) Clint was inputting variables and pulling in real-time results en masse.
The data was retrieved in JSON format, but Clint assures me Splunk is capable of handling “the most gritty, nasty data out there.”
One of the most impressive parts of the demonstration was how quickly and clearly data can be visualised into all manners of your choice charts, you can really explore results in great detail.
Some of the most important innovations are on the backend however, Clint explains: “Being able to go out, and get quick queries of the data and being able to that ad-hoc analytics on the data raw, Hadoop is incredibly unique in this space.”
How this differentiates from competitors he says: “All those key value pairs we’re showing you are all extracted completely at read-time, so we’re not pre-calculating anything; pre-parsing, reading into tables... which is very great for productivity.”
He explains: “We can go and look at any data set; change the way we’re looking at it, change the way we extract structure at any time.”
Of course these kinds of innovations gives Splunk a great competitive advantage, others have tried – and for the most part failed – to offer the same level of service.
“What’s unique about Splunk is we’re not forcing you into tables and rows and columns. Even with something like Hive, I have to go define a way to look at my data before I can start to look at it. With Splunk I can just log-in and start querying.”
Will you be checking out Splunk’s new “Hunk” software?
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Home Market
CNBC-TV18's top stocks to watch out for on November 7
The Indian market is expected to open higher on Thursday as in a major booster for the real estate sector, the government on Wednesday announced a special window to provide priority debt financing for the completion of stalled housing projects in the affordable and middle-income housing sector. The government will invest Rs 10,000 crore in the Rs 25,000 crore alternative investment fund (AIF). Besides, at 7:05 am, the SGX Nifty, an indicator of the opening for the Sensex and the Nifty, was trading 13 points or 0.11 percent higher at 12,020.50, hinting at a positive start for the domestic market. Here are the stocks to watch out for:
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J B Chemicals: The company, at its meeting to be held on November 12, will consider the proposal for buy-back.
CG Power: The company said that it is currently exploring options to raise capital, however, it added that no final decision has been taken or approved by the board.
Infosys: The company has received letters from the secretary, National Financial Reporting Authority and the Registrar of Companies, Karnataka, seeking certain information in connection with the whistleblower complaints. | Reuters
HUL: NCLT has given its approval for the scheme of amalgamation for the merger of HUL and GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare.
Yes bank: Moody's has placed Yes Bank's foreign currency issuer rating of Ba3 under review for downgrades.
Tata Steel: India's largest private-sector steelmaker has reported a 5.9 percent year-on-year (YoY) jump in net profit at Rs 3,302.3 crore for the second quarter ended September 2019. | Reuters
Real estate stocks: The Narendra Modi government has introduced a special window to provide priority debt financing for the completion of stalled housing projects in the affordable and middle-income housing sector. The government will invest Rs 10,000 crore in the Rs 25,000 crore alternative investment fund (AIF).
IDBI Bank: IDBI Bank has declared Vijay Mallya a wilful defaulter and issued a public notice on Wednesday with his old passport size photograph for default on payments worth Rs 1,566 crore in respect to Kingfisher Airlines.
Canara Bank : The lender has revised the marginal cost of funds-based lending rate (MCLR).
Zee Entertainment: Singapore-based GIC acquired additional 0.34 percent equity via open market on November 4.
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Bo the Dog
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Celebrities and a cat campaign for a Pulitzer for The Onion
Watch Tom Hanks, Ricky Gervais, Bo the Dog and Gustav the Cat throw their weight behind satirical news site The Onion’s bid for one of journalism’s top prizes.
By Emer McLysaght Tuesday 28 Jun 2011, 3:51 PM
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TOM HANKS AND Ricky Gervais are among the celebrities who’ve joined a campaign for the satirical website The Onion to win a Pulitizer prize.
A group called Americans for Fairness in Awarding Journalism Prizes is leading the campaign, which has drawn support from all over America, with mechanics, police officers, celebrities, an astrophysicist and even a cat uploading their videos of support to YouTube.
The Onion itself has already expressed disappointment over not being awarded a Pulitzer – the prizes were handed out recently but once again the publication was left empty handed, and The Onion writers are not happy….
Along with Hanks and Gervais, Arianna Huffington, author Neil Gaiman, Ricky Gervais, astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson and Bo the Dog are just some of those who are backing The Onion for one of journalism’s top prizes in the US.
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'We're grabbing some cheap beers... and having a party': British backpacker who left 'love poster' for mystery man she spotted on New Zealand beach enjoys their first date... but will they get together again?
Glasgow artist Sarah Milne met William Chalmers for first time on Tuesday
Milne left heart-warming message for him on New Zealand beach in Picton
She left the note after she saw a 'shirtless' man walking his 'blonde' dog
It went viral after it was shared on Facebook and posted by Mr Chalmers
Pair went on first date on Tuesday afternoon and it kicked on until evening
Hours after meeting, Mr Chalmers said the date was going 'fantastically'
By Louise Cheer and Heather Mcnab and Cindy Tran for Daily Mail Australia
It seems love might be in the air for a Scottish backpacker who managed to woo a handsome man she saw on the beach by painting him a poster that went viral.
Glasgow artist Sarah Milne was relaxing at the beach in Picton - north of Christchurch on New Zealand's South Island - when she spotted her mystery man 'shirtless, wearing black shorts with stars tattooed on his torso and running with a curly, bouncy and blonde dog'.
She decided she had to see him again, and despite not knowing anything about him apart from how he looked, decided to create a poster which she hung next to the beach in the hope he would see it.
And on Tuesday, she met the elusive gentleman, now revealed as William Chalmers, after her note went viral on social media.
Love at first sight? Sarah Milne, a backpacker from Scotland, meets William Chalmers, after her note brought them together
He works at a local burger joint and the pair met for the first time on Tuesday in front of a small audience who had gathered at beach to witness the meeting.
They were still on the date when they spoke to Daily Mail Australia later that night.
Mr Chalmers said the date was going 'fantastically’.
Meet the middle-aged couple who date several partners at a... 'The tattooist got a call from Russia asking for the...
‘We had a bottle of sauv blanc and sparkling pinot gris. We had a great night. Now we’re grabbing a box of cheap beers... and we’re going to have a party,' he said.
When asked if there will be a second date, Mr Chalmers joked to Daily Mail Australia: 'I'm not too sure. You might have to ask me tomorrow just in case I've made an ass of myself.'
He added that his and Milne's story proved the world was not such a bad place.
They finally meet: Mr Chalmers met Milne just after 2pm and asked if she wanted to go somewhere quiet and have a drink
'There's a lot of s**t in the world but there's a lot of love in the world,' he said.
At 10pm local time, the couple sounded like they were still having a good time as Mr Chalmers passed his phone over to Milne who described the whole experience as 'surreal'.
'I had no idea it would go the way it has gone,' she told Daily Mail Australia.
'[The date has] been going alright, we've had a few glasses of wine.
'It was overshadowed by every other person in Picton and... [this] very sweet thing it could have been has become this huge public thing.
'It was very embarrassing. I’m not someone who is used to the spotlight. Thankfully he took me away from [the attention at the meeting point].'
Milne also played coy when asked if the couple would be seeing each other again.
'We haven't even finished this one because of everyone’s attention but maybe,' she said.
'We need to get over this one first. We're really struggling to find our own space.'
Milne and Mr Chalmers made headlines when a hand-painted note made by the artist started doing rounds on the internet.
In her note, entitled 'Is this you?', Milne - who studied at Glasgow School of Arts before holidaying in New Zealand - invited Mr Chalmers to meet her on the same beach on Tuesday.
She said she had not been expecting the hype surrounding her handwritten note.
Love note: The handmade message Milne used to launch a public appeal to find a man after a brief encounter on Friday
With a bottle of champagne in his hand for their first meeting, Mr Chalmers walked over to where Milne was sitting and said: 'Hello, I'm William, you know you could have just asked for my number.
'Let's go somewhere and have a drink away from everyone,' he told her, as the crowd watching their date clapped and cheered.
Mr Chalmers came forward on Sunday morning to reveal himself as the mystery man.
On Monday, he told Daily Mail Australia he planned on heading down to the picturesque spot to ask his brunette admirer on a date for the evening.
The New Zealander said he first heard of the poster when his housemate came home at 3am on Saturday night and woke him up.
'He was carrying on and telling me about a poster that two German girls had told him about that described me,' Mr Chalmers said.
'He knew it was me because I'm the only guy in Picton who has star tattoos, Johnny-Bravo hair and a labradoodle.'
Mr Chalmers said he and his housemate drove down to the shore in the dark to try and find the note, and even when he saw it for himself, he had a hard time believing it was real.
Milne was greeted at the picturesque meeting spot with great fanfare after their story had generated huge publicity
The Glasgow artist was greeted as she stepped off her ferry to a sign that said 'Here's to a happy ending'.
The poster in question was tied to a pole down at the shorefront and was posted on Beachcomber Fun Cruises Facebook page on Saturday.
'I was sitting on the grass on Friday watching the sea... you were playing with your dog. You ran past me and smiled,' it said.
'Would you like to go for a drink/coffee/walk??? I'm in Wellington just now, my ferry arrives back in Picton on Tuesday 3rd.
'I'm in town for 1 night only... But let's see how things go... On the off-chance you are single, remember who I am and would like to meet for a drink/coffee/walk.
Mr Chalmers has revealed himself as the mystery man who captured the heart of the mystery woman
He said he was looking forward to Tuesday and meeting his mystery girl
'I'll be sitting on the grass, watching the sea from 1-1.30pm onwards on Tuesday... Maybe you'll run past again?!?'
On Monday, Mr Chalmers said his mother had called him because she had been told of the sign and thought it was such a coincidence that the man described in the sign had star tattoos as well.
'When I told her that it was me, she started freaking out and telling everyone in the office,' he said.
'She's all for me going down. She told me that she didn't raise me to not show up, so that's what I'm going to do.
'It's a bit overwhelming, I've never had something like this happen before. In high school if you passed a note the teacher would just take it off you.'
Mr Chalmers said while he did not know who the woman was, he remembered smiling at a particular woman that day on the beach.
'It's all a bit exciting, it's going to be a big day,' he said.
The signs were posted on Beachcomber Fun Cruises Facebook page and has sparked an online debate
'Picton is a pretty small town and from the amount of people who have told me they're going to come down and watch what happens it sounds like everyone I know will be there.'
Milne may have had some inkling of the stir the note has caused, pleading with the public to not have the sign removed from the premises.
'In the spirit of happy endings, give this sign a chance to be seen by the right eyes,' she penned.
'It may even bring a dozen or so people back on Tuesday, intrigued... who is this girl with the long brown hair and the boy with the star tattoos and the dog and will they meet for a drink?
'I will, on my return to Picton on Tuesday, remove it myself... Whatever the ending may be. Thank you!'
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September 12, 2018 News & Opinion » Politics
Tailwinds prompt Democrats to compete for more seats
FOR THE first time in six years, Democrats are challenging three of Chatham County’s four Republican-held state legislative seats.
Seeking to take advantage of what they see as Democratic tailwinds this year, Sandra Workman, Adam Bridges and Alicia Scott are fighting apathy as much as incumbency in suburban districts once thought unwinnable.
Their races will help determine the makeup of Georgia’s State House and Senate, even if solid Republican majorities in both chambers aren’t in question.
This year, Democrats are contesting more Republican-held legislative seats, 56, up from 21 two years ago.
And in Congress, Democrats fielded candidates in all but four districts, up from 27 in 2016.
And no matter where you stand politically, you have to cheer at having more than one party on your ballot. Otherwise, why pretend that your election choices are any better than in China, Cuba or Laos?
I’d love for Chatham County’s four Democratic state legislators to face Republican challengers, as well. But they won’t.
The GOP must think Carl Gillard, Craig Gordon, Mickey Stephens and Lester Jackson are doing a good job. A cynic might say, “Republicans know where to spend their money. These foolish Democrats are spitting into the wind.”
I won’t say that. And I’ll tell you why in a minute. For now, here are the insurgents who think they can flip some seats.
Sandra Workman
Georgia’s State Senate District 1 includes the greatest hits of Savannah’s suburbs, from Tybee Island to Pooler and Ft. Stewart. The last time that a Democrat fired a shot here was Carry Smith aiming at Buddy Carter in 2010.
This year’s incumbent, Ben Watson, a doctor from Isle of Hope, never has faced a Democratic challenger until now.
“I can’t sit back and let the government run itself,” says Sandra Workman, a first-time candidate inspired by the 2016 elections.
“One of my motivations for running was voting that November when I had no choices below the top of the ballot. It was all one party.”
That year, Georgia led the nation in terms of uncontested state legislative seats. An astonishing 83% of state lawmakers were reelected without opposition. Workman says, Trump’s narrow victory also lit a fire under her.
The retired information security officer from Richmond Hill got more involved in politics and decided to run.
“I want Georgia to be an example of how government can serve the citizens and not the other way around.”
Adam Bridges
Georgia’s State House District 161 is the western omelet of Savannah’s suburbs, including Garden City, Pooler and Rincon.
Republican Anne Purcell faced Tawana Garrett here in what used to be State House District 159 in 2010, the last time any Democrat raised a finger here.
Like Watson, Republican Bill Hitchens, a former law enforcement officer from Rincon, hasn’t faced any Democratic challenger until now.
“Moderate Republicans know me and the integrity that I carry and don’t care what party that I’m affiliated with,” says Adam Bridges, a former Pooler Chamber of Commerce president who runs a liquor store and an insurance agency.
“This isn’t a Republican or a Democratic district. People are frustrated with the negativity and division in the country.”
Bridges served in the Marines and talks a lot about his business background, especially his journey from almost losing everything in the recession to now being able to retire if he wanted.
“I have the know-how to get things done and I want to take that to Atlanta.”
Alicia Scott
Georgia’s House District 164 is represented by the man they call the “dean” of Chatham County lawmakers, which is just a polite way of saying “he’s been there the longest,” Ron Stephens.
A pharmacist elected 10 times in his Georgetown-Richmond Hill district, he’s faced Democrats twice, Zena McClain and Lauren Craddock. Whether you consider him an elder statesman or entrenched pol, he’s now opposed by Alicia Scott.
“People are fed up with politics from Trump on down and they’re feeling the pinch of Republican-led government,” says Scott, a marketing consultant and a former financial services executive. “We can’t just keep complaining about it. We have to do something to change it. And if enough of us run, some of us are going to win.”
Like Workman and Bridges, Scott believes Savannah’s suburbs aren’t what they were the last time Democrats lost in 60-40 and 70-30 blowouts.
House 164 has added thousands of new voters, some Democrats who helped to replace county commissioner Lori Brady, a Republican, with Jay Jones, a Democrat, a turning point for Scott.
“No one sat down and crunched the numbers and thought that this was possible. We have political lethargy.”
Can They Win?
It remains to be seen whether these Democrats will benefit from obvious tailwinds: changing suburban populations, enthusiasm for the historic gubernatorial candidacy of Stacey Abrams, and Trump’s unprecedented unpopularity.
But no one knows what’s going to happen on election night. I’m more interested in questions of civic awareness.
When hardly anyone knows their State House and Senate members, how does a challenger’s lack of name recognition differ from an incumbent’s? Answer: It doesn’t.
And so if you care about anything other than I, R and D, it’s up to you to look into these candidates, the incumbents they’re challenging and other candidates, too.
They’re surprisingly reachable. You have until November.
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In CR's tests, the top models—for every room size—come from Boneco, CVS, Essick, Hunter, and Vicks
By Kimberly Janeway
When temperatures drop and you crank up the heat, the humidity level inside your home can quickly dip.
A good humidifier can help, adding moisture to the air and preventing or relieving dry skin. If you have a cold, a cool-mist humidifier can help shrink swelling in nasal passages and make it easier for you to breathe, according to the Food and Drug Administration.
Our tests of dozens of humidifiers found that some are much better than others at pumping out the amount of moisture they’re claimed to produce. And some humidifiers are quieter, more convenient to use and clean, or use less energy.
Another factor? Matching the humidifier to the room size. Use one that’s too small and it won’t be able to maintain the humidity level you want. “A humidifier that’s too big can be a problem, too,” says John Banta, the engineer who runs CR’s tests of humidifiers. “The excess moisture can promote mold growth, enable dust mites to thrive, and trigger allergies.”
You’ll see 51 models in our humidifier ratings, organized by the room size or area they’re intended for, from personal units all the way up to consoles that humidify 1,000 square feet or more.
Most are cool mist, the more widely used type. A handful are warm mist, also known as steam vaporizers, which should not be used around children. (The humidifier tank contains hot water that can burn a child if she gets too close, or if the hot water spills.) And avoid warm mist humidifiers if you have a cold. The warm moisture can cause your nasal passages to swell, making breathing more difficult.
Here’s a look at five top-rated humidifiers—one for each size we test.
For all the test results, and more options, check our complete humidifier ratings, and our humidifier buying guide for shopping advice.
Travel/Personal Humidifier
Hunter QLS-03
CR’s take: The portable Hunter QLS-03 cool mist humidifier, meant for an area up to 25 square feet, such as a very small office, is also great for frequent travelers. It earns an Excellent rating for output, meaning it meets its claim of humidifying a room that size. A water bottle serves as the tank, and the only feature is an automatic shutoff when the bottle runs out.
Small Humidifier
CVS Health GUL540V1
CR’s take: The CVS Health GUL540V1 cool mist humidifier is a CR Best Buy, combining impressive performance and an appealing price. It’s sold exclusively at CVS and CVS.com. It’s designed for a room up to 150 square feet, and it snags an Excellent rating in our noise tests, making it a sound choice for a small bedroom. It’s basic, with just a night-light and automatic shutoff when empty, and there isn’t a humidistat, so buy one. This inexpensive gauge, also known as a hygrometer, measures a room’s relative humidity and will help you keep your room at the humidity level you want.
Medium Humidifier
Vicks V5100NS
CR’s take: Another CR Best Buy, the Vicks V5100NS cool mist model can humidify a room up to 400 square feet. It garners an Excellent rating in hard water output, something to consider if your water supply contains significant amounts of calcium and magnesium. They can clog the humidifier, decreasing moisture output. As for features, there’s automatic shut-off, but that’s it. And keep in mind that humidifiers can harbor bacteria, so it’s important to drain, rinse, and dry them daily.
Large Humidifier
Boneco 7135
CR’s take: The Boneco 7135 can humidify a large room, up to 650 square feet, earning an Excellent rating in our output tests. It has a humidistat, but it wasn’t very accurate in our tests, meaning it allowed the humidity to stay at a higher level than the set level. If you see condensation on your windows, lower the humidity setting by 5 or 10 percent. Very few humidifiers in our ratings are dual mist, meaning they can pump out cool mist or warm, but the Boneco is. It uses a heating element to create the warm moisture, using more energy, of course, than in cool mist mode.
Console Humidifier
Essick MA1201
CR’s take: The Essick MA1201 console cool mist humidifier is a CR Best Buy. It’s designed to cover up to 2,500 square feet, and earns a Very Good rating in our output tests. But like all the consoles we tested, it’s very noisy. That’s because unlike the other models highlighted here, the Essick uses a fan to blow cool air over a wet wick to produce moisture. Our tests found the humidistat to be fairly accurate. The humidifier automatically shuts off when empty, and there’s and empty-tank indicator.
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Featured - Character Interview with Jack from "Directions of the Heart" by Marie Lavender
Marie Lavender's latest book "Directions of the Heart" features several stories, so that gave us the idea to interview all the main characters. You can read my Q&A with Jenna, Reece, Victoria, Rick, Sadie, Matt and Caitlyn if you click on their names. Now let's bug Jack with some questions!
Devika: Welcome, Jack. I’m so excited to have you over. Please have a seat.
Jack: I appreciate the invitation! I’m used to being in the spotlight with the press, because of my position with the Florence Police Department, but I’ve never been asked for a one-on-one interview.
Devika: Jack, I’m curious to find out more about you. What do you do for a living?
Jack: Well, like I said, I work with the police. I’m a consultant with the FPD. Sometimes I get called to other counties for emergencies. I take on special cases, such as kidnappings and assaults, and assist the victims during rescues, and later on, as they try to make lives for themselves. PTSD isn’t just something that happens to soldiers.
Devika: Interesting. What about your family background?
Jack: Ah, I am from Portland. I came from a well-off background, you could say, but I distanced myself from my parents after the nightmare that happened when I was a kid.
Devika: I see. So how did you meet Caitlyn?
Jack: (Frowns.) Unfortunately, we met because Caitlyn was a victim. We found her in a cellar after her kidnappers got killed in a shootout. I’ve done my best to help her cope with everything.
Devika: Wow. That sure makes for an interesting story. How did you know she’s the one?
Jack: (His face lights up.) She’s amazing. The woman is brave, despite what she went through. She’s sweet and I love her laugh. She is also the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen (the audience can see a rare blush on his cheekbones). Unfortunately, I don’t know if it’s a good idea for us to get involved, but it’s clear we’re both interested.
Devika: Would you say there was a decisive moment in your life that made you who you are today?
Jack: (A muscles twitches in his jaw.) Yeah, being locked in a closet when you’re ten years old, having to beg for food and water, will change your life. I guess it made me who I am today; it gave me the courage to help others in the same situation.
Devika: Let’s talk about your dreams and goals in life.
Jack: I just want to help people. But, if you mean on a personal level, yeah, I know I’d like to work through my issues well enough so that I can have a full life. Be happy. Maybe get married and have kids at some point.
Devika: Okay. And what is your greatest fear?
Jack: (Rubs his chin.) My greatest fear is losing Caitlyn in any way. That’s why I’m so hesitant to get involved with her, and possibly mess things up.
Devika: Tell me, if you could have anything in the world, what would you wish for?
Jack: I just want Caitlyn in my life. If that’s only as friends, I’ll deal with it. It might be hell on my libido, but I’ll manage.
Devika: I’d love to talk some more, but unfortunately our time is up. Thanks so much for stopping by. I can’t wait to see what adventures you’ll have in store for us in the future. *waves*
Genre: Modern Romantic Drama Collection
Blurb for Directions of the Heart:
Embark on a remarkable journey of drama, romance, and passion...
In all of these amazing stories, there's one burning question...is love worth the risk?
Reece and Jenna are two childhood friends separated by time and distance. Can they find a way to heal their bond, or perhaps forge a new one?
Strange Heat
Spurred by her friend’s close call, Victoria decides to take a risk and prove the lifestyle she led was her downfall. But as Tory sinks deeper into the tumultuous abyss of desire with the mysterious Rick, can she climb back out before it’s too late? Or does she even want to?
Struggling to run her family’s farm on her own, Sadie takes on a hired hand, Matt. As they grow closer, so does the danger. Someone wants her legacy. Can they combat this new threat, as well as the demons of the past, before Sadie loses everything, including her life?
A Touch of Dawn
Caitlyn thought she’d be in the dark forever. But with the light came Jack, the police consultant who found her. Can they take a journey of healing together, or will Caitlyn retreat into the darkness of her mind, where she lived for so long?
(CONTENT WARNING: With an abuse awareness theme in this collection, there may be triggers here for past trauma sufferers. However, HEAs are guaranteed.)
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Bestselling multi-genre author of UPON YOUR RETURN and 21 other books. Mystery Blogger Award for 2017. A to Z Blog Challenge Survivor in 2016. March 2016 Empress of the Universe title - winner of the "Broken Heart" themed contest and the "I Love You" themed contest on Poetry Universe. SECOND CHANCE HEART and A LITTLE MAGICK placed in the TOP 10 on the 2015 P&E Readers' Poll. Nominated in the TRR Readers' Choice Awards for Winter 2015. Poetry winner of the 2015 PnPAuthors Contest. The Versatile Blogger Award for 2015. Honorable Mention in the 2014 BTS Red Carpet Book Awards. Finalist and Runner-up in the 2014 MARSocial's Author of the Year Competition. Honorable mention in the January 2014 Reader's Choice Award. Liebster Blogger Award for 2013 and 2014. Top 10 Authors on AuthorsDB.com. Winner of the Great One Liners Contest on the Directory of Published Authors.
Marie Lavender lives in the Midwest with her family and three cats. She has been writing for a little over twenty-five years. She has more works in progress than she can count on two hands. Since 2010, Marie has published 22 books in the genres of historical romance, contemporary romance, romantic suspense, paranormal romance, fantasy, science fiction, mystery/thriller, dramatic fiction, literary fiction and poetry. She has also contributed to several multi-author anthologies. Her current series are The Heiresses in Love Series, The Magick Series, The Blood at First Sight Series and The Code of Endhivar Series.
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Featured - Book Spotlight for "Secrets We Keep" by Faith Hogan
Genre: Women’s Fiction
Release Date: February 2017
Publisher: Aria Fiction – Head of Zeus
Two distant relatives, drawn together in companionship are forced to confront their pasts and learn that some people are good at keeping secrets and some secrets are never meant to be kept..
A bittersweet story of love, loss and life. Perfect for fans of Patricia Scanlan, Adele Parks and Rosamunde Pilcher.
The beautiful old Bath House in Ballytokeep has lain empty and abandoned for decades. For devoted pensioners Archie and Iris, it holds too many conflicting memories of their adolescent dalliances and tragic consequences – sometimes it’s better to leave the past where it belongs.
For highflying, top London divorce lawyer Kate Hunt, it’s a fresh start – maybe even her future. On a winter visit to see her estranged Aunt Iris she falls in love with the Bath House. Inspired, she moves to Ballytokeep leaving her past heartache 600 miles away – but can you ever escape your past or your destiny?
Extract from Secrets We Keep by Faith Hogan
‘I’ve never seen anything like it,’ Kate said. It was her first thought as they turned down the cove and saw the bathhouse snuggled into the cliff face. It was a turreted, stocky grown-ups sandcastle. ‘It could have been emptied from a child’s bucket,’ was her first reaction. It had been painted, white with a light blue trim once, then the waves and the spray had all but washed that away. It still sat proudly, if shabbily, on a huge flat rock, that upturned in a lip over the sea. It was a plate, large enough for any giant.
‘Genesis Rock – it’s a metamorphic rock, probably over a thousand million years old,’ Rita said. ‘Sorry, did I mention I taught geography and home economics, once upon a time.’
‘No, but I probably should have guessed.’
‘I don’t remember the bathhouse even being open. I could imagine that I’d have spent all my days here if I had.’ Rita looked at the washed white walls that reached high into the cliff face.
‘Well, Archie said they ran it for a few years, but he didn’t say when it shut.’ This place probably held sadness for Archie, if his brother died here. Kate couldn’t feel it. Instead, it made her feel energized, as though the sea was spraying something like an invitation deep into her lungs. It made her heart pound with an expectation she hadn’t felt in years. Even the deserted castle keep that loomed up in grey stone at the tip of the headland seemed to carry a hopeful secret in its towers.
‘It must have been lovely once. Even now, you can see.’ Rita rested her hands on the thick window ledge, her nose pressed firmly to the cold glass of the windows. ‘It looks like they just closed up one evening and never came back.’
Kate walked to the back of the bathhouse; it dug into the cliff face, as though the construction of one depended on the other. Alongside the building, a small narrow road clung to the cliff for a couple of hundred yards before it feathered off onto what counted as a main road in these parts. Far below, the waves lapped serenely against the stone. It was low tide now; Kate wondered how close the water actually came to the rock. ‘I’d love to get a look inside.’ Rita followed her round to the front of the bathhouse. They peered through a sea sprayed window for a few minutes. Inside, Kate could see there were tables and chairs, a small stove and an old-fashioned counter where once someone had taken orders for afternoon tea. ‘It’s a little café, wouldn’t it be lovely if it was open for coffee?’ Kate mused, it was so much more than just a bathhouse.
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Already an international best seller, Faith Hogan is an original voice in women’s fiction, she has been hailed as a Maeve Binchey for a new generation. Her stories are warm and rooted in a contemporary Irish landscape which has lost none of its wit or emotion thanks to its modern vibe.
Faith Hogan was born in Ireland. She gained an Honours Degree in English Literature and Psychology from Dublin City University and a Postgraduate Degree from University College, Galway. She has worked as a fashion model, an event’s organiser and in the intellectual disability and mental health sector.
She was a winner in the 2014 Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair – an international competition for emerging writers.
‘Secrets We Keep,’ is her second novel published with Aria Fiction. Her first, My Husbands Wives has been a top ten best seller and is currently available in paperback.
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Featured - Character Interview with Caitlyn from "Directions of the Heart" by Marie Lavender
Marie Lavender's latest book "Directions of the Heart" features several stories, so that gave us the idea to interview all the main characters. You can read my Q&A with Jenna, Reece, Victoria, Rick, Sadie and Matt if you click on their names. Now let's bug Caitlyn with some questions!
Devika: Welcome, Caitlyn. I’m so excited to have you over. Please have a seat.
Caitlyn: Thank you for letting me visit.
Devika: Caitlyn, I’m curious to find out more about you. What do you do for a living?
Caitlyn: Ah…I was once a reporter for the Siuslaw News in Florence, Oregon, but that was before I was kidnapped while researching a story over in Newport. Now? I’m just trying to get my life back. Hopefully, my boss Mr. Bartlett gives me another shot.
Caitlyn: I only have my mother. I guess my dad took off when I was a teenager. It’s hard to recall everything these days.
Devika: I see. So how did you meet Jack?
Caitlyn: (Smiles for the first time since she walked in.) Jack…Jack is the light that pulled me out of the darkness. He’s a consultant with the police in Florence, and he is the one who found me in that cellar.
Devika: Wow. That sure makes for an interesting story. How did you know he’s the one?
Caitlyn: (Clears her throat.) I have the worst schoolgirl crush on him. He’s definitely hot, and he is probably the most generous man I’ve ever met. Plus, he has his own dark past, so I know we’ve connected. The trouble is…I think I’m going to have to make the first move. He’s too noble.
Caitlyn: (A flash of fear crosses her face.) I guess you could say that horrible experience I endured defined me. But I’m working on coping through the flashbacks, and trying to make a new life for myself.
Caitlyn: I really want to be a reporter again. I remember how much I loved writing. I think I’m up to the task, at least if I ease back into it. Beyond that? I just want to be happy, and maybe someday, once I get over these shadows in my mind, I can try to let someone in. Maybe then I get married and everything.
Caitlyn: (Shudders.) My greatest fear is probably being in that cellar. I’m not sure I could go through something like that again.
Caitlyn: I guess it is a little farfetched, but if Jack would even consider having me as his, I think I’d be the luckiest girl in the world.
Featured - Book Club Spotlight for "Snowbound" by Olivier Lafonte
Genre: Young Adult Adventure/Fantasy
Christmas is dying.
The last Santa Claus had triplets who each inherited a portion of his father’s power, and that split is now tearing apart the soul of Christmas.
Niccolo Vecchio, the eldest, has fortified the North Pole into a citadel of ice and metal.
Santini, the middle brother, is in hiding somewhere in the Mediterranean.
The youngest brother, Niccolo Piccolo, is raising legions to reclaim his inheritance.
Two of the triplets will have to renounce their claim in the next forty-eight hours, or this Christmas will be the last one ever.
And it’s up to Adam, underachieving teenager sub-ordinaire, and his brand new jock bully Zach to make that happen…
It would be great if you can add this book to your TBR
Olivier Lafont is a French author, screenplay writer, and actor. His novel ‘Warrior’ was published by Penguin Random House, and was shortlisted for the Tibor Jones South Asia Prize. He has just released his new contemporary romance novel 'Sweet Revenge' exclusively on Kindle. 'Purgatory: The Gun of God' is a fantasy novelette published in South Africa.
Lafont has written a number of feature film scripts before. The first film he wrote opened at the Toronto Film Festival and went on to win seven awards at film festivals worldwide.
As an actor Lafont has acted in Hollywood and Indian films, in TV serials, and in over 80 television commercials. He acted in ‘3 Idiots’, one of India's all-time blockbuster hits, the critically-acclaimed ‘Guzaarish’, and the Lifetime film ‘Baby Sellers’, amongst other films.
Lafont graduated with two degrees in acting and writing from Colgate University, USA, with academic distinction.
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Character Interview with Matt from "Directions of the Heart" by Marie Lavender
Marie Lavender's latest book "Directions of the Heart" features several stories, so that gave us the idea to interview all the main characters. You can read my Q&A with Jenna, Reece, Victoria, Rick and Sadie if you click on their names. Now let's bug Matt with some questions!
Devika: Welcome, Matthew. I’m so excited to have you over. Please have a seat.
Matt: Thanks for having me here!
Devika: Matt, I’m curious to find out more about you. What do you do for a living?
Matt: Good question. For many years, I worked as a salesman at various organizations. Now? You could say I’ve turned over a new leaf. I’m working as a hand at the Williams Ranch.
Matt: Not much of one, I’m afraid to say. My parents were drug addicts who abandoned me to the system back in New York. And my foster father wasn’t worth the check he got paid for keeping me every month. But I guess I’d like to make a family of my own someday. I sure as hell won’t be like the type of parents I’ve been around.
Devika: I see. So how did you meet Sadie?
Matt: (Grins.) I met her while on an assignment. I was supposed to convince her to sell, but her reaction was quite a surprise.
Matt: For one, she’s the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen. I can’t stop thinking about her. Did I mention she can run that ranch blindfolded? Plus, she curses like a trucker and cooks like a dream. She’s amazing! I just wish she had a clue about how I felt.
Matt: Yeah, it was probably one of those times after my foster father beat the crap out of me. I decided I was getting out of there as soon as I hit eighteen, and I’d never look back. I’ve kept that promise, taken care of myself, done what was necessary to make ends meet. I’m still working at being the kind of person that someone like Sadie would deserve, though.
Matt: Now that I’m living in a town where I can see myself settling down, I’ve been thinking a lot about my future. I sure wouldn’t mind the whole wife and kids thing.
Matt: My greatest fear is not getting Sadie to see exactly how I feel, that she’s become my universe.
Matt: Plain and simple, I want Sadie Williams more than anything else I’ve ever thought about.
Featured - Character Interview with Sadie from "Directions of the Heart" by Marie Lavender
Marie Lavender's latest book "Directions of the Heart" features several stories, so that gave us the idea to interview all the main characters. You can read my Q&A with Jenna, Reece, Victoria and Rick if you click on their names. Now let's bug Sadie with some questions!
Devika: Welcome, Sadie. I’m so excited to have you over. Please have a seat.
Sadie: Thank you for inviting me!
Devika: Sadie, I’m curious to find out more about you. What do you do for a living?
Sadie: I used to be a reporter in Austin, but now I own and manage my family’s horse ranch in Hustonville, Kentucky.
Sadie: Like I said, my family always owned the ranch. Unfortunately, I lost both of my parents years ago. My mama to an unfortunate accident, and Daddy got cancer.
Devika: I see. So how did you meet Matt?
Sadie: (Struggles to hide a smile.) Matthew was a surprise. He showed up at my ranch, asking me to sell it. Of course I refused, but I couldn’t help babbling like a loon. And he had Yankee written all over him, so I thought he didn’t stand a chance in that kind of environment. Boy, was I wrong! Well, for the most part.
Sadie: He sure is handsome. What woman in her right mind would deny that? But, he’s strong, incredibly generous and protective. (Mutters a curse under her breath.) He’s a fine kisser! Still, I think I fought what I was feeling for a while. I don’t trust men as a rule.
Sadie: Sadly, it was probably the moment I realized I was truly on my own, after both my mom and dad were gone. Other moments shaped me, of course, but it was then that I found out the truth. And I realized how much all of this was worth fighting for, and why it was such a struggle for my parents.
Sadie: I will do everything in my power to keep my family’s ranch going. Beyond that? I guess it wouldn’t be too bad to get married and have a few children. I gave up that dream long ago, but there’s a certain someone who has made me rethink that decision.
Sadie: My greatest fear is never seeing Matt again. In the dark place I’m in, I am not certain I will.
Sadie: I want to make a life with Matthew Reed, at least if he’ll have me.
Featured - Character Interview with Rick from "Directions of the Heart" by Marie Lavender
Marie Lavender's latest book "Directions of the Heart" features several stories, so that gave us the idea to interview all the main characters. You can read my Q&A with Jenna, Reece and Victoria if you click on their names. Now let's bug Rick with some questions!
Devika: Welcome, Richard. I’m so excited to have you over. Please have a seat.
Rick: Thank you for having me here. Please call me Rick. All my friends do.
Devika: Rick, I’m curious to find out more about you. What do you do for a living?
Rick: I work as an architect over at the Steffian Bradley. I’m doing very well, but unfortunately, my boss decided to pair me up with someone from a rival firm for a huge merger project the two companies are doing.
Rick: I came from a down-to-earth Catholic family. We lived in East Boston. I have two siblings, my pain-in-the-ass brother Lucas and my meddling sister Sofia. (Laughs.) But seriously, we’re all very close.
Devika: I see. So how did you meet Tory?
Rick: Well…it was at Venu, where I was hanging out because Lucas works there. This beautiful woman came in, and after she brushed me off the first time, I was set to give up on her. But then some bastard tried to rough her up, so I had to step in. After that, I think she just scrambled my brain because it hasn’t worked right ever since.
Rick: I guess I didn’t, not at first. But she affected me differently than other women, and I did some things I regret deeply now.
Rick: This is a little known fact, but I got tied up in a street gang when I was a teenager. I was lucky to get out when I could, or my life would’ve been completely different. So you could say that made me the man I am today, because I knew I’d have to work that much harder to make a good life for myself.
Rick: Of course I want to take on larger projects in my career, land some greater opportunities. Beyond that, I guess I’d like to get married and have children sometime in the future. But, not immediately.
Rick: My worst fear is that I really hurt Tory, and I have no way of finding her again. Plus, I know I don’t deserve her.
Rick: It’s purely loco, but I want her. More than anything, despite the lies that tore us apart, I still want her in my life any way I can have her. She woke me up, and now I can’t stop thinking about her.
Featured - Review & Spotlight of "Ethan's Daughter" by Rachel Brimble
I previously read one of Rachel Brimble’s ‘Templeton Cove’ books: “Saved by the Firefighter” wiggled its way into my heart and stayed with me for quite some time, so I happily picked up “Ethan’s Daughter” to get lost in during a weekend. The cover is appealing, as are all in the series. And the story was just as appealing, pulling at the heart strings and making me smile in turns.
I’m a rather reclusive writer myself, so falling in love with brooding yet charismatic Ethan was easy for me. His love for his super-adorable little daughter Daisy made him believable and even more attractive. And what a contrast sassy nurse Leah was to him, yet they fit together like two (or rather, three) pieces of an intricate puzzle. Often in books, you find the heroine suffering because of her ex-boyfriend or ex-husband, but in this novel, it’s different. And let me tell you, I hated Anna with a vengeance!
I wouldn’t say the story was an easy or fast-paced read, but it was filled with emotions and authentic characters, and once again the setting came alive too. The story flows well and was entertaining as well as thought-provoking.
At the beginning of the book, Ethan sums his situation up quite succinctly: “Holy Mother of God, his messed-up life had just gotten ten times worse.” There’s a noticeable shift towards the middle of the book when he says: “You’re not making my life harder, Leah. You’re just scaring the hell out of me.” It’s all the more rewarding to see how much things have changed by the end of the story: “I want you, Leah. I want you in my life. I want you in Daisy’s life.”
Series: Templeton Cove Stories # 7 (can be read as a standalone)
Release Date: August 1st 2017
Publisher: Harlequin Superromance
There's safety in solitude…isn't there?
Single dad and best-selling thriller writer Ethan James has no problem being Templeton Cove's most famous recluse…until a surprise visit from the past plunges him into a real-life crime drama just as feisty nurse Leah Dixon barges her way into his world.
Ethan's first priority is to protect his daughter. His second priority is to keep Leah out of this dark web—and that means out of his bed. Except Leah isn't going anywhere; she's afraid little Daisy is in danger. Ethan couldn't live with himself if anything happened to Leah…but pushing her away may be even harder..
On the other side of the front door, the kitchen/dining room stretched from the front to the back of the house. Even though it was in semi-darkness, Leah could see straight through to some French doors at the back, the only illumination coming from the overhead light of the stove as it glinted on steel toward the center of the room.
Snapping her gaze to Daisy, Leah’s opinions on personal tastes flew to the wayside. The little girl’s eyes were wide as she chewed her bottom lip. Leah frowned. “Are you all right, sweetheart? Do you want me to knock?”
Daisy nodded and raised her arms toward Leah as though asking to be picked up. “Yes, please. Daddy might be mad.”
“Oh, Daddy won’t be mad.” Leah bent down and picked her up, hitching her onto her hip as Daisy’s arms wound around her shoulders. “If Daddy’s mad, I’ll show him how to calm himself down real quick. Don’t you worry about that.” Leah lifted the brass knocker and let it fall a little harder than necessary.
No answer.
Narrowing her eyes, she knocked again.
She was readying to knock a third time when the door swung open.
“I told you to get the hell out of here and not come back.” The man’s dark hair sprouted from every angle, his raging eyes bulging and his right hand swathed in a blue and white––and bloodied––dishtowel. His gaze held Leah’s for a split-second before he snapped his attention to Daisy. “My God, Daisy. What are you…” He cupped Daisy under her armpits, wincing slightly as he pulled her from Leah’s arms to hold her close. He pressed a lingering kiss to her temple, his raging eyes hidden behind his closed lids.
Leah stared, completely stunned by this flannel-shirted, blue jeaned, incredibly good-looking man…despite the bulging eyes. She coughed in a bid to find her voice. “Mr. James?” She planted her hands on her hips. “You’re Daisy’s father, I presume?”
He opened his eyes and Leah stepped back.
Apparently when his eyes had softened and were filled with regret rather than rage, they looked good. Really good.
She stilled. Oh, good Lord. Be damned if those weren’t the eyes of Templeton’s reclusive novelist, Ethan James.
Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01NAMY53H/ref=series_rw_dp_sw
Amazon UK:
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http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/ethans-daughter-rachel-brimble/1125531674?ean=9781488017186
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Rachel lives with her husband and two teenage daughters in a small town near Bath in the UK. After having several novels published by small US presses, she secured agent representation in 2011. Since 2013, she has had seven books published by Harlequin Superromance (Templeton Cove Stories) and an eight coming in Feb 2018. She also has four Victorian romances with eKensington/Lyrical Press.
Rachel is a member of the Romantic Novelists Association and Romance Writers of America, and was selected to mentor the Superromance finalist of So You Think You Can Write 2014 contest. When she isn’t writing, you’ll find Rachel with her head in a book or walking the beautiful English countryside with her family. Her dream place to live is Bourton-on-the-Water in South West England.
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Featured - Release Day Blitz for "Avishi" by Saiswaroopa Iyer
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Avishi by Saiswaroopa Iyer
Long before the times of Draupadi and Sita
Immortalised in the hymns of the Rig Veda
But largely forgotten to the memory of India
Is the Warrior Queen with an iron leg, Vishpala
Brought up in the pristine forest school of Naimisha, Avishi reaches the republic of Ashtagani in search of her destiny. When Khela, the oppressive King of the neighbouring Vrishabhavati begins to overwhelm and invade Ashtagani, Avishi rises to protect her settlement. But peril pursues her everywhere.
Separated from her love, her settlement broken, with a brutal injury needing amputation of her leg, can Avishi overcome Khela?
“I am the Queen! This will be my throne!” The seven-year-old chirped leaping from the middle of the porch towards the broken mortar which served as a mock throne. “You will be my guard!”
“Guard?” the man pondered scratching his unkempt beard.
“No.” He shook his head and smiled seeing her indignant eyes. “I will be the Queen’s elephant.” He beamed.
Sukratu stepped out of the house to see his daughter in action, perching herself on the tramp Loha’s back, pretending in all earnestness that he was her elephant. He smiled and was about to set out for his duty as the night guard of the King. A sudden lightning appeared in the eastern skies. Sukratu had barely walked a few paces when a deafening thunder made him instinctively turn towards home. He heaved a sigh, finding Loha shielding the girl as if he would, his own child.
“Father, don’t go.” The girl pleaded.
Sukratu smiled and shifted his gaze towards the sky. He saw dark clouds loom over the city. The monsoon winds had started to make their presence felt. He had to reach the palace soon. “Isn’t my little Queen brave?” He called out.
The girl nodded. He saw the fear fade. From her eyes. From her heart. She knew she was the queen! Pride filled his heart. His mind ached to stay home but duty beckoned. Tearing his gaze away from the one he treasured the most in his life, braving the drizzle that would soon turn into a storm, he unwillingly walked towards the King’s residence. Sukratu’s house was in the third ring of the concentric structure of Vrishabhavati. In the centre, was the structure, that served as the residence of the king and as the centre of all trade activity of the city. Here no wealth or goods could change hands without the king’s knowledge and approval. The residences of the noblemen formed the two rings around it. The guards and soldiers forming the outermost circle with the citizens living around them.
As per the protocol, Sukratu approached General Ugra’s residence quite ahead of his reporting time— an hour before the moonrise. He walked into the empty courtyard. But the rain made it impossible for him to stand there any longer. He knocked at the giant wooden door fervently. The doors creaked as a strange woman clad in a dark indigo garment opened them and glared at him with a frown on her forehead.
General Ugra, Sukratu knew was never faithful to one woman. His superior’s romantic exploits were not his concern either. But something about the woman at the door disconcerted him. “Please let General Ugra know that…”
“He has already left for the palace!” The woman frowned before attempting to shut the door.
“What? How ca…” Sukratu’s words hung in air as the door slammed on his face and the woman disappeared from his line of vision all of a sudden. Something did not feel right. He knocked at the door again. Firmly this time, as though seeking answers. Any change in the reporting time would have been announced the day before and he remembered that nothing of the sort had happened. His knocks went unanswered. Frowning and muttering under his breath, Sukratu hurried towards an empty cowshed three houses away from Ugra’s place hoping to catch his companions who he knew would be equally surprised.
The first to arrive was Khela, the eighteen-year-old guard, holding a metal shield above his head. The newest addition to the King’s guard, Khela was related to General Ugra and Sukratu felt that his position in the King’s guard was largely a result of undue favours that Ugra showered upon an otherwise impudent boy.
“Sukratu! By the great Varuna, I should have come to you earlier!” Khela hurried towards him. Pausing for breath, he added. “Our platoon has been given a relief tonight! It was a sudden decision and I personally informed all the others.”
“Relief for tonight? That happens only when…”
“Our guarding hours change from night to day!” Khela completed in a hurry. “Now, come with me.” He turned towards the western direction and the javelin he held started to sway dangerously and came close to grazing Sukratu’s arm.
The older guard’s instincts made him dodge the cut. “Where?” Sukratu hissed, visibly annoyed, first with the fact that he was kept in dark about the change in guarding hours and then about Khela’s irreverent behaviour. “And watch who your weapon hurts, boy.”
Khela shrugged and changed the position of his weapon. “We are now going to the place.” He winked, stretching his hand in the direction. “Follow me, this is the only night we get to have some fun.”
Sukratu did not move. The place he knew implied the tavern where wine was served. “We cannot drink tonight, Khela. When do we have to report tomorrow? By sunrise?”
“You ask too many questions. The rest of us are there too!”
“That does not answer my question.”
“Well, I don’t know, and I don’t care to. The palace is paying for the wine. Are you coming or not?”
The last sentence sounded more like a threat than an invite. Sukratu had all the mind to give the youth a piece of his mind and storm back home. His daughter would be overjoyed to see him before she went to sleep. It gnawed at Sukratu’s heart every day to leave her under the care of Loha— the tramp who had begged him for shelter about six months ago and then became a part of his life. The girl liked him instantly and had begged Sukratu to let Loha live with them and he, despite his misgivings about the tramp’s origins and his unkempt appearance, could not refuse his only daughter. Over time, Sukratu felt grateful for Loha’s company. Now his daughter did not have to be all by herself every night. The guard’s home would have been unguarded if not for that stranger. Sukratu brushed aside these thoughts and had almost decided to go home when the thought of meeting other senior guards and clarifying the confusion struck him. He followed Khela’s lead, making no attempt to hide his displeasure.
When they reached the tavern, Sukratu to his dismay, found many of his brothers in arms deeply drunk. “When did they reach here and when did they…”
“Quite some time before. I just forgot to tell you in advance!”
Sukratu’s eyes scrutinized the men and women of the tavern who were serving wine to the guards. There were no other citizens or travellers in the tavern.
“Just for us, the whole night!” Khela said as if reading his thoughts, bringing him an earthen goblet.
The older guard accepted the goblet taking his first sip with a sense of foreboding.
“Where were you all the time, old friend?” The voice belonged to Tunga one of the senior guards in the platoon.
The grin on his friend’s face brought a smile to Sukratu’s lips. “Tunga, what is this about the sudden change in our guarding hours?”
“The King… that imbecile, has finally remembered that we are human too!” Tunga guffawed, emptying his goblet, waving vigorously at a woman of the tavern who obliged with a seductive wink.
She approached them, skilfully distributing her attention between both the men, winking at Tunga and pouting her lips at Sukratu. Her brows rose at Sukratu’s filled cup. “Don’t keep the Sura nor this Sundari waiting, my love...” Serving Tunga his wine, she placed her fingers upon Sukratu’s shoulders, digging her nails into his skin for a moment locking her gaze with his and turned around swiftly, letting her light upper garment rest on his face for a fleeting moment.
It was a wilful invitation and Sukratu knew it. His attention though was caught by the colour of the garment. The Indigo hued garment! All the women of the tavern wore clothes of the same colour. So did the woman he saw in General Ugra’s house! Was Ugra at home while the woman lied that he was at the palace? If the General and the whole platoon of the night guard were lying down drunk, who was minding the security of the King? Sukratu looked at the rest of the guards. No one seemed sober enough to talk. The only sober man Khela had disappeared!
“By the great Varuna!” Sukratu exclaimed aloud and rushed out, pushing the woman who tried to stop him away.
He raced to the King’s residence, as fast as his legs could carry him. The huge wooden gates of the structure were closed and secured from inside. The rain lashed drowning his cries. Misgivings regarding the King’s welfare made him shudder. He had to meet General Ugra. Something told him that the General had his own reasons to send the whole platoon of guards to enjoy a drunk night. He was a guard who had sworn to protect the King with his life. The general owed him an answer. Sukratu rushed to General Ugra’s house determined to confront him.
That, Sukratu realized was the biggest mistake of his life.
At the gates of the general’s residence he saw a familiar figure hurrying out of his house, a heavy bundle on his shoulders. “General Ugra!” he called out, feeling relieved.
The figure started, and the bundle fell to the ground. Sukratu came to a sudden halt as he realized it wasn’t a bundle after all, but a blood-drenched corpse. A stroke of lightning from the sky revealed the face and the very familiar greying curls. Sukratu froze for a long moment before he could speak.
“K... King...”
Something hit him on the head even before he could utter the name. Sukratu staggered, reeling at the impact, clutching at his long sword in a vain attempt to defend the next move.
“Finish him!” The General shout behind him.
Before he turned around, Sukratu felt the cold metal tear into his back. Lightning struck revealing the contours of the person. Khela! The javelin stabbed him again. Thunder drowned his screams. Falling to the ground with the weapon still stuck to his back, Sukratu lifted his sword and managed to slash Khela’s palm though the latter, unlike him was vigilant and alert. Crawling away from the menacing duo, knowing very well that he could not last more than a few moments, Sukratu’s thoughts, went to his innocent daughter. She would now languish as an orphan remaining in dark about the monsters who killed her father. Or would they kill her too?
Sukratu would never know.
Saiswaroopa is an IITian and a former investment analyst turned author. Her keen interest in ancient Indian history, literature and culture made her take to writing. Her debut novel Abhaya, set in the times of Mahabharata was published in 2015. Avishi, her second novel set in Vedic India explores the legend of India’s first mentioned female warrior queen Vishpala.
She holds a certificate in Puranas from Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies. She is also trained in Carnatic Classical music and has won a state level gold medal from Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams.
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Featured - Book Spotlight for "The House with Old Furniture" by Helen Lewis
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Publisher: Honno Press
The ghosts of a century’s worth of secrets and betrayals are coming home to Pengarrow…
Evie has lost her eldest son, Jesse, to gang violence. Leaving the house he grew up in is pulling apart the few strings left holding her heart together. Only the desire to be there for her younger boy, Finn, impels Evie to West Wales and the ancient house her husband is sure will heal their wounds.
Days later, Andrew is gone – rushing back to his ‘important’ job in government, abandoning his grieving wife and son. Finn finds solace in the horse his father buys by way of apology. As does his evasive and fearful new friend, Nye, the one who reminds him and Evie of Jesse… Evie loses herself in a dusty 19th century journal and glasses of homemade wine left by the mysterious housekeeper.
As Evie’s grasp on reality slides, Andrew’s parents ride to the rescue. It is clear that this is a house they know. They seem to think they own it, and begin making changes nobody wants, least of all Alys and her son, Nye, the terrified youth who looks so like Jesse.
http://www.honno.co.uk/dangos.php?ISBN=9781909983663
https://www.amazon.co.uk/House-Old-Furniture-Helen-Lewis/dp/1909983667/
https://www.amazon.com/House-Old-Furniture-Helen-Lewis/dp/1909983667
Helen was born in 1967 in the New Forest. She spent her childhood dreaming of becoming a ballerina and doodling in the margin. She graduated from Southampton Faculty of Art and Design (so long ago now, that the place doesn’t even exist!) and worked as a professional Doodler of Margins (Graphic Designer) for twenty years. In 2006 She moved to Pembrokeshire with her family and lives in the middle of nowhere where she reads, writes, and runs.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/helenlewisauthor
Twitter: @hedlew
Blog: http://www.helen-lewis.co.uk/blog
Website: www.helen-lewis.co.uk
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Algeria – Reply by M. Jean-Yves Le Drian, Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, to a question in the National Assembly (17 December 2019)
We’ve followed the Algerian election very closely, and how it has progressed, while fully respecting Algeria’s sovereignty. The Algerian Constitutional Council yesterday announced the election results, and President-elect Mr Tebboune is due to be invested on Thursday. He will obviously be France’s interlocutor, and we wish him success.
But the Algerian people has expressed its aspirations for several months with a great sense of responsibility, citizenship and dignity. Our sole wish for Algeria and the Algerians is for these aspirations to be answered through dialogue between the authorities and the population.
The President-elect also made a number of announcements in his election speech, on the evening of the results. At this crucial time in Algeria’s history it is up to the Algerians, and them alone, to define how this democratic dialogue will be realized.
France is deeply committed to its relationship with Algeria. And we’ll continue to stand alongside Algeria and the Algerians, showing due regard for the respect and friendship which prevail over our relations.
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Sublime - 40 Oz to Freedom
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Blending a love of dancehall and rock-steady reggae rhythms with an aggressive punk ethos, Sublime amassed a nearly fanatical following across America, especially in the surf/skate communities. Their indie debut album is now considered a cult classic, spending nearly 70 weeks on Soundscan Alternative New Artist Albums Chart (more than half of that time in the Top 20). It hung out for 5 weeks on Billboard's Heatseeker chart and the edgy single, "Date Rape," was the #1 requested song for over 20 weeks in '95 on L.A.'s KROQ.
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Nuclear Triad
Trump’s nuke strategy will fuel an arms race, say House Democrats
By: Joe Gould January 24, 2018
Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., speaks with reporters during a news conference on Capitol Hill on Sept. 16, 2014. (Cliff Owen/AP)
WASHINGTON — Two key House Armed Services Committee Democrats are saying President Donald Trump’s newly drafted nuclear weapons strategy will feed an international arms race and increase the risk of a catastrophic nuclear war.
HASC ranking member Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., said Wednesday the strategy would add to the “completely unreasonable” $1.2 trillion price tag for modernizing the nation’s nuclear arsenal.
“A nuclear posture that implements the President’s view that his nuclear button is ‘bigger and more powerful’ is short-sighted and ill-advised,” Smith said in a statement. “How President Trump plans to pay for these programs remains a mystery.”
Smith’s remark is a play on Trump’s recent Twitter boast in the war of words between the president and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un just stated that the “Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times.” Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!
The Pentagon’s Nuclear Posture Review is expected to be released next week. But a leaked draft called for investments in low-yield, tactical nuclear weapons, and lawmakers received a classified briefing Tuesday.
Smith said the strategy would draw scarce resources from conventional war-fighting needs.
“The administration’s recommendations will not increase our security — they will instead feed a nuclear arms race, undermine strategic stability by lowering the threshold for nuclear use, and increase the risk of miscalculation that could precipitate a nuclear war,” Smith said.
California Democratic Rep. John Garamendi, a consistent voice for nuclear restraint on the HASC, saw the nuclear strategy, coupled with the recent National Defense Strategy, as goading Russia and China into a new level of nuclear arms race.
Reconciling costly nuclear modernization efforts with a Republican-led tax cut estimated to cost $1.5 trillion in revenue, Garamendi said, would create “serious competition for money within the Department of Defense — and between the department, the State Department and [the Department of] Homeland Security.”
“Tax cuts were more important,” Garamendi told Defense News on Wednesday.
The better alternative, said Garamendi, would be to strengthen America’s alliances, its economy, international trade and diplomacy with Russia and China. He also questioned the National Defense Strategy’s de-emphasis of counterterrorism.
“To take our eyes off of terrorism is a mistake,” Garamendi said.
As Trump seeks new nuke options, weapons agency head warns of capacity overload
In an exclusive exit interview, Frank Klotz, who retired on Jan. 19 as the head of the National Nuclear Security Administration, warns that his agency is stretched to the limit.
By: Aaron Mehta
Nuclear gravity bomb and warhead upgrades face new delays
Milley throws support behind nuclear modernization, Space Force
The US must deploy a sub-launched low-yield nuke
Low-yield nukes lose partisan fight in House committee’s NDAA markup
Distributed deterrence: The continuing utility of ICBMs
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Happy, Healthy Cows Thanks to High-Tech Milkers
WILTON, Iowa - When cows can milk when they want to instead of when farmers get around to it, they're happier and healthier. Voluntary robotic milking systems are popping up at farms in Iowa, especially in smaller operations like Blue Knoll Farms in Wilton where Laura Jones is dairy manager. She said the cows can walk right in and be milked by a robot when they feel the need.
"It kind of just looks like an elbow," she said. "It bends at the center, just like our elbows. It's a little camera laser screen that finds each one and that's how it gets the milking accomplished."
She said smaller dairy farms, like Blue Knoll, which has about 50 cows, are ideal for voluntary robotic systems, but larger operations have been installing them, too.
Jones said the systems are also convenient for farmers because they require far less labor, and their cows are happier.
"It reduces their stress," she added. "Even this summer, I've noticed their heat stress isn't as bad as it has been in the previous years. They just don't seem as hot."
She said after about three months, most cows learn to manage the robotic milkers on their own.
The high-tech system also helps detect diseases like mastitis, an inflammation of the udder, the most common disease in dairy cattle. Jones said the robotic milkers do it by recording the cows' vital signs.
"I can tell if they get sick because they'll drop lower than average and it records every milking, how much grain they eat, anything you can really even imagine how much it's recording," she said.
Jones will be demonstrating Blue Knoll Farms' voluntary robotic milking system as part of Practical Farmers of Iowa "Field Day" events happening throughout the summer.
This article first appeared in Public News Service on June 27, 2016
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Blog Aug 13, 2019
Everything You Need to Know About the New Delphix DataOps Community Platform
By: Michael Torok
Delphix has always been about building community, and we’re proud to introduce the world’s first destination focused on the emerging practice of DataOps.
Today, we’re thrilled to announce the launch of our brand new DataOps community, a destination uniquely designed to empower data professionals to share knowledge about DataOps and other industry-related trends, including hybrid/multi-cloud technology and DevOps, and to drive innovation in today’s hyperdynamic digital landscape.
DataOps made its debut as an “Innovation Trigger” in three separate Gartner Hype Cycle reports for 2018. As a steward of the DataOps movement, we’ve embarked on a mission to move beyond a support forum and towards a 21st century engagement platform, where this community can rely on Delphix to provide links to their DataOps toolchain, solution architecture, and practice.
Leveraging Higher Logic’s community management platform, this revamp comes with a streamlined and visually appealing user experience, where our members can find easy access to a robust library of resources, including events and technical and thought leadership content.
We encourage all levels of community, including practitioners, technologists, executive leaders, as well as all Delphixers (engineering, product, support, product marketing, and more) to bring together new ideas and share diverse perspectives.
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The new site allows for a user-friendly experience through streamlined menus, clear navigation, and responsive layouts for all platforms. We’ve created a more holistic approach to sharing information, where topics aren’t segmented, i.e., masking forum vs virtualization forum, but rather they’re treated as being part of the larger conversation.
Next-Level Communication
Not only will we give users the ability to pose and answer questions, but they’ll have the opportunity to stay up-to-date on the latest news and events, including webinars, virtual and in-person user groups, meetups, and more. In addition, every member will be able to showcase their knowledge within their area of expertise by contributing blog posts, which will become an ideation engine for more feedback and discussion.
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Director of Community Management
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Kwanzaa honors African-American culture with 7 days of events
Africans and African-Americans of different faiths and backgrounds observe Kwanzaa with Rochester events this month.
Kwanzaa honors African-American culture with 7 days of events Africans and African-Americans of different faiths and backgrounds observe Kwanzaa with Rochester events this month. Check out this story on DemocratandChronicle.com: https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2019/12/20/kwanzaa-events-in-rochester-ny-african-american-culture-honored/2703131001/
From Staff Report, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle USA TODAY Network Published 3:39 a.m. ET Dec. 20, 2019 | Updated 1:35 p.m. ET Dec. 21, 2019
The Rochester Kwanzaa Coalition shared its list of Kwanzaa events for 2019. (Photo: AvailableLight, Getty Images/iStockphoto)
Clarification: This story was updated to reflect that the Rochester Kwanzaa Coalition is a collective.
The Rochester Kwanzaa Coalition shared a list of daily events for Kwanzaa, which runs Dec. 26 through Jan. 1.
“Kwanzaa means first fruits of the harvest (and) it is a time to celebrate African-American people, our ancestors and our culture,” said Craig Carson, a member of the coalition, which is a collective. “We seek to honor our past, evaluate our present and commit ourselves to a more productive future.”
Africans and African-Americans of different faiths and backgrounds observe Kwanzaa, which is not a religious celebration, but a cultural one.
Terry Chaka lights a unity candle during a past Kwanzaa celebration at the Baobab Cultural Center. (Photo: LAUREN PETRACCA/@LaurenPetracca/ / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)
Each of Kwanzaa's seven days is dedicated to a principle to be celebrated all year. The principles called the Nguzo Saba in Swahili are: Umoja (unity), Kujichagulia (self-determination), Ujima (collective work), Ujamaa (cooperative economics), Nia (purpose), Kuumba (creativity), and Imani (faith).
Here are Kwanzaa events to enjoy:
Thursday, Dec. 26
Umoja (Unity)
Nathaniel Rochester Community School #3, 85 Adams St., 5 to 8 p.m.
Youth performances, spoken word, food and vendors.
Friday, Dec. 27
Kujichagulia (Self Determination)
RCTV, 21 Gorham Street, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Studio production lessons, media literacy discussion, editing lessons for youth.
Danielle Ponder & the Tomorrow People will perform For the Love of Justice at 8:30 p.m. Friday at The Little Theatre. (Photo: Provided)
Avenue Blackbox Theatre, 780 Joseph Ave., 5 to 9 p.m.
Panel discussion: “Determined, Me and Free” led by Reenah Oshun Golden; featuring Tonya Noel and Kris Walker (Flower City Collective), Ty Burrs and SheRise (Created 2 Inspire), Imani Olear (Yoga 4 a Good Hood), and Danielle Ponder.
Saturday, Dec. 28
Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility)
Phillis Wheatly Library, 33 Samuel McCree Way, 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Yoga demonstrations and healthy eating discussion led by BHEALTHY Food Market.
WOC Collective Space, 215 Tremont Ave., 3rd floor, 7 to 11 p.m. – Evening affair, wear your African attire and celebrate with food, music and dancing. Open to the whole family. Individual tickets are $7, Family tickets are $21. Tickets available here.
Sunday, Dec. 29
Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics)
WOC Collective Space, 215 Tremont Avenue, 3rd floor, 1 to 4 p.m., black business marketplace with panel discussion, soul food and activities for kids
Dr. David Anderson, right, leads children through a Kwanzaa presentation at the Memorial Art Gallery. (Photo: Jennifer Jones)
Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave, 5 to 8 p.m., collecting black art.
Monday, Dec. 30
Nia (Purpose)
Gantt Recreation Center, 700 North St., 3 to 6 p.m.
Community discussion focused on the state of the black community and path ahead
Tuesday, Dec. 31
Kuumba (Creativity)
Dr. Louis A. Cerulli School #34, 530 Lexington Ave., 5 to 9 p.m.
Music, food, fun and game night.
Imani (Faith)
Celebrate at home with loved ones!
For details and to learn more, go to facebook.com/RochesterKwanzaaCoalition.
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WINNER! The design of 2016/17 away shirt revealed.
Doncaster Rovers are delighted to announce the winner of our 2016 “Design-a Kit” competition – as chosen by you, the supporters – can be seen below.
After receiving 33.7% of the votes that were collected via our Facebook poll and paper ballots, we can confirm that Rovers will stride out in the new away shirt for the forthcoming 2016/17 season.
The Club would like to congratulate the winning effort – with the winner now bound for Thailand in conjunction with new technical partners FBT at the first stage of manufacturing – and want to thank everyone for their respective entries in to the competition which proved immensely popular with all our fans.
Marketing and Communications Manager Ryan Murrant said: “Away shirts are typically a blank canvas for fans to get creative and we’ve had so many striking designs. Even when we got to the last five we had purple, green, blue and black all vying for a place in the stands at away grounds up and down the country next season. We haven’t worn a black away strip since the 2008/09 season so it’s a welcome change. After the success of the home shirt, we think that fans will be as pleased with the winner and we must again thank everyone who has contributed!”
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Brighton & Hove Albion failed to secure the Sky Bet Championship crown after suffering a 2-0 defeat at Norwich City on Matchday 44.
Alex Pritchard played a pivotal role for the Canaries, with two efforts striking the woodwork before deflecting in off the unfortunate Brighton goalkeeper David Stockdale.
Newcastle United cut the gap at the top to four points but, more importantly, achieved promotion on Monday night, getting over the line courtesy of a 4-1 defeat of Preston North End.
On Saturday, Fulham and Sheffield Wednesday recorded significant victories in the race for a Play-Off place, moving clear of Leeds United.
The Cottagers pulled off the Result of the Day as a brace from Stefan Johansen, a Tom Cairney penalty and a Scott Malone goal earned them a 4-1 win against Huddersfield Town.
#EFL RESULT OF THE DAY: @FulhamFC become the first away team to score four at @htafcdotcom this season and move three points clear of 7th. 🔥 pic.twitter.com/g5DMOYmn9p
— EFL (@EFL) April 22, 2017
As for Sheffield Wednesday, they defeated Derby County 2-1, and that's the same scoreline by which Leeds United lost at Burton Albion. The result means Leeds are three points off the Play-Offs with two games to go.
Reading remain third but were defeated 3-2 at Nottingham Forest as Mark Warburton's side moved three points clear of the drop zone.
Wigan Athletic drew 0-0 against Cardiff City to leave them deep in trouble, six points off safety, and Blackburn Rovers also remain in the bottom three after a 0-0 draw at Wolves.
On Sunday, Birmingham City suffered a 1-0 Second City derby defeat at Aston Villa in Harry Redknapp's first game in charge, meaning they stay two points above the relegation zone.
Here are the Sky Bet Championship results in full:
Friday 21st April 2017
Norwich City 2-0 Brighton & Hove Albion
Saturday 22nd April 2017
Brentford 3-1 Queens Park Rangers
Bristol City 3-2 Barnsley
Burton Albion 2-1 Leeds United
Huddersfield Town 1-4 Fulham
Nottingham Forest 3-2 Reading
Rotherham United 1-0 Ipswich Town
Sheffield Wednesday 2-1 Derby County
Wigan Athletic 0-0 Cardiff City
Wolverhampton Wanderers 0-0 Blackburn Rovers
Sunday 23rd April 2017
Aston Villa 1-0 Birmingham City
Newcastle United 4-1 Preston North End
Standings: Click here to see the Sky Bet Championship table
Swindon Town joined Coventry City and Chesterfield in being relegated from Sky Bet League One after a 2-1 home defeat against Scunthorpe United.
A late Fleetwood Town goal denied Bolton Wanderers automatic promotion as the Cod Army defeated Gillingham 3-2, and that means the race for second place goes into the final round of matches with the Trotters ahead by two points following a 2-0 victory at Port Vale.
The battle for the final Play-Off spot will also go to the final weekend. Millwall, currently in sixth, were defeated at home for the first time in 15 outings, losing to Oxford United, but Southend United and Rochdale both failed to capitalise.
Southend, one point behind, lost to Shrewsbury Town, while Rochdale, who are two points off the Lions, drew 1-1 against Oldham.
That win for the Shrews moved them away from relegation, and Bury beat Northampton Town 3-0 to do the same, meaning Port Vale will be relegated if they fail to win their game in hand.
Champions Sheffield United continued their march towards 100 points courtesy of a 3-0 win over MK Dons, in a match which featured Billy Sharp's 200th and 201st league goals.
Here are the Sky Bet League One results in full:
Bradford City 3-0 AFC Wimbledon
Bury 3-0 Northampton Town
Chesterfield 1-2 Charlton Athletic
Coventry City 1-0 Walsall
Gillingham 2-3 Fleetwood Town
Millwall 0-3 Oxford United
Milton Keynes Dons 0-3 Sheffield United
Oldham Athletic 1-1 Rochdale
Peterborough United 4-2 Bristol Rovers
Port Vale 0-2 Bolton Wanderers
Shrewsbury Town 1-0 Southend United
Swindon Town 1-2 Scunthorpe United
Standings: Click here to see the Sky Bet League One table
Leyton Orient's relegation out of the EFL was confirmed on Matchday 44 after they lost 3-0 at Crewe Alexandra.
It was a better day for Newport County, though, as they moved out of the relegation zone with a surprise victory over Accrington Stanley, which saw Hartlepool United fall into the bottom two. Pools lost 2-0 at home to Barnet.
A fine result for @NewportCounty today. 👏
They ended @ASFCofficial’s 15-match unbeaten streak and moved out of the relegation zone. ⏫ pic.twitter.com/fIQtN42BaH
— Sky Bet League Two (@SkyBetLeagueTwo) April 22, 2017
The race for the Play-Offs remains tight with just two games to play, as only five points separate 14th-placed Grimsby Town and Stevenage, in seventh.
Luton Town are fourth after their 2-1 win over Notts County, and Exeter moved up to fifth by beating Morecambe 3-1.
Blackpool's 3-0 home triumph over Cheltenham Town means they rose to sixth, and Stevenage dropped to seventh after a 1-0 home defeat against Mansfield Town.
The Stags, along with Wycombe Wanderers, are within a point of a Play-Off spot. The Chairboys' three points came at home to table-topping Doncaster Rovers, who are two points clear at the summit with two games to go.
Carlisle United also remain within a point of seventh after battling back from 2-0 down at Crawley to draw 3-3.
Elsewhere, Cambridge United went down 2-1 at Fratton Park against Portsmouth, and Colchester shared a goalless draw with Plymouth. Both sides are still within touching distance of a Play-Off spot.
Here are the Sky Bet League Two results in full:
Blackpool 3-0 Cheltenham Town
Colchester United 0-0 Plymouth Argyle
Crawley Town 3-3 Carlisle United
Crewe Alexandra 3-0 Leyton Orient
Exeter City 3-1 Morecambe
Grimsby Town 4-2 Yeovil Town
Hartlepool United 0-2 Barnet
Luton Town 2-1 Notts County
Newport County 1-0 Accrington Stanley
Portsmouth 2-1 Cambridge United
Stevenage 0-1 Mansfield Town
Wycombe Wanderers 2-1 Doncaster Rovers
Standings: Click here to see the Sky Bet League Two table
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49ers mailbag: Are Garoppolo, Ford healthy for NFC trophy dash?
Sunday's NFC Championship Game between the 49ers and Green Bay Packers have fans as curious as Week 1
SANTA CLARA, CA – JANUARY 11: San Francisco 49ers’ quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo (10) gestures to the crowd as he exits the field after defeating the Minnesota Vikings during their NFC divisional playoff game at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., on Saturday, Jan. 11, 2020. The San Francisco 49ers defeated the Minnesota Vikings 27-10. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group)
By Cam Inman | cinman@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group
SANTA CLARA — Welcome to a special edition of the 49ers mailbag. What’s so special? It’s NFC Championship week, something the 49ers haven’t experienced in six years.
It very well should lead to the franchise’s sixth Lombardi Trophy. For now, it leads to these questions submitted via my Instagram and Twitter time portals:
How’s Jimmy’s ankle doing? It looked like it got rolled up early in the first quarter. Non-issue? (@sergio_c)
Kyle Shanahan said Monday that Jimmy Garoppolo “is good to go now” after initial pain “wore off” from a first-quarter hit, with the 49ers tied at 7 in Saturday’s 27-10 win. When a Vikings pass rusher rolled into Garoppolo’s leg, I feared the worst, for his reconstructed left knee. I watched closely as he twice flexed that knee. Replays showed it was more of a hit to the left ankle. A timeout ensued, then a sack, and then Garoppolo responded without a hint of mobility issues.
SANTA CLARA, CA – JANUARY 11: Football fans begin to arrive and take their seats before the NFC divisional playoff game at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., on Saturday, Jan. 11, 2020. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group)
What was the final attendance for last Saturday’s playoff game? (@clopz76)
The 49ers announced a crowd of 71,649 (gotta love those final two digits) for their first-ever playoff game at Levi’s Stadium, a franchise record for a home game. Super Bowl 50 drew 71,088; last year’s NCAA Championship football game hit 74,814, and WrestleMania31 attracted 76,976 in 2015.
“I thought it was unbelievable our guys didn’t sell any tickets to Minnesota people,” Shanahan said, “because all I saw in the stands was red. It was very noticeable and it gave us a special feeling.” The Packers, in their Nov. 24 visit, had way more fans than the Vikings, so look for a mix of red, green and gold – like when Christmas meets mustard.
How’s Dee Ford’s hammy? (@49problemz)
All clear for Ford after a 22-snap return. He tallied a sack, two quarterback hits and a quick enough presence to complement the rejuvenated defensive front. Shanahan reported no setbacks and said Ford likely will remain limited in practice.
SANTA CLARA, CA – JANUARY 11: The San Francisco 49ers’ Emmanuel Moseley (41) tackles Minnesota Vikings’ wide receiver Adam Thielen (19) in the second half of their NFC divisional playoff game at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., Saturday, Jan. 11, 2020. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)
Is Moseley the starter Sunday and will Dee Ford get more snaps? (@9erfan909)
Unless injuries flare up, Emmanuel Moseley should be starting at right cornerback in place of Ahkello Witherspoon, and Dee Ford should be in Mr. Rodgers’ neighborhood about 40 percent of the snaps.
What was the injury list the last time we played the Packers? (@n3gron)
The 49ers won (handily) without left tackle Joe Staley (finger), defensive end Dee Ford (hamstring), running back Matt Breida (ankle), kicker Robbie Gould (quadriceps), wide receiver Marquise Goodwin (toe, knee) and tight end Levine Toilolo.(groin). All, except Goodwin, are now healthy and contributed in the playoff opener. George Kittle, Emmanuel Sanders and Deebo Samuel weren’t at full strength that first go-round with Green Bay.
SANTA CLARA, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 17: San Francisco 49ers’ Joe Staley (74) walks off he field with San Francisco 49ers defensive coordinator Robert Saleh heads off the field following their 36-26 win over the Arizona Cardinals at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., on Sunday, Nov. 17, 2019. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group)
How can you sleep this week knowing the biggest game is in a week?! (@ko_cheeze24)
Might want to talk to Joe Staley about that. He shared a funny anecdote in the locker room after Saturday’s game: He woke up at 1 a.m., then 3, then finally 6 before driving earlier than ever to the stadium with Garoppolo and Mike McGlinchey. Plenty of time to sleep before the next game. Sunday’s kickoff is 3:40 p.m., which does conflict with my usual nap time.
Are we expecting rain this game? (@j.m.p.9)
The National Weather Service forecasts “a chance of rain” before kickoff, otherwise it will be mostly cloudy and in the 50s.
Keys to winning this game? (@mothe9er)
Click back on this website Friday morning. That’s when our breakfast buffet serves its weekly five-keys-to-victory story. It’s proven correct 14 of 17 games.
How would you describe Levi’s atmosphere last week? Noise level? (@bulldog9er)
I’ve never seen so many seats filled at kickoff, and because the press box is hermetically sealed, I’m assuming it was super loud. Shanahan said it was noticeable more than ever, even in pregame warmups. After the Packers advanced Sunday night, Aaron Rodgers said of the upcoming challenges: “It’s going to be loud.” I’ve never heard an opponent say that about Levi’s Stadium, but he would know (see: 37-8 rout of the Packers there on Nov. 24).
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How does Kyle make sure the team stays focused and takes Green Bay seriously after blowing them out a few weeks ago? (@gamerollerb)
Coach got asked that very question Monday, and he quickly shot down any thoughts the 49ers would be overconfident from their last meeting. His specific message to them: “Don’t be that stupid. That’s not real. This is about Sunday’s game.”
SANTA CLARA, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 24: San Francisco 49ers’ George Kittle (85) scores a touchdown against Green Bay Packers’ Jaire Alexander (23) in the third quarter at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., on Sunday, Nov. 24, 2019. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group)
Since Pettis is rarely used at wide receiver, why not use him as a punt returner? (@caballoruiz)
Dante Pettis hasn’t played the past six games, hasn’t caught a pass since Halloween, and he’s suiting up in case of emergency as a backup receiver and punt returner. Richie James has been their sole punt returner, a sure-handed one at that. Pettis looks comfortable in practice fielding punts, more so than he did on nine returns as a rookie.
Are we going to extend Bourne’s contract for 3 years? (@sjbrownfaithful)
Kendrick Bourne, who scored the 49ers’ first touchdown Saturday, will be a restricted free agent as his three-year rookie deal ends. An undrafted free agent, he’ll remain a bargain, which will help the 49ers balance sheets. Hefty extensions are due for George Kittle and DeForest Buckner, with an eye on unrestricted free agents Emmanuel Sanders, Arik Armstead and Jimmie Ward.
Why are tickets so expensive?! (@officialjesusbastidas)
For one, it’s the 49ers’ first NFC Championship Game at home since the 2011 heartbreaker to the Giants. Before that, they lost the 1997 season’s NFC final to, well, you don’t want to know. Otherwise, blame it on supply, demand, greed, a strong economy, housing costs, health care, etc.
Who’s your go-to artist to listen to before the game? @daedaetooccold_)
Van Gogh.
Score prediction? (@ffarrelll)
49ers 31, Packers 21
Super Bowl matchup? (@jannikvnckn)
On Feb. 2 in Miami Gardens, 25 years after winning their last Lombardi Trophy, the 49ers own their sixth. It’ll be a 35-34 cliffhanger against a Kansas City Chiefs team that won its lone Super Bowl title 50 years ago.
We’re finally relevant again (@jdr9er)
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The Hyundai Veloster N ETCR race car has been unveiled at the 2019 Frankfurt motor show.
While the road-going Veloster N is a front-wheel drive hot hatch powered by a 2.0-litre turbocharged four-cylinder engine with 205kW of power and 352Nm of torque, the ETCR has a mid-mounted electric motor driving the rear wheels.
The company has yet to provide details about the car's power, torque and other specifications. It also hasn't said whether we should call the E-TCR mid-motored, mid-engined, or a car with a mid-mounted motor... The mind boggles.
Compared to the street-legal car, the Veloster N ETCR has wider squared-off wheel arches, large front and rear spoilers, slick tyres, and, presumably, a stripped back cabin with a race-ready roll cage.
Designed and built at the Hyundai Motorsports headquarters in Alzenau, Germany, work on the Veloster N ETCR began back in November 2018, and the first shakedown tests were completed in August this year.
Full testing begins this month, with the company planning on making two cars for ETCR's inaugural 2020 season. The only other factory-backed competitor confirmed for ETCR is the Seat Cupra e-Racer.
According to e-Racing 365, the first ETCR season will have three races at locations. Dates and tracks have yet to confirmed for next year's race campaign.
ETCR will reportedly have a longer season in 2021.
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Antonio Brown’s agent conditionally terminates relationship
Agent Drew Rosenhaus conditionally terminated his relationship with Antonio Brown on Thursday until the free-agent wide receiver seeks counsel, an NFLPA source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter.
Rosenhaus wrote in the letter that the NFLPA received on Thursday that he would like to work with Brown, but not until he first gets help.
Earlier this week, the Hollywood (Florida) Police Department announced that its athletic league has severed ties with the wide receiver and returned a donation given by Brown following an obscene outburst toward the police and the mother of his children on Monday.
Brown posted a live feed of the encounter, which also included his children, on Instagram, and it was later picked up by TMZ. In it, he can be heard using explicit language and calling the police officers explicit names.
The police responded to a domestic disturbance at Brown’s Hollywood residence on Monday, and Lata wrote in the department’s statement that Brown used “very degrading language in front of his young children.”
Brown, 31, wasn’t on an active roster for most of the 2019 season. He was released from the Oakland Raiders after the preseason following public demands. He was active for one game with the New England Patriots but was released shortly after amid sexual assault allegations. The former Pittsburgh Steelers star recently had a workout with the New Orleans Saints, which he later called a publicity stunt on social media.
Brown has continued to take shots at the NFL and various teams and players via social media this season, including jabs last month at former Pittsburgh Steelers teammate JuJu Smith-Schuster and Oakland Raiders quarterback Derek Carr.
He is being investigated by the NFL after a lawsuit was filed by his former trainer, Britney Taylor, that alleges she was sexually assaulted by Brown on multiple occasions. Brown also was accused of sexual misconduct at his home by an artist who was working there in 2017.
The NFL has not concluded that investigation.
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Taliban Bomb Kills Afghan Chief
2/7/2017 | 6:14 AM CST
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- An Afghan police spokesman says a roadside bombing has killed the top government official of a district in western Farah province. The Taliban have claimed responsibility for the attack.
The spokesman, Iqbal Baher, says that Abdul Khaliq, the top official in the Khak-e-Safed district, died in the bombing near his home in the city of Farah, the provincial capital, on Tuesday.
He says Khaliq was on his way home from a mosque earlier in the morning when the explosion took place.
Taliban spokesman Qari Yusouf Ahmadi claimed responsibility for the attack in Farah city.
Taliban insurgents frequently use roadside bombs and suicide attacks to target government officials as well as Afghan security forces across the country.
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Destiny 2: Forsaken’s New Trailer Highlights Pre-Order Bonuses
August 6, 2018 3:58 PM EST
Bungie has unveiled just what those who pre-order Destiny 2: Forsaken will receive upon the expansion's launch.
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We also checked out Destiny 2: Forsaken at E3 2018 and came away relatively impressed by what we saw. If our early impressions are any indication, it seems like Forsaken could be what brings both us and many others back to the world of Destiny 2. Bungie has also recently revealed a new Legendary Collection of Destiny 2 for those that may not have picked up the game at all just yet.
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The Mood Modern: The KPM and Bruton Music libraries (hardback edition)
Vocalion Books – a subsidiary of renowned reissue label Vocalion and leading independent classical label Dutton Epoch – presents its publishing debut: Oliver Lomax’s The Mood Modern. The product of extensive research, this new book tells the story of two of the world’s greatest recorded music libraries – KPM and Bruton Music.
Also known variously as mood, stock, background or production music, for decades library music has made an important though anonymous contribution to the broadcast media, supplying film, radio and television with innumerable themes and underscores.
The Mood Modern is three books in one, weaving together the separate strands of company history, biography and critical assessment of some of the most important music collectively produced by the KPM and Bruton libraries during the course of a quarter century, spanning the years from 1956 to 1980. At the heart of the book, however, is the Phillips family, one of Britain’s great music publishing dynasties, but in particular Robin Phillips (1939-2006).
The mid-1960s through the ’70s have come to be regarded as library music’s golden age. In Britain, it was when this somewhat mysterious branch of the music industry emerged from the chrysalis of its light music heritage, into a vibrant new era of modern, colourful sounds. Robin Phillips played a fundamental role in this transformation when, in 1966, he established a new library – the KPM 1000 Series. Robin would also introduce several new composers who would quickly become some of the best-known and most successful names in the library music field: Keith Mansfield, Johnny Pearson, Syd Dale, Alan Hawkshaw, James Clarke, David Lindup, Brian Bennett and Steve Gray among others. And thanks to Robin’s guidance, by the early ’70s the 1000 Series had become one of the world’s foremost libraries, its music a ubiquitous presence in countless films, documentaries, radio programmes and television series.
But in 1977, at the height of his success, Robin left KPM for ATV Music – taking with him his right-hand man, Aaron Harry, and the major composers – where he formed the Bruton library under the auspices of his brother Peter (who by now was ATV Music’s managing director) and show business mogul Lew Grade’s financial adviser, Jack Gill.
Drawing on interviews with members of the Phillips family (including Peter Phillips) and many of the composers, recording engineers, musicians and staff of both libraries, The Mood Modern tells the remarkable inside story of how KPM and, subsequently, Bruton came to be dominant forces in library music, both in Britain and internationally.
In addition to charting the origin and history of the music publishing firms – Keith Prowse and Peter Maurice – that merged to form KPM, The Mood Modern covers numerous related areas. These include the birth of Britain’s library music industry; the early British libraries and their inseparable link to the English light music tradition; how the arrival of commercial television in Britain led to the formation of the Keith Prowse library in 1956 under the aegis of its manager, Patrick Howgill, which paved the way for the KPM library; KPM’s legacy as a famous popular music publisher and its place in the history of Denmark Street (London’s Tin Pan Alley); Robin’s father, legendary music publisher Jimmy Phillips; the corporate manoeuvring that saw Keith Prowse, Peter Maurice and KPM bought and sold; and the clash with management that eventually caused Peter and Robin Phillips to leave KPM for ATV Music.
The importance of the recording engineer is acknowledged in The Mood Modern, and those who largely shaped the “sound” of the KPM and Bruton libraries are featured: Ted Fletcher, Adrian Kerridge, Mike Clements, Richard Elen (KPM) and Chris Dibble (Bruton Music). There’s detailed coverage of all the KPM 1000 Series’ overseas sessions – including personnel, dates, locations and what was recorded – and chapters respectively devoted to the sessions in Bickendorf, Cologne (along with the stellar lineup of international jazz talent that played on them) and in KPM’s two in- house studios. The Musicians’ Union embargo, which had forced British libraries to record much of their material on the Continent, is also scrutinised, as are the negotiations with the MU of the late ’70s that finally allowed British libraries to resume recording in British studios with British musicians.
As well as delineating the setting up of the Bruton library, its struggle to get established and the background of the parent company, ATV Music (itself a division of entertainment conglomerate Associated Television [ATV]), Bruton’s recording sessions and early output are put under the spotlight.
Another aspect of The Mood Modern is the chapter-length biographical portraits of five of the KPM 1000 Series’ principal composers: Syd Dale, Johnny Pearson, Keith Mansfield, James Clarke and David Lindup. This is the first time that any of them have been the subject of an in-depth portrait, and these chapters take in many associated areas: KPM library offshoots Aristocrat, Radio Program Music and the KPM International series; the litany of famous and not-so-famous TV and radio themes within the KPM library; Lansdowne Studios; British jazz and pop; classical music; commissioned film and TV scores; BBC Television and Radio; Independent Television (ITV); the Mechanical Copyright Protection Society; the Performing Right Society; Phonographic Performance Ltd. and so much more.
A host of other composers also feature in The Mood Modern. These include KPM and Bruton stalwarts Laurie Johnson, Neil Richardson, Steve Gray, Dave Gold, Francis Monkman, Brian Bennett, Alan Hawkshaw, John Dankworth, John Scott, Duncan Lamont, John Fiddy and John Cameron as well as the KPM 1000 Series’ house bands, WASP and SHARKS.
Putting everything into further perspective is a thorough examination of the pre-1000 Series KPM library, and a chapter that focuses on a leading music editor of the ’70s, who describes the processes and equipment that were used in transferring library music onto the soundtracks of films, documentaries and television programmes.
The Mood Modern is not only a major study of a fascinating sector of the music industry, but also essential reading for anyone with even a passing interest in soundtrack music.
The Mood Modern specifications:
• Publisher: Vocalion Books
• 486 pages
• Foreword by Keith Mansfield
• Hardback and paperback editions
• ISBNs: 978-1-9996796-0-6 (hardback) / 978-1-9996796-1-3 (paperback)
• Fully indexed
• Two sixteen-page photo sections, one in b&w, one in colour, both containing many never-before-published images: from the Phillips family archive, and of composers, musicians, recording sessions, catalogues, music scores and studio brochures
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Canon Introduces Two New PIXMA PRO Printers
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LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., September 17, 2012 – Canon U.S.A., Inc, a leader in digital imaging solutions, today announced the newest additions to the PIXMA PRO-series of 13-inch inkjet printers, the PIXMA PRO-10 and PIXMA PRO-100. Built with the same quality of output and design as the flagship PIXMA PRO-1 Professional Inkjet Printer, these two models produce excellent black-and-white and color prints to help ensure what was captured through a camera lens is reproduced exactly as it was envisioned on paper. Canon has also worked to improve the printing workflow for end-users with the new Print Studio Pro plug-in software, wireless connectivity and faster printing speeds.
“The additions of the PIXMA PRO-10 and PIXMA PRO-100 printers to the PIXMA PRO-series lineup provide photographers with a number of options to satisfy their printing needs,” said Yuichi Ishizuka, executive vice president and general manager, Imaging Technologies & Communications Group, Canon U.S.A. “Canon is the only company that provides a complete imaging system from input to output for professionals, and these new printers along with the new EOS 6D Digital SLR Camera further illustrate our commitment to creating new technologies to help users get the most out of their images.”
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Title 36 → Chapter XII → Subchapter B → Part 1234
Title 36: Parks, Forests, and Public Property
PART 1234—FACILITY STANDARDS FOR RECORDS STORAGE FACILITIES
§1234.1 What authorities apply to part 1234?
§1234.2 What does this part cover?
§1234.3 What publications are incorporated by reference in this part?
§1234.4 What definitions are used in this part?
Subpart B—Facility Standards
§1234.10 What are the facility requirements for all records storage facilities?
§1234.12 What are the fire safety requirements that apply to records storage facilities?
§1234.14 What are the requirements for environmental controls for records storage facilities?
Subpart C—Handling Deviations From NARA's Facility Standards
§1234.20 What rules apply if there is a conflict between NARA standards and other regulatory standards that a facility must follow?
§1234.22 How does an agency request a waiver from a requirement in this part?
§1234.24 How does NARA process a waiver request?
Subpart D—Facility Approval and Inspection Requirements
§1234.30 How does an agency request authority to establish or relocate records storage facilities?
§1234.32 What does an agency have to do to certify a fire-safety detection and suppression system?
§1234.34 When may NARA conduct an inspection of a records storage facility?
Appendix A to Part 1234—Minimum Security Standards for Level III Federal Facilities
Appendix B to Part 1234—Alternative Certified Fire-Safety Detection and Suppression System(s)
Authority: 44 U.S.C. 2104(a), 2904, 2907, 3102, and 3103.
Source: 74 FR 51014, Oct. 2, 2009, unless otherwise noted.
NARA is authorized to establish, maintain and operate records centers for Federal agencies under 44 U.S.C. 2907. NARA is authorized, under 44 U.S.C. 3103, to approve a records center that is maintained and operated by an agency. NARA is also authorized to promulgate standards, procedures, and guidelines to Federal agencies with respect to the storage of their records in commercial records storage facilities. See 44 U.S.C. 2104(a), 2904, and 3102. The regulations in this subpart apply to all records storage facilities Federal agencies use to store, service, and dispose of their records.
(a) This part covers the establishment, maintenance, and operation of records centers, whether Federally-owned and operated by NARA or another Federal agency, or Federally-owned and contractor operated. This part also covers an agency's use of commercial records storage facilities. Records centers and commercial records storage facilities are referred to collectively as records storage facilities. This part specifies the minimum structural, environmental, property, and life-safety standards that a records storage facility must meet when the facility is used for the storage of Federal records.
(b) Except where specifically noted, this part applies to all records storage facilities. Certain noted provisions apply only to new records storage facilities established or placed in service on or after September 28, 2005.
(a) NARA incorporates certain material by reference into this part with the approval of the Director of the Federal Register under 5 U.S.C. 552(a) and 1 CFR part 51. To enforce any edition other than that specified in this section, NARA must publish a document in the Federal Register and the material must be available to the public. You may inspect all approved material incorporated by reference at NARA's textual research room, located at National Archives and Records Administration; 8601 Adelphi Road; Room 2000; College Park, MD 20740-6001. To arrange to inspect this approved material at NARA, contact NARA's Regulation Comments Desk (Strategy and Performance Division (MP)) by email at regulation__comments@nara.gov or by telephone at 301.837.3151. All approved material is also available from the sources listed below. You may also inspect approved material at the Office of the Federal Register (OFR). For information on the availability of this material at the OFR, call 202.741.6000 or go to http://www.archives.gov/federal__register/cfr/ibr-locations.html.
(b) American National Standards Institute (ANSI). The following standards are available from the American National Standards Institute, 25 West 43rd St., 4th Floor, New York, NY 10036, phone number (212) 642-4900, or online at http://webstore.ansi.org.
(1) IAPMO/ANSI UMC 1-2003 (“IAPMO/ANSI UMC 1”), Uniform Mechanical Code, 2003, IBR approved for §1234.12.
(2) NFPA 40 (“NFPA 40-1997”), Standard for the Storage and Handling of Cellulose Nitrate Motion Picture Film, 1997 Edition, IBR approved for §1234.12.
(3) NFPA 42 (“NFPA 42”), Code for the Storage of Pyroxylin Plastic, 1997 Edition, IBR approved for §1234.12.
(4) NFPA 54 (“NFPA 54”), National Fuel Gas Code, 2002 Edition, IBR approved for §1234.12.
(5) NFPA 101 (“NFPA 101”), Life Safety Code, 1997 Edition, IBR approved for §1234.12.
(c) Document Center Inc. The following standards are available from the standards reseller the Document Center Inc., 111 Industrial Road, Suite 9, Belmont, CA, 94002, phone number (650) 591-7600, or online at http://www.document-center.com.
(1) ANSI/NAPM IT9.18-1996 (“ANSI/NAPM IT9.18”), Imaging Materials—Processed Photographic Plates—Storage Practices, September 8, 1996, IBR approved for §1234.14.
(2) ANSI/NAPM IT9.23-1996 (“ANSI/NAPM IT9.23”), Imaging Materials—Polyester Base Magnetic Tape—Storage, September 6, 1996, IBR approved for §1234.14.
(d) Document Engineering Co., Inc. (DECO). The following standards are available from the standards reseller DECO—Document Engineering Co., Inc., 15210 Stagg Street, Van Nuys, CA, phone number (818) 782-1010, or online at http://www.doceng.com.
(1) ANSI/NAPM IT9.20-1996 (“ANSI/NAPM IT9.20”), Imaging Materials—Reflection Prints—Storage Practices, September 8, 1996, IBR approved for §1234.14.
(2) NFPA 221 (“NFPA 221”), Standard for Fire Walls and Fire Barrier Walls, 1994 Edition, November 1, 1994, IBR approved for §1234.4.
(3) ASTM E 119-98 (“ASTM E 119-98”), Standard Test Methods for Fire Tests of Building Construction and Materials, 1998, IBR approved for §1234.12.
(4) NFPA 10 (“NFPA 10”), Portable Fire Extinguishers, 1994 Edition, November 1, 1994, IBR approved for Appendix B to part 1234.
(5) NFPA 13 (“NFPA 13”), Standard for Installation of Sprinkler Systems, 2002 Edition, October 1, 2002, IBR approved for §§1234.10 and 1234.12, and Appendix B to part 1234.
(6) NFPA 20 (“NFPA 20”), Standard for the Installation of Centrifugal Fire Pumps, 1996 Edition, January 1, 1996, IBR approved for Appendix B to part 1234.
(e) Global Engineering Documents. The following standards are available from the standards reseller Global Engineering Documents, 15 Inverness Way, East Englewood, CO 80112, phone number (800) 854-7179, or online at http://www.global.ihs.com.
(1) ANSI/PIMA IT9.25-1998 (“ANSI/PIMA IT9.25”), Imaging Materials—Optical Disc Media—Storage, 1998, IBR approved for §1234.14.
(2) Reserved.
(f) Techstreet. The following standards are available from the standards reseller Techstreet, 3916 Ranchero Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48108, phone number (800) 699-9277, or online at http://www.Techstreet.com.
(1) ANSI/PIMA IT9.11-1998 (“ANSI/PIMA IT9.11”), Imaging Materials—Processed Safety Photographic Films—Storage, January 1, 1998, IBR approved for §1234.14.
(2) UL 827 (“UL 827”), Central-Station Alarm Services, Sixth Edition, April 23, 1999, IBR approved for Appendix B to part 1234.
(3) UL 1076 (“UL 1076”), Proprietary Burglar Alarm Units and Systems, Fifth Edition, February 1, 1999, IBR approved for §1234.10.
(g) The following standards are not available from the original publisher or a standards reseller. To inspect the standards at a NARA location other than the NARA facility in College Park, MD, or the Office of the Federal Register, contact NARA's Regulations Comment Desk as provided in paragraph (a) of this section.
(1) ANSI/ASHRAE 55-1992 (“ANSI/ASHRAE 55”), Thermal Environmental Conditions for Human Occupancy, 1992, IBR approved for §1234.14.
(2) ANSI/ASHRAE 62-1989 (“ANSI/ASHRAE 62”), Ventilation for Acceptable Indoor Air Quality, 1989, IBR approved for §1234.14.
(3) UL 611 (“UL 611”), Central-Station Burglar-Alarm Systems, February 22, 1996, IBR approved for §1234.10
[74 FR 51014, Oct. 2, 2009, as amended at 83 FR 13655, Mar. 30, 2018]
The following definitions apply to this part:
Auxiliary spaces mean non-records storage areas such as offices, research rooms, other work and general storage areas but excluding boiler rooms or rooms containing equipment operating with a fuel supply such as generator rooms.
Commercial records storage facility has the meaning specified in §1220.18 of this chapter.
Existing records storage facility means any records center or commercial records storage facility used to store records on September 27, 2005, and that has stored records continuously since that date.
Fire barrier wall means a wall, other than a fire wall, having a fire resistance rating, constructed in accordance with NFPA 221 (incorporated by reference, see §1234.3).
Licensed fire protection engineer means a licensed or registered professional engineer with a recognized specialization in fire protection engineering. For those States that do not separately license or register fire protection engineers, a licensed or registered professional engineer with training and experience in fire protection engineering, operating within the scope of that licensing or registration, who is also a professional member of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers.
Must and provide means that a provision is mandatory.
New records storage facility means any records center or commercial records storage facility established or converted for use as a records center or commercial records storage facility on or after September 28, 2005.
Permanent record has the meaning specified in §1220.18 of this subchapter.
Records center has the meaning specified in §1220.18 of this subchapter.
Records storage area means the area intended for long-term storage of records that is enclosed by four fire barrier walls, the floor, and the ceiling.
Records storage facility has the meaning specified in §1220.18 of this subchapter.
Sample/Select records means records whose final disposition requires an analytical or statistical sampling prior to final disposition authorization, in which some percentage of the original accession will be retained as permanent records.
Should or may means that a provision is recommended or advised but not required.
Temporary record has the meaning specified in §1220.18 of this subchapter.
Unscheduled records has the meaning specified in §1220.18 of this subchapter.
(a) The facility must be constructed with non-combustible materials and building elements, including walls, columns and floors. There are two exceptions to this requirement:
(1) Roof elements may be constructed with combustible materials if installed in accordance with local building codes and if roof elements are protected by a properly installed, properly maintained wet-pipe automatic sprinkler system, as specified in NFPA 13 (incorporated by reference, see §1234.3).
(2) An agency may request a waiver of the requirement specified in paragraph (a) from NARA for an existing records storage facility with combustible building elements to continue to operate until October 1, 2009. In its request for a waiver, the agency must provide documentation that the facility has a fire suppression system specifically designed to mitigate this hazard and that the system meets the requirements of §1234.12(s). Submit waiver requests to NARA by mail at National Archives and Records Administration; Storage Coordination and Logistics (B-AD); 8601 Adelphi Road; College Park, MD 20740-6001.
(b) A facility with two or more stories must be designed or reviewed by a licensed fire protection engineer and civil/structural engineer to avoid catastrophic failure of the structure due to an uncontrolled fire on one of the intermediate floor levels. For new buildings the seals on the construction drawings serve as proof of this review. For existing buildings, this requirement may be demonstrated by a professional letter of opinion under seal by a licensed fire protection engineer that the fire resistance of the separating floor(s) is/(are) at least four hours, and a professional letter of opinion under seal by a licensed civil/structural engineer that there are no obvious structural weaknesses that would indicate a high potential for structural catastrophic collapse under fire conditions.
(c) The building must be sited a minimum of five feet above and 100 feet from any 100 year flood plain areas, or be protected by an appropriate flood wall that conforms to local or regional building codes.
(d) The facility must be designed in accordance with the applicable national, regional, state, or local building codes (whichever is most stringent) to provide protection from building collapse or failure of essential equipment from earthquake hazards, tornadoes, hurricanes and other potential natural disasters.
(e) Roads, fire lanes and parking areas must permit unrestricted access for emergency vehicles.
(f) A floor load limit must be established for the records storage area by a licensed structural engineer. The limit must take into consideration the height and type of the shelving or storage equipment, the width of the aisles, the configuration of the space, etc. The allowable load limit must be posted in a conspicuous place and must not be exceeded.
(g) The facility must ensure that the roof membrane does not permit water to penetrate the roof. NARA strongly recommends that this requirement be met by not mounting equipment on the roof and placing nothing else on the roof that may cause damage to the roof membrane. Alternatively, a facility may meet this requirement with stringent design specifications for roof-mounted equipment in conjunction with a periodic roof inspection program performed by appropriately certified professionals.
(1) New records storage facilities must meet the requirements in this paragraph (g) beginning on September 28, 2005.
(2) Existing facilities must meet the requirements in this paragraph (g) no later than October 1, 2009.
(h) Piping (with the exception of fire protection sprinkler piping and storm water roof drainage piping) must not be run through records storage areas unless supplemental measures such as gutters or shields are used to prevent water leaks and the piping assembly is inspected for potential leaks regularly. If drainage piping from roof drains must be run though records storage areas, the piping must be run to the nearest vertical riser and must include a continuous gutter sized and installed beneath the lateral runs to prevent leakage into the storage area. Vertical pipe risers required to be installed in records storage areas must be fully enclosed by shaft construction with appropriate maintenance access panels.
(1) New records storage facilities must meet the requirements in this paragraph (h) beginning on September 28, 2005.
(2) Existing facilities must meet the requirements in this paragraph (h) no later than October 1, 2009.
(i) The following standards apply to records storage shelving and racking systems:
(1) All storage shelving and racking systems must be designed and installed to provide seismic bracing that meets the requirements of the applicable state, regional, and local building code (whichever is most stringent);
(2) Racking systems, steel shelving, or other open-shelf records storage equipment must be braced to prevent collapse under full load. Each racking system or shelving unit must be industrial style shelving rated at least 50 pounds per cubic foot supported by the shelf;
(3) Compact mobile shelving systems (if used) must be designed to permit proper air circulation and fire protection. Request detailed specifications that meet this requirement from NARA by mail at National Archives and Records Administration; Storage Coordination and Logistics (B-AD); 8601 Adelphi Road; College Park, MD 20740-6001.
(j) The area occupied by the records storage facility must be equipped with an anti-intrusion alarm system, or equivalent, meeting the requirements of UL 1076 (incorporated by reference, see §1234.3), level AA, to protect against unlawful entry after hours and to monitor designated interior storage spaces. This intrusion alarm system must be monitored in accordance with UL 611, (incorporated by reference, see §1234.3).
(k) The facility must comply with the requirements for a Level III facility as defined in the Department of Justice, U. S. Marshals Service report Vulnerability Assessment of Federal Facilities dated June 28, 1995. These requirements are provided in Appendix A to this part 1234. Agencies may require compliance with Level IV or Level V facility security requirements if the facility is classified at the higher level.
(l) Records contaminated by hazardous materials, such as radioactive isotopes or toxins, infiltrated by insects, or exhibiting active mold growth must be stored in separate areas having separate air handling systems from other records.
(m) To eliminate damage to records and/or loss of information due to insects, rodents, mold and other pests that are attracted to organic materials under specific environmental conditions, the facility must have an Integrated Pest Management program as defined in the Food Protection Act of 1996 (Section 303, Pub. L. 104-170, 110 Stat. 1512). This states in part that Integrated Pest Management is a sustainable approach to managing pests by combining biological, cultural, physical, and chemical tools in a way that minimizes economic, health, and environmental risks. The IPM program emphasizes three fundamental elements:
(1) Prevention. IPM is a preventive maintenance process that seeks to identify and eliminate potential pest access, shelter, and nourishment. It also continually monitors for pests themselves, so that small infestations do not become large ones;
(2) Least-toxic methods. IPM aims to minimize both pesticide use and risk through alternate control techniques and by favoring compounds, formulations, and application methods that present the lowest potential hazard to humans and the environment; and
(3) Systems approach. The IPM pest control contract must be effectively coordinated with all other relevant programs that operate in and around a building, including plans and procedures involving design and construction, repairs and alterations, cleaning, waste management, food service, and other activities.
(n) For new records storage facilities only, the additional requirements in this paragraph (n) must be met:
(1) Do not install mechanical equipment, excluding material handling and conveyance equipment that have operating thermal breakers on the motor, containing motors rated in excess of 1 HP within records storage areas (either floor mounted or suspended from roof support structures).
(2) Do not install high-voltage electrical distribution equipment (i.e., 13.2kv or higher switchgear and transformers) within records storage areas (either floor mounted or suspended from roof support structures).
(3) A redundant source of primary electric service such as a second primary service feeder should be provided to ensure continuous, dependable service to the facility especially to the HVAC systems, fire alarm and fire protection systems. Manual switching between sources of service is acceptable.
(4) A facility storing permanent records must be kept under positive air pressure, especially in the area of the loading dock. In addition, to prevent fumes from vehicle exhausts from entering the facility, air intake louvers must not be located in the area of the loading dock, adjacent to parking areas, or in any location where a vehicle engine may be running for any period of time. Loading docks must have an air supply and exhaust system that is separate from the remainder of the facility.
(a) The fire detection and protection systems must be designed or reviewed by a licensed fire protection engineer. If the system was not designed by a licensed fire protection engineer, the review requirement is met by furnishing a report under the seal of a licensed fire protection engineer that describes the design intent of the fire detection and suppression system, detailing the characteristics of the system, and describing the specific measures beyond the minimum features required by code that have been incorporated to minimize loss. The report should make specific reference to appropriate industry standards used in the design, such as those issued by the National Fire Protection Association, and any testing or modeling or other sources used in the design.
(b) All interior walls separating records storage areas from each other and from other storage areas in the building must be at least three-hour fire barrier walls. A records storage facility may not store more than 250,000 cubic feet total of Federal records in a single records storage area. When Federal records are combined with other records in a single records storage area, only the Federal records will apply toward this limitation.
(c) Fire barrier walls that meet the following specifications must be provided:
(1) For existing records storage facilities, at least one-hour-rated fire barrier walls must be provided between the records storage areas and other auxiliary spaces.
(2) For new records storage facilities, two-hour-rated fire barrier walls must be provided between the records storage areas and other auxiliary spaces. One exterior wall of each stack area must be designed with a maximum fire resistive rating of one hour, or, if rated more than one hour, there must be at least one knock-out panel in one exterior wall of each stack area.
(d) Penetrations in the walls must not reduce the specified fire resistance ratings. The fire resistance ratings of structural elements and construction assemblies must be in accordance with ASTM E 119-98 (incorporated by reference, see §1234.3).
(e) The fire resistive rating of the roof must be a minimum of 1⁄2 hour for all records storage facilities, or must be protected by an automatic sprinkler system designed, installed, and maintained in accordance with NFPA 13 (incorporated by reference, see §1234.3).
(f) Openings in fire barrier walls separating records storage areas must be avoided to the greatest extent possible. If openings are necessary, they must be protected by self-closing or automatic Class A fire doors, or equivalent doors that maintain the same rating as the wall.
(g) Roof support structures that cross or penetrate fire barrier walls must be cut and supported independently on each side of the fire barrier wall.
(h) If fire barrier walls are erected with expansion joints, the joints must be protected to their full height.
(i) Building columns in the records storage areas must be at least 1-hour fire resistant or protected in accordance with NFPA 13 (incorporated by reference, see §1234.3).
(j) Automatic roof vents for routine ventilation purposes must not be designed into new records storage facilities. Automatic roof vents, designed solely to vent in the case of a fire, with a temperature rating at least twice that of the sprinkler heads are acceptable.
(k) Where lightweight steel roof or floor supporting members (e.g., bar joists having top chords with angles 2 by 12 inches or smaller, 1/4-inch thick or smaller, and 13/16-inch or smaller Web diameters) are present, they must be protected either by applying a 10-minute fire resistive coating to the top chords of the joists, or by retrofitting the sprinkler system with large drop sprinkler heads. If a fire resistive coating is applied, it must be a product that will not release (off gas) harmful fumes into the facility. If fire resistive coating is subject to air erosion or flaking, it must be fully enclosed in a drywall containment constructed of metal studs with fire retardant drywall. Retrofitting may require modifications to the piping system to ensure that adequate water capacity and pressure are provided in the areas to be protected with these large drop sprinkler heads.
(l) Open flame (oil or gas) unit heaters or equipment, if used in records storage areas, must be installed or used in the records storage area in accordance with NFPA 54 (incorporated by reference, see §1234.3), and the IAPMO/ANSI UMC 1, Uniform Mechanical Code (incorporated by reference, see §1234.3).
(m) For existing records storage facilities, boiler rooms or rooms containing equipment operating with a fuel supply (such as generator rooms) must be separated from records storage areas by 2-hour-rated fire barrier walls with no openings directly from these rooms to the records storage areas. Such areas must be vented directly to the outside to a location where fumes will not be drawn back into the facility.
(n) For new records storage facilities, boiler rooms or rooms containing equipment operating with a fuel supply (such as generator rooms) must be separated from records storage areas by 4-hour-rated fire barrier walls with no openings directly from these rooms to the records storage areas. Such areas must be vented directly to the outside to a location where fumes will not be drawn back into the facility.
(o) For new records storage facilities, fuel supply lines must not be installed in areas containing records and must be separated from such areas with 4-hour rated construction assemblies.
(p) Equipment rows running perpendicular to the wall must comply with NFPA 101 (incorporated by reference, see §1234.3), with respect to egress requirements.
(q) No oil-type electrical transformers, regardless of size, except thermally protected devices included in fluorescent light ballasts, may be installed in the records storage areas. All electrical wiring must be in metal conduit, except that armored cable may be used where flexible wiring connections to light fixtures are required. Battery charging areas for electric forklifts must be separated from records storage areas with at least a 2-hour rated fire barrier wall.
(r) Hazardous materials, including records on cellulose nitrate film, must not be stored in records storage areas. Nitrate motion picture film and nitrate sheet film may be stored in separate areas that meet the requirements of the appropriate NFPA standards, NFPA 40-1997 (incorporated by reference, see §1234.3), or NFPA 42 (incorporated by reference, see §1234.3).
(s) All record storage and adjoining areas must be protected by a professionally-designed fire-safety detection and suppression system that is designed to limit the maximum anticipated loss in any single fire event involving a single ignition and no more than 8 ounces of accelerant to a maximum of 300 cubic feet of records destroyed by fire. Section 1234.32 specifies how to document compliance with this requirement.
(a) Paper-based temporary records. Paper-based temporary records must be stored under environmental conditions that prevent the active growth of mold. Exposure to moisture through leaks or condensation, relative humidities in excess of 70%, extremes of heat combined with relative humidity in excess of 55%, and poor air circulation during periods of elevated heat and relative humidity are all factors that contribute to mold growth.
(b) Nontextual temporary records. Nontextual temporary records, including microforms and audiovisual and electronic records, must be stored in records storage space that is designed to preserve them for their full retention period. New records storage facilities that store nontextual temporary records must meet the requirements in this paragraph (b) beginning on September 28, 2005. Existing records storage facilities that store nontextual temporary records must meet the requirements in this paragraph (b) no later than October 1, 2009. At a minimum, nontextual temporary records must be stored in records storage space that meets the requirements for medium term storage set by the appropriate standard in this paragraph (b). In general, medium term conditions as defined by these standards are those that will ensure the preservation of the materials for at least 10 years with little information degradation or loss. Records may continue to be usable for longer than 10 years when stored under these conditions, but with an increasing risk of information loss or degradation with longer times. If temporary records require retention longer than 10 years, better storage conditions (cooler and drier) than those specified for medium term storage will be needed to maintain the usability of these records. The applicable standards are:
(1) ANSI/PIMA IT9.11 (incorporated by reference, see §1234.3);
(2) ANSI/NAPM IT9.23 (incorporated by reference, see §1234.3);
(4) ANSI/NAPM IT9.20 (incorporated by reference, see §1234.3); and/or
(5) ANSI/NAPM IT9.18 (incorporated by reference, see §1234.3).
(c) Paper-based permanent, unscheduled and sample/select records. Paper-based permanent, unscheduled, and sample/select records must be stored in records storage space that provides 24 hour/365 days per year air conditioning (temperature, humidity, and air exchange) equivalent to that required for office space. See ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 55 (incorporated by reference, see §1234.3), and ASHRAE Standard 62 (incorporated by reference, see §1234.3), for specific requirements. New records storage facilities that store paper-based permanent, unscheduled, and/or sample/select records must meet the requirement in this paragraph (c) beginning on September 28, 2005. Existing storage facilities that store paper-based permanent, unscheduled, and/or sample/select records must meet the requirement in this paragraph (c) no later than October 1, 2009.
(d) Nontextual permanent, unscheduled, and/or sample/select records. All records storage facilities that store microfilm, audiovisual, and/or electronic permanent, unscheduled, and/or sample/select records must comply with the storage standards for permanent and unscheduled records in parts 1238, 1237, and/or 1236 of this subchapter, respectively.
(a) If any provisions of this part conflict with local or regional building codes, the following rules of precedence apply:
(1) Between differing levels of fire protection and life safety, the more stringent provision applies; and
(2) Between mandatory provisions that cannot be reconciled with a requirement of this part, the local or regional code applies.
(b) If any of the provisions of this part conflict with mandatory life safety or ventilation requirements imposed on underground storage facilities by 30 CFR chapter I, 30 CFR chapter I applies.
(c) NARA reserves the right to require documentation of the mandatory nature of the conflicting code and the inability to reconcile that provision with NARA requirements.
(a) Types of waivers that may be approved. NARA may approve exceptions to one or more of the standards in this part for:
(1) Systems, methods, or devices that are demonstrated to have equivalent or superior quality, strength, fire resistance, effectiveness, durability, and safety to those prescribed by this subpart;
(2) Existing agency records centers that met the NARA standards in effect prior to January 3, 2000, but do not meet a new standard required to be in place on September 28, 2005; and
(3) The application of roof requirements in §§1234.10 and 1234.12 to underground storage facilities.
(b) Where to submit a waiver request. The agency submits a waiver request, containing the information specified in paragraphs (c), (d), and/or (e) of this section to NARA by mail at National Archives and Records Administration; Storage Coordination and Logistics (B-AD); 8601 Adelphi Road; College Park, MD 20740-6001.
(c) Content of request for waivers for equivalent or superior alternatives. The agency's waiver request must contain:
(1) A statement of the specific provision(s) of this part for which a waiver is requested, a description of the proposed alternative, and an explanation how it is equivalent to or superior to the NARA requirement; and
(2) Supporting documentation that the alternative does not provide less protection for Federal records than that which would be provided by compliance with the corresponding provisions contained in this subpart. Documentation may take the form of certifications from a licensed fire protection engineer or a structural or civil engineer, as appropriate; reports of independent testing; reports of computer modeling; and/or other supporting information.
(d) Content of request for waiver for previously compliant agency records center. The agency's waiver request must identify which requirement(s) the agency records center cannot meet and provide a plan with milestones for bringing the center into compliance.
(e) Content of request for waiver of roof requirements for underground facility. The agency's waiver request must identify the location of the facility and whether the facility is a drift entrance facility or a vertical access facility.
(a) Waiver for equivalent or superior alternative. NARA will review the waiver request and supporting documentation.
(1) If in NARA's judgment the supporting documentation clearly supports the claim that the alternative is equivalent or superior to the NARA requirement, NARA will grant the waiver and notify the requesting agency within 30 calendar days.
(2) If NARA questions whether supporting documentation demonstrates that the proposed alternative offers at least equal protection to Federal records, NARA will consult the appropriate industry standards body or other qualified expert before making a determination. NARA will notify the requesting agency within 30 calendar days of receipt of the request that consultation is necessary and will provide a final determination within 60 calendar days. If NARA does not grant the waiver, NARA will furnish a full explanation of the reasons for its decision.
(b) Waiver of new requirement for existing agency records center. NARA will review the agency's waiver request and plan to bring the facility into compliance.
(1) NARA will approve the request and plan within 30 calendar days if NARA judges the planned actions and time frames for bringing the facility into compliance are reasonable.
(2) If NARA questions the feasibility or reasonableness of the plan, NARA will work with the agency to develop a revised plan that NARA can approve and the agency can implement. NARA may grant a short-term temporary waiver, not to exceed 180 calendar days, while the revised plan is under development.
(c) Waiver of roof requirements for underground storage facilities. NARA will normally grant the waiver and notify the requesting agency within 10 work days if the agency has not also requested a waiver of a different requirement under §1234.30. If the agency has another waiver request pending for the same facility, NARA will respond to all of the waiver requests at the same time and within the longest time limits.
(a) General policy. Agencies are responsible for ensuring that records in their legal custody are stored in appropriate space as outlined in this part. Under §1232.18(a), agencies are responsible for initiating action to remove records from space that does not meet these standards if deficiencies are not corrected within 6 months after initial discovery of the deficiencies by NARA or the agency and to complete removal of the records within 18 months after initial discovery of the deficiencies.
(1) Agency records centers. Agencies must obtain prior written approval from NARA before establishing or relocating an agency records center. Each separate agency records center must be specifically approved by NARA prior to the transfer of any records to that individual facility. If an agency records center has been approved for the storage of Federal records of one agency, any other agency that proposes to store its records in that facility must still obtain NARA approval to do so.
(2) Commercial records storage facilities. An agency may contract for commercial records storage services. However, before any agency records are transferred to a commercial records storage facility, the transferring agency must ensure that the facility meets all of the requirements for an agency records storage facility set forth in this subpart and must submit the documentation required in paragraph (e) of this section.
(b) Exclusions. For purposes of this section, the term “agency records center” excludes NARA-owned and operated records centers. For purposes of this section and §1234.34, the term “agency records center” also excludes agency records staging and/or holding areas with a capacity for containing less than 25,000 cubic feet of records. However, such records centers and areas, including records centers operated and maintained by NARA, must comply with the facility standards in §§1234.10 through 1234.14.
(c) Content of requests for agency records centers. Submit requests for authority to establish or relocate an agency records center, or to use an agency records center operated by another agency, to NARA by mail at National Archives and Records Administration; Storage Coordination and Logistics (B-AD); 8601 Adelphi Road; College Park, MD 20740-6001. The request must identify the specific facility and, for requests to establish or relocate the agency's own records center, document compliance with the standards in this subpart. Documentation requirements for §1234.12(s) are specified in §1234.32.
(d) Approval of requests for agency records centers. NARA will review the submitted documentation to ensure the facility demonstrates full compliance with the standards in this subpart. NARA reserves the right to visit the facility, if necessary, to make the determination of compliance. NARA will inform the agency of its decision within 45 calendar days after the request is received, and will provide the agency information on the areas of noncompliance if the request is denied. Requests will be denied only if NARA determines that the facility does not demonstrate full compliance with the standards in this subpart. Approvals will be valid for a period of 10 years, unless the facility is materially changed before then or an agency or NARA inspection finds that the facility does not meet the standards in this subpart. Material changes require submission of a new request for NARA approval.
(e) Documentation requirements for storing Federal records in commercial records storage facilities. At least 45 calendar days before an agency first transfers records to a commercial records storage facility, the agency must submit documentation to NARA that the facility complies with the standards in this subpart. The documentation may take the form of a copy of the agency's contract that incorporates this subpart in its provisions or a statement from the agency records officer that certifies that the facility meets the standards in this subpart. An agency must provide the documentation for each separate commercial records storage facility where its records will be stored.Send documentation to NARA by mail at National Archives and Records Administration; Storage Coordination and Logistics (B-AD); 8601 Adelphi Road; College Park, MD 20740-6001. The agency must submit updated documentation to NARA every 10 years if it continues to store records in that commercial records storage facility.
(a) Content of documentation. The agency must submit documentation to NARA, by mail at National Archives and Records Administration; Storage Coordination and Logistics (B-AD); 8601 Adelphi Road; College Park, MD 20740-6001, that describes the space being protected (e.g., the type and stacking height of the storage equipment used, or how the space is designed, controlled, and operated) and the characteristics of the fire-safety detection and suppression system used. The documentation must demonstrate how that system meets the requirement in §1234.12(s) through:
(1) A statement that the facility is using a NARA certified system as described in Appendix B to this part;
(2) A report of the results of independent live fire testing (Factory Mutual, Underwriters Laboratories or Southwest Research Institute); or
(3) A report under seal of a licensed fire protection engineer that:
(i) Describes the design intent of the fire suppression system to limit the maximum anticipated loss in any single fire event involving a single ignition and no more than 8 fluid ounces of petroleum-type hydrocarbon accelerant (such as, for example, heptanes or gasoline) to a maximum of 300 cubic feet of Federal records destroyed by fire. The report need not predict a maximum single event loss at any specific number, but rather should describe the design intent of the fire suppression system. The report may make reasonable engineering and other assumptions such as that the fire department responds within XX minutes (the local fire department's average response time) and promptly commences suppression actions. In addition, any report prepared under this paragraph should assume that the accelerant is saturated in a cotton wick that is 3 inches in diameter and 6 inches long and sealed in a plastic bag and that the fire is started in an aisle at the face of a carton at floor level. Assumptions must be noted in the report;
(ii) Details the characteristics of the system; and
(iii) Describes the specific measures beyond the minimum features required by the applicable building code that have been incorporated to limit destruction of records. The report should make specific references to industry standards used in the design, such as those issued by the National Fire Protection Association, and any testing or modeling or other sources used in the design.
(b) NARA action. (1) NARA will approve the fire-safety detection and suppression system within 10 work days if NARA has previously approved the system design for similarly configured space or if a report of independent testing of a new system design is furnished as documentation.
(2) If, in NARA's judgment, the supporting documentation provided in accordance with paragraph (a)(3) of this section clearly demonstrates compliance with §1234.12(s), NARA will approve the fire-safety detection and suppression system within 30 calendar days.
(3) If NARA questions whether supporting documentation demonstrates compliance with §1234.12(s), NARA will consult the appropriate industry standards body or other qualified expert before making a determination. Before any consultation, NARA may ask the agency for additional clarifying information. NARA will notify the requesting agency within 30 calendar days of receipt of the request that consultation is necessary and will provide a final determination within 60 calendar days. If NARA does not approve the system, NARA will furnish a full explanation of the reasons for its decision.
(4) NARA will maintain a list of approved alternative systems.
(a) At the time an agency submits a request to establish an agency records center, pursuant to §1234.30, NARA may conduct an inspection of the proposed facility to ensure that the facility complies fully with the standards in this subpart. NARA may also conduct periodic inspections of agency records centers so long as such facility is used as an agency records center. NARA will inspect its own records center facilities on a periodic basis to ensure that they are in compliance with the requirements of this subpart.
(b) Agencies must ensure, by contract or otherwise, that agency and NARA officials, or their delegates, have the right to inspect commercial records storage facilities to ensure that such facilities fully comply with the standards in this subpart. NARA may conduct periodic inspections of commercial records storage facilities so long as agencies use such facilities to store agency records. The using agency, not NARA, will be responsible for paying any fee or charge assessed by the commercial records storage facility for NARA's conducting an inspection.
(c) NARA will contact the agency operating the records center or the agency holding a contract with a commercial records storage facility in advance to set a date for the inspection.
Recommended Standards Chart
[Reproduced from Section 2.3 (pp. 2-6 through 2-9) of U.S. Department of Justice, United States Marshals Service report Vulnerability Assessment of Federal Facilities]
Control of facility parking Required.
Control of adjacent parking Desirable.
Avoid leases where parking cannot be controlled Desirable.
Leases should provide security control for adjacent parking Desirable.
Post signs and arrange for towing unauthorized vehicles Required.
ID system and procedures for authorized parking (placard, decal, card key, etc.) Required.
Adequate lighting for parking areas Required.
Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) Monitoring:
CCTV surveillance cameras with time lapse video recording Recommended.
Post signs advising of 24 hour video surveillance Recommended.
Lighting with emergency power backup Required.
Physical Barriers:
Extend physical perimeter with barriers (concrete and/or steel composition) Desirable.
Parking barriers Desirable.
Entry Security
Receiving/Shipping:
Review receiving/shipping procedures (current) Required.
Implement receiving/shipping procedures (modified) Required.
Access Control:
Evaluate facility for security guard requirements Required.
Security guard patrol Recommended.
Intrusion detection system with central monitoring capability Required.
Upgrade to current life safety standards (fire detection, fire suppression systems, etc.) Required.
Entrances/Exits:
X-ray & magnetometer at public entrances Recommended.
Require x-ray screening of all mail/packages Recommended.
High security locks Required.
Interior Security
Employee/Visitor Identification:
Agency photo ID for all personnel displayed at all times Recommended.
Visitor control/screening system Required.
Visitor identification accountability system Recommended.
Establish ID issuing authority Recommended.
Prevent unauthorized access to utility areas Required.
Provide emergency power to critical systems (alarm systems, radio communications, computer facilities, etc.) Required.
Occupant Emergency Plans:
Examine occupant emergency plans (OEP) and contingency procedures based on threats Required.
OEPs in place, updated annually, periodic testing exercise Required.
Assign & train OEP officials (assignment based on largest tenant in facility) Required.
Annual tenant training Required.
Daycare Centers:
Evaluate whether to locate daycare facilities in buildings with high threat activities Required.
Compare feasibility of locating daycare in outside locations Required.
Intelligence Sharing:
Establish law enforcement agency/security liaisons Required.
Review/establish procedure for intelligence receipt/dissemination Required.
Establish uniform security/threat nomenclature Required.
Conduct annual security awareness training Required.
Establish standardized unarmed guard qualifications/training requirements Required.
Establish standardized armed guard qualifications/training requirements Required.
Tenant Assignment:
Co-locate agencies with similar security needs Desirable.
Do not co-locate high/low risk agencies Desirable.
Administrative Procedures:
Establish flexible work schedule in high threat/high risk areas to minimize employee vulnerability to criminal activity Desirable.
Arrange for employee parking in/near building after normal work hours Recommended.
Conduct background security checks and/or establish security control procedures for service contract personnel Required.
Construction/Renovation:
Install mylar film on all exterior windows (shatter protection) Recommended.
Review current projects for blast standards Required.
Review/establish uniform standards for construction Required.
Review/establish new design standard for blast resistance Required.
Establish street set-back for new construction Recommended.
Terms and Definitions in Recommended Standards Chart
[Reproduced from Appendix B, Details of Recommended Security Standards, U.S. Department of Justice, United States Marshals Service report Vulnerability Assessment of Federal Facilities]
Definition/description
B.1 Perimeter Security
Control of Facility Parking Access to government parking should be limited where possible to government vehicles and personnel. At a minimum, authorized parking spaces and vehicles should be assigned and identified.
Control of Adjacent Parking Where feasible, parking areas adjacent to federal space should also be controlled to reduce the potential for threats against Federal facilities and employee exposure to criminal activity.
Avoid Leases Where Parking Cannot Be Controlled Avoid leasing facilities where parking cannot be controlled. If necessary, relocate offices to facilities that do provide added security through regulated parking.
Lease Should Provide Control for Adjacent Parking Endeavor to negotiate guard services as part of lease.
Post Signs and Arrange for Towing Unauthorized Vehicles Procedures should be established and implemented to alert the public to towing policies, and the removal of unauthorized vehicles.
ID System and Procedures for Authorized Parking Procedures should be established for identifying vehicles and corresponding parking spaces (placard, decal, card key, etc.)
Adequate Lighting for Parking Areas Effective lighting provides added safety for employees and deters illegal or threatening activities.
Closed circuit television (CCTV) monitoring
CCTV Surveillance Cameras With Time Lapse Video Recording Twenty-four hour CCTV surveillance and recording is desirable at all locations as a deterrent. Requirements will depend on assessment of the security level for each facility. Time-lapse video recordings are also highly valuable as a source of evidence and investigative leads.
Post Signs Advising of 24 Hour Video Surveillance Warning signs advising of twenty-four hour surveillance act as a deterrent in protecting employees and facilities.
Lighting with Emergency Power Backup Standard safety code requirement in virtually all areas. Provides for safe evacuation of buildings in case of natural disaster, power outage, or criminal/terrorist activity.
Extend Physical Perimeter, With Barriers This security measure will only be possible in locations where the Government controls the property and where physical constraints are not present. (barriers of concrete and/or steel composition)
Parking Barriers Desirable to prevent unauthorized vehicle access.
B.2 Entry Security
Receiving/Shipping
Review Receiving/Shipping Procedures (Current) Audit current standards for package entry and suggest ways to enhance security.
Implement Receiving/Shipping Procedures (Modified) After auditing procedures for receiving/shipping, implement improved procedures for security enhancements.
Evaluate Facility for Security Guard Requirements If security guards are required, the number of guards at any given time will depend on the size of the facility, the hours of operation, and current risk factors, etc.
Security Guard Patrol Desirable for level I and II facilities and may be included as lease option. Level III, IV and V facilities will have security guard patrol based on facility evaluation.
Intrusion Detection System With Central Monitoring Capability Desirable in Level I facilities, based on evaluation for Level II facilities, and required for Levels III, IV and V.
Upgrade to Current Life Safety Standards Required for all facilities as part of GSA design requirements, (e.g. fire detection, fire suppression systems, etc.)
Entrances/Exits
X-Ray and Magnetometer at Public Entrances May be impractical for Level I and II facilities. Level III and IV evaluations would focus on tenant agencies, public interface, and feasibility. Required for Level V.
Require X-Ray Screening of all Mail/Packages All packages entering building should be subject to x-ray screening and/or visual inspection.
High Security Locks Any exterior entrance should have a high security lock as determined by GSA specifications and/or agency requirements.
B.3 Interior Security
Employee/Visitor Identification
Agency Photo ID for all Personnel Displayed At All Times May not be required in smaller facilities.
Visitor Control/Security System Visitors should be readily apparent in Level I facilities. Other facilities may ask visitors to sign-in with a receptionist or guard, or require an escort, or formal identification/badge.
Visitor Id Accountability System Stringent methods of control over visitor badges will ensure that visitors wearing badges have been screened and are authorized to be at the facility during the appropriate time frame.
Establish Id Issuing Authority Develop procedures and establish authority for issuing employee and visitor IDs.
Prevent Unauthorized Access to Utility Areas Smaller facilities may not have control over utility access, or locations of utility areas. Where possible, assure that utility areas are secure and that only authorized personnel can gain entry.
Provide Emergency Power To Critical Systems Tenant agency is responsible for determining which computer and communication systems require back-up power. All alarm systems, CCTV monitoring devices, fire detection systems, entry control devices, etc. require emergency power sources. (Alarm Systems, Radio Communications, Computer Facilities, Etc.)
Occupant Emergency Plans
Examine Occupant Emergency Plan (OEP) and Contingency Procedures Based on Threats Review and update current OEP procedures for thoroughness. OEPs should reflect the current security climate.
Assign and Train OEP Officials Assignment based on GSA requirement that largest tenant in facility maintain OEP responsibility. Officials should be assigned, trained and a contingency plan established to provide for the possible absence of OEP officials in the event of emergency activation of the OEP.
Annual Tenant Training All tenants should be aware of their individual responsibilities in an emergency situation.
Re-Evaluate Current Security and Safety Standards Conduct a thorough review of security and safety standards.
Assess Feasibility of Locating Day Care Within Federal Facility If a facility is being considered for a day care center, an evaluation should be made based on the risk factors associated with tenants and the location of the facility.
B.4 Security Planning
Establish Law Enforcement Agency/Security Liaisons Intelligence sharing between law enforcement agencies and security organizations should be established in order to facilitate the accurate flow of timely and relevant information between appropriate government agencies. Agencies involved in providing security must be part of the complete intelligence process.
Review/Establish Procedures for Intelligence Receipt/Dissemination Determine what procedures exist to ensure timely delivery of critical intelligence. Review and improve procedures to alert agencies and specific targets of criminal/terrorist threats. Establish standard administrative procedures for response to incoming alerts. Review flow of information for effectiveness and time critical dissemination.
Establish Uniform Security/Threat Nomenclature To facilitate communication, standardized terminology for Alert Levels should be implemented. (Normal, Low, Moderate, and High—As recommended by Security Standards Committee)
Conduct Annual Security Awareness Training Provide security awareness training for all tenants. At a minimum, self-study programs utilizing videos, and literature, etc. should be implemented. These materials should provide up-to-date information covering security practices, employee security awareness, and personal safety, etc.
Establish Standardized Armed And Unarmed Guard Qualifications/Training Requirements Requirements for these positions should be standardized government wide.
Tenant Assignment
Co-Locate Agencies With Similar Security Needs To capitalize on efficiencies and economies, agencies with like security requirements should be located in the same facility if possible.
Do Not Co-Locate High/Low Risk Agencies Low risk agencies should not take on additional risk by being located with high risk agencies.
Establish Flexible Work Schedule in High Threat/High Risk Area to Minimize Employee Vulnerability to Criminal Activity Flexible work schedules can enhance employee safety by staggering reporting and departure times. As an example flexible schedules might enable employees to park closer to the facility by reducing the demand for parking at peak times of the day.
Arrange for Employee Parking In/Near Building After Normal Work Hours Minimize exposure to criminal activity by allowing employees to park at or inside the building.
Conduct Background Security Checks and/or Establish Security Control Procedures for Service Contract Personnel Establish procedures to ensure security where private contract personnel are concerned. Procedures may be as simple as observation or could include sign-in/escort. Frequent visitors may necessitate a background check with contractor ID issued.
Construction/Renovation
Install Mylar Film on All Exterior Windows (Shatter Protection) Application of shatter resistant material to protect personnel and citizens from the hazards of flying glass as a result of impact or explosion.
Review Current Projects For Blast Standards Design and construction projects should be reviewed if possible, to incorporate current technology and blast standards. Immediate review of ongoing projects may generate savings in the implementation of upgrading to higher blast standards prior to completion of construction.
Review/Establish Uniform Standards For Construction Review, establish, and implement uniform construction standards as it relates to security considerations.
Review/Establish New Design Standard for Blast RESISTANCE In smaller facilities or those that lease space, control over design standards may not be possible. However, future site selections should attempt to locate in facilities that do meet standards. New construction of government controlled facilities should review, establish, and implement new design standards for blast resistance.
Establish Street Set-Back for New Construction Every foot between a potential bomb and a building will dramatically reduce damage and increase the survival rate. Street set-back is always desirable, but should be used in conjunction with barriers in Level IV and V facilities.
(Reproduced from Appendix C, Classification Table, U.S. Department of Justice, United States Marshals Service report Vulnerability Assessment of Federal Facilities)
Level Typical location
III Agency Mix: Government Records.
1. General. This Appendix B contains information on the Fire-safety Detection and Suppression System(s) tested by NARA through independent live fire testing that are certified to meet the requirement in §1234.12(s) for storage of Federal Records. Use of a system specified in this appendix is optional. A facility may choose to have an alternate fire-safety detection and suppression system approved under §1234.32).
2. Specifications for NARA facilities using 15 foot high records storage. NARA fire-safety systems that incorporate all components specified in paragraphs 2.a. through n. of this appendix have been tested and certified to meet the requirements in §1234.12(s) for an acceptable fire-safety detection and suppression system for storage of Federal records.
a. The records storage height must not exceed the nominal 15 feet (±3 inches) records storage height.
b. All records storage and adjoining areas must be protected by automatic wet-pipe sprinklers. Automatic sprinklers are specified herein because they provide the most effective fire protection for high piled storage of paper records on open type shelving.
c. The sprinkler system must be rated at no higher than 285 degrees Fahrenheit utilizing quick response (QR) fire sprinkler heads and designed by a licensed fire protection engineer to provide the specified density for the most remote 1,500 square feet of floor area at the most remote sprinkler head in accordance with NFPA 13 (incorporated by reference, see §1234.3). For facilities with roofs rated at 15 minutes or greater, provide 1⁄2 ″ QR sprinklers rated at no higher than 285 degrees Fahrenheit designed to deliver a density of 0.30 gpm per square foot. For unrated roofs, provide 0.64″ QR “large drop” sprinklers rated at no higher than 285 degrees Fahrenheit. For facilities using 7 or 8 shelf track files, use QR sprinklers rated at no higher than 285 degrees Fahrenheit. For new construction and replacement sprinklers, NARA recommends that the sprinklers be rated at 165 degrees Fahrenheit. Installation of the sprinkler system must be in accordance with NFPA 13 (incorporated by reference, see §1234.3).
d. Maximum spacing of the sprinkler heads must be on a 10-foot grid and the positioning of the heads must provide complete, unobstructed coverage, with a clearance of not less than 18 inches from the top of the highest stored materials.
e. The sprinkler system must be equipped with a water-flow alarm connected to an audible alarm within the facility and to a continuously staffed fire department or an Underwriters Laboratory approved central monitoring station (see UL 827 (incorporated by reference, see §1234.3)) with responsibility for immediate response.
f. A manual fire alarm system must be provided with a Underwriters Laboratory approved (grade A) central monitoring station service or other automatic means of notifying the municipal fire department. A manual alarm pull station must be located adjacent to each exit. Supplemental manual alarm stations are permitted within the records storage areas.
g. All water cutoff valves in the sprinkler system must be equipped with automatic closure alarm (tamper alarm) connected to a continuously staffed station, with responsibility for immediate response. If the sprinkler water cutoff valve is located in an area used by the public, in addition to the tamper alarm, the valves must be provided with frangible (easily broken) padlocks.
h. A dependable water supply free of interruption must be provided including a continuous site fire loop connected to the water main and sized to support the facility with only one portion of the fire loop operational. This normally requires a backup supply system having sufficient pressure and capacity to meet both fire hose and sprinkler requirements for 2-hours. A fire pump connected to an emergency power source must be provided in accordance with NFPA 20 (incorporated by reference, see §1234.3), when adequate water pressure is not assured. In the event that public water mains are not able to supply adequate volumes of water to the site, on-site water storage must be provided.
i. Interior fire hose stations equipped with a 11⁄2 inch diameter hose may be provided in the records storage areas if required by the local fire department, enabling any point in the records storage area to be reached by a 50-foot hose stream from a 100-foot hose lay. If provided, these cabinets must be marked “For Fire Department Use Only.”
j. Where fire hose cabinets are not required, fire department hose outlets must be provided at each floor landing in the building core or stair shaft. Hose outlets must have an easily removable adapter and cap. Threads and valves must be compatible with the local fire department's equipment. Spacing must be so that any point in the record storage area can be reached with a 50-foot hose stream from a 100-foot hose lay.
k. In addition to the designed sprinkler flow demand, 500 gpm must be provided for hose stream demand. The hose stream demand must be calculated into the system at the base of the main sprinkler riser.
l. Fire hydrants must be located within 250 feet of each exterior entrance or other access to the records storage facility that could be used by firefighters. Each required hydrant must provide a minimum flow capacity of 500 gpm at 20 psi. All hydrants must be at least 50 feet away from the building walls and adjacent to a roadway usable by fire apparatus. Fire hydrants must have at least two, 21⁄2 inch hose outlets and a pumper connection. All threads must be compatible with local standards.
m. Portable water-type fire extinguishers (21⁄2 gallon stored pressure type) must be provided at each fire alarm striking station. The minimum number and locations of fire extinguishers must be as required by NFPA 10 (incorporated by reference, see §1234.3).
n. Single level catwalks without automatic sprinklers installed underneath may be provided in the service aisles if the edges of all files in the front boxes above the catwalks are stored perpendicular to the aisle (to minimize files exfoliation in a fire). Where provided, the walking surface of the catwalks must be of expanded metal at least .09-inch thickness with a 2-inch mesh length. The surface opening ratio must be equal or greater than 0.75. The sprinkler water demand for protection over bays with catwalks where records above the catwalks are not perpendicular to the aisles must be calculated hydraulically to give .30 gpm per square foot for the most remote 2,000 square feet.
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How did the Basques become R1b
Thread: How did the Basques become R1b
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We have discussed this topic extensively in various threads on the forum over the years, but there doesn't seem to be one thread dedicated to the subject. I will summarise my thoughts here so that I don't have to repeat myself every time.
As I have explained in my R1b history, between 2500 and 1800 BCE Western Europe was invaded by Bronze-age Indo-European speakers carrying mostly the R1b paternal lineage.
I could be believed that the Basques escaped this Indo-European invasion because they retained their non-IE language to this day. That is not the case.
In Iberia, it seems that the (Proto-)Celts of the early Bronze Age simply failed to impose their language not just over the Basque and Aquitanians, but also over all Mediterranean Iberia. In fact, there is no conclusive evidence that (Proto-)Celtic was spoken in Iberia before the Iron Age, with the La Tène expansion of the Celts to Northeast Iberia. Iberian was still spoken when the Romans arrived. It was the Romanisation that eventually obliterated Iberian language around the 2nd century.
I think it is very possible that all Iberia and Southwest France, and not just the Basques, kept their original Neolithic languages following the Bronze Age Indo-European invasions.
The survival of the indigenous language would have been the most likely scenario if the IE/R1b invaders were predominantly men. An army of adventurous Celtic men riding horses and equipped with bronze weapons could have butchered a substantial part of the Neolithic Iberian male population and taken their women. As good conquerors they would have taken many wives or concubines each (polygamy), having a great many children each, which helped the spread of R1b Y-DNA lineages (see How did R1b become dominant in Western Europe). Children, however, learn the language of the people who raise them, and these kinds of fathers would not have been able to take care of so many children. They would have concentrated on ruling their new land and enjoying their privileges, and left the education of their offspring to the (local) women.
After one, or a few, generation(s) their IE language would have completed disappeared, leaving only the previous Neolithic languages. It is possible, and even expected, that a few loanwords from (Proto-)Celtic entered the non-IE languages of Iberia and Southwest France to fill the gaps in vocabulary for new Bronze Age technologies brought by the Indo-Europeans. This is exactly what we see in the modern Basque vocabulary. I expect that the same happened to all other non-IE languages of the peninsula in the Bronze Age.
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Originally Posted by Maciamo
R1b folks haven’t been IE horse riders at the first place they were seafarers and belonged to Cardium Pottery or Cardial Ware culture. They migrated from Levant (that’s why R1b Basques have no Caucasian component) by water route along seashore and made first European settlement in present day Albania (see map below).
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Albania is the palace where the first European clades below R1b-L23 have appeared. It’s pretty much obvious and can be seen on the map for R1b-L151 and R1b-L51 distribution.
http://foto.rambler.ru/photos/51179ebd-c189-9a89-7d9e-0c95bc909bcb/
Moving along seashores R1b folks soon reached South France then Portugal and Britannia. From history we know them as Ibero-Ligurians. Spread and distribution of U152 clades mirror expansion of Ligures in inland France and Iberian peninsular.
Later they were captured and assimilated be IE folks.
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How about this R1b is a western European hg, and R1a is an eastern European haplogroup.
How about maybe because the celts lived in western europe, you're wrongly assuming a modern nation has monopoly over a y-chromosome.
How about maybe the Slavs lived in Eastern Europe, and you're wrongfully assuming the same thing.
How about the Indo-Europeans were a mixture of R1b, R1a, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, considering they were modern tribes living in the cross roads of humanity in Eurasia.
How about there were different tribes of R1b, some pre-IE, some IE.
Can you explain this to me, since R1b is 18,000 years old, and in Chad/Cameroon this goes up to 90% frequency, and those people are definitely not 90% white, are you saying R1b carriers were black 18,000 thousands years ago?
Assuming you're considering them as Europeans 6000 years ago, are you saying they went from black to white in a little over 10,000 years? Think about that.
Ill say it again, as I made this analogy before.
Haplogroups are like stds. You can spread them around, give them to the next person, make maps out of it, but it doesn't tell you anything about the genetic content of the person. It just says they have an std.
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Originally Posted by Finalise
Anciently/originally? How anciently? Who introduced it? These are the questions we're trying to answer.
Who is saying that "a modern nation has monopoly over a y-chromosome"? You're not responding to anybody.
Who is saying that the Indo-Europeans were not a mixture? (And seriously? M? You're not even trying.)
Did anybody say anything that would contradict this? The question is how a particular non-IE group came to be R1b dominant.
That doesn't follow under anybody's logic that I've read.
I would think about that... but it doesn't make any sense...
That's nonsensical. A Y-DNA haplogroup is a part of the genetics of a man. You're also severely underestimating the amount of information Y-DNA analysis of populations can contain. It has many advantages over autosomal analysis, the most important being that it is much easier to date. It is also easier to isolate certain strains (haplogroups vs. components) and assign meaning to them.
Your STD analogy only works to a point. Actually, if we were to sample virus strains and determine their phylogeny, we would have a very good understanding of how they were passed historically, as well as the point of origin... of the virus. If you want to find points of origins of human paternal lineages, obviously Y-DNA is much more useful than STDs.
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This is the 3rd "last post" you mentioned.
Father's Mtdna H95a1
Grandfather Mtdna T2b24
Great Grandfather Mtdna T1a1e
GMother paternal side YDna R1b-S8172
Mother's YDna R1a-Z282
Originally Posted by GloomyGonzales
I have seen this before and do not entirely diagree with it. it does mean a landing anywhere between the Italian riviera and catalonia
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I'd like to add:
- We have late Neolithic R1b from del Bell Beaker site in Germany, so definetely predates the Bronze Age. Just a remark, I know it's probably irrelevant if it's a late Neolithic or an Early Bronze Age event.
- Taking autosomal tests as reference, the Basques along with Sardinians seem to be the least affected by the IE invasions. One could wonder if there were many different IE waves, and the first speakers in Europe were not the carriers of some components. Or in other words, there wasn't much of a difference between the first IE invaders and the Neolithic population regarding genetics.
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Replace the horses with boats and this sounds alot like the Vikings. Or the Anglo-Saxons. Or even the Normans. What comes around goes around I guess.
R1b hasn't always been the sedate, cultured haplogroup we see today. And here I was feeling guilty about I1's past rampages.
Finalise, you should reconsider leaving the site. Just because you have a differing opinion from another individual (or group), that's no reason to excuse yourself from the exchange of ideas. Life is about contrasting viewpoints, if everyone agreed all the time wouldn't we all get bored quickly?
Plenty of language experts on Eupedia would love nothing more than to dissect past perfect tenses of Latin verbs with you. That's not my thing, but I don't begrudge others for their niche interests-- nor should you. So please continue to contribute on this site, and use your sense of humor as a shield to protect you from any errant blows.
Now back to R1b Basque... I don't see how this tribe could maintain such a seperate identity by travelling through an over-land route. I'm thinking they originally arrived in Iberia by boat (via Med. Sea) with not much interaction along the way. And their current population advantage comes from implementing more complex organizational networks over time rather than pressing military advantages.
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I still think it is possible that R1b in Western Europe can be a late Neolithic fenomenon before the arrival of Indo-European languages. It is possible for people in a large area to take their language from a small ruling elite (see Hungarians, Romance people).
There was already R1b during the late Neolithic. If they were IE speakers or not, that's another issue, but seems pretty much a Celtic marker (or mostly carried by Celts), who clearly spoke IE. On the other hand, what it's an evidence is that, despite the high R1b levels among Basques, they fall definetely outside the modern European variation when checking autosomal tests. That means overall they were the least affected by the successive migrations, and possibly R1b has little to do with some components, specially the West Asian genetic signature, the one which seems to correlate with the IE irruption into Europe. But as I said, maybe the initial wave only carried a haplogroup (R1b), and we could be dealing with a population fairly similar to the Neolithic pre-IE inhabitants in genetic terms. That would explain why the Basques still show such a curious peculiarity, and points to the need of another explanation for the autosomal results.
If the answer is that only some types of R1b carried the West Asian related components, then I am not enough versed to speculate which ones and why the Basques were not impregned by them. That would probably consist on checking common subclades which Basques lack or simply possess at very low levels.
Sennevini and Knovas--both of your last comments work with my Med. boat theory. Travel over water gets them to Iberia faster and earlier than wandering on foot (or even horse).
I think there are two ways in which R1b could have reached Western Europe, all of which is just guessing, but we have to start somewhere:
I: They came from Balkan/Anatolia and travelled along the Danube and Rhine, spreading over the more sparse populated Western Europe, profiting in population growth from their late neolithic agriculture for which there was a lot of space in Western Europe.
II: they came from the sea directly (also from Balkan/Anatolia) in Western Europe, but, because the variance of R1b is higher in France than Iberia, I prefer the place of arrival then more in Southern France.
For now, if R1b can be connected with a pre-Indo-European rapid spreading late neolithic culture, I would prefer the Danube setting, but I certainly think we should not underestimate the faring skills of the people in this time.
The arrival of Indo-European just seems slightly to late for me to have tremendous effect on the population (even in the more changeable Y-dna) as a whole. As said, language can be taken from a powerful (small) elite, of which there are examples.
That does not mean I disregard spread of language with spread of people; no, of course, when for example pioneers take possession of a land (as in America, but also in the neolithic), they will take their language with them.
To stay on topic: if we see the spread of R1b as suggested by me, Basque may have been a language spread in neolithic by R1b-people.
I don't doubt R1b travelled into Europe through the Danube, several different routes over land, through the Baltic, and hugging the Northern coast of the Mediterranean Sea by boat. Their huge numbers indicate multiple methods of arrival in wave after wave.
Here I'm referring specifically to the original Basque settlers though. Their unusual language tells me they made little contact with neighbors on the journey from the Russian steppes (if that's still where science has them pegged) to their new home in Iberia. How else could such a unique language develop?
They would have had to travel over water with little to no neighbor contact--ensuring the purity of the language-- and the Mediterranean route makes the most sense.
Last edited by nordicfoyer; 13-02-13 at 02:34. Reason: added sentence
Originally Posted by Sennevini
I also think that the seafaring abilities of people 5000 years ago would have been sufficient for them to travel long distances across the Black Sea and Mediterranean. However the size of the ships would have been small and they could never have launched a massive migration or invasion by sea. Neolithic farmers certainly used ships to colonise the Mediterranean coast and islands, but I seriously doubt that the Indo-Europeans from the Pontic Steppe did, apart maybe for moving along the Black Sea coast. A small contingent of immigrants landing in France or Iberia would never have been able to take over the whole of Western Europe in a few centuries. That is just not possible. Additionally the archaeological record doesn't show any new Bronze Age or steppe culture springing out of nowhere in France or Iberia, but clearly shows a slow progression from Ukraine and Romania along the Danube, then from Germany to all Western Europe. There is not the slightest doubt about that in my mind.
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Originally Posted by Knovas
I think bell beaker culture was originated in SW Iberia. Brought to Europe by celts describing a circle as the clock direction, from west facade into actual France, then Germany, finally from Germany to NE Iberia. The first were tartessian, vettons, celticis, gaellics. The "back to home" cames from Central Europe hallsatt people entering Iberia and becaming celtiberians (actual catalonia, aragon, soria, la rioja, NE castilla la mancha)
http://www.worldfamilies.net/forum/i...10990.320;wap2
Then how do you explain the utter disconnectedness of the Basque language? I agree that most of R1b arrived by the method you've mentioned, but here we are talking only about the Basque people. A large fleet of ships wouldn't be needed-- just 40 or so kayaks or canoes would be more than enough to get the job done. If Iberian was lightly populated at the time of their arrival, the founder population wouldn't have to be very large. Especially if they had a more efficient organizational/governing system than the existing tribe(s).
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I thought BB R1b represents an additional problem for the IE R1b theory. Do you mean that the R1b in that one Bell Beaker was inherited from very first Bronze age IE invaders and that Bell Beakers were originally not R1b?
No, I didn't mean this, that point does not look relevant to me. I was just remarking that R1b was present in the late Neolithic, so definitely before the Bronze Age. What maybe we should consider, is that IE languages arrived before the Bronze Age, and R1b could still fit. But you know, late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age...it's pretty much the same. What would be really surprising, is to find R1b in the "middle Neolithic".
What seems clear, is that Basques were the same affected by R1b compared to other groups (Irish, Welsh, Scots, and so on), and they lack the West Asian related componenets or have very low levels, while the others do have noticeable percents usually. So what seems to not fit, is West Asian = R1b, although perhaps only some subclades carried the component. I'm not able to speculate more on the issue as I said, possibly other forumers would do it better than me.
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I don't think R1b is related with Indo-european invasions...probably arrived before, and then later came in as a second wave with Indo-Europeans once they adopted the language and culture (Celtic, Italic, Germanic) and probably related with some kind of very primitive Proto-proto-Basque language. What is clear is that R1b translates autosomally with the Atlantic/Western kind of components. For example, in the Eurogenes EUtest, the Atlantic component peaks in Basques, but it is followed by Scottish and Irish people, and then other like Spanairds, French..etc which mimmics very well the frequency of R1b in Europe. This kind of Western components, what is hidden inside of them, is ultimately a mix of West-Asian and Mesolithic Euro (Northern-like), but this west-asian doesn't involve the Caucasus/West-Asian component (as it is non-existant in Basques). So, we assume there have been different waves from West-Asia, of different sources.
Thanks, and I agree.
We did speculate a lot and when I speculate of R1b then I immediately think of the Gedrosia component and the Basques.
Bell Beakers found in:
Iberian peninsula around 2900 BC
Ireland and England around 2500 BC
Central Europe and Balkans around 2500 BC
Sardinia around 2000 BC
This probably means that BB was already R1b, based on the ages of R1b subclades. We know that Corded Ware was IE and a contemporary of BB. We just don't know what language did BB speak (assuming a language family was associated with BB). My hunch is that it was a caucasian language simmilar to basque. So Basque never became R1b; Basque always was R1b, just everybody else became IE.
Originally Posted by ElHorsto
The correct thing, in my honest opinion, is to check as much admixture experiments as possible. And when doing this, one definitely must recognise that Basques, along with Sardinians, are the least afected by the West Asian related components. That's what we usually see, so whatever it is present among them, it's little relevant compared to other groups. Keep in mind in that particular run the Atlantic-Med component was so remote, even compared to the North European. So for instance, it's not the same 8% Gedrosian among the Irish, and 8% Gedrosian among Basques. Admixture proportions make the picture fairly different, I think it's clear what I mean.
The correct thing, in my honest opinion, is to check as much admixture experiments as possible. And when doing this, one definitely must recognise that Basques, along with Sardinians, are the least afected by the West Asian related components. That's what we usually see, so whatever it is present among them, it's little relevant compared to other groups.
Even if they are least affected (apart from Saami and Finns), they are not completely unaffected. And R1b would be an elegant explanation. Also remember that Sardinians have lowest Gedrosia admixture and coincidentally much lower R1b too, but much more G instead. The higher West Asian component further east in Italy, Balkans and Alps can be explained by other than R1b-only intrusions (LBK,...).
Originally Posted by nordicfoyer
I think Iberia was the most populated place in Europe at the time of IE migrations into europe because de glaciations. And I think R1a was IE, R1b was Iberian mutation on R1a. So R1a cames to Iberia several time before the IE biggest migration waves.
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Mesolithic Greece: Face of 9,000-Year-Old Teenager Reconstructed
Thread: Mesolithic Greece: Face of 9,000-Year-Old Teenager Reconstructed
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If these are accurate depictions, than I certainly agree with the reconstruction artist, that hard features disappeared overtime, in favor of smoother ones.
The meticulous process, based on a skull from a Greek cave, reveals how our facial features have changed over the millennia.
Her name is Avgi, and the last time anyone saw her face was nearly 9,000 years ago. When she lived in Greece, at the end of the Mesolithic period around 7000 B.C., the region was transitioning from a society of hunter gatherers to one that began cultivating its own food.
In English, Avgi translates to Dawn—a name archaeologists chose because she lived during what's considered the dawn of civilization.
Little is known about how she lived and died, but now archaeologists can see the ancient woman's prominent cheekbones, heavy brow, and dimpled chin.
Avgi's face was revealed by University of Athens researchers at an event at the Acropolis Museum on Friday.
To reconstruct her face was no small feat. An endocrinologist, orthopedist, neurologist, pathologist, and radiologist were all needed to accurately reconstruct what Avgi would have looked like. The reconstruction team was led by orthodontist Manolis Papagrigorakis, who noted at the museum event that while Avgi's bones appeared to belong to a 15-year-old-woman, her teeth indicated she was 18, "give or take a year," said Papagrigorakis.
In addition to the team of doctors, the university worked with Oscar Nilsson, a Swedish archaeologist and sculptor who specializes in reconstructions. He's worked on bringing so many ancient faces back to life that he even has a favorite period to work on: "the Stone Age," he says.
"[The Stone Age is] this enormously long period so unlike our age, but we are physically so alike," he adds.
Nilsson starts with her skull, which was unearthed in 1993 at Theopetra cave, a site in central Greece which has been occupied continuously for some 130,000 years. Researchers take a CT scan of the skull, and a 3D printer then makes an exact replica of the scan's measurements.
"Onto this copy pegs are glued, reflecting the thickness of the flesh at certain anatomical points of the face," he says.
This allowed him to flesh out Avgi's face, muscle by muscle. While some of her features are based on skull measurements, others, like skin and eye color, are inferred based on general population traits in the region.
It's not the first time Papagrigorakis, Nilsson, and the University of Athens team has brought an ancient face back to life. In 2010, they reconstructed the face of an 11-year-old Athenian girl named Myrtis who lived around 430 B.C. In the almost 7,000-year period between Avgi and Myrtis, facial structure appears to soften.
"Avgi has very unique, not especially female, skull, and features. Myrtis, still a child, does not differ at all in the features we find around us today," says Nilsson. "Having reconstructed a lot of Stone Age women and men, I think some facial features seem to have disappeared or 'smoothed out' with time. In general, we look less masculine, both men and women, today."
Not much is known about the circumstances of Agvi's death, but archaeologists know that Myrtis died from typhoid in an epidemic that devastated fifth-century Athens; it's a disease that still kills thousands today.
As 3D modeling technology advances, archaeologists are using the technique more frequently to reconstruct ancient faces. In December, researchers reconstructed the face of an ancient Peruvian queen, and last January, the world finally saw the man behind the famous 9,500-year-old Jericho Skull.
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Ι waited for thatAvgi is very familiar, I amazed from her close set small eyes simillar of that of Grifin Warrior, which I consider as hunter trait. I would say her type is still present and that we didn't change so much...The reconstruction is a masterpiece! -Maybe one of a kind. The colours of the skin and hair is very succesfully combinated. Great work.
If this is supposed to be a WHG type the eyes should be blue shouldn't they? I wish someone would do an autosomal analysis and then correlate that with the reconstruction.
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Originally Posted by Angela
I agree, the skin should be darker as well.
Like La Braña 1
I did not know that WHG had blue eyes, that also means that all -of them- had blue eyes;
About the option the sample to be a SHG; that works the same;
About the "hunter trait", seems to fired you. I mean that a close set of eyes usually reveal hunter qualities.
At least that happens to other mummals .If you ever see horse, cows, sheeps etc you noticed that they have a wide range angle beetween and the bulb of the eyes are projected so they have the ability for more peripheral vision. The cows watching you almost from behind without need to have a big turn their neck.
The narrow set of eyes are more representative to hunters like cats, wolves, bears, lions etc for other reasons...
So take it as a metaphor, or parabole whatever. I just meant that looks wild and primitive. That's all
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This is her skull:
Attachment 9674
I'm not competent to judge whether they did a good job or not.
By way of contrast here is a contemporaneous skull, only this one is from Jericho in the Levant. Of course, these farmers also descend from hunter-gatherers, just different kinds of hunter-gatherers. It's quite different. I wonder why no one has attempted a reconstruction?
This is also a reconstruction of a supposed Mesolithic European, this time from the Netherlands, around 5,000 BC, so later. I'm presuming she's from a hunter-gatherer community which didn't admix with the farmers.She has a slightly Siberian like almost Amerindian like look to me in the wideness and sharpness of the cheekbones and the overall bone structure. Looking at the skull of La Brana, I never thought that was a very good reconstruction, apart from the pigmentation, but who knows precisely how these people looked.
I don't know if the pigmentation for the above.
A Mesolithic woman from southern Sweden:
Since we now know Minoans were up to 86% Early Anatolian farmer, I guess we have some idea of their looks.
Here's the reconstruction, which I modified to have La Braña 1's pigmentation.
Edit: My TV monitor which my PC is hooked up to makes the colors look "cooler". I checked this pic on my phone and the colors look a bit more saturated than I intended.
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Originally Posted by Jovialis
I doubt that the 9 ka mesolithic Aegean was WHG.
There was obsidian coming from Melos to the Peleponesos 15 ka.
I guess these guys were related to EEF.
The mesolithic Greek mtDNA resembles the Boncüklü and Tepecik-Ciftlik mtDNA.
Even up to the Iron Gates there was 1 individual with mtDNA K1.
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The first one, with blue eyes could easily pass as a Basque woman especially the eyes and is actually very beautiful even for modern standard. But i also somehow doubt that Aegean HG were blue eyed because of the proximity with anatolia.
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I don't think the Mesolithic Greek looks particularly "Basque". The stronger jawline, the small but somewhat flat and wide nose, the big chin... I don't know, but those "stronger" traits I think can be found among some women around the Baltic Sea nowadays. Compare for example with Lithuanian soprano Violeta Urmana and Latvian soprano Marina Rebeka.
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"hard features disappeared overtime, in favor of smoother ones."
No wonder. If you've got photos of your great-grandparents, just take a close look. It's quite impressive how the harsh lives they lived show through their features. At age 40, they looked 60. So it's hardly surprising that people who lacked all our mod cons should be a bit stern-looking.
Originally Posted by Ygorcs
The first one, in particular, looks similar to the Netherlands hunter-gatherer woman except for the pigmentation. The second one is a bit different, imo.
I'm not sure about the woman who is the subject of this post. I wish we had some dna for her. She doesn't look very EEF to me at all, particularly in terms of the jaw and chin, and in the shortness of the nose, but ancient autosomal dna would tell us more. She may have had some, or maybe she was very much like the people at the Iron Gates, or the Ukraine.
I had more those two Basque girls in mind, those women that you post looks more roundish than the reconstruction.969952e468a9a856d1eecbb8946ff792.jpg0c31a759097df864ff111ee94f01653d.jpg
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I think that overall it is a good job, but the musculature of her face is just too much. Even the most masculine testosterone loaded bodybuilder doesn't have layers of muscle as thick as hers.
Since the artists are working with clay and materials like it I guess its hard, but a millimetre too thick and give very dramatic results.
For example In photoshop i tried to make the layers just a tiny bit thinner and opened her eyelids just a bit wider to see if it would change her appearance at all.
The mouth i think is the clearest example of way too much muscle.
Left is original, right is very slightly altered
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What is actually the most interesting its her eyes, i would not say it somehow looked like an epicanthus, but not very far.
She also somehow remind me of that eastern european HG reconstruction, maybe made by Gerasimov. Attachment 9693
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K1 has been found in both Balkan HGs and Early farmers so it's up in the air who she was related to, either way brown eyes is probably a better match than blue eyes, the earliest samples from Iron Gates were all brown eyed.
Her rugged features conpared to more modern people reminds me of the "wild types" used to describe the robust physical composition of early settlers of the Americas. The difference being that instead of relative masculine and feminine features being more pronounced in either sex masculine features were accentuated across both sexes. There's an old Russian saying that you chose a wife from behind, meaning that her looks are less important than her physical build. The same might have been true for Hunter gathers and differences between the sexes were less pronounced, at least in Europe.
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Yes, now I see that there is indeed some similarity in the tall and thin face, perhaps also at least partially that large chin. But I still don't see many similarities in terms of nose, mouth and eyes. As Angela said, it should be very interesting to see what autosomal DNA admixtures she had. She does look quite distinctive. Not very typical EEF, not very WHG, not very EHG.
Hum ! i know thats kind of hard to believe, but i always wonder if local physical traits were in fact very persistent in population at least until the Neolithic. I mean by that whatever the change of autosomal DNA or mtdna and y-chromosome haplogroups over the years, maybe Mesolithic Ukraine for exemple looks physically like Sunghir or Kostenki saying the Vestonice cluster but with addition of new traits. I remember to have see a skull from Schela Cladovei mesolithic looking really similiar to the Oase 1 or for some extend the Skhul and Qafzeh one and another from Eastern European HG looking 80% neanderthal like... I wonder how much is really the change in physical characteristics between a deep population and a newcomer population in paleolithic and mesolithic wich had very low demographics.
It would be nice to know how big she was, especially compared to the average modern European teenage female
I can definitely see resemblance between the Basque girl on the right and the Mesolithic Greek
But why and how would that happen? Certainly environmental adaptation is a thing, but it'd took at least a few milennia to reproduce the exact or at least similar phenotype of a previous different population in the same territory. Apart from that, we're all shaped by our DNA, so I find it very unlikely that people who underwent an intense change in their autosomal DNA would still look the same.
What i mean its we do have in Ukraine a gap from 33'000 BC to 9000 BC between two samples, when I2a2 or R1b went to actual Ukraine certainly it was inhabited by successors of Kostenki people, thats where I2a2 and R1b take their U2 mtdna lineage. When they coming in Ukraine, it was not abandonned, because we dont found even in mesolithic ukraine some Kostenki or Vestonice genetic link, doesn't mean that they have not contribute to the Epipaleolithic and Mesolithic newcomers. Actually there is a so huge gap in actual datas that we cant even say that haplogroup I is really an european Paleolithic lineage in all the sample before Magdalenian we only have one I* haplogroup apart of that the majority is roughly of C1a2 and CT. So we can only think with mtdna lineage like U2, U5 and maybe U8. If we assume for exemple that haplogroup U2e might be a direct maternal descendent from the Vestonice cluster, even if we dont found in Mesolithic population admixture of the Vestonice Cluster, we still know that every people with that maternal lineage have something of the Vestonice Cluster and so some physical traits. The latter is also more explainable by the fact that autochtones might be more populous than newcomers, so even if newcomers gave their autosomal dna and their lineage, they physical traits might be more oriented with the autochtones.
I find this intriguing because the reconstruction, if accurate, shows a phenotype different from the two we've already seen.
Ignore the pigmentation, because these were done before we had ancient dna results.
Mesolithic European woman from the Netherlands:
"Neolithic European"...
This one is 4000 BC from Wales:
Either these Mesolithic Greek people were a mix, or they were just a different local type.
I do agree that certain facial traits may persist even if the autosomal make up undergoes some changes.
This is the reconstruction of a woman at the English colony of Jamestown.
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Re: Bottled water (4.00 / 2)
Q: But it requires more energy and creates more pollution!
A: Well, less than soft drinks, beer, or milk.
To which one could also answer that those aren't a good thing, in excess. Drinking bottled water when there's a perfectly good tap right there is ... strange. I end up drinking it when I'm too disorganised to have packed any (or enough) water. It makes me feel slightly silly, but less silly than dehydration.
Are you falling into the trap of defending silliness for the sake of it? To prove your un-PC credentials?
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Wed Aug 5th, 2009 at 02:55:21 PM EST
Re: Bottled water (none / 0)
Drinking milk when there is perfectly good tap is strange too?
I'm defending this because I think it's just a typical idiotic upper middle class identity politics lifestyle leftist critique, where brand and posturing about "cool" things is seen as much more important than boring unsexy things that actually matter. Like water treatment plants. But hey, they're made of old fashioned things like steel and concrete, and they're smelly too! They've got lots os technology in them and they hence oppress lesbian miniority unemployed sculpters and further male patriarchic thinking, while destroying the third world, and whales!
Grrr.
by Starvid on Wed Aug 5th, 2009 at 03:43:45 PM EST
It's just a way for all these activists to feel good about themselves because they "are doing something". There's no logic to it, no quantitative reasoning, no reason at all. It's like with air travel. These people hate air travel (not that it stops them from using it, I guess they just hate it when other people use it). They never look at how big emissions air travel cause compared to other things, like coal power plants. That say China increases its annual emissions by more than the total airline industry emits, every year, is not relevant. Oh no, no proportions, just posturing on identity issues. It's the lefts mirror image of the gay marriage and abortion skit.
Bottled water is a huge marketing niche that gets a colossal amount of pure green nature advertising imagery that it mostly doesn't deserve.
Tell me how it's "upper middle class...posturing on identity issues" to point this out and encourage people to use plain tap water that comes from old-fashioned steel and concrete water treatment plants?
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Wed Aug 5th, 2009 at 04:12:03 PM EST
Most of the time it doesn't, and when people buy uncarbonated water without a really good reason (like tap water tastes bad or you are a tourist and not used to the local bacterium, etc), well, those people are freaking lost anyway.
The same people who want to ban these things (around here anyway, where there is no uncarbonated mineral water) are the people I mentioned, and who'd become outraged if anyone wanted to ban their "organic" orange juice or wine.
There was a time when carbonation, alcohol or boiling used to be the only way to drink water without risk of gastroenteritis...
But nowadays, with steel and concrete water treatment plants, drinking carbonated water, soft drinks, beer, wine or tea are a lifestyle choice as far as hydration is concerned.
The peak-to-trough part of the business cycle is an outlier. Carnot would have died laughing.
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Aug 5th, 2009 at 04:26:00 PM EST
It sure is. So why should they try to change my lifestyle for no good reason, without changing their own, the hypocrites?
A case for changing lifestyle choices can be made on the societal/enviromental impact of said individual choices.
Unless the externalities are properly priced.
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Aug 6th, 2009 at 04:17:34 AM EST
Yes, and I certainly didn't say the opposite above. But these people cannot even pronounce "externality". They don't care, they don't want to care, they just want to posture so they can feel smug and that they are the good guys with the "right" ideas.
by Starvid on Thu Aug 6th, 2009 at 09:41:39 AM EST
You wouldn't be doing any posturing yourself, of course.
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Thu Aug 6th, 2009 at 09:44:54 AM EST
Provoking people (including myself) into challenging their unreflected upon beliefs by pressing discussion points further than you really believe in them is a useful exercise, but works much better offline. I feel you can't really manage that unless you do it verbally.
Your implication that I'm marketing an ET iconoclast brand is, well, let's just say I disagree with that. I rather think it's the natural result from being the most rightwing person on a solidly leftwing site. I just really deeply disagree with the people who hawk these kind of politics, both because their ideas are wrong and because they are so ineffectual that you might actually believe they were a diversionary tactic used by, say, wineries and breweries. (No, I'm not saying they are, but that would make them seem more serious, like the theory that the "peace" movement was supported by the Soviets.)
Ironically, I do the same thing at other discussion sites I frequent, except as they are more to the right I'm the guy on the left muttering about wage equality and the states role in the economy...
Starvid:
Your implication that I'm marketing an ET iconoclast brand
Not really what I meant. I just thought you were laying it on a bit thick about "these people" and the motives you ascribe to them.
I have been known to do that, on occasion. ;)
They really do get my blood boiling, and in real life this often leads to a 45-120 minute non-stop rant until I tun out of steam, to the mild amusement of my friends, as in "here we go again". I'm sure you know the feeling.
Didn't see any talk about banning here, just countering abusive advertising.
And influencing consumer behaviour.
Hey, I have influenced my own consumer behaviour to minimize flying.
Thankfully you don't live in Sweden and have to suffer through the infantile excuse of a public debate we have here. I guess the reason they don't talk about abusive advertising here is that, well, I don't think I've ever seen a water ad in this country. But as they can never think a single independent thought they've just copied this meme from "edgy" useless leftists abroad and mindlessly applied the ideological stance without any consideration to the local conditions.
I don't think I've ever seen a water ad in this country
That might explain your position. What the people in this diary are pointing at is advertising portraying bottled water as "natural" and superior to tap water, when it is not necessarily, and when in some cases it simply is tap water in a bottle.
I don't begrudge Starvid bottled water. Having endured the very-weird-tasting water in the UK, I can appreciate someone wanting bottled water, although personally I prefer the Brits' tactic of replacing water with beer.
The whole discussion doesn't strike me as coming from the right angle.
What I don't get about bottled water is how, knowing that tap water is better for you than bottled water (at least according to every study I've ever seen), why would you fork over the equivalent of $10/gallon for the privilege of drinking an inferior resource in a disposable bottle? You could buy a Brita or Pur filter and a reusable bottle for the cost of the daily intake buying them.
Paying $3/gallon for the magic goop that gets you places in ten minutes that a hundred years ago would've required a month of planning is an outrage, apparently, protested by people choking on their $6 lattes from Starbucks or their $1.50 bottles of water.
Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to your country.
by Drew J Jones (pedobear@pennstatefootball.com) on Thu Aug 6th, 2009 at 10:32:00 AM EST
Drew J Jones:
So, er... What angle are you coming at it from?
The angle I would come at it from is that it's crappy water that costs way too much.
Well I'd agree with that.
The more precise angle the Tappening people up there are attacking from is that this mostly mediocre product is sold at a high price thanks to mendacious advertising that uses images of natural purity and greenness.
Why (4.00 / 2)
would a country like Sweden ever need water ads, honestly...
by Nomad on Thu Aug 6th, 2009 at 03:00:31 AM EST
Re: Why (none / 0)
Denmark has plenty of bottled water ads.
Me, I drink bottled water too: I take a cola bottle and put tap water in it. That's good for something like three or four uses until it becomes too iffy for my liking.
by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Fri Aug 7th, 2009 at 02:09:03 AM EST
You have not seen the ads? So you do not get some imagery if I say "hälsokällan från Bergslagen"...
You must not watch television then. Or you just watch public service to get your blood pressure up.
by A swedish kind of death on Thu Aug 6th, 2009 at 04:18:42 AM EST
Oh, I don't watch television at all. I might if I got Axess TV on my set, but I haven't got that one. I have my unplugged 12 inch screen TV (not even one of those new flat ones) standing forlorn in a corner. The only reason I still have a TV is to get a chance to avoid paying the TV licence.
Yeah, well, if you look at sources of global warming and say 'but that source is bigger' you can always come up with something to excuse inaction.
Still, taxing flying and supporting HSR are more effective ways to deal with that than trying to create consumer guilt.
by nanne (zwaerdenmaecker@gmail.com) on Wed Aug 5th, 2009 at 04:09:58 PM EST
nanne:
trying to create consumer guilt
is not the only communications option. Consumers are massively exposed to image advertising on bottled water or air travel. Why is it wrong to fight on the same ground?
In general regulation is preferable to these kinds of grassroots or media initiatives by activists or NGOs - specifically the kind of advertising reguation that you see in Nordic countries (perhaps part of the reason Starvid doesn't see too many bottled water ads).
The situation is complicated elsewhere because we live in a media environment and have a general discourse where bans on ads in which cars make trees grow and flowers bloom would be considered government intrusion on freedom of speech.
So there is a point - still, as regulation is better it should remain the ultimate goal.
I agree regulation is the goal. But how to get there when, as you say, we live in a media environment?
If we just wave the "this-should-be-regulated" flag while sniffing at attempts to score points within the media environment (judgement of their quality and likely effectiveness set aside for the sake of argument), I suggest we are comfortably ignoring the way the world works. The image-makers, meanwhile, go on creating their "reality".
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Jim Robinson's 1955 International TD14 dozer
Robert Downs and his father, Art Downs
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Richard Larusso's Massey-Harris model 81 tractor
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A big, red 1955 dozer - an International TD14 with a Buckeye Erie blade attached - helped mark the entrance to the Connecticut Antique Machinery Association's showgrounds during the annual fall festival in September last year. The dozer's owner, Jim Robinson of Derby, Conn., says he is only the second person to hold title to the big machine, which survived the flood of 1955 in the Housatonic and Naugatuck river valleys. For the past six or seven years, Jim has kept it at the CAMA showgrounds, north of Kent, Conn., and used it on a variety of tough tasks.
The big, red dozer also serves as a herald for more machinery that's parked down the lane. Agricultural Hall, on the far side of the showgrounds, shelters a number of vintage gasoline tractors owned by CAMA members, a couple of steam traction engines awaiting boiler work and a very well-preserved Buffalo Springfield road roller. Most of the tractors were out and moving about the showgrounds for the festival, mingling with other classics brought in just for the occasion.
The oldest 'visiting' tractor may have been a 1920 Titan 10-20, owned by Art Downs of Washington, Conn. An International collector, Art says he bought the tractor 10 years ago out of New York state and thinks it probably was used primarily for belt work as the wheels aren't very worn.
Possibly the shiniest tractor on display was a 1944 Massey-Harris model 81, serial no. 404758, owned by Richard Larusso of New Milford, Conn. He recently had the tractor professionally restored; it is rated as a two-plow machine, powered by a six-cylinder Continental engine with a 3.002-inch bore and a 3.38-inch stroke. The tractor features a three-speed transmission and has a maximum road speed of 12 mph.
A father-and-son restoration team, Louis and Steve Tencza, also of New Milford, trucked in a freshly restored 1939 Cletrac model EG42 that they bought derelict from Larusso, who is a neighbor. Along with it, the Tenczas showed a 1947 Gibson model D; Steve's own 1950 Ford 8N, which was featured in the Classic MotorBooks calendar a few years ago; a 1935 Farmall F-12 on iron wheels and a 1948 McCormick-Deering W-6 Standard, all fully restored.
Jay Monroe of Wilton, Conn., brought his Connecticut-made Beaver garden tractor and a CoPar Panzer, both dating to the mid-1950s. The Shaw 'Du-All' folks, holding their 2002 national show in conjunction with the festival, displayed 43 Shaws, including a bicycle with a Shaw engine in it that came all the way from Parsons, Kan.
The Shaw celebration was centered in a grove near Agricultural Hall, and Cliff Bridgford of Litchfield, N.H., national president of the group, said 16 exhibitors were responsible for the display. He personally brought the restored walk-behind model that his dad bought him 'to play with' when he was 9 years old -in 1959. Many in the group hope to attend the 100th anniversary Shaw celebration, scheduled for this July in Galesburg, Kan.
Toward the south end of the showgrounds, a quartet of couples set up small machine displays in front of their RVs - intent on getting in some good visiting with each other, as well as showing off their machines. Bill and Barb Davison of both Plainville, Conn., and Tribune, Kan., brought an extensive display of small domestic and military generators; Ed and Anne Jones exhibited brass oilers and 'What is its,' over which visitors enjoyed puzzling. Ed and Ruth Chicoine of Southampton, Mass., and Fred and Lois Nason of Westfield, Mass., set up corn grinders for visitors to watch and work.
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The oldest of Bill's generators on display at Kent dates to 1928, but he says he has some even older back home. Also on display was an Onan Electric Lite Plant, dating to 1932, which produced 110 volts on AC and 6 volts on DC, and had a 500-watt capacity at 1,800 rpm. It was powered by a 60-cycle model A Briggs and Stratton engine. A 6-volt Delco Lite airline charger, sold by both Montgomery Ward & Co., and Sears, Roebuck & Co., is similar to one used by Bill's parents to light their Kansas farmhouse before rural electrification came through in the 1940s. Bill remembers a windmill was used to charge the batteries on the generator.
Ed and Ruth trailered in a selection of old-fashioned corn grinders - and plenty of corn to keep the machines turning. Visitors saw how dried corn, still on the cob, was transformed in earlier times into meal for making such human foods as bread, flapjacks or mush, and livestock chow.
The Chicoines' display included a 1 1/2-hp 1917 Economy engine that powered an early-1920s David Bradley burr mill; a hand-crank International corn sheller of unknown age, but probably from the early 1940s; an early 1920s hand-crank Fulton 'style P' box grinder and an early 1920s Red Chief box grinder.
The International, which has that name on one side and 'McCormick' on the other, has a separator on it, so the cobs come out one hole; the grist out the next hole down, and the corn kernels out a third, at the very bottom. The Fulton sports a number of holes in its cast-iron body, and Ed says he thinks the design aimed to save metal and to help move cobs efficiently through the grinding apparatus, which ensured all kernels were removed. The Red Chief was made in Louisville, Ky.; children especially enjoyed operating it and the Fulton, both of which had hand cranks, to see how the machines worked.
'The grinders are all adjustable,' Ed says, noting they were probably used to grind feed for livestock, most likely fowl. Fred made a screen for Ed's burr mill, to separate the finer meal for cooking from the more coarse meal, for livestock or wild bird feed.
Of the foursome, Fred and Lois frequent an Amish gristmill near Ronks, Pa., which operates with a 16-foot overshot waterwheel. There, they stock up on their favorite roasted corn, which they use for the grinding demonstrations. Wearing his trademark top hat, Fred mixes cornmeal batter from scratch, using the freshly ground meal, bakes it into bread in a vintage camp oven and shares it with the crowd. FC
Cream Hill School rebuilt
The historic Cream Hill Agricultural School has been reconstructed on the Connecticut Antique Machinery Association's showgrounds. CAMA acquired the old school building in 1988, to save it from demolition, moved it to the showgrounds and reconstructed it in 1994.
The building was built by Samuel and Theodore Gold about 1845 in Cornwall, Conn., and remained in use until about 1930; the Golds taught 'the newest, scientific methods of farming,' which is why CAMA took on the project. CAMA member Bob Hunderford describes Cream Hill as 'a linear antecedent to the University of Connecticut,' and notes many original instructional furnishings, and Gold family personal items, remain in the building.
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$1.04B TOTAL SALARY
Veterans Health Administration 365 $92,560.20
Bureau of Land Management 347 $99,903.49
Peace Corps 155 $92,061.73
Federal Emergency Management Agency 103 $98,553.70
Offices of the Regional Administrators 18 $154,107.17
Office of Senior Coordinator for Southeast/Caribbean 11 $120,138.45
Food and Drug Administration 10 $127,658.60
Patent and Trademark Office 9 $118,335.00
Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers 9 $107,414.78
Office of the Chief Financial Officer (Department of Agriculture) 9 $145,119.89
Ous for Science and Technology 8 $135,631.50
Mine Safety and Health Administration 8 $153,427.00
Departmental Administration 7 $133,005.14
Railroad Retirement Board 5 $128,432.80
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Acquisition and Logistics 3 $114,963.00
Committee for Purchase from People Blind or Severely Disabled 2 $105,256.00
Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation 1 $46,041.00
Federal Supply Service 1 $162,843.00
Office of the Inspector General (Department of Labor) 1 $145,400.00
American Battle Monuments Commission 1 $172,430.00
Federal Communications Commission 1 $161,900.00
Office of Public Affairs 1 $145,400.00
1 $148,056.00
Office of Assistant Secretary for Policy 1 $145,400.00
Rural Housing Service 1 $135,877.00
Federal Housing Finance Board 1 $182,683.00
Substance Abuse & Mental Health Service Administration 1 $157,249.00
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Regulation 1 $134,420.00
Office of the Solicitor (Department of Labor) 1 $145,400.00
Architectural & Transportation Barrier Compliance Board 1 $148,949.00
John F. Kennedy Space Center 1 $127,891.00
Office of Vocational and Adult Education 1 $145,400.00
Office of Congressional & Intergovernmental Affairs (General Services Administration) 1 $165,200.00
GM - Emp Covered By Pmrs Termination Provisns 156
FP - Foreign Service Personnel 150
AD - Administratively Determined Rates, Not E 99
FG - Similar To The General Schedule 12
FJ - Officials On Noncareer Appointments 4
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Ellen DeGeneres Enlists Dua Lipa to Prank Shoppers With Her Song Lyrics In Must-See Video
by Vannessa Jackson | Mon., Jan. 6, 2020 9:07 AM
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New year, same Ellen!
Ellen DeGeneres can't stop pranking people, and we wouldn't have it any other way. On her talk show The Ellen DeGeneres Show, the host loves to put her staff in precarious situations all the time. From scaring the daylights out of them to making sure they embarrass themselves in front of random strangers, nothing is off limit.
The queen of daytime TV recruited musician Dua Lipa to help her with her latest prank. In the video, the host sent Dua and one of her writers Lauren out into the world to mess with unsuspecting strangers. The unlikely pair walked across the store World Market in Los Angeles and spoke only the lyrics to the songs "New Rules" and "Don't Start Now."
In case you're wondering, no, those aren't very easy songs to fit into regular conversation. In fact, the ridiculous nature of some of the lyrics made for some hilarious oversharing moments between unsuspecting shoppers.
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Verses like, "Did a full 180, crazy / Thinking 'bout the way I was / Did the heartbreak change me? Maybe / But look at where I ended up" or "My love, he makes me feel like nobody else, nobody else / But my love, he doesn't love me, so I tell myself, I tell myself," were all fair game.
Dua may be a musician first, but something tells us she could have a future in acting. The way she stared down shoppers and shared her heart with them in song form was absolutely hilarious. Luckily for both women, many of the people they spoke to had very encouraging words to offer.
After Dua told one woman that her love makes her feel like nobody else, she was greeted with a word of encouragement. "That's the people you want to be around," the shopper shared while sneakily trying to get away. She then awkwardly offered the singer a high-five in hopes it would stop her from revealing any more intimate details of her love life in a store. Dua nailed this prank!
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We can't wait to see what other pranks Ellen has up her sleeve for this year!
Watch E! News weekday mornings at 7 a.m.! And don't miss our 2020 Grammys: E!'s Inside Guide special Wednesday, Jan. 22 at 11 p.m. for a Grammy Awards preview!
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Hugh Grant Seems to Like Being a Dad but Maybe Not So Much a Husband
By Dan Clarendon January 12, 2018
He seemingly doesn’t believe in marriage, but that doesn’t make Hugh Grant any less of a family man. In fact, it was just revealed that the Golden Globe-winning actor is expecting his fifth child! Hugh’s Swedish TV producer girlfriend, Anna Eberstein, debuted her baby bump as she and Hugh walked the red carpet at the Golden Globes on Sunday, January 7. The couple already has two kids together, a 5-year-old son named John Mungo and a 2-year-old daughter whose name has never been revealed.
Here’s where it gets a bit messy — the 57-year-old actor also has two other kids with restaurant receptionist, Tinglan Hong. The births of Tinglan’s kids are interspersed with the births of Anna’s kids. Hugh welcomed a daughter named Tabitha with Tinglan in 2011, then welcomed John with Anna, then welcomed a son named Felix with Tinglan in 2013, and now he’s back with Anna. (Confused yet?)
Hugh with his girlfriend, Anna. (Photo Credit: Getty Images)
It sounds like Hugh was never in a rush to pop the question to either woman. In 2016, he told Howard Stern that he’s ambivalent about monogamy. “I can see the lovely aspect if you marry exactly the right person — your best friend — and it’s cozy and it’s lovely, but people make so many mistakes,” he said. “I think there’s something unromantic about marriage. You’re closing yourself off.”
Hugh’s kids are rarely captured on film — which is probably a good thing, for their sake — but he has been spotted out and about many times with his godson, Damian Hurley. The now-15-year-old is the son of The Royals star Elizabeth Hurley, whom Hugh dated from 1987 to 2000.
Hugh with his godson, Damian. (Photo Credit: Getty Images)
Of course, Hugh isn’t a full-time dad — he’s still acting. He was the rom-com king for a while thanks to films such as Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, Bridget Jones’s Diary, and Music & Lyrics. (That was him singing in Music & Lyrics, by the way, though he did admit his voice was Auto-Tuned.) Lately, though, he’s been sticking to other lighthearted genres with films such as The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Florence Foster Jenkins, and Paddington 2. In fact, we’re betting he’s only doing children’s movies because he’s got four (and soon five) young fans!
This article originally appeared on our sister site, Closer Weekly.
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Texas AG investigates dental chain
The Texas attorney general (AG) is investigating charges of Medicaid fraud against the Smile Center, a chain of dental clinics in San Antonio, according to a blog post on the WOAI-TV website.
A representative from the attorney general's office confirmed that its Medicaid fraud control unit removed 180 boxes of records from several Smile Center locations. In addition, the agency's civil Medicaid department has filed a complaint in civil court against the Smile Center.
Meanwhile, the Crosley Law Firm of San Antonio is gearing up to file a lawsuit against the Smile Center on behalf of the parents of 100 former patients. In some cases, the parents of these children believe that they have been victims of substandard dental care leading to injuries and requiring additional treatment, according to the law firm's website.
The law firm also alleges the following:
Many of the parents were approached in parking lots and lured into Smile Center with the promise of dental exams for their children at no out-of-pocket cost to them.
In most cases, the children were covered by Medicaid, and Smile Center would bill Medicaid directly. Often the dental care consisted of pulpotomies and the placement of stainless steel crowns.
For some clients, the dental work may have been unnecessary, and resulted in a large bill to Medicaid.
In some instances, the injuries caused from the dental care necessitated visits to the emergency room and/or hospitalization.
Stephen Simpton, DDS, owner of the Smile Center, has filed a defamation lawsuit against WOAI and one of its reporters, according to the WOAI blog.
New polio outbreak hits China
An outbreak of polio has been confirmed in China for the first time since 1999, leaving one person dead and hospitalizing another nine, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
The disease, a contagious viral illness that in its most severe form causes paralysis, difficulty breathing and sometimes death, broke out in the prefectures of Hotan and Bazhou in the country's western Xinjiang province.
Among the ten cases confirmed, six are in children under three years old and four are young adults.
The WHO said evidence indicates the virus is genetically linked to polio cases currently circulating in Pakistan, which borders Xinjiang. Pakistan has been affected by the nationwide transmission of the same WPV1 strain.
It also warned the virus could spread beyond the current affected area.
"Although other areas in China or other countries are not immediately at risk due to the geographic distance to the affected province, the polio virus can travel great distances and find susceptible populations, no matter where they live," Helen Yu, from the WHO's Beijing office told CNN.
According to China's Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the Ministry of Health has dispatched a group of public health experts to the affected region to help treat the virus.
It said the local government had launched a mass vaccination campaign starting in early September. WHO confirmed initial vaccination campaigns carried out by mid-September had reached over 3.5 million children -- children being particularly vulnerable to polio.
Preemies Have Higher Mortality Risk as Young Adults
Young adults born prematurely had as much as twice the increased mortality risk as matched adults carried to term, an analysis of a large Swedish database showed.
The mortality hazard associated with prematurity emerged in early childhood, disappeared after age 5, and then reappeared at age 18.
In young adulthood, the mortality hazard declined with increasing gestational age, ranging from 0.94 per 1,000 person-years for 22 to 27 weeks' gestation to 0.46 per 1,000 person-years for 37 to 42 weeks (full term), investigators reported in the Sept. 21 issue of JAMA.
"To our knowledge, this is the first study to report the specific contribution of gestational age at birth on mortality in adulthood," Casey Crump, MD, PhD, of Stanford University, and co-authors wrote in their discussion.
"These findings underscore the need for more effective strategies to prevent preterm birth, better understanding of causal pathways, and increased awareness of the long-term health sequelae through the life course," they added.
Common Stimulant May Speed Recovery from General Anesthesia
Administration of the commonly used stimulant drug methylphenidate (Ritalin) was able to speed recovery from general anesthesia in an animal study conducted at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). The report, appearing in the October issue of Anesthesiology, is the first demonstration in mammals of what could be a safe and effective way to induce arousal from general anesthesia. While there are drugs to counteract many of the agents used by anesthesiologists -- such as pain killers and muscle relaxants -- until now there has been no way to actively reverse the unconsciousness induced by general anesthesia.
"Currently at the end of a surgical procedure, the anesthesiologist just lets general anesthetic drugs wear off, and the patient regains consciousness," says Emery Brown, MD, PhD, of the MGH Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, senior author of the paper. "If these findings can be replicated in humans, it could change the practice of anesthesiology -- potentially reducing post-anesthesia complications like delirium and cognitive dysfunction in pediatric and elderly patients."
General anesthesia has been an essential tool of medicine since it was first demonstrated at the MGH in 1846, but only in recent years have researchers begun to investigate the neurobiology of general anesthesia and to understand exactly how anesthetic drugs produce their effects. Studies by Brown and other scientists have shown that the state of general anesthesia is actually a controlled and reversible coma and bears little similarity to natural sleep. Several neurotransmitter pathways in the brain are known to be generally involved in arousal, but which ones may contribute to recovery from general anesthesia is not yet known.
The stimulant drug methylphenidate, widely used to treat attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, is known to affect arousal-associated pathways controlled by the neurotransmitters dopamine, norepinephrine and histamine. The current study was designed to see whether methylphenidate could stimulate arousal in rats receiving the anesthetic drug isoflurane. The first experiments showed that animals receiving intravenous methylphenidate five minutes before discontinuation of isoflurane recovered significantly faster than did rats receiving a saline injection. Another experiment showed that methylphenidate induced signs of arousal -- movement, standing up, etc. -- in animals continuing to receive isoflurane at a dose that would have been sufficient to maintain unconsciousness. EEG readings taken during that experiment showed that brain rhythms associated with arousal returned within 30 seconds of methylphenidate administration. Giving a drug that interferes with the dopamine pathway blocked the arousal effects of methylphenidate, supporting the role of that pathway in the drug's effects.
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3 takeaways from the House’s impeachment inquiry vote
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What we did learn Thursday is how both sides might argue for or against President Trump’s impeachment.
This wasn’t quite a proxy vote for impeachment, since we don’t yet know all the evidence or what articles of impeachment will be written up against the president. But it’s the closest thing we’ve got. So here are some takeaways from both sides’ talking points about whether to continue the House’s impeachment inquiry.
Republicans’ process argument is fading
Now that Republicans technically got what they wanted, a vote on whether to continue the impeachment inquiry, even Trump has tacitly acknowledged it becomes much more difficult to argue the inquiry is illegitimate by these standards. Here he is a day before the vote urging Republicans to argue he’s innocent of the allegations against him, rather than attack the impeachment process.
.....the call with the Ukrainian President was a totally appropriate one. As he said, “No Pressure.” This Impeachment nonsense is just a continuation of the Witch Hunt Hoax, which has been going on since before I even got elected. Rupublicans, go with Substance and close it out!
It was already a somewhat thin argument that the impeachment inquiry is illegitimate because House Democrats are holding closed-door depositions (which are normal for such a sensitive investigation) and because they didn’t hold a vote (they just did — and Republicans voted against it).
There is some merit to the GOP argument that House Democrats are selectively leaking damaging testimony about Trump. “We’re already scarred because they’ve done all these things in a shady manner and then put them out to the press the way they wanted,” White House spokesman Hogan Gidley said on Fox Business on Thursday.
But Republicans on the three committees in these depositions could do the reverse, by leaking information that exonerates Trump. It seems likely that isn’t happening not because of their profound respect for the testimony, but because to date there hasn’t been information exonerating Trump.
Rather, people in Trump’s administration are alleging at a minimum that they were uncomfortable with his politicization of Ukrainian foreign policy, and at worst thought it threatened national security.
In its place: An overreach argument leveled at Democrats
“Democrats are trying to impeach the president because they are scared they can’t defeat him at the ballot box,” said House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) in a speech before the vote.
“Every American can see this for what it is: an attempt to remove a duly-elected president for strictly political reasons by a strictly partisan, illegitimate process,” said Brad Parscale, Trump’s campaign manager, in a statement.
Compared to the process argument, this feels a little more politically resonant. It plays off voters’ hesitancy to impeach a president at any time, let alone now. It is unprecedented in modern times to have an impeachment inquiry abut a presidential election.
Even though polls have consistently shown a majority of Americans support the impeachment inquiry, a New York Times-Siena College poll out this week showed that in six states that narrowly voted for Trump in 2016, voters don’t support impeachment. It’s possible that impeaching Trump especially before an election is a step too far for swing voters.
But to make this argument, Trump’s Republican defenders in Congress also need to demonize Democrats. And they risk taking it too far.
On Thursday, the No. 2 House Republican, Steve Scalise (La.), brought with him to the House floor a printout “37 days of Soviet-Style impeachment proceedings,” with a picture of the Kremlin in the background and the hammer and sickle superimposed.
🚨 BREAKING: Dems are voting to continue their Soviet-style impeachment scheme.
They're not interested in due process.
They're not interested in ending Schiff's secretive witch hunt.
They're not interested in transparency.
They just want to rig 2020 against @realDonaldTrump. pic.twitter.com/xM5Wj2xn2t
— Steve Scalise (@SteveScalise) October 31, 2019
It’s no secret Democrats in Congress don’t like Trump, but are voters really going to think they have undermined the Constitution and turned America into an authoritarian state with this impeachment inquiry?
But when the president is saying stuff like “Greatest Witch Hunt in American History,” his supporters in Congress probably feel like they have to match his hyperbole.
Democrats are using absolutist language, too
This impeachment inquiry crystallizes the problem for Democrats ever since Trump got elected: They do think he’s bad for democracy. Not all of them supported starting up the process for impeachment — that came after these Ukraine allegations, where some people in Trump’s own administration thought his ideas were a threat to America’s interests.
But with Republicans in Congress and Republican voters so firmly in line with Trump, this becomes a largely one-party effort to investigate the president. How do they convince the American public they’re doing the right thing, rather than the politically obvious thing? On Thursday we got a look at their strategy: They’re trying to frame this impeachment in somber, existential terms.
“What is at stake in all of this? It’s nothing less than our democracy,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said before the vote.
That’s a pretty intense thing to say, even abstractly, about the fairly elected, sitting president of the United States. But as Democrats move forward to the next phase of the impeachment inquiry, they’re saying it.
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As it becomes clear there was an illegal scheme to manipulate absentee ballots in North Carolina's 9th Congressional District, GOP Sen. Richard Burr suggests the state might have to hold a new election. Things keep getting worse and worse for Mark Harris, the controversial GOP pastor who defeated Democrat Dan McCready by just 905 votes in North Carolina's 9th Congressional District. He faces serious accusations of ballot fraud — and now, there are signs that even a key GOP leader may be losing faith that he won office legitimately. Last week, the North Carolina Board of Elections and Ethics Enforcement...
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The new 350 cc engine replaces the 300 cc engine, offering significantly superior performance. The finishings of the Piaggio MP3 350 are similar to those of the Piaggio MP3 500 Sport and include numerous matt black items, including the 5 split spoke tyre rims. Standard equipment includes three wavy brake discs, while the red spring for the shock absorbers highlights the dynamic character. There are five dedicated colour schemes for the 350 version: Black, Grey and Green, all three matt, besides the classic pastel White and the new pastel Grey, both glossy.
The Piaggio 350 engine: minimal footprint, great performance
The 350 cc, 4-stroke, 4-valve, liquid cooling, electronic injection engine makes its début on the Piaggio MP3 and represents the state of the art in maxiscooter engines. Already appreciated on the Piaggio Beverly 350, it is considered one of the best engines ever built for the segment since it offers performance comparable to a 400 cc, with the limited weight and footprint of a 300 cc engine.
The head-engine block-piston assembly was designed for the ultimate optimisation of fluid dynamics using solutions capable of increasing performance and at the same time reducing fuel consumption and emissions. The stroke ratio (69 mm x 78 mm) was selected to guarantee improved output for lower speeds and partial loads and to provide greater elasticity of use. The reed valve, dry-sump lubrication system reduces both loss of power due to sloshing as well as the size of the oil pan and engine footprint. Special attention was focused on reducing internal friction: roller rockers are used to reduce noise and increase mechanical efficiency. The Piaggio 350 single-cylinder is the first scooter engine to adopt a motorcycle multi plate wet clutch to ensure better and more consistent performance even with elevated thermal stress, eliminating the possible jolts common to transmission systems when starting and ensuring an extraordinary driving experience. Such technical solutions, along with the automatic CVT (Continuously Variable Transmission), which was developed ad hoc, have brought about a weight reduction of about 10 kg compared to a 400. Crankshaft performance is very high: maximum power is over 30 hp.
Ultimate safety: three wheels, ABS and ASR
The three new Piaggio MP3 models use an ABS system integrated with ASR (Acceleration Slip Regulation). The ASR (first brought to scooters by Piaggio) can be easily disconnected and guarantees safety by keeping the rear wheel from slipping on dangerous surfaces like wet asphalt.
The three channel ABS system, developed in collaboration with Continental, maximizes active safety preventing wheel blockage when braking and providing full control of the vehicle at all times. The Piaggio MP3 employs an all-disc braking system on the three wheels, with a disc diameter of no less than 258 mm. Greater safety and an even smoother ride are provided by the large 13 inch diameter front wheels.
The Piaggio MP3 also owes its success to exclusive patented Piaggio technology for the dual independent, tilting front wheels regulated by a unique four bar linkage suspension, which the leading Group in Europe designed and developed before any other manufacturer in the world to ensure maximum riding pleasure in complete safety. The roll mechanism is made up of four fused aluminium arms linked to four hinges that are firmly connected to the central sleeve, and two side sleeves connected to the arms by means of pivots and ball bearings. Inside the side sleeves, the right-hand and left-hand steering tube rotates in a classic single-arm set-up.
The blocking mechanism for the front suspension, a distinguishing feature of the 3-wheel Italian scooter, transforms the balance of the Piaggio MP3 from dynamic to static. Start up the Piaggio MP3 and it stays in balance on the three wheels without the need for a stand (fitted nonetheless). To resume normal operation accelerate or use the dedicated push button. This means you never need to put your foot in the ground and you can park the Piaggio MP3 anywhere, easily and without effort.
Piaggio multimedia platform connected at all times by smartphone
The sophisticated Piaggio Multimedia Platform, available from among the many accessories for the Piaggio MP3 illustrated in the catalogue, connects your smartphone to the on-board electronic system, turning it into a multi-purpose instrument: a computer able to simultaneously display such data as speed, revs, engine power and torque in real time, as well as acceleration in a straight line, tilt in cornering, average and current fuel consumption, average speed and battery voltage among a host of other functions. A smartphone connected with the Piaggio Multimedia Platform can also be used to display maps and routes or to find the location, for example, of petrol stations or support services. The tyre condition control function synergistically exploits the vehicle's sensors and the smartphone to monitor tyre wear and inflation, immediately warning the user before potentially critical situations arise. while the general analysis function allows overall vehicle condition check.
A complete range of accessories
The range of accessories for Piaggio MP3 is based on a precise design philosophy: to provide maximum on-board comfort and maximum functionality in daily use, to make the life of the commuter easier.
The large rear top box, which can be unhooked rapidly and has a 50 litre capacity, can house two full-face helmets. The upper shield is painted the same colour as the vehicle and has a comfortable backrest to make the passenger's ride more enjoyable. The top box is also available in the 37-litre version.
For daily use and in all environmental conditions, the windshield accessory, in high quality anti-chip material, guarantees optimum protection from the air and weather. A great deal of care is put into aesthetics, with rods with the same finish as other vehicle details.
In addition the leg-covering fabric, an increasingly important accessory for commuters whatever the season and regardless of weather conditions, was designed to provide maximum warmth and protection against the rain. The fabric is designed for the vehicle and for perfect safety, and is stable even at high speeds. To guarantee maximum comfort in every situation a new kit of accessories that can be heated is also available: a heated unit to be inserted in the leg cover and heated hand grips, that can be regulated through a specific control unit that allows for four different temperatures.
Protecting the rider and expanding the functionality of the Piaggio MP3 is also achieved by means of: thermal and waterproof protection for the hands, the Tunnel Bag, comfortably nested behind the leg shield back plate, electronic anti-theft systems and mechanical "handle-saddle" and finally the Comfort Gel saddle, which has gel inserts under the lining to provide maximum comfort to the rider and passenger.
Accessories enhance the technology on board: exclusive technology also includes the new Piaggio Sound System (PSS), developed by the Piaggio Innovation Research Centre, which allows for audio from a Bluetooth source to be played directly from the vehicle itself, without speakers.
The TomTom Vio is also available (standard on the Piaggio MP3 500 Business), and is the first Tom Tom navigator dedicated to scooters. It was exclusively developed for the Piaggio Group and features personalised packaging, cover and splash screen.
A new range of helmets is available with the Piaggio MP3 range offering hi-tech design, safety, comfort and maximum protection.
The new modular helmet, with an original aerodynamic shape, is available in colours that match the white and green of the Piaggio MP3. Lightweight and comfortable, the (Piaggio personalised) interior fittings can be removed and washed. The helmet comes with a retractable sun visor and a chin guard that can be opened with just one hand.
Helmets in the PJ line include interesting technical and stylistic features, with innovative head design and exclusive side fastening and a large, protective visor. The breathable interior fittings can be removed and washed. The PJ range of helmets has two configurations: PJ with dual visor (normal and sunscreen) and PJ1 with recessed sunscreen visor.
A more urban jet helmet with a long visor is also available and is equally very protective; it comes with a retractable sun visor and several air intakes to ensure proper ventilation. The interior fittings can be removed and washed. Available in three colours (white, black and grey) to match the colours of the Piaggio MP3.
The new demijet Carbonskin helmet features a Demijet shell with a double visor (transparent external visor and disappearing sun visor). This helmet offers a really easy, lightweight fit, with interior fittings that can be extracted and washed and micrometric closure. The look is established by the matt black shell and a longitudinal band of leatherette that echoes a carbon-fibre pattern.
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Citigroup emerging market chief Biglari to leave: memo
Hamid Biglari, a 12-year veteran of Citigroup who was most recently head of emerging markets, is leaving the company, according to a memo from new CEO Mike Corbat on Monday.
Biglari, also a vice chairman and a member of the company's business development committee, will "explore other professional opportunities," according to the memo, which was seen by Reuters.
Corbat has been realigning the company's chain of command since he was suddenly named CEO in October to replace Vikram Pandit.
(Reporting by David Henry in New York; Editing by Gary Hill)
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INICIO // English // UNAM scientists develop map to measure seismic intensity
In order to generate these maps, Mexican scientists use information provided by several institutions such as the National Seismologic Service, operated by the Geophysics Institute - Photo: Rolex Dela Pena/EFE
UNAM scientists develop map to measure seismic intensity
Leonardo Domínguez
UNAM’s Engineering Institute is working on generating maps to measure seismic intensity and improve decision-making during times of crisis
During the first few minutes after an earthquake, there is usually a vacuum of information in which authorities are unable to determine which sites were most affected or whether or not there has been structural damage in large buildings.
This is why the Seismic Engineering Coordination at UNAM’s Engineering Institute is working on generating maps to measure seismic intensity and the overall damage throughout the national territory in real time, which could ultimately improve decision-making during times of crisis.
In order to generate these maps, Mexican scientists use information provided by several institutions such as the National Seismologic Service, operated by the Geophysics Institute.
The national coverage is very diverse, though it is focused on Guerrero and Oaxaca, where the Engineering Institute is operating a monitoring network. Coverage is more deficient in the north-east.
When a tremor occurs, the mapping process is instantly triggered to identify whether or not there has been an earthquake and, according to its acceleration, the system determines whether or not a map should be generated.
Why is Oaxaca prone to earthquakes?
Oaxaca is one of the states with the highest seismic activity in Mexico, accounting for 25% of quakes
Students from UNAM to improve seismic design in Mexico City
First seismic-resistant houses completed
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Gov. DeSantis dismisses furor over weather service interference as ‘a press thing’
Michael Moline
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Gov. Ron DeDantis declined Monday to be drawn into the debate over whether Floridians could trust weather forecasts in light of the Trump administration’s political interference with the National Weather Service.
When Hurricane Dorian loomed offshore, DeSantis advised Floridians to closely monitor weather forecasts. Asked specifically Monday whether, still deep into hurricane season, they can trust those forecasts under these circumstances, DeSantis didn’t directly answer.
“That’s more of a press thing,” the governor told reporters during a media availability.
The episode began during late morning on Sunday, Sept. 1, when Trump warned on Twitter that the Southeast – including Alabama – “will most likely be hit (much) harder than anticipated” by Hurricane Dorian.
Some 20 minutes later, the NWS Birmingham office issued its own tweet, reportedly in response to calls from Alabama residents alarmed at the president’s warning: “Alabama will NOT see any impacts from #Dorian. We repeat, no impacts from Hurricane #Dorian will be felt across Alabama. The system will remain too far east.”
Subsequently, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration rebuked the Birmingham forecasters.
DeSantis noted Monday that early forecasts suggested Dorian might indeed affect portions of Alabama. “As we got into the weekend, we knew it was pretty much an East Coast storm, and that our Panhandle communities were not going to be dealt with,” he said.
But, as of Trump’s initial tweet, forecasters expected minimal if any effects from Dorian.
In another development Monday, Craig McLean, acting chief scientist of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, said he would investigate “potential violations of our NOAA Administrative Order on Scientific Integrity,” the Washington Post reported.
In an email to employees, McLean complained that the administration’s interference was “not based on science but on external factors including reputation and appearance, or simply put, political.”
NWS Director Louis Uccellini, meanwhile, praised his Birmingham staff during a meteorological conference in Huntsville, Ala., according to the Post account. “With an emphasis they deemed essential, they shut down what they thought were rumors,” he said.
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New small Japanese hatchback - Suzuki Baleno
New small Japanese hatchback: the first photos and videos Published the first teaser compact hatchback Suzuki Baleno
Suzuki has released the first teaser of the new compact hatchback Baleno. The car, which will be the serial version of the concept car iK-2 will be presented at the International Motor Show in Frankfurt in the autumn of 2015.
Any official technical details about the new product not shown. In an official statement the manufacturer says only that "an attractive design, a spacious interior and the latest technical solutions" are qualities which distinguish Suzuki Baleno.
Add that size concept Suzuki iK-2, shown in spring 2015 at the Motor Show in Geneva, was close to the compact Swift: 4023 mm x 1920 mm x 1450 mm, with a wheelbase of 2520 mm. And under the hood of the prototype Suzuki iK-2 was placed 1.0-liter turbo engine. However, it did not disclose the characteristics of the Japanese. But it was known that the car should appear and a hybrid version.
Experts saying, that full car service and cars part replacement for this car model will make new special team.
Recall, according to current plans Suzuki, the company will present two new models every year.
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Resident Evil 2 is off to a fantastic start as Capcom reports 3 million units shipped
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Here’s a statistic that isn’t terrifying or ghastly or alarming or dreadful: Capcom has shipped three million copies of Resident Evil 2 in the four(ish) days it has been for sale. That’s downright jubilant — an emotion that’s not often associated with Resident Evil.
Capcom announced the impressive figure in a press release today. The three million mark includes both physical units sent to retailers and digital sales. There’s an important distinction to be made in noting this doesn’t equate to three million net sales. But, it’s probably safe to guess it’s somewhere in that ballpark.
The original Resident Evil 2 wound up selling just shy of five million copies. It appears that the 2019 version is well on its way to surpassing that number — undoubtedly helped along by modern conveniences such as the prevalence of digital distribution. Capcom will likely divulge actual sales data in late April or early May when it gives its financial presentation for the fiscal year that ends in March 2019.
The latest entry helps grow Resident Evil‘s lifetime franchise sales beyond 88 million units. Capcom has served up a lot of scares over the past 23 years.
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By Matt Gander UK Charts 13 April, 2015
Battlefield: Hardline has snagged a fourth consecutive number one, albeit it by the skin of its teeth – Chart-Track reports just 100 copies were between Hardline and FIFA 15, which moves up to #2 this week.
Sales were down throughout the entire UK top ten with the biggest faller being Bloodborne. The PS4-exclusive goes from #3 to #6 after a 58% drop in sales.
Following behind Hardline and FIFA 15 are GTA V, Far Cry 4 and Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare.
Then behind Bloodborne at #6 there’s Forza Horzion 2, Borderlands: The Handsome Collection, Halo: The Master Chief Collection and finally Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition at #10.
Forza Horizon 2 and Halo: MMC are both on rise due to a boost in Xbox One bundle sales. This is likely down to the new £299 price tag.
Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin meanwhile departs the top ten after just one week, falling from #8 to #15.
Dying Light also drops out of the top ten for first time since launch.
Due to last week being rather quiet there are no new entries in the top 40. The belated arrival of the Xbox One/Xbox 360 versions of Ride have propelled pQube’s racer up to #18 though. It also enters at #10 in the Xbox 360 chart and #11 in the Xbox One chart.
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News Archive - Gardner
Gardner Capital Announces New Leadership Position – Brad Fisher – Senior Vice President – Development Operations
Brad Fisher, Senior Vice President of Operations and Development DALLAS, Wednesday, December 11, 2019 - Gardner Capital, a Dallas and St. Louis based private equity firm specializing in multifamily housing and renewable energy development and investment, formally announced that Brad Fisher has been promoted to its new leadership position of senior vice president of operations [...]
Gardner Capital Announces New Leadership Position-Corey Grab, Vice President of Construction Management
Corey Grab, Vice President of Construction Management for Gardner Capital ST. LOUIS, Thursday, February 7, 2019 – Gardner Capital, a St. Louis and Dallas-based private equity firm specializing in multifamily housing and renewable energy development and investment, announced on Monday the promotion of Corey Grab to a new leadership position as Vice President of Construction [...]
GCRE Construction Announces the Completion of Riverview at Calallen in Corpus Christi, Texas Friday, December 21, 2018 Riverview at Calallen, Corpus Christi, TX ST. LOUIS – GCRE Construction, a Dallas-based full service general contractor specializing in multifamily housing construction and consultation services, announced Thursday the completion of its newest housing development Riverview at Calallen – [...]
Gardner Capital Announces the Grand Opening of Its Largest Housing Project to Date – Provision at Four Corners in Sugar Land, Texas
ST. LOUIS - Gardner Capital, a St. Louis-based private equity firm specializing in affordable housing and solar development and investment is excited to announce the grand opening of its largest housing project to date - Provision at Four Corners in Sugar Land, TX, part of the Houston metropolitan area. Gardner Capital developed & financed the [...]
Gardner Capital welcomes Ryan Combs as Senior Vice President, Development, Texas Region
Ryan Combs SVP, Development Texas, Gardner Capital ST. LOUIS, Tuesday, November 27, 2018 – Gardner Capital, a St. Louis-based private equity firm specializing in multifamily housing and solar energy development and investments, announced Friday the hire of Ryan Combs as Senior Vice President, Development, Texas Region. Based in Gardner Capital’s Dallas office, Ryan will oversee [...]
Gardner Capital Welcomes Sierra Stream as Syndication Asset Manager
Sierra Stream, Syndication Asset Manager, Gardner Capital ST. LOUIS, Thursday, November 8, 2018 – Gardner Capital, a St. Louis-based private equity firm specializing in multifamily housing and solar energy development and investment, announced on Monday Sierra Stream’s hire as the company’s new Syndication Asset Manager. Sierra will manage all financial reporting, due diligence and compliance [...]
Gardner Capital, Kansas City Board of Public Utilities and MC Power Companies Flip the Switch on 1.27MW Community Solar Farm in Kansas City, Kansas
Gardner Capital, Kansas City Board of Public Utilities and MC Power Companies Flip the Switch on 1.27MW Community Solar Farm in Kansas City, Kansas Kansas City, KS (Wednesday, September 27, 2017) – Gardner Capital, MC Power Companies, and Kansas City Board of Public Utilities (BPU) held a dedication ceremony on Tuesday, September 26, 2017 for [...]
GCRE Construction Announces Promotion of Tiffany Hoang to Vice President of Construction for the Dallas Region
Tiffany Hoang, VP of Construction - Dallas, GCRE Construction ST. LOUIS - GCRE Construction, a Dallas-based multifamily housing general contractor wholly-owned by Gardner Capital, formally announced the promotion of Tiffany Hoang to Vice President of Construction - Dallas. Tiffany will be involved all aspects of construction for all Gardner Capital’s multifamily housing developments in the Texas, [...]
GCRE Construction Announces Hire of Greg Scarcell as VP, Operations in Houston
Greg Scarcell, VP of Operations - Houston ST. LOUIS - GCRE Construction, a Dallas-based multifamily housing general contractor, formally announced the hire of Greg Scarcell as VP, Operations – Houston on Monday. In his new position, Greg will manage all aspects of construction for Gardner Capital’s multifamily housing developments in the Houston Metropolitan Area – [...]
Gardner Capital Announces Completion of Senior Living Community in Dallas-Fort Worth Area – Gala at Oak Crest Estates
Aerial photograph of Gala at Oak Crest Estates ST. LOUIS – Gardner Capital, a St. Louis-based private equity firm specializing in affordable housing and solar development and investment, announced Monday the grand opening of its newest housing development Gala at Oak Crest Estates – a new senior living community located in Euless, Texas, part of [...]
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Home Company News Eastern Cape universities are leading research in vital sectors
Eastern Cape universities are leading research in vital sectors
Partnerships and collaboration between educational institutions, the private sector and government are preparing the way for future generations to be on the edge of innovation in vital sectors.
Ocean Sciences Campus - Nelson Mandela University (Picture source: Nelson Mandela University)
Expensive medical tests in rural areas for problematic pregnancies could soon be a thing of the past. The new Rhodes University Biotechnology Innovation Centre is working on a cellphone app that will send colour pictures of test strips to diagnostic centres, saving the patient a long and difficult journey.
The University of Fort Hare is leading three innovative studies into biogas including a project investigating compressed biogas for public transport. Partners in the project are the Department of Economic Development, Environmental Affairs and Tourism (DEDEAT), the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation and United States Agency for International Development. The South African National Energy Development Institute (SANEDI) is working with Fort Hare on a pilot scheme of biodigesters for households.
In 2017, Nelson Mandela University (NMU) inaugurated its Ocean Sciences Campus at its Port Elizabeth base. This includes a unit aimed at combating sea fisheries crime (FishFORCE, with support from Norway) and the South African International Maritime Institute (SAIMI). The university has four marine sector chairs funded by the South African Research Chair Initiative (SARChI) and the National Research Foundation (NRF).
Walter Sisulu University (WSU) and the University of South Africa (Unisa) offer vocational training (diplomas) and academic programmes (degrees).
There are several examples in the Eastern Cape of collaboration between the manufacturing sector and educational institutions. General Motors SA has assigned R3.6-million to a Chair in Mechatronics at NMU, which offers a Bachelor of Engineering in Mechatronics, covering electronics, mechanical engineering and computer-aided design. Volkswagen supports the International Chair in Automotive Engineering at NMU. Rhodes University’s Centre for Environmental Water Quality, within the Institute for Water Research, is sponsored by Unilever. The NMU Institute of Chemical Technology commercialises research through a body called InnoVenton and has several clients in the private sector.
The Provincial Government of the Eastern Cape is supporting skills training in the maritime sector through the Maritime Youth Development Programme. So far, it has benefitted 128 young people from Buffalo City Municipality and Port St Johns and will be rolled out to other areas. In the Youth in Infrastructure Maintenance Programme, the provincial government partners with several national departments to provide opportunities for unskilled young people with NCV 4 and Grade 12 qualifications and below. The programme is targeting 5 000 young people over a period of five years.
The Eastern Cape has eight Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET) colleges, most of which have more than one campus: Buffalo City, Port Elizabeth, Lovedale, King Hintsa, Ingwe, King Sabata Dalinyebo, Ikhala and Eastcape Midlands College.
Eastern Cape Department of Education: www.ecdoe.gov.za
Ocean Sciences Campus: www.mandela.ac.za
Technology Innovation Agency: www.tia.org.za
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Home Our services Dermatology Service overview
About our dermatology service
Diagnosing and treating skin diseases
Specialties list
Adult Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB)
Children's dermatology
Cutaneous allergy
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Dermatological Surgery and Laser Unit
Severe eczema service
Genetic skin diseases (genodermatoses)
Hair and nails service
Immunobullous service
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Photodermatology
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Urticaria clinic
Women's dermatology
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Specialist dermatology laboratories
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Immunodermatology
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Our dermatology department is known as St John's Institute of Dermatology.
John Milton founded St John's Hospital for Diseases of the Skin in 1863. He was a surgeon who suffered from hand eczema so severe it ended his career. His personal experience with skin disease triggered his interest in dermatology.
The hospital was based in several different locations in Soho in the early 20th century. After World War II it occupied outpatient premises in Lisle Street, Leicester Square.
St John's Hospital for Diseases of the Skin moved to St Thomas' Hospital in the mid-1980s. Soon after, St John's was formally renamed St John's Institute of Dermatology.
St John’s remained at St Thomas’ until very recently when the newly refurbished Bermondsey Centre opened at Guy’s Hospital in November 2015. It now sees the institute’s 36 consultants and 25 clinical nurse specialists treating patients with the most challenging skin conditions who come from across the country and the globe.
Self check-in and an electronic patient calling system is now used at the dermatology reception.
These were introduced as part of our programme of improvements within dermatology, lupus and rheumatology services at Guy’s Hospital. Read more in the April edition of the our newsletter (PDF 399Kb).
St John's Institute of Dermatology is one of the world's leading centres for patients with skin disease. We are the largest clinical dermatology department in the UK.
We:
treat a wide range of skin diseases from common ones to rare and very severe conditions requiring treatments not available elsewhere in the UK
are an internationally recognised centre of research into skin diseases
are a postgraduate training centre in dermatology for other health professionals, including dermatologists from all over the world.
outpatient departments at both Guy's and St Thomas' and the Guy's Cancer Centre
inpatient beds
intermediary care and outpatient day care suites
a dermatology surgery and laser treatment centre
a Rare Disease Centre for children and adults opening October 2017
a clinical research area and laboratories.
Dermatology services
See the specialties tab to see the services that our department offers.
SKIN, a history
A book telling the story of the world-renowned St John’s Institute of Dermatology has been published to mark its 150th anniversary.
SKIN, a history was written by esteemed health journalist Jeremy Laurance. It documents the first 150 years of St John’s and looks forward to even greater successes over the next 150 years as we lead the way at the forefront of modern medical care.
Community dermatology Southwark
As of 1 April 2018 Guy's and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, in partnership with King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Improving Health Limited, will be providing community dermatology Southwark services. It will manage a wide range of dermatological conditions for patients living in Southwark.
It is a consultant and GPwER (GP with an extended role) led NHS service, commissioned by Southwark Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG).
Find out how to contact the dermatology department.
Read about the history of St John's using our page turning software or download chapter 1 (PDF 1.68Mb).
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Industrial spaces today are often multifunctional, comprising space for offices, conferences, spas, restaurants and nightclubs as well as for guest accommodation. They produce inherently noisy environments and must cope
with a variety of acoustic challenges, such as containing sound from equipment and controlling reverberation in conference rooms, so that people can talk and be heard clearly.
Gyproc is a world leader in ceilings, drywall and plastering solutions. As a market leader in India, Gyproc has been at the forefront of delivering solutions to many leading building projects across various sectors. This section is a collection of case studies of projects completed using Gyproc solutions.
Greaves Cotton,Aurangabad
Greaves cotton is a manufacturer and supplier of agricultural and industrial equipments and machines. A typical manufacturing setup like Greaves Cotton Ltd. required a robust interior construction technology that could guard against heavy movement of material in and around shop floor, wear and tear caused by forklifts and large soft body impact (human movement).
Gyproc drywall technology offers solutions for high impact zones. In this case a 98mm system consisting of 13mm Gyproc® Duraline Board (High density board) which is tested as per BS 5234 Part 22 for its strength and robustness was used to cater to the specific impact duty requirement of the project.
Architect: In-house
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BNB Paribas
Geojit BNP Paribas is a leading retail financial services company in India and they wanted to construct an enormous office covering an area of 50,000 sq. ft. in Mumbai. Fire protection and flexibility to adapt to the architect's contemporary designs were important parameters in the selection of materials.
Accenture, a global consulting, technology and outsourcing services firm had a plan ready for a 1-lakh sq. ft. delivery center in Pune. They wanted a perfect balance of aesthetics and favorable work environment by giving equal importance to comfort and creative space.
Asian Heart Institute
Asian Heart Institute is one of India's premier cardiac care institutes located in the Bandra-Kurla complex, Mumbai. The project involved construction of 2 additional floors on top of a 5 storey building while the hospital was running at full capacity during the construction phase. The project had the restriction of an existing dead load and thus required a lightweight system for its internal partitions.
Bosch, a leading supplier of technology and services, was setting up its 5th manufacturing facility in Bidadi. The project required construction of partitions over height of 6 meter, while maintaining thickness of 150mm. The plan for the shopfloor required performance solutions for moisture resistance. Specific areas also required high material movement hence, performance solutions for impact resistance were important.
Novotel Hotel
Novotel Pune had an enormous plan to construct a structure offering 223 ergonomically designed rooms with contemporary décor and modern amenities. Timely construction of the hotel was of utmost importance to them as it directly affected their revenue.
Mega Mexican theatre chain Cinepolis wanted to open its first megaplex of 15 screens in Pune. Since it had a demising wall, acoustic performance was on top of the priority list. Apart from that, lightweight materials & swift completion of the project were the other key requirements.
Mayo Institute of Medical Sciences
Mayo Institute of Medical Sciences wanted to construct a 415 bedded well-equipped, multispecialty hospital to cater to the people of Lucknow. The project needed to be completed before the next term started and hence, required hasty construction.
Mindtree Ltd.
Mindtree Ltd., a world leader in IT and R&D services wanted to build their own development center in Chennai. Apart from creating an environment conducive to work, the design entailed creating a comfortable and creative space.
Synergy Maritime, a Singapore based ship management firm wanted to complete construction of its India headquarter in just 60 days. The plan demanded the incorporation of intensive design in the structure.
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Prominent rabbi from Israel left 'traumatised' after vile antisemitic attack in Stamford Hill
The rabbi was attacked in Amhurst Park on Friday night. Picture: Met Police
A prominent rabbi from Israel was left "traumatised" after a horrific antisemitic attack in Stamford Hill on Friday night.
Rabbi Herschel Gluck OBE speaks at a Stand Up to Racism event earlier this year. Picture: Polly Hancock
The rabbi, a dayan who sits as a judge in Judaic courts, was in Hackney for a family wedding and was walking back to a relative's home when he was beaten up by two thugs in Amhurst Park.
Volunteer-led neighbourhood watch group Shomrim say the attackers, two young men in hoods, shouted: "Kill Jews, f*** Jews" during the "vicious, unprovoked assault".
They repeatedly punched him and threw him to the ground, and were only stopped when a woman passing by shouted at them.
The rabbi was left bleeding on the pavement.
This is horrific. It has shaken our Hackney community to its core.
We stand in solidarity with the Jewish community in Stamford Hill and across the UK.
I urge anyone with information to call 101 quoting CAD6332/30/11/19 or call Stamford Hill Shomrim on 0300 999 0123 https://t.co/G919LV9KCG
— Diane Abbott (@HackneyAbbott) December 1, 2019
Shomrim chair, rabbi Herschel Gluck, last week told the Gazette the rise in hate crimes was down to people feeling emboldened by a lack of police on the streets.
After the latest incident he said it was time the authorities started taking the attacks seriously.
He said: "He is a notable rabbi from Israel, a very scholarly, learned man who a lot of people turn to with queries and questions.
"He was walking home at 9.45pm when he was attacked by two young men. He said to them he didn't have any money, or a phone as it was Shabbat. But they just carried on hitting him and shouting antisemitic abuse.
"He is shocked and traumatised."
The rabbi has since left the country, and police are investigating, though no arrests have been made. Rabbi Gluck said enquiries were underway to obtain any CCTV from the scene.
"The authorities really need to take this seriously," he added. "It can not continue. We need better protection. If something like this happens they need to take care of the situation."
Following the incident, Diane Abbott said on Twitter: "This is horrific. It has shaken our Hackney community to its core.
We stand in solidarity with the Jewish community in Stamford Hill and across the UK."
It comes after three boys from the Haredi community were attacked on the 253 bus on Sunday November 24. One victim was punched in the face, and all had their hats thrown off.
Rabbi Gluck said: "This is a problem which cuts across the board regarding people from all types of minorities.
"The people who commit these offences have very often themselves suffered issues and sadly they feel frustrated and instead of doing something positive, they do something negative."
The Met has struggled to plug a £700m shortfall in funds since 2010, leading to a loss of 3,000 officers, 3,000 police community support officer (PCSOs), and 5,000 staff by the end of 2018, according to Sadiq Khan. Government reports suggest the force only grew by 120 duty-ready officers this year.
At the same time, racial hate crimes have steadily risen since 2013/2014. Just last month, the Home Office reported these crimes rose by 11pc - 78,991 offences. That is 290 racist hate crimes on average a week.
Rabbi Gluck said Boris Johnson's pledge to recruit 20,000 more officers was not enough as it didn't even bring the numbers back to the 2010 figure.
Det Supt Adam Ghaboos, from the Met's Central East BCU, said: "We are committed to tackling hate crime in all its forms and from the point this offence was reported to us, we have been working hard to establish the circumstances of what happened.
"We want to reassure the Jewish community that we take such offences extremely seriously."
Police have asked anyone with information about the attack to call 101 quoting CAD6332/30/11/19.
Shomrim can also be contacted on 0300 999 0123.
Stamford Hill Shomrim chair Rabbi Herschel Gluck says police funding cuts to blame for rise in hate crime
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Gazette letters: Violent crime, inquest support, new prime minister and Hackney Today
A GPS tagging pilot scheme is being rolled out to prevent violent crime. Picture: PA
Tackling re-offending is a key facet in our fight against rising violent crime, writes Jennette Arnold OBE, London Assembly Member for Hackney, Islington and Waltham Forest.
This is why it has been very positive to see City Hall recently increase its investment in this area.
The Mayor of London is expanding a pilot scheme operating in Lewisham, Croydon, Southwark and Lambeth, making it a requirement for knife crime offenders, deemed to be the most at-risk of re-offending, to wear a GPS tag after their release from prison as part of strict licence conditions.
I welcome the decision to roll this out to Hackney and believe it will help to improve the rehabilitation of persistent offenders and protect victims. It should also enable the police to more effectively detect and prevent violent crime.
It is vital we continue to come together as a community and cultivate a strong relationship with local police teams.
In this way, we will be playing our part in stopping more tragedies by sharing with officers any relevant intelligence and information that we might have.
As far as we are aware, the only other occasion when the inquest verdict on a person who died while being arrested by the police was misadventure was that of Brian Douglas in 1996, write Mary Pimm and Nik Wood, Gore Road, Hackney.
The implication that his death was in some way Edson Da Costa's own fault is thus unusual.
You reported ("Edson Da Costa inquest: Jury told not to criticise police over young father's death") that the coroner had directed the jury that they could not criticise the police. It was a similar direction by the coroner at the first inquest into the death in Pentonville prison of Hackney resident Paul Calvert in 2007 that, in part, led to the verdict being overturned.
The police are employing expensive lawyers to make a partisan presentation of their case. For instance, John Beggs QC was employed at the Hillsborough inquiry and at the inquests into Hackney residents Rashan Charles and Geoff Gray.
And coroners are granting anonymity to witnesses at inquests far more widely that just for firearms officers, such as the officers in Edson's case, and to non-police people involved, as in Rashan's case.
The powers and funds available to the state's institutions have increased, are increasing and ought to be diminished, and bereaved families should get full legal aid to have a fighting chance of getting truth, justice and accountability.
The fight to be the next prime minister is currently going on and a number of good ideas on changing the tax system have emerged when money is available, writes Christopher Sills, Dunsmure Road, Stamford Hill.
In my opinion, the first priority is to suspend the inflation rate increase in business rates that came into effect on April 1, 2019, and the increase due on April 1, 2020, should also be suspended. This should have been done last March.
Next I would scrap the 5 per cent VAT on fuel bills on November 1, 2019 when we leave the EU as there is still a lot of fuel poverty in Hackney because of the costs of climate change.
And any attempt to alleviate this is to be welcomed.
Then I would increase employees' national insurance by 5pc over five years rather than income tax as it would be cheaper than an income tax cut with the same result for most workers on low pay.
The idea of increasing the point at which higher rate tax starts is a good one but it is not a priority and I suggest it is limited to £60,000 initially, up from £50,000.
Other priorities include the reform of stamp duty for house purchase: a substantial cut is required to free up the market.
More controversially I would exempt car insurance from insurance tax as working people often need a car for work. Socialists will not understand the problem as they are basically anti-car, but forget the employment the car industry provides.
Regarding your article on page two of the Gazette dated June 13, 2019, writes Ken Davison, Queens Drive, Finsbury Park.
My complaint with Hackney Today is not the content, but lack of delivery. Living in a block of entry phone controlled flats on the edge of the borough, we receive copies of the publication only very occasionally, almost never at all. My rare sightings occur if I pick one up from the Central Library or if copies manage to reach my doctor's surgery.
Then I find it to be a useful source of local information.
The council will no doubt claim that they have problems gaining access, yet other distributors manage, including those delivering leaflets for take away or delivery meals.
Hackney Council is obliged to publish statutory notices, including planning applications.
If they did not use their own publication, they would be obliged to pay for this service thus wasting money which should be used elsewhere. [It'd cost them less than producing Hackney Today! - ed]
So I say keep Hackney Today in its present form but improve distribution.
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2dr Coupe 8-cyl. 289cid/210hp 2bbl
History of the 1953-1958 Studebaker Commander
Designer Bob Bourke of Raymond Loewy’s studio penned a sleek new coupe in 1953, and Studebaker quickly asked that the new look be adapted to all 1953 Commander body styles. The family coupes and sedans rode on a shorter wheelbase than what the initial design was sketched for, though the Starlight and Starliner coupes were true to Bourke’s design, and particularly handsome. Studebaker billed the Commander’s look as “European,” and it was true that the car looked like nothing else on American highways. Especially in the Starlight and Starliner, the Commander was low and striking.
All Studebaker Commanders for 1953 utilized a modern 232-cid OHV V-8 that could be backed by the most advanced automatic transmission on the market. This automatic had three speeds forward and a lock-up torque converter. The 1954 Commanders saw no real changes except for a new grille and the addition of a two-door station wagon.
The 1955 cars received a large chrome grille, and under the hood Studebaker’s engine grew to 259 cid with a 50% increase in power. With a new four-barrel carburetor and dual exhausts, the “Passmaster” engine was good for 185 hp. The new V-8 was available again with overdrive transmission or Studebaker Automatic Drive.
In 1956, the super-low styling of the Commanders was dropped, and a taller, more typical hood and decklid were adopted for the family cars, along with wrap-around windshields which debuted half way through 1955. For the lower slung cars, a new sub-series, the Commander Power Hawk and upscale President Sky Hawk were introduced on pillared coupe and hardtop coupe styling respectively. Engineers stroked the 259-cid V-8 to 289 cid and 210 hp. As a result, Studebaker switched to sturdier Ford-O-Matic based transmission.
The 1957 and 1958 cars were carried over, with no real substantive changes except for the addition of a dual headlamps and a very attractive two-door hardtop with a taller body for 1958.
This generation of Studebaker Commander is very popular among collectors. The low-slung “Lowey” coupes are particularly desirable, as are the 259-cid and 289-cid motors. Parts availability is fairly good and club support is terrific, making ownership quite enjoyable.
1957 studebaker commander silver hawk Info
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Who are we building bike lanes for, anyway?
August 9, 2019 By Erica Butler 13 Comments
After the announcement about $25 million in funding towards a minimum bike grid for central Halifax and Dartmouth, there was a lot of talk about who would benefit from such an investment. One of the main numbers that got thrown around was 1%, a perfectly good statistic supplied by Statistics Canada, as far as it goes. It refers to the 1% of working people over age 15 in HRM that reported their main mode of commuting to work was by bike during the 2016 census.
Which 1% is that, exactly?
If you follow Councillor Matt Whitman (assuming he allows you to follow him), you will see that “the 1%” gets mentioned a lot in his social media feeds, apparently alluding to the term as coined during the Occupy Wall Street movement, which during the protests referred to the richest 1% of Americans, who own about 40% of the country’s wealth. I guess Whitman’s idea is to paint people riding bikes as wealthy elites.
It’s a clever joke, but the reality is likely very different. A study out of Simon Fraser University surveying people in three mid-sized Canadian cities including Halifax, found that the lower the household income, the higher the rate of bike-riding as primary mode of transportation.
It appears unlikely that 1% of people who bike to work in HRM are the same 1% controlling an outlandish share of our wealth.
Though, to be fair, sometimes cycling advocates themselves can help feed this perception.
Who are those "best people", and what makes them better than all the others? https://t.co/kxGHQ2wplI
— robert devet (@DevetRobert) July 18, 2019
Here’s journalist Andrew Keatts quoting cycling advocate/anthropologist Adonia Lugo back in 2015:
“A number of people are wondering how we can do more comprehensive bike advocacy that includes people who can’t afford to get involved,” said Adonia Lugo, an anthropologist who left her job at the League of American Cyclists earlier this year because of a disconnect she perceived between bike advocates and those who ride bicycles regularly. “They’re on bikes, so they should be involved.”
“The big issue with why this matters is, there’s this cultural gap between bike advocates and others who bike,” she continued. “The strategy became, to market bicycling as an urban lifestyle. You don’t do it because it’s cheap and you need to get somewhere. It’s presented as an opportunity to be part of urban chic fashion.”
Is 1% the right number?
There are problems with using the work-commute 1% as the actual snapshot of people biking in Halifax. First and most obviously, it outright excludes kids, students, and unemployed people, and since all these groups share the need to move around on a daily basis, that’s a pretty significant gap.
The census question on commuting also poses an issue for multimodal commuters. Personally, over the course of a year I use an almost an even split between transit, biking, and walking to get to work, with a sprinkling of driving thrown in. But despite that mix, I have to just pick one main mode on the census questionnaire.
Luckily, where the census drops the ball on actual mode share, the Dalhousie Transportation Collaboratory (DalTRAC) is picking it up.
In 2018, DalTRAC spearheaded a Halifax Regional Municipality Travel Activity Study, a randomized survey of over 2,300 HRM residents looking at all the trips they make in a sample day.
DalTRAC found a mode share of 1.6% for bike trips (60% higher than the rate of bike-to-work commuters), and a mode share of 14.4% for walking trips (75% higher than the rate of walk-to-work commuters.)
When you look at the breakdown by type of trip, the DalTRAC numbers for “home-based work” trips are much more in line with the census numbers, which show Halifax with 77.7% of people commuting by car, 11.8% commuting by transit, 8.2% commuting by walking, and 1% commuting by bike. It’s the other types of trips that seem to upset the work-commute pattern, particularly home to school trips, which have a whopping 31% active mode share.
An interesting note: the average transit mode share for all trip types was only 6%, even though 8.5% of respondents owned a monthly transit pass, showing that Halifax’s transit system really is geared towards work commuters as opposed to all-purpose riders.
While there are still gaps in DalTRAC’s survey coverage (information on trips for 1.8 persons per household was provided, when average household size was actually 2.7), by including all trip types, and not excluding students and unemployed people, DalTRAC gets a much more complete picture of how people are getting around in HRM.
Regional centre versus region
Of course, looking at the numbers for all of HRM might present its own problem, especially when discussing infrastructure designed for moving around the regional centre, such as the currently proposed minimum bike network. HRM is roughly the size of PEI, so how people move around from one area to the next is bound to be different.
Unfortunately, more drilled-down data from DalTRAC has not been released, so it’s back to the 2016 census for a look at mode shares for work commutes. Let’s use one of the best tools on the internet, Censusmapper, to visualize all this.
Drilling down to the regional centre, you can see significantly higher bike-to-work populations, with the highest being the census tract bordered by Quinpool, Robie, Jubilee and Connaught, at 9% mode share. As for the average across the regional centre, I’ll go with 3%, which is the number reported in this active transportation report from the Nova Scotia Health Authority, based on census statistics (so excluding kids, students, unemployed people, and multi-modal travellers.)
Who’s this network for, anyway?
So, say we’ve decided on 3% biking mode share for Halifax. If we spend $25 million building a minimum bike network in central Halifax and Dartmouth, are we spending that money on just 3% of the centre population? If things go as planned, not for long.
The goal of growing Active Transportation (AT — biking, walking, etc.) infrastructure is generally to change our mode share distribution, so a minimum protected bike grid is actually aimed more at luring people away from car trips than it is about rewarding those who’ve already chosen a different mode.
Halifax’s Regional Plan sets a goal to change our mode share distribution to grow the sustainable modes — walking, cycling, and taking transit — to 30% of trips by 2031. It sits now at about 22%, according to DalTRAC’s 2018 survey.
The goal is modest. If we updated it to reflect the projected costs of continuing to grow a city dominated by car trips— both in terms of climate change (remember that emergency?) and the sheer cost of building roads to accommodate all that vehicle traffic — we would be aiming closer to 40% by 2031.
But no matter how modest or ambitious the goal, we need to work towards it. Which is why this proposed minimum AT network (it includes multi-use trails as well as protected bike lanes) is aimed squarely at the people who are not already riding their bikes.
It turns out the relevant number is not 1% or 3%, but rather something more like 58%, which is the proportion of Haligonians that researchers found were “interested but concerned” in using bikes to get around Halifax. The same study, Impacts of Bicycle Infrastructure in Mid-sized Canadian Cities, found that 80% of people who had not ridden a bike in the past year would be “more likely to cycle in the future if more cycling infrastructure (e.g. separated bike lanes) is built.”
And some of the major factors in people’s decisions whether or not try riding? Separated and connected bike routes both weighted heavily.
Back in 1998, before the bridge bike lane opened on the MacDonald bridge, exactly zero people biked across the bridge. In 2014, digital counters counted over 100,000 people riding across the bridge, an average of almost 300 a day. This despite the fact that the bridge bike lane is poorly connected on both sides of the harbour.
It’s hard to predict what sort of mode share changes a minimum, protected bike network could bring to Halifax. It could take some time before those “interested but concerned” folks actually make a change in how they get around, and inevitably, the network that gets built won’t suit everyone. But we do know the streets we have now work for only a small fraction of people on bikes. And if the goal is to change that, then we know we have to change those streets.
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Peter Ewert says
Your arguments support the HRM and its’ bike lobby groups but it omits much. The bike lobby groups deliberately confuse commuter and recreational bike use.
Residents on family streets in the city want no shortcutting commuters
….auto drivers invading peninsular city neighbourhoods full of kids and seniors.
Cycling lobby groups have always gone for marketing cycling lanes without ever understanding how to make them safe.
Painting cycle lanes on busy streets has no safety value.
Prospective bikeways should be traffic calmed first and needn’t be
striped if kept to residential streets parallel to major streets. HRM
knows this but goes for the absurd anyway.
The value of bikeways in the city as a transportation demand measure is to stop commuter shortcutting. This means a bikeway has high safety value for cyclists and residentsonly if it is traffic calmed first.
gordohfx says
I started biking again in the city 3 years ago after abstaining for close to 20 years. I felt the negligible changes made by the city allow me to cycle more comfortably.
I cycle to work, I cycle to visit friends, I cycle to get groceries. I am certainly not in the elite 1% economically but it sure helps me save cash. I am healthier, happier and wealthier because I do it. I also like to think I am modestly contributing to a healthier planet.
I’m sorry Councillor Whitman if you find that objectionable. (By the way Councillor, you did see that Uber lost $5 billions right?)
Colin May says
Uber didn’t register a cash loss of $5 billion; an explanation is here ” The numbers for both companies look a lot better when adjusted for things like amortization of intangible assets and stock-based compensation for employees post-IPO. Excluding those expenses, Uber lost $1.3 billion and Lyft lost $197 million.”
https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/8/20793793/uber-5-billion-quarter-loss-profit-lyft-traffic-2019
I assume you have a basic understanding of financial statements/reports
$3.9 billion of the loss is attributable to IPO stock compensation.
What’s a few billion between tech buddies.
From the Verge:
“Look out the window. If you live in a big city, you can probably see a lot of cars driving for Uber and Lyft out there. The vast majority are 2,000- to 3,000-pound vehicles carrying one to two passengers at most. Now imagine these companies growing by a factor of 10 or 20 even, as they predict they can. What does traffic look like then? What happens to our air? Our streets? This isn’t some NUMTOT-inspired aside; there is a real price associated with this “growth at all costs” mantra from Uber and Lyft.”
trc says
One of the problems with the bus routes is they favour commuters who work downtown, Monday to Friday, 8 to 4. We are already seeing signs of the same favouritism in the bicycle network – Gottingen street has a bicycle lane only for people leaving downtown weekday afternoons (notwithstanding the foolishness of a shared lane for bicycles and buses). We also have bicycle lanes that are too narrow for cargo bikes, and barriers that are difficult to navigate with bike trailers. Hopefully the bike network will recognize that people travel to different places at different times for different reasons, and aim to serve everyone – not just the folks biking to their downtown office jobs.
One of my big concerns for pedestrians and cyclists in the peninsular Halifax city is the dirty air they breath from emanating daily from commuter auto exhaust to diesel fumes from tour busses..all that particulate…on a hot heat domed day.I have to power wash the house from the dirt left by shortcutters. The largest group of peninsular landowners are homeowners.Halifax peninsula residents have far more issues with respiratory diseases than rural HRM. You don’t need to smoke to have discolored lungs here. Yet the talk is of tired old high density health and crime risking HRM costly visions and misguided visions of active transportations role in this.. We need a new form of municipal government in the city giving homeowners and all residents a stronger voice.
Yulinyhz says
DamnYankee says
I concur wholeheartedly with Peter Ewert and Tim’s comments. My primary means of transport are walking and cycling with a once a month mass transit or CarShare trip and my income is at the poverty level and bus passes make no sense for me. I cannot afford the $8,600 to $13,000 a year to own a car. So, cycling is my primary form of transportation to do grocery shopping, to get to the doctor, to get to my part-time job and anyplace that takes more than 40 minutes to walk to. I hope that the cycling infrastructure includes many more residential bikeways (where the streets are open to local car traffic only and to cyclists and pedestrians) and that the residential street bikeways connect to wide well protected bike/slow mobility lanes. Given that the percentage of HRM residents over the age of 50 is growing, cycling infrastructure should be able to accommodate those folks who are slower, are carrying cargo or who are uncomfortable in fast-moving traffic. Our cycling infrastructure should really be mobility lanes able to accommodate slower moving traffic, like electric cargo trikes, e scooters, bicycles and tricycles. Finally, Ms. Butler is correct in her assessment that if Council believes there is a climate emergency, we should be designing cycling infrastructure to have all HRM residents take at least half of their trips by active transit or mass transit in the very near future.
HRM’s bike study leading to the Brunswick St bike route is a good example of a successfully traffic calmed bikeway. Once bridge traffic was not permitted to exit and enter onto the bridge via Brunswick St, it became a walkable and bikeable street. The Brunswick St neighbourhood starting at the bridge head is full of kids and seniors safe from traffic threats .The air is even less dirty..
Linda van Vulpen says
Great article and very good comments from Peter Ewert, trc and DamnYankee. As a cyclist myself, I’m very pleased to hear about the added funding to cycling / walking infrastructure in HRM. I know some friends of mine would cycle if they felt safer.
Iain Taylor says
So, we don’t really know the number of bikes currently on our streets OR the effect of those numbers when new bike lanes (of various types) are opened. We don’t know the monthly distribution on biking and whether all bike lanes are needed all the time.
Why not then employ some very inexpensive student counters to summarise these and do a brief survey if possible on the before and after totals following installation of a new improved bike lane AND keep up the survey for several years.
Set up video and rubber strip counters. We might then get some proper data to evaluate and shape policy.
Not expensive and a nice way to spend time for the in situ bike counters.
That way we might get some relevant data and counts and find out where, when and if protected new lanes are needed. Data driven decisions anyone?
John Wesley Chisholm says
I see the bicycle, and every bicycle ride, as an end in itself. I think the focus on commuters is missing the point of bicycles… and life…
It’s passenger is its engine; it is the vehicle of novelists, poets and dreamers; it has the swiftness of motion that is perhaps the most fascinating feature of material life; as other forms of transportation grow more nightmarish it remains pure of heart, but it has a thin edge of danger that keeps you alert and alive – it turns dogs into dogs and makes potholes personal; it is not that expensive but it is the possession most likely to be stolen;
It is completely incompatible with melancholy; it’s a conveyance of precision and balance that puts us in competition with any animal that has ever lived and in spirit puts us in mind of flight; we use it to avoid exertion but the more we use it the more useful it becomes and the more healthy we become; after we use it the memory of the motion lingers in our muscles and often in to our dreams – as is often observed that feeling is never forgotten as long as we live; it does no harm and is of little offence to anyone; it carries kings and kingpins, socialists and sexpots equally well, it provides the very best way to learn the contours of a country and the limits of love;
It’s a flight from sadness; it has a humane almost classical moderation yet it has been to war, emancipated women and ushered in sensible dress; it asks for and in return gives the gift of balance – one of the great accomplishments of early life; it must surely be a part of the future; it is a thing of beauty and a joy forever – ride-able art and while you’re on it the world is breaking someone else’s heart; it is freedom in machine form; it is a bicycle.
I grew up biking around Halifax in the 80s to school and stuff. I don’t feel my kids are safe walking, let alone biking to school today. I just watched a couple of pedestrians nearly get hit at a crosswalk on Hollis by an older couple in a large pickup. The city needs to make the streets far safer (narrower, bumps, chicanes etc.) before I’d change my mind. I still think the rail cut would be the best route on/off the peninsula. Anything else involves too many intersections.
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Five reasons why we are bullish on Japan
27 th September 2018
Geir Lode, Head of Hermes Global Equities, and Lewis Grant, Senior Portfolio Manager, have recently increased their allocation to Japan after becoming more bullish on the country's prospects at the expense of the US.
We were much more positive about the US a year ago, as the market was still enjoying an environment of extremely loose monetary policy. Fast forward to today, we believe the strength of the US dollar and the coming tightening will be significant headwinds for US companies. On the other hand, Japan presents a compelling investment case and we have been increasing our focus on this market based on the following five reasons.
The first reason why we like Japan is valuation. The TOPIX is currently trading at about 15.5x forward earnings, while the S&P 500 is more like 17.5x. However, earnings growth expectations in Japan are much higher than the US. We expect 15% earnings growth in Japan over the next year, while we feel it will be high-single digits in the US.u00a0 We have seen a lot of US-based multinationals tested during the Q1 earnings season.
The signs are positive for Japanese equities right now. Firstly, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) has been aggressive purchasing stock funds in recent months. Secondly, domestic Japanese investors are investing back into the equity market. Finally, we are seeing strong flows internationally.
There has been a lot of discussion about the impact of Abenomics on the falling yen. It has proved to be an effective policy, but we expect the yen to be much more stable over the next 12 to 18 months. Indeed, the BOJ is now more concerned about the yen becoming too weak.u00a0We believe it has reached levels where concerns over the yen are overstated.
While the Yen was strong from 2008 to 2012 Japanese companies were forced to restructure to stay competitive. Exports have risen moderately and domestic consumption is rising. Compared to three years ago, Japanese stocks now also have the strong tailwinds of the weak currency and lower energy costs. These factors make the investment case for Japanese equities far more compelling. For example, we have a big holding in Toyota, which might be a boring name, but it has an attractive valuation and we feel it will benefit from ongoing restructuring and recovery.
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Voter distrust is killing Proposal 1
The campaigns slogan should be "Proposal 1: It's as functional as your state government gets."
Voter distrust is killing Proposal 1 The campaigns slogan should be "Proposal 1: It's as functional as your state government gets." Check out this story on Freep.com: http://on.freep.com/1albfNf
Brian Dickerson, Detroit Free Press Columnist Published 12:12 a.m. ET April 2, 2015 | Updated 1:10 a.m. ET April 2, 2015
The conditions of Michigan’s roads doesn’t seem to be enough to sway voters to approve Proposal 1, which would raise the state’s sales tax to free up money to pay for road improvements.(Photo: Ryan Garza/Detroit Free Press)
With a May 5 special election less than five weeks away, champions of Proposal 1 have dug themselves a hole as deep as any of the thousands pocking Michigan's roads.
Two polls conducted last weekend suggest that, if the election were held today, the byzantine initiative to shore up roads, bridges, schools and public transit would fall dramatically short of passage.
Voters' misgivings about Proposal 1 are too numerous to catalog, but most can be traced to a profound distrust of the elected officials who conceived it.
Broad support was supposed to be Proposal 1's saving grace. It grew out of a genuinely bipartisan compromise struck between Republican and Democratic legislative leaders, and that was supposed to convince everyone in our increasingly polarized state that the final product protected everyone's interest.
That's how folks who wanted to abolish the personal property tax levied on Michigan businesses convinced Michigan voters to approve a constitutional amendment doing just that.
To this day, not one voter in 100 can explain what the personal property tax was, why abolishing it was a good idea, or exactly how the municipalities who relied on the revenue it generated are going to pay their police and firefighters when that revenue goes away.
But the perception that virtually everyone in either party supported the complex measure, combined with the absence of any organized opposition, persuaded nearly 7 in 10 Michigan voters to go along.
I'm not sure what's happened in the year since, but this week's Proposal 1 polls reveal a pox-on-both-your-houses attitude toward elected officials across the board.
The revelation that legislators on both sides of the aisle are urging passage of Proposal 1 doesn't mean much to voters convinced that no one in either party is looking out for their interests.
What's needed is a different kind of TV campaign, one in which the people who brought you Proposal 1 come clean about their motives and debunk the electorate's wishful thinking that their successors in the new Legislature will do better:
Camera opens on four men and one woman standing in a circle with their backs to one another:
RICK SNYDER: I'm Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder. Virtually everyone agrees that Michigan needs to spend another billion dollars a year to bring our roads up to snuff.
So a lot of you are asking: Why couldn't Lansing come up with a plan that raised a billion dollars a year for roads?
RANDY RICHARDVILLE: I'm former Senate Majority Leader Randy Richardville, and there was such a plan.
It would have doubled the gasoline and fuel tax, with all the proceeds going to repair roads. I and my Senate colleagues actually adopted it last December.
You'd have signed it, too, Governor, if a certain Republican speaker of the House had picked up the ball and run with it.
JASE BOLGER: I resent your finger-pointing, Randy. Maybe my House colleagues who have to get re-elected every two years just weren't as eager to sign their names to a big gas tax hike as you and your term-limited friends in the Senate.
GRETCHEN WHITMER: I'm former Senate Minority Leader Gretchen Whitmer, and I notice that Speaker Bolger's principles didn't stop him from backing a sales tax hike that would fall most heavily on low- and middle-income consumers. That's why House Minority Leader Tim Griemel and I insisted on some income tax relief for our poorest constituents before Democrats agreed to put a sales tax hike on the ballot.
TIM GREIMEL: And don't forget the $200,000 we were able to snag for public education before all those no-tax-pledging, home-schooling Republicans in the new House took office last January.
If Proposal 1 goes down, they'll take the road repair money right out of your daughter's math class.
BOLGER: Tax-and-spend liberal!
GREIMEL: Tea party philistine!
SNYDER: So there you have it, voters: This whole thing has been like herding cats.
And if you think this group is impossible, you haven't seen their successors.
ALL FIVE, in unison: Proposal 1: It's as functional as your state government gets.
Contact Brian Dickerson at 313-222-6584 or bdickerson@freepress.com.
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Why I Am a Pacifist
By Reviewed by Jerry Mizell Williams on September 1, 2019
By Tim Gee. Christian Alternative Books, 2019. 88 pages. $10.95/paperback; $5.99/eBook.
If the pilgrim’s path is never easy, how does the pacifist fare? Tim Gee is a respected UK human rights activist and author of Counterpower: Making Change Happen (2011) and You Can’t Evict an Idea (2013). In this new book, a personal reflection of how he defines and interacts with the world as a pacifist, Gee continues his interrogation of strategies to win meaningful change without violence. Introductory remarks offer readers a short rudimentary history of the Religious Society of Friends and the principles for which it is known internationally.
In the first chapter the author evaluates his not‐always‐successful attempts to disengage himself from acts of physical and verbal violence during his early school years where teasing, forms of bullying, and peer pressure were present. Gee’s didactic tale invites readers to reflect on how they themselves might have reacted to similar school‐day contests and the influence those formative years exerted later on their spiritual path toward pacifism. With respect to Quaker testimonies about peace, the labors of Margaret Fell, George Fox, and Sylvia Pankhurst are assayed, as are the Lamb’s War project and the stance of Martin Luther King Jr. and Bayard Rustin.
Gee argues that each one of us has a role in developing circumstances where peace can flourish.
Culture shapes language, which in turn shapes the way we think and the decisions we make. That we speak of ‘nonviolence’ reveals that within our culture, violence is the norm. We do not refer to war as ‘nonpeace’ … A commitment to peace encompasses a commitment to equality, economic justice and environmental protection.
While acknowledging that Quaker pacifism is rooted in spirituality, Gee contends that pacifism and the trials of the pacifist are misunderstood, i.e. pacifism is not a repudiation of conflict.
Subsequent chapters take up the evils of war and the many pathways to peace. To support his thesis that pacifism is active (not passive) work and that pacifists are earnestly engaged in challenging the prevailing stereotypes about pacifism, Gee draws on a variety of sources to demonstrate the effectiveness of nonviolent approaches to (re)solve world problems. In chapter 3, “Thou shalt not kill,” Gee debunks the “Just War Theory” that Thomas Aquinas updated and popularized in the thirteenth century and which is still invoked today. Since “a just war … implies God’s blessing,” Quakers seek the inner light and ponder what would Jesus do. Nonviolence, as reflected in the exemplary people power campaigns of Gandhi, Cesar Chavez, and Greenpeace, functions best when—through a structural critique—it devises a viable alternative to war and racial injustice: “To the extent that the use of nonviolent strategy did not result in everything the movement worked for, violent tactics did not achieve those objectives either.”
Even climate change, whose global effects are not distributed equally, signals “an intensification of the violence of inequality.” To his credit, Gee cites how nonviolent movements and Quakerism have been harmed by misogyny and a disregard for gender equality. While he does not equate pacifism with socialism, Gee asks us to consider that the mostly leftist leanings of pacifists do not translate into the left being singularly pacifist. The case of Quaker activist Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge’s membership in the African National Congress and South African Communist Party is illustrative of the political elasticity of pacifists who “can participate in movements that have both nonviolent and armed components.”
Following musings on genocidal crimes and the success rate of civil resistance worldwide, Gee serves up anecdotes (“But what would you do if …?”) about nonviolent stands that ordinary citizens (not necessarily declared pacifists) have taken victoriously to thwart acts of violence directed toward them. Gee concludes that the presence of God within directs his testimony and, through practice, paves the path for peace within us all. Pacifism, as a moral doctrine, and the principles that frame it are, for Gee, part and parcel of his non‐negotiable spiritual journey.
Jerry Mizell Williams is a member of Green Street Meeting in Philadelphia, Pa. He is the author of numerous books, articles, and book reviews on colonial Latin America.
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Sentencing set for 10 in beatings
10 people have pleaded guilty in connection with the death of James Craig Anderson.
Sentencing set for 10 in beatings 10 people have pleaded guilty in connection with the death of James Craig Anderson. Check out this story on hattiesburgamerican.com: http://hatne.ws/1BwUtFG
AP Published 10:50 p.m. CT Jan. 19, 2015
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JACKSON – Sentencing dates have been set for all 10 people who pleaded guilty to charges from the hate crimes investigation stemming from the death of James Craig Anderson.
Those final court appearances are likely to wrap up investigations and prosecutions that began after Anderson was beaten and run over by a truck on June 26, 2011. The inquiry that followed revealed a group of young white people had been coming to Jackson to harass and assault African-Americans. In a series of forays, prosecutors say the group threw beer bottles at people, shot ball bearings from a slingshot and tried to run someone down.
U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves is scheduled to sentence Deryl Paul Dedmon, John Aaron Rice and Dylan Wade Butler on Feb. 10. The three pleaded guilty in March 2012 to one count of conspiracy and one count of committing a hate crime. Each faces a potential sentence of life in prison for the hate crime charge, and up to five years on the conspiracy charge.
Dedmon, who assaulted Anderson and drove the truck that ran him over, pleaded guilty to two state charges in 2012 and received life sentences on each.
Reeves will sentence Joseph Paul Dominick, William Kirk Montgomery and Jonathan Kyle Gaskamp on Feb. 25. Dominick pleaded guilty to conspiracy in 2013 and faces five years in prison. Montgomery, who pleaded guilty in 2012, faces life in prison on a hate crime charge and five years on conspiracy.
Gaskamp, who wasn't present the night Anderson died, pleaded guilty in 2012. He faces five years in prison for conspiracy and 10 years on a hate crime charge.
U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate will sentence four people:
•Sarah Adelia Graves, who pleaded guilty in December, faces five years in prison on a conspiracy charge at sentencing April 9.
•Shelbie Brooke Richards, who pleaded guilty in December to conspiracy and concealing the crime by lying to police, faces eight years in prison at sentencing April 16.
•John Louis Blalack, who pleaded guilty Jan. 7 to two hate crimes charges, faces 20 years in prison at sentencing April 23.
•Robert Henry Rice, who pleaded guilty Jan. 7 to one hate crime charge, faces 10 years in prison at sentencing April 30.
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The Modus Operandi of Rahu | Breaking Free from the 5-D Circle of Disillusionment | Rahu Astrology
Articles: The Modus Operandi of Rahu | Breaking Free from the 5-D Circle of Disillusionment | Rahu Astrology
The Modus Operandi of Rahu & Breaking Free from the 5-D Circle of Disillusionment
Jyotish Quality Hessonite Bhasma Pendant
Courtesy: Gemstoneuniverse.com - Hessonite and its Use in Rahu Periods
Use of Hessonite in Rahu Major Planetary period and sub periods
Time and again, I come across cases in different individual's lives that cause severe disappointment. But as I stand witness to their trials and tribulations over many years, I come to the conclusion that these very instances, after a period of churning, are the ones that bring about some real changes or inspire a work that enables positive change.
The entire essence of Vedic Astrology lies in accurate diagnosis based on statistics, chart analysis and a little bit of intuition and divine grace - in that order. There are no magical or supernatural powers.
I am happy to know that my articles, (which you can still reach on the web) - Do Gems work-No they don't for 90% of the people and Deeply Incapacitating Planetary positions, have bought about good and positive developments in the lives of people.
What made me write this piece?
In a span of one month, I met three individuals who were all undergoing Rahu Mahadasha with different placements of Rahu and all of them were struggling with severe anxiety and trauma. I met a fine Gentleman last week, all of 30 years, who had met me a year ago. He had a lot to say, even in the initial 5 minutes but from all that two statements are important:
Guruji, I met you last year and implemented the remedial measures. Everything was going well for first 2-3 weeks and I saw a positive change but suddenly some problems started cropping up. As you know in a state of panic, I did not know what to do.
Actually, my mother also consults some Astrologers and he said some very negative things about my life and prescribed some poojas (sacred rites). You know when you are confused you try to do many things and I implemented what the other Astrologer had to say but I have no results.
I do not have peace of mind.
The disgruntled, unhappy and restless state of mind, the setting in of panic and the directionless, confused thinking was a classical example of Rahu at work in this individual's life.
What was the matter with this individual. Let's look at it factually:
He implemented some remedial measures and they did work. After two weeks time, some problems started and he aborted the remedies without consulting me.
He was in a state of panic and his mother was in a state of panic (or confusion) and they consulted some other astrologer, who said that the planet Sun was creating an accident causing combination and also was instrumental in inviting evil eye from colleagues and prescribed elaborate rites.
At the age of 30, when one has his hands full and should be brimming with joy and action, he did not have peace of mind.
What was my recommendation?
In my first meeting with this gentleman, I had given him just three simple recommendations on a single sheet of paper:
Wear a Hessonite of 3-5 carats in the neck as pendant touching the thymus gland area (just above the first rib bone) in Silver.
Wear a Red Coral of 4-5 carats in the ring finger of right hand in Gold.
Every Saturday visit Shani Temple. After darshan sit in the temple for 5-10 minutes. After coming out of the temple buy a packet of bread/ biscuits and feed it to stray dogs. This remedy should be done at any cost and not be aborted in any which way.
See his chart below:
As the conversation progressed, I noticed that he was wearing Jyotish Gemstones prescribed by me, which led me to question him as to why he was wearing the gems. Had he not abandoned the remedial measures I had suggested earlier?
His answer:
Guruji, quite frankly I think I have good results from the Gemstones, I got a promotion, some change in my financial package and peace of mind (Now he is contradicting himself as initially he said, I have no peace of Mind. Take note of the inability to explain one's predicament/ malady, let alone decipher it properly).
Check above in the chart, Sun period is not in operation. He is under the major period of Rahu and the sub period of Ketu and there is no reason why he should have been prescribed remedial measures for the Sun!
He is under the influence of Sade Sathi/ The Seven and Half Year Saturn Cycle and that is why he was prescribed going to the Saturn Temple, a ritual process, which he aborted midway pinning the blame of sudden appearance of problems and being in the state of panic, guided or misguided by some astrologer.
Every now and then, I request individuals to read Do Gems work-no they don't for 90% of the people, because in most part of the article, I just discuss the Karmic Life map and the various means to alter it. Whenever, a thing has to work in most cases people abort it. Isn't it true that whenever you set about to do something worthwhile, it proves to be extremely difficult!
The second individual whom, I met was an Englishman, who has spent 9 years in India as a mendicant. An engineer by profession, he renounced material life nine years ago and took initiation from a Guru in Rishikesh and performed several mantra sadhanas and lived the life of a celibate.
Finally in the major planetary period of Rahu, as the sub period of Venus started, he reversed his opinion about his Guru and his ashram (instances that I deem fit not to mention) and he was an emotional mess. The fact that he had lost nine years of life to some whim, weighed heavily on his mind.
His words:
Guruji, I have come to you with high hopes and been recommended by a friend whom I trust and adore. Please show me the correct path. Without looking at his chart I suggested that he should stop chanting the Gayatri Mantra and go back home and start his life again.
He was shocked.
His question that came next wasn't about how did I happen to know which mantra he was chanting, but this –
Guruji, but isn't it supposed to be the most powerful mantra that burns all the sins?
My answer, go and read - Do Gems Work- No they don't for 90% of the people and if you do get its essence, I am sure that you shall have a fulfilling life henceforth.
Then came a request:
Can you initiate me?
I told him that he was making the same mistake again and that he had not heard my clear instructions.
Read up and go back home.
The Modus Operandi of Rahu and the 5-D Circle of Disillusionment
Planets are not our enemies. No planet has an agenda to cause downfall or scheme against an individual. Each planet has its own energy and operates to impart a karmic lesson. The faster we understand that planetary energy and the lesson for us, the faster we become pain free, the faster we start living well. Even though I have given a fair idea of Rahu’s position in Deeply Incapacitating Planetary positions, I think this information was necessary to help us understand Rahu’s Planetary period better.
Rahu’s 5D circle of Disillusionment
Rahu has a specific mode of operation. At the start of Rahu Dasha or the Rahu sub period, it operates by this 5D method:
Desire for Fast Result/ Breakthrough
The first way that Rahu operates if by creating intense desire. It can be desire to get rich very fast, to win the love of someone, to qualify for a job position, to clear a competitive examination or to prove oneself etc. There is this intense need to do these things and achieve them very fast. It is by these means that it starts creating pressure on the emotional being as well the physical being.
Determination to achieve the desire
Once the seed of desire has been sown deeply, it also provides the determination to achieve the all-consuming desire. It provides the individual with the physical, mental and the social resources to work towards achievement of the created desire. There is an all-consuming intensity to achieve the desire.
Defeat in the attainment of desire
Many would think that this is the end to how Rahu operates. Well, this is just the beginning. After an individual has worked hard with determination and put in all physical, mental and financial resources for the attainment of the desire, Rahu operates in such a way that it gives defeat in the objective. This is the first step of creation of a vortex in the individual’s life.
Despair of the being
This is the first result of the Rahu’s Karmic period. After experiencing defeat, the individual goes through a period of extreme sadness and remorse. This period which first starts with anxiety followed by sadness, anguish, bitterness, loneliness and start of becoming a social outcaste. Such is the pain, that the individual cannot even verbalize his situation.
This is the end result and the final outcome of Rahu periods. Some individuals lose touch with reality and take to drugs, alcohol, sleeping pills just to be in their own world. The mind starts playing games and they start imagining that the whole world including their own near and dear ones are mocking them.
Some go through a cycle of fear and for some individuals it deals such a deadly blow to the self confidence that they come to the conclusion that all is lost.
The following emotions get embedded after this 5D cycle of Rahu is complete:
Deep seated emotional pain and a feeling of being restricted from all sides
Mania and anxiety
Living with negative emotions where feelings of bitterness become important for survival
Living in a make believe world
Feeling of being lonely and uncared for
Feeling of being judged
Labelled
Insignificant
Frightened
Unless they have support in the form of good guidance these negative emotions remain deeply embedded and keep acting as speed breakers throughout the life.
Some classical mistakes to avoid in the Rahu period:
Understand the modus operandi of Rahu as described above. Set realistic goals and ambitions and do not create too much pressure on yourself.
Do not change your religion.
Do not be misled that you are a victim of evil eye, black magic and hexing. Do not take part in any activities passed off as spiritual curing or healing till you have well researched the methodology and the same has been discussed in detail in a standardized text.
Don't indulge in quack therapy.
Do not start any mantra without proper initiation (Just like the Englishman above who was pronouncing the mantra wrongly for 9 years!)
Do not start any spiritual practice or invoke a God if you intend to leave the practice midway. It will generate more negative karma and problems.
Don't wear a Taveez/ Amulet.
Some Things that can help you get the best out of Rahu period:
Understand the modus operandi of Rahu as described above. Set realistic goals and ambitions and do not create too much pressure on yourself. Understand that you are unique, beautiful and have your own place in the world. You do not need the endorsement of others.
Wear a Jyotish Quality Hessonite after consultation with an expert. Jyotish Quality Hessonite is not expensive and in certain Rahu periods can be worn even if it is not compatible with other gems after proper assessment of the chart by an expert. In general who can wear hessonite can be found What is a Jyotish Gemstone.
If possible try to do social service at least one day in a month in a hospital or help NGO’s associated with doing service to hospitals and old age homes.
Finally life and its resources are precious. Respect yourself. You shall find your place in the world.
A small prayer for you, which you should also recite for yourself, your loved ones and the whole universe
Sarve bhavantu sukhinah - may all be happy
Sarve santu niramayah - may all be free from disease
Sarve bhadrani pashyantu - may all see good and auspicious in everything
Ma kaschit duhkha bhaag bhaveet - may none be unhappy or in distress
Om shantih, shantih, shantih-Om peace, peace, peace!
With Blessings, Love and Peace.
Guruji Shrii Arnav
Guruji Shrii Arnav - Vedic Guru is also an internationally acclaimed planetary gemmologist. An Accredited Jewelry Professional from the Gemmological Institute of America at present he is the chief mentor of www.astromandir.com and www.gemstoneuniverse.com . He is also the chief Horoscope columnist of Deccan Herald - A leading Indian English daily.
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Re: Brights of Bedford Co., VA
By MADELYN LARKIN March 03, 2003 at 08:40:05
In reply to: Re: Brights of Bedford Co., VA
Andrew Marshall 3/02/03
You don't mention WHERE, exactly in Virginia that your ancestor, James Bright lived.If it was near the border of North Carolina, then perhaps he could be related to our ancestors of northeastern NC--Currituck, Pasquotank and Camden counties.Otherwise, he probably is related to other Bright families--and there were quite a few--in VA.I have heard of a William Henry Bright later than 1812 in NC, so I suppose this person could be the son of James, born in VA in 1812.
Our ancestors came from Lower Norfolk Co., VA as early as 1696.As I think I have mentioned in earlier messages, there were three brothers, John, Richard and Henry.All three came down to North Carolina very early and were all there by about 1704.Some of them could have had children who returned to Virginia, but I don't know much about that possibility.
I would like to help you find some linkages to other Brights, but I need to know more information before I could do that.
Good luck in your research.
Madelyn Larkin
Robert Bruner 9/01/04
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Help and advice for Wales - Genealogy Help Pages - Not everyone knows this .... (3)
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Assisted passages
IGI and patronymics
Local History translations
Making ends meet?
Rechabites
The Structure & Distribution of Land ownership in Wales
Using probate records in research
Several listers have referred to assisted passages and I have some detail of this ;
My information is general rather than specific to Wales but as the Poor Laws applied in Glamorgan as well as Somerset this can be accepted as the status quo. Also I realise this does not completely answer questions of passage to America since it was no longer a colony and thus not a valid destination and was "contrary to the established regulations". Letters from the Poor Law Board to Wellington Union MH12/10492 letter 18 May 1850 when refusing a payment for emigration.
Poor Law migrations existed in the 1830s and are referred to in the Parliamentary Papers and Poor Law Reports 1834 (44) XXVIII, XXXVII, are the main ones. See also Arthur Redford Labour Migration in England 1800 -1850 Manchester 1926.
In the PRO MH19/22 are letters from Sir George Grey to the Colonial Land and Emigration Office. The principle letter being of the 15th March 1848. In this letter he sets out the basis of a supported emigration system of "well selected emigrants". The main source however being pauper females from workhouses who were "of good character" and "that these young girls would move fully as eligible emigrants especially if brought up in managed Workhouses" the intention being they would work as servants in the Colonies and provide marriage partners for the male colonists. There are suggestions also of sending children "where they may be apprenticed, under a local Act......"
He notes that emigrants should "not emigrate without their own free consent or a consultation with relatives".
In the same PRO class is an Emigration Notice printed for publication and dated August 1848, this sets out regulations in the selection of Labourers for assisted passage to New South Wales and Canada.
"Emigrants must be healthy and able bodied and capable of full labour, and the labouring classes must be going out to work for wages in the colony"
The following payments were required from adults 14 years of age :-
14 - 40 £5
60 and upwards £14
14 years under free , unless the family contains more than two children under 7 or more than 3 under 14 , then £7 per extra child.
In an analysis of figures in 1849 the greater number of persons sailed to Canada rather than Australia.
This is not evidence for assisted passage to America but I feel if the emigrants travelled steerage the fare may not be dissimilar. There is a family tale of my grandfather and others travelling across to America and singing on the ship to assist their passage.
[Steve Keates 25 Jan 2001 G]
Follow on ;
There were other ways of assisted passage. I add this from research on an Oxfordshire parish, which some of you may find of interest.
There was a lot of emigration, from Shipton under Wychwood and area, mostly to New Zealand and mostly as assisted passages made through the Agricultural Union which was very strong in that area. There is a book that gives a good description of this - 'The Farthest Promised Land' by Rollo Arnold published in 1981 by Victoria University Press, Wellington.. It has a whole chapter on the Wychwood area and included is the following on page 130 :-
'The last union party of the year was led by Thomas Osborne, sailing by the Lady Jocelyn on 3 November(1874). among her seventy-two Oxfordshire emigrants were at least nineteen from the Wychwood villages of Milton and Lyneham............'
In this book Rollo Arnold says that New Zealand's National Archives, in the Archives of the Immigration Department, hold almost complete files of passenger lists of the colony's assisted immigrants of the 1870s.
[Jill Muir 24 Jan 2001 G]
Another follow on ;
Another form of "assisted passage" arose out of the operation of the Poor Law. At Uley in GLOS, when the mill failed, the burden on those paying the Poor Law rate became so great (27/- in the £ which ruined many of the farmers), that in 1832, those surviving agreed a double rate to finance the chartering of a ship to export the problem to the Colonies, mostly Canada (Report of Poor Law Commissioners - 1834).
This solution may have occurred in parts of Wales. Even the Assisted Passage rates would have been quite beyond these emigrants. It was more a matter of Transportation with consent. The Home Office must yearn the loss of such simple solutions.
[Jeff Gould 24 Jan 2001 G]
Starting in 1858 the government assumed the duty of probate matters. The indexes from the start in 1858 to, I believe 1955, are available through the LDS Family History Centres. Microfilm copies of the wills are available from 1858 through 1925 from the LDS Family History Centres. Unfortunately the administrations are not available on microfilm. The microfilm numbers should be listed in the Family History Library Catalog, in the Locality Search under the heading of Great Britain - Probate Records - Indexes and Great Britain - Probate Records.
The post 1858 probate indexes are an excellent research tool, especially for Welsh research. When you search the civil registration death indexes you may find several entries for the death of John Jones in a district, year, and quarter. It is nearly impossible to determine which one is the correct entry for your search. The probate indexes provide enough information about the deceased that you should be able to determine if you are connected. Not everyone had a probate document but the search for one should still be made.
Normally the post 1858 probate index will provide the name of the deceased, place of residence, occupation, exact date of death, place where the probate was proved, name of the executor/executrix and possibly their relationship to the deceased, and the value of the estate. If you are able to find an entry in the probate indexes you may be tempted to stop there and not get the will/administration or the death certificate. It is advisable to obtain each document available concerning an ancestor because of the chance of gathering additional clues that may not show up in one of the other documents.
With my own research I found that the probate index showed that there is an administration for Howell Williams of Efail Isaf, Llantwit Fardre whose wife was named as Mary Williams. The administration document names Howell's wife Mary, Howell's brother John, and their sister Hannah, also Hannah Williams who lived at Penrhiw, Ystradgynlais, Breconshire. Administrations usually give less info than a will but they can still be helpful. The death certificate adds to the information already gathered by naming the informant of the death as Edmund Williams, nephew of Howell Williams.
By using the post 1858 probate indexes in conjunction with the civil registration indexes I felt sure that I had ordered the correct death certificate. By obtaining each available document, I have been able to go into the census records and sort out the research problems associated with a man who had a fairly common surname and who migrated from Llangyfelach to Llantwit Fardre, a distance of about twenty-seven miles.
Success in researching Welsh families is affected by many factors. By utilizing a variety of sources and combining the bits and pieces of information the puzzle of our Welsh family history can be unraveled. Check the post 1858 probate indexes at your local LDS Family History Centre and see if you can make it work for you too!
[Darris Williams 1998 G]
ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS OF WELSH PARISH HISTORIES
This is a list of books translated from Welsh into English by the late Ivor Griffiths who died in Feb 2006 - copies of these translations as listed below are now available for purchase from his son, Robert Leighton Griffiths.
Most of these have been name indexed online and may be available for lookups, please follow the link to the relevant page on Genuki
WELSH PARISH HISTORIES TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH BY IVOR GRIFFITHS
PRICE LIST (22 May 2012)
HISTORY OF PONTARDDULAIS including REBECCA IN PONTARDDULAIS
'The History of Pontardulais' was translated in September 1985 by Ivor Griffiths, from the Welsh language original "Hanes Pontarddulais" written by various contributors, edited by E Lewis Evans. The date of the original publication was 1949.
'Rebecca in Pontardulais' by Ivor Griffiths is appended to 'The History of Pontardulais''.
See also below
HISTORY OF THE METHODISTS IN WEST GLAMORGAN
By The Rev. W Samlet Williams 1916
HISTORY OF CLYDACH including YNYSPENLLWCH
Evans, Rev. T. Valentine. The History of Clydach (Clydach a'r cylch)1901
Davies, Rev. D. The history of the Calvinistic Methodists in Clydach. 1902
Griffiths, Ivor. Ynyspenllwch : a brief history. 1992/93
YNYSPENLLWCH ONLY
HISTORY OF LLANNON
HANES PLWYF LLAN-NON Hen Sir Gaerfyrddin]
Author: Noel Gibbard ISBN 0 86383 072 2. Published: 1984, J D Lewis and Sons, Gomer Press, Llandysul. Translated: Ivor Griffiths, Gorseinon, 1986.
HISTORY OF LLANDYBIE
Hanes Plwyf Llandybie
By Gomer M Roberts, 1939.
HISTORY OF LLANELLI
The History of Llanelli. By David Bowen 1856
Including HISTORY OF THE GWENDRAETH VALLY
By Ap Huw 1873
THE HISTORY OF PONTARDAWE
By J E Morgan [Hirfryn] 1911
THE OLD CHARACTERS OF GELLINUDD
By John E Morgan [Hirfryn] 1908
HISTORY OF BRYNAMMAN
Hanes Brynamman. By Enoch Rees1883 & 1896
Including OLD CHARACTERS OF BETTWS
By D Trumor Thomas , Glanamman, 1894
HISTORY OF WHITLAND
By the Rev William Thomas. Published 1868
THE HISTORY OF THE PARISH OF LLANDYSSUL
Hanes Plwyf Llandyssul
By Rev. W J Davies 1896
HISTORY OF THE METHODISTS IN CARMARTHENSHIRE
Hanes Methodistiaeth Sir Gaerfyrddin
By Rev James Morris. Published 1911
Translated by Ivor Griffiths, 1994
HISTORY OF THE BAPTISTS IN FELINFOEL
By Benjamin Humphreys , Bicentennial Memorial Volume 1709-1909
HISTORY OF BRYNTEG CHAPEL GORSEINON
By John Ceri Williams and D. Tom Davies [no date but after 1971]
HISTORY OF BETHLEHEM PWLL, LLANELLI (no index on Genuki)
Bethlehem Y Pwll
Published by Gomer, 1984
REBECCA IN PONTARDDULAIS ONLY
See The History of Pontardulais' above
HISTORY OF PENUEL GORSEINON (no index on Genuki)
The above prices are affective from May 2012 and cover photocopying, binding and UK postage.
Overseas postage will cost extra according to weight and destination.
Please make cheques payable to Robert Leighton Griffiths
EMAIL TO: griffspeed2000[at]yahoo.co[dot]uk
8 Maesteg Pontarddulais SA4 8PW
Maps ?
Q. Can anyone tell me where I might purchase a good old map of Wales circa 1820-50 ?
A. I don't think there is any one map which will solve all your problems.
A map of the whole of Wales will lack sufficient detail to show most of the places you'll be looking for.
One of your essential requirements is a good gazetteer of place-names -an alphabetical list giving the correct spelling of the name, and giving its coordinates so you can locate it on a map. On-line searchable gazetteers rarely do the job because they require you to type in the exact spelling. When you're using 19th century sources, the spellings of Welsh place-names are rarely the same as are used today.
A good road atlas of Great Britain, in the form of a book, will include a gazetteer, but its scale (often 3 or 4 miles to the inch) will be too small to show many of the places you'll be seeking - and it won't include the names of parishes.
A useful and comprehensive gazetteer is "A Gazetteer of Welsh Place-Names", by Elwyn DAVIES, third edition published in 1967 by the University of Wales Press, Cardiff. ISBN 0-7083-1038-9 It was last reprinted in 1996 in softback. However this is purely a gazetteer; it includes no maps, but quotes the coordinates (called grid references) used on all modern UK Ordnance Survey maps.
My advice is to use a combination of the following:
1. A good road atlas of Great Britain.
2. The gazetteer by Davies mentioned above.
3. Appropriate Ordnance Survey large scale maps (Landranger and Explorer or Outdoor Leisure series) of the specific parts of Wales in which your interested. Small sections of Landranger maps are accessible on-line at https://www.streetmap.co.uk/ which you can search by inputting the grid reference obtained from Davies.
4. Possibly a Victorian Ordnance Survey "First Edition" facsimile (authentic copies of detailed 1 inch to 1 mile maps originally published in the 19th century, based on surveys undertaken in the 1820s and 1830s. But be warned, the place-names are difficult to read on these old maps.
5. 19th century large scale maps available on-line at Oldmaps
You'll find a lot more advice on maps, including some on-line mail-order suppliers, on the "Maps of Wales" page on my website. Select "Maps of Wales" from the "Short Cuts" link at the top of my "Welsh Family History Archive" homepage
[John Ball 1 Feb 2001 G]
Making ends meet ?
From Reports to the Commissioners on Employment 1842.
Adapted from Collieries of West Glamorgan and Carmarthanshire. R.W. Jones report. (appendix).
Two examples of weekly income/expenditure comparisons in the coal mining industry;
Thomas Rees, aged 28 years, miner at Cyfarthfa Iron works, Merthyr; earns 15s per week; has a wife, and one child two years old:-
Expenditure per week.
£ s. d.
House coal and rent 0 3 0
14 lbs of flour, at 2½ d. per lb. 0 2 11
1½ lbs of butter, at 10½ d. per lb. 0 1 3½
2 lbs of cheese, at 7d. per lb. 0 1 2
Fresh meat and bacon 0 1 6
Tea, 3ozs, at 4½ d. 0 1 1½
Sugar 0 1 0
Tobacco 0 0 7½
Soap 0 0 3
Total 0 12 10½
This shopping list does not appear to include any fresh vegetables.
Neither does it include bread so possibly they made sour dough type bread for baking.
Note, this family does not get free coal.
David Jones, aged 28 years, labourer at the collieries (Llangennech, Carmarthenshire); wife 28 years, and one child four years old; earnings 12s per week, and feeds a pig:-
Expenditure per week
35 lbs of barley flour, at 1½ d. per lb 0 4 4½
6 lbs cheese, at 4 d. per lb. 0 2 0
1½ lb of butter, at 11d. per lb. 0 1 4½
1½ lb of sugar, 8d. per lb 0 1 8
1½ oz of tea, at 6d. per oz 0 0 9
1 lb of salt 0 0 0½
¼ lb of soap, 1¾d. & ½ lb candles, 3¾ d. 0 0 5½
½ lb of oatmeal, 1¼ d. & ½ oz of blue, ½ d. 0 0 1¾
1 oz of starch, 1d. & tobacco, 3¾ d. 0 0 4¾
Rent 0 1 0
Total 0 11 6½
5½ d. for clothing and sundries.
They grow their own potatoes.
Coal from the works.
Blue was used to make washing white.
The pig was usually killed around November. It's value would possibly be about £4 10s.
It looks as though the Jones family did not buy bread but made a traditional rough barley flour loaf using a sour dough culture. A tradition dying out by this time. See Elizabeth David 'Tradtional Bread and Yeast Cookery'
[Steve Keates 2 Jan 2001 G
I briefly quote from the excellent reference book "Welsh Family History" 2nd ed. by John and Sheila Rowlands;
" When the IGI was started in 1968 its eventual scale [the 1992 edition has 187 million names] was not envisaged and it was not designed as a research tool for genealogists. A rule of thumb was adopted for indexing Welsh names which, in retrospect, leaves a lot to be desired."
That "rule of thumb" mentioned above relates to the patronymic naming system which lasted in some parts of Wales well into the C19. There is no problem from 1813 onwards after the adoption of standard printed baptismal registers which had a column for the parents surname.Before 1813 there was no surname column in the register.
So, take a specimen pre 1813 register entry
"William the son of John Thomas and Sarah his wife was baptised"
In the Given Name index on the IGI that would be indexed under William as;
"William ...........[son of] John Thomas/Sarah"
In the Surname index on the IGI it would be indexed under John as;
"John, William......[son of]...........John Thomas/Sarah "
He does not appear in the surname index under Thomas, which is his proper surname.
The surname John is entirely fictitious.
It gets worse.
Earlier Welsh registers [ when there were commonly no surnames] often give a string of patronymics .
" Rachel daughter of Thomas John Charles of Glasgoed"
Appears in the Given Name index as;
"Rachel...[dau of]..Thomas John/
And in the Surname index as;
"Thomas,Rachel[dau of] Thomas John/
Bear in mind that even if the last name of Charles HAD been a proper surname it would still be missing from the IGI Surname Index.
That , in a nut shell, is the problem with the IGI and patronymics.
If you intend to use the IGI a lot I recommend you get hold of a copy of the above book, it has a strategy for using the IGI with Welsh research which partly overcomes the problems.
If you wish to read more on patronymics check out the entry under Pot Pourri.
[Gareth Hicks 1999 G]
Using the IGI for Wales and Monmouthshire
There is a paucity of statistics relating to landownership in Wales in the C19th.
The source used in this study is the 'Return of Owners of Land in 1873' with any obvious errors corrected to 1877 by John Bateman whose refinements bring us closest to the situation. It is considered that these figures may be taken as representative of the C19th as a whole.
The main categories of owners devised by Bateman in his book[' The Great Landowners of Great Britain and Ireland', 1883] have been adopted in the statistical analysis table below.
The categories of ownership used are as follows;
Peers ; include Peeresses and Peers eldest sons
Great landowners; include all estates held by commoners owning at least 3000 acres, if rental reached £3300
Squires; include estates of between 1000 and 3000 acres, and such estates that would be included in the previous class if their rental reached £3000 averaged at 1700 acres
Greater yeomen; include estates of between 300 and 1000 acres, averaged at 500 acres
Lesser yeomen ; include estates of between 100 and 300 acres, averaged at 170 acres
Small proprietors ; include lands above 1 acre and under 100 acres
Cottagers ; include all holdings of under 1 acre.
The figures show Wales was primarily a country of large estates in the possession of a small number of owners, or put another way, combining 'Small proprietors and Cottagers' together produces over 90% of the total people who owned a mere 10.5% of the land.
Bear in mind we are talking ownership here, not occupancy.
Waste land has been excluded in the analysis below
[Based on Land and People in Nineteenth Century Wales by David W Howell, 1977. Gareth 1 Feb 2001 D/G]
There is an introduction and contents listing to the book on here
Owners Number Area/1000acres Number % Area %
Peers 31 557.4 .053 13.52
Great landowners 148 1,263.1 .253 30.64
Squires 392 672.3 .673 16.30
Greater yeomen 1,224 612.0 2.098 14.84
Lesser yeomen 2,932 498.4 5.026 12.09
Small proprietors 17,289 431.8 29.639 10.47
Cottagers 35,592 7.3 61.010 0.17
Public bodies 723 79.7 1.239 1.93
Total 58,331 4,122.0 100 100
The name RECHABITES comes from a Biblical Passage:
And I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites pots full of wine, and cups, and I said unto them, Drink ye wine.
But they said, We will drink no wine: for Jonadab the son of Rechab our father commanded us saying. Ye shall drink no wine, neither ye, nor your sons for ever. Jeremiah 35:5-6
From the late 1700s a number of Friendly Societies had ben set up to help working class people with such things as health insurance, death benefits, etc. Generally these held their meetings in Public Houses. In the 1830's a group of Manchester Methodists became concerned, that by encouraging working men to attend public houses to pay their friendly society dues, then the societies were harming the men's health and financial situation and threatening their moral welfare, rather than helping them. To counter this they set up a new Friendly Society called the Independent Order of Rechabites.
Before one could join the Rechabites and benefit from their insurance and saving scheme a document had to be signed swearing that the proposed member and his family would not drink any alcoholic beverages. This document was The Pledge (a pledge being a solemn promise).
The Rechabites were just one of a number of temperance organisations to spring up in the mid 1800's the two most prominent of which were the Women's' Temperance Movement - which succeeded in getting the American prohibition laws passed and the Band of Hope a children's organisation whose aim was to encourage children to shame their parents into giving up the evil drink. One of the main ways in which the Band of Hope used to work was by encouraging children to join by offering games, trips parties and other activities. So if you nag your dad to stop drinking you can have a free day trip to Barry Island
The temperance movement was very big in Wales by the 1880s - and temperance became a pre-requisite for joining nonconformist chapel (to the extent that being teetotal was more important than being a Christian!).
With conscription giving young men a much wider experience of social attitude, temperance began its decline after the first world war - a second generation going through the same cultural revolution in WW2, saw the movement and its nonconformist supporters going into rapid decline.
[Alwyn G 15 Oct 2001]
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LastPass jacks up premium pricing, removes Free features
by Martin Brinkmann on August 04, 2017 in Internet - Last Update: November 14, 2019 - 43 comments
LastPass announced yesterday that it decided to make changes to the company's personal lineup of password managing services.
The company has offered a free and premium version of the password manager up until now, and that won't change with the update.
It announced recently that it will introduce a third option, LastPass Families, to complement the two products.
LastPass Families includes six LastPass Premium licenses, a new family dashboard for managing all accounts, and group and share functionality.
LastPass Personal Lineup changes
Probably the biggest change for existing LastPass Premium users is the increase of the yearly price to $24. LastPass Premium was available for $12 up until now which means that the price doubled both for new and existing customers.
LastPass Premium is now available for $24 per year and includes all the features in Free, plus emergency access, the ability to share single passwords and items with multiple people, priority tech support, advanced multi-factor authentication, LastPass for applications, and 1GB of encrypted file storage.
Please note, existing Premium customers will maintain all previous sharing capabilities via their one shared folder.
This makes the pricing of LastPass Families more attractive, considering that you get six LastPass Premium licenses for $48. Obviously, that is only an option if you need at least two, better three or more of the licenses.
Considering that LastPass Premium is good for all the devices you use yourself, it only makes sense in a family or group context.
LastPass Premium users won't notice any changes besides the price hike. All existing features remain as they are right now.
The same cannot be said for free LastPass users. The two features unlimited sharing and emergency access are no longer part of LastPass Free. Existing Free users who have set up an emergency contact already will continue to have access to the feature while new users and those who have not configured an emergency contact before won't.
Unlimited sharing is no longer a part of LastPass Free, as free users are limited to sharing one item with one other individual from now on.
Some LastPass Free and Premium users expressed disappointment with the company's decision already. In the end, it comes down to how you value LastPass if you are a premium user, or if you used the limited free features or not.
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Nik said on August 4, 2017 at 4:17 pm
I read some comments on Reddit that current premium users weren’t notified about the change and the history of such practices by LogMeIn (owner of LastPass).
Kubrick said on August 4, 2017 at 4:32 pm
Why on gods earth would users put up with such nonsense when there are free options.?
Oldest trick in the book…lure users in with a nice free product and then when the all blind masses rely on such a product start charging for it..absolute abysmal and tactics like this are nothing new.
Unfortunately the blind will lead the blind.And sadly the companies which offer free services will sniff the cash and start charging.
Duckeenie said on August 4, 2017 at 6:37 pm
In your example the blind are not leading the blind because LastPass knew what they’re doing.
Heimen Stoffels said on August 4, 2017 at 7:15 pm
You’re the one who’s blind ’cause LastPass *is* free. There are just some options that are only part of the Premium packagge, but the free version has plenty features for most users.
Michael said on December 10, 2017 at 1:06 pm
You must be a millennial? You think you’re entitled to everything for free.
Go get a job! Socialism is bad.
Sojiro84 said on August 4, 2017 at 4:51 pm
I myself switched to bitwarden today. A great alternative that works great free and has nice premium features at a affordable price for those that want it.
It was nice as long as it lasted. I knew this was coming with the LogMeIn take-over.
Didn’t know about Bitwarden. Looks good at first glance, will consider switching to it from LastPass. Thanks for the recommendation! :)
Robbie Kinnaird said on August 4, 2017 at 11:20 pm
Had a look at Bitwarden and I’m impressed. The android app and the Chrome extension work well for me. I’ve been a LastPass premium user for several years, but Bitwarden might just pull me away.
Womble said on August 5, 2017 at 4:31 am
Just tried it based on your recommendation, works well. Thanks.
Gabriel said on August 5, 2017 at 9:12 am
Apparently it uses Google Analytics. No thanks.
https://github.com/bitwarden/browser/tree/master/src/scripts
Tom Hawack said on August 5, 2017 at 10:43 am
Bitwarden FAQ : Where is my data stored in the cloud?
Answer : “bitwarden processes and stores all data securely in the Microsoft Azure cloud using services that are managed by the team at Microsoft. bitwarden does not manage any server infrastructure or security directly. All data is backed up multiple times over, again using services provided by Microsoft Azure.”
No thanks. I don’t trust Microsoft.
Tim Parsons said on August 5, 2017 at 2:59 pm
If the data’s securely encrypted before it leaves your PC, you have to be very worried about Microsoft Azure. I think I’ll try them — but I want my yubikey to work, so if I like the service and the functionality, I’ll be going premium very quickly. :)
Tom Hawack said on August 5, 2017 at 3:17 pm
I’m worried about many things, Tim, especially on the Web. I’m worried when a security process comes in transactions, making people believe they are safe when meanwhile bad guys, big companies, governments develop tools to workaround those features. Be it https, be it encryption. Passwords encrypted locally is the least, but encryption if defeated by decryption becomes a false security. I don’t know what bad guys, big companies, governments are able to perform, but I presume it’s always ahead of a newbie’s expectations. Hence, no cloud or for non-sensitive data only. Passwords, as all my sensitive data are handled locally, no cloud, not cloud after local encryption, did I say no cloud? It’s not paranoia, it’s only basic security when in doubt.
Ciano said on August 7, 2017 at 10:53 am
I like to have the choice to store my data locally on my private disk or to a cloud service. In both cases I’m perfectly aware of the pros and cons.
But when choosing a cloud service, well… not all are the same and there are ones more reliable and other less, in regards of privacy, IMHO.
Microsoft is well known to have a very “easy” policy in regards of privacy when asked to access and/or disclose data to someone who has enough authority or if they have convenience to do it.
No Microsoft sevices to store my secure or reserved data, thanks.
ShintoPlasm said on August 4, 2017 at 5:41 pm
1Password is great too, especially if you’re on a Mac/iOS device.
bill said on August 4, 2017 at 6:14 pm
Well, the free product ‘functions’, but the bugs and annoying UI mean I will NEVER give them money for a paid version. If the free version was easier to use I’d consider purchasing a premium version just to express my approval of their product. As it is, I frequently look for alternatives that are easier to use.
levko said on August 5, 2017 at 12:28 am
I drop LastPass after change interface/UI (for me is awful). For over a year I use “Safe in cloud”. Free on desktop and one-pay (no subsrciptions) for mobile.
Klaas Vaak said on August 5, 2017 at 6:06 am
KeePass is free, open source, and 1 of the best out there. Why accept this nonsense from LastPass?
Stevie said on August 5, 2017 at 7:30 am
KeePassX is the one I prefer. It is offline password manager.
Zhamel said on August 5, 2017 at 9:49 am
As a former, as of this morning, multi-year premium user of LastPass I highly recommend bitwarden (bitwarden.com). It is open source, has many of the same features as LastPass, such as app fill for Android, and I assume iOS (don’t have an iOS device), form fill, ect. It is also very easy to import your sites from LastPass. There is a quick video on how to use the browser plugin on the website.
sludgehound said on August 5, 2017 at 7:40 pm
Thanks for mention import of LastPass sites. Been with LastPass from get go on free model. New changes per se don’t end it for me, yet. But time at hand now for alternatives. bitwarden seems worth a try while keeping LP until its annoying UI finally loses me. Other thing is that free doesn’t allow for use with an application as does Premium. Have been using some third party app as a work around. Will check to see if bitwarden will do that. Game on if does. hmm I don’t use IE or Edge much but see they don’t seem to have access from the hard drive encrypted bitwarden data. We’ll see.
Harushi said on August 5, 2017 at 9:51 am
Personally, I think $24 isn’t too much, especially for pepple whose passwords are very important. Cloud is much convenient and mobility. Keepass is good, but if you want to use your stored passwords on other computers or phones, you have to do many things to achieve that, and could be pantful if you’re not good on using computer.
Emil said on August 5, 2017 at 11:42 am
Fantastic idea to hand over your passwords to an american company. And you even get to pay for it!
A41202813GMAIL said on August 5, 2017 at 4:50 pm
Yeah, Lazy Keyboard Warriors Who Stubbornly Refuse To Use Their Own Brain, And Prefer Giving Third Party Software / Services All Their Lifes Keys.
What Can Possibly Go Wrong ?
Why the hell do you capitalise every word like that?
A41202813GMAIL said on August 7, 2017 at 1:18 am
@Womble
It Is Just The Output Of A CHROME Extension.
For Your Information, GERMANS Capitalize Every Noun.
If You Do Not Agree With Me Just Say So, And Stop Pretending You Are A Spell Check Cop.
Clairvaux said on August 5, 2017 at 4:59 pm
Yes, because American companies are evil, whereas companies from all other countries in the world are virtuous and benevolent. Also, you don’t need companies to make your computer work. You just go plant computer seeds in your orchard, and poof ! out comes the computer plant, and its beautiful fruits.
It’s more a country’s, a community’s legislation regarding companies, when tight or loose, that limits or not an excessive business zeal. Companies themselves are the same everywhere, tangent to the limits of law. Very few exceptions and when applicable always within small businesses. Bigger the company bigger the danger to be walked over. That’s why they’re big : lack of ethics, nu scruple. Most companies start small, ingenious, passionate, do good things, innovate then get bought by giant corporations. That’s the cycle of the system.
Totally disagree. My experience has been that it’s far better buying from Amazon (a huge company, if there ever was one) than from a mom-and-pop outfit. At least in France.
If anything goes wrong at Amazon, you’ll be presumed innocent, and get your money back even if they are not at fault. If anything goes wrong at a French company, you’ll be presumed guilty, and asked to prove you’re not. Of course, no proof will be deemed enough. It’s just a way to screw you.
Note that this is the case with small, medium and big businesses alike. C-Discount, which is a huge French e-merchant successfully competing with Amazon, made it a business principle to screw customers on service. They also have very low prices. French customers did not mind being fleeced, because of the low nominal prices (which are not so low when you get a broken lemon, and cannot return it).
That says a lot about buyers and sellers alike. There is such a thing as honesty, and that is, ultimately, a characteristic of people. And peoples.
clasof56 said on August 5, 2017 at 1:58 pm
passwords::::: always a contentious subject. i gave up putting anything like passwords in the “cloud” …someone else’s computer. have used the free and well-thought-out Password Safe for years. everything stays on your computer…or on your flash drive..all password protected. never a problem since using it. just my opinion. Clas
Can you export your passwords from Last Pass ? Just curious. As a Kee Pass practitioner, that does not affect me. However, I’m interested to learn about new, possible tricks in the book.
X said on August 5, 2017 at 8:13 pm
I did it, then deleted everything from the vault.
And yes, you can import the passwords into KeyPass, and probably into other managers (CSV file).
ozone333 said on August 5, 2017 at 9:38 pm
I’ve been using KeePass for over 10 years and it works flawlessly every time. I tried Last Pass and shortly thereafter they were hacked… yeah, no thanks! I’ll stick with KeePass Password safe! Plus its open source and its free; what more could you want?
ShintoPlasm said on August 5, 2017 at 10:48 pm
Just wondering- how does Bitwarden manage to offer all that good stuff for free or at dirt-cheap prices, and still survive financially?
Anonymous said on August 5, 2017 at 11:10 pm
@ShintoPlasm
Charlie said on August 5, 2017 at 11:13 pm
I use LastPass free on 3 computers in my home, and of course they all access the same DB of passwords. What other good and free PW manager offers this?
Wayfarer said on August 6, 2017 at 12:58 am
Keepass every time.
Free, portable, dependable and above all unbloated (so far.) And – important to me – NOT connected to the Cloud (in fact it’s blocked in my firewall.) Portable version on every device I have, and the database is synced easily and within seconds via a pendrive.
Possibly not the best app for those with very sophisticated password storage needs, but more than adequate for the home or small business user.
blater said on August 6, 2017 at 5:07 am
@Wayfarer “NOT connected to the Cloud” owned private cloud and secure sync function of keepass…
alan said on August 7, 2017 at 9:00 pm
Keepass is a terrific alternative, I’ve been using it for years and it’s free!
Anonymous said on August 6, 2017 at 5:29 pm
Keepass ok, but do not use Keefox as you CAN’T block telemetry even by unchecking the box! :(
Tjukken said on August 6, 2017 at 7:17 pm
$24 is nothing. Keepass is too much hassle to use. Bitwarden looks good. Someone mentioned Lastpass was hacked. Sure, but if the hackers got anything, the data was encrypted and salted, so it wasn’t actually that big of a deal. It was useless to them. Anyway, anyone can get hacked, no matter what 3rd party service you use.
Anonymous said on August 22, 2017 at 6:27 pm
I have tried all the other similar services out there and I keep coming back to lastpass. It is one of those things that just works . Their support for any issues I have had over the years has always been fast and resolved the issues quickly. If they need to charge more, I will support that.
Ray said on March 7, 2019 at 6:51 pm
I didn’t notice, until I didn’t have to pay… I only used it to remember passwords and credit cards. I was paying $12 a year to have it work across devices instead of the 1 free device limit. Now it works across devices for free. Yay!!
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GhostFace.co.uk
Someone has taken their love of GhostFace onto a website.
Welcome to the GhostFace.co.uk Website!
The Home of GhostFace®. “The Icon of Halloween®”
This site is here today to serve as a main attraction for GhostFace® and all his fans.
The website has been online since the end of November 2006, and started off as just a ‘proboards’ forum… the site started appearing page by page shortly thereafter, and housed info related the the SCREAM movies and also my own ‘Arnold Scream’ fan films, which were made from 1999-2010, and were just for fun among friends… around 2008 i had seen the news all fans had been wanting, SCREAM 4… Green-lit and announced at that time, i then decided to keep an eye on its development all the way through to its release, this website stayed as a NON SPOILER source of info for fans all that time and continues to keep fans updated with GhostFace related news and also the SCREAM TV Series info that comes our way!
Since mid 2010 the site has been in touch with RJ Torbert (Fun World) who kindly gave us permission to use the new official logo for GhostFace®, and also the new Registered trademark “The Icon Of Halloween®” in which im entirely grateful. To have the approval of the man who deals with ALL things GhostFace on a daily basis means a lot..
So far its been a good ride for the site, i hope it continues for a long time to come.
Thanks for reading, Tim Wagstaff
In recent time there have been a few E mail’s sent to this site asking about selling GhostFace masks, as in trade sales, and where to get masks for people’s shops they may own, and even people asking about getting permission to use an image of GhostFace and addressing the E mail to RJ Torbert… THIS SITE ISN’T PART OF FUN WORLD, it is a FAN SITE based in the UK, for inquiries in relations to GhostFace or ANY kind of trade sales please contact the Fun World website directly.. They DO have a ‘CONTACT’ link there.. Thank You.
Learn about the many different mask types of GhostFace, in the VERY early years people knew of this mask as the ‘Peanut Eyed Ghost’ or the ‘Weeping Ghost’ before finally getting the simple and fitting name of GhostFace!
Check out real facts on GhostFace and the Brand and even what measures have to be taken to help protect from fakes, also why some masks are limited and only made in small amounts. We also link to other sites in relation to GhostFace and Scream, as well as Costume sites who sell GhostFace Merchandise!
RJ Torbert is the Director of Licensing at Fun World and ALL things involving GhostFace have to go through him, in 2013 he wrote a novel with GhostFace involved, a thrilling story fills the pages here as Detective’s Powers and Johnson try and solve crimes in Port Jefferson, in Long Island New York. A second book was released on June 21st, 2016.. called ‘No Mercy’….. i urge all fans of GhostFace & Scream to read these books!
Since the sites first ever day online we had a community forum here, today a different type board exists and fans can register and post away on all things GhostFace related and SCREAM movie related, Find masks for sale or add your own fan made posters or videos, since Scream 4 has been and gone its quieter with some fans but the board is always open.. Browse through many fans posts still there since August 2008..
Browse through Movie info on all the SCREAM movies, Posters, Soundtracks, Original Movie Score info, Filming Locations, Cast profiles and deaths, etc…..
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