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Home AROUND THE WORLD Captain arrested after ferry disaster
Captain arrested after ferry disaster
Indonesian police have detained the captain of a ferry that sank in Lake Toba in Sumatra leaving at least three people dead and more than 190 missing.
The vessel went down on Monday in what is feared to be one of Indonesia’s deadliest ship disasters.
Only 17 people were rescued in addition to captain Tua Sagala.
The boat was only licensed to transport 60 passengers and was operating without an official ticket system, making it difficult to trace those on board.
Police say they have yet to question the captain, who is also reported to be the owner of the ferry, because he is traumatised.
Lake Toba, the world’s largest volcanic lake, was busy with Muslim tourists celebrating the annual Eid holiday when the ferry sank in poor weather.
Police say about 193 people, including children, are unaccounted for. The authorities have relied on reports from survivors and the families of missing relatives.
Many victims are thought to have been trapped inside the vessel.
On Wednesday, divers and an underwater drone joined the search efforts. The teams still need to locate the wooden ferry at the bottom of the 450m (1,500ft)-deep lake.
“This is a test from God for our family,” Fajar Alamsyah Putra, whose brother Bagas Prama Ananta is among the missing passengers told reporters.
“He was inside the ferry when the ship sank and could not get out, the ferry quickly capsized. A friend of his was on the deck and was able to jump off in time to get help from another passing ferry.”
Indonesia’s national search and rescue agency said the survivors had all been found within hours of the disaster and three bodies had been recovered.
Desperate families have spent the past days waiting for news from the search-and-rescue boats returning to shore.
According to official regulations, all boats in Indonesia must not exceed capacity and must have life jackets for every passenger on board.
But the authorities admit that they struggle to monitor all the boats operating across Indonesia’s vast archipelago.
The national committee for transportation safety says that 40% of boat accidents in Indonesia are caused by human error and only 12% are due to bad weather.
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Home SPORTS Nadal: I could forgo Wimbledon this year
Nadal: I could forgo Wimbledon this year
Rafael Nadal has cast doubt on his participation at Wimbledon, saying he needs to see how his body recovers after a long clay court campaign culminated in an 11th French Open title.
Two of the Spaniard’s 17 Grand Slam titles came on the All England Club’s lawns, but the 32-year-old has struggled to make an impact there in recent years.
“Difficult for me to think about it now. I had a long and mentally tough clay court season. Of course, because I played almost all the matches possible after coming from an injury.
“So it was a demanding two months for me,” Nadal told reporters after his 6-4 6-3 6-2 defeat of Dominic Thiem in Paris.
Nadal, who also won the titles in Monte Carlo, Barcelona and Rome this year, is entered for the Queen’s Club warm-up tournament starting next week.
But he says he will consult with his team, including Coach Carlos Moya, over the next few days.
“I would love to be playing in as many places as possible, but you understand I need to check how I feel in the next couple of days,” Nadal said.
“Of course it’s a drastic change from clay to grass. I did it in the past when I was much younger, quicker, because I played back to back.”
Twenty-time Grand Slam champion Roger Federer, the world number two, skipped the clay court season to concentrate on Wimbledon, where he will be going for a ninth title.
Nadal spent several months away from the tour after sustaining an injury at this year’s Australian Open and could, like Federer, decide that his long-term interests are best-served by sparing his body further punishment.
It is common knowledge that the lower-bouncing ball on grass puts extra strain on the knees that have bothered him at times throughout his career.
Yet Nadal also knows he could be a threat after playing impressively last year before falling in the last 16, losing a classic tussle against Luxembourg’s Gilles Muller.
“Last year I felt that I had a good opportunity to go far in the tournament. I felt myself playing well on grass last year,” the Spaniard said.
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Randolph Region Re-Energized (R3) next meeting June 11 - VTC President Patricia Moulton to serve as initiative chairperson
RANDOLPH - The Randolph Region Re-Energized (R3) initiative will convene on June 11 as four task forces focused on community priorities meet to develop action plans. Joining these conversations will be a resource team of issue-area experts from around Vermont who will provide technical advice and help to identify resources important for success. The task force meetings are happening on June 11 from 6:30 to 9:00 PM at the Chandler Center for the Arts. All in the Randolph region are invited to attend.
This meeting builds upon two previous gatherings in April and May as over 275 community members came together to brainstorm action ideas and prioritize four that are now the focus of the R3 initiative. The R3 initiative will now work to:
Reduce Municipal and School Costs through Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Projects
Attract and Support Climate Economy Businesses and Entrepreneurs and Strengthen Downtown Randolph
Attract More Visitors to the Randolph Region
Create Savings Opportunities for Homes and Businesses Through Energy Efficiency, Transformation, and Generation
The group that gathered May 7 for the Community Meeting also decided that engaging younger community members is critical to the success of this effort and will be a focus of each task force. Younger members of the community are strongly encouraged to attend and participate on June 11.
Vermont Council on Rural Development is pleased to announce that Patricia Moulton, the President of Vermont Technical College, will serve as the local Chair of the initiative. As Chair, Pat will work with the chairs of each task force, with partner organizations and VCRD staff to provide guidance, coordination, and support.
“The Randolph Region Re-Energized process holds tremendous promise for Randolph and surrounding towns. I am excited to work with all those involved with the initiative to drive positive change for the region,” noted Pat. “Now that we have decided on the four key priorities for R3, our work really gets started. Our success depends on local leadership and support, so I’m hopeful many citizens will join in the conversation on June 11. “
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Manchester City vs Brighton / Graham Potter dares to dream that an upset is possible
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Published: 19:45 Thursday 29 August 2019 Updated: 09:13 Friday 30 August 2019
Manchester City are huge favourites to beat Brighton at the Etihad this Saturday but Graham Potter has delivered an upset or two in the past – just ask anyone from Galatasaray.
Potter will take charge of just his fourth Premier League match against the champions and he will take inspiration from a Europa League Cup second qualifying round back in 2017.
Galatasaray may not be on the same level as Pep Guardiola’s men but at the time Potter’s former club Ostersund, had an annual turnover of £4.2m – compared to Galatasaray’s £168m.
The Arctic winds that blow through the Swedish city of Ostersund are known as a “nordvästan” and the Turkish champions felt the full force from Potter’s team at the Jämtkraft Arena. They were blown away 2-0 in the first leg and Ostersund finished the job in Istanbul with a 1-1 draw.
“To beat them over two legs was probably the biggest one (upset) for me,” said Potter, emphasising the two-legs proudly. “For a club like Ostersund to beat them, was big.”
Asked if that gives him hope ahead of the City clash, Potter added, “It’s a bit sad if you can’t believe (an upset is possible). You have to be respectful of course, with what they have achieved but you always have to believe there is a possibility and that’s what is great about football. If we lose that, then it all becomes a bit dull.”
The Seagulls have won once, drawn once and lost once from their opening three Premier League fixtures, while City have won two and drawn once from their first three.
Guardiola’s team have amassed almost 200 points over the last two seasons. They have scored the most goals, created the most chances and conceded the fewest. Once again they have started the new season impressively and Potter admits Guardiola and City have set a new standard.
“We will need to be lucky, without a doubt,” said the head coach. “And you need to be perfect, play perfectly and respond perfectly and you also have to hope that they are not so good. It sounds easy but you have to have an idea and a belief that you can go on the pitch and win.
“If you have to say one thing, it is their collective strength. They are a team with good individual players but they fight for everything. Everybody sacrifices themselves for the team.”
Few give Albion a hope. Brighton are a huge 45-1 to get the win and a draw is 12-1. Potter however, dares to dream and he has of course delivered notable upsets. The weather forecast for Manchester on Saturday is wind and rain...City be warned, it could turn in to a nordvästan.
Florin Andone will serve the second match of his three-game suspension following his red card against Southampton. Potter confirmed there are no fresh injury concerns following matches against Southampton and Bristol Rovers, but Yves Bissouma, Jose Izquierdo and Ezequiel Schelotto remain sidelined.
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Bissouma could make his return against Burnley after the international break, Schelotto isn’t far behind, but Izquierdo will need more time.
Manchester City will likely be without Gabriel Jesus, as the striker picked up a hamstring strain before last week’s victory over Bournemouth and isn’t expected to be back until after the international break. He joins Leroy Sane and Benjamin Mendy on the sidelines. John Stones is nearing fitness after the defender missed the last two games with a thigh injury.
What time does Manchester City vs Brighton kick off?
The game kicks off at 3pm at the Etihad.
Is the game on TV?
No. Highlights of the Manchester City match will be on Match Of The Day at 10.30pm on Saturday evening. Brighton are next on TV when they travel to Newcastle on September 21 (5:30pm) live on Sky Sports and NOW TV
Who is the referee?
Jon Moss will take charge of the clash which kicks off at 3pm at the Etihad Stadium on Saturday, August 31. Assistants will be Marc Perry and Simon Bennett. The fourth official will be Robert Jones with David Coote operating as the VAR official. Moss has officiated two games so far in the Premier League this season - Manchester United’s draw with Wolves where he awarded a penalty and Crystal Palace’s draw with Everton where he sent off Morgan Schneiderlin.
Odds?
Manchester City are huge favourites to pick up all three points. They are priced at 1/10 to win. A Brighton victory is 45-1 and the draw is 12/1.
Aguero is 12/5 to score first, with Sterling at 10/3. Brighton’s Murray is 20-1, with Shane Duffy coming in at 66-1.
The favoured result at 11-2 is a 3-0 triumph for City. You can get 20/1 for a 1-1 draw, while a 2-0 for Brighton is at 200-1
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Senate takes on man to decide Mueller probe fate
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Attorney general nominee William Barr's Senate confirmation hearing Tuesday is expected to be a highly charged affair that's sure to test his opinion of just how powerful a president -- in this case, Donald Trump -- is.
If Barr wins confirmation, he'll be thrust into the lightning rod role of overseeing the finale of the gravest probe in decades into a sitting President who has a long record of chafing against legal norms and constitutional restraints.
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The hearing, which was always guaranteed to be politically volatile, has taken on even more significance following stunning new revelations about Trump's mysterious relationship with Russia -- including a New York Times report that the FBI opened an investigation into whether the President was working for Moscow.
It will likely fall to Barr to decide how special counsel Robert Mueller's inquiries will end, what will happen to his final report and how much the public will find out about it. Skeptics of Barr's nomination will be seeking to secure assurances that he will do as much to shield Mueller as Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who has defied Trump's wrath but is expected to step down shortly after Barr arrives.
"There are good reasons to be concerned about the rule of law, and the independence of the judiciary and the rule of the Department of Justice," said Sen. Chris Coons, D-Delaware, previewing the hearing on a conference call Monday with reporters.
"We have a President who almost daily criticizes the FBI and the Department of Justice, and in particular the Mueller investigation. We have a President whose campaign manager, national security adviser and personal attorney have all either pled guilty to and been charged with or convicted of crimes related to their conduct, either on the campaign or in the support of President Trump and his business activities," he said.
"That is not a typical or common context in which to have a confirmation hearing about an attorney general," Coons added.
While Barr is not to blame for the political storm raging around the hearing, his own beliefs and paper trail over a long legal career are also sparking controversy.
His belief in a contentious doctrine of strong executive power and his doubts about the viability of charging a president with obstruction of justice have put him on a collision course with many Trump critics, despite respect for his credentials for a second run as attorney general.
Every attorney general must answer the conundrum of how to balance a White House's political goals and actions with tensions that sometimes arise and challenge the rule of law and the independence of the Justice Department.
For Barr, those questions may be more extreme than for any recent predecessor, at least since hotly contested legal determinations that were made about the treatment of terror suspects and executive power in the dark days after 9/11.
In two years as President, Trump has almost constantly tested the norms of Washington and the assumed limits of his office. He excoriated his former attorney general, Jeff Sessions, over his recusal from the Russia investigation and has pounded the Justice Department and the FBI over what he sees as a "witch hunt." He frequently rails against judges who block his goals.
He demands loyalty from his subordinates, seeming to regard the Justice Department as a personal white-collar law firm that should shield him and pursue his opponents, rather than the body set up to ensure the fair administration of the rule of law and respect for the Constitution.
Such questions will be at the center of the early barrage of questions from opposition Democrats during the hearing on Tuesday morning.
'Witch hunt?'
The question of how the Mueller probe will end was given added relevance by recent indications that the White House will seek to obscure the details of any final report with a series of aggressive executive privilege claims.
In an apparent attempt to defuse some of the most explosive questions, Barr released written testimony on Monday, promising that the special counsel would be allowed to finish his investigation and that the public and Congress deserved to learn the results consistent with the rule of law.
Barr's pledge left plenty of room for interpretation, not least in how much "transparency" is required by the law -- a gray area that Democratic senators will try to color in on Tuesday.
But he also promised that "where judgments are to be made by me, I will make those judgments based solely on the rule of law and will let no personal, political or other improper interests influence my decision."
Barr also noted he had known Mueller for 30 years, that they were friends and that he had welcomed Mueller's appointment.
"I had confidence he would handle the matter properly. I still have that confidence today," he said.
Barr's statement was remarkable given that Trump has spent months trying to discredit Mueller, branding the FBI investigation as recently as Monday as a "whole big fat hoax" and an effort by a Washington "deep state" to invalidate his election.
The President has yet to react to the testimony. But Barr will have known he would risk alienating the President right from the start given his treatment of Sessions and other senior FBI and Justice Department officials.
Still, such a strong early show of independence could also offer Barr, a veteran Washington operator, more leeway to interpret his duty of transparency on the Mueller report in a way that some of Trump's critics might question.
John McGinnis, an assistant attorney general under Barr when he was head of the Office of Legal Counsel in the Justice Department, said he believes Barr's reputation and personal situation as a well-compensated corporate attorney make him an ideal fit for a fraught political moment.
"(He) is in quite a powerful position in the sense that he doesn't really need this job," said McGinnis, now a professor of constitutional law at the Pritzker School at Northwestern University.
"If the President asks him to do something that he believes is illegal, he can resign. In that sense he has some rather substantial leverage in a way that some younger people who are seeking the next job after attorney general (and) don't want to have a reputation of being a troublemaker (aren't) in that position," he said.
"That structure, I would say, should give some confidence that the attorney general isn't going to just do something that he thinks is wrong to get along with the President," McGinnis added.
Testing the guardrails of democracy
Barr's experience and personality may well mean that he will not face the kinds of questions that other Trump administration nominees have had to deal with about their qualifications for the jobs they are seeking.
But many Democrats, already spooked by Trump's frequent scrapes against the guardrails of his office, are concerned about past writings by Barr that express strong support for almost unfettered executive power.
This is especially worrying for critics who fear that Trump's ambition is to place himself above the law and that he would be better served by an attorney general with a more limited interpretation of executive power.
Concern about Barr among Democrats spiked over an unsolicited memo he wrote last June to the Justice Department arguing that Mueller "should not be permitted to demand that the President submit to interrogation about alleged obstruction."
The fact that Barr admitted in the memo that he was "in the dark about many facts" led some critics to see his arguments as a political move that could have been motivated by a desire to promote himself for a return to Justice, where he served President George H.W. Bush as attorney general.
In his testimony and in a letter to Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, Barr sought to head off controversy about the memo.
He pointed out that he was arguing a specific theory on a single statute that he thought Mueller might be considering.
"The memo did not address -- or in any way question --the Special Counsel's core investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election," Barr wrote in his testimony.
"Nor did it address other potential obstruction of justice theories or argue, as some have erroneously suggested, that a President can never obstruct justice," he added.
Tuesday's hearing will be the first chance for the Senate Judiciary Committee to grab a national public spotlight since it fragmented into bitter acrimony over the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh last year.
It will also provide another stage for potential 2020 Democratic presidential candidates, such as Sens. Cory Booker of New Jersey, Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Kamala Harris of California, to seize the opportunity to impress liberal activists.
Barr's tough views on criminal justice -- an issue in which legal and political thought have eased since he last served as attorney general -- intersect directly with a key issue for Democratic candidates.
His positions on civil rights, LGBTQ equality and immigration -- which are consistent with those of a conservative Republican of the 1980s and 1990s -- could also provoke explosive exchanges with Democrats on issues that are driving their party's transformation.
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President M. Buhari Reacts To Boko Haram’s Maiduguri Attack
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The newly-elected President Muhammadu Buhari has reacted to the latest Boko Haram’s blow delivered to Maiduguri, Borno state, by condemning the sect’s actions and vowing to tackle terrorism.
The statement was signed by Garba Shehu, President Buhari’s assistant on media.
In the statement, President Buhari extended his condolences to the families of the victims. He asserted that his administration “will not tolerate wanton and wilful destruction of life by criminal elements that are bent on anarchy.”
The president says that, in his bid to fulfil his obligations as the commander-in-chief to protect Nigerians, he will use all available resources to curb terrorism on the Nigerian soil.
President Buhari described the terrorists as “cowardly murderers that target innocent people” and called local communities to continue their vigilante activities.
He assured of his administration’s determination to boost the morale among the Nigerian soldiers by effectively funding them and attending to their welfare.
Immediately after he was sworn in as Nigeria’s president yesterday, Buhari announced the plan to relocate the army headquarters to the epicentre of Boko Haram reign – Maiduguri, Borno state capital. As if in response, the sect has attacked Maiduguri in the early hours of Saturday, May 30, killing seven people and injuring dozens.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate has overwhelmingly approved a new North American trade pact that rewrites the rules of trade with Canada and Mexico.
Passage of the measure gives President Donald Trump a major policy victory before senators turns their full attention to his impeachment trial. (Source: WAVE/Gray News)
Passage of the measure gives President Donald Trump a major policy victory before senators turn their full attention to his impeachment trial.
The measure goes to Trump for his signature. It would replace the 25-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement, known as NAFTA.
It tore down most trade barriers and triggered a surge in trade.
But Trump and other critics blamed NAFTA for encouraging U.S. companies to move their manufacturing plants south of the border to take advantage of low-wage Mexican laborers.
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10 Feminist Songs That Have Impacted Indian Women’s Lives
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Songs find an easy way to the heart! Take a quick look at these feminist songs that sing empowerment and touch the heart in inexplicable ways.
While some of these feminist songs aim to strengthen womanhood in general, others also try to pay tribute to inspiring women. Most of all, feminist songs talk about the shifting paradigm favouring women owing to their inherent caliber, struggle and will-power to succeed above their circumstances.
O Ri Chiraiya
The song was sung by Swanand Kirkire in Satyamev Jayate. He dedicated the song to womanhood. The video is a heart-wrenching one depicting the drudgery of the struggles women endure on a daily basis. The lyrics are refreshing and express gratitude towards women for all they have done for their male counterparts. This particular song has contributed to the canon of feminist songs and had taken the mission far ahead!
Mann Ke Manjeere
Mann ke Manjeere, a popular feminist song sung by Shubha Mudgal was a breakthrough from overarching patriarchy. The video aims at strengthening women and making them realize the significance of their existence. Moreover, the song reiterates the fact that the soul-mate resides within.
Sapna Dekha Hai Maine
Sung again, by Shuba Mughdal, the song talks about the life of urchins and orphans doomed to poverty. Sapna symbolizes the dream of an orphan to live a worthy life. It is a kind of revolt against the pre-mediated future as dictated by the laws of the world. But, the innocent eyes dare dream of a promising future and in an eventually transforming Indian scenario, perhaps these dreams would materialise.
Dhunki
Dhunki is one of its kind songs portraying a headstrong willed girl who prefers a care free life. Katrina acts as a rock star stirring in millions the viral free spirit of existence. Adhering to the whims of the heart and fully submerging oneself in love is what the song professes. Living life to the fullest is one amongst myriad interpretations of the song. An actress representing a carefree attitude towards life in some ways is a liberating act from the umpteen laws of patriarchal structure we reside in.
O Gujariya
O Gujariya became one of the most popular songs owing to its fast pace blended with fantastic rhythm depicting a fast paced life with the female protagonist, (Kangana Ranaut) taking away the show with her bold and beautiful performance. One feels inherently emancipated listening to the lyrics. During the track one feels entranced to finally have embarked in an era of modernity where one does not need to do a role-play of a supposedly ‘good girl’.
Suno Meri Aawaaz
The song by Anandmurti Gurumaa is splendidly an empowering one. It depicts women outshining guys in every other field. Girls out winning guys form the basic theme of the song. The song rings a clarion pronouncing an era where girls are competent enough to outwit boys. Sung with a vision of girls with ambition, the song serves as a reminder to girls to rise higher than their dreams. Sky is the limit!
The one amongst plethora of feminist songs to hit across zillion hearts within moments when sung on one of the many shows of Satyamev Jayate is incredibly sung. All about women dignity, the song reiterates the primal fact that women are innately powerful and need not depend upon men for any need, be it physical or financial. Moreover, the song proclaims that marriage is certainly not the end of life. Women must choose wisely as they are the ones who can make or mar their life – because the times are indeed altering and favoring women on many fronts. So, realize the inherent ‘shakti’ in you and let it be known that nobody can mess with you!
Badal pe paon hain
This particular song is a celebration of women’s team victory in attaining an entry towards world hockey championship. Inherently powerful lyrics beautifully amalgamate with the theme to provide an exquisite experience to the viewers. Women achievers are not rare to be spotted these days. So, is the song voicing the intricate feelings of a girl accomplishing her aim rendering it an empowering tone! Worthy of much more, life of success has just begun!
Aan meri main tumko na chhune dungi
Powerful lyrics aptly emoted by Rani Mukherjee makes it one of the most empowering song of the decade. The rigid man-woman binary roles seem to be reversed with women being at the center of all the impactful activities. The song proclaims loud and clear the penalty a guy could expect with if he messed around with a headstrong girl with thee will power to fight back any unwanted advances.
Mujhe padhna hai
Kamla Bhasin is one of the foremost Indian feminists grappling with the inflexible structures of the society. This particular song is simplistic in form and content but its simplicity hits the mark of brilliance. The song aptly conveys the idea of the significance of education for girls as it is the fundamental factor holding the reigns to their future. An all empowering song, it is marked by lucidity and clarity of purpose and goals yet to be achieved by girls. The benchmark has been set. All that is required is the effort by girls to rise beyond their immediate horizon!
Indian society is at the threshold of a new dawn with reinvigorated spirit and energy. Women are instrumental in the transformation of society. Media is indeed revisiting its paradigms and women are certainly regarded highly and their empowerment is considered before airing any substantial video or movie. This trend is apparent in the way feminist songs have taken over Indian audiences.
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Important Italian Design 5 December 2006
Gaetano Pesce b. 1939
Gaetano Pesce is one of the most progressive and visionary designers of the 20th century, building a diverse and avant-garde body of work from principles of anti-rationalism, a concern for the individual and the “human touch,” and an experimental approach to materials and means of production.
Pesce was born in 1939 in La Spezia, Italy and grew up between Florence and Padua. His father, a naval officer, died in WWII, leaving his mother to raise him and his brother alone, resulting in a difficult childhood. From a young age, Pesce exhibited a rebellious spirit, joining Gruppo N, a radical artist collective when he was still a teenager. In 1959, Pesce enrolled at the University of Venice to study architecture, because he considered it to be the most complex and challenging of the arts. He found the curriculum tedious and stifling with its insistence on historicism and the hyper-rationalist, mechanical, and abstracted ideals of modernist architecture, which he thought disregarded the individual and attempted to standardize the human spirit. He found his suspicions of modernism confirmed when he visited Dessau, Germany, the birthplace of the Bauhaus, to find that the first Bauhaus building, where Paul Klee and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe taught, had been turned into a coal room.
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France are huge favourites to win the World Cup, but Croatia have endurance on their side
France vs Croatia is an unlikely World Cup final. Omar Chaudhuri, the head of football intelligence at strategic sports consultants 21st Club, previews the big game
By Omar Chaudhuri
France’s presence in the World Cup final isn’t a huge surprise. While Brazil and Spain were the pre-tournament favourites, France were still given a 16 per cent chance of making the final. And as other faltered, Didier Deschamps and his young team strode on.
Croatia, however, were always major outsiders. Their results haven’t always reflected the talent in their team, and they were given just a five per cent chance of reaching the final by our statistical model. In fact, a second round exit to France was seen as the most likely outcome, but after topping their group ahead of Argentina and landing themselves in a favourable half of the draw, their odds of playing on the final on Sunday rose to ten per cent before the knockouts.
Despite their impressive run, Croatia remain the underdogs in Moscow. At 21st Club, we use a combination of a models to predict the likely outcome. The first model relies solely on team results, weighted towards more recent performances. This model captures the impact of coaching and cohesion, and gives a strong baseline indicator on the quality of a team. It makes France healthy favourites with a 59 per cent chance of victory, and a 42 per cent chance of completing the win in normal time.
The second model evaluates the quality of the players on both teams. This model captures the nuances of team selection, which can vary significantly in international football. France have a supremely talented squad and therefore a bigger edge here; they have a 65 per cent chance (50 per cent in normal time) according to our player model. Averaging these two models gives us our final prediction of 62 to 38 in favour of France.
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Against Croatia, picking Mendy and Sidibié would increase France’s chance of conceding a goal by three percentage points, but also increase their chance of scoring by four percentage points, a net gain. Deschamps, however, is very unlikely to change a winning team, especially after defending so resolutely against Belgium.
Croatia are also unlikely to alter the team that beat England, but there are concerns that their players will be fatigued after three back-to-back matches that went to extra time (and two that went to penalties). But as previously observed, national teams that have endured multiple extra time periods have historically won their next game as often as they have lost. If anything, Croatia looked stronger and less fatigued than England during the last hour of their semi final.
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Dirt 3 Customer Reviews
this is the best racing game ever. especialy once you have every car/car pack in the game, as every 1 is different to control..
16/06/14 by dai-Parsons
Having only played through the first half of Dirt 3, it's by far the best racing game this generation. And it has some pretty nice drifting in it as well
08/02/12 by inasne
the best WRC feal !!
If you like WRC, Dirt 3 is the game to buy! The best by far! Graphics and gameplay are both high quality! A minus point is that the game doesn't focus only in WRC races, but has jeeps and trucks also!
08/02/12 by Giorgos78
Great Rallye-Game
Game is worth both for inexperienced and experienced users. The varied tracks and cars offer great fun. The degree of difficulty can be chosen at the beginning of every track (also in Championship). If you make a mistake you can rewind for around 5 Sec., so you can avoid heavy crashes. Gym Khana (special tracks, to cope special tricks) is not that easy but makes lots of fun. Don't like the music and commentator that much, but that's depends on taste.
08/02/12 by Woo
Dirt 3 is a very nice game with excellent graphics and many difficulty levels. Surely a game to play.
08/02/12 by Carlo
Best Rally Game Ever!
I'm not a big racing games fan, but in this case I'm amazed. The old rally cars like the Celica from the 90's or older are excellent! The game is overall so good, in perfect Spanish, almost real experience, great graphics and nice improvements from previous versions. Nothing bad to say. Simply EXCELLENT.
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Excellent game
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10/09/11 by ToniSirReal
This series just continues to get more and more impressive as they release sequel after sequel. With Gymkhana (its like sort of showing off and doing stunts) mode added in alongside uploading your stuff to youtube, we might have a contender to topple Forza Motorsport off its crown as leading Racing Sim. I recommend this and the whole series to those who liked Sega Rally, V-Rally and WRC games.
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Fantastic game, Improved even more since DiRT 2, but with more real rallying like DiRT 1. The only thing that's letting it down for me is the Gymkhana events, sadly I'm not as good at driving as Ken Block so these events are a bit annoying sometimes, but on a whole its an excellent game and well worth the money.
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Roman John TROKA
1. Roman John TROKA was born 1 Feb 1897, Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States (son of Joseph TROKA and Clara Eva SZULTA); died 6 Jun 1974, Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States; was buried , Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.
Roman married Gladys SZMANIA 14 May 1919, Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. Gladys was born Abt 1900, Wisconsin, United States; died 6 May 1923, Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States; was buried 9 May 1923, Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. [Group Sheet]
Roman — Pauline A WAIER. Pauline was born 9 Jun 1906, Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States; died 10 Sep 1973, Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States; was buried 13 Sep 1973, Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. [Group Sheet]
Emily M TROKA was born 5 Jan 1896, Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States; died 1 May 1941, Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States; was buried , Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.
1. Roman John TROKA was born 1 Feb 1897, Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States; died 6 Jun 1974, Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States; was buried , Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.
4. Michael TROKA died Yes, date unknown.
5. Justyna GRABOWSKA died Yes, date unknown.
6. Ignatz Peter SZULTA was born 30 Jan 1848, Bukowa Góra, Sulęczyno Parish, Kartuzy County, Pomorskie, Poland (son of Anton SZULTA and Marianna MALSZYSKI); died 25 May 1922, Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States; was buried 29 May 1922, Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.
7. Nepomucena Susanna SYLDATK was born 7 Aug 1853, Gowidlino, Sierakowice, Kartuzy County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Kashubia, Poland (daughter of Jacob SYLDATK and Tecla KREFFT); died 22 Dec 1925, Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States; was buried 26 Dec 1925, Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.
12. Anton SZULTA was born 16 May 1815, Mischischewitz, Karthaus, West Prussia, Prussia, Germany (son of Martin SZULTA and Christina UNKNOWN); died Yes, date unknown.
Anton married Marianna MALSZYSKI 20 Jan 1840, Stężyca, Kartuzy County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland. Marianna was born Abt 1815; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]
13. Marianna MALSZYSKI was born Abt 1815; died Yes, date unknown.
Paulina Marianna SZULTA was born 1841, Stężyca, Kartuzy County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland; died Yes, date unknown.
Agatha Franciska SZULTA was born 3 Oct 1846, Bukowa Góra, Sulęczyno Parish, Kartuzy County, Pomorskie, Poland; died Yes, date unknown.
6. Ignatz Peter SZULTA was born 30 Jan 1848, Bukowa Góra, Sulęczyno Parish, Kartuzy County, Pomorskie, Poland; died 25 May 1922, Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States; was buried 29 May 1922, Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.
Julianna Brigitta SZULTA was born 30 Sep 1849, Bukowa Góra, Sulęczyno Parish, Kartuzy County, Pomorskie, Poland; died Yes, date unknown.
Augustina Barbara SZULTA was born 17 Aug 1852, Bukowa Góra, Sulęczyno Parish, Kartuzy County, Pomorskie, Poland; died 30 Dec 1895, Wisconsin, United States; was buried , Pulaski, Brown, Wisconsin, United States.
Joseph Andreas SZULTA was born 28 Nov 1855, Bukowa Góra, Sulęczyno Parish, Kartuzy County, Pomorskie, Poland; died 20 Nov 1923, Winona, Winona, Minnesota, United States; was buried , Winona, Winona, Minnesota, United States.
14. Jacob SYLDATK was born 6 Jun 1817, Lemany, Karthaus, Westpruessen, Germany (son of Josephus SYLDATK and Constantia GÅ‚ODOWSKA); died Yes, date unknown.
Jacob married Tecla KREFFT 31 Jan 1842, Sullenschin, Karthaus, West Prussia, Prussia, Germany. Tecla (daughter of Mathias KREFFT and Catharina HYNCOWA) was born 12 Apr 1818, Schakau, Karthaus, West Prussia, Prussia, Germany; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]
15. Tecla KREFFT was born 12 Apr 1818, Schakau, Karthaus, West Prussia, Prussia, Germany (daughter of Mathias KREFFT and Catharina HYNCOWA); died Yes, date unknown.
Alexander Vincent SYLDATK was born 1845, Sierakowice, Kartuzy County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Kashubia, Poland; died Yes, date unknown.
Aloisius SYLDATK was born Abt 1850, Sierakowice, Kartuzy County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Kashubia, Poland; died Yes, date unknown.
7. Nepomucena Susanna SYLDATK was born 7 Aug 1853, Gowidlino, Sierakowice, Kartuzy County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Kashubia, Poland; died 22 Dec 1925, Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States; was buried 26 Dec 1925, Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.
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Colleges See Positive Aspects To A Bad Economy
By Emily McCord • Sep 10, 2009
It's the first week of school at Wright State University, and Cathy Davis has good reason to believe this year is going to be a busy one.
"We've seen an increase in transfer applications each year, but this year there's been a significant increase in applications we've received," says Davis, the Director of Admissions at Wright State.
Davis says that transfer applications are up 30%. It's enough that the school has even had to open a new office to help students transition onto campus. She says the reason is that students are leaving more expensive schools and coming to Wright State. She's heard stories from different families who are now changing their plans for college because of finances.
"Some of them of very heartbreaking for families as they're struggling to make decisions about higher education and whether it's even anymore in their possibility to pay for their son or daughter's education, something they've always planned on doing. Those plans have been changed very dramatically in the last year," says Davis.
Chase Cathcart changed his plans. He's beginning his sophomore year at Wright State, after completeing his freshman year at a more expensive school.
"It was a real concern for me. This is the time to making those kind of responsible decisions where I'm not borrowing, so that someday down the line I won't have to pay off more than I have to," says Cathcart.
Wright State is one of the least expensive public universities in Ohio. Tuition is just over $7,000 per year. A bigger enrollement is good for the college right now, because it's more dependent on tuition than on state funding. But even schools with a higher price tag are seeing some positive side effects to a down economy. Take the case of the University of Dayton, a private Catholic school. Paul Benson is the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. He says that one thing they've seen this last year is a huge surge in applicants for faculty and staff position.
"We just saw explosions of applications. So, in the department of mathematics, for one entry level assistant professor position, we had 560 applications, which really caught folks by surprise," says Benson.
That's five times the normal number of resumes. While the aspiring professor may cringe to hear that, Benson says UD can be more selective in their choices for faculty. Because that pool is so large, it also means that the University can enhance the diversity of its staff and is hiring more women and minorities. A better faculty means schools are better equipped to handle whatever the educational needs of Ohio's changing work force might be.
Sean Creighton is hopeful. He's the Executive Director for the Southwestern Ohio Council for Higher Education.
"As much as it's unfortunate the job loss that has occured, it's exciting to be working in higher education and to see the impact higher education has had in the past, and to know the great impact that it will have in the future as we transition from a manufacturing base economy to a more creative economy," says Creighton.
He says the role of higher education in Ohio is more important than ever.
"People invest themselves during a down economy, and where do you go to invest in yourself? You go to school, you go to college, you go to the University," says Creighton.
Creighton says colleges are now working closely with the business community to find out what the future economy will look like. He gives as examples alternative energy use and something he calls advanced materials and manufacturing. That's a way to make cheaper and better products for industry. His hope is that higher education in Ohio will transition in step with tomorrow's work force.
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A Royal Pine
by Johnny D
Tell me, is it possible to painfully long for a place you’ve visited just once in your life? Apparently, the answer is ‘yes,’ because I pine for Ascot Racecourse in Great Britain. Conceptualized in 1711 by Queen Anne, it’s where some of the world’s most exquisite human and equine flesh has been pressed for over 300 years. Perhaps, as a provincial US-based racing fan, you may recognize Royal Ascot as the house that trainer Wesley Ward built. You wouldn’t be wrong, just misinformed and rather late to the party.
Last year, the wife and I traversed the pond to attend Ascot’s opening day. We had a great time and for a dedicated Yankee horseplayer the experience was eye opening. After, I recapped the journey in this space and explained how, for the first time ever, I had purchased a ‘bag’ of champagne for my wife. Actually, it was a bottle of champagne with ice cubes inside a plastic ‘to-go’ container. I found it way cool that English race-goers were considered mature enough to be permitted to meander about unsupervised while toting chilled bottles of bubbly. In contrast, at US sporting events concessionaires often dutifully confiscate caps from newly purchased plastic water bottles!
At Ascot, in addition to portable chilled champagne, there also is plenty of pomp and circumstance topped by The Queen’s daily early arrival via a Royal Procession over a mile-long straightaway. Bookies take action on it--well, more accurately, on the color of The Queen’s hat (one of the few tickets I cashed last year). Wednesday of this week punters assumed they had an edge in the wager. Just a few hours earlier The Queen had made a speech to Parliament in a blue outfit. Smart money assumed that with little time between appearances Her Highness wouldn’t bother changing. Wrong! A yellow chapeau won day-two bread.
Instead of observing The Queen arrive from the racetrack side of the grandstand, next time the wife and I will camp out in the walking ring area for an enhanced view of her and guests. Last year, on opening day, the royal ginger Prince Harry attracted a crowd. My wife was a bit disappointed that we (read ‘she’) didn’t get a good look at Diana’s youngest--a reported ‘hunk.’ Harry’s sister-in-law Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, attended Ascot the day after we had (and again on opening day this year), and we missed seeing her in person. According to my personal international handicap rankings, Kate clearly is listed a few stone above Harry.
It should be noted here that The Queen is not merely a colorful empty bonnet. She’s a horse lover, an owner, a breeder and, most importantly, a racing fan! Wednesday afternoon, following a speech to Parliament and with her 96-year-old husband in the hospital, the 91-year-old hustled to make first post at Ascot. Now, that’s not the same as sprinting to catch the bus to Aqueduct in time to play the pick five, but it’s close. Gotta love that dedication to the game! Don’t know if she’s much of a punter, but she’s certainly sharp enough to lose intelligently with the rest of us, if she chooses. In fact, upon their first meeting, The Queen prodded US-based trainer and Ascot regular Wesley Ward for hints about how he gets his young stock to win with such regularity.
Alas, no visit to Ascot this year for me. I’m stuck home alone in the basement catching daily Ascot broadcasts on NBCSN beginning at 8:30 am and online with www.xbtv.com starting at 9 am. I’m enjoying the ride and am grateful to have Ascot delivered to my desktop. However, HiDef shots of men in top hats and morning coats, stylish women in dresses and hats, and images of big, beautiful naked horses has me melancholy. I wish I were there. On the big television screen in living color it all looks so wonderful and, since I’ve already been, I know that it’s even better than that. And what great racing!
Highland Reel, winner of the Breeders’ Cup Turf last year at Santa Anita, won the Prince of Wales’s Stakes Wednesday at Ascot for trainer Aiden O’Brien and jockey Ryan Moore. Queen’s Trust, winner of the Breeder’s Cup Filly and Mare Turf last season, finished fourth in the same race. Tuesday opening day highlights included a dominant performance from Lady Aurelia for Wesley Ward and Johnny Velazquez in the King’s Stand Stakes. Ward returned Wednesday with jockey Jamie Spencer and Con Te Partiro to upset the Sandringham Handicap field at 20-1!
NBCSN’s television coverage has been outstanding, mostly because the network, featuring Nick Luck as anchor, is utilizing the local ITV presentation and not the regular US-based crew. After all, what do they know from a going stick? Wednesday’s broadcast included an up-close and personal view of a farrier changing a shoe on 2-year-old Glastonbury Song (IRE) at the gate just before the horses loaded. The work was so efficient and quick that it amazed this observer who normally waits longer in line at Starbucks for a chai latte!
Ascot definitely retains its allure by adhering to a major show business tenet: Always leave ‘em wanting more! With just six races per-per day and a mere five-day race meeting the experience cannot become mundane. It’s doubtful the same can be said for US racing fixtures where 10, 12 or 14-race cards are the norm, five days per week, on a nearly year-round production schedule.
Whatever they’re doing over there has worked on me. I can’t wait to return. Until then I’ll have to settle for a long distance love affair with Ascot. Please, join me for racing through Saturday morning. Xpressbet’s got a great ‘no takeout’ promotion on Ascot exactas you should register to receive. And if you ever get the chance, go racing at Ascot. You’ll love it and quickly plan to return.
Race On!
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Wagner gets national write-up
"Specifically, he’ll have you know he’s not like incumbent governor Tom Wolf."
Wagner gets national write-up "Specifically, he’ll have you know he’s not like incumbent governor Tom Wolf." Check out this story on ydr.com: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/2017/10/10/hes-not-like-other-pennsylvania-politicians-read-more-at-http-www-nationalreview-com-article-452466/749398001/
Joel Shannon, jshannon@ydr.com Published 10:54 a.m. ET Oct. 10, 2017 | Updated 10:58 a.m. ET Oct. 10, 2017
FILE – In this Jan. 11, 2017, file photo, Pa. state Sen. Scott Wagner, a Republican from York County and owner of trash hauling firm Penn Waste, speaks to reporters after formally announcing he will run for Pennsylvania governor in 2018, during an event at a Penn Waste facility in Manchester, Pa. U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta, a Republican planning to challenge Democratic U.S. Sen. Bob Casey's bid for re-election in 2018, and Wagner, planning to challenge Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf's attempt to win a second term in 2018, were both early supporters of Trump, and remain unabashed supporters of the president.(Photo: Marc Levy, AP)
Following a wide-ranging interview with York County's Scott Wagner, The National Review has published an extensive write-up on the state senator, Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate and millionaire businessman.
Focusing on Wagner's campaign, the article from the national conservative news publication compared Wagner with Pennsylvania's incumbent governor -- also from York County.
Read background on Wagner: More than money fuels Wagner's fast rise to power
"To hear Wagner tell it, ... he’s not like other Pennsylvania politicians. Specifically, he’ll have you know he’s not like incumbent governor Tom Wolf, whom he’s running to unseat in 2018," the article says.
Wagner's proposals to balance the state's budget, cut down on business regulation and reform welfare received attention in the story, in addition to his work to combat the opioid crisis.
Recently, Wagner has also made headlines for reportedly working to oppose a gas drilling tax to damage Wolf's reelection chances and making disparaging comments about George Soros.
Read the full article at nationalreview.com.
Photos: Scott Wagner kicks off campaign for Pa. governor
Bill Stockwall, of Manchester Township, third from right, barges into the press circling Sen. Scott Wagner, left, to tell the senator that that it is difficult for seniors to pay school property taxes after a kick off campaign for governor Wednesday at Penn Waste Inc. in East Manchester Township. Paul Kuehnel, York Daily Record
State Sen. Scott Wagner kicked off his campaign for governor at his York County waste and recycling business, Penn Waste Inc., in East Manchester Township. Paul Kuehnel, York Daily Record
Friends and family from the left, Deb Cunningham, mother, Anne Wagner, father Jack Wagner, wife Tracy Wagner, daughter Cristina and Sen. Scott Wagner at Penn Waste Inc. near Manchester, Pennsylvania after the senator announced that he will be running for governor. Paul Kuehnel, York Daily Record
Peg Storm, of Dover Township, a laid-off unemployment call center employee, watches a helicopter landing for state Sen. Scott Wagner's kick off for his campaign for governor Wednesday. Paul Kuehnel, York Daily Record
From the left, long-time friends Brian Kottcamp and Joe Sterchak congratulate state Sen. Scott Wagner while kicking off his campaign for governor Wednesday at a Penn Waste Inc. facility in East Manchester Township. Paul Kuehnel, York Daily Record
State Sen. Scott Wagner holds up a book "Who Moved My Cheese?" relating it to embracing change on Wednesday Jan. 11, 2017 at his York County waste and recycling business, Penn Waste Inc. in East Manchester Township. Paul Kuehnel, York Daily Record
Laid off state unemployment call center employee outside State Sen. Scott Wagner's kick off event for governor Wednesday at his York County waste and recycling business, Penn Waste Inc near Manchester, Pennsylvania Wednesday January 11, 2017 Paul Kuehnel, York Daily Record
Press surrounds state Sen. Scott Wagner after kicking off his campaign for governor Wednesday Jan. 11, 2017 at Penn Waste Inc. in East Manchester Township. Paul Kuehnel, York Daily Record
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California Church Leaders Charged With Forced Labour Of Homeless
by : Cameron Frew on : 11 Sep 2019 14:50
Robert Brewer US Attorney press conference ABC 10 News
A dozen Californian church leaders have been indicted by a federal grand jury, charged with forced labour of the homeless in what a US attorney has called ‘an appalling abuse of power’.
Twelve Imperial Valley Ministries leaders allegedly recruited people with the promise of food, water and shelter.
The reality was much different: according to a news release on Tuesday that announced the indictment had been unsealed, those recruited had to beg for money for nine hours a day, six days a week and give up their welfare benefits ‘for the financial benefit of the church leaders’.
Details of the ‘appalling abuse’ is explained below:
US Attorney Robert Brewer said the ministry leaders – including an ex-pastor, Victor Gonzalez, who denied he’d done anything wrong last year when the FBI raided the group homes – will face charges of conspiracy, forced labour, document servitude, and benefits fraud.
As reported by CNN, Brewer said:
The indictment alleges an appalling abuse of power by church officials who preyed on vulnerable homeless people with promises of a warm bed and meals.
These victims were held captive, stripped of their humble financial means, their identification, their freedom and their dignity.
The ministry leaders – who help operate nondenominational churches and group homes in the United States and Mexico – were arrested in El Centro and San Diego and in Brownsville, Texas. Arraignments began on Tuesday (September 11).
Imperial Valley Ministries Google Maps
According to the indictment, the defendants confiscated IDs such as driver’s licenses, immigration papers and passports to prevent victims escaping group homes – which had deadbolt locks only the leaders had access to.
Brewer added that one of the victims was a 17-year-old girl, who managed to escape by breaking out of a window and going to the police.
As reported by CNN, Assistant US District Attorney Chris Tenorio said at a press conference:
Dozens of victims have alleged the same thing — once they were inside the group homes, the Imperial Valley Ministries had become a venture designed to keep as many as people as possible for as long as possible.
Tenorio added that those recruited were threatened with punishment for violating house rules, and were so closely monitored to the point they weren’t allowed to go anywhere unattended. Brewer added that victims were told their children would be taken from them if they left.
Victor Gonzalez, right, and wife Susan Christine Leyva Facebook
Victims were stripped of their benefits and items, such as Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) cards that allowed the holder to buy food.
According to Scott Brunner, special agent in charge of the FBI’s San Diego field office, victims were deprived of necessary medical attention. Brewer said this included a diabetic who was refused insulin and even the food needed to control their blood sugar levels.
Labour trafficking victims are hard to find, Brunner says, because their work is so often carried out behind the scenes on farms, factories and restaurants.
Offering a message of hope to victims, Brewer said:
I would like this case to send a message to the victims. That message being: We want to help you. You have to report these types of crime to law enforcement, so that we can help you.
You can watch the full press conference below:
You can contact The Modern Day Slavery Foundation’s helpline on 0800 0121 700, which is open 24 hours a day. If you think a child is in danger of trafficking, phone the NSPCC’s helpline on 0808 8005 000.
Cameron Frew
After graduating from Glasgow Caledonian University with an NCTJ and BCTJ-accredited Multimedia Journalism degree, Cameron ventured into the world of print journalism at The National, while also working as a freelance film journalist on the side, becoming an accredited Rotten Tomatoes critic in the process. He's now left his Scottish homelands and took up residence at UNILAD as a journalist.
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Crew Dragon Abort Test is Scheduled for Saturday Morning
As part of their Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) Program, NASA has contracted with aerospace giants like SpaceX and Boeing to provide commercial launch services to the International Space Station (ISS). These services will consist of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon (Dragon 2) and Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner bringing astronauts to orbit in the coming years, effectively restoring domestic launch capability to the US.
To get these spacecraft ready for flight, Boeing and SpaceX have been putting them through rigorous launch tests. Tomorrow morning (Saturday, Jan. 17th), SpaceX will be conducting its final test in preparation for crewed flights. This is the all-important in-flight abort test, which will be live-streamed by NASA TV – will take place at 7:45 AM EST (4:45 AM PST) from Launch Complex 39A in Florida.
Continue reading “Crew Dragon Abort Test is Scheduled for Saturday Morning”
Boeing’s Starliner Performed its Abort Test Today. One Parachute Failed to Deploy
For years, NASA has been working to restore domestic launch capability to the US and send astronauts to the Moon and beyond. A crucial part of this is the development of next-generation crew capsules that can carry crews and payloads to space. These include Lockheed Martin’s Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) and the Crew Space Transportation (CST) -100 Starliner currently being developed by Boeing.
Earlier today (on Monday, Nov. 4th), the CST-100 passed a critical milestone with a successful end-to-end test of its abort system. The Pad Abort Test took place at Launch Complex 32 at the US Army’s White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. When crewed missions to space begin using the CST-100, this system will ensure that astronauts will be carried to safety in the unlikely event of an emergency before liftoff.
Continue reading “Boeing’s Starliner Performed its Abort Test Today. One Parachute Failed to Deploy”
VP Pence Vows Return to the Moon, Boots on Mars during KSC Visit
Vice President Mike Pence (holding Orion model) receives up close tour of NASA’s Orion EM-1 deep space crew capsule (at right) being manufactured for 1st integrated flight with NASA’s SLS megarocket in 2019; with briefing from KSC Director/astronaut Robert D. Cabana during his July 6, tour of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center – along with acting NASA Administrator Robert M. Lightfoot, Jr., Senator Marco Rubio and Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at KSC. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – Vice President Mike Pence, during a whirlwind visit to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, vowed that America would fortify our leadership in space under the Trump Administration with impressive goals by forcefully stating that “our nation will return to the moon, and we will put American boots on the face of Mars.”
“American will once again lead in space for the benefit and security of all of our people and all of the world,” Vice President Mike Pence said during a speech on Thursday, July 6, addressing a huge crowd of more than 500 NASA officials and workers, government dignitaries and space industry leaders gathered inside the cavernous Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center – where Apollo/Saturn Moon landing rockets and Space Shuttles were assembled for decades in the past and where NASA’s new Space Launch System (SLS) megarocket and Orion deep space crew capsule will be assembled for future human missions to the Moon, Mars and beyond.
Pence pronounced the bold space exploration goals and a reemphasis on NASA’s human spaceflight efforts from his new perch as Chairman of the newly reinstated National Space Council just established under an executive order signed by President Trump.
“We will re-orient America’s space program toward human space exploration and discovery for the benefit of the American people and all of the world.”
Vice President Mike Pence speaks before an audience of NASA leaders, U.S. and Florida government officials, and employees inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Pence thanked employees for advancing American leadership in space. Behind the podium is the Orion spacecraft flown on Exploration Flight test-1 in 2014. Credits: NASA/Kim Shiflett
However Pence was short on details and he did not announce any specific plans, timetables or funding during his 25 minute long speech inside the iconic VAB at KSC.
It remains to been seen how the rhetoric will turn to reality and all important funding support.
The Trump Administration actually cut their NASA 2018 budget request by $0.5 Billion to $19.1 Billion compared to the enacted 2017 NASA budget of $19.6 Billion – including cuts to SLS and Orion.
By contrast, the Republican led Congress – with bipartisan support – is working on a 2018 NASA budget of around 19.8 Billion.
“Let us do what our nation has always done since its very founding and beyond: We’ve pushed the boundaries on frontiers, not just of territory, but of knowledge. We’ve blazed new trails, and we’ve astonished the world as we’ve boldly grasped our future without fear.”
“From this ‘Bridge to Space,’ our nation will return to the moon, and we will put American boots on the face of Mars.” Pence declared.
Lined up behind Pence on the podium was the Orion spacecraft flown on Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) in 2014 flanked by a flown SpaceX cargo Dragon and a mockup of the Boeing CST-100 Starliner crew capsule.
The crewed Dragon and Starliner capsules are being developed by SpaceX and Boeing under NASA contracts as commercial crew vehicles to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS).
Pence reiterated the Trump Administrations support of the ISS and working with industry to cut the cost of access to space.
Vice President Mike Pence (holding Orion model) tours manufacturing of NASA’s Orion EM-1 crew capsule during July 6 KSC visit – posing with KSC Director/astronaut Robert Cabana, acting NASA Administrator Robert M. Lightfoot, Jr., Senator Marco Rubio, Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson and KSC Deputy Director Janet Petro inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building. Credit: Julian Leek
Acting NASA Administrator Robert Lightfoot also welcomed Vice President Pence to KSC and thanked the Trump Administration for its strong support of NASA missions.
“Here, of all places, we can see we’re not looking at an ‘and/or proposition’,” Lightfoot said.
“We need government and commercial entities. We need large companies and small companies. We need international partners and our domestic suppliers. And we need academia to bring that innovation and excitement that they bring to the next workforce that we’re going to use to actually keep going further into space than we ever have before.”
View shows the state of assembly of NASA’s Orion EM-1 deep space crew capsule during inspection tour by Vice President Mike Pence on July 6, 2017 inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at the Kennedy Space Center. 1st integrated flight with NASA’s SLS megarocket is slated for 2019. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com
After the VAB speech, Pence went on an extensive up close inspection tour of KSC facilities led by Kennedy Space Center Director and former shuttle astronaut Robert Cabana, showcasing the SLS and Orion hardware and infrastructure critical for NASA’s plans to send humans on a ‘Journey to Mars’ by the 2030s.
“We are in a great position here at Kennedy, we made our vision a reality; it couldn’t have been done without the passion and energy of our workforce,” said Kennedy Space Center Director Cabana.
“Kennedy is fully established as a multi-user spaceport supporting both government and commercial partners in the space industry. As America’s premier multi-user spaceport, Kennedy continues to make history as it evolves, launching to low-Earth orbit and beyond.”
Vice President Mike Pence holds and inspects an Orion capsule heat shield tile with KSC Director/astronaut Robert Cabana during his July 6, 2017 tour/speech at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center – accompanied by acting NASA administrator Robert M. Lightfoot, Jr., Senator Marco Rubio and Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at KSC. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com
Pence toured the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building (O & C) where the Orion deep space capsule is being manufactured for launch in 2019 on the first integrated flight with SLS on the uncrewed EM-1 mission to the Moon and back – as I witnessed for Universe Today.
Vice President Mike Pence tours manufacturing of NASA’s Orion EM-1 crew capsule during July 6, 2017 KSC visit with KSC Director/astronaut Robert Cabana inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building. Credit: Julian Leek
Watch for Ken’s onsite space mission reports direct from the Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.
Stay tuned here for Ken’s continuing Earth and Planetary science and human spaceflight news.
Orion crew module pressure vessel for NASA’s Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1) is unveiled for the first time on Feb. 3, 2016 after arrival at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. It is secured for processing in a test stand called the birdcage in the high bay inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout (O&C) Building at KSC. Launch to the Moon is slated in 2019 atop the SLS rocket. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com
NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) blasts off from launch pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in this artist rendering showing a view of the liftoff of the Block 1 70-metric-ton (77-ton) crew vehicle configuration. Credit: NASA/MSFC
NASA Astronaut Peggy Whitson Sets US Space Endurance Record, Speaks to President Trump
NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, currently living and working aboard the International Space Station, broke the record Monday for cumulative time spent in space by a U.S. astronaut – an occasion that was celebrated with a phone call from President Donald Trump, First Daughter Ivanka Trump, and fellow astronaut Kate Rubins. Credits: NASA TV
NASA Astronaut Peggy Whitson set the endurance record for time in space by a U.S, astronaut today, Monday, April 24, during her current stint of living and working aboard the International Space Station (ISS) along with her multinational crew of five astronauts and cosmonauts.
Furthermore Whitson received a long distance phone call of exuberant congratulations from President Donald Trump, First Daughter Ivanka Trump, and fellow astronaut Kate Rubins direct from the Oval Office in the White House to celebrate the momentous occasion.
“This is a very special day in the glorious history of American spaceflight!” said President Trump during the live phone call to the ISS broadcast on NASA TV.
As of today, Whitson exceeded 534 cumulative days in space by an American astronaut, breaking the record held by NASA astronaut Jeff Williams.
“Today Commander Whitson you have broken the record for the most total time spent in space by an American astronaut. 534 days and counting,” elaborated President Trump.
“That’s an incredible record to break. And on behalf of the nation and frankly the world I would like to congratulate you. That is really something!”
“You’re an incredible inspiration to us all.”
Trump noted that thousands of school students were listening in to the live broadcast which also served to promote students to study STEM subjects.
“Peggy is a phenomenal role model for young women, and all Americans, who are exploring or participating in STEM education programs and careers,” said President Trump.
“As I have said many times before, only by enlisting the full potential of women in our society will we be truly able to make America great again. When I signed the INSPIRE Women Act in February, I did so to ensure more women have access to STEM education and careers, and to ensure America continues to benefit from the contributions of trailblazers like Peggy.”
How does it feel to break the endurance record? Trump asked Whitson.
“It’s actually a huge honor to break a record like this, but it’s an honor for me basically to be representing all the folks at NASA who make this spaceflight possible and who make me setting this record feasible,” Whitson replied from orbit to Trump.
“And so it’s a very exciting time to be at NASA. We are all very much looking forward, as directed by your new NASA bill — we’re excited about the missions to Mars in the 2030s. And so we actually, physically, have hardware on the ground that’s being built for the SLS rocket that’s going to take us there.”
“It’s a very exciting time, and I’m so proud of the team.”
“We have over 200 investigations ongoing onboard the space station, and I just think that’s a phenomenal part of the day.”
NASA astronaut Jack Fischer is also serving aboard the station on his rookie flight and also took part in the phone call with President Trump.
Whitson is currently serving as Space Station Commander of Expedition 51. She most recently launched to the ISS on Nov 17, 2016 aboard a Russian Soyuz capsule from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, as part of a three person crew.
At the time of her Soyuz launch she had accumulated 377 total days in space.
She holds several other prestigious records as well. Whitson is the first woman to serve twice as space station commander.
Indeed in 2008 Whitson became the first woman ever to command the space station during her prior stay on Expedition 16 a decade ago. Her second stint as station commander began earlier this month on April 9.
Whitson also holds the record for most spacewalks by a female astronaut. Altogether she has accumulated 53 hours and 23 minutes of EVA time over eight spacewalks.
Overall, Expedition 51 involved her third long duration stay aboard the massive orbiting laboratory complex.
Seen here on a spacewalk in March 2017, NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson holds the record for most spacewalks conducted by a female astronaut. Credits: NASA
“This is an inspirational record Peggy is setting today, and she would be the first to tell you this is a record that’s absolutely made to be broken as we advance our knowledge and existence as both Americans and humans,” said NASA acting Administrator Robert Lightfoot, in a statement.
“The cutting-edge research and technology demonstrations on the International Space Station will help us go farther into our solar system and stay there longer, as we explore the mysteries of deep space first-hand. Congratulation to Peggy, and thank you for inspiring not only women, but all Americans to pursue STEM careers and become leaders.”
When she returns to Earth in September she will have accumulated some 666 days in space.
On her 2007 mission aboard the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, Expedition 16 commander, worked on the Capillary Flow Experiment (CFE), which observes the flow of fluid, in particular capillary phenomena, in microgravity. Credits: NASA
Trump made note of the science and commercial industrial work being carried out aboard the station.
“Many American entrepreneurs are racing into space. I have many friends that are so excited about space. They want to get involved in space from the standpoint of entrepreneurship and business,” said President Trump.
“And I’m sure that every student watching wants to know, what is next for Americans in space.”
Indeed the private SS John Glenn Cygnus cargo freighter just arrived at the ISS on Saturday, April 22, carrying nearly 4 tons or science experiments, hardware, parts and provisions.
Whitson was one of two ISS astronauts involved in capturing Cygnus with the Canadian built robotic arm for attachment to the stations Unity node.
Trump also mentioned his strong support for sending humans on a mission to Mars in the 2030s and for NASA’s development of the SLS heavy lift rocket and Orion deep space capsule.
“I’m very proud that I just signed a bill committing NASA to the aim of sending America astronauts to Mars. So we’ll do that. I think we’ll do it a lot sooner than we’re even thinking.”
“Well, we want to try and do it during my first term or, at worst, during my second term. So we’ll have to speed that up a little bit, okay?”
Ken Kremer
Boeing Starts Assembly of 1st Flightworthy Starliner Crew Taxi Vehicle at Kennedy Spaceport
Hull of the Boeing CST-100 Starliner Structural Test Article (STA)- the first Starliner to be built in the company’s modernized Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility high bay at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – The next generation of America’s human spaceships is rapidly taking shape and “making fantastic progress” at the Kennedy Space Center as Boeing and NASA showcased the start of assembly of the first flightworthy version of the aerospace giants Starliner crew taxi vehicle to the media last week. Starliner will ferry NASA astronauts to and from the International Space Station (ISS) by early 2018.
“We are making fantastic progress across the board,” John Mulholland, vice president and program manager of Boeing Commercial Programs, told Universe Today at the July 26 media event in Boeing’s new Starliner factory.
“It so nice to move from design to firm configuration, which was an incredibly important milestone, to now moving into the integrated qual phase of the campaign.”
Boeing is swiftly making tangible progress towards once again flying Americans astronauts to space from American soil as was quite visibly demonstrated when the firm showed off their spanking new Starliner ‘clean-floor factory’ to the media last week, including Universe Today – and it’s already humming with activity by simultaneously building two full scale Starliner crew vehicles.
“We are on track to support launch by the end of 2017 [of the uncrewed orbital test flight],” Mulholland told me.
“The Structural Test Article (STA) crew module is almost ready to be delivered to the test site in California. The service module is already delivered at the test site. So we are ready to move into the qualification campaign.”
“We are also in the middle of component qualification and qualifying more than one component every week as we really progress into assembly, integration and test of flight design spacecrafts.”
Starliner is being manufactured in what is officially known as Boeing’s Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility (C3PF) at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida under contract with NASA’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP).
And the Boeing CST-100 Starliner assembly line aiming to send our astronauts to low Earth orbit and the space station is now operating full speed ahead at KSC.
Formerly known as Orbiter Processing Facility-3, or OPF-3, the facility was previously used as a servicing hanger to prepare NASA’s space shuttle orbiters for flight.
NASA, industry and news media representatives visit the modernized high bay in Boeing’s Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credits: NASA/Kim Shiflett
The facility has now been completely renovated and refurbished by removing about 11,000 tons of massive steel work platforms that once enshrouded the space shuttle orbiters for servicing and refurbishment for flight – and been transformed into Boeings gleaming white C3PF Starliner manufacturing facility.
Components for the first Starliner that will actually fly in space – known as Spacecraft 1 – began arriving recently at the C3PF. These include the upper and lower domes, as well as the docking hatch for the spacecrafts pressure vessel.
“You can see the beginning of Spacecraft 1. To build it all of the major structural elements are here,” Mulholland explained.
“The lower dome will be populated and get to first power on early next year. We are really looking forward to that. Then we will mate that to the upper dome and start in on the ground qualification on Spacecraft 1.”
Altogether Boeing is fabricating three Starliner flight spacecraft.
“We will start building Spacecraft 2 in the Fall of this year. And then we will start Spacecraft 3 early next year.”
“So we will have three Starliner spacecraft flight crew module builds as we move into the flight campaign.”
The honeycombed upper dome of a Boeing Starliner spacecraft on a work stand inside the company’s Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The upper dome is part of Spacecraft 1 , the first flightworthy Starliner being developed in partnership with NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com
Technicians are outfitting these individual components of the pressure vessel with wiring and lines, avionics and other systems, before they are bolted together.
Spacecraft 1 is actually the second Starliner being manufactured at the Kennedy Space Center.
The first full scale Starliner vehicle to be built is known as the Structural Test Article (STA) and is nearing completion.
The lower dome of the Boeing Starliner Spacecraft 1 assembly being outfitted with flight systems like wiring, lines, avionics in the firm’s Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility high bay at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com
Notably Spacecraft 1 will be the first Starliner to fly in the company’s pad abort test.
“Spacecraft 1 will go into the ground campaign and then the pad abort,” Mulholland stated.
“The test is designed to prove the launch abort system planned for the spacecraft will be able to lift astronauts away from danger in the event of an emergency during launch operations,” says NASA.
The Pad Abort test is currently slated for October 2017 in New Mexico. Boeing will fly an uncrewed orbital flight test in December 2017 and a crewed orbital flight test in February 2018.
“Spacecraft 3 will be the first to fly in orbit on the uncrewed flight test by the end of 2017,” Mulholland confirmed.
‘Spacecraft 2 will go through a several month long thermal vac testing and EMI and EMC in California in the middle of next year and then go into the crewed flight test [in 2018].”
The rather distinctive, olive colored aluminum domes are manufactured using a weldless spin forming process by Spincraft, based in North Billerica, Massachusetts.
They take on their honeycombed look after being machined for the purposes of reducing weight and increasing strength to handle the extreme stresses of spaceflight. The lower dome is machined by Janicki Industries in Layton, Utah, and the upper dome is machined by Major Tool & Machine in Indianapolis.
Overhead view of the docking hatch for the Boeing Starliner Spacecraft 1 assembly which technicians will soon join to the upper dome in the firm’s Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility high bay at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com
Engineers bolted together the upper and lower domes of Boeings maiden Starliner crew module in early May to form the complete hull of the pressure vessel for the Structural Test Article (STA).
Altogether they are held together by 216 bolts. They have to line up perfectly. And the seals are checked to make sure there are no leaks, which could be deadly in space.
Boeing expects to finish fabricating the STA by August.
The completed Starliner STA will then be transported to Boeing’s facility in Huntington Beach, California for a period of critical stress testing that verifies the capabilities and worthiness of the spacecraft.
“Boeing’s testing facility in Huntington Beach, California has all the facilities to do the structural testing and apply loads. They are set up to test spacecraft,” said Danom Buck, manager of Boeing’s Manufacturing and Engineering team at KSC, during an interview in the C3PF.
“At Huntington Beach we will test for all of the load cases that the vehicle will fly in and land in – so all of the worst stressing cases.”
“So we have predicted loads and will compare that to what we actually see in testing and see whether that matches what we predicted.”
Boeing has also vastly updated the mockup Starliner to reflect the latest spacecraft advances and assist in manufacturing the three planned flight units.
Bastian Technologies built many of the components for the mockup and signed as new 18-month new Mentor-Protégé Program agreement with Boeing and NASA at the media event.
The mock up “is used as a hands-on way to test the design, accessibility and human factors during the early design and development phase of the program. The mock-up is currently being used for rapid fire engineering verification activities, ergonomic evaluations [including the seats and display panels], and crew ingress and egress training,” says NASA.
Looking inside the newly upgraded Starliner mockup with display panel, astronauts seats, gear and hatch at top that will dock to the new International Docking Adapter (IDA) on the ISS. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com
The Boeing CST 100 Starliner is one of two private astronaut capsules – along with the SpaceX Crew Dragon – being developed under a commercial partnership contract with NASA to end our sole reliance on Russia for crew launches back and forth to the International Space Station (ISS).
The goal of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP) is to restore America’s capability to launch American astronauts on American rockets from American soil to the ISS, as soon as possible.
Boeing was awarded a $4.2 Billion contract in September 2014 by NASA Administrator Charles Bolden to complete development and manufacture of the CST-100 Starliner space taxi under the agency’s Commercial Crew Transportation Capability (CCtCap) program and NASA’s Launch America initiative.
Since the retirement of NASA’s space shuttle program in 2011, the US was been 100% dependent on the Russian Soyuz capsule for astronauts rides to the ISS at a cost exceeding $70 million per seat.
Starliners will launch to space atop the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket from pad 41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
The Boeing Starliner will launch on a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket similar to the one carrying the NROL-61 surveillance satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) from Space Launch Complex-41 on July 28, 2016 at 8:37 a.m. EDT from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com
Boeing ‘Starliner’ commercial crew space taxi manufacturing facility at the Kennedy Space Center. Exterior view depicts mural for the Boeing Company’s recently named CST-100 ‘Starliner’ commercial crew transportation spacecraft on the company’s Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility (C3PF) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: Ken Kremer /kenkremer.com
John Mulholland, vice president and program manager of Boeing Commercial Programs, and Ken Kremer, Universe Today, discuss status and assembly of 1st flightworthy Boeing Starliner by the new Starliner mockup in the Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility high bay at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Starliner will transport US astronauts to the ISS by 2018. Credit: Julian Leek
Buildup Of First Boeing Starliner Crew Vehicle Ramps Up at Kennedy Space Center
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – Buildup of the first of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner crew spaceships is ramping up at the company’s Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility (C3PF) – the new spacecraft manufacturing facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.
In less than two years time Boeing Starliners will start launching NASA astronauts to low Earth orbit and the International Space Station (ISS) atop Atlas V rockets from Florida. Continue reading “Buildup Of First Boeing Starliner Crew Vehicle Ramps Up at Kennedy Space Center”
NASA Receives Significant Budget Boost for Fiscal Year 2016
NASA has just received a significant boost in the agency’s current budget after both chambers of Congress passed the $1.1 Trillion 2016 omnibus spending bill this morning, Friday, Dec. 18, which funds the US government through the remainder of Fiscal Year 2016.
As part of the omnibus bill, NASA’s approved budget amounts to nearly $19.3 Billion – an outstandingly magnificent result and a remarkable turnaround to some long awaited good news from the decidedly negative outlook earlier this year. Continue reading “NASA Receives Significant Budget Boost for Fiscal Year 2016”
NASA Orders First Commercial Crew Mission to Space Station from SpaceX
SpaceX Crew Dragon will blast off atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for missions to the International Space Station. Pad 39A is undergoing modifications by SpaceX to adapt it to the needs of the company’s Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets, which are slated to lift off from the historic pad in the near future. A horizontal integration facility (right) has been constructed near the perimeter of the pad where rockets will be processed for launch prior of rolling out to the top of the pad structure for liftoff. Credit: Ken Kremer/Kenkremer.com
Restoring America’s ability to once again launch US astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) from US soil on US rockets took another significant step forward when NASA ordered the first the agency’s first commercial crew rotation mission from the Hawthorne, California based-company SpaceX. NASA and SpaceX hope that the blastoff with a crew of up to four astronauts will take place by late 2017.
The new Nov. 20 award from NASA’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP) office to launch the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule follows up on an earlier commercial crew rotation mission award this past May to the Boeing Company of Houston to launch its CST-100 Starliner astronaut crew capsule to the ISS.
Since the retirement of NASA’s Space Shuttle orbiters in Continue reading “NASA Orders First Commercial Crew Mission to Space Station from SpaceX”
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Congressional Slashes to NASA Commercial Crew Force Bolden to ‘Buy Russian’ rather than ‘Buy American’
In the face of drastic funding cuts by the US Congress to NASA’s commercial crew program (CCP) aimed at restoring America’s indigenous launch capability to fly our astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS), NASA Administrator Charles Bolden is being forced to spend another half a billion dollars for seats on Russia’s Soyuz spacecraft instead of astronaut transport ships built by American workers in American manufacturing facilities.
The end effect of significantly slashing NASA’s Fiscal 2016 commercial crew budget request by both the US Senate and the US House is to tell NASA to ‘Buy Russian’ rather than to ‘Buy American.’
The $490 million of US taxpayer dollars will pay for six astronaut seats on the Soyuz manned capsule in 2018 and 2019 – that are now required due to uncertainty over whether the pair of new crewed transporters being built by Boeing and SpaceX for NASA will actually be available in 2017 as planned.
Furthermore the average cost per seat under the new contract with Russia rises to $81.7 million compared to about $76 million for the most recent contract, an increase of about 7 percent.
In response to the Congressional CCP budget cuts, NASA Administrator Bolden sent a letter notifying Congressional lawmakers about the agency’s new contract modifications with the Russian space agency about future crewed flights to the space station.
“I am writing to inform you that NASA, once again, has modified its current contract with the Russian government to meet America’s requirements for crew transportation services. Under this contract modification, the cost of these services to the U.S. taxpayers will be approximately $490 million,” Bolden wrote in an Aug. 5 letter to the leaders of the House and Senate committees responsible for deciding NASA’s funding.
The budget situation is completely inexplicable given the relentless pressure from Congress, led be Sen. John McCain, on the Department of Defense and US aerospace firm United Launch Alliance (ULA) to stop purchasing and using the Russian-made RD-180 engines for the 100% reliable Atlas V rocket by 2019 – as a way to punish Russian’s President Vladimir Putin and his allies.
Because on the other hand, those same congressional ‘leaders’ clearly have no hesitation whatsoever in putting money into Putin’s allies pockets via the NASA commercial crew account – at the expense of jobs for American workers and while simultaneously potentially endangering the ISS as a hedge against possible Russian launch failures. Multiple Russian and American rockets have suffered launch failures over the past year.
Boeing and SpaceX were awarded contracts by NASA Administrator Bolden in September 2014 worth $6.8 Billion to complete the development and manufacture of their privately developed CST-100 and Crew Dragon astronaut transporters under the agency’s Commercial Crew Transportation Capability (CCtCap) program and NASA’s Launch America initiative.
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden (left) announces the winners of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program development effort to build America’s next human spaceships launching from Florida to the International Space Station. Speaking from Kennedy’s Press Site, Bolden announced the contract award to Boeing and SpaceX to complete the design of the CST-100 and Crew Dragon spacecraft. Former astronaut Bob Cabana, center, director of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Kathy Lueders, manager of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program, and former International Space Station Commander Mike Fincke also took part in the announcement. Credit: Ken Kremer- kenkremer.com
The purpose of CCP is to end our “sole reliance” on the Russian Soyuz capsule and launch US astronauts on US rockets and spaceships from US soil by 2017.
With CCP we would continue to work cooperatively with the Russians to everyone’s benefit – but not be totally dependent on them.
Under NASA’s CCtCAP contract, the first orbital flights of the new ‘space taxis’ launching our astronauts to the International Space Station had been slated to blastoff in 2017. But that schedule was entirely dependent on NASA’s ability to pay both aerospace companies as they made progress on completing the contacted milestones absolutely critical to achieving flight status.
Bolden had already notified Congress in February that the new contract modification would become necessary if Congress failed to fully fund the CCP program to enable the 2017 flights.
Since the forced retirement of NASA’s trio of shuttle orbiters in 2011, all American and ISS partner astronauts have been forced to hitch a ride on the Soyuz for flights to the ISS and back.
“Our plans to return launches to American soil make fiscal sense,” Bolden said recently. “It currently costs $76 million per astronaut to fly on a Russian spacecraft. On an American-owned spacecraft, the average cost will be $58 million per astronaut.”
Instead, the Obama Administrations 2016 request for commercial crew (CCP) amounting to $1.244 Billion was dealt another blow, and slashed to only $900 million and $1.0 Billion by the Senate and House committees respectively.
Boeing and SpaceX are building private spaceships to resume launching US astronauts from US soil to the International Space Station in 2017. Credit: NASA
And this is just the latest in a lengthy string of cuts by Congress – which has not fully funded the Administration’s CCP funding requests, since its inception in 2010.
The budget significant budget slashes amounting to 50% or more by Congress, have already forced NASA to delay the first commercial crew flights of the private ‘space taxis’ from 2015 to 2017.
“Due to their continued reductions in the president’s funding requests for the agency’s Commercial Crew Program over the past several years, NASA was forced to extend its existing contract with the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) to transport American astronauts to the International Space Station. This contract modification is valued at about $490 million,” said NASA.
So the net effect of Congressional CCP cuts has been to prolong US sole reliance on the Russian Soyuz manned capsule at a cost to the US taxpayers of hundreds of millions of dollars.
Indeed, given the crisis in Ukraine and recent Russian launch failures, one might think the Congress would eagerly embrace wanting to reduce our total dependence on the Russians for human spaceflight.
“Unfortunately, for five years now, the Congress, while incrementally increasing annual funding, has not adequately funded the Commercial Crew Program to return human spaceflight launches to American soil this year, as planned,” Bolden’s letter explains.
“This has resulted in continued sole reliance on the Russian Soyuz spacecraft as our crew transport vehicle for American and international partner crews to the ISS.”
“In 2010, I presented to Congress a plan to partner with American industry to return launches to the United States by 2015 if provided the requested level of funding.”
So if Congress had funded the commercial crew program, the US would have launched its first human crews on the CST-100 and crew Dragon to the ISS this year – 2015.
NASA has selected experienced astronauts Robert Behnken, Eric Boe, Douglas Hurley and Sunita Williams to work closely with The Boeing Company and SpaceX to develop their crew transportation systems and provide crew transportation services to and from the International Space Station. Credits: NASA
Bolden also repeated his request to work with the leaders of Congress in the best interests of our country.
“I am asking that we put past disagreements behind us and focus our collective efforts on support for American industry – the Boeing Corporation and SpaceX – to complete construction and certification of their crew vehicles so that we can begin launching our crews from the Space Coast of Florida in 2017.”
Currently, both Boeing and SpaceX are on track to meet the 2017 objective – but only if the CCP funds are restored.
Otherwise the contracts will have to be renegotiated and progress will be severely reduced – all at added cost. Another instance of pennywise and pound foolish.
“Our Commercial Crew Transportation Capability (CCtCap) contractors are on track today to provide certified crew transportation systems in 2017,” says Bolden.
“Reductions from the FY 2016 request for Commercial Crew proposed in the House and Senate FY 2016 Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies appropriations bills would result in NASA’s inability to fund several planned CCtCap milestones in FY 2016 and would likely result in funds running out for both contractors during the spring/summer of FY 2016.”
“If this occurs, the existing fixed-price CCtCap contracts may need to be renegotiated, likely resulting in further schedule slippage and increased cost.”
Overall, it’s just a terrible state of affairs for the future of US human spaceflight, as Congress once again places partisan politics ahead of the interests of the American people.
The fact is that the commercial crew space taxis from Boeing and SpaceX are the fastest, cheapest and most efficient pathway to get our astronaut crews to the Earth orbiting space station and back.
Common sense says we must restore our independent path to the ISS – safely and as quickly as possible.
SpaceX and Boeing are building the private crew Dragon and CST-100 spaceships to resume launching US astronauts from US soil aboard Falcon 9 and Atlas V rockets (similar to these) to the International Space Station in 2017 – depending on funding from Congress. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com
NASA Names Four Astronauts for First Boeing, SpaceX U.S. Commercial Spaceflights
NASA today (July 9) named the first four astronauts who will fly on the first U.S. commercial spaceflights in private crew transportation vehicles being built by Boeing and SpaceX – marking a major milestone towards restoring American human launches to U.S. soil as soon as mid-2017, if all goes well.
The four astronauts chosen are all veterans of flights on NASA’s Space Shuttles and to the International Space Station (ISS); Robert Behnken, Eric Boe, Douglas Hurley and Sunita Williams. They now form the core of NASA’s commercial crew astronaut corps eligible for the maiden test flights on board the Boeing CST-100 and Crew Dragon astronaut capsules.
Behnken, Boe and Hurley have each launched on two shuttle missions and Williams is a veteran of two long-duration flights aboard the ISS after launching on both the shuttle and Soyuz. All four served as military test pilots prior to being selected as NASA astronauts.
The experienced quartet of space flyers will work closely with Boeing and SpaceX as they begin training and prepare to launch aboard the first ever commercial ‘space taxi’ ferry flight missions to the ISS and back – that will also end our sole source reliance on the Russian Soyuz capsule for crewed missions to low-Earth orbit and further serve to open up space exploration and transportation services to the private sector.
Boeing and SpaceX were awarded contracts by NASA Administrator Charles Bolden in September 2014 worth $6.8 Billion to complete the development and manufacture of the privately developed CST-100 and Crew Dragon astronaut transporters under the agency’s Commercial Crew Transportation Capability (CCtCap) program and NASA’s Launch America initiative.
“I am pleased to announce four American space pioneers have been selected to be the first astronauts to train to fly to space on commercial crew vehicles, all part of our ambitious plan to return space launches to U.S. soil, create good-paying American jobs and advance our goal of sending humans farther into the solar system than ever before,” said NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, in a statement.
“These distinguished, veteran astronauts are blazing a new trail — a trail that will one day land them in the history books and Americans on the surface of Mars.”
The selection of astronauts for rides with NASA’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP) comes almost exactly four years to the day since the last American manned space launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis on the STS-135 mission to the space station on July 8, 2011 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Hurley was a member of the STS-135 crew and served as shuttle pilot under NASA’s last shuttle commander, Chris Ferguson, who is now Director of Boeing’s CST-100 commercial crew program. Read my earlier exclusive interviews with Ferguson about the CST-100 – here and here.
Since the retirement of the shuttle orbiters, all American and ISS partner astronauts have been forced to hitch a ride on the Soyuz for flights to the ISS and back, at a current cost of over $70 million per seat.
“Our plans to return launches to American soil make fiscal sense,” Bolden elaborated. “It currently costs $76 million per astronaut to fly on a Russian spacecraft. On an American-owned spacecraft, the average cost will be $58 million per astronaut.
Behnken, Boe, Hurley and Williams are all eager to work with the Boeing and SpaceX teams to “understand their designs and operations as they finalize their Boeing CST-100 and SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and operational strategies in support of their crewed flight tests and certification activities as part of their contracts with NASA.”
Until June 2015, Williams held the record for longest time in space by a woman, accumulating 322 days in orbit. Behnken is currently the chief of the astronaut core and conducted six space walks at the station. Boe has spent over 28 days in space and flew on the final mission of Space Shuttle Discovery in Feb. 2011 on STS-133.
The first commercial crew flights under the CCtCAP contract could take place in 2017 with at least one member of the two person crews being a NASA astronaut – who will be “on board to verify the fully-integrated rocket and spacecraft system can launch, maneuver in orbit, and dock to the space station, as well as validate all systems perform as expected, and land safely,” according to a NASA statement.
The second crew member could be a company test pilot as the details remain to be worked out.
The actual launch date depends on the NASA budget allocation for the Commercial Crew Program approved by the US Congress.
Congress has never approved NASA’s full funding request for the CCP program and has again cut the program significantly in initial votes this year. So the outlook for a 2017 launch is very uncertain.
Were it not for the drastic CCP cuts we would be launching astronauts this year on the space taxis.
“Every dollar we invest in commercial crew is a dollar we invest in ourselves, rather than in the Russian economy,” Bolden emphasizes about the multifaceted benefits of the commercial crew initiative.
Under the CCtCAP contract, NASA recently ordered the agency’s first commercial crew mission from Boeing – as outlined in my story here. SpaceX will receive a similar CCtCAP mission order later this year.
At a later date, NASA will decide whether Boeing or SpaceX will launch the actual first commercial crew test flight mission to low Earth orbit.
Boeing’s commercial CST-100 ‘Space Taxi’ will carry a crew of five astronauts to low Earth orbit and the ISS from US soil. Mockup with astronaut mannequins seated below pilot console and Samsung tablets was unveiled on June 9, 2014 at its planned manufacturing facility at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: Ken Kremer – kenkremer.com
“This is a new and exciting era in the history of U.S. human spaceflight,” said Brian Kelly, director of Flight Operations at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, in a statement.
“These four individuals, like so many at NASA and the Flight Operations Directorate, have dedicated their careers to becoming experts in the field of aeronautics and furthering human space exploration. The selection of these experienced astronauts who are eligible to fly aboard the test flights for the next generation of U.S. spacecraft to the ISS and low-Earth orbit ensures that the crews will be well-prepared and thoroughly trained for their missions.”
Both the CST-100 and Crew Dragon will typically carry a crew of four NASA or NASA-sponsored crew members, along with some 220 pounds of pressurized cargo. Each will also be capable of carrying up to seven crew members depending on how the capsule is configured.
The spacecraft will be capable to remaining docked at the station for up to 210 days and serve as an emergency lifeboat during that time.
The NASA CCtCAP contracts call for a minimum of two and a maximum potential of six missions from each provider.
The station crew will also be enlarged to seven people that will enable a doubling of research time.
The CST-100 will be carried to low Earth orbit atop a man-rated United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket launching from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. It enjoys a 100% success rate.
Boeing will first conduct a pair of unmanned and manned orbital CST-100 test flights earlier in 2017 in April and July, prior to the operational commercial crew rotation mission to confirm that their capsule is ready and able and met all certification milestone requirements set by NASA.
The Crew Dragon will launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. It enjoyed a 100% success rate until last weeks launch on its 19th flight which ended with an explosion two minutes after liftoff from Cape Canaveral on June 28, 2015.
Umbilicals away and detaching from SpaceX Falcon 9 launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on June 28, 2015 that was doomed to disaster soon thereafter. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com
SpaceX conducted a successful Pad Abort Test of the Crew Dragon on May 6, as I reported here. The goal was to test the spacecrafts abort systems that will save astronauts lives in a split second in the case of a launch emergency such as occurred during the June 28 rocket failure in flight that was bound for the ISS with the initial cargo version of the SpaceX Dragon.
SpaceX plans an unmanned orbital test flight of Crew Dragon perhaps by the end of 2016. The crewed orbital test flight would follow sometime in 2017.
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UPMC Hillman Cancer Center Joins National AML Trial
UPMC Hillman Cancer Center is the only cancer center in Pennsylvania and one of just 15 nationwide to offer a groundbreaking collaborative clinical trial for acute myeloid leukemia (AML). The Beat AML Master Clinical Trial, led by the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, will test multiple targeted therapies for patients with AML, one of the most deadly forms of blood cancer and the most commonly diagnosed form of leukemia in adults.
More than 21,000 patients are diagnosed with AML in the United States each year, and the standard therapy has remained virtually unchanged for decades—a combination of chemotherapy and, for some patients, a stem cell transplant. Many patients, particularly those over the age of 60, cannot tolerate this harsh regimen. The Beat AML trial aims to change that with a precision medicine approach.
“AML is extremely aggressive, and clinical decisions on the appropriate therapies need to be made quickly,” said Stanley M. Marks, MD, chairman, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center. “To provide individualized treatment for each patient based on their genetic makeup will help us select the approach that gives the patient the best chance for a cure.”
The Beat AML trial uses sophisticated genomic technology to identify the genetic drivers of the patient’s AML to match them with an appropriate targeted therapy. More than 490 patients have been screened to date.
“AML is not a uniform or a single disease,” said Mounzer Agha, MD, director of the Mario Lemieux Center for Blood Cancers at UPMC Hillman Cancer Center. “It encompasses wide genetic variations that we will now be able to specifically target for each patient. It gives us a whole new approach to the way we currently treat AML.”
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and its collaborators recently presented the first data from this trial at a major cancer conference, the 60th American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting. The data showed that the trial already has met the primary endpoint, proving that with genomic technology, clinicians can identify the genetic mutations of AML patients to make a treatment decision within an unprecedented seven days. This was achieved for 95 percent of patients in the trial.
“Our goal with this innovative trial is to deliver the right drug to the right patient at the right time, and we’re encouraged by the progress we’ve seen in the past year,” said Louis J. DeGennaro, PhD, the society’s president and chief executive officer. “The addition of a prestigious institution such as UPMC Hillman Cancer Center will help us deliver critical help to patients who urgently need better options, now.”
The Beat AML trial at UPMC Hillman Cancer Center will be led by Michael Boyiadzis, MD, co-director of the acute leukemia program at UPMC Hillman Cancer Center. For more information on the trial, call Kathy O’Connell at 412-623-3083 or oconnellka2@upmc.edu.
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OCR’s 2019 Right of Access Initiative Bears First Fruit
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Hospital Agrees to Pay $85,000 for Failure to Provide Patient Timely Access to Records
by Margaret Young Levi and Kathie McDonald-McClure
On September 9, 2019, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced its first settlement under its “Right of Access Initiative.” Without admitting any wrongdoing, a hospital has agreed to pay $85,000 to the United States Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) as a result of a 10-month delay in providing access to protected health information (PHI). Importantly, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requires covered entities to “act on” requests for access within 30 days of a request. The hospital also entered into a Corrective Action Plan (CAP) that required the hospital to implement, and train staff on, policies and procedures to ensure individuals have timely access to their requested PHI.
What led to the settlement? The patient raised the issue of untimely access in a complaint to the OCR on August 14, 2018. The patient alleged that on October 18, 2017, she requested her unborn child’s fetal heart monitor records from Bayfront Health – St. Petersburg (Hospital), a Florida hospital. At the time of her OCR complaint, nine months had passed without receiving any records. The reason given to the patient by the Hospital for not producing the records was that it could not find them. Continue reading →
CMS Proposed Rule on Hospital EHR “Electronic Patient Event Notifications”
April 9, 2019 May 14, 2019 Kathie McDonald-McClure Cures Act and Program Interoperability, Data Privacy & Security, EHR Certification Standards, Electronic Health Records, Health Information Technology, HIPAA, HITECH Law Care coordination, CMS EHR Program Interoperability, Electronic Health Records, HHS CMS Proposed Rule, Hospital Conditions of Participation (CoPs), PAC providers
By Kathie McDonald-McClure and Margaret Young Levi
Summary: CMS proposes new Medicare Conditions of Participation (CoPs) for hospitals that will require the hospital EHR to send electronic event notifications to post-acute care providers when a patient has been admitted, discharged, or transferred. What must hospitals do, and how much time is needed, to operationalize the new CoPs, considering a process will need to be developed that identifies providers who should and can receive these event notices? What will be required, and how much time is needed, to reconfigure EHRs to send the notifications and demonstrate compliance with the multiple facets of the CoP? Will PAC providers be obligated to operationalize the receipt and use of these notifications under the IMPACT Act? CMS is seeking stakeholder input on its proposal, including a reasonable time frame for implementation. Comments are due June 3, 2019.* Continue reading →
Healthcare Privacy Practices Notice Must Include Nondiscrimination Notice
February 26, 2018 February 26, 2018 WyattLLP Cyber Security and Cyber Crime, Data Privacy & Security, Health care reform, Health Information Technology, HIPAA, Privacy & Security
Among the many mandates of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) (a/k/a “Obama Care”) still in force today is Section 1557. Section 1557 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, or disability in certain health programs or activities. The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is the agency vested with responsibility for implementing and enforcing Section 1557. On May 16, 2016, OCR issued a Final Rule that requires entities covered by the ACA to notify beneficiaries, enrollees, applicants, or members of the public of Section 1557’s nondiscrimination prohibitions. This notice must be included in the entity’s “significant” publications and communications.
You might ask, “Why am I reading about this on a legal blog about privacy and security?” This is because OCR determined that the Notice of Privacy Practices, which healthcare providers and health plans issue to patients and plan members, is a “significant” publication or communication. As a result, health care providers and health plans that are subject to both Section 1557 and the Privacy Rule under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) must add the Section 1557 nondiscrimination notices and taglines to their Notice of Privacy Practices. Health plans should add such notices and taglines to their Summary of Benefits and Coverage as well.
Ransomware Attack on Allscripts’ Cloud-Based EHR and E-Prescribing Platforms: What Providers Need to Know
February 5, 2018 February 7, 2018 WyattLLP Cyber Security and Cyber Crime, Data Privacy & Security, Electronic Health Records, Health Information Technology, HIPAA allscripts, class action lawsuit, ransomware
By Kathie McDonald-McClure
What Happened. According to several healthcare news sources, on Thursday, January 18, 2018, Allscripts experienced a ransomware attack on the computer servers that host the Allscripts cloud-based EHR and the Allscripts cloud-based Electronic Prescriptions for Controlled Substances (“EPCS”) platform. Allscripts did not pay the ransom because it had recent data backups that were unaffected by the attack.¹
Initial Impact on Allscripts’ Clients. The EPCS reportedly was restored on Saturday, January 20, 2018. The EHR system reportedly continued to be adversely affected through at least Monday, January 22, 2018, with some providers still reporting log-in issues through Wednesday, January 24, 2018. Allscripts held a conference call with providers in which it advised providers that they may continue to experience usage interruptions with the cloud-based products until Allscripts completed a roll-out of security updates. During down times, Allscripts urged providers to use the Allscripts mobile solution (only available on the iPhone) to view medical histories and schedules but acknowledged that providers would be unable to Continue reading →
Massive malicious email campaign spoofs Google Docs to hijack Gmail accounts
May 3, 2017 May 3, 2017 Kathie McDonald-McClure Cyber Security and Cyber Crime, Data Privacy & Security, Privacy & Security cybercrime, Gmail security, Google Docs phishing email scam, malicious email scams, social engineering
A massive email phishing campaign started Wednesday afternoon. The email attacks target Google accounts but have spread to other email accounts as people have been tricked into clicking on the link in the email and have unwittingly supplied their Google account access credentials and access to their contacts.
The reports of the malicious emails are coming from people across a range of industries. The emails contain what looks like a link to a Google Docs and appears to come from someone you know. These emails, however, are malicious and are designed to trick the recipient in a way that allows the cybercriminal to hijack email accounts or infect the user’s computer.
If you receive an email with a link to Google Docs, BEWARE! These emails are designed to look like they come from a trusted or known source. Do not click on any links in emails that you were not expecting.
A screen shot of one of the Google Docs phishing emails is shown below. If you receive one of these emails, delete it ASAP. If you use Gmail or Google Inbox, consider activating the 2-factor authentication feature to secure your account.
Several major news organizations and cable networks are reporting on this story. For the most up-to-date news on this developing story, use your favorite internet search engine to search for “google phishing email scam”.
A sample Google Docs phishing email. The form and style of the email may vary from this sample.
To read Google’s Gmail Help on phishing emails, use your preferred internet search engine and search for: “Google Help and how to avoid and report phishing emails”.
If you are attacked by malware or a phishing email that compromises your organization’s privacy and security, Wyatt’s experienced Data Security Incident Response Team is ready to help.
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> FTC Resources to Privacy & Security
> FTC Act Section 5: Unfair and Deceptive Practices
> FTC: Enforcing Privacy Promises
> FTC: Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA)
> FTC: Red Flags Rule for Identity Theft
> FTC: Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act for Financial Institutions
> FTC: Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)
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Century Sunday: 1917 Part 1: Sweatman, OJDB, Kreisler, and Heifitz
Son of a barber in Brunswick, Missouri, Wilbur Coleman Sweatman learned piano as a child from his older sister and soon started playing the violin, perhaps having taught himself on the instrument. Later he also learned clarinet and made this his primary instrument touring with circus bands, eventually leading dance and jazz bands, and developing the unusual skill of playing two, and then later, three clarinets at once.
He recorded several cylinders and records as bandleader, one of the being possibly the very first recording of Scott Joplin’s Maple Leaf Rag. In 1911, he published “Down Home Rag” a work in 4/4 time (as opposed to the usual 2/4 time of ragtime works) that shares elements of the contemporary fox trots and turkey trots of the time.
In December 1916, in a New York recording studio, Sweatman recorded two takes of “Down Home Rag”, each with notable melodic variations, arguably establishing him as the first band leader to have recorded jazz and these recordings as the very first recorded jazz records. This was two months earlier than the Original Dixie Jazz Band recorded “Livery Stable Blues” and “Dixeland Jass Band One Step”, the latter based on Joe Jordon’s “That Teasin’ Rag” and being the first record to ever contain the word “jass”. Later in 1917, Wilbur Sweatman would record additional tracks, several of which contained the word “jass” or “jazz” in their titles. For additional information on Wilbur Sweatman, please refer to the excellent and well-researched biography, “That’s Got ’em: The Life and Music of Wilbur C. Sweatman” By Mark Berresford
Though Wilbur Sweatman recorded the first jazz record, the Original Dixieland Jazz Band (ODJB) recorded the first record with the work “jass” or “jazz” in the title, when they recorded “Dixeland Jass Band One Step” in February 1917. More importantly, their record label, Victor, effectively promoted their material, even if as novelty, providing the sound of something akin to jazz to record buyers all over the country. Already successful as a dance band, first in Chicago, then in New York, the fame brought by these recordings, and their next set on Columbia, further increased not only the popularity of the ODJB, but was a catalyst for jazz in general. Soon bands all over the country included the word “jazz” in their name or the titles of the records and soon true improvisational jazz music was available live and through records to a diverse audience across the United States.
Though jazz predates the recordings of Wilbur Sweatman and the Original Dixieland Jazz band by several years, records and the phonograph were the primary reason for the rapid spread and adoption of jazz as not only trendy, but popular and indispensable music.
Composer, and the greatest violinist of his generation (born in 1875, died in 1962). Fritz Kreisler recorded several times in 1917 for the Victor label. Taken with earlier recordings on Victor, going back to 1910, we are left with a diverse set of miniatures, some of which are Kreisler’s own compositions, some of which were even credited to other composers, long dead, until Kreisler revealed they were his own compositions in the style of those composers.
These are acoustic recordings, as were all recordings in 1917 and up until about 1925, which means that instead of using microphones to capture sound, large horns were used that generated vibrations to etch the groves in the mastering cylinder (very early on) or platter. In addition, the rotation of the platter was mechanical and not electrical. The performer or performers had to position themselves near the horn and the resulting recording had a limited frequency range between 250 to 2500 Hz (Hertz or cycles per second: vibrations per seconds, known as the frequency, determining musical pitch and the nature of the sound since a given instrument produces a set of vibrations for any given note.) The human hearing range is around 20 Hz to 2000 Hz and the notes on the piano range from 27.5 Hz to 4186 Hz. 250 Hz is not very low: for example, the highest of the four open strings on the cello sounds at 220 Hz and middle C on the piano is around 262 Hz. The B natural, only a semitone below, is around 247 Hz, meaning that the left hand accompaniment of a piano piece like “Maple Leaf Rag”, disregarding “overtones” or the additional upper frequencies that the piano or any instrument produces for each given note, is almost entirely below the lower limit of the range available to recordings in 1917. Thus, while one could record piano pieces on this technology, or in the case of many of the Kreisler recordings, violin with piano accompaniment, it sounds very thin and strange. The amazing thing, psychologically, is how the listener adjusts and soon gets comfortable with the recorded sound, as unfaithful as it is to the original performance.
Shortly after his Carnegie Hall debut on November 7, 1917 RCA started recording Jascha Heifitz, only a couple of months away from his 17th birthday. Just as Kreisler was the most notable and celebrated violinist of his generation, Heifitz (1901-1987) was the most prominent and acclaimed violinist of his generation.
These 1917 recordings of Heifitz available on CD are compelling and vital. The transfers are good, and once one puts in some time listening to recordings of this era, the significant sonic limitations of the acoustic recording process don’t pose any serious barrier to enjoying the music. We are very fortunate that Thomas Edison invented the phonograph in 1877, allowing it to develop, although slowly from a 21st Century person’s perspective. so that by 1917 we start having some real treasures of music captured forever on these ten and twelve inch shellac disks.
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Our First ECMA Nomination!!!
Today's Worship Wednesday blogpost will be shared next week.
We received some big news today that we want to share with you:
We've received our first ECMA Nomination!!!
The East Coast Music Awards celebrate the wide range of music created by East Coast artists. We are completely humbled and honoured to be invited into this awesome group of nominees.
How The Light Gets In was nominated for Gospel Recording (Album) of the Year!
The nominations were announced on Twitter this morning:
The full list of nominees can be found here.
Congratulations to all the nominees!!
Worship Wednesdays - The Year I Was A Soccer Star...
"Athletic" has never been used to describe me.
I played sports as all kids do, and at one point I was even asked to try out for the school basketball team, but I chose choir over basketball, and I'm pretty sure that worked best in the long run.
One summer, my parents signed me up for soccer. I can't remember why exactly, but all my friends were doing it, so I guess that's as good a reason as any. Teams were divided by age, not by skill level, and I was fine with that. As the smallest kid in the class, and the one who loved choir, I was chosen last, pretty much always. I had lots of energy, but running, throwing a ball, or doing any kind of catching was certainly not on my skill list.
Well, that summer, the random lottery of teams did an amazing thing. When I arrived at our first rehearsal (wait, sports people say 'practice', right?)... When I arrived at our first practice, I couldn't believe who was on my team. Sherry, Tara, Beth - from some fluke of the universe, I ended up on the same team as all the athletic girls in my class!
I was completely overwhelmed. "Great," I thought, "One more summer of being chosen last. What will they do when I make us lose every game?" I started thinking of ways to fake a 2-month leg cramp...
Each week, we rehearsed and played games. But as the summer went on, the strangest thing started to happen. I became good at soccer! I tried different positions, and found my strength in playing defence. I could see the ball coming down the field and I learned just where to run and kick to get it out of my zone. I felt myself getting stronger, more confident...
Our team started winning games - not despite me, certainly not because of me, but with me. By the end of the summer, we made it into the playoffs, and in a twist never anticipated, we won the gold medal! I'd never been part of a winning sports team before. For the other girls on the team, this was their goal, their dream. But for me, it was so unexpected, so surreal...
I started that summer unskilled and lacking confidence, with no thoughts of ever winning a gold medal. But for 8 full weeks, I was surrounded by people who were better than me - talented, skilled, passionate about winning the game - and it changed me. It forced me to raise my skill level. The more I played, the better I got. My teammates encouraged me, and my newfound confidence gave me the courage to made bolder moves and take more risks.
It's been years since I've thought of that summer, but I was reminded of it this week as Gerald and I started to make plans to cowrite with several of our friends. You see, that summer was an outlier moment for me. I've never been part of a winning sports team again, and I don't anticipate it happening anytime soon, but the lessons of that summer shaped me.
If you want to become great at something, you need to be around people who are better at it than you are. Work with skilled writers, sing with amazing singers, play with monster players. Test your ideas against people with more knowledge and experience. Do it 'til it scares you, and then do it again. And when you look back at the end of the season, you'll see how much you've grown, how much you've honed your skills, the great things you've accomplished, and the confidence you've gained.
You'll have so much more to offer your team! Share with with them. Be generous. And then...
Search out a new group who is more talented than you, and start all over again...
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Book Review: Yawning At Tigers, by Drew Dyck
Imagine for a moment that a Bengal tiger walked up your driveway. What would your reaction be? Fear? Apprehension? Would you call for help? After your initial shock, perhaps you'd even feel a sense of awe or wonder at the majesty before you.
In Yawning At Tigers, Drew Dyck suggests that we have minimized and tamed God to the point of ignoring his true greatness and power. What changes when we look at God's might, when we remember to fear God? Like many of us, I respond strongly to God's message of love, grace, and mercy, but the all-powerful God of Might can seem foreign, even frightening. I might find myself glossing over those particular Scripture passages. But through this book, I found myself reading the Bible with fresh eyes. The verses about God's powerful holiness stood out in a new way. I imagined the psalmist trembling as he tried to put into words the sheer awesomeness of God. Imagining that vastness squeezing into the tiny body of the Christ child suddenly changed the way I viewed the Christmas story. And imagine how it might shape your view of the cross and Easter morning...
And then we need to ask ourselves, "If we understand the greatness of God's might, how then does that affect the way we see the greatness of God's love?" In exploring the majesty of God, we are forced to re-examine both our relationship to God and the way we live our lives as people of faith. This book takes you on that journey. In a world that tries to dismiss God as powerless and irrelevant, Yawning At Tigers invites you to sit in awe of a God who truly deserves the name "Awesome."
The book concludes with a well structured Discussion Guide, complete with questions, actions, and Scripture study. The guide is appropriate for both groups and private study.
I really enjoyed Yawning At Tigers, and can honestly say it has affected my personal study and faith journey. If you get the chance, read it, take notes, and allow yourself to discover the holiness of God.
Worship Wednesdays - Holy Unexpected...
Welcome to 2015! We've enjoyed a wonderful break after our busy holiday season, and we're looking forward to an exciting year of touring, concerts, workshops, and other projects. Before kicking off the New Year, we want to share our favourite story from our holiday singing season:
On Christmas Day, we found ourselves singing for a group of seniors in Brampton, Ontario. We often bring our music into seniors homes. Some of them are like grounded cruise ships, with glamorous surroundings and a full roster of activities for the vibrant and active residents. This was not one of those places. The home and the staff were lovely, but the residents were struggling. Many had advanced dementia and mobility issues. Several were in elaborate wheelchairs, needing to be hand-fed. Some wore protective head gear. As we sang, many seemed unaware of both our physical and musical presence. They were just in their own world.
To the side was a woman in a bright pink dress. Her physical form had been severely drained by whatever illness had taken over her body. Her limbs were thin and jolted awkwardly. Her words were few and distorted. Her face had been twisted to the point where she couldn't even smile, yet we could tell she was enjoying the music. A caring staff member had tied jingle bells to her wrist. She swung her arms joyfully, the bells tinkling with each jerk of her hand.
We finished one song, and as people applauded, we heard a voice start to sing. We looked over to see our pink-dressed friend...
Ave Maria...
This voice didn't represent the distorted body we saw before us. This voice was pure, warm, beautiful...
Gratia plena...
We were stunned. The room fell quiet.
Maria, gratia plena. Maria, gratia plena.
Ave, ave dominus. Dominus tecum.
We couldn't believe what we were witnessing. Out of the chaos of this busy room, this moment of beauty was flowing. No one made a sound. We were transfixed by this wonder, this sweetness. Her Latin was perfect. Her tone was smooth. She sang the whole song, and brought it to a deliberate and delicate finish..
Ventris tui, Jesus...
Ave Maria....
When she finished, there was a breath of silence, and then joy-filled applause. We couldn't believe what we had just witnessed. It was so unexpected - a extraordinary moment in an ordinary day.
A staff member whispered to us, "She was an opera singer in her youth."
Her body and her mind had aged and suffered, but her voice had continued to live inside her, seeking moments when it could escape its bindings and soar once again.
As we sit here at the start of a New Year, we ask ourselves,
What are the dreams and talents that are still living inside of us?
What might happen if we allow them to find their way out into the world?
For if we allow them to soar, maybe we can all experience the holy, unexpected...
We were blessed to have a busy 2014, followed by a very full Christmas singing season.
We are currently enjoying our first two-weeks-off in over a year!
It's a glorious time filled with rest, visits with friends, and lots of nothingness.
Worship Wednesdays will return next week.
We're looking forward to a year filled with new ideas, music, and inspiration!
Worship Wednesdays - The Year I Was A Soccer Star....
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The ideology that opposes man’s enjoyment of his life on earth and holds sex as such to be evil—the same ideology that is the source and cause of anti-obscenity censorship [is]: religion.
For a discussion of the profound, metaphysical reasons of religion’s antagonism to sex, I refer you to my article “Of Living Death” ( The Voice of Reason ), which deals with the papal encyclical on contraception, “Of Human Life.” Today, most people who profess to be religious, particularly in this country, do not share that condemnation of sex—but it is an ancient tradition which survives, consciously or subconsciously, even in the minds of many irreligious persons, because it is a logical consequence implicit in the basic causes and motives of any form of mysticism.
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Spacelog Apollo 11
Michael Collins (CMP)
That was Neil. How are you reading Mike?
Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)
Loud and clear now, Mike, and we understand that you are docked.
That's affirmative.
Neil Armstrong (CDR)
Houston, CDR. How do you read …?
11, CDR, loud and clear, Neil.
11, this is Houston. Over.
Houston, Apollo 11. Go ahead.
Roger. When you commented on that quad Bravo problem at separation, you were a little weak. Could you go through what you did after you noticed the talkbacks barber pole again, please?
We copied the—the primary and secondary propellant talkbacks on SM RCS quad Bravo 1 to barber pole on separation.
Roger. Roger. That is affirmative, and we moved that switch to the OPEN position, and they went back to gray. Over.
Apollo 11, this is Houston. Over.
Roger, Houston. Apollo 11. Go ahead.
Roger. Could you give us comments on how the transposition and docking went? Over.
I thought it went pretty well, Houston, although I expect I used more gas than I've been using in the simulator. The turnaround maneuver—I went PITCH ACCEL COMMAND and started to pitch up, and then when I put MANUAL ATTITUDE PITCH back to RATE COMMAND for some reason it—it stopped its pitch rate, and I had to go back to ACCEL COMMAND and hit what I thought was an extra PROCEED on the DSKY. During the course of that, we drifted slightly further away from the S-IVB than I expected. I expected to be out about 66 feet. My guess would be I was around 100 or so; and therefore, I expect I used a bit more coming back in. But, except for using a little more gas—And I'd be interested in your numbers on that—everything went nominally.
This is Houston. Roger. We copy.
Houston, Apollo 11. Over.
Go ahead, 11.
Roger. We're working on the pressurization of the LM now, and working off the decal with CSM-LM pressure equalization. And we're down to step 13, where we're waiting for the cabin pressure to be 5, or it should be roughly 5, before we turn the REPRESS package O2 valve to FILL. Instead of 5, we're running about 4.4. Over.
Roger. Stand by a second.
And Houston, Apollo 11. We did put the REPRESS package O2 valve to FILL momentarily there at step 13, and we have filled the bottles back up partially. What's the pressure reading in there, Neil?
We have about 450 psi now in the three 1-pound bottles.
Roger. Stand by a second, please.
Roger. Standing by. The REPRESS package valve is now in the OFF position. What's the cabin pressure now, Buzz? Cabin pressure is now 4.5.
Houston, Apollo 11. We think these readings are within normal tolerances. We just wanted to get your concurrence before we press down any further with these decals.
Okay, Captain.
Buzz Aldrin (LMP)
Houston, Apollo 11. How do you read?
Apollo 11, this is Houston. Go ahead.
Roger. LM looks to be in pretty fine shape from about all we can see from here.
Okay. In reference to your question on this step 13 on the decal, I understand that you have used up the contents of the REPRESS O2 package and at that time, instead of being up to 5 psi, you were reading 4.4. Is that correct?
Okay. 4.4. Yes sir.
Okay. And you want to know if you can go ahead and use additional oxygen to bring the command module up to 5.0 and continue the equalization? Over.
Yes. We think it's within normal tolerances, Bruce. We just wanted to get your concurrence before we press on with this procedure.
Roger, Apollo 11. Go ahead.
Okay. We're pressing on with the procedure.
And 11, Houston. We have a request for you. On the service module secondary propellant fuel pressurization valve: As a precautionary measure, we'd like you to momentarily cycle the four switches to the CLOSE position and then release. As you know, we have no TM or talkback on these valve positions, and it's conceivable that one of them might also have been moved into a different position by the shock of separation. Over.
Okay. Good idea. That's being done.
Houston. Roger. Out.
Apollo 11, Houston. We're doing a nonpropulsive vent on the booster at the present time. You may see some sort of a cloud coming out of it. When you're ready, I have your evasive maneuver PAD.
Roger, And it's coming out.
Roger. Out,
It's a haze. It's going by toward our minus-X direction, and several small particles are moving along with it. The actual velocity is fairly high—at least it appears to be high. And we've got an O2 high—it's a little high right now.
And, Houston, you, might be interested that out my left-hand window right now, I can observe the entire continent of North America, Alaska, and over the Pole, down to the Yucatan Peninsula, Cuba, northern part of South America, and then I run out of window.
Roger, We copy.
Houston, Apollo 11. All 12 latches are locked.
Roger. 11, this is Houston. Understand 12 latches locked.
11, Houston. Whenever you're possessed of a free moment there, we've got this evasive maneuver PAD.
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Anna Bannana's
2440 S. Beretania St. / 946-5190
FRI "Live Music Fridays," 9 p.m.
SAT "Live Music Saturdays," 9 p.m.
Monday: "Open Mic Night," 9 p.m.
Tuesday: "Open Honolulu," 9 p.m.
Arnold's Waikiki
339 Saratoga Road / 924-6887
FRI Natural T, 9 p.m.
SAT Natural T, 10 p.m.
SUN Rich Griffith, 7 p.m.
Monday and Wednesday: the Geezers, 7 p.m.
Tuesday: Dirty Purple, 8 p.m.
Brew Moon Waikiki
1958 Kalakaua Ave. / 955-9045
FRI Khanobi'z Holidaye, 7 p.m.
SAT Ho'ike Trio, 7 p.m.
Chai's Island Bistro
Aloha Tower Marketplace / 585-0011
FRI Nathan Aweau, 6:45 p.m.
SAT Hapa, 6:45 p.m.
SUN Robi Kahakalau and Sean Na'aua'o, 6:30 p.m.
Wednesday: The Brothers Cazimero, 7 p.m.
Thursday: Makaha Sons, 6:45 p.m.
Detox Sports and Entertainment Club
1192 Alakea St. / 526-0200
FRI Buckshot Shorty, Upstanding Youth, Black Square, Pacifica, Golfcart Rebellion, 8 p.m. 16+
SAT The Welschly Arms, Kid Brother, Seven Years Awakening, All is Vanity, 8 p.m. 16+
Thursday: "Thursdays Rocks at Detox," 9 p.m.
Duke's Canoe Club
Outrigger Waikiki Hotel / 922-2268
FRI Maunalua, 4 p.m.
SAT Kapena, 4 p.m.
SUN Henry Kapono, 4 p.m.
Eastside Grill
Puck's Alley / 952-6555
FRI "Karaoke Night," 10 p.m.
SAT "UFC PPV," 5 p.m.
Tuesday: "Crack-Up Tuesdays," 8 p.m.
Wednesday: "Wipeout Wednesdays," 10 p.m.
Esprit Nightclub
Sheraton Waikiki / 922-4422
FRI Hard-2-Oppose, 9 p.m.
SAT Anna Marie and the Elements, 7:30 p.m.
SUN Son Caribe, 8:30 p.m.
Wednesday and Thursday: Soul Cafe, 9 p.m.
Fashion 45 Nightclub
Waikiki Trade Center / 922-4599
FRI "Fashion 45 Fridays," 10 p.m.
SAT "Fever," 10 p.m.
SUN "Refine," 10 p.m.
Tuesday: "Model Tuesdays," 10 p.m.
Thursday: "Threads," 10 p.m.
FRI Cory Oliveros, 5:30 p.m.
Kapena, 9 p.m.
SAT Resistor, 8:30 p.m.
SUN "Da Big Bang Block Party" with Manoa DNA and Hard-2-Oppose, 7 p.m.
Wednesday: Kahakea, 7:30 p.m.
Thursday: Jook Joint, 8 p.m.
Indigo Eurasian Cuisine
1121 Nuuanu Ave. / 521-2900
FRI "Get Fresh," 10 p.m.
SAT "Electrolyfe," 10 p.m.
Tuesday: "Wrath of Grapes" with Maria Remos and Intricate Mediums, 8:30 p.m.
Wednesday: Makana, 9 p.m.
Jazz Minds Art and Cafe
1661 Kapiolani Blvd. / 945-0800
FRI Buddy Mak Jazz Quartet, 9 p.m.
SAT Son Caribe, 9 p.m.
Monday: "The Nu Swing Project" with Maria Remos, 9 p.m.
Thursday: "gr00ve.imProV.arTiSts" with DeShannon Higa, 9 p.m.
Kapahulu Kafe
766 Kapahulu Ave. / 732-7486
Thursday: The Girlas, 8 p.m.
Kelley O'Neil's
311 Lewers St. / 926-1777
FRI Mike Love, 5 p.m.
Stumbletown, 9 p.m.
SAT Scotty Bryan, 5 p.m.
Paradise XS, 9 p.m.
SUN Celtic Waves, 3 p.m.
Brendan and Dewing Time, 9 p.m.
Tuesday: Bongo Tribe, 9 p.m.
Wednesday: Doolin Rakes, 9 p.m.
Kemoo Farms Pub and Lakeside Lanai
1718 Wilikina Drive / 621-1835
FRI Slug and Katch-Ah-Vibe, 9 p.m. $5.
SAT Primal Tribe, 9 p.m. $5.
SUN "New Year's Eve Party" with DJ Gabstop, 9 p.m. $5.
Kona Brewing Co.
Koko Marina Shopping Center / 394-5662
FRI Naluhoe, 7 p.m.
SAT Jon Osorio and Stephen Brown, 7 p.m.
SUN Ledward Ka'apana, 6 p.m.
Living Room @ Fisherman's Wharf
1009 Ala Moana Blvd. / 538-3808
FRI "Cheddar" with Architechs Hawaii and Kaizo Speedgear, 10 p.m.
SAT "Speakeasy Saturdays/The Next Level," 10 p.m.
SUN "Faded 5 Sundays," 10 p.m.
Wednesday: "X-Mas Break," 10 p.m.
Thursday: "Redda Fire" with DJ Jahson the 45 Revolver, 10 p.m.
Mai Tai Bar
Ala Moana Shopping Center / 947-2900
FRI Kimo Opiana, 4 p.m.
SAT Darrell Aquino, 4 p.m.
SUN Lawrence Kidder, 4 p.m.
"New Year's Eve Party," 8 p.m.
43 N. Hotel St. / 550-0496
FRI "Pacific Standard" with DJ Ira, 10 p.m.
SAT "Cabaret Apocalyptique," 10 p.m.
SUN "New Year's Eve Party," 9 p.m.
Tuesday: "Kaleidoscope" with My Ex is Dead, KluvsM and Ekto Gamut, 9 p.m.
Wednesday: "Acid Wash" with DJ Vegas Mike and Quicksilva, 9 p.m.
The O Lounge
FRI "The Butterfly Effect," 9 p.m.
SAT "The Light," 10 p.m. 18+
Wednesday: "Endless Summer Camp" with the Vertical Junkies, 10 p.m. 18+
Thursday: "Da Party" with Big Teeze and DJ Rude Dogg, 9 p.m. 18+
Osake Sushi Bar and Lounge
FRI "Osake Fridays" with DJ K-Smooth and Pomai, 10 p.m.
SAT "DFX Saturdays," 10 p.m.
Wednesday: "Osaketini Nights," 10 p.m.
Thursday: "Better Days" with DJ Stealth, 10 p.m.
O'Toole's Irish Pub
902 Nuuanu Ave. / 536-4138
FRI Jay Elliot, 5 p.m.
The Mixers, 9 p.m.
SAT Doolin Rakes, 9 p.m.
SUN "Jamie Winpenny's Local Band Night" with special guest Doolin Rakes, 9 p.m.
Tuesday: Freaky Tiki, 9 p.m.
Wednesday: Celtic Waves, 9 p.m.
99-016 Kamehameha Hwy. / 488-8226
FRI "Puro Party Latina @ La Zona," 10 p.m.
SAT "Sharkey's Comedy Club," 7 p.m.
"Wild Out Saturdays," 10 p.m.
Wednesday: "Salsa Party" with Son Caribe, 9 p.m.
Thursday: "Promiscuous Thursdays," 9 p.m.
478 Ena Road / 946-6499
FRI "Liquid Velvet," 10 p.m.
SAT "Deca-Dance," 10 p.m.
Monday: "EuroTrashed" with DJ Adumb, 9 p.m. 18+
Pipeline Cafe
805 Pohukaina St. / 589-1999
FRI "Foreplay Fridaze" with Rick Rock and DJ Wu-Chang, 10 p.m. 18+
SAT "New Year's Eve Pre-Party," 9 p.m. 18+.
SUN "Ball Drop 2007" with DJs Heavygrinder and Lady Tribe, 9 p.m.
Tuesday: "X-Rated Tuesdays" with DJ Mike D, 10 p.m.
Red Lion University
2535 Coyne St. / 949-5466
FRI "Freaky Fridays," 10 p.m.
SAT "South of the Border Saturdays" with Fil Slash, 10 p.m.
Monday: "Broke Dik Mondays," 9 p.m.
Thursday: "Dallah Ballah Thursdays," 9 p.m.
thirtyninehotel
FRI "Lush Life" with DJ mr.nick, 9 p.m. No cover.
SAT "Lucky Tiger" with DJ Mark 9 p.m. No cover.
Tuesday: Newjass Quartet, 9 p.m. $5.
Wednesday: "The Rising Melody" with Bret Shimabuku, 7 p.m. $5.
Tiki's Grill and Bar
Aston Waikiki Beach Hotel / 923-8454
FRI Simple Souls, 7:30 p.m.
The Kaimana Band, 10 p.m.
SAT 20 Degrees North, 7:30 p.m.
Ellsworth Simeona, 10 p.m.
SUN Ka'ala Boys, 6 p.m.
Christian and Sani, 8:30 p.m.
Wednesday: Cory Oliveros, 6 p.m.
Thursday: Sean Na'aua'o, 6 p.m.
572 Kailua Road / 262-3343
SUN "Black and White New Year's Eve Party," 9 p.m.
Venus Nightclub
FRI "Paradise" with DJs Technique, Krazy K and Edit, 10 p.m. $5.
SAT "Men of Venus," 9:30 p.m. $10.
"Taste of Honey," 11:30 p.m. $5.
Wednesday: "Wicked Wednesdays" with DJs Edit and Betty, 10 p.m. 18+
W Honolulu
FRI "Wonderlounge" with Artist Groove Network and DJ Ryan Sean, 9 p.m.
SAT "The Remedy" with Profound Entertainment and DJs Mixmaster B, 9 p.m.
SUN "A Touch of Red," 9 p.m.
Zanzabar Nightclub
FRI "The Good Life," 10 p.m.
SAT "House of ISIS," 10 p.m.
SUN "Sizzlin' Sundays" with DJ Mike D, 10 p.m.
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Thursday: "Thirsty Thursdays" with Rick Rock and DJ Wu-Chang, 9 p.m. 18+
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Bioptical Art - Liviu Iliescu
(Letter to Theodor Redlow who asked me
what I feel when I look at a candle flame)
I have discussed you observations on the range of colours in a candle flame based on my technical knowledge as an engineer. Invited to provide some considerations on intersection, I shall try (in a somewhat "alchemical" manner) to voice certain opinions which might entail discussions on other subjects. This theme - the same as others in the field of visual arts, which are close to sciences - permits explorations with the fascination of mirages resulting from suggested indistinct definitions. These are related to the nature of soul, more than to the compulsory precision usually require by explanations of the physical world.
I'd like to share the feelings of the "possessed" alchemists who used to mix up both of substances from the physical world with pagan prayers learned or revealed to their souls from the beyond.
I'd like to live the mystery of flaring embers, with violet flickering, the moving fluids on cave walls, in nights with rainfalls and distant thunders, the light slumbers and frightened awakenings...
At the crossroads between "to feel" and "to know", my words gather in pious sentences or in descriptive listings of apparently simple phenomena. Maybe it is necessary to let the atavistic impulses of questions with no answer, make their way through us, in order to simulate creative emotions. Those questions gave rise to the thrills of mystery and sometimes, generated "graven images" meant to drive away despair.
Mister Theodor Redlow, I think that when you have gazed at the flame of a candle, you have removed yourself from the commonplace, by the impulse of a "trance", in a moment of return to the primitive life, preserving, however, the lucidity of your sensitivity. You have perceived a fleck of spirit materialized in this frail flame, where violet, blue, yellow, outlined by orange emerged.
The pragmatic rhythms of the "consumption" life - with prefabricated meditation respites, sometimes flanked by suffocating axiomatic explanations seemingly comprehensive about whatever happens - are not satisfying the need for mystery. Even when something sensational occurs --such as something unidentified like the UFO - people look for rational explanations. The fleck of light of the candle was also explained as the result of incomplete combustion (which usually produce maximum luminance), with a colder nucleus. That combustion process, once stolen by the eternal Promethean defiance, was chained in the strong fetters of the physico-chemical forms.
For the combustions of life, oxygen was to be inhaled by man. In times immemorial, man had a revelation that there is a parallel between that flame, the souls that once lived and the fate of the living ones and of those that will live in the future.
Candle light has the same material essence as sun light (electromagnetic radiations).
Nevertheless their spectrum differs. Those differences resulted in perception differences, which entailed more widely different psychic structures than their physical correspondents. The high temperatures of the sun (about 6000 Celsius degrees at the surface) produce radiations with a wide spectrum. In the relation light-human, human eyes perceive white light a power peak towards violet. Candle light has lower temperatures (about 2000 Celsius degrees), yellow to orange is generally perceived and the power peak occurs in the range of red radiations. It is known that spectral differences are paralleled by a wide range of psychic conditions.
Alchemists were close to truth when they supposed that combustible bodies involve a principle of inflammability called phlogiston. They tried to explain the mystery of combustion but increased it as well. We know now that combustion is nothing else than the result of a combination reaction with the "commonplace" oxygen. For the sake of imagination, I mention the fact that the technology of combustion processes defines as deflagration a burning away in a combustible gas at a speed of a few meters per second; it is even more exciting to know that detonation is an explosive combustion with a propagation speed of thousands of meters per second.
Yet, who knows how many combinations of forms may occur in the darkness surrounding the light kernel screened by the palm of a hand with translucid fingers, in a painting by Georges de la Tour (Nouveau - ne, 1649).
Light is mirrored on the faces of two women, learning over the mystery of the infant arrived at midnight, towards the eternity of Mystery.
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Google Names Bauer MBAs Best in Americas in Online Marketing Challenge
Bauer MBA Team Conducts Online Campaign for Children’s Museum of
Houston, Is Named Best in the Americas by Google
A team of four Bauer MBA students, including (left to right) James McLellan, Heather Nguyen, Jason Ruth and Adam Jalfon, are the Americas champions for the 2013 Google Online Marketing Challenge for their campaign for the Children’s Museum of Houston.
Google announced recently that a team of four MBA students from the C. T. Bauer College of Business at the University of Houston are the Americas champions of the 2013 Google Online Marketing Challenge.
The team, comprised of Bauer MBA students Heather Nguyen, Jason Ruth, Adam Jalfon and James McLellan, competed against 12,000 students from more than 80 countries to become the Americas Winner in the challenge, which allows college students to display their skills in advertising, ecommerce, integrated communication, management information systems, marketing and new media technologies. Bauer teams have competed in the challenge for the past four years, with the 2011 team taking the global title.
“To have a company like Google once again recognize the strength and aptitude of these Bauer MBA students is humbling,” Dean Latha Ramchand said. “We are so proud of their achievement and will continue to build curriculum around innovative and evolving aspects of the business world.”
Preparation for the competition began months before the team submitted its final report. To begin the process, the Bauer students selected a client — the Children’s Museum of Houston — and analyzed the company’s business and marketing needs. Then, the team drafted a pre-campaign report, according to a rubric provided by Google. After submitting the report online, the team was given an online Google AdWords account and $250 from Google for a three-week campaign to improve online marketing efforts for the museum.
“Forester Research forecasts that spending for U.S. online marketing will be $50 billion this year. Being able to design, create and execute an online marketing campaign for $250 that cuts through that noise and is judged by Google, industry professionals and academic experts to be the most effective in all of North, South and Central America is a herculean accomplishment. And, being recognized twice in the past three years as either the best in the Americas or the best in the world for online marketing is reflective of the quality of UH Bauer College marketing students,” said Executive Professor Steven Koch, the team’s faculty advisor.
The students came together in a course taught by Koch. In order to be accepted into the class, students were interviewed and required to complete a course in Internet Marketing and Ecommerce.
“I highly value my time at Bauer because I am gaining much more than a graduate degree,” said Nguyen, president of the college’s MBA Society and marketing club. “We have opportunities to participate in challenging projects like this that can impact real businesses. This ‘beyond the textbook’ approach and the quality of the professors at Bauer are major factors in our team’s success.”
Her teammate Jason Ruth agreed.
“I decided to obtain an MBA in order to develop an analytics approach to understanding business and providing practical solutions,” he said. “Bauer College did just that by helping me expand my horizons and focusing my business awareness. From my first class on understanding financial models to my classes delving into internet marketing and web analytics, the classes at Bauer helped me develop the skills I needed to take an analytic approach as well as to strategize realistic solutions to real-life business problems. These skills aided me in working with my teammates to create strategies, measure their successes and then adapt the best strategy for the client.”
“I am very proud to have taken part in the Google Online Marketing Challenge and to represent Bauer College and the University of Houston,” Ruth added. “I couldn’t have asked for a better team — we worked together tirelessly to create a strategy for our client and to adapt and improve it as the competition progressed. And, Professor Koch is a world-class professor. Without his coaching, none of this would have been possible for our team.”
The team’s campaign, while running, was constantly evaluated, in real time, by Google using 30 performance algorithms, grouped into five constructs — account structure, optimization techniques, account activity and reporting, and budget and performance. The team’s pre and post written reports were evaluated by a panel of industry experts, Google executives and academicians using a preset rubric.
This is the fourth year for a Bauer MBA team to enter the competition. In 2011, four Bauer MBAs were named global champions with their plan for the Houston Symphony.
By Jessica Navarro
Bauer MBAs are Americas Champions for 2013 Google Online Marketing Challenge
A team of four Bauer MBA students, including James McLellan, Heather Nguyen, Jason Ruth and Adam Jalfon, are the Americas champions for the 2013 Google Online Marketing Challenge for their campaign for the Children’s Museum of Houston.
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17 replies to “Google Names Bauer MBAs Best in Americas in Online Marketing Challenge”
Niko B.
Congratulations, guys! That’s an awesome accomplishment.
It truly demonstrates the value of the Bauer MBA program.
Robert Mershon
Great job by the team and the faculty at Bauer.
Lydia Nguyen
Very impressive! Speaks volumes to the marketing program at Bauer. Congratulations UH!
Michelle Jalfon
YAA Adam! So proud of you brother!!! 🙂
Tanya Makany
Congratulations!! So proud to see my classmates excel and bring Bauer well deserved accolades.
Mary Nguyen
Excellent job Heather Nguyen
Jennifer Villarreal
Great job Heather!
Rudy Villarreal
What an Honor! I’m Very proud of Heather and her colleagues!
Cindy Talmadge
Nice work Heather,James,Jason and Adam.
Claudia Davila
Way to go Coogs on being recognized another year!! This outstanding achievement demonstrates, once again, how phenomenal the Bauer MBA program truly is. Congrats again to Heather, Jason, Adam, and James!!
Ken Rediker
This is a great accomplishment! for the team and for the college. Congratulations!
Elaine Nguyen
Great job and congrats!
Really excellent job, guys. Reflects well on the caliber of the students and faculty at UH.
Shubham Agarwal
Adam….U Da Man! Congrats brother!!
Solid work! Proud to be a coog
Angie Keller
Way to go Adam!!! Way to go Jason!
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Avery 16th Anniversary
Just arrived at Forsyth and Ballwin!
Avery Anniversary Ale
Sixteen Saison ....$6.79 / 750ml
Limited edition - brewed once and then it is gone!
Beer Style: Saison Ale
Hop Variety: Sterling
Malt Variety: Two-row barley, pale malted wheat
OG: 1.065 ABV: 7.69%
Adjuncts: peaches, jasmine and honey
Availability: One and done. Bottled in May of '09
"Finally, we're SIXTEEN! Dad, can we have the keys? No really, we'll totally take care of her--keep her clean--fill up her tanks--show her off to our friends and let 'em see what we can really do. Really? Thanks, dude! Promise to make you proud. Now to go find Jasmin, Peches and Miel! Well, we got her started and decided to add a few things to the tank. SIXTEEN is a harmonious combination of jasmine, peaches and honey fermented with an unmistakable Belgian yeast strain, all weaving a marvelously spicy and fruity, massively estery and dry, saison ale." -- brewery
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Harviestoun aged in Highland Park Casks
Just Arrived -- two new Highland Park Cask years
Ola Dubh 18 year Casks...$9.99 / 11oz - New
Ola Dubh 40 year Casks...$15.99 / 11oz - New
We also have these in stock....
Ola Dubh 12 year Casks...$6.99 / 11oz
Rated 97 percentile on RateBeer
Ola Dubh 30 year Casks...$12.99 / 11oz
"Ola Dubh (or ‘Black Oil’) is a collaboration between Harviestoun Brewery and Highland Park, Distiller of the Year*. It is based on Harviestoun’s award-winning Old Engine Oil. With more than a stylistic nod to the classic Imperial Porters (and Stouts) of the nineteenth century, this deliciously rich, dark, 8% a.b.v. beer is the first ale to be aged in malt whisky casks from a named distillery and, with traceable casks and numbered bottles, the rest with genuine provenance. Ola Dubh will initially be available in three different expressions; the initial release will be of small batches aged in casks formerly used to mature Highland Park 12 Year Old, Highland Park 16 Year Old and Highland Park 30 Year Old. Further variants are planned for the future. Ola Dubh is, in the words of beer aficionado Owen D.L. Barstow: “The most interesting new British beer I have tried in years.” Retaining the appearance of used motor oil from which the beer gets its name, it is deep dark brown, dense and oily. On the nose there are notes of true oil and cocoa as well as faint smoke and heathery peat from the whisky casks. Although lighter in body that its appearance suggests, Ola Dubh is pithy, oily, salty and bitter on the palate. The finish is exceptional; burnt and bitter notes with an interplay of late hop characters, orange oil, fruity tartness and then delicate, fragrant smoke." -- importer
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Devil Dancer!
Now in stock at Forsyth and Ballwin! Moving fast!
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Very limited -- only 50 cases for Missouri
Founders Devil Dancer
Triple IPA...$17.99 / 4pk
Bottled June 17, 2009
"When you dance with the Devil the Devil don’t change. You do. Massive in complexity, the huge malt character balances the insane amount of alphas used to create it. At an incredible 112 IBU’s it’s dry-hopped with a combination of ten hop varieties. This one can age with the best of them."
-- Founders
Rated 99 percentile on RateBeer Rated A- or Beer Advocate
Centennial IPA
is back in stock now and on sale!
Bottled June 30th
1 day old!!!!
This has to be the freshest beer we have!!
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St. Germain Brasserie - France
Here is an interesting story about the brewery.
"All of our brewers have something to teach us. But it's not often that an enthusiastic brewer turns us on to something as strange and cool as Hildegard of Bingen, a woman of the Rhine River Valley (now Germany) who was packed off to a Benedictine monastery at birth, and eventually became the founder of a convent, a theologian and philosopher, a musical composer, a scientist and healer, pioneer of holistic medicine, and, more or less, the progenitor of the women's liberation movement. Way back in the 12th Century A.D., a time when women were regarded as little more than property, hardly ever educated, and generally unable to read or write, Hildegard gave counsel to popes and kings, and produced many important works in a range of disciplines. She is considered by many to be the first writer ever to describe the female orgasm, and was known for her positive views on sex (not typical of the Roman Catholic Church at that time, or since).
You can find a lot of interesting info on Hildegard on the so-called Internet - click here
What particularly interests the founders of the Brasserie St. Germain is Hildegard's writings on hops. She was an early advocate of hops in brewing, and in that way too she was out of step with church doctrine. (Before hops came into wide use, beer was usually laced with gruit, a mixture of spice and herbs; the Church had the exclusive right to make gruit in some places, and so railed against the use of hops.) Any serious history of hops must mention Hildegard of Bingen.
The brewers of St. Germain see themselves also as defenders of the hop flower, in opposition to the brewing orthodoxy of their region. That region, French Flanders, lays claim to France's ancient bière de garde tradition. But the St. Germain brewers are of the opinion that most of the beer of the region in modern times is too sweet, and certainly not hoppy enough. They are fans of hoppier Belgian beers, and they've taken a healthy part of their inspiration from the Belgians. But they also see their hoppier beers as a return to the brewing heritage in French Flanders.
At the outset of the 20th century, there were more than 2000 breweries in this tiny region, many of them undoubtedly making refreshing, drinkable farmhouse ales, using great loads of local hops. Two world wars nearly killed brewing in French Flanders. By the end of the last century there were only about 20 breweries left, and there was no one left who remembered how those original bières de garde tasted. The Brasserie St. Germain, which opened in 2003, is part of a small revival of brewing in French Flanders. There are about 30 breweries now, including the Brasserie Thiriez, which is fighting along with St. Germain to put hops back into the local beer.
At bottom, the mission of the St. Germain brewers is just like that of most of the brewers we represent at Shelton Brothers. When asked to describe the brewery's 'philosophy,' brewer Stephane Bogaert replies simply that, 'We make the beers we like to drink.' In France, then, just as in Belgium, a pattern is beginning to emerge. As the bigger breweries go increasingly bland, brewing to suit the tastes of the lowest common denominator and relying more on marketing than quality work to make a living, a corps of independent passionate beer drinkers and homebrewers, unable to get the beer they really want to drink, have determined to make that beer themselves. And the people are starting to understand the difference. After only six years, St. Germain has made its mark, and grown. It is now, indisputably, the most awarded brewery in France. Put that down to the power of hops.
The Reserve Hildegarde beers, a Blonde and an Ambrée, are of course a special tribute to the revered abbess who lived and loved hops more than 800 years ago -- well before they were so popular. They are generously-hopped with Brewer's Gold (what the St. Germain brewers call 'B.G.') and a lesser known variety called Strissel Spalt, both grown in northern France, and are a good bit stronger than the other St. Germain beers.
In fact, the brewery itself is a tribute to Hildegard -- which brings us to the subject of that unusual name, Page 24, that the brewery has put on every one of its beers. Stephane explains that it refers to one of Hildegard's works, a treatise entitled 'The Benefits of Beer,' that has vanished in the modern era, but remains part of the legend of the famous lady. On page 24, according to legend, she revealed a great secret, which men have fought to obtain for generations. Historians tell us that much of the legend is really myth; Hildegard didn't do everything that her admirers and adherents claim. Did this book ever exist? Possibly not, say the brewers of St. Germain. But does that really matter? Even if it never existed, they say, it should have.
As for the wonderful secret of Page 24 . . . It may never be known, but one gets the feeling that the brewers of St. Germain believe they know what it is. Stephane tells the story of his grandfather and grandmother, who lived in French Flanders, sleeping on pillows that were stuffed with local hops. Hops, as Hildegard pointed out, have superb calmative properties. Perhaps the secret is that simple: whatever it is, you can make it better by putting in more hops." -- Importer
I know it is early, but here is a look at the new label on O'Fallon Pumpkin Beer. O'Fallon was already around taking pre-orders. I think they ran out too fast last year and wanted to be ready for this fall.
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La Valote Absinthe....$59.99 / 750ml
Authentic Swiss Absinthe
"La Valote is the name for a community of Absinthe distillers in Val-de-Travers. The absinthe produced in the small town Môtiers, using traditional Swiss methods. Two former clandestine producers do now, what they did for years – only one thing has changed – they do it legally. The combination of know-how and the desire to create something excellent unites these three men. They are using small stills from 25 litres up to 90 litres. Each one of them have their own, secret receipt, so each is distinctly different, but represents what others formerly described as the “holy grail” of Absinthe. La Valote still after many years, continues to stay focused on quality excellence in their production of fine absinthe rather than cheap imitation quantity. Willy Bovets / Francis Martin's La Valote Absinthe has a nice fennel aroma in the beginning which is surrounded by the wormwood bouquet in the background. Anise is present but not dominant to create a pleasant balance of flavor. The entire absinthe louches evenly into a wonderful milky display." -- importer
Pere Francois Absinthe...$49.99
Premium Swiss Absinthe
"This Absinthe Elixir from the original country of the green fairy is made by a specialized family business established more than40 years ago in Fleurier, Switzerland;The Bezençon Drinks Corporation.
With the absinthe ban recently being lifted, François Bezençon; founder, gave new light to the once feared drink of the world, and continues to still use all of the original formula and ingredients of the mystical drink." -- importer
Each bottle is individually numbered
Awards:Père François obtained a Gold Medal at the National Competition ofWaters-of-Swiss Noble Event in 2005/2006 (scored 18 out of a possible 20 points)
The jury commentary:"Very balanced and harmonious""The best example of a successful absinthe of great quality"
Mata Hari Absinthe...$49.99
Original recipe from 1881Produced in the last authentic historical Austrian Absinthe distilleryMata Hari is made of the finest herbs, above all Wormwood and SalviaHighest legal level of Thujon & AbsinthinMata Hari containes all-natural ingridients and is exclusively coloured with natural herbs onlynice louche effect with ice & waterno dominant anise taste and therefore outstanding mixing abilities
How to drink Absinthe
Grande Absente "Absinthe Originale"....$64.99
"The Absinthe Originale recipe with wormwood is back! In the late 19th century during the Belle Époque era in Paris, the renowned Absinthe culture was at its height of infamy. Absinthe was the trademark drink of artists like Degas, Manet, Picasso, Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec and Oscar Wilde. To recall this glorious time, Grande Absente, Absinthe Originale is one of the oldest traditional Absinthe recipes from the south of France. Hand crafted in Provence like it was from 1860-1912, Grande Absente is made exclusively with the highest quality spirits and select botanicals from the region, including the legendary botanical Wormwood, also known as Artemisia Absinthium. Grande Absente is 138 proof so please drink with extreme caution!" -- Distiller
Le Tourment Vert Absinthe....$6.99 / 50ml
Le Tourment Vert Absinthe....$49.99 / 750ml
Artists & Thinkers "We’re not the only ones inspired by absinthe. It’s captured the imaginations of some of the world’s most famous (and infamous) artists and writers. Masters from Degas to Picasso, van Gogh to Hemingway, Toulouse-Lautrec to Wilde, have found their muse to be green. Not only devoted absinthe enthusiasts, they also celebrated it prominently in their works. The complex flavors. The painterly color. The captivating spirit. These same qualities that made absinthe the artist’s creative juice of choice are now reimagined in Le Tourment Vert. We leave it open to your interpretation." -- importer
Death in the Afternoon Cocktail
Read about the Absinthe Myth
Hollywood and Le Tourment Vert
Banned!"About a hundred years ago, absinthe became a victim of its own success. It was increasingly popular, particularly in France, with both the working class and the bourgeoisie. Some claimed it could protect against malaria. Others swore it unleashed their creative muse. The rituals required to prepare it found their ideal setting in the bohemian café scene of the Left Bank. But with the world descending into the turmoil of the First World War, absinthe began to take the blame for society’s decay. The prohibitionists launched a campaign against “The Green Torment”, claiming it was responsible for everything from general debauchery to insanity and death. By 1912, it was banned in the US and many other countries. Now absinthe is back and a whole new generation of distillers is creating a wide range of styles to choose from. In acknowledgement of absinthe’s checkered history we named ours “Le Tourment Vert” (The Green Torment): The very phrase that was used against absinthe by its detractors a century ago." -- importer
Lucid Absinthe....$59.99
Absinthe, first commercialized in the early 1800's, emerged as a powerful icon of freedom during the Belle Époque period, and it was during this time that the highly perfumed spirit reached unparalleled po pularity and cult status among the worlds of art, literature, and fashion. Once proclaimed to fuel the fires of creativity, and subsequently demonized, Absinthe has recently reemerged on the world stage as a high quality, fine alcoholic libation recalling those earlier artistic times.
lucid is formulated by world renowned absinthe expert T.A. Breaux, and is distilled in strict accordance to traditional French methods. lucid is crafted in the historic Combier distillery, founded in 1834 and designed by Gustave Eiffel in the fabled Loire Valley of France. Each bottle of lucid is carefully prepared by skilled craftsmen, using ancient copper absinthe alembics. Unlike most contemporary imitators, lucid is distilled entirely from spirits and European herbs, and uses no artificial additives, oils, or dyes. lucid recalls the rich tradition of Absinthe, and is crafted using a full measure of Grande Wormwood (Artemisia absinthium), Green Anise, Sweet Fennel, and other fine European herbs traditionally used in making fine Belle Époque absinthe.
Pernod Absinthe Superieure....$64.99
(we also have the Absinthe free Pernod $24.99)
"At the end of the 18th century, a man by the name of Major Dubied began distilling the elixir professionally. A few years later in 1805, his son-in-law, Henri Louis Pernod, opened a distillery in France where Pernod would later become known as the national beverage. The original Pernod drink consisted of 65-75% alcohol and the notorious hallucinogen, abinsthe "Arthemisia Abisnthium", which gave Pernod a distinct reputation around the world....THE drink of Bohemian society, enjoyed religiously by some fo the greatest artists of modern time including Wilde, Picasso, Van Gogh, Maupasant, Poe, Verlaine, Baudelaire and Rimbaud. due to the controversy surrounding the sometimes dangerous effects elicited by ansinthe, the ingredient was banned by the French government in 1915. As a result, the Pernod Fils Company closed temporily. It-re-opnened five years later when a controlled form of anise liquors was legalised with a new absinthe-free Pernod recipe. Since then, Pernod has had an ever-growing success in France and well beyond." -- Pernod
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Memoirs & Memories
Tales From Purdue University Archives and Special Collections
Remembering Amelia Earhart’s Round-the-World Flight: The 80th Anniversary of Her “Shining Adventure” (Part 2 of 2)
Amelia Earhart kept notes from the different legs of her flight, and those notes are part of her papers in the Archives and Special Collections at Purdue. Some pages of her notes exhibit oil stains or other indications that she made them while in flight. The New York Herald Tribune had exclusive rights to her story, and Earhart remained in contact with the paper throughout her flight, sending telegrams from the various locations where she stopped to refuel.
MSP 9, The George Palmer Putnam Collection of Amelia Earhart Papers, Archives and Special Collections, Purdue University Libraries
To read the entire telegram, please click on image.
Purdue Exponent, March 16, 1937
Purdue Exponent, March 17, 1937, p.1
The New York Herald Tribune shared Earhart’s account of the flight with the Purdue Exponent.
Paul Mantz, Amelia Earhart, Harry Manning, and Fred Noonan being photographed in front of Earhart’s plane, Oakland Airport, California, March 17, 1937. MSP 9.
Paul Mantz, Amelia Earhart, Harry Manning, and Fred Noonan standing in front of the nose of Earhart’s plane, Oakland Airport [?], California, March 17, 1937. MSP 9.
The takeoff of Earhart’s Lockheed Electra plane from the Oakland Airport in California, March 17, 1937. This was the last test-hop of the flight before heading out over the Pacific. MSP 9.
The long anticipated flight had begun, and the Purdue Exponent shared the excitement with the Purdue community.
Purdue Exponent, March 18, 1937.
All three clips are from one front page Purdue Exponent article.
With 900 gallons of gasoline on board, Earhart finally takes off from Luke Field for Howland Island. Earhart’s first attempt resulted in disaster and a damaged plane.
Purdue Alumnus, March 1937, Vol. XXIV, No. 6, p. 3
Paul Mantz, members of the United States Army Air Corp, and others observing the wrecked Lockheed Electra plane after Earhart crashed while attempting to take off from Luke Field, Hawaii to Howland Island, March 20, 1937. MSP 9.
People watch as mechanics work on repairing the wrecked Lockheed Electra plane after Earhart crashed while attempting to take off from Luke Field, Hawaii to Howland Island, March 20, 1937. MSP 9.
The following are accounts from Last Flight, which was compiled from Earhart’s logs and journal writings by George Palmer Putnam after her death. It was to be titled World Flight.
“There was not the slightest indication of anything abnormal. Ten seconds later the airplane which brought us so gallantly to Honolulu lay helpless on the concrete runway, a poor battered bird with broken wings.”
“As for the crew, only our spirits were bruised when this sudden disaster overtook us. By good fortune, Harry Manning, Fred Noonan and I emerged without a scratch. But the plane, her landing gear wiped off and one wing damaged, was a sad sight to see. At that, the comparatively slight damage was a fine testimonial to the sturdiness of Lockheed construction – such an accident might well result in a total wash-out.”
“Witnesses said the tire blew. However, studying the tracks carefully, I believe that may not have been the primary cause of the accident. Possibly the landing gear’s right shock absorber, as it lengthened, may have given way.” “Watchers on the ground saw the wing drop. Suddenly the plane pulled to my right. I reduced the power on the opposite engine and succeeded in swinging from the right to the left. For a moment I thought I would be able to gain control and straighten the course. But, alas, the load was so heavy, once it started an arc there was nothing to do but let the plane ground loop as easily as possible.”
“With the excessive weight, the landing gear on the right was wrenched free and gasoline sprayed from the drain-well. That there was no fire was surely the result of the generous good wishes which had come from all over the world. No one of the three of us on board was even shaken, a testimony to the safety of a modern metal plane such as mine.”
“In retrospect, I am thankful that the failure occurred where it did rather than in some isolated corner of the world far from help.” “And I must say a good word for Fred Noonan and Harry Manning. They were both as game as could be. In fact, when the first when reached the plane and opened the cabin door, they found Fred Methodically folding up his charts. He said that when I flew again he was ready to go along” (Last Flight, 70-72).
From March – May, 1937 the Lockheed Electra was back in California being repaired.
Again, in Earhart’s words:
“Like broken bones which Nature knits slowly in her own special process, the injured parts of an airplane must be painstakingly restored.” There is no short cut to full usefulness in either case if perfect healing is desired. In addition to “healing,” a strengthening of certain members to withstand the excessive strain to which overloading subjects them was in order in my Electra. This meant some actual redesigning, another process which could not be hurried. As to the precious engines, they were already in the Pacific Airmotive shops at Burbank being thoroughly checked. After the plane and engines were together, some time would have to be allowed for testing.”
With the rebuilding of the plane in hand, our next task was to appraise the effect of delay upon our flying plans. We had picked mid-March as about the best time for the flight from standpoint of weather – so far as one could expect consistent “bests” on such a long route. Setting back the date three month would see seasons relentlessly progress. In some places progress would be with benefit to pilots, in others the reverse. Here rains began, there they abated, here winds were favorable, there monsoons and choking dust storms were due. So we set to studying again the weather maps of the world and consulting with meteorologists who knew the habits of fogs and rains with temperatures around the long equator.”
“The upshot of those consultations was that I decided to reverse the direction originally chosen for the flight. Earlier it had seemed that the advantage lay in passage to the west; at the later date the contrary appeared true. After all, for practical purposes and disregarding Mr. Einstein, the world measures the same distance from west to east, as east to west, on any given route” (Last Flight, 75-76).
Stay tuned, as we relive Amelia Earhart’s Round-the-World Flight, in celebration of the 80th anniversary…
Earhart, Amelia, and George Palmer Putnam. Last Flight. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1937. Print.
MSF 450, Amelia Earhart at Purdue Collection, Karnes Archives and Special Collections, Purdue University Libraries
Vertical Files, Karnes Archives and Special Collections, Purdue University Libraries
Purdue Student Publishing Foundation, and Purdue University. The Purdue Exponent (1889). Print.
Editor’s Note: Writer Mary A. Sego is an archival assistant and processing specialist within Archives and Special Collections.
This entry was posted in Flight and Space, From Our Collections, Women's Archives on March 17, 2017 by msego.
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Ford’s SYNC 3, Apple CarPlay and Android Auto Available in All 2017 Models
Discussion in 'In the News' started by xcel, Jul 25, 2016.
Ford is moving ahead with their own, Google’s and Apple’s advanced infotainment in every single model.
Wayne Gerdes – CleanMPG – July 25, 2016
Ford’s SYNC 3.0, Apple CarPlay, and Android Auto announcement.
This morning Ford announced it is expanding its SYNC 3 connectivity platform across its entire 2017 U.S. vehicle lineup of cars, SUVs, light trucks and electrified vehicles.
Ford’s own in-house designed SYNC 3 infotainment technology along with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto being available across its entire lineup saves $s and improves quality versus a vehicle by vehicle rollout. The SW/HW is robust enough so that future, over-the-air updates via Wi-Fi will keep it up to date for the foreseeable future.
The Escape, Fusion, Mustang and Explorer are already available as 2017 MY vehicles at dealerships with the F-150, Focus, Edge and all-new 2017 Super Duty arriving over the next few months.
Jeffrey Hannah, Director of North America for Global Automotive Technology Research Firm SBD:
“Ford is not taking the traditional approach of introducing Apple CarPlay and Google Android Auto on a few piecemeal models or as an expensive option on luxury vehicles only. If you buy any 2017 Ford vehicle with SYNC 3, you drive off the lot with both of these innovative technologies ready to go today.”
As part of Ford’s effort to present ever easier to use mobility solutions, SYNC 3 features all-new hardware and software for faster and more intuitive performance and more conversational voice recognition.
Spotify, Pandora, Ford PASS, AccuWeather and AAA member services are also includes within the SYNC 3 AppLink.
2017 Ford Mustang with SYNC 3.0 and Apple CarPlay
Compatible with iPhone 5 and later models, CarPlay provides a simplified way to use your iPhone interface on a car’s touch screen, giving users access to Siri voice controls, as well as Apple Maps, Apple Music, Phone, Messages, and a variety of third party apps.
Android Auto is available on devices with Android 5.0 and higher and similarly delivers Google Maps and music to a car’s screen while enabling voice controls for phone calls and messaging.
All in, it appears that Ford will the first to offer the ground breaking infotainment technology across its entire lineup and that is a great addition no matter the price range of the vehicle.
xcel, Jul 25, 2016
Ford SYNC3 Update: Android Auto and Apple CarPlay for 2016 MY Vehicles
Ford is making Android Auto and Apple CarPlay available to model-year 2016 vehicles equipped with SYNC 3. Customers with model-year 2016 Ford vehicles can update to the new SYNC 3 version 2.2 by downloading to a USB drive, visiting a dealership or automatically through a Wi-Fi connection.
Customers can update their software by visiting Owner Ford to download and install with a USB drive, or by visiting a dealership. Customers with Wi-Fi-enabled vehicles and a Wi-Fi network can set up their vehicle to receive the update automatically.
Android Auto is compatible with Android devices 5.0 and higher. It provides an Android like experience inside the vehicle safely and easily with Google Maps, Google Play Music, phone, messaging and third party apps projected on the car's built-in display and available via voice controls. With a simplified interface, large touch targets, Google voice search and easy-to-use voice controls, Android Auto is designed to minimize distraction while on the road.
Apple CarPlay from compatible with iPhone 5 and later models running iOS 7.1 or higher, provides iPhone users an intuitive way to make phone calls, use voice-guided navigation, listen to music, and send and receive messages while staying focused on the road. Users can control Apple CarPlay through the in-vehicle display or via Siri voice control. Apple CarPlay support requires a USB hub upgrade available through Ford dealers. Unfortunately Apple CarPlay sucks.
SYNC 3 currently supports Android Auto and Apple CarPlay on all model-year 2017 Ford cars including the Fiesta, Focus, Fusion and Mustang, SUVs including the Escape, Explorer and Expedition, F-Series trucks and Ford’s electrified vehicles.
OTA Wi-Fi Updates
This is the first time the company is offering a SYNC update via Wi-Fi. In Wi-Fi-enabled vehicles with Automatic System Updates turned on within SYNC 3, the system will periodically connect to a customer’s designated Wi-Fi network to check for updates. If an update is available, the system automatically downloads the update in the background over a period of time without any customer interaction. And SYNC 3 is designed to perform the update as long as Wi-Fi is connected prior to the vehicle turning off, therefore there is no need to keep the vehicle running for the update to take place.
xcel, May 19, 2017
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Carolyn Porter | What I learned by watching the same movie every night for three weeks
A deep dive into the movie SWEET LAND.
Sweet Land, Ali Selim, Will Weaver, Carolyn Porter, Tim Guinee, Elizabeth Reaser, Alan Cumming, Minnesota films, Films made in Minnesota, David Tumblety, Robin Selim, Gil Bellows, James Stanger
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October 20, 2019 In Art, Craft, Love, Minnesota, Writing
What I learned by watching the same movie every night for three weeks
Elizabeth Reaser as Inge and Tim Guinee as Olaf in Ali Selim’s SWEET LAND. Photo: David Tumblety
Let me begin with the why: why in the world would I watch the same movie every night for three weeks?
In early September Aaron traded the better part of a year’s worth of vacation to hike the Superior Hiking Trail. Those who know me know I’m not a good sleeper. Insomnia, which is already a too-frequent visitor, seems to take up permanent residence when Aaron is away. Every rattle in our 65-year-old home seems to be louder when he is gone. The wind seems to be angrier when he is away.
At the same time, every day seemed to bring a new low out of Washington: corruption, discrimination, the dismantling of environmental protections. The first days of Aaron’s absence were nearly void of sleep. I needed to do something about it. Typically I am a late-night reader, but one night I decided to watch a movie instead.
The movie, Sweet Land, tells the story of Inge who travels to rural Minnesota from Norway for an arranged marriage to a Norwegian-immigrant farmer named Olaf. The movie had been filmed in southern Minnesota. The production team found original farm houses, tractors, and an old steam engine to use; those artifacts lent deep authenticity to the sense of time and place.
I watched the movie a couple of times a decade or so ago (the movie was released in 2005). I was taken by the quiet tenderness of the love story, and over the years have told many people it is one of the sexiest movies ever, ever—even though the only thing we see is Inge and Olaf holding hands. (Inge and Olaf are played by Elizabeth Reaser and Tim Guinee.)
As I watched the movie this time, I was reminded of the romance of the story. But I was surprised by how timely the theme of the discrimination of “other” was. Sweet Land tells the story of discrimination against Inge, who had the misfortune to be a German national in the years after WWI. Prejudice against Germans combined with Inge’s lack of paperwork prevented Inge and Olaf from getting married.
The next day at work I found myself thinking about the movie, analyzing how the director, Ali Selim, wove together three languages and threads from different eras, how he could draw me into this story of land, community, and connection. He made me want Inge and Olaf to fall in love, which in itself shouldn’t have been suspenseful since we knew from the first lines of the movie they had been married 48 years.
I watched the movie again and observed new details: the intensity in a split-second glare from actor Alan Cumming (Frandsen), how the judgment-filled shake of Ned Beatty’s (Harmo’s) head rippled across the skin of his neck, the way a gentle smile from Lois Smith (Old Inge) revealed decades of stories, the shakiness in Tim Guinee’s voice as he confessed to the clerk at City Hall “she is German.” While I had seen these things in the first viewing, I hadn’t appreciated the subtlety in these performances.
I kept thinking about the movie, so I watched again the next night. Per usual, our 110-pound lab was curled next to me, snoring. This time, I paid specific attention to language. The movie incorporates German, Norwegian and English, and it does so in a way that ensures you know what’s happening, even if you don’t understand the words. Inside the railroad station, for example, even if you don’t know what “kan du lese?” means, you understand Else, another mail-order bride, asks Inge whether she can read English. From a craft perspective, I wanted to understand how Selim achieved this clarity. Sometimes he did this by repeating single words in Norwegian, then English, such as with “tung, heavy.” Other times Selim was more subtle. In the dinner scene with Harmo, Olaf mutters “velsign aldri dagen før den er ferdig.” The only way we know that means “never bless the day until it’s done” is because Harmo mockingly parrots the phrase in English.
Actress Elizabeth Reaser gets a huge shout-out for mastering lines in German and Norwegian. As you can see from the movie trailer, you’d never know she learned her lines phonetically:
Click here to watch the Sweet Land theatrical trailer. File courtesy of sweetlandmovie.com
From a craft perspective, I also noted Selim planted the question “what?” near the beginning of the movie. That same one-word question played a prominent role late in the movie. Using that single word as a “bookend” was brilliant.
Sidenote: Viewers in the Midwest will be particularly amused by the actors’ perfectly elongated ‘o’s and ‘u’s in lines such as “It’s loooocked,” “Martin Luuuuther,” and “Call me … Broooownie.”
One evening I re-read “A Gravestone Made of Wheat,” the short story by Will Weaver that inspired the movie. I purchased and read Weaver’s book of short stories after watching the movie a decade or so ago; the book had been sitting in my basement ever since. “A Gravestone Made of Wheat” introduced readers to the characters of Olaf and Inge. I analyzed the elements director Selim extracted from Weaver’s short short, contemplated why he might have changed key aspects of the story, then how he added new characters to round-out the storyline.
The Christmas before last, Aaron gave me a gift certificate for Ron Howard’s online Master Class on Directing. I wasn’t looking to become a director, rather, he just knows I enjoy movies and learning new things. I found the sections on “blocking” particularly interesting (“blocking” is choreographing an actor’s moves in relation to the camera). One night I watched Sweet Land with “blocking” in mind and noted choreographed moves such as how Olaf stomped in front the camera after arguing with Inge about which one of them was “behaving badly.” Or how, in the scene inside the train station shortly after Inge arrives, Else could have claimed a space on the bench near Inge, waiting to be claimed; instead—though our attention is on Inge—Else made her way from man to man, presumably asking if any of them were her husband-to-be. Or how, in Olaf’s final scene, he stands in profile in the stairwell so we can watch his reaction as he processes Inge’s invitation. It’s naïvely easy to believe these movements “just happen” when they look so seamless, but they don’t.
More than a few times I fell asleep mid-way through the movie. Hoorah! I appreciated the quietness of the soundtrack: the hollow, warm sounds of the violin and clarinet, the strumming of the guitar and banjo, the ring of a toy piano.
During one viewing I made a mental map of the farmhouse. Did you not take me seriously when I told you I have issues with insomnia? I was amused to realize there was a discrepancy between the placement of the kitchen door from the exterior and interior. From the exterior, the door appears in the corner of the house, but once inside, the wall extends on both sides of the door. And I realized the clothes line appears both along the side of the house and behind the house. (The scene where Inge hops out of the tub and looks out window at Olaf, then pivots to look out the back window at her clothes flapping on the clothesline would have been impossible; the clothesline was the other direction). I’m not pointing that out as a criticism; I found it fascinating that that directorial decision was made. There was no way to amplify the jeopardy of the situation without having Inge look at Olaf, then look at the clothesline; looking out a different window in that instant wasn’t an option.
Another time I paid attention to the lighting and observed how Selim, with cinematographer David Tumblety, filmed scenes at sunrise or at sunset and made use of beautiful natural light. Oh, how I wish I could have seen the movie when it was shown in a theater!
It was about this time I began wondering how this movie could have captured my attention over so many viewings. Sure, I’ve watched movies more than once before; I’ve watched Cinema Paradiso a dozen times over the years. But I’ve never watched a movie this many times. Maybe it was because I could imagine my grandmother and grandfather in the early years of their long marriage. They were loyal, hard-working dairy farmers who would have been only slightly younger than Inge and Olaf. Maybe it was because corn fields and small country churches are part of my history, or that German immigrant blood runs deep in my veins. Maybe I appreciated the charm of a summer picnic or space filled with hope and possibility. Regardless of what it was, the movie seemed to provide calm comfort at the end of what continued to be a series of days with shocking national headlines. Maybe watching the movie repeatedly allowed me to miss Aaron a little less during the month he was away.
Or, maybe it was because I continued to observe new things each time I watched: how the few articles of Inge’s wardrobe were re-combined. Or that there was a mid-scene wardrobe continuity error. It took a few viewings before I realized the precious Victrola was on a table behind Inge during Olaf’s wake, that by the 1960s the kitchen walls had been upgraded to flower-patterned wallpaper, that a tank of propane gas and a swing set had been added to contemporary scenes of the farmhouse. Like blocking, these things don’t “just happen,” so the movie’s art direction team gets a big shout-out.
One thing that made me chuckle occurred during the scene when Olaf fed his horses. The big Belgian horse in the middle was tethered to the stall wall and couldn’t reach the newly offered grain. Our attention is drawn to the conversation between Inge and Olaf, so it took a while to notice the Belgian throws Tim Guinee a glance that can only be interpreted as “wtf, dude.”
Those who know me may not be surprised by this: I also tried to de-construct how the twenty-some days of filming might have been scheduled. For example, there were two night-time group scenes filmed inside a barn, and three daytime scenes filmed inside the church. I imagined how schedules could have been constructed to film those scenes in subsequent takes with wardrobe and small set changes. Good news: I would usually only have to think about this a short while before it would make me fall asleep!
As I racked up views, I had the realization that if this film—which was simple in so many ways—had levels of depth and richness that only revealed themselves with so many viewings, every film must have this kind of depth and richness. The realization was simultaneously breathtaking and daunting. It made me want to re-watch some of my other favorite films with a focus on language, setting, or lighting. But I will save that for when Aaron goes on another adventure.
Aaron returned about a week ago. In total, he hiked 210 miles of the Superior Hiking Trail. I was happy to have him home, and am grateful he had a safe and successful trip. I am grateful, too, for the quiet, love-filled film that kept me company while he was away.
Sweet Land Movie website
Will Weaver’s website
Ali Selim’s website
Buy or stream a copy of Mark Orton’s soundtrack here
Thank you Chippewa Valley Book Festival!
Carolyn Porter Blog
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2015 COIL Conference Agenda - Thursday
7th COIL Conference Agenda - Thursday, March 19, 2015
Please see the final conference agenda below. A detailed printed program will also be provided at registration to our in-person attendees.
8:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Registration
Location: Global Center Lobby
8:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. Networking Nook Open
Location: 3rd Floor Café
9:00 - 12:00 p.m. Pre-Conference Workshops
(Pre-Registration Required)
1:00 - 1:15 p.m. Opening Remarks & Greeting
(Video Archive)
Jon Rubin, Director, SUNY COIL Center
Nancy L. Zimpher, Chancellor, State University of New York
1:15 – 1:45 p.m. Keynote Address, Jason E. Lane, Senior Associate Vice Chancellor and Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, State University of New York
COIL catalyzes new approaches to internationalization, teaching and learning. Across the globe, faculty and students use the COIL framework to facilitate virtual mobility and collaborate on emergent, experiential learning. But what catalyzes COIL? Who makes decisions when no one calls the shots? What does the future hold? In this brief keynote, we will consider the decentralized nature of a network in a centralized environment. I propose that collective leadership may be the key. Together we will ask the question: What’s next?
1:45 - 3:00 p.m. Plenary Panel Session
Location: Central Synagogue Community House Beir Chapel (across the street from the SUNY Global Center)
Jenifer Cushman, Campus Dean and Associate Professor of German, Ohio University Zanesville
Natalia Dyba, Director of Global Initiatives, University of Washington Bothell
Keiko Ikeda, Associate Professor and Vice-Director, Center for International Education, Division of International Affairs, Kansai University, Japan
Maurits van Rooijen, RSA, PhD, Rector & CEO at London School of Business and Finance; President, Compostela Group of Universities
George Bernard Shaw said “The greatest problem with communication is the illusion that it has been accomplished.“ Today our challenge is to foster transformative communications between students in the world’s diverse cultures. But how to embed this process has become an essential question for higher education. Collaborative Online International Learning provides such a vehicle for direct and personal global experiences for students, faculty and staff. Over the last decade the success of COIL programs has been demonstrated in a wide variety of courses using a range of tools. But how do we move these programs from the exception to the exceptional? At the COIL Center’s 6th Conference we explore paths that may take the normalization of COIL experiences into the mainstream of higher education through a series of dialogues with those leaders working to make that happen.
3:00 – 3:30 p.m. Coffee Break
3:30 - 4:00 p.m. Breakout Sessions A (30 minutes)
Doing COIL in Japan
Location: Global Classroom, Side A (Basement Level)
Don Bysouth, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University, Japan
This presentation explores some recent developments in the promotion of COIL practices in a university in Japan. It will report on a recent international symposium held in Osaka as a kick-off event for this endeavor, and canvass future projections as to how to promote COIL in the institution. The presentation will conclude with a discussion on how international and SUNY colleagues can be a part of its development.
Latin America Academy Track
Multi-Disciplinary Human Rights Education as a step for the Social Justice
Location: Global Classroom, Side B (Basement Level)
Adalberto Méndez López, Adjunct Professor, Universidad La Salle, Mexivo
Filomena Critelli, Associate Professor and Co-director, Institute for Sustainable Global Engagement, School of Social Work, SUNY Buffalo
Laura Lewis, Instructor and Director of Field Education, School of Social Work, SUNY Buffalo
Through the COIL Academy, the School of Social Work of the University at Buffalo and the Law School of Universidad La Salle, developed a new course, titled “Disability and Human Rights through the Lens of Social Work and Laws”. In this course, that is currently teach in both institutions, students of law in Mexico and graduate level social work students in the United States are bringing together for discourse and instruction using a globally networked approach to cross-cultural collaboration as a vehicle to learn about disability and human rights.
Language Learning/Teacher Education Tracks
Preparing for the unexpected: Exploiting teaching moments in telecollaboration
Location: Tiered Classroom (Second Floor)
Carolin Fuchs, Lecturer, TESOL/Applied Linguistics Dept., Teachers College, Columbia University
The presenters illustrate how unexpected political developments can impact technological, institutional, and inter-personal communication in a teacher education telecollaboration. This spring 2014 case study analyzes how ESL/EFL student teachers in the U.S. and Turkey designed technology-based language tasks for each other, and how they dealt with unanticipated political and technological disruption. The presenters suggest avenues for teacher educators that take advantage of affordances to enable student teachers to discover technological, institutional, and sociopolitical power structures.
Internationalisation at Home - Combined Session
Presentation A: ICC@home
Location: Seminar Room 303
Maria Prellwitz, Faculty Programme Coordinator, Department of Health Sciences, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
The project is about internationalization at home for Swedish Occupational Therapy students on a bachelor level together with students from 7 other countries in Europe. The aims of the project is to compare and reflect about the quality of care of Occupational Therapy services for a specific client group in the different countries and to share this via e-learning tools. It is also for the students to increase awareness of international and cultural issues.
Presentation B: Online Internationalisation@Home & Abroad: social media collaboration and community building with multi-cultural students
Dave van Ginhoven, Senior Lecturer, European Studies, Hague University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands
Rajash Rawal, Principal Lecturer in Politics, Academy of European Studies and Communication Management, Hague University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands
This presentation will focus on efforts within the European Studies bachelor program to use social networking to encourage collaboration and to build a community among its international and diverse student body from the moment they sign up for the program up to and even beyond graduation. Creative use of Facebook facilitates informal learning and provides a platform for students to exchange information and ideas while building relationships with peers and strengthening ties to the university.
COIL in a Business Context - Combined Session
Presentation A: European perspective on COIL : the focus on coaching as a teaching tool
Location: Community House - Room 903
Eva Haug, Coordinator of Internationalisation, University of Applied Sciences Hogeschool van Amsterdam, Netherlands
Best practice example between Amsterdam and Porvoo, Finland, where students collaborated on a manual about business and networking. The project used coaching through an online forum, a virtual exhibition and visits by the lecturers to the participating universities. Challenges included language and cultural differences, and technical support. Among the lessons learned were the advantage of joint coaching and promoting creativity through freedom in assignment format choice.
Presentation B: Business Across Borders as Practiced via COIL
Cathleen McQuillen, Assistant Professor & Department Chair, School of Business, Georgian Court University
Ashley Elmore, Instructor, School of Business, Georgian Court University
Inspired and supported by an anonymous donation and a new high tech International Collaboration Center (ICC), Georgian Court is equipping business students to conduct business across borders using collaborative technology. In this PechaKucha we discuss what makes a cross-border virtual team effective, provide a framework for designing and implementing “collaborative on-line international learning” components in business classes, and describe the outcomes in terms of developing 21st Century collaboration skills necessary in business.
4:00 - 4:20 p.m. Coffee Break
4:20 - 5:05 p.m. Breakout Sessions B (45 minutes)
Student Voices Track
Dogs, Military, Food, Nightlife: Deepening the COIL connection with empowered student use of social media
Hope Windle, Instructional Designer and Associate Professor, SUNY Ulster
Jeannine Mercer, Visiting Assistant Professor, Lebanon Residency Program, SUNY Empire State College
Mindy Kole, Assistant Professor of Business, Director of the Darlene L. Pfeiffer Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, SUNY Ulster
Paul Nichols Najm, Undergraduate Student, Marketing, American University of Science and Technology, Lebanon
Joelle Nakhoul, Undergraduate Student, Media Studies, SUNY Empire State College’s Lebanon Program, Beirut
Bilal Sulaiman, Undergraduate Student, Marketing and Advertising, SUNY Empire State College’s Lebanon Program, Beirut
Alaa Breish, Undergraduate Student, Advertising, American University of Science and Technology, Lebanon
Renee Hernandez, Undergraduate Student, SUNY Ulster
Sierra Stitt, Undergraduate Student, SUNY Ulster
In their second COIL collaboration, Jeannine Mercer and Mindy Kole share specific improvements they’ve made which resulted in more effective, deeper participation in a social media project. Next, students from Lebanon and New York discuss how the communication dynamics helped them move beyond cultural stereotypes to connect more as peers. This positioned them to tackle how the interpretation of social causes in different cultures varies considerably.
Empowering Yourself in a Connected World: Designing an Open SUNY Coursera MOOC for a Global Audience
Thomas P. Mackey, Interim Vice Provost, SUNY Empire State College
Michele Forte, Assistant Professor and Mentor, Center for Distance Learning, SUNY Empire State College
Kathleen Stone, Director for Curriculum and Instructional Design, Center for Distance Learning, SUNY Empire State College
A collaborative team within SUNY that includes both Empire State College and The University at Albany designed a learner-centered Open SUNY Coursera MOOC based on the concept of metaliteracy. We reached a global audience through the Coursera platform that influenced our design decisions and expanded our understanding of digital literacies internationally.
Language Learning Track
Using Facebook to Bring Together Students in the US and in Lebanon
Location: Tiered Classroom (2nd Floor)
Elizabeth Fonseca, LINCC (English Language Immersion Program) Lecturer, Nassau Community College
Cara Tuzzolino-Werben, LINCC (English Language Immersion Program) Lecturer, Nassau Community College
Sarah Guth, Program Coordinator for International Collaborations, SUNY COIL Center
Global awareness is crucial for students entering college; the use of social media in education represents an area of growing possibility. Social media reaches students via a familiar platform while simultaneously using it to enhance their linguistic competency. This presentation explores using Facebook to create cross-cultural and language-learning exchanges for ESOL students in New York and Beirut, Lebanon, including practical advice for those interested in implementing similar projects in any subject area.
COIL in the Media Arts - Combined Session
Presentation A: Connecting Audio Technology students: experiences from a collaboration between SUNY Oswego and Glasgow Caledonian University
J. David Moore, Audio Technology Lecturer and Programme Leader, Department of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering, Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland
Dan Wood, Coordinator of Audio Design and Production Minor, Department of Music, SUNY Oswego
The presentation will report on the results of the first iteration of a COIL course that was started in a technical subject between Glasgow Caledonian University and SUNY Oswego. Audio students from both institutions collaborated on a studio recording assignment with the goal of producing demo quality music recordings over a 6-week period. Quantitative and qualitative data was collected before and after the course to evaluate the impact of the collaboration.
Presentation B: “Community” A GCC Photography Exhibit
Joe Ziolkowski, Instructor of Photography, Genesee Community College
Presentation creating a COIL experience using photography as a bridge between the two classes. An open ended topic of “Community” was selected to bring two photography classes together. Students learned that technology has advanced as a way to community with text and images to convey ideas on a similar topic.
Teacher Education Track - Combined Session
Presentation A: Examining COIL as a Signature Pedagogy for Educational Leaders
Linda Rae Markert, Professor and Director, Project BLEND, SUNY Oswego
Participants are invited to learn about the challenges & successes an educational administration faculty member encountered to transform a capstone course for leadership candidates to include a globally networked academic experience. The discussion focuses on the “implicit structure” of signature pedagogies. Are graduate students in educational leadership sensitized to the larger world by deepening their understanding of how they are perceived as aspiring leaders, and how they perceive others in this global profession?
Presentation B: Intersections of COIL, Teacher Education, & the Global Read Aloud: Global Connectedness and 21st-Century Collaborations
Jennifer M. King, Visiting Assistant Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, School of Education, SUNY Geneseo
This presentation, focused on reflective practice, shares how pre-service teachers built global awareness through the intersection of literature, digital tools, and global partners as they participated in the 2014 Global Read Aloud, an annual initiative in which teachers and students around the globe connect virtually to discuss common texts. Key findings pertain to experiences with global connectedness, cultural understandings, 21st-century collaborations and skills, academic expectations, and the GRA as a site of “possibilities.”
5:20 - 5:50 p.m. Breakout Sessions C (30 minutes)
A New Approach to Assessing Online Intercultural Exchange: Soft Certification of Participant Engagement in COIL-enhanced Courses through Open Badges
Mirjam Hauck, Professional Development Lead, SUNY COIL Center
Teresa MacKinnon, Principal Teaching Fellow, University of Warwick, U.K.
The challenges to the adoption of online intercultural exchange (OIE) models such as COIL have been well documented (see, for example Guth et al., 2012, MacKinnon, 2013) and the complexity of shared exlectronic accreditation explained (Aguirre and Quemada, 2012). We will present a framework for badging as an incentive for participant engagement with tasks in COIL-enhanced courses drawing on Cross and Galley's (2012) badge typology. To that effect we will take O'Dowd and Ware's (2009) overview of the main categories of OIE tasks as a starting point and suggest a way in which the various roles of badges as identified by Cross and Galley (2012) can be mapped onto O'Dowd and Ware's (2009) task categorization to foster motivation and task completion among learners.
Latin America Academy/Language Learning Tracks
Crossing International Borders: Teamwork, Technology and Online Collaborations
Chesla Bohinski, Assistant Professor of Spanish, Dept. of Romance Languages and Literatures, Binghamton University
Salvador Venegas Escobar, Associate Professor, Modern Languages Dept., Universidad de Monterrey, Mexico
Matthew Sutin, Reasearch Consultant, Office of the Vice President of Student Affairs, LaGuardia Community College
L2 Spanish students from an American university and L2 English students from a Mexican university completed instructor-created activities over the course of six weeks in order to explore culture and the university life in one’s own country and in the country of the partnering institution. Collaborations made between students and their instructors showed that teamwork and technology know-how and flexibility are paramount in an online partnership.
International Education Track
Mastering American e-Learning for Non-American Students
Valeri Chukhlomin, Associate Professor and Area Coordinator, Center for Distance Learning, SUNY Empire State College
Bidhan Chandra, Professor, Center for Distance Learning, SUNY Empire State College
In 2014, a team of Center for Distance Learning and International Programs faculty and professionals received a Tier 3 SUNY Innovative Instructional Technology Grant to develop a project titled "Creating a multiuser online platform for preparing international students to succeed in U.S.-style virtual learning environments". As part of this project, a course titled "iMOOC101: Mastering American e-Learning" was proposed for development and deployment on "Coursera." The course is intended to serve global audiences and help international online learners get familiar with and better understand American culture, academic system, educational technologies and pedagogies.
Connecting through COIL: Students Consider Refugee Issues across Borders
Carolyn Baugh, Assistant Professor of History, Gannon University
This presentation will showcase a Fall 2014 COIL class linking Gannon University history students and American University of Madaba, Jordan, civics students. The course was designed to connect the students socially while focusing their energies on the global refugee crisis. User-friendly technologies allowed students to form bonds with each other while considering their responsibilities as global citizens toward the refugee populations in their cities and beyond.
Teaching in an International Context – Student-Centred e-Learning
Liz Frondigoun, Lecturer, Glasgow School for Business and Society, Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland
This presentation will report on how an innovative (COIL-type) teaching method was developed by colleagues in the USA, England, and Scotland. It provides a blended learning experience, delivered using a cost-free wiki, for students undertaking Criminal Justice modules. It is a student-focused group work project which aims to enhance undergraduates' skills in critical thinking, collaboration, problem solving, communications, understanding of criminology and criminal justice in an international context, and employability skills and confidence. We also have given consideration to assessment.
Engaging China through COIL
Mark Reisinger, Associate Professor of Geography, Binghamton University
Xiaofu Pan, Principal and Deputy Director, Zhenjiang Education Bureau, China
Cherry Pu, Chairman, Open House Education Foundation
Gloria Hu, Director for China Initiatives, Binghamton University
Sylvie Yudin, Undergraduate Student, Department of Political Science and Geography, Binghamton University
In this session we will discuss three fundamental topics on how universities in the United States can engage with schools in China through the COIL method. The first topic will be a briefing of China K-12 school on-line education development. Secondly, we will discuss the latest practice of on-line education in K-12 schools of Zhenjiang City. Finally, we will present information on a pilot study in Internationalization of Chinese Curriculum inspired by the University Readiness Program joint meeting sessions.
6:00 - 8:00 p.m. COIL Partner Network Welcome and All Conference Reception (Drinks and hors d'oeuvres will be served)
New York State product sponsor - Brooklyn Brewery
Location: Central Synagogue Pavilion (between the Global Center and Lexington Avenue)
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No Friend But the Mountains
Writing from Manus Prison
by Behrouz Boochani
Publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia
WINNER OF THE VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY PRIZE 2019 FOR LITERATURE AND FOR NON-FICTION Where have I come from? From the land of rivers, the land of waterfalls, the land of ancient chants, the land of mountains... In 2013, Kurdish journalist Behrouz Boochani was illegally detained on Manus Island. He has been there ever since. People would run to the mountains to escape the warplanes and found asylum within their chestnut forests... This book is the result. Laboriously tapped out on a mobile phone and translated from the Farsi. It is a voice of witness, an act of survival. A lyric first-hand account. A cry of resistance. A vivid portrait through five years of incarceration and exile. Do Kurds have any friends other than the mountains? PRAISE FOR NO FRIEND BUT THE MOUNTAINS "Boochani has produced a literary, journalistic and philosophical tour de force. It may well stand as one of the most important books published in Australia in two decades..." The Saturday Paper "A chant, a cry from the heart, a lament, fuelled by a fierce urgency, written with the lyricism of a poet, the literary skills of a novelist, and the profound insights of an astute observer of human behaviour and the ruthless politics of a cruel and unjust imprisonment." Arnold Zable, author of the award-winning Jewels and Ashes and Cafe Scheherazade "a shattering book every Australian should read" Benjamin Law (@mrbenjaminlaw) "In the absence of images, turn to this book to fathom what we have done, what we continue to do. It is, put simply, the most extraordinary and important book I have ever read." Good Reading Magazine (starred review) "Brilliant writing. Brilliant thinking. Brilliant courage." Professor Marcia Langton AM (@marcialangton) "Not for the faint-hearted, it's a powerful, devastating insight into a situation that's so often seen through a political - not personal - lens." GQ Australia
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Driving into a cleaner sunset
Engineer (00137758);12/14/2001, Vol. 290 Issue 7582, p11
Focuses on the Mayflower engine E3. Features of the engine; Use of E3.
FRANCE. // Accountancy;Nov97, Vol. 120 Issue 1251, p82
Cites a report from UBS showing how the engineering group, Mayflower, accounts for tooling costs. Exceptions made by the company in Mercedes M-class contracts; Mayflower's disclosure of movements in long-term work in progress in its annual report.
intelligent engine ready for the road. // Automotive Engineer;Jun2002, Vol. 27 Issue 6, p12
Reports on the expectation of Mayflower Corporation to have one of its e3 intelligent engines installed in a passenger car as of June 2002. Interest of carmakers in Mayflower's engine; Assembly and test conducted on the engines at the Millbrook Proving Ground in Bedford, England; Features of...
KPMG hits back at SEC. // Accountancy;Jan1998, Vol. 121 Issue 1253, p9
Reports on the agreement among 15 European member states on how to deal with direct taxation. Code of conduct for business taxation.
Souped up IC engines. // Design Engineering;Oct2001, p8
Focuses on the development of the e3 Variable Motion Engine by Mayflower in Great Britain. Improvement in fuel consumption and emissions; Application of technology to combustion engines; Introduction of a pivoted lever arm between the crankshaft and the con-rod; Variation in compression ratio...
Carmakers eye an e3 engine. // Professional Engineering;5/1/2002, Vol. 15 Issue 8, p13
Reports the installation of e3 engine in a car by Mayflower in Great Britain. Alleviation of the fuel economy; Decline of emission; Amount of investment.
THIS DAY. // Professional Engineering;3/10/2010, Vol. 23 Issue 4, p6
The article offers news briefs in Great Britain related to transportation including the initiative of Royal Academy of Engineering which calls the government to act regarding the congestion and pollution of the country's road and the history that accounts the bankruptcy of Mayflower Corp. PLC,...
Buyers inspect UK's Mayflower. Chew, Edmund // Automotive News Europe;4/19/2004, Vol. 9 Issue 8, p3
Reports on the potential bidders sought by Mayflower for its Mayflower Vehicle Systems (MVS) and two other subsidiaries. Importance of MVS to Ford of Europe and Premier Automotive Group; Body panels of several automobile companies produce by MVS; Deadline of the bids.
Seattle hotel road rally benefits hospital. // Hotel & Motel Management;7/24/95, Vol. 210 Issue 13, p35
Features a photograph of Mayflower Park Hotel executives Marc Nowak and Georgette Lazar with Sunmakers Travel Group president Robert H. Brennan when Mayflower sponsored the annual classic motorcar rally for the benefit of the Children's Hospital and Medical Center.
Mayflower purchases IAD assets. Kurylko, Diana T. // Automotive News;4/26/1993, Vol. 67 Issue 5496, p18
Reports on engineering company Mayflower Corp.'s acquisition of IAD, a British design house. IAD's file for bankruptcy on April 8, 1993; Creation of an automotive design; Manpower; 1992 net income; Motor Panels unit as manufacturers of automobile bodies; Contract with Ford Motor Co.; Role in...
Current State of the War on Terror
An Overview of the War on Terror
An Overview of Global Warming
Overview of the War on Terror in Afghanistan
Current Trends in Medicare and Social Security
MAN AND DOG.
Education Aid in Stimulus Raises Eyebrows.
Tillers & cultivators.
Broadband breaks free.
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Aspects of "Work" in Manchester Art Gallery
It was thrilling to be able to attend the first performance of my Aspects of Work in the Pre-Raphaelite Gallery of Manchester Art Gallery where Ford Madox Brown's famous panorama of Victorian life is beautifully displayed.
Performed by Julian Jacobson and Mariko Brown
Translating a picture, especially one as far reaching as this, into another art form seems an unlikely task: music can make a good attempt at capturing the mood of a painting - but ‘Work” is a complex and compressed panorama of Victorian life, and interpreting all that in musical terms was going to be a challenge.
The realism of “Work” is typical of the Pre Raphaelites (of whose brotherhood Brown was never actually a member) with their immense attention to detail. “Work” took 10 or more years to create. I was attracted to the very idea that Brown was also celebrating his own labour of love, a delight in an achievement that is hand made and crafted with great skill and care, hard toil, patience and perseverance.
Brown’s inspiration were the writings of Thomas Carlyle who held work to be a sort of religion: man perfects himself while working. “Consider how, even in the meanest sorts of labour, the whole soul of man is composed into a kind of real harmony, the instant he sets himself to work!’
The picture reminds me of many an Old Masterpiece, (Brown received his training in the Lowlands); it’s like one of those dramatic scenes from mythology or the Bible, populated by characters ranging from angels and cherubs through to kings, prophets and gods. Brown’s genius was to populate his painting with ordinary folk engaged in everyday occupations in a contemporary setting, like in a Dickens novel.
Another influence for Brown at this time were the social commentaries of Hogarth, pictures which are full of drama. “Work” is more than a snapshot of a street scene: there’s an epic drama unfolding before us.
The great musical model that I had in mind while writing this piece were the countless arrangements for piano duet that were made in the nineteenth century; arrangements of the symphonic repertory, from Haydn, Mozart and Schubert through to Beethoven, Brahms, Mendelssohn and Schumann. Playing these was a major part of my musical education. These arrangements were originally made to help satisfy the demands of domestic music making - every Victorian drawing room had a piano but comparatively few had access to orchestral concerts - and two competent players could attempt an arrangement of a symphony and play it together effectively, whereas a solo performer would have needed to be more virtuosically advanced. So there is almost an illusion at play here: the intimate medium of a piano duo can hint at something larger than the sum of its parts - like those orchestral arrangements I played as a teenager.
So, from the start, I aimed to portray the ‘bigger’ picture: the enormity of the labour, the toil, the industry, the workhouses, the poor laws, the death rates, the starvation - and also the vision, the intellectual energy, the designers, architects, builders, even the financiers who put up the money.
The picture was completed in 1865, the same year as Bazalgette’s sewers were inaugurated in London. The industry at the centre of the painting might be the digging of one of these drains under the street. Bazalgette’s achievements are remarkable: this mammoth undertaking had a huge modernising effect on London life. Every part of the project was personally overseen by him. He worked out the minimum diameter of the sewer drains in order to cater for the maximum envisaged demand. But he then doubled that diameter to cater for the ‘unforeseen’. This ‘unforeseen’ turned out to be the population density of the capital 150 years later - the system is still coping. So this was something else I wanted to try and express - the visionary nature of the works that the Victorians undertook, which would have repercussions for generations to come
So, for the finale I realised I had to write a fugue, a device traditionally employed by composers at moments of great intensity. It celebrates a composer’s skill since it will contain lots of musical twists and turns which require great concentration on the part of the audience. It requires even more skill from the performers and this can give a fugue great entertainment value.
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The Art of Venus review
The Art of Venus: review by Charlotte Valori
Packing all the punches: Edward Lambert’s The Art of Venus, Tête à Têteoperissimawhispers / August 16, 2017 “I have tried to destroy the picture of the most beautiful woman in mythological history as a protest against the Government for destroying Mrs Pankhurst, who is the most beautiful character in modern history. Justice is an element of beauty as much as colour and outline on canvas.” So, in 1914, suffragette Mary Richardson explained why she had slashed the Rokeby Venus, a masterpiece by Velázquez which still hangs today (restored) in the National Gallery. Edward Lambert’s The Art of Venus takes Richardson’s act of aesthetic terrorism as a starting point for imagining Venus herself, a goddess both mighty and furious at her reduction, by humanity, to a mere sex symbol. Venus, sung with sculptural beauty and luminous, near-maleficent presence by Kate Symonds-Joy, rails with disdainful fury at a rather endearing Mars (smooth-voiced barito…
East Woodhay Midsummer Prom
Lorca's Ballad of the moon, moon
For The Butterfly's Spell, I wanted an interlude in between the two acts, and used this famous ballad, in my own translation. Here are some other translations that I looked at; most of them I thought almost as incomprehensible in English as the Spanish original. I'm sorry to have lost the attributions.
La luna vino a la fragua con su polisón de nardos. El niño la mira, mira. El niño la está mirando. En el aire conmovido mueve la luna sus brazos y enseña, lúbrica y pura, sus senos de duro estaño. Huye luna, luna, luna. Si vinieran los gitanos, harían con tu corazón collares y anillos blancos. Niño, déjame que baile. Cuando vengan los gitanos, te encontrarán sobre el yunque con los ojillos cerrados. Huye luna, luna, luna, que ya siento sus caballos. Niño, déjame, no pises mi blancor almidonado. El jinete se acercaba tocando el tambor del llano. Dentro de la fragua el niño, tiene los ojos cerrados. Por el olivar ven'an, bronce y sueño, los gitanos. Las cabezas levantadas y lo…
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Beat Alchemy Showcase
The Mind started DJing at the age of 14 at the Plastic Academy of Barcelona. After a while he bought two turntables and started practicing frequently at home. Since the beginning, he has always been recognized for his dark and convincing sounds typical of Cataluña (Hard Techno, Hardcore, Hard Trance, Hardstyle). By the age of 16, with the pseudonym “Javi Tracker”, he released his first record produced by DJ Ruboy and edited by Bit Music (Divucsa).
At the age of 19 he won his first amateur DJ contest held at the famous Xque of Girona, obtaining among other things, a residency (for two months) sharing the DJ booth with the well know Spanish DJs Pastis & Buenri. Due to of his great talent, he signed up for “TNT” club of Valencia and opened a small club in Barcelona called “Desk” with his inseparable partner Al-Fredo.
During this time he released 9 records to market, 2 compilations (Activa Presents Pastis & Buenri, Al-Fredo & Tracker Compilation , Pastis & Buenri + Team Dj´s Live At Activa) and has DJed in more than 70 clubs, being a regular resident in 5 and monthly in 2.
Nowadays he alternates his residency at his club “Desk” every Sunday afternoon with his monthly residency at the well know “Activa” club in Barcelona during Saturday night. The summer of 2009 started his interest for Minimal, Techno and Progressive House music and began producing this style of music.
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A-Ba-Ni-Bi
A-Ba-Ni-Bi was the Israeli entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 1978 written by Ehud Manor and Nurit Hirsh, and performed by Izhar Cohen & Alpha Beta. It is an upbeat disco-style song that talks about how children relate to love - the title itself is sung in the Bet language, a children's language game where each syllable of the word is repeated with a bet replacing the consonant. It is also one of the few songs that ends directly after a key change.
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A-Ba-Ni-Bi was the Israeli entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 1978 written by Ehud Manor and Nurit Hirsh, and performed by Izhar Cohen & Alpha Beta. It is an upbeat disco-style song that talks about how children relate to love - the title itself is sung in the Bet language, a children's language game where each syllable of the word is repeated with a bet replacing the consonant. It is also one of the few songs that ends directly after a key change. It is often a subject of mistaken lyrics among Eurovision fans, many believe that the line "a-ba-ni-bi o-bo-he-be-v" sounds like "I want to be a polar bear". In the contest, it was performed 18th on the night, following Luxembourg and preceding Austria. At the close of voting, it received 157 points and was declared the winner, giving Israel its first victory. Nurit Hirsh also made history by becoming the first (and only) female conductor to win the contest.
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Car Walking
They do some strange things around here that usually irritate the piss out of me. But, occasionally they come up with something that actually makes sense in it's own weird Thai way. Proving that necessity is the mother of invention, the Thais have come up with "car walking". The thing is that here, stuff like driving lane lines, parking space lines, or any other kind of line that tells you where you are supposed to be, mean absolutely nothing. They routinely jam 3 cars across a 1 lane road, and then are totally baffled about why there is a traffic jam. They seem to be unable to put their vehicles even roughly in the center of a parking lane, and usually end up having their little compact car take up the room that a one ton ford dually would need.
To combat this problem, they have come up with "car walking". Whenever they park somewhere that they shouldn't be parking they leave the car out of gear, and the emergency brake off. So, when you come out of the supermarket to find that some dumb ass has parked in the middle of the lane right behind you, you can just push his car out of the way and go about your business. Far be it from me to remind them that if they had parked where they should have in the first place that this would all be unnecessary. They are quite pleased that they have come up with this idea to solve the inexplicable parking problems all by themselves.
I have gotten use to this silliness now, but once in a while, I can't resist the temptation to push the offending auto to the most inconvenient spot I can find. After having a few beers one evening, a friend and I pushed one out of the lot and across the street. I am sure that the surprised owner attributed the whole thing to ghosts or aliens.
Posted by Don Brand at 12:24 PM
The world has had enough!
See? I don't make this stuff up!
Soul for Sale
You can have power, wealth, an attractive mate and virtually anything else you ever dreamed of – by selling your soul to Satan! But how?
You must know what you’re doing when you make the deal or Satan will cheat you blind. That’s the word from Dr. Rex Touth, expert on satanic rituals and author of How to Negotiate Unholy Contracts.
Dr. Touth cites cases dating all the way back to the 16th century in which humans have agreed to spend eternity in Hell when they die in exchange for earthly pleasures while they’re alive.
“Human history and world literature are teeming with stories like that of Germany’s Dr. Faustus who sold his soul,” says Dr. Touth. “Our own American statesman Daniel Webster once debated Satan in a landmark soul-selling case in which he renegotiated the contract and had it overturned.
“Thousands have gained riches and fulfilled their fantasies.”
Here are some tips from Dr. Touth on how you can take advantage of the same opportunity:
SET THE DEAL UP PROPERLY. There’s a right and wrong way to make contact with the Devil. The right way is to be alone in your room, close your eyes and say, “Satan, I summon you. I have a quality soul to sell if the price is right.” It may take dozens, even hundreds of tries but at all costs, avoid sounding desperate or needy. He’ll show up eventually.
DEAL FROM A POSITION OF POWER. By far the biggest mistake people make is to underestimate how badly Satan wants their soul. It’s like precious gold to him and he’ll pay anything to get it. When he appears, get him to make the first offer, then up it.
GET THE ABSOLUTE BEST. Remember, you’re going to burn in Hell forever. So no matter how badly off you are now, demand the best. For instance, even if you feel unlovable and desperate with loneliness, don’t just say, “I want the most gorgeous woman on earth and I want her to be madly in love with me.” Instead, add, “In fact, throw in 100 other women as well so I can pick and choose according to my mood.”
REMEMBER TO DEMAND THE LIFE-EXTENSION CLAUSE. Satan won’t tell you if you don’t ask but you can get a guarantee of 300 years of youthful life before you go to eternal damnation. Why enjoy a mere 75 or 80 years of reckless living when you can get 300?
Religious groups worldwide are trying to ban Dr. Touth’s book. “This kind of trash is spiritual dynamite,” says a spokesman for the North American Council of Churches and Synagogues. “We can’t, in good conscience, let people read how to destroy their almighty souls.”
But Dr. Touth says we should all be aware of the facts so we can make an informed decision. “It’s your soul,” he says. “Do what you want with it.”
(Insert level 9 eye roll and dismissive snort here!)
Posted by Don Brand at 8:53 AM
New 3D Animation
ACK! I just started to kind of watch "The Adventures of Tin Tin", while I am working. The new 3D animation stuff is very creepy. They are like little living dolls. It reminds me of that old Twilight Zone episode where the woman was being chased around the house by that cannibal voodoo doll. Very creepy indeed!
This was one of the reasons I never played video games much. I came into them kind of late, and really only liked the adventure game "Zelda". But, after the first 2 or 3 games came out, they started doing them in 3D. That stuff gave me a headache. It was disorienting to me for some reason. I never did take a liking to them.
The movie plot is pretty good though. I had always liked the Tin Tin stories for the artwork, but that old Maltese Falcon Lite way of writing was fun too. They took a few liberties in the making of this film, but still seemed to keep the basic flavor of the original stories.
Set Leaow!
That means "finished" in Thai. And I am finished! Today was the last day of school. I didn't have to do anything because the kids were all taking their last day of tests. They had three solid days of testing to go through. That's gotta suck. Biggie Smalls (the boss) had to hand out a ton of graduation diplomas to the kindergarteners and the 6th graders.He spent most of yesterday doing that. That's good for him.
I will miss a lot of the students that will be going to M-3, or leaving the school entirely. Kids like Beggy, Yo, Drive, Noona, Bam, Taptim, and Sai don't happen very often. They were a tremendous help to me in doing my job. Sometimes they helped me do things like sorting student papers because I couldn't read the Thai names, or even just by answering a question in class that was something that the others didn't know. Their participation helped me get through some very rough spots. Luckily, a t least some of them will now attend the school right next door to us, so I can still see them and say "Hi" once in a while.
I also found out that these jackasses expect me to teach 5 grade levels in 28 hours a week next term. That is right at 1000 students. That's 3 grade levels and more than a full day of teaching more than the rest of them have to do. And we all know that hell will freeze over before B.S. gives anyone a raise. I have 45 days to either find a new job, or figure out how to be Thai and just smile and accept it.
If the principal of any school in Bangkok or Phukett is reading this, please GET ME OUT OF HERE!
Photoshop Tapered Line Tutorial
You see that? I have been looking for what seems like forever for a tutorial to tell me how to do that. Just trying to figure out how to make a pen tool stroke that tapers at the end like a brush stroke was making me crazy! I found a few tutorials on how to do it in Illustrator, but Illustrator looks totally alien to me. I have never been able to become comfortable using it. I downloaded Manga Studio because the brush tool in it automatically smooths and tapers your pen tool lines for you. But, that was the only think I ever did with it. That thing takes up a gig of space on my computer.
Thanks to this quick and easy tutorial on Deviant Art by Systaticism, I can now get rid of that HD hogging beast. Well done Systaticism!
Roof Cats
One of the first things that I noticed about living here in the twilight zone, is that there are no Siamese Cats here. We had Siamese cats at home for many years, so when I came to Siam (Thailand) I expected the place to have an ass load of them. Not a one! I mean, I have seen a few here and there, but not as many as you would think you would see in the land where I thought they were supposed to have originated.
However, they do have roof cats. Our little street has 12 houses on each side, all connected and gated like little jail cells. Typical Thai homes. Because of that, each side has one long roof, with a little dormer type roof that sticks put over the drive way of each individual home. Plus, the roof has cats. There must be at least 7 - 8 running around up there. That is just on the other side of the street. I don't know how many are on top of our side. In 6 years, I have never seen one of these cats on the ground. Not once. You see them all the time prowling around up there starting at dusk, and can hear them yowling on and off through the night. I guess they have plenty to eat, as there is no shortage of pigeons around here. My daughter says that they have always been there, and that she has never seen one go up or down from the roof top either. Strange.
He likes it! Hey Mikey!
In older times, it was “off with your head” if you spoke ill of the King. Now, you go to jail for posting your feelings on Facebook about the Thai monarchy, which many of the Thai folk actively do. In fact, over 10,000 pages of material was found on the social networking, containing images or text that is offensive to the royal family.
The Information Minister of Thailand, Anudith Nakornthap, warned the people of Thailand that if users on Facebook so much as even like or share any kind of information insulting the monarchy, the consequences would be severe. Such a person could be charged with violation of the lese majeste laws of the country, and could serve up to 15 years in prison. He also advised people to ‘unlike’ any pages and remove any comments made on similar lines. In a world where democracy and freedom of speech are taken for granted in most countries, this news might come across as quite surprising. I mean, we’ve lost count of the number of jokes made online at the expense of Bush, Palin and the likes. Thailand however, has always been strict in enforcing laws that protect the dignity of the sovereign.
This is completely regardless of nationality. A Swiss citizen in 2007 and an Australian writer in 2009 were arrested for similar reasons. The Swiss gentleman had spray painted the King’s image, and he was sentenced to 10 years for that. Fortunately for him, the King pardoned him after a few months. The Australian was lucky too; he was pardoned after being sentenced to 3 years for writing offensive content on the royal family in his novel. So if you’re ever in Thailand, watch out, you might want to keep your comments and observations to yourself!
10 Illegal Baby Names
(Devil 13)
At the start of 2011, the Pope declared war on parents naming babies after celebrities, fruit or popular sports cars. In an address to parents, the ever-progressive pontiff pleaded with worshipers that when thinking of baby names, they should 'give your children names that are in the Christian calendar'.
So Apple, Brooklyn and Ferrari are out, Francisco and Giulia are in.
But Benedict's not the only authority figure to stamp down on one of the sillier by-products of celebrity culture. Various baby names have all been banned around the world for reasons of taste, decency or just plain daftnesss. So without further ado, we present out list of the top illegal baby names.
[Useful: The top baby names for 2012]
1) Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii (New Zealand)
New Zealand law bans names which could cause offence to a 'reasonable' person. Good thing too - the country is a stupid name hotspot. We found a couple from the islands who tried and failed to call their son '4Real', but nothing beats the ridiculous moniker above. It belonged to a 9-year-old girl before a judge had her renamed during a custody battle. 'It makes a fool of the child,' he said. It certainly made application forms a pain in the butt. Has New Zealand banned any other names? Oh yes. The judge listed some that were also blocked: Fish and Chips (twins), Yeah Detroit, Keenan Got Lucy and Sex Fruit. Number 16 Bus Shelter and Violence were allowed.
2) Venerdi AKA 'Friday' (Italy)
Maybe this is what the Pope was talking about. Back in 2008 a court banned an Italian couple from calling their child Venerdi (translation: Friday). The judges reckoned the name - taken from 'Robinson Crusoe' - would expose the boy to 'mockery' and was associated with 'subservience and insecurity'. The parents, however, might have the last laugh; they threatened to call their next child Mercoledi (Wednesday).
Has Italy banned any other names? Italian courts can step in 'when the child's name is likely to limit social interaction and create insecurity'. In Turin, Andrea was rejected (and changed to Emma) as it's a boy's name in Italy. Dalmata has also been rejected, as it means Dalmatian.
[Relevant: The origins of 10 British baby names]
3) Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116 (Sweden)
No, we didn't fall asleep on the keyboard. That is an actual name a Swedish couple tried to inflict on their son back in 1996. Apparently the name is pronounced 'Albin' (we're not sure how), and the parents chose it as a protest against Sweden's admittedly strict naming laws. Tax authorities must give their blessing to both first and surnames before they can be used.
Has Sweden banned any other names? Oh yes. Some favourites include Metallica, IKEA, Veranda and Q. Google was OK though.
4) Gesher AKA 'Bridge' (Norway)
Back in 1998 those nasty Norwegians threw a woman in jail (admittedly for only two days) when she failed to pay a fine for giving her son an 'unapproved' name. Eccentric Kristi Larsen said she was instructed in a dream to name her son Gesher (Hebrew for 'Bridge'), but the court were having none of it. Kristi did have 13 children already though, so maybe she had just run out of ideas.
Has Norway banned any other names? Undoubtedly, though in recent times they have replaced their list of officially sanctioned names with a general ban on monikers featuring swearing, sex and illnesses.
[Relevant: Weird baby names from the 19th century]
5) Chow Tow AKA 'Smelly Head' (Malaysia)
Unlike many countries which are gradually relaxing name laws, Malaysian authorities have cracked down on unsuitable titles in recent years. In 2006 government killjoys published a list of undesirable names that weren't in keeping with the religious traditions of the country – such as Cantonese moniker Chow Tow – which means 'Smelly Head'.
Has Malaysia banned any other names? Lots more Chinese efforts such as Ah Chwar ('Snake'), Khiow Khoo ('Hunchback'), Sor Chai ('Insane'). Malays should also steer clear of Woti, which means 'Sexual Intercourse'.
6) @ (China)
With more than a billion fellow countrymen, finding a unique name in China is difficult. Perhaps that's why one couple called their baby the '@' symbol – in Chinese characters it apparently looks a bit like 'love him'. Bless. Unsurprisingly, however, the authorities were less sentimental and publicised the moniker as an example of citizens bringing bizarre names into the Chinese language.
Has China banned any other names? The police have control over all names given to children because they issue identity cards, but details of rejections are not widely circulated.
[See also: The worst celebrity baby names from A - Z]
7) Miatt (Germany)
Country living up to stereotype alert! Surprise, surprise the Germans are somewhat officious when it comes to baby naming laws. Regulation-loving Deutschland has an entire department (the Standesamt) which decides if names are suitable. Miatt was rejected because it didn't clearly show whether the child was a boy or a girl, but sometimes the decisions are somewhat arbitrary...
Has Germany banned any other names? The likes of Stompie, Woodstock and Grammophon were turned down, whereas the similarly strange Speedy, Lafayette and Jazz were allowed.
8) Anus (Denmark)
What is it about Scandinavian countries and name laws? The Danes are even tougher than the Swedes in this regard, with parents given 7,000-odd names to choose from by the government. Special permission is needed to deviate from the list, with ethnic names, odd spellings and even compound surnames forbidden. Luckily for him (we assume it's a 'he'), Anus was one of 250-odd names rejected each year.
Has Denmark banned any other names? Well, Pluto and Monkey had lucky escapes...
[Interesting: Meet the parents raising a 'genderless' baby]
9) Ovnis (Portugal)
Before naming your child in Portugal, best consult this mammoth, 80-page government doc (and have it translated to English) that tells you which names you can and can't use. It's pretty strict (and random) – Tomás is OK but Tom isn't – and celebs can forget about the likes of Apple and Brooklyn, which aren't even on the banned list. Essex girls rejoice, however – Mercedes is allowed! Has Portugal banned any other names? There are more than 2,000 names on the reject list, including Ovnis - Portuguese for UFO.
10) Akuma AKA Devil (Japan)
Here's a name the Pope definitely wouldn't approve of. In 1993 a Japanese parent called his son Akuma (which literally means Devil). The authorities decided this was an abuse of the parent's rights to decide a child's name and a lengthy court battle ensued. Eventually the father backed down and junior got a new, less demonic name.
Has Japan banned any other names? Lots. Names must use one of the 2,232 'name kanji' characters decided by the government.
*Found this on Yahoo (I'd go with "Smelly Head" any day)
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Bluberry Pancakes!
MANAGEMENT BULLETIN: As a result of Roong's latest culinary triumph, I shall refrain from bitching about not having a McDonalds or Taco Bell here for a period of, but not to exceed, one week!
Roong wanted to make pancakes this morning. I thought that was a great idea, but was secretly snickering a bit inside. Roong is a great cook, but I tease her a lot about her wanting to cook everything in a wok. Pancakes are cooked on a griddle! A flat hot surface. Just the basic physics of this whole plan was doomed from the start. Or, so I thought.
It turns out that "Suu noi" (little tiger) eventually got a handle on the whole thing. Her natural stubbornness pays off ... occasionally. I tried to make a few, but they came out a little too dark. Then Roong took back over, and even though the blue colored batter freaked her out a bit, she finally figured out how to get them right. A few of the first ones did have to be thrown away, but we salute those flapjacks that gave their all so that others (namely me) could chow down in a free and honey covered society! Yep, I get honey fresh out of the hive here instead of syrup. Damn, that stuff is good! It doesn't taste anything like the stuff you get at the store. You can actually taste a mild flower flavor in it.
Anyway, due to our learning curve, we ended up having breakfast at about 11am. But, it was well worth the wait. I may ask her to give the lasagna another try.
Posted by Don Brand at 11:51 AM
T-shirt Biz Nuuz
I have news from the tee biz front. I have hooked up with a guy named Chris who lives up in Chaing Mai, and he is going to help me get a decent t-shirt blog up and running. Chris has a lot of blogs and websites, but I know him from his "Living in Thailand" blog. He writes about anything and everything related to what goes on around here, and what you need to know to survive it. He even has a book that helps you learn to speak Thai. His blog is an interesting and sometimes very funny read, even if you don't live here. So, get ye hence and checketh it out!
This is the only blog that I have that I mess with so far. I just keep this for a place to bitch about stuff, or say whatever I want to. I do like to write, but have never done it enough to get good at it. Chris says that is something I have to work on. He is talking about a 800 word post a day, or so. That's going to be rough at first, because I don't consider myself a t-shirt design guru, but must come across as one. I am sure that I will totally obsess over this word count thing too. I even found an auto word counter online. He says that if I just focus on giving straight forward useful information, that with practice, I should be Ok. I hope so because if you can write, you can make money on the internet, and that's a fact. Content! Content! Content! We'll see.
The name of the blog will be "Tshirt Designs Ideas". When Chris first suggested that, I stared at it for quite a while. It doesn't exactly roll off the tongue. It's that "s" on "designs" that kept making me make the "huh?" face. I did some checking, but couldn't find anything better that was available. It seems that everyone has already bought all the good keywords so that they can sell them back to you for $1500. That blows! Yeah yeah, I know that if you can grab the good words first, it's a good business to be into. But it still hits me as ebay gone bad. If you aren't going to use it, leave it alone so I can afford it damn it!
I am not sure when the "Tshirt Designs Ideas" blog will be up and running yet. I still have 2 weeks of school left, and about 720 final exams to give and grade. But, after that I have about a month off, so that's when I am going to get at this new blog thing, and try to become at least a tolerably decent writer. I will let you know when something happens.
Oh, this post has 483 words in it. (see, I told you this would happen!)
Pre-rainy season Show
We had our first 2 hour rain storm of the year this evening, and you know what that means....Yep, it rains for 2 hours and then the electricity goes off for 4 hours! Every time it rains, we loose power. I hate living in the damn boonies! I do have to give our storms here credit for one thing though, they sure put on a hell of a light show. There's always a lot of lightning when it rains here. We have everything from those huge bolts that almost deafen you, to these really wild ones that remind me of those 4th of July fireworks that were a bunch of small orange crackling lines that spidered out from the main explosion and cover the sky. I have never seen those anywhere else besides here.
Normally, I would just bail and go to Ban-nok to wait it out, but it was too late for that. Ead never seems to loose power at her place, and if she does, it's only for a little while. After about 3 hours, we lost the water too. Roong put candles all over the place so we could see. I have no doubt that we will be spending tomorrow scraping wax off things!
Thailand Has Baseball!
Who knew? I found out by accident. I remembered that it is getting close to World League Baseball Tournament time, so I was looking for info on the net, and stumbled across it. The Thai team apparently played in the last tournament, but got knocked out before the semi-final rounds. I heard that they did beat the Philippines in the SEA games though. That's Ok, they are a very young team, and need experience to grow. I am glad Roong will have a team to cheer for next year. I think she is tired of watching the Thai volleyball team get their asses kicked by all of the amazons that are about 2 ft taller than they are.
Roong found a few photos on the web, and even some Youtube videos, but they are in Thai which explains why I had never seen them before.
Here's a shot of the new Thai baseball team learning some baseball basics. I don't quite remember line dancing as being an integral part of core baseball fundamentals, but what the hell, whatever works for ya man!
If I have a sexual urge, I should play football!
What should you do when you have a sexual urge?
A. Play football with friends.
B. Talk to your family.
C. Try to go to sleep.
D. Go out with a friend of the opposite sex.
E. Go to a movie with your buddy.
No, this isn't a quiz question from an old edition of Loaded magazine, it's an Ordinary National Educational Test (Onet) exam question set for Grade 12 students in Thailand. The answer is, of course, "A", said National Institute of Educational Testing Services (NIETS) director Dr Samphan Phanphrut. He explained this question was intended to check whether the students understood the nature of sexual desire and how to control or respond to it.
MY first question is, does this apply to both boys and girls, and can they play football together?
I now understand that my priorities have been wrong all these years and that I should have been playing more football in my younger years. Well, we live and learn. Some people had a rather scathing analysis of how this curious question about sexual desire fits in with Thailand's education system as a whole.
Are Thai youth being well served by the Thai education system? The answer at least from the perspective of sex education seems to be a resounding “No.”
Oh, and BTW, it's SOCCER, damn it! Not football, SOCCER!
Facebook made me pregnant!
Facebook causes teen pregnancies!
Seems logical when you think about it. Thailand has one of the highest rates of teen pregnancy in the world, and I am not sure that you could find a teeny bopper here that isn't on Facebook.
With this in mind, Thailand's National Economic and Social Development Board (NESDB) reached the conclusion as young people aged 18-24 are the most prolific demographic on Facebook, this must have something to do with the 120,000 unplanned teen pregnancies there are each year.
The board said that the social media growth is to blame for the teen pregnancy problems as many youngsters post seductive messages or video clips online. It couldn't possibly have anything to do with Thailand's near non-existent school sex education program. No, that can't be it, can it?.
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In the first of a two-part programme, DQ hears from leading showrunners about the challenges of this all-consuming position.
Contributors include Shawn Ryan (The Shield), Terence Winter (Boardwalk Empire), Ilene Chaiken (Empire), Glen Mazzara (The Walking Dead), Clyde Phillips (Dexter), Eric Newman (Narcos), Terri Miller and Andrew Marlowe (Castle), Maggie Friedman and Corinne Brinkerhoff (No Tomorrow), Jon Bokenkamp (The Blacklist), Les Bohem (Shut Eye), Michelle Ashford (Masters of Sex), Graham Yost (Sneaky Pete), Howard Gordon (Homeland), Matt Miller (Lethal Weapon), Peter Lenkov (MacGyver), Oliver Goldstick (The Collection) and Carol Flint (Designated Survivor).
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Film, Dreams and Communal Dreamscreen
Theatre of the Mind and the Communal Dreamscreen
The International Institute for Dream Research receives e-mails about dreams from around the globe, including Africa, India, Europe, North and South America and Australia. Most of the dreams we receive, however, are from Canada and the United States, reflecting the leadership position North Americans have taken in connecting to the Internet. The demographics are varied and promise to be even more so in the future as more people connect to the Internet. The dreams we receive are from a diverse population: men, women, students, parents, adolescents, young adults, black, white, middle class and poor. Dream narratives provide data from which we can measure the unconscious social dynamics of individuals, families, societies and nations.
The primordial event of language opened human experience to metaphorically view life as a literary work of art. Dreamwork reflects the artistic representations and metaphoric fashion currents of the dreamscreen of history. History's great epic spectacle can be seen as a kaleidoscope of the literary connections between people, places, times, thoughts and behaviours, played out on a dramaturgical dreamscreen of the past, present and future.
For Harold Bloom The Western Canon, national canons (stories) are represented by their crucial figures; Chauser, Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth and Dickens for England. Montaigne and Moliere for France Dante for Italy Cervantes for Spain Tolstoy for Russia Goethe for Germany Whitman and Dickinson for the United States The collective dreamwork patterns found on the Western communal dreamscreen sees these figures as formative, however not definitive in their scope for defining national canons which in turn provide the narrative infrastructures for the Western Canon and dreamwork in Western society.
The theatre of the mind metaphor has been used since Plato and historically this idea progresses to Freud and Jung. The modern metaphor of the dreamer is the film director whose essential functions are the writing of a dream "screen play" and scripting dialogue. The dreamer as dramatist acts out a soliloquy (speech) infront of an audience constituted and conjured up by himself. The theatre of the mind metaphor sees the dream as a place where the dreamer as director and scriptwriter can create dramatic situations to act out concepts/thoughts, feelings and needs by placing words into his or her own mouth and the mouths of the hallucinated co-stars of the dream. The literary speech effects of dreams are central to understanding the individual and collective dynamics of a speech community.
Dreams may be described as movies, with images projected onto a dreamscreen within the mind. As literary narratives or screen plays, dreams can be categorized into genres. Within the narratives of the dreams of individuals, patterns, common themes and symbols emerge which are indicators of collective literary narratives for the groups to which individuals belong. The collective daydreams of nations provide the screenplays of literature and film.
For the Canadian literary critic Northrop Frye Anatomy of Criticism the "whole domain of literature is a self-contained verbal universe a massive, complex and intricate product of human imagination". This imagined order of words constantly expands and grows through new works of literature even as it continues to use its' essential literary archetype s. According to Frye, literature projects an organized myth of human experience configuring and reconfiguring the world and one's self according to the desires and anxieties the individual and the community are faced with. The verbal expression of these experiences are the domain of literature both the fictional and non-fictional. Dream research provides access to the Western dreamscreen and its' dreams, myths and fictions.
Narratology is considers issues such as character, plot, semiotics, point of view, etc. The dream stands as an ever-present narrator with an all-encompassing view, providing insight and introspection into the secret desires and hidden motives, past, present and future, into humanity's stories. In whose voice is the narrative spoken? Whose vision is seen? The grammar of the dream provides the syntactic codes for storytelling and life-story productions. Narratology can be viewed as a study of the mechanics of media as it fashions our daily experience.
There are, of course, competing metaphoric points of view, in all societies, but meaning is created by the dominance of one vision and voice over others, a dominant narrative that legitimizes power elites. These perspectives change over time. The shaping role of dominant narratives are revealed, or made transparent, through the study of dreams. Dreams expose the deep political dialogical structures of language, sex, race, age, appearance and the body.
Within patriarchal, capitalist, communist and fascistic societies there are influences that seek to fashion narrative organization to their own benefit. This politicization of narrative is achieved by revising history to distort our collective memory or by teaching gender and class roles to groups and individuals that will serve the ends of those wielding power. The effects of these politically oppressive hidden agendas and ideologies show up in the dreams of people within such politicized groupings such as children, women and blacks.
When the spell of enchantment of communal living fails, dis-illusionment with social reality is the result. Dis-illusionment is unconsciously acted out on the communal dreamscreen and more consciously (for those with access to the unconscious) expressed through the thoughts in poetry, theatre and film. Dreams reflects the communal literary currents of enchantment and disenchantment.
The analysis of collective narrative patterns reveals that many are the product of broken lives and dreams. Nightmares, alienation and depersonalization are the logical result of pathological power relationships. When the fairy tale turns into a nightmare, tragedy is often the logical outcome. The Yellow Brick Road is littered with broken promises and broken dreams. Film Noir is the dark side of the communal dreamscreen , providing a perspective by which we can read the pathological aspects of popular culture. Film Noir is the communal dreamscreen where the dark side of western culture is made visible in the denouement.
As a result of the political suppression of truth, a radical revision of personal biography and collective histories is essential. The talking cure is a psychodynamic linguistic tool for a program of social medicine within the mental health movement. Dreamwork represents the intersection of dialogical structures of everyday collective and individual memories and knowledge. Dreams can therefore be used to remember and express suppressed and oppressed truths.
The IIDR's metaphysical mission is the Restoration of the Dream. The screening of dreams makes it possible to salvage oppressed truth (counter-memories) which lies submerged in our subconscious selves as revealed in our dreams. The main aim is to end the nightmare of broken dreams and lead individuals and society towards a rapprochement of conscious and unconscious forces which will generate healthy dreams and self awareness. To resolve social problems we need first to understand their nature, see clearly how they arise and the consequences when pressures are brought to bear. The first step toward Restoration of the Dream is transparency.
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Repository: Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
Subject: Person: Zeitlin, Solomon, 1886-1976
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1866-1942, 1907-1939 (bulk).
Cyrus Adler Papers
Adler, Cyrus, 1863-1940 , Originator
Extent: 65 linear feet (129 boxes)
Cyrus Adler was a prominent Jewish scholar and communal builder. Born in 1863, he had a tremendous role in shaping much of Jewish America by the time of his death in 1940. The collection contains Dr. Adler's business correspondence and personal papers and spans much of his multi-faceted career. It also contains many papers connected to the formation and day-to-day business of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning. (See the Biography and Scope and Content Notes for a more detailed description of Adler's life and the collection.)
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Adler, Cyrus, 1863-1940 American Jewish Committee. American Jewish Historical Society. American Jewish Relief Committee for Sufferers from the War. Chomsky, William, 1897-1977. -- Correspondence Cohen, Mortimer J., (Mortimer Joseph), 1894-1972. -- Correspondence Congregation Mikveh Israel (Philadelphia, Pa.). Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning. Edelman, Samuel,, b. 1885. Federation of Jewish Agencies of Greater Philadelphia. Finkel, Joshua, 1904- Finkelstein, Louis, 1895-1991 Ginzburg, Simon, 1890-1944. Golomb, Elhanan H., (Elhanan Hirsh), b. 1887. Gordis, Robert, 1908- Gratz College (Philadelphia, Pa.). Grayzel, Solomon, 1896-1980. Greenstone, Julius H., (Julius Hillel), 1873-1955. Halper, B. Husik, Isaac, 1876-1939. Jewish Publication Society of America. Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Johns Hopkins University.. Jung, Leo, 1892-1987. Jung, Moses, 1891-1960. Lederer, Ephraim Levy, Abraham J., (Abraham Juda), 1896-1949. Linfield, H. S., (Harry Sebee), 1889- Magnes, Judah Leon, 1877-1948. Mann, Jacob, 1888-1940. Margolis, Max Leopold, 1866-1932. -- Correspondence Marx, Alexander, 1878-1953. Mendes, H. Pereira, (Henry Pereira), 1852-1937. Montgomery, James A., (James Alan), 1866-1949. Nathan, Edward I. Orlinsky, Harry Meyer, 1908-1992 Philadelphia Jewish Education Council.. Rabinowitz, E. N., (Elias Nathan), b. 1884. Reich, Nathaniel Julius, 1882-1942. Reider, Joseph, 1884-1960. Revel, Bernard, 1885-1940. Rosenbach, A. S. W., (Abraham Simon Wolf), 1876-1952. Rosenwald, Lessing J., (Lessing Julius), 1891-1979. Rubenstein, Frank Jay Schechter, Abraham I. School District of Philadelphia, Pa.. Board of Public Education.. Schulman, Samuel, 1864-1955 Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition. (1926) (Location of Meeting--Philadelphia, Pa.) Skoss, Solomon Leon, 1884-1953 Smithsonian Institution.. Speiser, E. A. (Ephraim Avigdor), 1902-1965 Stern, Horace, 1878-1969. Stone, Nathan I. Sulzberger, Joseph Sulzberger, Mayer, 1843-1923. United Synagogue of America.. University of Pennsylvania.. Wolf, Morris, b. 1889. World's Colombian Exposition. (1893) (Location of Meeting--Chicago, Ill.) Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association of Philadelphia.. Zarchin, Michael M., (Michael Moses), b. 1893. Zeitlin, Solomon, 1886-1976
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Mercedes advantage in 2014
POBRatings
Post subject: Mercedes advantage in 2014
According to my pure speed measurements after race 5 of 2014, the Hamilton/Mercedes has about a 0.8% advantage over its next-fastest rival, the Vettel-Ricciardo/Red Bull-Renault.
Despite the Vettel/Red Bull-Renault domination of 2013 and 2011, this package's advantage then was only about 0.2% season average.
How does the Hamilton/Mercedes's speed advantage of 0.8% compare historically?
1.0%:
Moss/Cooper-Climax over Brooks/Ferrari
1994 the two fastest packages were equal, the Senna/Williams-Renault and Schumacher/Benetton-Cosworth; they had a speed advantage of 0.9% over the next-fastest rival, the Berger/Ferrari.
1961 Von Trips/Ferrari over Brabham/Cooper-Climax
1958 Moss/Vanwall over Hawthorn /Ferrari
1984 Prost/McLaren-Porsche over equal second-fastest rivals Alboreto/Ferrari, Mansell/Lotus-Renault, Piquet/Brabham-BMW
2007 McLaren-Mercedes and Ferrari F2007 equal, over Heidfeld/BMW-Sauber.
The 2014 Hamilton/Mercedes package does have a huge advantage, but is is no record.
The F1 record package advantage was in 1950, when the Fangio/Alfa Romeo was a huge 2.7% faster than its nearest rival package, the Ascari/Ferrari 125C2 (1.5-litre supercharged engine). This was for the first five races. At the sixth and last race, Ascari had a new 375 Ferrari (4.5-litre unsupercharged engine) which proved to be just 0.4% slower than the Fangio/Alfa Romeo package.
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hittheapex
Post subject: Re: Mercedes advantage in 2014
Interesting post, POB. As it happens, I was just wondering yesterday whether the 1988 McLaren was very dominant or if it was the perfect storm of Senna and Prost, both close or at their peak, driving a car that was by no means bad but perhaps not as dominant pace wise as the 15/16 strike rate suggests. Do you mind sharing with us how that car compares with the ones in your original post please?
"Jean Alesi is using the Maginot Line policy-You shall not pass!"-Murray Walker
hittheapex wrote:
I also sometimes think it was largely the 1988 McLaren-Honda drivers' excellence that was responsible for the team's dominance. But as usual in F1 there are few one-liner answers. The Senna package had a 0.6% advantage, just less than those mentioned above. But still a huge, comfortable advantage.
It is interesting to compare this with, say, the Schumacher/ Ferrari advantages, and those of the Clark/Lotus-Climax and-Cosworth packages. Comparative dominances are more clearly explained by the numbers.
POBRatings wrote:
Interesting, so the 1988 McLaren was less dominant perhaps, than the 1984 McLaren...but the superior reliability secured a higher strike rate for wins.
flyboy10
The 1988 McLaren was dominant because they were the only team that bothered to build a car specifically to tackle the challenges of that year and not to just concentrate on trying to build a car for the following season's regulation changes. The car was totally dominant and the only reason it didn't win every race was because of an incident with a backmarker at the Italian Grand Prix, which I believe was fixed so as to give Ferrari a victory in the year that Il Commendatore died. The car was dominant. Nothing else could catch it. You can't qualify domination/dominance. It couldn't have been "more dominant". It beat everything else except when it got punted off.
Flyboy10, I agree with your reasoning on why the 1988 McLaren-Honda's were dominant and could/should have got a full-house.
However I disagree that dominance cannot be quantified. My System has produced the following (as brief examples):
The 1998 McLarens were only 0.5-0.6% faster than the next-fastest rival package, they won 94% of their races.
The 1950 Alfa Romeos enjoyed a higher speed advantage, as did the 1952 Ferraris, and both won 100.0%.
The 1961 Ferraris were about the same margin ahead of their next-fastest rival as the 1952 Ferraris, and yet only won 68%.
In 2011 the Vettel/Red Bull-Renault was not much faster than its nearest rival, but won the same 63% as the 1961 Ferrari.
In 2004 the Schumacher/Ferrari was not much faster than its nearest rival, but won 83%.
There are reasons for these comparative discrepancies between package speed advantages and win rates. They have largely to do with the separate driver and car ratings, and are explained in my blog publications. F1 racing is very complex and each race and season requires its own detailed analysis.
M.Nader -DODZ-
I don't think those should be on the list to compare with Mercedes, as the fastest cars were joint fastest and so had at least competition to face unlike the rest were one car/driver combo was very superior to everyone else.
In f1 a 0.3% advantage would translate to a lot over a race distance or even a longer lap such a gap is plenty. so 0.8 is immense (although i suspect a number even higher than that and the tyres are evening things out!), what is the Mercedes advantage pre race in your system? just looking at qualifyings?
from looking at your findings it has been such a long time that such a gap ever existed, the cars nowadays are very close in performance, and have been so for the last decade that it wasn't evident that a single team had such an advantage.
I hope things improve next season
In your OP, it also draws my mind on how good Heidfeld was!
I did rate Kubica and Nick outraced him in most of their time together, he was no journeyman.
M.Nader -DODZ- wrote:
Agreed 1994 and 2007 had shared fastest packages and cannot be compared to 2014. But 1984 was more comparable, because no other package was close to the Prost/Lauda/McLaren-Porsches.
Single-make package-wise you are right, it has not been since 1961 that such a gap existed as the Mercedes have now in 2014. Carwise it was late-fifties and mid-sixties.
I have stated bare stats here for brevity; each season really needs an explanation, each different and too long for the Forum.
Heidfeld was under-rated, a really good driver. I too rated Kubica very highly, and think he could have got to the top, or close to it.
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Ambulance driver vs emt
30.11.2019 4 By Gurr
The Institute was acquired by the Edexcel examination board inand Edexcel was acquired by Pearson in Some of my colleagues preferred to drive others preferred to treat patients usually it was shared equitably. Regulatory frameworks vary from province to province, and include direct government regulation such as Ontario's method of credentialing its practitioners with the title of A-EMCA, or Advanced Emergency Medical Care Assistant to professional self-regulating bodies, such as the Alberta College of Paramedics. However, Quebec only utilizes this level of practice in a very limited fashion as part of a pilot program in Montreal. Emergency medical personnel most often work in an ambulance alongside another member of staff. Critical Care Paramedics CCPs are paramedics who generally do not respond to emergency calls, with the exception of helicopter "scene" calls. Both of the other emergency services had specialized equipment and specialized titles for the folks who used that equipment, but it didn't change their primary jobs. Some roles like advanced practitioner courses and the emergency care practitioner courses are offered to both professions as interchangeable skills are present. EMT training programs for certification vary greatly from course to course, provided that each course at least meets local and national requirements.
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Differences Between an EMT and a Paramedic
The terms paramedic and emergency medical technician have been An ambulance driver is someone who drives an ambulance, of course. At least the days of referring to these trained professionals as ambulance drivers are mostly behind us.
Unlike other emergency services, our. They are the uniformed men and women rescuing the victims of an accident or a disaster. Sometimes you'll see them in ambulances, sometimes they are in fire.
If they need the extra skills such as pain relief or ALS then the clinician often has to travel in the back. Some are Third Agency; with private companies providing contract services to a designated area and they set their own staffing policies.
The terms paramedic and emergency medical technician have been around for years, but there's still a tendency by some people to call anyone in an ambulance an ambulance driver anyone other than the patient, that is.
As one EMS instructor recently put it, "You can't learn and be good at advanced skills without having a solid foundation of basic skills. ACPs perform advanced airway management including intubation, surgical airways, intravenous therapy, place external jugular IV lines, perform needle thoracotomy, perform and interpret lead ECGs, perform synchronized and chemical cardioversion, transcutaneous pacing, perform obstetrical assessments, and provide pharmacological pain relief for various conditions.
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Ambulance driver vs emt There are still other systems where the ambulance is staffed by two emts and a paramedic responds to every call, but only rides the ambulance for advanced level call. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
For this reason, any discussion of Paramedic Practice in Canada is necessarily broad, and general.
On a 7 hour round trip starting at with no sleep, I was expected to do all the driving while he took a nice little nap on the way back. Link 2 Life. When I worked as a paramedic we worked as a team of two people.
Ambulance drivers are frequently trained as paramedics or emergency medical paramedic field througha much faster than average rate compared to. Competencies, Driving license.
Education required. Medical degree or EMT training course. Fields of employment.
Ambulance. Related jobs. Paramedic. Emergency Medical Technician (EMT), Paramedic and Ambulance Technician are terms used. Emergency medical personnel in the United Kingdom are people engaged in the provision of emergency medical services and this includes paramedics, emergency medical technicians and emergency care assistants.
'Paramedic' is a protected title, strictly regulated by the Health and Care Typically, an ambulance will be crewed by either a paramedic with another.
The biggest differences between paramedics and EMTs are the training and the scope of practice what they are allowed to do.
Paramedics could apply to register via a grandfather scheme which ended in During this period, groups of physicians began to emerge who had left their respective practices in order to devote their work completely to the ED. Depending on the circumstances, they might even save your life. This may be different in other parts of the country. Like the US, however, Canada's EMS systems vary across the country and there are significant differences between the provinces.
Gniazdo przyczepy samochodowej schemata Some partners alternate but make special deals with each other.
Some of my colleagues preferred to drive others preferred to treat patients usually it was shared equitably.
So be sure to check with the schools you are interested in before you enroll for a course. Boston EMS. Paramedics perform all of the basic life support functions that EMTs do, plus they're certified to perform more advanced life saving procedures such as endtracheal intubation, intravenous access and drug administration and manual defibrillation.
Video: Ambulance driver vs emt Ambulance Driver Nods Off Before Crash
Becoming an EMT is the first crucial step to becoming a paramedic. Within the description of the job, most of the time a paramedic is going to be an ambulance driver.
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Mao’s China and the Specter of Asian Victimhood: Hirano Yoshitarō and The Institute of Chinese Affairs in Early Postwar Japan
Seok-Won Lee
This article critically revisits the writings of Hirano Yoshitarō, one of most influential wartime and postwar Japanese Marxist social scientists, and his ICA (Institute of Chinese Affairs) group intellectuals. By tracing their interpretation and endorsement of Mao’s notion of anti-imperial Asian communist revolution and modernization in the late 1940s and 1950s, this study examines the question of how these Japanese Marxist intellectuals appropriated communist China to rationalize their “radical” interpretation of postwar Japan as the victim of American imperialism. It thus reveals the continuity and discontinuity between these Marxist intellectuals’ anti-Western imperial discourses during the war and their postwar visions of a new Asian order.
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Community, Culture
Voices Together: Uniting to lift high the name of Jesus on Canada Day
by Keri Vermeulen • June 18, 2015 • 0 Comments
Yani Lim (blowing the shofar, at right) and Dave Carson (a key member of the Voices Together core team, to Yani’s left) have been leading prayer walks around the Pacific Coliseum every Wednesday evening.
The church body in Metro Vancouver is coming together, with all its uniquely beautiful parts. Like an intricate mosaic, the colourful pieces of the church are falling into place, creating one wonderful piece of worship art, celebrating and lifting high the name of Jesus.
Voices Together is a multi-church worship event, taking place Canada Day, July 1, at the Pacific Coliseum.
The gathering is an outward expression of a city-wide church unity movement that has been quietly and steadily gaining steam since around the time of the first Voices Together, on Canada Day back in 2008. That was when one lady – a powerhouse of prayer, pastor Yani Lim of Bethesda Ministry of Love – heard from the Lord to bring his people together to sing and lift his name high, at GM Place (now Rogers Arena).
That event – which brought together about 6,500 Christians from throughout Metro Vancouver – was followed up on Canada Day 2013, when almost 10,000 folks came to sing and praise Jesus, again in Rogers Arena.
July 1 at Pacific Coliseum
Fast forward two years and Lower Mainland pastors, ministry leaders and organizations have been planning and praying for a multi-denominational, multi-cultural and multi-generational event at the Pacific Coliseum July 1.
Giulio Gabeli, who chairs the core leadership team of Voices Together, emphasizes the importance of the church coming together to celebrate Jesus and bring lasting change to Metro Vancouver.
“It’s wonderful to see how different spheres, networks, organizations and ministries are beginning to really walk together and interact together because we acknowledge that no one ministry or organization or network is really able to make a lasting impact on this city,” says Gabeli, who is also executive director of HopeVancouver Network and pastor of Westwood Community Church in Coquitlam. “It takes all of us together to make an impact on this city.”
This year, Voices Together will welcome renowned pastor, speaker and author Francis Chan to address the gathering (his best-selling books include Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God, 2009, and You and Me Forever: Marriage in Light of Eternity, 2014).
The three key elements to this year’s event acknowledge the many denominations, the generations and the diverse cultures that make up the city-wide Church of Jesus Christ.
Giulio Gabeli (left) and Dave Carson are key leaders of the Voices Together core team.
Multi-denominational
Long-lasting relationships of trust are being built among the denominations. Not only will many evangelical churches be represented at Voices Together, but there will also be participation from the Roman Catholic Church – as there was in 2013 when Vancouver’s Archbishop Michael Miller took to the stage – and quite likely also the Orthodox church.
“What we’re after is a sustainable unity,” says Gabeli. “That is built on the infrastructure of relationships. Events come and go, but what unites us is relationships, and that will endure the test of time.” About 30 pastors and ministry leaders currently make up the core planning team for Voices Together.
Jonathan Mitchell – a leader of Chapel Vancouver – with the Chapel Band; there will be a strong emphasis on youth this year.
One of the most dynamic parts of this year’s Voices Together program will be the “next generation movement.” An estimated 100 youth pastors and leaders from Metro Vancouver will come together on the stage July 1.
“There will be a time of highlighting the young, emerging leaders,” Gabeli says. “From a visual perspective, we will see the old and the young walking together.”
Youth leaders will come alongside Chapel Vancouver, a Spirit-filled movement of young people from three key areas across the Lower Mainland (Vancouver, Tri-Cities and North Vancouver). It exploded in praise out of a small church in South Vancouver, when a few youth got together to worship God in music; from these small beginnings, Chapel is raising up youth leaders and satellite campuses for worship.
This move of God will be recognized at Voices Together when the Chapel Band come together to provide engaging, God-honouring music to touch our city. Voices Together vice chair Dave Carson says: “There will be a strong emphasis on the Chapel Movement. There are hundreds of young people from three communities who came and maxed out Missions Fest. This is the next generation moment.”
Celebrating our culturally rich country, believers of many ethnic backgrounds will join together in lifting high the name of Jesus and celebrating Canada’s birthday. Highlighting Vancouver’s robust Chinese culture, a Chinese choir will gather and sing on the Voices Together 2015 stage.
“They come from the Chinese evangelical ministerial, [which represents] about 150 churches,” explains Gabeli. “Let’s face it, Chinese are the largest visible ethnic community in the Lower Mainland.”
Voices Together begins at 5 pm, July 1 at the Coliseum (PNE Fairgrounds) Tickets are $15 at the door, $12 online or $10 through the local church (ask at your home church), or invite your friends to the Facebook page. There could be as many as 12,000 in attendance July 1.
Those wanting to pray for the Voices Together gathering in advance can meet next Wednesday (June 24), 7 pm, at the site of the Coliseum (at Gate 6 – enter from Renfrew Street, across from Cambridge) or June 28, 6:30 pm, at Glad Tidings Church on Fraser Street for a Prayer Rally.
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Learn about available clinical trials from Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey that focus on precision medicine:
The Cancer Institute of New Jersey Biospecimen Repository Service (BRS) (001006)
Targeted Genomic Analysis of Human Cancers (001209)
ECOG E1910: A Phase III Randomized Trial of Blinatumomab for Newly Diagnosed BCR-ABL-negative B lineage Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in Adults (021402)
ECOG 4512: A Phase III Double-Blind Trial for Surgically Resected Early Stage Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: Crizotinib versus Placebo for Patients with Tumors Harboring the Anaplastic Lymphoma Kinase (ALK) Fusion Protein. (031502)
ALLIANCE A081105: Randomized Double Blind Placebo Controlled Study of Erlotinib or Placebo in Patients with Completely Resected Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFR) Mutant Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC). (031503)
ALLIANCE A151216: Adjuvant Lung Cancer Enrichment Marker Identification and Sequencing Trial (ALCHEMIST): A screening trial for A081105 and E4512. (031504)
PrE0504: A Phase I/II Study of Glembatumumab Vedotin in Patients with gpNMB-Expressing, Advanced or Metastatic Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Lung (031603)
NCI/CTEP #9903: A Phase 1B Study of AZD9291 in Combination with Navitoclax in EGFR-Mutant Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Following Resistance to Initial EGFR Kinase Inhibitor (031610)
BTCRC-LUN16-081: Phase II Study of Consolidation Immunotherapy with Nivolumab and Ipilimumab or Nivolumab alone following Concurrent Chemoradiotherapy for Unresectable Stage IIIA/IIIB Non-small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC). (031706)
MK3475-158: A Clinical Trial of Pembrolizumab (MK3475) Evaluating Predictive Biomarkers in Subjects with Advanced Solid Tumors (KEYNOTE 158) (051516)
An Open-label Phase 1 Trial of the Safety and Efficacy of Daily Subcutaneous SPL-108 Injections When Used in Combination with Paclitaxel in Patients with Platinum-resistant, CD44+, Advanced Ovarian Epithelial Cancer (051607)
A Phase 1 Study of the Safety, Tolerability, and Pharmacokinetics of MGA012 in Patients with Advanced Solid Tumors (Endometrial and Sarcoma Cohorts) (051611)
R3767-ONC-1613: A Phase 1, Open-Label, Dose-Escalation and Cohort Expansion First-in-Human Study of the Safety, Tolerability, Activity and Pharmacokinetics of REGN3767 (anti-LAG-3 mAb) Administered Alone or in Combination with REGN2810 (anti-PD-1 mAb) in Patients with Advanced Malignancies (051706)
A Basket Trial of Pembrolizumab in Patients with Advanced Solid Tumors and Genomic Instability (multi-center) (051709)
A Phase II Study of Preoperative Pembrolizumab for Mismatch-Repair Deficient and Epstein-Barr Virus Positive Gastric Cancer followed by Chemotherapy and Chemoradiation with Pembrolizumab (071702)
S1613: A Randomized Phase II Study of Trastuzumab and Pertuzumab (TP) Compared to Cetuximab and Irinotecan (CETIRI) in Advanced/Metastatic Colorectal Cancer (MCRC) with HER-2 Amplification. (071806)
NRG-GI004: Colorectal Cancer Metastatic dMMR Immuno-Therapy (COMMIT) Study: A Randomized Phase III Study of mFOLFOX6/Bevacizumab Combination Chemotherapy with or Without Atezolizumab or Atezolizumab Monotherapy in the First-Line Treatment of Patients with Deficient DNA Mismatch Repair (dMMR) Metastatic Colorectal Cancer (071807)
A021502: Randomized Trial of Standard Chemotherapy Alone or Combined with Atezolizumab as Adjuvant Therapy for Patients with Stage III Colon Cancer and Deficient DNA Mismatch Repair (071808)
KEYNOTE 365: Phase Ib/II Trial of Pembrolizumab (MK-3475) Combination Therapies in Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer (mCRPC). (081611)
A Pilot Study of Neoadjuvant Cetuximab in Advanced Squamous Cell Carcinomas of Skin (SCCS) (091303)
The BAMM Trial: BRAF, Autophagy and MEK inhibition in Metastatic Melanoma: A Phase I/2 Trial of Dabrafenib, Trametinib and Hydroxychloroquine in Patients with Advanced BRAF Mutant Melanoma (091503)
COG: AHOD1721 Risk-based, response-adapted, Phase II open-label trial of nivolumab + brentuximab vedotin (N + Bv) for children, adolescents, and young adults with relapsed/refractory (R/R) CD30 + classic Hodgkin lymphoma (cHL) after failure of first-line therapy, followed by brentuximab + bendamustine (Bv + B) for participants with a suboptimal response. (CheckMate 744: CHECKpoint Pathway and Nivolumab Clinical Trial Evaluation) (111605)
Children's Oncology Group APEC1621SC: NCI-COG Pediatric MATCH (Molecular Analysis for Therapy Choice) Screening Protocol (111706)
EAY131: Molecular Analysis for Therapy Choice (MATCH) (171701)
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Summary of Meeting on Discussion of Transportation Policy
Civic Caucus, 8301 Creekside Circle, Bloomington, MN 55437
Present: Verne C. Johnson, chair; David Broden, Marianne Curry (by phone), Paul Gilje, Jim Hetland (by phone), Tim McDonald, Wayne Popham (by phone), and Clarence Shallbetter
A. Context of the meeting : The Civic Caucus has devoted several meetings to a discussion of state transportation issues. Today we're conducting an internal discussion on possible conclusions we might consider. We'll plan ask all electronic participants to comment on the summary of today's meeting, after which we are likely to prepare a position paper. Before we release any such position paper we'd first invite participants to suggest changes and, after approval by the Civic Caucus, to sign on in support before the position paper is officially distributed.
B. Preliminary central conclusion— To give the reader a context for the various comments appearing below, here's a summary of what appeared to be a central conclusion emerging from today's discussion:
Minnesota is swamped by fragmented decision-making in transportation— Minnesota's future transportation path is becoming a laundry list of earmarked local investments, assembled by a host of different agencies, without fitting into an overall plan. We seem hopelessly swamped by fragmented decision making. Today's main transportation problem is not lack of revenue. It's leadership. We must have a statewide comprehensive transportation plan with priorities. Our challenge, with our fragmented system, is who is responsible for such a plan. That is the central need as we look ahead.
We should be guided by these principles:
—Recognizing that transportation leadership begins with the Governor.
—Establishing and following clear statewide transportation objectives
—Affirming that the future of the state's economy as a job-producer and sustainer is dependent upon efficient movement of goods and people
—Requiring a statewide plan for roads, rail, and buses that must be followed by all transportation agencies.
—Placing transportation revenue control in the Governor and Legislature
C. Points related to the summary conclusion— During the meeting the following points of concern on transportation policy were identified. These points are organized under four categories, Leadership, Structure, Priorities, and Revenue.
a. Importance of transportation to the economy of the state —Transportation policy ought not be based on the sum total of all the projects favored by every agency or interest group. Transportation ought to be regarded for what it is—a central component in building the economy of the state—and be planned strategically. Is the need to bring raw materials to business and goods to markets, so essential for the state's economy, being overlooked in favor of the more popular need of moving people? Freight trains, trucks and barges play key roles.
b. Importance of identifying specific objectives —State policy on transportation needs to be expressed specifically, so that people throughout the state can clearly understand the purposes of major investments. The Interstate highway system started in the 1950s had clear federal objectives.
c. Strategic leadership by the Governor and Legislature is essential — The Governor must reclaim transportation policy for the people of the state, with clear direction from the Legislature as to what is expected. It is essential that overall strategies be outlined, in sufficient detail to assure a framework for intelligent choices in an atmosphere of continuous surplus of needs and shortage of funds. Only at the state level, within the offices of Governor and the Legislature, is it possible to bring all aspects of transportation together in one place and produce any kind of coherent statewide policy.
a. Current situation is much more serious than is widely accepted or understood —We in Minnesota have established so many independent and overlapping governmental arrangements for planning, building, maintaining, and financing roads, buses, and rail systems that it is virtually impossible today to identify—let alone implement—goals. The problem is intensifying year-by-year as new structural and financing devices are added. Regrettably, the problem is not widely recognized. When it comes to competing with other states for economic development, we ought to be keenly aware that a strong transportation system can offset natural handicaps caused by our location.
b. Multiple interests are present— Decisions on rail, buses, and roads are parceled among many agencies and units of government, each with its own interest groups advocating expansion and claiming their own revenue sources. Struggles among rail, bus, and road interests, among different parts of the state and among different agencies and levels of government are inevitable, and might be desirable. These struggles assure that needs won't be overlooked. But an absence of overall direction means local and personal interests inevitably will triumph over the wider public interest.
The title of one agency, the Minnesota Department of Transportation, implies influence over all transportation, but its traditional assignment, highways, remains its prime function. A State Planning Agency was abolished several years ago, although arguments are made that the state planning function was simply reassigned to other parts of state government. Nevertheless, state planning is clearly not acknowledged as a strategic part of state government today.
c. Regional needs don't jibe with jurisdictional boundaries —The Metropolitan Council's transportation responsibilities are largely limited to a seven-county area, even though the real metro area has extended at least to 11 counties and perhaps to as many as 19 counties.
3. PRIORITIES
a . Demands by different interests are very influential —Regardless of the importance of ranking projects by sober analysis and systematic rating, the demands expressed by units of government, associations of communities, and other affected interests appear very influential in setting priorities.
Setting priorities for capital improvements is an essential part of every public and private endeavor, and need not be different when it comes to transportation. Usually priorities can be clearly identified based on widely recognized measurements. While results of computer analysis are never accepted without question, but they can build much needed rationality into every system that weighs one need against another.
b. Imbalance between new construction and rebuilding/maintenance— Minnesota needs aggressive action on rebuilding and maintenance to preserve its substantial network of roads, buses and rails for years to come. Yet we are using capital earmarks for construction and too often giving insufficient attention to the resulting future operating and rebuilding expenses that will be incurred.
c. Availability of federal matching dollars is distorting real needs— In many cases it appears that certain projects are scheduled mainly because of availability of federal dollars, even though the state and localities might have higher priorities elsewhere.
If a clear federal purpose is not present—such as it was when the Interstate highway system was enacted in the 1950s—perhaps federal dollars could flow directly to the states, similar to the way federal Community Development Block Grants (CDBG) flow to cities. Or, maybe the federal gasoline tax could simply be returned to the states where the tax was paid.
d. Questionable decisions on choice of modes —Who decides that Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) rather than Light Rail Transit (LRT) is appropriate for the 35W corridor south of Minneapolis? If BRT is cheaper, why isn't that option considered in corridors with less travel demand than 35W? Why should higher priority be attached to transit systems whose vehicles are fixed to a new set of inflexible rights-of-way (rails) rather than taking maximum advantage of vehicles that use existing, flexible, rights-of-way (roads)?
e. High-demand, congestion-producing, job-related cross-town trips often seem to have lower priority than traditional downtown-oriented routes— Fixed-route-based transit plans traditionally have succeeded economically with destinations of large concentrations of employment. But the Twin Cities area has a large majority, 85 percent or more, of its jobs outside the two downtowns. Cannot new means be devised to serve such locations?
The biggest need for workers and employers is that the workers have available a transportation system that gets them to work as efficiently as possible. A transit system that serves only those workers and employers who happen to be served by downtown-oriented fixed transit routes will touch barely a fraction of work trips—particularly in a metro area where trips resemble more a ball of yarn than spokes on a wheel.
f. Groups with control over public funding sources have extraordinary influence on priorities —The state constitution gives counties and cities exclusive use of a significant portion of state gasoline and motor vehicle license revenue. The constitution also prescribes which agencies shall have access to the sales tax on new and used vehicles.
State law has authorized metro counties to raise sales tax revenue that is specifically limited to rail and to bus ways. Moreover, each county essentially exercises veto power over how much of such revenue stays within the county. Almost forgotten is the fact that counties under the constitution are not home rule units of government. They are operating arms of the state.
g. Officially, many projects in the state aren't subject to "earmarking"— MnDOT, for example, makes decisions on priorities for most of its revenue for most state highways, except for an occasional federally-earmarked road or a project specified in the state bonding bill. Earmarking is much more common for bus and rail improvements. Even MnDOT can be subject to pressure from individual legislators and interest groups.
h . Stated goals needed for setting priorities —A few stated goals are needed, such as (a) maintaining the integrity of the existing system, (b) assuring the movement of goods throughout the state, (c) providing congestion relief, (d) lessening fragmented decision-making, and (e) not becoming subservient to federal earmarks.
i. Using transportation policy to deliberately influence development needs a closer look— Influencing the location of new residential and business development, not just easing congestion, is frequently cited as an objective, but no one knows who is supposed to make development decisions or whether such a strategy is sound or even will work. Moreover, development objectives frequently conflict with one another. Is the concept of discouraging urban sprawl a desirable development objective? If so, how is long distance commuter rail extending to outlying counties consistent with such an objective?
We need to recognize that transportation is but one—and maybe not the most significant—factor affecting where, what kind, and how much residential and commercial development occurs. Developers and land investors, working with individual municipalities, are extremely important. Location and timing of construction of major sewers might be the most significant of public investments in directing development.
4. REVENUE
a. Finding revenue sources outside the general fund —The general revenue fund is in precious short supply for services like education and health and human services, which are poorly suited to be funded by other sources. Transportation can rely on user taxes and need not be supported with general revenues. However, transportation in Minnesota has tapped general revenue sources twice in the last three years.
b. Decisions on paying for operating expenses are not being made at the same time as decisions on capital investments— Today, financing for capital needs of rail, bus or roads is always considered first, with operating expenses assumed to be a later, lesser-important concern. Lawmakers should insist that every capital project for transportation be accompanied by arrangements to cover operating and maintenance expenses. With fare box revenue covering one-third or less of operating expenses, and with operating expenses escalating, even as riders increase, it is absolutely critical that operating and capital financing be arranged together, up front.
c. Different kinds of vehicles might not be paying their proportionate share of transportation expenses, based on weight, distance traveled and time of day— If certain vehicles aren't paying for the wear and tear they cause, their fees ought to be adjusted accordingly.
d. Newer methods for financing transportation need to be evaluated —Shortcomings of existing revenue sources that are dependent upon the price of vehicles and the price and usage of gasoline are clearly evident. But so many other options have yet to be implemented, such as having users pay according to weight of the vehicle, time of day, location, and length of trip. The state is hardly prepared for taxing energy used by electrically-powered vehicles.
e. Avoid past practices of revenue allocation when new sources are implemented —Lawmakers should no longer permit any one agency, level of government or mode of transportation be granted exclusive access to revenue sources, which has been a widespread practice for decades, and even has multiplied in recent years. If a new source is identified, the state itself should retain all rights for distribution of the funds. In no event should new revenues be allocated as are current constitutionally-dedicated revenues. Nothing is perhaps more critical in implementing state transportation policy.
No operating agency for any purpose—transportation or otherwise—doesn't hope for a stable revenue source that isn't vulnerable to year-by-year decisions of elected officials. But elected officials must retain authority over revenues—to keep revenues in check and to preserve representative government. As has been clearly evident recently, revenues sometimes shrink, significantly. Elected officials ought not have to stand by helplessly as some agency continues to reap funds automatically because of a previously-approved statute or constitutionally approved revenue share.
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Are you sitting comfortable?
Getting the right saddle is vital for comfort and performance, not to mention your ability to procreate, but finding the right one can be proper pain the…
What kind of relationship do you have with your saddle? For some, it’s like an arranged marriage – you simply accept the one that comes with your bike and learn to live with it. Others will change their saddle regularly, always trying something new, like an internet dater in search of the perfect partner.
It’s not always easy to tell whether you’ll get on with a saddle by looks alone (or weight, for that matter), and considering the intimate nature of the relationship between rider and saddle, it’s important to take the time to see if you work well together and feel comfortable after long periods in each other’s company. Especially if you’re thinking of having kids…
Protecting the perineum
Allow us to scaremonger for a moment. In 1997 in the prominent US magazine Bicycling, a famous Boston urologist made a bold claim: ‘There are only two kinds of male cyclists – those who are impotent and those who will be impotent.’ As for female cyclists, the potential damage is similarly worrying. The reason is down to the pressure that saddles exert on the sensitive arteries and nerves that run through your perineum –the area that sits right behind your sexual organs. Crushing them regularly on a narrow seat can lead to permanent damage.
Dr Iain Spears at Teesside University published a paper on the effect of the saddle on the perineum. ‘The problem is that your body isn’t designed to have high loads on your perineum, unlike your foot which has got unique adaptations for high loads of stress,’ he says. ‘Obviously that delicate region of your body doesn’t have that sort of protective mechanism – evolution hasn’t fully equipped us for bike riding. The saddle pushes up the soft tissues of the pubic arch, cutting off circulation. That numbness you feel is a sign of the kind of permanent nerve damage that can lead to sexual dysfunction.’
It’s a scary statement and, after a flurry of scientific studies agreed that the risks of saddle use are real, manufacturers have been increasingly addressing the problem of blood flow in riders’ lower regions. Most visibly, that can be seen in the abundance of saddles with a cut-out or channel down the middle.
The principle behind this channel is fairly straightforward – to remove pressure from the perineum and force stronger parts of your body to offer more support. ‘If you follow your hamstrings up your legs, where they connect to your pelvis, you’ll find the ischial tuberosity. That’s actually designed for load – it’s what you sit on all day,’ says Spears. A hole in the saddle relocates pressure to the ischial tuberosities, better known as the sit bones, with a view to solving the problem of genital numbness. Indeed, some saddles have taken the concept to its natural extreme, such as Selle Italia’s Superflow SLR, which looks to be more hole than saddle.
The cut out saddle seems like an ideal solution to perineum problems, but there
are potential flaws in the concept. Hamish Bingley of Fi’zi:k argues that with a shape that’s adequately moulded, there’s no need for a supplementary cut out: ‘We don’t want to reduce the contact area because in doing so you would, by definition, increase pressure on the part of your backside that’s going to go down on the saddle.’
Fi’zi:k isn’t alone in that view. Yannick Christiaens, product manager at Forza saddles, says, ‘In some of the pressure tests we’ve done, some of our competitors located holes or cut-outs in areas where there was no pressure. So it was odd to remove material there as you decrease the surface area, meaning you will get higher peak pressures somewhere else – that will hurt over time.’ As a result Forza only offers cut-outs for women’s saddles. ‘Our lady line of saddles has a cut out, as that’s more an issue of friction in that area,’ says Christiaens.
Interestingly, many saddles actually have the structural design of a cut-out, but cover it with the external fabric of the saddle, leaving no visible hole. That offers potentially softer spots but without entirely removing the support that a mild level of surface contact offers. It means that you can’t always judge perineum protection from looks alone.
Another solution to shifting the weight over to the sit bones is to remove the nose of the saddle altogether. Several manufacturers create saddles with no nose, such as ISM, which has created a range of saddles with two prongs where the nose would be, and Dash, whose Strike.9 saddle has a blunt butt in place of a nose. The design has been tried on and off for decades, but has most recently been supported by the findings of a comically named study called Cutting Off Your Nose To Save Your Penis, published in the Journal Of Sexual Medicine. That said, the study was based on a sample group of patrolling police officers, so the significance for race riders may be a little more complex.
A final area where many would seek a better level of relief would be through extra padding. Unfortunately, though, the picture isn’t clear here either. Excess padding can actually exacerbate the problem, says Forza’s Christiaens:‘We focus on optimising material distribution to ensure different densities in different parts of the saddle depending on where support is needed, or else the saddle can mould around the sit bones rather than assert pressure against them, putting pressure back on the perineum.’
That’s a view shared by both Fi’zi:k and Prologo. Salvatore Truglio of Prologo says, ‘We design multiple density padding to provide softer padding in some places or firm support in others. That means we can share the pressure all over the saddle’s surface to avoid pressure peaks in the
pelvic area, improving blood flow.’
What that means, then, is that prodding a saddle for softness is likely to offer little insight into comfort or protection for your nether regions. And there’s another negative, according to Adrian Timmis, ex-pro, coach and bike fitter with Cadence Sport. ‘You don’t want something that’s going to compress or bend too much because you’re going to end up losing leg extension and losing power,’ he says.
There may be no quick fix for perineum pain and numbness from the saddle, but looking at the wider picture can be more useful in addressing the troubles.
‘It’s a whole dynamic system,’ Spears says. ‘Obviously the more weight on your handlebars and on the pedals the less will be applied to the perineum.’ Which is
where a good bike fitter comes in.
Timmis reckons the wider fit of the bike is often to blame for discomfort: ‘People blame the saddle for a lot of things, but the level of comfort is often just as dependent on the position of the handlebars and brake levers.’
Usually people are too quick to jump to the conclusion that the saddle is at fault, he says. ‘If I was to somehow change the position of your handlebars while you ride, you would probably begin to feel uncomfortable on the saddle. But generally you won’t blame the handlebars for that, you’ll blame the saddle, which is not addressing the real problem.’
Protecting your privates isn’t just about the type of saddle and the bike set-up, but also about how much you move around on the bike. Spears argues that it’s an issue of compression and duration together.
‘If you’re not pushing hard on your pedals and not changing position on the saddle or standing up, that will create more strain on the perineum. It’s not down to compression alone – it’s how long that’s happening for and whether your body gets a bit of respite.’
Movement, then, can be one solution to perineum trouble, but the type of movement you make while you pedal will also play a big part in what kind of saddle you need.
Suiting the shape
Scary sexual problems aside, the saddle is pivotal to the dynamics of riding. If a saddle causes you to move too much, or restricts your freedom of movement, it can cause referred stresses in other parts of the body.
Manufacturers now design saddles with various riding styles in mind. Some riders will move their pelvis more than others during the pedal stroke, while some will ride with a more curved spine than others. Those variables affect the type of saddle needed for that rider. Several brands offer saddle designs specific to each rider type, with an entirely custom approach to the buying process.
Fi’zi:k, for example, has a three-tier system in which it categorises riders as ‘snakes’, ‘chameleons’ or ‘bulls’, with the former being more spinally flexible and the latter less flexible. PRO has an uncannily similar categorisation with its Falcon, Turnix and Griffon saddles, which also take flexibility and hip movement into account.
Both approaches rest on the basic rule that a deep, curved saddle will lock a rider into position more than a flat saddle, which conversely will enable a rider to move freely over the saddle. PRO focuses more on side-to-side hip movements, but the principle of a curved saddle restricting and a flat saddle being freer remains central to the range.
‘It’s important to get the right shape,’ says Fi’zi:k’s Bingley. ‘If you are, say, more on the “bull” end of the spectrum and you’re on an Arione, that’s wrong for you as you’re not supported when rotating your hips. If you’re at the “snake” end of the spectrum, the Arione should be comfortable but you might find it a bit restrictive, because you’d be sat in the pocket of the saddle, and there isn’t the freedom to move up and down.’
That said, it’s difficult to prescribe saddles accurately based on hip movement, as much of it still comes down to personal preference. ‘Some people don’t like a shaped saddle, as even when you think you’ve got it in the right place it often still feels like there’s too much pressure on the nose,’ Timmis argues. What’s more, the shape of the saddle doesn’t tell the entire story. The position of the saddle, both on the rails and in terms of angle, will play a big part in finding a good position.
Timmis explains his approach: ‘When I fit a saddle I always start with it horizontal – I’d never advise someone to tilt the nose up. If the saddle does need to be pointed down, the nose should not be below the middle of the saddle’s depth [from top of the saddle to bottom of the rails] as you’re going to slide forward and lose leg extension. It will also cause you to constantly shuffle back, which will cause a lot of discomfort.’
So it seems that your choice of saddle could come down to what kind of rider you are and how much you move about on the saddle. But that now throws up a whole new set of questions because, according to some experts, the whole job of a saddle is to stop you moving around and lock you into your most efficient position.
In a position of power
‘If you think logically about your position, you were measured on the bike so you have the correct knee angle and the correct biomechanical efficiency,’ says Christiaens of Forza. ‘But if the saddle shape allows you to move too easily to the front end, you can lose that ideal mechanical position that was fitted for you. So that’s what we wanted to accomplish with our shape – to maintain
your position whatever your riding style is.’
Partly that static position can be achieved by correct bike fit, but the shape, padding and material of your saddle are also factors. Pro riders sometimes add grippy patches to their saddles to lock in their position on time-trials or long climbs. Saddle manufacturer Prologo has advanced the concept with its Nago Evo road saddle (see p23), which is topped with its rubber ‘octopus sucker’ CPC technology to hold the rider firmly in place.
The thinking is sound. Borut Fonda, biomechanical researcher at Birmingham University, explains that sustaining power is often reliant on a solid contact with the saddle: ‘The fit of the saddle is important as it’s one of only three contact points with the bike. It comes down to something called open and closed kinetic chains. A closed kinetic chain means the body is in contact with the platform where power is applied; an open kinetic chain is when one part of
the body is not in contact with the machine or the ground [jumping, for example].’
If you’re sliding around on the saddle, you can’t properly transfer power through that contact point with the bike, which will affect performance and can transfer strain to other parts of the body. Fonda says, ‘If a saddle isn’t supporting you, your lower back and arms have to work to stabilise your position and close the chain. They can’t deliver power, which will increase oxygen consumption, reduce the efficiency of pedalling, and increase strain on vertebrae and joints.’
This theory is long-established in time-trial saddles, and it could be that we see
more of their design elements finding their way into road saddles in the future, as manufacturers look for more ways to offer performance benefits as well as comfort.
Ultimately, when it comes to finding your perfect partner, there’s more to consider than whether your saddle matches your bar tape. As with dating, no one can tell you which saddle you will get on with best – you simply have to spend time with them to see if you are compatible. And, as with all relationships, you should be wary of picking up something you found online.
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Internet of Things? Security Nightmare
Oh, yah, but it's so COOL to use these, right?
The Internet of Things (IoT) has connected everything from smoke alarms to fridges and cars, making life easier and safer – but it has also given hackers a new way to attack their victims, warns HP.
In a study of the ten most popular IoT devices (which it did not name in its report) HP found 250 potentially dangerous security vulnerabilities.
The devices came from manufacturers of TVs, webcams, home thermostats, remote power outlets, sprinkler controllers, hubs for controlling multiple devices, door locks, home alarms, scales and garage door openers.
All of the devices included remote smartphone applications which were used to control them.
It was found that 90 per cent of the devices collected personal information, 70 per cent transmitted that data on an unencrypted network and 60 per cent had insecure user interfaces. Eight out of ten failed to require a strong enough password.
Like, ya'know, that garage-door opener you can hit with your smartphone? Or how about a nice hot stove burning whatever's on top of it?
And that doesn't count the NSA's nosiness, either.
HT: Ticker
And Lois Lerner's a Bitch. So?
Who'd have ever guessed?
Newly released emails by Lois Lerner, the former IRS official at the center of the tea party targeting scandal, show “deep animus towards conservatives, which she refers to as ‘—holes,’” according to a House committee. --WaTimes quoted at Gateway
Happy to join Lerner in calling a spade a spade.
Warren Buffett v. Electricity
It appears that Warren Buffett's BNSF railroad cannot meet its contractural obligations to deliver coal to at least one Wisconsin utility. This means the utility may have to shut down its plant and purchase electricity on the open market.
That, of course, will cost its customers a lot of money.
What the hell is Warren's problem? A little too much Obozo-worship?
V.A.: It's Always "More Money!!"
Yah, so the VA will get another $17 billion or so, $7Bn of which will go toward hiring doctors.
Here's a question: what was VA spending money on before this?
Einstein's insanity proposition is in play here, folks.
OK, George Will. We Can Do That
George Will makes one good point.
...“Well, I think Kirsten’s largely right,” Will responded. “I think we ought to say to these children, ‘Welcome to America. You’re going to go to school and get a job and become Americans. We have 3,141 counties in this country. That’d be 20 per county.”
“The idea that we can’t assimilate these 8-year-old criminals with their teddy bears is preposterous,” the conservative columnist went on...
Let's go further and make the cutoff at 13-year-olds.
But none older than that. Zero. Zip. Nada.
Disney's War on Women
Finally! After 50+ years, the feminazis have discovered the root of all sexism.
Disney.
...Disney cartoons and other G-rated children’s movies are full of “gendered sexuality,” subjecting women to the male “objectifying gaze,” as “heterosexuality is constructed through hetero-romantic love relationships as exceptional, powerful, magical, and transformative.”
These were the conclusions of Women’s Studies professors Karin Martin and Emily Kazyak in their 2009 research paper, “Hetero-Romantic Love and Heterosexiness in Children’s G-Rated Films.” The sociologists examined “all the G-rated films grossing $100 million dollars or more between 1990 and 2005″ and found that these movies convey what feminists call “heteronormativity”...
The Scourge of the Planet, owned by ABC, no less!!
HT: The Real McCain
Demolishing the Republic
Jefferson and Madison were no fans of Hamilton, who seems to have been a linear ancestor of the Crony Capitalists of today. It's worth noting that the Cronies are non-partisan; they'll polish the knobs of anyone in office because their god is money.
Anyhoo, their methodology was laid out in 1972 in this newspaper editorial.
1. It being necessary in order to effect the change, to get rid of constitutional shackles and popular prejudices, all possible means and occasions are to be used for both these purposes....
4. In drawing all bills, resolutions, and reports, keep constantly in view that the limitations in the Constitution are ultimately to be explained away. Precedents and phrases may thus be shuffled in, without being adverted to by candid or weak people, of which good use may afterward be made.
5. As the novelty and bustle of inaugurating the government will for some time keep the public mind in a heedless and unsettled state, let the press during this period be busy in propagating the doctrines of monarchy and aristocracy. For this purpose it will be particular useful to confound a mobbish democracy with a representative republic, that by exhibiting all the turbulent examples and enormities of the former, an odium may be thrown on the character of the latter....
6. But the grand nostrum will be a public debt, provided enough of it can be got and it be medicated with the proper ingredients. If by good fortune a debt be ready at hand, the most is to be made of it. Stretch it and swell it to the utmost the items will bear. Allow as many extra claims as decency will permit. Assume all the debts of your neighbors - in a word, get as much debt as can be raked and scraped together, and when you have got all you can, "advertise" for more, and have the debt made as big as possible. This object being accomplished, the next will be to make it as perpetual as possible; and the next to that, to get it into as few hands as possible. The more effectually to bring this about, modify the debt, complicate it, divide it, subdivide it, subtract it, postpone it, let there be one-third of two-thirds, and two-thirds of one-third, and two-thirds of two-thirds; let there be 3 percents, and 4 percents, and 6 percents, and present 6 percents, and future 6 percents. To be brief, let the whole be such a mystery that a few only can understand it; and let all possible opportunities and informations fall in the way of these few to cinch their advantages over the many....
[8].... (4) A great debt will require great taxes; great taxes, many taxgatherers and other officers; and all officers are auxiliaries of power. (5) Heavy taxes may produce discontents; these may threaten resistance; and in proportion to this danger will be the pretense for a standing army to repel it. (6) A standing army, in its turn, will increase the moral force of the government by means of its appointments, and give it physical force by means of the sword, thus doubly forwarding the main object.
9. The management of a great funded debt and a extensive system of taxes will afford a plea, not to be neglected, for establishment of a great incorporated bank. the use of such a machine is well understood. If the Constitution, according to its fair meaning, should not authorize it, so much the better. Push it through by a forced meaning and you will get in the bargain an admirable precedent for future misconstructions.
There's more at the link.
Why yes, indeed! Those old dead white guys actually understood human nature!
Who'da'thunk??
HT: Cold Fury
Ruling Class Member Descends to Our Level!
The Ruling Class tries living like regular citizens for a week.
Wailing and gnashing of teeth!
Hell's bells! Last night I popped a can of tuna into some leftover pasta, sprinkled it with lemon/pepper and grated Parmesan, munched it down cold. In winter, same recipe, nuked for a minute.
The poor, poor, dear, Ruling Class member. Oh, the agony!!
S.T.E.M. Storm of Lies
The Official Line of Silicon Valley--that the US does not produce enough Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math graduates--is in conflict with Economics 101.
You remember Econ 101, don't you? The supply/demand intersection, where the price rises when supply is short, given constant or increasing demand?
Yah, THAT part.
...Some research suggests that there may be an oversupply of STEM professionals. An Economic Policy Institute study last year found that the supply of STEM graduates exceeds the number hired each year by a ratio of nearly 2-to-1, depending on field of study. In engineering, colleges historically produce about 50% more graduates than are hired into engineering jobs, the study found.....
..."The unemployment in STEM is low now, but wage growth in most STEM occupations has been pretty flat for many years and employment growth has only recently shown any bounce," said Lowell....
Let's put it this way: the market doesn't lie. But Silicon Valley management--well, it DOES lie.
Halbig
Yah, well, let's see if the Judicial branch maintains its legitimacy by ruling on the plain meaning of the text.
Here's the House's finding:
This joint staff report shows that IRS and Treasury arrived at the decision to extend premium subsidies to federal exchanges without a thorough or proper analysis. There is simply no evidence that IRS conducted an adequate analysis of this issue prior to the issuance of the
proposed rule.
On three separate occasions, IRS and Treasury employees were unable to provide the Committees with detailed information about the factors they considered before determining
that premium subsidies should be allowed in federal exchanges
When the potential illegality of the rule was raised by members of the general public and Members of Congress after the publication of the proposed rule, the evidence suggests that
IRS and Treasury once again failed to conduct a careful review and simply reiterated their
original assertions
While prior to the proposed rule, IRS and Treasury’s failure to conduct an adequate review of whether the text of law and PPACA’s legislative history supported its interpretation was largely due to other pressing priorities with the 36B regulation
....those "priorites" being political, of course.
IRS did not bother with either the history of the bill, nor its plain language. What governed the IRS' decision (made by Chief Counsel) was Obozoites at HHS who understood that if the law was implemented AS WRITTEN, residents of 36 States would suffer huge increases in health-insurance premiums.
And the (D) Party would not survive the elections of '12, '14, or '16--or perhaps ever.
The "Recovery" Misses Big
While the MSM and its master, the Administration, bleats happy-talk, reality intervenes.
New Home Sales in June plunged to 406k vs 504k in May... (remember that 504k print was the catalyst for 'weather' is over and the market to surge 10%) Now that has soaked in, consider this is equal lowest sales print since September 2013 (and Dec 2012) and the biggest miss since July 2013.The last 3 months of exuberance have all been revised significantly lower (most especially May's appartently make-believe number). What is even more troubling in the "survey" vs "reality" world is this collapse in sales when NAHB Sentiment surged to near cycle highs. For context, this is a 5-standard-deviation miss from economists' expectations,...
Musta been really horrible weather in June. (Now it's called "climate disruption.") Looks more like "economic disruption" to me and the only constant in the last 6 years has been Obozo and the Perfumed Princes in Congress.
Hmmmm?
Where's Obozo's Hashtag Army?
President Girly-Pants' State Department doesn't make mention of SOME war criminals.
With a mass exodus of Christians from Mosul in the face of threats, the Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Louis Raphael Sako said that these Islamic militants are worse than Genghis Khan.
The Islamists are warning Christians that they must essentially convert or die.
Not even a hashtag offensive against the Saudi-sponsored (and US-armed) holocaust perps?
Wisconsin Employers Obtain Freedom of Religion
Despite the Senate Republicans, Wisconsin will abide by Hobby Lobby.
The state of Wisconsin will no longer be enforcing a state law requiring employers to provide contraception coverage in insurance plans offered to employees. A spokesman with the Office of the Commissioner of Insurance told Media Trackers on Monday that because of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. in June, state regulators are no longer requiring employers or insurance providers to abide by the state requirement.
...In 2013, AB 216 and SB 202 attempted to add a religious exemption to the statute. Assembly Republicans passed their version of the reform but the bill subsequently died in the GOP-controlled Senate....
Seems like many Senate Republicans need a remedial primary or two.
Got iPhone? Like Security? Fuggeddaboutit!
Apple has endowed iPhones with undocumented functions that allow unauthorized people in privileged positions to wirelessly connect and harvest pictures, text messages, and other sensitive data without entering a password or PIN, a forensic scientist warned over the weekend.
...Zdziarski said the service that raises the most concern is known as com.apple.mobile.file_relay. It dishes out a staggering amount of data—including account data for e-mail, Twitter, iCloud, and other services, a full copy of the address book including deleted entries, the user cache folder, logs of geographic positions, and a complete dump of the user photo album—all without requiring a backup password to be entered. ...
By the way, when you "paired" your iPhone with your car, the data-thief who wants to can use the car as its mode-of-stealing.
Baghdad Bob's New Job
Maybe Bob became Barry?
With a straight face, Barack Obama has been repeatedly telling us that the world is "more stable" and "less violent" than ever. In fact, he believes that this is the best time in history to be alive because of how peaceful and stable everything is. And of course Obama is more than happy to take credit for his role in bringing all of this "stability" about. Just this week, his press secretary told the media that this administration has "substantially improved" the "tranquility of the global community".
I dunno. Is "delusional" a defense for serial lying?
The Frauds of Obozo
SCOAMF is not incompetent. He's a revolutionary Marxist.
...new numbers released by the House Judiciary Committee show the “vast majority” of unaccompanied minors seeking asylum are granted it before even appearing before a judge. “Information from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) that shows 65 percent of unaccompanied alien minors’ asylum applications have been immediately approved by asylum officers in Fiscal Year 2014,”...
...Complicating matters, according to the committee, is the rate of fraud in asylum cases. The committee says “an internal Department of Homeland Security report” has shown that “at least 70 percent of asylum cases contain proven or possible fraud.”...--Byron York quoted at PJ
But regardless, Boehner's House will continue funding the fraud.
$12Bn Cut in Fed Budget: Why Bother?
The "conservative" House budget proposal reduces Fed spending by $12Bn in FY 2015.
Adfministrative "Law"? Not So Muich
Great podcast here from a lawprof about administrative "law" which is actually unconstitutional from the git-go.
Near the end, he mentions that Congress is perfectly happy with abdication of their Constitutional mandate to make ALL the laws (see the first sentence of the actual Constitution) because Congress-slime don't want to be responsible--they want to be re-elected.
Magna Carta, Metternich and Bismarck, Wilson (the perfect ass) are all involved.
For an egregiously evil example, read this post. For only a few hundred thou, the Greens wrote the EPA's new carbon dioxide regs. Yup--not only NOT Congress, but not even EPA.
Oh, by the way: Buy More Ammo.
HIghly Trained, Eh?
The old "shoot the dog" trick. Different ending
Armed robber shoots police officer. Police officers track suspect down to a trailer park. Dog enters the scene and a deputy opens fire—except that, in a twist on the usual story, he misses the pooch and plugs a young child, instead.
Yah, that "training" with deadly weapons really works. Lucky for the kid that it wasn't "spray and pray" training, eh?
More of The Usual Crap from D.C .
Let's not forget that a revolutionary occupies the White House and he has appointed revolutionaries to every Cabinet position involved here.
We'll have to deal with them later.
Meantime, the Feckless/Gonad-less Party's Glamor Boyzzz have a "solution"!!
Too bad it's another shit sandwich.
...Senator Cornyn and Democrats, instead of keeping their solution simple, are just further empowering the President who has created this problem.
They’re going to call their bipartisan solution the HUMANE Act, or the “Helping Unaccompanied Minors and Alleviating National Emergency Act”. Wow. So if we oppose their bad idea we are inhumane.
The proposal does not close the major inducement to the present crisis. In 2012, President Obama created the “Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals” (“DACA”) program without congressional approval. The K.I.S.S. approach would be for Congress to shut this down, seal the border, and quickly send back everyone who has crossed over. In fact, this bipartisan proposal does not even shut down DACA. But it does allow illegal immigrant children to hire lawyers paid for by you to petition judges appointed by Barack Obama for permission to stay in the United States.
And!!! In only TWO YEARS, the Revolutionary Guard should submit a "strategy" for control of the border.
Pathetic, useless, and temporizing. Pretty much sums up the "opposition" these days.
Fr. Berger, What Is "Direct Material Cooperation"?
Let's see, here. We're told that Catholic Charities of SE Wisconsin (that's the Milwaukee Archdiocese) may well "assist" the Feds in sheltering several hundred illegal aliens. We also know that 5 of every 6 such illegals are NOT "children;" they are adults. We also know that in the cases of the 16% who are actually 'children,' they are not "refugees"--and in most cases are being separated from their parents. Thus, the Archdiocese is facilitating illegal violation of immigration laws AND facilitating the breakup of families.
Here's the description of "cooperation in evil":
The Church has always condemned formal cooperation in evil where a person gives consent to evil being done by another. When someone does not agree, however, they can still be guilty of material cooperation in evil when they provide the means by which the evil is performed. Direct or proximate material cooperation in evil occurs when a person provides necessary tools to perform the evil act, e.g., when someone sells illegal drugs they are a material cooperator in evil since they are providing the necessary means to commit evil, either illegal drug use or illegal drug distribution. ...
...Remote material cooperators are those who provide indirect means to carry out the evil. The merchant of a sporting goods store sells ammunition to a hunter. Legal and moral. If that hunter commits an immoral act by using the bullets he just bought to kill an innocent person, the merchant is not guilty of direct material cooperation in evil. He MAY be guilty of remote material cooperation in evil if he neglected to report to the police suspicions or apprehensions he may have had when he sold the ammunition....
One more thing: how does this compare to parents objecting to Common Core? Since THOSE people are castigated and dissed by the Archbishop, his right-hand man, and the Educrat-in-Charge, how should Catholics react to Fr. Berger's (and the Archbishop's) apparent ..........ahhh.......problem in moral actions here?
Hmmmmmm?
Archdiocese of Milwaukee to Re-settle Illegals?
The border crisis moves north.
As undocumented children continue arriving at the US-Mexico border, FEMA has asked a Milwaukee agency to stand by – in case it’s needed.
... The local agency preparing to help is Catholic Charities of Milwaukee. Executive Director Fr. David Bergner says FEMA asked the organization to identify three potential sites, which could be used as a temporary shelter. Each would need to house 100 children. FEMA also requested staff, who could work at the shelter.
Bergner says Catholic Charities picked two former schools and a former office complex, which could be transformed into shelter space. He says the organization would coordinate food, clothing and education for the children, with a lot of assistance...
How very nice!
This raises a question. Of course the imperative is 'charity to all.' On the other hand, cooperating with the evil of breaking up families is not a "good," especially because in this case it also happens to be direct material cooperation with breaking the laws of the US.
It's also likely that this action is taken against the will of donors to Catholic Charities, or at least a large minority of them.
Your Future With Comcast
Time Warner (Gary Grunau's very own semi-monopoly in Milwaukee) will be selling out to Comcast.
Flee now, TWC customers.
...Comcast didn’t earn its reputation as America’s Worst Company overnight — it took years and years of hard work. From offering customers ridiculously overpriced bundle packages, to having the highest fees among any of its competitors, to offering some of the absolute worst customer service of any company in the United States, Comcast has toiled away tirelessly to perfect its craft of angering its own customers...
Oh, yes--it can get even worse!!
...When Block informs the representative that he wants to cancel his service, the representative refuses to do so and instead asks him why in the world would he even think of canceling Comcast, which in the rep’s mind has a sterling reputation for customer care....
That's right! Comcast is now imitating Hell! It's a one-way gate, no exit. Too bad, so sad.
Indiana's Pence on EPA
Y'all remember that Scott Walker is going to do something about EPA's upcoming murder of the Wisconsin economy.
Indiana's Pence did. Not much--it's just a letter--but it has some interesting factoids.
...Our state has a 300 year supply of coal, and coal has historically provided Hoosiers with reliable, affordable electricity. More than 80 percent of our electricity comes from coal, and the coal industry employs 28,000 Hoosiers. Hoosiers know that coal means jobs and coal means low-cost energy....
So that would be 28,000 more food-stamp folks in about 10 years. To Obozo, that's a feature, not a bug.
...The Obama Administration has already put in place regulations on power plants that will increase the cost of electricity in Indiana by 30 percent over the next seven years, according to the State Utility Forecasting Group. The newly proposed EPA rules for carbon dioxide emissions from existing and new power plants will only cause electricity rates to rise further while at the same time threatening the reliability of our electricity supply....
A thirty percent hike in rates BEFORE the latest destroy-America hit, and more to come.
If I were Pence, I would have declared EPA personnel to be persona non grata, rounded 'em up, and tossed them out of the State. I hear there are plenty of vacant spots in Guatemala and El Salvador.
Bed-Partner Racists, UPDATED
The U S Chamber of Commerce has a lot of 'splainin' to do. Seems like they're in bed with Michael Bloomberg, zillionaire anti-Second Amendment lefty--and a racist from Milwaukee.
The racist, frankly, seems to hate everyone except Hispanics. Pubbies are "nazis", TeaParty are "KKK." Par for the course.
Nice move, Orville!! May as well get it out on the table.
UPDATE: Sykes just reviewed the incident, and didn't highlight the involvement of the US Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber has courageously fought for dirt-cheap labor for years. Now we know what they REALLY think.
How to Pay the Jizya Tax
This is the coin in which I will pay the Jizya tax:
Catch it if you can!!
More Republican "Ethics"
Oh, sure, it was bipartisam--with a Republican majority.
A member of Congress used to have to specifically report the details if they traveled on someone else’s dime. As of last week, that rule was lifted with no public announcement.
The R Senatorial "ethics"? Buying several thousand votes to defeat a Conservative.
The R House "ethics"? Playing 'find the hat'.
Screw 'em all.
The Loss of Beauty, the Gain of Atheism
Benedict XVI mentioned beauty quite a bit, saying that it was an essential element of the liturgy. The iconoclasts like Rembert Weakland didn't think so highly of beauty.
Maybe they had a deeper problem than mere iconoclasm.
...The most precious, profound and important of the great ideas which the Left has raped from us is beauty. I need spend no time on the proposition that life without beauty is a nightmare: those who have seen true beauty – sublime beauty, if even for a moment – have nothing to which they can liken it except the ecstasies of mystics and the transports of saints. Beauty consoles the sorrowing; beauty brings joy and deepens understanding; beauty is like food and wine, and men who live surrounded by ugliness become shriveled and starved in their souls....
....At any point before World War One, if you asked any philosopher or intellectual what was the point of art, poetry, music, painting, sculpture, architecture, all of them of each generation all the way back to Socrates would have said the purpose of art is to seek beauty. Socrates himself would have said that by beauty, by the strong love and longing created in the human breast at the sight of something sublime, we are drawn out of ourselves, and are carried step by step away from the mundane to the divine.
The strongest argument against the atheism so beloved of the Left is not an argument that can be put in words, for it is the argument of beauty....If you see a sunset clothed in scarlet like a king descending to his empurpled pyre, or wonder at the gleaming thunder of a waterfall, if you find yourself fascinated by the soft intricacy of a crimson rose or behold the cold virgin majesty of the morning star, much less see and enter a cathedral or a walled garden, or you hear Schiller’s “Ode to Joy” by Beethoven or see the David of Michelangelo, or become immersed into the song and splendor and Northern sorrow of Wagner’s “Ring” or Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, if indeed you see real beauty and for a moment you forget yourself, then you are drawn out of yourself into something larger.
In that timeless moment of sublime rapture, the heart knows even if the head cannot put it into words that the dull and quotidian world of betrayal, pain, disappointment and sorrow is not the only world there is. Beauty points to a world beyond this world, a higher realm, a country of joy where there is no death. Beauty points to the divine.
Ari's trio: truth, beauty, goodness, have all been derogated or, worse, abrogated in most of today's liturgy. Chant is sublime, but unknown to 95% of Catholic children under the age of 12, and unknown to well over 80% of the Mass-goers between the ages of 25-60.
In the essay, the author posits that the atheist hates beauty because it's not egalitarian. Hmmmm. So, in their rush to 'egalitarize' the Mass--and we know that was the object--did the commissions and cooperating Bishops betray their real problem?
The TEA Party Is Not Dead
..not by a long shot.
Is "The Mandate" a Goner?
Well, perhaps, at least in this opinion.
After the Hobby Lobby decision, a number of people pointed to a reference to the so-called “accommodation” for religious-oriented organizations in the HHS contraception mandate to conclude that the Supreme Court’s decision would be limited to the for-profit sector, and only to certain methods of contraception. A series of orders the next day showed the latter was not true, and a decision late yesterday suggests the former isn’t, either.
The author also states that SCOTUS did not accept that baby-killing or other artificial contraception was a "compelling national interest", either, in the Hobby Lobby case.
Waukesha County Clerk's Political Ambitions
Seems like the Waukesha County Clerk--who recklessly "authorized" same-sex marriage--has political ambitions, like a nice fat State job someplace.
And we now know why Gov. Walker temporized about same-sex marriage.
...WKOW-TV in Madison has learned, and the governor's office has confirmed that Gov. Scott Walker's son, Alex Walker, served as an official witness to the same-sex marriage of a family member on June 9 in Waukesha County....
Uh-huh.
The kid's excuse is.......well......being a kid. "Young and dumb" is a fact, not an opinion. As to the Clerk? You decide.
The Real Democrat Party
PJB reiterates the facts about the Democrat Party's history, and sums it up:
...the party of slavery, secession and segregation...
That's reality, and it continues today. The Democrat Party's slaves are now kept on its 'Rights' Plantation where "rights" are trumpeted, such as the "right" to counter-natural "marriage", the "right" to responsibility-free sex and the "right" to other people's money.
In other words, the "right" to slavery of the soul, and segregation into the resulting ghettos, and secession from the American Idea--the Constitutional America.
ObozoEconomy: Partly Jobby
What the MSM didn't mention:
...full-time jobs CRATERED in June. There’s no “robust growth” here. It’s a massive jump in the ongoing transformation of American into a part-time economy. It’s awful news, the sort of thing that would be making Americans howl for new leadership and new ideas, if it was reported accurately.
The U.S. economy lost 523,000 full-time jobs in June. This was offset by an enormous surge of 799,000 part-time jobs....
That has nothing to do with ObozoCare mandates, of course. Nothing at all.
"Worst President?" Depends on Your Perspective
In some countries, he'd be just dandy!
HT: Thinker
The "Compelling Interest": Screwtape's Excrements
This is what happens when you let the Left (Screwtape's minions) control the narrative.
In Hobby Lobby, the compelling governmental interest is comprehensive preventive health care for women --Althouse
They're actually serious about that. "Health care" includes prevention of and/or termination of life.
Still Think Christie's a "Conservative"?
The Captain points to a new Christie pronouncement, which rivals or exceeds the Statism of Obozo (!)
...Christie proposed a new standard for involuntary commitment of patients who are not necessarily deemed dangerous “but whose mental illness, if untreated, could deteriorate to the point of harm"....and to require people forced to undergo mental health treatment to demonstrate “adequate medical evidence of suitability” if they want to get a firearms purchase identification card.
Wouldn't surprise me if this wacko actually gets a few votes at the Convention. It'll be useful to keep track of who voted for him.
ObozoCare: 99% Un-Verifiable
Ooooohhh, this is nice.
The federal Obamacare marketplace was unable to verify nearly 3 million irregularities in the applications for enrollment, according to a new audit by the Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG).
The audit, released Tuesday, found that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) resolved less than one percent of so-called “inconsistencies” related to the citizenship and residency status of Obamacare sign ups.
Even at this distance, I can see more HHS pen-and-phone waivers.
“The Federal marketplace was not able to resolve inconsistencies related to: citizenship, status as a national, lawful presence, residency, family size, annual household income, and whether the applicant was eligible for minimum essential coverage through employer-sponsored insurance,” the audit said.
Nothing major here, like whether they vote (R). Just minor stuff. But not to worry! Obozo's NSA jackboots probably have the information. IRS might have it, too, unless they destroyed the hard-drives.
Gay "Adoptions" or Lifestyle Purchases?
An essay which slaps one awake. (And a warning to the ObozoItes: the rest of the world ain't buying it, and there WILL be a political price to pay.)
...I have been to the United Nations and met with various representatives on the issue of same-sex parenting. I can’t reveal the names of the ambassadors I met, because this is all radioactive. But the bottom line is, whether they were from Europe, Asia, or Africa, they were more than aware that a freakish Nordic alliance of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Iceland has been trying to turn the whole globe into some kind of gay utopian dream. The ambassadors I've spoken with are not impressed with the gay pride parades that take place in Copenhagen. In fact, most of what the LGBT lobby is advocating makes their skin crawl, and with good reason.
They’re not morons. I’m no dummy, either. We aren’t fooled by this silly trick of trying to say that orphans being raised by their grandmothers are the same thing as two lesbians who manufacture a child using DNA they got from a fertility clinic. People have seen Blade Runner. People have read Brave New World. People know what it means to create human beings to satisfy wealthy people’s desire for designer kids. Remember the kidnappings by Boko Haram? They followed on the heels of earlier slave traffic devoted to providing children to wealthy families...
Umnnhhhh...yah. BMW, a nice yacht, and a couple of kiddies to play in the 5-acre yard on Fire Island.
And as for that warning:
...Having made four trips to England and France over the last year and a half, I see an angle that doesn’t get covered much in the states: the boom for the Euroskeptics in France and England came largely because their leaders forced gay marriage on the nations’ conservative parties (UMP and the Tories) at the behest of our president, who’s weirdly obsessed with homosexuality....
For some of us, that's the good news. Describing Obozo as "weirdly obsessed" is far too kind, by the way.
Teh Stupids: Fox 6 News
Seems as though Fox6's Lowe doesn't read the news.
...A lengthy feature broadcast June 29 on WITI-TV (FOX, Channel 6) provides evidence to support those who believe Walker has taken a hit. By the time reporter Mike Lowe’s piece aired, John Doe prosecutors had stated prominently that Walker was not a target. Separately, some reporters had walked back a bit from their initial stories by acknowledging that two judges had ruled against the prosecution and had halted the investigation.
Yet here is how WITI framed Lowe’s piece, packaged under a foreboding headline about "dark money."
"A secret John Doe investigation is exploring the link between Governor Scott Walker’s recall campaign and outside political groups to see if there was any illegal coordination...FOX6′s Mike Lowe has followed the money trail — to find out how politically influential organizations hide their donors using 'dark money.’
And blah, blah. I watched the "report" and noticed that it was all McCabe, all the time. To be fair, McCabe and Lowe did mention that "dark money" funds the Left, too--although the face of "dark money" was Wisconsin Family Action's exec director. Yah, well.
But this is not a shock. A few years ago, the "meteorologist" at Fox6, Condella, narrated a several-minute video essay about The End Of The World As We Know It due to.........ta-da!!...... "global warming." Among other things, Condella informed us that Wisconsin would turn into a vast savanna where rivers and lakes would virtually disappear. Deer would disappear too, and corn-growing would move to Canada or Alaska or maybe Mars.
Teh Stupids. Nothing new..
Inside Hobby Lobby, a Bomb
Hobby Lobby was a case about RFRA (Religious Freedom Restoration Act), so it's useful to understand RFRA. Terry Jeffrey enlightens, and it's not good news.
...Justice Samuel Alito wrote the court's majority opinion in Hobby Lobby. In it, he explains that RFRA "prohibits the federal government from taking any action that substantially burdens the exercise of religion unless that action constitutes the least restrictive means of serving a compelling government interest."
Joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Anthony Kennedy (who filed a concurring opinion), Alito argued that: 1) Forcing the employers in this case to provide insurance coverage for certain drugs and devices did indeed substantially burden their exercise of religion, 2) that the government did indeed have a compelling interest for forcing these employers to violate their religious beliefs, but 3) that the particular means the government used to advance this compelling interest force was not the least restrictive one available....
The Gummint "has a compelling interest" for murdering babies? Really? More precisely stated, the Gummint has a "compelling interest" which allows it to require 3rd parties to pay for baby-killing? Really?
Take baby-killing out of it, and read it this way: the Gummint has a "compelling interest" allowing it to force 3rd parties to pay for The Pill. Really?
Do You Really Think They're Just "Misguided"?
At one point in time, a lot of us thought that the Lefties were, on the whole, nice people who were a bit wacky on a few points. Maybe it's time to re-assess.
Here’s the real deal in full and without any sugarcoating: they’re fucking fascists. The system they’re trying to create is–ta da!–purely, simply, and wholly fascist. The only thing missing is the rampant nationalism, and that’s only a feature of one particular strain of the loathsome beast anyway.
Under fascism, business and industry are nominally privately held but are severely–very nearly completely–ruled by an all-powerful State. Corporations must conduct their activities exactly in accordance with the regulations issued by the State, with absolutely no right to deviate from its edicts and micromanagement. The economy itself is under strict central control; individual dissent is likewise suppressed.
The fascist nation is usually ruled by a charismatic leader with absolute dictatorial power. A pretense to democracy is sometimes half-heartedly maintained, but its elections are a sham, resulting in no meaningful change to the ruling apparat. Its domestic police forces are militarized and exercise their authority with only cursory restraint; their relationship to the citizenry they supposedly serve is adversarial, when it’s not outright hostile. Any of this beginning to sound familiar at all?
The New Amerika the Left is so mulishly a-building for us (America “fundamentally transformed,” as I believe somebody or other said a couple or three times) is a fascist tyranny. It is only a gossamer-thin tissue of deception away from open communism; it is antithetical, inimical, and irreconcilable to and with the government envisioned and set up by our Founders.
And you can just stop right there, because that’s the whole damned story; no further explication, excuses, or rationalization are necessary. The American Left is fascist in tooth and claw, to pervert a good old phrase a bit. That’s really all there is to it.
Oh, and lest we forget: deceitful, hysterical propaganda deployed in the early stages of the establishment of the fascist state to gin up frenzied hatred helpful to the cause is an essential part of the process.
I recall Charlie Sykes having amiable conversations on-air with John Chisholm, who is now--clearly--a militant authoritarian/repressive jackwad. No, he's not "nice." He's a......f*&^%ng fascist, right down to the 'deceitful, hysterical, propaganda.'
"Pack It Up and Go Home"? Really?
Yah, they're allegations, and the source...well....not exactly an icon of truth, justice, and the American Way.
On the other hand, maybe some Wisconsin pundits will re-think their devotion to the Karl Rove/NRSC/Cochran method of winning elections.
"Mental Health" Gun Cure? Nope.
Facts are anathema to the Left, and even some on the Right.
Jeffrey W. Swanson, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Duke University School of Medicine and lead author of the article in Annals of Epidemiology was quoted in the UCLA Newsroom saying ”but even if schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and depression were cured, our society’s problem of violence would diminish by only about 4 percent.” --Forbes quoted at The Captain's place
The problem is Evil, not "mental health," nor "lack of education," nor "lack of democracy," nor "poverty."
In other words, it's the human condition. But if the Progressives ever concede that, all their projects will be shown for what they are: a massive waste of time and Someone Else's Money.
Fr. Berger, What Is "Direct Material Cooperation"?...
The "Compelling Interest": Screwtape's Excrements...
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THE EMERALD TABLETS OF THOTH THE ATLANTEAN by M. Doreal
by Enki December 18, 2012 3 comments
forward by Duane Richtsmeier in http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EnkiSpeaks/
DR. DOREAL’S TRANSLATION
Dr. Doreal, who has a connection with the Great White Lodge, which also works through the Pyramid Priest-hood, was instructed to recover and return to the Great Pyramid, these Ancient Tablets. This was accomplished, but before returning them, Doreal was given permission to translate and retain a copy of the wisdom engraved on the Tablets. This was done in 1925, and now, permission has been given for this translation by Doreal to be published solely through the Brotherhood of the White Temple. This is the only authorized, original and true rendition of these Emerald Tablets. It is expected that many will scoff, yet the true student will read between the lines and gain wisdom. If the light is in you, the light which is engraved in the Tablets will respond.
THOTH, THE ATLANTEAN
When Thoth, the Atlantean and Master raised the people of Khem (Egypt) to a great civilization, and when the time came for him to leave Egypt, he erected The Great Pyramid over the entrance of the Great Halls of Amenti. In the Pyramid, he posited his records and appointed Guards for his secrets from among the highest of his people.
In later times, the descendants of these guards became the Pyramid Priests, while Thoth was deified as the God of Wisdom, the Recorder, by those in the age of darkness which followed his passing. In legend, the Halls of Amenti became the underworld, the Halls of the Gods, where the soul passed after death for judgment.
During later ages, the ego of Thoth passed into the bodies of men in the manner described in The Emerald Tablets, a Book of Record and Occult Wisdom which he wrote and left in the Pyramid for those of a future Age of Light.
THE TABLETS
His writings consist of twelve Tablets of Emerald Green formed from a substance created through alchemical transmutation.
They are imperishable, resistant to all elements, corrosion and acids. In effect, the atomic and cellular structure is fixed, and no change can take place, thus violating the material law of ionization.
Upon them are engraved characters in the Ancient Atlantean language; characters which respond to the attuned thought waves of the reader and which release much more wisdom and information than the characters do when merely deciphered. The Tablets are fastened together with hoops of a golden colored alloy suspended from a rod of the same material.
Dr. Doreal has translated this Work, and has published through the Brotherhood of the White Temple, a translation of ten of these twelve Tablets. He has divided the ten into thirteen parts for the sake of convenience. The last two Tablets are found in the “Interpretation of The Emerald Tablets”, also by Dr. Doreal.
In The Emerald Tablets are found secrets which will prove of inestimable value to the serious student. The following is an excerpt taken from this work:
“A Long time ago I, in my childhood, lay neath the stars on long buried Atlantis, dreaming of mysteries far above men. Then in my heart, grew there a great longing to conquer the pathway that led to the Stars.
Year after year I sought after wisdom, seeking new knowledge, following the way, until at last my soul, in great travail, broke from its bondage of earth-man. Free from the body, I flashed through the night. Unlocked at last for me was the star-space; free was I from the bondage of night.
Now to the end of space sought I wisdom, far beyond knowledge of finite man”.
Translation & Interpretation by Doreal
Originally published in mimeographed form in the 1930s by a mysterious “Dr. Doreal,” these writings quickly became an underground sensation among esotoricists of the time.
No one has ever seen the original tablets mentioned here, and in all likelihood, these writings would be considered channeled material today.
However, the Emerald Tablets of Thoth the Atlantean are still part of the modern Corpus Hermeticum, for they elaborate and deepen the meaning of the historical Emerald Tablet and writings of Thoth/Hermes.
THOTH, NINGISHZIDDA, HERMES, MERCURY, QUETZLCOATL by Sasha Lessin, Ph.D., (Anthropology, U.C.L.A.)
Humanity owes its existence and survival to Ningishzidda, the great architect, geneticist and musician. Genetically Nibiran, Ningishzidda birthed on Earth, son of Enki and Ereshkigal. Enki’d seduced Ereshkigal as he took her to run the Climate Station in South Africa. He left her there, pregnant with Ningshzidda
Ningishzidda (aka Thoth, Hermes, Dionysus, Kukulcan, Xiuhtecuhtli, Feathered or Winged Serpent and Quetzlcoatl) joined Enki and Ninmah to create Nibiran/Erectus hybrid Earthlings, Adamu and Adapa. Ningishzidda found the X and Y chromosomes that let us hybrids reproduce. Then he and brothers Adapa and Dumuzi rocketed to the planet Nibiru, where King Anu gave him grains for the Earthlings and told him to protect and foster the new species.
After the Deluge 13,000 years ago, Ningishzidda (as Thoth) built the Sinai Spaceport and the Giza Pyramids to guide rockets to the Spaceport. He built a model pyramid, then the Great Pyramid at the South end of a straight landing line–through the Landing Platform in Lebanon (Baalbek) to Mt. Ararat (Eastern Turkey) in the North. He installed the power generator, master computer programs and astronavigational equipment in the Great Pyramid and hid records (on indestructable tablets) in secret chambers (Halls of Amenti) under the Pyramid [Doreal, Emerald Tablets:1]. He also built and was the initial face on the Sphinx. He planned and supervised a castle, temple and fighter-jet hangar for his cousin Ninurta at Lagash.
Ningishzidda refused to fight for Marduk and Enki in the Second Pyramid War, though he did, when the Council of the Anunnaki, asked, tunnel into and rescue Marduk from the Great Pyramid. Enlilite considered Ningishzidda, though an Enkiite, an ally, since Enlil was, though his mother, Ereshkigal, Ningishzidda’s grandfather. Both Enkiites and Enlilites accepted him, so Enlil, at the Peace Treaty of 8670 B.C., made him ruler of Egypt.
Ningishzidda held the Nile for 1,560 years when only pure-blooded Nibirans ruled for him there. But then Marduk returned from exile and for the next 350 years, sent armies in Egypt against Nigishzidda’s, Enki, their father, ordered Ningishzidda to leave Egypt to Marduk.
Ningishzidda moved on: he guided the building of Stonehenge. In 3113 B.C., after he’d finished Stonehenge, he shipped Middle Eastern-looking Sumerian and Black African overseers and technicians with him to Mesoamerica, where descendants of Ka-in, whom he’d marked with facial hairlessness, called him called Quetzalcoatl, the Winged Serpent. He taught them math, astronomy, calendar calculation and temple-building. He showed them how to line up with the stars and the signs that Nibiru was nearing. Atop the Andes, he designed a spaceport and tin and gold-processing plants for his cousin, Enlilite General Adad/Viracocha. Ningishzidda built planetariums throughout Central America.
More on the Gods of Old: Anunnaki: Gods No More by Sasha Lessin, Ph.D. (Anthropology, U.C.L.A.)
http://enkispeaks.com/books/anunnaki-gods-no-more/
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Michael December 11, 2013 - 10:25 AM
I love your passion for the subject. I have read the Emerald Tablets, extremely helpful and filled with ancient knowledge. However, I also believe there IS a God the Creator who created all life including those who re-creates us in their their image and that is who I pray to daily, not these super versions of us. They are as spiritually lost as we are or they wouldn’t have have come here in the first place.
I am not one of the ancient astronaut believer who think the ET presence on our world now are our saviors, only Jesus thru God is that. These are fallen angels, demonic spiritual forces made manifest by ill will, fooling us into believing the ET presence is comprised of benevolent beings. Angels do exist (good ones) but they don’t need to do their deeds under the cover of dark or my rendering human incapacitated. Goodness would use broad daylight to glorify the words of God the Creator, not the gods who once roamed the Earth. 🙂 <3
Kira December 11, 2013 - 11:18 AM
I believe in the Creator of All, Source, GodSource, Universal Consciousness, Oneness, Prime Creator. I think there was also a being named Galzu who is very advanced soul, resides near the GodSource-head, near Prime Creator (as a way of thinking about it). Jesus was probably the son of God (Enki) based on his philosophical alignment with love of humanity. Angels are probably of the same realm/dimension or level of existence with the Galzu. Or they are near one another. We know so little as much is being hidden from us. The Anunnaki are just part of third dimensional physicality. We go through dimensions when we die and are born again. Probably we go no higher than the 5th dimension unless we are old souls and/or spiritually advanced. Humans are on the same plane as the Anunnaki and other third dimensional beings. There appears to be a dimension for ghosts and other inter-dimensionals. The Universe is very complex indeed.
My heart swells reading your comment. Validation is a good thing as we often feel out of sorts with the rest of the blind world who see only what is and question not what isn’t seen. I agree with your assessment and theory. Makes as much sense as any and yes, much too much is hidden from us by the priesthood class who fancy themselves above the rest of us also. They are the minions of the so-called elite families who ru/le/in this beautiful planet. 😀 the whole intergalactic travel is a smokescreen, as you said these are inter-dimensional beings who can pop in and out of places. See NASA’s own shuttle footage, lights appear out of nowhere and then disappear again, as if opening a fridge door, peeking in when the light comes on, then closing the door again. Be well.
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How molecules measure embryo size
07/30/2018 Created by Michal Rössler
During embryo development, two molecules establish the correct tissue proportions – and adapt them to the embryo’s overall size
Tübingen, 30 July 2018. Early during their development, embryos can fully compensate for tissue loss: If large parts are removed, the embryos still develop into smaller but complete and healthy organisms. Researchers at the Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society in Tübingen wanted to elucidate the underlying molecular mechanism that keeps the tissue proportions constant or “scaled” in differently sized embryos. Together with scientists from Harvard University, they addressed this question using mathematical computer models, modern quantitative methods and experimental techniques that were established in the early days of developmental biology. By combining these approaches, they demonstrated that interactions between two molecules, Lefty and Nodal, are key to this scaling mechanism. Their results are presented in the journal Nature Cell Biology.
The observation that embryos of some species still undergo normal development after large tissue blocks have been removed is not new. Researchers had already made this discovery at the beginning of the 19th century, thereby demonstrating that tissue differentiation is controlled by adaptive processes. Today we know that these processes depend on signalling molecules known as “morphogens”. However, how morphogens adapt their activity to different conditions – such as different embryo sizes – is not fully understood. Researchers at the Friedrich Miescher Laboratory in Tübingen have now revisited the old developmental biological experiments: "The motivation for our current work," says Dr. Patrick Müller, the corresponding author of the study published in Nature Cell Biology, "was to address these observations with modern quantitative methods and mathematical modelling to uncover the underlying mechanisms."
The researchers focused on the morphogen “Nodal” and its inhibitor “Lefty”. These two molecules work together to control the formation of the three germ layers (endoderm, mesoderm and ectoderm) during embryonic development. The germ layers roughly correspond to the inside, middle and outside of the embryo, and their establishment is one of the earliest steps in development. The signal for "inside" is given by Nodal: In the areas where Nodal is most active, cells differentiate into endoderm, while weaker Nodal activity triggers mesoderm formation. When Nodal is suppressed by its inhibitor Lefty, ectoderm forms. This kind of control mechanism is called an “activator-inhibitor” system, and many different systems based on this principle govern a wide range of biological processes.
When large parts of one germ layer are removed, the tissue proportions should be incorrect and development should therefore be disrupted; however, embryos somehow adjust their germ layer proportions and develop just fine. To see whether the Nodal/Lefty activator-inhibitor system can account for this adjustment, the scientists created smaller zebrafish embryos by removing about one third of their cells, mainly from the ectoderm. Strikingly, the proportions of the germ layers adapted to the embryo’s new size in less than two hours. The distribution of Nodal activity changed even faster, indicating that it is responsible for the adaptive process.
A possible mechanism for how the Nodal/Lefty system can react to such changes was revealed by computer analysis, which took into account all known interactions and molecular properties of Nodal and Lefty. By assessing over 400,000 possible combinations of the unknown properties, the computer program screened for those constellations in which the Nodal/Lefty system could adjust germ layer proportions in response to changes in embryo size. In such systems, the program revealed, Lefty's concentration needs to increase in smaller embryos. That constrains Nodal signalling further, resulting in reduced endoderm and mesoderm formation and correcting the germ layer proportions.
The researchers experimentally verified this prediction and demonstrated that the model correctly reflected the real process, providing an explanation for a century-old observation. Their results have also drawn attention to a widespread biological principle: Even in single-celled organisms, similar control processes have been described. Mechanisms that rely on the coupling of overall size to molecule concentrations might therefore be a ubiquitous biological strategy to control growth and differentiation.
Original publication: Almuedo-Castillo M, Bläßle A, Mörsdorf D, Marcon L, Soh GH, Rogers KW, Schier AF, Müller P (2018). Scale-invariant patterning by size-dependent inhibition of Nodal signalling. Nature Cell Biology, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41556-018-0155-7
Dr. Patrick Müller
Max Planck Research Group “Systems biology of development”
Email: patrick.mueller(at)tuebingen.mpg.de
http://www.fml.tuebingen.mpg.de/mueller-group.html
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Bofferbrauer2 on 25 May 2019
Flilix said:
Bofferbrauer2 said:
What did you vote in the past? CD&V/CDH? Groen/Écolo? sp.a/PS? Hard to give you some pointers without knowing where to start.
Voted Groen on the local election in Octobre, this is my first Flemish/national/European election.
Pros and cons for each of the Flemish parties are to me:
NVA: + Seems to be the most rational and levelheaded overall, - too right on a lot of issues (climate, economy...)
CD&V: + is the most centrist party, - too traditionalist and religious, their main goal seems to be to get votes from relgious people
Groen: + cares the most about the environment, - is the most politically correct
Open VLD: mostly similar to NVA, + they're less conservative, - they're even more libertarian when it comes to climate and economy
SPA: mostly similar to Groen, + they're slightly less politically correct, - they're slightly less green
Vlaams Belang: - they're the far right version of NVA
PVDA: - too communist, far left
So, from what you get, it's gonna be either Groen or SPA, as you seem to value the ecology a lot. Since you voted Groen last time, I'd say either continue with it, or vote SPA if you want to change it up a bit.
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Now that I think about it, you're right. I'm definitely going to vote green for Europe, since the environment is a very international subject.
Still not sure about the national elections though, but I'll try to read some more on each parties viewpoints this evening.
And yes, reading what the parties have up their sleeves in their programs is important when you want to know who to vote. I always inform myself on what each party wants to do before I cast my votes (we have several votes in Luxembourg, not just one. Which also allows to mix-and-match the parties you like).
Mnementh
Mnementh on 26 May 2019
The news say, that until midday the turnout was higher than at the last election 2014.
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While that's true, I still find it sad, how low these numbers are in general. 19% in France (2014:15%), 29% in Germany, Spain 35%, Netherlands 41%...
Not going to the elections, but then complaining about "unelected Eurocrats"...
Yeah, the interest in the europeaan elections is generally lower. Here for germany in 2014 only 49% were participating in the european election. While this time it seems like it is going up to 60% you still have to compare to our national elections, which never dropped below 70% turnout. By the way, current prognosis for germany says massive losses for the two governing parties (conservatives and social democrats) and big wins for the greens. Our neighbors in the south apparently strongly supported their main governing party ÖVP, but FPÖ (which was star of the scandalous Ibiza video) lost a lot of support.
Yeah, Eurosceptic parties had a mixed bag this year. In the Netherlands, Geert Wilders might get the worst result in his history with only 4%, and the other Eurosceptic party also only reached 11%, way below it's expectations. In Belgium however, the Vlaams Belang seems to have an historic good result, with the N-VA being the other big winner.
Question is, how the UK election will turn out - and if they will have to redo it after it got clear, that they refused about 2M votes from EU nationals, to include their votes.
N-VA is still the biggest party but they're not a 'big winner', they actually lost a few % compared to 2014. Vlaams Belang did indeed reach a historic high, after reaching their low point in 2014. I suppose this is mostly due to voters switching from VB to NVA back then, and switching back now.
The victory of VB will be most notable in the parliament here, since all other parties seem to be completely unwilling to let them in the government.
On European level, this puts eurosceptism at a record high for Belgium, but VB still won't get higher than 15% (so it's still only about the same result as in the Netherlands).
Wallonia is pretty remarkable, it seems to be one of the few places in Europe where the far right isn't able to get big.
haxxiy
haxxiy on 26 May 2019
Greens are huge this year with the under 30 folk. Very understandable, I guess.
Also, the backlash against the hard right seems to finally have curbed their rise for once. They're underperforming polls in a lot of places.
KungKras
KungKras on 26 May 2019
Voted for the Pirate Party, because I think they are the most likely to reverse EU's disastrous decision on copyright laws on the internet.
I hope that everyone who was unhappy with that EU decision did the same.
Because surely a lot of the people complaining about EU decisions they don't like wouldn't be stupid enough to vote in EU-sceptic facist parties into the EU rather than try to change the EU for the better.
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It was the idea of [kurtis purgatory;;]
"I believe that there is nothing wrong with being homosexual, though I still don't like most gay people. Homosexuals have painted a negative stereotype for themselves. People I know, and have known do nothing but support the stereotype and because of them I view gay males (as a whole), as shallow, self-centered, vain, whores. Regardless of them I stand up against people who are anti-gay, or "homophobic" ... however, before I proceed I'd like to address the word Homophobic, The word "homo" means same and is also a genus of primate mammals of the family Hominidae that includes modern humans and several extinct related species. While "phobic" is a derivative of the word "Phobia" which is defined as a persistent, irrational fear of a specific object, activity, or situation that leads to a compelling desire to avoid it. Therefore the word "homophobic" has no relation to homosexuals at all; it is a phrase that is used out of ignorance to defend personal opinions by claiming "Homophobia", which if was they case ... they'd be fearful, not hateful. (Granted some people are horrified of gay people, haha) MOVING ON: There are also a lot of people who use the bible as their reasoning, (Lev. 18:22) "You shall not lie with a man as with a woman; it is abomination." If you choose to use this as your argument, then so be it, but at least consider this:
According to Lev. 21:20, you may not approach the altar of God if you have a defect in your sight; so unless you have 20/20 vision ... you're fucked!
Lev. 19:27 expressly forbids men from trimming the hair around their temples; which is referring to side-burns I do believe.
According to Lev. 25:44 you may possess slaves from neighboring countries.
You are also, allowed no contact with a woman while she in in her period of menstrual uncleanliness - Lev. 15: 19 - 24.
My point being that: Times change, and parts of the bible are no longer relevant, so I don't believe you can use this as an argument when defending yourself against the homosexual lifestyle. There's nothing wrong with being in love with someone of the same gender."
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2009-06-19 [kurtis purgatory;;]: it's still sadly empty....
2009-06-19 [Young Nik, The Atomic Bomb]: Not anymore; BITCH.
2009-06-19 [kurtis purgatory;;]: OI!
YOU THERE!
SHUT IT!
2009-06-19 [kurtis purgatory;;]: very good arguments about the bible.
i wouldn't have taken the time to look up those things from the bible myself.
2009-06-19 [Young Nik, The Atomic Bomb]: Hah, I looked that shit up a long time ago.
2009-06-19 [kurtis purgatory;;]: oh.
i still wouldn't have taken the time, or had the patience.
2009-06-19 [Young Nik, The Atomic Bomb]: It was more of an anti-bible thing, than a pro-gay. Haha
BUY BULL
2009-06-19 [kurtis purgatory;;]: and this is actually a very good topic for me.
people should not discriminate, though they will, against homosexuals.
most people believe gay people to be very into promiscuous sex, which isn't true..there are more gay men looking for love than there are gay men searching for sex.
and gay people are also seen as the only people in the world with AIDS, along with African Americans.
though this, also, is not true. in fact, more heterosexuals, nowadays, have AIDS than the common homosexual.
this is simply because of the fact that homosexuals have a tendency to be very protective of themselves, and to call AIDS a homosexual disease is stereotyping in it's basic form.
2009-06-19 [Young Nik, The Atomic Bomb]: A lot of gay people a promiscuous -- though granted they want love like everyone else.
I mean shit; the reason gay people are perceived that way is because there is no woman to say "no", so if a guy wants sex, he gets it.
2009-06-19 [kurtis purgatory;;]: true.
i did a paper on this subject last year in english.
so i've got more where that came from.
though i'm not going to use that information until necessary.
2009-06-27 [+Ross+]: The whole "gay promiscuity" is a completely irrelevant statement. Aren't straight people oftentimes ridiculously promiscuous? Apparently, to society as a whole, such a thing is so "normal" that it's not often spoken about. But if a man acts in such a way towards another man, or a woman towards another woman, it's abhorrent, disgusting, and wrong. Not only that, but it's a gross generalization to any sexual preference. Not everyone is like that, gay or straight. I've had girlfriends who were, and girlfriends who weren't. It's a personality trait, and has nothing to do with who they choose to love/make love to.
Acceptance, not tolerance, is key. Homosexual people are still just that, people. They're not aliens, they're not animals, they're not objects, they're people. They're not trying to insult anyone, they just want to love who they feel is right for them. What's so wrong with that? I've never understood the closed-mindedness and fear that surrounds such a subject, especially with the Bible-thumping crowd. I'm all for believing in a God if you feel that's the right thing for you,(Personally, I'm open to any theory, but it's not really my style to have an opinion one way or another on the subject.)but if there truly is a God, It would want you to LOVE, not HATE. Nothing can get accomplished if we're tearing each other to pieces over something so ridiculous as a same-sex relationship. Besides, real love is so rare in this world, isn't it good that one can find such a thing, even within their own gender? We're emotional creatures. Love is crucial to us, for the most part. If you're a boy and you happen to be in love with a boy, there's nothing wrong with it or you. If society can't accept that, then the problem lies with them.
....wow, that was long for a first post. Sorry guys.
2009-06-27 [kurtis purgatory;;]: *applauds*
and that's why i love you hon!
2009-06-27 [+Ross+]: Awrh, I love you too.
In a totally homosexual way.
2009-06-27 [kurtis purgatory;;]: completely!
i want you to ass-rape me!
2009-06-27 [+Ross+]: Well you know as well as I do that if I were to magically grow a penis, you'd be the first to try it out lol
2009-06-27 [kurtis purgatory;;]: ^^
but what about that strap-on that you have hidden in your closet?
2009-06-27 [+Ross+]: What strap-on?
I have no strap-on.
I'm too talented for a strap-on.
I like saying strap-on.
Strap-on strap-on strap-on.
(this is a wonderful follow-up to that first post. First I'm Captain Intellect, now I'm.....STRAP-ONSTRAP-ONSTRAP-ONSTRAP-ON)
2009-06-27 [kurtis purgatory;;]: lol!
together we're the wonder spazzes!!!
"wonder spaz-powers activate! form of a STRAP-ON!!!"
2009-06-27 [+Ross+]: shape of... A warm, buttery bagel!
*squeejeesqueejeesqueejeesqueejee*
2009-06-27 [Young Nik, The Atomic Bomb]: Lmao, I enjoy you.
2009-06-28 [kurtis purgatory;;]: O.o
in what sense?
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Coriolanus (2011)
Released: 4th June 2012
Release type: Retail Only
No. of Discs: 1
Catalogue No: LGD94822
Category: Feature, Drama
Format: DVD / Normal
Based on: The play by William Shakespeare
Story: Ralph Fiennes' directorial debut is an adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy about the tribulations of a banished hero. Transposing the action from ancient Rome to present-day Eastern Europe, the film tells the story of General Caius Martius Coriolanus (Fiennes) who returns home from war to find himself at odds with his countrymen who see him as a tyrant looking for fame and glory. When his ambitious mother, Volumnia (Vanessa Redgrave), tries to orchestrate formal recognition for her son, both the authorities and the people turn against Coriolanus and exile him. Allying himself with his former enemy, Aufidius (Gerald Butler), an embittered Coriolanus sets out for revenge against those who have wronged him.
Starring: Gerard Butler, Ralph Fiennes, Jessica Chastain, Vanessa Redgrave, Brian Cox, James Nesbitt, Lubna Azabal, Ashraf Barhom, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Dragan Micanovic, Slavko Stimac, John Kani
Cinematographer: Barry Ackroyd
Directed by: Ralph Fiennes
Music by: Ilan Eshkeri
Produced by: Ralph Fiennes, John Logan, Gabrielle Tana, Julia Taylor-Stanley, Colin Vaines
Written by: John Logan, William Shakespeare
Studio/distributor: Lionsgate UK
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AUTHOR INFORMATION: Joss Llewelyn is a pseudonym used by Joseph Robert Lewis for his Young Adult work. Being curious about world mythology since a tender age, he decided to write stories in which history, mythology, and fantasy would collide in unpredictable ways. He also likes writing about heroines that his daughters can respect and admire and took on this particular pseudonym as his daughters kept demanding more stories. Joe was born in Annapolis and went to the University of Maryland to study ancient novels, morality plays, and Viking poetry. He graduated with a degree in English Literature and currently lives in Maryland with his family, a needy cat, and a zombie fish.
OFFICIAL BLURB: Zelda Pryce builds beautiful machines that defy explanation and allow her to break into any building with ease. After burgling the Smithsonian, Zelda is hired to test the security of a prestigious museum overseas using her arcane instruments. And that’s where everything goes very, very wrong.
The museum never hired her. Someone else did. And when Zelda escapes from the authorities the only thing on her mind is tracking down the person who set her up and nearly destroyed her career. So she teams up with a charming English riskbender and a daring French alchemist to chase her quarry from Paris to Rome, from Castle Frankenstein to the Taj Mahal. Together they must escape all manners of strange traps and supernatural creatures, and only their arcane skills and tools will keep them alive.
Between saving the world, working with a flirtatious partner, and helping her little sister with her love life, Zelda has her hands full. But if she can’t catch the real thief in time, every arcane device in the entire world is in danger, and thousands of innocent lives could be lost.
FORMAT/INFO: Zelda Pryce: The Razor's Edge is 207 pages long divided over twenty six numbered chapters. Narration is in the third-person via Zelda Pryce solely. Zelda Pryce: The Razor's Edge is self-contained and ends on a clear note however is the first volume in the Zelda Pryce series with the second volume tentatively titled Zelda Pryce: The Clockwork Girl. There is also a note about Real Arcana present in the world as well as an “about the author” section.
May 16, 2012 marked the overall Paperback and e-book publication of Zelda Pryce: The Razor's Edge. Cover photo provided by Kornilovdream (Dreamstime) and the design was by the author himself.
ANALYSIS: After being introduced to Joseph R. Lewis’s writing in the form of the Other Earth books, I was very curious to see what else he has written. On checking his website I saw a brand new book being released called Zelda Pryce: The Razor’s Edge, two things nudged my curiosity, the reference to the classic Princess Zelda video games and the fact that this was going to steampunk-ish YA caper (of sorts) novel. I was partly right in my assumptions about those two nudges and here’s why.
The story opens up in current day wherein Zelda Pryce, our protagonist is currently testing the security of Smithsonian Museum of Arcane Science. She does manage to evade the security and procure the items as required but not without some high kinks on the way. Plus with regular phone calls from her sister Roxanne about her interests in arcane science, studies and life over all, she leads a life that can be deemed reasonable as befitting her persona. Soon after gig with the Smithsonian, she gets contacted for a new gig overseas in London. During the actual gig she realizes something is horribly off, combined with the presence of other people in the same place, she discovers that she has been mentally conned into following someone’s nefarious plan. Soon she learns from Yasmin Demir, a French DCRI agent that all is not well in the world of Arcane museums the world over. Soon Zelda will have to make a choice whether to go back to her normal life or to find out who is behind all of this.
If this book can be encapsulated in a single word, it would be FUN. Beginning from the first chapter, there’s a jovial undertone to this book that asserts itself in the dialogue as well as the inventions that abound the pages from cover to cover. The characterization ranging from Zelda, Clive & Yasmin are done competently as befitting a YA novel however we only get the story from Zelda’s point of view. The author though does his best to provide a decent background to the supporting cast however this move is hampered through the use of a singular third person POV. Going on to the second favorite part of the book, which was the presence of all these cool phenomena, gadgets and alternate arcane history, the author has created a world wherein magic is present but it is more akin to a science and is distilled by various famous historical personae, into its current highly evolved state.
Ranging from Chekov guns to Diogenes lamps to Occam razors to Nicomachean whistles to other cool but equally dangerous artifacts. The author has planned this world akin to the Harry Potter one but with a crucial difference, this is the age of science. Thereby having a cool machine-punk edge to history, the story gains a different edge more akin to the Scott Westerfeld Leviathan series but with a comical tone akin to that of the John Connolly Samuel Johnson series. Lastly there's no Link in this story and this Zelda does everything herself to save the world. The story does have a complete plot with room left for a sequel and readers who enjoyed this book will be glad to hear that Zelda will be back in the sequel tentatively titled “Zelda Pryce: The Clockwork Girl”.
What can readers look forward to in book, hilarious banter involving Zelda and her younger sibling Roxanne, action packed sequences in various international locales and overall a strong fun filled story to boot. With such plus features, it really becomes hard to point out any insufficiencies in this book but I think there might be some points to note. Primarily this book is equivalent to literary candy (as the author meant it to be); readers looking for a grimmer world setting akin to the current YA dystopian mold will not find it here. Also the author intentionally has made the series the way it is thereby choosing to disregard certain facts and history to make the story plot more accessible and if you can’t let go of your sensibilities completely then this isn’t the book for you.
CONCLUSION: Joseph Robert Lewis is a maverick writer and it shows in this YA outing, filled with colorful characters, fascinating gadgets and an action packed storyline. I strongly recommend this book simply because of its theme to be a funny book. If you haven’t read Joss Llewelyn yet then grab a copy at the earliest instant and you can thank me later ;)
J.Curtis Mace said...
"Zelda" was the first thing to catch my eye too. I'm not big on gadgets or technology in my fantasy, but I'm curious to see some of the traps she encounters/escapes and how an invention aides in burglary. And I always love a flirtatious sidekick (especially if/when the girl being flirted after is named Zelda). Definitely cirous, thx. Hope it lives up to it's namesake.
Hi Curtis
It definitely does have is moments and overall its a fun YA book if ou are in the mood for a lighter read.
Courtney Vail said...
Great review. I will have to check it out.
I hope you enjoy it as much as I did Courtney.
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Perry wore a bright pink vinyl trench, while Lovato and Harris kept it business professional in pantsuits. Grande opted for her usual uniform of a sweatshirt and thigh-high boots. According to the invitation, the event was a “fireside chat” with Harris hosted by Braun and his wife Yael. According to the Daily Mail, over 100 people attended on Saturday night.
“A truly inspiring night with my friend @KamalaHarris,” Braun tweeted along with an American flag emoji.
Since the chat was held at Braun’s home, fans of his current adversary, Taylor Swift, were quick to voice their opinions on the matter, with some denouncing the presidential candidate.
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"Miss Zilphia Gant" is one of Faulkner's earliest Yoknapatawpha stories, although it keeps its focus so closely on the grotesque relationship between Zilphia and her mother that except for a reference to mule-trading, the main places in the story - "the Bend" and Jefferson - could just as easily be in Sherwood Anderson's small-town Ohio as in Mississippi. According to Joseph Blotner, the version of the story that Faulkner sent Scribner's Magazine at the end of 1928 was a revision of an earlier submission; this idea is corroborated by the materials in the Faulkner Foundation Collection at Virginia, which include two different (undated) typescript texts. Alfred Dashiell, the editor at Scribner's, told the author it was "by far the most coherent thing of yours I have seen," but nonetheless rejected it. In 1929 it was rejected by H.L. Mencken's American Mercury. The next year it was bought by the Southwest Review, but later deemed too long for that periodical. The Review editor sold it to the Book Club of Texas, which published it as a limited edition volume in 1932; the volume includes a perceptive preface by "Henry Smith," who is better known now as Henry Nash Smith. Faulkner never chose to include it in any of his story collections, and it was not republished until Blotner's Uncollected Stories (1979). Blotner's text reprints the Book Club's text; our representation of the story derives from Blotner's.
Dating the Story: The story's internal time stamps are very specifically spelled out. Zilphia is two years old when it begins, and forty-two when it ends; she and her mother live in a single room in the back of the "dressmaking shop" for 23 years; Zilphia starts school when she is 9; reaches puberty at 13; leaves Jefferson twice for "three years" each time; and so on. However, the text provides no explicit information about when, chronologically, its four-decade narrative takes place. Based on the fact that at its beginning people trade mules and ride wagons, while near the end someone is run over by an automobile, it seems likely that Faulkner imagined it happening from the late 19th century up through the present in which it was written.
The story's one glaring internal inconsistency - the thirteen years that apparently go by between the time Zilphia's husband's pregnant second wife checks into the hospital and the time she dies giving birth - is explained, though not made intelligible, by looking at the manuscript revision, as you can do elsewhere in Digital Yoknapatawpha.
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Khloe Kardashian has been hitting the gym hard and has not been letting herself slack, no matter what is going on in her life, as well as making sure that she sticks to a very strict diet. Khloe has since gone on to lose around 35lbs.
“Khloe gives as much to the gym as the gym gives to her”
Gunnar Peterson has praised Kardashian for her dedication. Her Beverly Hills-based trainer explains why Khloe’s physical transformation has been so major: “We keep her mind challenged and her body guessing, and the focus is on building strength. She never cancels! Some days it’s more heart-rate intensive, some days it’s more lower-extremities intensive, some days the upper extremities get a little extra love.”
Khloe Kardashian in the Gym
He added: “As the changes have come, the diet has tightened up … She’s made better choices when she eats. She’s been more conscious about working on sleep habits. She hydrates better. She keeps getting after it and she keeps getting better. We’re always playing with our workouts. We’re always making it that much more challenging.” And that hard work and intense focus has helped our September cover star score what some might call a post-breakup revenge body.
“Yeah, it’s a revenge body”
Khloe says. But it’s just as much for all my critics who called me ‘the fat one’ for my entire existance.” Her workout consists of a complete routine, two or three times a week, on nonconsecutive days. You can try it yourself! Starting with the first exercise, do the prescribed number of reps, then rest 10 to 30 seconds. Do two to five sets of each move, then continue to the next move and repeat until you’ve done the entire routine.
The biggest obstacle most people face when trying to add exercise into their day is time. Many also (mistakenly) think that the only way to stay fit is to hit the gym or spend at least an hour doing aerobic exercise. While it’s true that you increase your fitness level when you increase the intensity, frequency and duration of your program, it’s possible to gain moderate fitness benefits from making small, consistent changes to your daily life.
Khloe Kardashian Running
The latest and probably one of the most common sense ways to get fit and lose excess body fat is by making painless additions of exercise to your day, combined with small diet modifications. For example, current research has shown that by consuming just 100 fewer calories per day, a woman can avoid the 1-2 pound gain most of us take on each year.
If you want to lose weight, you need to increase your daily caloric deduction by 500 calories, but you can do this by cutting 200 calories out of your daily diet and burning 300 calories more through exercise.
Add that up over a week and you’ll have nearly a pound of fat loss with very little pain or diet deprivation.
It’s the little things you do everyday that can make the difference between keeping fit or packing on additional pounds every year. Don’t underestimate the power of tiny changes: consistent, lifestyle changes are always more successful for losing and maintaining weight loss.
Here are a few tips to help you find painless ways to stay fit:
All rise! The average person burns 100 calories per hour while sitting and 140 per hour while standing. Get on your feet two hours a day while you work and you could drop 6 pounds over the course of a year. Stand while you talk on the phone and set up an area where you can work in a standing position (great for people with back pain!).
Take the stairs, not the elevator A 130-pound woman will burn nearly 20 calories each time she goes up and down the stairs. Do it all day watch how quickly those add up!
Dust while you talk on the phone.
Lose the remote. Get up to change the channel! And while you’re up grab some weights for a set of bicep curls or shoulder presses. You can work through a full strength training routine in an hour if you do a set during each commercial.
Park so you have to walk.
Walk and talk! Catch up on phone calls while your take a walk.
Be creative! Instead of thinking of all the ways you don’t have time to exercise, make it a game to see how many ways you can carve out time for little bouts of exercise. Lose your all or nothing mindset and look at exercise as a daily accumulation of activity.
Remember, to lose weight you still need to take a look at your diet and try to eliminate excess calories, especially those that come from junk. Your goal isn’t difficult cutting 200-300 calories from your daily diet can be easy if you choose foods that you won’t miss too much. Think about switching from a can a soda every afternoon to unsweetened iced tea or a flavored sparkling water. But remember, don’t cut something that you look forward to everyday (for me cutting cream in my coffee would be a deal breaker), instead look for little changes you can make that won’t make a big difference in the foods your enjoy.
“We’re always playing with our workouts”
Hot on the heels of her steamy spread in Complex magazine, Khloe Kardashian has revealed she’s lost about 35 pounds from hitting the gym. The 31-year-old told Australian radio show “Fitzy & Wippa” on Friday about her weight loss journey. “I’ve lost like, 35 pounds. I don’t really weigh myself … but I know how I want to feel in clothes and it does become addicting once you start losing weight and seeing results. I want to see more,” she said.
Khloe Kardashian Resting
Kardashian recently slammed critics who accused her sexy shoot of being digitally altered, posting an un retouched photo alongside the one that appeared in the magazine.
loe Kardashian channeled her inner Beyonce by doing a booty pop on Instagram after her recent 13-pound weight loss. Khloe said Beyonce, who wowed fans with her sexy Met Gala ball gown, is her fitness inspiration.
“I just got my motivation for the year!” Kardashian gushed after seeing Beyonce’s super-fit body in a nude Givenchy dress. Beyonce has maintained her 65-pound post-baby weight loss with a vegan diet, according to her longtime trainer, Marco Borges.
Khloe posted several Instagram photos May 12, where she proudly showed off her tiny waist and toned booty. Kardashian previously revealed on Instagram that her weight loss secrets are a dairy-free diet, waist training and intense workouts with celebrity trainer Gunnar Peterson.
Peterson, who helped Khloe’s sister, Kim Kardashian, lose 56 pounds just six months after childbirth, said Khloe is extremely dedicated to diet and exercise. Peterson said Khloe has never looked better following her recent weight loss.
“Khloe’s a full-on animal in the gym”
“The changes she’s made to her body are incredible. She’s done it the right way. Nothing fast, just hard work. Her body is bangin’ right now.”
Khloe gets laser treatments to zap the cellulite off her butt and thighs, but said the rest of her body is all-natural, not due to plastic surgery. Kardashian feels great after losing 13 pounds recently by following a dairy-free diet and exercising five days a week.
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Home > Opinion > Mayor Valdivia needs and deserves a bulletproof majority
Mayor Valdivia needs and deserves a bulletproof majority
By IE Business Daily on April 30, 2019
Juan Figueroa for San Bernardino City Council
I have spent much of my career in public relations and public affairs advocating on behalf of development projects, residential, commercial, private and public.
I learned this trade under the tutelage of one of the smartest men I ever met who is a local billionaire (I think still) real estate developer who allowed me in my early thirties to learn from my mistakes on his dime.
I remember distinctly one instance where I had advised him (wrongly as it turned out) that we could safely invest an enormous amount of money in a Southern California based city on a large scale master planned community. I had misread one councilman who I thought was a solid vote but instead turned into a human weather vane.
Needless to say my mentor and boss was not pleased at this turn of events and made very clear that if I ever brought his money into a split or unreliable council ever again I would not be working for him. He explained that the one thing he can’t stand in any city or county leadership is an unreliable or split council especially if it is driven more by personalities and politics than pragmatism.
The San Bernardino City Council has been fractious since the election of Mayor Valdivia to say the least. The Mayor has been accused from the dais of acting like a monarch or dictator (“You are not a KING! – councilman Fred Short) for simply casting tie breaking votes which is his right within the city rules.
There was a much publicized cry-baby moment when 3 council members staged a dramatic and asinine walk-out of a city council meeting – ending the meeting and leaving much city business undone.
Others in the City of San Bernardino old guard continue to snipe from the sidelines of social media at everything the mayor does which is also very scary to the development community. Which is why I am endorsing Juan Figueroa for council.
Juan has been accused of being a clone, a tool, a doppelganger etc. for Mayor Valdivia and the opposition to the mayor is so desperate to deny Valdivia a possible fourth vote they are backing a complete wingnut know-nothing named Treasure who is hopefully going to get buried in the election.
Treasure makes Alexandria Ocasio Cortez look thoughtful and well-versed on policy and that is saying something. If Juan is going to be a consistent fourth vote on the council for the mayors directives – Great!
The San Bernardino City Council needs to have a clear majority with a clear pro-growth, pro-economic development agenda and a reliable set of votes to back it up if the City is going to attract investment. Vote Juan Figueroa.
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MONDAY, Aug. 5, 2019 (American Heart Association News) -- Many men with prostate cancer rely on common testosterone-blocking drugs as a part of their treatment. But those so-called antiandrogens also might put them at risk for a deadly heart condition, according to new research.
In a study published Monday in the American Heart Association journal Circulation, researchers looked at how several testosterone-blocking drugs affect the heart's QT interval – the time it takes the heart cells to recharge in between beats.
The longer a QT interval, typically measured by an electrocardiogram, the more at risk a person is to develop serious heart rhythm problems and a condition called torsade de pointes, which can result in sudden death. Women naturally have a longer QT interval than men, and they are at higher risk for this form of arrhythmia.
"Testosterone is in part responsible for the protective effect in men," said lead study author Dr. Joe-Elie Salem, an associate professor of cardiology and pharmacology at Sorbonne University in Paris. "We wanted to see if blocking testosterone with antiandrogens could lead to acute QT prolongation and sudden death."
Salem and his colleagues used VigiBase, a global health database of reports of suspected adverse effects of medicines filed since 1968. They searched for cases of men with long QT, torsade de pointes or a sudden death associated with testosterone-blocking therapy.
Seven of the 10 drugs they reviewed were disproportionally associated with either long QT, torsade de pointes or sudden death. The drug enzalutamide, which is used to treat metastatic prostate cancer, was linked with more deaths than any other antiandrogen.
The impact and interaction of drugs on the heart's rhythms "is an important issue that probably doesn't get as much attention as it deserves in terms of drug safety," said Dr. Richard J. Kovacs, Q.E. and Sally Russell Professor of Cardiology at the Indiana University School of Medicine. "When we actively search for cases of drug-induced torsade, such as this research team did, we find that the incidence of the problem is often orders of magnitude greater than what's discovered by just passive surveillance."
Salem said more research should explore the interaction between antiandrogens and other drugs and conditions that also can also prolong QT. For example, electrolyte disorders caused by low potassium can impact the heart's rhythm.
"When you're giving antiandrogen drugs, you should probably monitor for torsade de pointes and be very careful about controlling the other risk factors for QT prolongation," Salem said.
Kovacs, who was not involved in the new study, recommended that before prescribing medication to patients who take antiandrogen drugs, doctors check CredibleMeds.org. The organization tracks medications that have a known or potential risk of QT prolongation.
The list includes dozens of drugs, including commonly prescribed antibiotics such as ciprofloxacin and antidepressants such as citalopram, known by its brand name, Celexa.
"If you have a patient who is taking an antiandrogen," Kovacs said, "and you have a choice of prescribing an antibiotic that increases torsade de pointes risk and one that doesn't, wouldn't you choose the one that doesn't?"
Kovacs suggested that oncologists and cardiologist work together to manage QT prolongation and the risk of torsade de pointes in high-risk prostate cancer patients.
"There are off-target effects, and they can be life-threatening," he said. "How do you mitigate the risk? I think that's the most important follow-up question."
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By Home Furnishings Business in on January 2006 The world's largest bedding manufacturer underwent several top level changes this week, as a newly created executive post led to a promotion and a new hire.
Sealy Mattress Corp. named announced Wednesday the appointment of former Sealy Chief Financial Officer James B. Hirshorn, 39, to the new role of senior executive vice president, finance, operations and R&D for the bedding company.
"Jim's extensive experience throughout this organization in managing the growth Sealy has experienced over the past two years makes him an excellent choice for this position," Sealy Chairman and Chief Executive Officer David J. McIlquham said in a release issued by the company.
Jeff Ackerman, formerly of Dade Behring Inc. and Frito-Lay, comes on board as Sealy's executive vice president and new chief financial officer.
Hooker Debuts Rattan Case Goods at Minimarket
By Home Furnishings Business in on January 2006 Hooker Furniture entered a new category, rattan, at this week's minimarket in High Point with Sunset Key, a 35- to 40-piece collection of bedroom, dining and occasional.
Constructed in rattan, hardwoods and twill, the moderate-scale casual group has lines with an Art Deco feel that moves the look beyond the island/tropical themes typically associated with the category.
Of particular interest is a striking, angled rattan slat motif that adds motion to chairs tables and case fronts; and faux leather tops on many cases, occasional tables and dining table bases.
The collection includes two beds; single- and double-pedestal glass-top dining tables; and a variety of case pieces and occasional.
Sample retail price points for Sunset Key include platform bed with wrap headboard at $999; armoire, $1,649; and nightstand, $249.
Ethan Allen Profits Up
By Home Furnishings Business in on January 2006 The second quarter for Ethan Allen turned out to be a rather profitable one for the veteran home furnishings company.
The oldest dedicated store network said in a report issued Wednesday that its earnings rose last quarter beyond previous estimates. Total sales rose to $276 million from $245 million from the previous year.
According to the statement, earnings per share increased to 77 cents a share. The number is a 22 percent increase for shareholders, when compared with 63 cents a share last year.
Farooq Kathwari, chairman and CEO of Ethan Allen Interiors Inc., said in the statement, that the company was "very pleased" with their results for the quarter.
"We believe that the structural changes undertaken within our business during the past three years, including initiatives to enhance our product offerings, our manufacturing, sourcing and logistics activities, our retail network, and our marketing efforts, played an important role in our ability to increase sales," he said.
Minimarket Off To Good Start
Lifestyle Enterprise's showroom, on opening day of minimarket, was a microcosm of High Point's main events in April and October – plenty of new product on display, buyers milling about and a smattering of languages being spoken, including Spanish and Portuguese.
Exhibitors elsewhere reported traffic that outstripped their opening-day expectations, since they figured most buyers in town would gravitate initially toward Lifestyle's Forbidden City exhibition venue, which they did. But early activity in outlying showrooms indicates minimarket's originator carried through on its promise to bring considerable buying power to town this week.
"We expect about a dozen customers to come by," said David Schreibfeder, director of sales for River Forks, an importer of case goods from Indonesia and China, whose key customers include retailers on Lifestyle's comp list. "Our North Carolina rep expects some new people to come, and that will be their chance to get a touch and feel of the product we introduced in October here. Several of our customers said they weren't going to Tupelo or Las Vegas, and we wanted to see them."
"It's better than what we'd see at premarket so far," said Wyatt Bassett, executive vice president at Vaughan-Bassett, of opening-day traffic. Vaughan-Bassett, along with five other primarily domestic companies, committed early last month to Lifestyle's idea for a January High Point minimarket. "And from what I can tell, people will be pretty evenly distributed over the three days."
Orleans Furniture, like Vaughan-Bassett, brought new product for display this week. President and CEO Ed Marshall also believes the event meets a retailer need to see new goods earlier in the year.
"I feel it will be much busier than a normal premarket, which we don't do anymore," he said. "It's hard to put a number to what we'll get this week, but we have several commitments. I feel it will be much busier than a normal premarket, which we don't do anymore."
Minimarket got some attention late in the game from companies such as importer Magnussen Home Furnishings, where North Carolina sales representative Neil Anderson decided to open up the showroom as long as buyers were in town.
"We heard through the grapevine that there are more people here than we'd thought," he said, noting that there's a broad geographical range of retailers here. "We had one from California and one from Conway, S.C."
Lifestyle's brainchild apparently resonated with buyers looking for more new product earlier in the year. That desire goes beyond the largest U.S. retailers, said Jerry Sagerdahl, executive vice president of case good importer Legacy Classic.
"There was one South Carolina retailer we talked with, doing around $3 million a year, who said he wasn't coming to spring market in High Point anymore because he wants to see product in January, and that High Point hasn't addressed that," he said. Moving forward, that retailer is planning on attending the Las Vegas market in January and High Point in October. "Several retailers we know want to combine April market with premarket and move it into late January or early February."
And while a lot of exhibitors are talking shop or giving potential new clients their first look at in-line product, several suppliers latching onto Lifestyle's idea are showing new samples in High Point this week.
Orleans, for example, had five new wood bedrooms from its step-up Magnolia Classics import program and four new promotional bedroom sets from its domestic Orleans operation.
"I went to China in November to have sample production moved up in time for this event," Marshall said. Orleans, which will have permanent Las Vegas showroom space in 2007, will show those groups along with two more completely new introductions at the Furniture Show in Las Vegas Rio venue later this month.
J.C. Penney To Add Private-Label Line
By Home Furnishings Business in on January 2006 The third-largest U.S. department-store company, J.C. Penney Co. Inc., announced Monday it plans on adding a private-label brand furniture sometime this spring.
According to J.C. Penney representatives, the new modern furniture collection, from the largest catalog merchant in the country, will be called Studio. It is expected to be sold at a price point that will attract middle-income shoppers.
It was not announced how many of the department store's more than 1,000 stores it will be available at.
In addition to the furniture line, the retailer announced it will also introduce a new line of a California lifestyle-inspired casual men's clothing from surfer Shaun Tomson and his wife, Carla. A new Miss Bisou clothing line for juniors is also planned for launch too.
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Mexican police mount big hunt for kidnapped football player
CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico — Federal and state forces mounted a big search operation Sunday for Mexican soccer star Alan Pulido, who was abducted in the crime-plagued northern border state of Tamaulipas.
The 25-year-old Pulido is a forward for Olympiakos of Greece and was part of Mexico’s 2014 World Cup team, though he wasn’t called up for the Copa America tournament that starts this coming week.
“We have information that he was intercepted by armed persons and since then his whereabouts are unknown,” said state Attorney General Ismael Quintanilla.
The Tamaulipas Coordination Group that includes federal and state security agents said on its Twitter account that it was searching for the player. Reporters in the city saw an unusual deployment of troops and police in the streets, while at least two police or military-style helicopters flew overhead.
A state official earlier said Pulido was kidnapped early Sunday after leaving a party near his hometown of Ciudad Victoria, the capital of Tamaulipas, a state that has suffered battles between major drug gangs. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss a case under investigation.
Authorities gave no further details about the kidnapping or a motive for the abduction, which happened a week before state elections to pick a new governor for Tamaulipas.
“At this difficult time, our thoughts and prayers are with Alan,” Olympiakos said on its official Twitter account in a message in both Spanish and English accompanied by a photograph of him.
Former teammates on Mexico’s national team went on social networks to offer their support for his welfare.
“A shame what happened,” goalkeeper Jesus Corona said on Twitter. “My prayers are with him and his family at this difficult time.”
Similar comments came in tweets by goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa, defenders Diego Reyes and Miguel Layun and strikers Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez and Oribe Peralta, all of whom are in the United States of the Copa America competition.
Pulido debuted and played several seasons with the club Tigres of Monterrey, whose Twitter account expressed solidarity with the player’s family “in the difficult situation they are experiencing.”
Pulido left the Tigres in 2014 to play in Europe, though he has been in a dispute with the Mexican club about whether his contract there continues to be valid.
I’m National team coach Carlos Osorio recently said Pulido has the quality to be on the squad but was left off the Copa America team due to the legal dispute. He had scored three goals in earlier call-ups.
In the most recent season, he scored five times in eight appearances with Olympiakos.
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"Regin" World's Most Advanced Cyber Snoop Hits Russia, 4 Other Countries; Western Intelligence Agency Likely Responsible
Telecom companies in Russia and Saudi Arabia have been hit by the world's most sophisticated hacking software to date.
Symantec believes a Western intelligence agency is responsible.
Please consider World’s Most Advanced Hacking Spyware Let Loose
A cyber snooping operation reminiscent of the Stuxnet worm and billed as the world’s most sophisticated computer malware is targeting Russian and Saudi Arabian telecoms companies.
Cyber security company Symantec said the malware, called “Regin”, is probably run by a western intelligence agency and in some respects is more advanced in engineering terms than Stuxnet, which was developed by US and Israel government hackers in 2010 to target the Iranian nuclear programme.
The discovery of the latest hacking software comes as the head of Kaspersky Labs, the Russian company that helped uncover Stuxnet, told the Financial Times that criminals are now also hacking industrial control systems for financial gain.
“Nothing else comes close to this . . . nothing else we look at compares,” said Orla Cox, director of security response at Symantec, who described Regin as one of the most “extraordinary” pieces of hacking software developed, and probably “months or years in the making”.
Symantec said it was not yet clear how Regin infected systems but it had been deployed against internet service providers and telecoms companies mainly in Russia and Saudi Arabia as well as Mexico, Ireland and Iran.
The security software group said Regin could be customised to target different organisations and had hacked Microsoft email exchange servers and mobile phone conversations on major international networks.
“We are probably looking at some sort of western agency,” Ms Cox said. “Sometimes there is virtually nothing left behind – no clues. Sometimes an infection can disappear completely almost as soon as you start looking at it, it’s gone. That shows you what you are dealing with.”
Do Dirty Work Then Leave
The software somehow attaches itself, does the dirty work of stealing files or whatever, then vanishes without much of a trace, apparently deleting its presence.
It's unknown who did this but I side with Symantec, more specifically willing to suggest the NSA.
Whether or not my suspicions are correct, it's no wonder people want encryption that no one can beat.
Regardless who is responsible, I cheer developments like this development courtesy of Harvard and MIT students: Easy to Use Email So Secure NSA Cannot Break It; What About NSA Other Attacks?
This is what it had to come down to. Government nonsensically spying on everyone led to a more-secure service that freedom lovers and criminals alike will embrace.
By the way, the encryption might be secure, but that will not stop the NSA from hijacking entire computers.
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NHL All Stars Score Lots Of Goals
January 31, 2011 By: Katchop Category: NHL
Team Lidstrom defeated Team Staal in a 21 goal game.
After allowing 21 goals, Jonas Hiller of the Anaheim Ducks and the rest of the goalies at the 2011 NHL All Star game all needed a drink.
From Mercury News
A sport that takes much pride in the intensity of its competition cranked out another contest where each team reached double-digits in goals and the only thing bruised were goalie stats.
It ended up as an 11-10 victory for Team (Nicklas) Lidstrom over Team (Eric) Staal in an outcome that couldn’t have pleased the 18,680 fans who filled the RBC Center, because all three Carolina Hurricane players in the game — Staal, rookie Jeff Skinner and goalie Cam Ward — were on the losing side.
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January 29, 2011 By: Katchop Category: MLB
The New York Mets are looking for a minority partner.
The New York Mets logo may be changed to reflect the fallout from the Madoff scandal.
From The NY Post
But with the possibility the Mets may be on the hook for as much as $1 billion to settle the lawsuit — which claims the Mets profited from the Madoff scam — a major league executive told The Post yesterday the Wilpon family ultimately might surrender close to 50 percent of the team. The executive said he could not envision the Wilpons selling the club outright.
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LeBron Stumbles Against Knicks
January 28, 2011 By: Katchop Category: NBA
LeBron James and the Miami Heat lost to the New York Knicks on Thursday.
Knicks' fans did not make LeBron James feel welcome at the Garden.
From New York Magazine
The Knicks beat LeBron James and the Miami Heat 93–88 last night, their first win over a LeBron team since December 2007, and Fields was the primary reason why. He had his prettiest night of stat feeling in a couple of months, scoring nineteen points, grabbing thirteen rebounds and dishing out six assists, but stats never quite capture Fields.
He was everywhere this game, ending up wherever the ball was, pestering both Dwyane Wade and LeBron James on defense and, of course, draining a clutch three in the final minute that sent the Garden into apoplexy. “Landry Fields was probably the player of the game,” Miami coach Erik Spoelstra said. “That’s a guy who survives on just making effort plays. And he’s relentless with his effort, does all the little things.” It was a Landry Fields night; the Heat machine was taken down by a second-round draft pick from Stanford.
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Fisher Moves On
January 27, 2011 By: Katchop Category: NFL
Jeff Fisher is out as head coach of the Tennessee Titans.
Jeff Fisher no longer works for the Tennessee Titans.
From Yahoo Sports
In a surprising move, the Tennessee Titans have parted ways with Jeff Fisher, who just completed his 16th full season as the NFL’s longest-tenured coach.The team said in a release Thursday night that “Fisher will no longer be the head coach of the team.” The Titans announced the move within an hour of a report by SI.com that they were negotiating Fisher’s departure.
Though Fisher had been derided locally as “Coach .500” or “Coacho Ocho,” he seemingly had just survived a battle with quarterback Vince Young. Adams decided to either release Young or trade him on Jan. 5. The owner announced two days later that he would be keeping Fisher.
Original Photos Life, balljunkie
Blake Griffin: Dunk Monster
Blake Griffin of the Los Angeles Clippers is already being mentioned as the best Clipper of all time.
When Blake Griffin of the Los Angeles Clippers gets ready to dunk, he becomes a savage, flesh eating monster .
From The Los Angeles Times
Last week, The Times posted a poll question: Is Blake Griffin the greatest player in L.A. Clippers history? Only the Los Angeles era qualified, no reaching back into the San Diego archives or dusting off the Buffalo Braves’ records.
To date, Griffin has 295, or 43.45%, of the votes, more than twice the votes as the second-place finisher Danny Manning (121 votes, or 17.8%). Brand has 105 votes, or 15.4%. Granted, the sample was a small slice of fan representation — 680 votes in all to date — and certainly favors the here-and-now and the rapidly increasing buzz of all-things Griffin.
Original Photos Yahoo, totallycostumes
Alternate Logo: NY Jets
The New York Jets lost to the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday, but Mark Sanchez boozed it up afterward.
The New York Jets' season ended with a thud on Sunday.
But a spy said, “Mark sat with Braylon for a short while, but soon enough he was back at the bar flirting with the bartender, a gorgeous South American girl, busty with long, dark reddish hair. They were doing shots together and he kept whispering in her ear and holding her hand. He looked pretty enamored, and was at the bar until closing time. He went home alone but phone numbers were exchanged. Edwards’ bill came to around $2,500.”
The players closed down the club at 4:30 a.m. Edwards, who was charged with DUI last September, left in a chauffeur-driven Escalade.
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Bears Fans Say Cutler Quit
Lots of folks think Chicago Bears’ QB Jay Cutler quit on Sunday, even though tests on Monday revealed a MCL sprain.
People are saying that Jay Cutler of the Chicago Bears quit on the team and should change his name to Jay Quitler.
From The Atlanta Journal Constitution
From Maurice Jones-Drew of Jacksonville: “All I’m saying is that he can finish the game on a hurt knee … I played the whole season on one.”
Also from Jones-Drew: “Hey, I think the Urban Meyer rule is in effect right now. When the going gets tough … QUIT.”
From Derrick Brooks, formerly of Tampa Bay: “HEY there is no medicine for a guy with no guts and heart.”
We pause here to congratulate Jones-Drew on his new career as a diagnostician and Brooks for his post-NFL venture as both gastroenterologist and cardiologist. And now we move on.
From Deion Sanders, serial preener: “I’m telling you in the playoffs you must drag me off the field. All the medicine in pro locker rooms this dude comes out! I apologize, Bear fans! . . . Folks I never question a player’s injury but I do question a player’s heart.”
Also from Deion: “I better see Dr. [James] Andrews operate live on Cutler and [backup Todd] Collins tonight after the game on NFL network. Truth.”
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Holyfield Returns To The Ring
January 23, 2011 By: Katchop Category: Boxing
Evander Holyfield fought Sherman Williams last night.
Evander Holyfield looked the same as ever last night, except for the bottle of prune juice and box of Depends in his corner.
The four-time heavyweight champion came out for the third round and Williams (34-11-2) staggered him with several overhand punches. The fight was stopped after the round, and Holyfield didn’t protest the call.
Holyfield mentioned the possibility of a rematch with Williams after the bout.
Holyfield landed the first big punch of the fight, a straight left to Williams’ face in the first, but was countered soon after and flustered near the end of the round by a flurry of Williams’ blows.
The capacity crowd rose to its feet in the third round when Williams resumed his attack. Holyfield staggered into the ropes and nearly went to the canvas, but was able to regain his balance.
Holyfield again faced a series of punches from Williams to end the third, and appeared almost relived when the fight was stopped.
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Pronger Returns, Flyers Fight
Chris Pronger returned to action last night for the Philadelphia Flyers.
Chris Pronger returned for the Philadelphia Flyers on Thursday after having an operation to make his head not look like a penis.
From Fanhouse
There was some old-time Broad Street hockey in Philadelphia on Thursday night as the Flyers not only welcomed back Chris Pronger in their dominating 6-2 win over the Ottawa Senators, increasing their Eastern Conference lead, they also took part in some fisticuffs. The two teams combined for 126 penalty minutes, most of which came in the third period as the result of a number of fights.
NFL Stars Using Deer Antler Spray
Ray Lewis of the Baltimore Ravens is among a number of NFL players that have been using a mouth spray containing deer antler velvet extract.
Ray Lewis of the Baltimore Ravens has allegedly been using a performance enhancing mouth spray containing deer antler velvet.
From The Post Game
In an interview with ThePostGame.com in his Birmingham, Ala., office in December, Ross produced more than a half-dozen text messages he said were from Lewis over the past two years acknowledging receipt of S.W.A.T.S products and providing Ross with two addresses for shipment. ThePostGame.com has confirmed that both addresses were for properties owned by Lewis and the phone was registered to Lewis. Ross estimates he has sent 25 bottles of spray to Lewis over the last two years. (Each bottle, Ross estimates, contains a two-month supply of spray.)
A text message on Ross’ phone, dated Aug. 30, was sent to a number registered to Lewis, and asked, “You get the … spray?” A message received moments later from the number said, “Yes.”
A text message from Ross to the phone registered to Lewis at 8:05 a.m. on Nov. 2, 2009 asked, “You need more spray?” A reply from Lewis’ phone, received one minute later, read, “Yes my man, always.” Another text from Lewis’ phone read, “Yes, send me all the stuff.”
Reached by phone Wednesday, Bengals safety Roy Williams said, “I use the spray all the time. Two to three times a day. My body felt good after using it. I did feel a difference.”
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Rex Keeping Quiet
New York Jets’ coach Rex Ryan has been quiet this week.
New York Jets' coach Rex Ryan has found a way to keep his mouth shut.
From The Pittsburgh Post Gazette
The bile in the buildup, the loathing for the lead in, the raw enmity, the unprintable blood oaths coach Rex Ryan has been converting into Jet fuel since training camp. Rex please, where is the love/hate psychobabble we love to hate?
“I have a huge amount of respect for Mike Tomlin,” Ryan said in his opening statement for the AFC championship game. “He’s one of my favorite coaches.”
That was Monday.
On the Tuesday before the AFC championship game, Tomlin lowered the temperature.
“I love Rex,” said the Steelers boss. “He has a lot of fun with you guys, but, when you see past all that, you see a great football coach. With Rex, the glass is always half full.”
Seriously, this is how this week is going to go?
Original Photos Life, dailymail
Live Strong Indeed
January 18, 2011 By: Katchop Category: Other
Sports Illustrated is about to drop their performance enhancing hammer on Lance Armstrong.
Lance Armstrong denies any wrongdoing, despite what Sports Illustrated has to say.
From SI.com
SI writers Selena Roberts and David Epstein reviewed hundreds of pages of documents and interviewed dozens of sources in Europe, New Zealand and the U.S. for a story in the Jan. 24 issue of the magazine, which will be available on newsstands Wednesday.
According to the story, “If a court finds that Armstrong won his titles while taking performance-enhancing drugs, his entourage may come to be known as the saddest deception in sports history.”
Original Photos oregonlive, learn-bodybuilding
Fake Punt Dooms Pats
The New England Patriots were defeated by the New York Jets on Sunday.
Patrick Chung might be taking the blame for the fake punt, but New England Patriots' coach Bill Belichick blames himself.
From USA Today
The coaches trust him to run it and that’s why they give him the green light if he has it.”
Mesko said Chung saw an advantage based on the number of defenders the Jets had up front. The Patriots faced a fourth-and-4 from their own 38 with 1:14 left in the second quarter on the play.
But Chung fumbled the snap and the Jets took over at the 37. Four plays later, they scored a TD that gave them a 14-3 halftime advantage.
Coach Bill Belichick didn’t explain much about the play after the game. “We just made a bad mistake on the play,” he said. “Just a bad mistake.”
But Mesko stood by the move.
“(If it works out) you’re called smart,” he said. “You never know, you could go into the half with great momentum with the lead. We could have marched down the field if we had converted it.”
Original Photos mantoos, simononsports
Alternate Logo: Atlanta Falcons
The Atlanta Falcons were brutally raped by Aaron Rodgers on Saturday.
Despite the crushing loss to the Packers, the Atlanta Falcons will not be changing their name to the Failcons.
From The Falcoholic
It was a brutal game, this 48-21 loss to the Packers. The Falcons got off to a hot start with a turnover and Eric Weems’ brilliant kick return for a touchdown, and then everything went to hell. The Packers and Aaron Rodgers were simply too good tonight, and the Falcons had no answers for them. No one on the team—with the possible exception of Weems—gets a pass for the performance. It took an entire team to lose in such gut-wrenching fashion.
It’s over now. There will be no more talk of disrespect from pundits, fretting over whether Harry Douglas will emerge in the third receiver role and agonizing over the decisions of Brian Van Gorder and Mike Mularkey.
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Lundqvist Is King Of The Rangers
Henrik Lundqvist of the New York Rangers has really been earning his nickname this season.
King Henrik has been great for NY Rangers this season.
From NHL.com
While Lundqvist’s dominance would be the talk of the locker room for most other goaltenders, it’s reached the point where it’s commonplace in New York.
“He played really good late there. He made some big saves in the third period,” Tortorella said. “It’s a good game for him to bounce back. I think he was a little irritated on the goal against Montreal. But he had some fight to him. Especially at the end — there was a couple of close-in chances that he made some great saves on to secure the win.”
Even with the softie in the Canadiens game, Lundqvist has been sensational the past two games. He’s stopped 67 of 69 shots, and he’s done it playing behind what is now the youngest group of defenseman in the League.
Original Photos Yahoo, inquisitr
Panthers Go With Rivera
The Carolina Panthers have hired Ron Rivera as their new head coach.
New Panthers Head Coach Ron Rivera hopes to turn around players like Fantasy Football bust Jonathan Stewart, shown here as he is greeted by a fan during a mid December game.
From Boston.com
The Carolina Panthers have entrusted Ron Rivera with turning around the NFL’s worst team, making the Chargers defensive coordinator the second Latino head coach in NFL history.
Rivera was introduced yesterday. He replaces John Fox, who was let go earlier this month after Carolina went 2-14 in his ninth season.
It’s the first head coaching job for the 49-year-old Rivera, who is of Puerto Rican and Mexican heritage. He joins ex-Raiders and Seahawks boss Tom Flores as the only Latino head coaches.
Original Photos Yahoo, Yahoo
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Lakers Make Cavs Feel Small
The Los Angeles Lakers stomped the Cleveland Cavaliers on Tuesday 112 – 57.
The Cleveland Cavaliers came up a little short against Kobe Bryant and the Lakers on Tuesday night, and by short we mean 55 points.
The Lakers humiliated the Cavs while sending them to their 11th consecutive loss, rolling to a 112-57 victory on Tuesday night in their best defensive performance of the shot-clock era.
It was the Lakers’ third-largest margin of victory since moving to Los Angeles, with the two biggest coming in 1972 and 1966.
“You don’t ever imagine something like that,” Kobe Bryant (FSY) said. “You just go out there and do your job and we did it for 48 minutes.”
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Eagles: What Went Wrong?
The Philadelphia Eagles know that they need to fix their defense in the off-season.
Young players like DeSean Jackson are lucky that the Philadelphia Eagles have Mike Vick around to show them how to cope after a devastating loss.
From gcobb.com
The problems in the red zone have the Eagles front office concerned about defensive coordinator Sean McDermott. During the season, opposing teams got into the end zone at a 77% rate, which is the worst an NFL defense has done in that category in nearly three decades. I learned that the Eagles feel McDermott has made the team’s defensive system too complicated and gimmicky.
There’s concern that too many times during the season, he has had the team’s defensive ends playing pass defense. Earlier in the week, defensive end Trent Cole pointed a finger at the coaches and the scheme. Someone asked him if he was wearing down during the season because he hadn’t come down any sacks in a good while. Cole said he was fine, but added he was just doing what the coaches wanted him to do.
Original Photos Yahoo, doomsday
Falcons Wait For Packers
Roddy White and the Atlanta Falcons are waiting for the Green Bay Packers.
Roddy White stretches for a pass earlier this season.
From thefalcoholic
With rookie James Stark providing a ground game for the first time all season and the Packers’ defense making life a little difficult for Michael Vick, the Packers edged out the Eagles. That cupcake matchup with the Seattle Seahawks isn’t forthcoming, but the Falcons have beaten the Pack once at home and they can certainly do so again.
For the Falcons, it means stopping a suddenly balanced attack that’s still heavy on the brilliance of Aaron Rodgers. It means navigating a tough Packers secondary and a defense that’s capable of blitzing all day. They’ve made it this far surviving challenges from good football teams who can do all of these things, so it’s not a matter of panicking. Atlanta just has to be ready.
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Mega Melo Deal?
The NBA is overflowing with rumors about a 17 player trade that would send Carmelo Anthony to the New Jersey Nets.
Carmelo Anthony could wind up wearing a NJ Nets' uniform.
The Nets’ pursuit of Denver superstar Carmelo Anthony with Detroit entering the mix could result in the largest trade in NBA history under an incredibly complex proposal which is one of about 20 scenarios being considered.
As many as 17 players, plus multiple draft picks, could be involved in the deal, several sources confirmed. One league executive said “15 to 17 players could ultimately be involved.” And there are all the draft picks to consider, too.
The Nets, who have sought to do a team-to-team trade with the Nuggets, have induced Detroit into the talks with the Pistons eager to shave salary. The Nets, under the whopper trade which is nowhere near close to be completed, would essentially gut their current roster. At 10-26, that might not be a bad thing.
Original Photos zimbio, cheapjersey.net
No Luck For Panthers
Andrew Luck will stay at Stanford for another year, leaving the Carolina Panthers with questions about what to do with the No.1 overall pick in the 2011 NFL Draft.
Jimmy Clausen looked pretty green while starting at QB for the Carolina Panthers.
From The NY Times
Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck announced on Thursday that he would return to Stanford to complete his degree in architectural design. He was all but guaranteed to be the No. 1 pick in the draft. And no team needs a quarterback more than the Carolina Panthers, who happen to have the No. 1 selection.
The Panthers got nowhere with Matt Moore and Jimmy Clausen this season, and when those two were hurt, Carolina startled Brian St. Pierre by calling him out of the blue; he was out of football, helping take care of his infant son in suburban Boston.
Original Photo Bleacherreport
Alternate Logo: Tennessee Titans
The Tennessee Titans have decided to cut ties with Vince Young.
The Tennessee Titans will cut Vince Young, but will not alter their logo to reflect the F they should give themselves for drafting him.
The Titans released a statement Wednesday night in which Adams said Young won’t be on the team’s roster next season, but he’s still evaluating the coaching staff.
“We have two critical decisions to make, the direction of the coaching staff and the future at the quarterback position. They are separate issues to me and will be dealt with separately,” Adams said.
Adams is the owner who wanted Young drafted No. 3 overall out of Texas in 2006 and said on draft day that “VY is my guy.” But with his general manager and senior executive vice president traveling to Houston to meet with Adams on Monday, the 88-year-old owner decided Young no longer is the quarterback for his franchise.
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Favre Sued For Sexual Harassment
Two women have come forward claiming Brett Favre sexually harassed them while he was with the New York Jets.
Brett Favre had some trouble behaving properly while he was a memeber of the NY Jets.
From The LA Times
Brett Favre was hit with a sexual harassment lawsuit Monday from massage therapists Christina Scavo and Shannon O’Toole, just days after the conclusion of an NFL investigation into lewd text messages and explicit pictures allegedly sent to sideline reporter Jenn Sterger when she and Favre were both on the New York Jets payroll.
The Minnesota Vikings quarterback on Sunday announced his retirement (again) from professional football, after not playing in the Vikings’ game against the Detroit Lions.
Scavo and O’Toole allege that while they were working for the Jets during training camp in 2008, Favre sent text messages to a fellow massage therapist, hinting at a threesome with Scavo and saying he was “lonely” and had “bad intentions.” They also allege that a Jets coordinator told one of the women in October she and the others should keep their mouths shut, and that they would never work for the Jets again.
Original Photos nymag, kacike, webundies
Gasol Battle
Los Angeles Lakers fans were unhappy their team was defeated by the Memphis Grizzlies.
Both Pau and Marc Gasol have a striking resemblance.. to the Geico Caveman.
From The Orange County Register
On Sunday night, though, Staples Center fans booed the team that wasn’t competing at all.
“I would’ve booed,” Lakers center Andrew Bynum said. “I would’ve been mad.”
The Lakers have lost three of their past four home games by 16 points to Milwaukee, 19 to Miami and 19 to Memphis. Jackson acknowledged how uncharacteristic it is for the Lakers to be noncompetitive to the end at home.
“They have a right to boo,” Bryant said of Lakers fans.
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Jets Take It Easy
The New York Jets are headed to the playoffs, and Rex Ryan is happy.
Rex Ryan was subdued in front of the media, but you know he's licking some feet tonight.
With that, the Jets headed back into the playoffs, back to Indianapolis, where their season ended in the A.F.C. title game a year ago. The Jets’ success with Coach Rex Ryan and quarterback Mark Sanchez — 20 regular-season victories and 2 playoff berths in two years — is often lost amid the chaos and controversy that have defined their tenure. That rarely happens. But it happened here.
Ryan stepped into his postgame fishbowl filled with the swagger that had diminished over the past month. He mentioned the Super Bowl at least five times, each time in the context of winning it despite the Jets’ status as the A.F.C.’s sixth seed. His words were echoed in the locker room by defensive lineman Trevor Pryce, who said: “We feel like this is the just the beginning of what we can accomplish. Right now. This season.”
Original Photo boston.com
Happy New Year! Winter Classic Moved to 8PM
Happy New Year. The 2011 NHL Winter Classic has been delayed until 8PM due to rain.
Happy New Year to everyone from Katchop.com. Even Alex Ovechkin.
From The Washington Post
Several players said the ice was soft and there were a few holes, particularly in the corner by the left faceoff circle on the right side of the rink, where puddles formed.
Although the Capitals came off the ice before the NHL’s announcement that the Winter Classic’s start time has been changed to 8 p.m. in order to avoid the rain that’s forecasted for the Pittsburgh area on Saturday, most players said a delay wouldn’t bother them much.
“With the way the ice was this afternoon, it was soft, it was wet,” defenseman Scott Hannan said. “If the temperature would drop and the ice would be a little better, I’m sure that would be good.”
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Oscar Adams was an important scientist-mathematician during the early twentieth century. He was born on a farm in Monroe Township, Knox County, Ohio in 1874, the son of David and Louise (McElroy) Adams. Oscar was educated in the public schools of Knox County and in 1896 he graduated from Kenyon College. He served in the Spanish-American War in 1898-1899, and returned to Knox County to teach mathematics in the public schools and to serve as superintendent of schools in Centerburg. He also continued his education at Kenyon College, receiving an A.M. degree in 1915 and a ScD. in 1928. In 1900 Adams married Mary E. Fuller of Centerburg. They had three children.
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Eli Todd Tappan was an American educator, mathematician, author, lawyer and newspaper editor who served as president of Kenyon College, among other public distinctions. He was the son of Senator Benjamin Tappan and the father of author Mary Tappan Wright.
After the death of Joseph Ray, writer of numerous mathematics textbooks from primary through college levels, Eli Tappan authored several updated editions of Ray's texts for various publishers.
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Troy Polamalu who was an “outstanding player and person” officially retires
Friday, April 10, 2015 / by William DePaoli / / Pittsburgh Steelers / 0 comments
News broke last night that Troy Polamalu had decided to retire as told to Jim Wexell of the Herald Standard and the Steelers this morning released an official statement on Polamalu’s retirement.
“Since we drafted him in 2003, Troy Polamalu has been an outstanding player and person,” said Steelers President Art Rooney II said in the released statement. “On behalf of the entire Steelers organization and the Steelers Nation, I am happy to be able to publicly celebrate and thank Troy for his many contributions to the Steelers. His unique style of play will be remembered among the all-time Steelers. His passion for the game of football on the field and his willingness to be a contributor to the community make him a very special person.”
The future Hall of Famer was one of the most beloved Steelers of all-time and will go down as one of their greatest players.
Polamalu was an eight-time Pro Bowler (2004-08, 2010-11, ‘13), and has been named first-team AP All Pro four times (2005, 2008, 2010-11) and second team two times (2004, 2007). Polamalu was also named to the 2000’s NFL All-Decade Team and to the Steelers’ 75th Anniversary Team.
One of Polamalu’s greatest individual accomplishments was being named 2010 Defensive Player of the Year.
”Troy is a shining example of a football man in the way he loved the game, the way he respected the game and the way he played the game,” Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin said. “It’s a shining example of the window into who he is. He is a legendary Steeler and a legendary man. I congratulate him and wish him nothing but the best moving forward.”
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About the IPC
Administration and Facilities
Externally-Funded Research
Merit Research Awards
Visiting Research Associates Program
IPC-DSA Scholarship Program
IPC International Summer School
Ateneo Cultural Laboratory
IPC International Summer School for Doctoral Researchers in the Philippines
The IPC International Summer School for Doctoral Researchers on the Philippines is an annual IPC program (from 2013 to 2015) whereby very promising PhD students in the social sciences or interdisciplinary programs from around the world are invited for an intensive series of workshops, seminars, and lectures. With the theme “Historical and Ethnographic Approaches to Philippine Culture,” the IPC Summer School addresses questions about how historical and ethnographic approaches contribute to a closer understanding of Philippine social realities, what principles inform their conceptual and methodological orientations, and whether these approaches can be extended to other aspects of Philippine studies. The IPC covers the travel and lodging expenses and most meals of the Summer School participants, who had been chosen by a Selection Committee which reviewed the documents submitted by the applicants, including a never-before-published paper appropriate to the theme of "Historical and Ethnographic Approaches to Philippine Culture."
The four-day IPC Summer School includes paper presentations by each of the ten to twelve doctoral researchers on their own work and subsequent discussion by the group of participants. Two leading scholars in Philippine Studies moderate the discussion, provide feedback on the paper of the Summer School fellows, and deliver public lectures on their own research. The roster of IPC Summer School moderators includes Filomeno V. Aguilar, Jr. and Resil B. Mojares (2013); Patricio N. Abinales and Ramon Guillermo (2014); and Caroline Hau and Mary Racelis (2015).
The Summer School fellows are expected to revise their papers based on the suggestions offered during the workshop sessions, with a view to improving the papers for submission to and possible publication in the journal Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints.
Summer School Year
Name of Summer School Fellow
Title of Paper
Ph.D. Academic Program
Institution and Country
07/2013 Joshua Kueh Godfathers and Godmothers of the Parian: Chinese-Catholic and Chinese Mestizo Social Networks in Seventeenth-Century Manila Georgetown University, USA
07/2013 Skilty Labastilla Dissecting Diskarte: Schooling, Work, and Family among Low-wage Young Filipino Men Anthropology La Trobe University, Australia
07/2013 Leslie Lopez Shifting Identities of the Members of the Philippine Marines Sociology University of the Philippines Diliman
07/2013 Scott McLoughlin Thy neighbor as thyself”: Practices of differentiation and resemblance among Christian groups in Occ. Mindoro, Philippines University of Michigan, USA\
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Citing in JCB Format
BIOL 350 - Cell Biology / Williams: Citing in JCB Format
Journal of Cell Biology Citation Basics
The following is taken directly from the JCB's Instructions for Authors page:
References should be listed alphabetically by first author's last name. The authors must be cited in the order in which they first appeared in publication and as they subsequently appear in Medline, even in cases for which more than one author contributed equally to the work. Include all authors' names (i.e., do not use "et al."), year, complete article title, and inclusive page numbers. Abbreviate the names of journals according to PubMed; please spell out the names of unlisted journals.
The following are examples of acceptable reference formats:
* Two authors:
Foster, E.R., and J.A. Downs. 2009. Methylation of H3K4 and K79 is not strictly dependent on H2B K123 acetylation. J. Cell Biol. 184:631–638.
* More than two authors:
Eastman, S.W., M. Yassaeem, and P.D. Bieniasz. 2009. A role for ubiquitin ligase and Spartin/SPG20 in lipid droplet turnover. J. Cell Biol. 184: 909–921.
* In press:
Brown, W., and A. Nelson. 2009. Phosphorus content of lipids. J. Lipid Res. In press.
*Online Peer-Reviewed Articles:
* Published article with DOI only (no pagination):
Lopez-Soler, R.I., R.D. Moir, T.P. Spann, R. Stick, and R.D. Goldman. 2001. A role for nuclear lamins in nuclear envelope assembly. J. Cell Biol. doi:10.1083/jcb.200101025
* Published article with both DOI and pagination:
Lopez-Soler, R.I., R.D. Moir, T.P. Spann, R. Stick, and R.D. Goldman. 2001. A role for nuclear lamins in nuclear envelope assembly. J. Cell Biol. 154:61–71. doi:10.1083/jcb.200101025.
* Abstracts:
Citation of abstracts in the reference list is not permitted.
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Case Study - AsclepiusNet
Client Situation.
AsclepiusNet was conceived as a way to mine vast amounts of otherwise unused cancer data and create a virtual tool that could be used in diagnosing and recommending treatment for patients. Over the course of several years, this relationship spanned the full lifecycle that Lighthouse's clients often follow. It began with a short and finite project, grew into a longer-term series of efforts requiring ongoing support from Lighthouse, and ultimately transitioned to a less time intense and periodic executive advisory role.
Challenges.
•AsclepiusNet was knowledgeable in the area of medical research and analysis, and had some unique knowledge related to cancer. However, it had limited cancer data and no direct experience in using technology to mine and manipulate that data for bioinformatic purposes.
•AsclepiusNet was conceived by a small group of young entrepreneurs who lacked direct experience in starting and growing a business.
•AsclepiusNet was only an idea at the time Lighthouse was engaged. No product existed, there were no customers, and no actual business plan had been established.
•The market AsclepiusNet wanted to pursue was crowded, with well-financed, skilled competitors.
Lighthouse Role.
Lighthouse recommended a gradual, methodical approach to the set of challenges faced by AsclepiusNet. When Lighthouse was introduced to AsclepiusNet there were many uncertainties that could have taken the business a number of directions. Lighthouse felt it was important not to over-commit the client either to the unknown business or to a lengthy consulting contract. The following steps were taken one at a time, each building on the one before.
•Defined the scope of the business opportunity. The skills and assets of the company were evaluated against potential markets and market sectors available to find the best fit to meet the company's goals. This in-depth analysis resulted in a significant and ultimately beneficial shift away from the original concept for the business.
•Defined a market. Once a more targeted market was identified, Lighthouse worked closely with the client on an in-depth study of the market. This process provided necessary insight on the scope of the market, its accessibility, and discovery of the unique niche and positioning the company could fill.
•Redefined a business plan and product unique to the market and more aligned with the strengths inherent in the company. Lighthouse was then engaged to help the company develop a comprehensive business plan.
•Built a small, but skilled team. With a plan in place, Lighthouse was retained to help define the resources - employees, partners, and advisors - that would be needed to establish and build the business. Job descriptions, budget, recruiting strategies, and other elements designed, reflected both the goals and resource limitations.
•Developed a seasoned advisory board to supplement young managers. Lighthouse assisted AsclepiusNet in supplementing its full-time staff with a broadly skilled and seasoned board of advisors. This board not only provided short-term capacity and depth, but also long-term guidance, reality-checks, and credibility.
•Supported the evolution of the President in his role as well as the execution of work plans. Throughout its engagement Lighthouse played the dual role of coaching the company's President in his own personal role while advising the company in a broader sense. This was enormously valuable to enabling this chief executive to mature quickly as a new entrepreneur without causing his company to wait or falter in the process.
Successes.
Over three years many successes - small, large, personal, corporate - were achieved. Those successes included:
•Trending AsclepiusNet away from things not core to strengths, towards things that are.
•The shear ability of AsclepiusNet to survive and succeed with no outside capital and in a down market.
•Establishment of key data and technology partnerships with industry leaders.
•Creation and growth of a network of customer relationships building credibility for future sales.
•Recruiting experienced, talented employees to the team, even given the inherent risks.
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How Cox & Kings’ #ForeverYoung re-positioned Thailand as a women-friendly destination & generated leads for its women-only tours
Case study by Cox & Kings and Xebec on the launch of its women-only tours under the categories: 'Influencer marketing',' B2C Brand Building', 'Offline-Online Integrated' for LI Digital Awards 2017
admin February 17, 2017 March 27, 2017 Brands, 2016 Digital Case Studies
Cox & Kings Ltd., set up in 1758, is one of the longest established travel companies. Headquartered in India, the holiday and education travel group has subsidiaries in the US, Canada, the UK, Netherlands, the UAE, Japan, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand. Cox & Kings Ltd. has operations spread across 22 countries and 4 continents. Historically, Cox & Kings Ltd. has been an army agent, a travel agent, a printer and publisher. Its core activities now include the sale of packaged holidays for leisure travel.
Xebec is one of the leading integrated marketing agencies of India. We develop and employ the best digital marketing strategies and creative technology solutions. With offices all over the country, our reach is far and wide, as are the categories our work has spanned. We enjoy working with clients who broaden our scope and deepen our insight and practice of the business of brands that truly engage. Just like a Xebec which is a three-sail ship that moves fast ahead of the rest, we aim to partner with you to make your brand a forerunner. Relevant to both sailing and advertising, our motto is ‘surf on’.
The Thailand Tourism board had a problem. Overtime, Thailand has built a certain reputation. While it was driving in tourists, it was also alienating some sections – especially women travellers, in groups or solo. Preconceived notions about the destination deterred women travellers from indulging in certain experiences such as spa and wellness.
Thailand has an amazing array of Spa and wellness services, either standalone or as part of hotel establishments which are safe, luxurious and provide a top-notch experience. Yet, these were not fully utilized by women travellers, including those from India. Thailand desperately wanted to change perceptions, let women travellers know about all that it has to offer and above it all, pitch it as a safe destination for women to indulge their senses.
Identified Objectives
We identified key objectives that could later be measured to determine the success of the campaign:
Portray Thailand as a safe destination for women travellers
Create awareness about its spa and wellness offerings catering to women travellers
Create the right buzz amongst women looking to plan their travels abroad
Create a sustained buzz about the destination
Influencers to drive campaign thought
The Strategy/ Execution
The idea was very simple. It was born out of a confluence of insights, lifestyles and the need to change. We combined travel dream destinations of women with their most engaging activity on social media to come up with a differentiating campaign and re-position Thailand as the perfect country for indulgence.
Confluence of insights
The campaign drew insights from our women-only social media campaign #TravelLikeAGoddess where women travellers named ‘Thailand’ as their preferred destination to go to ‘abroad’. However, women also mentioned that ‘safety’ was their top most priority.
Additionally, women indulged in fashion and beauty more than any other online category. Women spend their maximum time online, watching fashion and lifestyle videos, especially by bloggers. This gave rise to an interesting proposition.
What if we position Thailand, not like a destination, but like a beauty product.
The questions still remain the same – Is it safe to use? Is it expensive? Is it for me? Are other women using it too? So why not marry them both? What if we pitch Thailand as a beauty product? Sell it like a beauty product. Design it like a beauty product. Talk about it like a beauty product. And what do beauty products aim to do? Keep you looking and feeling forever young. Thus was born our #ForeverYoung campaign.
So how do we launch the latest beauty product in the market? We give it to beauty and fashion bloggers of course! We engaged 6 of India’s top fashion bloggers to try out the latest beauty product in the market. These bloggers were chosen basis their influence and their popularity. Some, popular within beauty blogger segments, some hugely popular on Instagram, some rocking Twitter and Facebook. Each, with their blog of their own, their own readership, their own network of followers.
These 6 bloggers, set out on a month long excursion to Thailand, one after the other, trying out the various aspect of the ‘latest beauty product’ in the market. Bloggers reported live from Thailand, they tweeted, instagrammed, blogged about their experience and how this latest crazy will truly help women look forever young!
The product itself was launched like a beauty product. It had its own microsite which spoke about the various benefits the product had to offer to women, the various beauty regimes that women could follow and be on the path to being forever young.
Our travel packages were integrated within the microsite as a beauty regime, various activities and spa visits were pitched as beauty spots in Thailand.
Social Media and Other digital platforms
Social media was abuzz, with beauty bloggers talking about the ‘latest’ beauty product in the market so as to create real pull towards the launch of ‘Thailand as a beauty product’. The bloggers set the tone, created the right premise for the campaign to flow as a ‘FMCG product launch’ rather than a travel product. We were able to keep Thailand on top of people’s minds through bloggers.
Once the audiences realized that the beauty product was in fact a destination, we revealed our campaign on our own social networks and other digital platforms. Besides bloggers, we also promoted the latest beauty product across social media channels, display networks, content market push, YouTube and more.
The 360 degree campaign was to create the right buzz in the market in a bid to start changing perceptions and make Thailand more women-friendly.
Spas. shopping nightlife; this is Amazing #Thailand. and you're invited to get on board!
Feel #ForeverYoung with #CoxAndKings. pic.twitter.com/fmRbraXbfR
— Cox & Kings (@coxandkingsIN) October 7, 2016
The campaign ran for 3 months where we were able to get women to interact with the brand consistently, inquire about the latest beauty regimes and sign up for a beauty treatment package (aka travel package) to Thailand.
The high-decibel campaign generated immense buzz for the brand.
The campaign helped generate leads for our women-only tours and also for Thailand throughout the campaign duration.
We garnered close to 210 million impressions across platforms.
Over 100,000 views on the blogger content, published on our microsite. Even more on their own blogs.
Worldwide trending achieved for the brand. This helped the tourism board since Thailand’s problem was worldwide and not just restricted to tourists from India.
Re-position Thailand as a women-friendly destination.
We observed that using real influencers, who are thought leaders in their respective category, can have a positive impact on the audience and help the brand achieve its objective.
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Kyle's Designs
1497 Lindsey Lane
Athletic Honors in 1983
-Pre-season 2nd Team All-Gulf South Conference
-Delta State Sportsmanship Award
-2nd Team All-Gulf South Conference
-Pre-season 1st Team All-Gulf South Conference
-Little All-America Football Team
-Football News All-America Football Team
-1st Team All-Gulf South Conference
-Four year letterman at Delta State University
-Received Senior Athlete of the Year Award
-Received Most Valuable Player Award at Delta State
-Received Best Offensive Back Award at Delta State
-3rd round draft pick by Jacksonville Bulls in the United States Football League. Signed a three year contract.
-Was offered a two year contract by Toronto Argonauts in the Canadian Football League.
-Received and signed a contract offer with Ottawa Roughriders in the Canadian Football League.
-Named to the Gulf South Conference Team of the Decade--Wide Receiver
-Named to the Gulf South Conference 25th Anniversary Team -- Wide Receiver
-Inducted into the Delta State University Sports Hall of Fame on April 24, 1999.
Athletic Records in 1983
*Most yards gained on pass reception in a single game -- 234
-Most touchdown passes caught in a game-- 3
-Most touchdown passes caught in a season-- 7
*Delta State and Gulf South Conference Record
-Most receptions in a single game -- 14
-Most receptions in a season -- 64
-Most yards receiving in a game -- 258
-Most yards receiving in a career -- 2,377
All are Delta State and Gulf South Conference records
-Most catches in a career -- 163
-Most yards receiving in a career -- 3,055 (Ranked 4th on all time N.C.A.A. Division II receiving list)
Both are Delta State and Gulf south Conference Records
-Nationally Ranked 13th in punt returns -- averaged 10.1 yards: Average led Gulf South Conference
-N.C.A.A. Division II record for a reception in 38 consecutive games
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2000 NCAA DIVISION II
Playing career 1982-85
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What's Tech?
Enjoy the archives of this retired, award-winning series from Christopher Thomas Plante and The Verge that explained technology bit by bit. The series finale aired December 6th, 2016, shortly before Chris re-joined Polygon as its executive editor. For more on what’s happening now (and next) in technology and gadgets, listen and subscribe to The Vergecast.
The What’s Tech series finale
When I started at The Verge in 2014, I needed an excuse to learn about technology. My background was in covering video games, television, and pop culture, and I lacked the basic cognitive functions to hold a phone above my head without dropping it on my face. So I launched a podcast called What’s Tech. For two years, the show was an opportunity to learn the fundamentals about the technology that supports everyday life. Free to ask silly, obvious, and embarrassing questions, I learned a ton. I hope you did, too. After all, my favorite takeaway from the podcast was that I wasn’t alone. We often take tech for granted, like a magical apparatus that does everything we need, not a massive collection of moving parts designed and programmed by women and men with their own dreams, ambitions, and motives. Technology is immensely confusing, but understanding how it functions and who creates it is a worthwhile and rewarding pursuit. I sincerely hope that through this show, tech became more ac...
What are Snapchat Spectacles, and do I have to be a teen to wear them?
Snapchat Spectacles, the mysterious and incredibly hyped hardware from Snap, Inc., have arrived. Vending machines for the video camera sunglasses are springing up around the country, first in California and Oklahoma, and who knows where else next. Verge senior reporter Bryan Bishop joined me this week to talk about his experience hunting down Spectacles and whether we’re all going to feel like olds wearing them. Also, what’s the deal with this circular video format? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
19 MIN2016 NOV 16
How smartphone cameras took over the world
In the early 2000s, the digital photography revolution made it possible for miniaturized camera hardware and image sensors to be packed into cell phones without adding a significant amount of weight. Then the iPhone was announced. As the smartphone war began, the camera became an important part of the ongoing spec race. Competitors tried to beat Apple in making an excellent camera (and app) that was easy to use — and it took until this year for that to start happening. Now, two-thirds of adults in the US own a smartphone. The average smartphone user takes at least 150 photos per month. Instagram has half a billion monthly users. Even if it’s just selfies or pictures of lunch — nothing has familiarized people with photography like smartphone cameras. It’s now a part of our everyday lives. I joined Chris on this week’s What’s Tech to talk about my first camera phones, why the newest smartphones have such equally excellent shooters, and where it all goes from here. Learn more abo...
23 MIN2016 OCT 25
How HTTPS is slowly but surely making the internet safer
Over the past couple years web security has become a staple of the nightly news. The stories usually hinge on government leaks, foreign hackers, or web encryption. There’s menacing subtext that practically everything put online is vulnerable to “cyber attacks.” Though one might wonder what steps are being taken to protect not just the government and giant corporations, but you, the individual. What keeps you safe when you stumble your way into a Wikipedia hole or click a strange link sent from a friend? To find out, I invited my colleague Russell Brandom to talk about web security, and particularly HTTPS. As Russell explains, while your information isn’t necessarily less vulnerable, websites themselves are becoming safer. This is a dense topic, but fortunately Russell brought a helpful metaphor. It involves pie. Subscribe to What's Tech on iTunes, listen on Spotify, or subscribe via RSS. And be sure to follow us on Twitter. You can also find the entire collection of What's Tech ...
Why is everyone making GIFs of themselves?
Our most sacred and special task as human beings is to document our own existence with a single-minded dedication. That's why we have massive iCloud photo libraries, 15GB of video of that really cool Springsteen concert on our phones, Instagram accounts for ourselves, our pets, and our alter egos, and dusty yearbooks stacked up in our closets. The latest in this personal digital archive: personal GIFs. Apps like Boomerang, Motion Stills, Giphy, DSCO, and more help us make GIFs and other short, looping videos of life's most precious moments. And of course, of life's most 'grammable sammies. The Verge tech reporter and gadget blog queen Ashley Carman joined me (Kaitlyn Tiffany, your friendly Chris Plante stand-in) in the single-stall What's Tech recording booth this week to compare sweat mustaches and GIF-creation techniques. We had a nice conversation about art, technology, ourselves, and the utility of acronyms. If you tune in, you'll also learn a little something about the future o...
How immersive haunted houses and participatory plays are making Halloween scarier
Here at The Verge, we love Halloween and everything about it. Horror movies, non-horror seasonal movies, seasonal beverages, seasonal bots, this Pumpkin Guy, horrifying makeup tutorials, poop-shaped candy — bring it on. In particular, we love to be scared. It gives us a sweet little adrenaline burst to get us across the daunting dark tundra of November to April. This Hallo-season, senior entertainment reporter Bryan Bishop has embarked on a journey to find the most immersive, creative, and high-tech scares in all of Los Angeles. In a new series called "The Future of Fear," he's taking us all where we're too East Coast or too chicken to go. These aren't your grandma's haunted houses (although Bryan and I will both stan for the original Haunted Mansion at Disney World, may it live forever). I love Halloween so much I, Kaitlyn Tiffany took over the seat usually warmed by your friendly neighborhood What's Tech host Chris Plante. You can't tell from the audio, but I wore a blazer to the...
24 MIN2016 OCT 6
Why smartphone batteries explode, and why they may get worse
Samsung has officially recalled the Galaxy Note 7 worldwide, after more than 90 of the large smartphones in the US overheated due to defective batteries. Overheating is, in this case, an understatement, as some owners have claimed their smartphones outright exploded. Exploding lithium-ion batteries actually aren’t so uncommon. As my colleagues Angela Chen and Lauren Goode noted earlier this month, there are many ways for a lithium-ion battery to become dangerous, and they aren’t limited to any one smartphone or electronic device. “An exploding phone seems like a freak accident,” write Chen and Goode, “but the same chemical properties that make batteries work also make them likely to catch fire.” To learn more about the lithium-ion batteries, I invited The Verge’s science reporter Angela Chen to the show. We talk about how manufacturers are pushing the battery to its limit, and what alternatives we may see in the future. Subscribe to What's Tech on iTunes, listen on Spotify, o...
16 MIN2016 SEP 20
How Snapchat’s goofy faces made everyone comfortable with selfies
I didn’t take many selfies until I downloaded Snapchat. But like so many people I’ve fallen in love with lenses, the optional tools that make my face look like a dog or an emoji or an advertisement for junk food. Now, a day doesn’t go by that I don’t mug into my front-facing camera. The magic of lenses is how they erase the perception of the selfie as an act of narcissism — an insipid criticism that comes from a certain clump of people who feel the need to bash people for showing a fleck of confidence. Why didn’t I take selfies? I was too embarrassed. Anyway! I digress! I’m clearly fascinated by the popularity and power of lenses, so I invited my friend and colleague Ashley Carman to the show. We talk about the potential of the lens, and the possible future of a would-be gimmick that has birthed a broader pop culture trend. Subscribe to What's Tech on iTunes, listen on Spotify, or subscribe via RSS. And be sure to follow us on Twitter. You can also find the entire collection ...
The good and bad news of the Earth-sized planet Proxima Centauri b
Late last month, news broke of the exoplanet Proxima Centauri b. Orbiting the closest star to our Solar System, there’s a lot to love about Proxima b since it shares a few key traits with our own home planet. But before we start making intergalactic vacation plans, let’s pump the space-brakes: half the planet is locked in darkness, it’s pelted by radiation from close proximity to its sun, and the rock is 25 trillion miles away. Our current best option for sending a probe there involves a laser-propelled space-sail, which would reduce travel time from tens of thousands of years to 20. Which is to say, while potentially astonishing, even the best case scenario seems like a long-shot for our lifetime. To explain Proxima Centauri b, I invited my friend and colleague Loren Grush onto the show. This is, I think, the first episode in which we don’t talk about the Nic Cage film Knowing, so just keep that in mind. Subscribe to What's Tech on iTunes, listen on Spotify, or subscribe via RS...
20 MIN2016 SEP 9
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ZEE LABORATORIES
Freetone Powder
Fenzel Syrup
Cutex Expectorant
Ale Syrup
Hygiene Cleanser
Rexel Herbal Soap
PHARMA FRANCHIES IN Meghalaya
pcd franchise companies
pharmaceutical franchise
Dexex Capsules
ZEE LABORATORIES was incepted in 1994 and has been maintaining its benign presence ever since. ZEE started its first manufacturing unit at Karnal city in Haryana state of INDIA situated just 150 km. away from Delhi Airport, broadly connected with National Highway No. 1. The factory is spread over a large area of around 6000 square meter out of which 50% is covered area with two floors.
Company started its second unit in the year 2005 in the tax free industrial zone of Himachal Pradesh at Paonta Sahib with the latest and well equipped technology which is further 125 km. away from its Karnal unit. The factory is spread over a large area of around 7500 square meter out of which 60% is covered with two floors.
Uchani, G.T. Road, Karnal, Haryana, 132001, India
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Sault: “Seeds Of Power” – bone-crushingly heavy and majestically melodic
Published on March 3, 2017 in Releases by staff
Sault (Featuring members of Kamelot and Arcanium) was a creation formed by bassist Sean Tibbetts in 2014 and originally intended to be a solo album, but the project soon morphed into a band project. Sean was introduced to guitarist Curtis Jay by long-time friend Bisquette Bewley while at a tattoo parlor. Curtis was asked to record on a few tracks for the Sault demo. The two instantly knew there was something special in the music they had just created and were driven to start on a journey that would soon lead to a full length album. Next they found a singer in Benjamin Riggs, again via friend, this time in the person of singer Kimberley Freeman. Sean, being a member of the symphonic metal band Kamelot, asked his long-time friend and band mate, Casey Grillo, if he would be interested in recording the drum tracks on the Sault album. Casey of course turned out to be a natural fit.
Currently Sault is hard at work finishing their debut album which is to be titled, “Seeds Of Power”. We intercepted a few songs from the album to test the water, and it bangs! The first thing you notice after 3 songs is that Sault has crafted a distinctive sound and whether you call it a style or a formula it is immediately recognizable. And they would make any record label’s job nearly impossible on because out of the 4 songs that I heard taken from the album, all of them could legitimately be rock radio hit singles.
The production showcases the rhythm section of Casey Grillo (drums) and Sean Tibbetts (bass), giving it a driving bottom end while still providing plenty of room to shine for guitarist Curtis Jay. Vocalist Benjamin Riggs doesn’t need to be purposefully given any space, he just steamrolls the tracks with his booming voice.
Judging by these songs, “Seeds Of Power” is going to be one of those few mainstream metal albums that will leave you moshing in your best friend’s living room one minute, and just banging your head the next – neither of which can be trivially discounted in such a genre.
These songs explode with mega drums and monstrous guitar, while Riggs summons demons from the pits of hell to do battle. The mayhem starts with “A Peaceful Moment” – which is anything but. The song quickly establishes how this band can be bone-crushingly heavy and majestically melodic from verse to chorus.
There is no reason why this couldn’t get to the top of the Billboard Chart. “Adonai” kicks off in a more alternative-metal way, with a pumping staccato rhythm, but when Sault hit the chorus, they just can’t help themselves – they’re naturally so fucking catchy they’ve got anthemic choruses tattooed inside their heads. So Riggs cannot avoid the soaring vocals that will have stadiums filled with air-fisting youths in total delirium.
Make no mistake, Sault is a stadium band. There songs call for it…very loudly indeed! When “Guilt” hits its apex and the instruments surge, it creates a musical moment that is, simply put, monumental. I find myself playing it repeatedly because experiencing this song only once is simply not enough.
It’s very difficult to find an album where each song is one you’ll fall in love with and so far we’re 4 out of 4 here, because “Save Myself” is another intensely immersing sonic experience. With the combination of the dramatic and dynamic instrumentals and enthralling vocals, these songs can almost be considered cathartic given the range of themes covered.
In most stories, there is a buildup of tension and excitement within the plot before the climax. With the climax, the pinnacle of emotional stimulation is achieved which then makes way for the resting conclusion of the story. Sault has successfully translated that essential, audience-grabbing formula into music.
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WATCH: Video From A Baltimore School Shows School Officer Kicking And Slapping A Teenager–And It Turns Out The Officer Had A History Of Misconduct
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Two school officers and Baltimore Schools Police Chief Marshall Goodwin were put on administrative leave Wednesday as the Baltimore Police Department began investigating a deeply-troubling video of an officer slapping, kicking, and cursing a teenager which is going viral around the country.
CBS Baltimore WJZ first brought the video to the public and the attention of the school on Tuesday. The four-second video was recorded earlier that morning at REACH! Partnership School in East Baltimore by another student with a cell phone.
The 16-year-old victim of the assault, who will not be identified to protect his identity as a minor, appears to have his back against the wall as an officer yells and aggressively strikes him three times on or near the sides of his face before kicking him in the lower abdomen. A second officer can be seen standing at his side and watching.
The officer who strikes the teenager is clearly wearing a service weapon, which raises other questions because this is prohibited in Baltimore schools by Maryland state law.
Both the officer and the student he struck appear to be black in the video.
Akil Hamm, the acting chief of school police, asked the BPD to conduct the primary investigation. He has not yet addressed why Marshall Goodman has been put on leave.
“This is the right thing to do in a case like this and I have assigned S.I.R.T. [Special Investigations Response Team] to handle all aspects of this criminal investigation,” said Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis.
The Baltimore Sun reports that the State Attorney’s Office will be working closely with the special investigators from the BPD. Police will also provide a liaison to help with the internal affairs investigation held by Baltimore City Schools Police.
School officials reportedly told WBAL news that said the young man in the video does not attend the school and did not have permission to be on the property.
“No, this is not a student at REACH. (He’s) someone who was apparently on the property and did not have permission to be on the property,” said Karl Perry, chief school supports officer.
But a lawyer for the young man told the 11 News I-Team Wednesday afternoon that he is a student at the school and they have school records to prove it. The lawyer said they believe officers made a mistake identifying the 16-year-old as an intruder, calling the incident an “unprovoked assault” that resulted in facial injuries.
Attorney Lauren Geisser told the Baltimore Sun that she was able to obtain enrollment documents for the 10th grade victim. He was treated for bruised ribs as well as the damage he received to his face.
Geisser said she, the youth and his parents went to the school Wednesday to speak to Principal James Gresham but were told he was in a meeting. Geisser said the parents wanted assurances that their child would be safe if he walked into the school.
“We waited for a significant period of time,” Geisser said. “You would think the principal would want an open line of communication on this issue.
The mayor of Baltimore and the CEO of Baltimore City Schools Police have both condemned the violence uncovered in the video. Police seem to be in agreement that this is an instance of “excessive force.”
WJZ reports that a Fraternal Order of Police lawyer for the officer said the 16-year-old became belligerent when asked to leave the property. He said there’s more to the story than the video shows, but did not explain any other details.
WBAL reports that this is the second problem Baltimore city schools police have had with excessive force in the past 13 months.
Last January, an 11 News I-Team investigation revealed an incident in which school police Officer Lakisha Pulley hit and injured a middle school student with her baton. Pulley was criminally prosecuted.
At City Hall on Wednesday, the video brought an audible groan from the mayor.
“As a parent of a Baltimore City school student, I was appalled by what I saw. The behavior that was demonstrated on the video is certainly something you never want to see,” Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said.
Acting chief Hamm has not released the name of the officers involved in the beating, but the one hitting the boy was identified by other sources as Anthony Spence. Hamm told the media that, to his knowledge, neither of the officers had a record of misconduct.
Spence does have a questionable background, however. He was fired from his previous law enforcement job as city deputy sheriff in 2002 for beating and tasing an innocent man, an immigrant from El Salvador, in a case where he mistook the man on his lunch break for a bank robber. A year later he began his current job as a school police officer.
In 2011 Spence had a temporary protective order filed against him alleging domestic violence.
Students at REACH! say that Spence was a harsh disciplinarian.
“There has been occasions where students will say that he’s aggressive,” student Steven Anderson told WJZ.
Activists and community members are outraged by the excessive violence used on youth in Baltimore city schools. Some have called on the DOJ to investigate and encourage reform on the school police the same way the municipal BPD has been scrutinized.
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BDO USA, LLP Expands Crisis Management & Business Continuity Services Through Addition of Lootok
New York-Based Corporate Risk Management Firm Joins BDO
CHICAGO, January 9, 2019 — BDO USA, LLP, one of the nation’s leading accounting and advisory firms, today announced the asset acquisition of Lootok, a crisis management and business continuity consulting and technology firm headquartered in New York. The acquisition of Lootok bolsters BDO’s proactive risk management capabilities, offering clients an end-to-end suite of services across the risk continuum.
Founded in 2006, Lootok integrates military models, cognitive science, design thinking and game theory with industry risk management standards to create new ways of understanding the disciplines of business continuity, crisis management, and enterprise risk management. Lootok helps organizations of all sizes and industries transform their risk programs through risk assessment, program design, self-service technologies, and activity-based learning and engagement.
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Lootok names Managing Director, Brian Collins
Consulting at the board and the C-suite levels require more than experience and expertise. Presence matters. Strength of conviction matters. This caliber of consultant is a partner who confronts the thorniest topics head-on and who can speak the language of today’s leaders. Lootok has found such a talent. It is with great enthusiasm and expectation that Lootok announces Brian Collins as Managing Director. Mr. Collins joins Lootok with more than twenty years of risk management experience across industries and sectors. Based in Washington, DC, he will lead the global crisis management practice.
Mr. Collins is a decorated Marine officer with awards for valor in combat and service. He has worked at the highest levels of government with General/Flag Officers, Assistant Cabinet Secretaries, and Ambassadors. He paired his extensive governmental experience with a master’s degree from Georgetown University and graduated from the Senior Executive Fellows program at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Press release: Lootok Partners with Executive Search Specialist Andersen Steinberg
New partnership between two industry leaders brings a new level of talent to outsourced risk programs
Lootok, a leading crisis management and business continuity consulting and technology company, and Andersen Steinberg, an executive search and recruitment firm specializing in risk and resilience, announced a new strategic partnership today. The new alliance will give Lootok an even deeper level of expertise and global resources.
Creating a fully outsourced crisis and business continuity program often requires a global team of highly specialized professionals, and Lootok’s hiring process has always adhered to the most rigorous standards. That thoughtful process can sometimes be time-consuming, a necessity that must be balanced with a need for rapid scalability. The new partnership allows Lootok to achieve that scalability while maintaining the highest level of quality.
“To meet the demand for fully outsourced crisis and business continuity programs, Lootok needed a model that allowed us to deploy the right resources in record time,” said Sean Murphy, CEO of Lootok. “Recruiting the best minds in the risk and resiliency industry, supporting local languages and bringing in specialized skillsets is all a part of our business model. With a global network and a reputation for attracting the finest risk talent, our alliance with Andersen Steinberg gives us the ability to achieve that rapid scalability while accessing the finest talent, while bringing world-class service to our clients.”
Both firms have kindred corporate philosophies and a deep understanding of the value that quality talent brings to clients, culture, and profits. “What matters to Lootok, also matters to Andersen Steinberg,” said Murphy. “When companies call on Lootok to manage their crisis and business continuity programs, Lootok becomes their global team, and the right resources are critical to the success of the program.
In managing a program, Lootok brings together management of technology, training, awareness, messaging, reporting, rollout, and support. A diverse group of specialists is essential, and team members may need to be fluent in multiple languages, understand a niche area of supply chain risk, or have deep knowledge of a specific technology. Andersen Steinberg specializes in finding talent that meets those unique criteria.
Together, the partnership gives Andersen Steinberg the opportunity to place the next generation of leaders in global risk, while giving Lootok the ability to scale their innovative services that have transformed the industry over the last ten years.
See press release on PRWeb.com.
The future of corporate language learning is here
New technology and devices bring employees together in a global market
Businesses are living in the era of global culture, communication and commerce, greatly increasing the need for multilingual capacity. Little wonder that language learning has become a crucial component of corporate learning programs in the past decade.
Research from Technavio indicates that the corporate language learning market is on the cusp of major expansion. The market research firm released its findings in a press release, showing that corporate online language learning in the U.S. is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 16% between 2017 and 2021.
Is the corporate language learning industry headed for big changes in the next couple of years? Experts seem to think so.
Why all this attention on language learning in the corporate world?
For starters, businesses no longer operate with geographic limits anymore. The internet has made every industry a global one. Because of this, nearly every working adult will at some point encounter language and cultural barriers that can make things challenging. Emerging technologies will have an impact as well.
“Artificial intelligence is now pushing up against human learning of languages,” said Jeremy Stynes, President of Lootok said, “and with it being so much more accurate now, it’s easy to see how this could become scalable.”
Ignore these trends at your own risk. Stynes shared the story of a former employer that spent a great deal of time and money on localizing the language of corporate training content, only to discover that there were tools (like Google translator) that provided a far better solution.
Read the full article with commentary from Jeremy Stynes on HR Dive.
Press release: Lootok and Nettitude partner to provide cybersecurity and crisis management services
The threats impacting businesses today are complex, insidious, and almost always have an up or downstream impact on technology. Cyber attacks are also borderless and can impact core operations as easily as business partner and supply chain operations. Therefore, when companies look to increase their resiliency they must weigh equally their operational and technological vulnerabilities.
One challenge that many organizations face is that there is no single entity governing cybersecurity and crisis management. With different reporting structures, separate budgets, and uncoordinated planning, they struggle to stay in sync. This partnership takes aim at breaking down those silos and helping organizations to get an honest and holistic view of their risk landscape.
Bringing play into the business world
Despite the occasional stuffed-shirt boss looking over my shoulder and saying “This isn’t playtime!” some of the best jobs I’ve ever had incorporate a level of playfulness, and the results have always proven to be effective.
A favorite exhortation among fast-food bosses is, “If you’ve got time to lean, you’ve got time to clean!” But a little leaning now and then, and even a little guided playfulness, can go a lot further towards getting employees actively engaged in a corporate goal than will any angry mandate.
Where employers and employees alike go wrong is falling into the trap of believing that work isn’t supposed to be fun. Sean Murphy, CEO and founder of Lootok, a crisis management and business continuity consulting and technology company, went into this business – which is normally as dry as a Prohibition-era liquor cabinet – with the idea of actually transforming it into something people actually want to do.
Read the full article with commentary from Sean Murphy on HUFFPOST.
Contextual learning could soon replace traditional learning
Corporate training is big business. Last year alone, American organizations spent a whopping $70.65 billion on corporate training and associated administrative costs, based on data from Training magazine’s 2016 Training Industry Report. Most companies are willing to invest in the learning and development of employees because they must compete in ever-changing markets, which requires enhanced skills.
According to a McKinsey Quarterly survey, nearly 90% of organizations indicated that building on the capabilities of employees is a top priority. However, only around a quarter said that they can accurately measure the success of their learning programs in terms of improved performance. There seems to be a disconnect between investing in learning programs and having a direct understanding of the impact on the bottom line.
Participatory learning dramatically improves employee career development
It’s a well-known fact that a strong corporate learning program is an effective retention tool.
By encouraging employees to actively participate, employees can better understand new concepts practically, rather than just absorbing a slew of information. Participatory learning can increase employee career satisfaction when it’s carried out correctly.
According to the National Institutes for Health, the very process of participating in any change activity can support workforce learning. A 2009 study conducted by E. Rosskam involved teaching employees new health procedures in order to improve safety. By using a shared platform where learners can interact and support one another, employees can perceive learning as something they own.
HR Dive talked with Sean Murphy, CEO of Lootok, a business continuity and crisis management firm with headquarters in New York City, about the concept of participatory learning. When employees buy in to active career development, this participation creates another layer in the experience.
Read the full article with commentary from Sean Murphy on HR Dive.
Press release: New leadership team paves the way for the future of Lootok
For more than 10 years Lootok has pushed the boundaries of traditional crisis management and business continuity (BC). “I launched Lootok with the singular vision of doing BC differently,” said Lootok CEO, Sean Murphy. “Global volatility and increased competition have escalated the need for companies to prepare for disruptions. While everybody knows that they should have a BC program, nobody wants to do the work. BC is only important when it’s too late, and when an incident does occur, any data and plans that have been collected typically remain untouched.”
Lootok continually confronts these challenges by offering fresh points of view on industry standards and new ways to transform programs to meet today’s highly networked environment. Sean Murphy explains: “I knew that BC was an essential part of business. The negative returns I so often saw were not the result of BC itself, but rather how it was implemented. At that point, I saw a major opportunity in going beyond the cookie-cutter approach and offering something of lasting value.”
With this goal, Lootok based its services on a deep understanding of industry expertise and interdisciplinary sciences. Why integrate interdisciplinary sciences? It is a simple answer, according to Sean: “We get better results. Through integrating cognitive sciences, gamification, and branding concepts we capture higher-quality data, buy-in at all levels of the organization, and sizable costs savings through self-service and automation.”
2017 marked a reflective period in Lootok’s history, where the company restructured areas of the organization to yield even greater innovation and sharpened its services to Lootok clients. Lootok is excited to announce that there are four changes in its talent pool that set the stage for this evolution.
Risky business: the risk matrix
In my previous two posts, I explored better ways of capturing your key assets, threats, and vulnerabilities. Now, we will take these ingredients and plot them on a risk matrix.
First, download Lootok’s risk matrix.
The risk matrix
The risk matrix provides a way to think about the probability and consequences of risks. Typically, risk is measured using two variables: impact and probability, which make up the axes of matrix.
Both of these variables should be specifically defined before using the risk matrix to plot your risks. The first variable, impact, is a measure of how harmed or disrupted your business would be if the risk occurred. Impacts can occur across different areas, such as finance, regulation, or reputation. Within each impact area, a risk can cause a low or high impact.
Risky business: Attackers and Defenders™
Welcome back. In my previous post, I presented the first of three activities that Lootok uses to complete risk assessments.
Our second activity, Attackers and Defenders™, identifies threats and vulnerabilities. Remember: threats, vulnerabilities, and assets are the ingredients for a risk. Without these three ingredients, there is no risk. In this post, I will show you how to use this activity to identify your specific threats and vulnerabilities.
At Lootok we love Attackers and Defenders™ because it engages everyone in the room. It is competitive. It involves role-playing. It forces you to think creatively about your business, and most importantly it is fun, which is not a word often used in the same sentence as risk assessments and business continuity!
The Attackers and Defenders™ activity creates an environment for structured dialogue around your organization’s threats and vulnerabilities. The key objective of this activity is to define the threats and vulnerabilities facing your key assets. The activity helps you determine realistic threats to your assets, and the vulnerabilities that allow those threats to cause a disruption. You will also be asked to reach an agreed upon prioritization of your risks, complete with evidence that can be used for reporting, planning, and investment.
Risky business: Value Map™
In my previous posts about risk, I discussed why we need to consider it, why we have difficulty assessing it, and how to be more objective.
Next, I will explore a number of the activities that Lootok developed to help measure risk at your organization. The first activity is Lootok’s Value Map™. The Value Map™ helps you identify and visualize your organization’s assets. If you recall from the first post, an asset is one of the ingredients of risk.
The Value Map™ is exactly what it sounds like: a giant map on the wall depicting the environment for which you wish to do a risk assessment. The map can be a campus, a country, the globe, an IT map, a factory, or blueprints—whatever environment you wish to measure risk.
Lootok Value Map™
Risky business: Who cares about risk?
Welcome back to my series on risk and risk assessments. In my first post I discussed why it is hard to objectively assess risk, and I suggested ways to look at risk more objectively. If you missed it, check out post 1.
This post explores why we need to think about risk in the first place.
Risk is inherent to doing business, and there are only two strategies that organizations can employ when facing risk:
You can accept your risk
You can reduce or eliminate your risk
Risky business: What is risk?
Risk lurks in all facets of daily life. Luckily, many risks are small: like crossing against the light when there are no cars or trying the new, Ethiopian restaurant down the block. Other risks are high: like quitting your job and doubling down on a new start up. Through our experience working with global organizations, we’ve seen it all.
In spite of the ubiquity of risks, we rarely analyze them objectively. We are all imperfect, and we rely on past experiences and our emotions to understand the world around us and guide our decision-making. On the one hand, it makes sense that we are wired this way— if we didn’t rely on experience and emotion, we’d have to consciously evaluate every single situation anew, and we’d become paralyzed. On the other hand, there is a downside to the efficiency of this wiring: it makes us awful at objectively estimating risk. For example, bad experiences cloud our ability to accurately measure the impact of risks, as well as their relevance. Other factors, such as media attention, immediacy, control, and choice (Psychologist Paul Slovic) work to further compound that lack of objectivity.
Risk Management’s Sweet Spot
Chris de Wolfe, global director of risk management at Mars Inc., shares his challenges of getting the global risk management program at Mars up and running.
“The CRM group had a lot to offer but was severely underutilized, which led to high insurance premiums, a high risk profile, and a significantly reduced resiliency and recovery capability,” Chris said.
Reflecting on how Mars as a business became a major success, de Wolfe decided that he needed to market and promote his own department in the same way. Partnering with Lootok, a risk management consultancy firm, he developed a strategy to engage with the employees in a fun yet educational way. He devised a 5- to 10-year plan, broken into 12- to 18-month strategies and individual project plans by mapping out all of the products and services that risk management offers. He conducted a perception survey and drew up a program based on the ABCs of risk management.
“The ABCs allowed people to understand that risk management not only provides insurance, but it also ensures that the business continues,” said de Wolfe.
Sean Murphy, CEO and founder of Lootok, said of de Wolfe:
“I’ve known Chris for 10 years and what differentiates him is that he treats his program as a business. He had a good program before but he wasn’t satisfied with it so he completely revamped it and is now reaping the benefits.”
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Can a crisis make you a celebrity?
Ready or not. Say, “Cheese!”
While artists, athletes, and performers struggle to make their mark in the public eye with a memorable act or viral moment, a different type of celebrity has been emerging on the scene - the spokesperson for a crisis.
Here’s a quick exercise to highlight the point:
Jeffrey Boyd, Lew Frankfort, and Stephen Hemsley. Do these names sound familiar?
If not, don’t feel bad. They are the CEO’s of Priceline.com, Coach, and UnitedHealth Group, respectively.
Now, how about the names Tim Cook and James Comey?
We can immediately recall them as the CEO of Apple and the FBI Director, respectively, feuding over a locked iPhone involving a federal investigation of the San Bernardino shooting.
The media diligently covered Cook and Comey’s debate for more than three months. During that time, both men emerged as stars in a cast of characters ranging from lawyers, judges, politicians, and even presidential candidates. The media and public tuned in to hear their perspectives on data privacy, security, technology, civil rights, and terrorism.
Disaster Recovery for America interview on the Federal News Radio
I appeared on Federal News Radio and shared my thoughts on new approaches to risk management and how to develop an effective approach to business. You can stream the recording for free here: Interview with Sean Murphy
Look forward to hearing your thoughts and comments!
Sean on Federal News Radio
How soon do you need to communicate after a crisis?
I was working with an executive team on a crisis scenario, when one of the leaders asked a question on crisis communication. He asked, “How soon do we need to communicate? 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 1 hour, 1 day, …?” He was looking for a precise number to evaluate a few past incidents that were on top of mind for everyone in the room. I gave the common answer, but right answer, of “it depends”. He gave a look of dissatisfaction and made a discrediting posture. I went on to share a few basic statistics from Daniel Diermier’s research (author of Reputation Rules) such as “online news stories suggest that the typical window is only eight hours; 20% of all news stories on a given issue are published within an eight-hour period; so forth.” Some time has passed since the exercise. After some thought, I want to provide executives with six (6) crisis characteristics to consider when determining when and how to communicate.
When should you communicate?
Debunking myth #5: Best-in-class BCM software exists
Will BCM software deliver on its promise of making your BCM program easier to run? Is it really possible for BCM software to eliminate the difficulties in running your program?
Yes, it can—but there’s a catch. It won’t address challenges that are unique to your program. Essentially, your problems need to be shared by every other customer of the software.
Download Best-in-class BCM software exists, the fifth myth in Lootok’s series on the five myths of business continuity management (BCM)!
Myth #5: Best-in-class BCM software exists
See Myth #1: The plan is the promised land.
See Myth #2: You need a business impact analysis (BIA).
See Myth #3: The risk matrix measures risk.
See Myth #4: It gets cheaper and easier.
Fresh perspectives: insights
What happens when we’re in a crisis we haven’t seen before, and our experience is insufficient? Such a situation requires us to gain “insight,” or develop new patterns that change the way we understand things and consequently, change the actions we consider. Research psychologist Gary Klein investigated the different ways that people form insights, and the factors that prevent us from having them.
Fresh perspectives: crisis management team
There are certain challenges that face a crisis management team in the “Golden Hour,” the moment when team members convene to make critical decisions. Research psychologist Gary Klein discusses the need for team members to size up not only the situation, but also each other’s capabilities, roles, and responsibilities at time of event. That’s why it’s key for a crisis management team to regularly practice and train together.
Fresh perspectives: uncertainty metaphors
How do most organizations handle uncertainty? They gather more information. Research psychologist Gary Klein explains why this isn’t always the best course of action. After all, it’s easy to gather information and sit on it; it’s harder to know how to make sense of events, and make a coherent story based on the data we have.
Debunking myth #4: It gets cheaper and easier
Keeping a BCM program alive doesn’t get cheaper or easier over time. In this eBook, we’ll talk about why.
Download It gets cheaper and easier, the fourth myth in Lootok’s series on the five myths of business continuity management (BCM)!
Myth #4: It gets cheaper and easier
See Myth #5: Best-in-class BCM software exists.
Fresh perspectives: recognition-primed decision model
How can leaders make good decisions under the extreme time constraints of a crisis? To find out, research psychologist Gary Klein studied fire fighters to understand their approach to making crucial, complex decisions so quickly. The recognition-primed decision (RPD) process, as he explains, reveals how these professionals assess the situation: they compare familiar patterns and cues to past experiences to know which actions to take.
Debunking myth #3: The risk matrix measures risk
The risk matrix is a standard tool commonly used in risk assessments. It’s straightforward to use, and easy to explain. The only trouble is, the risk matrix doesn’t actually forecast or measure risk.
When used as a quantitative tool, the risk matrix is misunderstood. Our challenge as practitioners is to recognize the limitations of the risk matrix, so we can use it in a way that increases understanding of the threats around us. In this eBook, we explore how.
Download The risk matrix measures risk, the third myth in Lootok’s series on the five myths of business continuity management (BCM)!
Myth #3: The risk matrix measures risk
Understanding the risk environment: Sean Murphy discusses nonlinear environment with Gary Klein
I had the pleasure to interview Gary Klein the author of “Seeing What Others Don’t,” “Streetlights and Shadows,” “Working Minds,” and “Sources of Power.” His research and experience is invaluable to anyone in the field of risk management. In this interview, Gary talks about the difference between a well-ordered domain (i.e., normal business environment) and complex domain (i.e., crisis environment). Understanding the characteristics and attributes of each environment is critical to understanding what tools, processes, and capabilities needed to be successful in each environment.
Debunking myth #2: You need a business impact analysis (BIA)
Many of us business continuity management (BCM) professionals are convinced that a business impact analysis (BIA) is a “must-have” for any company. On top of that, we often believe the more information we gather, the better. But after the enormous effort to collect mountains of data and conduct endless interviews, we end up with little value to show for it.
Doing a BIA is expected of us, but do companies actually need a BIA? I guarantee that conducting an extensive BIA project is a quick way to exhaust your resources, stall your program agenda, and taint the reputation of your program. But if you’re willing to question why you’re doing a BIA, and then facilitate the process in a practical way for participants, you can maximize your investment. This eBook explores how to do this, and why it matters.
Download You need a business impact analysis (BIA), the second myth in Lootok’s series on the five myths of business continuity management (BCM)!
Myth #2: You need a business impact analysis (BIA)
Debunking myth #1: The plan is the promised land
As BCM professionals, we’ve long believed in the myth that a plan is our key to recovery during a disruption. Often, we hyper-focus on the plan as undeniable proof that the right actions will be taken in an incident. This is the worst possible approach. Learn why in our eBook, The plan is the promised land, the first in Lootok’s series on the five myths of business continuity management (BCM)!
Myth #1: The plan is the promised land
Business continuity and the Sony data breach
A massive data breach at Sony Pictures Entertainment, which experts believe was targeted by North Korea as retaliation for a film depicting the assassination of its leader Kim Jong Un, has led to an international incident that has gained the attention of business continuity professionals. Even large companies like Sony can sometimes put business continuity planning on the back burner. BC professionals say that attacks like this can sometimes change their minds.
Seven insights from superstorm Sandy: a financial sector retrospective
$18 billion dollars. That’s the number estimated in damages caused by Hurricane Sandy just in the state of New York alone. With the unexpected turns that transpired amidst the super storm, all businesses were reminded of the importance of business resiliency.
Given the vast amount of information presented to-date, it is still very important that the financial sector revisit the surprises from Sandy to ensure that critical financial services are better protected. A team of experienced BCM advisors gathered the recommendations in the accompanying table from industry thought leaders in leading global financial services companies to learn from their perspectives.
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Hong Kong protest leader calls on Trump to add ‘human rights clause’ to China trade talks
by admin | Sep 14, 2019 | News |
A Hong Kong protest figurehead has called on Washington to make the Hong Kong unrest a part of trade negotiations with Beijing, suggesting the US use ‘human rights’ as a bargaining chip in the stalled talks.
Joshua Wong Chi-fung, a prominent figure in the ongoing anti-Beijing protests, has been busy touring the West in a bid to persuade foreign nations to meddle in the month-long standoff. On Friday, Wong touched down in New York and wasted no time in making his case, suggesting the Trump administration should use the Hong Kong turmoil as leverage in the ongoing trade dispute with China.
Also on rt.com
Hong Kong activist goes on defensive after being photographed with US consulate official
Wong argued that Washington should “add a human rights clause in the trade negotiations and put Hong Kong protests under the agenda” of the talks.
Wong has rallied behind a 2015 US bill, reintroduced by Republican Senator Marco Rubio in June, that envisages sanctions for Chinese officials responsible for “suppressing” basic freedoms. If the bill, known as the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act, is passed, the US Secretary of State would need to certify to Congress every year that Hong Kong is “sufficiently autonomous” from mainland China.
The 22-year-old activist is becoming a sort of a celebrity in the West, having rubbed shoulders with top officials, like German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, and fellow “revolutionaries”, among them the chairman of the controversial White Helmets – a self-styled civil rescue group heavily suspected of having links to Al-Qaeda.
Wong’s meeting with Maas in Berlin on Monday has drawn a stark rebuke from China, which summoned a German envoy over the meeting on Wednesday.
Color revolutionaries of the world, unite! Hong Kong protest leader pictured with White Helmets boss
Even before going on his publicity tour, Wong had raised suspicions about his ties to the US after photos of him meeting with a political unit chief of the US consulate general in Hong Kong went viral.
While China has repeatedly urged Washington to stay clear of the Hong Kong issue, accusing US lawmakers and officials of “hegemonic thinking” for openly siding with the demonstrators, Hong Kong protesters have been appealing to the US to come and “liberate” them. In a rally on Sunday, thousands of Hong Kong protesters waving flags and playing ‘The Star Spangled Banner‘ on their phones marched to the US Consulate in Hong Kong asking President Donald Trump to “please liberate Hong Kong.”
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‘Be very careful with your words’: Trump warns Iran’s Khamenei after ayatollah goes on fiery sermon slamming ‘American Clowns’
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Archives for 10 December 2013
Carlos Spencer joins EP Rugby
EP Rugby CEO Charl Crous has confirmed that former New Zealand flyhalf, Carlos Spencer, has joined the EP Kings coaching ranks for the 2014 season on a five year contract. Crous said Spencer, who played for the Blues and for New Zealand internationally, was well known for his flamboyant, attacking play and ball handling skills and brought with him a wealth of experience. "Carlos will be joining the EP Kings to focus on the back line as well as skills training," said Crous. Spencer first rose to prominence when he starred alongside Christian Cullen in a Ranfurly Shield challenge in …
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Parlotones Sunday PE Gig postponed
Management of the band The Parlotones has notified The Boardwalk that the band will not be performing at a concert scheduled for this Sunday, 15 December. The decision was taken out of respect for the state funeral planned for our former President, Nelson Mandela. Information regarding ticket refunds will be announced by the event organiser. The Boardwalk respects the decision to postpone the show as a sign of The Parlotones' respect for Nelson Mandela. Sun International management and staff join the South African nation and the world in mourning the passing of our most treasured icon …
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Port Elizabeth in the News on 10 December 2013
Fiji too 'casual' against Samoa in Port Elizabeth but still in the hunt for ... - Ultimate Rugby Sevens (UR7s) - ur7s.com12/10/2013Fiji too 'casual' against Samoa in Port Elizabeth but still in the hunt for ...Ultimate Rugby Sevens (UR7s)NATIONAL sevens captain Osea Kolinisau has admitted that their casual approach toward more... England lift Bowl trophy at Port Elizabeth Sevens - The Rugby Paper - therugbypaper.co.uk12/09/2013England lift Bowl trophy at Port Elizabeth SevensThe Rugby PaperEngland lifted the Bowl title at the Nelson Mandela Bay Sevens after reeling off …
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Cycle tour in good health
Organisers of the 29th edition of The Herald VW Cycle Tour are leaving nothing to chance when it comes to the safety of participants on February 1 and 2. Gardmed private ambulance service will once again do duty on the streets of Port Elizabeth and on the mountain bike trails at Addo, while the trauma unit staff at Life St George's Hospital will also be on standby to deal with any emergency situation. According to race director Julie Briggs, organisers would also be setting up a joint operations centre at both the road and mountain bike events, which would be the first point of contact …
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Architects awarded for outstanding design
It's been a good year for Eastern Cape architecture. The precedent-setting Eastern Cape Institute of Architects' (ECIA) Urban Assembly conference was hosted in Nelson Mandela Bay in October coupled with the biennial ECIA awards, taking place amidst an incremental recovery in the regional construction sector. "The Eastern Cape architectural community is reflecting on its growth and a heightened role in advocacy for better use of space and place", said Tim Hewitt-Coleman, ECIA president after a recent institute board meeting. Receiving the industry nod this year for outstanding design, as …
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Your Yoga Questions Answered
There are often many questions around yoga circling around and when I put it out there for you to ask the questions – you responded. So here are my honest and most informed responses to those questions! I’m not naturally flexible. Will it get better with doing yoga and will I ever be as flexible as some other yogis? Whether flexibility is genetic or not is an ongoing debate. Some people have more flexibility to start with and this is most probably because of the fact that they have used a fuller range of motion in their muscles and joints and so their bodies are naturally more …
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Your thoughts do affect your state of being
While many people may underestimate the power of the mind in helping to improve both performance and health, it's indisputable that what you think can affect your state of being. What are you like? Do you start your day feeling positive or negative? Do you consistently visualise yourself getting that perfect job, or would you never dare to dream it possible? Understanding just how potently our inner thoughts (the script in our heads) impacts on our emotions, which in turn impact on our physical state, is the key to changing this powerful health detractor/enhancer. Keep a careful …
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What Port Elizabeth Blogs say on 10 December 2013
Discovering PE's oldest dam - Frames Dam - portelizabethdailyphoto.blogspot.com12/09/2013Its always nice to discover something or somewhere new. In this case it was something old. A quick geocache outing during lunch time took me into the Shark River Valley in Humewood and to more... MyPE features local Port Elizabeth Bloggers. Results provided by PE bloggers. …
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Seismic Survey begins in Algoa Bay
The Motor Vessel Polarcus Nadia begins conducting a 3D Seismic Survey offshore Algoa Bay, Port Elizabeth today, 10 December 2013. The 3D survey Vessel will be towing a configuration of ten streamer cables each of 6 km length spaced 100 meters apart at an average depth of 10 m astern of the vessel. The streamers are not visible on the surface. Operational area stretches across the bay from inline with the from Gamtoos River Mouth to Bird Island. The vessel has restricted manoeuvrability and needs a 5 NM radius clearance around the vessel. The vessel is currently deploying equipment …
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Nelson Mandela Bay memorial and funeral service arrangements
African National Congress Secretary General Gwede Mantashe will be delivering the keynote address at the Eastern Cape Memorial Service that will be held at the award-winning Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium from 9am on Friday, 13 December. Reverend Andile Mbete from the Anglican Church of Southern Africa will lead the memorial service and national artists Zahara, Lusanda, Eastern Cape Gospel Talent and other artists will get the unique opportunity for a musical tribute to the first democratically elected President of South Africa. Church leaders are requested to encourage their members to wear …
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Stadium management thank rugby fans for support
Management at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium were elated at the support received from rugby fans over the weekend's Cell C Nelson Mandela Bay Sevens tournament, which saw a bumper two days of international rugby, but more importantly showcased the "hunger for top-flight rugby in the city". "We are overwhelmed by the support the Sevens received on Saturday and Sunday," said Access Management chief executive, Chantal Du Pisani. "We asked people to vote with their feet and the outcome was really a resounding yes in favour of world-class rugby and the Sevens." The stadium saw foot traffic of …
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Professor Swartz honours Madiba
In honouring the vision and values of the world icon Madiba, NMMU vice-chancellor Prof Derrick Swartz released six balloons yesterday – each depicting the six values the university aspires to, at the Nelson Mandela metal cut-out statue at the Donkin Reserve in Central. The values are Ubuntu, respect for diversity, integrity, excellence, taking responsibility and respect for the natural environment. The Voting Line metal statue at the Donkin Reserve recalls South Africa's first democratic poll – with a triumphant figure of Nelson Mandela at its head. …
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Government to function normally during mourning period
Government has advised the public that all government services during the week of mourning former President Nelson Mandela will be offered as usual. "Government remains committed to providing services to all citizens. Whilst, we mourn as a country over the loss of Madiba, services will not be halted," said Acting Government Communication and Information System (GCIS) CEO, Phumla Williams on Monday. She said public servants will be afforded the opportunity to be part of the memorial services, without compromising services offered to the public. The departments will operate during the …
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Coega Development Corporation's interns spent Friday, 6 December – the day the world woke to news that beloved icon Nelson Mandela had passed away – giving back to the local community at the Ilingelabantu Children's Home in Kwazakhele. Here the interns did repair work, cleaned up and painted the home, and brought joy to the children by giving gifts of educational toys. They also had a braai for lunch and handed over groceries. Coega's interns adopted the home in 2009 as their corporate social investment (CSI) project, but this year the planned visit sadly held special meaning, coinciding …
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Speech notes by Bobby Stevenson, DA MPL, speaking in honour of former president Nelson Mandela
"It is a great privilege to pay tribute to the memory of former President Nelson Mandela on behalf of the Democratic Alliance," said Bobby Stevenson at a special sitting of the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature, 9 December 2013. I begin by tendering the apologies of Honourable Athol Trollip who could not get a flight from Johannesburg to East London and I also welcome my son James Stevenson who wanted to be here for this special occasion. Our deepest condolences thoughts and prayers are with Madiba's family. May the outpouring of unparalleled national grief comfort them at this …
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SocialScope BlackBerry Twitter app explains their beta process…
By far my favourite Twitter app for my BlackBerry is socialscope, and I have been using it for quite a while now, but SocialScope has to be the longest running Beta app ever, (not quite as long as Google mail etc held their beta status for!!) and those not yet lucky enough to have SocialScope are feeling left out in the cold.
As well as handling Twitter, SocialScope brings your FaceBook status updates into the mix, keeping you completely updated. All this is neatly handled with tabs a top of the screen, giving you instant access to either Twitter and FaceBook, @ replies, DM’s, Twitter or FaceBook. Add to that your own channels/tabs such as individuals or lists. SocialScope supports keypad shortcuts and autotext, shortcuts are the most important for me and saves a lot of scrolling and clicking.
If you would like to apply to become a beta tester you can do so here
This is what SocialScope have said over the matter,
We’ve been getting a lot of questions about the SocialScope beta process and want to address them. First, no one should feel left out because they haven’t received an invite or are running a different version then someone else. As the beta progresses every one will be upgraded and more users will be added.
Second, we’re always seeding new versions of the app to small groups of users to test, tune and tweak SocialScope. Keeping the test groups small allows us to work closely with these users; making changes that would otherwise drive you crazy and lead to overwhelming number of support emails for us. This is an iterative process that can take many versions until its ready for a wider group of users.
Finally, we’ve tried to be as inclusive as possible leading to a very very large private beta. That means we can’t respond to every email or @reply (we wish we could, but we’re a small team), but your feedback is really valuable to us and we read every email we get.
“How do you select users to seed versions to?” Its largely random, but sometimes based on device type and carrier if we’re trying to track down a specific issue.
“How long will it take for me to get version x?” We can’t give you a date, but as soon as its ready you’ll get an upgrade notice within the app.
“I haven’t even gotten an invite yet…” We’re constantly expanding the beta when a spot opens up or the app is released publicly we’ll let you know.
Finally follow us http://twitter.com/socialscope and become a fan at http://facebook.com/socialscope to stay up to date with our latest news.
-Team Conan er SocialScope
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“VW’s Audi to cut one in ten jobs to fund shift to electric vehicles”
Posted on 2. December 2019 Written by Marcel Weiss
Reuters: Business News:
“Audi said it would cut up to 9,500 jobs, or 10.6% of its total staff by 2025, saving 6 billion euros ($6.61 billion), but also create up to 2,000 new positions in the areas of electric mobility and digitalization.”
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“It’s a bigger market than Windows, and while Microsoft doesn’t have the same dominant position, the opportunity is so large that it might not matter.”
Posted on 29. April 2019 Written by Marcel Weiss
Ben Thompson (paywall):
Nadella’s point is that by virtue of Tier 1 workloads increasingly running in the cloud, Microsoft (and AWS, etc.) can naturally participate and be paid for workloads that it previously didn’t participate in at all; it’s just like SQL Server being something an enterprise might pay for along with SAP’s offering, but now it applies to everything.
There is an even easier way to understand this analogy though: just as Windows was the foundation of user-facing applications previously, the cloud is the foundation of user-facing applications today, and also the entire data and processing layer that sits underneath those applications. It’s a bigger market than Windows, and while Microsoft doesn’t have the same dominant position, the opportunity is so large that it might not matter.
Think about what this means for the market leader, AWS. It’s hard to fathom where cloud computing will stand in 5 or even 10 years time. It’s going to mindboggingly massive. This is the central building block for the modern economy.
Think about the potential breadth of those cloud offerings by starting with counting the current AWS APIs and their growth in numbers over time.
Also, I just had to think of Volkswagen cooperating with AWS to build its “Industrial Cloud”:
Volkswagen Industrial Cloud will combine data of all machines, plants and systems from all the facilities of the Volkswagen Group
Significant productivity improvements at the plants are the objective
Integration of the global Volkswagen supply chain in Industrial Cloud in the long-term – more than 30,000 locations of over 1,500 suppliers and partners throughout the world
Open industry platform: possibly to be used by other partners in the future
“Coda’s programmable document editor comes out of beta, launches iOS app”
Posted on 5. February 2019 Written by Marcel Weiss
TechCrunch:
You’re not going to use Coda, which was founded in 2017 and received funding from VC heavyweights like Greylock, Khosla Ventures and NEA, as a full-blown low code/no code service. It’s still a bit too limited for that. But you can use it to build your own custom inventory system, for example, or to build a basic CRM or to-do app that fits your specific needs. Or you could just use it as an online text editor and then slowly add features like third-party integrations with the likes of Slack or Figma as needed. All of that is easy enough for anybody who has ever used a function in Excel or Google Sheets.
This looks neat. Like GoogleDocs or Quip on Steroids.
“An egg is the most popular photo on Instagram. What’s that worth?”
Posted on 16. January 2019 Written by Marcel Weiss
An egg is the most popular photo on Instagram. What’s that worth? – Recode:
Lachtman thinks @world_record_egg could rake in as much as $250,000 to run a single ad to all of its followers if it decides to sell out. Others, like Sean Spielberg at Points North Group, an influencer marketing analytics company, think it could be even more.
“I think [they could sell an ad for] close to a million dollars,” Spielberg said, adding that normal rules around how much an influencer can usually charge per follower doesn’t apply to a viral sensation like the Instagram Egg. “[The rules] break down in an example like this where the account has over four million followers, but it’s clearly reached many, many multiples of that many people.”
“Coasean Skies”
Posted on 15. November 2018 Written by Marcel Weiss
Alex Tabarrok at Marginal REVOLUTION, “Marginal REVOLUTION”:
“Solar Just Hit a Record Low Price In the U.S.”
Posted on 12. July 2018 Written by Marcel Weiss
Earther:
The project in question is the Eagle Shadow Mountain Solar Farm, which will begin operating in 2021. The farm will have a generating capacity of 300 megawatts, enough to power about 210,000 American homes. But it’s the price part that’s eye-popping. It will operate at a flat rate of $23.76 per megawatt-hour over the course of a 25-year power purchasing agreement (the term for a contract between an electricity generator and utility who buys it). On the surface, that price may not mean a lot to you if you’re not an energy nerd, but it’s a huge deal.
“On their face, they’re less than a third the price of building a new coal or natural gas power plant,” Ramez Naam, an energy expert and lecturer at Singularity University, told Earther in an email. “In fact, building these plants is cheaper than just operating an existing coal or natural gas plant.”
There’s a 30 percent federal investment tax credit for solar projects that helps drive down the cost of this and other solar projects. But Naam said even if you take away that credit, “these bids, un-subsidized, are still cheaper than any new coal or gas plants, and possibly cheaper than operating existing plants.”
Behind Vice
Posted on 12. June 2018 Written by Marcel Weiss
New York Magazine: “Vice Media Was Built on a Bluff”:
If the modern version of Vice has a born-on date, it may have come in the spring of 2010, when the company landed a meeting with Intel, the computer-chip-maker, which wanted more young people to care about Pentium processors. Vice was still running on a shoestring, and Intel promised access to a $2 billion annual marketing budget. “Shane’s whole thing was, ‘We can’t let them think we’re these poor kids,’ ” says one former employee. (A number of current and former Vice employees, many of whom signed nondisclosure agreements, requested anonymity in order to talk about the company.) According to multiple employees who worked at Vice at the time, Smith went to the architecture firm across the hall from Vice’s Williamsburg office and asked how much it would cost to get them to move out ASAP. Vice’s 50 employees then worked around the clock for several days setting up the new space to look like it had been Vice’s all along. Vice constructed a glass-enclosed conference room to host the Intel meeting, and late one night, an employee answered a buzz at the door to find a plumber who’d come to install a fancy Japanese toilet.
On the morning of the Intel meeting, Vice employees were instructed to get to the office early, to bring friends with laptops to circulate in and out of the new space, and to “be yourselves, but 40 percent less yourselves,” which meant looking like the hip 20-somethings they were but in a way that wouldn’t scare off a marketing executive. A few employees put on a photo shoot in a ground-floor studio as the Intel executives walked by. “Shane’s strategy was, ‘I’m not gonna tell them we own the studio, but I’m not gonna tell them we don’t,’ ” one former employee says. That night, Smith took the marketers to dinner, then to a bar where Vice employees had been told to assemble for a party. When Smith arrived, just ahead of the Intel employees, he walked up behind multiple Vice employees and whispered into their ears, “Dance.”
What a story.
Make sure to read all of it. Vice has always been odd -how are they this successful with that content? for example-, and this explains a lot of why that is. (or was)
Google Nukem Forever
Posted on 15. May 2018 Written by Marcel Weiss
John Gruber on Google Duplex and Google in general:
I maintain that Google is wrong for the way it presents in-the-works not-yet-ready features. I think like Microsoft of old (and Apple of ancient times), Google, institutionally, is only excited about things that are in the works, not the things it’s actually shipping. But unlike Microsoft of old, Google presents concept videos without labeling them as concept videos.
But I think the other problem is with the media, that, time after time, buys into Google’s demo claims unquestionably — and then never circles back to them when they don’t ship.
This is spot on.
“Netflix Now “
MG Siegler:
Take Bright, for example. By almost all critical accounts, it’s a bad movie. But while this might matter if it were released in a traditional movie theater, it turns out that this doesn’t actually matter on Netflix. Well, to be fair, it probably does matter at least somewhat, but it matters far less. Because at the end of the day, critical response is still subjective, even in aggregate. As such, it’s not all-encompassing. There will always be people who disagree with an assessment and will enjoy a movie that others did not — or, at the very least, will want to see it. Netflix just lowered the barrier to make this happen.
Going to a movie theater is a complicated and increasingly expensive process. If you hear a movie sucks, you’re probably not going to bother. (And that’s even more true if the theater itself sucks.) But if it’s playing at home, on a service you’re already paying for… […]
Seven years ago (!), I offered up the idea of Netflix using its unique model to “save” cancelled cult hits. Arrested Development happened. Twin Peaks happened (though on Showtime). Firefly? Not yet. But many others have. Including Full House. Which is somehow a hit again.
But it’s not actually “somehow”, it was inevitable.
Next, what if Netflix convinces top-tier content to think outside the format? The Avengers movies are great, but given the sheer number of characters now involved, they’re getting too elaborate and convoluted for the two-hour film format. What if instead, they were five, 90 minute-long episodes? Who wouldn’t want to watch that? Who wouldn’t pay to watch that? Who wouldn’t pay a small premium on top of what we already pay Netflix to watch such content? No one. And Netflix has to know that. (Certainly Disney does!) The data is already there in the form of box office receipts.
The point is, it’s a combination of great content (or even less-than-great content), mixed with Netflix’s willingness to experiment with new formats and methods of distribution that is truly changing Hollywood’s game.
I am waiting for some while now for more experimentation in formats on Netflix. Right now, Netflix still does TV (seasons) and cinema (movies) with scripted content. It won’t be long until they stumble upon genuine on-demand streaming formats. Especially the shared universe comic book route screams for a more free flow approach to time length of installments.
“How Android Phones Hide Missed Security Updates From You”
WIRED:
The problem, Nohl points out, is worse than vendors merely neglecting to patch older devices, a common phenomenon. Instead, it’s that they tell users they install patches that they in fact don’t, creating a false sense of security. „We found several vendors that didn’t install a single patch but changed the patch date forward by several months,“ Nohl says. „That’s deliberate deception, and it’s not very common.“
Troubling, fascinating new aspect of the modularity of the Android platform.
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'Family values' of Mexico drug gang
Mexico is trying to break the influence of the powerful cartel
By Stephen Gibbs
BBC News, Mexico City
They decapitate, torture, and extort. Then they pray, and donate to charity.
The "Familia" cartel is perhaps the most extreme example of the paradoxical enemy which Mexico faces as it tries to defeat organised crime.
It is a fight which would be much easier if the cartels were simply maverick gangs on the fringe of society.
But they are, in many areas, part of society.
"La Familia was originally a social structure. And in many ways it still is," says a former Mexico deputy attorney general and organised crime expert, Prof Samuel Gonzalez Ruiz.
The group is believed to have originated in the 1980s as a loose self-protecting coalition between marijuana and opium farmers in the state of Michoacan.
By the 1990s the farmers, who had formed an alliance with the neighbouring Gulf cartel, were running a profitable smuggling business.
Like other Mexican drug cartels, they were benefitting from the massive, successful, clampdown on drug trafficking led by the US authorities across the Caribbean. The strategy pushed the flow of drugs west, into Mexican territory.
Quasi-religious
La Familia found itself in control of key entry points for cocaine on Mexico's Pacific coast.
La Familia is blamed for many attacks and murders in Michaocan
The leaders of the organisation did not waste the opportunity. They embarked on a major expansion and diversification programme.
They invested in the production of the synthetic drug methamphetamine in the state. They took over the local pirate DVD business, and set up a brutal debt collection service.
Research by Prof Gonzalez's team suggests that 85% of the legitimate businesses in Michoacan now have some link with La Familia, or with its money.
Income from the group is understood to have funded schools, drainage projects, even churches.
One curious feature of the organisation is that, according to Mexican intelligence documents, it strongly discourages its members from consuming alcohol or drugs, and has a quasi-religious ideology.
The group's alleged spiritual leader, Nazario Moreno Gonzalez, also known as "El Mas Loco", or "the maddest one" is understood to have published and distributed his own bible, based on the macho Christian writing of contemporary American author John Eldredge.
"It is clearly an organisational tool," says anthropologist and analyst Dr Elio Masferrer, of the group's religious faith.
"It does not matter whether or not the leaders believe in it".
Notes, signed by La Familia, are often left on the mutilated bodies of their rivals, indicating that they are victims of "divine justice".
Thousands of soldiers have been deployed to tackle the violence
The last three years have seen increasingly bold attempts by the cartel to intimidate its enemies.
In 2006, five severed heads were thrown into a night club in the town of Uruapan. A letter accompanying the heads declared: "only those who deserve to die will die."
In 2008, a grenade was thrown into a crowd celebrating Independence Day in Morelia, the state capital. And earlier this year, in apparent revenge for the arrest of one of the cartel's leaders, 12 federal police officers were captured, tortured and murdered.
That prompted an all-out assault by the Mexican government. President Felipe Calderon despatched thousands of additional troops and police to Michoacan, which happens to be his home state.
"Drug trafficking is a symptom of a far deeper sickness in this country
Prof Gonzalez
The government also says it has evidence that La Familia has been using its economic power to buy political power.
In May, federal authorities arrested 10 mayors and 20 other local officials in Michoacan, alleging they had sold favours to La Familia.
The latest arrests in the United States confirm what Mexico has long been warning the US authorities: that the drugs which pour across the border every day bring organised crime with them.
But some believe that particular weaknesses within Mexico have made it especially vulnerable to cartels.
Pervasive unemployment, corruption within law enforcement and huge divisions between rich and poor are the perfect territory in which groups like La Familia can flourish.
"Drug trafficking," says Prof Gonzalez, "is a symptom of a far deeper sickness in this country".
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The history of the Norfolk Broads
Little has changed at Potter Heigham since this picture was taken in the 1960s
The Norfolk Broads may be thought of as the creation of Mother Nature, but in fact they're completely man made.
Created around the 9th or 10th Century, Norfolk settlers discovered the peat in the area could be used as a supply of natural fuel.
For more than two centuries locals dug peat - creating more than 200km of navigable Broads.
When tides began to rise, the water filled the now 'peatless' holes to create what we now call the Broads.
Back in the 16th Century, Norwich was the second largest City's in the country, only smaller than London.
It's vast supply of wool and agricultural produce were exported throughout the world from the port of Great Yarmouth, and the Broads were an ideal way of transporting goods around the county.
Norfolk Wherry ships were an iconic sight of the Broads and a few still sail today. You can take a trip on the Wherry Albion and the Wherry Hathor has recently reached it's 100th birthday.
Nowadays Norfolk's waterways are mainly used by tourists who choose to spend a bit of time with nature.
The Norfolk Broads are home to species that you cannot find anywhere else in the world. The Swallowtail butterfly, for example, is only found in certain areas of the Broads.
It is also the only place in the UK where Cranes breed in the wild.
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Satyajit Mayor awarded the prestigious Margdarshi fellowship
by Anusha Krishnan
Prof. Satyajit Mayor, Director, National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) and Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine (inStem), is the latest recipient of the prestigious Margdarshi fellowship.
The Margdarshi fellowship enables established, senior scientists to nucleate and lead novel research programs in India. The principal mandate of the program is to generate contemporary centres of excellence by employing innovative approaches, creating new infrastructure and building collaborations in frontier areas of science. The fellowship is aimed at using the expertise of a visionary scientist to seed new areas of research in India by mentoring young researchers while also building partnerships both within the Indian scientific community and globally. Prof. Mayor is one of only three recipients of this international and highly competitive scheme awarded by the Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance.
Prof. Mayor has been working on understanding the structure and function of the cell membrane for nearly two decades. Using a combination of diverse approaches such as theoretical soft-matter physics (in collaboration with Prof. Madan Rao), chemistry and cell biology, his research has focussed on the dynamics of membrane function, especially those associated with receptor signalling and membrane traffic. Prof. Mayor's work has resulted in a deeper understanding of the importance of endocytosis in cellular and tissue functions - including the self-organising mechanisms of local membrane environments that fine-tune signalling processes in the cell.
There are however, a range of questions across several scales that have been generated by these insights into cell membrane dynamics - questions that require the support of a Margdarshi fellowship in order to be addressed. At a local or mesoscopic scale, in the order of nanometers, receptors are known to regulate local lipid compositions in the cell membrane via cell cytoskeletal elements. In order to test hypotheses about the mechanisms by which these phenomena occur, in vitro membrane systems need to be constructed using cell membrane components. At the micron scale, questions involving changes in the composition of specific parts or even the entire cell membrane need to be addressed. In this, lipidomics assays would allow investigation of the roles played by exo-endocytic pathways, lipid trafficking systems and diet on membrane compositional alterations. Variations in local and global membrane compositions affect physiological processes such as stem cell differentiation. In order to understand the regulation and functional aspects of local and global membrane organisation, a deeper insight into the machinery that links membrane proteins and lipids to the cell cytoskeleton is also needed.
"The scope and vista of possibilities that an award of this kind opens up are extremely exciting, and I am delighted to receive this prestigious fellowship, since it takes the foundation that we have built to the next level. I am very excited to probe how a cell regulates its membrane composition, and programme support from the DBT-Alliance that this fellowship offers is just the right thing that can help build the platform for this interdisciplinary research", says Prof. Mayor.
To initiate such investigations, novel approaches involving joint efforts from various fields are required. Prof. Mayor's proposed investigations will establish and strengthen collaborative links between his team and other researchers from within NCBS, the Regulation of Cell fate theme at inStem, as well as across world-class institutions like the St Johns Medical College, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden and the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona. The Bangalore Life Science Cluster with its state-of-the-art facilities in cell and molecular biology, high-end imaging systems, proteomics and lipidomics analysis capabilities is an ideal host institution to support these new directions and the collaborative links are expected to facilitate many of the research directions envisaged via the new award.
"We are delighted with the award of the Margadarshi fellowship to Jitu Mayor, a recognized leader in the field of membrane biology. This program brings an exciting new direction to Jitu's research and truly reflects his ability to set up interdisciplinary team efforts and his scientific engagement, which have fostered collaborations across the world. At a more personal level, it's a great opportunity for the nascent Regulation of Cell Fate theme at inStem to be associated with this venture, as Jitu can almost always be relied upon to push the frontiers of any problem that he works on! This prestigious fellowship, also recognizes the very fine body of work accomplished over the years by his lab at NCBS and inStem is proud to co-host with NCBS the first such fellowship awarded to the campus", says Prof. Apurva Sarin, Dean of inStem.
"I'm delighted that Prof.Mayor's research has been recognized and supported by the India Alliance and the Margdarshi award. The proposed research takes an already impressive programme on membrane function in cell biology to a new level. I look forward to this catalysing many new kinds of science on campus through collaborations and new experiemntal models that cut across multiple scales of investigation, " says Prof. Upinder Bhalla, Dean of NCBS.
We wish Prof. Mayor and his collaborators all the very best in their new initiatives!
For more about Prof. Satyajit Mayor's work, please visit: https://www.ncbs.res.in/faculty/mayor
For more about the Margdarshi Fellowships, please visit: http://www.wellcomedbt.org/fellowshiptype/margdarshi-fellowships
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Browne, Harry and Coulter, Colin and Flynn, Roddy and Hetherington, Vanessa and Titley, Gavan (2019) ‘Pitstop of Death’: Irish newspaper coverage of Iraq war protests at Shannon airport. Irish Political Studies, 34 (1). pp. 92-112. ISSN 0790-7184
Burns, Tobias and Pearlmutter, Barak A. and McDonald, John (2019) MouldingNet: Deep-Learning for 3D Object Reconstruction. In: Irish Machine Vision & Image Processing Conference 2019, 28-30 August 2019, Technological University Dublin. (In Press)
Byrne, Julie and Kirwan, Gloria (2019) Relationship-based social work and electronic communication technologies: anticipation, adaptation and achievement. Journal of Social Work Practice, 33 (2). pp. 217-232. ISSN 0265-0533
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Cahill, Eoin (2019) Spectro-astrometry as a Tool for Detecting Planets in Transitional Disks. Masters thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.
Chapman, Bruce and Doris, Aedin (2019) Modelling higher education financing reform for Ireland. Economics of Education Review, 71. pp. 109-119. ISSN 0272-7757
Connolly, Linda (2019) Honest Commemoration: Reconciling women’s ‘troubled’ and ‘troubling’ history in centennial Ireland (MUSSI Working Paper Series, no.9). Working Paper. MUSSI. (Unpublished)
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Donovan, Dave (2019) Practice Bold as Love: ‘Professing’ Community Work. PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.
Doran, Emma (2019) Packing A Punch With Poster Presentations. In: Student and Library Information Professionals Annual Conference, 23 February 2019, Dublin. (Unpublished)
Doris, Aedin and O'Neill, Donal and Sweetman, Olive (2019) How Important are Firms in Explaining Wage Changes During a Recession? Economica. ISSN 0013-0427
Doyle, Audrey Mary (2019) Curriculum Becoming in the Assemblage of Lower Secondary Education in Ireland. PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.
Elramli, Nadia and Karahoda, Betim and Bayram, Ozlem Sarikaya and Frawley, Dean and Ulas, Mevlut and Oakley, C. Elizabeth and Oakley, Berl R. and Seiler, Stephan and Bayram, Ozgur (2019) Assembly of a heptameric STRIPAK complex is required for coordination of light-dependent multicellular fungal development with secondary metabolism in Aspergillus nidulans. PLos Genetics, 15 (3). e1008053. ISSN 1553-7390
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Farrell, Alison (2019) SWIFT beginnings – exploring the effectivenessand transformative character of a Summer WritingInstitute For Teachers (SWIFT). Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 56 (2). pp. 229-238. ISSN 1470-3297
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Finn, Philip (2019) Playing with the Absurdity of Welfare: Experiences of Irish Welfare Conditionality. PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.
Finn, Winifred Josephine Marian (2019) Re-cognising RPL – A Deleuzian enquiry into policy and practice of Recognition of Prior Learning. PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.
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Flattery, Padraig (2019) Investigating the Impact of Climate and Extreme Weather on Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Irish Soils: An Evaluation of the ECOSSE Model. PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.
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Goslin, Kevin (2019) Characterization of the Ubiquitin N-end Rule Pathway in Arabidopsis. PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.
Gray, Jane (2019) Explaining Macro-Social Change with Archived Data: Reading against the Grain. Przegląd Socjologii Jakościowej (Qualitative Sociology Review), 15 (1). pp. 14-31. ISSN 1733-8069
Gruda, Jon and Hasan, Souleiman (2019) Feeling anxious? Perceiving anxiety in tweets using machine learning. Computers in Human Behavior, 98. pp. 245-255. ISSN 0747-5632
Gruda, Jon and Kafetsios, Konstantinos (2019) Attachment Orientations Guide the Transfer of Leadership Judgments: Culture Matters. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. ISSN 0146-1672
Gulati, Arunima (2019) Effect of Dairy Cow Diets on the Composition and Processing Characteristics of Milk. PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.
Hajdu, Judit (2019) Narrative practices in restorative justice. Journal of Mediation & Applied Conflict Analysis, 6 (1). pp. 743-761. ISSN 2009-7170
Henry, Sean (2019) Queering Religions Schooling: Teaching, Values, Rituals. PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.
Iwanicki, Natasha Sant′Anna and Alves Pereira, Alessandro and Riguetti Zanardo Botelho, Ana Beatriz and Rezende, Janayne Maria and de Andrade Moral, Rafael and Zucchi, Maria Imaculada and Delalibera Júnior, Italo (2019) Monitoring of the field application of Metarhizium anisopliae in Brazil revealed high molecular diversity of Metarhizium spp in insects, soil and sugarcane roots. Scientific Reports, 9 (4443). ISSN 2045-2322
Jeffers, Gerry (2019) Transition Year, past, present and future. Education Matters, Ireland's Yearbook of Education. pp. 36-42. ISSN 9780995698727
Kackute, Egle (2019) Relational Aspects of Migrant Mothering in Nathacha Appanah’s La Noce d’Anna and Ying Chen’s La Lenteur des montagnes. Crossways Journal, 3 (1). ISSN 2560-6425
Kackute, Egle and Averis, Kate and Mao, Catherine (2019) Introduction. Crossings in Women’s Writing in the 21st Century / Des traversées dans les écrits de femmes au 21e siècle. Crossways Journal, 3 (1). ISSN 2560-6425
Kavanagh, Aoife (2019) Researching Music- and Place-Making through Engaged Practice: Becoming a Musicking Geographer. The Geographical Review. ISSN 0016-7428
Keane, Peter and Ghaffa, Faisal and Malone, David (2019) Using Machine Learning to Predict Links and Improve Steiner Tree Solutions to Team Formation Problems. In: The 8th International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications (COMPLEX NETWORKS 2019). (In Press)
Kearns, Gerard (2019) In Transit: Placelessness and the Absurd in the Writings of Anna Seghers. GeoHumanities, online. pp. 1-25. ISSN 2373-5678
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Kenny, Michael (2019) Informal Learning - oxygen of a lifelong learning society. EPALE (Electronic Platform for Adult Learning in Europe). (Unpublished)
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Kenny, Treasa and Doyle, Kieran (2019) Editorial. Journal of Mediation & Applied Conflict Analysis, 6 (1). pp. 725-727. ISSN 2009-7170
Kerr, Aphra (2019) Game Production Logics at Work: Convergence and Divergence. In: Making Media. Production, Practices, and Professions. Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, pp. 413-426. ISBN 978 94 6298 811 8
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Kitchin, Rob and Dodge, Martin (2019) The (In)Security of Smart Cities: Vulnerabilities, Risks, Mitigation, and Prevention. Journal of Urban Technology, 26 (2). pp. 47-65. ISSN 1063-0732
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Lockwood, James (2019) Computer Science To Go (CS2Go): Developing a course to introduce and teach Computer Science and Computational Thinking to secondary school students. Masters thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.
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Mishra, Nita (2019) Understanding Empowerment through perceptions of Self-Help Group Women in Odisha. Research and Perspectives on Development Practice (23). ISSN 2009-6976
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Mooney, Aidan and Hegarty Kelly, Emlyn (2019) Survey feedback relating to the paper: Analysis of an automatic grading system within first year Computer Science programming modules. Other. UNSPECIFIED, Maynooth University. (Unpublished)
Mooney, Aidan and Noone, Mark and O'Regan, Emily (2019) Creation of a Hybrid Programming Language. In: EdTech 2019, Dundalk, Ireland.
Mountford, Nicola (2019) Managing by proxy: Organizational networks as institutional levers in evolving public good markets. Journal of Business Research, 98. pp. 92-104. ISSN 0148-2963
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Murphy, Elizabeth (2019) Including Students in the Acquisition Process: An Evidence-Based Acquisition Pilot at Maynooth University Library. In: LAI/CILIP Ireland Joint Annual Conference 2019 - "Inclusive Libraries", 10-11 April, 2019, Killashee Hotel, Naas, Co Kildare. (Unpublished)
Murray, Cliona (2019) Veteran teacher voices: Relational accountability and ethical professionalism in second-level education in Ireland. PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.
Ni Ghrainne, Brid and McMahon, Aisling (2019) Abortion in Northern Ireland and the European Convention on Human Rights: Reflections from the UK Supreme Court. International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 68 (2). ISSN 0020-5893
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Muriels Sidebar #2: Also-Rans (Individual Achievements)
Oops! In my haste to post this, I forgot to include one of the submissions. I've posted it at the top of the list. Sorry for the mixup.
Note: I asked this year's voters to chime in on some cinematic achievements this year that they believe got too little love from the voting body at large. Today, I'll be posting contributions from about great performances and other individual achievements, with the best picture also-rans to run tomorrow with the announcement of the Golden Muriel for Best Feature Film. Enjoy!
"The mask that John Carroll Lynch provides soon-to-be prime suspect Arthur Leigh Allen during his first major appearance in David Fincher's Zodiac is a slippery, mutating one. Introduced walking toward the break room of the oil refinery where he works and will be informally interrogated, Allen's entrance is one that emphasizes his working-class "normalcy" and simultaneously undercuts it with vague dread. He sits with three Bay Area detectives (Anthony Edwards, Mark Ruffalo and Elias Koteas) and answers questions, coating his body language with a veneer of assumed confusion and concern that quickly gives way to contempt and a kind of taunting confidence, a nutshell profile of a suspected sociopath whose only real avenue for connecting with people may be through gruesome murder. With crossed legs, a tilt of the head, a shaded roll of his eyes and a hint of condescension toward the detectives, he signals the meticulous, impatient, scornful intelligence behind Allen's feigned nonchalance with brilliant economy. Later, Fincher suggests the crossed wires of Allen's interior landscape with a look inside the suspect's filthy domicile, a trailer home littered with trash, weapons, used sex toys and feral squirrels running loose and hanging upside down inside their cages. And when Allen encounters San Francisco Chronicle cartoonist Robert Graysmith (Jake Gyllenhaal) in a hardware store, unaware of Graysmith's obsession with the Zodiac case, their eyes meet, Graysmith at once recognizing Allen yet not responding, Allen responding with dulled awareness to the fear he senses in Graysmith. And in a beautifully held shot, Lynch heightens that awareness by returning Gyllenhaal's gaze with perhaps the most frighteningly banal stare in the history of crime films. The rodents rage behind those dead eyes and John Carroll Lynch's brilliantly focused work brings Graysmith, and us, as close as we will likely ever come to the arrhythmic heart of the Zodiac killer's true-life horrors." ~ Dennis Cozzalio
"When you look up Tang Wei’s profile on IMDB you might be shocked to see that she only has one credit – Lust, Caution. Most actresses build up a resume of lesser roles before they ever dream of a role for a director of Ang Lee’s status or opposite an actor as well respected as Tony Leung. Most actresses in their first ever screen role aren’t prepared or brave enough to be part of a 157 minute epic set in a sensitive period of their country’s history with sex scenes so graphic they earned an NC-17 rating here and were banned in China. The role itself is a difficult one by definition - an actress playing an actress who then goes undercover to appear to be something she is not. Deception can be a tricky thing to play. You need the audience to see the face you are presenting but also the real face underneath and in this skillful performance both are clearly visible throughout. During the course of the film we witness her character’s complete loss of innocence be replaced with the ultimate disillusionment and it is Tang Wei’s commitment to giving that transformation its full breadth that separated her in my mind from all the other actresses this year." ~ Bryan Whitefield
"His crimes are many. He launched the most dispiriting franchise in movie history. He was responsible for the worst Cary Elwes performance ever, and shit, that's saying something. He shot a 10-second car chase. I'll repeat that. He shot a 10-second car chase. And yet, I come here not to bury James Wan, but to praise him. Death Sentence should've been an abomination, a Death Wish revenge fantasy by way of the Saw films -- a meatgrinder predicated on sick, self-righteous thrills. Yet from the first moments, it's clear that Wan actually gives a damn about his characters and he's going to make sure that when they hurt, you hurt. Most viewers will remember the one-take chase through the multi-story parking lot, with its floating camera and willingness to simply watch Kevin Bacon panic in real time -- it pretty much announces Wan's growing ambition as a filmmaker. But, surprisingly, it's the non-thriller scenes -- a family meal that simmers with unspoken resentment, a heart-breaking spousal conversation on a staircase -- that stuck out for me. It's ironic that the man who helped usher in the wave of so-called "torture porn" is better at moments of humanistic drama, but it just makes me more curious to see what he does next." ~ Kent Beeson
“So it has come to my attention recently that there are many Muriel voters who aren’t convinced that Tommy Lee Jones’ performance in In the Valley of Elah is awesome. Now, I’m guessing that some among you might have skipped the film entirely due to the Paul Haggis factor, which I can completely understand. But for those of you who did see the movie- what gives? In a year full of fine performances in great films, Jones’ turn in Elah was almost certainly the year’s most distinguished salvage job, distinguishing an average-at-best film by virtue of his exquisite, minutely-crafted performance. As a stoic, war-beaten veteran investigating the death of his son, Jones is masterfully subtle, giving a performance full of small touches- look at the way he stealthily grabs his boy’s cell phone, or how he still makes perfect Army-regulation hospital corners on his bed. Even when Haggis gives him big dramatic scenes- a phone call to his wife, the bedtime story he tells a little boy- Jones never strains for effect, making the character feel less performed than completely lived-in, and all the more heartbreaking for it.” ~ Paul Clark
“Perhaps my guilty pleasure this year would be Hugh Grant's performance in Music and Lyrics, but I can't feel guilty about it. Grant's washed up pop star isn't a huge jerk, a womanizer, a hack, or even pathetic; he's a nice guy who misses being on top of the world and desperately wants to go back. I normally can't crack the 15-minute mark on romantic comedies, but Grant's performance made it difficult to turn away, and certainly carried the film.” ~ James Frazier
“Enchanted bubbles over with good cheer, due in large part to Amy Adams for the wide-eyed optimism and innocence she brings to her irony-free performance. It's a delight to watch her clean up Robert's apartment with the assistance of rats and cockroaches as she sings "Happy Working Song", Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz's affectionate tweak of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. To Giselle these pests are just as beautiful as her woodland Andalasian friends. The purity of heart and soul with which Adams imbues Giselle can't help but be infectious.
”When even children's movies tend to favor the crass, it's startling to see someone on screen capable of convincing us that every day really is filled with sunshine and rainbows. Adams may not get as much credit for her acting in Enchanted because it appears effortless, but I'd wager that this is a taller order than awards bait roles that call for portraying inner torment. And she's funny too. Adams parlays Giselle's blissful ignorance of contemporary cynicism into laughs.” ~ Mark Pfeiffer
“Anna Faris has been terrific in a lot of forgettable films for the last few years (The Hot Chick and the Scary Movie series) and with [Smiley Face she takes a lackluster stoner comedy and turns it into a sublime piece of performance art. She is front and center in every scene and Gregg Araki wisely just focuses the camera on Faris and lets her loose. She attacks the role with a series of bizarre and perfectly judged acting choices that add up to one of the most impressive comedic performances I have ever seen. Anna Faris is a force of nature in this film and she sells every lame joke in the script with the utmost conviction; never afraid of looking foolish as she stares off into space with her mouth agape or rolls around her apartment with no thought to vanity or good sense. The kind of performance that is usually shamefully overlooked by Awards and critics polls, but I will probably cherish it even more in the long run than Daniel Day-Lewis’ brilliant work in There Will Be Blood.” ~ Jason Overbeck
“Hot Fuzz Co-writers Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright originally wrote a love interest for Pegg's protagonist, Sgt. Nicholas Angel, before deciding against this and folding much of that character's dialogue into Angel's partner, Danny Butterman; not only did this streamline the plot, it gave Butterman an unexpected emotional resonance. The homoeroticism of the action genre has been underlined many times before but never so effectively, largely thanks to Nick Frost's wide-eyed, nakedly earnest performance as Angel's biggest fan. Frost makes Danny a recognizable small-town type - the overly enthusiastic innocent whose only glimpse of a bigger world has come from the hyperadrenalized action flicks he so adores (his massive DVD collection nearly brought a tear to my eye - attaboy, Danny). Frost never condescends to his less-than-brilliant character, finding real warmth in Danny's attempts to be a real supercop and make his new friend proud. Their relationship is as memorable as the best of the buddy cop movies that Hot Fuzz so lovingly pokes fun at.” ~ Andrew Bemis
“Clarence Williams III isn't listed in the credits of American Gangster, and he's only in it for three scenes, but that's all the time he needs to construct a memorable character--and a rebuttal to the movie's central figure, the seventies-style Harlem drug dealer Frank Lucas (Denzel Washington) that's more direct and tougher than anything the moviemakers had the guts to include. Williams' Bumpy Johnson, the old king of Harlem, is seen icily watching as his men to dish out street justice to some fool, and exultantly distributing turkeys to the poor for Thanksgiving—a job that, unlike those requiring violence, he prefers to handle himself. Unlike Lucas, a slick businessman who becomes a predator among his own people, Bumpy belongs to a tradition familiar from Don Vito Corleone's beginnings in The Godfather, Part II. He is a capable man who has made his way outside the law, because the socially sanctioned paths to success are not yet open to those like him. Having risen to the top, he offers protection and and other rewards to those the law couldn't care les about, and he revels in the chance to play Santa Claus, just so long as nobody makes the mistake of thinking that just because he's kept his humanity, he's turned soft. But the world those men knew is slipping away, and one day Bumpy leads Frank into an ugly, impersonal new superstore, sits down, says something about how the city has begun to lose its grace, and then, as if he can bear to see no more, simply dies. The movie dies with him.” ~ Phil Nugent
“You really had to be there. If and when the Grindhouse trailers of Rob Zombie, Eli Roth and Edgar Wright come to DVD, the experience will seem muted to those who saw it in a theater. The wonderful glimpses of the fictional "Don't," "Werewolf Women of the S.S." and "Thanksgiving" were designed for a movie theater setting, where images of a maniacal Nicholas Cage and a vomit-inducing Thanksgiving dinner centerpiece could be accompanied by appropriate cackles and screams. It's questionable if the bookend Grindhouse entrees of "Planet Terror" and "Death Proof" lived up to their genre billing, but the in-between appetizers ended up tasting like one of the best theatrical moments of the year.
“While all three trailers (four counting Robert Rodriguez's introductory "Machete") fall under the Grindhouse z-grade banner, none of them share the same ingredients. "Werewolf Women of the S.S." is a surreal vision of a movie that couldn't possibly exist, looking at times like one of Zombie's music videos. "Don't" is the most audience-friendly of the trio, with quality riffs on bad horror movies and even worse trailer gimmicks. "Thanksgiving" has to be the main course, with a handful of cover-your-mouth-and-maybe-your eyes moments that walk the line between honest satire and barf bag gore. In a span of less than 10 minutes, the three trailer directors may have accomplished more of a grindhouse tribute than Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino did in three hours.” ~ Adam Ross
“Am I the only one who looks at Luisa Williams in Day Night Day Night and immediately thinks, "Bressonian model"? In a remarkable, beautifully subtle debut performance as good as any I've ever seen, she manages to convey a world of emotions, from serene determination to existential despair, simply by knowing how to use her face. Her eyes, especially, are intensely expressive and thereby obliterate the need for overt showiness. Like the best work in the filmography of the late French genius, Williams's work exists precisely on the line between acting and simply being.” ~ Steven Carlson
“Carter Burwell, No Country for Old Men: Let us take a moment to praise the man who scored the film with no score. Like John Cage and his infamous 4’33”, Burwell was serving a higher calling -- the psychology of the audience. He realized that this was the time when a scoreless movie could make the biggest impact, by crossing expectation. I celebrate this achievement in all earnestness, without irony.” ~ Martin McClellan
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Call Governor Cuomo on June 6 to Ban the Plastic Bag!
On June 6th, call Governor Cuomo and urge him to ban the single-use plastic bag and place a fee on alternative bags by supporting S7760/A9953, the ‘New York State Bring Your Own Bag Act’.
Text ‘JUNE 6’ to 21333 on your phone to receive a reminder and direct connection on June 6 to call the Governor. Alternatively, save the number 845-943-4749 to connect directly on June 6.
Plastic pollution is both a public nuisance and a public health threat. Reducing the use of single-use plastic bags is one of the most meaningful steps that New York can take to reduce pollution from single-use plastic. Governor Cuomo has recently announced his support for a plastic bag ban without the important fee on alternative bags. The evidence does not support a ban on plastic with no fee on alternative bags.
Evidence from both Chicago and Honolulu, which repealed their plastic bag only bans with a fee on all bags, demonstrate that the fee on alternatives is critical to reduce waste and foster a culture of using reusable bags.
Recently, more than 100 organizations from across New York State sent a letter to Governor Cuomo urging him to support a ban on single-use plastic bags and a fee on alternative bags. The groups highlighted that this “hybrid” legislation is the most effective policy to reduce single-use plastic bag pollution.
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If you ask Michiganders where stuff is located in their state, they usually raise the right hand as a de facto map. For example, Detroit is at the base of the thumb and Petoskey is near the tip of the middle finger. But nowhere in that hand is the Upper Peninsula, a sort of forgotten piece of geography that’s often overlooked when most people think of the Wolverine State.
Perhaps that because the UP doesn’t even look like it’s a part of Michigan. You can’t point it out on the hand, unless you hold the other hand over your right. It looks more like an appendage of Wisconsin than Michigan, and it’s really far north, hundreds of miles northwest of Windsor, Canada, for example, in between Lake Michigan and Lake Superior.
Most people in the United States can’t name a town in the Upper Peninsula, but if you’re familiar with Green Bay, Wisconsin, you’re actually pretty close. Winters are long; summers are coveted.
Though the golf season is short (June to early October really), course developers really made an effort in the UP, not only for the locals, but especially for those in the hot Southern states like Texas who might want a break from the oppressive heat. It’s also a bargain with green fees and accommodations often south of triple digits. You just have to figure out how to get there.
At the center, perhaps, of UP’s golf tourism is the Island Resort & Casino in Harris, Mich., which is owned and operated by the Hannahville Indian community. Located just 12 miles from Delta Regional Airport – where you can easily connect from Chicago’s O’Hare – the resort originally had just one golf course, the exceptional Sweetgrass Course, home of the Symetra Tour’s Island Resort Championship). Designed by Michigan native Paul Albanese and Chris Lutzke, and ranked among the top 20 public courses in Michigan (which is saying a lot since Michigan excels in golf), it’s certainly one of the best two or three golf courses in the UP.
First off, it’s suitable for all golfers. With six sets of tees, the course plays anywhere from around 5,000 yards to more than 7,200 yards. But what really stands out is its beauty and conditioning. With its wispy sweetgrass billowing around the numerous water features and pure fairways and greens, this is a luxury golf experience. The practice facilities are all that, too, with an expansive perfect grass range with course quality targets, pristine short game area and perfect bentgrass practice greens, which mirror the putting surfaces on the course. Basically, the course is first-class in every imaginable facet, including the brats you can get in the halfway house.
To complement Sweetgrass, however, the resort added another more difficult test in Sage Run, which is also designed by Albanese and Lutzke. Opened in 2018, the course, which Albanese said was inspired by Northern Ireland’s Royal County Down, is also beautiful, but not nearly as straightforward as Sweetgrass. In fact, you might say Sage Run, which hosted a collegiate event in 2019, is a roller-coaster ride.
Built on a natural drumlin, which is an elongated hill or ridge formed by glaciers, golfers not only have to find the fairways, but the correct side of the fairways if they hope to keep it in the short-grass and prevent it from running off into the thick rough. There are also scores of bunkers, which are surrounded by all sorts of nasty grassy lies and rocks. In many cases it’s much better to be in the bunker than to have just missed them. And if you’re a little wild off the tee, rocky grassy terrain also looms, which is why the starter informs groups to simply improve their lies from said areas to avoid damaging their clubs or their wrists. There are also some extreme holes, like the par 3 seventh, which plays some 80 feet uphill or the par-4 14th, which also goes straight up in the air. Both of those holes are simply unplayable by players with slow swing speeds. In short, Sage Run is beautiful and challenging, but not for everyone.
While golf at Island Casino could certainly be enough, especially considering the gaming, excellent dining, entertainment, spa and affordable accommodations, if you make your way to the UP, you might as well venture a couple of hours north to play the Mike DeVries-designed Greywalls Course at Marquette (Mich.) Golf Club, which is truly one of the most memorable experiences you’ll ever half with a set of clubs.
Set on the hills above Lake Superior, this is a difficult test as well, which is why the starter recommends that most players don’t try to bite off more than around 6,000 yards (our group of single digit players had a tough time with a combo set of around 6,400 yards). The reason it’s so hard: lots of elevation change, difficult table-top greens and rock outcroppings that will do plenty of bad things to your golf if you’re not accurate. Best of all, though, the views never stop, from the opening elevated tee shot to last elevated tee shot.
And if you have time, be sure to play the other course at Marquette Golf Club – the Heritage Course, which has nine holes designed by the legendary William Langford.
Another good golf option is Timberstone Golf Club, located at the fun Pine Mountain Resort in Iron Mountain. The course is plenty fun as it winds up and down hills and through the woods. At nearly 7,000 yards, it can be very challenging, but there really is a set of tees for every level of player.
One of the best things about visiting Timberstone, though, has to be having lunch or dinner at the resort’s Famer’s Restaurant, which houses the UP Sports Hall of Fame. Not only is it interesting to browse all the memorabilia, but the fare and atmosphere rock, especially the appetizers. And if you’re from Texas, this might be the time to try cheese curds, a staple in these parts that are their own food group. They go well with pretty much anything, especially a pint or two of the local craft beers or ales.
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Students who wish to go directly into Theatre 2 courses may do so by satisfactorily fulfilling the following requirements:
Completion of Advanced Drama (1B) (or its equivalent) at the middle school level and teacher recommendation.
Recommendation by the high school Theatre Instructor based on an audition and/or interview and the student’s demonstrated proficiency.
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1070 Theatre 1 (Year, 9-12)
This course can be used to fulfill the “f“ requirement for the University of California and CSU.
Theatre 1 introduces students to theatre as a discipline and an art form. Course activities include theatre games, improvisation, voice and movement work, stage combat training, monologue and scene performance theatre production projects, field trips to see professional plays, and instruction in acting for stage, TV and film. Students will develop increased confidence and ability in personal presentation skills. As they give and receive feedback on performances, students will apply evaluative criteria and appreciate excellence in performance. Through studying theatre as an expression of both history and culture, students will explore the way in which theatre affects and is affected by its societal context.
Course Preparation: Theatre 1 or Advanced Drama (1B) in middle school and middle school teacher recommendation.
Theatre 2 is designed for the intermediate drama student who wants to build on the skills learned in Theatre 1. Course activities include: improvisation, play analysis, scene and monologue performance, dialect work, audition preparation, stage combat training, acting for TV and film, and one act play preparation and performance. These activities enable students to build believable characters, apply basic technical theatre skills, develop directing skills, and work effectively as part of an ensemble. Class members build confidence as well as performance and analytical skills through giving and receiving feedback. Students trace the historical development of theatre through research, performances from a variety of theatrical genres, and attendance at theatre productions.
1076 Theatre 3 (Year, 10-12)
Prerequisite: Theatre 2 or permission of instructor.
This course can be used to fulfill the CTE graduation requirement OR the “f” requirement for the University of California and CSU
Theatre 3 builds on the skills learned in Theatre 1 and 2. Through participation in extensive projects, students will apply and develop directing, acting, technical and dramaturgical skills. During projects, students will write and adapt scripts and research societal contexts. By exploring different theatrical genres, students will experience, evaluate and appreciated a variety of production styles, including non-Western, non-traditional theatre. Class projects include a professional audition unit, playwriting, career exploration, and outside of class performance projects.
This course can be used to fulfill the CTE graduation requirement OR the “f” requirement for the University of California and CSU.
Theatre 4 provides an opportunity for students to pursue an individualized course of study, taking leadership roles in in‑depth theatrical projects in their areas of interest. Students will locate their productions within a theatrical genre, emphasizing the historical and cultural influences on their project. Students will create unified production concepts, integrating the contributions of the director, actor, designer, playwright, and spectator of a theatrical event.
1059 Theatre 4H (Year, 12)
Prerequisite: Theatre 3 or Theatre 4 and permission of the instructor.
This course can be used to fulfill the CTE requirement OR the “f” requirement for the University of California and CSU* (approval pending).
Theatre 4 Honors is open to the highly dedicated theatre student who has a minimum of two years of high school theatre study or its equivalent. In addition to completing the standard Theatre 4 curriculum for the year, students in Theatre 4 Honors are engaged in a pre-approved, in-depth, theatre related Honors project. Examples of projects include, but are not limited to: directing or producing a play, teaching a drama class to younger students, documenting the actor’s process while performing a role in a show, or writing and producing an original script..
Pending UC approval
1087 Stage Tech (Year, 9-12)
1088 Stg Tech11 (Semester, 9-12)
This course does not meet current University of California and CSU requirements. This course fulfills the CTE graduation requirement.
Stage Technology and Design is designed to integrate theoretical and practical knowledge of stage technology and design. Students will study the design and construction of sets, lighting, sound, and costumes, and apply their skills by developing design concepts and mounting productions from a variety of theatrical genres. By assuming vital roles in play productions, students will work effectively in leadership and ensemble situations, and experience the relationship of technical theatre to the theatrical event as a whole. Students will learn to operate theatrical equipment and tools safely, and use these skills to provide technical services for many school stage activities.
For Paly, this course satisfies either the Fine Arts or Career‑Technical Education graduation requirement and may be repeated for four years.
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