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Home » Structure Tone Opens Ownership to Select Inside Execs, Outside Investors
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Structure Tone Opens Ownership to Select Inside Execs, Outside Investors
Tight family-controlled contractor sees approach as acceptable growth option
Debra K. Rubin
KEYWORDS Family ownership / Management owners / NY building contractor / structure tone
Structure Tone is opening company ownership beyond members of the two families that have run the now nearly $4-billion New York City buildings and interiors contractor since its founding in 1971, firm executives confirmed to ENR on Dec. 18. Under the deal, set to close on Jan. 1, select company managers and four outside industry executives will invest in the firm, as it transitions to all-employee ownership.
“The ownership initiative will provide growth capital that will allow Structure Tone to deepen its client offerings and pursue geographic expansion,” said the firm in a statement. It did not release the amount of the investment or other financial terms.
In an interview, executives told ENR the four new outside investors will be Richard Newman, chairman emeritus of AECOM who led its management buyout from Ashland Corp. in 1990; John Dionisio, retired AECOM executive chairman and former CEO: William Murdy, former chairman and CEO of specialty contractor rollup Comfort Systems USA; and Jeffrey M. Kissel, former president and CEO of Hawaii Gas.
Structure Tone execs said as many as 45 managers were eligible to buy in, but the exact group size was not disclosed. Executive Chairman James K. Donaghy, son of the firm’s co-founder Patrick Donaghy, said neither remaining active family members nor executives would have a controlling interest and that up to three new members representing the investors will join its board.
Robert Mullen, Structure Tone CEO since 2004 and formerly a Skanska executive, remains in his role.
"The board will be the controlling group. That wasn’t the case before. The families had the final say,” Donaghy told ENR. “The big question for us was who will do a better job to make Structure Tone a $6-billion firm?” He confirmed that “a sale had been considered, but the idea didn’t check any boxes for us. We’re builders and we want to stay in the business.”
Sources note interest by private equity buyers and firms based overseas. Mullen says "we are committed to being privately held."
According to Donaghy, firm expansion could likely target California or the U.K.
Hugh D. Rice, senior chairman at FMI Capital Advisors, the financial advisory firm that brokered the investment, ongoing since 2014, says, "to find someone willing to come in and take a minority position in a construction firm is unusual." He noted that the investors "understand the industry. Most investors can’t spell construction."
The ownership change comes two years after the firm pleaded guilty to fraud charges in a client overbilling and falsified recordkeeping arrangement, and paid a $55-million settlemtent under a three-year "conditional discharge." No company executives were named in the agreement. The firm has since hired a chief ethics and compliance officer and named three independent directors in 2014.
Mullen said the legal settlement posed "no ongoing restrictions" in the ownership change.
Structure Tone ranks at No. 17 on ENR’s list of The Top 400 Contractors, with $3.86 billion in 2015 revenue.
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Tyco International Net Drops, But Adjusted Earnings Soar 54 Percent
Andrew Klips Follow
| Tuesday, 29 January 2013 02:30 (EST)
Fire safety and security system maker Tyco International Ltd. (TYC) said Tuesday morning that earnings in the first quarter dove 49.4 percent, but adjusted income rose amidst benefits from acquisitions as the company shuffled its operations.
The Schaffhausen, Switzerland-based company reported $163 million, or 34 cents per share, in GAAP earnings from continuing operations for the fiscal first quarter of 2013, which were down from $322 million, or 69 cents per share, in the year earlier quarter. Excluding special items, however, adjusted earnings totaled $191 million, or 40 cents per share, up by 54 percent from $123 million, or 26 cents per share, in the fiscal Q1 2012.
Revenue rose 5 percent from $2.48 billion in the year earlier quarter to $2.6 billion, including a 3 percent benefit from acquisitions.
Analysts, who typically do not include special items, were predicting earnings of 39 cents per share revenue of about $2.57 billion.
"We're off to a great start as the new Tyco, integrating our fire and security businesses and executing on our growth strategy. We had another very good quarter, with a 5% increase in revenue, driven partly by our acquisition strategy, and an 11% increase in earnings per share before special items on a normalized basis,” said Tyco Chief Executive Officer George Oliver.
In the fall of 2012, Tyco re-vamped its structure by breaking the company into separate channels, including the forming of ADT Corp. (ADT) for its security business, merging its pipe and valve operations with Pentair Inc. (PNR) and keeping its core competency on commercial fire suppression and safety equipment. The discontinuation of operations clouded earnings dramatically compared to fiscal Q1 of 2012.
Income from discontinued operations was $224 million the year earlier, compared to $4 million in the latest quarter.
Operating income from North American system installations and service grew 26 percent from $86 million to $108 million as operating margin increased from 8.9 percent to 11.1 percent from Q1 2012 to Q1 2013. For the rest of the world, operating income grew 4 percent to $114 million.
Shares of TYC have appreciated by about 33 percent since January 2012, including hitting their highest level since January 2002 this month. Shares closed on Monday at $30.70.
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If Donald Trump Is a Stress Test for Democracy, the Midterms Were Just a Warm Up Exercise
The 2018 election proved our system really is self-correcting, but the real referendum on the president's threat to democracy is two years away.
By Ryan Lizza
Trump, the cliché goes, is a stress test for American democracy. The Founders had pessimistic assumptions about human nature and they designed a system that anticipated the possibility—even likelihood—that an illiberal demagogue like Trump might one day hold the country’s most powerful office. So they studded the architecture of government with choke points and countervailing forces that were meant to prevent a future Trump from doing too much damage before exiting office.
In less turbulent times our creaky presidential system—which frequently features a co-equal legislature controlled by a different party fighting the president—can seem anachronistic, a system overly concerned with preventing a too-powerful executive at the expense of efficiently implementing an agenda. (In recent decades, few new democracies around the world have chosen to adopt an American-style presidential setup, seeing it as too sclerotic.)
A lot of liberals in the Obama era, when Democrats controlled Congress with large margins but still had enormous difficulties passing legislation, argued for removing some of the impediments that presidents face, like the filibuster in the Senate. And as advocates of activist government, many prominent liberals have frequently pined for the efficiency of a parliamentary system in which the executive and legislature act as a unit.
Democrats flipped Republican-held positions in several states, including Colorado, where Democrat Jared Polis (photographed here with running mate Dianne Primavera) defeated Republican Walker Stapleton in the governor’s race to become the country’s first openly gay governor.
Trump’s election ended these debates. No liberal, or anyone who cares about democracy, would advocate altering the current system in ways that would provide someone like Trump, who openly celebrates the world’s worst authoritarians, with more powers. Trump’s rise shifted the debate in the other direction: was our constitutional system equipped with enough chokepoints to stand up to a populist demagogue? Prominent scholars who study the subversion of democracies pointed to Turkey, Hungary, Poland, Russia, and other places where Trump-like populists have recently consolidated power and undermined liberal institutions and warned that it could happen here.
So when I was watching the returns on Tuesday, the first national Election Day since Trump’s victory, I processed the results in a different way than I had in the past. Every president faces a midterm backlash. But the question I and many others had was whether the scale of the backlash against Trump would be commensurate with the scale of the threat he poses to American democracy. Two years of extraordinary changes in American politics—marked by a return to the use of overt racism in campaigns, rhetorical attacks on the free press, efforts to undermine the independence of law enforcement, and a normalizing of attacks on the opposition party as illegitimate or criminal—ought to create an equally extraordinary backlash by voters.
The gains for the opposition party are impressive: when the counting is over Democrats are likely to gain close to forty House seats, seven governorships, and more than 300 state legislative seats. Even in the U.S. Senate, where it’s common to point out Republicans gained seats, the story can be told a little differently: Democrats, defending a disproportionate number of seats in deep red territory, won two-thirds of the races. All of this occurred despite a roaring economy with unemployment under four percent.
"[The midterms] show that [Trump] really is as unpopular as polls have shown all along."
I asked the Harvard political scientist Yascha Mounk, an expert on populists and the threat they can pose to democracies, if he believed the American system responded effectively to the Trump threat this week. Mounk has pointed out that in the recent past successful populist demagogues have generally broadened their appeal once in office, expanding their support among middle class and moderate voters. He saw the midterms as a major repudiation of Trumpism and a vindication of the American system.
“The midterms are certainly an important test of Trump's popularity,” he said, “and they show that he really is as unpopular as polls have shown all along. So that raises the question of why Trump, at least at this juncture, is so much less popular than other authoritarian populists at a similar stage in their tenure—most of whom have tended to prevail at the ballot box.”
Mounk’s view is that Trump is simply inept at exercising power. Successful populists in recent years have been more strategic and disciplined. Trump, perhaps because of an overwrought narcissism that prevents him from focusing on anything that is not personally and immediately beneficial to him, hasn’t worked on capturing institutions or pushing through laws the way populists in other countries have. In turns out being a true authoritarian is hard work and Trump is bad at it.
But Mounk also argued that America really is better positioned to absorb and rebound from Trump than, say, Turkey or Hungary. We have a decentralized government, a free and independent press that, despite the bluster, hasn’t been reined in in any way by Trump. “As a result, Trump has found it harder to reshape public opinion than some of his populist peers,” Mounk argued.
Finally, Trump’s nativist and racist appeals, which of course are as old as America, have been met with a loud and growing opposition that draws on the equally strong American strain of support for a melting pot society. “As a result, Trump's race-baiting rhetoric has been rebuked by a larger number of voters than it might have been on other countries,” Mounk said.
Despite a swarm of national media attention around his opponent, Beto O’Rourke, Republican Ted Cruz narrowly retained his Texas Senate seat.
I think he’s mostly correct. Tuesday showed that our system is still self-correcting. Though it also has to be said that the very idea that Trump poses some kind of a threat to democracy is still mostly an elite concern. Many Democrats who won on Tuesday ran campaigns that wouldn’t necessarily have been different had Jeb Bush or Ted Cruz been president, and emphasized traditional issues like health care and education rather than running purely as anti-Trump candidates. A lot of voters don’t take seriously the idea that Trump represents something uniquely perilous.
If it’s true that this remains an elite concern, it is now also mostly a Democratic elite concern. Despite their poor showing, the post-midterm Republican Party is more monolithic in its embrace of Trump. The most prominent voices of dissent—people like Jeff Flake, Bob Corker, Mark Sanford, John McCain—have either retired, died, or been defeated over the last two years. Trump, unusual for a president in his first midterm, remained enormously popular among Republican voters. And Trump’s insistence on Wednesday, at his deranged victory lap press conference, that his extreme rhetoric in the final weeks of the campaign helped more than it harmed Republican candidates is widely shared by analysts and elected officials on the right.
But still: two cheers for American democracy. It still sort of works.
Then again, as Mounk noted, Tuesday was just a warm-up. “The crucial test will come in 2020,” he said. “It's only then that we'll learn whether Donald Trump is removed from office, or given another four years to denigrate American institutions.”
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Home / News / Super Mario Bros Battle Royale Game Releases for Free
Super Mario Bros Battle Royale Game Releases for Free
Mike Sanders / 7 months ago
Super Mario Battle Royale
After nearly 30 years worth of attempts, I have pretty much come to the conclusion that I may never beat the original Super Mario Bros. While disappointing, it’s a conclusion that I have (mostly) learned to admit, live with and grudgingly accept. It is, however, mildly bizarre that I would fancy my chances of winning a battle royale based on the game as much greater than the actual original version itself.
Well, the good news is that thanks to an amazing fan-made project, you can now do (or at least try) just that! A Super Mario Bros Battle Royale game has been released for free and, better still, you can play it right now in your browser!
How Does The Game Work?
Well, this isn’t you trying to jump on the heads of other players. That would be far too chaotic. Instead, you’re essentially playing with 98 other people who are all competing within 1 fully interactive level.
It’s hard to explain until you pay it, but think of it as 1 single Mario level that 99 people are all playing simultaneous with all the enemies, power-ups and obstacles all being fully interactive by all concerned. You see a stationary shell? Well, another player could kick that towards your direction!
Where Can I Play It?
Being entitled ‘Infringe Royale’ the creator (InfernoPlus) seems entirely open to the possibility that Nintendo might flex their legal muscles and slap him with a C&D at any point. As such, if you do want to play this, you might need to act a little quickly!
So, where can you play it? Well, the good news is that the game is available for free. All you need is a relatively modern browser and can play it right now via the link here!
I look forward to seeing you in the battlefield that is the Mushroom Kingdom!
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Inequality in homicide rates in Chicago neighborhoods increased over 20-year period
Increase driven by greater rate of decline in the city's safest neighborhoods
Although absolute levels of crime declined, relative inequality in crime between the city's safest and most dangerous neighborhoods increased by 10 percent during later period
Researchers' goal was to look at how crime generates inequality
Crime rates in Chicago have remained higher than New York, Los Angeles and other cities despite overall decline
EVANSTON, Ill. --- The United States has experienced an unprecedented decline in violent crime over the last two decades (1990-2010); however, violent crime remains stubbornly concentrated in socially and economically disadvantaged communities. This certainly rings true in Chicago.
While nearly all neighborhoods in Chicago benefited from reductions in homicide, relative inequality in crime between the city's safest and most dangerous neighborhoods actually increased by 10 percent over recent years, according to a new Northwestern University study.
"This increase was driven by a greater rate of decline in the city's safest neighborhoods," said Andrew V. Papachristos, lead author of the study and a professor of sociology in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern.
"This crime gap can be partly attributed to the decreasing association between concentrated disadvantage and homicide in the safest neighborhoods," he said. "We also find that the decline did not significantly alter the spatial distribution of crime, as homicides remained concentrated in the initially most dangerous neighborhoods and their adjacent areas."
Papachristos said he was hoping the gap had actually narrowed.
"It did for awhile," said Papachristos, also a faculty fellow at the University's Institute for Policy Research. "But the recent uptick and leveling off in crime really started to drive the gap up."
The researchers' goal was to look at how crime generates inequality.
"The 'move' was to go beyond does crime go 'up or down,' but rather how crime generates inequality," Papachristos said.
They thought of the "crime gap" as something similar to the education or earnings gap.
"Does the 'top 1 percent' of neighborhoods shape violence in the city more than the other 99 percent? And if crime went down, shouldn't the 'worst' neighborhoods change the most?" he added. "We found out that inequality is much more complicated. While the city as a whole got 'safer,' the inequality between neighborhoods -- the crime gap -- got worse, especially in the later time period."
And while Chicago's crime rate has declined like other cities during the "great American crime decline," Papachristos said rates in Chicago have remained higher than New York, Los Angeles and other cities.
Earlier this year, Papachristos published "Closer to Guns: The Role of Street Gangs in Facilitating Access to Illegal Firearms," but he had not examined crime and violence in Chicago in this way before.
"The unique part of this was really looking at things over an extended period of time and tracking inequality in this way," Papachristos said. "We need to 'mind the gap.' While we, of course, need to pay attention to homicide rates going up or down, we need to understand how crime generates massive inequalities more broadly."
"Understanding the Crime Gap: Violence and Inequality in an American City," published last week in the journal City & Community published by the American Sociological Association. In addition to Papachristos, co-authors include Noli Brazil, University of California, Davis, and Tony Cheng, Yale University.
'Connected in crime'
In addition, another recently published Chicago-focused study led by Papachristos found that the city's high crime rate is driven more by an invisible network of personal criminal connections across Chicago than by organized crime or street gangs.
Papachristos and co-author Sara Bastomski of the Urban Institute found that people who commit, and are arrested for, crimes together -- or co-offenders -- form a pathway for the spread of crime across all of the city's neighborhoods.
They examined how these co-arrest patterns for the same crime indicate that a strong network connects not just individuals but also their neighborhoods, no matter their predominant socioeconomic makeup.
For example, though violent crime is more than 20 times higher in Chicago's West Garfield Park (a predominantly African-American neighborhood) than in Jefferson Park (a largely white neighborhood just a few miles to the north) both of these neighborhoods are actually connected in crime through people's interactions.
According to the researchers, the study ultimately highlights the need for violence-prevention policies that provide city-level solutions, while also providing support to the most vulnerable and crime-ridden communities.
"Importantly, our findings suggest that crime does not diffuse across neighborhood boundaries like an airborne pathogen. Instead, crime moves across very particular network pathways that are created as individuals engaged in crime move throughout the city -- a pattern that persists even though those individuals engaging in crime change over time," the co-authors wrote.
"Connected in Crime: The Enduring Effect of Neighborhood Networks on the Spatial Patterning of Violence" was published in the American Journal of Sociology.
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THE MASIA, IN DANGER
The Barça looks for like covering the road of exit of the quarry
During the last weeks the FC Barcelona has seen as it produced an alarming escape of talents of the Masia that in the next days could be greater. With the model and the successes at stake, the Barcelona group is forced to react prompt
Jordi Mboula, Eric García or Mateu Morey are names that could be allocated to occupy the covers of the periodicos sportive, but have jumped to the too prompt fame and by the mistaken reasons. During the last weeks -and even years- the quarry that so many successes has given him to the Barça is seeing weakened by the 'thefts' and 'escapes' of footballers, that leave of the Masia and the first team for recalar in big and small teams in search of money and opportunities.
In a period relatively cut of time, the fact has happened to be circunstancial to worrisome. The course and the tortuous return of Cesc Fábregas could be an isolated case, but immersed in the case of Héctor Bellerín, without having solved the turn of Gerard Deulofeu and with the exits of the last days, the obligation is to think in that it is necessary to look for a solution and do it of the fastest way and less traumatic possible.
Because if it is true that the quarry is not a source inagotable and that the requirement of the first team can not it bear all, also is it that it is necessary to take care to some players that give it everything in the inferior categories and want some guarantees that, for the moment, no estan finding.
Some times by money and others by fault of confidence and project of future, the young Barcelona promises are doing the cases, with the consequent damage for a FC Barcelona that is losing one of his greater fortresses in a moment in which the market does not allow to stroll without an important backrest.
Like this, the club has to put of his part before it was too late, to avoid cases so distinct like the ones of the canteranos fugados, the exits of Thiago and Bartra and the difficulties with Deulofeu and Bellerín, that at the end weaken to a team that, from the base, does not want to leave to be big.
Although in the foundations of the Masia are appearing some cracks, the FC Barcelona has achieved taponar the roads of water in some of the most visible cases of the filial. After some weeks of doubt, seems that Carles Aleñá, Marc Cucurrella and Sergi Palencia will join to Marlon Santos and will extend his links to the Barcelona group. Prpers having given the step, only remains to follow walking, for the sake of the Masia and by the future of the Barça.
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→→Former Department of Linguistics→Past Research & Resources→Language History→Advances in Evolutionary Phonology
Juliette Blevins
Sven Grawunder
Dave Kamholz (University of California at Berkeley)
Andrew Wedel (University of Arizona)
Evolutionary Phonology seeks to explain why certain sound patterns have the typological distributions they do. Why are certain sound patterns extremely common, while others are rare? What factors play a role in determining similar sound patterns across languages? And what is the ultimate explanation for the striking identity between recurrent context-dependent instances of sound change and recurrent alternation types across the world's languages?
Within Evolutionary Phonology, the attempt to explain recurrent sound patterns gives equal consideration to all potential sources of similarity. As with similar biological characteristics, two languages may have similar sound patterns due to: (i) inheritance from a mother tongue; (ii) parallel evolution in the form of parallel phonetically motivated sound change; (iii) physical constraints on form & function, including innate aspects of speech perception & production, potential phonological universals, and general cognitive mechanisms; (iv) 'non-natural' or external factors (e.g. language contact, prescriptive norms, literacy, second-language learning); (v) or mere chance. This general approach to explanation in Evolutionary Phonology is rooted in the view of language as a complex adaptive system whose evolution can be usefully compared to the evolution of biological organisms.
Present research explored the form and distribution of recurrent sound patterns, and the multiple ways sound patterns can be modeled as emergent probabilistic properties, resulting from the repeated interaction of innate perceptual and articulatory biases, self- organizing properties of sound systems, and aspects of language use within a population. While new discoveries continue, the successful application of the evolutionary approach required a comprehensive summation of qualitative and quantitative aspects of sound change.
To provide a sound empirical basis for the study of sound change, a Sound Change Database was compiled. Its purpose was to provide a searchable database for phonologists, historical linguists, and phoneticians, as well as for general linguists interested in the nature and origins of sound patterns. In this database, regular sound changes established by experts in the historical phonology of relevant languages and language families were compiled, and organized by phonetic origin, genealogical affiliation, general type, and other more specific attributes. For each regular sound change, there was a summary of relevant phonetic work, as well as a summary of parallel synchronic sound patterns in the world's languages. Printed indices as well as search functions in the electronic database allow researchers to investigate a sound change or sound pattern by general type, phonetic basis, target segment or structure, output segment or structure, as well as by language or language family. As a compendium of regular sound changes, related sound patterns, and phonetic explanations for sound patterns, the database is valuable to those working in the traditional fields of historical linguistics, phonology, and phonetics. At the same time, the database was meant to provide an empirical basis for innovative research in phonology. Phonologists can more easily deconstruct synchronic sound patterns into natural and unnatural components, once a compendium of natural patterns exists.
Some publications:
Blevins, J. 2007. Endangered sound patterns: Three perspectives on theory and description. Language Documentation and Conservation 1: 1-16.
Blevins, J. 2006. A theoretical synopsis of Evolutionary Phonology (target article). Theoretical Linguistics 32:117-65.
Blevins, J. 2006. New perspectives on English sound patterns: 'Natural' and 'Unnatural' in Evolutionary Phonology. Journal of English Linguistics 34:6-25.
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Books > Hindu > Gods > Shiva > Sivanandalahari of Sankaracarya (Sanskrit Text with Roman Transliteration, English Translation and Explanation)
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Sivanandalahari of Sankaracarya (Sanskrit Text with Roman Transliteration, English Translation and Explanation)
by V. K. Subramanian
The Sivanandalahari of Adi Sankaracarya, like twin, Saundaryalahari, is a poem of intense devotion, as noted for its poetic skill as for its spiritual fervour.
God cannot be conceived of, meditated upon or loved with devotion in the abstract.
To love God, the one ultimate reality, indefinable, ineffable, eternal, omnipresent and immanent, the primal, cause-as the Brahma Sutras put it- from which the cosmos is born, maintained and dissolved, God has to be conceived of as the Father-Mother, inseparable as word and meaning-in the immortal analogy of Kalidasa.
This is the conception of Siva-Sakti, Father-Mother, who are in themselves one, the embodiment of truth, goodness and beauty and are Being, Consciousness and Bliss, Sat-Cit-Ananda.
Mythology and metaphysics, legend and poetry have enveloped this Father-Mother image of God in the Magic of love, devotion and adulation.
In Sivanandalahari, Sri Sankaracarya pays homage to the Father, while in Sarundaryalaharihe Prays to the Mother
While singing the praises of the Father and recounting His glory, it is impossible not to mention the greatness of the Mother. The opening verse of Siva-nandalahari hence begins with a tribute to both.
A word about the title of the poem:
The term Siva means the Auspicious One; Ananda means bliss; laharimeans wave. Sivanandalahari hence means the wave of bliss resulting from experiencing (intense love for) God, the Auspicious One.
Loving God for no ulterior reason but for love's own sake, singing God's praises, praying to Him with whole-hearted devotion, meditating on His Majesty and glory, all these lead us way from ignorance and enslavement, and lead us to that blissful beatitude where the Omnipresent One is realized at the Immanent Self within.
The Sivanandalahari of Sankaracarya accomplishes this difficult task of generating love, full, unquestioning and authentic, by making God so lovable, by highlighting all His great attributes established by the various legends surrounding Him, which are widely known to the mystics and spiritual aspirants of India, handed down by the Vedic seers, the Upanishadic teachers and the authors of the epics and Puranas.
These attributes of God include omnipotence, capacity to destroy sin and sorrow, the absolute power to do and generate good (Sankara, Sambhu), His being an ocean of mercy, ever concerned about the welfare of his devotees, bestowing boundless prosperity on them, while preferring austerity of Himself, the great ascetic, who is also the ideal lover, ever united with His spouse Sakti.
The legends include: Burning of Cupid, Destruction of Death, Annihilation of the triple demons, Tripura, marriage with Parvati, daughter of Himavan, the mountain king, the cosmic dance, attempt to find His head and feet by Visnu and Brahma, His sports as a hunter, His drinking poison to save the world from destruction etc.
The detailed stories of these legends have been given at the appropriate places, where the have been referred to by Sankaracarya in his poem.
Sculptural representation of the legends referred to in Sivanandalaharican be seen in the various caves and temples scattered throughout India, the major ones being Ellora, Elephanta, Badami, Aihole, Halebid, Madurai, Thanjavur, Sri Sailam and the five elements built in honour of Siva: representing the five elements: Kancipuram (earth), Tirucirapalli (water), Tiruvannamalai(fire), Kalahasti (air), Cidambaram (ether).
These temples, sanctifying the myths and legends glorifying God have inspired many mystic saints to pour out their love of God in devotional poetry.
The Deity in the temple at Sri Sailam has been referred to by Sankaracarya in Sivanandalahari, verses 50 and 51.
The glorification of God by Sankaracarya in Sivanandalahari reminds us of the verse from Svetasvatara Upanisad, which refers to "that God, the Unique One who, by His union with Sakti, assumes without any self-interest myriad forms, first creates the universe and then in the end withdraws it unto Himself."
In placing this edition of Sivanandalahari, with English translation and explanatory notes, I invite all the readers thereof to experience the blissful beatitude, the path to which has been shown in this devotional hymn by the Great Master.
From the Jacket
The Sivanandalahari of Adi Sankaracharya, like its twin Saundaryalahari, is a poem of intense devotion, as noted for poetic excellence as for its spiritual fervour.
Since God cannot be conceived of, meditated upon or loved with devotion in the abstract, Indian sages have conceived of God as the Father-Mother, Siva-Sakti inseparable as word and meaning, in the immortal analogy of Kalidasa.
In Sivanandalahari, Sankaracharya has been successful in making God so lovable that the reader is enabled to experience a blissful beatitude, where the Omnipresent One is realized as the Immanent Self within, the purified mind elevated to heights of spiritual bliss.
The English translation of this famous work has been done by V. K. Subramanian, the famous scholar, whose book on Saundaryalahari is a popular work, running into several editions.
English translation side by side the original Sanskrit will facilitate easy comprehension by all.
This book will be of great interest to all students of religion and philosophy as also lovers of pure poetry.
It will be a valuable reference volume for students of Indology.
Vadakaymadom Krishna Iyer Subramanian (b. 1930, Kerala, India) is an eminent scholar, whose life mission is to present to the world the treasures of ancient India, in the fields of art, literature, philosophy and religion.
He has already translated several ancient texts into English.
These include: Saundaryalahari, Sivanandalahari, Sacred Songs of India, Maxims of Chanakya, Sri Rudraprasna and Wondrous Whispers of Wisdom from Ancient India.
As a consultant for holistic health and spiritual development, he has spelt out the Hindu regimens in this regard in his popular book The Holistic Way to Health, Happiness and Harmony.
Subramanian's prolific literary output covers a variety of subjects ranging from astrology to art. He has been an astropalmic counselor for over 35 years.
A retired officer of the Indian Audit and Accounts Service (which he joined in 1953), Subramanian is also a reputed painter, who has held 22 one-man shows and whose paintings (some of them in the Chandigarh Museum) have won wide acclaim from leading art critics of India.
Subramanian who has traveled extensively in India, now lives in the United States of America.
Text of Yivanandalahari 15
Pada Index 217
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Sanskrit text in Devanagari with Roman transliteration, English translation, explanatory notes and index
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So here we are: not so much a disaster movie, as a disastrous movie.
The Swarm (1978) is a film of such unspeakable awfulness that director Irwin Allen, scarred by the critical and commercial evisceration it received, banned anyone who worked with him from ever mentioning its name again.
Even The Swarm’s star Sir Michael Caine, one of the towering figures of bad cinema (and a man, incidentally, who makes no apology for Jaws 4: The Revenge), considers this the worst film he has ever made.
But before we speak about the disaster that is the film, what about the disaster it’s meant to depict?
As the film’s title suggests, the source of terrifying peril are bees. Not your honey-producing, flower-pollinating common or garden variety, but deadly African killer bees.
So, when a swarm of the lethal insects invades the USA, Caine’s top entomologist – or bug expert to the uneducated likes of you and me – is put in charge of saving the day.
Not a premise entirely without promise, you might think – especially with Irwin ‘Master of Disaster’ Allen, the producer of The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno at the helm. Well, you’d be wrong. Very, very, wrong.
The film barely begins before taking the first of many catastrophic mis-steps. We enter the story with the swarm having overwhelmed a nuclear missile base. The military personnel lie dead and America’s nuclear arsenal sits unguarded and unmanned.
The nadir of Caine's career. Not a lot of people know that.
Having seen the cutting edge of Uncle Sam’s weapons technology rendered useless by one blistering attack, the viewer giddily waits to find out how the drama will be escalated.
Will there be a nuclear meltdown? Will the bees head for Washington to continue their assault on the USA’s military infrastructure? Perhaps they’ll take over the White House and transform it into a massive hive from which they can busily – and buzzily – rule the country?
No. Instead, Allen has the bees – and all the action – lurch sideways to a small, white picket-fenced town that, with ill-timed misfortune, just happens to be holding a flower festival.
Rarely has tremulous expectation been scythed so swiftly. One minute we’re worrying about the readiness of the United States’ intercontinental ballistic missiles, the next it’s all about whether the town’s mayor will have to call off the begonia competition.
This non-development is symptomatic of the way the film blindly staggers about under Allen’s scattergun direction. His previous disaster epics had the sense to confine their drama within, respectively, the walls of a burning tower block and an upturned cruise ship.
In this movie, without the natural constraints of a tight location, Allen seems clueless as to whether he should be providing grand spectacle or keeping the danger up close and personal.
Such confusion results in a unholy hodge-podge of scenes, seemingly from entirely different films. The story jack-knifes from large-scale destruction at a nuclear power station and the ensuing deaths of thousands, to picnickers impotently trying to fight off the swarm with a can of fly spray they‘ve puzzlingly packed along with the cheese triangles.
"It's behind you!"
This ever changing kaleidoscope of calamity simply serves to emphasise how none of the action is either a) frightening or b) remotely believable.
The whole thing enters through-the-looking-glass territory when our heroes, not content with having the deadly bees to deal with, start to inflict entirely avoidable disaster upon themselves.
For example, take the scene where Henry Fonda’s saintly old Professor – the only man in the world who can develop an antidote to the bee venom – tests out an experimental cure on himself. And promptly dies. Wasn’t there something a little less irreplaceable – a hamster, maybe – they could have tested it on first?
Or how about when the bungling soldiers, trying to fight off a bee attack, set fire to their own headquarters by using flame-throwers indoors. Like, totally, duh!
The same dunderheaded idiocy again rears its head in the exploding helicopter sequence. This occurs early in the film, before the nature of the threat has been established, when a couple of military helicopters encounter the swarm.
Unsure what to make of the black, buzzing mass in front of them, the hapless pilots naturally decide against trying to ascertain the potential threat from a safe distance. No, instead the gung-ho aviators choose to fly headlong into the swirling unidentified phenomenon.
While this recklessness does indeed allow the pilots to correctly identify their enemy as bees, the manoeuvre predictably causes an unspecified aerodynamic problem for the helicopters. The pilots lose control and the choppers plummet from the sky, crash into the ground and burst into flame.
If you ever wanted to see a Airfix helicopter kit blow up, then this is the film for you’ve been waiting for.
Without any CGI, the filmmakers had to rely on scale models to create their special effects.
So, as the small plastic chopper meets its fiery demise, one should spare a little sympathy for the poor bugger who must have spent painstaking hours intricately gluing together the flimsy model. His handiwork is only briefly seen before the special effects team to blow it all to smithereens.
Sadly, it’s one of the least convincing chopper explosions on record: even the ground and the plant-life looks totally wrong.
Without doubt, the first known apiary-related destruction of a helicopter.
The single positive aspect of The Swarm is that it is so epically bad. Such ripe terribleness has a richness that elevates the film’s copious failings to the level of high art.
The only way to truly appreciate what a Herculean achievement of appalling awfulness this film is to watch it.
That thought that repeatedly nags away at the back of your mind for much of the film, as death and disaster lays waste to whole communities, is this: why didn’t people simply stay indoors and keep their windows closed? Amazingly, despite the presence of so many top scientists and military generals, no-one ever seems to have thought of this.
In a film filled to brimming with lumpen dialogue, my favourite exchange comes right at the end of the film. Caine’s plan to stop the bees involves luring the swarm out to sea where the army intend to blow them up. (Please, don’t ask.)
To do this, Sir Michael fits out a couple of helicopters with megaphones through which he intends to broadcast a special frequency the bees will be helplessly drawn to. Aware of the ridiculousness of such cod-science, the scriptwriters try to make a lame apology and have Caine’s helper say: “Won’t the noise of the helicopter drown out your sound?”
Caine’s reply is majestic: “No, it’s on an entirely different sonic level.”
Oh, okay. That’s alright then.
Real bees were used to film The Swarm. Legend has it that Sir Michael, upon finding small yellow blobs on his clothes during filming assumed it was honey and began eating it, unaware that it was actually bee excrement.
Having inflicted this cack on the world, it’s probably only fitting that he had to eat some too.
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The Secret Agent Club
Success breeds imitation. In Hollywood this means that, whenever a big box office hit rakes in the readies, it is swiftly followed by a slew of thinly disguised, cheap and cheerless knock-offs.
So when the Arnold Schwarzenegger spy caper True Lies became a global mega hit, originality-adverse Hollywood producers rushed to cash in, and The Secret Agent Club (1996) was born.
Inferior in execution and ambition, the film steals True Lies’ central premise, re-works it as a kids’ film, and replaces Arnie with Z-grade action star Hulk Hogan – possibly the only man alive who could make the lumbering Austrian look like Sir Laurence Olivier.
Hogan plays Ray Chase, the remarkably unlikely owner of a toy shop, who appears to be living a dull and innocuous life in small-town suburbia. When he isn’t selling water pistols and whoopee cushions, he’s the klutzy and bumbling father to Jeremy (Matthew McCurley) to whom he’s a permanent embarrassment. However, quelle surprise, Hogan’s day job is merely a cover for his secret life as an agent for a shadowy intelligence service called, erm, SHADOW.
Inevitably, Hogan’s private and professional lives become messily entwined when his efforts to retrieve a deadly laser weapon from a campy villainess (Lesley Anne Down) go awry. And when she takes Hogan captive, it falls to the Hulk-ster’s son and his pre-teen friends to rescue him and the weapon.
So, just to summarise: where True Lies offered Jamie-Lee Curtis frolicking in her drawers and being genuinely funny, this film gives you a bunch of highly punchable pre-teen brats. Genius.
The story limps along like a three-legged dog, the action having as much bite as a toothless chihuahua. In fact, if this film were a dog, most viewers would surely have little compunction about taking it for a long, one-way walk in the woods.
Hogan, in particular, reeks to high heaven. Rarely has so awkward a screen presence ever graced the silver screen (and remember, this is someone whose performance – by definition – is here being measured against that human oak-tree of inexprssion, Schwarzenegger). Slowed by his muscle-bound body and advancing years, he labours through each progressing scene with the grace and subtlety of a collapsing building.
That said, Hulk does bank some credit for being the only unapologetically bald action star. Not for him the designer pates of Bruce Willis or Vin Diesel – whose grade zero shaves almost look cool. No, Hogan frames his folically-challenged scalp with a lustrous, blonde mullet. Sir, we salute you. In many respects, the peroxide mullet gives the best performance of the movie.
Curiously, for such a flawed film, the supporting cast are surprisingly good. As the chief villain, Lesley-Anne Down eats up her role with pantomime gusto, providing what little entertainment there is to be gleaned.
There are also game performances from Jack Nance as a mad scientist, Barry Bostwick as a double-dealing secret agent, and the ever reliable James Hong. It’s just a pity the flaccid script gives them so little to work with.
The exploding helicopter scene opens with Lesley Anne Down auctioning off the laser to a roomful of terrorists and war-mongering dictators. (No, George Bush and Tony Blair aren’t present, before you ask.)
To demonstrate the weapon’s unique power, Down incinerates an expendable member of her retinue. (I hear he was a trifle slow circulating the canapés at the pre-auction soiree, but I digress). Unimpressed by the casual murder of a mere underling, one of the assembled audience of evil-doers calls for a more substantive demonstration.
Irritated at having the credentials of her wares questioned, Down walks to a nearby balcony and fries the baddie’s helicopter, which is parked in the courtyard outside. “I’ll guess you’ll be walking home now,” she quips.
In common with much else in the film, this scene is entirely bereft of both artistry and merit. We don’t witness an explosion so much as a white cloud of smoke, which partially clears to reveal some non-descript, easy-on-the-budget wreckage.
Frankly, it was only professional diligence that made this reviewer watch the whole film. And had I realised at this point that there would be no further helicopter action, it’s unlikely the closing credits would have been reached. From woeful beginning to lamentable end, it is utterly uninspired stuff.
I'll have to get back to you on those.
Jeremy’s friends – who band together to rescue Hogan – are the kind of central casting, identikit younglings (the nerd, the girl, the fat one, the cool one) that you’ll be familiar with from a thousand other teen-centric comedies and dramas.
Perhaps it’s just the advancing years, but I invariably find children in films irritating. Unless of course they’re tortured, killed and eaten.
James Hong gets to utter the cod-Chinese proverb: “Even a one-legged man sometimes kicks butt.”
The continuity in this film is risible. The most shockingly example comes at the end of the film when Hogan and his little helpers, attempting to escape from the villain’s lair, are confronted by Down.
All Hogan has to do to escape is blast Down with the laser. But suddenly the action jumps forward, missing out an entire sequence. We then resume the action with Down now holding the weapon, which has somehow been set to self-destruct.
How any of that happened remains a mystery to the viewer. Assuming they care by that point.
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P.O.W - The Escape
Historians will tell you that the Vietnam War ended in 1975. And technically, that’s true. But in the Philippines, the conflict kind-of-continued to rage long into the Eighties.
That’s because enterprising B-movie producers discovered that the exotic, forest-strewn country made for an ideal Vietnam substitute – the perfect place to knock-out cheapo, straight-to-video versions of Apocalypse Now and The Deer Hunter.
The Philippines had everything they needed: plentiful jungle locations, a ready supply of locals who could be passed off as Vietnamese extras, and a government happy to hire out its military to any filmmaker with a suitcase of dosh. (The fact that that the country’s President was the fabulously corrupt Ferdinand Marcos was presumably just a coincidence.)
Ultimately, this happy confluence of circumstances spawned – without exaggeration – hundreds of ‘Nam-sploitation movies during the Eighties. And they included: POW – The Escape (1986).
The Gawd-loving US Army detects an evil Vietcong prison camp that’s holding American POWs. Hell, no! Their answer: send in swarthy Colonel James Cooper, to say things like ‘We have eyes on the package’ and effect an immediate extraction of the caged heroes. So far, so impressive. Only thing is, much like Uncle Sam’s participation in the actual conflict, the rescue plan quickly goes utterly tits up.
Fast forward a scene, and Cooper now finds himself imprisoned in the very same hellhole as the soldiers he was supposed to be liberating. Like, d’oh.
So, will the brave Colonel simply spend the rest of the war crying and eating beetles in the ‘Hanoi Hilton’? Or will he be able to make a sneaky escape from Vietcong’s clutches? It’s a total mystery. If only there was a clue in the title…
Who’s in this?
Courageous Colonel Cooper is played by David Carradine. The Kill Bill star, once captured, is tied-up and thrown into a bamboo cage. It’s all meant to break the spirit of the foreign invader. But as we know from the actor’s sad demise by auto-asphyxiation, our Dave actually rather enjoyed being painfully trussed-up in a cramped space. He probably wrote that scene himself.
Alongside Carradine, B-movie fan favourite Steve James (American Ninja, The Delta Force, McBain) appears as an escape-hungry prisoner. Big Steve has never been in imminent danger of winning an Oscar, but his larger-than-life persona adds welcome energy to the screen.
Also making an appearance in this movie is – quelle surprise! – Asian utility actor Mako. Japanese by birth, Mako was the man Hollywood called whenever they needed someone ‘oriental’. Over the years he played characters from China, Tibet, Singapore, Vietnam and even, radically, Japan.
Filipino war movie aficionados also have a chance here to spot the legendary bit-part actor, James Gaines. “Who he?” you ask. Well, Gaines was one of a number of Philippines-based Americans who ended up accidentally falling into an acting career.
Here’s the thing: filmmakers shooting in the Filippino jungle perennially needed western faces to bulk out their casts. So Gaines and a handful of other loafers – despite having no appreciable acting ability and precious little motivation – gradually became a sort of impromptu stock company for ‘Nam-sploitation movies. The ‘Slack Pack’, for want of a better phrase.
Billed simply as ‘prisoner of war #5’, this was just one of six films Gaines made that year – with such edifying titles as Dog Tags, Strike Commando, Jungle Rats, and Commando Invasion.
Working at a similar pace throughout the Eighties, it’s probably fair to say that Big Jim saw more action in Vietnam than those poor buggers who actually fought in the war.
War, huh, what is it good for?
“War: what is it good for?” asked soul legend Edwin Starr in his famous Vietnam protest song.
“Absolutely nuthin’” was his conclusion. But in this case, it’d be fairer to say: a no more than reasonable level of entertainment. (Which admittedly, isn’t as catchy).
POW – The Escape is a deeply average film. It’s so middle of the road it should have white lines painted on it. Sure, there are plenty of gun battles and exploding huts (a trusted ‘Nam staple), and the acting is fine. But there’s nothing to lift the film out of its foxhole of utter averageness.
Exploding helicopter action
Realising that the raid on the POW camp has gone wrong, David Carradine and his men attempt to ‘get to da choppa’ © and make their escape. Unfortunately, one of the Vietnamese soldiers is packing a rocket launcher. Charlie takes aim at the aircraft and “bazookas” it out of the sky. Bullesye!
Helicopter lovers will be relieved to know that no real helicopters were harmed in the making of this film. A bit of trick editing – which is actually rather decently done - switches the shot between the airborne chopper and an impressively large fireball.
Exploding Helicopter particularly liked the way debris, including a couple of unconvincing dummies, were incorporated into the explosion.
The sequence is given a poignant finale with David Carradine getting to gaze forlornly at the whirlybird wreckage.
Danny Glover may have immortalised the line a year later in Lethal Weapon. But David Carradine gets there first, wearily mumbling: “I’m getting to old for this shit”.
Check out the review of P.O.W - The Escape by our friends Comeuppance Reviews
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Does art imitate life, or life imitate art?
It’s a question that has troubled both the great minds of Greek philosophy and anyone who’s ever watched The Gauntlet. (Admittedly, not two audiences you generally find in each other’s company.)
A brief explainer: the 1977 film stars Clint Eastwood and Sondra Locke, who were then a real-life couple. In the movie, Clint plays a callous, cruel, cold-hearted cop who treats the witness he’s meant to protect (Locke) like dirt.
At the time, Eastwood’s bullying behaviour just seemed part of his gritty role and the plot’s ‘odd couple’ premise. But in the wake of the couple’s acrimonious split a decade later, it turned out that, oh, Clint wasn’t really acting.
Amid the fallout of their venomous and lawyer-heavy break-up, rumblings began. Keen-eyed observers noted that there were obvious parallels between the callous, cruel, cold-hearted bastard who treated Locke like shit-on-a-shoe and the character he played in in the movie. (Boom! See what we did there?)
Suddenly, The Gauntlet was transformed from a disposable, throwaway thriller to a sombre piece of documentary evidence worthy of earnest philosophical study. (And of course, close examination by a website dedicated to rotor-assisted conflagration. Consider this Exploding Helicopter’s official ‘Me too’ moment.)
A drunken, ne’er do well, cop (Clint Eastwood) is tasked with escorting a prisoner (Sondra Locke) from Las Vegas to Phoenix. His charge is a gobby prostitute who’s scheduled to appear as a witness in a big court case.
It should be a routine prison transfer, but someone isn’t keen for the cantankerous call-girl to take the stand. Within minutes of starting their journey, the mismatched pair – who fight like two rats in a sack – find themselves pursued by a couple of hitmen. And the situation quickly gets worse when they discover that the Vegas police force is also trying to bump them off. Yikes.
Realising they’re in the middle of a vast conspiracy and with no-one to trust, the pair go ‘off the grid’ in an effort to complete their journey as they run….. the gauntlet.
Locke and Eastwood – essentially the Brad and Angelina of their day – were in a relationship from the mid-Seventies until 1989, during which time co-starred in six films (including The Outlaw Josey Wales, Bronco Billy and Sudden Impact). But few movies have ever crashed as publicly and violently as their own picture-perfect partnership finally did in the late Eighties. It was one of the bitterest bust-ups in Hollywood history.
How bitter, you ask? Well, Locke recounted – at length – the full grisly details of the couple’s eventful relationship in her dirt-dishing autobiography, ironically titled The Good, The Bad and The Very Ugly.
In the book, the Oscar-nominated actress recounted how ‘Squint’ had curtailed her promising acting career by getting her to appear almost exclusively in his projects. (Locke appeared in only a handful of non-Clint films).
Not content with controlling her professional life, Eastwood – adamant that he didn’t want to be a father – persuaded Locke to have two abortions and then get her tubes tied. (Although that didn’t stop the caddish Clint fathering two children with a woman he was seeing on the side).
And after they broke-up, the Man With No Scruples allegedly used his Hollywood pull to sabotage her attempts to work as a director. (After multiple projects were mysteriously nixed, Locke sued, and received an out of court settlement). As Locke reflected after publishing her book, “I wish I’d read it, not lived it.”
All of which provides an interesting lens through which to view The Gauntlet. Throughout the film, Clint orders Locke around with contemptuous disdain. And when she doesn’t comply, she quickly finds herself tied-up, gagged and even knocked out with sleeping gas.
“Miserable bitch,” Old Squinty spits out at one point, with particular venom. In another scene, he takes particular pleasure in questioning how on earth Locke’s character could make a living as a prostitute, given her looks.
Some observers might suggest that Exploding Helicopter is reading too much into one film. But one only needs to look at how frequently ill-fortune befell the demure blonde whenever she appeared in an Eastwood picture.
For starters, her character is raped in The Gauntlet, Sudden Impact and The Outlaw Josey Wales. And then there’s the ultimate indignity of co-starring with a libidinous orangutan in not one but two movies. To paraphrase the great Oscar Wilde, once may seem like misfortune; this often just looks like callousness.
Riding a motorcycle, Eastwood and Locke try to evade a couple of mafia sharp-shooters who are pursuing them in a helicopter.
The pair head cross-country in an effort to shake off the villains. Their path takes them down a hill that has a string of electricity pylons running across it.
Now, it might seem a fairly simple task to avoid these easily observable hazards. But if Exploding Helicopter has learned anything over the course of a long, unsuccessful writing career, it’s to never underestimate the stupidity of a pilot.
Sure enough, the villains – giddy at the prospect of being able to finally bump-off Eastwood and Locke – fly too close to the pylons. The whirlybird becomes entangled in wires, crashes to the ground and explodes.
The helicopter rather fetchingly becomes snafued in the cables like a rotor-bladed meatball entwined in spaghetti. It’s a nice touch.
The chopper then crashes to the ground whereupon it promptly explodes. (Unlike a pasta-based Italian classic).
This is the earliest example Exploding Helicopter has discovered of a helicopter getting caught up in wires or cabling. Since this film though, it’s become a familiar trope of the genre: see Die Hard With A Vengeance and The Dark Knight for similar efforts.
The Sud Aviation SA 341G Gazelle destroyed in this film is the same helicopter that appeared in The Cat from Outer Space as well as the TV disaster movie Flood.
Favourite line
“Now, have you got that? Or do I need to write it in braille and shove it up your ass?”
Labels: Clint Eastwood, Review by: Jafo
It's a wonder that Tom Cruise is still making Mission Impossible films.
Not because of declining box office returns or increasingly critical reviews. No, it’s simply that the Cruiser should surely be dead by now.
Whereas other leading men of a similar age are opting for a more sedentary career route, Hollywood’s favourite hyperactive fifty-something has spent the past year running, fighting, crashing, crawling, stunting and, yes, actually breaking his leg in the name of movie-making.
Indeed, having turned the franchise into a global phenomenon by performing all his own stunts, Tiny Tom is now trapped in a cinematic kamikaze spiral where he has to perform increasingly dangerous feats – hurtling off the world’s tallest building, strapping himself to an actual flying plane – merely to maintain the audience’s interest.
That’s why, four years away from his bus pass, his preferred mode of transport, rather than catching the No. 46 to Safeways, is dangling off the landing rails of a flying chopper while a grinning baddie repeatedly stamps on his hands. You get tired just watching him.
You’ll never believe this, but stolen nuclear material is about to fall into the hands of devious terrorists. (Copyright: every espionage movie, ever.) Of course, Ethan Hunt faces the usual piston-armed race against time to get it back.
However, this predictable premise is given a welcome twist by the reappearance of creepy Solomon Lane (the villain from Rogue Nation). And then Hunt himself becomes the chief suspect for masterminding the entire plutonium plot. Crikey.
Like an old pair of slippers, the cast has a reassuring, comfortable familiarity.
As usual, Thomas Mapother IV - as he doesn’t like to be known - heads up the whole affair. Despite careering at speed towards his 60th birthday, he hyperactively bounces through the film in a manner that suggests he’s doing something highly illegal with monkey glands.
Alongside him is Ving Rhames, the only other survivor from the first impossible mission. While Cruise remains oddly preserved, the passage of time has not been so kind to Big Ving, whose broadening visage has now taken on a slightly unreal, waxy quality – almost as if he were wearing one of the film’s famous rubber masks.
There’s also a role for franchise newcomer Rebecca Ferguson – whose turn as a British agent was the undisputed highlight of Rogue Nation. Once again, she oozes cool allure, pounding henchmen into hamburger meat and speeding through Paris in motorcycle leathers. And for all the double-crossing and secret identities, she’s the only one here likely to be mistaken for someone who can act.
Which is just as well, since she has to pull off one of Hollywood’s toughest thesping gigs: portraying a plausible love interest for that demented-smiley-Scientologist-couch-jumper, Cruise. (She fails, of course, but it’s a feat no-one has convincingly pulled off in over 20 years).
Last, and we definitely mean last, is the joyless Simon Pegg. Introduced as a spoddy computer geek in M:I 3 to provide a few LOLs between the main action set-pieces, the scrawny comic has inexplicably been promoted to Cruise’s right-hand man.
This is unquestionably a bad thing. Where Pegg’s painful punchlines were once safely confined to a few brief scenes, his mirth-free mutterings are now an integral part of each film.
And true to form, Fallout opens with Pegg indulging in some tortured ‘banter’ with Tom and Big Ving, which only ends when heavily armed terrorists turn up. Sadly, they don’t take the opportunity to put a bullet through Pegg’s forehead.
Is this any good?
Exploding Helicopter always likes to have a little a fun at the expense of the film and the actors we’re watching. But here’s the truth – Mission: Impossible – Fallout is a rollicking piece of entertainment.
This single movie contains more outstanding action set-pieces (a three-way fight in a toilet, a foot chase across London, the hijacking of a prison convoy) than most franchises manage across their entire series.
But M:I – Fallout is not just a rollercoaster of impressive stunt-work. It also deftly weaves in a more serious theme: the value of one life versus many.
It all adds up to a very satisfying experience, which delivers on the adrenaline-racing thrills without compromising the audience’s intelligence. In action movie terms, that makes Mission: Impossible – Fallout a rare beast indeed.
Naturally, given the nature of this film, the villain has come up with an overly complicated plan to detonate his nuclear bombs. And really, the tangled methodology in this one would make a Scooby Doo villain blush.
All you need to know is that the ‘McGuffin’ needed to defuse the weapons is being flown away from the danger zone in a helicopter by the rascally Henry Cavill (seen here sporting the ‘tache that cost £25m to ‘hide’ with CGI during the Justice League re-shoots).
The Cruiser gives chase aboard another chopper to set up the film’s climatic action sequence – a truly fantastic aerial duel between the two aircraft. Finally, after 20 minutes of airborne histrionics and thrills, we find TC and HC trading punches atop the fuselage of a wrecked whirlybird that’s swinging perilously on a wire off a mountain cliff edge.
With time running out before the bombs go off, Cavill finds himself in the unenviable position of hanging from wire on which the damaged helicopter is suspended. But having gained advantage, our favourite Scientology minion gives the wire a good hard yank, which sends Henry and the helicopter tumbling down the mountainside. The fuselage hits bottom and explodes.
Taken as an entire sequence, this could be one of the greatest additions to the exploding helicopter canon. We get tension, visceral thrills and ultimately the satisfaction of a chopper fireball. There really isn’t any more an audience can ask for.
Watching Henry Cavill plummet to this death alongside the wreckage of a damaged chopper, Exploding Helicopter was reminded of the Cliffhanger climax where Sylvester Stallone engineers a similar demise for John Lithgow.
In a film where so much attention is spent on creating inventive fight scenes and geographically accurate foot-chases, it’s a shame that the same care wasn’t spent on the dialogue.
After a shootout in Paris, the Cruiser attempts to console an injured policewoman.
“Je suis desole,” he says, in a line of French so painfully rendered that it drew audible titters in Exploding Helicopter’s cinema.
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Labels: Henry Cavill, Review by: Jafo, Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames
Missing In Action 2: The Beginning
Here’s a simple question: when is a sequel not a sequel? When it’s a prequel, obviously.
But what if that film was never meant to be either a sequel or a prequel – what are we supposed to call it then?
Such terminological philosophising may seem like academic navel-gazing. How, you’re doubtless wondering, could you ever make a film without first knowing what it’s meant to be?
Ah, dear reader. You’re clearly not familiar with the weird history of the Missing In Action series.
The Vietnam War is over, but a group of American soldiers are still held as prisoners of war in a secret jungle camp.
Even though the conflict ended years ago, one dastardly prison commandant (Soon-Tek Oh) is making a point. He won’t release Uncle Sam’s boys until their leader (Chuck Norris) makes a false confession to committing war crimes.
But Chuck is made of stern stuff, his hide as thick as the triple-denim outfits he inexplicably favoured in several of his other movies. The mini-marvel refuses, so he and his men find themselves subjected to a never-ending campaign of psychological and physical torture.
So the grisly stage is set. Will Chuck crack and finally confess under his captor’s cruel crusade? Or can he and his men engineer an audacious escape? Er, yes.
You see, Missing in Action 1 – the film preceding this – was all about an ESCAPED prisoner of war, which does rather give the game away. Literally everyone watching this sequel knows exactly how things will end. Edge of your seat stuff, eh?
Given this film is notionally a sequel, the part of Captain James Braddock is once again played by Chuck Norris - the heroic and inevitably bearded leader of the American POWs.
Never the most verbose actor, our favourite beaver-in-human-form is on peak monosyllabic form here. Entire scenes take place where he does little more than grunt tersely or glower silently at his captors.
This may sound like harsh criticism, but in fact it’s high praise. Because there is perhaps no uglier cinematic sight than watching everyone’s favourite furry kung-fu pygmy trying to act. As Clint Eastwood’s Dirty Harry famously observed, “A man’s gotta know his limitations.”
Still, that’s not to say that the film is without at least one flamboyant turn. Enter Soon-Tek Oh as the vicious prison commandant, Colonel Yin. While the name may not be familiar, the face certainly will be. Mr Oh spent over 30 years playing a variety of Asian stereotypes in a *ahem* Chinese laundry list of TV shows and films. And his performance here could best be described as ‘stock Oriental villain #3’.
As the dastardly Colonel Yin, Soon-Tek is required to delight in many elaborate displays of cruelty, rage uncontrollably at his subordinates, and twizzle his moustache at the end of every scene.
Viewers of a liberal persuasion will find the performance a painful reminder of a time when Asian actors endured whole careers playing a handful of stock, cardboard caricatures.
Fortunately, we live in more enlightened times. These days, you can find a rich variety of three-dimensional Asian characters in all manner of Hollywood blockbusters. And who could find anything culturally inappropriate in top Manga movie Ghost In The Shell (starring Scarlet Johannsson), samurai classic 47 Ronin (hello, Keanu Reeves) or the Chinese fantasia, The Wall, starring, er, Matt Damon.
Sequel, prequel, what the hell should we call it?
Here’s a brief history of the chronological mess that is the Missing in Action movies. Having secured the services of Chuck Norris, legendarily tight-fisted producers Menahem Globus and Yoram Gohan were convinced that their Vietnam epic was going to be a success.
To save themselves the time, trouble, and particularly expense of returning to make an inevitable sequel, the parsimonious pair decided to shoot a follow-up at the same time. The first film would tell the tale of a brave American soldier who spent years in brutal captivity before escaping. The sequel would show our hero returning to ‘Nam to free other POWs.
Shooting commenced on both movies. And all seemed to be going swimmingly, until they ruined everything by actually taking a look at the dailies. Because while they had in fact made a very good movie – a bona fide smash, probably – it was the second one that worked. The first movie, the one meant to launch the whole mini-franchise, was a merde-ball, a dog’s dinner, an absolute stinker.
Realising that audiences would never watch their gem of a sequel if they’d been scarred by a terrible first film, the producers hatched a cunning wheeze: simply release the sequel first.
So, Missing In Action 2 became Missing In Action, while the original was rebadged as Missing In Action 2 with a handy subtitle – The Beginning – to explain the bonkers timeline to bamboozled viewers. Confused? Just wait until you hear about Missing in Action 3. (More of that later).
Why is it such a stinker?
What was it about this film that panicked producers so much? Put simply, Missing In Action 2 is possibly the most schizophrenic film Exploding Helicopter has ever witnessed. Individual scenes veer chaotically from daytime soap opera emoting to stomach-churning violence. (Picture Harold and Madge from Neighbours having a delicate squabble over the barbie, then Madge opening her hubby up stomach-to-throat with a flensing knife. It’s that kind of tonally awkward.)
One minute the POWs are swapping tear-jerking stories about their pregnant gals back home, the next Norris is suddenly biting the head off a rat. It’s very disturbing.
Having said that, given the choice between watching Wee Chuck floss his sizeable gnashers with rodent entrails or attempt some more ‘acting’, most viewers would probably choose the furry innards.
Generally speaking, Vietnam War films are a mecca for helicopter fans. You can barely get through five minutes of most ‘Nam movies without hearing the steady ‘thum-thum-thum’ of rotor blades as an open-sided chopper swings into shot. And many end up in flames.
So it’s no surprise to see the film open with our diminutive hairy star and crew flying low above the Vietnamese jungle in a chopper. And even less of a surprise when they come under heavy fire.
The whirly bird is fatally damaged and unable to land, so Chuck and his men bail out – jumping into a river they seem to handily be flying over. Without anyone at the controls, the stricken copter crashes into the ground and explodes – becoming yet another casualty of war.
This is one horrible helicopter explosion. As the aircraft nears the ground, it suddenly disappears behind a very artificial-looking ball of flame.
Clearly embarrassed by the poor quality of his composite shot, the director wisely lingers but a moment on the fiery cloud before cutting away.
You don’t often see pilotless helicopters explode. The only other one that springs to Exploding Helicopter’s mind is in Piranha II: The Spawning.
“An American hero’s story continues,” boasts the film’s poster, ignoring the fact this is a prequel. Then again, “An American hero’s backstory is completed” isn’t terribly catchy.
After the first two films, you’d think it would be hard for the series’ chronology to become yet more convoluted. But that’s what happened with Braddock: Missing In Action 3 (1988).
In Chuck’s third ‘Nam outing, the long years of captivity are altogether expunged from his character’s history. (In a breath-taking flashback, we even see him airlifted home at the end of the war.) Worse, he’s suddenly given a Vietnamese wife and child who have hitherto never been seen nor mentioned, and whose existence flatly contradicts the entire events of MIA 2.
Not since a very-much-alive Bobby Ewing wandered out of the shower in Dallas (rendering the 31 episodes preceding his very noticeable death redundant), has Exploding Helicopter seen such a cavalier attitude to continuity.
You can read a review of Missing In Action 2: The Beginning by our buddies over at Comeuppance Reviews.
Labels: Chuck Norris, Review by: Jafo
As its title suggests, Rush Hour (1998) hit cinemas like a shot of adrenalin and got audiences feeling very giddy indeed.
In truth, hopes had not initially been high. A variant on the buddy cop formula (copyright: Walter Hill and 48 Hours), the film teamed gobby joke-smith Chris Tucker with martial arts legend Jackie Chan for the usual squabbling-then-bonding shtick.
But audiences loved it. An unexpected box office smash, it spawned two hugely profitable sequels that improbably transformed Tucker into the world’s highest paid actor. (The fact he pocketed $25m for Rush Hour 3 is by some way the funniest thing about that particular film.)
To most people, the helium-voiced comic appeared to spring from nowhere. But he’d actually given his sidekick skills a dry-run in an earlier, now largely forgotten film – Money Talks (1997).
An unscrupulous TV reporter (Charlie ‘Winning’ Sheen) engineers the arrest of a small-time conman (Tucker) to create a story for his news channel.
But as the luckless thief is being taken to jail, he’s unwittingly caught up in a prison break when a criminal kingpin is sprung from chokey. The famously unforgiving LA police, mistakenly believing him responsible for the death of several officers, vow to bring in the hapless crook ‘dead or alive’ (with a pointed emphasis on the dead).
Hunted across the city and desperate to prove his innocence, the wronged felon turns to an unlikely source of help: the shady journalist who landed him in this mess in the first place.
The perfidious pair partner up. Can the criminal clear his name? Will the heinous hack get an exciting exclusive? Will this movie avoid shoddily mining every single buddy cop cliché in the book? No.
Falling star 1…
By playing fast-talking crook Franklin Hatchett, Chris Tucker found the perfect foil with which to reprise the motor-mouthed monologues that had made his stand-up act such a success. Although how the jibbering joker ever became a top comic remains a mystery to Exploding Helicopter.
His trademark rapid-fire repartee seems born not so much from an urgent need to share the zinging punchlines percolating in his head, but rather to obscure the fact that nothing he says is terribly funny. He’s the comedy version of a hamster on a wheel – expending huge amounts of energy but going nowhere.
Worse still, the stream of consciousness word-blurt is delivered in a migraine-inducing falsetto. Screechy and speedy but never funny, Tucker’s whole career is a triumph of sass over substance.
Talking of sass over substance (abuse), Charlie Sheen’s turn as the unprincipled newsman has to be seen to be not at all believed in. Now, coming across as a complete dick has rarely been a problem for Carlos Estevez, not because he’s a good actor but because he’s a complete dick.
Indeed, the coke-snorting wife-beater’s most profitable period as a thespian came while playing a sanitised version of himself in the hit TV series, Two and a Half Men. Sadly, his newfound popularity convinced the Platoon star – who once ‘accidentally’ shot a fiancée - that what his viewers really wanted was to see more of the ‘real’ him.
And in fairness, he did deliver. Looking through its fingers, mainstream America watched on as Sheen got himself fired, shacked up with two porn stars (then beat one of them up), and had an unforgettable drug-fuelled meltdown on national TV. Of course, all this happened after ‘Money Talks’. But watching the movie, you can already see that this is exactly the kind of guy such things would happen to.
Buddy movie breakdown
The buddy movie formula is painfully simple: shove two contrasting personalities together, then sit back and watch the sparks fly. The only real rule is that, while the partnered protagonists aren’t meant to like each other, the audience should find one or other of them appealing (or at least be amused at their sparring).
That clearly was an ask too far for ‘Money Talks’ and its hapless director, Brett ‘Fatty’ Ratner – a plodding cinematic journeyman whose mantra should be: ‘Will this do?’ Against the odds, Ratner manages to give us two irritating characters, played by two unlikeable actors, in an adventure you care little about.
Exploding Helicopter lays no claim to be a film scholar, but we’re pretty certain that’s no recipe for enduring success.
Still, at least there’s a helicopter explosion. The pivotal scene takes place at the LA Coliseum during the film’s big climax. Our *ahem* heroes are pursued by two rival gangs who each want a cache of stolen diamonds (a sub-plot too tiresome to explain) that Tucker has in his possession.
As a massive gun battle breaks out, Sheen cleverly uses hand-grenades to booby-trap a helicopter belonging to one of the villains. When the police arrive, the baddie tries to make an aerial getaway. But the chopper’s take-off triggers the hidden explosives, creating a fireball that consumes the helicopter.
It’s always nice to see a villain’s despairing death throes and Money Talks treats us to a fine example of the form. As flames envelope the whirlybird’s fuselage, the desperado recognises his imminent fate and screams a despairing “Noooo….” before he too is turned to ashes. Quality stuff.
Exploding Helicopter appreciated the clever and unique way in which the chopper was rigged to explode.
Basically, Sheen pulls the pins from several grenades and jams the now primed devices under the copter’s landing skids. As the chopper takes off, the pressure on the grenades’ levers is released causing them to detonate. Ingenious.
After making Money Talks, Chris Tucker became a born-again Christian. It’s still not known whether God has forgiven him for this risible tosh.
Labels: Chris Tucker, Jackie Chan, Review by: Jafo
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Linux Hackers Get First Dibs on Next-Gen DVR
By lstaff on September 21, 2006 at 7:30 am
Neuros Technology is offering Linux hackers first dibs on beta units of its next-gen DVR (digital video recorder). The Linux-powered device can record MPEG-4 video from cable or broadcast TV, DVDs, etc., and transfer it to portable media players, or serve as a network music player.
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The beta release of the new DVR, dubbed OSD (“Open Source Device”), gives early adopters the best price, along with a no-questions-asked return option, according to the company.
Read the rest of this story at LinuxDevices.com: “Linux Hackers Get First Dibs on Next-Gen DVR”
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The Walking Dead "Isolation" Review
Posted by The Dace Man Monday, October 28, 2013
Hey there Fanboys and Fangirls. Chris "The Dace Man" Dace here, giving a review of The Walking Dead Season 4, Episode 3: "Isolation." Another week is in the books and another day has passed since the incident that led us to this post-apocalyptic world with "walkers" roaming the land and feasting on anything with a pulse. As usual, I warn you that this review will contain spoilers from this week's The Walking Dead. Now that you've been warned, HERE WE GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We kick off this week with the crew digging graves for the victims of the cell block nightmare as Hershel and Dr. S look in on the sick. In the next scene, we see Tyrese, Daryl, Rick, and Carol with the two bodies that were burned. Tyrese is irate and snapping at Rick and Daryl. Tyrese proceeds to throw a punch at Rick, causing Rick to snap and start beating Tyrese. Cue the theme.
This is a "holy shit!" moment for Rick in which he realizes he's snapped and is pushing the envelope. Apparently farming has not been releasing the stress for him enough these days, and the aggression he shows toward Tyrese is the first since his encounter with the Governor. For the viewer, at this point the tone has been set, and this should be a kick-ass episode.
We come back to see Hershel tending to Rick's wounds, and a heart-to-heart begins between the two. The conversation leads to Hershel hinting at Rick's return to leadership. We then find Tyrese digging like a mad man—someone clearly has anger issues he needs to dig through. We then see his sister stagger out of the cell and interact with Hershel and Glen about needing to see Dr. S. The disease is spreading…I'm already tired of this plotline…as are Daryl and Michone, so they head out on a journey to get antibiotics. We can only hope this will wrap up this sickness storyline by the end of the night.
We go through some heart-to-heart chats between Rick and Carol; Rick and Tyrese, during which Tyrese says he'll handle things his way; and last, a conversation between Rick and his son: "Damn it, Carl…stay in quarantine." The next "oh shit" moment comes when Glen turns and tells Maggie he's caught the bug, as though we couldn't tell that during the council meeting. Glen, you have a terrible poker face.
After a few commercial breaks, Hershel decides to take a walk in the woods. Carl refuses to let him leave without him. "Damn it, Carl…stay in the administration office!" We now see the illness pulling apart the group—tears, tears, and more tears. Please let this illness thing be over by the end of this episode!!! We then get one more scene with Hershel and Carl in the woods, showing that Carl has aged over our summer break and isn't too trigger-happy anymore (well, he did draw on the zombie, but he didn't shoot, so I would call this growth). On to some more commercials. A side note: why the hell was there a Christmas commercial followed by a Halloween commercial? That just drives me nuts.
Back from commercials and we see more tears. Yay! Tyrese decides to join the group heading out to get the antidote and asks Carol to keep an eye on his sister Sasha for him while he's on the road. So we continue on with our story with some more tears and a hell of a statement from Hershel to Rick and Maggie that death is everywhere and finally he has the ability to help, and he's going to help the sick even if it's a risk to him. He enters the cell block and we head to more commercials. This has been a very slow episode so far, but I always love a good Hershel speech that makes me rethink my life. What a wise old owl.
Aaaand we're back. Yet again…more tears. What a sob fest! My interest is fading fast. We cut to outside where Carol decides to fix the water today rather than tomorrow and gets herself in a pickle, and Rick comes and saves her. Later we catch the away team on the road, where Daryl accidentally finds a station with a voice signal for those still alive. While doing so he hits a herd of walkers, only to reveal a massive herd just behind the small pack that has swarmed the car. The three of them make a break for it, leaving Ty behind to act out the infamous scene from the comics where he is overrun and just starts wrecking the herd. Then off to commercials we go.
Back from what is (I hope) our last commercial break, we see Daryl, Michonne, and the third guy—I can't remember his name, he'll probably die soon anyway—running through the woods, only to stop and see Ty has caught up with them. I love that they brought back how badass Ty is from the comic, 'cause in season 3 and up to this episode he's been kind of a bitch. We cut back to the prison, where we see Hershel helping the sick and the sick lecturing him that he shouldn't be in there and complaining about how little they did. Followed by—yeah, more tears. Finally, we find Rick in the yard with Carol, and he bluntly asks her: "Did you kill and burn the two victims?" To which she replies, "Yes." End episode.
This one turned out to be a very slow episode with a lot of tears. I'm pretty sure Michonne, Carl, and Daryl were the only ones who didn't cry. Anyway, I'm still optimistic and hope these are just stepping stones to an awesome season. The preview teaser we were given at the end of the episode gives me hope the next one will be more fast-paced. As always, check back regularly to see what Chris "The Dace Man" Dace is looking at (and no, not just porn), as well as all of the other bloggers here at Fanboys Anonymous. Until then, for the few, the proud, and of course the Dacetacular, grab a beer—and in this case an antidote—and check out what's going on here in the Dace-Sphere. See ya next time!
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The devil by Giambologna
A devil in the center of Florence? A fiorentinaccio Doc would say, “one !? Are there many more” referring to all the people who do bad action the day. The devil we refer to, however, is clearly visible in bronze frown, mocking in his eyes, immoral in the pose. It is located in Via Vecchietti corner with Via degli Strozzi exactly on the corner of Palazzo Vecchietti, a few meters below the crest of the family, reaching out you can touch it.
In 1578 in front of the Palace old men there was a small square and a church, San Donato of Vecchietti, demolished at the time of the restoration of the Old Market, about 1888. And ‘necessary to mention this now disappeared square because it is linked to the attainment of that little devil . First things first.
In 1578, in fact, Bernardo Vecchietti decided to restructure his palace and to do so he called Giambologna. On this occasion Giambologna was hosted by their Vecchietti and evidently was born a good relationship so that the same Bernard introduced the Giambologna at the Medici court actually opening a window to a highly important patron. His rise was slow because of the artistic competition of the moment. Giambologna was always grateful to Vecchietti for this opportunity and wanted to pay it off by creating two bronzes bearer to be displayed on the corners of Palazzo Vecchietti. One of the two is then lost. The bronze statue that you see now in the public highway is obviously a copy, the original after exposure to the Terrace of Saturn in Palazzo Vecchio is now in the Museo Bardini.
Affresco di Rossello di Jacopo Franchi
The inspiration for the creation of these bronzes came from an episode from the life of St. Peter Martyr. It is said that in 1245 the square described above, the Dominican Peter Rosini (later Saint and Martyr) was giving a sermon to the Florentines on the crusades. The devil wanted to scare the people and in the form of a black runaway horse dashed into the crowd. He arrived in front of the Dominican these penned in the air the sign of the cross. The horse stopped, snorted and stepped back, then head to Via Vecchietti where it disappeared in a cloud of sulfur. The episode is also represented by Rossello di Jacopo Franchi on the outside wall of the loggia of the Bigallo.
Giambologna with this small bronze would protect the palace by Bernardo Vecchietti with a work that recalls the expulsion of the devil.
La fonte della fata Morgana.
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School Blocks 4-Year-Old Boy With Long Hair From Attending: 'It's Outrageous and Outdated'
(INSIDE EDITION) A 4-year-old in Texas is not able to attend school because of his long hair, his mother claims.
Jessica Oates said her son, Jabez Oates, didn't go to class Tuesday after the Barbers Hill School District in Mont Belvieu, Texas, informed her that his long hair is not allowed.
"My son likes his hair. He doesn't understand why he is not allowed in school over something so trivial," Oates told InsideEdition.com.
Jabez, who is supposed to be in pre-K, hasn't cut his hair since birth and his locks go past his shoulders.
Oates said the school initially told her that she would only need to provide a document stating that the reason for his long hair is religious or cultural, which she said she had no problem doing.
"When I went to enroll my child, I asked about the policy on hair. I was told my son would be allowed to keep his hair," Oates said. "I was getting him all geared up for school. I took him to school and it was no big deal."
She said her family is part Cocopah Indian and in that culture, hair is viewed as strength.
Oates said on Friday the school reminded her that documentation for her son was needed and asked her to have it by Monday. However, Oates said the school called her later that afternoon to tell her Jabez's long hair would not be allowed at all due to a school board policy.
The school's policy clearly states that boys must have a haircut above the eyes, ears and neck.
The Barbers Hill School District said in a statement that they plan to uphold their policy.
"Our local elected board has an established policy based on community expectations, and Barber Hills administration will continue to implement the said policy," the statement reads.
Oates said the school policy is blatant discrimination.
"On Monday, I tried to take to my son to school, and I put his hair in a bun and I tied it with a little black hair tie. They said that the black hair tie was inappropriate and they would not allow him to go," Oates said.
She added: "I believe the policy is sexist because they have no hair policy for girls. I am really angry. The fact that my son can't go to school angers me. It's outrageous and outdated.'
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House speaker blocks 'bathroom bill' from unrelated proposal
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The Texas House's Republican speaker has thwarted a tea party-backed effort to tack "bathroom bill" restrictions onto an unrelated measure regulating the agency overseeing oil and gas.
Rep. Matt Schafer of Tyler sought to ban transgender Texans from using public restrooms of their choice as part of a sweeping Railroad Commission bill. But House Speaker Joe Straus ruled Tuesday that the rule wasn't relevant.
Schafer and other conservative Republicans challenged Straus with pointed questions, but couldn't force a floor vote.
The Texas Senate already has approved a separate, full bill requiring transgender people to use public bathrooms based on their birth-certificate gender.
That proposal hasn't yet reached the House floor, but may not pass given the uproar and costly boycotts that followed North Carolina approving a similar law last year.
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Child among four injured in North Brevard after ATV crash
A child was transported by helicopter after the ATV crash in Scottsmoor.
Child among four injured in North Brevard after ATV crash A child was transported by helicopter after the ATV crash in Scottsmoor. Check out this story on floridatoday.com: https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/2019/10/14/child-among-four-injured-in-north-brevard-atv-crash/3976873002/
Tyler Vazquez, Florida Today Published 2:18 p.m. ET Oct. 14, 2019
A look at an early First Flight helicopter flying over the Indian River with Indian Harbour Beach to the East in the background. (Photo: Health First)
Four people were injured in an off-road vehicle crash in North Brevard Monday afternoon.
Few details were immediately available when Brevard County Fire Rescue responded to the scene near Dixie Way and Wheeler Road in Scottsmoor just after 1:30 p.m.
A trauma alert was issued for a child who was injured as a result of the incident, according to Brevard County Fire Rescue.
The child was transported by helicopter to a local hospital.
No information was released on the cause of the ATV crash.
Check back for updates.
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Spurs, Fulham and Blackburn look to profit from Portsmouth Plight
By Tom Jones
The financial problems facing Portsmouth are common knowledge and it is almost certain that manager Avram Grant will have to offload some of his highest valued players in January to get some money in the bank, with Tottenham, Fulham and Blackburn all ready to profit. Administration is still a real possibility, so Pompey will be forced to make a high quantity of quick sales and that means that some bargains may be available for the rest of the Premier League. One team’s loss is another team’s gain, and there will be much interest for players such as Nadir Belhadj, Younes Kaboul and David James. But which Premiership clubs will pounce in the transfer window?
Tottenham appear to be frontrunners for a couple of Portsmouth’s star players, with Harry Redknapp taking a fancy to both Nadir Belhadj and David James. Belhadj has been one of Pompey’s stand out performers this season and the quick full back is said to be unsettled at Fratton Park. The Algerian is looking for a move ahead of the World Cup, but Spurs may not be the ideal destination for him as he is only likely to be a backup to first choice left back Benoit Assou-Ekotto. This has left the door for Blackburn to step in and sign Belhadj when he returns from the African Cup of Nations.
A move for James is also only 50-50 at best, despite James himself saying in The Guardian that “it would be good for my England chances to join an upwardly mobile club.” The exit of an ageing James wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world for Pompey either, as Asmir Begovic has deputised with distinction. However, Redknapp doesn’t want to unsettle Heurelho Gomes who has been in excellent form this season, and therefore James would similarly only be a number two at White Hart Lane.
The connection with Tottenham doesn’t end there either, as Jamie O’Hara’s loan deal with Pompey is looking like it isn’t going to be extended, so a loan move to another Premier League club may be in the offing. O’Hara would attract much attention in England as he is a talented player and almost half the Premiership have been linked with O’Hara, but it is Roy Hodgson’s Fulham who have emerged as the frontrunners for the versatile midfielder.
Another Portsmouth loan deal that may end in January is that of striker Frederic Piquionne. Everton are eyeing the French international up as a replacement for Jo, but once again there are plenty of interested Premier League parties. Piquionne himself is happy in England, saying that “I am on loan but I really hope to stay in England. Now the idea is to impress, attract an English club,” so a stay in England might be on the cards. Recent news from his agent is that he will stay at Fratton Park until the end of the season, as will Kevin-Prince Boateng who has been stopped by FIFA from playing for a third club in one season and was regarded as too pricey by Blackburn anyway.
Finally former Tottenham defender Younes Kaboul has also been linked with a January exit from Fratton Park, with Manchester City’s new manager Roberto Mancini rumoured to have taken an interest. City are looking to strengthen their defence in January and Kaboul has been identified as a possible acquisition. But Lyon now appear to be in pole position to sign Kaboul, whilst fellow Ligue 1 club Souchaux are looking to pick up John Utaka on the cheap.
Portsmouth fans will be fearing the worst this month, but needs must and they have to offload players to keep the club afloat as their players continue to play without being paid. So who can Portsmouth hang on to, and which players will be poached by their fellow Premier League rivals?
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Article title: Spurs, Fulham and Blackburn look to profit from Portsmouth Plight
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Realme UI: the company's official new interface
Peter January 14, 2020 6 0
Realme has long announced that it will move forward with a new version of its parent Oppo Color for mobile, with the aim of first acquiring its own identity and secondly acquiring more sophisticated software for the West. Although there was some controversy over the name, the new version that first entered the Realme X50 5G debuted as a Realme UI yesterday.
Of course it's based on ColorOS 7 (and Android 10) with a simplified design and some new and improved features. The Seamless Fun logo brings many visual effects – system colors, icons, wallpapers and animations are new. According to Realme, the interface has "an authentic color scheme, bringing a sense of vitality that could make users feel younger."
Holders will be able to design the icons and make them round and customize their transparency. Their size can also be as personalized as the image in the icon. This couldn't have happened without new wallpapers so Realme went ahead and developed 11 new wallpapers. They are "inspired by natural elements" and there is always a sample for each color combination. The animations have also been improved and are now "super cool" according to the company.
Performance and new features
Of course, the new interface is not only appearance, but performance. The Realme UI is based on Android 10 and offers power saving features as well as some "trendy functions". One function is to connect two headsets – one with a cable and one with bluetooth. They both listen to the same music on the mobile but the calls go to the wireless headphones. There is a Screen-Off Display as the company calls the presentation of information on the closed AMOLED display. What we do not know is how many plans the company will bring into operation.
The company has given Universal Dark Mode and we look forward to seeing if it will upgrade to another feature. Animated Wallpapers have also been given and a wider range is expected there. There's also a "Focus Mode" that keeps you isolated from the outside world while the system plays some relaxing music to help you concentrate. Finally there is the Smart Sidebar which is a bar to use when holding the phone to the side.
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Realme is proud of its Personal Information Protection feature that allows the system to provide blank pages of information when applications request access to your personal information, including your call history, contacts, messages or timing. This will keep your data secure without limiting the utility of the applications.
Realme has set a timetable for developing a stable work environment. It looks to be in line with the timetable announced at the end of 2019. We also hope that future Realme devices will be sold with the Realme UI and Android 10.
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HOME / Law & Politics / Free The Leaf / Rising Up Against Mass Incarceration
Rising Up Against Mass Incarceration
By: Freedom Leaf September 9, 2016
By Oscar Zerrudo
California is no stranger to mass incarceration. From overcrowded public jails to the growing private prison industry, the Golden State has clearly endorsed imprisonment as a method of economic gain.
Due to this reality, activist organizations in the state have mobilized broad coalitions and formed passionate lobbying and advocacy groups in support of fighting prison expansion, and they continue to critique the status quo of punitive incarceration and the present justice system. Groups like Californians United for a Responsible Budget, Critical Resistance and the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights have been organizing Californians to develop a new and nuanced approach to how and why prison expansion is bad for the public interest.
The approved state budget for 2016–2017 calls for increased spending—and economic reliance—on the prison system, which housed 129,000 inmates in 2015. In the near future, California is expected to invest $270 million in large-scale jail construction projects, extend contracts for private prisons and hire more guards; local jails and related facilities have access to large pools of funds to build new facilities.
Efforts are being made to end California’s dependence on incarceration. State Senators Holly Mitchell and Loni Hancock have advocated for fewer punitive measures in the criminal justice system, and more sensible policy when dealing with those in trouble with the law. They have introduced the RISE (Repeal Ineffective Sentence Enhancements) Act, SB 966, which seeks to do away with the three-year sentence enhancement for any prior drug-related convictions.
The goal of enhancement is to deter street-level drug dealing and reduce the availability of illegal substances. However, like most efforts brought about by prohibitionist tactics, these enhancements have caused more harm than good, especially for communities of color. While SB 966 has yet to pass into law, legislation like this is a huge step in the right direction.
Historically, politicians have made careers based on tough-on-crime stances. The rhetoric of locking up the “bad guys” in order to clean up the streets has long had positive appeal with the voting public. But now, with the efforts of elected officials like Mitchell and Hancock, a new political direction is evolving with the purpose of decreasing, defunding and deconstructing the current structures and policies that mandate punitive punishment in the state.
SB 966 shows that, in the midst of political positioning that favors mass incarceration, positive resistance can still be marshaled against prison expansion.
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Custom-built Rochester stone estate has a touch of Tuscany
This $4.47 million stone-covered estate in Rochester is cross between a castle and a classic Tuscan villa.
Custom-built Rochester stone estate has a touch of Tuscany This $4.47 million stone-covered estate in Rochester is cross between a castle and a classic Tuscan villa. Check out this story on Freep.com: https://on.freep.com/1RbU7Yz
JC Reindl, Detroit Free Press Published 11:46 p.m. ET March 19, 2016 | Updated 11:26 p.m. ET March 25, 2016
The 4.5-acre estate and home has never before been available for sale.
It took nearly four years to build this house. “It’s entirely concrete floors and walls,” the seller said. “This house will be standing 1,000 years from now.”(Photo: Jessica J. Trevino/Detroit Free Press)
This $4.47-million, stone-covered estate in Rochester is cross between a castle and a classic Tuscan villa —albeit a villa of prodigious size, elaborate details and first-rate materials.
Visitors arrive to a soaring foyer and a walnut and bronze-iron staircase. Overhead is a hand-painted ceiling fresco featuring an Old World map and images also found on the Sistine Chapel. The painting took a Windsor artist a full year to complete.
The foyer branches into a wood-paneled library, a billiard hall with a wet bar and an 800-gallon fish tank, a stately dining area and a uniquely detailed bathroom with dark marble flooring and diamond-patterned Venetian plaster. The stone flooring that prevails throughout much of the house is all heated.
House Envy: Prodigious Tuscan castle-villa in Rochester
This $4.47-million, stone-covered estate in Rochester is cross between a castle and a classic Tuscan villa Ñalbeit a villa of prodigious size, elaborate details and first-rate materials. Jessica J. Trevino, Detroit Free Press
The main entrance. Jessica J. Trevino, Detroit Free Press
Visitors arrive to a soaring foyer and a walnut and bronze-iron staircase. Jessica J. Trevino, Detroit Free Press
Overhead is a hand-painted ceiling fresco featuring an Old World map and images also found on the Sistine Chapel. Jessica J. Trevino, Detroit Free Press
The painting took a Windsor artist a full year to complete. Jessica J. Trevino, Detroit Free Press
Black walnut hand carved wood details in the main entrance. Jessica J. Trevino, Detroit Free Press
Travertine marble and black walnut wood are found throughout the home. Jessica J. Trevino, Detroit Free Press
The foyer branches into a wood-paneled library. Jessica J. Trevino, Detroit Free Press
The foyer branches into a billiard hall with a wet bar and an 800-gallon fish tank. Jessica J. Trevino, Detroit Free Press
Sitting area of the entertainment / bar room. Jessica J. Trevino, Detroit Free Press
Family room with a fireplace. Jessica J. Trevino, Detroit Free Press
The formal dining room has fabric covering the ceiling to absorb sound. Jessica J. Trevino, Detroit Free Press
Formal dining room. Jessica J. Trevino, Detroit Free Press
Kitchen with a semi-circular marble counter. Jessica J. Trevino, Detroit Free Press
The home has a two-story greenhouse containing fig trees--including one that came from a family garden in Italy. Jessica J. Trevino, Detroit Free Press
Mudroom with a doggie washing station. Jessica J. Trevino, Detroit Free Press
Master bedroom. Jessica J. Trevino, Detroit Free Press
Large walk-in closet in the master bedroom. Jessica J. Trevino, Detroit Free Press
Master bathroom in a turreted area of the house. Jessica J. Trevino, Detroit Free Press
Whirlpool tub in the master bathroom. Jessica J. Trevino, Detroit Free Press
Walk-in shower in the master bathroom. Jessica J. Trevino, Detroit Free Press
Venetian plastered walls in the guest bathroom. Jessica J. Trevino, Detroit Free Press
One of 7 bedrooms, all with their own bathrooms. Jessica J. Trevino, Detroit Free Press
Theater room. Jessica J. Trevino, Detroit Free Press
Wine cellar. Jessica J. Trevino, Detroit Free Press
The lower level contains the indoor basketball court or potentially, a racquetball court. Jessica J. Trevino, Detroit Free Press
The wood-paneled cigar room with a ventilation system. Jessica J. Trevino, Detroit Free Press
Humidor in the cigar room. Jessica J. Trevino, Detroit Free Press
There is a handsome gazebo, an in-ground pool, a hot tub and an outdoor fireplace. Jessica J. Trevino, Detroit Free Press
The grounds of the estate include a waterfall and manmade pond. Jessica J. Trevino, Detroit Free Press
Pergola with a large fireplace next to the pool. Jessica J. Trevino, Detroit Free Press
The home is on 4.5 acres and was built in 2002. Jessica J. Trevino, Detroit Free Press
Key features: Solid construction, elaborate detailing, in-ground pool and hot tub, wide patios, greenhouse. Jessica J. Trevino, Detroit Free Press
The home as seen from an upper level parking area. Jessica J. Trevino, Detroit Free Press
Parking area for the guests. Jessica J. Trevino, Detroit Free Press
The seller, Joe Nirta, helped in the original design and building of this three-level, seven-bedroom house, a process that lasted nearly four years. He chose the sturdiest materials, and this is the first time the house and 4.5-acre property has been for sale.
“It’s entirely concrete floors and walls,” Nirta said during a tour last week. “This house will be standing 1,000 years from now.”
The grounds of the estate include a waterfall and manmade pond. There is a handsome gazebo, an in-ground pool, a hot tub and an outdoor fireplace. There are wide patios on all three levels.
Hilly grounds, with a pool and pond, allow room to roam. The house sits on 4.5 acres. (Photo: Jessica J. Trevino/Detroit Free Press)
Back inside the house, the second level is filled by spacious bedrooms and bedroom suites. The master suite features more Venetian plaster and a unique turreted bathroom that fills with sunlight.
The lower level contains the indoor basketball court (or potentially, a racquetball court), a theater room, wine storage and a wood-paneled cigar room with a ventilation system. There is also an apartment-like suite containing its own full kitchen. And nearby is the entrance to a two-story greenhouse containing fig trees —including one that came from a family garden in Italy.
Rochester estate
Where: 5600 Orion Road
How much: $4,475,000
Bedrooms: 7 bedrooms, many including suites
Garage: Can fit 7 cars
Square feet: 12,000
Key features: Solid construction, elaborate detailing, in-ground pool and hot tub, wide patios, greenhouse
Contact: Tom Zibkowski of Realty Executives Midwest, 586-532-6700
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For Detroit Pistons, focus shifting from Drummond to nurturing young prospects
Detroit Pistons, desperately seeking ways to win, are leaning toward young prospects instead of relying on a veteran like Andre Drummond
For Detroit Pistons, focus shifting from Drummond to nurturing young prospects Detroit Pistons, desperately seeking ways to win, are leaning toward young prospects instead of relying on a veteran like Andre Drummond Check out this story on Freep.com: https://www.freep.com/story/sports/nba/pistons/2020/01/15/detroit-pistons-basketball-looking-sekou-doumbouya-christian-wood/4469315002/
Vince Ellis, Detroit Free Press Published 6:00 a.m. ET Jan. 15, 2020
Throughout his eight-year career with the Detroit Pistons, Andre Drummond has had moments of poor play.
It didn’t matter the reason — a lack of focus, or simply playing poorly — but Drummond typically would get a chance at redemption as the game wore on.
Not Monday night.
After 22 minutes of uninspired play and the Pistons trailing by 16 early in the fourth quarter, coach Dwane Casey decided to sit Drummond for the final 20 minutes in the 117-110 overtime loss to the New Orleans Pelicans.
The Pistons (14-27) rallied with rookie Sekou Doumbouya and NBA novice Christian Wood to force overtime.
Detroit Pistons forward Sekou Doumbouya drives during the second period against the New Orleans Pelicans at Little Caesars Arena, Monday, Jan. 13, 2020. (Photo: Kirthmon Dozier, Detroit Free Press)
Casey was emphatic after Tuesday’s practice that there was no message being sent to Drummond. He went with the lineup he believed presented the best opportunity to get a victory.
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“You always trying to win because when you don’t try to win, and you just out there getting reps up or getting your plays in, then that stays in your locker room when you have developed,” Casey said. “You’re trying to develop winning personality or winning identity. Winning at the same time you’re developing is very important or trying to win."
But it’s hard not to examine the occurrence and note it happened nearly two weeks after news broke that the Pistons have engaged the Atlanta Hawks on trade talks centered on Drummond.
It’s OK to take Casey at his word; the No. 1 consideration was trying to win a game. The Pistons have lost 13 of 15 games and sit 11th in the Eastern Conference, 5½ games from the eighth and final playoff spot.
Detroit Pistons center Andre Drummond (0) attempt a shot as New Orleans Pelicans center Jahlil Okafor (8) defends during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Monday, Jan. 13, 2020, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio) (Photo: The Associated Press)
But when a coach is using words like “develop” or “winning identity,” it’s clear there’s an emphasis on instilling good habits with Wood and Doumbouya.
The results were encouraging. The group had a chance to win, but Derrick Rose missed a potential winner on the last possession of regulation.
Wood was benched in the first half after committing two defensive errors.
But he rebounded to score 15 of 18 points in the second half, although he missed several key baskets inside that could have made a difference. He added nine rebounds and three blocked shots.
Wood was still thinking about those misses afterward the game.
“It’s tough, but I’m glad Coach trusts to keep me in the fourth quarter,” he said. “Those are shots I can convert, and I’ll make them next time.”
Jan. 13: The Detroit Pistons' Christian Wood dunks against the New Orleans Pelicans at Little Caesars Arena. (Photo: Rick Osentoski, USA TODAY Sports)
Doumbouya tied his career high with 16 points and was 6-for-9 from the field. He shot 50% from 3-point range in four attempts.
But the top development was Casey putting the 6-foot-9 forward on Pelicans point guard Lonzo Ball for several key possessions.
“He’s showing he can guard threes, fours, now ones,” Casey said. “We put him on Ball at the end because Derrick’s minutes were high. The young fella is earning his minutes. We’ve got to develop him. That’s where we are right now.”
Casey said he did speak with Drummond, who was spotted getting up shots after the game.
He emphasized that Pistons owner Tom Gores is paying for an honest day’s work.
“Andre’s a professional,” Casey said. “We talk to players all the time about being pros, the approach to the game. Mr. Gores’ checks haven’t bounced, they come the first and 15th. We’re getting paid, we all have a job to do.”
Detroit Pistons guard Reggie Jackson warms up before the game against the Chicago Bulls at Little Caesars Arena, Jan. 11, 2020. (Photo: Raj Mehta, USA TODAY Sports)
Reggie Jackson close?
Pistons point guard Reggie Jackson (back) has been out since playing the first two games of the season, but Casey indicated that a return is near.
“At any moment, he should be back,” he said. “He’s 100% right now. He should be ready to roll at some time.”
Jackson is coming back too late to help a playoff push, but his presence should allow the Pistons to limit Rose’s minutes.
Rose has played 30-plus minutes in three of four games.
Notable honor
Longtime Pistons basketball information specialist Eddie Rivero was honored with the NBA Values of the Game award, given to a team employee who exemplifies the values of the league in the community.
He started his 37-year career with the Pistons as a locker room attendant and was promoted to his current position in 2003.
Rivero, who was born with cerebral palsy, is diabetic and has sight in one eye.
The honor was announced Tuesday in Miami at the league’s annual sales and marketing meeting.
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Will Syriza’s Capitulation Provide Support to the Greek Neo-Nazi Movement Golden Dawn?
By Global Research News
Dr Nick Apoifis, lecturer in International Relations at University of New South Wales (UNSW), fears the Syriza’s capitulation to the Troika will strengthen the neo-Nazi movement Golden Dawn, “that is casting its gangs of thugs as saviours of the poor.”
“As supporters of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party set up ‘Greeks only’ food banks to help feed the unemployed,” Apoifis writes, “the leftist coalition government of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is facing an uphill battle to sell yet another version of austerity to an already traumatised nation.”
Apoifis reminds us that while the leaders of Golden Dawn are serving jail time, the party managed to win 6 per cent of the primary vote and is supported by many members of the Greek security forces. “About half the Greek police voted for Golden Dawn in 2012. The chief of the Hellenic Police, Nikos Papagiannopoulos, has since been reported as telling his officers to make the lives of immigrants ‘unbearable’ and members of the Greek coastguard unit have been accused of beating migrants and dumping them at sea in Turkish territorial waters and of carrying out ‘mock’ waterboardings.”
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Celta Vigo replace Mohamed with Cardoso after Real Madrid defeat
The 4-2 loss on Sunday proved to be the manager's final match in charge of the Galician club
Celta Vigo have replaced head coach Antonio Mohamed with Miguel Cardoso in the wake of Sunday's 4-2 LaLiga defeat to Real Madrid.
Mohamed was appointed on a two-year deal in May but lasted only 13 games at Balaidos, winning just three times.
The defeat to Madrid on Sunday proved to be the final straw for the Celta hierarchy, who confirmed on Monday that Mohamed would not continue in the role.
Minutes later, the club confirmed the appointment of former Nantes boss Cardoso as their new coach.
In addition to his time with the Fench club, Cardoso has managed Portuguese side Rio Ave while also serving as an assistant at Shakhtar Donetsk, Deportivo La Coruna, Sporting CP, Braga, Academica and Beleneses.
Prior to his time with Nantes, which lasted just a matter of months, Cardoso broke the club record for points in a season with Rio Ave, leading the club to a fifth-place finish and 51 points last campaign.
1 - Only Paco Herrera (20.8%) has a worst win percentage than Antonio Mohamed (25%) for Celta de Vigo in La Liga in the 21st century. Sacked. pic.twitter.com/pynGZEkgRH
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Celta currently sit 14th in La Liga with 14 points through 12 matches to start the camapign.
Cardoso's first match will come against Real Sociedad on November 26.
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By Richie Richards - Native Sun News Correspondent
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe calls for Fish and Wildlife Service to honor Obama's pledge
President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama, and Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Nation Chairman Dave Archambault II, left, and his wife Nicole Archambault, right, applaud as they watch a Cannon Ball flag day celebration, at the Cannon Ball powwow grounds in Cannon Ball, N.D., on June 13
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FORT YATES, N.D. –– When President Obama addressed the Standing Rock Sioux Nation in his internationally publicized visit to the reservation last June, he acknowledged that historically “the United States often didn’t give the nation-to-nation relationship the respect that it deserved,” but pledged: “I promised when I ran to be a President who’d change that -- a President who honors our sacred trust, and who respects your sovereignty.”
Today, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe is testing the Obama Administration’s resolve.
In a three-page letter to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director, Dan Ashe, Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Chairman, Dave Archambault II, details the Tribal Nation’s opposition to delisting the Yellowstone grizzly bear, and calls attention to the fact that the affected Tribal Nations have so far been ignored in the process.
“This lack of consultation by FWS stands in direct contrast to the policy directives of the Obama Administration. President Obama has attempted to strengthen consultation with tribes when federal policies and actions have the potential to affect tribes and have tribal implications,” writes Chairman Archambault. “Clearly, removing the Yellowstone grizzly bear from the ESA and permitting states to proceed with high-dollar trophy hunts on our historic cultural landscape fits the criteria.”
While at Standing Rock, President Obama told Chairman Archambault and the tribal membership, “My administration is determined to partner with tribes, and it’s not something that just happens once in a while. It takes place every day, on just about every issue that touches your lives. And that’s what real nation-to-nation partnerships look like.”
Delisting the Yellowstone grizzly bear does not just touch the lives of the Standing Rock Sioux people, but also the other 25 Tribal Nations the federal government has acknowledged hold an ancestral connection to Yellowstone, where the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service intends to hand over the future of the grizzly to the states of Wyoming, Montana and Idaho, all of which intend to sell high-dollar trophy tags and open seasons on the Great Bear.
“To date, there has been no discussion in this process related to the impact delisting the grizzly bear, and the subsequent trophy hunting of the grizzly, will have on Native American spirituality, namely the religious practices of traditional tribal people, protected by the American Indian Religious Freedom Act (PL 95-341–1978/PL 103-344 –1994),” Chairman Archambault states.
In addition to the American Indian Religious Freedom Act, Chairman Archambault cites Executive Orders from the Clinton and Obama administrations that require federal departments and agencies to consult with Tribal Nations.
“Executive Order 13647 (June 2013) states, ‘Greater engagement and meaningful consultation with tribes is of paramount importance in developing any policies affecting tribal nations.’ The proposed delisting of the Yellowstone grizzly bear affects the Lakota, Dakota and Nakota people of the Great Sioux Nation,” the Standing Rock Sioux leader emphasizes.
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s letter joins the other official declarations and resolutions opposing the removal of the Yellowstone grizzly bear from Endangered Species Act protections issued by the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate, the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe, the Northern Cheyenne Nation, the Crow Nation, the Eastern Shoshone Tribe, the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma, the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, the Oglala Sioux Tribe, and the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of Idaho.
As the joint federal and state Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee (IGBC) abruptly concluded its annual winter meeting in Missoula, Montana (12/10/14), Chairman Robert Shepherd of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate furnished Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell, and Assistant Secretary Washburn, with copies of the Tribal Nations’ declarations and resolutions in opposition to delisting the grizzly. Secretary Jewell acknowledged that she was in receipt of Chairman Shepherd’s communication.
“Our ancestors told that the Sacred Hoop of Life was broken when our people were massacred at Wounded Knee. This was the period when those that massacred our people also wiped out the Wámakaškaŋ; they wiped out the buffalo, the grizzlies and the wolves, and today that mindset is still there, that 'disease of the mind.' They had no place for grizzly bears then, and they have no place for them now," says Chief Arvol Looking Horse, 19th Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe for the Great Sioux Nation.
GOAL (Guardians of Our Ancestors’ Legacy) Tribal Coalition has liaised with the affected Tribal Nations on the grizzly delisting issue.
When asked if he had a message for FWS’s Chris Servheen and the IGBC, GOAL co-founder, R. Bear Stands Last, said “Nobody can articulate a more powerful message on behalf of the grizzly and traditional people than Chief Arvol Looking Horse."
Bear Stands Last pointed to the concluding thought of Chief Looking Horse’s recent statement opposing removing the grizzly bear from Endangered Species Act protections.
“The birth of the white ones among the Wámakaškaŋ, the grizzly bear with a white coat, is a message that is loud and clear for us. We are at that crossroads. Our message to those in authority needs to be equally clear and direct: stop the abuse and the massacre of these living beings of the earth. The Wámakaškaŋ have a message for the world: the grizzly bear, Mato, is a living spirit that is sacred,” said Chief Arvol Looking Horse.
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Benue Gov Asks Buhari To Hold National Dialogue Forum On Insecurity
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The Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom on Saturday charged President Muhammadu Buhari to consider a National Dialogue Forum as a solution to the looming insecurity crisis in the country.
A statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Terver Akase said that the governor spoke when he received the President of Evangelical Church Winning All, ECWA, Reverend Stephen Panya Baba, at the Benue Peoples House, Makurdi.
The statement reads: “The Governor urged President Muhammadu Buhari to call for a National Dialogue Forum where Nigerians would frankly speak on issues affecting the country, particularly insecurity and proffer solutions.
“As an interim measure to end the wave of threats and counter threats from different sections of the country, Governor Ortom recommended that security operatives should not ignore those beating drums of war.”
Governor Ortom condemned the latest order the Fulani herders association, Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore has given to its members to defend themselves, describing the order as capable of causing unimaginable violence.
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“The Governor wondered why the group continuously makes inflammatory statements but its officials are not invited for questioning,” the statement added.
Governor Ortom, who supported former President Olusegun Obasanjo on his letter to Buhari, however, called for national prayers for peace in all parts of the country, even as he expressed the hope that the current security challenges would soon be overcome.
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Boeser scores 3, Pettersson has 5 points as Canucks hammer Blues
Vancouver picks up impressive 6-1 win in St. Louis
Vancouver Canucks’ Elias Pettersson (40), of Sweden, is congratulated by Josh Leivo after scoring during the first period of an NHL hockey game against the St. Louis Blues, Sunday, Dec. 9, 2018, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
ST. LOUIS — Brock Boeser scored his second career hat trick, Elias Pettersson had a goal and four assists, and the Vancouver Canucks beat the St. Louis Blues 6-1 on Sunday night.
Bo Horvat and Nikolay Goldobin also scored for the Canucks, who won consecutive games for the first time since winning three straight from Oct. 29 through Nov. 2. Vancouver was 2-10-2 in its previous 14 games.
Jacob Markstrom made 22 saves to improve to 10-9-3 on the season and 2-4-0 lifetime against St. Louis.
Jake Allen stopped three of six shots in 14:06 before being pulled in favour of Chad Johnson, who made 12 saves. Allen recorded his first shutout of the season Friday at Winnipeg.
🚨🚨🚨➡️😀 – @BBoeser16 pic.twitter.com/LYerN5582O
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Boeser fired a shot from just inside the blue line that appeared to deflect off Blues defenceman Joel Edmundson 8:45 into the third period to match his career high of three goals. His previous hat trick was Nov. 4, 2017 against Pittsburgh.
Boeser scored his first goal on a shot that deflected off the end boards and hit the back of Allen’s leg pads before trickling into the net.
Pettersson expanded the lead to 2-0 when he buried a feed from Troy Stecher 31 seconds after Vancouver killed off a four-minute power play. Pettersson previously had five points Nov. 2 versus Colorado.
Boeser netted his second of the game when he pushed a feed from Pettersson past Allen to end his night.
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Horvat and Goldobin scored 1:55 apart in the second period as they each were able to capitalize on rebounds off Johnson.
Jordan Kyrou dashed Markstrom’s chance for a shutout when he lifted a puck over Markstrom’s shoulder 8:05 into the third period for his first NHL goal.
NOTES: Blues LW David Perron missed his first game of the season as a healthy scratch. … St. Louis allowed at least five goals at home for the sixth time in 16 games. … Pettersson’s 15 goals and 30 points lead all NHL rookies. … Boeser has six points (five goals, one assist) in his last five games.
Canucks: At Columbus on Tuesday night.
Blues: Host Florida on Tuesday night.
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Vancouver Canucks goaltender Jacob Markstrom (25), of Sweden, deflects a shot from St. Louis Blues’ Robert Thomas (18) during the second period of an NHL hockey game Sunday, Dec. 9, 2018, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
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Three questions for Friday at the U.S. Open
PEBBLE BEACH -- A few morsels to chew on as play gets underway at Pebble Beach:
1. How are the conditions?
The very ingredients that made Pebble Beach such a majestic setting on Thursday -- bright sun, a light breeze -- only conspired to make the golf course play especially difficult, with greens only growing crustier as the day went on. The opposite scenario exists for the second round. Cloudy and cool with even some mist, it might not be the weather that's going to help anyone's tan, but it is likely to make the golf course more receptive.
*2. Speaking of which, were the greens really to blame for Tiger's opening-round struggles?
They were if you listened to him. It's true that Woods saw a number of makable birdie and par attempts veer off line, leading to his complaint that the greens were "awful." Woods went on to say that "no one is going to post a good round this afternoon." Uh, not exactly. Last we checked, Woods was playing virtually the same time as Shaun Micheel, Paul Casey, and Brendan De Jonge, all of whom shot 69 to take a share of the first-round lead.
3. As for Micheel, there's no way he can keep this up, can he?
One would think not. Here's a guy who is coming off a debilitating injury, and is playing with the added burden of a mother who is dying with cancer. But no one ever thought Shaun Micheel could emerge from obscurity to win the 2003 PGA. And by the way, he just birdied the 11th hole to move to three under.
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Good Food Guides
The Good Food Guide 2019: Full list of award winners
The Good Food Guide Awards 2018
The best of Australian food is celebrated at the second national Good Food Guide Awards in Melbourne.
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Vittoria Coffee Restaurant of the Year
Restaurant Orana
Orana named Restaurant of the Year at Good Food Guide Awards
There's plenty of sincerity and zero earnest hand-wringing here at this gutsy little Adelaide restaurant. Yes, much of the food is based on head chef Jock Zonfrillo's personal history and that of the Australian landscape. But it's the collective team narrative that makes this such a captivating place to be. That, and a menu that's as fun as it is delicious, spanning 20 or so small courses, starting with damper skewered on young eucalyptus branches brought to each table on smouldering coals, perfuming the spare, mid-century dining room with the comforting smell of the bush. Each dish is served with a story and a sense of place, navigating deep sea, low-lying scrub, unforgiving desert plains and outback marshlands. Sit still, breathe in. This one's a game changer.
New Restaurant of the Year
Point Leo Estate, Merricks, Victoria
Spiced pumpkin creme diplomat, shiitake ice-cream and meringue at Laura. Photo: Kristoffer Paulsen
It was a bold pitch to build a $40-million sculpture park, winery and double-restaurant phenomenon overlooking Victoria's Western Port, then to lure chef Phil Wood, the most wanted man on the market after Neil Perry's Eleven Bridge closed last year, to head the kitchen. But the Gandel family does not bluff, and Point Leo Estate has emerged every bit as beautiful as dreamed. Surrender to restaurant manager Ainslie Lubbock's soothing service and a wine list as impressive as your surrounds. Stepping from the raucous main dining room into the taupe terrarium that is Laura, you'll see views of Jaume Plensa's eight-metre statue of a girl's head (the restaurant's namesake). Listen to the sound of whisks gently striking pans as Wood transforms the Mornington Peninsula's vines, land beasts and fish into modern classics. It's a trip. Take it.
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Santa Vittoria Regional Restaurant of the Year
Birregurra, Victoria
It's a restaurant that lives and breathes the seasons, fed directly by what's growing out the front of the restaurant, found in the foothills of the Otway Ranges. Chef Dan Hunter's cooking, though bound by the garden, is almost otherworldly. There's a single mouthful of cooling scallop, rich urchin and musky truffle. Or the earthiness of baked beetroot, the sweetness of local honey and brine of trout roe. Bonito cured overnight with kelp and mountain pepper is soft and warm with just the right balance of sweetness and savour. Dining in this sprawling, converted weatherboard house is all about deep, unhurried comfort from immaculate service, a roaring fire in the lounge, onsite accommodation complete with vinyl record collection and a pre-dessert stroll through the gardens, backlit by the setting sun.
Citi Chef of the Year
Quay, Sydney, New South Wales
Citi Chef of the Year Peter Gilmore.
Cue sound of a record breaking. This is the 17th consecutive year that Peter Gilmore has steered Quay to its coveted three-chef-hat status. In that time, he has introduced us to red speckled peas, tennouji turnips, hatsuka radishes, red orach, pea flowers, okra shoots and native violets. He's the crackling king, creating crisp deliciousness from maltose, sea cucumbers, and even the frill of an oyster. He has produced the most acclaimed dessert this country has ever seen, with the extraordinary Snow Egg. This year, he threw his entire menu out the window and started again, creating future classics for a new generation – Oyster Intervention, Hand-Harvested Seafood and the airy, fragile White Coral. His cooking is luxurious, but still connects us back to earth and ocean, creating texture, harmony and surprise.
Vittoria Coffee Legend Award
Stefano de Pieri
Stefano's Cantina, Mildura, Victoria
Stefano de Pieri, of Stefano's Cantina, Mildura. Photo: Supplied
Long before "local and seasonal" became a restaurant mantra, Stefano de Pieri was serving Mildura's story on a plate at Stefano's Cantina. This from a man with no formal training as a chef who was born almost 16,000 kilometres away in Treviso, Italy. Since 1991, de Pieri has turned a hotel cellar in a remote Victorian town into a destination restaurant, accidentally becoming a celebrity chef along the way with his 1990s television series and cookbook A Gondola on the Murray. De Pieri has used the restaurant as a springboard, starting a cafe-bakery, a brewery, a wine label and the annual Mildura Writers Festival, all intended to help the desert city bloom. This while being a fierce champion of the Sunraysia region's food producers, its arts scene and the environment.
Josephine Pignolet Young Chef of the Year
Jodie Odrowaz
Iki Jime, Melbourne, Victoria
Jodie Odrowaz of Iki Jime, Melbourne. Photo: Christopher Pearce
Don't worry, citizens of planet Earth. The future is safe in the hands of chefs like Jodie Odrowaz. Before she stepped from front of house into the kitchens of Vue de Monde, she worked overseas in restaurants focused on reducing waste. Now she's landed back in Shannon Bennett's fish house Iki Jime, where sustainably sourced, humanely killed seafood rules. In her current role, she's been learning to trace fish from its source and dry-age it for fullest use. She even saves the restaurant's kelp, fire ash and coffee to make body scrub. In time she plans to be the change she wants to see in the world, operating as an all-preserving, carrot-championing connector between producers and the people. As someone who lists a Sharpie and knife as kitchen weapons, you know she's got the detailed determination to do it.
Citi Service Excellence
Kylie Javier Ashton
Momofuku Seiobo, Sydney, New South Wales
Kylie Javier Ashton, general manager of Momofuku Seiobo, Pyrmont. Photo: James Alcock
She has been one of Momofuku Seiobo's few constants since its early days of pork buns and pet-nat at The Star. Those famous steamed baos have long gone, but the general manager's professionalism has maintained Momo's vitality through the Noma-via-New-York cooking of chef Ben Greeno to the flavour-driven haute Barbadian cuisine of current chef Paul Carmichael. With a resume listing fine-dining temple Tetsuya's and wine church Bentley Restaurant and Bar, Javier Ashton greets guests with warmth, extols Bordeaux and jumps behind the pass when needed to keep the open kitchen humming. Don't you dare think about stealing the bespoke cutlery, either. When Javier Ashton isn't ensuring that every diner is having the most delicious fun possible, the industry ambassador takes names in the amateur boxing ring. Can talk Left Bank. Will throw right hooks.
Sydney Doesn't Suck
Snacks at Regional Restaurant of the Year, Brae.
Australians use 10 million plastic straws a day, which end up in our waterways as a threat to marine life, and ultimately break down into microplastics that enter the food chain. It's this staggering number that prompted outgoing City of Sydney Deputy Lord Mayor Jess Miller to create the #sydneydoesntsuck campaign, working with small bars across the city to reduce single-use plastic. As ever, little things grow, and major venues soon signed up to go straw-free (always keeping some to hand for those with disabilities), including Solotel venues across the Sydney Opera House and Opera Bar, the International Convention Centre, and the Museum of Contemporary Art. Combined with online resource, laststraw.com.au, which provides know-how and lists straw-free venues, #sydneydoesntsuck aims to put 2.3 million plastic straws out of business. Cheers to that.
Bar of the Year
The Dolphin Wine Room
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If you want a bourbon and Coke, move on. If you're keen on local whisky with small-batch cola, come on down to Maurice Terzini's Pub For The 21st Century where post-mix soda is out and Harvey Wallbangers are in. A middle finger to Coca-Cola is only the tip of the Icebergs legend's initiatives with chef Monty Koludrovic and wine director James Hird that have seen The Dolphin become a bellwether boozer for the local community. Australia's best chefs guest star at the Delfino Aperitivo afternoons (hey, it's up-and-coming talent Ben Shewry!) and a wine list bursts with new-wave producers and sustainable Italian deliciousness. Also: tins of Boags. At its core, The Dolphin is still an Aussie pub. A place to shoot the breeze and yell at the footy. All the better with a first-rate cotoletta and a few schooners, too.
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When it comes to his gift of the pour, this isn't the first time in lights for the ex-Coda and Tonka sommelier. But it's the first time with skin in the game. A refit of the Carlton Wine Room and installation of chef John Paul Twomey has given the Melbourne institution its mojo back, but it's the ever-approachable steerage by Howe through a 100-bottle list that's given the name over the door its weight again. Throw any brief at Howe and watch him nail it with Rain Man-like accuracy and a puzzle-lover's delight from a list that runs an all-embracing spectrum including flinty chablis, juicy Burgundy and grower Champagne. He's even coded his list with user-friendly graphics for those who prefer to self-navigate. Amen to having this professionalism freed from fine diners, on tap with your spaghetti on a Monday night.
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Brisbane, Queensland
Everything about this tightly run Sydney offshoot nudges you to exhale and relax. Riverside views, sparkling glassware and convivial vibes make cracking open a magnum of champagne here all but irresistible, especially with a list as tight as this one. The wine list is a celebration of Italian and Italianish wines that can be taken as seriously as the purse strings will allow, in just about any format you'd care to throw at sommelier Alan Hunter. There's a strong selection of Coravin wines – a perfect way to try a glass of something from the deep and far-reaching wine list without breaking out a full bottle and a second mortgage – hello Radikon, Passopisciaro and Serragghia, old friends.
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All hail the Royal Mail's showstopping new dining room, giving uninterrupted hi-def views of Mounts Sturgeon and Abrupt. But as exciting – if not more so for oenophiles – is the new, tourable cellar housing the 28,000-bottle-strong collection. Owner Allan Myers has long held the southern hemisphere's largest privately owned collection of Burgundies and Bordeaux, which is backed by a just-as-heavy-hitting stable of heroes from the old world and old-school to progressive punks from Austria to the US. Going head-to-head with chef Robin Wickens' revamped degustation, driven by that impressive kitchen garden, you'll find 800 of those bottles displayed in three temperature-controlled cellars.
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Dark Souls 3 The Ringed City Gameplay
Updated March 9, 2017 by KSGaming
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Bandai Namco Entertainment Europe released a new Dark Souls 3 gameplay video from the upcoming DLC called The Ringed City. We have a chance to see some new enemies, as well as some beautiful environments. The video itself may contain some spoilers.
The Ringed City will offer new areas to explore, new weapons, armor sets, bosses, and most certainly, new ways to die. From the beginning of the gameplay, we can see an epic scene of the player falling from a small edge into a destroyed building filled with enemies. Also, there is a new type of enemy that will literally suck you into the ground. This DLC is recommended for players that have already cleared Lothric Castle in Dark Souls 3.
At the end of the video, we can see a huge boss fight, featuring a humongous, flying, horned demon. The demon ignites, unleashing his devastating fire attacks. As with almost every Dark Souls boss fight, it will definitely take a lot of well-timed dodges and patient attacks to take him down.
In the Ringed City, players will be chasing the Slave Knight Gael to the literal end of the world, searching for the Dark Soul of Humanity and experiencing the conclusion to the story.
Dark Souls 3 received high acclaim from gamers all around the world. It’s no surprise that it sold over three million copies worldwide just two months after release. It sold 500,000 in Japan and Asia, 1.5 million in North America, and one million in Europe, which are very impressive numbers.
The new DLC launches March 28th on PS4, Xbox One and PC. The Ringed City can be purchased separately or, if you are a season pass owner, you will get both expansions, Ashes of Ariandel and The Ringed City.
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Apple iPhone 11 review
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Most used daily
We start with the most important features, i.e. the ones that are used most frequently by most users. And the winner here… couldn’t have been more obvious… is voice calls.
What came as a slight surprise however is the actual percentage – we expected results more in 95%+ range, so much so that we even considered leaving it out of the poll. Glad we didn’t, because we now see that not everyone use their phone as a phone. And in some user groups, the voice calls are even less popular – less than 65% of the teenagers talk daily on their phones.
In fact, voice calls only rank sixth in popularity in that group and it also loses its top spot among users aged 18 to 24 (though the feature retains a respectable 83% of daily usage there).
In terms of location, voice calls are most popular in Africa (89.5%) and least popular in Oceania (5th place at 77.6%).
The second most used feature worldwide was a bit of a surprise to us – with 83% it is alarm clock that snatches the silver. The feature even tops the chart for several user groups – women (81.3%), ages 18-24 years (83.5%) and South Americans (86.5%). It loses some ground with the users older than 41, but its popularity is consistently above 60%.
Sending texts might be in decline, but it still retains third position in daily usage. Its overall share is 78.7% and it even gets the number one place in Oceania with 87.7%.
SMS is also enjoying higher than average popularity with Asians (83.8%), where it’s just a tenth of a percent behind alarm clock usage. Surprisingly, only 75.8% of teenagers send SMS daily, which is less than average. Which is not to say that teenagers are no longer responsible for most of the SMS traffic. One possible answer here is that some teens are already switching to instant messaging – our data shows that one third of them are already using this feature daily.
Web browsing only loses a place on the podium by a whisker, which actually tells us how popular handheld browsing is (a mobile version of our site is in the works). 78.6% of the users open their mobile browsers daily. The champions in mobile web browsing category are Oceania (83.3%) and North America (80.9%) with browsing the second most used feature there.
This feature is less often used by women (70%) and users over 50 (63%).
The chart we’re about to look at shows the features that are used by the largest number of people. Although not necessarily needed daily, they are the most likely must-haves for users shopping for their next handset.
The obvious leader again is voice calls: 99.5% of you make calls at least ones every few weeks. In Oceania the feature which gave cell phones a reason to exist scores a perfect 100%, while the US gets pretty close with 99.9%.
In terms of overall use, SMS moves up to second place with 99.2%. And it’s another perfect score here from Oceania.
Taking photos is every bit as important as we expected – it grabs the third spot here with 98.5%. It means that less than one in 66 users never use the camera at the back of their cell phone. And half of those have answered that they would use that feature if they could, which suggests that their handsets don’t have a (decent) camera at all.
The two features that only just failed to make in to the medals are calculator (98.4%) and alarm clock (97.8%), while web browsing to sixth with the very respectable 96.2%.
At the other end of the spectrum is video calling, which is only used by 26.6% of all users. Only 2.3% of you make video-calls on a daily basis.
Audio books (33.5% total and 3.8% daily) and podcasts (33.8% and 3.7% daily) are not too popular either but they are still head and neck above video-calls. Streaming content over DLNA or TV-out only just avoided relegation with 34.1% users doing it at all and only 3.9% needing it daily.
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The 1953 MG Magnette was one of the first results of the British Motor Corporation acquiring a number of British independent manufacturers from 1951 to 1952. Among these was MG, who had used the Magnette name in the 1930s for some very exciting sports racers—the name had cachet.
After the Second World War, MG built the YA and YB small sedan and tourer from 1947-53, but they were expensive, prewar in style and never found a market. The YA four-passenger tourer was adapted into the far more successful MG TD. Meanwhile, Leonard Lord, head of BMC, eyed the new unibody Wolseley 4/44 as a potential MG sedan.
Adapted by Gerald Palmer, designer of the excellent Jowett Javelin, the Magnette ZA was launched at the 1953 Earls Court Motor Show. Deliveries began in 1954 with the ZA being built through 1956. The body was Italian in inspiration, with a smooth fastback design. It was powered by BMC’s 60-hp, 1,489cc OHV B Series engine, with twin SU carburetors. Despite looking like the Wolseley, only the front doors, trunk lid, and roof were shared.
The MG sat lower, had handsome wood trim, leather front buckets seats, and a four-speed close-ratio-gearbox. It had coil-and-wishbone independent front suspension, a solid rear axle, and leaf springs with rack-and-pinion steering—it certainly felt like an MG.
The MG ZA was built until 1956, and 18,076 were sold. The Motor magazine reported 79.7 mph top speed, 0-60 in 23 seconds and 20 mpg U.S. Most were stodgy colors, as was the fashion: black, gray, green, and maroon. It was replaced by the ZB in 1956, which looked similar but had bigger carburetors and an 86 mph top speed. A total of 18,524 were built by 1958, including some equipped with automatic transmission, and the most desirable version- the ZB Varitone—had a two-tone paint scheme divided by a chrome strip with a wraparound rear window.
In 1958 Sergio Pininfarina redesigned the entire BMC lineup, with a familial shape—rather like the Peugeot 404. All the marques were continued with different grilles, leading to complaints of “badge engineering.”
It was brilliant marketing and quite cost effective. The Austin A55 and A60 Cambridge, Morris Oxford, Wolseley 15/60, Riley 4/68, and MG Magnette Mk III all shared the same body shells with slight variations in tail fin details, different front panels, and grilles. All were powered by the BMC B-Series engine in various stages of tune. The Riley and MG featured wood dashboards and leather seats. Under the hood they sported twin carburetors, giving a top speed of 85 mph. Further up the family tree, the Wolseley 6/99 and Austin Westminster used similar designs with the 3-liter, 6-cylinder engine that was also found on the Austin-Healey 3000.
In common with the rest of BMC’s B series cars, the Magnette received a 1,622cc engine in 1961, creating the Mk IV. This model boasted increased performance and an 88 mph top speed. Handling was improved by front and rear sway bars. The Magnette Mk IV was built until 1968, when the entire Farina range was retired. Production numbers totaled to16,676 Mk IIIs and 14, 320 Mk IVs.
Unlike the front-wheel drive 1960s MG 1100, the Mk III and Mk IV Magnette sedans were not sold in the U.S.; though some have been imported from Canada. They are solid performers with a pleasant interior, but body and trim parts can be hard to find.
By contrast, the early ZA and ZB Magnettes have been warmly received by MG collectors—many keep one around for convenient and economical daily transportation. Due to the cars being prone to rust, California or Arizona cars are the best option.
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Re: Exile - Discussion
Reply #120 on: May 22, 2018, 02:32:23 pm
Quote from: Nyctaeus on May 21, 2018, 10:33:51 am
When the time come for The Schism, some ships like Galahad are likely to become more HTL and PBR.
HTL and PBR? Care to elaborate?
Since resources are an issue, I can understand why Exodus Fleet may not want to put energy into a Treb or Maxim equivalent for all fighters, but how about an energy sniper weapon like the Hypacs from Shadow Genesis? That could be worth looking into in order for Exodus Fleet to give its fighters the ability to disarm Shivan capships.
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Quote from: CT27 on May 22, 2018, 03:36:39 pm
Correct me if I'm wrong but I think there is a sniper-style weapon in BP act2. It was on the custos cruiser in the "One Future" mission. I would love to use something like that in exile 2. But I do not believe we will see the Shivans in Andromeda at all
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Reply #123 on: May 24, 2018, 09:55:42 am
Quote from: emark4 on May 22, 2018, 02:32:23 pm
We will see how much effort we can put into assets.
Quote from: CapellaGoBoom on May 22, 2018, 07:47:04 pm
Exodus Fleet actually have their their own Treb equivalent [the Javelin] and multiple Maxim equivalents. Act II weapons are even present in current modpack, those are all in WiP stage and probably incomplete, badly ballanced etc. Anyway you can see them in some of actual missions, like Redeemer heavy plasma gattling cannon on turrets in Dirty Job and used by Falchion gunships in Sol Invictus. HyPAcS-like sniper rifle, the Widow is also being used by Guardian gunships in the Day of Reckoning. This one is gonna be totally redone. Amalthea cruisers use ORS' dumbfire on lower launcher and this is another weapon that will be available in The Schism.
Why all those those weapons are not available now? Short supplies, Encantona etc. Lots of weapons in fact have to be reverse-engineered based on actual remaining examples, because blueprints were lost during the exodus. Only the most of elite squadrons remaining on Exodus Fleet ships have access to this remaining equipment.
Also some of weapons are being researched during the Exodus, like Polyhydra plasma flak cannon. More and more weapons influenced by shivan tech will appear the further you are. Even fighterbeams. This one is actually already tabled.
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Don't know if it's already part of the campaign, but one of the reasons I could think about is that most of the more advanced craft have been spent on the Syndicate/Federate war and now they have trouble recreating them with post disaster resources.
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Nyctaeus, thanks for the explanation. I enjoy reading about the development of Exodus Fleet.
Just to make sure I understand you correctly: when you say "fighterbeams" is that going to be a beam on fighters just for use against other fighters or would it be helpful against enemy capships too?
Quote from: Nightmare on May 24, 2018, 10:29:30 am
More or less, correct too. Both factions were exhausted by the Rim Conflict when the Shivans arrived. Majority of remaining forces were destroyed during the Exodus, including numerous fighter corps of both factions. Note that both ORS and EFN forces were much bigger than UEF fleets for example. Syndicate produced almost 250 Vitalius-class frigattes since the Great War, and more than half of them were defending Sol system when Sathanas armada attacked.
I need to find my shiplist. I have all military warships of Exodus Fleet listed somewhere. I guess it would be helpful for players to estimate true size of Exodus Fleet.
Think Minbari-style neuton, fighter-grade beams. It will be effective dogfighting weapon, but it shall be effective against subsystems. Mix it with Diaspora-style gliding system to slash along the hull of enemy warship.
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Reply #127 on: September 03, 2018, 03:47:36 am
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Just a quick heads up. I tried playing Exile IDW it a few day Exile IDWs ago via Knossos. It had the weird double HUD bug which I believe may be due to the new 3.8 media VPs. Any chance of a fix?
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Reply #128 on: September 23, 2018, 03:30:44 pm
I've played a few missions of this (up until the City of the Sun mission) and it's really impressive and ambitious technically, but I don't enjoy this story at all. Everything is ludicrously, preposterously, unnecessarily grimdark all the time, to the point where it's distracting, base, and ugly. The Sol forces apparently have such an unquenchable murder-boner that
they won't even wait to finish taking the Rim forces into custody before commencing the mass executions
, thereby ruining their own plan by tipping off the ORS! The Shivans aren't given any of the respect as some sort of cosmic force of nature that FreeSpace has always given them, they're "bugs", "insects", objects to shoot at and nothing more. And then the City of the Sun. Hoo boy.
This is a really cool mission technically, evocative cutscene, dramatic visuals, quite good gameplay. But then:
Somebody blows up something inside the City to force all the hatches open so all the civilians could get out instead of just a select number of rich "valuable to society" people. Hooray! Wait, I have to kill them? I have to MURDER thousands of my own people in cold blood to keep from "overcrowding" the Abraham? I, seeing that the people in the shuttles were probably much more like my character than the high-ranking officer giving the order, stood down, and ordered my wing to do the same. Of course, this failed the mission.
No. I will not accept this. This is not a "desperate measure" required by a "desperate time". This is a contrived situation cooked up to get the player to revel in doing something everybody knows is evil. Worse than being a bad mission, it is a reprehensible mission, one that appears beautiful on its surface but has extremely revolting themes--the only difference between this and "Dealing in Extremes" from Descendants of Sol, on a narrative and thematic level, is a layer of self-righteous rationalization. If this cowardly, selfish, criminal act is humanity's response to the Shivan incursion, it means no one in this universe has learned anything from the Great Wars. It means that humanity are no better than the Ancients were, and, frankly, if that's what it takes to preserve humanity from the Shivans, then extinction is what the people of this verse deserve.
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I think that it's not unlogical that the mission does not follow the narrative lines of FS1 (or what you'd conclude for that). There's been an extreme bloody civil war going on for several years, which is actually the main pre-strory of the campaign, and in the midst of said civil war a Sathanas armada disturbed the bloodshed. I think it's shown pretty clear in the dialogs between Earth/ORF pilots and in the techroom. It ultimatly resulted in the chaotic execution of the evacuation order, what caused that less lives than possible were safed.
That's even more rationalization. They've been killing each other, and here comes more killing. It feels sadistic, in the same way 24 and other War on Terror fiction is and Warhammer 40k has become now that it takes itself seriously. HARD MEN making HARD DECISIONS and sacrificing people left and right. Why should I care about a regime that, while presenting itself as the resistance against centralized space fascism, treats its own people desperately trying to escape the Shivans as traitors and butchers them?
Baby killers: the heroes Sol needs.
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I mean, you don't have to kill them. If you have anti-subsystem weaponry you can disable them and let them run out of oxygen instead. It's probably the same fate they'd meet on an overcrowded Abraham anyway.
[19:31] <MatthTheGeek> you all high up on your mointain looking down at everyone who doesn't beam everything on insane blindfolded
So your solution is to give them a slow and lingering death instead of a sudden one? That's even worse!
I guess the mission could've been changed so that you don't auto-fail if you let the shuttles through. After all, the security forces on the Abraham can just throw them out the airlock on arrival and you can wash your hands of the whole ordeal.
"Wash my hands?" I'd be more inclined to convert to the Hammer of Light and see how many ORS personnel I could frag before going down.
In fact, where are the mutinies? They're not shooting at enemies, they're shooting at the people they've been taught must be protecting from enemies. Why am I the only one who says "**** this"?
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According to the briefing the Abraham was over capacity when that mission started. By the time all the 'scheduled' ships got in it must've been critically over capacity. If the ship can't support more people it just can't. If you just let them in even more people would die from starvation or lack of oxygen.
So you either kill them quickly, kill them slowly by disabling them, or maybe let the guards kill them on arrival(unfortunately this option wasn't accounted for in the game).
What about other ships? Medical ships, troop transports, passenger liners, requisition anything that can be used to hold refugees, even privately owned ships.
But you know what? It doesn't matter if I play your plot logic game or not, because it doesn't resolve the central question of why the ORS are worth rooting for when this is what they do to their own people. It's rotten on a conceptual level; the story is pushing a cruel and sadistic point of view. Trying to rationalize that won't make it go away. It won't banish the Eight Deadly Words.
I mean, none of those were there and they were gunning for a critically overcrowded ship. If they stayed inside the station it's possible another ship could've arrived to pick them up.
But it's also important to remember that at that point almost every ship that wasn't destroyed by the shivans was hiding from them and was extremely unlikely to break out of that hiding spot to come save some station-dwellers.
More rationalizations! More things that were concocted to justify having you kill babies. The humans of Exileverse are too venal, too cowardly, too self-interested to help each other in the face of the Shivans. Why should I care if they survive? What is left that's worth fighting for? A bunch of MEHTUL BAWKSES covered in turrets but without any of the things, both material and otherwise, that make life worth living?
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I never played this far in Exile for similar reasons as Woolie. However, it doesn't surprise me. I got the sense that the plot was written as a series of events they wanted to take place and the characters are merely objects used to get there.
I'd be surprised if the writers considered the story's settings, event consequences, or themes presented because of those events.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that while a mod of this scope is commendable, (the FREDing alone is a lot of work) the actual reason for Woolie's issues is just that they didn't really think about it.
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Dom’s Bakery: Serving Bread to Hoboken for Over 39 Years
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Posted on September 24, 2019 in Food + Drink, Hoboken 101, People, Restaurants
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While Hoboken is constantly changing, there are few spots that stay exactly the same from when they first opened — and those are the true gems. Dom’s Bakery is an old-Hoboken favorite and has been serving bread to town since the early 1900s, located at 506 Grand Street in the Mile Square. Whether you’ve been to the bakery or not, there’s a VERY good chance you’ve unknowingly had their bread as they deliver to a bunch of restaurants in town. We recently paid a visit to this OG spot and had the pleasure of talking to Dom himself. Read on to get a peek inside our visit to Dom’s Bakery:
Dom’s Bakery first opened in 1979 at 5th Street between Adams and Jefferson. In 1988, Dom and Flo Castelitto bought the new location just around the corner at 506 Grand, where they have been ever since. The space was already a bakery, owned by Castelittos as well, first names unknown. There is a picture on the wall of the previous owners outside of the front which literally reads “506 Bread” pictured above.
Dom himself came to Hoboken at the age of 12 from Naples, Italy. He was raised in Hoboken, but has moved to Secaucus. However, he still makes it to work daily and often comes in at 4:00AM to bake. There are other bakers {who have been working there for many years} who do the most of the baking, but occasionally Dom likes to bake himself, which he did during our visit.
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Dom’s Bakery is, of course, known for its bread. And while its regular baguettes are brag-worthy on their own, Dom and his crew are whipping up a bunch of other delish creations like fresh focaccia bread with their homemade sauce, pepperoni + sausage stuffed breads {if nothing else, you NEED these}, and a classic Italian pastry, sfogliatella, which Dom allowed us to try right out of the oven.
Sfogliatella right out of the hot oven, before a bunch of powdered sugar was poured on top — drooling
There are literally no words to describe how insanely delicious the warm sfogliatella was; the hint of lemon is simply mouth-watering. If you’ve ever had sfogliatella from other Italian bakeries, you may have noticed that they aren’t usually too full inside. Well, we can attest first-hand that these were super stuffed {seriously, it was quite the treat — and this is coming from two Team HG gavons aka Bri and Jen}.
Author’s note: If you want to really impress Dom, learn how to pronounce sfogliatella like a true Italiano. He was very impressed when I knew how to pronounce it {since I’m Italian and grew up eating them} and said people often butcher the name when they order them, ha.
During the holidays, Dom’s makes another Italian classic called Easter bread, {pictured above}. There is a sweet version with sprinkles and a savory one made with pepper. And if you have to pick up some sweets for a party, there is an entire rack of assorted Italian cookies to purchase, already packaged {these are not made in-house}.
The Mile-Square Reputation
True story: Even if you haven’t actually been to Dom’s, you’ve definitely eaten the bread. Dom’s delivers bread to Lisa’s Deli, Vito’s Deli, Andrea Salumeria, Luca Brasi’s, Dino + Harry’s Steakhouse, Augustino’s, Elysian Cafe, and Johnny Pepperoni just to name a few. The bread is so good, that when Frank Sinatra was still alive and living in California, he actually had Dom ship bread to him and his favorite local restaurant on the West Coast. “We would ship it out from Newark Airport to California where he and other famous actors like Lucille Ball and Dean Martin ate,” Dom proudly told us. Yes, that’s right, old Hollywood even enjoyed Dom’s bread.
The bread is so good, that when Frank Sinatra was still alive and living in California, he actually had Dom ship bread to him and his favorite local restaurant on the West Coast.
Old Hoboken Meets New Hoboken
Dom shared with us that there are quite a mix of customers who come in daily: some generations-old residents who have been going there for decades and a bunch of newcomers as well. He even told us that some of his original Hoboken customers who moved out of town still come back for bread. ‘Nuff said.
We asked Dom what his favorite part of Hoboken is, both past and present:
“My favorite part about the past was that everybody knew each other and there was much less congestion. I currently enjoy seeing all of the families come back and continue to remain loyal.”
Dom, like many residents who have been here for decades, definitely misses the way Hoboken used to be. He explained that back then everyone knew each other and it was a much simpler town {and a simpler time over all}. However, he still loves his hometown and seemed very appreciative of his customers who are still loyal to his business after so many years.
See More: Hoboken TBT: The History Behind Carlo’s Bakery
Dom’s hours are convenient, especially for morning people. Since the baking starts so early in the morning, they are open from 4:00AM-5:00PM daily, except for Sundays when they close at 1:00PM.
And now, for some more #breadporn:
The stuffed pepperoni and sausage breads – SO. GOOD.
Forget frozen breadsticks – Dom’s is whipping our fresh ones daily
Dom’s focaccia = legendary. That’s homemade sauce on top and it is GOOD
The perfect souvenir — thanks, Dom!
Dom’s bakery is a true Hoboken gem and if you haven’t been yet, you should definitely stop in, say hi to Dom, and of course, enjoy some fantastic homemade breads — all while supporting a local business!
So, have you ever been to Dom’s bakery? What’s your favorite thing to get?
Share with us in the comments below and tag us in your foodie pics on Instagram @HobokenGirlBlog + #HobokenGirl <3
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Briana is a born-and-raised Hoboken Girl who embraces both the new and old aspects of the Mile Square. She’s a freelance writer, works in social media, and more importantly (but not really) — a cat lover and total foodie. When she’s not working, she can be found convincing herself to buy something at Sephora or Target, eating mussels with her fiancé at Leo’s, or planning her next Disney vacation.
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Khanh Ha on tour for Flesh, March 25 – April 18
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Please join Khanh Ha as he tours virtually with HFVBT for Flesh from March 25 – April 18.
Black Heron Publishing
The setting is Tonkin (northern Vietnam) at the turn of the 20th century. A boy, Tai, witnesses the beheading of his father, a notorious bandit, and sets out to recover his head and then to find the man who betrayed his father to the authorities. On this quest, Tai’s entire world will shift. FLESH takes the reader into dark and delightful places in the human condition, places where allies are not always your friends, true love hurts, and your worst enemy may bring you the most comfort. In that emotionally harrowing world, Tai must learn to deal with new responsibilities in his life while at the same time acknowledging his bond, and his resemblance, to a man he barely knew–his father. Through this story of revenge is woven another story, one of love, but love purchased with the blood of murders Tai commits. A coming-of-age story, but also a love story, the sensuality of the author’s writing style belies the sometimes brutal world he depicts.
Read an excerpt HERE.
Praise for FLESH
“Vietnam-born Ha’s beautifully described [. . .] first novel, set in his native country at the turn of the 20th century, opens with an infamous yet respected bandit being beheaded in front of his wife and their two young sons. This beginning casts a pall over the tale as Tài, the eldest son, embarks on a far-reaching journey to retrieve his father’s skull, find a suitable burial site, and seek revenge on the man who betrayed his father’s trust. Through a series of twists and turns [. . .] Tài trades two years’ service to a wealthy entrepreneur for land on which to bury the father’s remains. During that time, Tài loses his heart to Xiaoli, an indentured servant working in an opium den, and will do anything—including holding off on vengeance and killing a French soldier—to protect her. In this dark, violent, and poetic saga, with disjointed cinematic vignettes that make it often read like a screenplay, characters are not who they seem. While this makes for a thrilling finale, what lingers [. . .] is Ha’s descriptive prose.” – Publishers Weekly
“History marches on, and there will never be something like that ever again. Flesh is a historical novel set in pre-turn of the twentieth century Vietnam, a Vietnam so very different than the Vietnam known today. A young man is faced with the honest brutality of his world in his first sight. Trying to understand a world filled with such hate and such joys, and how it can twist young minds, Flesh is a strong addition to any literary historical fiction collection, much recommended.” – Midwest Book Review
“To describe the writing and flow of the story is almost impossible, as it is like nothing I have ever read before. You float through the story, stopping off on occasion to be jerked back into a story that will keep you reading into all hours of the night. A fantastic story with a prose like none I’ve ever read, I would highly recommend it. It has a little bit of everything, and even though it is a dark story of a young man seeking help in finding the traitor who caused the death of his father, I had a soft spot in my heart for many of the characters, and the plight they had to deal with.” – Review From Here
“As I read Flesh, Khanh Ha’s debut novel, it seemed to me that the story is almost dreamlike. A dream in that early hours of a hot morning where you are still in between sleeping and waking up. Your conscious mind taps into your unforgotten but repressed memories which lash out in vicious force with unforgiving storylines. . . . these dreams have a tendency to shape the day or the week with their brutal honesty and, quite honestly, make excellent stories.
The journey throughout the book, whether through light or darkness, is fascinating, violent, and even heartbreaking.
Mr. Ha is a talented writer; he does a wonderful job setting the dark, yet poetic, mood and a fine job describing settings in vivid, smells, colorful imagery. Each chapter reads like a long lost memory, as if Tai was recalling his life in an older age and telling the story to a grandchild or an engaged reader.” – Man of La Book
Khanh Ha’s debut novel is FLESH (June 2012, Black Heron Press). He graduated from Ohio University with a bachelor’s degree in Journalism. During his teen years he began writing short stories which won him several awards in the Vietnamese adolescent magazines. He is at work on a new novel. A short story, reshaped from this novel, was publised by Red Savina Review in its 2013 Spring inaugural edition. It was also nominated for the Winter Literary Award in the Tethered by Letters Journal but was withrawn because of conflict of interest. Another Ha’s short story was published in the 2013 February Outside in Literary & Travel Magazine (http://outsideinmagazine.com/) For further information on FLESH, please visit the author’s website and blog.
Virtual Book Tour Schedule
Feature & Giveaway at Passages to the Past
Review at Raging Blbliomania
Interview at Tribute Books
Review & Giveaway at A Bookish Affair
Review at The Musings of a Book Junkie
Monday, April 1
Giveaway at A Writer’s Life: Working with the Muse
Review & Giveaway at Cheryl’s Book Nook
Wednesday, April 3
Review & Giveaway at Flashlight Commentary
Review & Giveaway at The True Book Addict
Review at Oh, for the Hook of a Book!
Interview at Bibliophilic Book Blog
Review at Confessions of an Avid Reader
Review & Giveaway at A Bookish Libraria
Interview at Oh, for the Hook of a Book!
Review at So Many Books, So Little Time
Review & Giveaway at The Eclectic Reader
Review at I Read a Book Once
Review at Book Nerds Club
Labels: Flesh, Khanh Ha, March 2013, Virtual Book Tour
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China’s Xi Jinping affirms ‘One Country, Two Systems’ for Hong Kong, as city seethes on National Day
By Laurent Thomet & Yan Zhao
President Xi Jinping declared Tuesday that “no force” can shake the Chinese nation as he oversaw a massive military celebration of 70 years of Communist Party rule, shadowed by a day of protest in seething Hong Kong that threatened to steal the spotlight.
Some 15,000 troops along with tanks, missiles and high-tech drones paraded down the Avenue of Eternal Peace as Xi and other Communist Party leaders watched from a rostrum overlooking Beijing’s Tiananmen Square.
The event was meant to extol China’s journey from a poor nation broken by war to being the world’s second-largest economy, but Xi faces a clutch of challenges from a US trade war to months of unrest in Hong Kong.
Xi, who wore the distinctive “Mao suit”, delivered a speech invoking the “Chinese dream” of national rejuvenation—his grand vision of restoring the country to perceived past glory.
“There is no force that can shake the foundation of this great nation,” Xi said from the Tiananmen rostrum where Chairman Mao Zedong proclaimed the People’s Republic of China on October 1, 1949.
“No force that can stop the Chinese people and the Chinese nation forging ahead,” the country’s most powerful leader since Mao said before riding in an open-roof car to review troops.
Helicopters flew in a “70” formation over the city as troops goose-stepped across Tiananmen Square in what state media described as the country’s biggest-ever military parade.
The People’s Liberation Army brought out its newest pieces of hardware, including the DF-41, a nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missile with range enough to reach the entire United States, and the DF-17, a launcher for a hypersonic glider.
Warplanes soared through the smog-choked skies, and a high-altitude, high-speed reconnaissance drone made a public appearance for the first time, Xinhua reported.
“The party hopes that this occasion will add to its legitimacy and rally support at a time of internal and external challenges,” Adam Ni, China researcher at Macquarie University in Sydney, told AFP.
US trade war negotiations have dragged on, and African swine fever has raced through the country’s pig supply, sending pork prices soaring.
But the major headache is Hong Kong, where pro-democracy protesters hit the streets early in a bid to grab the spotlight from Beijing, with a series of rallies against what they see as the erosion of their special freedoms.
Hong Kong police said they were expecting violence across the city, warning it could be “very, very dangerous”, while masked protesters said that “in the face of tyranny, we can only fight as if our last battle”.
#XiJinping vows to uphold "One Country, Two Systems" policy in Hong Kong and Macao #PRC70 https://t.co/v80dSASV14 pic.twitter.com/K9T1I0bD9g
— CGTN (@CGTNOfficial) September 30, 2019
Officers fanned out across the territory and small pockets of demonstrators marched through the streets for what they dubbed a “Day of Grief.”
The semi-autonomous city has been embroiled for months in the worst unrest since Britain returned it to China in 1997, with police and hardcore protesters trading tear gas and petrol bombs.
In his speech, Xi said China “must adhere” to the one country, two systems policy governing Hong Kong and “maintain the long-term prosperity and stability” of the city.
He also called for the “peaceful development” of relations with Taiwan—the self-governed island that Beijing considers a renegade province—but said China should “continue to fight for the full reunification of the country.”
‘Protect its interests’
The festivities were held under tight security, with road closures and even a ban on flying kites.
Access to the Beijing parade was restricted with police turning away crowds lining up with flags in the hope of catching a glimpse of the military procession.
China's National Day military parade in numbers:
-59 phalanxes/echelons
-15,000 officers and soldiers
-more than 160 aircraft and 580 pieces of equipment -All equipment exhibited are domestically manufactured
-40% of which have never been revealed in public#China70years pic.twitter.com/oXXR0psFM4
— Global Times (@globaltimesnews) October 1, 2019
Movie theatres organised screenings of the celebrations.
The military show of force was followed by a pageant involving 100,000 civilians and 70 floats depicting China’s greatest achievements. Organisers will release 70,000 doves and 70,000 balloons before an evening performance and fireworks in Tiananmen.
“Beijing wants to highlight its military modernisation, political unity, and determination to protect its interests,” Ni said.
Party adapts
The Communist Party has repeatedly defied the odds to remain in power for seven decades.
Under Mao, tens of millions of people died during the disastrous Great Leap Forward, and the country was plunged into violent chaos during the decade-long Cultural Revolution.
After Mao’s death in 1976, the party launched the reform and opening-up policy under paramount leader Deng Xiaoping, starting decades of breakneck growth and development.
In video: President Xi Jinping reviewed armed forces on National Day #PRC70thAnniv pic.twitter.com/z91qPGqAyh
— People's Daily, China (@PDChina) October 1, 2019
But the party retained a stranglehold on power, sending troops to end the biggest challenge to its rule in 1989 when pro-democracy protesters occupied Tiananmen Square.
Xi has made clear that he believes only the Communist Party can make the country realise its dream—with him at the helm.
“The Communist Party will continue to ensure that it remains the sole political authority in China,” said Drew Thompson, visiting senior research fellow at Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy.
“It will continue to adapt to do that and it will continue to seek to provide social goods and economic goods for its people, and as long as it continues to deliver those public goods, then it will likely stay in power, but the manner by which it does I think will change over time.”
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Jason Flowers seeks to revive Cal State Northridge program
By Sue Favor
It was the first day of practice, and they kept coming.
Cal State Northridge students walking past the open gym doors between classes stopped, stood and watched for a few minutes. Others paused on a balcony walkway above the floor to check it out. All of the former team managers came to help. Three young women showed up to see if they could try out for the team.
“It’s a good sign,†new head coach Jason Flowers said after the session, in late August. “People are curious to see what’s happening.â€
They also might be wondering if Flowers and his high-octane staff can pull the women’s basketball program out of the deep trench it has been in for the better part of a decade. The once-heralded and ranked Matadors have been 63-164 under two different coaches since 2002. The low point was the 2007-2008 season, when the team went 1-26.
This past March, Northridge let five-year coach Staci Schulz go and began looking for her replacement. The school announced Flowers as the new head coach just before Memorial Day. Athletic Director Rick Mazzuto said the decision was an easy one for his staff.
“Jason came highly-recommended from several other AD’s, who said he was outstanding,†said Mazzuto. “He was the unanimous choice of our six-person search committee.â€
A former assistant at UC Riverside and Long Beach State who began his career coaching high school ball, Flowers assembled his three-person coaching staff within a month of getting the job. And he took a fairly unconventional step in doing so – he hired two high school coaches. Flowers said he didn’t think twice about it.
Previous CSUN Coaches/Records
02-03: 3-24 (Tammy Holder Head Coach)
03-04: 6-20 (Tammy Holder was Head Coach)
04-05: 18-11 (Holder Still Head Coach, Named Big West Coach of the Year)
05-06: 10-20 (Staci Schulz took over as Head Coach)
06-07: 13-16 (Schulz)
07-08: 1-26 (Schulz, NO Big West Tournament)
08-09: 8-23 (Schulz, 8th Seed in BWC Tournament; Defeated No. 5 UC Davis; Lost to No. 3 Cal Poly)
Holder’s career record at CSUN in three seasons was 27-55 overall (.329) and 19-33 in Big West (.365).
Schulz’s career record at CSUN in five seasons was 36-109 (.248) and 20-56 (.263) in Big West.
“I think the most teaching is done in quality high school programs,†Flowers said. “Starting as a high school coach, I appreciate the time and effort put in by coaches at that level. High school coaches do not get enough credit for the jobs they do.
“When it came to picking assistants, I wanted people who had good character and could teach. I didn’t care what level they were from, as the other aspects of the job at the collegiate level can be taught.â€
Flowers did choose two of the most winning prep-level coaches in Southern California in Bryan Camacho and Christine Collins-Kiernan.
Camacho lead Bellarmine-Jefferson of Burbank to a 185-51 record over eight seasons, which included a state championship in 2009. Collins-Kiernan has been an assistant coach at Mater Dei for three years, and the team’s 88-6 record included a state championship last spring, and a national number-one ranking all season long.
Flowers said he always had his eyes on the two.
“I’d been recruiting Christine’s players since I’ve been coaching in college,†he said. “I had the opportunity to coach three of them.
“I had watched Bryan coach over the years and was always impressed with his approach. I got to talk to him more when I started recruiting one of his players during the spring.â€
The third member of his team is Lindsey Foster, who was an assistant with him at Riverside.
During their first practice, the approach and style of Flowers and each of his three assistant coaches seemed to complement each other well. Foster keeps drills moving and says things to motivate players. Collins-Kiernan is more of a quiet analyst. Camacho, who used to crouch on the sidelines at Bell-Jeff and yell “attack! attack!†at players, uses a similar positive yelling method at Northridge.
“Eyes up, head up!†he shouted at one athlete, while at another: “we’ve got to get better!â€
All three assistant coaches participated in drills with the players on the first day of practice. And Flowers firmly stepped in at various points to deliver messages of his own.
But despite the contrasts, all four coaches have one thing in common: they believe in focusing on the little things.
“Details!†Flowers yelled at the third practice group of the first day.
At another point, he was talking to one group and stopped in mid-sentence to tell the two players to his right to stand up and stop grabbing their shorts.
“We’re going to do everything we can to put a good product on the floor,†Flowers said. “We want people to associate us with a high-level brand of basketball being played.â€
The coaches will not be easily satisfied, either.
“Even after we eventually get fast, we’re still going to work on speed,†Flowers said.
Nine players have returned this year, and currently the team is either on the court or working on strength and conditioning Monday through Friday. Flowers said he is pleased with the progress he has seen in almost three weeks, but the team has a way to go.
“They are starting to understand the amount of work it takes to be successful, not only on the court but anything they do in life,†Flowers said. “We are better, but nowhere close to where we want to be or where we’ll end up.â€
The Matadors’ first game is November 13 against Cal Lutheran. They face Pepperdine four nights later.
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Tags: Bellarmine-Jefferson, Bryan Camacho, Cal State Northridge, Christine Collins-Kiernan, Jason Flowers, Mater Dei, Staci Schulz
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Williams House Bed & Breakfast
103 & 111 South Ninth Street
Fernandina Beach, Florida 32034
Turnkey Offering
Sales Price: $1,799,999
This lovely property is an existing Bed & Breakfast known as Williams House, located in Fernandina Beach, Nassau County, Florida. It is configured to provide a total of 11 guest rooms throughout the 3 buildings known as the Williams House, the Carriage House and the Heathstone House located along the western side of South Ninth Street.
Williams House is located near the Fernandina Historic District, which is on the National Register of Historic Places. The 30 block historic district and its boundaries were expanded to include 50 blocks. The district consists of Victorian era architecture, and offers boutique shopping and a wide variety of restaurants, as well as hosting the Isle of Eight Flags Shrimp Festival each year among many other events.
Reasons for the areas popularity include it’s beachside location and National Park.
Marketing & Financial Package
Location: 103 and 111 South Ninth Street, Fernandina Beach, Florida 32034
11 Guest Rooms with private baths
Plus Private Owner’s Quarters, Living Area, Bedroom, Full Bath, & Kitchen in Carriage House
Outdoor Porches
10,866 Square Feet among 3 buildings
8,838 square feet heated.
Zoning: C-3 “Central Business District and MU-1 Mixed Use
Flood Data: Flood Zone X – Outside of the 100 and 500 year Flood plains.
Year Built 1884 – 111 S Ninth St
Select Registry Property
Yearly Average Occupancy: 2017 BnB: 35.6% 2018: 39.1%
ADR: $228.53 2017 $232.48 2018
RevPar: $81.29 2017 $90.90 2018
Gross Revenue 2017: 331,560.00 2018 $368,000 +
Net Operating Income NOI: $188,733.18
Lot Size: .45+ Acre
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Chilly temps don't deter racing fans by Beth Reed | January 26, 2019 at 3:00 a.m.
THEY'RE OFF: Horses break from the starting gate during the first race of the 2019 live race meet at Oaklawn Park on Friday.
Despite the lack of morning training, the late January sun was shining on Oaklawn Park Friday and the track looked great for opening day, officials said.
"It is a little chilly, but the sun is shining, as it always does on Oaklawn Park, and the track's in great shape," said Wayne Smith, general manager. "The horsemen are just anxious to get going and I think the fans are just extremely excited to get this thing rolling."
Media Relations Manager Jennifer Hoyt said the opening day crowd of 20,000 was a "great crowd" and began funneling in early before the 12:30 p.m. post time.
"I do know we had 600 reservations for the club today which is one of the best opening day reservations we've ever had," Hoyt said. "I just think that because of the later date, people are just super excited and ready to come out."
Hoyt said the track was closed to training in anticipation of frozen conditions, following an overnight low in the 20s. The closure allowed crews more time to get it into shape for the first day of racing.
The Sentinel-Record/Richard Rasmussen WINNING CONNECTIONS: Jeannette Snyder, surrounded by her family and friends, as well as Oaklawn Park employees and jockeys, presents the trophy to the winning connections in the Larry Snyder Winner's Circle following the first race Friday at Oaklawn Park. Jeanette Snyder is the wife of legendary jockey and longtime Oaklawn steward Larry Snyder, who died in late October.
Following the first race, Jeanette Snyder, wife of legendary jockey and longtime Oaklawn steward Larry Snyder, presented the winning connections in the Larry Snyder Winner's Circle.
"As many folks have been made aware of, we've created a new winner's circle this year and we named it for one of the most successful jockeys in the country -- Larry Snyder," Smith said. "He was a longtime jockey for Oaklawn and a longtime steward at Oaklawn, so we're having his wife come and present the winner for the first race, for the first time ever in our winner's circle, their trophy."
Jeanette Snyder said she was nervous, yet honored to present the trophy.
SPECIAL HONOR: Jockey Joe Johnson gives Jeannette Snyder, right, a hug following the first race in the Larry Snyder Winner's Circle at Oaklawn Park Friday. Jeanette Snyder, wife of legendary jockey and longtime Oaklawn steward Larry Snyder, presented the winning connections in the new winner's circle.
"It's an honor I'll never forget and I know Larry is down here with me ... I'm just very proud to do it," she said.
Smith said Oaklawn was equally as honored to make her a part of the opening day ceremonies.
Today, racing continues and Oaklawn offers it's famous corned beef sandwiches for just 50 cents, which should bring out a bigger crowd.
"I think we'll probably have a bigger crowd (today) because for some reason, everybody loves that 50-cent corned beef and 10-cent sodas," Smith said. "We should have a real big crowd (today). Should be a little warmer and the sun will be shining, so everybody come out and have a corned beef and a soda on us and watch some wonderful racing."
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Print Headline: Chilly temps don't deter racing fans
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Forget the Facebook App: Use the Mobile Site for a Less Annoying Experience
Chris Hoffman and Cameron Summerson @chrisbhoffman
Updated September 10, 2017, 4:21pm EDT
Facebook’s Android and iPhone apps aren’t great. The iPhone app has had bugs that cause it to drain battery in the background, and it could be using up to 20% of your battery on Android. What’s more, Facebook once even reportedly made its Android app crash on purpose once.
Rather than put up with the awful app, you can use Facebook’s fairly full-featured mobile site instead. Add the website to your home screen and you can launch it in one tap, just like the app. On Android, you can even get push notifications from Facebook via Google Chrome.
How to Add the Mobile Site on the iPhone
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On the iPhone, you can uninstall the Facebook app by locating the Facebook app icon on your home screen, long-pressing it, and tapping the “x” to uninstall it.
Once you’ve done that, open the Safari web browser and head to facebook.com. Sign in with your Facebook account. Next, tap the “Share” button on the bar at the bottom of the screen—it’s the icon that looks like a square with an up arrow coming out of it—and tap the “Add to Home Screen” icon in the bottom row of action icons.
Facebook will get its own icon on your iPhone’s home screen, and you can quickly tap that icon to quickly open the Facebook website. As Facebook isn’t installed as an app, it won’t be able to run in the background and access your location, which is good—those things drain your battery. You can rearrange the Facebook icon and other app icons as normal. Just long-press it and drag it around to move it to other screens or change its position on the current screen. You could also place it it inside an app folder.
Sadly, the mobile site won’t be able to display notifications on the iPhone. If you really want Facebook notifications, you can always enable email notifications on the Facebook website. You’ll get your Facebook notifications emailed to you, and they’ll appear in Mail or your email app of choice.
How to Add the Mobile Site on Android
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On Android, you can generally locate the Facebook app icon in your app drawer, long-press it, and drag it to a trash icon or something similar to uninstall it. This may work differently on different phones, depending on the customizations your manufacturer made to your phone’s version of Android. If this doesn’t work, open the Settings page, tap the “Apps” category, tap the “Facebook” app, and tap “Uninstall”.
If there is no “Uninstall” button, it’s likely because your manufacturer preinstalled it on your phone, and you aren’t allowed to uninstall it. A “Disable” button should appear here instead, though; tap that to disable the app instead.
Now it’s time to replace it with the mobile site. Open your preferred web browser. For simplicity’s sake, we’ll provide instructions for Google Chrome. This process will also work with other web browsers like Mozilla Firefox, but the option may be in a different place. Other browsers likely won’t support push notifications like Google Chrome does, either.
Head to facebook.com in your web browser app and sign in. When you first visit the website, you’ll be informed that Facebook wants to send you notifications. Tap “Allow” and you’ll get Facebook notifications via Google Chrome.
If you change your mind later, and don’t want notifications, you can tap the lock icon in the address bar while on Facebook, then tap “Site settings”, followed by “Notifications,” and change the setting to “Block.”
Next, you’ll want to add the icon to your home screen. In Chrome, tap the menu button and then tap “Add to Home screen.” Other browsers will have similar options in their menus.
A Facebook icon will appear on your home screen alongside your app shortcut icons and widgets, allowing you to get to Facebook with a single tap. You can long-press the icon and drag it around to place it somewhere more convenient.
The only downside: The Facebook mobile site, much like the app, doesn’t let you read your messages. Instead, it’ll ask you to download Facebook Messenger app. You can, however, read your messages at the very basic mbasic.facebook.com mobile site if you really need to.
For an Even Better Experience on Android: Use Metal
If you’re looking for something with even more features than the mobile site, Metal for Facebook (and Twitter) is the way to go. It’s basically a wrapper for the mobile site—this means it loads the mobile site within its own “shell” of sorts—but also provides and expands upon the features already found on Facebook Mobile.
If you’ve been using the Facebook Mobile site (or at least checked it out), then Metal is going to look very familiar. All the existing functionality of the mobile site is still in place, but Metal somehow makes it feel much more like a native app. For example, if you navigate to the notification tab and refresh the page, Metal will simply reload your notifications, where the mobile site will actually refresh the entire page and take you back to your feed. It’s the little things, man.
Moreover, Metal adds one of Android’s most useful features to Facebook: a side menu. This provides quick access to a slew of different pages with just a tap: search, news feed, your profile, friend requests, groups, pages, and a lot more. This in itself makes Metal so much nicer than just using Facebook’s mobile site.
Along with enhancements to Facebook’s mobile site itself, Metal also has its own settings. For example, Metal can generate Facebook notifications if you’re into that sort of thing. It also has a nice security feature called “Metal Lock” that enables password verification before you can launch the app—it’s worth noting that this is a separate password from Facebook. It also works with Nexus Imprint, Android’s fingerprint system. It’s pretty brilliant.
Beyond that, Metal offers themes to keep things looking clean, as well as a feature that I’ve personally grown to love: the Metal Bar. Basically, this is a persistent notification that gives quick access to your feed, friend requests, messages and notifications—best of all, it does so in a floating window! This means it leaves whatever app you’re currently in running in the foreground and just display the Metal window on top of it. This is by far my favorite feature of Metal.
Finally, there are a handful of other Facebook-specific features found in Metal. The option to enable Facebook check-ins is there, as well as some choices for link control (open links in the app or in the browser). You can also block images for faster loading and lower data usage, as well as define which version of the site loads: mobile or desktop. The are options for “Facebook Basic” and “Facebook Zero” as well, though the latter is only available on specific carriers.
Almost all of Metal’s features are completely free, but there is also a paid version of the app called Metal Pro that allows you to support the developer. It also adds the option for a Material Design theme, which is a nice bonus—and worth the $1.99 asking price in itself, honestly.
Sure, this is an old tip, but it’s amazing how many people are still struggling with Facebook’s app when there’s such a better option available. The mobile site looks almost exactly like the app, and with modern mobile web browsers faster than ever, the Facebook website is pretty snappy. Switch to Metal on Android, and the experience gets even better. Add in the ability to send messages and (again, on Android) push notifications, and this is a killer solution.
This also works for other social media services that provide half-decent mobile websites, of course. You could use this same process for Twitter, for example—which is also supported by Metal on Android. Just sayin’.
Chris Hoffman
Chris Hoffman is Editor in Chief of How-To Geek. He's written about technology for nearly a decade and was a PCWorld columnist for two years. Chris has written for The New York Times, been interviewed as a technology expert on TV stations like Miami's NBC 6, and had his work covered by news outlets like the BBC. Since 2011, Chris has written over 2,000 articles that have been read more than 500 million times---and that's just here at How-To Geek.
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Courtney Act Shares HIV Result, Reminding Us Safe Sex Isn't Taboo
It's something we should all be talking about.
By Cayla Dengate
The moment Australian performer Shane Jenek reads his HIV test results, it's hard to to avoid holding your breath.
Jenek, who is better known as onstage persona Courtney Act, has video blogged what he did after discovering he had unprotected sex with a man who was HIV positive.
The result is a powerful message about why it's important to talk about safe sex, and take charge of your own sexual health, and it's being applauded by AIDS campaigners.
Jenek uploaded the first video in early December where he shared the story.
"Last week I had unprotected sex with somebody who I later found out was HIV positive, which, on my behalf, wasn't a smart decision," Jenek said.
"I should've taken more responsibility and used a condom or other precautions like PrEP, pre exposure prophylaxis, but I did not.
"Thankfully, there is a tool available called PEP, post exposure prophylaxis."
Jenek went to a sexual health clinic where he was tested for HIV and Hepatitus C in a blood test as well as a throat, anal and urine swab testing for gonorrhea, chlamydia and syphilis.
What is PrEP and what is PEP
Pre Exposure Prophylaxis is a course of antiretroviral drugs that prevents HIV infections. It's taken daily on an ongoing basis.
Post exposure prophylaxis is taken within 72 hours of a potential exposure. It's a four-week course of anti-HIV drugs.
He videoed himself as he received each result and didn't shy away form sharing a positive reading for rectal chlamydia, which can be treated.
"This is why we still wear condoms, kid," Jenek said in the video.
His HIV result was negative.
"Now it is your turn to go out and be tested," Jenek said.
"We can end HIV in our lifetimes, this is a real actual thing. Go out and get yourself tested."
Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations chief executive Darryl O'Donnell told The Huffington Post Australia Jenek's honesty sent the right message.
"I think it's an extraordinary video. It's wonderful to have people who are known in the community to be talking about sexual health and getting tested in such open ways because it sends the right signals to young people.
"These are not issues to be ashamed of. It's something to talk about with friends and families and loved ones."
Australia currently is working towards the goal of eliminating HIV by 2020 and O'Donnell said PrEP and PEP were vital in reaching that goal.
"One of the extraordinary things about HIV in 2017 is just how treatable it is. It's still a really big deal to have that diagnosis and something that can be confronting, but it's entirely manageable in 2017.
"The treatments are now quite simple and someone who is diagnosed early can expect to live a long and healthy life."
He said that while PEP was accessible in Australia, PrEP trials were continuing.
"For anyone who believes they have been exposed to HIV, they can go to their GP or sexual health clinic to seek information on PEP. It's taken very soon after exposure, within 72 hours, so the key is to seek advice very, very quickly.
"PrEP is available through a number of trials happening in almost all states and territories. These trials allow people who are at a high risk to commence PrEP. For people outside of those trials, they can also talk to a doctor about getting a script and personally importing it.
"We are still waiting for the approval of PrEP on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme and only then will we know that everyone who needs it has access to it.
"The goal of virtually eliminating HIV in Australia by 2020 is absolutely achievable. We have all the access we need to the tools that will end this epidemic."
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Never Lose A Client
It’s January, which means you’re in danger of losing something. A bad habit? Some weight? Willpower, just in general?
Wouldn’t it be nice though, if you never had to lose another client again?
There’s an observed phenomenon in business where customers find themselves more impressed with a brand after an error’s been fixed than if nothing had gone wrong in the first place.
Case in point: Slack went down for a few hours one Monday morning. Millions of users took to Twitter to vent about the first-world hell they found themselves in.
SlackHQ responded with over 2,000 tweets to stressed out users. And as a result, saw a 7x bump in followers on a day that could have buried them.
This upsurge in positive engagement is known as the Service Recovery Paradox.
It’s a subject that’s been studied a fair bit. One research paper found that a Service Recovery Paradox is most likely to occur when errors aren’t that serious, haven’t happened before, and the company had little control over the cause.
On a separate point, authors of The service recovery paradox: True but overrated? say that while it’s “an opportunity to create an excellent recovery, the likelihood of a service paradox is very low”.
A Service Recovery Paradox is rare and only applies to certain situations. So while you could probably manufacture the same effect for yourself artificially, you’d be deliberately risking your business just to potentially ‘save the day’.
The key to keeping clients isn’t about never failing.
It’s about failing better than anyone else.
If that sounds like a rubbish idea, read about Why Failure’s So Important to one of the most bankable stars in Hollywood. Successful people fail way more than anyone else.
So this is a call to arms to take ownership of any cock ups. To turn mistakes into a stronger service. To keep more clients. Which will make you more money in the long run.
You failed
There’s only a few occasions you’ll fail to deliver for a client. The most obvious being delivering candidates to time, quality or budget. Unless it’s all three at once.
Or you’ve got a dropper.
How do you recover?
Deliver faster? Submit higher quality candidates? Provide better value for money?
Frogmarch your runner back through the front doors?
It’s not always possible. But then for a service recovery to be successful, it doesn’t need the impossible delivered. You just need to show you can work. And by that I mean: your socks off.
Damage limitation
Instead of just looking at a failure as a problem to be managed – which it absolutely is – see it also as an opportunity to build more confidence and loyalty into the relationships with your clients.
Look at failure as a revenue building activity, rather than a cost saving effort.
That might sound cynical, but it’s the practical consequence of “turning negatives into positives” when money’s on the table.
You need to work fast. The longer you leave it, the more entrenched your client’s irritation will be. That doesn’t necessarily mean they’ll get angrier. It means the failure will be harder to overturn.
So own the problem
And there’s a magic word you can use. Although doing so divides opinion.
People have differing attitudes towards apologising in business. Legal people assume it infers guilt. Customer service types know it’s the number one thing people want to hear.
Obviously, you’ve got to judge the situation on its own merits. But a sincere apology can make a huge difference when a service has failed.
Although what seems to make an even bigger difference is explaining why the error’s occurred.
So walk your client through the problem, from top to bottom, honestly and thoroughly. Particularly if you can show that the failure’s beyond your control. Or that it hasn’t happened before.
These factors are key to a successful service recovery.
Although bear in mind there’s a fine line separating explanations and excuses. So don’t confuse the two. But involve your client in the issue and they’ll have more of a stake in the solution.
Owning the problem doesn’t just extend to apologising and explaining where things went pear shaped. If you’ve got the ear of your client, they need to know what you’re going to do about it.
You get points in maths exams for showing your working. In recruitment, all you need to show is the right answer.
Let’s flip that assumption on it’s head, while making another: that you’ve already delivered the best quality on the market.
When explaining what went wrong, include the metrics you’ve already hit. Time invested, platforms searched, candidates screened, CVs parsed.
Again, if your client can see you’ve held up your end of the bargain, it’s harder to vilify you. And that opens the door to a successful service recovery.
When faced with the choice, I believe most businesses would say attitude trumps experience when you get right down to it.
So test that.
If you can compromise on a candidate’s wealth of experience with the agreed-upon salary expectations of a motivated up and comer, one whose skill gaps aren’t unbridgeable, that could lead to a filled vacancy.
And a happy client. Albeit a slightly smaller deal for you.
And if that fails?
Knock your fee down
There might only be a handful of reasons you’d ever consider doing so. If at all. Doing whatever it takes to get a deal over the line might be one. It’s also fairly common if you’re expecting to recruit in volume in the future.
In owning a problem, invoicing for less is a heck of a gesture.
You’re not discounting. You’re recognising that a mistake’s been made. And money’s a straightforward, easy to agree upon way of doing that.
Equally, being clear that a reduction in your fee’s a one-time deal only reaffirms that you’re worth what you’re charging every other day of the week.
Token concessions don’t recover a service by themselves.
And arguably, ending the recovery effort here could be deemed just as big a failure as the initial event.
Proactive service recovery
Asking yourself two questions will keep the turd from the fan in future:
i) What went wrong?
ii) How do I make sure it doesn’t happen again?
Whatever the answer is to ii), build it into your workflow. Then tell your client what you’ve changed. Then follow up.
Committing to a better service is what galvanises a successful recovery.
Saying sorry and knocking money off’s what happens in restaurants when customers complain. In recruitment, you need to go further. Mainly because you aren’t just servicing clients on their birthday or anniversary.
If you’re expecting them to work with you every day, you need to prove that tomorrow’s going to be better.
I’m not saying the clients you’ve got now will be on your books forever. You might even elect to let a few slide. Particularly if you’re cultivating a Preferred Client List of your own.
But responding to failure better than your competitors will differentiate you from them.
Remember that a Service Recovery Paradox isn’t the mark of something great. It’s just the best outcome from a bad thing happening. But if there’s a chance to build something better from something bad, it’s worth it.
And if you do lose a client for whatever reason, especially a big one, and it feels like a disaster: bounce back, here.
January 14, 2020 by Tom Filby
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Glucocorticoid receptors in human peripheral blood mononuclear cells in relation to explosive performance in elite handball players
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Ten handball players, members of the Italian National Team (aged 20-25 years), were studied in two sessions corresponding to different performance levels. The first session occurred one week after the end of the regular season of the Italian Handball Federation: it corresponded to the beginning of the training cycle for the European Handball Championship. The second session occurred ten weeks after the first session. During this period, training consisted of 3 weeks of active recovery and 7 weeks of increasing workload. For each session, jumping performances (maximal height in a single jump, average mechanical power for a 15-s set of consecutive jumps) were evaluated. Venous blood samples were collected in resting conditions immediately before jumping performances to assess cortisol and testosterone plasma concentrations and glucocorticoid receptors (GcR) binding capacity and affinity in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs). All the parameters, except GcR binding affinity, increased in the second session. The trends of variation in jumping performances, steroid hormone levels and GcR binding capacity were similar. For testosterone, this agrees with the hypothesis that an adequate level of this hormone is a prerequisite for improvement in explosive performances. For cortisol, higher GcR binding capacity after 10 weeks of training (with respect to initial values) indicated an up-regulation of GcR concomitant with the increase in hormone levels and performances. These findings suggest that the adaptation to training, confirmed by the improvement in performance, is characterized by a high value of GcR binding capacity and that it is mediated, among other factors, by the hormone levels and up-regulation of the receptors. Source: Life Sci - Volume 69 - Issue 8
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A worker digs a path through the large snow mounds on Beacon Street during a winter blizzard in Boston, Massachusetts, Feb. 15, 2015. The U.S. Northeast struggled to dig out on Sunday from another major winter storm that made February the snowiest month in Boston's history, but bitter sub zero cold and huge drifts hampered the effort. Massive snowfall from Boston's fourth major snowstorm in two weeks set a record for the city's snowiest month since weather records have been kept, the National Weather Service said. Photo: Reuters
With more than 6 feet already on the ground from previous storms, the Northeast saw more flakes fall on Sunday. Forecasters have warned of heavy snow, high winds and freezing temperatures that could lead to dangerous travel conditions as well as life-threatening illnesses including hypothermia and frostbite.
Boston, which was socked by its fourth winter storm in 30 days, has had its snowiest month on record with 45.5 total inches. Mass transit has shut down. Both parking and travel bans are in place as a blizzard packing 75 mph wind gusts is predicted to drop 8 inches more on the city.
Eastern Massachusetts is expected to see a possible 20 inches of new snow. About 3,000 pieces of snowplow equipment have been deployed, state Transportation Secretary Stephanie Pollack said at a press conference Sunday. She noted motorists should not get on the road until the snow has been cleared.
At a press conference Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker said hundreds of people remain due to the storm, mostly in coastal regions. WBZ, Boston, put the number of electric customers without power at 2,000. Baker urged residents to dig out vents and remove snow from their roofs, citing four roof collapses.
While the snow is expected to taper off Monday evening in Massachusetts, freezing temperatures are expected to set in. Wind chills as low as minus-40 degrees in western parts of the state and 25 below zero in the east, according to the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency.
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Terror In Paris
'I Thought This Was The End'
On a cool night in Paris, a series of terrorist attacks left scores of people dead, and a nation deeply wounded for the second time this year.
By Sarah Berger @sarahberger0408 AND Jackie Salo @Jackie_Salo AND Salvador Rodriguez @sal19
A French policeman assists a blood-covered victim near the Bataclan concert hall following attacks in Paris, November 14, 2015. Photo: REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer
The first sign that a seemingly ordinary November night in Paris was about to descend into tragedy emerged around 9 p.m. local time, with word that a shootout was unfolding at a crowded Cambodian noodle shop in the 10th Arrondissement, a trendy neighborhood popular with young people and tourists.
The Friday evening was packed with the usual activity of a weekend in one of the world’s most cosmopolitan cities. A soccer match featuring the French and German national teams was playing out at the Stade de France stadium in front of some 80,000 people, among them French President François Hollande. Roughly five miles away at the Bataclan Concert Hall, the Southern California rock band, the Eagles of Death Metal, were taking the stage as part of a European tour. Throughout the city, diners were piled into the thousands of eateries that have made Paris an international food mecca.
“I have never seen so many dead people around me in my life.”
Suddenly, a lone gunman reportedly wielding a Kalashnikov automatic rifle entered the noodle shop, Le Petit Cambodge. He opened fire, transforming the packed restaurant into a horror scene. By the time the counting was done, 14 people were dead and two others were injured.
“There were people on the ground, and I thought a car had driven into the Petit Cambodge Restaurant, because the window was smashed in,” a witness told Le Monde. “I didn't understand what had happened.”
This was merely the beginning of an apparently coordinated series of attacks that would play out at a half-dozen different venues across the French capital on this infamous night -- from the soccer stadium to a crowded neighborhood gathering place to the concert hall and at least one other restaurant. Before the grim arithmetic was complete, French authorities would tally at least 120 deaths, making this the worst terrorist attack in Europe since the 2004 Madrid train bombings.
As the news of the carnage seeped out across Paris and then around the globe, ricocheting across social media channels and dominating broadcast outlets, people struggled to understand what had unfolded beyond the awful essentials: For the second time in less than a year, Paris was again the epicenter of a lethal terrorist attack.
"I feel that all of a sudden there is war outside my door," one Parisian, Nathalie Chelou, told International Business Times. "I wonder what will happen tomorrow."
How these events unfolded -- committed by whom, and at what time, and in the service of what cause -- could not be fully discerned as Friday gave way to Saturday. Sympathizers of ISIS, the jihadist group that has established a self-proclaimed caliphate across great swaths of Iraq and Syria, were declaring victory, celebrating November 14 as a day that should stand alongside September 11 as a milestone in the ruthless killing of Western enemies. But the leadership of ISIS had not taken credit for the acts, and the people who allegedly did the killing could not be consulted: The French authorities said that eight had been killed -- either by stormtroopers or by their own hand -- and more were potentially at large.
What follows here is the best available timeline that could be fashioned early Saturday; a timeline subject to change as new facts emerge.
Le Petit Cambodge was not the only restaurant hit Friday night. Violence also unfolded at La Belle Equippe, a busy cafe and restaurant in the 11th arrondissement at the corner of Rue de Charonne and Rue Faidherbe. Roughly a dozen people died at the neighborhood brasserie.
“I heard detonations and went to the window,” a witness told Le Monde. “I have a direct view of the café. I saw a man getting out of a car and firing on the terrace, by guesswork. He shot many times, in gusts. I heard cries. Then the man got back in his car and left, just like that.”
Not long after the bullets tore through the restaurants, explosions reverberated through the national soccer stadium.
“I thought this was the end. I thought I’m finished, I’m finished. I was terrified.”
It was still early in the game, in the first half of an exhibition match with bitter rival Germany. The roars of cheering fans had yet to hit critical mass as the explosions ripped through stadium. The first round, at around 9:20 p.m., was short and loud.
"We heard them, but we thought they were home-made devices or fireworks," one fan in attendance, Frederic Lavergne, told the Associated Press."We had no idea at the time what it was."
The next explosion followed minutes later.
“If you ever have been to a large soccer game, it is not unusual to hear fireworks,” freelance reporter Ben Barnier told NPR. “But this time, the two explosions were much larger than fireworks and shortly after, we heard police sirens which indicated that something unusual might have happened indeed.”
Security guards hustled President Hollande out of the stadium. The game continued as if nothing unusual had transpired, Barnier said, but as the sporting event went on, people’s eyes shifted from the field to their mobile phones, which flashed updates on the terrorist attacks that were at that moment unfolding just outside the stadium walls. Helicopters circled overhead, while thousands of spectators entered the pitch of Stade de France stadium, reported the Associated Press. Fans who wanted to leave the stadium before the game finished were initially not permitted to do so.
President of the French Football Federation, Noël Le Graët, said officials decided against informing the crowds about the attacks initially in order to prevent panic, according to Fox Sports.
The French and German players finished the game, with France winning 2-0, before attendees were allowed to leave. An announcer came over the stadium loudspeaker to tell fans to exit, but avoid certain gates, according to Fox Sports. Some fans were hesitant to leave, staying 30 minutes after the game came to a close.
The scenes inside the Stade de France as spectators are asked to leave through specific gates. #FRAGER #Paris pic.twitter.com/UHhwts7KyZ
— Kieran (@FootyAntics) November 13, 2015
Police were stationed outside to help evacuate the distressed crowds. It is not clear how many explosions detonated outside of the stadium. At least one of the explosions was the work of a suicide bomber, local French news outlets reported. At least four people were killed in the blasts, according to CNN.
The scene outside the stadium was oddly calm: Some fans left the premises singing France’s national anthem, the Marseillaise. “To arms, to arms, ye brave,” fans chanted in French in a Facebook video.
But while the soccer game played to conclusion, the violence delivered an abrupt change of scene at the Bataclan concert hall. There, a hail of gunfire quickly turned the event from festive to terrifying.
The Eagles of Death Metal were on tour to promote their new album, “Zipper Down,” their first release in seven years. They were nearly an hour into their set when one attendee, Jerome Boucer, heard what sounded like firecrackers.
“It was loud but the gig was very loud, and I thought it was something that was part of the show. I think lots of people did, too,” Boucer told The Guardian.
“Then they started firing,” he said.
"They" were the men in black clothing who reportedly broke into the theater armed with automatic weapons, one witness told E1 -- no difficult feat, given the absence of metal detectors and the lack of pat downs and bag searches on entry. They simply walked in, the way the rest of the crowd did, and began firing on the hundreds of concerts goers.
“There were wounded, there was a lot of blood,” Boucer said. “Blood everywhere.”
The assailants took hostages and began shooting them one by one as they lay helplessly on the ground, execution style, according to multiple reports. Perhaps 100 people died there.
A victim's body lies covered on Boulevard des Filles du Calvaire, close to the Bataclan theater, early on November 14, 2015 in Paris, France. Photo: Thierry Chesnot/Getty Images
"They were not moving," Julien Pearce, a radio reporter told CNN. "They were just standing at the back of the concert room and shooting at us. Like we were birds."
As the killing played out for ten minutes, fans lay on the floor of the arena, covering their heads with their hands. The attackers took a short break to reload their weapons, and Pearce made a break for the exits alongside others.
"They reloaded again, and we ran," Pearce said.
As he ran out, Pearce encountered a teenage girl who'd been hit by gunshots. Pearce told CNN he put her on his back and ran for hundreds of meters before putting the survivor into a taxi and telling the driver to head for the hospital.
As he spoke with CNN outside of the Bataclan, Pearce continued communicating via text message with friends who remained at the venue. Pearce’s friends were not the only ones asking for help with their smartphones. Benjamin Cazenoves, whose Facebook profile lists him as working in Paris, wrote to his friends on Facebook that he remained at the Bataclan “hurt bad.”
“There are survivors inside,” Cazenoves wrote. “They are cutting down all the world. One by one.”
Some inside were able to shield themselves from the mayhem by quickly escaping into an attic compartment at the venue and hiding there, according to various survivor accounts tweeted by Elise Barthet, a journalist for Le Monde, the French newspaper.
"I do not know what was worse: see the dead down in the ditch in the first minutes, or waiting in the" attic, said John B., according to Barthet.
As they waited, some of the survivors heard the attackers say, this is "the fault" of President Hollande, Barthet reported, quoting another survivor. The hostages hid wherever they could until French forces broke in to rescue them.
“I thought this was the end. I thought I’m finished, I’m finished. I was terrified,” Marc Coupris, 57, told The Guardian. “Eventually, when a few gendarmes came in slowly we began to look up and there was blood absolutely everywhere. The police told us to run.”
After the rescue, survivors gathered at nearby bars, where they were comforted and kept warm with blankets as journalists and police took their accounts of what happened. CNN reported that at least 100 hostages managed to be rescued.
“I have never seen so many dead people around me in my life,” survivor Jasmine told BFM TV, a French TV news channel. “I am traumatized."
Amid the terror and the sorrow, other emotions were welling to the surface.
“Most people I have talked to are more angry than anything else,” Danielle Pacelli, 23, an American working as an au pair outside Paris, told IBT. “There is a sense of national outrage. People are also scared, including me. It is hard to feel safe when people are being gunned down and slaughtered in theaters and restaurants.”
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Cinnamon is your best companion to fight obesity, study suggests
Researchers have found that including cinnamon in your diet will help to shed those extra pounds from your hip
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Researchers at the Michigan University have found that intake of cinnamon will help to combat obesity. The researchers have discovered that Cinnamaldehyde, an active ingredient in cinnamon has powerful fat burning abilities.
Cinnamaldehyde is mainly responsible for giving the spice its distinct flavor and has been previously proven to protect mice against obesity. The study "Cinnamaldehyde induces fat cell-autonomous thermogenesis and metabolic reprogramming" is published in the December issue of the Journal Metabolism.
Cinnamaldehyde activates thermogenesis
Cinnamaldehyde is basically an essential oil which is known for activating thermogenesis - a bodily metabolic process which burns calories to produce heat. Jun Wu, a research assistant professor at the Life Sciences Institute has said that this process will kickstart weight loss, a positive news for people suffering from obesity in all nooks of the globe.
"Scientists were finding that this compound affected metabolism. So we wanted to figure out how—what pathway might be involved, what it looked like in mice and what it looked like in human cells," said Wu, reports the University of Michigan on its website.
During the study, Wu and her team tested human adipocytes from volunteers representing a wide range of age groups, ethnicity and body mass indexes. When the cells were treated with Cinnamaldehyde, researchers noticed increased in the expression of several genes that enhance lipid metabolism. The researchers also found an increase in Ucp1 and Fgf21, the metabolic regulatory proteins which are directly involved in thermogenesis.
"Cinnamon has been part of our diets for thousands of years, and people generally enjoy it. So if it can help protect against obesity, too, it may offer an approach to metabolic health that is easier for patients to adhere to," added Wu.
However, more researches should be carried out to confirm the benefits and the possibility of side effects, if consumed more.
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According to culinary star Alex Guarnaschelli, ICE alum Michael Jenkins entered her restaurant as the “worst intern she ever had.” Ten years later, Michael is running Guarnaschelli’s kitchen as the executive chef at Butter restaurant in New York City.
November 20, 2015 by Carly DeFilippo
“I remember being young and reading Letters to a Young Chef by Daniel Boulud,” Michael explains. “In it, he says, ‘The first thing you should do in a kitchen is make yourself useful.’ I took that to heart, and I even came into the restaurant on my days off. That extra time was an opportunity to experiment and master techniques through repetition—like making pasta.”
Michael’s sense of dedication and hard work comes from his teenage years as an athlete in Oklahoma. It was making healthy meals for himself that first got him interested in cooking. Then, during college, he read Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential and had the chance to meet a few professional chefs. In short order, Michael realized his plan to go to medical school was no longer what he wanted.
After scouting a few different culinary school options, he decided on ICE. “I liked how realistic the program was,” Michael says. “Nine months to graduate was the perfect timeline for me—and then it was straight into the real world with the externship. The school also had a great career advancement program.”
Michael recently joined Alex for a cooking demonstration at ICE
Michael met Chef Alex when she was a teacher at the Institute of Culinary Education. He approached her about an externship opportunity after she subbed for one of his classes. Though she clearly was unimpressed with him at the beginning, Alex soon offered Michael a full-time job, and three years into his time at Butter he was competing—and winning—on Chopped.
“Competing on TV was a revelation. It was as if you studied Spanish for three years, got dropped in the middle of Mexico and suddenly realized you had been fluent in Spanish all along. Working with Alex—three years in the pantry preparing precise appetizers—had trained me so well for competition. In comparison to the other people on the show, I felt that I knew what I was doing.”
Since then, Alex’s connections have helped Michael gain access to chefs others might only dream of meeting. He recalls being sent to Daniel Boulud’s kitchens to work on an ice cream recipe for one of Alex’s Iron Chef competitions. The young French pastry chef who helped Michael refine the recipe would later turn into a legend in his own right—the creator of the cronut, Dominique Ansel.
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Despite his frontline access to the world of cooking for television, Michael says he’s much happier in restaurant kitchens. “Working in television is a lot of hurry up and wait. I like the constant pace of restaurant kitchens—and I have a ton of creative freedom after spending so many years earning Alex’s trust.” In fact, if there’s one piece of advice to draw from Michael’s story, it’s the benefit of making the most of each opportunity, rather than jumping from kitchen to kitchen.
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The Middle East trade in Agarwood - aromatic deposits produced by Aquilaria trees in response to infection by a mould - is at risk because of over-harvesting in Asia
Rising demand for agarwood, problems in monitoring harvests and a persistent illegal trade threaten the future of the highly prized fragrant wood say two reports launched today by TRAFFIC.
Agarwood is found only in a few Asian tree species which produce resin-impregnated heartwood as a response to wounding or infection. It has been used for centuries as highly-prized perfume, incense and traditional medicine across Asia and the Middle East.
Today, hundreds of tonnes of agarwood are traded each year, involving at least 18 countries. Half of the declared volume in international trade in 2005 originated from Malaysia. International trade in agarwood is regulated through a system of permits by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).
Growth in the population and affluence of consuming markets in Japan, Taiwan, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has seen demand soar over the past 30 years leading to rapidly diminishing stocks in the wild, rising prices and concerns over future supplies.
Whole trees are normally felled to find the valuable resin deposits but with just 10% of trees naturally infected this is a very inefficient process. Over-exploitation of old-growth trees has led to a reduction in the quality and quantity of agarwood available. Today, seven of the 18 agarwood-producing tree species found in Malaysia are at risk of global extinction.
“All too often protected areas are being stripped of their agarwood-bearing trees and the opportunity for a well-managed harvest to provide a sustainable income for local communities is lost,” said James Compton, TRAFFIC’s Senior Programme Director for Asia and a joint author of the UAE report.
“Better enforcement of protection laws and a move to creating cultivated agarwood to supply the trade are two measures producer countries should urgently consider to help conserve their irreplaceable biodiversity.”
The report Wood for the Trees – A Review of the Agarwood Trade in Malaysia reveals that illegal harvesting and a lack of effective management of much of the legal harvest are major causes for concern.
Foreign collectors entering Malaysia illegally to harvest agarwood, often from protected areas, compound the problem. Despite almost 200 arrests between 1992 and 2005, there appears to have been no decline in the level of illegal harvest in Malaysia.
“Very often the high market value of agarwood results in organized groups of illegal harvesters spending long periods in protected forest areas,” said TRAFFIC’s Noorainie Awang Anak, co-author of the Malaysian report.
“While in the forest they poach wild animals for food and collect other high-value species for added income.”
Discrepancies in trade records have also deepened concerns. Between 1995 and 2002, less than half of the agarwood exported from Malaysia had the necessary CITES permits. Peninsular Malaysia’s CITES export quotas are currently (2010) set at 200 tonnes of powder and wood chips per year, from wild sources.
Malaysia and Indonesia are the largest exporters of agarwood to the UAE, one of the world’s largest agarwood markets. Between 2004 and 2007, reported imports of agarwood chips to the UAE rose from 56 to 162 tonnes, an increase of almost 300 per cent. Analysis of reported CITES trade data also showed that large shipments of agarwood sent from Singapore and India to the UAE listed Malaysia or Indonesia as the origin.
The UAE’s role as an important global consumer market, as well as the major re-exporter of agarwood to the Middle East is the subject of a second report, The Trade and Use of Agarwood (Oudh) in the United Arab Emirates (PDF, 710 KB).
The report identifies steps taken by the UAE authorities to monitor the trade, including the registering of traders. However, it also points to difficulties in controlling trade in various forms of agarwood, particularly agarwood oil, commonly transported in personal luggage. Most agarwood seized at Dubai Airport because of a lack of the relevant CITES documentation was found in the personal luggage of passengers arriving from India.
TRAFFIC recommends monitoring of personal luggage carried into the UAE and the setting of a limit for personal effects exemptions and further urges producer and consumer countries to step up ongoing co-operation in managing the global trade.
“Further work by the UAE authorities to engage key trading partners, such as Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and India directly, would assist in addressing issues in regulation and enforcement” said Compton.
The agarwood trade was a prominent agenda item at the CITES meeting in Doha, Qatar, last March where commitments were made to streamline trade controls, improve sustainability assessments, and increase networking between trading countries.
The reports were released in Nagoya, Japan, during the 10th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).
Recommendations to ensure sustainable and legal trade in agarwood, and combating illegal and destructive harvesting practices are a means to strengthen the Convention’s Global Strategy on Plant Conservation.
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Immedion Welcomes Brad Ratkowski to Managed Services Team in Spartanburg
Spartanburg, SC (May 2019) Immedion LLC, a premiere provider of cloud, data center and managed IT services, announced today the hiring of Brad Ratkowski as a Managed Services Support Engineer. As such, Brad will provide hands-on network, server and end user support to quickly resolve IT issues for Immedion’s Managed Services customer base in Spartanburg, SC.
Brad brings five years of experience in the IT industry to his new role at Immedion. He previously served as a Network Engineer at TSA Choice where he maintained and administered network solutions and served as an escalation point for customer support. In another role as Field Engineer, Brad commissioned and configured LAN/WAN equipment for 4G Project People and Towercomm. Brad holds several certifications, including CompTIA A+, CompTIA Network+, CCNA Routing & Switching and CCNA Security.
“Brad’s experience in the many facets of network support make him a great addition to the Managed Services team,” said Immedion’s Director of Managed Support Services, Mark Parrish. “We are pleased to welcome him to Immedion.”
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People talk about their lives and their work
Over time we have gathered some videoclips of inspiring people and we have gathered them together on this page. Click on the names to access the clips.
Julia Genet
Julia's family life is organised around providing her son with independence. She followed his passion for mechanics and tractors that she noticed at a young age.
Individualised Funding provided the resources to allow to put this vision into action.
Vivienne Thompson and Anne Westerskov
Vivienne is Anne's mother. Anne is passionate about meeting new people and developing her art business. She is an emerging artist interested in developing a micro-business as part of the portfolio of experiences she wants to learn from.
The communication and team work skills she will acquire during this experience will not only help develop her business but also improve her chances to get employed if she wants to later.
Claire Ryan
How come the sexuality of disabled people is such a contentious issue?
How come systems and people can plan to support disabled people's basic needs for food and roof but have more difficulty supporting their need for love and closeness to other human beings? Claire debunks myths in this domain and leads us through some sound reasoning and bold vision.
Lyndsay Tahitahi with one of her mokopuna. She talks about the importance of community in her life.
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In mid 2010, when he was 34, Michael Butterworth moved into his own home for the first time.
Mark Grantham
Have you met Mark Grantham selling chocolates to fundraise for the children he sponsors through World Vision?
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Andrew of People First
Andrew, from People First New Zealand, talks about how important it is for him to feel that he is contributing to his community. His first job was pivotal in helping him feel included and valued.
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Phyllis McPherson: Individualised Funding was life changing
Phyllis, from People First New Zealand, describes her experience with Individualised Funding as a turning point in her life. This is because she got control over aspects of her life that had previously been out of her reach - even small details such as how to run her household were controlled by staff working for providers over which Phyllis had little say.
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Taste Test: One bright spot in McDonald's Worldwide Favorites menu
Honestly, there's only one item in the bunch worth going out of your way for.
After weeks — possibly months — of seeing and hearing advertisements for McDonald's limited edition Worldwide Favorites menu, we finally broke down and tried it for ourselves.
We're taking a week off from our month of sampling local drive-ins to try this stuff before it leaves stores (presumably sometime this summer).
The Worldwide Favorites menu purports to bring of the "most popular favorites from the McDonald’s international menu to the U.S." It includes Cheesy Bacon Fries from Australia, a Tomato Mozzarella Chicken Sandwich from Canada, the Stroopwafel McFlurry from the Netherlands and the Grand McExtreme Bacon Burger from Spain.
We sampled three of the four offerings. Sorry, Spain, but Canada's sandwich seemed more promising.
The Bacon Cheesy Fries ($3.60) are exactly what you'd expect. A pile of crispy McDonald's fries topped with plenty of cheese sauce and bacon pieces. It's a valiant effort, but the cheese sauce is too thin and the overall flavor far too salty to be enjoyable. That said, the portion size is generous and its large enough to share.
We opted for the grilled version of the Tomato Mozzarella Chicken Sandwich ($5.50). I liked the soft bun, a step up from the typical fast food sandwich bread, and the large tomato slices, but the chicken was bland, the Mozzarella thin and sparse, and the tomato and herb sauce overwhelming.
I find it confusing that McDonald's chose an item with an obvious Italian influence to represent Canada. What's Canadian about mozzarella?
The Stroopwafel McFlurry ($3.09 for a regular size) should stick around. It's loaded with caramel sauce and cinnamon-caramel cookie pieces. It's indulgent, sweet and creamy. Good job, Netherlands.
Here's what the rest of the team had to say:
Alison Matas
Sometimes you just want to eat cheese fries, but these aren't the cheese fries you want to eat. I don't know whether it was the sauce or the bacon, but McDonald's cheesy bacon fries were way too salty and also kind of soggy.
I'm all in on the Stroopwafel McFlurry. This should be on the menu permanently. The caramel sauce got cold and chewy in the ice cream, and the cookie pieces were cinnamon-y and delicious.
The tomato and mozzarella sandwich was OK. I think it would have been better without the herb sauce, which tasted like an overpowering Italian dressing.
Dan Kane
Apparently served at McDonalds in Australia, cheesy bacon fries sounds like something from any sports bar in the US of A. I'm not against the concept, but this particular order was way too salty.
The tomato mozzarella chicken sandwich (imported from Canada), was decent but I didn't love the sauce, plus I don't buy $5 sandwiches at fast-food restaurants.
I fully enjoyed the Stroopwafel McFlurry from the Netherlands, an indulgent Blizzard-like concoction with caramel and chunks of cinnamon waffle cookies blended in.
Reach Jessica at 330-580-8322 or jessica.holbrook@cantonrep.com On Twitter: @jholbrookREP.
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Obanikoro Reacts To DSS Raid On Home, Wife’s Arrest As EFCC Summons Daughter
Former Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro has reacted to Thursday’s arrest of his wife, Moroophat, by officials of the Department of State Security Service.
A statement by his media aide, Mr. Jonathan Eze, warned media houses not to malign his wife in whatever way, neither should facts which were supposed to be sacred distorted to skew investigation, thereby influencing public opinion negatively on a patriotic, hard-working and innocent woman, who was completely apolitical.
He said: “We are saddened by the fact that the media was awash with false and conflicting information about the invitation of Senator Obanikoro’s wife. Ordinarily, we considered ignoring these concocted lies but for the sake of the discerning and right thinking public, hence the need to straighten matters.
“First, Alhaja Moroophat has always been in the country managing her businesses as against the lies that she sneaked in last week from the United States.
“Second, No documents were found in her possession and the lies that she was arrested while trying to evacuate documents were a fabrication and can only survive in their warped and distorted minds. It should also be noted that the officials only came to invite her for questioning and as against the phrase that she was whisked away; her driver actually drove her in her own car to the office of the DSS.
“Third, it was shamefully reported that the DSS were involved because there were so many armed policemen guiding her. This is another fabricated lie. The Obanikoros stopped enjoying police protection from the day he left office as minister and as a woman, who is above board in all her dealings, she does not need one.
“Finally, we are using this medium to call on the officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to desist from persecuting an innocent woman, who has no dealings at all with either Sylva McNamara or MOB integrated that they are investigating.
“For emphasis, the innocent woman has a history of High Blood Pressure and heart related ailments and as such, should not be dragged into their biased and politicised investigations. We have absolute confidence in the judiciary and we hope to get justice in the course with the proviso that they obey the rule of law and avoid arbitrariness that we are seeing on daily basis.”
Meanwhile, Obanikoro’s first daughter, Salewa, has been invited by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
It was gathered that EFCC’s investigators had informed Mrs Obanikoro to appear with Salewa for questioning in connection with the ongoing investigation.
Source: Dailypost
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Pa. marijuana board OKs sale of cannabis leaf and flower
by Sam Wood, Posted: April 9, 2018
Kerry Durrell, 61, inspects marijuana held by budtender Pierce Hunter at Urbn Leaf in California. Pennsylvania is considering adding the sale of similar plant material in dispensaries.
Hayne Palmour IV / San Diego Union-Tribune/TNS
The state's medical marijuana advisory board voted Monday morning to allow the sale of whole-plant cannabis — dry leaf and flower — and recommended expanding the number of serious health conditions that would qualify patients to participate in the program.
Currently, Pennsylvania allows only for the sale of marijuana oils, extracts, pills, and tinctures.
Pennsylvania Secretary of Health Rachel Levine will weigh the board's recommendations. She could take up to a year to decide whether to make the changes to the medical marijuana program's regulations.
Allowing the sale of leaf and flower could reduce the cost of the medicine for patients, many of whom have recoiled at the steep prices and limited selection of processed marijuana products for sale at dispensaries. Patients in California and Colorado buy more flower than oils, extracts, or premade edibles.
State law prohibits the sale of "smokable" marijuana. If Levine accepts the proposal, dispensaries will not sell so-called pre-rolls or joints. Patients would be told to vaporize the leaf or bud in an electronic device. However, if they choose to wrap their medicine in a cigarette paper and light it, there's little chance that authorities will come down hard on them.
"Smoking flower is the traditional cannabis therapy method that humans have used for 10,000 years," said Chris Goldstein, an advocate who writes the Philly420 column for Philly.com. "We've never had a report of state police or health officials cracking down on how patients consume their cannabis."
The state also prohibits sale of medical marijuana in an edible form. But many patients buy the oils, bake it into foods, or infuse it into such things as coconut oil, Goldstein said.
The Department of Health has granted permits to 12 marijuana growers and may issue permits to 13 more this summer. Only two growers are currently providing medicines to nine operating dispensaries. Program director John Collins told the advisory board that six growers are expected to ship medical cannabis by month's end.
If Levine approves, several new qualifying ailments may be added to the existing list of 17. The board suggested making the medicine available to patients suffering from terminal illness, neurodegenerative diseases, and spinal-cord damage. One proposal recommended broadening the definitions of chronic and intractable pain to include withdrawal symptoms from opioids.
The board also voted unanimously to allow doctors who want to write recommendations for cannabis to opt out of a public registry. Currently, the state publishes all the names of participating physicians. Some doctors have been reluctant to take part for fear that they could draw the attention of federal authorities. Though 29 states have legalized marijuana, the federal government continues to outlaw all forms of the drug.
Advocates say they think that eliminating the public registry is a bad idea. Prospective patients still report trouble finding a participating doctor who will see them, said Goldstein.
About 500 doctors — out of a total of 53,000 state-licensed physicians — have registered to write recommendations. About 28,000 Pennsylvanians have expressed interest in participating, and the state has issued cards to 11,000 patients enabling them to buy cannabis medicines.
Recommendations made by Advisory Board Approved
The Medical, Patient/Caregiver and Regulatory Subcommittees recommend that the program expand the form of medical marijuana permitted under Act 16 to include dry leaf or plant form for administration by vaporization. 11-0-1 Approved
The Patient/Caregiver Subcommittee recommends that the medical condition of “cancer” be revised to “cancer; including remission therapy.” 10-1-1 Approved
The Patient/Caregiver Subcommittee recommends that the medical condition of “neurodegenerative diseases” be added to the list of serious medical conditions. 11-0-1 Approved
The Patient/Caregiver Subcommittee recommends that the medical condition of “damage to the nervous tissue of the spinal cord with objective neurological indication of intractable spasticity” be changed to “damage to the nervous tissue of the CNS (brain-spinal cord) with objective neurological indication of intractable spasticity, and other associated neuropathies.” 11-0-1 Approved
The Patient/Caregiver Subcommittee recommends adding the medical condition of “dyskinetic and spastic movement disorders.” 10-1-1 Approved
The Patient/Caregiver Subcommittee recommends adding the medical condition of “addiction substitute therapy-opioid reduction.” 6-4-2 Approved
The Patient/Caregiver Subcommittee recommends that the certification to use medical marijuana be modified to limit the practitioner’s ability to specify medical marijuana form and dosing. 3-8-1 Not Approved
The Patient/Caregiver Subcommittee recommends establishing a default time period of one year on a patient’s certification. 6-5-1 Approved
The Medical Subcommittee and the Regulatory Subcommittee recommend that the program not expand the types of medical professionals who can issue certifications to patients. The Medical Subcommittee and the Regulatory Subcommittee further recommend that the program continue to accept input from the patient and provider community and consider adding additional medical professions in the future. 10-1-1 Approved
The Medical Subcommittee recommends that no medical conditions be removed from the list of serious medical conditions. 11-0-1 Approved
The Medical and Patient/Caregiver Subcommittees recommend that “Severe chronic or intractable pain in which conventional therapeutic intervention and opiate therapy is contraindicated or ineffective” be changed to “Severe chronic or intractable pain.” 11-0-1 Approved
The Medical Subcommittee recommends a process be established for a subcommittee of the board to review and approve additional conditions on a continuous basis. 12-0-1 Approved
The Medical Subcommittee recommends that patients under the age of 18 be certified by a physician who is board eligible/certified in pediatrics or pediatric specialties, neurology with special qualification in child neurology, child and adolescent psychiatry, or adolescent medicine (whether through pediatrics, internal medicine or family practice). 10-2-1 Approved
The Medical Subcommittee recommends that more research be done on the use of medical marijuana for addiction treatment. 12-0-1 Approved
The Patient/Caregiver Subcommittee recommends adding the medical condition of “terminally ill,” meaning a medical prognosis of life expectancy of approximately one year or less if the illness runs its normal course. 11-1-1 Approved
The Patient/Caregiver Subcommittee recommends that the Department of Health encourage clinical registrants under Chapter 20 to study the medical benefits of cannabis for individuals with autoimmune diseases. 12-0-1 Approved
The Regulatory Subcommittee recommends that the program make no changes to the cct concerning the number of growers/processors and dispensaries at present. The program should assess the numbers as the program expands. 12-0-1 Approved
The Patient/Caregiver Subcommittee recommends allowing dispensaries to purchase vaporizing devices and other ancillary products from sources other than grower/processor permittees. 9-3-1 Approved
The Medical and Patient/Caregiver Subcommittees recommend that practitioners have the option to opt out of the public registry. 12-0-1 Approved
Posted: April 9, 2018 - 12:58 PM
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9 EXPERIEN INSURANCE SERVICES
Do you think the market is now hardening?
Clive Levinthal: “Yes, it appears to be hardening for professional indemnity, business insurance and income protection insurance.”
The team at Sydney-headquartered Experien Insurance Services is excited to be ranked in the Top 10 once again, says CEO Clive Levinthal.
“It was fantastic to be named in 2016 and even better to achieve it two years in a row,” he tells Insurance Business. “It shows we are consistent and have a sustainable, unique and leading value proposition.”
Experien is a national business specialising in the medical sector, including doctors and dentists.
“Medical professionals have very unique needs and we have spent over 10 years learning to understand these and develop appropriate services and solutions for them,” Levinthal says.
“We also understand the unique characteristics of the many subsectors of each medical sector and the resulting insurance needs. The risks we place include medical indemnity insurance, business insurance and life and income protection insurance.”
Levinthal talks about the highlights for Experien over the past 12 months.
“Doctors and dentists now realise the value of using a broker like us for their professional indemnity (medical malpractice) insurance,” he says. “We are seeing an enhanced understanding and appreciation of the benefits of not dealing directly with an insurer or association and rather using a broker for this category of insurance.
We like to think we are leading the market in this regard.”
Levinthal believes what sets Experien apart is a combination of focus and culture.
“Our focus is laser-like on the medical sector, and our culture is based on teamwork, exceptional customer service and a passion for understanding and supporting medical professionals,” he says.
“The combination is proving to be successful.”
So, how does Levinthal think a brokerage gets the very best out its people?
“It’s all to do with culture and leading by example,” he says. “For us, the culture starts with teamwork. We are passionate about encouraging and rewarding teamwork, as opposed to individualism.”
And is it important for brokers today to be embracing new technology?
“Absolutely, and wherever possible,” he says. “But a personal touch will always be needed in the sector we operate in.”
Levinthal talks about times to come for Experien.
“We work exclusively with Vero with our dental professional indemnity product and are continually investing in the product and services and plan to continue this investment in the year ahead,” he says.
Experien is an organisation that also strives to be an excellent corporate citizen and contribute to both the local community and the client segment it supports. It’s proactive in bringing new brokers into the market and training staff members who have no prior broking or insurance experience.
“Our culture is based on teamwork, exceptional customer service and a passion for understanding and supporting medical professionals. The combination is proving to be successful”
Company Experien Insurance Services
Head Office Level 22, Chifley Tower, 2 Chifley Square, Sydney, NSW, 2000
Website http://www.experien.com.au/
Email info@experien.com.au
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Brr it’s cold in here, it must be Best of the Web in the atmosphere!
This week’s Best of the Web is coming to you from a very chilly place indeed, but it’s ok – we’ve got jumpers, thick socks and warm crumpets on the go, so we’re at optimum hygge level or whatever the 2017 equivalent for cosiness is. For this week’s addition, we’ve got a response to Trump for using Comic Sans in a statement (smh), a look at 100 years of public health marketing and a video interview with Jay Z from The New York Times.
This man managed to trick Google into thinking he was Time’s Person of the Year. (Bryony)
Really great (and long) article about how Spotify has ruined/is ruining the music industry, including mental stats such as its subscribers went from from “five million paid subscribers in 2012 to more than sixty million in 2017”. (Lucy)
A response to Trump’s lawyer’s decision to use Comic Sans in a statement. (Jenny)
100 years of Public Health Marketing (below)– one thing that is apparent it that it has got so much worse over time. (Owen)
Bit disappointed to see the ten most watched ads on YouTube of 2017 are fairly lacklustre. (Jenny)
In the wake of Lubain Himid being the oldest artist to win the Turner Prize at 62, The Guardian takes a look at the best work from artists over 60. (Beccy)
The new Big Moon video is amazing and just shows that these girls, and girls in general, are just the best. (Lucy)
A look behind the scenes at La Casa del Carlota (below) – a Barcelona-based design studio staffed by creatives with Down’s syndrome, autism and intellectual disabilities. It might be the best thing I have watched this year. (Owen)
Oobah Butler turned his shed into the top rated restaurant in London on Trip Advisor. (Owen)
Wieden+Kennedy’s TK Maxx ad saw one family have a snow day all of their own. It’s heartwarming stuff, not least because it’s narrated by Bill Nighy. (Jenny)
The New York Times incredible interview with Jay Z. (Bryony)
A podcast interview with Meme Librarian (that’s right, Meme Librarian) Amanda Brennan. (Marianne)
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Evergreen Leighton Baines still cementing his Everton legacy
By Jordan Street
Saturday 21st December 2019
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First start in ten months? No problem for Bainsey, who reminded the footballing world of his sheer brilliance...
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Formed in 1878 as a founding member of the Football League, Everton Football Club has had its fair share of success. The Toffees have called Goodison Park home for well over a decade, with the famous stadium upon Merseyside playing host to some absolute footballing legends.
In recent years, while it's true that Everton may have fallen below expectations where winning trophies is concerned, The Blues have still had supremely-talented players on their books. From the great Neville Southall to the brilliant Graeme Sharp. More recently Duncan Ferguson was an Everton icon as a player, now, it seems fitting that he's back in the dugout and giving a new lease of life to another Toffees prodigal son; Leighton Baines.
Now 35, Baines has been amongst the best full-backs of my lifetime. For young Everton fans, he's as symbolic as they come. Hailing from Kirkby in Liverpool, Baines would begin his career in The Blues' academy. Eventually, the budding defender would move to Wigan Athletic in search for more playing time. He'd spend five years in the Greater Manchester town before Everton would bring Bainsey back home.
For eleven-straight seasons, Baines would make that left-back slot his own. Countless individual honours and international caps would follow for the Englishman who'd often be considered amongst the best in his position. Still, father time would remain undefeated; while the arrival of Lucas Digne didn't help. Baines would take a backwards step into the shadows. He'd become the forgotten man upon Merseyside - that was until this week...
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Leighton Baines. Still got it. 💙 https://t.co/epTkT1u6ur
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A Digne injury during a 1-1 draw at Old Trafford would leave the door ajar for one final Baines hurrah. My gosh, would he take that chance. The veteran would go on to play a key part in holding Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's men and picking up a well-earned point for his side. Baines would back that up with his first start in ten months against Leicester City. He'd send us all a reminder of his god-given ability to ping a football into the back of the net from 30+ yards. Everton fans, rejoice.
The sad reality of football is that players are forgotten about oh so easily. Have a few bad games, a replacement is signed and then you sort of drift into obscurity no matter how well you've performed, sometimes for a decade-plus. Then there's the special few who simply don't go down without a fight. Sure, Baines' best years are obviously behind him - but watching a master of his craft fight back and play with such quality after so long out is a credit to his character. It's why he's so highly-respected across Merseyside. It's why he'll go down as an Everton and Premier League legend.
Don't forget that there were many times in which Baines could have moved away from Everton. Arsenal and Manchester United both came knocking on more than one occasion - but for the left-back to stay put in his beloved hometown. It would have been oh so easy for Baines to chase the money and trophies. Sometimes there are more important things in life. For that, he deserves immense praise.
I guess what I'm trying to say it's just nice to see one of football's good-guys come out on top and remind us all just how brilliant he was. To you, Leighton Baines, I tip my cap...
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‘Talent is a bad word’: The art of teaching and connecting with students
Fine arts professor Debra Clem discusses creative solutions from her students influencing her own work
Professor Debra Clem discusses what brings her joy in teaching as she shows off dozens of artworks created by both herself and her students.
Logan Stephens
Logan Stephens, Staff Reporter
The relationship between instructors and students was on full display as Debra Clem, fine arts professor and program coordinator, showed off dozens of works of art on Thursday, Nov. 14 to a group of students and fellow faculty.
Clem used the event, aptly named “Joy of Teaching,” to discuss what brings joy to her teaching.
She began the presentation with a self-quote that said she sees a “seamless relationship” between what she does as an artist and the knowledge she shares with her students. The quote ended by saying that she is a “far better artist” because of her students.
The art presentation went on as Clem discussed and showed off her early works as well as work from students. She then shared what she teaches, mentioning oil paintings and the first project being a black and white painting, where students “mix their own black.”
Clem mentioned some of her interests, including “a traditional approach,” “varying materials” and “non-traditional alternative media.” She went on to discuss her experiments with a former student named Jonathon Ruth before the invention of Photoshop.
Later, Clem talked about Samantha Dietz, a painting BFA student who taught herself — and then Clem — how to use encaustics. According to Clem, encaustics are an ancient wax painting process that is totally compatible with oil painting.
Clem said in the late 2000s, digital printing became affordable. This was nice, she said, because “digital images could be printed on canvas.”
She then discussed how she experiments with different techniques, including adding acrylic paste to her works for texture purposes.
Clem ended the presentation by showing some of her most recent works, where she is experimenting with tattoos. She is also painting on circular formats, an assignment she also gave to her students.
Takeaways From The Presentation
After the presentation, Clem said there are a few things she would like people to take away from her presentation. The first is about arrogance and collaboration with students.
“I always think that it is arrogant to think that you know everything about your field,” Clem said. “I know my field really well. I think I am a very good painter, but it is a lifetime discipline.”
“I think teaching is collaborative. With this, with the creative kind of thing, [students] have good ideas.”
The second takeaway Clem mentioned is about people using the word “talent.”
“The other takeaway is that the word talent is a bad word for me,” Clem said. “It is a bad word because it implies that this is not teachable.”
“I would not be at a university if I thought that [art] was a magical skill that people were born with. I can teach you to draw.”
“Anybody that wants to learn this can learn it. I think it is more of just the desire to learn.”
The takeaway for Brian Harper, associate professor of fine arts, was the interconnectedness between Clem’s work and her students’ work.
“I did not realize there was so much interconnectedness between her own work and her students’ work,” Harper said. “I knew it was there, but I did not know the extent of some of that.”
“Seeing her go back and forth between her students’ artwork and her own artworks and talking about the different ways they inspire each other was really cool,” he said.
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KentOnline investigation exposes flaws in gambling exclusion scheme at William Hill, Coral, Betfred and Paddy Power
Published: 06:00, 06 June 2019
| Updated: 10:30, 06 June 2019
Bookmakers have been accused of failing problem gamblers after "dangerous flaws" in a scheme designed to protect addicts were exposed by an undercover KentOnline investigation.
Our reporter, Jack Dyson, banned himself from every betting shop in Canterbury, Herne Bay and Whitstable in a bid to establish the effectiveness of the multi-operator self-exclusion scheme - better known as Moses.
But just weeks after registering with the industry-wide system and having his photograph circulated, he was still able to place a wager in all 15 of the district’s high street bookies.
Watch to find out how Jack got on
The Gambling Commission has now launched a probe into our shock findings, which come just months after a study revealed people with a gambling problem are 15 times more likely to take their own life.
The devastating effects were laid bare this week as an inquest heard about the death of a man after losing hundreds of pounds through gambling.
Herne Bay MP Roger Gale says he is “appalled” by our revelations and has questioned the credibility of the exclusion scheme.
“If betting shops are not playing by the rules then that’s a serious concern,” he said.
“The whole objective is precisely to protect people who recognise they need protection. I think self-regulation is better than government trying to do things, but it has to work, otherwise there’s no credibility.”
The Moses scheme was launched in 2016 as a means to allow problem gamblers to self-exclude themselves from high street betting shops of their choice.
Jack Dyson outside a betting shop in Canterbury. Picture: Chris Davey. (11550006)
Each bookmaker is sent a photograph of the person registering, which is added to an exclusion list kept for regular monitoring by staff, who are supposed to prevent those signed up from entering.
But just six weeks after his registration was confirmed, our 24-year-old reporter was able to place a £5 bet on the Champions League final in shops run by industry heavyweights William Hill, Paddy Power, Betfred and Coral.
Nine of the 15 even asked to see his ID to check his age, but failed to spot his picture and personal details had recently been added to their database of excluded customers.
In 2017 GambleAware commissioned research into Moses, which showed seven in 10 participants had not attempted to access a betting shop they were banned from since registering.
But the charity’s CEO, Marc Etches, says the results of our undercover investigation are worrying.
“Self-exclusion can be a last resort for those who need to stop gambling, so it is deeply concerning that anyone who has self-excluded is then able to continue to gamble,” he said.
Herne Bay MP Roger Gale says he is “appalled” by our revelations
The Gambling Commission confirmed it would be “making enquiries to gather more information about what happened in this case”.
GambleAware commissioned an independent evaluation in December of the multi-operator self-exclusion schemes.
Findings are expected to be available later this year, which the charity says will provide important evidence as to how the schemes are working.
Betfred, which has three shops in the district, told KentOnline it had launched its own internal inquiry into our findings.
But it moved to defend the benefits of Moses, which it says has proven to be effective.
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A spokesman said: “Although the scheme is not without its flaws, since its introduction it has proved to be a highly effective tool, enabling genuine problem gamblers to self-exclude from betting shops close to their home, place of work or where they socialise.
“We are always looking to improve and have launched our own internal inquiry after the investigation by KentOnline.
"We regard self-exclusion as an important measure in helping us protect genuine problem gamblers.”
The research commissioned by GambleAware in 2017 suggested a membership card or electronic ID system be introduced to help bookmakers store and monitor exclusions.
Coral is investing in facial recognition software to improve the scheme.
The Coral in Wincheap (11651010)
And the organisation that runs Moses, the Senet Group, says a number of other bookmakers are also trialling the technology.
Its CEO, Sarah Hanratty, added: “In the future it’s likely that digital solutions will greatly improve the reliability of the service. The current self-exclusion scheme clearly relies on the ability of staff to identify individuals.
"Given that some shops may have as many as 40 different live exclusion orders at any one time, this is obviously susceptible to human error.”
Both Coral and William Hill say they recognise the flaws in the Moses scheme, but insist it remains an effective tool.
Paddy Power did not respond to a request for a comment.
Call for Gambling Commission review
Damian Collins (11816644)
Kent MP Damian Collins - the chair of the culture, media and sport committee – has called for a Gambling Commission review into KentOnline's findings.
The Conservative, who represents Folkestone and Hythe, says our probe shows bookmakers are allowing problem gamblers “to do more harm to themselves”.
“It’s a really serious issue,” he said.
“It’s really good KentOnline did this investigation because we are assured continually by the high street bookmakers that they make self-exclusion work in their own branches.
“What the investigation shows is databases aren’t kept up to date and it’s very concerning if people who are self-excluded are routinely being allowed to gamble.
“We know people with gambling addiction often are at risk of self-harm and of having other very serious conditions as well.
“We’ve always been told that self-exclusion is one of the key tools we have to try to stop problem gamblers betting more and harming themselves more, but if that’s not being enforced then that’s a real threat.
“The Gazette has highlighted how problem gamblers are still able to gamble even though they’ve self-excluded.
“The betting companies are allowing the problem gamblers to do more harm to themselves by not enforcing self-exclusion.
"If they’re allowing people to put faith in a system that doesn’t work, it will lead to more harm being caused.
“There needs to be an investigation as to why this data isn’t being properly gathered and acted on by the gambling shops.
“The Gambling Commission should also review the way these schemes are working and see what more needs to be done to make them robust.”
‘Highlighting flaws in scheme’
Tracey Crouch (11816635)
Chatham and Aylesford MP Tracey Crouch, who quit as sports minister last year to protest the government’s stance on fixed-odds betting terminals, says our investigation has highlighted the shortcomings of the Moses scheme.
“It’s clear there are some fundamental flaws,” she said.
“I think KentOnline has exposed a hole in the system.
"The scheme is of course one that works incredibly well if the punter is known to the staff, but it is supposed to be something that is operational regardless.
“Staff are supposed to know who is banned, so clearly there needs to be better training and education in the Moses system.
"There needs to be a better way of encouraging shop workers to look at those pictures.”
Bets were placed at all of the shops (11649861)
How does Moses work?
Gamblers call the Moses team and are asked to list specific betting shops they would like to be excluded from.
Those registering must email a copy of photographic ID and a recent photograph, which is circulated to all the relevant shops.
If a participant attempts to enter one of the shops, staff are supposed to ask them to leave and prevent them from betting.
Those joining the scheme are excluded for a fixed term of one year.
Jack holding the betting slips. Picture: Chris Davey. (11550035)
Jack's story: 'Banned from 15 bookies but they still let me bet'
Two weeks ago I had never gambled or taken a step inside a betting shop, but here I was, pretending to be an addict.
I’d signed up to a scheme allowing me to ban myself from all bookmakers in Canterbury, Herne Bay and Whitstable after learning of worrying - and glaring - flaws in a system designed to protect problem gamblers.
A friend told me the multi-operator self-exclusion scheme (Moses) doesn’t work, and isn’t being policed adequately by betting shop staff, so I put it to the test. I registered with the scheme, as required, by sending the Moses team a copy of my passport and a list of all of the bookmakers I wanted to be excluded from.
Jack's ID was checked in the Bet Fred in Whitstable High Street (11649847)
The idea is shop staff will have my picture and personal details on a list behind the counter and refuse to let me bet, or even into the shop, should I attempt to gamble.
On a sweltering Thursday afternoon, I put this to the test at the 15 shops I was banned from across the district.
First stop was Betfred in Mortimer Street, Herne Bay.
As soon as I stepped through the door, I was in alien surroundings. Betting slips lined the walls, horse racing coverage droned from the TV screens and the floor was covered with a patterned turquoise carpet.
“Can I see your ID please?” a staff member asked immediately. “Have I been recognised?” I thought, as I fumbled for my driving licence.
My picture had only been circulated five weeks before, so would be fresh in the minds of staff. I handed my ID over sheepishly, expecting to be told I was on the exclusion list and asked to leave.
Placing the bet at the Paddy Power in St Dunstan's, Canterbury (11651019)
But to my surprise it was handed straight back to me. Stunned, I grabbed a blank slip and scrawled on it CORRECT SCORE: LIVERPOOL
3-1 SPURS. Minutes later, I left having placed £5 on the Champions League final.
I was again asked for ID at Coral in Herne Bay High Street but, just as before, I was able to gamble. On the other side of the street lay the unsightly, feculent exterior of a William Hill. “The Champions League final – where you watching it?” a shop worker remarked, examining my slip. “Dunno yet,” I said.
“I’ve got a friend, a Liverpool supporter, who’s going and another who’s a Tottenham fan who couldn’t get a ticket,” another member of staff said animatedly. “The Spurs fan may go to Madrid to watch it in a bar or something, he doesn’t know yet.”
After saying goodbye, I left the shop, stuffing the piece of paper into my pocket. I then visited bookmakers in Fleetwood Avenue, Swalecliffe and Tankerton Road – all of which allowed me to place more bets. As they served me, I examined the faces of the members of staff, searching for the faintest flicker of recognition – but nothing.
Standing at the counter of the Betfred in Whitstable High Street, I handed my driving licence to a member of staff, who noted my name and date of birth onto a scrap piece of paper. “Oh, to be young,” a man said, grinning as he leaned against the counter. “Give him 100/1,” he later quipped when I paid my £5. “Go on, give him 100/1.”
Jack standing at the counter at the Coral in Castle Street, Canterbury (11649863)
Upon leaving Whitstable, all eight of the bookies I had visited so far had accepted my bets. The routine had become second nature by this point; I knew where to find the slips, what to say to the cashier and that I would not be challenged.
“Bit eager getting in early – the game’s not for another week,” said an employee at the Paddy Power in St Dunstan’s, Canterbury, cheerfully after I handed him my slip. “That’d be 22/1.”
“Oh that’d be nice if it comes off,” I responded. “I can’t stand either club, so I kind of want both of them to lose,” he continued. “I can’t stand Klopp and the fan base is the worst; obnoxious and so annoying.”
I then plodded further down the road to the Coral. As I entered, my nostrils were attacked by the distinct odour of sodden dog. I swiftly left with enticing odds of 40/1.
Inside the penultimate shop, the William Hill in Northgate, I handed over my bet – Liverpool to win 1-0. “You want a tea or coffee or anything,” the woman behind the till asked.
“No, no, I’ve got to head off,” I responded, folding the piece of paper into my pocket.
Leaving the William Hill in Upper Bridge Street (11665595)
After visiting the last of the bookmakers – the Betfred in Canterbury High Street – my wallet was bulging at the seams with crumpled slips. I had been allowed to place £5 bets in all 15 shops, despite having my ID checked and details noted in nine of them.
Prior to this, I struggled to imagine how anyone could get addicted to gambling; but at the weekend I was engrossed by the match - not because it was particularly riveting, but because I had skin in the game. As I fidgeted in my seat, I kept tearing myself away from the screen to scan the piles of betting slips on the floor in front of me, calculating my potential winnings.
When the final whistle blew and the rapturous Liverpool celebrations began, I looked down at the pieces of paper disconsolately. Having spent £75 on the bets, I had won just £35.
“If only Alli didn’t sky that header; what if Salah played that through ball, or Origi didn’t have a leaden first touch,” I thought, gazing at the losing slips. It felt like I was tantalisingly close to a lucrative win, which in hindsight may have been a blessing in disguise.
Inside the William Hill in Whitstable High Street (11805568)
If you have been affected by gambling addiction, contact:
The National Gambling Helpline offers support, advice and counselling to addicts. Phone 08088 020133 or click here.
Gam-Anon organises meetings for those affected by a loved one’s gambling. Visit gamanon.org.uk for more information.
Gamblers’ Anonymous holds meetings and has online forums and chat rooms for addicts. Click here.
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What Are The Top Cybersecurity Predictions For 2019?
There was something of a cultural shift in the technology sector during 2018 that will undoubtedly impact 2019. Up until last year, cybersecurity issues seemed to predominately plague significant corporations and organizations. The Democratic National Committee hack fallout and Russian bots on Facebook were coupled with big-time breaches at Equifax and others that garnered headlines. Even the recent reports coming out of U.S. intelligence agencies point to enemy states such as China and Iran stealing American intellectual property.
Cyber threats ramped up in 2018 and the World Economic Forum ranked technology breaches as a top risk to economies worldwide.
“Attacks are increasing, both in prevalence and disruptive potential. Cyber breaches recorded by businesses have almost doubled in five years, from 68 per business in 2012 to 130 per business in 2017,” the Forum reported.
Consider for a moment that climate change and severe weather events such as hurricanes and tsunamis were also listed. That should put the danger in context for any business leader. And that’s why the mainstream perception about breaches has shifted significantly.
These days, small and mid-sized companies recognize that their personal information and critical data are targeted at a much higher rate than Fortune 500 outfits and national-level organizations. Ransomware has emerged as an almost routine method to extort money, and now fraud from crypto-mining is trending high. Business owners and decision-makers are prioritizing cybersecurity because the stakes are just too high. Cyber threats are likely to escalate during 2019, and these are some dire predictions.
1: Strict Data Breach Fines
Last year, regulations such as the California Consumer Privacy Act implemented harsh penalties for companies that fail to protect personal employee data. The conventional wisdom is that businesses and non-profit organizations alike have a responsibility to safeguard the information they ask of team members.
Cyber attacks that penetrated Uber, for example, reportedly resulted in the transportation organization settling out of court to the tune of $148 million as a result of a 2016 breach. Leading online companies such as Facebook and Equifax have been under fire and they both reportedly were fined a maximum penalty of £500,000 in the UK.
Currently, Google, British Airways and Facebook once again are under government scrutiny for cybersecurity failures and hefty fines could be coming. While this may not seem like a direct and discernible danger to small and mid-level outfits, think again. Although household-name organizations make headlines, everyday companies can expect to get hit with penalties for lack of cybersecurity as well. The moment a company asks employees to provide personal information, that organization becomes responsible for protecting it.
2: Rise of the Machines
The days of a rogue hacker halfway around the world infiltrating a system are expected to evolve in to (artificial intelligence) AI cyber attacks. If this sounds a lot like the sci-fi “Terminator” movie franchise, that’s not far from the truth.
Hackers are expected to deploy machines under their control to more rapidly and covertly penetrate business systems and cull valuable information. But beyond mining, these human-controlled devices will increasingly have the ability to impact the lives of everyday people.
Consider that the IoT continues to create an accessible matrix that can be manipulated. Autonomous vehicles, smart-home technology, and even friendly Alexa are being weaved into the fabric of human lives. This opens the door for hacker-driven AI to penetrate lives outside of the workplace. The necessity of cybersecurity in our personal lives is expected to grow exponentially going forward.
3: Governments Expected to Ramp Up Cyber Weapons
The mainstream media has been brushing up against the subject of enemy states attacking infrastructure such as power grids. It goes without saying that governments across the world are not sitting idly by as others hone their hacking talents.
From voting booths to water supplies, governments around the world are expected to meddle more and more in each other’s affairs. When someone loses, expect malware, ransomware and debilitating viruses to be unleashed.
While your small or mid-sized company may not be the target of a rogue state attack, it could end up being collateral damage. Don’t be taken by surprise, secure your company and personal data before the first wave hits.
4: Email Expected to Remain Top Data Breach Vehicle
Criminal hackers view email as the gift that keeps on giving. New hires tend to need time to understand the protection protocols around email usage. And, too many outfits lack adequate policies or fail to update usernames and passwords effectively. Employee email has ranked among the most vulnerable backdoors into an organization’s sensitive data and the best way to deploy ransomware.
Even though cybersecurity and IT teams warn decision-makers about the dangers of sub-par email protections, it is expected to remain a primary threat in 2019. Every day companies cannot take email security seriously enough in 2019.
5: Tougher Laws and Regulations Expected
The 2018 U.S. congressional hearings that involved Facebook, Google and others demonstrated that lawmakers recognize that cyber threats are prevalent and current regulations appear inadequate. Intellectual property and critical data are now outpacing oil regarding value.
In the U.S., states are creating more stringent laws to deal with hacking. The federal government and countries abroad are also wrestling with policies to manage cyber threats. It’s essential for small and mid-sized outfits to follow the trend and communicate with lawmakers at the local, state and federal level. The laws that come out of cybersecurity hearings are likely to impact the business community in a significant fashion.
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Ecosophy: Nature’s Guide to a Better World
By Elisabet Sahtouris
Comments 7 | photo credit photography | wikipedia commons | phillip maiwald
The most exciting and beneficial things I believe happened to humanity in the past century were physicists’ recognition that “the universe is more like a great thought than like a great machine”1 and astronauts lifting far enough from Earth to see, feel and show us how very much alive our planet is. Those events led to a wonderful sea change from the older—and rather depressing—scientific story of a non-living material universe accidentally giving rise to all within it, devoid of meaning or purpose.
The new view, revealing a conscious universe and a living Earth in which we are co-creators, takes us out of fatalistic victimhood to becoming consciously active agents of our destiny! It lifts the fog of our self-image as consumers of stuff, giving us awesome rights and responsibilities to live out our full co-creative humanity.
We humans always have been and probably always will be storytellers. Whether we create our stories from the revelations of religions or the researches of science, or the inspirations of great artists and writers or the experiences of our own lives, we live by the stories we believe and tell to ourselves and others.
Story, in the modern world, lost its importance as we assumed that science could tell us the truth, while story never did. But science was long based on the assumption of a reality independent of humans—a material universe that could be studied without interfering in it in any way. When physicists discovered that all the universe was composed of energy waves and that every instance of our human reality was a wave function collapsed from sheer probability by a conscious observer, everything changed.
It meant that our world is produced in our consciousness—that realities are not fixed scenarios in which we grope our way about, but the ever-changing creations we ourselves ‘bring forth’2 both individually and collectively through our beliefs and actions. In other words, a universe “more like a great thought than like a great machine” is more like a storytelling universe we make up as we go than like a stable physical reality in which we grope our way about.
Every living being is connected intimately, and from this intimacy follows the capacity of identification and as its natural consequences, practice of non-violence… Now is the time to share with all life on our maltreated Earth through the deepening identification with life forms and the greater units, the ecosystems, and Gaia, the fabulous, old planet of ours. ~Arne Naess
Much more than a simple ecology, ecosophy is a wisdom-spirituality of the earth. ‘The new balance’ is not so much between man and Earth, but between matter and spirit, between spatio-temporality and consciousness. Ecosophy is not simply a ‘science of the earth’ (ecology) and even ‘wisdom on earth,’ but the ‘wisdom of the earth itself’ that occurs when a man knows how to listen with love.
~Raimon Pannikar
As conscious observers, we tell each other our realities as stories; as conscious actors, we create our realities. It takes time for the new scientific stories of a conscious living universe and Earth to percolate through society. But the time is ripe now for evolving our stories from that meaningless purposeless decaying old universe to a conscious, living universe and planet Earth. We must become active co-creators of our own reality once we realize we have the power—and the responsibility—to change it intentionally, day by day, even minute by minute.
Philosophers of science have long made it clear that science can only give us useful hypotheses, not truths.3 Even the ever-more-obsolete scientific beliefs and findings told us a story, and a very powerful story at that. It told us we lived in a one-way universe beginning with a Big Bang and running down ever since like a battery depleted in the process of powering all the random collisions that gave us galaxies and our world. Some of those collisions, we were told, brought about certain molecules that sprung rather magically to life, but life—so the (largely Darwinian) story goes—became a struggle for survival in fierce competition before the running-down tide called ‘entropy’ eventually sweeps all life away.
It was a tragically misleading story. We abandoned community to individualism and turned our human civilization into a competitive ‘Get what you can, while you can’ globalized shopping mall of stuff. We have been frantically chopping down, drilling, digging and scraping up Earth’s ‘resources’ as if—or rather, because—we expected no tomorrow. We have literally put ourselves into the Sixth Great Extinction and are the first of Earth’s species to create such disaster. Only Earth’s very first creatures, her most ancient bacteria, came close to our destructiveness, causing both global hunger and global pollution in turn. They, however, solved both those problems, as we would do well to note!4
Awakening and Maturation
The awakening of humanity from this depressingly hopeless creation story—surely the bleakest in the history of human cultures—comes in the nick of time, just when our rapacious activity has created the ‘Perfect Storm’ of crises in energy economy and ecology all at once. It is as though we are taking a collective Big Breath and releasing the burden of this story with a huge sigh. Just as everything seems hopeless, we suddenly have cause to Hope. “We are the Ones we’ve been waiting for!” has become the mantra empowering us not to wait for saviors but to be them.
Conscious creation through changing our stories, our beliefs, becomes the means by which we change ourselves—even our own genes5—as well as the world we experience. Technology developed in the fiercely competitive mode has turned to seemingly endless Internet capacity for cooperation and collaboration. We talk to each other, empower each other, build community, become human again after an interlude of trying to turn ourselves into cogs within the wheels of industry, of mechanized society, even of a clockwork universe.
We know there is something obsolete, something hopelessly immature, about the competing and fighting and grabbing going on at the highest levels of human society. After all, those are the very things we teach our children not to do to each other. The Occupy Movement that began in North Africa, moved to the Middle East, came ‘round the Mediterranean to Spain and swept across to America was a natural outburst against such destructive and immature behavior. In many places, Occupy has been a peaceful and overtly loving process.6 It is most surely part of the wake-up call to humanity.
Love and other values lost to consumerism are pouring back into our lives like fresh water. Community as a concept, finally having lost the taint of its association with communism, is in wonderful revival as local self-sufficiency and sustainability become very human and very practical goals in an uncertain world. Caring and sharing are replacing competing and grabbing, in no small measure due to the increasing empowerment of women, who have always held these values. Indeed, many of us see this as a growing-up, as the maturation of humanity. As an evolution biologist and futurist, I find this view entirely compatible with my own theory of a repeating evolutionary cycle of maturation.7
Values such as caring and sharing made little sense in a meaningless, purposeless material universe operating by mathematically describable scientific laws, including the law of entropy. But western science is not the only source of universal law and there is a considerable revival of the Perennial Philosophy—the universal truths found common to all religions and popularized in the West by Aldous Huxley, 8 as well as other compilations of universal laws honored in various ancient cultures (e.g., Vedic Indian and ancient Egyptian as attributed to Hermes Trismegistos, elaborated in contemporary scientific terms by Marja de Vries).9 These ancient laws, based on human inquiries into cosmology, have to do with Oneness, Correspondence (as in ‘As above, so below’), Vibrations (cosmic energy waves), Polarity, Rhythm, Cause and Effect and Dynamic Balance. Further, such laws are in complete harmony with contemporary findings in physics.
Getting back to story, mythologer Joseph Campbell showed us over a quarter century ago that certain themes of mythology were also common to many ancient cultures, notably the Hero’s Journey.10 Campbell called for a new myth for all current cultures, for all Earth—a call I believe we are now answering as we co-create a new future.
The story most often cited as the quintessential Hero’s Journey is that of Odysseus’ wild and thrilling adventures. But the end of the story seems almost a let-down. We are relieved that Penelope’s faithfulness is rewarded, but Odysseus, with his son’s help, must continue to battle with his wife’s erstwhile suitors to restore order where disorder had reigned in his absence. Thus, the story ends on a note of relief and exhaustion. We are left without a clue to how Ithaca might become a stable, sustainable society. Penelope does not seem very important; we only know that Ithaca’s strong leader is back and all challengers dead for the time being.
In short, the Hero’s Journey, like the Darwinian evolution story, is one of competitive youthful adventure and ends with no guide for building a mature society that thrives in peaceful prosperity. We must now write the second phase of the Hero’s Journey story.
There is a lovely story attributed to Mark Twain, though never verified, of a youth who leaves home for his own adventures and returns, finding to his surprise that his father has gained considerable wisdom in his absence. We smile. It is the son who has changed. Whatever the actual source, the story conveys a kind of folk wisdom about youth and maturity—that a youth cannot perceive the wisdom gained by experience until he becomes experienced himself. We humans now stand on the brink of maturity, still in adolescent crisis, but just mature enough to seek ancient wisdoms for guidance.
A History of Maturation
For me, that wisdom is inherent in the nearly four billion years of Earth’s evolution. Species after species, from the most ancient bacteria to us, have gone through a maturation cycle from individuation and fierce competition to mature collaboration and peaceful interdependence.11 The maturation tipping point in this cycle occurs when species reach the point where it is more energy efficient—thus, less costly and more truly economic—to feed and otherwise collaborate with their enemies than to kill them off.
In the case of primeval bacteria that had Earth to themselves for almost two billion years—fully half of all biological evolution—the tipping point crossing led to evolving the nucleated cell as a giant bacterial cooperative. These cells, being new on Earth, then went through their own competitive youth for a billion years until they crossed the tipping point into maturity by evolving multi-celled creatures. Humanity crossed this tipping point when tribes built the first cities collectively as centers of worship and trade that we are only now discovering in South America, Africa, Asia and Europe.
These city cooperatives too have been experiencing their own youth as cities became the centers for competitive empire-building over thousands of years up to national and now corporate empires. We have at last reached a new tipping point where enmities are more expensive in all respects than friendly collaboration, where planetary limits of exploiting nature have been reached. It is high time for us to cross this tipping point into our global communal maturity of ecosophy.
Exploring Ecosophy
‘Economy’ once meant the careful, efficient management of households and larger human communities to provide for people as well as possible with the least expenditure, but industrial competition led to excesses that resulted in a complete perversion of the word. Most economists adopted the Darwinian story of fierce competition in scarcity that Darwin admittedly got from his friend Thomas Malthus. As Darwin described his own theory in The Origin of Species: “This is the doctrine of Malthus applied with manifold force to the whole animal and vegetable kingdoms.”12
Malthus was the first professor of history and political economy at the East India Company’s Haileybury College in England. The East India Company was the first true multinational corporation in the world, with British, French, Dutch, Portuguese, Swedish and Danish national charters. Malthus’ mission was to assay the world’s resources, which led him to the famous conclusion that human populations always outstrip their food supplies and are thus necessarily competitive in the struggle for survival—an observation that justified the exploitation of other countries’ resources in such inevitable competition for ‘survival of the fittest.’ Thus, we really should talk about economists adopting the Darwinian/Malthusian hypothesis of fierce competition in scarcity and of human nature as inherently competitive.
To explain my intention for ‘ecosophy,’ let me go back a few decades to tell a personal story. During the first Clinton administration in the early ‘90s, I lived in Washington DC and attended the meetings of the President’s Commission on Sustainability with great interest and hope. At the end of one lengthy debate on whether the commission needed to include economics, when its mandate was only concern with environmental issues, I was fortunate to be given three minutes to address the commission.
As the debate had been heavily weighted against including economics and I had so very little time, I pointed out the etymology of the two words, economy and ecology. Both words come from the ancient Greek word for household: oikos (pronounced ee’ kos, at least in modern Greek). The word ‘economy’ (oikos + nomos = oikonomia) means the rule or governance of the household. The word ‘ecology’ (oikos + logos = oikologia) means the creative organization of the household.
I asked, “How can we talk about only one of the most important aspects of running our human household without the other? The problem is not whether to integrate economy with ecology, but that we have separated them.” I added my hope that they invite a child and a Native American grandmother to their future deliberations—the child to remind them for whom they were working; the grandmother to remind them of the need for wisdom, as well as consideration of future generations, preferably seven of them. That completed my three minutes.
It is in concert with these root meanings of ecology and economy that I give the word ‘ecosophy’ (oikos + sophia = oikosophia) the meaning it would have had in ancient Greece, had it come into use there:
Ecosophy: wisely run household of human affairs
or, even more simply:
This is somewhat different from the meaning of ecosophy as introduced by Arne Naess, father of Deep Ecology, who used it as a contraction for ‘ecological philosophy’ and stressed its connection with respect for Nature and the inherent worth of beings other than human.13
French psychotherapist and philosopher Felix Guattari is also credited with coining the word ‘ecosophy.’ Much influenced by Gregory Bateson (author of Steps to an Ecology of Mind), Guattari’s ecosophical model follows Bateson’s model of nature as a cybernetic system of interconnected feedback loops and nonlinear causality.
The aspect of Guattari’s model I agree with is that it includes three different levels of ecosophy that must be integrated—the human psyche, culture and nature—which clearly reflects the ancient Greek conception of Nature described in the section to follow on The Concept of Cosmos, where I will elaborate on this matter of levels.
The aspect of his model I cannot accept is that each of these levels is cybernetic—in his own words, an ‘abstract machine.’ Cybernetics is an advanced form of mechanism, but it is still mechanism, which I consider a poor metaphor for any living system—a metaphor missing the system’s very essence.14 Guattari argues that cybernetic machinery, which introduced the capacity to collect all manner of feedback to increase control, has indeed, with the advent of the Internet, made elite control more insidious and effective than ever.15
He is right that elites have learned to control society by deliberately working to construct society itself as machinery, and teach people that it is machinery, because machinery can be controlled. That does not mean that psyche, society and nature are machinery!
Mechanism and Organism
The confusion of mechanism and organism is extremely widespread in today’s world, even among scientists, especially those in Artificial Intelligence (AI). This accounts for such beliefs as that computers and/or robots will eventually come to life, that living cells can be assembled from molecular components, etc. Fritjof Capra has done an excellent job of debunking these notions in his book, The Web of Life.
I believe the same mechanistic reasoning, conscious or not, was behind the founding fathers of science modeling the universe as a clockworks and Descartes believing that even animals were mechanisms devoid of feeling. As inventors of machinery themselves, these founders of science completely understood and controlled it; therefore, a mechanical universe would also be understandable and its forces subject to control at least locally on Earth. No wonder they projected their engineering abilities onto God as ‘Grand Engineer.’ Unfortunately, there were no ‘founding mothers of science’ to temper their hubris and work for a better understanding of life.
So, while I honor and incorporate Naess’ deep ecology and Pannikar’s emphasis on spirit in my version of ecosophy, as well as honoring Guattari for seeing psyche, culture and nature as levels of ecosophy, it is not possible from my perspective to promote an ecosophy in terms of cybernetic mechanics.
Mechanism and organism are created and function by completely different kinds of logic.16 So while I honor Naess and Pannikar as ecosophy pioneers with a deep understanding of and manifested respect for all nature as alive and Naess’, Pannikar’s and Guattari’s respective pleas for a human society fully integrated into the rest of nature, ecosophy for my purposes is very simply, as I said above, what I believe it would have been in ancient Greece given the meanings of the words ecology and economy.
Ecosophy would have been oikosophia, the ‘wise household’—the human household in which economy (including finance) and ecology are not separated because they are understood as aspects of a single living system, or living economy, that is both organized and governed wisely. Thus, in an ecosophy, ecology cannot be made subservient to economics by treating nature simply as resources for human use.
Ecosophy in Context
In my 2013 presentation to global corporate leaders at the Xynteo Foundation’s annual Performance Theatre event held in Istanbul, I thanked these high-ranking corporate executives and board members for having globalized the economy through competition and creative initiative, as that was a necessary evolutionary step for humanity, inviting them to lead the way now to a sustainable future based on peaceful cooperation. I then apologized for my field of science, for providing economists and business leaders only the Darwinian story that has guided them throughout this expansive industrial and globalizing phase, while giving no guidance for the necessary next phase that must now be created with extreme speed.
As I had only five minutes to speak, I followed this with my elevator pitch on how this mature cooperative phase in Nature comes about and why it is sustainable, as well as repeatable for developing mature living economies. (This and the Washington DC talk described above were the shortest I have ever given, and thus the most challenging!)
In separating economy and ecology, both are failing us now. Economy because it cannot get beyond its youthful competition now in runaway mode; ecology—unfortunately made subservient to economy—because ecosystems are taken to be no more than resources for human use. This misunderstanding is what has brought the current ‘Perfect Storm’ of crises to our world, and we must understand now that it should be the other way around—that our human economy must be fitted harmoniously into nature’s ecology.
We are in desperate need of this wisdom as the governing principle of our human household. We must review, re-conceive and reinvent our human way of life beyond the separations and misconceptions preventing us from creating a wise way of life. Thomas Berry, walking in the footsteps of Teilhard de Chardin, one of the authors of the word ‘ecology,’ said cogently: “We cannot tell the human story without telling the Earth’s story.”17
Berry, like Naess, well understood that we humans are, for better or worse, solidly embedded in and dependent on Earth as one of its myriad species of living creatures, however much our unique brand of consciousness permits us to pretend otherwise—that we are somehow apart from and superior in intelligence to our Earth, that our technologies are superior to her living designs.
John Cairns, Jr. asked: Since the human economy is totally dependent upon the biosphere and humans are dependent on the biospheric life support system, why are [we] tolerant of the type of economic growth that damages the biosphere? He then suggested that Humankind should only engage in activities that nurture the biosphere.18
Such overarching holistic frameworks are needed to develop a coherent ecosophic strategy for living economies,19 which can fruitfully be based on Nature’s lessons for growing sustainable abundance through cooperative creativity without further physical growth. Nature has role-modeled the way and reveals it to us if only we look. If we follow her way, I believe we will find it to be the way to a genuine leap in humanity’s maturation from economy to ecosophy—even a leap in Earth’s evolution by way of her humans as we truly become cooperative, wise Homo sapiens sapiens!
Photography by robert gendler. Cosmos is the organizational pattern of the universe as our greatest context and cosmos is also the organizational pattern inherent in a human society, as well as its collective of people per se.
Cosmos, Philosophy and Science
In modern Greece, as in ancient times, the word cosmos is used for nature’s grand universe as well as for a smaller ‘universe’ of people—a populace or ‘the public’ (in Greek, a polis, from which we get our word ‘politics’). Cosmos is the organizational pattern of the universe as our greatest context and cosmos is also the organizational pattern inherent in a human society, as well as its collective of people per se.
In ancient Greece, this relatedness of nature and society also held for the human mind or psyche that is preoccupied with them, so all three—universal nature, human society and individual psyche/mind—were seen as embedded levels of our complete world, and all three were based on the same organizational principles and laws of operation or conduct.20
In this truly cosmic model, the Greeks believed that if we knew how the greater cosmos was organized, we would know how to organize our human cosmos. The greater cosmos came out of chaos, which was not seen as the disorder for which we use the word chaos, but as the unpatterned no-thing-ness of the universal source, the infinite potential (chaos, more as in today’s chaos theory) within which all arises. Thus, the matter of how cosmos-as-order arose and functions is of supreme importance for human life.
To create a harmonious human cosmos within nature’s greater cosmos, the Greeks believed that the human mind and emotions would have to be trained to function by the principles of harmonious cosmic organization.21 Epic poems, ancient Greek drama, and eventually logic were all teaching tools. A contemporary BBC television series on the ancient Greeks begins with the intentional relationship between Greek drama and democracy.22 Dramas about terrible tragedies wove together the levels of cosmos in order to teach people democracy—what most difficult or horrific situations could befall people, what decisions had to be made, what consequences must be dealt with when bad decisions were made, how cosmic influences moved between levels. Comedy taught similar lessons by spoofing how people actually behaved in order to promote better behavior, as in Aristophanes’ plays Lysistrata and Women in Parliament, in both of which women scheme to make peace when men fail to do so.
Another familiar ancient Greek word, philosophy (philosophia from philos sophias), meant love of wisdom and was used to designate the pursuit of wisdom by studying the natural world for guidance in human affairs. The Greeks assumed that the study of nature would reveal patterns of relationships applicable to human society—patterns that would help people organize and conduct their own lives, the lives of their families and their society wisely. Thus, philosophy included all the studies later given the designation of natural science, the term ‘science’ coming into use only in the Middle Ages.
When I discovered this ancient Greek goal of science, well after becoming a scientist, it resonated deeply within me as the very mission that had driven me to the study and practice of science. I believed that scientific understanding of nature, including our own human nature, would help us live on Earth more intelligently and peacefully. Sadly, science had abandoned that mission long ago when philosophy became an independent field while the systematic study of nature became ‘science,’ from the Latin scientia, a word implying knowledge and the analytical separation or division of things into parts to understand them.
Wisdom went with the name—out of science and (presumably) into philosophy. Philosophy became a very broad pursuit in its own right, based on thinking instead of experimentation or other formal research. Its foundation is widely accepted as reason and logic, but it also includes values, beliefs and principles in its domain. In everyday use, it is the way we think about and reflect on life and how we steer our lives in terms of our values. In that sense, we all are—or should all be—philosophers.
The ancient Greeks were like many indigenous cultures have been, and like some still are, in their recognition of levels—individual, family/household, society, cosmos—as repeating the same patterns and principles as embedded living systems at different scales. As the perennial philosophy mentioned earlier has it, ‘As above, so below’—now even becoming part of western science via the fractals and holograms increasingly used by physicists and biologists in describing nature.
Ecosophy can not only unite our separate categories of economics, ecology, finance, politics and governance, but can also unite science and spirituality, and bring human values into the entire human enterprise. In its core focus on wisdom, it must especially draw upon the feminine concerns with well-being, with caring and sharing as long promoted by, for example, Hazel Henderson23 and Riane Eisler.24
Studying physiology in a PhD program in the 1950’s, J.B. Cannon’s book The Wisdom of the Body (1932) was still a text, though a term such as ‘wisdom’ was soon after dropped as anthropomorphic—a human-centered view to be eschewed by ‘objective’ scientists. I pointed out that we were expected to take a mechanomorphic view of things—to see nature as machinery, which was actually illogical as machinery was the invention of humans (anthropos), making mechanomorphism secondary to anthropomorphism. Such commentary was not very welcome in graduate school.
Nevertheless, the wisdom and even ethics of the body—of all our bodies—are remarkable in endless ways. Some 50 to 100 trillion cells, each as complex as a large human city, get along amazingly well. All are agreed to send aid to any ailing part of the body immediately. No organ dominates—not even the brain—or expects other organs to become like itself. While blood is made from raw material cells in bone marrow ‘mines’ all over the body and becomes a ‘finished product’ when purified and oxygenated in the lungs, the heart distributes it equally to all those trillions of cells with no hoarding or profit.
Further, the ATP (adenosine triphosphate) ‘currency’ in our cells is given out freely by the mitochondria as banks—thus never as debt money—but carefully regulated to prevent both inflation and deflation. One can go on and on through all the interdependent systems of the body to show it is a genuine ecosophy and a clear corroboration of the Greeks’ belief that studying nature can bring wisdom to how we run our human affairs.
The wisest, most ethical human ecosophy I know is Dr. A.T. Ariyaratne’s Sarvodaya movement in Sri Lanka.25 Founded over half a century ago on the Buddhist principles of inner peace and generosity, this equitable rural development project now involves 15,000 villages, with 5,000 of them running their own banking system and helping the others develop. Businesses, schools, orphanages, community centers and agriculture are all developed to care for everyone’s need and no one’s greed.
In high technology societies, many people are now promoting the observation of nature to learn clean, non-toxic production,26 full recycling,27 ‘Natural Capitalism,’28 ethical markets29 and fair finance.30 Integrating all of these with a myriad peacekeeping and human potential efforts we can see it is possible for us to develop ecosophies.
The perfect storm of crises we now face may well prove to be the challenge that drives us into our greatest evolutionary leap. Economy must be made subservient to ecology if we want to continue our life on Earth as a healthy, embedded global human society. Economy based on principles of a conscious universe’s mature ecosystems, including that of our bodies, becomes Ecosophy. We know deep in our hearts and souls that this must be done; all we need is the courage to lead the way for all!
1. Astrophysicist Sir James Jeans
2. ‘Bring forth’ is the language of the Santiago School of Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela
3. Bateson, Gregory (1980) Mind and Nature. Bantam edition: New York; Harman, Willis & Sahtouris, Elisabet. Biology Revisioned. (1998) North Atlantic Books: Berkeley, CA.
4. See Elisabet Sahtouris’ Celebrating Crisis at www.worldbusiness.org/celebrating-crisis-towards-a-culture-of-cooperation.
5. See Bruce Lipton’s The Biology of Belief (2005).
6. Occupy Love, a film by Velcrow Ripper.
7. Sahtouris, Elisabet, EarthDance: Living Systems in Evolution (2000) iUniverse Press
8. Huxley, Aldous, The Perennial Philosophy (2004) Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition. Huxley’s distillation of common elements in most religions and philosophies.
9. De Vries, Marja, The Whole Elephant Revealed (2012) Axis Mundi Books, Winchester, UK; Washington, USA
10. Campbell, Joseph with Bill Moyers; ed. Betty Sue Flowers, The Power of Myth (1991) Anchor edition, New York. Based on the 1988 TV series by the same name.
11. See Elisabet Sahtouris’ Celebrating Crisis at www.worldbusiness.org/celebrating-crisis-towards-a-culture-of-cooperation, which includes an image of the maturation cycle.
12. Darwin, Charles, The Origin of Species, Introduction. www.literature.org/authors/darwin-charles/the-origin-of-species/introduction.html
13. This view has been taken up by the Green Party (as ‘ecological wisdom’) and in the 2010 Cochabamba People’s Accord reached by 35,000 climate activists from over 100 countries. This accord acknowledged Earth as a living being with inherent rights and made humans responsible for respecting and living in harmony with all her beings. After this meeting, the Bolivian President Evo Morales made such Earth rights law in his country, and campaigns are underway to do the same in the Netherlands, the UK, and other countries.
14. In my book EarthDance and elsewhere, I distinguish between organism as autopoietic (self-creating, self-maintaining) and mechanism as allopoietic (other-created and other-maintained; i.e., engineered and repaired by an outside entity). When we use mechanical metaphors for living entities and systems, including economies, we miss the very essence of life.
15. Additional quote: Brian Holmes on Guattari at www.brianholmes.wordpress.com/2009/02/27/guattaris-schizoanalytic-cartographies.
“What’s striking is the juxtaposition of scales. The capitalist production system now extends to fully global dimensions, but at the same time it has intensified its grip over humanity to the point of charting out detailed mental models and interaction routines, not only for classes, ethnicities, income groups and local populations, but also for the most intimate behaviors of individuals. The aim is to extract surplus value not only from our labor but also from our inherent sociability, our desires to love, play, flourish and therefore to produce and consume. As most of us have only recently understood, the computerized mapping capacities of integrated world capitalism allow for seamless transitions between macro and micro scales of intervention. Guattari speaks of a shift toward ‘intensive imperialism’ that uproot or deterritorialize individual subjectivities and entire social classes, in order to reconfigure them according to the axioms of globally integrated capital.”
17. Berry, Thomas, The Dream of the Earth (2006) Sierra Club Books; 2nd edition
18. Cairns, John Jr. “The Human Economy is a Subset of the Biosphere,” Asian J. Exp. Sci., Vol. 24, No. 2, 2010; 269-270.
19. www.worldbusiness.org/about/the-elisabet-sahtouris-chair
20. Naddaf, Gerard, The Greek Concept of Nature (2005) SUNY Press, New York.
21. The brain, to the Greeks, was a cooling organ regulating the emotional passions of the heart that clearly drove people’s behavior. (It is interesting that western science now comes to understand the complex neural system of the heart as a second brain. (The Biology of Transcendence; Emotional Intelligence)
22. BBC4, The Ancient Greeks 2013
23. See www.ethicalmarkets.com.
24. www.partnershipway.org/about-cps/cps-team/founders
25. www.sarvodaya.org
26. See www.biomimicryinstitute.org/about-us and www.asknature.org.
27. See McDonough-Baumgart’s “cradle to cradle” production at www.mbdc.com.
28. See www.natcap.org.
30. See www.beyondmoney.net/monographs/fundamentals-of-alternative-currencies-and-value-measurement.
Sherra Aguirre
This is a beautiful and insightful article on the interconnectedness of all of life. It points the way to redemption for our Earth’s ecosystems and indeed to the redemption of the human spirit itself.
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[…] Refreshingly, I had the pleasure of spending this week with evolutionary biologist Elisabet Sahtouris, whose view on competition and collaboration breaks through the re-hashed opinions that otherwise crowd the mainstream airwaves. Her lifelong study of evolution since the Earth’s creation leads her to conclude that: “Species after species, from the most ancient bacteria to us, have gone through a maturation cycle from individuation and fierce competition to mature collaboration and peaceful interdependence. The maturation tipping point in this cycle occurs when species reach the point where it is more energy efficient to feed and otherwise collaborate with their enemies than to kill them off.” (See her article Ecosophy: Nature’s Guide to a Better World.) […]
What a marvellous article. Ecosophy may be the only hope that survival of our earth (more or less as we know it) has. I hope that that the dark and selfish aspects of human nature will allow it…. but looking around at the wanton slaughter in just about every corner of the globe, I do have my doubts.
Sahr Yillia
Having gone through this useful discussion, I write on behalf of the Youth Partnership for Peace and Development (YPPD Liberia to thank you all for this meaningful topic.
Indeed, it is important that we all collaborate and share our ideas and programs or best practices for protection of the Earth/Environment regardless of our continental differences.
We are therefore using this platform to share with you all our efforts as young Liberian activists in protecting our most precious heritage which could even be useful for other researchers outside Liberia/Africa.
The Liberia Sapo National Park established in 1983 by legislative act was the country’s first protected area Located in Sinoe County, south-western Liberia With an area of 1,804 km2 (697 sq. mi).
The park is bounded to the north by the Putu Mountains and to the west by the Sinoe River with flat and marshy topography supporting a large area of uninhabited forest.
Its southeaster area has lower elevations of approximately 100 m (328 ft.) and gentle hills, while there are elevations of about 400 m (1,312 ft.) and steep ridges in the north. There are many small streams and rivers between these ridges. Sinoe River is the largest river in the park. Mount Putu’s 640 m (2,100 ft.) summit is the highest elevation in the park.
The Sapo Park has a tropical climate, with temperatures ranging between 22–28 °C (72–82 °F). The forest’s average relative humidity is 91%. Annual precipitation at Basintown, 4 km (2 mi) south of the park’s headquarters, averaged 2,596 mm (100 in).
Also, Liberia has the largest remaining part of the Upper Guinean forest ecosystem, with an estimated 42% of the remaining forest. The rest of the Upper Guinean forest is located in Côte d’Ivoire (28%), Ghana (16%), Guinea (8%), Sierra Leone (5%), and Togo (1%). Just an estimated 40-45% of Liberia’s original forest cover remains and less than 30% of its area is covered by natural forest.
Sapo park has one of the richest amounts of floral species in the country, with many endemic species As A 1983 survey of the park determined it to be composed of 63% primary and mature secondary forest, 13% swamp forest, 13% seasonally inundated forest, and 11% young secondary forest.
Additionally, the Sapo National Park is a “regional centre of endemism” and biodiversity, at one time hosting around 125 mammal species and 590 types of bird,[16] including a number of threatened species,[39] such as the African golden cat, drill, Gola marimba, Liberian mongoose, white-breasted guineafowl, and white-necked rock fowl.
The park was also home to the African civet, African fish eagle, African grey parrot, giant forest hog, great blue turaco, speckle-throated otter,[40] water chevrotain, three species of pangolin, seven species of monkey (including the endangered Diana monkey, crocodiles,[16] leopards,[41] bee-eaters, egrets, hornbills,[32] kingfishers, rollers, and sunbirds.
Moreover, various surveys before the 14 years civil armed conflict (1989) confirmed the existence of the common chimpanzee (Pan Troglodytes) in Sapo National Park, located primarily in the park’s center and western areas, with estimates of the population ranging from 500 to 1,640.
Meanwhile, the Park hosted up to 500 African Forest Elephants in the early 1980s.
Seven species of duiker antelopes were found in Sapo National Park, [17] including the vulnerable Jenkin’s duiker (Cephalophus jentinki) and zebra duiker (Cephalophus zebra). [14] Bay duikers (Cephalophus dorsalis) and Maxwell’s duikers (Cephalophus maxwellii) were reported to be locally abundant.
Finally, it was also confirmed that the Sapo National Park contains populations of the pygmy hippopotamus (Hexaprotodon liberiensis), an endangered species which has legal protection in Liberia under the Wildlife and National Park Act of 1988. [2] Unique to West Africa, the wild population of pygmy hippopotamuses is thought to number less than 3,000 individuals.
Also, the endangered African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) was present in the Park with population estimated to “as many as 500” for the early 1980s [12] [20] to between 313[47] and 430[48).
However, persistentelegal human activities during and after the 14 years civil armed conflict including hunting, Timber logging, charcoal burning, Gold mining, farming and other unfriendly environmental activities are seriously threatening this beautiful national and regional heritage.
Moreover, implementation and enforcement of laws for the promotion and conservation of the park are weak while community and local authorities around the park lack the necessary skills to monitor and protect the park from illegal activities.
Another compounding problem is the absence of trained and qualified Forest Rangers to manage/conserve the park from illegal activities.
We have therefore embarked on series of proactive activities including sensitizations and campaigns as well as capacity building training of our youth colleagues as Forest Rangers for the protection/conservation which is lacking at the moment.
It is also our hope to use new and advance technologies to do a comprehensive assessment of the current status of the Park since after the civil conflict to establish updated online database system as well as means of preserving the existing animals and plants in the park.
In view of the above, we will be glad partnering with interested institutions/individuals on the above issues as we can assure you all of a good partnership.
Thanks and kindly feel free to share this document including our email with others if this is accepted by your institution.
For further details, please visit http://www.YPPDliberia.wordpress.com for the rest of our work in Liberia.
YPPD Liberia
EMAIL: info.youthpartnershipatwork@gmail.com
yppd.lib@gmail.com.
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Santy Asanuma
Alii Dr. Sahtouris,
I am elated after reading your article on ecosophy (even this apps I am using to write this comment does not recognize it to be a word so I tried it on my Word 2007 and it still does not recognize it). I majored in biology with emphasis on micro-biology and minored in philosophy in a Catholic college during the early 80’s. Needless to say, one can almost see the fine line separating empirical sciences and social sciences then. How could the smart people of this world could have not seen the connection between the form and essence of man is mind boggling. To make a long story short, today I am at best a community activist fighting any form of social injustice and had reinvented myself as a social writer for close to twenty years.
In the course of trying to make sense of life as we see it around us today with the prevailing label of human good as the pretext on all developmental fronts including globalization in recent history, I am so enthralled by your condor and articulation in putting the human story in the most complete fashion I have read thus far. I am now reading a book by Eugen Herrigel titled Zen in the Art of Archery.
I would like to ask for your permission to use your ideas in my future pursuits on social development as equally important aspect of any given society to continuously invest both our minds and material resources on it. Life and everything about it is organic; on this premise there is a chance for survival and the potential for humanity unlimited. Thank you for your wisdom and fortitude to speak up.
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HILLSBORO, Ore. -- For the second-straight week, the Lewis & Clark Pioneers had selections for the Northwest Conference Student-Athlete of the Week awards, the conference office announced Monday.
Miyah Leith of women's basketball and Christine Eliazo of women's tennis were picked for their first honors of the year.
Leith scored 33 points for the second-straight week to match her career best as the Pioneers defeated Linfield, 75-67, on the road. She is the only NWC scorer to have two 30-plus scoring games this season. The victory keeps Lewis & Clark in control of its own destiny for an NWC postseason tournament spot.
Eliazo, who entered the spring ranked No. 50 in the Oracle/ITA Division III Women's National Singles Rankings, won her singles match over Catrina Kwong, 6-1, 6-3, while pairing with Kacey Incerpi for an 8-3 win in the top doubles match in the season opener against George Fox. Competing on her birthday, Eliazo moved to 5-1 in singles for the entirety of her senior season so far. Last fall, she lost to top seed Ella Riddle of Linfield in the ITA Northwest Regional Championships final. Through the end of her junior season, Eliazo holds the school record for conference-only singles winning percentage (.933).
On Friday, Eliazo and the women's tennis team will host Hardin-Simmons to open the home schedule. The next night, Leith and five other women's basketball seniors will be recognized on Senior Night against Puget Sound. Leith is fourth in NWC scoring and steals per game this season and is the 11th Lewis & Clark student-athlete to go over 1,000 points for her career. She is one of seven Pioneers all-time to score 33 points or more in a single game. Leith is 20 points behind former teammate Ayisat Afolabi for the seventh-most career points at Lewis & Clark.
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Is Egg Drop Soup Healthy?
By Nicki Wolf
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Nicki Wolf has been writing health and human interest articles since 1986. Her work has been published at various cooking and nutrition websites. Wolf has an extensive background in medical/nutrition writing and online content development in the nonprofit arena. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English from Temple University.
Egg drop soup is a classic Chinese dish containing chicken broth flavored with ginger and soy and thickened with cornstarch. To make the soup at home, pour beaten eggs into heated broth to produce light strings of cooked egg. Top the soup with chopped scallions. This low-calorie soup can be part of a healthy diet for most people, although the sodium content can be high.
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Calories and Fat
A 1-cup serving of egg drop soup contains 96 to 100 calories, making this soup a good choice for a warming snack or the first course to your meal. Egg drop soup contains up to 3 grams of fat per serving, and it may have 1 gram of saturated fat, depending on the brand or restaurant. As such, nearly 30 percent of calories in a serving of this soup derive from fat. You should limit your total fat to 20 to 35 percent of your daily calories, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
Carbohydrates and Protein
Egg drop soup is relatively low in carbohydrates, with 3 grams of carbs per serving. As your daily meal plan should contain 225 to 325 grams of carbs, you can add a side of rice with a portion of steamed Chinese chicken and broccoli to your serving of soup. This also increases your protein intake. Egg drop soup provides 8 grams of protein and the National Institutes of Health advises that you consume 50 to 65 grams of protein each day.
Egg drop soup is not rich in vitamins or minerals. One serving of soup contains less than 5 percent of the recommended daily value for riboflavin, vitamin B-12, vitamin B-6 and thiamin. One serving also provides small amounts of calcium, vitamin A, zinc, phosphorus, iron and vitamin D as well.
Consider making egg drop soup at home to control the amount of salt that goes into it – commercially available varieties of egg drop soup contain as much as 900 milligrams of sodium per serving, and cutting back on the salt and choosing low-sodium soy sauce can reduce the amount of sodium in each cup. If you're a healthy person, the CDC advises that you may consume up to 2,300 milligrams of sodium per day; however, if you have hypertension, or high blood pressure, you should limit your consumption to 1,500 milligrams. Consuming more than this amount on a regular basis can raise blood pressure and result in heart problems.
Do not consume egg drop soup if you have egg allergies. KidsHealth indicates that most people outgrow egg allergies as they age, but some adult allergies persist. Symptoms of this allergy include hives or other skin reactions, nausea and vomiting, a decrease in blood pressure and heart palpitations. If you experience breathing problems, consult a physician immediately.
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“Quezon’s Game” named Best Foreign Movie at the WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival
by Lion's Den April 24, 2019, 9:40 am
Quezon’s Game is a joint venture production of Star Cinema, ABS-CBN’s streaming service iWant, and Kinetek Productions
WorldFest-Houston International Festival is the oldest independent film and video festival
Quezon’s Game also bagged 12 awards from the Cinema World Fest Awards in Ottawa, Canada
“Quezon’s Game,” a movie that pays tribute to former Philippine president Manuel L. Quezon’s heroic rescue of over a thousand Jewish people seeking refuge from the Holocaust, continues to get worldwide recognition after it bagged four awards at the WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival last Saturday, April 13 (Sunday, April 14 in Manila).
The film, a joint venture production of Star Cinema, ABS-CBN’s streaming service iWant, and Kinetek Productions, won the Best Foreign Movie trophy.
It also won three Gold Remi Awards for Best Art Design, Best Producers for ABS-CBN president and CEO Carlo Katigbak, Star Cinema managing director Olivia Lamasan, iWant originals production head Linggit Tan-Marasigan, and Lorena Rosen, and Best Director for Matthew Rosen, an award-winning TV commercial and music video director and pioneer in the data post-production field.
WorldFest, based in Houston, Texas, is the oldest independent film and video festival in the world and third competitive international film festival in North America.
In January, the period movie also brought home 12 awards from the Cinema World Fest Awards in Ottawa, Canada, including Awards of Excellence for its lead actor Raymond Bagatsing, who portrayed the titular character, and Rachel Alejandro, who played his wife, Aurora.
It continued getting honors in the international film festival circuit in February, when it reaped six awards at the IndieFEST Film Awards in California, US.
Inspired by true events, “Quezon’s Game” tells the epic story of heroism that began in 1938, when Manuel L. Quezon joined future US president Dwight Eisenhower, and several other notable figures to rescue Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria. Faced with mounting obstacles—including Quezon’s battle with a relapse of tuberculosis—the group fought through and saved around 1,200 refugees.
It is said that in his final days, Quezon asked the question “Could I have done more?” as he recounted one of the least known, but most inspiring stories in Philippine history.
“Quezon’s Game” will be shown in theaters in the country starting May 29.
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Females Taking The Lead
Often, when lists of books for year groups are published, there is a request for more books with female protagonists. I have noticed in the past year or so there has been a rise in books with a female lead.
Protagonist: The central character of a story. They make the key decisions and experience the consequences of those decisions. The protagonist is often the character who faces the most significant obstacles as well as propelling agent for the narrative.
I have put together this list from books I have read this academic year and I have enjoyed. I feel that they will be really good to share with UKS2 (children aged 9-11) as whole class texts and could drive English learning as well as Reading for Pleasure.
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1. Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend
Morrigan Crow is cursed, destined to die on her eleventh birthday. But, as the clock strikes midnight, she's whisked away by a remarkable man called Jupter North and taken to the secret city of Nevermoor.
There she's invited to join the Wundrous Society. Mystery, magica and protection are hers - if only she can pass four impossible trials, using an exceptional talent. Which she doesn't have...
2. The Tunnels Below by Nadine Wild-Palmer
On her twelfth birthday, the last thing Cecilia expected was to find herself lost in a labyrinth of tunnels beneath London. Afraid, alone, but determined, she sets to work on her escape, and soon realises that perhaps there is a reason she and the mysterious marble her sister gave her have ended up so far from home.
Deep in the darkness roam the terrible Corvus, tyrants of the magical realm below. Cecilia's struggle to return to her family becomes a mission of great danger and adventure, as she tries to help her new friends to free themselves and their beautiful, unique world. But will her heart be brave enough to ensure she doesn't stay trapped in the darkness forever?
I really enjoyed this book and the world which the author created. The creatures that inhabit the world were almost 'Narnian' and throughout I was reminded of the writing of Neil Gaiman which can only be a good thing!
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3. The MIdnight Hour by Benjamin Read and Laura Trinder
Emily's parents have vanished into the secret world of the Midnight Hour - a Victorian London frozen in time - home to magic and monsters. Emily must find them in the city of the Night Folk, armed only with a packed lunch, a stowaway hedgehog and her infamously big mouth.
With bloodthirsty creatures on her tail, Emily has to discover the truth to rescue her parents. What family secret connects her to the Midnight Hour? And can she save both worlds before she runs out of sandwiches?
4. Secrets of a Sun King by Emma Carroll
When Lilian Kaye finds a parcel on her grandad's doorstep, she is shocked to see who sent it: a famous Egyptologist, found dead that very morning, according to every newspaper in England!
The mysterious package holds the key to a story . . . about a king whose tomb archaeologists are desperately hunting for.
Lil and her friends must embark on an incredible journey - to return the package to its resting place, to protect those they love, and to break the deadly pharaoh's curse . . .
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5. The Island at the End of Everything by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Amihan lives with her sick mother on an island where the sea is as blue as the sky. It's all she knows and loves, but the arrival of a cruel government official, Mr Zamora, changes her world for ever. Her island is to become a colony for sufferers of leprosy. Banished to an orphanage across the water, Ami meets a honey-eyed girl named for butterflies, and together they set out to find a way back home to the island at the end of everything.
6. Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell
Everyone thinks that Sophie is an orphan. True, there were no other recorded female survivors from the shipwreck which left baby Sophie floating in the English Channel in a cello case, but Sophie remembers seeing her mother wave for help. Her guardian tells her it is almost impossible that her mother is still alive, but that means still possible. You should never ignore a possible.
So when the Welfare Agency writes to her guardian threatening to send Sophie to an orphanage, she takes matters into her own hands and flees to Paris to look for her mother, starting with the only clue she has - the address of the cello maker.
Ivading the French authorities, she meets Matteo and his network of rooftoppers - urchins who live in the sky. Together they scour the city for Sophie's mother before she is caught and sent back to London, and most importantly before she loses hope.
This is one of my 'books of the decade.' I cannot really believe that it was published 6 years ago. A really great read!
If you are looking for a dystopian novel then this might be the one you have been searching for. It is very adventurous with just the right amount of threat for this age group. Perhaps one for those who want to read The Hunger Games but are too young.
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7. The Middler by Kirsty Applebaum
"I was special. I was a hero. I lost the best friend I ever had." Eleven-year-old Maggie lives in Fennis Wick, enclosed and protected from the outside world by a boundary, beyond which the Quiet War rages and the dirty, dangerous wanderers roam. Her brother Jed is an eldest, revered and special. A hero. Her younger brother is Trig - everyone loves Trig. But Maggie's just a middler; invisible and left behind.
Then, one hot September day, she meets Una, a hungry wanderer girl in need of help, and everything Maggie has ever known gets turned on its head. Narrated expertly and often hilariously by Maggie, we experience the trials and frustrations of being the forgotten middle child, the child with no voice, even in her own family. This gripping story of forbidden friendship, loyalty and betrayal.
8. The Wolf Wilder by Katherine Rundell
This is the second entry on the list by Katherine Rundell, a gothic turn of the 20th century fairytale set in Russia doesn't necessarily sound like something that will grip young readers but it is a real page turner!
Feodora and her mother live in the snowbound woods of Russia, in a house full of food and fireplaces. Ten minutes away, in a ruined chapel, lives a pack of wolves. Feodora's mother is a wolf wilder, and Feo is a wolf wilder in training. A wolf wilder is the opposite of an animal tamer: it is a person who teaches tamed animals to fend for themselves, and to fight and to run, and to be wary of humans.
When the murderous hostility of the Russian Army threatens her very existence, Feo is left with no option but to go on the run. What follows is a story of revolution and adventure, about standing up for the things you love and fighting back. And, of course, wolves.
9. Letters from the Lighthouse by Emma Carroll
We weren't supposed to be going to the pictures that night. We weren't even meant to be outside, not in a blackout, and definitely not when German bombs had been falling on London all month like pennies from a jar.
February, 1941. After months of bombing raids in London, twelve-year-old Olive Bradshaw and her little brother Cliff are evacuated to the Devon coast. The only person with two spare beds is Mr Ephraim, the local lighthouse keeper. But he's not used to company and he certainly doesn't want any evacuees.
Desperate to be helpful, Olive becomes his post-girl, carrying secret messages (as she likes to think of the letters) to the villagers. But Olive has a secret of her own. Her older sister Sukie went missing in an air raid, and she's desperate to discover what happened to her. And then she finds a strange coded note which seems to link Sukie to Devon, and to something dark and impossibly dangerous.
10. Sky Song by Abi Elphinstone
‘Once an adventure digs its claws in, there is not an awful lot you can do about it. Especially when magic is involved . . .’
In the snowy kingdom of Erkenwald, whales glide between icebergs, wolves hunt on the tundra and polar bears roam the glaciers. But the people of this land aren’t so easy to find - because Erkenwald is ruled by an evil Ice Queen and the tribes must stay hidden or risk becoming her prisoners at Winterfang Palace.
Join Eska, a girl who breaks free from a cursed music box, and Flint a boy whose inventions could change the fate of Erkenwald forever, as they journey to the Never Cliffs and beyond in search of an ancient, almost forgotten, song with the power to force the Ice Queen back.
This is a story about an eagle huntress, an inventor and an organ made of icicles. But it is also a story about belonging, even at the very edges of our world . . .
Eska shares the lead with Flint in this book, but she is one of the most adventurous characters that you are likely to meet!
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Short VIPERS Comprehensions
I get asked on an almost daily basis to create VIPERS comprehensions for short text extracts as well as the novel guides found on www.literacyshedplus.com
I have been creating some of these and wanted feedback on their layout etc.
This example, Robin Hood and Little John, is aimed at reading ages 9-11. I think that each text will be split into two sections. The first section will focus on one of the VIPERS areas and the second section will have a number of different VIPERS questions.
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Stories for pleasure - choose your vessel
This week, I had the pleasure of attending ‘Shrewsbury Bookfest’ where author Piers Torday challenged anyone who wants to become a writer to write every day. Well… here is my attempt at an adventure story.
The adventurer struggled to place one foot in front of the other; each step on the burning sand seemed to bring him closer to death. He was in trouble: he had finished his water the day before and he was lost and alone.
In the distance, he espied a row of trees and he headed towards them.. As he moved closer, he saw the tell-tale glint that signified life: water.
It wasn’t a mirage either. It was a spring bubbling from the red rocks and forming a shallow crystal clear pool at their base. The adventurer let out a hoarse cry of joy and hobbled quickly towards the spring. He dropped to his knees, cupped his hands under the water and brought his lips down towards the cool refreshment.
“HALT!” boomed out a voice. “Do not drink a single drop.” A desert warrior stepped out from beneath the shade of a palm. Lightly armoured, he looked deadly as the sun glinted off his wickedly curved scimitar. “You are not permitted to drink from ‘The Spring of Knowledge’ without the correct vessel.”
The adventurer rocked back on his heels, “But I have had no succour from this heat all day and in this sun I shall surely die!”
“You must use a suitable vessel!” he growled.
The adventurer looked around for something to collect the water in: a bowl, a flask, anything. And then he remembered that he had his tin cup hanging from his pack. “I have this!” he said holding it above his head like a prized trophy and as he dipped the tin mug into the water the warrior let out a deep laugh. “A tin cup is not a suitable vessel to hold water from the ‘Spring of Knowledge.”
“But it is all I have,” pleaded the adventurer desperately.
“Then you will never experience the joys that run forth from this spring!” he replied and at that point the warrior, the rocks and the life-preserving liquid disappeared. The adventurer was left alone under the searing sun…
Are you still here? Good, I am glad that didn’t put you off! I have seen this same thing happening across our education system for years. Many educationalists will tell you that books are ‘The Spring of all Knowledge.” Einstein has been widely attributed to the following quote:
“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
This message and others like it are often splashed around school walls along with similar well intentioned messages such as this one from Cicero who said. If you don’t read books then you are soulless or more eloquently:
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
Lemony Snicket tells us, “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.” In other words, if you do not read, then no one will trust you.
Groucho Marx has often been quoted as saying “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” Reading between the lines, he is telling us that if you watch TV, then you’re uneducated.
And George R.R. Martin tells us that if you don’t read, then you will not be intelligent, when he wrote, “…a mind needs a book as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
Often when I attend talks on reading for pleasure or even writing for pleasure it is often quotes like these which speakers throw around with gay abandon and yet the National Literacy Trust tell us that one in ten pupils do not own their own books by the time they leave primary school. This number rises to 12.5% of children in areas of deprivation and anecdotally I would suggest that in some schools it is more than this.
Imagine how such children feel during the reading for pleasure push that many schools are having. To be told that their home lives have less value because they live in a book deficient household often through no fault of their own. Rather than alienating these pupils, we should be embracing their home literacies of which they are often experts. In those houses with few or no books, screens often prevail. Sometime in the last 600ish years a snobbery around books was created and it endures today, a snobbery where books are better than these screens that most homes now have. I have even seen teachers arguing that children should not be reading from eBooks because ‘real books’ offer a ‘superior experience.’ It is this attitude that can turn some people away from reading, as can the desire to ensure children are reading books that are deemed acceptable for learning rather than ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid’ for example.
It is for this reason that rather than talking about ‘Reading for Pleasure’ and ‘Writing for pleasure’ I would prefer to talk about ‘Stories for Pleasure.’
Stories are stories. It doesn’t matter about the vessel in which they are delivered. Think about the explorer in the desert. He didn’t need an appropriate vessel. It was a ridiculous rule imposed by someone superior. His tin cup would have sufficed. His thirst would have been quenched and he could have carried on his journey.
Yesterday, I had the absolute pleasure of sitting on the Shrewsbury panel of ‘experts’ alongside three children’s authors: Piers Torday, Maz Evans and Christopher Edge who were all singing from the same hymn sheet – the lyrics to this canticle?
“Books are but one vessel in which to transport stories.”
Stories are all around us and each of us are filled with stories and they are the currency by which we live. Maz Evans reminded us that we share stories all day long. We recount our stories to our friends and even strangers when we are standing at a bus stop.
Children access stories throughout their daily lives and they are not necessarily written in books. They may be watching stories on their TV or on tablet screens. They could be listening to stories told to them by peers, siblings or parents. It is possible that they are acting out their own stories in the playground or living another life through a computer game, moving their character through a series of tasks to complete a quite complicated plot. It may be that they are looking in the mirror, hairbrush under their chin, singing stories of love and heartbreak by the latest musical diva.
All of these examples of story are important to our children. They should be celebrated and valued rather than swept aside as things that are less than books.
So let’s start sharing ‘Stories for Pleasure,’ and using a range of vessels to deliver them, and let’s see what discussions you can spark about their contents.
I am going to start tweeting about #storiesforpleasure so please follow it and share the stories you’re sharing for pleasure too.
Some examples of stories or story starters to initiate discussion - remember stories do not always need to be written down.
Start a discussion by asking the following questions:
Why doesn't she want to wear make up?
What could have happened to her?
How does she feel when she doesn't wear it?
Opening Lines. What happens next?
I didn’t mean to kill her.
The air turned black all around me.
Icy fingers gripped my arm in the darkness.
Wandering through the graveyard it felt like something was watching me.
The eyes in the painting follow him down the corridor.
A shrill cry echoed in the mist
Icy wind slashed at his face and the rain danced its evil dance upon his head as he tried to get his bearings on the isolated beach.
Footsteps slowly creaked on every step of the stairs. The bedroom door handle turned slowly.
Death lurked in every door way with hell at one dark window. Inspired by A. Noyes 'The Highwayman'
My hair stood on end, a shiver raced down my spine and a lump came to my throat. It was him.
Find more of these openers here
An interesting picture - sometimes with a starter question.
What does he do with these?
What hatches?
How do you persuade the dragon to give you some gold?
Use objects and artefacts in the classroom.
Ask questions such as:
- who did it belong to?
- how did it get here?
- what was it used for?
Choosing age appropriate computer games can also inspire stories. Ask the children to guide their character around the map/scene and then retell you the story.
It is often as simple as that!
Of course you could use films to inspire stories too, but I talk about that all of the time, just have a browse through my blog and www.literacyshed.com
Thank you for reading, as always I welcome any comments.
Please follow #storiesforpleasure for future updates.
With thanks to @PiersTorday, @MaryAliceEvans, @EdgeChristopher, @Shrewsbookfest, @JEccleshare
'Poppies' from Cbeebies
Watch the video on youtube here
The film 'Poppies' is shown on CBBC each year to give children something to think about during the two-minutes silence. You may wish to use this film in that way or use it to discuss the effects of war on people and animals.
Discussion Points
Discuss the first 35 seconds. How do you think the rabbit is feeling? How would you describe the atmosphere or general feeling? Do the ducks remind you of anything? How does the music make you feel?
After 48 seconds, ask what is changing? Does this symbolise anything? How do you think the rabbit feels?
After 1 min 18 seconds, ask what the rabbit is sheltering under? Where did it come from? Does it symbolise anything? Is it a good place to shelter? How do you think the creatures are feeling?
Watch the film until the end, how do we first know that the war is over? What type of flowers are they? Do you think the colour of the flowers have any significance? How do you think the rabbit felt when his family appeared?
After watching the film discuss the fact that the rabbit could symbolise a soldier. Do they think a soldier would feel any different to the rabbit?
There are some recording sheets for responding to 'Poppies' here Thanks to @GrahamAndre
Further Literacy Shed Resources on War here
There are additional Armistice Day resources from the BBC here
Click this image for further WW1 Resources
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
Many teachers have asked us to create more VIPERS comprehensions for use in lessons. We have some on Literacy Shed plus already for ages 9-11 and we are looking at developing more.
I have created a VIPERS comprehension pack based on an article about The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier aimed at Year 6. (Aged 10-11)
Click on the image on the right to download the pack.
If you would like to find out more about VIPERS click here.
I value your feedback. Please comment below if you would like more comprehension packs like this on The Literacy Shed
Persuasive writing and Greenpeace
People love to send me films and I have been sent this one quite a few times over the last few weeks.
'Rang Tan' is an educational film made by Greenpeace to educate people about the destruction of the rainforests due to human intrusion, primarily from the Palm Oil manufacturers.
These resources are adapted from the great resources that were developed by Greenpeace on the subject. The originals can be found here
When using this film with a group of Y4 children this week to tie into their Rainforests topic we began by finding out lots about Orangutans.
We began by watching this short film from YouTube.
The children then created information sheets about Orangutans using the templates below. The objectives of the lesson here were twofold, the children practise their reading skills in order to find the information but also to improve their knowledge of Orangutans in order to write about them in the following lesson. Before reading, we discussed and contextualised the tricky words from the image below.
The Reading Sheet
Response/Poster Sheet without questions
Response/Poster sheet
Click here to download the resources
In the next session we watched the 'Rang Tan' video voiced by Emma Thompson and discussed the dual narrative and the story it told. The children followed the text and read along. There are opportunities here for performance, the children could choose a section to perform dramatically.
Following the reading sessions, we then decided that we would write letters to the Prime Minister in protest against palm oil products in the UK.
This began with a discussion about persuasion. We decided that we should describe the beauty of the Orangutan as in the model below. This would act as a persuasive device as people are more likely to protest for something if they have a relationship with them.
The second part of the writing will involve a number of persuasive devices such as repetition to echo the forest and rhetorical questions to make the audience think.
I shall update with examples of children's work when complete.
If you would like to see further resources like this on www.literacyshedplus.com please comment to below.
Inference: images, film and into text.
I have been developing some ideas around linking picture books, films and text in order to teach comprehension skills based on our VIPERS reading prompts.
The following video is based on a group of lessons which introduces children to the concept of inference as looking for clues and creating a hypotheses from the evidence that they can find. The beauty of using still or moving image is that it is inclusive, that reluctant readers or non decoders can also join in the discussion. In the following film you will see the development from still image, to moving image and then the application of the skill on some text extracts.
With Google at our fingertips, do we still need non-fiction texts?
This short presentation was delivered at the OURfP group on 2nd October at Holcombe Brook School, Ramsbottom.
The Non-fiction books mentioned on the later slides. Click the image for more information.
Links to George's Marvellous Medicine
Links to Anne Frank's Diary
Links to Ice Trap
A quick vocabulary lesson
Planning to look at vocabulary in a reading session should not be a laborious task. A quick annotation of the text should allow you to choose the key vocabulary that you would like to look at and discuss with the students.
This week I looked at Survivors by David Long with a group of Y6 children. I decided to focus on vocabulary with the children in this short 15-20 minute reading session. The class theme at the moment is Mountains so I chose the text to tie in with this.
Click the image for further information about this book.
As a hook into the lesson we watched this 'Top 5 avalanches' video on YouTube.
We read together the opening of the Colby Coombs story and in the first two paragraphs I picked out the words highlighted below in red and asked children if they knew what they meant? For some, children gave excellent definitions, others were educated guesses from context and some had to be explained to them. We recorded them on the board and revisited them at the end of the lesson.
“America’s highest mountains, which span more than 400 miles”
“An experienced mountaineer and wilderness guide”
“blinded by a condition known as a whiteout”
“down a sheer rock face of the great mountain.”
I asked – was this avalanche expected? They answered no.
I asked them to highlight or underline three phrases which show that the events happened quickly or rapidly.
They underlined: ‘Within seconds,’ ‘With no time,’ ‘sudden’ and we discussed how using all three of these in quick succession intensified the feeling of speed.
We read the next section and I instructed the students to find any evidence that the avalanche was very powerful.
We then collected synonyms that the children knew could be used to describe the powerful avalanche.
We then discussed which other natural phenomena could be described using these words.
The savage ocean, a ferocious earthquake, an awesome eruption (of a volcano)
Useful: A working knowledge of texts.
Ask a teacher to name a book about WW2 and they can usually throw around the names of quite a few. ‘The Silver Sword’ (classic one), ‘Good Night Mr. Tom’ (Heart-warming one), ‘Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’ (shocking one) and ‘Once’ (graphic one). Ask though, which of these books describes the setting of a bomb crater the best and less books may be suggested.
It is imperative though, that teachers have a good working knowledge of the texts, the language used and the structures in order to weave them skilfully into English lessons. For this to happen, a wide range of texts need to have been read by the teacher or teachers so that they can recall features, concepts and even sentences which they can use with their students as model texts.
Take the examples below, each of them is from a different text but each of them describes a forest. It doesn’t really matter what genre the children are writing; a good description can be utilised across a range of writing episodes.
In a hypothetical classroom, somewhere around Year 5 or Year 6, a child is writing about ‘waiting in a forest ready to go into battle during WW2’ based on a picture, film or other stimulus that the teacher has provided. If the class teacher wants to show them a model, they generally have two options – try and find a book where the exact same scenario is occurring (this may not even exist) or write their own model. (Some teachers find difficult).
However, much of the language used in the extracts below would be useful, as would some of the sentence structures and techniques such as building atmosphere or using similes. None of the books below are about World War 2 or are from battle scenes though. With some slight adjustments they can be adapted to work for any narrative which needs a description of a forest.
The Wizards of Once
Perhaps you feel that you know what a dark forest looks like. Well, I can tell you right now that you don’t. These were forests darker than you would believe possible, darker than inkspots, darker than midnight, darker than space itself, and as twisted and as tangled as a Witch’s heart. They were what is now known as wildwoods, and they stretched as far in every direction as you can possibly imagine, only stopping when they reached a sea.
Cowell, Cressida. The Wizards of Once: Book 1 (Kindle Locations 32-35). Hachette Children's Group. Kindle Edition.
In this description the teacher can discuss how Cowell has directly addressed the reader, used rhetorical devices and repeated the word darker and how this effects the audience.
The Dreamsnatcher
Tanglefern Forest was vast, with some trees so old and tangled that few had passed beneath their branches. But there were places you went and places you didn’t. The Ancientwood in the north of the forest was safe: there was the glade of brilliant spring bluebells and yews beyond Oak’s camp, then a grove of crab-apple trees, and beyond that, after the forest, the farm itself and Tipplebury village. But south . . . Well, south was another place altogether. So she’d heard. The Deepwood was rumoured to be full of shady trees and rotting undergrowth and, when it ended, the heathland, with it sinking bogs and soggy marshes, began.
Elphinstone, Abi. The Dreamsnatcher (Dreamsnatcher 1) (pp. 9-10). Simon & Schuster UK. Kindle Edition.
I like in this extract how Elphinstone paints a positive picture of the forest in the North but then lets the reader imagine what the forest to the South is like. Think back to the scenario of world war 2. The soldier is in the forest and using Elphinstone’s technique, they could say something like:
‘The North side of the barbed wire was safe. The animals went about their daily business, birds were in the trees feeding worms to their chicks, fox cubs frolicked in the long grass of the clearing and a few of us managed to take off our boots and clean ourselves in the babbling brook. But on the other side of the barbed wire? Well that was another place altogether, from what he had heard it was worse than hell, a mud filled hell…’
The Lie Tree
Faith walked through a midnight forest. The trees were pure white, and rose high above her head, disappearing into a blue-black darkness. There was no wind, and yet the snow-white leaves shivered and whispered. She raised one hand to push aside low-hanging foliage, and felt her fingertips brush paper. The trees were flat and pale. The ragged-torn ferns stroked the skin of her hands, paper-cutting her, slyly cruel.
She was not alone.
Hardinge, Frances. The Lie Tree (pp. 234-235). Pan Macmillan. Kindle Edition.
The colours that Hardinge uses here are interesting and the last line. 'She was not alone' could be utilised in the scenario above to describe the soldier as well as in many other narrative scenarios.
The Spell Thief (Little Legends Book 1)
The air in the dark woods was thick and damp. Anansi stopped in front of a fallen tree. The roots rose above him like huge dead claws.
Percival, Tom. The Spell Thief (Little Legends Book 1) (pp. 41-42). Pan Macmillan. Kindle Edition.
This is a great example of simile, but it is from a book that most teachers would use with Year 3 and Year 4. Having a knowledge of books from other year groups and other key stages, including books for adults is also useful.
I am working on collecting some texts around a number of themes like these which I will continue to blog and discuss in my CPD sessions.
I am currently updating my CPD courses and the range which I offer for the next academic year so keep your eyes peeled for updates here www.literacyshed.com/cpd
Click the book covers for more information about each
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Pro-abortion lawmaker’s Viagra bill in protest of pro-life laws is advancing in South Carolina
By Cassy Fiano-Chesser | April 26, 2016 , 11:51am
Last year, pro-abortion South Carolina lawmaker Mia McLeod proposed a bill that would place a variety of limits on erectile dysfunction drugs. In her own words, she wanted the bill to be “invasive, as intrusive, as hypocritical and unnecessary” as possible. Why? Because she’s trying to make a point.
McLeod’s bill would require men who need erectile dysfunction drugs to have a 24-hour waiting period, undergo sex therapy and a minimum of three counseling sessions, submit to a cardiac stress test, be given resources on celibacy, and have a notarized affidavit from a sexual partner confirming that he suffers from erectile dysfunction and has had difficulty performing within the past 90 days.
According to McLeod, the bill was originally just a stunt. She never expected it to pass — yet somehow, the bill is advancing. After amending it to exclude prostate cancer survivors, the bill passed the South Carolina House medical subcommittee, and is advancing to the full House Committee on Medical, Military, Public and Municipal Affairs. McLeod was thrilled:
My ED bill was amended to exclude prostate cancer survivors & received a unanimous, fav. subcommittee report! Now, on to full committee…
— Mia McLeod (@MiaforSC) April 20, 2016
And now pro-abortion activists are celebrating her “triumph”.
Good for you @MiaforSC for bringing attention to what SC women face at the hands of legislators trying to control our bodies & sex lives.
— Vicki Ringer (@vickiringer) April 20, 2016
@jayne_a_broad @MiaforSC I think it needs consideration, this is a very serious drug and potentially harmful, we need to protect our men
— Jackie Harris (@_harris127) April 21, 2016
@MiaforSC You are my hero right now! #EDbill
— sarah1974 (@sarah1974) April 21, 2016
Guess who just got a new role model. Yup, it’s me. @MiaforSC
— Electa Hart (@carmen_leone) April 22, 2016
It’s lawmakers like @MiaforSC chipping away at gender inequality that help pave the way! We see you sis.
— AyeshaCurryCookAlike (@MinaMarae) April 22, 2016
This video on Facebook has racked up over 15,000 shares.
Overall, instead of being derided as a waste of taxpayer time and money — since the bill is an admitted stunt and not serious in any way — it’s being applauded as McLeod’s awesome way of fighting for women’s “health care.” As usual, these pro-abortion extremists are trying to make abortion into a health care issue… and it’s not.
This isn’t the first time a pro-abortion politician has let their pro-abortion bias get in the way of actual lawmaking; a similar bill was introduced in Kentucky. And they’re all the same, trying to make abortion into an issue of men vs. women, to conflate abortion with health care. It’s like when they compare pregnancy to cancer.
Here’s the problem: erectile dysfunction actually is a medical problem. It is a legitimate, honest-to-God medical issue that men have no control over. Treating a legitimate medical condition is not the same thing as having an abortion.
First, treating erectile dysfunction doesn’t affect anyone else. Abortion kind of does… you know, by killing an innocent preborn child. When a man takes some Viagra so he can have sex with his wife, no one dies.
Second, pregnancy happens because a woman chooses to have sex, so comparing an unwanted pregnancy to erectile dysfunction is even more ridiculous. Finally, considering that erectile dysfunction is an actual medical condition, medical intervention is necessary. Abortion is never medically necessary.
If pro-abortion extremists are trying to win people over to their side, then attacking men with erectile dysfunction is probably not the best way to go about it.
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Windows 10 Update and Servicing Branches Explained
Ben Stegner October 5, 2017 05-10-2017 8 minutes
Windows 10 is only a few years old, but it’s already quite fragmented Every Single Windows 10 Version You Must Know About Every Single Windows 10 Version You Must Know About Windows 10 comes in over 10 different versions. We compare them all and explain what they're for and who their intended users are. Read More into several different versions. But even within these, not everything is the same.
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Because Microsoft is always looking forward towards the next major release of Windows 10, it offers beta versions (aka Insider Previews) for those willing to test them. On the flip side, businesses that use Windows 10 need stability and don’t care about regular feature updates. Thus, the company provides various branches to keep everyone happy.
Let’s take a look at three major ways that Windows distributes updates: Insider rings, long-term servicing branches, and Windows Update tools.
Windows Insider Rings
Windows Insiders are the first ones to install and test a new version of Windows 10. When a major release like the Creators Update rolls out to the public, Insiders have already used it for months. This symbiotic system lets Windows geeks try new features before anyone else and helps Microsoft receive feedback on new versions How to Use the Windows 10 Feedback Hub How to Use the Windows 10 Feedback Hub Next time you have an issue with Windows 10, you can let Microsoft know via the Feedback Hub. Read More .
But it’s not as simple as flipping a switch and jumping on an Insider build. Microsoft offers several different “rings” that correspond to various levels of stability. Here’s a diagram of this from a recent Windows Insider event, where rings on the left are less stable:
Diving deep into this process is too detailed for this article. For example, the Canary build is at the bleeding edge of development and is only available to Microsoft developers. However, it’s worth mentioning the important public rings:
Fast: This is the most cutting-edge that Insiders can get. Once internal Microsoft testing has approved a new build, those on the Fast ring receive it on their devices. Thus they gain access to new features sooner, but this build is more likely to contain problems. Since there isn’t much help available Top 10 Sites for Computer Troubleshooting and Tech Support Top 10 Sites for Computer Troubleshooting and Tech Support Things go wrong. When it is a computer it can bring our life to a standstill. Here are the top 10 troubleshooting sites for your tech problems on the web. Read More for these brand-new features online, this isn’t for the faint of heart.
Slow: Once the Fast ring users have tried out a build, it moves to the Slow ring. When a build hits this point, some of the worst issues are ironed out. This is the default ring if you’re just getting into the Insider program. It lets you try out new features well before public release without as much risk.
Release Preview: The most stable Insider ring isn’t really a development branch at all. Instead of an in-progress version of Windows, those on the Release Preview simply receive small updates to the stable version of Windows 10 faster. A few times a month, Microsoft releases general patches How to Find Out Every Last Thing About Windows Update How to Find Out Every Last Thing About Windows Update Once a month on Patch Tuesday, Microsoft releases cumulative updates to all Windows users. We'll show you how to gather information about updates and which Windows Update settings you should be aware of. Read More that fix bugs, improve security, and make small improvements. Eventually, everyone will get these, but those on this ring get them sooner.
Skip Ahead: Microsoft recently opened up the Skip Ahead option to Insiders on the Fast ring. If you opt-in, this lets you choose to skip testing the current build of Windows and skip ahead to the next release. Currently, Windows Insiders are testing the Fall Creators Update and will receive more and more stable builds until its eventual public release. Those who choose to Skip Ahead will soon receive builds of the next major version after the Creators Update — meaning they will get a fresh, bug-filled build soon.
The Insider program Be the First to Test New Windows 10 Builds as Windows Insider Be the First to Test New Windows 10 Builds as Windows Insider Windows Insiders are the first to test new Windows 10 builds. They are also the first to suffer from bugs. Here we show you how to join or leave the program and how to share... Read More is completely optional, and it’s probably a good idea to avoid it unless you don’t mind dealing with some bugs. But it’s interesting that when you choose to test new builds early, you can decide how recent you want them.
Windows 10 Branches
While the Insider rings are focused on exciting new developments, the Long Term Servicing Branch instead prioritizes stability. As you might know, Windows 10 has several branches that control how its updates roll out. Three main branches are available for normal users:
Current Branch: The normal, stable version of Windows 10. Current Branch PCs receive feature updates (like the Creators Update Do This After Installing the Windows 10 Creators Update Do This After Installing the Windows 10 Creators Update The Windows 10 Creators Update will soon roll out to a computer near you. Once you've upgraded, go through these settings to configure new options and restore your privacy preferences. Read More ) after Microsoft has tested and released them to the public. Most users are on this branch.
Current Branch for Business: If you’re running Windows 10 Pro, you can select an option to defer upgrades. You’ll continue to receive security patches, but you won’t get feature updates until several months after the Current Branch gets them. This is a more conservative option that lets you make sure that problems with a big update Why You Should NOT Get the Windows 10 Creators Update Yet Why You Should NOT Get the Windows 10 Creators Update Yet Just because it's here, doesn't mean you have to jump on it. The Windows 10 Creators Update could harbor trouble. We explain why you should delay this Windows update and how to do it. Read More don’t affect your PC.
Insider Preview: As mentioned above, joining the Windows 10 Insider Program lets you download and test major updates before they hit the Current Branch. These beta versions may contain bugs and thus you shouldn’t use this branch on your main machine. But providing feedback to Microsoft about the new features helps make them better for their official releases.
But there’s a fourth branch, called the Long Term Servicing Branch or LTSB. While home users can switch between the three above branches (Windows 10 Pro required for deferring) just by adjusting a few settings, LTSB is only available for Windows 10 Enterprise. And you have to install and update it manually through installation media.
#LTSB servicing is intended for scenarios in which changes to software running on devices is limited to only essential updates. #Windows10
— IT Law PH (@itlawph) September 4, 2017
What the LTSB Is For
So what sets the LTSB apart? As the name suggests, it’s a branch that’s even slower than the above three. Microsoft offers this for machines that prioritize stability over new features.
For example, a business that has a PC controlling sensitive equipment on a machine floor doesn’t care if Microsoft Edge now supports extensions. They want that PC to run an extremely stable version of Windows that isn’t going to automatically upgrade all the time and break mission-critical functionality.
The LTSB doesn’t even include new Windows 10 features like Edge and Store apps. This makes sense, as PCs running it will likely receive configuration once and become set-and-forget. Nobody should use a PC with this branch installed for checking email.
This Windows branch still receives security updates to keep it safe. But feature updates, like the Fall Creators Update Windows 10 Fall Creators Update Release Date Confirmed Windows 10 Fall Creators Update Release Date Confirmed The Windows 10 Fall Creators Update finally has a release date, but what will be included in the next big update? Let's take a look. Read More , won’t hit the LTSB. Microsoft plans to release a new version of the LTSB every two to three years, and each version will receive support for 10 years.
Windows Update Tools
As if the above extremes weren’t enough, Microsoft also provides several different Windows Update tools Pros & Cons of Forced Updates in Windows 10 Pros & Cons of Forced Updates in Windows 10 Updates will change in Windows 10. Right now you can pick and choose. Windows 10, however, will force updates onto you. It has advantages, like improved security, but it can also go wrong. What's more... Read More . These let IT staff control exactly how business computers receive everyday Windows updates. Like many facets of Windows in a business environment, this can become complicated pretty quickly, so we’ll take a brief survey of the available options.
The basic Windows Update utility that comes standard with Windows only offers businesses one option: deferring upgrades. As we mentioned above, you simply have to check a box in the Windows Update Settings panel and major updates won’t hit your PC for a few extra months. This helps businesses avoid the issues that crop up The Complete Windows 10 Fall Creators Update Troubleshooting Guide The Complete Windows 10 Fall Creators Update Troubleshooting Guide Have you run into a Windows 10 Fall Creators Update bug? You found the right place to look for fixes. Here are the solutions for the most common problems. Read More with every new Windows 10 release.
Microsoft also offers Windows Update for Business. This expanded tool lets IT professionals use Group Policy 12 Ways Windows Group Policy Can Make Your PC Better 12 Ways Windows Group Policy Can Make Your PC Better The Windows Group Policy grants you advanced control over your system, without having to mess with the registry. We'll show you how to easily customize Windows in ways you didn't think were possible. Read More to adjust update settings on many computers at once. Instead of a binary checkbox, a company can put off major updates for up to an entire year. Especially slow-moving environments should appreciate this.
Enterprise-Scale Updates
Both of the above options are relatively straightforward for small businesses to take advantage of. For a larger scale, Windows Server Update Services provides even more control. It’s part of the Windows Server operating system (OS), so a company needs a server installed to utilize this centralized management. In addition to deferral, this option allows a company to add an approval layer for major updates. They can even apply new updates first to a specific group of PCs before rolling them out to the entire company.
The most powerful option is the System Center Configuration Manager. It gives IT providers yet more control over updates, including fine-tuned deployment options and even specifying when the updates roll out and how much bandwidth they use.
Unless you’re responsible for managing Windows 10 in a business environment, these options are pretty confusing. As a home user, you probably wait until Windows offers you the latest update and then install it when you can. But it’s a lot more to consider in a corporate setting.
Most employees don’t need the latest features of Windows 10 to do their jobs productively. And while new issues in the most recent Windows release 8 Annoying Windows 10 Issues & How to Fix Them 8 Annoying Windows 10 Issues & How to Fix Them The upgrade to Windows 10 has been smooth for most, but some users will always encounter issues. Whether it's a flashing screen, network connectivity issues, or battery drain, it's time to resolve these problems. Read More might have been a minor inconvenience for you, they could slow a business to a crawl. Thus IT pros need these tools so they can control exactly when Windows receives new updates and what machines get them.
Of course, this is a lot to keep track of even for the most knowledgeable tech workers. And Microsoft changes these options regularly, so nothing is really permanent. Thus it’s no surprise that this level of complexity can create issues.
No One True Windows
When you take a peek behind the many channels and distributions, it’s clear that there’s no set version of Windows 10 that everyone runs. Enthusiasts might be testing an Insider preview, while a business runs the Long Term Branch. Meanwhile, two different companies can have two totally different builds of Windows 10 in use based on how they receive updates.
In the end, these differences create confusion but the casual observer probably can’t tell the difference between minor Windows 10 builds anyway. Little tweaks around the OS don’t change the basics of launching programs, the Start Menu A Guide to the Windows 10 Start Menu A Guide to the Windows 10 Start Menu Windows 10 fixes the Start Menu dilemma! Getting to grips with the new Start Menu will supercharge your Windows 10 experience. With this handy guide, you'll be an expert in no time. Read More , and your favorite keyboard shortcuts Windows Keyboard Shortcuts 101: The Ultimate Guide Windows Keyboard Shortcuts 101: The Ultimate Guide Keyboard shortcuts can save you hours of time. Master the universal Windows keyboard shortcuts, keyboard tricks for specific programs, and a few other tips to speed up your work. Read More . Time will tell if Windows 10’s split personality ends up a strength or weakness.
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28/11/2019 Thu 11:14 in Singapore by Janice Tan
When to PR your CSR initiatives: Are you overdoing it?
Have you come across a piece of content shouting out about the good a company does, only to be left wondering how authentic it really was given all the publicity and push to promote it? Well, in the newsroom, we have.
While CSR activities are a great way for companies to advocate for a cause that is close to their brands’ and employees’ values and give back to society, ensuring that it is done for the right reason and not just as a publicity stunt is crucial – this should be an absolute no-brainer.
And while PR plays a crucial role in communicating and amplifying the messaging internally, it is important to remain authentic. During a recent panel session at Marketing’s PR Asia 2019 Conference in Singapore, moderated by Lisa Watson, chairman, Data-driven Marketing Association of Singapore, Seshasaye Kanthamraju, executive director – corporate communications and enterprise social responsibility, Southeast Asia and India, The Walt Disney Company said the company does not engage in any PR around the conservation work it does, or for its activities working with orphanages or hospitals. It will, however, only publicise it if it helps the non-governmental organisation be better known or to raise more funds.
“It’s never to build our reputation by saying we’ve worked with so many homes, for example. We are never going to put children out there as props for the work that we do,” he said.
Agreeing with him is Gwyneth Fries, senior manager, sustainability at logistics company Agility, who said if companies only use sustainability communications to talk about what they are doing well, or as an opportunity for a different kind of self promotion, that is “absolutely going to backfire”. For Agility, it aims to contribute to trade and growth in emerging markets and level the playing field for SMEs and as such, sustainability is one of the core issues it cares about.
“If you want to be authentic in how you communicate about sustainability, don’t avoid talking about the sensitive issues,” she said. For example, there are plenty of communications about green buildings but very few around modernising supply chain or ensuring that workers are treated fairly in her sector. Fries said these are issues that the supply chain sector faces across the region but if companies are not addressing them in a transparent and open manner, which then “it undermines the authenticity of the whole sustainability programme”.
Being the bearer of hard truths
While companies might have CSR initiatives in place to create a sense of purpose within the organisation, it can still be challenging, albeit crucial, for them to get buy in from investors also. According to Grace Chiang, deputy director, communications at SGInnovate, the challenge is not just changing the mindset within the organisation but also the investing community as a whole.
SGInnovate is a private organisation fully owned by the Singapore government that helps entrepreneurial scientists build deep tech start-ups. As such, it works closely with the investment community in Singapore to help them invest in the start-ups. “What we do as a communications people in an organisation is to talk about the hard truths. We want to talk about things that make people uncomfortable,” Chiang said.
For example, AI is great and can help improve productivity, but what many do not think about is are the ethical considerations of it. Chiang said that doing so allows individuals to think about decisions they wish to make and whether this is something they want to focus on as an organisation.
Meanwhile, when it comes to convincing internal stakeholders such as the board of directors or senior management that your CSR initiatives are paying off, Linda Lee, head of brand and communications, Southeast and North Asia and corporate communications lead, Asia Pacific at LinkedIn said “what gets measured, gets treasured”.
“When we go to the board, they want to see data, results, and numbers. Even before we approach the board, any CSR programmes we have been working on has those data to show that they are working,” she said. Lee added that it is important not to meet with the board alone but “go with your partners” which include the marketing, legal, and HR teams. This is because the responsibility of CSR lies in the hands of every department.
She also stressed the importance of educating the board that CSR activities are a long term initiative rather than just a pet topic or one-time engagement. As such, it is better to have about three to five CSR plans. “You might not see results immediately for some initiatives. If you are helping beneficiaries, those results will come later,” she explained.
Concurring with her point about using data to back up CSR initiatives is Kaye Lim, GM (head) of PR at Toyota Motor Asia Pacific, who said that PR teams will have to continue to be able to show the numbers because for those activities to be sustainable, they need to prove that they are contributing to the bottom line.
“With technology and data collection analysis and presentation, I think we can continue to do a good job to convince our management the importance of CSR,” she said. Lim advised companies to “get creative and own [their] own space” when it comes to CSR, since many companies are often engaging in similar activities. She added that it is also important to live out the company’s values in stakeholders, instead of only getting internal buy-in. “The business might change but values are constant, and you will find that it’s a worthwhile journey,” she added.
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Engaging employees to be more involved in CSR work
Culture also plays a big part in encouraging employees to be more involved in CSR work. LinkedIn’s Lee said that it is important for companies to think about the culture that it wants to build within employees, the tone it wants to set, and the type of values it wants to advocate. This should run across all levels, from employee to leadership.
“You have your most powerful audience – employees. They are your best brand ambassadors. Most powerful stories come from the employees themselves when they get involved in programmes that the company care for,” she said. Lee added that the culture of helping and making a difference at LinkedIn is very strong and it wants to attract similar types of people when it hires also.
“The type of talent you bring in will add to your culture as well. That would be the premise of how we think about engaging employees at large and at scale,” she explained.
Besides culture, Disney’s Kanthamraju said the agility to take decisions on ground as a useful way for Disney to successfully engage employees. He explained that employees across all markets are empowered to take up a social course they are interested in and are equipped with the resources to do so. “It is driven bottom up. Employees decide which social course to take up, how much time they want to spend in a year towards those courses, how much resource is available to be spent in a particular course and so on,” he said.
At the end of the day, Disney is driving CSR work within the organisation via two principles – purpose and relevance. With regards to relevance, Kanthamraju explained that it is about thinking whether the company is relevant for what is required today from a business, product, and environment standpoint.
“It’s not enough to say that it’s a great business or product, and it will have a life on its own. It’s also important to stop and say can this product be improved or does the service has the least amount of footprint for generations to come,” he said.
Meanwhile, SGInnovate’s Chiang said one of the major factors to ensure there is sustainable CSR or ensuring a purpose-driven organisation can happen would be strong leadership who is not afraid to make bold statements about certain issues,. She explained that leaders are the face of the company and they will bond different parts of the organisation towards the same goal.
“As a leader, you decide if you want to be moving the needle in terms of the changes you want to make. Or do you want to be ticking the boxes because the regulators are saying you only need to do certain things just to tick them?”
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No Surprise in $10 Billion Infrastructure Tag for Growth Areas
UDIA National Conference
First home buyers carrying the burden of infrastructure cost.
The Urban Development Institute of Australia (Victoria) today said it was not surprised by the estimated $10 billion price tag to provide new education, health and transport needs for growth area councils, adding the areas have been in 'catch up mode' for at least ten years.
Tony De Domenico
UDIA (VIC)
Tony De Domenico, Executive Director, UDIA (VIC) said, "In Australia in the past decade the tax system has placed more responsibility on first home buyers on the fringe to fund infrastructure upfront impacting on affordability".
"In 2010 first home buyers and people building a new home were carrying the major burden of infrastructure costs. Up front figures by Charter Keck Cramer show in 2011, taxes and charges across the three levels of Government on an average block of land in Victoria costing $199,000 was $46,200".
"The fastest growing residential areas of Melbourne and regional Victoria need investment in infrastructure now to boost employment and also provide strong economic communities to cope with the State's increasing population".
"Recognising the Victorian cut back in GST revenue reducing the ability to fund infrastructure, the UDIA (VIC) has put forward a ten point plan to the Victorian Government to stimulate the Victorian property sector".
"This included the introduction of ten year Government Guaranteed infrastructure bonds to provide a safe and productive investment choice for investors with a positive outcome for the community."
"In simple terms a combination of prudent borrowing combined with the choice of infrastructure projects to create productivity and attract private investment at a time when low interest rates can be locked in for ten years, is a major opportunity for positive political action".
Mr De Domenico said it is not only the Governments' job to stimulate the economy by funding, creating a more productive system to bring land to market and help make housing affordable, but it also required the private sector to develop new innovative and affordable housing choices.
"By moving now Governments could cut hundreds of millions of dollars off the cost of major infrastructure projects, such as a second crossing to the west of Melbourne or the creation of job employment centres closer to building in the outer suburbs."
"The bottom line is that the property sector provides major tax returns to government and importantly has a major flow on impact on the provision of jobs, materials and services that flow into local economies," Mr De Domenico said.
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The concert was not just an exhibition of new songs and music. Perry entertained the sold out house with tales of life here on the Northwest both humorous and dramatic. Tom Best photo
Mark Perry’s ‘northwesty’ perspective is Right Here
“It’s about the larger area here and the life in it,” says Bulkley Valley favourite Mark Perry.
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The Smithers area is rife with great performers, and while some of them like Alex Cuba have gathered an international audience, perhaps the most popular of all among the locals is home town artist Mark Perry.
His 11th album release Right Here is a very comfortable album full of songs that local inhabitants can all relate to.
Songs like Go Cubs Go make us all think about the history of the area and the activity that makes it so special. Others such as Mountain Bluebird make us think of the little things that help us get through the long winters and still smile with the appearance of a little feathered friend.
Perry loves the area and his concert was much more than a chance to hear him sing live.
At times, he was like a stand-up comedian and there were times he was more like a historian helping us remember some forgotten part of life in the area.
At the outset of the concert, he announced that he would be donating $5 of each CD sold to diabetes research.
“The subject matter of the album is ‘northwesty.’ It’s about the larger area here and the life in it,” he said.
It was an entirely entertaining evening that was over too soon.
The CD will help bring back some of the wonderful feeling Perry brought out at the concert.
More show dates during his album release concert are available at markperry.ca.
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Mark Perry proudly wears his Alex Cuba shirt at the concert for the release of his eleventh album Right Here. (Tom Best photo)
Perry describes his music as “northwesty.” It describes and relishes the land and the life here in this part of the country. (Tom Best photo)
Perry was at ease in his singing and relaxed like he was talking to a neighbor in between songs. (Tom Best photo)
Perry was lavish in his praise for his backup musicians. Rear: Mark Thibault (pedal steel) Ian Holmstead (bass guitar) Rachelle Van Zanten (accordion) Kiri Daust (violin). Front: Richard Jenne (percussion), Mark Perry. (Tom Best photo)
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100% Brisbane is an award-winning museum installation.
Interactive Design | Database Development | Creative Concept | Script Development | Video Production | Studio Filming | Special Effects | Editing | Sound Design
The Museum of Brisbane contacted InVision in need of audiovisual services for a permanent multimedia exhibition called “100% Brisbane.”
InVision collaborated with museum curators to develop and supply two key components of the 3-year exhibition:
First, a video written by and featuring noted actor and author William McInness telling the story of the development of the city of Brisbane.
InVision met with Museum stakeholders to pitch and refine a creative concept wherein William McInness would feature as a storyteller leading viewers through several eras of time, denoted by elaborate studio sets, where historical artifacts would come to life in a way that reminded viewers that the framed items in the museum told stories of real events.
InVision planned and executed all aspects of the 2-day shoot, hiring the best crew for the job, and then completed all post-production and special effects work in-house. The resulting 10-minute video, called “A Brisbane Story,” plays non-stop as part of the 100% Brisbane exhibition, entertaining and informing hundreds of visitors to the Museum every week.
In 2019 the film was selected as a finalist in the “Short Documentary” category of the ATOM Awards.
Second, the key installation of the exhibition titled “Brisbane DNA,” an interactive display featuring pre-recorded video from interviews with 100 Brisbane residents.
The concept is based on the lauded Rimini Protokoll theatre show “100% City,” which uses statistics to present a unique demographic picture of a city and its residents.
InVision filmed 100 green-screen interviews and created a one-hour looping video using custom animated design elements mirroring the Museum’s exhibition palette.
These components were then re-purposed to create an interactive touchscreen installation wherein visitors to the museum could input their own thoughts and opinions to see how they statistically aligned with the demographics represented in the pre-recorded video.
All coding and back-end support was provided by the InVision team. Soon after opening, “100% Brisbane” won the 2017 Museums and Galleries National Award for Permanent Exhibition or Gallery Fitout.
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One of the most significant projects Museum of Brisbane has undertaken since relaunching in 2013, 100% Brisbane sought to investigate the contemporary community of Brisbane by asking ‘who are we?’.
The exhibition was the result of the Museum’s world-first collaboration with Berlin-based theatre company Rimini Protokoll, who have produced their theatre performance 100% Stat in 29 cities around the world. 100% Brisbane marked the first time their process had been translated into a museum experience. Museum of Brisbane worked closely with the Invision team to create interactive displays and multimedia presentations for the exhibition to create intelligent integration of technology in a multi-layered visitor experience.
A defining feature of the exhibition was the opportunity for visitors to share their thoughts and views about Brisbane. In a series of digital interactive tools, visitors could add their own thoughts and opinions via a number of small surveys. This data was shared within the exhibition space in real time as well as being collected to map the changing views and beliefs we hold as a city and as a community. The survey and live scoreboard developed by Invision furthered the Museum’s aim to be an active participant in the life of our city.
From the start, the Invision team understood our brief and met the challenge with enthusiasm. Invision pioneered a new interactives and executed an exhibition experience with technical complexity and quality design.
Alix Perry
Exhibition Program Lead
Museum of Brisbane
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Two Irish Amputees honoured at local Sports Awards
Craig Dowling with his sports award
James Conroy (second from right) pictured with his award and members of his club Johnstown FC
'Baby' Craig Dowling (Carlow) and James 'Jack' Conroy (Meath) were both awarded sports awards for their exceptional International performances in 2014 by their local communities last week. Craig, Ireland's top goal scorer at the Amputee World Cup in Mexico, was presented with the sports award for December by the Carlow Nationalist. James received an Outstanding Achievement award from the Meath Chronicle for his heroics between the posts for the IAFA in 2014. Both players rubbed shoulders with their respective counties' elite athletes on their awards nights, flew the flag for Irish Amputee Football and further raised the profile of the sport in Ireland, spreading word of the fantastic achievements of the International squad in the past year. The IAFA would like to congratulate both players on their well deserved awards, awards that will undoubtedly be the first of many for these two dedicated and committed individuals.
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Robbie Nelson, modular systems division manager at BK Gulf, shows how its UAE-based modular facility is revolutionising the MEP sector in the region
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Factory-produced pre-engineered MEP modules that are delivered to a site and assembled are an intelligent and advanced form of construction methodology. Dubai-based BKG (BK Gulf) Modular Systems is at the forefront of modular construction and the company claims it is UAE’s leading supplier dedicated to off-site fabrication of MEP services. Now celebrating its 10th-year anniversary, BKG Modular Systems has been producing bespoke MEP services modules and modular wiring solutions for the UAE market. The firm has catered to projects such as Abu Dhabi New York University, Dubai Opera House, and Dubai Mall.
Robbie Nelson, modular systems division manager at BK Gulf, takes MEP Middle East on a guided tour of BKG Modular Systems’ factory in Jabel Ali Industrial Area, Dubai. Nelson says: “During peak times, we have about 350 people including fabricators, engineers and administration staff in the facility. Everything you see within our module has been developed from the consultant’s design, through coordination and 3D modelling. We are producing exactly what is there in the detailed model. The whole factory is a controlled environment.”
BK Gulf’s Modular Systems Division was established in 2008. The 77,000 square feet purpose built facility is capable of delivering up to 1,800 modules per month. Nelson says: “At the moment, we’re producing 1,200 to 1,400 modules in a month, and that’s just for our standard corridor riser modules. In addition to that, we have 15,000m2 of GI ductwork [facility]. We also have modular wiring production, and have recently started the fabrication of pre-insulated ductwork.”
All of the firm’s capability was demonstrated in the delivery of the Address Downtown Dubai refurbishment project, where 1,035 multiservice modules were manufactured and installed in 26 days to complete 15 floors of the building. Nelson says that the demand has pushed the firm to boost its production capacity. “We’ve increased our production substantially over the last four years. We’ve gone from producing about 5,000 modules in 2013 for a single project, with a single contractor to currently producing over 12,000 modules, for up to seven different projects simultaneously,” Nelson proudly says.
The production room that has 10 production lines, which produces, assembles and line checks up to 6 by 6 metre modules at a time. Nelson explains: “We have preparation areas for plumbing systems, electrical containment, chilled water and insulation. Since our fabrication drawings are produced from a 3D model, we provide individual detailed drawings and cutting lists to the preparation [teams]. These pre-prepared sections are then placed in the preparation racks for final assembly.”
The facility also has a modular wiring workshop. Nelson says: “Modular wiring is a plug-and-play installation for all lighting and small power circuitry downstream of the distribution board. We have wiring looms which are pre-wired conduits, with male and female plugs attached. We take the traditional design for a project, pre-measure the wiring lengths, fabricate it to the exact length and add the plugs. The cables are then referenced and tested. This will also include the final fix items such as switch plates, sockets and luminaires which are all pre-wired with the corresponding plugs. It’s a complete plug and play installation.”
Nelson would later show us the application of these modules at the ongoing MEP works in Jebel Ali Park Hotel, where the project scope includes 1,200 MEP services modules, 400 FCU (fan coil unit) modules and modular wirings for 380 rooms [picture of site on page 19].
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Robbie Nelson, modular systems division manager at BK Gulf.
Extent of modularisation
According to Nelson, the market is improving quite radically when it comes to prefabrication. Elaborating on the market, Nelson says: “I think the market is partly driven by the complexity and competitiveness of the Middle East market. The Middle East, and UAE especially, is well known for iconic projects. But time constraints around such projects are tight. And so, people are looking for alternative methods of delivering such projects. Prefabrication is one of them.”
But can complex structures be modularised? According to Nelson, yes. He adds: “I think that in terms of prefabrication, everything we do is bespoke. We are prefabricating the MEP services to fit in all types of buildings. There’s a common misconception that prefabrication only fits a certain model that’s repetitive and that it has to be a square building. That’s true and we can produce modules quicker than in the typical method.
“However, what we find that in all sorts of projects, especially here in the UAE, buildings have unique designs. In the past, we have executed projects such as the Al Bahr Towers, Abu Dhabi, which are twin-cylindrical towers where we prefabricated the whole corridor. Also for the Dubai Opera House, we modularised sections of MEP and installed them. So, we’re able to bring the benefits of off-site manufacturing to any type of
Another important point to understand is the extent to which an MEP module be modularised. Nelson says that that the firm is “always trying to improve and extend the level of prefabrication in a project”. He explains: “Initially, we started with ductwork, pipework, and electrical containment modules. That’s grown over the past 10 years. Now, we’ve included modular wiring as part of our capabilities and now we are including fan coil units with valve packages and electrical connections. We’re looking to incorporate some parts of the building structure. For example, the top of the heads of corridor walls will be part of the module. We hope to include different parts of the building structure, as the modular system develops.”
The extent of modularisation largely depends on the end client. He says: “The clients are all aware of off-site manufacturing. They’re aware of the benefits it brings to their project. One of the things that I think we can bring with our experiences is the level [of modularisation] that can be taken to. The more we can incorporate, the more benefits we can bring to the site from an offset manufacturing point of view.”
Modular wiring workshop.
Prefabrication and MEP sector
The key aim of any prefabricator or off-site manufacturer is increasing the quality, efficiency and productivity; reduce wastage; and improve health and safety. He adds: “We provide benefit to both the MEP sector as well as the contractor. On the design side, we are adding a lot of details to the 3D model when it comes to manufacturing and installing any MEP services. We maintain their design. What is modelled and what is drawn is what is being produced.
“Typically, in a traditional build, you can end up doing something that wasn’t intended by the designer. That can either compromise the performance of the system or increase the final maintenance [cost] for the client. We provide benefit to the [MEP] contractor in a much more straightforward way. We are able to reduce the dependencies that he has on the main contractor. When you’re building traditionally, you’re waiting on the walls to be built. We can produce corridors and risers, all before the structures are even built.”
This essentially is a parallel construction methodology, which allows the main building structure to be erected in tandem with the off-site fabrication of MEP services, reducing dependencies and potential delays to the progress of the works.
When it comes to quality, BKG Modular Systems has a stringent process. It has an in-house QA (quality assurance) department that monitors and reviews from the start of a project the materials coming in and the final product that’s going out. In addition, there is a three-stage inspection for every module that it is produced. Nelson says: “Quality is in the heart of everything we do. We ensure that in our production lines, we have the space available to produce full corridors so they can be seen, verified, and measured, both by us and the client. This is done to ensure what we’re giving to the end-client is of the highest quality and the module will go and fit in first time.”
Nelson admits that despite the advantages, one of the challenges in prefabrication is early engagement. “The earlier we can be engaged in a project, the more lead time we have for coordination, procurement, fabrication, and delivery. When we get involved at a later stage, there’s bit more catching up to do. That’s one of the main the main challenges.”
Logistics is another challenge, says Nelson. “Rather than shipping individual small components to a project, we’re shipping huge modules that can sometimes weigh up to a couple of tonnes. Logistics is something we look at closely. With the experience we have in the team, we produce specific logistics plans for projects or clients, on how we’re going to physically deliver the modules and how we are going to
coordinate.”
More and more MEP engineers in this region are aware of the prefabrication revolution taking place. For the past 10 years, the firm has worked with a whole array of clients, consultants, and engineers dealing with prefabrication. He concludes: “The positive thing I’m seeing now is that the people who have worked with us in the past, are actually coming back to using prefabrication. They’ve seen the benefits that prefabrication has brought to their project, and they’ve witnessed new ways to use it.
“I think as prefabrication grows in the market, the knowledge within the engineering community also grows with it.”
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10 awesome Bay Area date night ideas for fall
Die Fledermaus opera with Naschmarkt in Campbell, don’t you think?
RON BLUNT/OAKLAND MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA The Bay Area art collective FoldHaus created this giant origami-like installation “Shrumen Lumen” for Burning Man, and it’s part of an Oakland Museum of California exhibit. Renwick Gallery
By Jessica Yadegaran | jyadegaran@bayareanewsgroup.com and Joan Morris | jmorris@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group
PUBLISHED: September 9, 2019 at 1:36 pm | UPDATED: September 13, 2019 at 3:53 pm
Netflix and pizza might cut it sometimes, but romance can fade when you’re on the couch every evening. Date night calls, and we’re answering with 10 fabulous pairings that take the concept of “dinner and a show” to a higher level: Chic chaat, for example, paired with a theatrical, time-traveling extravaganza about colonial India and modern cricket, Burning Man art and craft cocktails, and pre-flamenco tapas.
Here are 10 dazzling ideas for date nights this fall.
1 ‘The Art of Burning Man’ + cocktails at Sister, Oakland
Experience the wild creativity of Burning Man, without having to trek into the desert or get sand in your food.
The show: From Oct. 12 to Feb. 16, the Great Hall at the Oakland Museum will transform into a Burning Man block party filled with art, sculptures and interactive installations from Burning Man, the spectacle that draws 70,000 people to Nevada’s Black Rock Desert each year. There’s even a 40-foot tall outdoor temple. But wait, there’s more: “No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man” is one of eight don’t-miss exhibits coming to the Bay Area this fall.
The restaurant: Discuss all that interactive, eclectic art afterward at Sister, located in the former Boot & Shoe Service near the Grand Lake Theater a couple of miles away, where you can nibble wood-fired pizzas and sip farm-to-glass craft cocktails on the patio.
Oakland’s new Sister restaurant makes a great spot to nibble flatbread and discuss that Burning Man art installation you just saw. (Doug Duran/Bay Area News Group)
Details: Tickets to “No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man are $12-$21; museumca.org. Sister is open Tuesday-Sunday at 3308 Grand Ave., Oakland; www.sisteroakland.com.
2 “Testmatch” + August (1) Five, San Francisco
If cricket and colonial India intrigue you, then we have the perfect date night, which pairs a modern Indian dinner and a premiere by Kate Attwell.
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The show: Attwell’s thought-provoking play bounces back and forth between a modern-day cricket match between the English and India women’s teams and the 1800s, when British administrators in India obsessed over cricket rules to the exclusion of everything else. And “Testmatch,” which runs Oct. 24-Dec. 8 at the Strand Theater, is just one of 10 outstanding plays coming this season.
The restaurant: A 10-minute stroll away, you’ll find August (1) Five — the name commemorates the date of India’s independence from British rule. The kitchen here uses organic seasonal ingredients to craft elevated takes on regional Indian street food, including gorgeous gol guppa and bison keema.
The distinctive dining room of San Francisco’s August 1 Five. (Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group) Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group
Details: Tickets for “Testmatch” are $15-$100; www.act-sf.org. August (1) Five is open for dinner from Tuesday-Sunday at 524 Van Ness Ave., San Francisco; www.august1five.com
3 Madeline Peyroux + La Note Restaurant, Berkeley
What better pairing than Parisian songs, preceded by a romantic French dinner?
The show: Peyroux is American, but she got her start singing on the streets of Paris and her albums always feature at least one classic French cover, from “La Vie en Rose” to “J’ai Deux Amours.” And she’s one of five terrific must-see jazz acts coming to the Bay Area this fall. Catch her at Berkeley’s Freight & Salvage this fall Oct. 3-6.
Madeline Peyroux will perform in Berkeley this fall. (Rafa Rivas/Getty Images archives)
The restaurant: Long heralded as a brunch staple, La Note is equally adept at Provencal-style dinner classics, from Ratatouille Borghetti and Steak Frites Persillade, made with organic grass-fed Niman Ranch flat iron steak, to proscuitto- or Camembert-topped crostini. Best part? It’s half a mile from Freight & Salvage.
Details: Freight & Salvage tickets are $45 to $60; www.thefreight.org. Dinner reservations recommended for La Note, which is open for dinner Thursday-Saturday at 2377 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley; www.lanoterestaurant.com
4 “Harry Potter” + The Cavalier, San Francisco
Apparate over to the Curran for a magical evening that continues the Harry Potter story, then savor all that British goodness with drinks and elevated pub grub.
The show: When last we saw our favorite wizard, author J.K. Rowling was sending Harry and Ginny’s sons off to Hogwarts, and that’s where this new tale begins. The five-hour “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” which is split into two parts, begins an open-ended run Oct. 23 at The Curran. It’s just one play to see this fall.
MATTHEW MURPHY/THE CURRAN“Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” the award-winning play adapted from J.K. Rowlings’s book, will play at The Curran theater in San Francisco in fall 2019.
The restaurant: The Cavalier is a London-inspired brasserie from the same talent behind Leo’s Oyster Bar and Park Tavern. Look for killer apps, like Scotched duck egg, and classic entrees, like fish and chips with minted peas, in a beautiful interior that features dark wood and tufted saffron banquettes.
Details: Tickets to “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” are $59-$199 per part; sfcurran.com. The Cavalier is open daily at 360 Jessie St., San Francisco; https://thecavaliersf.com
5 ‘Die Fledermaus’ opera + Naschmarkt, San Jose
Care for some little flirtation, light-hearted deceit and elaborate revenge — with Viennese schnitzel on the side?
The show: Opera San Jose will launch its 2019-20 season with Johann Strauss Jr.’s madcap masterpiece, “Die Fledermaus.” Conducted by Michael Morgan, the frothy operetta runs Sept. 14-29 at San Jose’s California Theatre. (And if classical is your thing, check out these other Bay Area performances, too.)
The restaurant: Named after the largest open-air produce market in Vienna, Campbell’s Naschmarkt specializes in all the Austrian goodies, from smoked pork bratwurst and beef goulash to Wiener schnitzel with lingonberry sauce, in minimalist, family-friendly digs.
Naschmarkt’s Wiener schnitzel will get you in the mood for an evening of madcap Viennese entertainment. (Josie Lepe/Bay Area News Group file)
The details: Tickets for “Die Fledermaus” are $55-$195; www.operasj.org. Naschmarkt is open Tuesday-Sunday at 384 E. Campbell Ave; www.naschmarkt-restaurant.com.
6 “Off-Menu” exhibit + dessert at Lottie’s, Walnut Creek
Hungry? You will be after viewing this Bedford Gallery exhibit that reflects our culinary passions. Feast your eyes, then follow it with — what else? — dessert.
The show: “Off Menu: Contemporary Art About Food,” which runs Oct. 6-Dec. 5, features 12 Salvador Dali prints and an international roster of artists who reveal our love of food over the centuries. And yes, Wayne Thiebaud’s iconic works are in the mix. The exhibit is part of a bold new season at Bay Area museums.
This work by Wayne Thiebaud, Study for Delicatessen Counter, 1964, pastel on paper, 10.25 x 11.25 inches, is part of the Bedford Gallery’s new “Off Menu: Contemporary Art About Food” exhibit. (Courtesy of the Jeremy Stone Collection)
The sweet spot: Dip into small-batch ice cream as you discuss artist James Ostrer’s sweet foodie hell (waffle cone devil horns — shudder) by strolling over to Lottie’s Creamery for Whiskey Coffee Crunch, Apricot Honey or Vanilla Salted Almond Toffee by the scoop or sundae.
Lottie’s ice creams, hand crafted in small batches, are now available at Stanford Shopping Center in Palo Alto, as well as Danville and Walnut Creek. (Lottie’s Creamery) Lottie's Creamery
Details: Bedford Gallery tickets are $3-$5; www.bedfordgallery.org. Lottie’s is open daily at 1414 N. Main St., Walnut Creek (and also in Palo Alto and Danville); www.facebook.com/LottiesCreamery.
7 Maria del Mar Moreno flamenco + tapas, San Francisco
Feel the romance and passion in the staccato rhythms of Moreno and a formidable cast. Complete the experience with tapas or paella.
The show: Maria Del Mar Moreno Direct from Spain hits San Francisco’s Brava Theater Center on Oct. 25. Moreno, who comes from the Andalusian flamenco hotbed of Jerez de la Frontera, is one of the city’s most celebrated dancers, embracing the tradition’s deepest currents. (Looking for more? Check out these upcoming dance events, too.)
The restaurant: Esperpento, the Spanish eatery on 22nd Street, less than a mile from Brava Theater, is closed while its building undergoes a seismic retrofit. Re-opening day is set for Sept. 23, but if Esperpento is still closed, you can get your paella and sangria fix at nearby Picaro, a mile and a half from the show.
The details: Tickets for Maria Del Mar Moreno are $35 to $75; www.brava.org. Picaro is open daily at 3120 16th St.; www.picaro.com.
8 Marco Antonio Solís + La Guerrera’s Kitchen, Oakland
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Catch a concert by Mexican artist and Latin Grammy Award winner Marco Antonio Solís — and fan the flames before the show with empanadas.
The show: Since launching his solo career in 1996, Solís has become a superstar, using his smooth, powerful voice and music to enthrall fans. Catch him Oct. 5 at the Oakland (formerly Oracle) Arena. (Psst, this is one of five Latin music shows our music critic picked as must-sees this fall.)
The restaurant: Ten minutes away in Oakland’s Fruitvale district, La Guerrera’s Kitchen is a mother-daughter venture inspired by Mexico’s Guerrero region. This casual eatery, which came out of San Francisco’s La Cocina incubator, is known for its ceviche, barbacoa tacos and killer empanadas.
Made-to-order ceviche is a specialty at the new La Guerrera’s Kitchen, next to the Aloha bar. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group) Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group
Details: Show tickets start at $68; www.ticketmaster.com. La Guerrera’s Kitchen is open for dinner daily at 954 Fruitvale Ave., Oakland; www.facebook.com/maizwarrior
9 Sankai Juku + Ippuku ramen, Berkeley
Witness the intensity of the Japanese dance form of butoh, then tuck into an equally intense bowl of noodle soup straight from Tokyo.
The show: Sankai Juku’s “Meguri: Teeming Sea, Tranquil Land,” an intriguing show choreographed against a stark stone wall carved with fossils of sea lilies, comes to UC Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall Oct. 12-13. Butoh leader Ushio Amagatsu designed and directed the performance, which features eight dancers exploring gravity’s dominion. (And it’s one of 10 fascinating dance performances this fall.)
The restaurant: Ippudo splashed onto the West Coast in 2017 with its crazy-popular, 20-hour simmering pork broth. The hand-pulled noodles are thin and cooked to your specifications. Get the Shiromaru Classic with pork belly chashu and sesame kikurage. Also: Ippudo Buns all the way.
Ippudo is open until midnight on Friday and Saturday nights, and 10 p.m. on Sundays. (Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group) Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group
Details: Performance tickets are $15-$78; www.calperformances.org. Ippudo is open late daily at 2015 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley; https://ippudo-us.com
10 “James Tissot: Fashion and Faith” + Chapeau!
The works of this French artist should stoke your appetite for epic French cuisine.
The show: Paris’ Musee d’Orsay and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco have collaborated on this show, billed as the first major retrospective of the artist’s career in more than 20 years. “James Tissot: Fashion and Faith,” which runs Oct. 12 to Feb. 9 at the Legion of Honor museum, includes 60 paintings, additional works on paper and cloisonne.
The restaurant: Shoot down California Street to Chapeau!, a warm French bistro where executive chef Philippe Gardelle whips up the classics, from buttery escargot to bouillabaisse and cassoulet. The early-bird menu (5 to 6 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday, Sunday) gets you three courses for $45.
The details: Exhibit tickets are $13-$28; legionofhonor.famsf.org. Chapeau! is open for dinner Wednesday-Sunday at 126 Clement St., San Francisco; www.chapeausf.com.
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Jessica Yadegaran is a writer and editor for the Bay Area News Group's Eat Drink Play section, which is devoted to all things food, wine, cocktails, and travel. She also spent two years in the Pacific Northwest as the food and dining editor for Seattle magazine. Yadegaran has a degree in journalism from San Diego State University and has been with the Bay Area News Group for more than 10 years.
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Better than Serpent and the Sphere, I Guess - 77%
Thumbman, March 18th, 2017
It seems that a lot of people were upset by Agalloch's messy public divorce, but if anything it got me excited. As far as break ups go, it could have been better; John being accused of some shady copyright shit by the rest of his bandmates, his now infamous "visionary" statement ect. While the breakup - largely fueled by John wanting to make the band a full time job and the other members being unable due to obligations with work and family - was not particularly amicable, the first thought in my head was great, the last Agalloch record showed the band in decline and now we'll get two good bands instead. While not horrible, The Serpent and the Sphere was hardly a triumphant swansong for Agalloch. Despite having a few excellent moments, it largely felt like the band was on autopilot and the chemistry between John and Don was clearly waning.
If you couldn't gather so much from my introductory paragraph, I find it impossible to view Pillorian (named after Absymal's towering slab of black/doom, The Pillorian Age) removed from the context of Agalloch. While John's "visionary" statement understandably rubbed people the wrong way, Agalloch was largely his brainchild and this really shows on Obsidian Arc. It would be wrongheaded to simply call this Agalloch 2.0 and leave it at that, but the similarities are there in spades. What he did was basically take the Agalloch sound and transpose it to a black metal setting. While Agalloch flirted with full on black metal with Marrow of the Spirit and leaped in headfirst with the Faustian Echoes EP, this goes further than "Faustian Echoes" or "Into the Painted Grey" ever did - even at their most black metal Agalloch incorporated an array of bells and whistles: prominent folk passages, post-rock sections, soaring guitar solos and the like. While Pillorian does flirt with folk elements it is much more in the background as opposed to an essential ingredient like with Agalloch. Although still somewhat melodic and atmospheric, Pillorian is a full on black metal band and is exponentially more riff-oriented than Agalloch ever were.
While Agalloch is unsurprisingly Pillorian's easiest point of comparison, there's more going on. One mildly unfortunate case is Uada, who drummer Trevor Matthews also plays in - who basically did a decent but not spectacular job at a friendlier and more streamlined Mgla (kind of wish Pillorian would just go directly to the source). There's a reasonable amount of homage to the second wave, even if it never gets as vicious. While much of the album is relatively samey, a few tracks do display a distinct flavour. "Stygian Pyre" subtly pays tribute to the dissonant faction of black metal and "Forged Iron Crucible" relies heavily on mid-era Immortal vibes. The one greatest standout is nine minute album closer "Dark is the River of Man". This is the only non-black metal song on the album (atmospheric interlude "The Sentient Arcanum" not withstanding) and is pure Agalloch. It effortlessly transplants a neo-folk aesthetic into a metal framework and also draws on the bittersweet romantic atmosphere of classic Peaceville death/doom. The songwriting towers above that of the rest of the album and even if this is clearly a nod to John's past in Agalloch, it stands up to some of their best work.
You know how I said I can't really view Pillorian outside of the context of Agalloch? That's one of the main reasons I view this as a minor disappointment. While it generally doesn't match the high points, it's much more consistent than The Serpent and the Sphere and ultimately a better album. But merely being a better album is faint praise seeing as Serpent was a massive disappointment. Obsidian Arc was released shortly after the breakup of Agalloch and if there's one thing to be said against it, it's that it feels a bit rushed. While it doesn't reach the same lows as "Vales Beyond Dimension" and "Plateau of the Ages", it suffers from the same major problem as Serpent - songwriting that's not particularly memorable. "Forged Iron Crucible" and "Dark is the River of Man" succeed in the songwriting department, but for the most part it feels like more effort could have gone into this facet of their sound. While still good, the rest of the songs don't have the same staying power as the two aforementioned highlights. The songwriting leads to another problem. Pillorian has demonstrated a much more limited scope than Agalloch, which is not necessarily a bad thing in and of itself. However, the songwriting isn't strong enough for them to truly shine with a more limited sound. While the occasional subtle leads were nice and all, I do have to admit I really miss the solos.
Since I don't want to come off as a complete curmudgeon, I'll touch on two more things I really dug about this. The production is fantastic. Recorded by Tad Doyle (an awesome musician in his own right), it is clear and organic enough for the subtle atmospheric touches to work their magic, but rough enough for the black metal to carry reasonable heft. The drum sound is particularly excellent, which brings me to my next point. Despite my grumblings about Uada, I'll be the first to say that Trevor is an excellent drummer. His playing in Uada was easily my favourite part of the debut, and he's even better here. He's not exactly Aesop Dekker, but honestly he's not particularly far behind. His playing is tight as fuck, displaying an excellent sense of rhythm and flow. He really knows how to work within the dynamics of the music and his fills are ungodly.
If this were a new band making their debut I'd be more or less impressed, but this still feels a bit weak for the one of the follow up bands of one of my favourite bands ever; the one who provided my gateway to black metal as a gangly teenager. John asserts that he unintentionally used awkward phrasing regarding the whole "visionary" fiasco, but this proves just how essential the rest of the guys were to Agalloch's finest moments - especially Don. If anything, this makes me think Don was the catalyst for a lot of Agalloch's more adventurous forays. Nevertheless, this is a solid first offering. I just hope the sophomore effort takes a few more risks and puts more effort into the songwriting.
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WITH WARRANT: Woman accused of operating drug factory says pot was medical
WALT GOGOLYA, Press Staff
MIDDLETOWN -- An attorney representing the woman accused of operating a drug factory out of her Clinton home told the court the marijuana was being cultivated for medicinal reasons; however, details obtained from the arrest warrant seem to tell a different story.
State police confiscated more than five pounds of marijuana from the 244 Cow Hill Road home of Andrea Tiffany, 45, during a drug bust Oct. 1., according to documents obtained from Middletown Superior Court.
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The marijuana was found in plastic bags and growing in and around the property.
Police also confiscated 131.8 grams of marijuana that they described as "packaged for sale," according to the arrest warrant.
During her arraignment in Middletown Superior Court Friday, Tiffany's attorney, Christopher Morano, admitted his client was cultivating marijuana on her property but denied charges that she is a drug dealer, saying it was being grown and used for medicinal purposes.
Police reportedly found marijuana growing inside the home with installed duct ventilation, irrigation and artificial lighting. One growing operation was set up behind the chimney of the home while the other was located next to the stairs leading to the basement. Police also discovered several potted plants in various stages of growth.
Police confiscated 41 pieces of evidence from the home, including 27 growing potted marijuana plants, two grow lamps, a Mossburg 12 gauge shotgun, a Winchester .22 caliber rifle and various items used for plant cultivation, according to the warrant.
Police also found past utility bills showing large amounts of power being consumed at the home. Tiffany's electric bill, at times, ranged from $200 to $450 or more each month, according to the arrest warrant.
Due to the large quantity of marijuana present and because many of the larger quantities were broken down into smaller packaging consistent with the sale of marijuana, police say the home was being used to cultivate, harvest, dry, package and facilitate the sale of marijuana.
Tiffany was charged with operating a drug factory, cultivation of marijuana over one kilo, possession of marijuana and possession of marijuana with intent to sell.
The suspect reportedly provided a written statement to police claiming ownership over all the cultivation equipment and marijuana found in the residence and surrounding areas.
Tiffany is free after posting a $50,000 court-set bond and is scheduled to return to court April 14. Her case may be transferred to the Part A division of Middletown Superior Court, where more serious cases are heard, according to state prosecutors.
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Oxygen Greenlights Paris Hilton Reality Series
Media celebrity Paris Hilton will star in a new as yet titled Oxygen docu-reality series, executives from the female-targeted network said Thursday.
The series, produced by A. Smith & Co. Productions (Hell's Kitchen, Kitchen Nightmares, and Paradise Hotel), will follow the model, singer, actress, and entrepreneur's life outside of the media spotlight, according to the network.
"Paris is magnetic in such a way that viewers are naturally curious about her and think they know her based on what they see in the media," said Amy Introcaso-Davis, Senior Vice President, Original Programming and Development in a statement. "We're looking to truly bring an all-encompassing look at her life, friends, family, and relationships, all that's not represented every day. It's going to be a fascinating journey."
This series marks Hilton's second attempt at cable reality series stardom. The outgoing star appeared in The Simple Life alongside Nicole Richie as socialites working low-paying, manual jobs. The series aired on E! Entertainment in 2006 nd 2007 after initially airing on Fox broadcasting network.
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Netflix to Boast Larger Audience Than Big Four Networks Within Year
Online video on demand service Netflix will within about a year have a bigger daily audience than each of the big four TV networks, an analyst said Wednesday.
Working from the 10 billion hours of streaming the company reported in the first quarter, FBR analyst Barton Crockett says that if Netflix were rated by Nielsen as are ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox, it would have a 2.6 rating over 24 hours, already on par with ABC and NBC.
Given that Netflix is growing its audience at about 40 percent a year, it should overtake the four networks some time next year.
The upbeat analysis comes a day after Netflix said it would split its shares 7-for-1. That news had investors bidding its shares over $700 apiece for the first time in history, though shortly after billionaire investor Carl Icahn tweeted that he sold all of his shares, the stock sank.
At the end of trading Wednesday, shares of Netflix were off $2.58 to $678.61 and the company sported a $41 billion market capitalization, nearly 50 percent more than what CBS is worth.
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When most Americans leave their doctor’s office, they do not understand all of the doctor or nurse’s instructions. In fact, only 12% of Americans are fully health literate, according to the US Department of Health and Human Services. Health literacy means being able to understand and act on instructions from a doctor or nurse. This issue impacts all of us personally, while also making health care more expensive. It is something that doctors, nurses, receptionists, social workers, caregivers and patients can help improve.
The MetroWest Racial and Ethnic Disparities Workgroup has made health literacy a focus of their work. The Workgroup includes leaders from social service, medical, and housing agencies across the region. The mission of the Workgroup is to work towards the elimination of racial and ethnic disparities in health, health care, and access to care for all MetroWest residents by providing education and resources that support health literacy and culturally competent services.
The websites and articles listed below have been reviewed by the group. There are many more resources available, so this list is only a starting point.
Information on and definitions of the importance of clear communication, language access and cultural competency
Low Health Literacy: Implications for National Health Policy
Research paper that analyzes the results of the health literacy section of the 2003 U.S. Department of Education National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL), specifically the economic costs of low health literacy
National Plan to Improve Health Literacy
U.S. Department of Human Services plan that outlines seven goals each with suggested strategies to improve health literacy
National Network of Libraries of Medicine
Definitions and context for improving health literacy as well as numerous resources
Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion's Quick Guide to Health Literacy
Overview of health literacy including definitions and best practices
CDC's Health Literacy Page
General information on health literacy nationally and by state
Harvard School of Public Health-Health Literacy Page
Research studies and best practices
Resources for Health Providers
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit
Provides step-by-step guidance and tools for assessing your practice and making changes so you connect with patients of all literacy levels
Institute of Medicine, 10 Attributes of Health Literate Health Care Organizations
Paper describing specific ways organizations can become more health literate
Is Our Pharmacy Meeting Patient Needs?
Health literacy assessment for pharmacies
Resources to Share with Patients and Caregivers
Agency for Healthcare Quality Research Questions to Ask Your Doctor
How Patients Can Communicate Better with Doctors
Short guide with tips on talking with your doctor or nurse
Ask Me Three
Patient education program aimed at empowering patients to be an active part of their medical care
Other Communication Tools
CDC's Gateway to Health Communication and Social Marketing Practice
Information on targeting messages about health literacy to different audiences
Simply Put: CDC's Guide to Creating Easy to Understand Materials
Health Literacy Style Manual
Guide on creating health literate written materials
Universal Symbols for Provider Office Signage
Examples from the Field
Health Literacy Practices in Primary Care Settings: Examples from the Field
Research study conducted by the Commonwealth Fund that outlines best practices for improving health literacy
Minnesota Health Literacy Partnership
North Carolina Health Literacy Council
California Health Literacy Council
Iowa Healthcare Collaborative
HRSA Online Course
The interactive training course, “Unified Health Communication: Addressing Health Literacy, Cultural Competency, and Limited English Proficiency,” aims to raise the quality of provider-patient interactions by teaching providers and their staff how to gauge and respond to their patients' health literacy, cultural background, and language skills. The course's five modules take five hours to complete.
CDC Online Course
Health Literacy for Public Health Professionals
American Medical Association Health Literacy Toolkit
DVD and manual available for $35
Always Use Teach Back! Training Toolkit
Site contains information and videos on the Teach Back method as well as a comprehensive toolkit for implementing the method
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Additional $1.2 million for Kaikoura earthquake science
Wednesday, May 10, 2017 Paul Goldsmith
Science and Innovation Minister Paul Goldsmith today announced $1.2 million of additional funding for the Natural Hazards Research Platform to conduct vital research and work to support the Kaikoura earthquake recovery.
“Science helps us to understand what happened during this earthquake, how we rebuild and how we respond to future events,” Mr Goldsmith says.
“New Zealand is leading the world in earthquake science and our unique seismic events provide opportunities to make major contributions to international understanding in this field.”
In November 2016, the Government reprioritised $2 million for the urgent science response to the Kaikoura earthquake, including aerial and marine surveys, landslide observations, and GeoNet support. In December 2016, Cabinet also agreed $3 million of initial funding to develop and enhance New Zealand’s natural hazards monitoring capability.
“Further urgent demands to have science input into recovery and build decisions have emerged in the first few months of the response to the earthquake and it’s important that this work continue,” Mr Goldsmith says.
“There are a number of time limited opportunities to conduct high-value research over the next few months that will have long term benefits, such as examination of buildings before they are demolished, gathering evidence from recent geological changes, and updating subsoil assessments in Wellington before rebuilding starts.”
The new work funded includes:
Further landslide assessments, continuing on from work started in November. Updating subsoil assessments in Wellington and assessing pre-cast concrete construction. Incorporating slow-slip earthquakes and new land deformation into hazards models.
“If we are to better protect lives and critical infrastructure in future seismic events, we must make use of the opportunity to research the Kaikoura quake, and learn as much as possible so that we can be as prepared as possible,” says Mr Goldsmith.
For more information see www.naturalhazards.org.nz.
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