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Leisure Process
Leisure Process was a short lived New Wave duo comprised of sax player Gary Barnacle and singer Ross Middleton. Gary Barnacle was a saxophonist and brass instrument arranger primarily noted for session work, during the 1980s, with a large number of popular music acts including Kim Wilde, Visage, Dalek I Love You and Level 42. Ross Middleton was a member of the UK outfit Positive Noise before he teamed up with Barnacle.
Together they formed Leisure Process in 1981. Leisure Process was produced by Marin Rushent and it released several singles in 1982 and 1983 but never managed to record an album. Even though they provided similar sound to some of the popular groups at that time, they remained as an 80’s obscurity. Their sound was a synthetic with Middleton’s manic vocals and Barnacle’s excellent sax solos. At some points it reminded of Human League especially when you compare “Love Action” with “Love Cascade”.
After working with a line up of great artists Barnacle released a solo album Paradise in 2002.Here are some acts for whom Barnacle has contributed session work.
M-"Pop Muzik" (1979)
Positive Noise- Heart Of Darkness (1981)
Kim Wilde- Kim Wilde- "2 6 5 8 0" (1981)
Level 42-Level 42- "Heathrow" (1981)
The Clash- Combat Rock- "Sean Flynn" (1982)
Visage-"Night Train" (1982)
Elvis Costello & The Attractions- "Party Party" (1982)
Kim Wilde- Select- "Action City" (1982)
Visage – The Anvil (1982)
Kim Wilde- Catch As Catch Can- "Love Blonde" (1983)
Dalek I Love You- Dalek I Love You- "Lust", "12 Hours of Blues" (1983)
Soft Cell- This Last Night In Sodom (1984)
Lloyd Cole & The Commotions- Lost Weekend- "Lost Weekend" (1985)
The Damned- Phantasmagoria (1985)
The Dream Academy- The Dream Academy- "The Edge of Forever" (1985)
Level 42- World Machine (1985)
David Bowie- "Absolute Beginners" (1986)
Pet Shop Boys- Disco- "Suburbia" (1986)
Erasure- Wonderland- "Pistol" (1986)
Swing Out Sister- It’s Better To Travel (1987)
The Communards- Red- "For A Friend" (1987)
Level 42- Running in The Family- "Lessons in Love" (1987)
Rick Astley- Hold Me In Your Arms (1988)
Karel Fialka- Human Animal (1988)
Paul Hardcastle- No Winners- "Walk on the Light" (1988)
Hothouse Flowers- People (1988)
The Jeremy Days- The Jermey Days (1988)
Yazz – Wanted- "Fine Time" (1988)
The Beautiful South- Welcome To The Beautiful South (1989)
Bjork- Debut (1993)
David Bowie Electro Kim Wilde Soft Cell Synth Pop The Story of...
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CHINA / National
More media services promised
By Wu Jiao (China Daily)
The government will provide comprehensive service to the foreign media next year with timely dissemination of more authoritative information, Minister of the State Council Information Office Cai Wu pledged Tuesday.
Cai Wu
He noted the improved service provided to foreign journalists during the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in October was much appreciated.
"They (the foreign media) welcomed the unprecedented openness of the congress and the service provided during the period," Cai told China Daily.
"This is a good sign, and we will continue to be more open in the coming year, and provide satisfactory service for all media."
Addressing a New Year reception for the media, Cai said the country is braced for some of the most exciting moments in its modern history.
Next year will see an array of important events, including the Beijing Olympic Games and the 30th anniversary of China's reform and opening up.
An estimated 30,000 foreign journalists are expected next summer in Beijing to cover the Games.
Cai promised that China would "comprehensively" implement the State Council order granting foreign journalists more freedom to report in China in the run-up to, and during, the Games.
"Please set your minds at rest we Chinese always keep our promise," Cai told foreign journalists attending the reception, which drew more than 300 representatives from ministries, embassies and news organizations.
"We will further improve our news briefing system and improve the quality of the news service," said Cai.
"At the same time, we sincerely hope that through efforts by friends in the media circles we present to people around the world a true China that adheres to reform and opening up, promotes harmonious development and commits itself to building a moderately prosperous society," he said.
Over the past year, the office held more than 70 press conferences and issued several white papers on food and product quality as well as the country's political system.
Seiichiro Yamaguchi, Beijing bureau chief of Fuji Television Network, said China has been opening more fields to foreign reporters with more ministries holding press conferences this year.
"I hope the mechanism can continue, and improve," he said.
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vailing in the country, at the time [of the elections], did not give rise to
the conduct of free, fair and credible elections" (Pan-African Parliament
Election Observer Mission 2008).
Other reports were similarly critical,
such as the one on the Kenyan elections in 2007, which were followed
by political unrest (Pan-African Parliament Election Observer Mission
2007). The parliament's plenary sessions are also often critical to-
wards prevailing conditions in Africa. Parliamentarians "
flexed their
muscle" and passed resolutions calling, for instance, upon the
Sudanese government to fully cooperate with the AU and to stop fight-
ing in the Sudanese region of Darfur (Cilliers and Mashele 2004: 73-
Yet parliamentarians are aware that their work changes little,
because the impact of the PAP is limited. With its two sessions per
year, it can raise its voice. Yet, despite its role as consultative organ,
the resolutions of the parliament on important topics, such as the
formation of the United States of Africa and a Union Government for
Africa (Pan-African Parliament 2007), frequently find no resonance by
the AU Assembly and other AU decision making bodies.
Instead of supporting the PAP, the AU member states agreed to
cut the parliament's budget by 22 per cent in 2009, making it more
difficult for the parliament to fulfil its tasks. Officials in the AU head-
quarters link the budget cut to the parliament's critical work. They
argue that the budget cut should be interpreted as an 'incentive' for the
PAP to review its work.
There are reasons to assume that some na-
tional leaders were not pleased with the reports from the observer
missions in particular, neither with the work and discussions of the
parliament in general, including the latter's critique on the status of
democracy, human rights, as well as the rule of law. One indication for
this is that the PAP election observer missions have been merged with
election observer missions of other AU organs. This was officially based
on the argument of efficiency.
Given its financial constraints, its narrow confines, and its mem-
bers' appointments instead of elections, the PAP will face obstacles to
its further development. Abrahams Peter, a member of PAP, asked
during a plenary session: "How will you become legislative with feeble
feet?" (Pan-African Parliament 2010). One might argue that African
leaders never wanted the Parliament to turn into a legislative arm. Had
this been the case, key African states, such as Nigeria and South
Africa, would have attempted to get another distribution of seats in
their favour, instead of allocating five seats to each AU member state,
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Amount of Riboflavin in Beans
Welcome to the nutritional riboflavin content in 93 different types of beans, ranging from 0.33 mg to 0.043 mg per 100g. The basic type of beans is Beans, snap, green, raw, where the amount of riboflavin in 100g is 0.104 mg.
0.104 mg of riboflavin per 100g, from Beans, snap, green, raw corresponds to % of the riboflavin RDA. For a typical serving size of 1 cup 1/2 pieces (or 100 g) the amount of Riboflavin is 0.1 mg. This corresponds to an RDA percentage of %.
The percentage of the recommended daily allowance (RDA) for riboflavin is based on a 1.7 mg RDA level for a mature adult.
Top twenty beans products high in riboflavin
Below is a summary list for the top twenty beans items ranked by the amount or level of riboflavin in 100g.
1. Beans, yellow, mature seeds, raw : 0.33mg
2. Beans, fava, in pod, raw : 0.29mg
3. Beans, kidney, mature seeds, sprouted, raw : 0.25mg
4. Beans, kidney, royal red, mature seeds, raw : 0.24mg
5. Beans, great northern, mature seeds, raw : 0.237mg
6. Beans, french, mature seeds, raw : 0.221mg
7. Beans, adzuki, mature seeds, raw : 0.22mg
8. Beans, kidney, all types, mature seeds, raw : 0.219mg
9. Beans, kidney, california red, mature seeds, raw : 0.219mg
10. Beans, navy, mature seeds, sprouted, raw : 0.215mg
11. Beans, kidney, red, mature seeds, raw : 0.215mg
12. Beans, cranberry (roman), mature seeds, raw : 0.213mg
13. Beans, pinto, mature seeds, raw : 0.212mg
14. Beans, small white, mature seeds, raw : 0.207mg
15. Beans, black, mature seeds, raw : 0.193mg
16. Beans, black turtle, mature seeds, raw : 0.193mg
17. Beans, pink, mature seeds, raw : 0.192mg
18. Beans, navy, mature seeds, raw : 0.164mg
19. Beans, chili, barbecue, ranch style, cooked : 0.15mg
20. Beans, white, mature seeds, raw : 0.146mg
Following on from the twenty top beans items or products containing riboflavin we have a more comprehensive break down of Beans, snap, green, raw, and the highest item containing riboflavin which is Beans, yellow, mature seeds, raw. We also give a comparison of average values, median values and lowest values along with a comparison with other food groups and assess the effects of storage and preparation on the 93 types of beans.
At the bottom of the page is the full list for the 93 different types of beans based on the content in different servings in grams and oz (and other serving sizes), providing a comprehensive analysis of the riboflavin content in beans.
Beans, snap, green, raw - Nutritional Content and Chart
The full nutrition content, RDA percentages and levels for Beans, snap, green, raw should be considered along with the riboflavin content. This food profile is part of our list of food and drinks under the general group Vegetables and Vegetable Products.Other important and riboflavin related nutrients are Calories, Protein, Fat and Carbohydrate. For this 100g serving in your diet, the amount of Calories is 31 kcal (2% RDA), the amount of Protein is 1.83 g (3% RDA), the amount of Fat is 0.22 g and the amount of Carbohydrate is 6.97 g (5% RDA). The nutritional content and facts for 100g, which includes Calories, Protein, Fat and Carbohydrate is shown in the RDA chart below as percentages of the recommended daily allowance along with the riboflavin levels in beans.
Our proprietary nutritional density score gives a nutritional value out of 100 based on 9 different vitamins, minerals and macro nutrients. Beans, snap, green, raw has a nutritional value score of 26 out of 100.
Amount of riboflavin per 100 Calories
100 calories of beans, snap, green, raw is a serving size of 3.23 g, and the amount of Riboflavin is 0.34 mg. Other important and related nutrients and macronutrients such as Fat, in 100 Calories are as follows; Protein 5.9 g (9.68% RDA), Fat 0.71 g (0% RDA), Carbohydrate 22.48 g (16.13% RDA). This is shown in the riboflavin RDA percentage chart below, based on 100 Calories, along with the other important nutrients and macro nutrients.
Content per Typical Serving Size 1 cup 1/2 pieces (or 100 g)
For the food Beans, snap, green, raw the typical serving size is 1 cup 1/2 pieces (or 100 g) which contains 0.1 mg of Riboflavin. In terms of the gram weight and total content for this serving the Calories content is 31 kcal, the Protein content is 1.83 g, the Fat content is 0.22 g and the Carbohydrate content is 6.97 g. The percentages are shown below in the riboflavin chart, for the typical serving of riboflavin and the related and important nutritional values.
Macronutrients in Beans, snap, green, raw
The amount of protein, fat and carbs from this food described above is measured in grams per 100g and grams in a typical serving size (in this case 1 cup 1/2 pieces or 100 g), although it is also useful to give the number of calories from protein, fat and carbohydrate which are the most important macronutrients. For this serving in your diet here are the macronutrient calories. From protein the number of calories is 4.5 (kcal).The number of calories from Fat is 1.8 (kcal).The total calories from carbohydrate is 24.9 (kcal).
Milligrams of riboflavin in beans (per 100g)
This list of 93 types of beans, is brought to you by www.dietandfitnesstoday.com and ranges from Beans, yellow, mature seeds, raw through to Beans, lima, immature seeds, canned, regular pack, solids and liquids where all food items are ranked by the content or amount per 100g. The nutritional riboflavin content can be scaled by the amount in grams, oz or typical serving sizes. Simply click on a food item or beverage from the list at the bottom of the page to give a full dietary nutritional breakdown to answer the question how much riboflavin in beans.
The list below gives the total riboflavin content in the 93 items from the general description 'beans' each of which show the riboflavin amount as well as Calories, Protein, Fat and Carbohydrate. Below, is the top 50 food items shown in the riboflavin chart. This gives a quick and easy dietary comparison for the different items, where each item is listed at the bottom of the page with a nutritional summary.
The corresponding nutritional value for beans based on our density score out of 100 (ranked by the amount of riboflavin per 100g) is shown in the below nutritional density chart.
The corresponding Calories for beans ranked by the amount of riboflavin per 100g is shown below in the beans calories chart.
Effect of Preparation and Storage on riboflavin
The level of riboflavin can be affected by the method of storage for example canned or frozen and also by the method of preparation for example either raw, cooked or fried. The total number of frozen food items is 10. The highest amount of riboflavin from the 10 frozen items is in Beans, pinto, immature seeds, frozen, unprepared where the riboflavin content is 0.12 mg per 100g. The number of food items classified as canned is 22 items. The highest amount of riboflavin from the 22 canned items is in Beans, black turtle, mature seeds, canned where the level is 0.12 mg per 100g.The total food items which are raw is 21 items. The highest amount of riboflavin from the 21 raw items is in Beans, yellow, mature seeds, raw where the content is 0.33 mg per 100g. The number of food items which are cooked are 43 items. The highest amount of riboflavin from the 43 cooked items is in Beans, chili, barbecue, ranch style, cooked where the amount is 0.15 mg per 100g. Comparing raw and cooked beans shows that cooking can change the levels of riboflavin by 0.18 mg in a 100g serving.
Average Content for beans
The average (or more correctly the arithmetic mean) amount of riboflavin contained in 100g of beans, based on the list below of 93 different items under the general description of beans, is 0.10 mg of riboflavin. The averages for the different nutrients are as follows; the average amount of Calories is 135.99 kcal, the average amount of Protein is 8.55 g, the average amount of Fat is 0.72 g and the average amount of Carbohydrate is g.
The median value of Riboflavin is found in Beans, adzuki, mature seeds, cooked, boiled, without salt which in 100g contains 0.064 mg of Riboflavin. For this serving the amount of Calories is 128 kcal, the amount of Protein is 7.52 g, the amount of Fat is 0.1 g and the amount of Carbohydrate is 24.77 g.
Highest riboflavin Content per 100g
Using the list below for the 93 different beans nutrition entries in our database, the highest amount of riboflavin is found in Beans, yellow, mature seeds, raw which contains 0.33 mg of riboflavin per 100g. The associated percentage of RDA is %. For this 100g serving the Calories content is 345 kcal, the Protein content is 22 g, the Fat content is 2.6 g, the Carbohydrate content is 60.7 g.
The lowest amount of riboflavin in 100g is in Beans, lima, immature seeds, canned, regular pack, solids and liquids which contains 0.043 mg. This gives as percentage of the recommended daily allowance % of the RDA. For this 100g serving the amount of Calories is 71 kcal, the amount of Protein is 4.07 g, the amount of Fat is 0.29 g, the amount of Carbohydrate is 13.33 g.
The difference between the highest and lowest values gives a riboflavin range of 0.287 mg per 100g. The range for the other nutrients are as follows; 274 kcal for Calories, 17.93 g for Protein, 2.31 g for Fat, 0 g for Carbohydrate.
Highest Amount of riboflavin per Serving
Please remember that the above gives an accurate value in 100g for high riboflavin foods in your diet. For example 100g of Beans, snap, green, raw contains 0.104 mg of riboflavin. However, there are other factors to consider when you are assessing your nutritional requirements. You should also take into account portion sizes when you are considering the riboflavin nutritional content.
The food with the highest riboflavin content per typical serving is Beans, yellow, mature seeds, raw which contains 0.65 mg in 1 cup (or 196 g). For this serving the Calories content is 676.2 kcal, the Protein content is 43.12 g, the Fat content is 5.1 g and the Carbohydrate content is 118.97 g.
From the list below you can find a full nutrition facts breakdown for all foods containing riboflavin which can be scaled for different servings and quantities. We have also sorted our complete nutritional information and vitamin database of over 7000 foods, to give a list of foods with a high amount of riboflavin.
Beans List, riboflavin Content per 100g
1. Beans, yellow, mature seeds, raw - Riboflavin
0.33 mg 345 kcal (17%) 60.7 g (47%) 2.6 g (4%) 22 g (39%)
0.65 mg 676.2 kcal (34%) 118.97 g (92%) 5.1 g (8%) 43.12 g (77%)
2. Beans, fava, in pod, raw - Riboflavin
Riboflavin Calories Carbohydrate Fat Protein
0.29 mg 88 kcal (4%) 17.63 g (14%) 0.73 g (1%) 7.92 g (14%)
0.37 mg 110.88 kcal (6%) 22.21 g (17%) 0.92 g (1%) 9.98 g (18%)
Other serving sizes 1 pod (or 6.1g):
0.02 mg 5.37 kcal (0%) 1.08 g (1%) 0.04 g (0%) 0.48 g (1%)
3. Beans, kidney, mature seeds, sprouted, raw - Riboflavin
0.25 mg 29 kcal (1%) 4.1 g (3%) 0.5 g (1%) 4.2 g (8%)
0.46 mg 53.36 kcal (3%) 7.54 g (6%) 0.92 g (1%) 7.73 g (14%)
4. Beans, kidney, royal red, mature seeds, raw - Riboflavin
0.24 mg 329 kcal (16%) 58.33 g (45%) 0.45 g (1%) 25.33 g (45%)
0.44 mg 605.36 kcal (30%) 107.33 g (83%) 0.83 g (1%) 46.61 g (83%)
5. Beans, great northern, mature seeds, raw - Riboflavin
0.237 mg 339 kcal (17%) 62.37 g (48%) 1.14 g (2%) 21.86 g (39%)
0.43 mg 620.37 kcal (31%) 114.14 g (88%) 2.09 g (3%) 40 g (71%)
6. Beans, french, mature seeds, raw - Riboflavin
7. Beans, adzuki, mature seeds, raw - Riboflavin
0.22 mg 329 kcal (16%) 62.9 g (48%) 0.53 g (1%) 19.87 g (35%)
8. Beans, kidney, all types, mature seeds, raw - Riboflavin
0.4 mg 612.72 kcal (31%) 110.42 g (85%) 1.53 g (2%) 43.39 g (77%)
9. Beans, kidney, california red, mature seeds, raw - Riboflavin
0.219 mg 330 kcal (17%) 59.8 g (46%) 0.25 g (0%) 24.37 g (44%)
0.4 mg 607.2 kcal (30%) 110.03 g (85%) 0.46 g (1%) 44.84 g (80%)
10. Beans, navy, mature seeds, sprouted, raw - Riboflavin
0.215 mg 67 kcal (3%) 13.05 g (10%) 0.7 g (1%) 6.15 g (11%)
0.22 mg 69.68 kcal (3%) 13.57 g (10%) 0.73 g (1%) 6.4 g (11%)
11. Beans, kidney, red, mature seeds, raw - Riboflavin
0.03 mg 41.11 kcal (2%) 7.48 g (6%) 0.13 g (0%) 2.75 g (5%)
12. Beans, cranberry (roman), mature seeds, raw - Riboflavin
0.42 mg 653.25 kcal (33%) 117.1 g (90%) 2.4 g (4%) 44.91 g (80%)
13. Beans, pinto, mature seeds, raw - Riboflavin
Other serving sizes 1 tbsp (or 12g):
14. Beans, small white, mature seeds, raw - Riboflavin
0.45 mg 722.4 kcal (36%) 133.84 g (103%) 2.54 g (4%) 45.39 g (81%)
15. Beans, black, mature seeds, raw - Riboflavin
0.193 mg 341 kcal (17%) 62.36 g (48%) 1.42 g (2%) 21.6 g (39%)
0.37 mg 661.54 kcal (33%) 120.98 g (93%) 2.75 g (4%) 41.9 g (75%)
16. Beans, black turtle, mature seeds, raw - Riboflavin
0.193 mg 339 kcal (17%) 63.25 g (49%) 0.9 g (1%) 21.25 g (38%)
17. Beans, pink, mature seeds, raw - Riboflavin
0.4 mg 720.3 kcal (36%) 134.8 g (104%) 2.37 g (4%) 44.02 g (79%)
18. Beans, navy, mature seeds, raw - Riboflavin
19. Beans, chili, barbecue, ranch style, cooked - Riboflavin
0.15 mg 97 kcal (5%) 16.9 g (13%) 1 g (2%) 5 g (9%)
0.38 mg 245.41 kcal (12%) 42.76 g (33%) 2.53 g (4%) 12.65 g (23%)
20. Beans, white, mature seeds, raw - Riboflavin
21. Beans, pinto, immature seeds, frozen, unprepared - Riboflavin
0.12 mg 170 kcal (9%) 32.5 g (25%) 0.5 g (1%) 9.8 g (18%)
Typical Serving size of 1 package (10 oz) (or 284g):
0.34 mg 482.8 kcal (24%) 92.3 g (71%) 1.42 g (2%) 27.83 g (50%)
Other serving sizes .333 package (10 oz) (or 94g):
0.11 mg 159.8 kcal (8%) 30.55 g (24%) 0.47 g (1%) 9.21 g (16%)
22. Beans, black turtle, mature seeds, canned - Riboflavin
0.29 mg 218.4 kcal (11%) 39.74 g (31%) 0.7 g (1%) 14.47 g (26%)
23. Beans, pinto, immature seeds, frozen, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt - Riboflavin
0.108 mg 162 kcal (8%) 30.88 g (24%) 0.48 g (1%) 9.31 g (17%)
Typical Serving size of 1 package (10 oz) yields (or 284g):
0.31 mg 460.08 kcal (23%) 87.7 g (67%) 1.36 g (2%) 26.44 g (47%)
Other serving sizes .333 package (10 oz) yields (or 94g):
0.1 mg 152.28 kcal (8%) 29.03 g (22%) 0.45 g (1%) 8.75 g (16%)
24. Beans, pinto, immature seeds, frozen, cooked, boiled, drained, with salt - Riboflavin
25. Beans, snap, yellow, raw - Riboflavin
0.105 mg 31 kcal (2%) 7.13 g (5%) 0.12 g (0%) 1.82 g (3%)
Typical Serving size of 1 cup 1/2 pieces (or 100g):
0.11 mg 31 kcal (2%) 7.13 g (5%) 0.12 g (0%) 1.82 g (3%)
Other serving sizes 10 beans (4 long) (or 55g):
0.06 mg 17.05 kcal (1%) 3.92 g (3%) 0.07 g (0%) 1 g (2%)
26. Beans, snap, green, raw - Riboflavin
0.1 mg 31 kcal (2%) 6.97 g (5%) 0.22 g (0%) 1.83 g (3%)
27. Beans, snap, green, frozen, all styles, microwaved - Riboflavin
0.11 mg 44.4 kcal (2%) 7.75 g (6%) 0.46 g (1%) 2.2 g (4%)
28. Beans, yellow, mature seeds, cooked, boiled, without salt - Riboflavin
29. Beans, yellow, mature seeds, cooked, boiled, with salt - Riboflavin
30. Beans, snap, green, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt - Riboflavin
31. Beans, snap, green, cooked, boiled, drained, with salt - Riboflavin
32. Beans, snap, yellow, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt - Riboflavin
33. Beans, snap, yellow, cooked, boiled, drained, with salt - Riboflavin
34. Beans, snap, yellow, frozen, all styles, unprepared - Riboflavin
0.092 mg 33 kcal (2%) 7.58 g (6%) 0.21 g (0%) 1.8 g (3%)
0.26 mg 93.72 kcal (5%) 21.53 g (17%) 0.6 g (1%) 5.11 g (9%)
35. Beans, snap, green, frozen, all styles, unprepared - Riboflavin
0.26 mg 110.76 kcal (6%) 21.41 g (16%) 0.6 g (1%) 5.08 g (9%)
36. Beans, snap, green, frozen, cooked, boiled, drained without salt - Riboflavin
0.12 mg 37.8 kcal (2%) 8.71 g (7%) 0.23 g (0%) 2.01 g (4%)
37. Beans, snap, green, frozen, cooked, boiled, drained, with salt - Riboflavin
38. Beans, snap, yellow, frozen, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt - Riboflavin
39. Beans, snap, yellow, frozen, cooked, boiled, drained, with salt - Riboflavin
40. Beans, liquid from stewed kidney beans - Riboflavin
0.22 mg 112.8 kcal (6%) 6.72 g (5%) 7.68 g (12%) 4.32 g (8%)
41. Beans, snap, green, microwaved - Riboflavin
0.075 mg 39 kcal (2%) 6.41 g (5%) 0.5 g (1%) 2.31 g (4%)
42. Beans, mung, mature seeds, sprouted, canned, drained solids - Riboflavin
0.07 mg 12 kcal (1%) 2.14 g (2%) 0.06 g (0%) 1.4 g (3%)
43. Beans, cranberry (roman), mature seeds, cooked, boiled, without salt - Riboflavin
44. Beans, cranberry (roman), mature seeds, cooked, boiled, with salt - Riboflavin
45. Beans, kidney, red, mature seeds, canned, solids and liquids - Riboflavin
0.067 mg 81 kcal (4%) 14.83 g (11%) 0.36 g (1%) 5.22 g (9%)
Other serving sizes 1 can (or 436g):
46. Beans, kidney, royal red, mature seeds, cooked, boiled, without salt - Riboflavin
0.12 mg 217.71 kcal (11%) 38.67 g (30%) 0.3 g (0%) 16.8 g (30%)
47. Beans, kidney, royal red, mature seeds, cooked, boiled with salt - Riboflavin
48. Beans, navy, mature seeds, cooked, boiled, without salt - Riboflavin
0.12 mg 254.8 kcal (13%) 47.41 g (36%) 1.13 g (2%) 14.98 g (27%)
49. Beans, navy, mature seeds, cooked, boiled, with salt - Riboflavin
50. Beans, adzuki, mature seeds, cooked, boiled, without salt - Riboflavin
0.064 mg 128 kcal (6%) 24.77 g (19%) 0.1 g (0%) 7.52 g (13%)
0.15 mg 294.4 kcal (15%) 56.97 g (44%) 0.23 g (0%) 17.3 g (31%)
51. Beans, adzuki, mature seed, cooked, boiled, with salt - Riboflavin
52. Beans, pink, mature seeds, cooked, boiled, without salt - Riboflavin
53. Beans, pink, mature seeds, cooked, boiled, with salt - Riboflavin
54. Beans, french, mature seeds, cooked, boiled, without salt - Riboflavin
55. Beans, kidney, california red, mature seeds, cooked, boiled, without salt - Riboflavin
56. Beans, pinto, mature seeds, cooked, boiled, without salt - Riboflavin
57. Beans, french, mature seeds, cooked, boiled, with salt - Riboflavin
58. Beans, kidney, california red, mature seeds, cooked, boiled, with salt - Riboflavin
59. Beans, pinto, mature seeds, cooked, boiled, with salt - Riboflavin
60. Beans, great northern, mature seeds, canned - Riboflavin
0.06 mg 114 kcal (6%) 21.02 g (16%) 0.39 g (1%) 7.37 g (13%)
61. Beans, baked, canned, no salt added - Riboflavin
0.06 mg 105 kcal (5%) 20.49 g (16%) 0.4 g (1%) 4.8 g (9%)
62. Beans, black, mature seeds, cooked, boiled, without salt - Riboflavin
0.1 mg 227.04 kcal (11%) 40.78 g (31%) 0.93 g (1%) 15.24 g (27%)
63. Beans, great northern, mature seeds, cooked, boiled, without salt - Riboflavin
0.1 mg 208.86 kcal (10%) 37.33 g (29%) 0.8 g (1%) 14.74 g (26%)
64. Beans, small white, mature seeds, cooked, boiled, without salt - Riboflavin
65. Beans, black, mature seeds, cooked, boiled, with salt - Riboflavin
66. Beans, great northern, mature seeds, cooked, boiled, with salt - Riboflavin
67. Beans, small white, mature seeds, cooked, boiled, with salt - Riboflavin
68. Beans, baked, canned, with pork and sweet sauce - Riboflavin
0.058 mg 111 kcal (6%) 21.09 g (16%) 1.38 g (2%) 5.21 g (9%)
69. Beans, kidney, all types, mature seeds, cooked, boiled, without salt - Riboflavin
0.058 mg 127 kcal (6%) 22.8 g (18%) 0.5 g (1%) 8.67 g (15%)
70. Beans, kidney, red, mature seeds, cooked, boiled, without salt - Riboflavin
71. Beans, kidney, all types, mature seeds, cooked, boiled, with salt - Riboflavin
72. Beans, kidney, red, mature seeds, cooked, boiled, with salt - Riboflavin
73. Beans, snap, yellow, canned, regular pack, drained solids - Riboflavin
0.056 mg 20 kcal (1%) 4.5 g (3%) 0.1 g (0%) 1.15 g (2%)
Other serving sizes 10 beans (or 62g):
0.15 mg 52.4 kcal (3%) 11.79 g (9%) 0.26 g (0%) 3.01 g (5%)
74. Beans, snap, yellow, canned, no salt added, drained solids - Riboflavin
75. Beans, adzuki, mature seeds, canned, sweetened - Riboflavin
0.056 mg 237 kcal (12%) 55.01 g (42%) 0.03 g (0%) 3.8 g (7%)
0.17 mg 701.52 kcal (35%) 162.83 g (125%) 0.09 g (0%) 11.25 g (20%)
76. Beans, baked, canned, with franks - Riboflavin
0.056 mg 142 kcal (7%) 15.39 g (12%) 6.57 g (10%) 6.75 g (12%)
0.15 mg 367.78 kcal (18%) 39.86 g (31%) 17.02 g (26%) 17.48 g (31%)
77. Beans, black turtle, mature seeds, cooked, boiled, without salt - Riboflavin
0.1 mg 240.5 kcal (12%) 45.05 g (35%) 0.65 g (1%) 15.13 g (27%)
78. Beans, black turtle, mature seeds, cooked, boiled, with salt - Riboflavin
79. Beans, navy, mature seeds, canned - Riboflavin
80. Beans, shellie, canned, solids and liquids - Riboflavin
0.13 mg 73.5 kcal (4%) 15.17 g (12%) 0.47 g (1%) 4.31 g (8%)
81. Beans, snap, green, canned, no salt added, solids and liquids - Riboflavin
0.051 mg 15 kcal (1%) 3.5 g (3%) 0.1 g (0%) 0.8 g (1%)
Typical Serving size of .5 cup (or 120g):
0.06 mg 18 kcal (1%) 4.2 g (3%) 0.12 g (0%) 0.96 g (2%)
0.22 mg 65.85 kcal (3%) 15.37 g (12%) 0.44 g (1%) 3.51 g (6%)
82. Beans, snap, yellow, canned, regular pack, solids and liquids - Riboflavin
83. Beans, snap, yellow, canned, no salt added, solids and liquids - Riboflavin
84. Beans, kidney, all types, mature seeds, canned - Riboflavin
0.051 mg 82 kcal (4%) 14.5 g (11%) 0.6 g (1%) 5.22 g (9%)
85. Beans, snap, canned, all styles, seasoned, solids and liquids - Riboflavin
86. Beans, baked, home prepared - Riboflavin
87. Beans, baked, canned, with pork and tomato sauce - Riboflavin
88. Beans, white, mature seeds, cooked, boiled, without salt - Riboflavin
89. Beans, white, mature seeds, cooked, boiled, with salt - Riboflavin
90. Beans, snap, green, canned, regular pack, drained solids - Riboflavin
Typical Serving size of 1 cup solids (or 153g):
0.07 mg 38.25 kcal (2%) 6.5 g (5%) 0.57 g (1%) 1.93 g (3%)
0.12 mg 65.5 kcal (3%) 11.14 g (9%) 0.97 g (1%) 3.3 g (6%)
91. Beans, snap, green, canned, no salt added, drained solids - Riboflavin
0.12 mg 55.02 kcal (3%) 11.14 g (9%) 0.97 g (1%) 3.3 g (6%)
92. Beans, baked, canned, with beef - Riboflavin
0.12 mg 321.86 kcal (16%) 44.98 g (35%) 9.18 g (14%) 16.97 g (30%)
93. Beans, lima, immature seeds, canned, regular pack, solids and liquids - Riboflavin
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China: Recalled dairy products sold to students at a discount
By Chris V. Thangham Oct 16, 2008 in World
The dairy product that killed four babies and made thousands of others sick were recalled from stores. But instead of dumping them, some were resold back to students at bargain prices.
It seems Chinese authorities have not learned from tragedies, after melamine-tainted dairy products killed four babies recently.
Instead of destroying the poisoned products, some were resold to university students according to Xinhua news agency.
The milk products were sold in supermarkets and in student dormitories in Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong province. Bulk boxes of Mengniu milk and Yili yogurt, both recalled products, were sold for less than 20 Yuan ($2.90) or half the original price.
Melamine was added to the milk to give it inflated protein levels, but the high amount turned deadly for babies. Four died because of kidney failure and more than 53,000 babies got sick after consuming this tainted milk.
Early this week, China issued a full recall of dairy products made before Sept.14 to test for traces of melamine.
Most of the products sold to universities were made before Sept.14.
One student in Guangzhou, Chen Gang told Xinhua:
"It's so cheap. I can save some money. I am quite healthy. I guess there would be no problem for me to drink just a little bit."
Another student, who remained anonymous, told the news agency he was hired by milk dealers to sell the milk door-to-door in dormitories.
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Secret is out: John Tortorella to be Vancouver Canucks head coach
By Marcus Hondro Jun 21, 2013 in Sports
Hockey fans in Vancouver should brace themselves because the circus is coming to town. That circus would be John Tortorella, who arrived at Vancouver airport Friday keeping tight-lipped; he didn't need to talk though, his very presence said it all.
Tortorella, 55, if not about to be named coach after interviewing last week, would be as welcome on the left coast as a nuclear sub (who, by municipal law, can't enter Vancouver waters). But it's the NHL's worst kept secret and he will be named the team's 17th head coach in the coming days.
Tortorella for Vigneault, straight up
The sometimes wildly talkative, other times taciturn Tortorella will follow Alain Vigneault, the club's winningest coach who also has the franchise record for most points in a season, with 117 in 2010-11, the year he took them to within a game of the Stanley Cup.
With Vigneault signing to replace Tortorella as head coach of the Rangers in New York, this one becomes a trade and should be easy to make judgements on when each has eventually been fired, or before. While Torts has a Cup in 2004 in Tampa to his credit, for 8 of his 12 seasons as a coach in Tampa and New York he either didn't make the postseason (4 times) or failed to advance past the first round (4 times).
Vigneault's record as a Canuck coach in 540 regular season games is 313-170-57. The only other coach in Vancouver history to get past 141 wins was Marc Crawford, who coached roughly the same amount of games as coach 'V' and managed 246. Vigneault made the playoffs 6 of 7 seasons with the Canucks and one of three with Montreal.
Rangers and Canucks: same offensive numbers
The Rangers and the Canucks struggled finding the offensive on the ice that they seemed to have on paper in 2013, and each needs more goals to contend in 2013-14. But Vancouver GM Mike Gillis told fans last month after San Jose eliminated his Canucks in 4 straight in the first round, that he has misread the league and realizes now that he has to get bigger and more defensive.
He certainly won't get more offensive with Tortorella, not if last season's numbers in New York are an indicator. The Rangers managed 130 goals in 48 games in 2013, not a woeful total but Tortorella had high-octane talent like Rick Nash, Marion Gaborik (traded at the deadline to Columbus), Brad Richards, Ryan Callahan and Derek Stephan, so not so impressive, either.
Partly due to injury, Vigneault had less to work with to get to the 127 goals his Canucks scored last season. Beyond the Sedin brothers, with Ryan Kesler and David Booth out most of the season, for goals Vigneault was relying on the likes of Alex Burrows, Jannik Hansen, Mason Raymond and whatever the defense could muster. The Rangers want more offence and without adding a player seem to have it.
With Tortorella Vancouver will need more defence to make up for the loss they'll have in goals. And on the nights they Tortorella gets neither the defence or the goals, fans will need to tolerate a circus coming to town.
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5 Traditional Japanese Villages to Explore
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The rural area of Japan is quite worth an exploration. Many villages in Japan have typical Japanese styles. Although they are quite far away from big cities, you can enjoy enchanting natural views and interesting life in these villages. Here I recommend you 5 amazing Japanese villages that you should explore:
1.Shiba Village in Mizayaki Prefecture
Located in the mountains of middle Kyushu, the village is regarded as one of the top 3 secret lands in Japan. Here you can see ancient buildings and forests. Residents here all live in a natural way. There are no shops while the food and drinks all are produced in this village, which is the first charming of Shiba.
After arriving here, you will enjoy the peaceful and simple village life. In the early morning, the vast water is covered by the blaze, which the superb scenery you can only see here.
2. Shirakawa Village in Gifu Prefecture
Only if you come here, you can know that why the Shirakawa Village is called as “the lost Shangri La”. 113 gassho-structure houses spread in a small plain surrounded by mountains. No matter watching it from distance or exploring it in the village, you will always forget the troubles of your life and have an enjoyable journey here.
3. Shimoguri Village in Nagano Prefecture
The village is surrounded by the beautiful mountains of the Minami Alps, and the area is covered by Nature’s brilliant shades of green. It is sometimes called Japan’s Tyrol, because it is located on the middle of a hill, which is similar to villages in Austria’s Tyrol region. The colorful autumn leaves are also beautiful.
4. Ine Town in Kyoto
In Yosa District, Kyoto Prefecture, there is a unique town called Ine with traditional fishing houses. The unique Ine buildings which have existed since the 1700s were at first storage houses for wooden boats built for hanging up fishing nets. The first floor of this kind of building is for stopping boats while the second floor is for living, which forms a spectacular view that you can oversee boats and sea water on streets.
The jade-like water is quite smooth, and you can feel the peaceful environment here when you wander by the port. You can also explore the whole fishing town by boat.
5. Hayakawa in Yamanashi Prefecture
The crystal water and eight beautiful bridges are the symbols of this place. Nearly 96% of this area is covered by mountains and forests. Here you can totally feel the beauty of nature. November is the “autumn leaves season” of this place when you will see a beautiful mountain village amid red leaves, what an enchanting view!
Hope you have a great travel in rural Japan!
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Science in Public 2018: Call for Papers
Science in Public 2018: Call for Papers “Intersecting Science” – 12th Annual SiP Conference, 17-19 December 2018, Cardiff University, UK
Deadline for papers: Friday 18th May 2018, 5PM
For full details see http://www.sip2018cardiff.com/
Science in Public 2018 is a conference centred on the multiple ways that scholars have sought to intervene in, understand, talk about, and co-produce with, the natural sciences – whether from the perspective of Science and Technology Studies (STS), Public Understanding of Science, Science Communication, Medical Sociology, the History of Science, Social and Cultural Theory, Science Journalism or some other intellectual inheritance. Intersecting Science is an explicit invitation to all scholars, practitioners, public engagement and communications specialists, and anyone else with an interest in Science in Public, to contribute. But it is equally an invitation for contributors to make intersection a problem in itself. Together, we ask: what is it that holds these different points of intersection together, beyond institutional convenience or historical legacy? What might be learned from making different trajectories, practice and politics of intersection explicit? What might be productively drawn forth from making intersecting science a problem as well as an ambition?
The conference situates itself in Cardiff School of Social Science’s long tradition of STS, science communication, and studies of public engagement, including its history of training practitioners and professionals in science communication and engagement. It seeks proposals for single papers, full panels, roundtables, and other forms of scholarly communication that engage with the theme Intersecting Science under its most generous interpretation. Contributions are invited in one or more of the following 15 streams:
Disability, science, and technology
Environments, sustainability, and toxicity
Expertise and the nature of scientific knowledge
Histories of science and technology
Medicine, science, and laboratory life
New developments in the life sciences and bioethics
Non-humans and post-humans: animals, AI, robotics, and enhancement
Public understanding of / participation in science
Race, gender, and class in science
Risk, technology, and governance
Science education, communication, and engagement
Science journalism, media, and literature
Science policy and public relations
Scientific imaginaries in science fiction, art, and film
Space, place, and geographies of science
Abstracts for regular papers should be no more than 250 words. We also welcome proposals for diverse formats of presentation and encourage people to suggest their own panels, practical workshops, roundtables, author-meets-critics events, and other alternative session formats. Please make this clear in your submission (the website has further information, but you can also email the SiP team to discuss further). All abstracts should be submitted by Friday 18th May by 5pm via the following portal https://goo.gl/Ez5f9Q). Some funds may be available to support proposed alternative format sessions. Notification of acceptance is expected to be given by mid-June 2018.
SiP 2018 will be a low-cost conference, with bursaries available to early career, student or low-income scholars. Delegates will be asked to book their own accommodation (recommendations will be available on the website).
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Senator Fintan Warfield » Updates » Seanad supports passing of Gender Recognition Bill
Seanad supports passing of Gender Recognition Bill
Sinn Féin spokesperson for the Arts, Youth Affairs and LGBTQI Rights, Senator Fintan Warfield has welcomed the unanimous passing of Gender Recognition (Amendment) Bill 2017 in the Seanad. The Bill, if enacted, will allow young transgender people to be legally recognised by their true gender.
The Bill amends the Gender Recognition Act 2015 in three ways:
Removes the arduous process for young people between 16 – 17 to receive gender recognition putting them on equal (informed consent) criteria to those over 18.
Allows for young people under 16 to receive gender recognition with parental consent.
Allows for non-binary and intersex persons to be specifically considered in the review of the Gender Recognition Act.
“I welcome the positive support shown by all parties and independents today to the issue of gender recognition for young trans and non-binary people.
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“I thank the Senators who supported the Bill passing through second stage and call on all parties to ensure the gender recognition of our young trans and non-binary people is made a reality in the near future.”
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Axovant enters gene therapy field, gaining rights to Oxford BioMedica's experimental Parkinson's disease treatment
(Ref: Financial Times, MarketWatch, Oxford BioMedica, Proactive Investors, GlobeNewswire)
By: Matthew Dennis
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Axovant Sciences announced Wednesday an exclusive licensing deal potentially worth over $800 million to gain global rights to Oxford BioMedica's experimental gene therapy OXB-102 for Parkinson's disease. Axovant, whose shares jumped more than 120 percent on the news, said that it expects to initiate a Phase I/II dose-escalation study of the therapy, renamed AXO-Lenti-PD, in patients with advanced Parkinson's disease by the end of 2018.
Under the agreement, Axovant will obtain rights to AXO-Lenti-PD, as well as its predecessor product ProSavin, for an initial cash payment of $30 million. As part of the deal, Oxford BioMedica is also eligible to receive development milestones of up to $55 million, regulatory and commercial milestone payments of potentially $757.5 million, as well as tiered royalties in the range of 7 percent to 10 percent on net sales of AXO-Lenti-PD, if approved.
Axovant noted that in relation to the transaction, parent company Roivant Sciences agreed to purchase $25 million of common shares, which will support the clinical development of AXO-Lenti-PD and additional business development activities. AXO-Lenti-PD, which uses Oxford BioMedica's LentiVector platform, is designed to deliver three genes encoding a critical set of enzymes required for dopamine synthesis in the brain.
In addition, Axovant noted that Fraser Wright will join the company as chief technology officer (CTO) to oversee the gene therapy initiatives. Axovant CEO Pavan Cheruvu, who assumed the role in February, said Wright "brings over two decades of experience in gene therapy manufacturing, and will be committed to building world-class gene therapy capabilities at Axovant."
The appointment of Wright, who is the co-founder and former CTO of Spark Therapeutics, follows Axovant's recent hires of Gavin Corcoran, the current chief medical officer of Allergan, as executive vice president of R&D, and Michael Hayden, the former chief scientific officer at Teva, as chairman of the scientific advisory board.
The overhaul of Axovant's drug pipeline and executive team comes after the departure earlier this year of CEO David Hung and chief operating officer Marion McCourt. Their exit came shortly after the company announced that it would end development of intepirdine after the experimental 5-HT6 receptor antagonist failed to meet the main efficacy endpoint of a mid-stage study in patients with dementia with Lewy bodies. The drugmaker previously disclosed that a late-stage study of intepirdine in patients with mild-to-moderate Alzheimer's disease who were receiving background donepezil therapy also failed to meet its co-primary efficacy endpoints.
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There has been a general consensus that moderate sedation (formerly conscious sedation) provides adequate control of pain and anxiety for the overwhelming majority of routine endoscopic procedures as well as adequate amnesia.
Over 50% of adverse reactions during endoscopy are cardio-respiratory, mostly related to over dosage of sedation. A 2004 report by the National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD), “Scoping our Practice”, found that there had been 1,818 deaths after therapeutic GI endoscopic procedures. NCEPOD advisors judged that the sedation given was inappropriate in 14% of cases, usually because an overdose of benzodiazepine had been administered.
What is moderate(conscious) sedation?
A drug-induced depression of consciousness during which patients respond purposefully to verbal commands, either alone or accompanied by light tactile stimulation
No interventions are required to maintain a patent airway and spontaneous ventilation is adequate
Cardiovascular function is usually maintained.
What are the common drugs/regimes used?
The most commonly used regimens are midazolam with pethidine, midazolam with fentanyl and midazolam alone. Key aspects in the use of these agents are that the sedative effects are dose related, and that there is substantial synergism between narcotics and benzodiazepines.
Pethidine has a superior synergistic effect with midazolam with regard to sedation when compared with fentanyl.
Discuss the pharmacological properties of the sedative agents used for endoscopy?
Pharmacological properties of sedative agents used for endoscopy (1, 2)
Onset of action(min)
Duration of action
Elimination half life
Metabolism/excretion
Midazolam 1-2.5 2-6h 1.8-6.4h Hepatic and intestinal: excreted in urine
Pethidine 5 2-4h 2-7h Hepatic; excreted in urine
Fentanyl ≤1.5 1-2h 2-7h Hepatic; excreted in urine
Discuss the use of reversal agents for opioid and benzodiazepines?
Narcotics can be reversed by the administration of naloxone. The main contraindication to the use of naloxone is chronic use of narcotics, in which naloxone can precipitate acute narcotic withdrawal, including severe hypertension and pulmonary oedema. Midazolam and diazepam can be reversed by the administration of flumazenil. Flumazenil is contraindicated in patients with seizure disorders and those on chronic benzodiazepine therapy.
How are the doses titrated?
A key principle in the administration of sedative agents is that drugs must be titrated in incremental doses to a desired sedative effect. The dose needed to achieve adequate sedation is difficult to predict because the pharmacological response of individual patients to specific agents is variable (the range of individual responses is three- to fivefold)
The British Society of Gastroenterology (3) recommends that 5 mg of Midazolam should usually be the maximum dose given and that doses in excess of Pethidine 50mg or fentanyl 100 mcg are seldom required. In the case of patients over the age of 70 years, the BSG suggests an average dose of no more than 2 mg of midazolam. Should an opioid such as pethidine be required, as it frequently is for procedures such as ERCP or colonoscopy, then the BSG recommends that the opioid be given first (because of its delayed onset of action) and then the benzodiazepine given slowly and cautiously. In the case of pethidine, the BSG has suggested an average dose of no more than 25 mg in a patient over the age of 70 years of age.
How to sedate difficult patients?
Patients occasionally become restless or even violent following sedation. This situation can sometimes be salvaged by reversing the sedation which may allow the endoscopy to proceed but when such difficulty can be anticipated general anaesthesia is usually the best option.
Alcoholics and regular benzodiazepine users are notoriously difficult to sedate and their response may be unpredictable or even paradoxical on occasions. In these circumstances the prior administration of an opioid can be useful.
PS- It is recommended that patients who have been sedated with an IV benzodiazepine do not drive a car, operate machinery, sign legal documents or drink alcohol for 24 hours. This is irrespective of whether their sedation has been reversed with flumazenil.
Roseveare C, Seavell C, Patel P, et al. Patient-controlled sedation and analgesia, using propofol and alfentanil, during colonoscopy: a prospective randomized controlled trial. Endoscopy 1998; 30: 768–73.
Rudner R, Jalowiecki P, Kawecki P, Gonciarz M, Mularczyk A, Petelenz M. Conscious analgesia/sedation with remifentanil and propofol versus total intravenous anesthesia with fentanyl, midazolam, and propofol for outpatient colonoscopy. Gastrointest Endosc 2003; 57: 657–63.
http://www.bsg.org.uk/clinical-guidelines/endoscopy/guidelines-on-safety-and-sedation-during-endoscopic-procedures.html
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The Lab focuses on several major areas of research:
Peatlands Geophysics : based on the use of non-invasive geophysical methods to investigate peatland morphology, dynamics and biogeochemical cycles (such as carbon). Specific areas of interest include: subsurface imaging of peat sediments and implications for peatland development and evolution; carbon cycling studies in peat soils including quantification of carbon stocks and biogenic gas dynamics (such as carbon dioxide and methane) in peat soils, from tropical to boreal peatlands; electrical, electromagnetic and hydrological properties of peat soils; biogenic gas quantification and determination of the spatial and temporal distribution of ebullition fluxes in peat soils (both at the laboratory and field scales) and their implications for climate change; and effects of sea-level rise for biogenic gas dynamics in peat soils.
Karst Geophysics : based on the use of non-invasive geophysical methods to investigate karst environments. Specific areas of interest include: imaging of dissolution features and sinkhole distribution in karst environments; formation and evolution of karst landforms and formations (such as tufa mounds); electrical, electromagnetic and hydrological properties of limestone sediments; determination of physical properties (e.g. porosity and dielectric permittivity) of limestone sediments such as the Miami limestone at both the laboratory and field scales, and their implications for sea-level rise.
Critical Zone Geophysics : based on the use of non-invasive geophysical methods to investigate the critical zone. Specific areas of interest include the characterization of weathering rates and bedrock thickness in the Luquillo Critical Zone Observatory (CZO) using electromagnetic methods.
Other applications : such as the use of hydrogeophysical methods for archaeological applications and biological studies. Current projects include the characterization of the internal structure of Native American shell mounds in Florida and implications for their origin; or characterization of endangered lizard nests.
Projects range from peat studies in boreal systems in Maine and Minnesota to tropical systems in Indonesia and Ecuador including a wide range of subtropical systems such as the Everglades. Projects related to Karst Geophysics include sites in South and Central Florida, and international collaborations investigating tufa mounds and carbonate dissolution features in several sites across Spain. Several links with further information about some of the Lab's current ongoing collaborations are shown below.
The lab is equipped with state-of-the-art geophysical equipment with an emphasis in electromagnetic methods such as ground-penetrating radar and terrain conductivity and provides hands-on research opportunities for both undergraduate and graduate students. For further information on current projects, people and publications please visit the links above or click here for contact information.
Luquillo Critical Zone Observatory
Methane Cycling in Northern Peatlands (Rutgers University website)
Carbonate Aquifer Characterization Laboratory (USGS website)
Department of Energy, Terrestrial Ecosystem Science (DOE-TES website, summary of projects awarded)
NOAA, Climate Program Office (NOAA website, funded awards)
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Give Me My Remote > Mixed-ish > MIXED-ISH on ABC – First Look
MIXED-ISH on ABC – First Look
May 14, 2019 by Marisa Roffman
BLACK-ISH is getting a spinoff, MIXED-ISH, this fall on ABC.
Check out photos from the pilot, the official description, and a trailer…
MIXED-ISH - In "mixed-ish," Rainbow Johnson recounts her experience growing up in a mixed-race family in the '80s and the constant dilemmas they had to face over whether to assimilate or stay true to themselves. Bow's parents Paul and Alicia decide to move from a hippie commune to the suburbs to better provide for their family. As her parents struggle with the challenges of their new life, Bow and her siblings navigate a mainstream school in which they're perceived as neither black nor white. This family's experiences illuminate the challenges of finding one's own identity when the rest of the world can't decide where you belong. (ABC/Kelsey McNeal) MYKAL-MICHELLE HARRIS, ARICA HIMMEL, ETHAN WILLIAM CHILDRESS
The trailer:
ABC’s take: “In “mixed-ish,” Rainbow Johnson recounts her experience growing up in a mixed-race family in the ‘80s and the constant dilemmas they had to face over whether to assimilate or stay true to themselves. Bow’s parents Paul and Alicia decide to move from a hippie commune to the suburbs to better provide for their family. As her parents struggle with the challenges of their new life, Bow and her siblings navigate a mainstream school in which they’re perceived as neither black nor white. This family’s experiences illuminate the challenges of finding one’s own identity when the rest of the world can’t decide where you belong.
Peter Saji and Kenya Barris are writers and executive producers along with Tracee Ellis Ross, Randall Winston, Artists First (Brian Dobbins), Cinema Gypsy (Laurence Fishburne and Helen Sugland) and Anthony Anderson. Anton Cropper directed the pilot. The series is produced by ABC Studios. ABC Studios is a part of Disney Television Studios, a collection of studios comprised of 20th Century Fox Television, ABC Studios and Fox 21 Television Studios.
Cast: Arica Himmel as Bow Johnson, Tika Sumpter as Alicia Johnson, Gary Cole as Harrison Johnson, Christina Anthony as Denise, Mykal-Michelle Harris as Santamonica Johnson and Ethan Childress as Johan Johnson.”
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Kleiber: Beethoven 6th Symphony
Created: Wednesday, 02 May 2007 13:22
Beethoven Symphony No. 6
Bayerisches Staatsorchester
I was lucky enough to bump into this CD recording of Kleiber's Beethoven 6th. It was a live recording done on 7 Nov in the year 1983. Kleiber only performed the Beethoven 6th once in his life and this live performance was the one. Normally Kleiber’s live recordings were done with a master tape. However for this particular performance the master tape was badly damage. Lucky enough for us, there was a copy recorded on a cassette tape in much better condition, originally recorded for his son.
Recording engineer Christoph Stickel successfully produced the CD based on the cassette tape. However, what he could do best was to reproduce the true atmosphere as accurately as possible. If you are expecting a good stereo recording then you can just ignore this CD. The sound stage was very narrow, so much so that the woodwinds and brass instruments were all come to the front as if they were side by side with the strings. The only good thing was you could hear individual instrument very clearly, though not naturally in a 3 dimensional space.
In this performance Kleiber adhered closely to the original tempo markings in the score, which was very much faster than what other conductors would performed at that era. Many experts had varied opinions regarding the metro markings of the original Beethoven’s scores.
I myself have a few other recordings, which include:
Karajan and Berliner Phiharmoniker, 1963 recording.
Solti and Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
Abbado and Berliner Phiharmoniker, recent Jonathan Del Mar recording.
According to the CD booklet of Abbado’s recording, Del Mar did not seek to establish certainties on the basis of static, rigid conception of philology. Rather, he placed at the conductor’s disposal the original material, brought together according to rigorous criteria, and leaves the task of interpreting these material to individual’s personal fantasy and sensibility. What he offered in his new edition of Beethoven Symphony was a synthesis of all the available manuscripts and editions that he had compared. Individual conductor will interpret the scores accordingly after studying the details given by him. The conductors can then make informed choices between a series of documented and plausible possibilities.
To me, the Kleiber’s 6th was youthful and energetic. Karajan’s version also adopted a fast tempo but was as usual elegant typical of Karajan. Solti used the slowest tempo, like a relax morning stroll in the countryside. Abbado’s interpretation was very detailed, and the recording effect was also the best with very sweetly recorded Berlin’s Woodwinds.
This CD recorded the 4 minutes of applause after the performance. But strangely the audience did not applause immediately after the last chord. Just wondering whether the audience were too engrossed in the music presented in a very fresh tempo at that point of time or for whatever reasons, only when Carlos Kleiber brought the orchestra to their feet a few moments later did jubilant applause break loose.
20 years later, are you able to feel the same?
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"Indiana Jones and The Power of Linguistics"
Understanding the origin of words is a key to power
By Allen Quetone
TheAndrewMeyer.com Contributor
Dusty catacombs crawling with vermin and concealing mysterious treasures. Hidden passages unlocked to reveal certain death or immense fortune. Ancient myths and legends leading to all the secrets of the human race. The study of linguistics has always been dangerous. Many would have you believe it’s study will lead to death by boredom. The benefits of linguistics are definitely not emphasized enough in our profit driven world.
The average citizen is driven to study languages like political rhetoric, popular jargon, and financial nomenclature in order to stay afloat in a highly competitive workforce. Many lose their frame of mind and become virtual clones by thinking in these languages of “mass communication.” As billionaire Karl Albrecht puts it, “change your language and you change your thoughts.” In addition to the bombardment of these evolving pseudo-languages, students at an earlier age also face the pragmatic pressures of pursuing fields of study that yield better salaries. Pay for Engineering, Science, Finance, and Business is thought to trump the “softer” liberal arts, whose study often conjures the image of coffee barista at the end of its path. While it may seem an impractical, outdated, and archaic field of study, linguistics opens the locks to treasures in every field that attempts to discredit it.
The emphasis on linguistics in the Indiana Jones saga seems a fitting tribute to the power this tool can bring to its user. While Indiana Jones’ heroics and knowledge of history play key roles in his success, his understanding of language and the origin of words allow his adventures to end at the source of the treasures he seeks. The knowledge of the origins and etymology of words is indeed a treasure map to meanings and the power they possess.
English is one of the richest sources of wisdom and knowledge in the world. Prior to its rise to the most popular language in the world, English was influenced by almost every spoken and written word. The verdant and fertile island in which it originally took root was always the target of invasion and war. The Romans, Francs, Norse, and Germanic Tribes all took their shots at dominance over the isle. Along with their swords these conquerors brought their language, cultures, and previous conquests. Far from domination, these invaders instead enriched the land and people with almost all of the combined knowledge of the ancient world. For this reason, English’s primary contributors are Latin, French, and the early Germanic Languages. The story of English is actually quite universal. The roots and keys to understanding every language in existence can be found by looking to the ancient empires that sought to subjugate them. For this reason Latin, Greek, Chinese, Persian, Arabic and Sanskrit are the principle contributors to all thoughts in the world.
Exploration of these roots can yield forgotten truths even in everyday life. Words and actions we take for granted often reveal their true purpose when we mind their origins. The word chair is derived from the Old French word chaiere and the modern French chaire meaning “throne or pulpit”. This draws light on the importance of the object and words such as Chairman and even explains why those who sit when they work often make more than those who must stand. Even our terms for recent inventions and innovations have their roots in the ancient past. The word car is derived from the Latin carrum “two wheeled chariot”. Even the trending word on the American mind, job has a telling past. Originally from the French gob meaning “mouthful”, it was coined as a reference to obtaining enough work to feed oneself. Money is derived from the Latin moneta meaning “mint or coined” referring to the location of their primary mint near the temple of Moneta or Juno. Even the word bank derives it’s meaning from the Germanic word bank meaning “bench or table”, referring to the table or bench where the original modern bankers did their business in Renaissance Italy.
Even the days of the week reveal our connection to the ancient world and the gods they revered. The English words for the days of the week are derived from the Germanic gods that they were devoted to. Interestingly the Germanic gods corresponding with each day almost perfectly align themselves with the gods the Roman’s equated with each day. Sunday and Monday are devoted to the Sun and Moon respectively with those being the most important heavenly bodies to the ancient world. Tuesday is Tiu’s day, the Germanic god of war. Wednesday is Woden’s day, the leader of the hunt. Thursday is Thor’s day, the Norse god of thunder. Friday is Freya’s day the Norse god of Love. Saturday is Saturn’s day, this is actually unchanged from the Roman equivalent and is devoted to Saturn the roman god of agriculture and the ruler of earth during the golden age. A look at the Spanish (Latinized) days of the week reveals the same.
English Spanish Relevant Information
Sunday Domingo The Latin word for lord is dominus
Monday Llunes The Spanish word for moon is luna
Tuesday Martes The Spanish word for Mars is Marte
Wednesday Miercoles The Spanish word for Mercury is Mercurio
Thursday Jueves The Spanish word for Jupiter is Jupiter
Friday Viernes The Latin word for Venus is Veneris
Saturday Sabado The Latin word for Sabbath is sabbato
The scientific field of medicine also shrouds many of it’s secrets in Latin nomenclature. Almost all of the technical terms in medicine are verbatim Latin words for the parts of the body they define. Scapula means “shoulder” in Latin. Femur means “thigh” in Latin. Fibula means “fasten with a clasp” in Latin. Anatomy Class is basic Latin vocabulary. The law profession uses the same Latin inspired nomenclature for it’s terms. Habeas corpus means “To Possess a body,” jurisprudence means “prudence of law”, Per diem means “per day”.
The study of languages and their roots can yield instant understand of terms in fields foreign to you and even to in languages never you’ve never encountered. It can reveal truths behind those you thought we just discovered. It will show you what you were looking for and it will show you things you didn’t know you were looking for. Thinking past the words that you are bombarded with and understanding every word you come across lets you play by your rules, not by the words manufactured for you. Choose your words, and you can control your thoughts. Control your thoughts, and you determine your own reality. Choose wisely.
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1991 Mercedes Benz 190E 2.5-16 Evolution II
GRAN TURISMO CAR REVIEWS
Class: Compact Luxury Car
Type: 4-door sedan
Host: GT4
Construction: unit steel
Length: 178.9" // Width: 67.7" // Height: 57.7"
Overhang: 6 feet 2 inches
Track: 58.1" front & rear
Ground Clearance: 3.75"
Weight: 2,953 pounds
Steering: power-assisted reciculating ball
Turns Lock to Lock: 2.800
Turn Radius: 43 feet 10"
Layout: Front Engine / Rear Drive
Tires: 245/40ZR-17
F. Suspension: MacPherson struts, coils, shox, anti-roll bar
R. Suspension: 5-link, coils, shox, anti-roll bar
Brakes: vented discs
Engine: 2.5 liter DOHC inline 4
Aspiration: natural
Fuel Syst: mechanical fuel injection
Valves / Cyl: 4
Bore x Stroke: 3.83 x 3.20"
Compression: 9.7:1
Final BHP: 243 @ 7,200 rpm
Fnl Torque: 190 @ 5,000 rpm
Idle Speed: 1,000 // Redline: 7,700 // RPM Limit: 8,200
Differential: limited slip
0-60 mph: 7.150 seconds
0-100mph: 17.216 seconds
0-150 mph: 1:01.950
400 M: 15.441 @ 95 mph
1 Kilom: 27.544 @ 126 mph
Test Track Lap: 2:29.723
100-zero mph: 4.100 seconds
Top Gear RPM @ 60 mph: 2,750
Top Speed at Redline
1st: 36 mph
2nd: 62 mph
3rd: 90 mph
4th: 127 mph
5th: 156.31 mph @ 7,500 rpm
----------------EXTERIOR / HISTORY------------------
Let's get introduced to a Mercedes with a very long name: it's the 1991 Mercedes-Benz 190E 2.5-16v Evolution II. It's the Benz that handles like a BMW!
This is the impression one may get as they drive this "baby Benz" around for awhile, and it's a well-founded impression. As I've done plenty of racing in this car, racking well over 500 miles in the Pan/Euro series, various Special Condition events, and other miscellaneous drives, I started to get the feeling I indeed was driving a BMW at times instead of an executive-class snobmobile. I got this feeling even before I knew the history of the Evo II.
The 190E was Mercedes's first attempt (starting production in 1983) to create a smaller car that rivaled BMW's famous 3-series so far as driving characteristics go. The 190E was also inexpensive compared to Benzes previous to 1983. Mercedes was really hungry to prove their new car's engine, and ran a slightly modified 190E 2.3 16v (the top-line version before the Evo appeared) for over 200 hours, breaking many endurance records, averaging over 150 mph in the process. With the Evolution II (nicknamed Evo II), we get to experience what a top-notch production version of this class of Benz is like.
First some questions. What happened to the Evo I? Was there an Evo I? Yes there was, it just doesn't appear in our game.
Nowadays, all M. Benz cars, even the full-scale luxury ones, drive and corner with confidence--apparently this wasn't so way back when. Towards the late '70s, Mercedes wanted to boost sales (as we all do), by extending their existing line of luxurious, "look at me" products with sportier models that focused more on driveability. And so they decided to put more effort towards racing, providing BMW's 3-series with some competition as well. Benz thought rally racing might be a good place to venture, but wound up putting their efforts towards pavement.
As a racing series, DTM (Deutche Tourenwagen Masters) is a big deal in Germany, and the racing rivalry between Mercedes and BMW is not unlike that of modern STi versus Evo in Japan. To qualify for DTM's rules, however, Mercedes needed to make 500 production versions of their track-star, hence the 1989 Evo I was their final result. Over 50 DTM races have been won by 190E Evos, although when you look at the competition (Opels, BMWs and other cars from Germany) this doesn't seem so impressive, since other makes have won plenty as well. In GT4, we can win a full-racing DTM Evo II Benz from the Schwarzwäld Liga B, which means we get the best of both worlds. This car has a full-sponsorship body (how I miss GT2...) and weighs a Miata-ish 2,160 pounds.
There were some differences between the Evo I and a regular 190E. Wider wheel arches and aerodynamic aids are featured on the Evo I, as well as engine upgrades (to be discussed in the next section). In addition, the Evo I also featured a fancy SLS (self-leveling suspension), which means these cars maintain a near-constant ride height when driven in real-life. In the Evo II, the driver could also lower or raise the car at the flick of a switch. This feature is missing in GT4, of course. We haven't even got a sport suspension installed when we buy the 190E Evo II from the dealer! Other than these and a few other details, there wasn't much difference between an Evo I and a 190E in real-life, especially so far as power goes. Well this would change with the Evo II.
The main difference we have with an Evo II is more power to play with: 243 bhp versus the Evo I's 202. Again, I'll outline this further in the ENGINE / DRIVETRAIN section below. Perhaps the reason the Evo I is not in GT4 is because of its lower power. What else is different between I and II? The Evo II also featured a larger front spoiler, and a larger wing on its trunk (both adjustable in real-life AND in our game...yaah!), as well as 17 inch wheels not found on regular 190Es. There are also small badges on the Evo II's fenders denoting its superiority. The Evo II simply looks like a 190E on steroids.
At just under 3,000 pounds, the Evo II seems perfectly weighted. Not too heavy (which would influence maneuverabilty in a bad way) and not too light (which would influence stability). Purchasing Stage 1 will remove an incredible 267 pounds! And at the lightest, this car weighs in at around 2,400.
One thing that sucks is we can only buy an Evo II in one color...black. In real-life there was a second body color available. There were 502 real-life Evo IIs, and 500 of them were black on dark blue, with the remaining 2 painted "astral silver". We can't get a silver 190E Evo II in GT4, which means I get to complain about it. ;)
------------ENGINE / DRIVETRAIN-------------
Looks like I promised to discuss the engine upgrades Evos feature over regular 190 Benzes, and for once, I haven't gotten too far ahead of myself and am talking about these upgrades in the proper section.
Many readers might not know much about Cosworth, then again some of you might. Cosworth was (and still is) a major engine tuner. Back in the day, they gained notoriety for Ford and other makes, especially throughout the '70s and '80s via Formula 1 and IMSA. So Mercedes's first decision was to have their racing and Evo/production engines tuned by Cosworth.
Why Cosworth and not AMG? Although AMG--Mercedes's high-end tuning/parts division--had been in business since 1967, the official marriage between AMG and Mercedes didn't cement for racing till decades later. Since Cosworth was proven at the time, this had lots to do with why the 2.5 liter has been Cosworth-tuned in our game-car.
What's interesting is the Evo I engine didn't feature much extra power when compared to a regular 16 valver. Instead, Cosworth configured the Evo engine to have a shorter piston stroke but a fatter bore, more agro cam-timing, and better lubrication. What this did was raise the 2.5 liter engine's redline, and it also pushed peak power to a higher range of revs; hence, this is why the car in our game never seems to run out of RPMs in most any corner.
During the Evo I era, Mercedes/Cosworth decided to offer a "PowerPack" option for those who wanted more power (duh), costing a whopping $11,000 in 1989 money. This is a lot, considering the Evo I cost 82,200 DM ($50,000!) by itself without PowerPack installed. The PowerPack 2.5L included a larger diameter throttle body, camshafts with an even more radical approach, more aggressive ignition timing and fuel management, and lighter valves. Evo II buyers apparently didn't need to buy PowerPack as an option; in this car, all these extras were installed as stock.
As a 4-cylinder, this motor has its strengths and weaknesses. Its largest obvious weakness is a perpetual lack of torque, as this is a small engine with no turbo assistance. Acceleration from a standing-start will leave many drivers wishing they could have one of Benz's bigger, either the 3.2 straight-6 or 5.0-liter V8 engines (both of which were available in 1991). During races there are occasionally times when this lack of "go" is felt. But since the Evo II was based on a DTM racer with a straight-4, the production version also had this same engine. You have to also keep your revs high at all times...anywhere below 5,000 rpms is a bad place to be, unless you're in first gear.
On the plus side, there are lots and lots of revs to spool off. Not only that, but the lack of torque matched with this car's competent rear 245/40 ZR-rated Dunlop SP Sports means there is also lots of traction. The real-life Evo II had a limited-slip differential in place, stock from the factory. It's hard to say whether Polyphony Digital knew this or not, but certainly this car drives as though it could have a softly-set LSD even before we buy one. At courses with alot of tight cornering, you'll find you can often accelerate hard out of those turns, rarely will there be too much torque-action turning into wheelspin. Which means even tho this isn't a monster motor, often you can get all its capability to pavement. Eventually a 1-way differential is needed, of course, perhaps by the time the car is equipped with Stage 2 power. Occasional wheelspin and fishtailing starts to show up otherwise.
So far as upgrades go, there are only three levels of natural tuning. Stage 1 = 298 bhp, Stage 2 = 368 bhp, and Stage 3 = 409 top horsepower with 302 foot-pounds at best (garage stats, not track stats). And we have no turbos, unfortunately. This is probably based on some sort of real-life parts availability from the times, though it's hard to say. Certainly, this is an engine that (in the long run) could use a bit of turbo action, even though for you'll win plenty with the power at hand.
The transmission is a 5-speed that does its job and nothing more. You can depend on it thru many racing situations. Despite the torqueless feeling of the engine, I never found myself needing to buy a close transmission, even at twisty tracks like Paris (Opera or George V), Autumn Ring, or Cote d'Azur. I did get a full-custom one, but can't remember why. Anyways, the 190E 2.5-16 Evo II will make it to about 175 mph with stock gearing, meaning a full-custom racing gearbox isn't 100% necessary.
Still, there is one other drawback unrelated to power or gearing. My biggest criticism is this engine's sound. Jesus. I mean, it sounds just like a Civic with a racing exhaust! This just isn't acceptable on PD's part...certainly they could have found a slightly modified 190 Benz somewhere, wouldn't you agree? Wouldn't necessarily have to be a an Evo II. But they didn't. The Evo II also has a racing exhaust as standard. Though this is (again) probably based on real-life, it sucks because no matter what, we are stuck with this lame, dirty engine note that is shared with lowly Civics! How dare they!
This will turn many gamers away from the Evo II, but if you can get past the sound, there are lots of good things to be found as we actually race and drive this car around.
---------------CHASSIS / HANDLING--------------
Let's start with the word "yes". It's a good word, and the 190 Benz happens to love saying it. Unless you're not translating, in which case, it happens to say "ja" instead. ;)
As mentioned before, Mercedes started using SLS (patented by Citroën in the late '50s) to augment the handling of the 190E Evo I. Though this effect can't be felt in our game, here we have a proven trackmeiI3ter anyways.
Right away, you may notice this car has a low ground clearance. It sits 105 mm while stock, which is great because it means this car has a race-ready center of gravity even before we modify it. And once we modify it, we can lower it even more. The springs are also stiff rather than wallowy (as in many production cars), limited-edition or not. While stock, they are set at 6.0 kg/mm up front and 5.5 kg/mm in the rear. That's pretty good!
But there are some "nos" to discuss (or "neins", with no German-to-English translating). Since the suspension is low its springs wound tight, bumpier tracks provide a problem. Only via racing suspension can we raise the Evo II, to a maximum height of 115 mm. Also, there is some mid-corner understeer that shows up. Though it's not very possessive, and you can avoid it by braking well and/or kicking in the throttle at the right time to garner slight oversteer, there are also times when the understeer gets the final say. But this is GT4, what else is new, right?
The most awesome thing about the Evo II is its tossability. Its grip. Its high-speed ability to point towards any curve, dip, corner, of any type and enter it successfully. Then once you're in that corner, you can just slide this car to and fro, this way and that, like a rag doll! And it complies and says "yes yes yes, sir!" This is BMW 3-series stuff for sure, the higher the push, the happier this car becomes. We are fortunate to have this rare Benz in our game.
PROS-----------------------------
1). A bit of a novelty...driving a limited-edition Benz that isn't the latest product from AMG. Got that classic Benz grille with that classic Benz sedan shape, but the wing & spoiler adds a little something extra.
2). About 1,000 pounds or more lighter than many modern AMGs & Benzes found in GT4, and lighter than many other full-passenger cars with 4 seats. Full weight redux take us down to 2,510 pounds.
3). Modifyable downforce, even when stock.
4). Good, no-nonsense 5-speed transmission.
5). Three NA-tunes provide reasonable power upgrades.
6). Manueverability and stability one would expect from a German auto. Great rear-end traction. A stable car at high speeds. Some understeer, but not hoards of it. Parts such as limited-slips, better suspension, etc. can wait.
7). Low ground clearance + stern suspension coils means this is a track-ready machine early on.
8). High redline, predictable power output. This car may have "just" a 4-cylinder, but this is a 4 that's certainly doing its best.
9). The DTM race car has full-custom brakes, transmission, suspension, and limited-slip installed as stock. Weighs just 2,160 pounds, and features adjustable downforce and a 10,000 rpm redline. It does not share the awful exhaust tone of the regular Evo II.
CONS------------------------------
1). NO TURBOS can be bought after-market.
2). Rather pricey.
3). Just one color to choose from, even tho in real-life there were two.
4). Torqueless engine/lacking acceleration
5). And the SOUND it makes....ugh.
6). Suspension sits low, which makes driving on bumpier tracks and areas a chore at times.
7). "Just" 409 horses at best.
8). Stock aerodynamics cannot be replaced with an aftermarket wing (which provides better downforce).
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Bachelor Ben Recap: Have I told you lately that I love you?
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Bachelor Ben Recap: Episode 9 —
I can’t believe that we have already arrived at forego card fantasy suite week. It seems like yesterday we were blessing Twin’s heart and wondering how Olivia was ever going to find a job in the news business after her wedding cake debacle. Now Ben’s the conductor of a love train, making stops all over the Sandal’s Jamaica resort. He’s in love with Lauren! He’s in love with JoJo! And Caila’s a really bubbly. No shot of her on the balcony reflecting over a cup of coffee in her robe is ever going to change the fact that “this” will NOT be an everlasting love.
Ben reflects too. He scales a miniature pyramid by the pool in his rubber flip flops. The camera man believes in safety first and decides to shoot Ben from an unflattering upward crotch shot angle instead of risking life and limb to join him on the slippery surface. Ben has some big decisions to make. How does one gently break-up with the girl with amazing Filipino hair? And how many times of saying “I love you” in one episode is too many? Deep thoughts. Maybe he should go talk to Michael Scott about how to juggle two women.
CAILA’S DATE
Caila thinks joining a handsome young suitor on a jungle trek date wearing only a string bikini top is tacky. She prefers a fancy sports bra and denim panties. Especially when your date involves taking a raft down a Jamaican river. My friend Murphy over at Star 104 in Erie, PA thought the stoic tour guide was the ghost of Bob Marley. My brain went in a different direction. I kept thinking about all of the incredible world-famous Disney Jungle Cruise references they passed as they sat awkwardly in uncomfortable silence. No hungry, hungry hippo jokes? No plasticus mechanicus butterfly facts? No backside of water? Inconceivable.
Caila’s date is sponsored by the good folks over at Walt Disney Studios who would like to remind you that the live-action Jungle Book movie will be released on April 15.
Caila is frustrated with herself. She’s clearly backsliding into a protective stance of uncertainty. Even jerk chicken served on a huge banana leaf doesn’t help her open up about how she’s overthinking the moment instead of enjoying her time with Ben. She decides the best thing to do is to change into a sexier version of her sports bra and drop the L-Bomb at dinner.
Ben comments that he loves her joyful, excited, always-a-smile-on-your-face-even-though-it-seems-a-bit-humanly-impossible self! But he can tell that something is wrong. Caila relaxes into the back of the rattan chase lounge. She thinks it’s “funny” that Ben noticed something was wrong.
We all noticed something was wrong, Caila. Your smile went away for more than three seconds. We thought you were having a mini-stroke.
Is “funny” the correct adjective? For someone who travels with a feeling stick, this emotion seemed an odd choice to me. Moving on.
Caila takes a deep breath and finally admits that she’s weirded out that there are two other women on this exact island. However, she’s totally fine with her less-than-ideal circumstances because she’s a professional. She launches into a long soliloquy which details her desires to love well, serve others, spread positive vibes and something about world peace. She’s not falling in love. SHE IS IN LOVE. With Ben. She smiles, knowing she’s got Miss Congeniality in the bag. The moment is topped off with a clear presence of tongue make out sesh.
Ben hands over the forego card and Caila accepts. They wade out into the water to passionately kiss under a gorgeous spray of fireworks. Then Ben leads her into the fantasy suite where they make out on the bed as the ABC Intern lights some Roman candles outside of their fantasy window. Caila wakes up the next morning with perfect hair and a new lease on life. Even though Ben didn’t say “I love you” back, she could see it in his eyes. Olivia taught her that trick.
LAUREN’S DATE
Lauren walks like a bowlegged cowboy in her denim panties for some reason. I blame chub rub or some sort of crotch rot. I don’t feel sorry for her because a nice maxi dress would have provided fewer constraints and refreshing air to the problem region. The decision to wear a belly sweater as a cover-up was equally puzzling. Ben picks her up on a boat and takes her over to a different island where they release baby sea turtles into the wild. RIGHTEOUS! As you may have guessed, this experience is leaps and bounds more delightful than wrestling pigs in the Bahamas.
Lauren’s date is sponsored by the good folks over at Walt Disney Studios who would like to remind you that Finding Dory hits theaters June 17. Totally awesome.
After Ben and Lauren pray for their bucket of baby turtles, Ben gets verklempt telling Lauren that he thinks she’s too good for him. Good news! She feels the same way about him! They celebrate this revelation in the ocean water with their new baby turtle friends. They are too busy making out to notice the double rainbow. For those of us who are super fans, we know that Cape Cod Chris was having a fit for the both of them.
Later that night, I found myself chanting under my breath, “Please don’t dance” as Ben and Lauren wandered up to a street party where the lead singer of a reggae band had been slipped a handful of Jamaican dollars to sing a song featuring “I’m in love with you” lyrics. This inspires Lauren to tell Ben that he is the man of her dreams. She finally says those three words Ben’s been dying to hear in the fantasy suite — pork chops/applesauce.
J/K kidding. J/K kidding.
Lauren says, “I’m completely in love with you.” Ben says, “I’ve known I’m in love with you for a while.
THAT IS A BIG, BIG STATEMENT. FROM THE LOOK ON LAUREN’S FACE, THIS ENTIRE SECTION DESERVES TO BE WRITTEN IN ALL CAPS BECAUSE MY GIRL WAS SHOCKED! SO WAS I. LAUREN IS GOING TO BE THE LAST GIRL STANDING FOR SURE.
This was also the exact moment that the word “love” slipped into the vocabulary of our visiting islanders like it was a common contributor to the Bachelor franchise vernacular. It was tossed around like “journey” or “amazing” or “Ben and I’s” or “he smelled of…” It was jarring for sure.
Lauren: I’d go hungry. I’d go black and blue. I’d go crawling down the avenue. There ain’t nothing that I wouldn’t do. To make you feel my love.
Ben: I’m guilty. Of love in the first degree.
Lauren: Oh Ben. It sounds like love’s got a hold of you!
Ben: I can’t get enough of your love, Babe.
Lincee: He wants to go to the love shack. Even if it has a rusted tin roof.
The next morning, we see Lauren’s dress crumpled on the floor. Lauren is on cloud nine. She likes waking up next to Ben. He also brings her breakfast in bed, which I’m sure will happen every morning of her life. She calls him her “person” because she is too young to know that she should be calling him her lobster. She’s ready for him to be her fiancé and can’t wait for the rose ceremony so they can start their lives together. First order of business? Buy a turtle.
JOJO’S DATE
Ben admits that this date with JoJo is going to be tough since he just left Lauren in the bed with a plate of pineapples and a hot mug of java. All of this confusion leaves his head once he spies JoJo running after him, boobs bouncing, and launching into an aggressive jump and straddle (trademark pending). Her denim panties are the denim pantiest in all the land. They hop on a helicopter and fly over Jurassic World before landing at a waterfall. JoJo’s bathing suit is from the Victoria Secret yarn collection. Her bottoms were non-existent. I’m quite certain the entire thing disintegrated when she jumped into the water with Ben.
Later they hop onto a rock to discuss how saying “I love you” is a very scary thing. At first I was distracted that JoJo was going to get a yeast infection since she’s basically sitting on a moist boulder with nothing but a piece of yard up her crack, but then she told Ben she loved him and I started paying attention to dialog. Once again, Ben said it right back. JoJo whispers, “Are you allowed to say that?”
More than you know, Joj. More than you know.
JoJo: How deep is your love? How deep is your love? I really need to know!
Ben: It’s your love. It just does something to me. It sends a shock right through me. I can’t get enough.
Lincee: And IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIeeeeeeeeeeIIIIIIIIIIIIII…will always…love….youuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.
And Lauren.
Ben tells the camera that he’s nervous that he’s in love with both Lauren and JoJo. He wishes he had a guide to tell him what to do. Suddenly, Harrison swings in on a vine like Tarzan. He rocks a loincloth and dreadlocks, smelling of earth, sweat and manliness. He warns Ben to tread lightly because love is a battlefield. And also, Caila is still wandering around the Sandal’s Resort with a book on her head to help with her posture.
Ben addresses two big elephants in the room during dinner — JoJo’s brothers. Ironically he did not address JoJo’s decision to wear a ‘90s-themed maxi dress inspired by the Netflix release of Fuller House. Instead, he wants her to know that even though he loves her, her brothers think he’s sketchy. She plays it off as a protective vibe and then asks Ben for the forgo card because now that they openly love each other on camera, she’s ready to forego things. Ben tells her that he loves her, gives her the card and she squeals with delight, loving him right back to the Romeo and Juliet suite. She wears the exact same version of the bikini Lauren and Caila wore on the water portions of their date, except JoJo’s is hot pink and there are a ton more “I love you’s.”
The next day, Ben admits he is more confused than ever. He’s enthralled by Lauren and passionate about JoJo. When the ABC Intern reminds him that Caila is still in the picture, he brushes him away so he can go think about which of his final two he will choose. Mike Fleiss immediately sends for Caila to make a “surprise” visit.
Caila throws on another fancy sports bra/skirt combo and bounces over to Ben’s section of the resort. She sneaks up behind him, placing her tiny hands on his eyes before whispering, “Guess who?” Ben takes a minute to register what is happening. Then he takes another minute. And another. Slowly, Caila begins to realize that this impromptu “I’m super fun and spontaneous” decision is not going to be well-received. Especially when he sits her down on concrete steps. Hard steps equals a hard conversation.
Ben peppers her with compliments before telling her that he has stronger feelings for the other two. She takes it well. He walks her to the newly transformed rejection SUV. They hug and she hops in while he looks stunned. Then she hops right back out.
YES! SAY GOOD-BYE TO MISS CONGENIALITY!
Unfortunately, Caila was just as gracious as ever when she asked for clarification. Did he know going into their date that he wasn’t going to keep her around? Ben said that he did not. She was the first date and all the women told him exactly what she told him. They are all in love. Sadly, his feelings for Joj and Lauren are more advanced than his feelings for Caila. And I believe that was a genuine statement. She hugs him again. He doesn’t let her go. I covet her hair and finally, the embrace is broken and she lets every emotion out that she’s been holding in for weeks inside the SUV. No feeling stick was needed. She is devastated, but I have every confidence that she will find another tree that will be willing to grow her moss.
ROSE CEREMONY
Our Host Chris Harrison welcomes JoJo and her boobs to the rose ceremony staging area. He asks about her time spent in Jamaica. She shares that she told Ben she loved him and he said it back! Harrison nods like a good host, ready to get this shindig over with so he can belly back up to the bar. His disheveled linen shirt and pants may prove that he never went to bed last night.
Lauren arrives in a slinky red dress. She tells Harrison that she told Ben that she loved him and she was surprised he said it back. Harrison’s facial expression confirmed he too was surprised Ben said it back. He escorts her down the stares, heads back up and takes a “good luck with that, kid” tequila shot with Ben.
Ben tells the girls that Caila went home. He’s more confident than he’s ever been. Both girls smile, knowing that he is speaking directly to them because they both received a coveted “I love you” at least a dozen times. He hands them both roses and then they group hug.
As the champagne is passed out, JoJo toasts “a great week.” She’s ready to meet Ben’s parents. And by the look she gives Lauren, she’s ready to take the blonde flight attendant DOWN.
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Not sure of the circumstances surrounding all the “I love yous,” like if they were producer inspired for drama, but I lost a lot of respect for Ben. Who knows how far things went in the fantasy suites but receiving an “I love you” would definitely coax a more confident and open attitude. I just think that whoever gets rejected will be devastated and I’m sad they were led on.
Completely agree…I feel sorry for the ladies left.
I feel exactly the same. And for Caila I know she’s feeling like a one night stand, and I don’t get the impression that’s common for her.
I agree. Feel sorry for Lauren and JoJo. I don’t think he is good enough for either of them.
One of my mentors in college told a group of guys, “never say I love you unless you are ready to follow it up with, ‘will you marry me?'” Now I know this is an ideal, but after seeing this it is a great picture of this sentiment. I feel horrible for whoever gets let go.
Deelyla
I have to agree! I also lost some respect for Ben. Up until now – he’s been the best bachelor ever (in my book). That being said, I’m pretty sure he would have had 3 one night stands in the fantasy suites regardless of whether or not he returned the I love you’s.
Spot on ladies. Quite disappointing. My husband and i argued back and forth as to whether he slept with them. I being “naive” according to him, am wrong. He says, for sure the guy slept with all of them. My hope is that the WOMEN know better than that…
Lincee
I think it’s going to hurt Ben too. Hence all of the OBVIOUS tears in the coming attractions. If I had to guess, I’d say it was producer driven. But I also think he believes he’s in love with both women.
Victoria secret yarn collection. Spot on.
Thank you. All praise should go to my friend Meredith for that one. I originally thought “hammock strings.”
Great recap, as always, Lincee.
Best line nomination: “Lauren walks like a bowlegged cowboy in her denim panties for some reason.”
Followed by: “He also brings her breakfast in bed, which I’m sure will happen every morning of her life. ” And: “She calls him her “person” because she is too young to know that she should be calling him her lobster.” And: “JoJo’s bathing suit is from the Victoria Secret yarn collection.” Etc., etc…
So many great lines. Laughing out loud while rereading. Thank you!!!!
I feel like the bowlegged cowboy was because her denim panties were causing chafing OR she just got a Brazilian wax.
That one made me laugh out loud too. Crotch rot, who says that AND yeast infection in one sitting?!
Thank you Pia! I love hearing the favs.
I always love your Friends references, but the line that literally made me laugh out loud was the denim pantiest in all the land. I think this was your best recap ever!
Lobster! He is her lobster. Bet episode ever.
Denim panties are this season’s statement necklace. For sure.
“And IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIeeeeeeeeeeIIIIIIIIIIIIII…will always…love….youuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.
And Lauren.” Laughed out loud at this line (and several others). Sometimes I wonder what my coworkers think when they hear the unabashed cackling coming out of my office on Tuesday mornings 🙂
I, too, covet Caila’s hair, Lincee! It’s gorgeous, and was so perfectly curled when she snuck over for her fate-sealing surprise visit. I see a Pantene ad or two in her future, for sure.
Oh, and I was thrown by Lauren’s bowlegged awkwardness in her denim panties, too! She’s gorgeous, but that shot of her walking at the beginning of her segment was NOT her best look.
Good. It was not just me. I was like, what?
A. Hem
I think that’s called the stewardess shuffle. Too many turbulent flights.
I thought the same thing!! She needs to be a hair model- gorgeous !
Shadywolf
Agreed, she had the prettiest hair in all the land!!
Cindy S.
I love Caila’s hair as well. It seems she loves it just as much because she was messing with it and adjusting it non-stop! I guess I would to!
Part of me suspects we all like Caila’s hair because it’s real and not ratty bleached extensions like all the “blondes”.
Me too! That hair is amazing. She is oo sweet for words. My heart broke for her. I was like, call your mommy girl! Go home and get a tiny hug!
Unabashed cackling? MISSION ACCOMPLISHED! Thanks Julie!
The intern needs to step up his game and after his stop at Pier One find a Target and start bringing hair rubber bands, hair bows, hair ties, hair clips, bobby pins, barrettes, scrunchies, banana clips, SOMETHING to stop the girls from playing with their hair all the time. It is so distracting!!
As always, love the recap!
yes! Jojo and Caila constantly are moving their hair. Banana clips….lol
JustMe!
I agree Jen! It has bothered me for eons that normal girls wear sunglasses to protect their eyes when it is sunny or ponytails or headbands or something to keep their hair from flying when it is windy. But Bachelor girls from any season? No sunglasses, no headbands, no clips. They HAVE to touch their hair just to keep it our of their mouths. Must be a Contract Thing. Or they are all crazy.
Plus, they never carry purses. Where is the Chapstick? The Kleenex? The mints? The hand lotion? Where do they put their Life Necessities?
Good question! Never thought about where their purses are!
AND DO THEY EVER EATTTTTTT??? They always leave with a full plate of food left! No wonder this betches are so skinny!
A in Spain
I read in an article about Bachelor Secrets that they eat somewhere else before, but don’t eat the meals they are served on camera because the producers don’t want the eating/chewing sounds in the audio.
It drives me bananas. And the ladies who watch the show with me because EVERY time someone touches their hair, I say, “Stop touching your hair.” Which pretty much means I’m saying that phrase the entire episode. So annoying.
LOVE your line about the bowlegged cowboy walk. It was nice to see one of these tiny girls experiencing something us “normal” girls experiences! Great recap as always 🙂
Thanks Meredith!
And also, Caila is still wandering around the Sandal’s Resort with a book on her head to help with her posture.
Hysterical.
Spot on description of Caila.
Posture is important.
Sincethebeginning
“Lauren walks like a bowlegged cowboy in her denim panties for some reason. I blame chub rub or some sort of crotch rot. I don’t feel sorry for her because a nice maxi dress would have provided fewer constraints and refreshing air to the problem region. The decision to wear a belly sweater as a cover-up was equally puzzling.”
Had me rolling on the ground! This was pure gold! I also loved your lobster reference and always visualize Phoebe half-hugging herself as she says, “he’s her lobster.” Love.
I truly think that it’s possible to have all of those feelings for two girls…especially in this setting. I totally understand how he can be confused and totally understand how there might be “love” for both of them. Somehow I empathize and can’t wait to find out how he manages…because I wouldn’t know what to do.
Thank you Lincee for the great post!
Also, please trademark “denim panties.” It’s the perfect description for this awful fad.
I think he does have feelings for both. His tears come from fear of making the wrong decision and MAJORLY hurting someone’s heart.
votemom
“JoJo’s bathing suit is from the Victoria Secret yarn collection.” yep.
i think ben is in love with lauren. i think ben is in lust with jojo’s boobs. they are pretty spectacular – or at least she showcases them beautifully. this has been an entertaining season!
Agree with you 100%. Even I have a woman-crush on JoJo’s boobs. Wow. I found myself liking JoJo a lot more last night for some reason. But the brothers would be a deal breaker.
Littlelady66
It was the freckles and no make up! She looked so good! I am still team Lauren though because jojo’s family scares me…
Tanya T.
I agree, it was the “not made up” look that made her look so pretty.
so in short, her brothers are horrible but her “sisters” are spectacular! agreed.
Ha! Good one.
Sorry Lincee, but this may have been the line of the week!
I agree. To every part of that comment.
yes caila has gorgeous hair. but i wish she would touch it about 77% less.
Lauren and “her person”, straight outta Greys Anatomy, so I can forgive the lack of lobster. But the denim panties? WHYYYYYYYY?!!!!!
I blame Daisy Duke.
I’m surprised you didn’t mention that caila could feel the love “in his breath”…. Olivia moment!
Oh right! SO WEIRD!
I think Ben is in love with Lauren, and Jojo’s boobs. Jojo is so pretty – why skank it up with putting the boobs on such dispay? She’s also got a weird #%* family. Lauren seems sweet and simple, like Ben. Speaking of simple Ben, what happened to the stud walking the runway? Last night he was a dork in bad shoes and half-sprouted chest hair.
I agree meg. BRING BACK THE RUNWAY STUD.
Andy M
Oh dear. Ben’s an accidental playa.
Ha ha, good one!
Hahaha!!! Love it.
I blame Kevin Hart.
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When the cat and mouse of things had become quite hard for him to bear, Dylan decided that he needed to take an action. An action that seemed too bold but completely necessary. Dylan extended an evening invitation to May who agreed. And things proceeded smoothly until he began to think of what he really wanted to do and say. With those thoughts their intimacy had quickly become a moment that flushed his face leaving him to catch his tongue once again.
Dylan knew May to be armed with an interesting knack for sensing a person’s tension. It wasn’t a shock that she continued to remain close to him. Dylan understood that it was her only desire to encourage him further. It couldn’t be denied that she truly enjoyed Dylan thoroughly.
Her remaining closeness kept his heart racing. And the racing of his heart sent his pulse into a frenzy. At last he decided to react instead of ducking behind anything to avoid the obvious. With a swift and direct hand he raises and smacks her across her backside before telling May exactly what he wants. The firm hand of discipline that only she could give him. With a slight twist in her smile and lean of her head, May leans into his right ear with a whisper that tells Dylan she’d have no problem giving him what he wanted.
“More? I’ve been very bad, May. I think I need more. Give me more. MORE!” Lashing after lashing continues by the course of her extended hand.
May tells him “let me” before tying Dylan’s hands far above his head. Both his legs spread and waiting for the sting upon his bare skin. Dylan feels overjoyed as their moment is brought to realization by the swift sharp slap of her hand.
Dylan Montgomery was getting exactly what he wanted for the first time in his life and all he had to do was ask for it.
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News Essentials: 30th January 2017
A brief summary of the essential family law news and cases from the last week:
Divorce (Financial Provision) Bill receives its second reading
Baroness Deech’s private member’s bill seeks to replace section 25(2) of the MCA 1973. Full story: Family Law Week.
DfE evaluation of the family drug and alcohol court (FDAC) national unit published
National Unit perceived to have had critical role in the set-up of new FDACs. Full story: Family Law Week.
Divorce order set aside after ‘procedurally unfair’ mistakes
The Court of Appeal has overturned remedy orders in a divorce case after finding a string of procedural errors with how the matter was handled. Full story: Law Society Gazette. See Iqbal v Iqbal, below.
Former banker ordered to hand over foreign pension income to ex-wife in landmark divorce ruling
A former banker who blew his fortune on spread-betting was yesterday ordered to hand over income from a foreign pension to his ex-wife, in what lawyers said was a landmark ruling stopping divorcing spouses concealing assets offshore. Full story: The Telegraph. See Goyal v Goyal, below.
Mr Justice Bodey departs from equality on basis of unmatched contributions
Judgment gives wife 37.5% of £36.95 million. Full story: Family Law Week.
Judge criticises local authority practice in 148 week care proceedings
A total of six social workers were involved in the case leading to failures in working with the family. Full story: Community Care.
London Borough of Hackney v Williams & Anor [2017] EWCA Civ 26 (26 January 2017)
Appeal by local authority against finding of breach of Art 8 rights of parents in care proceedings. Appeal allowed. Full report: Bailii.
X v X (anonymisation) [2016] EWHC 3512 (Fam) (16 December 2016)
Judgment concerns an issue about the anonymisation, or not, of a financial remedy judgment. Full report: Bailii.
Iqbal v Iqbal [2017] EWCA Civ 19 (25 January 2017)
Appeals by husband against various orders made in financial remedy proceedings, including interim periodical payments, judgment summonses and final order. Full report: Bailii.
Briers v Briers [2017] EWCA Civ 15 (25 January 2017)
Appeal by husband against financial remedies order. Appeal dismissed. Full report: Bailii.
DB v PB [2016] EWHC 3431 (Fam) (22 December 2016)
Final hearing of applications for ancillary relief, for provision pursuant to Schedule 1 of the Children Act 1989, and for an order for sale of the former matrimonial home pursuant to section 17 of the Married Women's Property Act 1882. Full report: Bailii.
Bezeliansky v Bezelianskaya [2016] EWCA Civ 76 (24 January 2017)
Applications by husband for permission to appeal against variation of capital provision in consent order and to appeal against three committal orders. Full report: Bailii.
N (Hague Convention: Habitual Residence), Re [2017] EWHC 63 (Fam) (24 January 2017)
Application by mother, seeking return of 3 year old daughter to Canada. Application dismissed. Full report: Bailii.
Goyal v Goyal (No. 3) [2017] EWFC 1 (16 January 2017)
Further judgment in long-running ancillary relief proceedings, dealing with outstanding issues, including the variation of a periodical payments order. Full report: Bailii.
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Labels: News Essentials
Model posting...
OK, my posts this week on Marilyn Stowe’s Family Law & Divorce Blog may not have reached the heights of a Cobb J judgment, but hopefully you will find them reasonably clear. They included:
How realistic is some of the proposed guidance on domestic abuse and children matters? - Looking at the proposed changes to Practice Direction 12J.
In praise of mediation - In this, Family Mediation Week.
Anorexia case demonstrates again that family judges and lawyers do care- The Court of Protection case Cheshire & Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust v Z.
Mr Justice Cobb refuses return of child to Canada, in model judgment - The case Re N (Hague Convention: Habitual Residence).
Labels: Children, Court of Protection, Domestic Violence, Family Justice System, Marilyn Stowe Blog, Mediation
Family Mediation Week highlights £48 billion cost of family breakdown to the taxpayer as charity calls for mediation
2% of marriages now expected to end in divorce, which is costing the taxpayer billions
The charity Family Mediators Association is calling on parents to put children first and try to avoid lengthy legal battles, as research reveals that despite a change in law just 14% were aware of family mediation alternatives when splitting up
Family Mediation Week is running from Monday 23rd-Friday 27th January and aims to raise awareness of the benefits of and law behind family mediation
LONDON - The “Cost of Family Failure Index” 2016 has revealed that the cost of family breakdowns to the taxpayer had risen by £1 billion to £48 billion, and is still going up. Meanwhile, despite mediation being a legal requirement for separating couples before they can apply for an expensive court order, just 14% of parents were aware of family mediation when they were separating.
At the start of Family Mediation Week (23-27 January 2017), the Family Mediation Association is calling for greater public understanding of the divorce process to better protect children and other at-risk parties, as well as reduce the burden on the taxpayer.
There is a legal requirement to speak to a mediator before applying to the family courts, which was introduced in 2014, because the government and the courts believe that mediation and other forms of dispute resolution can help many more families resolve their differences in a constructive and more cost effective way than bitter court battles.
However, every year thousands of families are still torn apart by expensive and emotionally charged courtroom showdowns, with parents often agreeing on major financial decisions, but arguing over relatively trivial matters. This spirals the costs and increases the damage to any children affected.
Family Mediation Association spokesperson, Beverley Sayers added: “Family Mediation Week helps raise awareness amongst separating couples that lawyers and courts aren’t their only divorce option. If both parties can stay patient and open minded, there are much better and cheaper alternatives to going to court, including mediation, and collaborative family law and arbitration. These are usually quicker, cheaper and less confrontational than the traditional court process, making a big difference to any kids involved in what is a hurtful time for everyone in the family.”
Minister of State at the Ministry of Justice, Sir Oliver Heald said: "I am a strong supporter of mediation and the way in which it can help couples reach agreements and reduce the stress of separation.
“In many circumstances Family Mediation has great benefits for those seeking to resolve disputes away from court. I am very keen to see improved information and signposting, so that more people are aware of how mediation can help dispute resolution.”
Day 2 – Mediation: A Safer Space
FMC Code of Conduct 2.3: family mediators have a special duty to try to help couples end their marriage or relationship in a way that minimises their distress, and the distress of any children involved, and in a way that promotes as good a relationship between parents and children as possible.
Day 3 – Mediation: Please Listen
FMC Code of Conduct 5.7.1: family mediators have a special duty to encourage parents to consider the children’s wishes and feelings and that all children and young people aged 10 and above should be offered the opportunity to have their voices heard directly during the mediation.
Day 4 – Mediation: Put Your Children First
FMC Code of Conduct 5.7.2: mediators have a special duty to pay particular attention to the welfare of any children involved and to encourage all parents to focus on the needs and interests of the children.
Day 5 – Mediation: The Positive Choice
FMC Code of Conduct 2.1 and 6.19: mediators have a special duty to help families work together to reach decisions the family considers appropriate to their own particular circumstances, decisions that are fully informed and freely made, and to help families understand the consequences of those decisions for themselves, their children and other relevant family members.
To find out more about Family Mediation Week, visit www.thefma.co.uk.
Labels: Mediation, Press Releases
News Essentials: 23rd January 2017
Proposed changes to Practice Direction 12J – Child Arrangement and Contact Orders: Domestic Violence and Harm
Women’s Aid welcomes recommendations of Cobb Review. Full story: Family Law Week.
Sir Oliver Heald QC outlines LASPO review timetable
Justice minister working ‘within straitjacket’ of UK’s finances. Full story: Solicitors Journal.
Practice Direction: Family Court – Duration of Ex Parte (Without Notice) Orders
This Guidance was originally issued on 13 October 2014. This revised Guidance, issued on 18 January 2017, supersedes the previous Guidance. Full story: Family Law Week.
Children unnecessarily removed from parents, report claims
Dossier indicates drive to increase adoptions is punitive for low-income families and alternatives exist. Full story: The Guardian.
MOJ publishes report on implementation of Law Commission proposals
The Ministry of Justice has published their 2015-2016 Report on the implementation of Law Commission proposals. Full story: Family Law.
A v B (jurisdiction : Brussels II) [2016] EWHC 2982 (Fam) (16 August 2016)
Application for a s.8 order by mother, in respect of a child living in Dubai. Judgment dealing with issue of jurisdiction. Full report: Bailii.
Egeneonu v Egeneonu [2017] EWHC 43 (Fam) (18 January 2017)
Application by mother for declaration that father's contempts in relation to his failure to return children from Nigeria were criminal, so that she could seek father's extradition. Full report: Bailii.
A & Ors (Children : Scottish adoptions) [2017] EWHC 35 (Fam) (17 January 2017)
Judgment dealing with procedural points in cases involving English adoption of Scottish children. Full report: Bailii.
Well, on this day when we welcome a new leader of the free world, we could surely use a few. Hopefully, my posts this week on Marilyn Stowe’s Family Law & Divorce Blog include some:
Breaking out of the bubble - President Obama was right about so many things. His last speech included a lesson relevant to the family law debate.
ECHR case demonstrates why it is pointless having a law that prevents anyone from getting divorced - The ECHR case being Babiarz v. Poland.
Towards a virtual divorce system at last? - Could online divorce finally be coming? (And how it might be improved.)
Orders made in his absence breach father’s right to a fair hearing - Another ECHR case, Gakharia v Georgia.
Labels: Divorce, Family Justice System, Finance/Property, Human Rights, Marilyn Stowe Blog, Marriage
Internet Newsletter for Lawyers January/February 2017
Intellectual property – Shireen Smith of Azrights explains why IP is relevant to every business and how to protect it
Law publishers – Nick Holmes reports on recent developments from online law publishers
Virtual practice – Chris Hadrill of Redmans brings us up to date on his practice and the pros and cons of the virtual law firm
Investigatory powers – Graham Smith of Bird & Bird analyses the distinction between content and metadata in the new IPA
Digital marketing – Delia Venables reviews the many companies offering digital marketing services to lawyers
Privacy – Eduardo Ustaran of Hogan Lovells surveys the privacy landscape as we move into 2017
Technology – Alex Heshmaty of Legal Words on how virtual reality is developing and the legal issues arising
Case law – In an online Feature, Robin Chesterman explains the importance of unreported judgments
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Three-quarters of social workers oppose ‘power to innovate’ provisions
LAs should not be permitted to opt out of statutory duties to children and families. Full story: Family Law Week.
Sixteen new family law silks appointed
Sixteen family lawyers have been included among the new Queen's Counsel appointed today (12 January 2017). Full story: Family Law.
Civil partnership for only same-sex couples is ‘discriminatory’
Private members bill receives cross-party support ahead of Commons debate. Full story: Solicitors Journal.
Care applications in December 2016
In December 2016, Cafcass received a total of 1,068 care applications. This figure represents a 3% decrease compared with those received in December 2015. Full story: Cafcass.
In December 2016, Cafcass received a total of 2,938 new private law cases. This is a 1% increase on December 2015 levels. Full story: Cafcass.
Foster carer left with no support for 6 years following dispute with local authority over placement
A family and friends foster carer who took on three vulnerable children after their mother was unable to care for them, failed to get council support for the arrangement for 6 years. Full story: Family Law.
MB v GK & Ors (No 2) Wardship (Welfare) [2017] EWHC 16 (Fam) (17 November 2016)
Wardship proceedings concerning 4 year old child currently living in Singapore in the care of his paternal grandparents. Full report: Bailii.
N (Deprivation of Liberty Challenge) [2016] EWCOP 47 (21 November 2016)
Deprivation of liberty challenge by man in his 40s under continuous supervision and control. Full report: Bailii.
Old and...
My posts this week on Marilyn Stowe’s Family Law & Divorce Blog were mainly about the past and the future. They included:
Response and responsibility - Newly qualified lawyers must be nurtured.
Dowry: the problem that won’t go away - The subject of an old House of Lords judgment is not as archaic as some might think.
A lot of progress, and none - Looking at some more old House of Lords judgments.
A system that does not unnecessarily pry into private lives - A plea to modernise our family justice system.
Labels: Divorce, Family Justice System, Legal Profession, Marilyn Stowe Blog, Marriage, Nullity
New website helps children and young people access and understand their rights
A new website from Coram’s Child Law Advice Service which helps children and young people to find out about their rights, goes live today, January 9th 2017.
Called www.lawstuff.org.uk and funded by The Queen’s Trust, the website provides information about children’s rights in the following areas:
Police and Law
Not from the UK
At what age can I
Abuse and bullying
Sex health and drugs
My rights
LawStuff.org has been designed to enable visitors to find out their legal rights in a way which is easy to navigate and understand. It will be updated regularly to ensure that all information reflects any changes to the law affecting children’s rights. For optimum accessibility a pop up glossary has also been added to the website to help explain complex legal terms.
The website also hosts the popular publication At what age can I? Here, young people can find out what activities they can do at certain ages such as, “when can I learn to drive?”, “when can I babysit?” and “when can I leave home?” The website will be updated regularly and information will be added to ensure that any changes to the law relating to children’s rights are addressed.
Young people who have specific enquiries which are not covered on the LawStuff site can go to www.childlawadvice.org.uk to find relevant contact details.
Gemma Smith Manager of the Child Law Advice Service (CLAS) said: "it is extremely important that children and young people know that they have rights which are respected and protected in law. Knowing that they have rights can boost a child or young person’s confidence. It lets them know that they are valued whilst also helping them to respect the rights of others."
News Essentials: 9th January 2017
A brief summary of the essential family law news and cases from the last three weeks:
Cafcass request regarding Domestic Violence Perpetrator Programme referrals
A letter from Cafcass has been circulated today (5 January 2017) with a view to clarifying best practice arrangements where referral to a Domestic Violence Perpetrator Programme is intended. Full story: Family Law.
Judge lambasts council and police for flaws in investigation and care case
A High Court judge has strongly criticised a council and a police force for serious breaches of the Human Rights Act, after two children were retained in care despite their mother not being charged with an offence following her arrest. Full story: Local Government Lawyer. See GD & BD, below.
Truss orders review to ban abusers tormenting victims in family courts
Justice secretary intervenes after Guardian investigation revealed women often cross-examined by violent ex-partners in private hearings. Full story: The Guardian.
Full digital divorce process ‘won’t happen any time soon’
Online divorce petition expected to be completed by end of summer 2017. Full story: Solicitors Journal.
Statement from the President of the Family Division, Sir James Munby: Cross-examination of vulnerable people
I am currently considering the review of Practice Direction 12J undertaken by Mr Justice Cobb, who met with Women’s Aid during the course of his review. I expect to make decisions on the review early in the New Year. Full story: Courts and Tribunals Judiciary.
Certain family court hearings to take place in public in radical trial
James Munby, head of high court’s family division, to continue far-reaching reforms to bring more transparency to the system. Full story: The Guardian.
Pakistan joins 1980 Hague Child Abduction Convention
In force from 1 March 2017. Full story: Family Law Hub.
Justice Committee considers family law implications of Brexit
Key figures in the legal sector have today been giving evidence at the Justice Committee's inquiry on the implications of Brexit on the justice system. Full story: Family Law Week.
PC Paul Briggs: Coma treatment 'should stop'
Doctors should stop providing life-support treatment to a police officer who has been in a coma since July 2015, a judge has ruled. Full story: BBC News. See Briggs v Briggs, below.
Millionaire seeks greater share in divorce because he is a 'genius', prompting court to examine the meaning of the word
Randy Work, an American financier, is seeking to overturn as order at the High Court last year awarding his estranged wife, Mandy Gray, half of a fortune, totalling more than £140 million. Full story: The Telegraph.
Privy Council clarifies treatment of non-matrimonial property in AR applications
Appeal dismissed in Scatliffe v Scatliffe. Full story: Family Law Week.
Briggs v Briggs & Ors [2016] EWCOP 53 (20 December 2016)
Judgment considering whether life-preserving treatment should be withdrawn from patient in a minimally conscious state. Full report: Bailii.
GD & BD (Children) [2016] EWHC 3312 (Fam) (20 December 2016)
Two linked applications brought under the Human Rights Act seeking awards of damages and declarations arising from the conduct of two public authorities in the context of public law proceedings. Full report: Bailii.
AB v FC [2016] EWHC 3285 (Fam) (19 December 2016)
Application by wife for financial remedy orders after a short marriage which lasted 19 months to the date of the parties' separation. Full report: Bailii.
New Exhibition - Respected and Protected: The Rights of Children
A new free exhibition focusing on the rights of the child is being launched at London’s Central Family Court. Opening on January 19th, the exhibition is the first of its kind, and provides a powerful and moving visual context for the work of the Central Family Court, illuminating the child-centred nature of the proceedings which are held there.
Highlighting the importance of children’s rights and their slow but steady historical evolution, the exhibition examines four key strands of children’s rights and how they have evolved. These are Identity, Education, Work and Military Service. Using a rich blend of quotes, images and artefacts to illustrate a historic timeline, the exhibition transforms this public space in a way that brings the building to life with perspective and insight into its work.
Exhibits will illustrate children’s experiences from tying threads in a mill to firing guns on a battleship and the work of the progressive activists that brought them into the comparative safety of the Victorian school room and then the era of human rights. To keep children engaged, there will be an interactive nineteenth century classroom complete with a speaking schools mistress, as well as mock trials for school groups.
This ambitious venture brings together knowledge, expertise and resources from a wide range of institutions, including Coram children’s charity, the Foundling Museum, the Museum of Childhood, Save the Children, and the support of Thomson Reuters. The universal issue of children’s rights offers strong motivation for diverse organisations, including businesses, social enterprises and leaders in law, to come together in support of access to justice. The vision behind the exhibition is to inform the wider public about the history and significance of children’s rights up to the present day and the role of the Central Family Court, and to encourage the development of new cross-sector relationships and the resolve to bring about lasting change.
HH Judge Robin Tolson QC, Designated Family Judge at the Central Family Court, said:
"The Central Family Court is the largest family court in this country, and is dedicated to the rights of children, so it’s the perfect home for this exhibition. We’ve been delighted that so many different organisations have come on board and offered their time, expertise and resources to make the exhibition happen and to tell the story of children’s rights. I’m proud of what we have achieved."
Three important issues...
It may have been a short week, but my posts on Marilyn Stowe’s Family Law & Divorce Blog dealt with some important issues, including:
Festive cheer from The Guardian - The Guardian rudely interrupts the Christmas and New Year break, in particular to raise the issue of alleged domestic abuse victims being cross-examined by their alleged perpetrators.
The effect of leaving the European Convention on Human Rights - Some initial thoughts on this important issue.
The importance of the refuge - Another reminder, following the news that Sunderland may be the first major city in the country to be left without a women's refuge.
Labels: Domestic Violence, Human Rights, Marilyn Stowe Blog
Couples missing out on vital help during 'divorce month'
Alternative approaches to making settlements save time, money and stress
Thousands of couples who are looking to separate this January will miss out on the help they desperately need because they don’t know which way to turn, a leading family charity has warned.
Over 100,000 marriages end each year, and January sees a traditional rise in divorce and separation as families emerge from the festive season having been battered by pressures on finances and relationships that have been highlighted during the holiday.
So staff at family dispute specialists, National Family Mediation (NFM), are on new year alert, gearing up for a huge increase in calls, emails and website visits.
“At a time of crisis, you need to know where you can turn for help,” says Jane Robey, CEO of NFM.
“There will be many couples who’ve decided for sure in the last couple of weeks to separate, but they’ll need more information about their options as they look to make arrangements for parenting, property and finance.
“Many will think they must head off to a solicitor to prepare for a very expensive and protracted court room confrontation in which they can achieve a ‘victory’ over their ex. But there are alternative approaches that are quicker, much cheaper and much less stressful.
“There is no need to leave it to a court to make vital life-changing decisions,” she says.
“You can instead choose to talk with a professional family mediator who will help you agree on the vital things that need to be sorted for the future. Family mediation is a much, much quicker process, allowing you to remain in control of all the decisions affecting your family’s future,” she added.
“Professional mediators are highly skilled third party negotiators with experience in helping families create long-term solutions that work well for their particular circumstances. Rather than leaving it to a court to decide who will live where, what happens to the money, debts and pensions, and arrangements for the children, mediation empowers families themselves to decide these things.”
NFM’s professionally accredited family mediators can help families resolve all the practical, legal, emotional and financial issues that arise from separation. Most importantly, they can help families make long lasting arrangements that benefit their children.
Legal Aid remains available for family mediation.
Anyone wanting to know more can call 0300 4000 636 to find their nearest professional non-profit family mediator or type in their postcode at www.nfm.org.uk/local.
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PMMA for Muscle Enhancement in Bodybuilding
Thread: PMMA for Muscle Enhancement in Bodybuilding
Purple One
Cosmetic and dermatology physicians from Mexico, Spain, Argentina, Brazil, and Colombia came to share experiences on the use of PMMA (polymethylacrylate) to treat HIV related facial and buttock lipoatrophy and other non HIV related physical abnormalities.
Bioplasty is a technique of inyectable implantation done under local anesthesia for facial and buttock lipoatrophy and for reshaping other body parts. The product usually used is PMMA (polymethylmethacrylate microspheres) and it is usually (but not always) injected using a micro-canula (gun like device that enables faster and smooth dispersion of the product under the skin) . Two brands used overseas are Metacryl and Newplastic. In the States, Artefill is the only PMMA based product approved (for cosmetic use, not lipoatrophy).
It was confusing for me to find out that Bioplasty really is a brand name for the specific use of NewPlastic which was created by Dr Nagul in Brazil (he wrote a book on the procedure and trains doctors in Porto Alegre, Brazil). But Bioplastic is only one of the several PMMA options available worldwide but it seems to be spreading fast around the world. More on Bioplasty here : http://www.bioplastia.med.br/bioplasty.htm
I presented the current status of facial lipoatrophy solutions in the United States and the challenges we still face with access and the lack of an economical permanent solution to facial and buttock lipoatrophy. I presented the results of the 1500 people survey that people subscribed to my pozhealth yahoo group helped me gather about the impact on lipodystrophy on quality of life. They were surprised that almost half of the respondents with lipoatrophy have not done anything to treat it and that 25 percent of respondents had suicidal thoughts in the past due to body changes.
Dr Luis Casavantes reviewed the different options available for facial and buttock lipoatrophy. Dr Gottfried Lemperle from the US reviewed management techniques for potential complications like granulomas. Dr Marcio Serra from Brazil reviewed his experiences during the past 12 years of work. He and colleges from Brazil also described their national free assistance program for people with facial lipotrophy. Physicians in Mexico want to use Brazil’s model to provide economical access to patients in Mexico with facial wasting.
The most interesting part of the conference for me was the 3 hours in which all of us got to watch 5 doctors apply PMMA (Metacryl or NewPlastic) to patients in the operating room from a giant screen. Some use a gun-like canula to inject the product and others using insulin syringes. It was great for me to see the different techniques in person. It was a true eye opener for me !
I was impressed with the work on Dr Suzana Barreto from Sao Paulo, Brazil. She does a MRI on patients before she injects them with PMMA and a few months later to see how the implant behaves in people. She showed great slides on MRI results of the face and buttocks. She also compared MRIs done in patients that have had silicone injected to show how silicone migrates and shifts in tissue. I would love for her to present in the United States since I had never seen anyone who has MRI data on patients with any injectable implants.
It amazes me that in the US we are so far behind of all of these countries when it comes to dealing with facial and buttock lipoatrophy in a permanent way. As I said before, the PMMA product in the US is Artefill, which is not approved for HIV lipoatrophy (only for cosmetic purposes- wrinkles, etc) and was priced horribly high for it to be cost effective for us in HIV. Luckily, its patent expires next year, which will open the door for Brazilians to bring their cheaper option to the US. I had a meeting with a few doctors to discuss how feasible it would be to do a study in the United States in 2011 so that we HIV+ patients can have access to a more cost effective permanent correction.
The two options approved by the FDA (Sculptra and Radiesse) are non permanent and not cost effective for those with more advanced facial lipoatrophy. They both require yearly touch ups in most patients. Currently, Medicare pays for both but the reimbursement amounts are too low to entice doctors to use it for HIV patients. Both products have patient assistance programs that are decreasing in scope with time.
The other two products that can be used in the US for facial lipoatrophy but that are not approved for that use are Silicone 1000 micro droplets and Artefill, and both are permanent. Neither gets reimbursed and there are no patient assistance programs for them. It would be interesting to see an economic analysis of the total cost for each for a facial wasting grade 2-4 in a 5 year period. I would not be surprised that permanent solutions will be cheaper in the long run for some patients.
We have a lot of activist work to do to try to get something permanent approved for lipoatrophy that is not outrageously expensive and that has a good patient assistance program for those with no insurance (ADAP patients). Most people with facial lipoatrophy still have no access to treatments for that condition. Let’s see what happens in the long run with Medicare and insurance rates for the two FDA approved options we have now. Unless something changes with a petition from the community, Medicare approval may actually hurt us more now since both companies are already reducing their patient assistance programs considerably after they assumed that Medicare would pick up a lot of the patients in their programs. If Medicare does not reimburse doctors properly, we will actually lose ground in this field. Tim Murphy from POZ is writing an article on this problem after he interviewed a few doctors who are having problems with Medicare right now.
I am encouraging companies from other countries that have cheaper PMMA to start studies on facial and buttock lipoatrophy in the US soon to get ready for the time when the patent of the expensive Artefill expires next year.
I will try to post some videos I took of several presentations from the conference. I am still traveling a lot and have not had much time to download and process them.
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Background on PMMA- From www.FacialWasting.org
(collaboration with Al Benson)
The use of PMMA for medical uses dates to 1936 in as a bone cement. PMMA has presented a good degree of bio-compatibility and as a result it has been extensively used as a soft tissue filler, bone cement, component of denture materials and tooth bond, housing for pacemakers and intra-ocular and contact lenses. The material itself was chemically synthesized in 1904.
Dr. Gottfried Lemperle developed the concept of using PMMA micro-spheres for tissue augmentation in Germany in 1989. PMMA has been available in Germany since as sub-dermal injections used to reduce wrinkles, scars and for certain larger soft tissue deficits.
PMMA as a tissue filler was first introduced to Europe in 1991 as Arteplast and marketed as a non absorbable injected material. It was composed of microspheres suspended in a gelatin solution. It was observed that the gelatin material was reabsorbed and replaced by native collagen. Not fully recognized at the time was that PMMA itself was stimulating the deposition of new healthy collagen around the individual microspheres without causing fibrotic reactions seen in the implant of foreign materials such as siloxane. Arteplast has since been superseded by newer generations of PMMA of greater consistency in granule size and surface smoothness. Dr Lemperle said: “because of the extensive fibrous network associated with PMMA related granulomas, intralesional corticosteroid injections are considered the best treatment. We saw an Arteplast® granuloma develop as late as 10 years after injection, which responded well to high doses of local steroids and a pulse light therapy. After sieving and washing, the second generation Artecoll in Europe caused a significant lower number of foreign body granuloma.”
There are several PMMA injectable products available. Among the approved and registered PMMA based products are Artecoll and Artesense®, manufactured in Holland and approved in Mexico and Canada since 1998. Both are formulated with 20% PMMA in a vehicle composed of 79.7% bovine collagen and 0.3% lidocaine. Metracryl and BioPlastic are two other PMMA products widely used in Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and Europe.
Published safety and efficacy studies of PMMA in the United States done for FDA review dealt with PMMA use for the cosmetic correction of nasolabial deficits and concluded that “PMMA is the first soft tissue filler that demonstrates continued improvement and persistence of correction over a 5-year period post-treatment”. PMMA is now manufactured in the United States and was approved by the FDA in October 2006; marketed as ArteFill® (a new formulation of Artecoll), a compound of 20% PMMA in 80% bovine collagen and a small amount of lidocaine.
However, Artefill is extremely expensive for facial or buttock lipoatrophy correction. ArteFill® costs medical providers $720.00 per ml prepackaged in a box containing 4 syringes of 0.8 ml of product. The professional services of the provider are often sold to the patient for double the cost of the product, thus making it impractical as a corrective for large volume tissue loss. Calculations for the cost-of-treatment climbs astronomically since quite common in the faces or buttocks of people with HIV tissue loss are deficits which can require from 30 ml to 400 ml of filler to correct. A severely atrophied buttock requiring 300 to 400 ml of ArteFill® would cost in the range of $ 200,000 to $ 300,000.
Dr Lemperle has shown that the reported complication appearing in clinical trial results of Arte-Fill has been a small number of tiny palpable nodules. The clinical experience suggests that nodules tend to develop in thin skin areas or when the product is dermally injected in a too superficial manner. These nodules often respond to treatment with Kenalog 40, a cortico-steroid and in many cases also spontaneously remiss. ArteFill was developed and purified over several generations from the original Arteplast, the appearance of granuloma have decreased dramatically after the micro sphere surface was cleaned up of any imperfections that may have caused macrophages to attack them as foreign objects.
Dr. Luis Casavantes said that based on his experience in the past 5 years of experience with NewPlastic, a PMMA product produced in Brazil and widely used in Mexico and worldwide, does not appear to produce either palpable nodules or true foreign body granuloma, when grafted underneath the muscle fascia. NewPlastic seems to be a lot cheaper than Artefill. A moderate to severe facial lipoatrophy correction would cost from 2500 to 3500 depending on the volume needed. Buttocks require a lot more volume, with costs running from $4000 to $8000 depending on the severity of wasting. Of course, no one knows how much this product would cost in the US if it gets studied and approved here.
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Wyoming State Bar > Practice In Wyoming > Lawyer Resources > Practice Sections > Energy & Natural Resources Section
The Energy & Natural Resources Section now has its own Facebook page – take a look!
This section of the Wyoming State Bar exists to encourage the interest and participation of lawyers in the field of energy and natural resources law in the State of Wyoming. Consistent with its mission to provide continuing legal education and professional advancement of lawyers practicing in the field of energy and natural resources, the section organizes regular CLE-accredited presentations and other events addressing important and emerging legal issues in this area of law.
This section is open to all members of the Wyoming State Bar. If you would like to join the Energy and Natural Resources Section, please click here.? Section dues are $25 per fiscal year.
We are always looking for volunteers who wish to contribute written materials or to present on topics relevant to the practice of law in the energy and natural resources industry. Please contact any of the officers of the section if you wish to submit a topic or article for consideration.
Current Officers of the Section
Darin Scheer, Chair
Bailey Schreiber, Chair-Elect
Melissa Lyon, Secretary-Treasurer
Lori McMullen, Past ChairAt-Large Members
Brian Annes
Casey Terrell
Schedule of Upcoming CLE Events
Past CLE Materials & Presentations
Low-Carbon Energy Law Policy: What Wyoming Lawyers Need to Know (Kipp Coddington and Casey Terrell – October 2, 2019)
Unmanned Aircraft Systems: The Law Around Drones (Wesley Wright – October 2, 2019)
2019 ENR Section Summit (June 13, 2019)
Federal Units and Second Chances: Federal Secondary Recovery Units and How They Differ From Exploratory Units (J. David Chase – April 30, 2019)
Nuts and Bolts of the Wyoming Royalty Payment Act and Other Emerging Issues in Oil and Gas Development in Wyoming (Kris Koski – May 11, 2018)
Unmanned Aircraft Systems – The Law Around Drones (Greg Kunkle and Wes Wright – March 13, 2018)
Ethical Challenges for the ENR Attorney (Hon. Thomas W. Rumpke, Mark W. Gifford and Erin K. Murphy – February 22, 2017)
Who’s Lease Trumps, Oil or Coal? (Peter C. Forbes – January 25, 2017) CLICK HERE to download this CLE program for self-study credit.
Expand Your Title Tookit and Client Base: Mineral Title Curative and Quiet Title Actions (Sarah Sorum and Pat Tolley – November 29, 2016)
Keeping Up: What Wyoming Practitioners Need to Know About Recent Energy & Environmental Regulations (Keith S. Burron, David D. Freudenthal, Katie Schroder, Alexander K. Obrecht and Nancy E. Vehr – September 15, 2016)
Getting to Know Your Regulatory Community: Intro to Wyoming’s Air Quality Division (Mark Watson – ?August 10, 2016)
ENR Section Summit (Lawrence J. MacDonnell, Rob Mathes, Tara Righetti, Jason A. Robison and Eric Waeckerlin – July 28, 2016) PLEASE NOTE: Program materials for all four programs are included in the link.
Getting to Know Your Regulatory Community: An Overview and Update from Wyoming’s Oil & Gas Conservation Commission (Mark Watson – July 19, 2016)
Mining Law in the West (Steven P. Ruffatto – January 20, 2016)
Rockies Oil, Rockies Gas – Where in the World Are We? (Jack Ekstrom – February 18, 2015)
Mitigating the Effects of a Potential Sage Grouse Listing on Landowners Using a Candidate Conservation Agreement with Assurances “CCAA” (David Willms – August 12, 2015)
The Plight of the Packgoat: Legal Issues concerning Removal of Domestic Livestock from Public Lands Across the West (Andrew A. Irvine, P.C. – June 25, 2015)
Past Wyoming Lawyer Articles
December 2011 – Is Wyoming in Need of an Energy Policy? Sage-Grouse Conservation Strategy. Environmental Law Update. Federal Lease Suspensions.
February 2012 – Mineral Development Done Right: Informed Engagement and a Sustained Commitment to Build Capacity for the Future by Lynne J. Boomgaarden
February 2014 – Blue Skies Ahead
December 2017 – Fueling Wyoming’s Future – entire issue sponsored by the ENR Section
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Familiarizing with Digital Software
22nd May 2016 | by Briana Keller | 0 Comments |
The latest revolution in technology, especially in the software development field has given us the most powerful and unique solutions to cater digital publishing needs. This digital magazine software is behind the success of most digital magazines and digital publishing industry. We now have editing tools such as flipbook that allows us to create quickly page turning electronic publications such as e-books, e-brochures, e-catalogs, e-magazines and much more.
By using digital magazine maker, customers get the ability to flip virtually a page or documents online to have the same experience as the traditional publication. Industries and publishers are also able to entertain more audiences for a cheaper cost. It does not only save cost but also delivers contents quickly. Online magazine software can turn dull-looking PDF files to attractive flipping books, and many people have already considered creating a digital magazine.
What is Digital Magazine Software?
Digital Magazine Software is used to create digital versions of any publications such as books, newspapers, catalogs, brochures, journals, and much more. It converts PDF files into an end-product called digital magazine or flipbook.
Flipbook enhances audience’s reading experience by making them feel that they are flipping a book just like the printed one instead of scrolling down a mouse or swiping up and down.
Online magazine maker is based on an Adobe Flash Technology that requires Adobe Flash Player to run on a web browser. It works by using the Macromedia platform to create digital magazine or book.
Uploading a PDF file to a magazine maker is needed to convert it to a page flip. After saving the file, magazine software can let the user edit and adjust some contents to meet the target audience’s needs. After some editing, the user may now publish the magazine.
What is the history of Online Magazine software?
Flipbook started around the year 2002 when the owner of a company called Perfect Fools used Flash effects to make a page curl. Tommy Hornqvist was able to create a digital image that when the page is turned it will curl up like a real book. More digital magazine software was then introduced and made available in the market.
What are the added features that you can do in this software?
Online magazine software aside from the flipping effect also allows users to jump to a particular page, as well as search a text throughout the publication. It also has added features that PDF files do not have, such as customizing page flips with style and design a user prefer by changing the appearance of the interface that will match the website.
Digital magazine software also can add internal or external links to sites without any limit and add an email address by typing it into the link editor.
What are the uses of a digital magazine?
Most entrepreneurs and publishers are already using digital magazine or flipbooks into their website to attract more customers and sales. Most digital magazines or books can be downloaded, so readers do not need to print them.
Briana Keller
General student. Web fanatic. Zombie evangelist. Coffeeaholic. Music lover. Communicator.
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Khalid's Foundation Plans Benefit Concert For El Paso Shooting Victims' Fund
By: LATF Staff | Aug. 13, 2019, 9:29 a.m.
Filed in: Giving Back
Global superstar Khalid announces today that on September 1st he will headline a benefit concert along with special guests at the Don Haskins Center in El Paso, TX. In support of his hometown of El Paso and in response to the tragic mass shooting on August 3, 2019, Khalid will be raising funds through this concert to support the El Paso Shooting Victims' Fund and the El Paso Community Foundation.
Tickets for the concert will go on sale beginning this Wednesday, August 14th at 10am local time at LiveNation.com. This event is presented by The Great Khalid Foundation and manager Courtney Stewart's Right Hand Foundation, and produced by Live Nation.
"I have been rocked to the core by the horrific act of gun violence that came to El Paso, and by the continued acts of senseless violence that our country faces daily. I want to give back to my community of El Paso, the city of the 915, who has given so much to me. Please come out and let's heal together through music while raising money to help those who need it," Khalid said.
Dr. Heather Wilson, The University of Texas at El Paso Incoming President said, "Khalid's generous offer to put on a benefit concert is a touching example of the spirit of caring and kindness that typifies El Paso. We will come together to help and to heal. I invite you to join us at the concert to honor and support the victims and their families."
In addition to attending the concert, donations for this cause can only be made directly through www.thegreatkhalidfoundation.org or by purchasing one of the commemorative shirts from here https://shop.khalidofficial.com/.
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Don't Wanna Miss This
By: Cana's Voice
Provident Music Group 2019 Album
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Known for their powerhouse vocals and intimate worship experience, Cana's Voice appeals to a wide audience. Fans have been eagerly awaiting their sophomore project and Don't Wanna Miss This is sure to please. TaRanda Greene, Jody McBrayer and Doug Anderson, each successful solo artists, join together with talented producers Wayne Haun, Jim Hammerly and Jerard Woods to take listeners through a musical experience like no other. Spanning various genres, Don't Wanna Miss This includes notable classics from Traditional Gospel, Southern Gospel and CCM as well as several original songs. Listeners will enjoy new arrangements of classics like Fred Hammond's "We Are Blessed", Michael English's "There Is a Love", and Avalon's "Orphans of God" as well as original songs like "Center of It All" and their first single, "At Midnight".
Publisher: Provident Music Group
Format: Album
Binding: Compact Disc
Label: Provident Music Group
Cana's Voice
Gospel singers Jody McBrayer, TaRanda Greene and Doug Anderson have officially united their talents to form the incredible vocal group, Cana’s Voice.
Jody McBrayer traveled 12 years with the highly acclaimed and mulit-award winning group, Avalon. His vocal abilities helped garner 21 #1 songs, 3 Grammy nominations over 4 million records sold and 3 Dove Awards for the popular CCM group.
TaRanda has also received many prestigious awards, due to her awe-inspiring ability to deliver a song. Her powerful voice and testimony have landed her as a regular featured vocalist on Grammy award winning Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir projects.
Doug Anderson has traveled the globe, appearing in countless sold-out performances. Doug has garnered 13 Dove Awards as both a soloist and as a member of Ernie Haase and Signature Sound as well as one Grammy nomination. During his time there the group had three videos and one CD to reach Gold status in Billboard sales.
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Thoughts As We Approach Memorial Day
Tags: John Sterling, cleveland indians, New York Yankees, Pat Gillick, Roland Hemond, Roberta Mazur, Baltimore Orioles
I began posting this entry while listening to an old-fashioned two-for-the-price-of-one doubleheader on the radio. Alas, John Sterling’s self-absorbed droning and I fear his fading eyesight made his play-by-play unreliable and so I switched to TV.
Ah for the good old days when you could turn down an annoying TV announcer
and listen to the radio. That's not possible any more as the TV broadcast is several seconds ahead of the radio feed.
It was a make-up twinbill with the red-hot Indians leading the Yanks 1-0 after 6 innings. Cleveland's ace JUSTIN MASTERSON completed a 1-0 shutout but the Yanks won the second game 7-0 behind a rookie southpaw VIDAL NUNO.
Both teams are surprising the pundits in the early going. In fact, at 10 games over .500 as games started on May 13 (and ended on May 17), the Yankees were leading the American League East. Solid starting pitching and the presence of Mariano Rivera at the back of the bullpen has enabled the Yankees to withstand the losses of the superstars (in salary anyway) of Derek Jeter, Alex Rodriguez, Mark Teixeira and Curtis Granderson. Granderson is back now and perhaps Teixeira within the next month though Lyle Overbay has proven a very worthy replacement.
Cleveland’s pitching will be suspect throughout the year but reclamation project Scott Kazmir has begun to pitch well and so has Yankee retread Zach McAllister. And the Indians will hit with budding star catcher Carlos Santana (no relation to the guitarist), second baseman Jason Kipnis (a member of the Jewish tribe), shortstop Asdubral Cabrera and center fielder Michael Bourn, the expensive free agent pickup, providing some hope up the middle. Former Yankee Nick Swisher and former Oriole Mark Reynolds add to a potent lineup.
Vidal Nuno has been recalled by the Yankees since Andy Pettitte went on the dl again with an upper back injury. But the Yankees continue to win with VERNON WELLS providing a lot of pop in left field and he is still a good defensive outfielder. Players who can perform on both sides of the ball remain very valuable commodities.
I will have a lot more to report early next month. Am delivering a talk on "The Glory Years of the Baltimore Orioles 1960-1983" on Wednesday afternoon May 29 at the opening session of the 20th Annual Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture.
I never miss an opportunity to go to the Brigadoon called Cooperstown about 200 NW of NYC and 75 miles west of Albany. And I never miss a chance to talk about the Orioles the team I fell in love with when I lived in Baltimore in the early 1970s.
I've stayed with them through all the ups and downs of the last 40 years. The 2013 edition has some serious starting pitching issues that will have to be straightened for them to contend again. But it is consoling to know that with Buck Showalter managing and Dan Duquette as the general manager there are steady knowledgeable men at the helm.
The AL East as forecast will be one wild ride all year and might as well as sit back and enjoy it while of course agonizing from time to time.
For me May 2013 will go down as Cooperstown Month. I attended the opening of the "Diamond Mines" exhibit at the Hall of Fame on the first weekend in May. It was a special evening with tears flowing from so many on hand to see scouts honored at baseball's central shrine.
Hall of Famer Pat Gillick spoke eloquently as always about the vital role that baseball's talent hunters have played in constantly bringing new blood into the game. One of baseball's most devoted octogenarians Roland Hemond, who has been working in baseball since the 1950s, was equally moving in his praise of scouts. As was Roberta Mazur, director of the Scout of the Year Foundation who since the mid-1980s has been working to see scouts honored in Cooperstown.
"Diamond Mines" will return at least two years and hopefully will become permanent with its artifacts of stop watches, radar guns, and most intriguingly, scouting reports on at least 12,000 players provided by at least 300 scouts.
That's all for now - always remember: Take it easy but take it! Read More
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GOTHAM CITY MEETS A NEW VIGILANTE WITH A MYSTERIOUS, VIOLENT TWIST IN
BATMAN: UNDER THE RED HOOD
STELLAR VOICE CAST FEATURES BRUCE GREENWOOD, JENSEN ACKLES & NEIL PATRICK HARRIS IN All-new dc universe animated original movie FROM warner home video on JULY 27, 2010
Special edition Blu-RAY and 2-DISC SPECIAL EDITION DVD INCLUDE DC SHOWCASE SHORT, JONAH HEX
BURBANK, CA (April 27, 2010) – Batman confronts new enemies, old foes and painful memories when a powerful vigilante with a penchant for violence comes to Gotham City in the intense graphic-novel-come-to-life Batman: Under the Red Hood, the next entry in the popular ongoing series of DC UNIVERSE Animated Original PG-13 Movies coming July 27, 2010 from Warner Premiere, DC Entertainment and Warner Bros. Animation. The full-length film will be distributed by Warner Home Video as a Special Edition version on Blu-Ray™ and 2 disc DVD for $29.99 (SRP) and $24.98 (SRP), respectively, as well as single disc DVD for $19.98 (SRP). The film will also be available On Demand and for Download.
The stellar voice cast has Bruce Greenwood (Captain Pike in the 2009 blockbuster Star Trek) donning the famed cowl as the voice of Batman. Supernatural star Jensen Ackles is Red Hood, and Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother) voices Nightwing. John DiMaggio (Futurama) and Jason Issacs (the Harry Potter films) round out the main cast as The Joker and Ra’s Al Ghul, respectively.
Batman: Under the Red Hood is scripted by award-winning comics writer Judd Winick and based on his popular 2005 comics storyline and subsequent comics graphic novel of the same name. Animation guru Bruce Timm returns as executive producer, as he has for all eight DC Universe animated original movies. Director is Brandon Vietti, who served as co-director of Superman Doomsday and was responsible for the first one-third of that film, including the fatal battle between the two title characters.
In Batman: Under the Red Hood, Batman faces his ultimate challenge as the mysterious Red Hood takes Gotham City by firestorm. One part vigilante, one part criminal kingpin, Red Hood begins cleaning up Gotham with the efficiency of Batman, but without following the same ethical code. Killing is an option. And when The Joker falls in the balance between the two, hard truths are revealed and old wounds are reopened.
Fans will be treated to an incredible package of DC Universe storytelling as the Special Edition Blu-Ray and 2-Disc Special Edition DVD include the second animated short in the all-new DC Showcase series – which features the popular DC Comics character, Jonah Hex. The short is scripted by renowned author Joe Lansdale and stars the voices of Thomas Jane (Hung), Linda Hamilton (The Terminator), Michelle Trachtenberg (Mercy, Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and Michael Rooker (Days of Thunder).
Batman: Under the Red Hood - 2 Disc Special Edition DVD will have more than two hours of fascinating bonus features, including:
· Featurette – Robin’s Story – It was decided it was time to add a fresh face into the story mix, which turned out to be Dick Grayson, aka Robin. This is the story of Dick Grayson and how he transformed into Robin, with Batman as his father-figure role model.
Extended Sneak Peek at the next DC UNIVERSE Animated Original PG-13 Movie.
Two title-themed episodes from of Warner Bros. Animation’s 20-year history of Batman television series, hand-picked by animation legend Bruce Timm.
Batman: Under the Red Hood Special Edition Blu-Ray will have more than three hours of bonus materials, including all the great extras from the 2-disc Special Edition DVD as well as:
· Featurette: Death in the House of Batman – The story of how DC Comics heard the fans’ cry that the new Robin was not going to fit the cape, and how the Boy Wonder was scheduled to die.
· Two additional bonus Batman-themed episodes personally selected by Bruce Timm
· Digital copy
“Batman: Under the Red Hood is another terrific entry in the groundbreaking series of DC Universe animated movies, a shining representation of the adult storytelling that comics-turned-to-film has to offer, and further evidence of the combined creative power within the collaboration of DC Entertainment, Warner Premiere, Warner Bros. Animation and Warner Home Video,” said Matt Bierman, Senior Vice President Production, Warner Premiere.
“Judd Winick's and Doug Mahnke's story of a Robin gone wrong introduced Batman's most personal enemy to date. It's unbelievably cool to see it brought to life like this," said Geoff Johns, Chief Creative Officer of DC Entertainment.
“With each exciting new chapter of the DC UNIVERSE films, fans have come to expect more – and Batman: Under the Red Hood delivers with an action-packed tale of mystery and emotional struggle brought to animated life by an outstanding filmmaking crew and voiced by the all-star talents of Bruce Greenwood, Jensen Ackles, Neil Patrick Harris and John Dimaggio,” said Amit Desai, WHV Vice President of Family, Animation & Partner Brand Marketing.
“In his feature length solo directorial debut, Brandon Vietti has brought this dark, psychological thriller to the screen with all the action and emotion of a great Batman story,” said Sam Register, Executive Vice President, Warner Bros. Animation. “
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FLORESCENCES
Helen Adkins, Berlin, October 1, 2019
Kathrin Linkersdorff has, in her own words, been “fascinated by the clarity, reduction, and omnipresent influence of nature in traditional Japanese culture” ever since she started working in Japan and studying the language in the early 1990s. On her travels through the country, she learnt the technique of sumi-e, or Japanese inkwash painting, which significantly inspired her own sensitivity for beauty and composition of color and form. Further research led her towards the aesthetic concept of wabi-sabi that perceives beauty in the acceptance and contemplation of transience, imperfection, and incompleteness of all things. Subsequently, her work echoes the trace of the natural cycle of life, celebrating the inherent beauty of the passing of time.
And here is where the fleeting nature of flowers becomes essentially relevant to the artist’s practice. Her latest ongoing series of photographs is called Floriszenzen (Florescences) and currently encompasses eighteen portraits of tulips. Despite their withered and decomposed condition, the title describes the process of blooming. Inner melancholy and gentle sadness spell out a different, fragile beauty that, in our contemplation, could be seen to surpass the splendor of any flower in its prime. Florescence is an allegorical tale of human relationships and can be read as a metaphor for deep emotions and for the significance of the moment.
In the exhibited image, an unlike and awkward couple of tulips quietly dance in mute love and tenderness. Their decaying and bent stalks embody both pain and elegant abstraction, and would seem to be trying to voice something which cannot be said. The once rich and beautiful colors appear to be bleeding out of the flower heads; physical fragility turns immaterial. Existence is disclosed as an ephemeral moment of poetic suspense.
Linkersdorff makes no secret of her practice. The square format of her works goes back to her early photography with a Hasselblad camera. Her studio is full of a multitude of both unspectacular and exotic dead flowers, in vases, hanging from the ceiling, or protected from light in cardboard boxes. She dries them carefully, often over a period of weeks or months, attentively nursing the process of aging and tending to their wellbeing in afterlife. Each flower is unique and when the artist estimates that the time is right, she submerges it – alone, or with others – in large glass jars filled with water. Her camera finally immortalizes the most special instant of material dissolution and spiritual renaissance.
© 2020 Kathrin Linkersdorff. All rights reserved.
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Flash Rip: Chapter One
The Hemsworths apparently had another brother, and he was a lifeguard at Barking Beach.
The guy’s name actually happened to be Liam, but Cody Grant thought he resembled Chris—thirties, six-three and muscular, with short, tousled, sandy-blond hair. His beard was a bit more than scruff but not too thick, and his eyes were deep blue. Very Thor, minus the long locks and magic hammer.
As Liam Fox peeled off his blue uniform shirt, he certainly looked like a superhero, revealing a six-pack—or, holy shit, was that an eight-pack?—with hair sprinkled perfectly over his pecs.
A woman jogging across the sand openly stared and then stumbled, red-faced. Same, girl, Cody thought, watching Liam race into the surf with a rescue board. Same.
Cody and his fellow trainee, Mia, were at the north end of Barking Beach for orientation, which had been interrupted by a middle-aged man flailing in the water, having gotten in over his head, literally, when he’d stepped off a sandbank. Cody, Mia, and head lifeguard Teddy stood watching Liam haul the gasping man onto his board.
By them a sign read:
DANGEROUS CURRENTS: NO SWIMMING
There was even a picture of a stick figure swimming with a giant red X over it. Cody squinted out at the dozen people in the water directly in front of the sign. “People just don’t read, I guess?”
Teddy laughed. “Nope. Welcome to Barkers. I like to start with a little talk here by the water, and now Foxy’s giving us a rescue demo. Couldn’t have planned it better if I tried. As you can see, people can get into trouble in a blink. Especially tourists. And they will, because the one thing you can count on is bloody tourists not paying attention to the warnings.” He grinned, the white sunblock on his lips giving him a ghoulish look.
Liam—Foxy, which was a fitting nickname if Cody had ever heard one—had paddled the middle-aged man the ten meters or so back to shore and was pointing down the beach toward the safe swimming area marked by red and yellow flags.
Teddy said, “Even when the surf is gentle like this, people can get themselves in trouble by panicking. And you’ve both been clubbies for a few years, so you know how rough it can get in the impact zone when the swells are up and those waves really hit.”
Mia said, “I joined Nippers when I was five, and I got my SRC when I was thirteen. So I was a clubbie for more than a few years.” She gave Teddy a nervous smile. “Um, for the record.”
There was a hint of a smirk on Teddy’s sun-worn face. He was around forty, wrinkles in the corners of his eyes and pale hair buzzed short. “I know, Ms. Jee. That’s one of the reasons you’re here.”
Cody hadn’t earned his Surf Rescue Certificate until he was sixteen, but to be fair, he’d only moved to Western Australia from Canada and joined the local Surf Life Saving Club at thirteen. His swimming experience had been in pools and lakes until then. He didn’t share any of this since it was irrelevant—he’d damn well earned this opportunity.
Teddy said, “We had dozens of people try out this season for the two trainee spots. Both of you are qualified and don’t need to prove anything. Except out there.”
Cody inhaled the briny air and dug his toes into the wet sand, gazing out at the crystal-clear blue water of the Indian Ocean. Gulls cried, bickering over some scraps. People swam, most splashing safely in the shallows. Others relaxed on the beach, dozing or reading. It wasn’t insanely crowded yet since it was still spring, but Cody knew thirty thousand people could cram onto the single kilometer of sand and sea.
Liam jogged back to them, holding the handle of the long rescue board. He was soaking wet, glistening drops of water caught in his chest hair, his navy uniform board shorts clinging to his meaty, sculpted thighs. He slid the board back into its metal holder on the sand by the danger sign, bending to fiddle with something. Across his incredibly fine ass, the shorts read: LIFEGUARD in white block letters.
“Good work, Foxy!” another lifeguard called as he drove up in one of the ATVs and hopped out. “Showin’ off for the newbies, hey?” He pushed up his Ray-Ban sunnies and grinned with a slightly horsey mouth full of teeth. His ginger curls were damp, and he gave Cody and Mia an enthusiastic handshake.
“Hiya! I’m Brandon, but everyone calls me Ronnie.”
Cody tried to puzzle out the nickname. “Ronnie?”
“The hair,” Ronnie said. “Ronald McDonald.”
“Oh! Gotcha.” Cody could see it, actually, with the toothy grin and gangly frame. Ronnie seemed about twenty, Cody’s age.
Ronnie said, “You giving them the same inspirational speech you gave me a couple years ago, Cyclone?”
Teddy shrugged. “Pretty much.” His name was Edward Tracy, and apparently there was some famous cyclone from back in the day that was called Tracy—hence the “Cyclone” nickname. Teddy seemed pretty laid-back to Cody, and the nickname might have been ironic. There could be many layers to Aussie nicknames, although some were just whacking an “o” or “y” on the end.
Teddy cleared his throat. “Here goes. You’re both starting at the bottom. Over the next seven months, if you swim to the top, I might have jobs for you next season, or even over the winter since we patrol the beach all year. The first step is passing your traineeship and qualifying. So work hard and be willing to learn. Et cetera, et cetera.” He was holding two official turquoise, long-sleeved uniform shirts, which he handed over. “Try not to stuff up too badly.”
Ronnie hopped back in the ATV. “As rousing as ever, mate! That’s why they pay you the big bucks!” He drove off with a wave.
Teddy grinned. “Also, taking the piss out of each other is always encouraged.”
The lightweight shirts provided sun protection and were emblazoned front and back with LIFEGUARD. Mia pulled hers on over a navy bathing suit, freeing her long, dark ponytail from the collar. She was of Malaysian descent, and after the final trainee competition, Cody had heard an old guy hanging around the beach call her a “wee stunner,” even though she was five-ten and actually two inches taller than Cody.
Cody wore navy boardies like all the other guys. Liam’s still clung to his thighs distractingly, and Cody really wished he would put his shirt back on. He was trying to be a professional here. Liam’s face was distracting enough—those cheekbones—let alone his bare chest dripping wet. With those red nipples looking so…bite-worthy.
Is that a word? Wait, don’t answer that. Focus!
Liam solemnly handed over their navy LIFEGUARD baseball caps. Cody curved the stiff brim so it would fit better. He’d just had his brown hair trimmed short, and he smoothed the cap on his head. They’d already received their lifeguard-branded jackets, sweatshirts, and other gear, but it was nice to have a little ceremony of sorts.
“Looking good.” Teddy gave Cody and Mia the shaka sign surfers used—thumb and pinky finger extended and three middle fingers curled in. “Now you’ve got to live up to the title. It doesn’t say ‘trainee’ on your shirts. With members of the public, you’re full-fledged lifeguards. Ready for your first day? Whaddya reckon, Foxy?”
“Too right they are,” he answered in a sexy rumble of a voice, giving a serious nod.
It was still surreal to Cody that he’d achieved his goal. He’d been coming down to Barking Beach—really Barkininy Beach or just “Barkers” to the locals—since he’d moved to Perth. He’d absolutely idolized the lifeguards in blue. Also lusted after them, but what gay teenage boy wouldn’t?
“Foxy’s the senior lifeguard on duty today, so he’ll keep an eye on you two while I’m doing paperwork in the office,” Teddy said, jerking a thumb over his shoulder toward the squat council building in the distance beyond the grassed area and parking lot. “Don’t be too hard on ’em, Foxy. Wait ’til their second day for scrubbing the shower block.”
A hint of amusement tugged Liam’s lips. “We’ll see how this arvo goes.” He scratched his throat, the scrape of his beard audible, and yep, that was another tug of lust in Cody’s belly. The afternoon—“arvo” to many Aussies—would be a disaster if Cody didn’t focus.
He vowed right there to only think of Liam Fox by his real name, because “Foxy” was way, way too on the nose. Lusting over another lifeguard was not in the job description. Forget Liam’s broad shoulders and gorgeous blue eyes. Also his red nipples and wet abs. And he probably had a great smile. Cody hadn’t seen him truly smile yet, but he imagined it would light up his handsome face, and—
Hello, that’s not how you stop lusting over a colleague!
He and Mia followed Liam across the sand to the lifeguard tower, and Liam asked, “You know what ‘Barkininy’ means?”
Mia eagerly answered, “It means ‘bite’ or ‘biting’ in the indigenous Noongar language.”
“Very good,” Liam said. He seemed much more serious and official than Teddy did, even though Teddy was the boss.
Cody had known the meaning too and tried not to resent Mia for answering before him. He said, “It’s an apt name for the beach. The rips can be brutal, huh? I heard there’s been a big spike in drownings and near-drownings along with the influx of tourists after Barking was named Australia’s top beach a few years back.” He cringed at himself. Like this is news to Liam? He works here!
Liam dutifully said, “You two have done your homework. So you know there are three openers on at five. First light is around five-ten this time of year, and it’ll get earlier as we head into summer. There are usually six people on shift through the day—more during the silly season or if it’s a scorcher. As trainees, you’ll be shadowing us, and also patrolling on your own if need be.”
“The silly season” was the Christmas school holidays, when beach attendance would explode as the temperature rose. It was mid-October now, and the beach was busy already.
Liam finally pulled his shirt on over his head, most of the water that had hung on his skin now evaporated in the sunshine. Not that Cody was looking too closely or anything. There was a reddish, oval AFL football tattooed on Liam’s right arm, so he must have been a big fan of the sport.
Mia twisted her fingers together as they crossed the sand, and Cody wanted to tell her to breathe. He was nervous as hell, but he could imagine it was ten times worse for her. There had been the odd female lifeguard in the past, but at the moment the service on Barking Beach was entirely male.
A young family watched their lifeguard procession curiously from under their bright umbrella, and Cody waved to the toddler, the girl clapping in delight and waving back, nearly stomping her little sandcastle in her excitement as her parents laughed. Cody laughed too, the knot of tension loosening a few degrees.
I’ve got this. I’m not going to stuff it up.
The wide-windowed lifeguard tower sat in the center of the one-kilometer stretch of beach, one story high, with a concrete ramp in the back that zigzagged up from a narrow access road along the park. The ground floor of the tower was a garage and storage area where the buggies and boards and other equipment were locked up nightly.
Liam led the way up the flight of wooden stairs from the sand to a landing and the main door on the side of the tower. A sign read:
ONLY KNOCK IN CASE OF EMERGENCY OR SERIOUS INQUIRY
Cody smiled to himself. He could tell the council had created that formal, wordy sign. Being ushered inside that door by Chris Hemsworth’s lifeguard doppelganger was possibly the most epic moment of Cody’s life thus far, and he took a moment to savor it.
Up a few steps to the right was the semicircle main area, the front windows curving to give a clear view to the south end of the beach and north to a rocky headland. Coogee and Fremantle were up the coast. There was always a steady stream of cargo ships waiting for entry to Freo’s commercial port, and one steamed by in the distance.
“Hiya,” a young man said, sitting in an office chair at the long, low counter—what the Aussies called a “bench,” although Cody still thought of a bench as something to sit on. The counter extended all the way across under the windows. There were a couple of landline phones, notepads and pens, and a computer monitor showing the CCTV feeds from tower cameras.
The blond man wheeled around with a grin. “I’m Damo. Welcome to Barking Central.” He nodded to the guy beside him in another office chair, who was peering out at the northern end of the beach through binoculars. “This is Hazza on the binos.”
“G’day.” Hazza only looked away from the water for a moment to smile before peering back out. He was in his late twenties, with dark skin, his almost-black hair shaved around the sides and curly on top.
Cody supposed Damo’s name was actually Damian, and Hazza was likely Harry or Henry. At school, Cody’d somehow been called “Sneezy” for a few months because he—wait for it—sneezed a few times on the first day. “Codes” he could deal with, but he hoped to avoid anything ridiculous.
Damo tucked his long, shaggy hair behind an ear and said, “Welcome to the best job in the world. Sun, surf, and heaps of topless chicks.” He gave Cody an exaggerated wink and said, “Don’t let ’em distract you too much.”
Here it was already, Cody’s golden opportunity to announce that he was gay. He opened his mouth and… No. He aborted, instead laughing and keeping his smile in place as Hazza told a story about meeting his now ex-girlfriend on the beach back when he was a trainee and how jealous she’d been whenever he rescued anyone young and pretty.
Cody still had a chance to clarify that he was gay, but his gut told him to hold off. He sure as hell wasn’t going back in the closet, but he’d let himself get through the first day—maybe the first week or two—before he declared himself. It wasn’t his style to lay low, and it made him antsy. But strategically, it made sense to let the guys get to know him first.
Damo said, “This one time, there was a chick who—” He broke off, looking at Mia and chuckling awkwardly. “Actually, since we’re co-ed this season, I should be more politically correct. Didn’t mean any offense.”
Cody glanced at Mia, whose brow furrowed as she said, “None taken.”
“Cool.” Damo whirled back around, catching himself on the drawer-less counter before he picked up binoculars and looked to the south.
Liam said, “You should be more professional on duty no matter who’s working.”
“I know.” Damo winked over his shoulder. “It’s a good thing I’m so charming, hey?”
Hazza dryly said, “Good thing.” After a beat he added, “And strangely single.”
They laughed, and Liam said to Mia and Cody, “Look, we’re all mates here, and we have fun, but we know when to be serious too.”
Damo shot Liam a raised eyebrow. “Some of us more than others. Just saying.” He turned back to the window.
Liam chuckled, but it was awkward, his big body hunching. He scratched the back of his neck and stared at his bare feet. Considering he looked like a freaking movie star, he seemed suddenly uneasy in his own skin. It was curious, and Cody almost squeezed his arm, wanting to reassure him. Fortunately, he kept his hands to himself.
The radio by Hazza crackled. “North end to Barking Central. Got a couple of heads out the back. Croc’s waking up. Might have to go for a paddle.”
Looking through the binoculars, Hazza muttered, “Yep. They’re floundering. Just off the sandbank. Looks like two teenage girls.” He spoke into the walkie. “Copy that, Ronnie. I’ve got eyes on them.”
Damo wheeled over next to him and peered through his own binoculars, both of them staring intently, all joking vanished. Cody squinted into the distance, but the tower was too far away to really see anything without assistance. Hazza said into the radio, “Yeah, you’d better get wet. Doesn’t look like they can swim a bloody stroke.”
The tinny voice said, “Yep, Central, I’m in.”
As Damo went back to surveying the rest of the beach, Cody and Mia crowded in behind Hazza eagerly. Hazza spoke through the radio. “Nicky, Ronnie needs a hand out the back of the Croc.”
“Double rescues can be tricky,” Liam said, grabbing a spare pair of binoculars. “If someone’s free, always best to get backup.” He stared out for a few moments, then passed the binoculars to Cody, leaning close, a big hand on Cody’s shoulder as he pointed. His breath tickled Cody’s cheek, his voice low. “See them? You know how to focus the binos?”
It was warm in the tower with the midday sun, despite the AC unit chugging in the corner and fans mounted on the ceiling. Sweat gathered under the brim of Cody’s cap, his skin prickling. “Uh… Yep, got them. Thanks.” Liam moved over to Mia, and Cody breathed deeply, adrenaline pumping as he watched the rescue unfold.
Barking’s regular rip current was nicknamed “the Croc,” and the name said it all. As the tide got lower, the current pulled water out at a few meters per second in a merciless funnel. The best way to get out of a rip was not to swim to shore against it, but sideways out of the corridor. Of course, most tourists didn’t know this. Some locals didn’t either, especially if they panicked.
The two girls flapped their arms, trying to fight the current and wearing themselves out. Their heads were close to going under, hair over their faces, waves washing over them. Ronnie kneeled on a long blue rescue board, powering forward with both arms. He had to get through the impact zone where waves broke, paddling against the merciless thrust of the ocean, then angling over and using the rip to get him out quickly.
The exhausted girls clung to Ronnie’s board as he reassured them. Liam said, “It’s tough to balance two patients on the board to take in, so Nicky will come out and collect one of them. You guys know this from being clubbies, but we’re going to go through everything.”
“Absolutely,” Mia said as Cody nodded.
Liam said, “Most of us grew up in the volunteer system too, and you might do the odd rescue, but it’s nothing compared to being a professional lifeguard. The volunteers do a great job up at Coogee and other beaches, but it’s full-on here and getting busier every season.”
“There we go.” Hazza turned away, apparently satisfied as Ronnie and Nicky paddled the patients back into the beach, catching waves to help them along.
Damo asked Cody, “Where were you a clubbie?”
“Mullaloo, in the northern beaches. It can get big, but there aren’t nearly as many people. Mostly locals who usually know better.”
“North of the river! Had a mate move up to Scarborough and never saw him again,” Damo joked, everyone chuckling. “Although I hear the kite surfing’s wicked up there.” He glanced at Cody over his shoulder, giving his blond hair a toss. “What’s that accent?”
“Oh, right. Canadian.” Over the years, he’d picked up a lot of the lingo, but his accent had stayed stubbornly Canuck. After a disastrous attempt to force an Aussie accent to fit in, he’d let it be. “I moved here when I was thirteen.”
“Big move,” Damo said.
“Why’d your family come here?” Mia asked.
“My dad’s from Perth, but he got a scholarship to do his undergrad in Vancouver. Met my mom there. Eventually came back for a post-doc research grant. He’s a scientist.”
“Cool,” Mia said. “Are your folks still up in Mullaloo?”
“Nah, my mom missed skiing too much, and my older sisters went back to Canada for uni, so they’re all in Vancouver again.” No one wanted his life story, so he shut up before launching into how his parents had fully expected him to go with them and attend university back home.
Liam said, “You must miss them.”
“Oh yeah! Doesn’t mean I don’t love them and everything.” Cody was admittedly a little defensive about his choice to stay in Australia. Some people couldn’t imagine living so far away from their family, and sometimes he felt like he was deficient since he was so independent.
“Of course not,” Liam agreed, and Cody couldn’t tell if he meant it. He cursed himself for overthinking. Liam probably didn’t give a crap one way or the other.
“There’s ocean in Vancouver, isn’t there?” Mia asked.
“Oh yeah, but the Pacific Northwest’s not like this. It rains a ton. It’s a lot colder. It’s paradise here. I love it.”
“’Course you do.” Hazza shot him a grin. “This is the greatest spot on Earth, mate. Now we’ll see if you can keep up with the Aussies, eh?”
Damo shook his head. “With those chicken arms? I dunno. Rescue board alone is what? Ten, twelve kilos? Let alone with a patient on top.”
Cody bit back an indignant response about how much he could bench press and that being short didn’t mean he was weak, and he did not have chicken arms! Plus, he was an Aussie now, thank you very much. But if he let teasing get to him the very first day, he’d never make it. He shrugged carelessly. “Pound for pound, chickens are stronger than lions.”
Damo and Hazza glanced at each other, brows creased. “Is that true?” Hazza asked. “Nah, a chook can’t be as strong as a lion. Could it?”
Liam said, “I sincerely doubt it. All right, let’s get you two out there.” He nodded to Mia, who had stood by silently while the guys ribbed Cody. “Ready?”
“Absolutely,” she replied seriously, spine ramrod straight like a soldier at attention.
It was time to actually be a Barking lifeguard. Mia and Cody were issued their walkie-talkies and bum bags holding basic first aid supplies. Damo nodded to the zippered pouch and asked Cody with too much innocence, “What do you call that?”
Cody attached the pouch around his waist. “I know you want me to say ‘fanny pack,’ but trust me, I learned that one the hard way.”
Damo laughed. “Come on, it’s your vagi—” He broke off, looking guiltily at Mia.
Mia calmly said, “You can say ‘vagina’ in my presence. Or ‘fanny.’”
“Just messing with the Canadian.” Damo said. “They’ve got some funny words over there.”
“‘Flip-flops!’” Hazza laughed. “That’s my fave.”
“All right, back to work before we get into a thong discussion,” Liam grumbled, beckoning Mia and Cody to follow him out of the tower and into one of the ATV buggies, this one with orange painted on the roll bar. After dropping off Mia to shadow a lifeguard at the south end of the beach, Liam left Cody with Ronnie farther north and went off on patrol.
Ronnie sat in a parked buggy, his gaze roving over the water. Cody took the other seat, reminding himself to breathe as he surveyed the water and settled in. This was it. He was lifeguarding. Sure, he’d done it as a clubbie, but this was for real. At the lifesaving club, there were always a bunch of volunteers on each shift. There was little pressure. Now he was being paid to be responsible for people’s lives.
“Nervous?”
Cody admitted, “A little.”
Ronnie laughed easily. “I get it. I was a trainee not too long ago. Got hired on since someone left. Hopefully the same’ll happen for you and Mia. First day’s nerve-racking, but it shouldn’t be too hectic this arvo. Don’t sweat it.”
“Is the second day easier?” Cody adjusted his sunnies, squinting as the sun glittered off the water.
“Nope.” Ronnie grinned. “I still get nervous. Still want to impress. Some of the guys have been doing this for years and years, back when it was just weekends, before all the tourists started coming. One of the senior blokes, Rich—Chalkers, we call him—he’s over fifty and grew up on this beach. Knows it like the back of his hand.”
“So, no pressure.”
Ronnie laughed. “Not a bit. But listen, the fellas are a good bunch. They can be tough on ya, but they just want you to learn and be your best. Try not to take it personally if you get some stick.”
“Cool. Teddy seems pretty mellow?”
“Yeah, he’s good. But he’s always watching. He doesn’t go off too often, but if you deserve it, he will. Not that he yells or anything, but you don’t want to disappoint him. That’s the worst feeling.”
A couple of teenage girls walked by, giggling and whispering. Ronnie gave them a wave, his gaze barely flickering from the water. “Foxy can be a real stickler. He’s wound pretty tight. He’s a good bloke, don’t get me wrong. Just not as chill. With most of the boys, you know from the tone of their voice on the radio how serious a situation is.” He laughed. “Harder to tell with Foxy.”
After twenty minutes of watching and waiting, Liam returned in the orange buggy. He walked over to them and said, “Not much happening.”
As if the universe hissed, “Just watch,” Ronnie’s spine stiffened, his attention zeroed in on something in the water. Cody’s stomach swooped as he scanned the waves and the people swimming there despite the warnings. He didn’t see anyone—
Wait. There. A man floundered off the sandbank, head bobbing under, the rip pulling him out.
“Reckon you’ll be in, mate,” Ronnie said to Cody. “He’s not going to be able to get back.”
Standing at Ronnie’s side, Liam added, “But if you want to watch this one, I can—”
“I’ve got him!” Cody was already tossing his sunnies and cap into the back of the ATV. His radio was clipped to his bum bag, and he unhooked the bag and tossed the lot into the back as well. He was in! He nearly landed on his ass, spinning to grab the long blue rescue board from the carrier on the side of the ATV before bolting for the water.
“Shirt off!” Ronnie yelled after him.
Shit! The fewer clothes on, the faster and lighter he’d be, and drowning patients had less to grab and pull under in their panic. Cody jolted to a stop and yanked off his blue uniform shirt, dropping it to the sand before grabbing the board and racing into the surf, splashing through the shallows and stretching out on his belly on the board, paddling, his arms doing a front crawl, legs kicking in the air. Like most people, keeping them still while he swam hard with his arms was like patting his head and rubbing his belly.
As he reached the shore break, he pushed to his knees and powered with both arms in unison, ducking his head into the frothing, salty wave. The board soared up on the cresting water, the nose lifting, and for a horrible moment he thought he might be pushed back and tumble over as the wave broke.
But then he was over the top, and he paddled against the incoming surf, eyes locked on the bobbing head and hand flailing for help. He realized he was holding his breath and forced an inhalation.
A surfer appeared in his peripheral vision as he caught the rip, and when he reached the man, she was holding him up on her board. Cody almost overshot them, and he sat up straight, straddling the long board. He reached for the man’s arm and hauled him over. To the woman, he said, “Thanks!”
She nodded and paddled away, heading back out to the lineup where surfers waited their turn for the next set. He knew surfers often helped lifeguards, although Cody wondered if he could have been faster to get out. Hazza in the tower was watching him, and probably all the others too. Liam definitely was. Was Cody doing everything he should? He ran through the checklist in his mind.
“You right?” he asked the man, who coughed and sputtered. “You’re okay. Catch your breath.”
The husky, dark-haired, older man didn’t seem to understand him, or if he did, he was possibly in shock. He gasped and clung to the board, draped over it, his legs still in the water. Cody squeezed his shoulder, gauging the incoming swells and the best way to get the patient back to shore.
He’d practiced it many times as a clubbie and in the lifeguarding course he’d taken, but doing it with a volunteer wasn’t the same at all as having an actual shivering, scared person’s life in his hands.
“You’re okay. I’ve got you. Get on your stomach and put your head at the front of the board.” He gave the man’s shoulder a gentle push, and then a firmer one, glancing back at the approaching waves. When he turned, the man’s head was practically in Cody’s lap.
“No, head up front,” Cody repeated, pointing. “That way.” He reached down and tugged one of the man’s thick legs toward him.
The man seemed to get the idea, and he stretched out on his belly with his head facing forward. Cody did the same, his face practically in the man’s butt as he paddled, keeping the patient’s weight toward the back so they didn’t nosedive when the next swell hit. Now he just needed to get the patient to shore without being hammered by a wave.
Glancing back, he paddled hard, hard, hard, and then the surge lifted them with that sensation of flying as they caught the wave, riding the crest of it toward the shore. The patient laughed in delight, and Cody almost did too. They hit the impact zone and didn’t nosedive, instead riding almost all the way, the patient rolling off at the end. Cody helped him up, and Ronnie met them on the sand, Liam watching from the buggies.
After a minute assessing the patient, the man insisted he was fine now and returned to his family on the beach, clearly embarrassed. Ronnie clapped Cody’s wet shoulder. “Nailed it! That was textbook.”
Then Cody saw the smile creasing Liam Fox’s ridiculously beautiful face. It was all white teeth and charming crinkles, and that smile was directed at him. It was beyond stupid to feel a fresh bolt of adrenaline, but he couldn’t resist basking in the attention for a moment.
Grinning, he picked up his shirt by the ATV and shook off the sand, his pulse still racing. His first rescue was in the books, and he’d nailed it.
Hazza’s voice came through the radio. “Chook’s first rescue!”
“Oh God, is that going to be my nickname?” Cody groaned.
Damo’s voice came on. “Go the chook! You legend.”
Ronnie howled with laughter. “Sounds like you’ve got your nickname, Chookie!”
Cody turned to Liam, but he was already back to business, watching the water, his smile gone without a ripple of it remaining on the surface. And no matter how much his logical brain argued against it, Cody’s stubborn soul vowed to make Liam smile again.
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Amid gloomy market conditions, the public preview of One Pearl Bank by CapitaLand drew over 4,000 prospective buyers to its sales gallery over the weekend of 13 and 14 July 2019. What makes the project so popular? Below are some of our observations.
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Beck Slams Huckabee (again)
Indiana4Huck
Post subject: Re: Beck Slams Huckabee (again)
Liked: 73
I have been trying to respond to this for several days but could not log in. I finally had to ask for a password change to get on. You may be sorry that I finally did because it looks like I will be in the very slim minority on this one. But I am used to flying solo. Anyway:
I have been criticizing Mike for not being "tough enough" but I meant on his political principles and speaking out against that which is wrong with our government and how to fix it, NOT on attacking a fellow soldier, even if we question that soldier's motives, sanity or popularity.
I found Mike's response to Beck to have too much personal attack to wonder maybe Mike does have a thin skin afterall. But loving Mike as I do, don't doubt me ( ) I think it is more that Mike, like us all, has a limit to what he will endure. I am not so disappointed that he went after someone who is supposed to be on the side of smaller government and Constitutional principles but that he did it with negative personal innuendos.
Mike, who almost always thinks the best about and treats with respect and dignity everyone, has chosen this to make a bold statement? Mike, who in his own stated words, and I paraphrase, that he fears the Republican primary will be such a battle ground of conservatives/Republicans, beating each other up with negative politics that all we'll be left with is a bloodied, battered, demoralized nominee to face the herculean task of ousting Obama? Mike chooses to use Beck's accusation and this method of response to be bold?
Doesn't anyone else find the following statements from Mike's response, troubling and atypical of the Mike we know and love:
...either out of ignorance or out of a deliberate attempt to distort them to create yet another “boogey man” hiding in the closet that he and only he can see.
He seems to fancy himself a prophet of sorts for his linking so many people and events together to describe a massive global conspiracy for pretty much everything.
Sadly, he seems equally inept at recognizing the obvious fact...
Beck needs to stick to conspiracies that can’t be so easily de-bunked by facts.
Why Beck has decided to aim his overloaded guns on me is beyond me.
But he ought to clean his gun and point it more carefully lest it blow up in his face like it did this time.
Beck, whether you like/agree with him or not, was going down for the ten count of non-importance and obscurity, but now, thanks to Mike's response, has found a way to get himself back in the news, back in the world of relevance. He is being talked about, listened to, quoted. And Mike looks petty and unpresidential in attack mode. It isn't his natural style so he doesn't pull it off well.
Mike will eventually have to separate himself from the 'fringe thinkers' (those far right of center) but I don't think it should be during the primary season.
Maybe it was better to get this one out of the way so that he can use the experience for the time when he will have to take on more formidable foes like Limbaugh and Hannity and Obama.
My Rx: Apologize for the personal character attack, set your record straight, move on to fight another day.
MOO (my opinion only)
Indiana4Huck, my first impression was it's about time Huckabee speaks out. But I have been thinking that, true as everything he said is, it pretty much cuts ties with Beck and his supporters. Pretty big segment. Also, it is a departure from his usual patient and kind way. Sounds like Beck was willing to have him come on the show and emailed Huckabee. But Huckabee had emailed Beck right away. Maybe it should have stayed there. I don't know the situation.
It might be time Huckabee hires a spokesperson to issue short statements when this type of thing comes up. Put a little distance between the two to reflect and not make it so personal. Words are like little birds that cannot be taken back. Sometimes fewer are better. I still say that Beck was much worse and irresponsible to attack Huckabee. But that doesn't make it better for our man. I hate to see more criticism heaped on him. This is another reason why we really need to pray for Huckabee. It is always a delicate balance having the wisdom to know what to do. But words cannot be taken back. So usually less is better.
I sometimes wonder how Huckabee has been as patient as he has, though. When over and over his position is misrepresented as being "progressive" or "fiscally liberal." That is frustrating. He probably lost patience with Beck.
One thing I would really like to see would be to distribute thousands of copies of A Simple Government. Then people could read and judge for themselves that Huckabee is certainly not a "Progressive."
Craig88USC
Location: Newport Beach in Southern California
It might be time Huckabee hires a spokesperson to issue short statements when this type of thing comes up.
Perhaps Ed Rollins would recommend someone to handle that for Huck again.
Or Ed could do the wording.
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WalterCan
The pattern that I've found that works best for me is that if something really makes me mad then I try to find someone to vent to that I can feel safe with saying exactly what I feel and how I feel it. This puts your feelings out there as raw and ugly as they may be. There's something about hearing yourself saying something out loud to someone else that gives you a completely different perspective then just hearing the words inside your head. After that I feel there are 3 things you should do before saying anything directly to the person or to anyone else that might get back to the person. Those 3 things are to pray, read some Scripture, and get some sleep. Rarely do things need to be dealt with during that exact day, and a lot of things look different after a good night's rest.
One other insight I'd have is that Scripture explicitly says that we are to "Be Angry" but don't sin in that anger. There is an appropriate time and way to be angry. Stuffing anger is unhealthy so we have to get it out in appropriate ways. If we don't and we let it build then it will come out in a way that is unhealthy. As I said in a previous post I feel like Huckabee is long overdue in getting some things out in the open regarding all the hits he has taken from Limbaugh, Coulter, Malkin, and others.
I'm just wildly speculating here, but I do wonder if maybe a lot of that has built up, and this recent episode with Beck triggered a response that carried with it a lot of the frustration that he may have been carrying since the last campaign. If he is carrying some things around then it is my opinion that it is going to have to be dealt with for him to go on and be successful. If he does run for President then I'd like to see him address the criticisms from the past and present head-on. Forcefully take on the falsehoods that have been spread but do this without getting personal.
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I have watched and listened to Beck quite a bit over the last 2 years. While I respect and grateful with what information he has brought to our attention, he is beginning to worry me. He is a Pied Piper that has the potential to lead his followers into a Jim Jones political suicide.
He clearly has an agenda. It is to make sure Mike Huckabee is not elected. He would rather have Barack Obama.
He is beginning to loose some conservative friends:
http://dailycaller.com/2011/04/18/thedc ... tribution/
Mike Huckabee is definitely running for President. He might as well just said "I'm in!" after his response to Beck.
For anyone who thinks he crossed the line in making this too personal:
"War is Hell" and politics is worse. (No one has your back)
We had better get used to it. It is not a game of bridge anymore. Shots fired!!
I have my tin foil hat on, wearing it proudly, and will take it off on Inauguration Day 2017.
"If there was hope, it must lie in the proles..." George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
All-in-for-Mike
Location: The Occupied Territory of Northern VA
JustGrace and others, I agree with you, in the sense that when I first read Mike's response, it struck me as a bit more insulting and belligerent than Mike's usual tone.
I also think maybe he's feeling, "Enough is enough!!" with calling Mike a liberal / progressive / big gov't etc. etc. etc. He's been putting up with that cr@p for so long, he just got fed up.
And it may cut ties with Glenn Beck's followers.
But if wonder if any of Beck's followers -- if there even ARE many of them left -- would have voted for Mike anyway.
I personally know quite a few people who USED TO listen to Beck, but don't any more because they feel like he's come unhinged in the last year or so. He DOES seem to fancy himself as a prophet. He sighs all the time, and his speech is peppered with a constant stream of "I told you so" and "I predicted this 3 years ago...." It grows tiresome and grating. And he keeps harping on the warnings to buy food. After a while, I feel like saying, "OK! We heard you!! You can move to a different theme now already!!" I stopped watching Beck last spring / summer.
Recovering Huck-a-holic
All-in-for-Mike wrote:
When one has too narrow a subject, or more time to say things than one has to say, this will happen. Beck has run out of Progressives, so now he's on to naming anyone he doesn't like or is jealous of, as a progressive. If Huckabee doesn't happen to like being in a class with the Nazis, too bad. He can cite the fact that he believes McCain is a progressive, too, so calling Huckabee a progressive is not that bad. This is far-fetched, but Beck seems to be grasping at straws. We wonder where he will go from here.
I don't know how many Beck followers there are left. My sense is that the number will keep decreasing, and that is why Ailes, who liked him and still says he does, is saying Beck's job must go, or be changed. I read that he had as many as 2.7 million a day watching his show, but that it was down to 2 million. It is the sharp decline that is troubling FoxNews. His numbers will probably be lower than that, now.
Unfortunately, one of those followers is my sweet granddaughter of 17 years. She asked me lately if I had read Ayn Rand. No, I haven't. One good thing is that she is scooping up all my political, Christian, and historical books on America because of Beck's earlier emphasis on our nation's history. He has done some good things. What is happening can be true of any of us in any area of concern. In moderation, our concern is fine. But if this is the only you can talk about, you are getting out of balance. I mean Beck, here, but I also need to often remind myself of that verse, "Let your moderation be known unto all men; the Lord is at hand." Phil 4:5 KJV. I have to remind myself of the truth, "Let each consider the other better than himself." Huckabee genuinely believes that and shows great humility and self-control. Maybe Huckabee said a little too much, but of course it was nothing in comparison to all that has been flung against him. Two minutes against hours and hours of distortions and lies about him from conservative talkers. Part of me was saying, "Good, it's about time you set the record straight!" But another part of me wonders if this will not just increase the attacks and further divide conservatives. And let Obama win.
It's almost as if Beck has run out of true progressives to target, so now he has started pinning on the label to anyone he does not like. With Huckabee doing so well on the weekend show and having more listeners on daily radio, Beck likes Huckabee less and less. But Beck needs to be careful, too, because he loses credibility when people can easily pick up Huckabee's book, named A Simple Government. One does not have to read far to see that he means less centralized government, not more. He means more individual responsibility, not less. I do not think Beck has cracked this book, yet. Otherwise Beck would be having Huckabee on his show to illustrate, chalk in hand, the wisdom of each chapter.
I do think we have an even more basic battle here at play, for the hearts of the American people. And I see it also as a spiritual battle, since the freedoms of religion, and the valuing of life are at stake.
On the one side are those who we might call progressives or just liberals. They see the people as incapable of making any decisions for themselves and they see government as the savior that can solve all problems. This was Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, although they also were egotists who wanted power and glory more than anything. But communism is based on the idea that only the elite rulers know what the people need, which required making their only worship be for the state, with no room for God with a capital "G". And socialism decides that big government is the only way to bring fairness to the world by playing Robin Hood. Progressivism is Beck's pet name. Does he mean radicalism? Elitism? Socialism? What, exactly? Even after all the charts and dates, I am not quite sure. Especially now. I think it means liberalism and maybe world domination.
This may be Obama.
But Huckabee? He is exactly the opposite, for he sees within the people the reservoir of wisdom and goodness that is capable of ruling our nation. But, of course, the people need to be good, and that depends upon their personal faith, responsibility, the strength of families and marriages, the respect for life at all stages, and involvement in choosing wise leaders.
How can we do our best to help Huckabee? I am sure he is frustrated beyond words at how Beck, Rush, Malkin, and others seem determined to paint him as a liberal, and now what, a PROGRESSIVE? It is beyond ridiculous that our conservative talkers could keep on attacking the best hope they have to oust Obama. But they are on their own little campaigns for followings. I'd like to see a little moderation among conservatives, or as Huckabee would say, some common sense.
I am determined to do what I can to help Huckabee this round. One of the most important ways is to pray for him to have strength and wisdom from above. But also, I am praying for myself, to be kept from impatience or anger that might make me say things I regret. Moderation (or gentleness) in all. It's hard in politics.
Someone has to speak the truth, but in love. In love? That will be very hard, but that seems to be part of what is missing among Huckabee's critics. Well, the truth, too, at least in regards to those who want to misrepresent and marginalize this fine man.
And WalterCan, you had some excellent suggestions for keeping our tongues and words under control. Thanks.
jcpender
Location: Mansfield Center, CT
Tuned in to see if Beck was going to say anything. He did. He had lists up about Mike's record. Also, Mike's audio of his response concerning the progressive jab. Beck said that the media was hyping this and also a spat with Andrew Brietbart. He went on to discuss the particulars about the Brietbart thing. I was actually surprised that he said anything regarding Mike on Fox. At the end of the segment it was kind of weird. He talked about how he wont fight with Mike or Brietbart. Beck also said that if it's a choice between Obama and Huckabee, he'll choose Huckabee. He doesn't want infighting, he wants to unite. Really strange, hopefully they'll post the video.
The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution is a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
James Madison, September 1829
FL4Huck
Location: Lehigh Acres,Florida
I heard and it sickened me. I wonder if Fox is going to allow this to go on. Its not fair for Mike to not be able to defend himself or to be called thin skin, when he does.
I got home to see the last half of Beck's program and my thinking is that over the weekend Beck saw that he was going to reap more negatives than positives for criticizing a fellow Fox News colleague and for giving the left more slanted, biased ammunition to use against Mike. Beck gave a weak white flag message to pacify his critics and end the controversy. Remember, Beck's turned against Mike two years ago after Mike made a controversial comment about Mormon doctrine. Many members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints are also out to undermine Mike's politics.
QuoVadisAnima
And let's not forget that Fox's top guns are probably bearing down pretty hard on Beck right now for attacking one of their ratings winners!
goalieman
Indiana4Huck wrote:
Actually, I fully endorse everything Huck said in those quotes above! I like a street fighter!
Most people believe what they see, the Left see's what it believes.....
ThatMan
Location: Ottumwa, Iowa
I think sometimes people mistake the Governor's gentlemanly demeanor as some how being "meek or weak." If he does not respond to attacks he is "weak" and if he does he is "thinned skinned." The fact is, Governor Huckabee has solid conservative credentials that can not be denied. The Governor is able to be effective without being obstinate. He is more concerned about what is right and wrong, and what is good for America, not just what's best for him politically. Consequently, some view this as a weakness.
However, meekness is not weakness. It is not a spineless kind of timidity. It is the “strength under control” that is needed in our culture. Meekness is where humility and self-control meet. It is one of the most indispensable aspects of truly Christ like character. It’s the one quality most necessary to tame an out- of -control ego. As arrogance gives way to meekness, it is the cure for countless ills that often hinder the quest for character.
In addition, Huckabee has the ability to appeal to non-conservative voters, independents and minorities. He’s charming and charismatic, a gifted speaker with a quick wit and disarming sense of humor. He is the anti-Obama. Perhaps that is why he has led overall in polling for over a year now. Even though Beck and those like him in the media have pretended to ignore this reality for months, they are now in a corner. In their mind, the Huck Train must be derailed before it gets any further down the political tracks. It appears to me Beck has "gone Mel Gibson" and may likely self destruct. It remains to be seen how many "conservatives" will follow him over the cliff.
I like the Mel Gibson comparison. That does seem to be Beck's future, unfortunately.
QuoVadisAnima wrote:
I agree QVA. Probably the reason for Beck's half-hearted retraction. But he managed to throw in plenty more claims/lies about Huckabee's record, so that means he gets the parting salvo.
WinningGuy
Unfortunately, I'm going to have to go against Mike on this.
He's still one of my favorites for President, but I don't like the way he handled this at all. When I read his statement, my opinion of him dropped a little.
Mike is a somewhat progressive Republican when compared to a libertarian Republican. And Beck, is a libertarian.
Beck stated a difference in philosophy, but Mike made a personal attack. I thought that Mike was above that. But apparently not. So I'm disappointed.
Why can't people agree do disagree?
I think Mike should have taken it in stride. Said, "Mr. Beck, I understand how you feel. And these are the reasons why I disagree with you."
Beck also called Romney a "Progressive" due to RomneyCare but (unlike his scorn for Huck) Beck campaigned loudly and voted for Romney last time and will again.
Only a blind person would not see what is going on.
On his radio show and not being restrained by Fox (who thankfully has decided he's through and they've has enough of his conspiracies), Beck was of course much worse with his giggling sidekick on radio laughing hysterically as Beck went point by point distorting Huck' true record as governor for 10 1/2 years.
Only a deaf person would not hear what is going on.
cschande
WinningGuy wrote:
With Beck, a difference in philosophy is a personal attack.
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Craig88USC wrote:
And Beck called Romney a progressive again. And said that Romney is not his preferred candidate this election cycle.
But if Romney or Huckabee win the nomination, he will vote for either one. Just like he did for McCain. Because neither one, even though they are more progressive than a libertarian, is remotely as progressive as a progressive Democrat like Obama.
Aren't these kinds of statements bad for political discourse? They are logical fallacies that don't advance communication.
The true record is that taxes went up.
Huck has stated what he believes to be good reasons for this.
At that point, it's up to each individual voter to decide if they agree that the resons Huck gives are good enough or not. Some will agree. Some will disagree.
Yeah... not conducive to getting at truth.
cschande wrote:
How so? He's stated that he believe that Huckabee is a good Christian man. But he disagrees with him on policy.
Is this the attitude that we really should be having? Do we need to attack anyone that has criticism?
This sounds like a claim that I expect from emotional leftists, not reasonable conservatives.
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Health Department report lists multiple cancer causing chemicals used in fracking in WA
Posted by Jane Hammond 905sc on October 25, 2015
A new report by the WA Health Department on fracking and public water supplies has identified multiple carcinogenic chemicals used in the fracking process, some of which have no known safe levels of ingestion, the Frack Free Mid West Alliance warned today.
The report obtained by the Alliance, looked only at the risk to human health from fracking contaminating drinking water supplies, and concluded that such a risk “could be managed.”
However, the report also noted that much of the science on chemical contamination of drinking water supplies in the United State’s near fracking wells was sadly lacking because baseline studies had not been undertaken and monitoring was not comprehensive.
The report, prepared for the WA Upper House committee looking into fracking, was cited on Friday by Mines Minister Bill Marmion who claimed it gave the industry a “big tick”.
But coordinator of the Alliance Jo Franklin said the report by its own admission only examined a small part of the concerns associated with the health impacts of fracking and to read it as giving the green light to fracking would be to misrepresent the report.
“It did not examine the health impacts from fugitive emissions, flaring or venting from the fracking wells. In Queensland and in the United States emissions have been a major concern with people suffering from headaches, nose bleeds and unexplained illnesses near fracking wells,” Ms Franklin said.
“The report noted that 78 (40%) of the 195 priority chemicals used in fracking do not have a guideline or relevant approval by a regulatory agency and 13 are known human carcinogens. A further 28 are known as carcinogenic in animal studies and 35 are listed as animal developmental and reproductive toxicants.
“These are not the sorts of chemicals we want to drink or breathe in. The report contends that industry best practice combined with communications plans to warn everyone to stop drinking water in the event of a spill should mean we won’t get poisoned, but I don't think many people will take great comfort in that.
“The report notes that in December last year New York State prohibited any further high volume hydraulic fracking for shale gas in its jurisdiction due to concerns for public health.
“Given the experience of fracking for shale in other parts of the world it is odd that our health department has concluded that our public health risks from fracking, at least in terms of potential drinking water contamination can be managed.”
Ms Franklin called for a moratorium on all fracking in WA until there has been a through independent and robust scientific investigation into all public health concerns relating to the industry.
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The Fantastic Debauchery Of Jenny Hval’s Blood Bitch Live
The Norwegian musician delivers a funny, feminine performance
Hazel Cills 10/03/2016
“I wholeheartedly care about your well-being,” Jenny Hval told the crowd at Manhattan’s Le Poisson Rouge on Friday night. “I know I always sound like I’m being ironic but I really, truly mean that.” The Norwegian musician, who was performing her new album Blood Bitch, had been joking between songs in her (perhaps accidentally) signature deadpan. Earlier, while explaining how she felt about taking the stage after the fantastic opener serpentwithfeet, she refused to tell the audience the Norwegian term for having to stressfully follow a great performer. “It has to do with skiing,” Hval said disappointedly. “Maybe after the show I’ll tell you.”
For nearly a decade, Jenny Hval’s philosophical art-pop has pulled extensively from feminist theory, from untangling self-care mantras to deconstructing Joan of Arc and pornography in the same breath. She has written two novels, of which she writes on her website: “It’s best not to try to translate the titles. They don’t make sense in English. Trust me.” And on her latest record, Blood Bitch, she turns her gaze to the vampire as a feminist figure, pulling from ’70s horror movies like Female Vampire and the bloody ritual of menstruation.
But for all of its challenging, conceptual subject matter, like the female body and capitalism, Hval’s live performance of Blood Bitch reveals its sense of humor. For the entirety of the show, Hval was accompanied by music video director Zia Anger and artist Annie Bielski, who served as magnetic backup dancers and assistants. They moshed exhaustingly in place to the pulsating “Female Vampire” and performed a manic, aerobic dance number to “The Great Undressing,” shedding their black cloaks to reveal undergarments painted to look like nude bodies. For “Conceptual Romance,” the duo embraced each other sensually onstage, slowly binding themselves together with Saran Wrap before offering the roll to the audience, who further unfurled it and carried it across the crowd.
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Aided by the venue’s aggressive strobe lights, Blood Bitch played at times like an energetic dance album, as tracks like “Secret Touch” and “Female Vampire” transformed into club songs onstage. The overall mood was deeply and humorously decadent, a tribute to the self-indulgence of vampirism. Throughout the show, Hval, Bielski, and Anger would grab flowers, melons, grapes, apples, and red wine from a table they had assembled to look like some Dutch still-life, along with gold nylon balloons spelling out “BLOOD BITCH.” At the midway point of the album, Hval lamented that shows always seem to go too fast and imposed a brief party break, and audience members watched as the band drank wine and ate grapes, passing flowers out into the crowd.
In literary critic Nina Auerbach’s 1995 book Our Vampires, Ourselves, she analyzes the versatility of vampires in pop culture, from Bram Stoker’s Dracula to Reagan-era ’80s movies like Near Dark. What continually captivates people about vampires, she believes, is how close they are to the mortals they prey on. “Vampires are neither inhuman nor nonhuman nor all-too-human,” Auerbach writes. “They are simply more alive than they should be.” As far as vampires in pop culture go, Hval could have started at so many places: Nosferatu, Buffy, David Bowie in The Hunger. And yet it was the vampire as a vessel for female sexuality and debauchery, seen in porny ’70s B-movies, that seems to have particularly inspired the album and her show. Blood Bitch live, with its goofily sexual Saran Wrap number, the flow of wine and fruit, and the intimate onstage circle of friendship between Anger, Bielski, and Hval, was unapologetically hedonistic in a way that felt distinctly feminine. I was reminded of teenage sleepovers that turned into funny tarot card readings and Truth or Dare after the lights went off. Why did we so desperately want to see Bloody Mary in the mirror? What weird courage did the night give us to test one another and spill our secrets?
“There comes a certain point in our lives when we more or less desperately want to be bad,” Hval sang near the show’s end on “Secret Touch,” her eyes closed, as Anger stood on a ladder and threw white confetti over Hval’s head like snow. “When we gladly exchange the good things, just for a short moment, to feel alive.” If Blood Bitch live is to be that short moment — a glimpse into the sexy eternity where vampires live out their days only in the night, a chance for women to become “simply more alive” than they’re supposed to be — then exchanging the good things might not be so bad.
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The joy of holiday birthdays
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A life within a life
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Amanda Lindquist can see that her 2-month-old son, Jacob, is getting tired — yawning, fluttering his eyelids, rubbing his eyes. After he falls asleep her arms, she doesn’t move him to a crib. Rather, she reaches for a box tucked beside the couch. She lays him down inside its four cozy cardboard walls where he rests soundly for almost two... more
Paced bottle-feeding
Whether you’re formula feeding from the start, pumping the occasional bottle for the sitter or practicing for the return to work, there are best health practices for bottle-feeding.A bottle-fed baby should be fed according to feeding cues (mouth movement, rooting, sucking on hands and eventually crying — just as you would feed a breastfed baby)... more
No sleep for a year?
Q: The AAP now says parents and infants should sleep in the same room through age 1. But I can’t sleep because I wake up with every false cry my baby makes! Can I break this rule?A: In October 2016, the American Association of Pediatrics (AAP) officially recommended that in order to lower the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), babies... more
New mattress
The SafeSleep Breathe-Through Crib Mattress — invented by three professionals who all lost a loved one to SIDS — creates a bed of air layered between the mattress and a crib base, which allows baby to breathe even if in a face-down position.It also discourages overheating, thanks to increased airflow.$299–$399 • securebeginnings.com more
Bleb and beyond
Before we get into all the fun things that can happen to your boobs while breastfeeding, I want to make something clear: I support all feeding choices. Next month, I plan to focus on bottle-feeding. It is my belief, having worked with many different families during their postpartum period, that some moms love breastfeeding and some don’t.... more
Mind over mud
Getting kids to play outside should be easy. But sometimes — in this age of nature-deficit disorder/screen-time and a strictly enforced culture of helicopter parenting — it seems like it’s never been more difficult.However, I’m here to tell you: Our kids really, really want it — water, dirt, air and mud, lots of mud — yes, even the... more
When it comes to adding another child to your family — and perhaps taking the plunge to go beyond two kids — how do parents decide? Even more important, how do parents make their bigger families work? Forty-eight percent of Americans believe two children is the ideal number of children to have, according to a 2013 Pew Research Center... more
Work–life balancing act
Is the term “work-life balance” the ultimate oxymoron of our times? Many of us struggle with the challenge of remaining fully engaged in the all-important work of raising one (or more) decent human beings, while also being a fully dedicated and productive worker. And for those who work from home (which is, face it, all of us at one time... more
The doula is in
Whether by birth or adoption, your transition from non-parent to parent covers about two years and change — two years of monumental, unparalleled, bonkers, worrisome, heartbreaking, heart-healing change. My daughter, my firstborn, changed me in about 5 billion ways. From the foods I ate, to the medical choices I made, to what I did with my... more
Surviving special needs
Let me start by being totally clear: I’m not pretending to have this all figured out. If I’m honest with you, there have been times when I’ve felt as if I was barely surviving. Certainly, I’ve cried more about my daughter’s life-threatening medical condition than I’ve cried about anything else. She has a rare genetic difference that... more
Birth-day expectations
MamaAfter the excitement of the positive pregnancy test wore off a bit, my partner (Galen) and I began talking through what was ahead, including when and how we’d tell our friends and family about the pregnancy, which parenting classes we’d take and, of course, how we’d handle communication around the birth of our little one.Because my parents... more
Mod play gym
Sick of garish baby toys? This cute little wooden archway — made of 100 percent birch and available in a variety of styles and finishes — is pretty enough to leave out all day long.It adjusts to two different heights and is finished with non-toxic stains. During Minnesota Parent's annual toy test, babies were drawn to the organic-cotton, wool-... more
So long, Toddler Time
It started with an innocent Freaky Friday daydream, parenting-columnist style. “Your kids are toddlers now. You should do a guest spot at Toddler Time,” I said to Shannon Keough, Minnesota Parent’s Baby on Board columnist.“And you know babies!” she countered. “Maybe we could trade places for a round?”Well, one thing led to another, and... more
OK, first things first: This is my last ever Baby on Board column! How bittersweet it is to leave behind the world of tiny little babies and all those milestones: The first smile! The first night of uninterrupted sleep! The first time you change a diaper right there in Row 22, Seat C, because the flight attendant won’t let you into the... more
A different kind of parenting journey
Wendell Sherman-Strand, 5, of Minneapolis — who vacationed out West with his family of five this past summer — has an extremely rare genetic condition.Wendell was born in 2011 as a healthy baby. After his two-month checkup, his parents Katie Sherman and John Strand headed to northern Minnesota with their toddler, Bjorn, and infant Wendell to spend... more
Sensory toys!
Buying toys for kids with autism spectrum disorder can be tricky, especially when so many item are marketed as “sensory”or ASD friendly. Fortunately, local families have a special resource for guidance in this area: Creative Kidstuff — a local toy store with seven locations in the Twin Cities, plus online sales — has partnered with St. David’... more
When will she ever really sleep?
Q: Our daughter is 6 and still isn’t sleeping through the night! A: Sleep problems are common in kids. Such disturbances in sleep — falling asleep, staying asleep, awakening early and restless sleep — can impact the whole family, not just at night, but throughout the day. While there are many learned behavioral issues that can lead to... more
Clicky toy
The Push and Pull UFO is like a fidget toy for babies age 6 months and up.Four colorful rods with buttons on each end slide back and forth to make engaging clicking noises, offering simple lessons in cause and effect.A button in the middle of the spacecraft emits soft squeaks when pushed just right, encouraging fine motor skills.$9 • peopletoy.co... more
I feel a little ashamed that I haven’t written about adoption until now. I think the unrelenting nature of the whole parenthood thing has made me a bit self-absorbed and tunnel vision-y. Curiosity about the world outside my own little pinkeye factory became just another casualty of my stumbling-through-the-dark parenting style.... more
Jack’s Basket
First there was the emergency C-section, a sudden and traumatic experience on its own. Then they found out their son was born, much to their surprise, with Down syndrome. They were filled with many different emotions at first, including shock, not knowing how to process the diagnosis. But life went on. And they fell in love with... more
Learning how to be a good friend isn’t easy. Sharing and saying sorry sincerely (when you’ve made a mistake) are required skills. And — as these new stories show — children must also learn empathy, patience, loyalty, inclusiveness and even the ability to look past prejudice and the intimidation of bullies.My Friend MaggieThis tale of friendship... more
You won’t believe it
When my best friend had her first child, she couldn’t believe how hard it was caring for a baby. She’d heard all the stories about sleepless nights, endless crying and nasty diaper blowouts.She was a longtime babysitting pro and an auntie, too. She was great with kids. She even worked with elementary school children for a living. She had all... more
Gina Matter was a kid when she fell in love with the story of Harry Potter. She discovered the books by J.K. Rowling when she was a struggling reader. Her mother started reading the stories aloud to her before bed.“The series captivated me so much, I began to pick up the books and continue on without her,” Matter said.Today Matter — who lives... more
Cozy up!
Looking down at my newborn boy, whose slow, rhythmic sucking matched the metronome of my heartbeat, I felt tears forming at the corner of my eye. But these weren’t tears of joy; they were tears of pain. My neck, my back, my shoulders — everything — felt stiff, sore and tense. As much as I wanted to relax, I simply couldn’t. Instead of... more
Spinning stacker
This new stacking toy features six gear shapes that spin — rather than slide straight down — a spiral pole.SpinAgain, geared toward ages 1 and older, earned a Parents’ Choice Awards Foundation nod in 2016. We like that it includes a reversible base that can be flat for stability or rounded for a more wobbly challenge; plus it has a removable... more
Congratulations, you’re going to have a baby! Whether you’re giving birth or adopting, your life is going to change in a major way with the arrival of that little bundle of magic and tears. Yes, that’s what everyone says; and, yes, it’s a totally boring thing to say. And you won’t understand the profundity of that change until there... more
The best word to describe our adjustment to life with three kids -- all of whom are under age 4 -- is juggle. It's been a juggle. An ongoing education in accepting the good-enough. It's OK if the girls go to bed one night without brushing their teeth. In fact, one night after Archie was born, we didn't even bother with pajamas. They... more
Open fetal surgeries offered in Minneapolis
The Midwest Fetal Care Center in Minneapolis was a marvel when it opened a year ago, offering life-saving fetal surgeries to babies in utero, including twins. Now the center has expanded its services to include open fetal surgeries with a special emphasis on treating spina bifida.Literally meaning “split spine,” the condition (which begins... more
Here I am, 37 weeks pregnant, asking BabyNameWizard.com to generate sister names for Maria and Jane, my two daughters. Three come up on the lists for both girls: Elizabeth, Anna and Sarah. For a moment, I feel something loosen in me, a surrender: OK, we’ll just use one of these. We’ll let the experts decide for us. Only yesterday a... more
Baking set for kids
Bring on the next MasterChef Junior! Sized just right for little hands, this 17-piece intro-to-baking box was a hit during our annual Toy Test.But this gift set isn’t just a toy. All the tools and pieces are designed for real cooking and repeat use.Though technically recommended for ages 3 and older, it seems like a good fit (with supervision) for... more
Wooden teether
This teething ring — made from untreated Indian hardwood and finished with vegetable seed wax — features the added bonus of bunny-esque ears made of organic cotton.If you’re feeling overwhelmed by plastic, check out these “teething ears” (available in many prints and colors) — along with rest of the amazing-looking Finn & Emma collection.... more
It's a BOY! The refrain keeps ringing in my mind. After having two girls, these three words are so new and thrilling. When my husband announced them, they brought tears to my eyes, and I reached forward and pulled a beautiful baby to my chest. The dream of Archibald Kenneth has been in our hearts for many years. We've always hoped... more
Whenever I learn that one of my friends is going to have a baby, I promptly begin to panic on her behalf. “Congratulations!” I yelp, hoping my frozen smile will mask my palpable anxiety. I realize how crappy this is. For one thing, I’m taking someone else’s big life event and making it all about me. Furthermore, can’t I just stop... more
Time out for Dad!
As promised in last month’s issue, Dad’s Night Out (DNO) follows Mom’s Night Out (MNO).I really want to make it clear: You dads need to do this! Though it’s sometimes implied that new fathers inherently have more freedom (you don’t lease your womb to occupants, you don’t breastfeed), you, too, need to remember what it’s like to be autonomous... more
Making time for Mama
Mothers have a reputation of living their lives for other people. Indeed, I don’t think it would be an exaggeration to say that for me, as a kindergarten teacher-mother of four, I could spend every waking hour doing something productive that involves some sort of service to others, whether that’s cooking family meals, doing laundry,... more
Parents are unwittingly putting children in increased danger because of common car seat mistakes. Here's how to keep your favorite tiny passengers safe.Installation rules, manufacturer regulations, confusing gadgetry and ever-evolving laws that vary by age — trying to understand car seat safety can feel like falling blindly into a black hole.This... more
Pregnancy update!
I had forgotten how the final weeks of pregnancy turn me into the boy who cried wolf. I’m almost 39 weeks along now, and every day I can feel the baby lowering. For a fleeting moment, the lower abdominal pressure can masquerade as a contraction.I keep telling my husband that labor feels imminent, even though my due date isn’t until Feb. 20 – a... more
New food pouches
Rita Katona and Eric Hall of Minneapolis have introduced a new kind of baby food under the brand So Good Baby, now sold in handy pouches nationwide.What makes the local couple’s products special is that they’re pressure processed, rather than heat pasteurized, a practice that can sap flavor and nutritional value. So Good Baby’s organic,... more
My son started attending his in-home daycare when he was about 10 months old. The thing about in-home daycare is that there’s a certain “family” element to the whole thing. You might get to know your provider’s partner and children. You might catch glimpses of their family life when you run into them after hours at the nearby ice cream shop.... more
A go-to pant for mamas
Navel pants — created by Sarah Longacre, the beloved founder of Blooma (a local yoga studio and haven for mamas and mamas-to-be) — are on sale now online.After making an early debut at Bellyrama at Lake Harriet this past September, the high-rise comfy pants, which include a removable 9-inch belly band, cost $70 (20 percent off if you sign up for e... more
Find the right formula
Q: Which baby formula should we choose?A: Though the formula options available on store shelves can be dizzying — organic, iron-fortified, non-GMO, probiotic- and DHA/AHA-enhanced — the good news is, the major “brand name” formulas contain all the essential nutrients, minerals and vitamins needed for healthy infant growth and development. ... more
Tree of Life breastfeeding images
The first Tree of Life image I saw was in a closed Facebook group of breastfeeding mamas in the Twin Cities. Ashley Vanderwerf shared a photo she edited in a post to the group. Screenshot shared with permissionThe original post Her post was simple and beautiful:"I edited this picture of my daughter nursing. If anyone wants me to make them one... more
Welcome to our annual Baby Issue! Whether you’re feeding a newborn right this very second, patting your belly in anticipation of a very important arrival or maybe even getting ready to welcome your first grandchild, this issue is for you! I expect the most-read article this month will be our sleep story, outlining five different types of... more
Becoming a family of 5: pregnancy news
I'm so happy to share our good news with you: I'm pregnant!We are expecting Baby No. 3 in late February. I just popped earlier this month. My first time wearing maternity jeans was at our trip to the RenFest. (Isn't Maria's fox dress adorable? It's from Little Rabbit Wears. I'm obsessed with all things fox and will be blogging about my... more
Breastmilk vs. formula
Since becoming a MoM (Mom of Multiples), I've been fortunate enough to join some amazing Facebook groups where moms can share photos and stories, ask questions and offer advice — all in a safe and positive environment. I read a post from a mom with newborn twins who was struggling with nursing and pumping and wondering what to do. She asked... more
What is thrush?
Q: My baby boy has white patches on the insides of his cheeks. What is it?A: Generally, when parents notice white patches on the insides of their infants’ cheeks, it’s usually a condition known as thrush.Thrush is an excessive growth of a yeast (fungus) in the mouth and is very common among infants in the first few months of life. The white... more
Chic bouncer
Infant gear can be so ugly!Who’s this stuff for anyway? Babies?Enter modern-American designer Jonathan Adler, who recently partnered with Fisher-Price on a new line of contemporary items, including a chic little vibrating bouncer with a built-in mobile, featuring a signature high-contrast black-and-white fabric, plus walnut wood accents. $119... more
The mythology surrounding motherhood is something I could seriously do without. From the supposedly “instinctual” nature of mothering to the notion that mothers are meant to suffer with a smile, I’ve had enough. And I’d like to reassure you that you don’t need to let these ideas control your life. Motherhood myths that set my teeth... more
Life with multiples!
Photo by Agape Moments Photography"Above all else, keep the babies on the SAME routine; once that’s accomplished, life is that much easier! And finally, ENJOY the small moments — the cuddles, smiles and first giggles."– Karen Kartman of Lino Lakes, mother of twins Aubrey and Lyla, pictured with big brother, Colby, 4, and Dad, Paul Photo... more
MoMs tell all!
You aren’t imagining things. Twins are becoming more common — and have been for decades.In 2009, 1 in every 30 babies born in the United States was a twin, compared with 1 in every 53 babies in 1980, according to the CDC.Put another way, that’s more than 1 million more twins who wouldn’t have existed before the increase. And that’s... more
The Golden Hour
Most women prepare for childbirth fervently. The Birth Plan has been en vogue for over a decade now and might include — among other things — the doula’s name, preferred interventions (if any), which Grandmas are allowed on the scene (if any) and where, precisely, the partner will be positioned (ahem) as the baby is crowning. The Birth... more
Nursing pillow for twins!
The Twin Z Pillow is the nursing pillow to try if you have multiples.It’s E-shaped and works differently than a Boppy.You put the middle part behind your back for support and then wrap the sides around your waist and click them together in front of you.Our Moe-Mama’s-Must-Haves blogger (a mother of three, including now-9-month- old twins) has... more
I was about six months pregnant with our first child when my husband and I got around to discussing where the baby was going to sleep.“Well, I suppose we could just keep the bassinet in our room,” I said as we paced our cozy, 800-square-foot one-bedroom house.But was that a forever solution? Were we on board with sharing a bedroom with our... more
Hot car seat? Problem solved!
We're in the middle of a heat wave in Minnesota, and that means hot cars. Hot cars also mean hot car seats. Today I'd like to share a trick I figured out to help keep your little one's car seat (especially the buckles) from getting too hot. The idea came to me a couple weeks ago, and in the heat this past Wednesday I finally tested it out.... more
How to make the easiest flower crowns
Flower crowns are having a moment.Suri Cruise, the 10-year-old daughter of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, recently appeared in her mom's Instagram feed sporting a dainty purple-and-yellow flower crown.Tiffani Thiessen (better known as Kelly Kapowski) decked out her 5-year-old daughter and a group of frocked friends in flower crowns this spring for a... more
Crib sheet life hack
At some point, it happens to all parents. Your baby spits up all over in the crib. Or your toddler gets sick and throws up in bed. Or your recently-potty-trained preschooler has an accident while sleeping. When these things happen in the middle of the night, they're even more difficult to deal with. You need to clean up the mess as well... more
Tandem-nursing twins? Oh, yes you can!
When I found out I was carrying not one, but two babies, I was in shock. The funny thing about it was that I knew twins ran in my family and was trying to prepare myself for that possibility before I got pregnant with my (now 3-year-old) daughter. This time around, the possibility of twins hadn't even crossed my mind. After the news sunk in,... more
New fetal care center
The Michael and Ann Ciresi Midwest Fetal Care Center — a new 6,700-square-foot clinic located in The Mother Baby Center in Minneapolis — opened March 14.It’s the first and largest advanced fetal care program in the Upper Midwest, made possible by a partnership involving Children’s Minnesota, Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Minnesota Perinatal... more
OK, this isn’t my WHOLE birth story.But I can tell you this: My son’s birth included a dose of morphine and a possibly-botched epidural installment (because of curvature in my spine), which meant I felt powerful contractions to the end.Why exactly did I receive a narcotic?I believe, ultimately, it was because I was afraid — of pain, of tearing,... more
The high chair you can take anywhere!
When expecting our first child, we knew we were going to need a high chair, but we didn't know which one to choose. Our kitchen is pretty small, so we definitely didn't have space for a freestanding high chair — they seemed too big to me anyway. We agreed getting a high chair that straps onto a regular chair made the most sense. When... more
Mocktails for mamas-to-be
Non-alcoholic beer Saying that any wine or beer is non-alcoholic is a bit of a misnomer, since both can sometimes contain trace amounts of alcohol. Beers typically contain less than 0.5 percent alcohol by volume (ABV) in the U.S., which means you’d have to drink nine O’Doul’s to equal even one regular beer. German-brewed Clausthaler... more
Jennifer Schwertfeger, a Mankato mother of three daughters, knows the trauma of NICU — and beyond — all too well.Her second daughter, Grace, was born at 24 weeks, weighing 1 pound, 6.2 ounces. Early on in her pregnancy, Schwertfeger faced complications, including a torn placenta in her sixth week and a large blood clot attached to her uterus... more
Letters from the NICU
Feb. 8, 2009Hi Thomas. I’m your dad, Colin. Your mom, Rachel, and I are sitting with you in the NICU. You were born Feb. 5, 2009, at 7:07 p.m. Things have been hectic the last few days. You see, we weren’t expecting you for five more weeks. Unfortunately, your mom suddenly starting having some health issues that could have endangered both of you,... more
In many ways, our notion of pain during labor comes from cultural expectation, including basically every birth depicted in scripted TV. Mothers scream and sometimes become cartoonishly violent toward their spouses. It’s high drama.But for a growing number of women, even in the U.S., childbirth is viewed as an intense, but not necessarily... more
Books for mamas-to-be
Whether you’re a new-mom-to-be on a quest for fresh knowledge, a friend looking for a fun baby-shower book or a grandparent in search of a perfect Mother’s Day gift for your daughter, we hope you’ll find something in this mix to pique your interest. Ma Doula: A Story Tour of BirthYou’ll hear a lot of birth stories during your pregnancy — be... more
Q: I’m pregnant. What can I do to protect myself against the Zika virus?A: Zika virus disease has become an international health concern because of the multiple countries currently affected by the virus. Mexico, Central America and the northern two-thirds of South America are countries where the virus currently is causing infections.... more
Minnetonka author and mother of four Julie Burton is coming out with an encouraging book for moms this May.The Self-Care Solution: A Modern Mother's Must-Have Guide to Health And Well-Being ($16.95) includes Burton’s own highly personal postcards from the edge of parenting (and the consequences of self-neglect) as well as insights from... more
You don't have to nest
The nesting instinct is a much-discussed phenomenon of pregnancy. Evidently, it’s totally common for pregnant women to get a huge burst of energy during the second trimester — or the last few days before giving birth (or both) — because we’re anxious to ensure that everything is “just so” for the arrival of our newborn. “Make... more
Got multiples?
If you’re parenting or expecting multiples, Welcome Baby Care needs you! Birth rates for multiples are increasing, and the Edina-based postpartum doula agency wants to learn from local parents about their needs. Parents or expecting parents of multiples are invited to share their most pressing challenges in a 23-question online survey. ... more
The invisible mother
Everyone loves you when you’re pregnant. (Well, maybe not everyone — there are those militant anti-breeders who will shoot you disgusted looks when you deign to enter Five Watt Coffee, distended abdomen in tow.) But in general no matter how lousy you might feel, you can count on friends and strangers alike to smile at you approvingly and insist... more
Why you NEED a date night!
I wrote about childcare in a previous column — when to start looking for it (ideally about five years before you get pregnant or adopt your child), why you need it (so you can get work done) and how you should feel about it (not guilty).What strikes me now is how utilitarian this view is. And I don’t think it’s just me; when I talk to other... more
It's about you, too
The hospital tour guide stopped next to a bank of windows, behind which stood a darkened room filled with folding chairs, empty boxes and definitely no babies. “This is the nursery,” he announced, smirking. Some prospective patients laughed nervously; others chuckled knowingly. “Yeah, we don’t ship babies away to the nursery at this... more
Twins are here!
I can't believe my twin babies are three months old! My toddler will officially become a 3-year-old this month, too. Where has the time gone? I've been back at work for a few weeks now and finally feel caught up on things and able to write this post. (I'm a graphic designer first, mommy blogger second.) Back to work It felt strange... more
The SassyPop Play Pod ($59.99) features gorgeous bright colors, five detachable toys and an especially large base with double padding and high sides to corral your kid.But what really sets it apart is that it twists and collapses down, arches and all, into a convenient travel/storage bag so you can take in on the go — maybe to grandma’s house... more
Stroller caddy
Keeping your most important items at your fingertips while you’re out with Baby is essential. This Stroller Organizer Tray from Prince Lionheart ($25) features two cup holders and three storage areas. We like the Velcro-closure pocket that allows you to tuck your phone away from the elements. Four adjustable hook-and-loop straps make it easy... more
How to help friends, family when a new baby arrives
This month one of my very best friends is expecting her second child. I’m so excited to meet this new little person, to hold a brand new baby, to curl the infant’s tightly clenched fingers around my index finger, to smell the top of his or her head, and then, to give the baby back to Mom and Dad and go home — to my full household with four... more
Postpartum survival 101
One day, you’re a woman with a job, a social life and the option of sleeping without interruption until your alarm goes off. The next, you’re a mother, suddenly responsible for ensuring the well-being of a small human who can’t turn himself over or support his own head. It’s beautiful and profound — but also pretty terrifying. The... more
Twins in crib together?
Q: How long is it safe to keep infant twins in the same crib?A: Although it may seem harmless or even more natural to have twins in the same crib, this isn’t a practice endorsed by the American Academy of Pediatrics. The reason for this is the increased risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). Twins are often born prematurely or have... more
Blessed with love
“This is my favorite, favorite thing to do,” said doula Sarah Longacre, owner of Blooma, as she invited Minneapolis mom-to-be Mia Como to take the center seat in the circle of women gathered for her Mother Blessing. “It’s different than anything else we do at Blooma — and different than anything we do in the United States — to celebrate moms... more
Newborn photo safety
A newborn baby. Tiny fingers, perfect little nose, itty-bitty feet, fuzzy little hairs and that delicate, oh-so-soft skin. A newborn photography session truly is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to document all those tiny details. It’s the very beginning of your child’s story, and she’ll never look the way she does right now, during those... more
The business of being (re)born
Minnesota Parent’s annual Baby Issue is on stands now!It’s one of my favorite magazines to produce every year because — in my opinion — few things are more interesting, more complicated, more challenging or more fun (yes, really) than babies.Babies are the beginning of everything.Yes, they’re starting their own lives. And that’s miraculous.... more
Milk sharing in Minneapolis
When Betsy Batista found out she had cancer in 2014, the diagnosis was especially difficult as it meant she had to stop breastfeeding her 4-month-old daughter so that she could undergo chemotherapy. “I was devastated,” the St. Louis Park mom said. That’s when Batista’s doula told her about the possibility of donated milk: Mothers... more
Running after having babies
Running has always been therapeutic for me. I’ve been a runner for more than 20 years — and the lead therapist for the Health Partners Regions Hospital Running Program for the past eight.So when I became pregnant for the first time, I wanted to be able to continue running as much as my body allowed.After a successful delivery, I was ready to... more
Get out the diapers, get out the pins, oh my gosh... I'm having TWINS!
Our daughter was about to turn 2 and we thought we were ready to have another baby. My husband and I each grew up with an older sister and we wanted our daughter to grow up with a sibling, too. Watching her play with her dolls and stuffed animals really showed the potential she has to be an amazing big sister.It wasn't long before I suspected I... more
Single moms by choice
In American culture — and beyond — there’s an expectation that marriage comes before motherhood.There’s also a stereotype that single mothers are the result of unwanted or unintended pregnancies or the product of absent fathers.But a fast-growing group of women are shattering both long-held expectations and stereotypes by becoming SMCs — single... more
Until Gwen
The display flashed "Great workout!"and a sense of dread dug its claws deep in my belly.I stepped off the treadmill feeling like I was still moving, my heart doing that flutter thing again. I waited for the sensation to pass. It always passed, I told myself. Always. Hadn’t the doctor said staying active would help improve my mood? If it was... more
Don't worry, Mama
You’re pregnant! For the first time!Or, maybe, again! Again? With twins! Twins!? Yep: You’re about to experience something awesome, dare I say, miraculous. And, yet … a pregnancy can also leave you wondering: What was I thinking? Never are the sublime and mundane so tightly intertwined as when you contemplate bringing a new life into the world —... more
A better pregnancy
I am by no means an expert on pregnancy, and I am most certainly not an obstetrician, midwife or lactation consultant. I am, however, a mother who’s been through two very different pregnancies and postpartum periods, and there are certain bits of wisdom I’ve picked up along the way. So — for those of you who are pregnant right now — what follows... more
Choosing the breast pump for you
Ah, the joy of preparing for a new baby! Stockpiling tiny sleepers, making lists of names, picking out adorable crib sheets and … researching breast pumps! OK, so maybe contemplating breast pumps isn’t at the top of your list of fun things to do during your third trimester. Maybe you don’t know if you really need one. Maybe you’re overwhelmed... more
Breaking down the baby registry
Setting up your baby registry? Here’s what to splurge on, what to skip, plus a few outside-the-box ideas.You might not need it, but you'll love it. Blooming BathThis soft, colorful flower-shaped pad ($40) turns your kitchen sink into a baby bath. It later serves as a bathtub cushion for bigger babies — a simple solution to the slippery,... more
Where should you give birth?
The Twin Cities supports a uniquely vibrant birthing community. There are dozens of seasoned home-birth midwives, a handful of free-standing birth centers in the metro and surrounding areas and several hospitals striving to be more mom-baby friendly every day.Add to that an unusually concentrated pocket of maternity and postpartum businesses and... more
Making mom friends
“I wonder what Lori’s been up to?” I thought as I scrolled, zombie-like, through my Facebook feed. “I haven’t seen much from her on here lately.”I met Lori at a mom-and-baby class when my daughter was about 6 months old. “She looks cool,” I thought as I admired Lori’s well-worn motorcycle boots and her “stormy grey” Chewbeads.Lori and I eventually... more
The heart of adoption
Fewer than 24 hours after her son was born, Megan Braun worried she was destined for heartbreak once again. Megan and her husband, Doug, had traveled 1,600 miles from their Brooklyn Park home to meet their newborn son in Tacoma, Wash. And the birth mother seemed to be changing her mind overnight. The carefully arranged adoption agreement forged... more
Back to normal?
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Avenging Angel (1985) Robert Vincent O'Neill
Labels : 80's , Action , Exploitation , Robert Vincent O'Neill , Thriller , USA , 1 com
Avenging Angel (1985)
Genre: Action | Crime | Thriller
Country: USA | Director: Robert Vincent O'Neill
Language: English | Subtitles: English (.srt & idx/sub files)
Aspect ratio: Widescreen 1.85:1 | Length: 93mn
Bdrip H264 Mp4 - 1920x1040 - 23.976fps - 1.79gb
Molly, former baby prostitute "Angel" from Sunset Boulevard, has managed to leave her street life with help of Lt. Andrews. She studies law at an university and aims to become attorney. When she learns that Andrews was shot during a failed observation by brutal gangsters, she returns downtown to take revenge. She frees Kit Carson from the old people's home and together with the other old friends she tracks down the bad guys.
"Avenging Angel" is a worthy, but different sequel to "Angel". The same seedy Hollywood Boulevard locations, are again used to great advantage. Betsy Russell plays "Angel" this time,and along with her street comrades, Rory Calhoun and Susan Tyrrell, they go after the mobsters who killed their friend, Lt. Andrews ( Robert F. Lyons). Karin Mani has a brief, but memorable nude shower scene, Robert Tessier is a helpful tattoo artist, while Ossie Davis plays a police captain. The movie has moments of welcome humor, especially relating to springing Rory Calhoun from a sanitarium. Sure the violence is cartoon-like, but "Avenging Angel" is entertaining, and that's really all that matters.
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One of my best Memory films.. and also the best film for me in this Angel trilogy.
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Rapunzel Lesson Plans
By RebeccaHaden art, english, fairy tales, music, science, social studies
Folk and fairy tales are in our state’s standards up to 7th grade, and Rapunzel is an ideal fairy tale for use with older students. Preschool teacher Margaret Elkins says she uses it with the younger ones, too, by focusing on the theme of love. The husband loved his wife enough to promise anything for the vegetable she craved. The witch loved Rapunzel so much she put her in the tower to keep her for herself. Rapunzel loved the prince so much that her tears cured his blindness. Try out the Grimm brothers’ version, or try out this retelling by J.M Kearns.
In the story, a pregnant woman is desperate for the taste of rapunzel, a root vegetable. Her husband steals some from a witch’s garden, and when he is caught, he has to give the baby to the witch. The witch names the baby Rapunzel and shuts her up in a tower. The witch goes to Rapunzel every day and says “Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair, that I may climb the golden stair,” whereupon Rapunzel throws down her hair and the witch climbs up it. A prince hears Rapunzel singing, falls in love with her, and overhears the bizarre hair ritual. He does the same thing the witch does, climbs up to Rapunzel, and they make a plan to get Rapunzel out of the tower. Through Rapunzel’s foolishness (or, in some versions, because she becomes pregnant), the witch finds out. She cuts off Rapunzel’s hair, sends Rapunzel into the wilderness, and hangs the hair out the window. When the prince next climbs up, he finds the witch. Either he jumps from the tower in horror, or she cuts the hair he’s climbing on so that the prince falls. Either way, he lands in a thicket of thorns and is blinded. He wanders around, and is eventually found by Rapunzel, whose tears fall onto his eyes and cure him of blindness. They live happily ever after.
Whew! There is just no way to tell this story simply. Have students draw this story as a comic strip, make a timeline showing all the events, or retell it in separate episodes.
Here are some picture books:
Rapunzel by Paul O. Zelinksy
Rapunzel, the classic Grimms tale
Rapunzel, by Rachel Isadora
Sugar Cane: A Caribbean Rapunzel
Petrosinella: A Neopolitan Rapunzel
Use a Venn Diagram to compare different versions of the story.
Once the story is clear in the kids’ minds, check out these activities for retelling and assessment:
School Express has done a version for the Pocket Chart , including a quiz.
Rapunzel’s Rap is a reader’s theater with “Queen Beetifah” as the narrator and a number of characters, including some bees who provide the rhythm.
Print out this brief comprehension quiz to make sure the kids have the gist of the story.
Ready for curriculum connections?
Mackie Rhodes made this interesting suggestion in Instructor magazine: use the story of Rapunzel to practice conjunctions. Since Rapunzel’s hair was her connection to the outer world, Rhodes braided a skein of yellow yarn to make a long, long braid. Give one end to one student, who makes a starting clause such as “The witch locked Rapunzel in a tower.” The first student throws the other end of the yarn to another student, who has to supply a conjunction and a second clause, such as “…so she would be safe from the outside world.” The second student then takes the braid, produces a first clause, and throws the braid to another student, and so on. This lets you check comprehension, too.
“The husband loved his wife enough to promise anything for the vegetable she craved. The witch loved Rapunzel so much she put her in the tower to keep her for herself. Rapunzel loved the prince so much that her tears cured his blindness.” Use these and similar sentences to practice the “enough to” and “so much that” sentence patterns in your ESL class.
Check out this comparison of the 1812 and 1857 versions of the story. Use the chart to discuss the revision process. If you have used a later retelling of the story in the class, continue the chart.
Rapunzel has a bit of a poem in it: some variant of “Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair, that I may climb the golden stair” is in almost every telling of this tale. Challenge students to make a new verse in modern language.
Rapunzel, unlike some fairytale heroines, is involved in planning and working toward her own escape. On the other hand, in many tellings of the story the witch catches on to the plan because Rapunzel foolishly blurts it out to her. Have a class vote on which fairy tale heroine is the most foolish and which is the most resourceful, including Rapunzel and any other fairytale heroines you’ve studied.
The prince in this story falls in love with Rapunzel just from the sound of her voice. Challenge students to write some advice to this prince about choosing a wife.
Such a dramatic story deserves to be done as a play.
The vegetable that is so important in this story is rapunzel, or rampion, a root vegetable like a turnip or a radish. What a good chance to study about vegetables! Vegetables are those kinds of plants that have an edible part that is not the fruit. Wayne’s World has a lot root vegetables, with photos. Have students list all the vegetables they can think of. Use Venn diagrams to sort those vegetables according to what part or parts are eaten: the leaves, the flower, the root, the stems, etc. Our vegetables lesson plan has video and printables, too. Try out this activity on plant parts as an assessment.
Rapunzel’s hair must have had amazing tensile strength. Cut strips of different materials such as paper, plastic, or string. Hold each strip in a clamp and tie a weight to the other end of the strip. Continue trying with different weights until the strip breaks. Chart the tensile strength (how much weight it can hold) of the different materials.
Beyond tensile strength, the question about Rapunzel’s hair has to be “Didn’t it hurt?” In fact, if the hair didn’t break, it’s hard to see why it didn’t tear out of Rapunzel’s head or break her neck. Some illustrations show Rapunzel holding her hair or wrapping it around a hook or other object. If the kids in your class are familiar with the TV show “Mythbusters,” recreate the Mythbusters approach with this question: “Could the prince and the witch have climbed up Rapunzel’s hair every day without harming her?” If the students don’t know about “Mythbusters,” help them set up the experiment anyway. One way to do this would be to add some unbreakable materials to the clamp and weight experiment above. With these, note when the materials slip out of the clamp, or out of the hands of the person holding the clamp. Then recreate the experiment, this time wrapping the material around a stationary object after it leaves the clamp. Compare the results.
The Children’s Theater has an intriguing lesson about position and motion of objects, with reference to people climbing Rapunzel’s hair. This is a PDF file.
One reason that the poem part of fairytales may persist in retellings is that it is easier to remember things that rhyme. Design an experiment to test this hypothesis. Options might be having the students retell the story to younger children and checking back the following week to see what parts they remembered, or using rhyme to create mnemonic devices for learning something that is hard to remember (states and capitals? periodic table of elements?). Have students present their results and score them on the quality of their experimental design. If possible, get together as a class to report the results of all the experiments.
If you were planning to talk about head lice or the human reproductive system, Rapunzel could provide a good lead-in.
The story of Rapunzel, like many other fairy tales, is full of cruelty and violence. Many modern versions of fairy tales leave out the cruelty and violence. Challenge students to decide whether this is right. Some of the points that might arise in discussion might be how this compares with violent video games or movies, whether kids can distinguish between fantasy and reality, and whether there is a purpose served by having these things in the story.
Have students retell the story as a police report listing all the crimes committed in the story.
This story also has some odd points and discrepancies. Encourage critical reading by asking children to find as many questionable points as they can. Here are some that occur to me: How did Rapunzel get up into the tower in the first place, since there was no door? Why didn’t she refuse to let the witch climb up her hair?
Many illustrations of Rapunzel are examples of the Pre-Raphaelite school of painting and illustration. Pre-Raphaelite painters liked very romantic and sometimes very sad subjects, and their pictures were known for their wealth of detail. They often used mythological themes, and they were very big on long hair, so it is no surprise that so many of them drew or painted Rapunzel. Khan Academy has information about this group of artists. Others have also done Rapunzel, though, including Rodman Miller who did a neon Rapunzel on Seattle’s Fremont Bridge. Have students compare the images of Rapunzel using as many characteristics as they can. Then have them paint their own images.
Rapunzel was shut up in a tall tower with no doors. Most pictures of the story show a square or a circular tower. Challenge students to build towers of different shapes, with windows but no doors. Use poster board, or try SketchUp. Make this a math lesson, too, by using this tower building plan.
Make paper bag puppets of Rapunzel with long yarn hair. Practice braiding for dexterity.
The Prince fell in love with Rapunzel when he heard her singing. Listen to recordings of various singers and have students decide which one sounds the way they imagine Rapunzel must have sounded.
Lou Harrison wrote an opera version of Rapunzel. Listen to the piece, or parts of it, and discuss how music can be used to express emotion.
Walt Disney has an animated film version of “Rapunzel” called Tangled. Listen to the music on the trailer and identify the genres represented. Students should easily name the genres, so challenge them to list the characteristics that let them do so. Another great chance to use a Venn Diagram.
If you study Rapunzel, you just have to think about measuring her hair. It was 20 ells long, or about 900 inches, roughly 75 feet. Given that information, have students calculate how long an ell was. An ell, an archaic measurement, is the length of an arm from the shoulder to the wrist. Have students measure each other to see how long their personal ells are. If they use their own measurements, how long would Rapunzel’s hair be?
Rapunzel was shut up in the tower when she was 12 years old. If her hair was 20 ells long by then, how fast had it grown? Challenge students to express this in inches per year, miles per hour, and as many other ways as they can think of. Their answers would make a cool bulletin board display.
Knowing the approximate length of Rapunzel’s hair, and knowing that the distance from her window in the tower must not have been much greater than the length of her hair, challenge students to draw or build a scale model of the tower. Make a good technology lesson out of this by using AutoCAD Freestyle, a very easy, intuitive CAD program that lets kids practice a broad range of essential computer skills along with math and art.
The physics experiments up in the science section have to do with weight. Practice the accurate measurement of weight when you do them.
Girls who lived in towers in the Middle Ages (fairy tale times) often were sent away from home without their consent. A marriage was an arrangement between families, and a daughter was just part of the family wealth. No wonder fairy tale daughters were so often given to beasts or witches or put into towers for safekeeping. “Rapunzel” is a great way to push off a study of women’s position in Medieval and Renaissance society.
On the other hand, blogger Scott Tyler says,
Feminists often criticize fairy tales such as Cinderella for being chauvinistic, or anti-feminist. But let’s look a little closer at these fairy tales. Who are the protagonists in Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Rapunzel, Goldilocks, Little Red Riding Hood, and all the most popular fairy tales? That’s right: girls or young women. Who are the villains in these stories? Witches, wicked stepmothers, evil queens- also women. But, feminists say, what about the Prince? Oh yes, the Prince- who always comes at the end of the fairy tale, and is called- oh, what’s his name? ‘Prince Charming’? Is that a name? And we know nothing about him except that he’s invariably handsome and always wants to marry the young woman. In other words, a young woman’s dream suitor… What feminists don’t want to admit is that fairy tales- including Cinderella- are tales told and treasured by generations of girls and women- and probably invented by women, as well. They express the dreams- and sometimes nightmares- of the female sex. What young boy dreams of becoming a prince? What young girl doesn’t dream of becoming a princess?
Have middle school and high school students read all of Scott’s brief essay (click his name for the link) and write their own response to his suggestion that fairy tales are all about women.
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Oxytocin hormone
Source: first cartoon by Alex Martin
Maternity wards consistently make use of artificial oxytocin to kick-start the beginning procedure and keep it moving. This is the major reason the reason why this hormone is really widely known. It really is less dominant that, after delivery, naturally created oxytocin causes milk ejection during breastfeeding. Additionally, it is linked to orgasms both in sexes and bonding between individuals. These extra links have actually produced many labels because of this multitasking hormone: "bonding hormone", “herding hormone”, “cuddle hormone”, “love hormone” and even “hormone of happiness”. Because oxytocin notably affects the mind also reproductive organs, Heon-Jin Lee and colleagues aptly dubbed it “the great facilitator of life”.
Oxytocin in childbearing
Ladies pregnancy in medical center tend to be given oxytocin intravenously, first to induce birth and then to strengthen contractions if required during labour. Oxytocin additionally serves a crucial function straight after delivery by advertising powerful contractions that expel the placenta and reduce bleeding. That is a precarious some time post-partum hemorrhage is a principal reason behind maternal mortality in societies with insufficient medical facilities.
CPK model of the oxytocin molecule constructed utilizing ACD/ChemSketch and Accelrys DS Visualizer.
Resource: Wikimedia Commons with acknowledgment to image author MindZiper
Doubtless due to its significance for beginning, additionally since it is these types of a tiny molecule, oxytocin — a short string of only 9 proteins — ended up being 1st peptide hormone become sequenced. (For contrast, insulin has actually 51 amino acids and haemoglobin chains in red blood cells each have actually over 140.) Vincent du Vigneaud sequenced and synthesized oxytocin in 1953, making the Nobel reward, and synthetic oxytocin is currently in routine health usage. Since the digestive tract rapidly degrades the hormone, it is usually injected to the bloodstream. Now, because oxytocin cannot pass the blood-brain barrier, nasal aerosols are often used to move the hormone right to the mind along olfactory neurological cells.
Oxytocin and breastfeeding
In nursing moms, obviously created oxytocin causes milk to move through “let-down reflex”. The hormone promotes contraction of muscle cells around small milk-containing cavities, generating enhanced force that ejects milk through the nipple. As breastfeeding gets under means, the oxytocin rise may spark womb contractions, usually thought as after-pains which may be since powerful as during labour. Oxytocin is at first circulated responding on infant suckling, but afterwards it may be elicited by numerous stimuli, ranging from the sound of a child sobbing to just thinking about nursing.
Origins of oxytocin
Because oxytocin plays key roles both in birth and suckling, it might be believed that it originally evolved for everyone functions. But DNA sequences of genetics in several creatures have revealed a very different and rather surprising story. As so frequently takes place during evolution, the oxytocin gene really arose by duplication of a pre-existing gene. The original gene — right next to the oxytocin gene — creates the hormones vasopressin. The same as oxytocin, vasopressin is a chain of nine amino acids. All but two of amino acids are the same, yet the two bodily hormones now perform completely different rôles within the body. The 2 main functions of vasopressin are constricting bloodstream and retaining body water. Like other placental mammals people still have only an individual oxytocin gene, but additional duplications have yielded three separate vasopressin genetics.
Evolutionary tree showing preliminary duplication (D) of a vasopressin gene to produce an oxytocin gene at least 245 million many years before ahead of the beginning of suckling (S) and nearly 300 my before live beginning (B).
Source: Author’s original figure based particularly on information supplied by Ocampo Daza et al. (2013)
In 2 landmark documents in 2008 and 2009, Pai-Chung Gwee and peers contrasted DNA sequences of genes for oxytocin, vasopressin and associated hormones across an array of animals with backbones (vertebrates). It surfaced that most vertebrates with jaws (animals, wild birds, reptiles, amphibians as well as other fishes including coelacanths), have actually at least one copy every one of oxytocin and vasopressin genes. By contrast, vertebrates without jaws — lancelets and lampreys — only have an individual gene that creates a hormone akin to vasopressin. This suggests your replication ultimately causing separate genetics for vasopressin and oxytocin happened eventually following the basal split between jawed and jawless vertebrates, at the very least 435 million years back. But that is long before suckling surfaced in the common ancestor of animals, around 200 million years back. Undoubtedly, maternity and live birth couldn't appear before the typical ancestry of marsupials and placentals, some 145 million years back. So that the oxytocin gene obviously failed to originate in connection with suckling or stay delivery.
In 2 reports published in 1987 and 1994, Marie Carmichael and colleagues stated that increases in circulating amounts of oxytocin accompany orgasm in both men and women. Values are markedly raised with orgasm acquired through self-stimulation while the raised amounts persist for a few moments. Carmichael and peers speculated that results of oxytocin on muscle contraction might facilitate transport of eggs and sperms.
In an amazing strategy, German gynaecologist Ludwig Wildt and peers studied results of artificial oxytocin on sperm transport through a woman’s womb and oviducts. To achieve this, they deposited radioactively labelled sperm-sized albumin spheres deep within the vagina of 50 sterility clients then tracked their particular development with a detector. Labelled spheres reached the oviduct entrances just moments after deposition, so the womb plainly functions like a pump. Intravenous shot of oxytocin was followed closely by a “dramatic” increase in the quantity of spheres transported into oviduct. Tracking of force inside the uterus before and after oxytocin shot unveiled an increase in muscle tone and power of contractions, together with gradient was reversed to market circulation from throat for the womb into oviduct. This convincingly shows that oxytocin encourages transport through uterus and oviducts.
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Oxytocin is not only associated with reproductive body organs. It contributes to brain purpose, especially affecting social behavior. Therefore nicknames such as for instance "bonding hormone", “love hormones” and “trust elixir”.
a today popular illustration of oxytocin for action requires a stark contrast between two closely relevant vole species. Whereas prairie voles form lifelong set bonds after a preliminary mating and consequently share parental treatment, montane voles spouse promiscuously and never develop lasting bonds. Analysis revealed that both oxytocin and vasopressin play a significant component in causing and maintaining the pair relationship in prairie voles. Strikingly, if oxytocin and vasopressin tend to be administered to montane voles, in addition they behave monogamously. In 2013, Hui Wang and peers demonstrated that preventing oxytocin and vaspressin receptors in a specific reward-and-pleasure center of this mind in prairie voles prevents facilitation of lover inclination. Injection of mind inhibitors and induction of pair-bonding by mating triggered the exact same gene changing: certainly a molecular basis for love.
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Trademarks with vulgar meaning may be invalidated in the PRC
On 3 February 2019, the Higher People’s Court of Beijing Municipality (“Beijing High Court”) handed down its judgment and determined that the trademark “MLGB” had a vulgar meaning, was of low style, and may endanger the socialist morality; and therefore shall be invalidated in accordance with Article 10(8) of Trademark Law of the People’s Republic of China (the “Trademark Law”).
Invalidation of a trademark
Under PRC laws, anyone who wishes to oppose a trademark which has already been approved by China Trademark Office can initiate a separate procedure by filing for invalidation with the Trademark Review and Adjudication Board (“TRAB”). A registered trademark may be invalidated if it falls within any prohibited circumstance stipulated under the Trademark Law.
The Disputed Trademark
On 15 December 2010, Shanghai Junke Commerce Limited Company (上海俊客貿易有限公司) (“Shanghai Junke”) applied for registration of the trademark “MLGB” (the “MLGB Mark”) and the application was approved for registration on 28 December 2011. The MLGB Mark was approved for use on Class 25 goods, including clothing, wedding dress, shoes, hats, socks, ties, scarves, belts (for clothing), sportswear and baby’s full suits.
One Mr Yao Hongjun filed an application to TRAB for invalidation of the MLGB Mark, based on Article 10(8) of the Trademark Law which states that signs which are detrimental to the socialist moral customs or having any other negative impact on the society shall not be used as trademarks.
TRAB’s Decision
On 9 November 2016, TRAB held that although Shanghai Junke argued the meaning of “MLGB” is “My Life’s Getting Better”, the evidence submitted could not prove that this meaning had been widely recognised by the public. On the contrary, the public was more likely to recognise “MLGB” as an uncivilized term. The combination of letters of “MLGB” is widely used on social platforms such as the Internet as an abbreviation of a vulgar Chinese expression. It has vulgar meanings, is of low style and is harmful to the socialist morality and customs. It may be easy to cause adverse effects on the society and therefore it shall be declared invalid.
Dissatisfied with TRAB’s decision, Shanghai Junke filed an administrative lawsuit with Beijing Intellectual Property Court of the First Instance (“BJIPCFI”).
Shanghai Junke further provided, among others, evidence showing that “MLGB” has also been approved for registration for Class 45 services, and therefore TRAB should follow the same standard in determining the disputed trademark in accordance with the principle of legal certainty in administrative law.
On the other hand, Mr Yao produced further evidence showing that Shanghai Junke has also applied for trademark “caonima” at the same time when apply for the MLGB Mark. When consider the two trademarks together, both of which seems to be connected with vulgar meanings, it is likely that Shanghai Junke had malicious intentions during the applications.
BJIPCFI’s Judgment
There are different opinions on whether “MLGB” is detrimental to the socialist moral customs or having any other negative impact on the society. One of the key points is whether the understanding of the targeted groups, who are familiar with the internet, amounts to impact on the general public.
Nevertheless, BJIPCFI held that word combinations with new meanings, including the replacement of Chinese vocabulary with Pinyin letters, are constantly emerging. The habits, styles and ways of language use under the internet environment have formed their own distinct characteristics, and even formed a relatively fixed meaning of internet language in a specific group, and gradually integrated into people’s daily language environment, resulting in new words or meanings widely accepted by the society.
BJIPCFI further held that there was no evidence that the abbreviation of “My Life’s Getting Better” as claimed by Shanghai Junke is a common expression in English. There was no evidence that this abbreviation is known to the public or can dispel the disgust caused by the uncivilised meaning of “MLGB” (as a vulgar Chinese expression). Internet social networking had increasingly become an indispensable part of teenagers’ lives, especially their strong sense of novelty hunting and rebellion. “MLGB” was used on clothing, shoes and hats and other commodities, which were targeting mainly on teenagers who are at the important stage of forming their moral values.
BJIPCFI upheld the decision of TRAB. Shanghai Junke further appealed to Beijing High Court.
Beijing High Court’s Final Judgment
Beijing High Court concluded four elements in assessing whether the disputed trademark “MLGB” falls within the limb of “any other negative impact” under Article 10(8):
The target group under consideration shall be the “general public”;
The timing under consideration shall be at the time when apply for the trademark registration;
The meaning of certain words shall be evaluated in accordance with the meanings given by authoritative sources or common sources widely available to the public; and
The opponent of the trademarks registration shall bear the burden of proof.
Beijing High Court held that although “MLGB” was not a fixed foreign language vocabulary, certain groups have already considered “MLGB” having vulgar meaning. There are a large number of internet users and the relationship between the internet and general public is close. The court has a duty to prevent the prevalence of vulgar culture. The court considered that “MLGB” had a negative meaning and was of low style. Further, Shanghai Junke had intention to cater to vulgar cultural tendencies in applying for trademarks such as “caonima”, and the manner in which they promoted “MLGB” was vulgar too.
Therefore, Beijing High Court rejected the appeal and upheld the original decision, that “MLGB” shall be invalidated.
The PRC court’s interpretation of Article 10(8) of the Trademark Law now recognises vulgarity as a valid reason which may lead to invalidation of a trademark. Practitioners and individuals are reminded to bear in mind that the internet is a constantly changing environment where new internet expressions are being formed on a daily basis. Certain internet language can exert influence on the cognition of the general public, and where the PRC courts consider such influences to have a negative effect, they will indeed ensure that their moral values are upheld to protect the mind set and socialist values of teenagers.
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by Turk » Tue Dec 22, 2015 1:03 am
" Never Give Up"
We thought the mission had failed. We had been tasked by the United States government agencies including the CIA, the Secret Service, and Homeland Security to prevent, then, recover and rescue - if necessary - one of THE most important American citizen: the eight year old son of the President of the United States. His son, Timmy, and his nurse-nanny, Matilda Maxwell, were visiting his great grandparents in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Through verified intelligence we had been notified that a Russian terrorist group, the Sabotage Battalion Oblast Khattab - that was being funded, trained, and armed by radical militant arms of the Russian, Iranian, and Chinese governments - to covertly infiltrate American interests on American soil, both commercial (private enterprises) and human, and dismantle and/or eradicate them. We were also informed that a rambo faction, handpicked by the commander of SBOK, had been plotting the kdnapping and extortion of the United States President's son in Chicago, where young Timmy and his traveling escort, Ms Maxwell, were going to stop over briefly to visit an historic landmark and, then, have lunch at a famous diner. It was only going to be a short three-hour detour and we three Marine Special Forces had been ordered by the American government brass to make sure this three-hour stop-over went pleasant and peaceful.
Miss Maxwell and Timmy first visited the historic University of Chicago football stadium, constructed to resemble a medieval castle-fortress. This massive athletic facility of granite and other stone was finished in 1913 and was honorarily named after a famous football player and coach, Amos Alonzo Stagg. While only eight years old, Timmy was already reading Sir Walter Scott's Ivanho and James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales about colonial and Indian lives before the American Revolution. Timmy loved to imagine he was a knight of chivalry or a daring pathfinder in the old American forests of the Adirondack Mountains - stories of sterling silver armour, long swords crafts by mysterious silversmiths from Scotland and Sweden, and long bows made by the Mohicans and the Iroquois who lived amidst the pastoral Finger Lakes and fought courageously beside American frontiersman like Natty Bumpo and Simon Kenton - weapons thrust so swiftly they sang like sirens in mid-air and flashed lightning bolts beaming near-electricity upon impact against the dragons of death and the evil ones of darkness to save the princess and the townspeople from horrible misery and destruction.
To young Timmy's credit true, the Alonzo Stagg Football Stadium was, and still is, a work of Art. In those early years in the 1900's the university of Chicago had a great football tradition and, even, was a member of the Big Ten Athletic Conference with other outstanding and much larger colleges such as Iowa, Michigan, and Ohio State. After this mission it was, and still is, my intent to visit, too, this historic fortress-like football stadium and pretend to hear the strong and heroic voices of Alonzo Stagg, Red Grange, Knute Rockne, and the Four Horsemen echoing off these hallowed walls, built like a Middle Age citadel, for a different kind of warrior-knight who played simply and innocently on a gridiron of only 100 yards.
After visiting this fabled place, Miss Maxwell and Timmy were planning to have a quick-but-memorable lunch at THE most famous hot dog and hamburger diner in the entire midwestern USA - "Bill's Burgers 'n Brats." The three of us commissioned soldiers were detached from our regional marine base, known simply as "Gunnery No. 1." Our Apache helicopter had landed, unknown to the two innocent diners we were assigned to protect, in an abandoned area of old warehouses and forgotten factories where we thought we would be cloaked from the terrorist SBOK's vision and discovery. Also, logistically this worn and torn area of two square blocks - in a part of downtown Chicago in disrepair and neglect - was only three blocks away from Bill's diner. As the three of us modern-day musketeers were moving silently into position to observe and protect Timmy and his traveling guardian, we heard the missile fired. The powerful weapon hit with emphatic precision into an empty building on the same side of the street as the diner and only some 90 feet away from where the two diners were sitting at a small sidewalk table. Attached to the vacant and, now, nearly destroyed building's storefront was a paint-peeled, weathered old sign which read in tall, block, black letters: "Benjamin's Tobacco & Confectioners - 10cent cigars and penny candy." The missile shot a huge, gaping hole through the store's brick wall, right below the sign, now teetering limply and torn into pieces of shattered wood with the word "penny" now completely missing and the "Benja" also obliterated from the propreitary namesake. The explosion was ear-shattering, even where we were hidden across the street in another vacant building. But the wood and debris were launched in all directions, like shards of sharp, catapulted darts and stone flying at a very high velocity. The tiny tables set upon the sidewalk in front of "Bill's Diner" were tossed and tumbled about as if a hurricane had just passed through. A broken wedge of wood from old Benjamin's place had speared the upper left chest of Miss Maxwell. Bill had run from inside his diner the moment the explosion resounded off the old adjacent walls of the stores and he was pressing his white apron against Miss Maxwell's gashing wound to stop her bleeding wound. Young Timmy was laying unconscious on the concrete sidewalk, riddled with broken stone and wood, with a visible, bleeding cut upon his little forehead. Without hesitation, the three of us ran across the street to rescue the two severely wounded civilians but we were too late to reach Timmy.
Six highly-trained commandos of the SBOK terrorist militia had already rushed in from the other side of "Bill's Diners." We had made the unforgivable mistake not first checking all these empty stores for any thing or any body not supposed to be there. One of the on-rushing SBOK had shot the right knee of Bill, the diner, exposing his ligaments, bone, and blood. My fellow soldier, Hank Worthington, a Master Sargeant and veteran, too, of Afganistan, Sudan, and Turkey mortally wounded the lead attacker with one shot to the head. The sound of .45's and AK shellfires were crisscrossing the sidewalk like a storm of rain pushing everywhere. My other marine brother-in-arms, James Coldwater, had also been hit - once in the side of his neck and, though luckily a glancing bullet, he was down and bleeding, too. We had always joked that Coldwater's neck was as thick as a buffalo and as tough as its hide drying in the Badlands of South Dakota. A second bullet had pierced his left ankle but not before this valiant marine had permanently deposited upon the debris-filled street the rear commando of the SBOK six-team force who were successfully - and much to my chagrin and anger - kidnapping the eight-year old son of the President of the United States of America. I aimed my .45 at one of the four remaining kidnappers and emptied a clip into his ninja-styled body armor. He fell to the broken, weed-entwined concrete like a tree just felled for timberwood.
One of the three who was carrying away the still-unconscious President's eight year old son turned to break off to the side and behind a parked pick-up truck. he fired his AK and hit me twice - once in my left thigh and once in my left arm. The wound to my arm burned like it had gotten too close to ol' Mr. Collins' old-fashioned boiler furnace at old Northern Heights Elementary School where I spent more time learning how and what keeps a school warm and safe than in the classroom where I erroneously thought that reading and writing were a waste of my time, as if I were growing up somehow too fast. I moved behind an overturned table near where the diner-owner and cook, Bill, and Miss Maxwell were laying nearly forgotten. I re-loaded my .45 and called in a hoarse whisper to the brave rescuer of the lady chaperone, "Are you OK? Is the lady alive?"
Bill answered painfully, gritting his teeth from the anguish of the gunshot pain, groping for air, and grimaced, "Yes, but her heartbeat is weak."
I called back, "Here! Call 911!" as I slid my cellphone across the sidewalk to where Bill's prone body was sheltering Miss Maxwell's. He leaned up against the back of a large planter that once had been a water-trough for horses and grabbed the cellphone. The Russian kidnappers were disappearing down the street and towards our own parked and hidden Apache chopper.
I shot two rapid rounds into the truck where the Russian was hidden, then, quickly, adeptly, silently moved into a better position to put my eyes on the attacker. I emptied the rest of my clip into this terrorist before he could spot me only 30 feet to his side - a guerilla move I had learned in southern Turkey while fighting in the dirt streets of the ancient ruins of Karatepe. My Marine alpha platoon known as "Map 80" for knowing the locations of everything everywhere in that part of the Middle East, had been dropped into south Turkey just across the border from Syria by NATO command in Italy when the violent and radical Islamic State militia had invaded NATO-ally Turkey, having already violently and maliciously taken Damascus, Beirut, Aleppo, Tripoli, and had crossed into Turkey, slaughtering hundreds of innocent Turkish civilians of Antioch and desecrating several old historic landmarks dating back to Biblical days. We were the lucky ones chosen to draw the line in the dirt and, painfully and truthfully, the line was neither yellow nor white - it was red, blood red.
The Russian now lay in his own blood as I carefully ran back to my Apache helicopter inside the abandoned warehouse- neighborhood. The two Russian SBOK had run far too ahead of me and carrying the President's young son, I dared not try to fire my weapon at them. They were running toward their own hidden Russian-made Mi-28H helicopter. All I could do was try to chase them in my Apache, think of a plan to intercept, and pray not to fail. As I started the engine of the Apache and its powerful blades surged into their circular motion, as I rose swiftly into the Chicago sky, I could see the escaping kidnappers' "Night Hunter" flying into the eastern skyline heading towards Indiana building altitude above the rural countryside and snow-covered farmlands of the Hoosier state I knew far better in basketball than its topography.
On my way to the awaiting Apache, I had grabbed the fallen AK from the fourth terrorist-kidnapper we had killed. As I flew in followed chase, I thought of a plan that just might work, with a little luck and the good graces of the setting sun behind my path. My Apache's fuel tank was at 50%, which meant my flight length was about 400 miles and I had no idea how much fuel they were now holding nor did I know where they were going. From the beginning my orders were to keep all communication silent but now I believed Army command needed to know so it could also track the SBOK flight if I were unsuccessful rescuing the President's son, Timmy. My plan was something I had learned while fighting in South Sudan in 2018. There, the enemy was using a modified version of this same Russian-made Mi-28. The modifications were in the weapons systems but not in the basic aerodynamics of its engineering. The back wing, much like the rudder of a boat, when damaged enough, would cause the chopper not only to lose its navigation but also its altitude, fast enough to descend but still agile enough not to crash on impact. For me, the difficulty was how to pilot my Apache close enough to fire multiple rounds from my AK rifle to cripple their chopper's back wing-blade without being hit by their guns. However, the Russian "Night Hunter" had a blind spot - directly beneath it; but getting there would not be easy. The kidnappers were now flying east-southeast and the setting sun (it was now mid-December in the Midwest US) was dropping directly behind me and in an almost direct straight line with their flight path. I was hoping the sunbeams would blind their vision of me and my chopper as I moved closer beneath them.
We were nearly in Ohio. I could see the Ohio River bending westward at my 4 o'clock and my fuel tank now read 25%. I was running out of time. I saw the reflection of the bright sun against the metal of their "Night Hunter" like some huge pumpkin from a Charlie Brown Peanuts Halloween patch so I pushed the Apache's throttle full-bore and plunged low and directly underneath the belly of the Russian helicopter. One of the two terrorists began firing his AK rifle at my charging chopper but I must have thought I was Hans Solo or Buck Rogers as bullets strafed all around me, missing me by the grace of my earlier humble prayer. When I could hear the whir of their helicopter's circulating blades, I shut off the power to my Apache and emptied an entire magazine from my rifle into the back rudder-wing of the Russian kidnappers. I heard it instantly lose its navigation, as if disoriented in movement, and its altitude, too, as my chopper was now above it and momentarily suspended in mid-air some 70 meters behind it. I pressed the ignition switch back on and, thankfully, the Apache's blades began to turn reliably again. Their chopper was nearly in free-fall, injured and maimed, dropping somewhere into the snow-covered, now-empty cornfields of west-central Ohio.
Since I had turned my Apache engine off and, then, back on, I used more fuel than I had initially intended using and my fuel gauge read only 5%. It was time to land anyway so I chose a thick treeline, hopeful, to place me and them on either side of the black and white, leafless trees. Again, I prayed that Timmy was unhurt by the Russian helicopter's forced-landing but it was my only chance to rescue him. I had heard nothing from Army HQ. It was up to me. As I was descending, I pictured their probable location. If I lost them now I would have failed the mission, my other two brother soldiers, Worthington and Coldwater, and young Timmy. The terrain in Ohio is fairly flat with scattered trees, subtle valleys and hills, and in the rural areas lots of farmlands, some fallow, some harvested and now the crops of corn and beans stored in silos spotting the countryside landscape like lighthouse towers. There were narrow lines of old mill run creeks and drainage ditches and railway lines crossing the checkerboard land as tiny paths from another time. Blackbirds and snowbird geese were everywhere searching the half-frozen farmlands for left-over seed. It is a place I won't forget as if framed in a dream to remember the reason, the purpose of this place: the snow, the running, the hopeless feeling, then, that instant moment when all seemed lost, when with a shout to move, to defy my own fear and doubt and those killing odds and change fate to faith, instead - to "adapt, improvise, and overcome" as one of the greatest marines ever voiced with conviction, honor, and valor.
When the Russian-made "Night Hunter" crash-landed but safely, the snow-covered landscape of intermittent trees, skeletal and forlorn-looking, little knobs of hills and shallow vales all undulating nearly unnoticed like waves in a gray sea, yet, unmoving like a pause in a picture show, young Timmy, the son of the President of the Unired States of America, awakened, startled and frightened. His mouth was taped closed with the same kind of tape his dad would use to temporarily mend a leaky hose, whether inside their old '84 Ford Fairlane or the often-used garden hose for their patch of tomatoes and carrots, potatoes and lettuce, lima beans and peas and their three fruit trees: cherry, pear, and apple. Timmy's little head hurt horribly still from the thrown debris by the shot missile back at Bill's diner, as if he were laying next to bowling pins being knocked about by a constant barrage of bowling balls rolling, careening nightmarishly headlong into the bowling pins and little Timmy at the Stardust Bowling Alley where he and his dad would often go to compete in its friendly confines of cigarette smoke and the smoky grill of bacon and eggs that was the specialty at the Stardust. Carrying rifles, the two Russian kidnappers were talking in low voices in a foreign language, glaring sideways at him, then, back again at each other, then, out into the snowy, unknown landscape in which their helicopter had untimely fallen. Timmy couldn't hear any normal city sounds and even the birds seemed quiet, as if silently waiting for something to happen. Then, suddenly one of the two men left the downed chopper and began running towards a line of trees behind the maimed "Night Hunter" that was now pointing lifeless towards a gradual hill where the ridge of a knoll set about 50 yards away and upon it a signpost which now was unreadable. The kidnapper still standing inside the helicopter, while still cradling his rifle in his burly arms and camouflage-style coat, took from it a cellphone, pressed some numbers, and began talking fiercely and quickly in that same foreign language to someone at the other end. It sounded, however, like one of the foreign languages that his dad would often listen in his study in the family floor of the White House. Timmy's dad called it: "learning the lie of the lawless," certain words that seemed common to all those opposed to laws and rights and liberties and democratic constitutions written by people of wisdom and compassion and faith not only in a Higher Power but in humanity, itself. When his studying was finished and he closed his last book, Timmy's courageous and forthright father would draw his young son close to his steadfast posture, near the ever-present fireplace ablaze with warmth and light to remind Timmy, "listening is always your best teacher. Then, when you know for sure, react without hesitation because it will be the right thing to do." Within a few minutes Timmy heard the short, rapid fire of a machine gun a short distance from where he stood inside the helicopter. Then, somewhat fainter, an echo of another rifle.
After half-a-dozen rounds of enemy fire from the narrow treeline, I could see one of the kidnapper's location as he slowly moved inside the bramble-brush of tall, tulle-like reeds signalling the treeline must be near or in a drainage ditch or dried-up, frozen creekbed that were always much-needed hiding places for deer as they crossed the open, bare farm fields looking for shelter and food. I fired two rounds at the target, then, hunched down low, ran forward to a fallen log about 30 yards closer to the treeline. A long minute elapsed without a sound except for the scattering blackbirds and snowgeese overhead, flapping their wings in harried flight from the sudden, unexplainable gunfire. I saw another sudden, slight movement in the treebrush and fired two more rounds from my AK. There was no return fire. I changed weapons from the Russian AK to my trusty, true .45, making sure the cartridge was full. I decided to move in closer still. There was a broken-down tractor standing frozen in the snow-covered field about another 30 yards from the leafless, black trees. I could see the outline of the Russian-made Mi-28 I had shot down, setting on the other side of the treeline, its rotary blades now motionless, its rudder backwing like shards of shrapnel hanging limply.
If there were life inside it, I couldn't tell from where I was. Crawling on my elbows and knees and stomach, my bullet wounds piercing hot and painfully, I made my way through the snow and tall weeds growing up and out from the trackless, white snow like flagpoles leaning in a mightier wind. I was thankful for their cover and that mysterioyus strength of character so true and common of nature. Four more rounds whizzed over my head. One knicked my right ear, turning it numb. I saw a drop of blood brush upon one of the tall tulle reeds then slide down its hollow staff like a raindrop upon a window pane in quieter, more peaceful times. I reached the old, rusty tractor, covered in vines and clinging weeds and moss and remnants of discarded stalks of corn, missed by the thresher and left for the crows and the possum. I thought myself an interloper at this nest and burrow for the chipmunk or squirrel. Underneath the old Landmark-made tractor I could see bare, hardened dirt with scattered cornseed and half-shells of walnuts, acorns, chestnuts, hazelnuts, and a litter of red and black wild berries.
When I was fighting the Taliban in the northeastern provinces of Afganistan - actually the barren mountainous range of the Hindu Kush, back in 2014, I learned to anticipate the worst, so, I always carried a grenade with me. I called it my "rat killer." Once again the enemy was silent as if waiting for me to first respond but I knew where he was hiding. Blackbirds were perched in all the trees except for the few black, leafless trees where he was crouched in darkness. I silently voiced, "Time's up, squatter-head" and launched the grenade with an accuracy that would have made ol' Peyton Manning envious of my throw. It was definitely a touchdown, of another kind. I heard one short, painful, half-muffled cry from the next-to-last remaining kidnapper and, then, the sudden rush of blackbirds filled the gray sky again that seemed at that moment like one of my fireworks celebrations atop the old orchard of our back yard on one of many, memorable Fourths of July.
When the last-remaining Russian terrorist heard the grenade blast, he locked young Timmy inside the helicopter and ran toward the treeline and his fallen comrade. Then, Timmy took his chance. He broke the door window of the helicopter with his thick-coated elbow, unlocked the outside door-handle, and began running up the slope of the hill that was snow-filled, silent, and long. Timmy tore the duct tape from his mouth but he knew not to yell for help that was probably too far away for his little, 8 year old voice to be heard, nor did he want to alert his captor. The now-lone Russian SBOK found his fellow revolutionary rebel dead, his lifeless body mangled in tree roots and bramble bush, blood and snow ominous and cold. He turned back around just in time to see Timmy running out of sight overtop the snow-capped, gray ridge, maybe 70 yards from where he stood stunned and shocked and angry. In the meantime, I had hoofed it through the thin, black and brown treeline and jumped down into a shallow ravine deep enough for me not to be seen by the lone assailant who was now running up the hill towards the fleeing young , and very brave, son of the President of the United States. The frozen, dried-up ditch ran perpendicular to the treeline and parallel with the valley and hill beyond where Timmy had disappeared in his flight over a ridge and the Russian kidnapper was beating his own path up the hill, too. Only he was trying to run in very deep snow, as his boot-driven prints were making his climb slow and arduous.
Now, out of breath, Timmy hid inside an old, abandoned pig hut, like a lean-to built up against the side of the ridge overgrown with weaving, entwining berry vines and broken limestone. Timmy's head hurt like lashing of thunder and lightning against the side of his great-grandfather's old barn in Cheyenne, Wyoming, rattling the wood boards like drums from the legends of the pounding hoofbeats of the Dakota horsewarriors and the metal roof sounding shrill and tragic like the high-pitched wail of the Santee Sioux songs of lament and sorrow. Timmy's tiny fingers trembled red and numb in the cold snow, his face shivered in the winter wind of that special time in Midwestern America between Thanksgiving and Christmas, and his whole body quivered and shook but Timmy remained alert, steadfast, and he listened like his dad taught him to listen.
I had worked my way swiftly, invisibly up the narrow ravine, past some wayward, little pig hut, then, half-circled around a pile of rocks that seemed to be left over from a small, short fence that had once-upon-a-time been constructed for some purpose for which I did not know. It connected nothing but was only about 30 feet long and 3 feet high. But it was there anyway. I saw the Russian terrorist trudging awkwardly up the hill and could hear his muffled grunts of hard-breathing effort he was using. He was maybe 20 yards from that tiny, old hog hut but I had looped around and behind it to the seemingly purposeless stone fence where I knelt in cover waiting. Quietly, I lay the barrel of my .45 on the top edge of the stone pile, took careful, cautious, true aim and fired three rounds into the climbing Russian terrorist and never-to-be-kidnapper. I saw him fall to the ground, into the deepening snow and the tall, scraggle-weed growing tenaciously up out of the snow and the hard, cold dirt. Carefully, I moved to where he was laying, blood already flowing from his open, shocked mouth and the three bullet holes where my .45 hit their marks perfectly - one in the forehead, one in the throat, and one in his heart. His eyes were still open, aghast, perhaps at what horror he was now seeing rather than this place of silent snow and simple Ohio countryside. I left him there untouched, unmoved, unremembered. The blackbirds hovered and circled overhead and some perched in the skeletal trees lacing the hills and vales of this unknown landscape, far from Chicago, far from Cheyenne, far from Washington D.C.
Timmy had heard the gunfire from my .45 and peeked from out of the hog-hut. He saw me and I calmly, reassuringly voiced, "You are safe now, Timmy. Your dad sent me here to take you back home to the White House. It's Christmas in three days." Timmy laughed and cried and ran into my open and warm arms as I knelt exhausted but overjoyed to see him safe and OK. We walked quietly, gladly away from the two helicopters now stranded like the old Trupointe tractor, and into the hearty and peaceful sounds of a nearby city to find a telephone and food, good and hot. At a gas station I phoned a direct line to my Marine base headquarters who were involved in the mission and they patched me through to the White House and to the President who was beyond thankful tears of gladness to hear his son's voice at the other end. Later that same day, I was told that my two Marine buddies, Hank Worthington and James Coldwater, Miss Maxwell, and Bill, the owner and cook of the brat 'n burger diner, were all recovering from their wounds. Needless to say, I would make it a point to visit Bill's diner and the old Amos Alonzo Stagg Football Stadium and I would never forget this mission. I thought I had failed but I learned to never give up, to remember and learn from all of life's experiences and mysteries, from all that life gives freely to us, like an old tractor in a snow-covered cornfield, like an old stone fence seemingly built for no reason at all, until one day in December 2019, when whoever built that pile of stone helped save the life of THE most important person in the world: young Timmy, the eight-year old son of the President of the United States of America. Hoo-ah!!! And MERRRY CHRISTMAS!!
Re: Never Give Up
by Dirt » Sat Dec 26, 2015 7:44 pm
And Merry Christmas (belatedly) to you, Turk, and to everybody a joyous and peaceful New Year, 2016
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The Elmira Pioneers have announced the signing of two players who played last year for former Pioneers pitcher Dan Head at Alabama Southern CC; David Bishop and Neil Hudson.
Bishop, an outfielder currently at Mississippi State University, hit .429 with 18 HR's (13th in the nation) and 62 RBI's. Hudson, an infielder who will be attending the University of Southern Alabama for the 2011-2012 school year, hit.442 with 6 HR's and 42 RBI's.
"We expect these guys to be hitting in the middle of our order. They can hit for average, hit for power and Bishop can really run. He led his team in stolen bases as well as HR's." said Head Coach Dan Shwam.
The Pioneers Opening Night is Thursday, June 9 versus the Cooperstown Hawkeyes. There will be a post game Fireworks show, presented by the City of Elmira. "Lucky Fan" Giveaways include the Allegiant Air weekend in Orlando, an HD TV, a DVD player, a MP3 player, restaurant gift certificates and more. we also kick off the Party in the Park Concert Series.
Tickets can be purchased in advance from the Pioneers exclusive retail ticket outlet, Jubilee Foods at 2898 Westinghouse Road, Horseheads.
Contact the Pioneers at 607-734-2690 or visit www.elmirapioneers.com.
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Queering Contemporary Asian American Art
Edited by Laura Kina and Jan Christian Bernabe
Queer Horizons
“Artists and scholars shake up the foundations of art history in a new book, Queering Contemporary Asian American Art.”
-Terence Trouillot, artnet news, June 24, 2017
“The editors disrupt notions of race, gender, and art to question the limits of each of these categories. A thoughtful and challenging collection that makes an important contribution to the fields of Asian American studies and visual culture.”
-LeiLani Nishime, author of Undercover Asian: Multiracial Asian Americans in Visual Culture
“Queering Contemporary Asian American Art provides a vital intervention and gendered counterpoint to the ways in which Asian Americans are usually racialized, demonized, and betrayed by mainstream academia and media.”
-Russell Leong, editor of Moving the Image: Independent Asian Pacific American Media Arts
“This volume stands as a bracing and provocative testament to the expansive critical and expressive possibilities of fluid concepts like ‘queering’ in dismantling, recasting, and realigning extant representations of Asian American identities, subjectivities, and positions in the twenty-first century world.”
-Margo Machida, author of Unsettled Visions: Contemporary Asian American Artists and the Social Imaginary
“Queer is a piquant term: as noun adjective, and verb, it is put to good use in this thoughtful collection of essays and interviews. The contributors variably attend to the marked body, challenging assumptions about it, including its readability. These writings demonstrate the ways that bold, contemporary artists are moving beyond rigid binaries and cynical, multiculturalist systems. Their invitation to critically engage differences and norms is most welcome.”
-Jacqueline Francis, author of Making Race: Modernism and “Racial Art” in America
Zavé Gayatri Martohardjono (Canadian/American, b. 1984)
“Brother Honeyqueen’s Dance of Darkness” (studio costume photo), 2013
10-minute performance, April 5, 2013, Boston Center for the Arts – Mills Gallery
Courtesy of the artist
Photo: Syd London
Review: “Queering Contemporary Asian American Art: A long overdue intervention” by Chong-suk Han, March 11, 2019, in the “International Examiner”
Listen: Laura Kina and Jan Christian Bernabe on New Books in Asian American Studies Podcast
Watch: Queering Contemporary Asian American Art Book and Panel Event at NYU on October 18, 2017.
Asia Pacific Forum on WBAI 99.5 in NYC: Interview with Laura Kina and Jan Christian Bernabe
A/P/A Institute Presents Queering Contemporary Asian American Art: Laura Kina, Jan Christian Bernabe, Greyson Hong, Kyoo Lee, Zavé Martohardjono, and Saya Woolfalk
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Individual or Common Property [Aug, 1890] : A Discussion, from an Individualist Correspondent
Revolt Library >> Anarchism >> Individual or Common Property [Aug, 1890]
Editor : Charlotte Wilson
(1854 - 1944) : Charlotte M. Wilson was an English Fabian and anarchist who co-founded Freedom newspaper in 1886 with Peter Kropotkin, and edited, published, and largely financed it during its first decade. She remained editor of Freedom until 1895.
Born Charlotte Mary Martin, she was the daughter of a well-to-do physician, Robert Spencer Martin. She was educated at Newnham College at Cambridge University. She married Arthur Wilson, a stockbroker, and the couple moved to London. Charlotte Wilson joined the Fabian Society in 1884 and soon joined its Executive Committee. At the same time she founded an informal political study group for 'advanced' thinkers, known as the Hampstead Historic Club (also known as the Karl Marx Society or The Proudhon Society). This met in her former early 17th century farmhouse, called Wyldes, on the edge of Hampstead Heath. No records of the club survive but there are references to it in the memoirs of several of those who attended. In her history of Wyldes Mrs Wilson records the names of some of those who visited the house, most of whom are known to have been present at Club meetings. They included Sidney Webb, George Bernard Shaw, Sydney Olivier, Annie Besant, Graham W... (From : Wikipedia.org.)
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Individual or Common Property [Aug, 1890]
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I shall endeavor in this communication to make as clear as possible the Anarchist view regarding Property.
I may start by saying that an Anarchist is a consistent, an all round, Individualist, one who believes that the faith in the divine power of governments to save humanity is nothing but the crudest superstition, which our State Socialist friends ought to be ashamed to perpetuate in people's minds. The Anarchist contends that if the people cannot emancipate themselves then their case is hopeless, and further that their present misery is due to nothing else than the foolish delegation of functions to governing bodies which State Socialists would perpetuate and extend.
An Anarchist is a democratic Individualist. He agrees with the Liberty and Property Defense League so far as they show up the follies of legislation and of State meddling with this and that sphere of human activity. He agrees with Herbert Spencer in his faith in the superiority of Natural over Human Law. But be differs from the thinkers of the so-called Individualist school, inasmuch as he carries their arguments to a logical conclusion.
Whereas most Individualists, so called, are in favor of the State "stereotyping" the distribution of wealth, the methods of paying debt, and the forms of "free" contract; the Anarchist would be in favor of freedom of judgment in all these matter, and would point out that it is not only democratic laws that are baneful (as the Individualist is so fond of showing) but that even property laws and monetary laws and contract laws are open to exactly the same objections.
The fact is the so-called Individualist is a humbug, and when he ceases to call himself an Individualist and frankly proclaims that he wants the State to govern everybody but himself, I shall cease also to apply that epithet to him.
Anarchists are not in favor of Property at all, in so far as it means the external protection and control of a man's possessions, and hence they take up a position of complete antagonism not only to avowed State Socialists, but also to the revolutionary Socialists who are always telling us that in the Free Society of the future they (whoever they are) are not going to allow a man to possess this, that and the other. I really believe that the present system of Property is preferable to such universal meddling with one's private affairs which Socialism would involve. Let me remind such Socialists that Proudhon (whom they occasionally quote) applied the term robbery not only to private but also to common property.
But Anarchists protest against the present system of Private Property so far as it means a legal right of robbery, as much as any Socialists do. They proclaim those economists to be liars who have the impudence to tell the people that private property means the protection of the laborer in the fruits of his labor and of his "abstinence." Any man who has spent his life anywhere but in an armchair can give the lie direct to such fools. Usury of land, usury of houses, usury of tools, -all these forms of legal robbery called "Property"-are eternally condemning the worker to a state of slavery.
But bow do we propose to abolish such usury? In answer, we point to laws which Radicals, Socialists, Communists, Individualists, alike seem to agree in ignoring, and on which only a few cranks perpetually harp. We mean laws relating to money, to property, to banking, to the methods of cooperation.
Money? What is there in it? Let us leave it to learned financiers to puzzle their heads over such a question. We workmen can't be bothered with it. Ah! my friends, hug your chains, for those chains are made of gold!
Why is the laborer a slave?
Because be cannot purchase with his own labor-force.
Here is the solution of the labor-problem-the abolition of all usury when labor knows its power. No need of Acts of Parliament, no need of strikes, no need of revolutions, no need of communism, the simple establishment of Free Money which will represent labor-force and be redeemable in the products of labor-this will destroy once and for all, all power of class and of capital, for labor is the source of all wealth.
Workmen can only be free, when each can pay in the services be can render; when the bootmaker pays in boots, the baker in bread, the carpenter in wood-work, the bricklayer in houses; and it is impossible for them to be free under any other circumstances.
All government is primarily established for robbery; would you have honesty you must abolish government.
A. Tarn
Freedom: A Journal of Anarchist Socialism
Vol. 4 -- No. 45,
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Home >> News: November 13th, 2019 >> Story
'Rosie' Rocks Rocket Lab
Rocket Lab has introduced ‘Rosie’ the rocket-building-robot to the company's manufacturing line, speeding up the production of Electron launch vehicles by more than 400 hours.
Until recently, Rocket Lab had been producing an Electron launch vehicle every 30 days. ‘Rosie’ the Robot will help bring Rocket Lab towards its goal of one Electron built and launched every seven days.
Rocket Lab's 'Rosie' robotic manufacturing system. Photo is courtesy of Rocket Lab.
The newly installed, custom-built, 140 sq/meter robot enables the precision machining of Electron’s carbon composite structures, including stage 1, stage 2, and the fairing. In only 12 hours, all marking, cutting, drilling, milling, and sanding, is completed on a full vehicle. ‘Rosie’ comprises a 3.5 meter by 16 meter 5-axis machining window coupled with a custom-built sixth rotary axis. The entire unit is large enough to house a bus, with room to spare, so it comfortably machines an entire 12m carbon-composite Electron first stage.
‘Rosie’ is the latest in a series of production, licensing, and infrastructure upgrades all targeted at boosting Electron production rates to meet a weekly launch cadence. In the past month, Rocket Lab has completed the installation of the launch mount and strongback at Launch Complex 2, Rocket Lab’s second orbital launch site, which will enable the first Electron launch from U.S soil in 2020. A new Range Control Facility has also been built at Launch Complex 1 to streamline mission operations, and the FAA has recently issued Rocket Lab with a 5 year Launch Operator License, enabling Rocket Lab to expedite pre-launch regulatory paperwork.
Work toward a reusable first stage for Electron is also underway, with Rocket Lab’s next mission featuring an upgraded booster to support recovery efforts. The launch window for the next mission, named ‘Running Out Of Fingers,’ is scheduled to open on November 25 and the mission features a first stage block upgrade.
The Electron launch of Rocket Lab's "As the Crow Flies" mission. Photo is courtesy of Sam Toms and Simon Moffatt.
Electron’s booster will include guidance and navigation hardware, including S-band telemetry and onboard flight computer systems, to gather data during the first stage’s atmospheric re-entry. The stage is also equipped with a reaction control system to orient the booster during its re-entry descent.
These new measures have been implemented with one goal in mind — frequent, reliable, and responsive launch for small satellites.
‘Rosie’ is automating machining tasks; however, human hands are still in high demand on the manufacturing teams at Rocket Lab’s Huntington Beach Headquarters and the company’s Production Complex in Auckland, New Zealand. More than 100 roles across manufacturing, test, and design are being recruited into the company over the next 12 months.
Rocket Lab’s Director of Production, Jamie France, said Rosie is the latest in a string of manufacturing upgrades designed to take the company from an Electron build every 30 days to one every seven days. A machine like this didn’t exist in the market, so Rocket Lab custom-built one that’s big enough for a bus to be parked within — this means building a rocket stage takes hours, not weeks or months.
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As the year 2016 draws to a close, I thought it would be appropriate to review the last year and to reflect on what we have achieved and what may lie ahead in 2017.
I have circulated a draft of this report to several members of our RHRS management committee for their comment and contribution, so the final report is now appreciably longer - but it is now more thorough and I hope you will value this.
At around the same time last year (2015), I recall that we were somewhat apprehensive about the year ahead, 2016, as there were many uncertainties surrounding our sphere of activity. Notwithstanding those uncertainties, we were pleased that RHRS had received a Transport Heritage NSW grant of $10,000 to conduct a concrete cancer repair project - to remediate the damage caused during more than 80 years of exposure to the elements in Robertson of our heritage-listed concrete station buildings. As we moved into 2016, we wondered whether this amount of money would be sufficient to remediate the damage to all of our buildings affected by the concrete cancer or whether we would use the grant money selectively on the most affected parts only.
Concrete cancer repair project
Early in 2016, we were able to add to the $10,000 grant money, with line manager ARTC offering to fund part of the concrete cancer repairs to our three main heritage-listed station buildings, making a sum exceeding $20,000 available for that work. That was very welcome and it followed a process in which we sought quotes to undertake all the required work from local concrete contractor Peter Chesterfield Concrete and Paving Services, based in Moss Vale. Subsequently, that firm was contracted to undertake the remedial work, which commenced with wet abrasive blasting of the affected parts of the buildings. This exposed the steel reinforcing, the rusting of which caused the expansion and cracking in the concrete - the so-called “concrete cancer”. Immediately following this exposure of the clean steel reinforcement, the contractors sprayed the treated areas with a chemical sealant which preserves and protects the concrete structure beneath. The treated parts of the buildings were then allowed to rust for a period of time, so that a rust-converter could be applied to the steel reinforcement to make it inert.
What followed next was the accidental and most unfortunate death of our principal contractor, Peter Chesterfield, who was killed in an industrial accident at his Moss Vale yard. That delayed and complicated the project slightly but did no harm as Peter’s son Scott Chesterfield took over the project management and employed experienced renderers to complete the work on budget. The renderers completed their work during early December, except for the remediation of the capital atop the right-hand column of the station destination sign. That rather meticulous work will be undertaken in the contractor’s workshop and affixed by the contractor early in 2017.
It is proposed to document the work undertaken, including technical details and with before and after photographs, and to make it available to Transport Heritage NSW and the Royal Australian Historical Society, NSW - a requirement of the initial grant.
RHRS is very appreciative of the initial grant and the top-up grant by ARTC, without which funding the project could not have been undertaken. RHRS maintenance manager Neil Harvey deserves a great deal of credit and our thanks for his organization and persistence in overseeing this work. Well done Neil.
Representations to NSW Government politicians concerning the continued operation of ‘The Cockatoo Run’ heritage tourist train.
The year 2016 ended with several representations being made to relevant NSW politicians, expressing our extreme concern - as a destination - at the eviction notice served by Transport for NSW on heritage train operator 3801 Limited to vacate the Large Erecting Shop (LES) at Eveleigh by 31 January 2017. The LES has been 3801 Limited’s operating base for several decades, and it is from there that ‘The Cockatoo Run’ train to Robertson and Moss Vale and return is housed, maintained and prepared.
RHRS was asked for assistance and support in 3801 Limited’s need to maintain a suitable occupancy of the LES so that ‘The Cockatoo Run’ can continue to operate and bring hundreds of passengers - tourists - to Robertson and the Southern Highlands each year. Consequently, President Ian Wallace sent suitably worded letters to the NSW Minister for Transport Andrew Constance MP and to the Minister for Tourism Stuart Ayres MP, as well as to local member Pru Goward. Pru has been very supportive, even participating in a ride on ‘The Cockatoo Run’ train from Robertson to Moss Vale on Sunday, 4 December 2016 along with several other dignitaries to celebrate 30 years of 3801 Limited’s operation of the ‘Cockatoo Run’ a “Good news story”.
It remains to be seen how effective these and other related representations will turn out in 2017. It is a very important matter to our station - as much is at stake, particularly our tradition over many years of meeting regular heritage passenger trains. It is also a most significant revenue-earner for our finances.
RHRS grounds and gardens
During 2016, our picturesque and highly regarded grounds and gardens have continued to be regularly tended by detainees on weekend detention from the NSW Department of Corrective Services - who do the mowing, whipper-snipping and other manual tasks - as well as by a small number of RHRS volunteers, who do gardening work including pruning, weeding, and fertilizing. Despite efforts to date to recruit more garden volunteers, the number of volunteer gardeners remains small and barely able to attend to all the garden maintenance required. Foreseeing such a situation early in 2016, David and Helen Tranter organized and participated in a series of monthly working-bees to demonstrate to several other volunteers the skills they have acquired over the years in maintaining the grounds and gardens.
At the last garden working-bee on Saturday, 10 December, long-term garden manager David Tranter advised me that he will continue in his role of tending the waratah plantations, the Fettlers Shed garden and other roles he undertakes for the next month or so but, early in 2017, he will have to cease such activities. I am sure we all admire David’s outstanding contribution over many years to establish and maintain the waratah and native plant gardens which surround our station, and we understand and respect his decision to no longer have an active role in the garden maintenance. Thank you David for the wonderful contribution you and Helen have made with our grounds and gardens. Be assured that we will always value the ongoing advice you may be able to offer us in taking over the duties you undertook so capably.
David’s notice brought into sharp focus the inescapable fact that we at RHRS now face a challenge, if not a struggle, to effectively maintain the grounds and gardens in the future. In the short term, Sandra and I will look after the maintenance of those aspects David managed, and we have some ideas for the future, which I will outline at our next management committee meeting early in February 2017. These are aimed at increasing the number of our garden volunteers. This is a major challenge for the future, as is maintaining the grounds and gardens through a predicted hot and dry summer.
Safety management is valued highly at RHRS and was strengthened further during 2016. Neil Harvey, RHRS Safety Officer, prepared the RHRS Safety Manual and did an excellent presentation at the May 2016 management committee meeting. The RHRS Safety Management Plan is based upon the Canadian Transport System safety plan which is also used by 3801 Limited.
A hard copy of the RHRS Manual has been mounted in a yellow file box to the wall of the office in the Fettler's Shed Gallery - in prominent view - for the management committee and other volunteers to access as required. In addition to a standard agenda item for all RHRS management committee meetings, the Safety Management Plan needs to be reviewed by February each year and updated as required.
During train visits, RHRS volunteers can give advice on safety matters but if the public ignores this that is all we can do. Safety management on the station platform and surrounds is rightfully the responsibility of the accredited train operator.
The original, heritage-listed structures of RHRS date back to 1932 and, understandably, these structures are aging and require ongoing maintenance. These are really matters for consideration with the line manager, namely, ARTC and consultation takes place from time to time. The concrete cancer repairs have been covered previously in this report, but the prompt painting of these structures is required during 2017 for their protection and to improve the appearance of our National Trust heritage-listed railway station. ARTC is aware of this need.
Probably the most important maintenance issue we currently have is finding a way to finance the re-roofing of the Fettlers Shed, at an expected cost of around $18,000. Strictly speaking, RHRS should not have to reach into its own finances (which at present do not amount to $18,000) but the chances of getting ARTC to repair its roof do not appear to be great, particularly as we favour their spending money on proper painting of the station buildings. In 2017 we shall continue to explore opportunities to obtain grants for part or all of the cost to replace the Fettlers Shed roof.
In the meantime, we are grateful for the ongoing work Neil Harvey does in attending to site repairs and maintenance, thus improving the amenity and operating efficiency of our facilities. Thank you Neil; it is much appreciated.
Midway through 2016, we purchased a flat-screen TV monitor, which has had some use in presenting “slideshow displays” and screening movies. This device has the potential to facilitate presentations and perhaps assist in increasing hire of the gallery. We shall explore this option further in 2017, as well as repainting the interior of the gallery.
Purchase of BBQ and catering for heritage train passengers
During 2016 we purchased a six-burner hotplate BBQ, which was used successfully in providing BBQ lunches to over 100 people, most of whom were passengers on an ARHS/RMS tour provided by three CPH rail motors, which stopped at Robertson station for lunch while en route to Port Kembla on Saturday, 19 November 2016. We received appreciation from tour operator ARHS(NSW), as well as good income from this activity, which has potential for further fund-raising, either at heritage train visits or at our regular fund-raisers, namely the Classic Car Day in April and the Spring Event/Dog Walk in October. These opportunities will be examined in detail early in 2017 by the RHRS management committee.
2016 Classic Car Day
The ‘Classic Car Day’ in 2016 proved once again that, given good promotion and good weather, the event will attract many owners of motor vehicles of all kinds to simply meet and display their vehicles on the railway common. While talking to many such car owners on the day, I learned that this event is valued by these owners to simply relax and enjoy the experience, chatting to fellow owners and interested visitors. We note that most vehicle owners are happy to vacate the site early in the afternoon so that they can return home in daylight hours. I believe that this is a most worthwhile event to continue, and that we should look at ways in which RHRS can make it an even better.
2016 Spring event, including Floral Art Exhibition and ‘Dog-walk’
In 2016, we avoided calling this event ‘The Railway Spring Fair’ as this year there was a dearth of stalls and, strictly speaking, it was probably not a true fair. Nonetheless, it was an important fund-raising event for RHRS. It was promoted by various names, including mentioning the word ‘waratah’, as the sale of waratah flowers over recent years has proven to be a good money-earner. Once again, the sale of cut waratah flowers picked from the Tranter property stood out as a major source of revenue, but other activities were also good earners and worth continuing in the future. These included the ‘Dog walk’ and the sale of sausage sandwiches to the dog-walkers and others.
We are indebted to the Berrima District Vintage Farm Machinery group and the Southern Highlands Model Engineers group who, each year, work hard to assist RHRS in making the annual RHRS Spring event interesting and worthwhile. Unfortunately, there are many other Spring events occurring around this time, so we have to do what we can to make our event different and likely to attract increased patronage.
As in previous years, the Floral Art Exhibition in the gallery attracted attention and was successful. Anne Wilson and her team of volunteers deserve considerable credit for this.
Fettlers Heritage Art Prize
The Fettlers Heritage Art Prize starts around show-time (March) each year and continues for several weeks. It draws considerable interest, particularly from local artists, and showcases the Fettlers Shed as a functioning gallery. The Fettlers Shed is gradually becoming a more useful resource with access from the kitchen to the outside covered area with its better protection from the elements and work by Neil Harvey to improve the visual amenity with gravel paths, painting, plants, etc. It is still a ‘project in progress’ but, altogether, it is a nicer and more convenient way to entertain and cater for events. We need to work to attract a variety of users on either a casual or permanent basis. This, too, will be investigated further in 2017 by the RHRS management committee.
Membership & recruitment
While member recruitment is a very important objective - and we really do need more active members - gaining traction in recruitment is difficult and further attention to this is needed. It will form an important part of our efforts during 2017.
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Modelers group
A pleasing development over the last couple of years has been the regular “getting together” of a small group of men, all keen on railway modeling. Led by Ron Middleton and Neil Harvey, this group meets on Friday afternoons for afternoon-tea while fabricating interesting model layouts for exhibition at RHRS events or for raffle prizes. Late in 2016, members of this group also took the initiative to complete the assembly of the Villiers quadricycle which RHRS purchased “in bits” several years ago. The group has reported that, with the assistance of members from the Vintage Farm Machinery group, the quad project is almost complete and it is ready for painting in 2017.
Anyone interested in modeling and/or restoration is invited to join this group.
Publicity and promotion
This is a necessary part of organizing events for fund-raising but it can be very time-consuming and is not generally embraced willingly or “sought after” by our volunteers. Over the last couple of years since the “retirement” by Neil and Marion Harvey from the publicity role, these duties have been handled by the RHRS management committee on an ‘as-needs’ basis.
During the year, Secretary Rona Goold worked on improving the RHRS website (robertsonrailway.org.au) This is an ongoing project when time permits. The increased use of photographs, relevant railway information and articles will form an important part of this ‘continuous improvement’ as the RHRS management committee increasingly appreciates the key role websites and social media such as Facebook have in modern communication. The monthly E-Bulletin is important for advising members of upcoming events.
Combined Christmas lunch
Once again, the combined RHRS/3801 Limited Christmas lunch held in the Robertson Anglican church’s CEC on Sunday, 4 December 2016 went well, attracting just over 100 participants. Most of these came from 3801 Limited and travelled to Robertson on the ‘Cockatoo Run’, hauled by beautifully restored and privately-owned heritage diesel-electric locomotive 42101. The 2016 lunch was a “morale booster” for the volunteers of 3801 Limited, which we were glad to organize for them. It was a successful and enjoyable day. Speeches were made by 3801 Limited chair Ms Sharyn Gregory and several members of her team, while a slide-show by myself on ‘The Cockatoo Run’, which is celebrating 30 years of operation, was presented. Special thanks go to our small team of volunteers who made this worthwhile event possible.
Handover of station management
Some time ago, Helen Tranter announced that she would step down from her former role of managing the railway station including train visits. This is a role she occupied for many years. We value and appreciate the outstanding work Helen did in this role. Early in 2016, after ensuring several of our volunteers were adequately briefed in the preparation for and administration of heritage train visits, Helen stepped down from that role. Train visits continue to be managed by Steve Carey, Neil Harvey and myself, often working as a team. This role also includes the purchase of merchandise for sale at the station. It is proposed that this arrangement will continue during 2017 for whatever train visits we receive.
Train visits in 2016
While the year 2016 started with some uncertainty surrounding what, if any, visits from heritage passenger trains we would receive at Robertson, we actually received a good number of train visits, several of which were unexpected. To our surprise and pleasure, Lachlan Valley Railway (LVR) provided us with three visits from steam locomotive 5917 during 2016. The latter two of these were marketed as ‘Southern Highlands Picnic Train’ and drew good passenger numbers. LVR has indicated its intention to run such trains again in 2017 - if possible. Station sales at most of our train visits were good, with all sorts of merchandise being sold. Popular sale items in 2016 were our ’80 Years booklet’ and miscellaneous photographs, the most popular being photos of the locomotive hauling the train of that day.
Despite 3801 Limited experiencing substantial financial problems and contrary to initial feared outcomes, there continued to be regular visits by 3801 Limited’s ‘Cockatoo Run’ during the last year - about 20 visits during the year or, roughly, two each month. Passenger numbers were generally 100 or more in each train, with regular numbers booking the Illawarra Fly option. All train visits in 2016 worked well.
Depending on the success or otherwise that tour operator 3801 Limited has in maintaining its Eveleigh base, we may continue to receive good passenger numbers and we can plan to stock more merchandise for sale. Early in 2016, we cut back on spending money on some merchandise as we were uncertain about the future of train visits.
Future train visits
Although some “tentative” bookings for 2017 have been made beyond the “approved” ‘Cockatoo Run’ train on Sunday, 29 January 2017, uncertainty still persists, although there is a great willingness by the tour operator to schedule heritage train visits in 2017. We shall have to wait and see what happens.
Looking at the issues surrounding several NSW heritage train operators, the likelihood of receiving train visits from operators other than 3801 Limited remains uncertain. At a recent meeting with Transport Heritage NSW, it was learned that a steam train visit from that organization is very unlikely - in the short term at least. The same situation applies to the two Powerhouse Museum locomotives 3265 and 3830, both of which are undergoing significant maintenance. With Lachlan Valley Railway having placed their two steam locomotives 3237 and 5917 under maintenance over the hot and dry summer months, little or no likelihood of these locomotives visiting Robertson in the short term seems possible. The ARHS (ACT) group, recently placed into voluntary liquidation, may possibly be able to recover sufficiently to operate tours again, but that is purely speculative. The chance of Garratt locomotive 6029 bringing passengers to Robertson appears fanciful - but stranger things have happened!
Something to look forward to is the expected return into operational service of THNSW steam locomotive 3526 later in 2017 and the much awaited return to service of iconic steam locomotive 3801 in 2018 - if all goes to plan. Whether THNSW chooses to bring a tour train to Robertson in the future is a big unknown at this stage. I have let their senior management team know that RHRS is a wonderful destination and that we would certainly value at least one visit per year from a THNSW steam-hauled train.
RHRS Finances
Last, but certainly not least, I will make a few comments on our finances. Put simply, our finances are quite healthy at present, but some additional remarks are necessary. In the past, RHRS has depended very much on grants to fund capital projects and works, such as our Fettlers Shed annexe and other substantial improvements. These grants are much appreciated and have enabled us to do things which, otherwise, we may not have been able to fund. Our various other sources of income including station sales, loop train rides, donations, kiosk sales and gallery hire have helped us along the way and contribute significantly to our overall income. However, they cannot fund major works, such as re-roofing the Fettlers Shed. We will continue to pursue all potential sources of income in 2017.
Our Treasurer Anne Wilson will soon advise us of our end-of-year financial situation, which will show that we did quite well in 2016. I take this opportunity to thank Anne for her major contribution in managing our RHRS finances, and for involving the Wilson family in publicity through pamphlets and posters, as well as contributing to the setting-up and dismantling of our major events when required. Their contribution is greatly valued and appreciated.
Christmas and New Year wishes
As the year 2016 closes I would like to thank our management committee for their much-valued support and contribution during the year. I believe it has been a good year for RHRS, with much being accomplished. That said, there are many challenges to keep us on our toes during 2017.
If anyone wishes to discuss any matter raised above with me I would be glad to do so, either in person or by contact as below.
My very best wishes for Christmas and the New Year are extended to all our members, and may you have a safe and healthy time over the holiday period and throughout 2017.
Hon President, RHRS
Email: ianandsandraw@gmail.com
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Parade of Ships at the Port of Riga Opens the Latvian Navy's Centenary Celebrations
Published on Friday, 09 August 2019 16:30
Today, 9 August, a parade of military ships took place in the Port of Riga next to the Sea Gate in honour of the centenary of the Latvian Army’s Navy, and the port solemnly welcomed the ships of the naval forces of Latvia and its allies.
The parade of ships was welcomed by President of Latvia Egils Levits near the gate of the Port of Riga. Minister for Defence Artis Pabriks, Commander of the National Armed Forces Lieutenant General Leonīds Kalniņš and Commander of the Naval Forces Commodore Ingus Vizulis were among the participants. The parade was marked by a salvo of cannon-fire at the Bolderāja Shipyard and involved the Naval Forces’ A-53 Virsaitisstaff and support ship, the A-90 Varonissupply ship, the M-04 Imantaand M-05Viestursminehunter, the P-08 Jelgava and P-09 Rēzeknesupply ships, as well as naval vessels belonging to other allied forces — the Swedish multifunctional naval corvette — the Helsinborg, the Finish minelayer — the Pyharanta, the German supply ship — the Werra, the Estonian staff and supply ship — the Wambola, the Lithuanian anti-mine ship — the Selis, and the Polish search and storage ship — the Lech.
As part of the events tied to the centenary of the Latvian Navy, anyone interested will have the opportunity to visit the naval vessels of Latvia and her allies in the Port of Riga, next to the piers of the Riga Passenger Terminal on 10 and 11 August from 12:00 to 17:00.
The Port of Riga can be proud of featuring crucial moments of Latvia's history during the Latvian War of Independence and the proclamation of the State of Latvia, including the establishment of the Latvian Navy and its first battles. The official date of the Latvian Navy’s inauguration is considered to be 10 August 1919, when the Naval Division was founded at the Headquarters of the Commander-in-Chief of the Latvian Army. During the Latvian War of Independence (1918-1920), the newly established State of Latvia had a marked need to establish its own navy. Military activities involved private trade ships, motorboats, steam ships and tugboats, and it can be considered that the newly created Navy executed one of its first combat missions exactly at the Port of Riga.
When in 1919 the soldiers of the new Latvian Army, fighting against Pavel Bermondt’s forces, consolidated their positions on the Rigan coast and the attempted counter-attack across bridges failed, the decision was made to build an assault force and attack Bermondt’s soldiers in the area of Daugavgrīva-Bolderāja. On 15 October, covered by the allied bombing, the assault force was dropped off next to the Daugavgrīva Fortress and Bolderāja by the newly created Latvian landing fleet. The fleet consisted of river steamers, port tugboats and barges, on which iron plates and sand bags had been installed to protect against incoming fire bullets. The assault force landed successfully, and this marked the beginning of the end of Bermondt’s risky undertaking — the freeing of Latvia started at the Port of Riga.
The launch of the first Latvian Navy’s ship, the Virsaitis, on 12 June 1921 also turned out to be a great event at the Port of Riga, and this date was celebrated as the day of establishment of the Latvian Coast Guard Squadron until 1937.
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GUARD AGAINST HPV CAMPAIGN
Motherhood has evolved over the years. Caring for kids have transitioned from being simple "what to eat, what to wear, which school is best" to something more demanding. Modern moms have taken motherhood to superhero level - they are wide readers, event organizers, influencers, self-care and health enthusiasts armed with a wealth of information towards one battle cry "My kid deserves the BEST!"
This event I attended is close to my heart. I have my kababata who died because of it. I actually never thought of it until she was dying because of cervical cancer. She was my age. Very too young to die. She had a great future ahead of us. But in the end, her cervical cancer worsen, and it's too late to do anything about it. It was actually a wake-up call for me. I never thought of cervical cancer until it happened to her.
Can you imagine? 11 Filipinas die because of cervical cancer daily. How can we prevent it?
Growing up, hindi masyadong nadidiscuss and cervical cancer. Maybe because it is not as popular as breast cancer or any form cancer. But still, it's a deadly disease that we need to address to save women from untimely death. We need to inform, to have early detection. Because prevention is better than cure.
And yet, adolescence —a topic which does not receive as much discussion as the early childhood years— also represents a vital chapter in human development and family life. With teenagers on the verge of independence, and their moms starting to take back their long-lost “me time,” the situation can cause a gaping hole in communication and understanding at such a critical window of time.
Health prioritization among teenagers at times take a backseat since they are now considered better at warding off diseases like colds and diarrhea. Pediatrician visits become less and less except when they badly need it. One life-altering issue that deserves focus is the huge burden that continues to threaten women and men, including teenagers worldwide, caused by the human papillomavirus or HPV.
Although some of the infections from this commonly occurring virus with more than 100 types usually go away on their own, at least 14 types of HPV have been found to be cancer-causing.
These HPV-related cancers and diseases are cervical cancer, vaginal and vulvar cancers, penile cancer, anal cancer, oropharyngeal cancer, and genital warts.
In the Philippines, HPV is the primary cause of cervical cancer, which is the second leading cancer site among Filipino women, with thousands of new cases and deaths occurring yearly.
Guard against HPV
As the digital age brings advancements in health care, it also ensures a steady stream of distractions that compete for the attention of mothers and teens.
Hence, the Guard Against HPV, a campaign supported by MSD in the Philippines together with its advocates, is calling for the urgent need to increase awareness and understanding of HPV diseases and their burdens on the unprotected population, since most HPV infections show no symptoms at all.
Aligned with the “Inventing for Life” ethos of MSD, Guard Against HPV encapsulates the vision and the organization’s efforts to continuously invent and innovate to address some of the world’s most life-threatening diseases, like those linked with HPV-related cancers and diseases. Through the campaign, dialogues among medical professionals, patient groups, along with the media generate more awareness and discussion on HPV, and also call for change in perspective on such kinds of diseases so that we may overcome them more effectively and efficiently.
Through Guard Against HPV, all stakeholders are called to address the HPV concern and stigma and ultimately ensure the welfare of children and the youth later in life.
During the advocacy launch on August 28, 2019 at the Seda Vertis North in Quezon City, Niña Corpuz is presented as the new campaign ambassador for Guard Against HPV. The broadcast journalist and health advocate co-moderated the media discussion with Dr. Erwin De Mesa, President of the Philippine Infectious Diseases Society for Obstetrics and Gynecology (PIDSOG).
The discussions centered on debunking the myths and misconceptions surrounding the virus such as “Is it too early for teenagers to get an HPV vaccination?” and other perceptions such as “Only those who get sexual intercourse can get HPV” received clarification from medical experts.
Early this year, the Philippines was plagued with a measles outbreak that could have been avoided with immunization. Since HPV diseases like cervical cancer are vaccine-preventable, representatives from groups like Cervical Cancer Prevention Network of the Philippines (CECAP), Philippine Dermatological Society of the Philippines (PDS), and PIDSOG shed light on the hotly debated vaccination issue, while underscoring the need for a preventative approach.
Topics also include contextualizing the risk factors associated with HPV, and how HPV is linked to cancer, genital warts, and other HPV-related health problems.
Awareness and willingness to take action are imperative because HPV vaccination works best when given before a person becomes exposed to the virus. To highlight the importance of immunization and regular check-ups as key factors to disease prevention, representative mother and youth officers from Lingkod E.R. reiterated the value of early protection such as vaccination, in addition to exchanging valuable insights on adolescence as the ideal time to talk about personal health. The campaign aims to empower mothers to be one of the primary advocates for their children’s health. It also seeks to engage the youth as well in the conversation about protecting their health now to enjoy a future free from HPV diseases and cancers.
Health-empowered parenting
As with other vaccine-related concerns, informed choice is crucial. Teens themselves have to be equipped with the right information necessary for them to be proactive health-wise, with the guidance of their parents who likewise need protection from HPV.
To keep up with the times and to harness the power of the digital space to educate both parents and the youth, the Guard Against HPV website and its social media pages were launched during the event. These digital assets aim to educate and advocate for HPV prevention.
A global problem as crushing and widespread but preventable as HPV-caused cancers needs a multi-sectoral solution, and Filipino moms and their adolescent children can count on that.
The value of vaccination and regular screening have always been underscored by global health care authorities. Vaccination acts as a shield, protecting children from dangerous diseases and saving up to 3 million lives each year, as stated by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). This is why Guard Against HPV empowers mothers and teens to take charge of their health and wellbeing, with vaccines as one of the effective tools that they can use to shield themselves from fatal illnesses like cervical cancer.
A ceremonial activity is performed at the media launch where the various stakeholders who are the “guardians” of an HPV-free nation placed a gem on a ceremonial armor – each representing a commitment to fight against HPV.
These gems represent Reality (of the burdens and threats of HPV); Mind (or mindfulness in health); Power (to take action in our hands); Time (to vaccinate our young ones); Space (to make use of the digital space to educate mothers and teens); and Soul (or the willingness to advocate for protection against HPV diseases and cancers).
Many Filipinos would rather steer clear of HPV talk, genital diseases, and mortality rates but the plain reality is that no enjoyment of lifestyle is even possible if the wellbeing is compromised. A shoutout to moms—it can be prevented and it’s in your hands.
By Shopgirl Jen at Tuesday, September 10, 2019
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Upcoming B&N Collector’s Edition of Eragon has 50 pages of new content (Murtagh point-of-view scene) and more!
By Mike Macauley November 15, 2018 Eragon, Inheritance Cycle No Comments
It was easy to miss: Last week, Barnes & Noble announced the Exclusive Collector’s Edition of Eragon releasing December 31, 2018, only available at B&N stores and online.
The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm (a new story following Eragon’s post-Inheritance adventures) will hit store shelves on the same day and will be available at all book stores in the US, Canada, and the UK!
The new edition of Eragon has much more than a fancy new cover! The book will feature nearly fifty pages of new content, including:
Deleted scenes from Murtagh’s point-of-view, first featured in the self-published edition of Eragon and never publicly shared
Full-color map of Alagaësia
20th anniversary retrospective letter from Christopher
Q&As on names, languages, characters, dragons, and other aspects of the fantasy world
Concept art from the illustrations previously featured in each Inheritance Cycle book, including: Saphira’s eye, dwarf runes, the elves’ writing system (Liduen Kvaedhí), and the yawë symbol
The hand-written first page of Eragon, as well as other images of early plotting and editing
Christopher wrote a letter to fans announcing the new edition and further elaborating on the content announced above on his official website, Paolini.net!
B&N’s Eclusive Collector’s Edition of Eragon is available for pre-order today and will release on December 31, 2018!
And don’t forget to pre-order The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm, with all new content following Eragon and Saphira and featuring new original stories, including a memoir from Angela the herbalist herself!
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Racism and the Culture of Denial
Published in the Louisiana Weekly, 11/26/94
Alcoholics commonly go to great lengths to deny their drinking problems; so too, the perpetrators of domestic violence. Excuses for destructive behavior are many, and rarely does one overcome denial without considerable coaxing and a mountain of evidence. Often, even that fails.
So it is with racism: America’s collective psychosis; the one we still refuse to fully acknowledge, 375 years after the arrival of the first African slaves; the one we so badly wish to expunge from our memories and cast into the dark recesses of our past, that lately it has become fashionable to blame the problems of black America on anything but racial discrimination, be it the direct, old-fashioned kind, or the more covert, institutional type.
To wit, the recent release of a book touted as “daring” for its ill-conceived conclusion that race and IQ are biologically related, and that blacks are generally less intelligent than whites: a recapitulation of nineteenth century sociobiological nonsense no more “brave” than a book claiming the Holocaust never happened. Its principal author, Charles Murray, is the same self-proclaimed intellectual who ten years ago penned Losing Ground, which eschewed genetic explanations for black failure, and instead blamed “cultural pathology,” presumably bred by the welfare state, which, in Murray’s estimation, encourages dependence, laziness, and an intense desire to have children out-of-wedlock.
Forget for a moment that neither Losing Ground, nor the recently-released Bell Curve, adhere to generally-accepted rules of statistical interpretation; or that its supporters have an obvious problem distinguishing between the concepts of causation and correlation; or that Murray and co-author, Richard Herrnstein, rely on the research of such crackpots as Philippe Rushton, of Ontario, who postulates that blacks have smaller brains because they have larger penises, and “You can’t have everything.” Forget all this for now, and ask only what the popularity of the biological and cultural pathology theories says about our nation’s unwillingness to face up to the possibility that bias against people of color in employment, housing and education may still be a problem.
We so badly want to absolve our nation of the charge of racism, that we will say anything, believe anything, and come up with any excuse for the conditions faced by persons of color. It is telling that Murray’s critics seem most upset that by placing his intellectual eggs in the basket of pseudo-scientific racialism, he might lose credibility as a leading light in the “culture of poverty” school: a school attended religiously by many of these same critics.
One might expect Murray’s detractors to begin questioning his veracity and scholarly competence, given that he has gone from virtual certainty as to the importance of culture on racial inequity, to militant championing of the notion that genes are the primary culprits, all in the course of a few short years. Both books are heavily footnoted. Both feign intellectual certitude. Yet, instead of being laughed out of policy circles for his inconsistency, Murray’s most vocal critics seem as though they would be content were he simply to give up all this IQ foolishness so he could get back to the really neat stuff about welfare queens in Cadillacs, poppin’ out young’uns, and sucking down all that government cheese. Now there’s a social scientist we can live with!
That other explanations for poverty among persons of color, like structural economic dislocation, regressive tax and fiscal policy, or continued discrimination go ignored, indicates how narrow is the spectrum of thought on this matter, the monolithic “liberal” media notwithstanding.
Those who allude to the loss of over four million manufacturing jobs from our nation’s central cities over the past fifteen years, and propose that such capital flight might have some effect on the economic and social fortunes of the mostly black residents of those areas are seen as purveyors of “doom and gloom” for believing, horror of horrors, that “big government” might have some role to play in remedying the conditions of deindustrialization. And to suggest that the employment exodus might be viewed as a form of institutional racism, whereby race-neutral economic patterns exact a race-specific impact on people of color, is seen as beyond the pale of polite discussion altogether.
Those who point out that our nation’s schools are largely funded by local property taxes, and thus poorer (and usually blacker) census districts have less revenues with which to work, and that this might impact the quality of education received by Blacks and Latinos relative to their white counterparts are reviled as radicals, for believing that equal educational opportunity should mean something more than the equal opportunity to be born to rich parents who can afford tutors and private schools. Again, to suggest that unequal funding patterns exact an institutionally racist impact on kids of color is dogma non grata in mainstream discussion.
Those who dare point out the figures on mortgage discrimination, which demonstrate that people of color are rejected for home loans at two-and-a-half to three times the rate of whites, even when they have comparable incomes and credit records, are called “professional victims,” “whiners,” and arbiters of the culture of complaint.
Those who mention the poll from the National Opinion Research Center, indicating that between half and 75 percent of whites believe Blacks and Latinos are lazier, more violent, and prefer welfare to work, are called “fear-mongers,” who see racists behind every personnel director’s door.
Those who note that Black criminals receive harsher sentences than whites, even for the same crime, and with the same prior records, and that those Blacks are thirty percent less likely to receive early parole, are accused of advocating prison and execution “quotas.” The real problem of racial bias at every stage of the criminal justice system is sacrificed to an arcane policy debate and is quickly forgotten.
Even a new report from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, which indicates that Black government workers are fired at twice the rate of their white counterparts, even when they have identical educations, seniority, and performance records, fails to inspire those who proclaim the demise of racism to rethink their positions.
The cry of “I’m not a racist, but…” could be a new stanza in the national anthem. It is America’s collective cliche. No one is a racist. Black and Latino poverty or that of Southeast Asian immigrants couldn’t possibly be the consequence of economic decline, wage stagnation, or discrimination. Everybody gets a fair shot so if they can’t cut it, the fault lies not in our institutions, but with theirs: their ghettoes, their penchant for Malt Liquor and crack cocaine, their lack of a work ethic, and now perhaps their defective, intellect-starved DNA.
What will it take to make white folks believe that racism is still a persistent social phenomenon, albeit more subtle and concealed than in years past? When Rodney King was beaten, the voices of denial told us it was just a few bad cops, and anyway, he was speeding and “lunging around like some animal.”
When police in Virginia Beach assaulted African-American collegians during spring break a few years back, the voices of denial said, “It wasn’t racial, and anyway, a lot of those kids were looting.”
Indeed, whenever white cops kill or assault people of color, or even other “minority” cops, it’s never racial. It was an accident. Bad judgment. And anyway, it’s a jungle out there. The police are under a lot of pressure. But isn’t it strange how we never hear about Black officers “accidentally” blowing away white teenagers during routine traffic stops? Are they somehow immune to the pressure that seemingly sends so many of their white colleagues over the edge?
Even when David Duke got nearly sixty percent of the white vote for U.S. Senate and almost fifty-five percent of the white vote for Louisiana Governor one year later, the voices of denial assured us Duke’s supporters weren’t racists. They were just “tired of business as usual,” and wanted to “send Washington a message.” That the message they had in mind might have been a bit more sinister than “Gee whiz, here’s a great guy who supports term limits,” was entirely overlooked as a possibility.
Sometimes, the denial gets downright silly. In 1989, when a cross was burned on the lawn of a Tulane University fraternity, the very night that fraternity issued its first-ever bid to a Black student, many white students and administrators said they didn’t think the incident was racially-motivated, especially since “It was only a two-foot cross.”
Four months later, when members of another fraternity burned a cross in their backyard, after nailing a Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard sign to the structure, the perpetrators actually claimed that the two pieces of wood had “just kinda’ fallen into the bonfire in a cross-like position.” As for the street sign? Nobody knew how that had gotten in there. Some even claimed, as proof of their innocence, that they would have been forced to go to the black part of town had they wanted to steal an MLK Boulevard sign, and that, after all, would have been too dangerous! No sir, no racism around here.
I suppose it will take the emergence of a new Hitler, complete with a revised “final solution” for the darker-complexioned types before we’ll finally own up to the national sickness. Come to think of it, it could happen. After all, with Charles Murray churning out eugenic swill like The Bell Curve, we wouldn’t even have to take out an ad in the paper for another Joseph Goebells. He’s already on the job.
Color-Conscious, White-Blind: Race, Crime and Pathology in America
The Once and Future Duke
Racism, White Liberals and the Limits of Tolerance
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Marilyn Crispell Tanya Kalmanovitch Richard Teitelbaum
Dream Libretto
(Leo Records)
review by Marc Ch�nard
It was not too long after her arrival on the scene in the late 1970s that pianist Marilyn Crispell was pigeonholed as a Cecil Taylor follower. For the next 20 years, that label dogged her to the point that she had to live up to it, willingly or not. By the late 1990s, however, she began toning down the fire and fury on which she built her reputation. The turning point, of course, was her entry into the ECM fold. In the 23 years since that groundbreaking release of Annette Peacock covers (Time Never Was Anyway), Crispell has now become a musician in search of a quieter form of intensity, a fact demonstrated in the six ensuing releases for that famous German imprint. Another good example of her current focus is the present album, surely one of the sparest sounding recordings in her extensive discography.
All told, the program consists of 12 pieces, the first five credited to Crispell and titled Memoria / For Pessa Malka, a suite inspired by the poem Sound of the Downward by Robert Gibbons. While the record jacket indicates that two other musicians are present, the pioneering Richard Teitelbaum on electronics and Tanya Kalmanovitch on violin, these are not really trio pieces at all. The opener features Crispell on a strangely distant piano with a glassy and reverberant sound (electronically processed for sure... by Teitelbaum?). The electronics are vaguely heard as a low drone in that first cut before being exclusively featured in the second and nowhere else thereafter. The violin enters in a hushed duo with the pianist in the third before playing a soliloquy in the fourth and turning it over to the pianist in the finale of this first set. While listed as playing violin, which may well be the case here, Kalmanovitch is a violist by trade. Aural evidence in the remaining seven tracks of this side (improv duos with the pianist) confirms this, as there are pitches clearly below the bottom "G" of the violin. For the most part, the mood is quite reflective, the players pondering their every move in an unhurried way.
While books ought not be judged by their covers, as the old saying goes, this is one disc whose jacket hints at the music in store. Save for the basic discographical data, the tune titles of the last seven tracks (drawn from the aforementioned poem) and a dedication to the pianist's late parents, there is nothing else printed on the bare-bones four panel sleeve. The aura of mystery shrouding this music makes it all the more alluring to listen to.
Marilyn Crispell Tanya Kalmanovitch Richard Teitelbaum: Dream Libretto
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What is the ALP Programme?
ALP stands for the Advanced Learner Programme.
Specific students are selected from each year group based upon their high ability in English, Maths and Science. These students are then given opportunities to promote their learning within these subject areas, so that they are stretched and challenged.
What happens after selection?
Students will be given a questionnaire to complete, enabling them to highlight their main areas of interest. The St Birinus Team of Lead Teachers will then collaborate to ensure that opportunities are offered in a bespoke manner to meet the needs of the students in that year group.
What opportunities will you have?
Students will be offered opportunities in one or more of the categories below:
Oracy
Work Related Learning
Higher Educational Related Learning
What have students done in the past?
STEM Club with external supervisors
Debating competitions
The Oxfordshire Mock Trial Competition
Additional Language acquisition (Mandarin, Latin)
Engineering Days
Trips to various Higher Educational Facilities
Oracy Days
Year 10 ALP Trip to Oxford University
On the 16th of January, year 10 Advanced Learner Programme, students attended a tour and talks at Harris-Manchester University of Oxford.
Once we arrived, we were greeted by the principal of the college, Reverend Dr Waller, who gave us a tour around the complex, including the library and the chapel. On the staircase hangs a letter which, Dr Waller claimed, contained a spelling mistake! In the library we were also shown a magnificent stained glass window, on which were all the patrons of this college.
We ended up in a room in the old principal’s lodgings to hear a professor of diabetes talk on scientific models and their limits and accuracies, and one from a professor of mathematics on study tips and organisation. We began with models and the professor immediately filled up a large tin bath with water and sailed a boat on it, before promptly demonstrating a cascade system, where marbles, through levers and pulleys lifted and dropped a cobbler’s last. He finished his demonstrations with inflating a paddling pool, dying the earlier water red, standing an electronic pump in the paddling pool and turning it on to show just how powerful the heart is. As it turns out, very powerful, he had to dash to the other side with a bucket to stop a torrent of water cascading onto the principal’s carpet.
He concluded by saying that although models are all well and good, they can also be a hindrance. The maths professor took over next, and told us the four key points to exam success; practice (10,000 hours to be approximate!), self-control, mind-set and concentration. These, he said, would make us achieve the exam results we wanted.
After lunch, we headed to a deceptively large chapel and met the principal of music. He played us Widor’s toccata from his fifth organ symphony and we all gathered round to watch. After an incredible piece, we had a go at “clapping music” by American composer, Steve Reich.
I feel that it was a fantastic trip, and would like to thank Miss Froud-Davis, Ms Froud and Mr Skae for organising it and accompanying us.
William Brawn 10.5
Year 10 ALP Trip to Crown Packaging PLC
‘Never would you believe the amount of work that goes into creating cans’. This is a direct quote from one of the year 10 students after his day at Crown Packaging in Wantage.
Students began their day with a tour around the warehouse facilities, looking at the machines that make cans from scratch, and listening to talks about the various techniques that the company use to make their tins durable, cost effective, and in many cases aesthetically altered to suit the clients requirements. Students were able to see the formation of drinks cans, food produce cans, and aerosol cans in different shapes, sizes and with different components.
Following their tours, students spent time in the Design Centre looking at cutting edge concepts for producing increased sales, such as utilising the ‘device driven’ culture to give people rewards for their purchases. Students were given the opportunity to brainstorm ideas to contribute to the new designs and to see how the design team create and produce prototypes of packages to offer potential and existing clients.
The Scientists in the group especially enjoyed being shown around the new labs where specially trained personnel check the materials used in the packaging and the interaction that the metal has with the produce that is contained in the cans. Similarly, hygiene specialists allowed students to test various surfaces to demonstrate potential contamination points.
Perhaps the highlight for some was the ‘food testing’ centre where students were asked to test ‘Coca-Cola’ samples in order to demonstrate how the company ensures that the packaging keeps produce at its optimum quality. Students were also given the opportunity to package some sweets in cans and use the machinery to seal the lids on the cans. Another popular workstation!
The day ended with a demonstration from the Scientists using microscopes to assess any damage or inconsistencies in the metal that is used or the machinery making the packaging. The day was highly interesting and left the students enthused about the potential career paths that can be accessed through this local company. We would like to thank Crown Packaging for allowing us to enjoy such a valuable experience and to the students whose behaviour was exemplary. Perhaps a measure of how much the students enjoyed their time was a request made by one of our students to complete work experience with the company in their own time, over the summer holidays.
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The Stewardship Report Connecting Goodness
Monthly Feature
Stewardship Report
Americas July 22, 2019
Son of Immigrants Pursues American Dream as well as Education Equity
By Dustin Liu, 2019 Luce 24 Under 24 Award Recipient
New York, N.Y. My interest in young global leadership is intricately connected with my passion for education equity. Education has always played an important part of my personal narrative. As the son of two immigrant parents who came to America in pursuit of their education, a college education held a central role in our family’s American Dream. It was through education that my family was able to find opportunity, and it is the very prospect of how higher education can shape the livelihood of students that drives my passion for the field.
From a young age, I became aware of the opportunity gap in education globally. My second-grade teacher, Ms. Bittman, asked our class, “what should we do if the cure for cancer was in the mind of a girl, halfway around the world, who didn’t have access to education?” It was in that moment that I began to unravel the interconnected nature of our world – and began to unpack the importance of young global citizenship.
It was this very question posed by Ms. Bittman that shaped my foundational experiences. I pursued opportunities outside of the classroom to hone these thoughts. At 14, I began a tenure as a Student Activist Coordinator for Amnesty International to better understand how LGBTQ+ communities of color were marginalized by systemic structures. I led workshops and traveled the Northeast connecting with youth leaders to hear their stories and actions.
By 17, I worked on 4 local campaigns as a field intern and when I was 18, I joined a national campaign team as a digital organizer, using social media to mobilize and motivate youths. A deeper interest in how we connect as humans began to emerge from these experiences, particularly across difference. An affirmation of my ability to hone my own voice and develop my model of change influenced how I saw my role in closing the gaps of inequities throughout systems in our society. Youths have the ability to make a difference if we invest in their voices and create the conditions for them to lead.
It was in the university setting that I had the chance to engage internationally and understand first-hand the importance of having the tools to engage across difference in an ever more interconnected world. The ability to create and bridge communities through technology and intentional connections allow us to better empathize with others.
At this critical point of innovation and the potential for connection, the opportunity for youths to develop a global mindset undoubtedly helps them lead more self-actualized careers and lives. The understanding that we are part of a world larger than our own community is critical – it helps confront our misconceived notions and biases that we learn through socialization.
It is within these experiences that youth global leadership can create change in our world, making globally sustainable decisions, building relationships across borders, and ultimately contributing to a more equitable and unified society.
There are certain key moments that allow me to understand the importance of youth global leadership. The first is my experience with the Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement working to integrate technology into the curriculum at the Viveka Tribal Center for Learning. It was here that I had the first hand opportunity to live and learn alongside the village of Hosahalli, a product of political gentrification of those native to their land. One of my favorite moments was having the chance to learn about the student’s upbringing while sharing my own.
With the help of Google Maps, I traced my childhood. I will never forget one student sharing with me that it was in that moment that he felt as though he was a citizen of the world, and not just of his village. Taking this experience back to my own local community inspired me to start the Schools Without Borders initiative in my public-school system.
The purpose of the Schools Without Borders is to build global citizens within our high school classroom. Our mission is to foster a change in the way American students saw themselves as compared with others from vastly different experiences and find a common link that helps engender real growth and understanding. As the world becomes more globalized and interconnected, we need to prepare students to enter into a more diverse workplace.
The program involved students taking on a project to build relationships with the tribal village in Southern India. They took on a community engagement project to create a “Day in the Life Video” that the tribal school would be utilizing in their curriculum. The result was an emphasis in ethical engagement and building knowledge about the context of the community in terms of human capital development and social structures that all intertwine to create a narrative different than our home community.
In university, I had a chance to plan and execute an international service-learning trip in Taiwan where I brought 7 students to rural Taiwan to study how a humanitarian organization creates impact on a global scale. The experience allowed me to fully embrace the impact that simply an understanding of global interactions can have upon students.
Following the trip, each and every student who participated shared in reflections that they feel compelled to pursue a career that allows them to impact communities outside of the USA. Youth global leadership is critical to ensure the pathway for future leaders who have the capacity, skills and experiences to make critical decisions as they become business leaders, politicians, and influencers within their communities.
Youth global leadership is critical due to the nature of the times that we live. The problems and inequities that we see in our society requires us to attack preconceived notions, challenges biases and furthermore build empathetic leaders to lead us to a more just and connected world.
Dustin Liu
Dustin developed his passion for education equity from his root of his two immigrant parents who came to America in pursuit of their education. From his young age, he became aware of the opportunity gap in education globally which inspired by his second-grade teacher, this is what drove him to his journey to begin to unpack the importance of youth global citizenship.
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Basic Action Games
Honor + Intrigue
File Size 109 MB ZIP
Preview Download (2.93 MB)
Publisher Basic Action Games
Stock Number HI1
Honor + Intrigue is a new, standalone game from Basic Action Games. Inspired as much by Hollywood as by history, Honor + Intrigue pays homage to the swashbucklers of the silver screen as well as great works such as those of Dumas and Sabatini. Game Masters should feel free to use history as a source of inspiration, not a restriction. True to its inspiration, Honor + Intrigue plays fast and cinematic, leaving the focus on drama and action unfolding. Read more about the game below.
What is Honor + Intrigue?
The game engine is based on Simon Washbourne's acclaimed "Barbarians of Lemuria" rpg, and also contains a number of new features as well, designed for the swashbuckling theme.
17th Century Adventure
Welcome to the Age of the Baroque. It is a time when daring highwaymen ply the coach-roads, musketeers protect the king, and buccaneers cross swords on the high-seas. While the game assumes a 17th century setting, there is also advice to play it in any age from that of Elizabeth to Bonaparte, or even to make a completely fictional setting.
Swashbuckling Action
It is a dangerous and cruel world, but fortunately there are men and women who laugh in the face of danger and fight injustice. They swing into action on chandeliers, and meet their foes with flashing steel and a sharp tongue. The action in Honor + Intrigue should be as high-flying as any swashbuckling movie. Yes, you can swing from a tapestry, crash through the window, lunge at your enemy, and parry his attack all in a single turn!
Among the tangled webs of intrigue, friends can become bitter rivals, enemies can become allies, and lovers can betray you to your death. Rival nobles who smile cordially at one another at court plot against one another in secret, and often, heroes are caught in the middle.
Other Features of the game include:
The power of Fortune to overcome overwhelming odds, and a system that rewards players for taking swift action. After all, Fortune favors the bold...
Fencing rules that emphasize using maneuvers and pressing advantage over your opponent-- you don't simply take turns hitting each other. There are also 9 Dueling Schools, each with their own unique style.
Character's back-stories are created as a part of making the Hero, so every hero has depth.
A Gazetteer containing a brief history of the swashbuckling world, as well as a number of secret societies and powerful groups that can be joined by the heroes, or their enemies...
An optional section covering Mysteries, Horrors, & Wonders, allowing the GM to incorporate alchemy, sorcery, and clockwork-punk mad science into the game. A number of monsters from ghost pirates and faeries to legendary creatures such as the Beast of Gévaudan and the Kraken are also detailed.
Simple dice mechanics and character creation-- so you can dive right into the 17th century action and swing from the chandelier.
Features of this PDF:
Layering allows you to remove the background to save you ink when printing.
Bookmarks let you jump to the section you want in a flash.
A second "Tablet Version" PDF made especially for reading on your tablet, smartphone, or using Preview pdf reader.
An additional PDF with character sheets made for printing as you like. Full Color to Basic Black & White are supported.
Written by Chris Rutkowsky
GURPS SEALs in Vietnam
GURPS Classic: Wizards
Seeds Compilation: Pulp I-V
Seeds: Sci-Fi V
Seeds: Western I
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Moz/FF
Firefox 70 review - the inversion point?
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Saturday 7th of December 2019 10:44:53 PM Filed under
I am happy that Mozilla has found some of its old identity, the one before it tried to copypasta Chrome. The privacy message resonates well with all that's been happening lately. So perhaps it's difficult to convince the Average Joe about memory consumption and perceived speed and such, but "they gonna git yo data" argument might stir an odd photon or two in a brain somewhere. When it comes to privacy, Firefox definitely leads the field, and this is a great selling point.
It's not everything of course, but the combination of a toned down message, the ability to change pretty much every setting, including the browser look & feel, do offer a sense of freedom in a world of diminishing liberties for consumers. Firefox 70 offers a nice bundle, and it might be the version that slowly brings the stray ones back to the fold. Hopefully. All in all, if you have reasons to like Firefox, version 70 should give you a dose of extra happiness. If you don't, it might be the version that makes you reconsider. From the most cheerful reviewer of software on the planet, goodbye.
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Meet the newest Collaborans!
What better way to start the new year than by highlighting the newest members of our engineering and administrative teams who joined in Q4 2019! Based in Italy, Portugal, the United Kingdom and Greece, these newest Collaborans join our worldwide team of highly skilled engineers, developers and managers who all share a common passion for technology and Open Source.
MariaDB has come a long way from its MySQL database roots. The open source database vendor released its new MariaDB X4 platform, providing users with "smart transactions" technology to enable both analytical and transactional databases. MariaDB, based in Redwood City, Calif., was founded in 2009 by the original creator of MySQL, Monty Widenius, as a drop-in replacement for MySQL, after Widenius grew disillusioned with the direction that Oracle was taking the open source database. Oracle acquired MySQL via its acquisition of Sun Microsystems in 2008. Now, in 2020, MariaDB still uses the core MySQL database protocol, but the MariaDB database has diverged significantly in other ways that are manifest in the X4 platform update. The MariaDB X4 release, unveiled Jan. 14, puts the technology squarely in the cloud-native discussion, notably because MariaDB is allowing for specific workloads to be paired with specific storage types at the cloud level, said James Curtis, senior analyst of data, AI and analytics at 451 Research.
SecureMyEmail makes really private email surprisingly simple
The service also allows seamless, key-free transmission to other SecureMyEmail subscribers and to others who use PGP software such as the PGP-compatible free-software GNU Privacy Guard.
Copy-left behind: Permissive MIT, Apache open-source licenses on the up as developers snub GNU's GPL
Permissive open-source software licenses continue to gain popularity at the expense of copyleft licenses, according to a forthcoming report from WhiteSource, a biz that makes software licensing management tools. Permissive licenses include the MIT and Apache 2.0 licenses and are known as such because the permit licensors to do more or less what they want with the covered software, with minimal caveats, and without imposing obligations like sharing code revisions. Copyleft licenses like GPLv2, GPLv3, and LGPLv2.1 convey similar freedom, while, to put it simply, requiring that licensors not release versions or derivatives of the licensed code that restrict said freedom.
Programming: Rust, C and Python
Announcing Better Support for Fuzzing with Structured Inputs in Rust
Today, on behalf of the Rust Fuzzing Authority, I’d like to announce new releases of the arbitrary, libfuzzer-sys, and cargo fuzz crates. Collectively, these releases better support writing fuzz targets that take well-formed instances of custom input types. This enables us to combine powerful, coverage-guided fuzzers with smart test case generation. Install or upgrade cargo fuzz with: cargo install --force cargo-fuzz To upgrade your fuzz targets, bump your libfuzzer-sys dependency to 0.2.0 on crates.io. That should be all that’s needed for most cases. However, if you were already using Arbitrary inputs for your fuzz target, some changes will be required. See the upgrading fuzz targets section below for more details.
Rust is an increasingly popular programming language positioned to be the best choice for hardware interfaces. It's often compared to C for its level of abstraction. This article explains how Rust can handle bitwise operations in a number of ways and offers a solution that provides both safety and ease of use.
Leysin Winter sprint 2020: Feb 28 - March 7th
The next PyPy sprint will be in Leysin, Switzerland, for the fourteenth time. This is a fully public sprint: newcomers and topics other than those proposed below are welcome.
OpenStack stores and manages a bunch of log files on its Overcloud nodes and Undercloud host. Therefore, it's not easy to use OSP log files to investigate a problem you're having, especially when you don't even know what could have caused the problem. If that's your situation, LogTool makes your life much easier! It saves you the time and work it would otherwise take to investigate the root cause manually. Based on a fuzzy string matching algorithm, LogTool provides all the unique error and warning messages that have occurred in the past. You can export these messages for a particular time period, such as 10 minutes ago, an hour ago, a day ago, and so on, based on timestamp in the log.
Proprietary Stuff and Openwashing
Apple may have to abandon Lightning connector cable
The cable is used to charge and sync many Apple devices, such as the iPhone.
But members of the European Parliament urged the European Commission on Monday to force tech giants to adopt a single universal charging method.
Enterprises, governments and other organizations all sit on vast troves of data that cannot be processed due to security and privacy concerns. To address this limitation, researchers and vendors have developed various confidential computing techniques to safely process sensitive data. Confidential computing is particularly important for organizations in heavily regulated industries or sectors where opportunities for running workloads on the public cloud are severely limited, such as government, telecommunications, healthcare and banking. Confidential computing protects data at rest, which enables organizations to deploy sensitive workloads off premises and provides further protection to sensitive workloads on premises. [..]. "If projects and products can show regulators and legislators that the levels of security are sufficient to meet their requirements, then deployment to public clouds becomes plausible for a great many more applications and use cases," said Mike Bursell, chief security architect at Red Hat.
Akraino Edge Stack Enables Connected Car, AR/VR, AI Edge, and Telco Access Edge Application Use Cases
LF Edge, an umbrella organization within the Linux Foundation that aims to establish an open, interoperable framework for edge computing independent of hardware, silicon, cloud, or operating system, today announced the availability of Akraino Edge Stack Release 2 (“Akraino R2”). Akraino’s second release furthers the power of intelligent edge with new and enhanced deployable, self-certified blueprints for a diverse set of edge use cases. Launched in 2018, and now a Stage 3 (or “Impact” stage) project under the LF Edge umbrella, Akraino Edge Stack is creating an open source software stack that supports a high-availability cloud stack optimized for edge computing systems and applications. Designed to improve the state of edge cloud infrastructure for enterprise edge, over-the-top (OTT) edge, and carrier edge networks, it offers users new levels of flexibility to scale edge cloud services quickly, to maximize the applications and functions supported at the edge, and to help ensure the reliability of systems that must be up at all times. “The Akraino community has grown rapidly in the past year, and now includes contributions from 70 percent of LF Edge Premium member companies and countless other ecosystem partners beginning to deploy the blueprints across the globe,” said Arpit Joshipura, general manager, Networking, Automation, Edge and IoT, the Linux Foundation. “With R2, strong community collaboration brings even more blueprints to the ecosystem that support current and future technology at the open source edge.”
Security Leftovers
Study Shows The Internet Is Hugely Vulnerable To SIM Hijacking Attacks
U.S. Wireless carriers are coming under heavy fire for failing to protect their users from the practice of SIM hijacking. The practice usually involves conning or bribing a wireless employee to port a victim's cell phone number right out from underneath them, letting the attacker then pose as the customer to potentially devastating effect. Carriers are facing numerous lawsuits from victims who say attackers used the trick to first steal their identity, then millions in cryptocurrency, or even popular social media accounts.
Restoring DNS Privacy
Stefan and I have been taking last week to add DNS over TLS into IPFire - another step to make DNS more private. Here is what we have done. Cleaning up some mess IPFire has multiple places where DNS servers could be configured. If you were using PPP for your Internet connection, you would have set this up with your dialup settings. If you were using a static IP address, then you would have set up the DNS servers with it in the setup. If you were using DHCP, you had a page on the web user interface to go to. This is not only confusing for the user, but also there were the places in the code where those settings were applied. Now, we have created an entire new page which combines all of it together! You will have a list where you can set all DNS servers and set new settings. [...] This will be release with Core Update 140. Amongst the many new features, we have removed a lot of code that has caused us a lot of trouble in the past and rewritten many things entirely from scratch.
Security updates have been issued by Arch Linux (chromium), Fedora (gnulib, ImageMagick, jetty, ocsinventory-agent, phpMyAdmin, python-django, rubygem-rmagick, thunderbird, and xar), Mageia (e2fsprogs, kernel, and libjpeg), openSUSE (icingaweb2), Oracle (git, java-11-openjdk, and thunderbird), Red Hat (.NET Core), Scientific Linux (git, java-11-openjdk, and thunderbird), SUSE (fontforge and LibreOffice), and Ubuntu (kamailio and thunderbird).
How to install the latest Kali Linux
Id command in Linux
How to check the installed RAM on Debian 10
How to Update All Packages on OpenSUSE
[Older] How to Copy Files and Folders on Linux Using the cp Command
How to Install Atom Editor on Linux Mint 19
How to Install OpenLiteSpeed HTTP Server with PHP on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
"Elementary OS 6 will be based on Focal Fossa Ubuntu 20.04 LTS"
Kubuntu Focus: A new top-of-the-line Linux laptop arrives
The PinePhone begins delivery
broot Is An Interactive Treeview Directory Navigation Tool For The Command Line
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Debian LTS: DLA-2068-1: linux security update>
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LMMS: A Free & Open Source Digital Audio Workstation (DAW)
Godot Engine 3.2 is almost here with a first Release Candidate
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The king of these days (Lewis Carroll) expected to enhance his personal (Carroll’s) success with all the Prince of both arithmetic (and later, The Voyage of this Bumblebee), plus a dream and adventure publication developed in among 1903 and 1906.
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Burton background of Mathematics’ educational consequence was possibly not wonderful, though these sorts of passages look harmless. Herewe view that the whole planet of your time for a location in which all information is inside a restricted supply the prince of math is meant to play the use of the supply of alternative, practical information. The reader will turn into swept off within the quest of your planet of Burton world.
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Since I mentioned previously, The Prince of’ Mathematics’ reputation is largely as a result of prevalence of Burton’s writings. You will discover assorted parallels among The Prince of Mathematics and his earlier functions; a summary of his profession can help you to earn sense of their significance towards the viewers on the dream. You will discover amounts which repeat themselves in each fiction and non-fiction as Burton dates to rewrite history. The reader likely feels familiar to a particular degree.
These Fundamentals May Include the epicycles. Additional crucial would be the conversion of their numerical content material into illustrations. The illustrations have a specific coloring and poetic feel while the variables develop into woven proper into added geometric shapes. The illustrations turn into a part from the novel.
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Additionally, many academic analysis will undoubtedly permit the reader really feel as element with the narrative and not just as a outsider. Subscribers might just be familiar with notions and concepts which have come to be comfy to them. Precisely what do the math represented represent?
Not like the Prince of Mathematics,” Michael P. Selien heritage of Religion (an additional type of dream and adventure) performs by utilizing many illustrations of illustrations from its own narration. Examples are inserted in the narrative, therefore the written text becomes important, when setting the text in context.
The book’s purpose would be to make sure the reader keeps pace and only then is it attainable to come across the consequences of equations which might be vague. The texts are written such a way they turn into non-self-critical, When some readers may be discouraged by the interpretation of mathematical equations from the book. A student of math can arrive at recognize its personal which means.
The prince of math is genuinely a cardinal protagonist from the science fiction and fantasy sub-genre, however it is merely a sub-character inside the story. As opposed to his hope of fame with each of the Prince of all Mathematics and Lewis Carroll, his principal character wasn’t truly published inside the International Herald Tribune.
You can discover so. Nonetheless, it is the examples of these books which transform the reader into a scholar at the procedure.
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WYB offers baseball and fastpitch options for all levels at all levels of competitiveness (Select and Recreational). The team formation for the Select levels (otherwise known as Tournament teams) occur in July of each year. If you are interested in playing at this level, please email the board at: Board@whitnallyouthbaseball.com.
Leagues are now forming for Recreational Baseball and Fastpitch at Whitnall!
WYB recreational leagues are made up of kids from K4 through 8th grade that are looking for a safe and fun local baseball and fastpitch experience. The leagues are managed and coached by local parents and provide opportunities for kids of all sizes and skill level to get to play and learn life and baseball / fastpitch skills and have fun with their friends doing it. The kids will have the opportunity to play on teams of 11 to 13 kids of varying ability, play in 10 to 12 games and participate in 2 to 4 "Spring training" practices, weather permitting. The details and costs by age level are summarized in the sections below.
Total Cost of the Recreational Program
WYB is a 100% volunteer run and funded baseball and fast pitch club. To be part of the club, each family is pay league fees, and encouraged to participate in both volunteering activities and our fundraising program to reduce total cost of the rec program. For example: A family with 1 kid in the program: League fees would be $50 to $115 (depending on age level) plus $160 for the fundraiser program for a total cost of $210 to $275 (by selling all of your coupon books, you can recover the costs for this fundraiser). Additionally, there is a $150 volunteering down payment that WYB will refund to you by check upon completion of your volunteering requirement.
By fulfilling the volunteer commitment and selling all 8 discount cards, the total cost to play at Whitnall could be as little as $50!
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3rd & 4th
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6th, 7th & 8th
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5th & 6th
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K4 & K5
See below for Division descriptions:
Our fundraiser requires a $160 upfront commitment per family, regardless of how many kids you have in the program. You will receive 8 value-packed coupon cards to sell at $20 a piece. If selling fundraiser cards is not your thing, you have the option to buyout of the process for $150. Our annual fundraiser helps with ongoing field maintenance, rejuvenation and upgrades to the park. Schoetz Park is completely maintained by WYB, in accordance with the Village of Hales Corners, so every dollar raised through fundraising is used to maintain the fields and park and provide opportunities for the kids to participate in the leagues.
Each family will also be required to submit a volunteering down payment at the time of registration. Upon completion of fulfilling this volunteering requirement, a refund check will be mailed to the person who issued the down payment.
Volunteer opportunities vary and can be found at the following link: http://volunteer.whitnallyouthbaseball.com
Each player will receive a team hat and jersey, which are yours to keep. Players will receive coaching from dedicated, local parents, instilling baseball and softball skills, along with life skills as well. Players will have "Spring Training" practices, weather permitting, before they play in 10 to 12 regular season games plus potential end of the year tournament play.
Each recreational team is formed through the combination of player ages, previous playing experience and player evaluations from the previous year. With this process, tryouts are not required and WYB attempts to form leagues and teams that are as equal in ability as possible. We will NOT be processing team and/or coach requests. If a player or family has special circumstances, a request must be submitted to the WYB board for review and approval for special consideration during the team forming process.
Projected Game Days for 2020 Season
Rec games at Schoetz will be primarily played on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
Holidays, league events and rainouts will cause some variation to the schedule.
Monday / Wednesday / Friday
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Recreation League Baseball Divisions
Girls and boys at the 4K and 5K grade levels play a combination of coach pitch baseball and tee ball. There are 10 to 12 scheduled games per season where players bat through the line-up twice and every player scores. A safety (or Sof-Tee) baseball is used for practices and games. Each player gets to keep a uniform shirt and matching hat to show their Whitnall pride. All players get involved with the action on the field as coaches begin to instruct the basics of fielding, throwing, hitting and running the bases. And the best part is that your son or daughter will get an opportunity during the season to hit a Grand Slam Home Run! Note: There will be at least one separate girls team if numbers allow it.
Boys Jr. Falcons
1st and 2nd grade boys begin to compete at this level and play on a diamond with 60 foot bases and a pitching distance of 36 feet. Players pitch, outs are made, and the score is kept. Players play with a safety ball that is the same size and weight as a hardball. Players are instructed during practices and prior to games about proper technique on throwing, approaching a ground ball, fly balls, hitting stance, and basic situational baseball. Coaches always emphasize the important life lessons of sportsmanship and teamwork. Each player gets a uniform shirt and a hat to keep. All players play in the field at all times and teams use a continuous batting order. There are 10 to 12 scheduled games plus an end of season tournament. Games are 5 innings in length and there is a time limit to keep games about 2 hours in length at most. You will see some amazing progress from the beginning of the season to the end!
3rd and 4th grade boys start to transition towards playing real baseball at this level. Players learn how to steal bases and learn how to bunt while playing with a hardball. Pitchers move back to the Little League level of 46 feet, while maintaining a base distance of 60 feet. Teams bat a continuous line-up with 10 players in the field at a time, including 4 outfielders and playing time is close to even for players. Coaches continue to instruct players on proper throwing technique, fielding ground balls, locating and catching fly balls and hitting, while emphasizing the important life lessons of sportsmanship and teamwork. Each player gets a shirt and a hat to keep. There are 10 to 12 scheduled games plus an end of season tournament. Games are 6 innings in length and there is a time limit to keep games at about 2 hours in length at most. While we continue to focus on letting the players learn and have fun, games become more competitive at this level.
5th and 6th grade boys play on a diamond with 70 foot bases and a pitching distance of 50 feet. Players learn how to lead-off and steal bases just like a “Major” League ball player, with pitchers now focusing on how to pitch out of the stretch and wind-up. Teams bat a continuous line-up with 9 players in the field at a time, and playing time is close to even for players. Each player gets a shirt and a hat to keep. There are 10 to 12 scheduled games plus an end of season tournament. Games are 6 innings in length and there is a time limit to keep games at about 2 hours in length at most. There are still many opportunities for the players to learn baseball skills, but games are much more competitive and even played against teams from other communities.
7th and 8th grade boys play real baseball utilizing most of the National Federation of High School rules, which includes leading off, stealing, and bunting. Pitchers have the additional challenge of moving back to the Major League distance of 60 feet, 6 inches on a regulation pitching mound and hitters now have to hustle 90 feet to leg out that single to the hole. Players continue to be instructed during practices and prior to games on some of the basic skills and fundamentals, but are now working on additional advanced techniques and more situational baseball than they have in any of the other levels. As a community based league, our coaches continue to teach the life skills of sportsmanship and teamwork. Teams bat a continuous line-up with 9 players in the field at a time, and playing time is close to even for players. Each player gets a shirt and a hat to keep. There are 10 to 12 scheduled games plus an end of season tournament. Games are 6 innings in length and there is a time limit to keep games about 2 hours in length at most. This is as close to real baseball as it gets!
Recreation League Fastpitch Divisions
1st and 2nd grade girls begin to compete at this level and play on a diamond with 60 foot bases and a pitching distance of 35 feet. Players pitch, outs are made, and the score is kept. Players play with an 10 inch softball. Players are instructed during practices and prior to games about proper technique on throwing, approaching a ground ball, fly balls, hitting stance, and basic situational softball. Coaches always emphasize the important life lessons of sportsmanship and teamwork. Each player gets a uniform shirt and a visor to keep. All players play in the field at all times and teams use a continuous batting order. There are 10 to 12 scheduled games plus an end of season tournament. Games are 5 innings in length and there is a time limit to keep games about 1 ½ hours in length at most. You will see some amazing progress from the beginning of the season to the end!
3rd , 4th, 5th grade girls start to transition towards playing real softball at this level. Players learn how to steal bases and learn how to bunt while playing with an 11 inch softball. Pitchers will pitch from a distance of 35 feet, while maintaining a base distance of 60 feet. Teams bat a continuous line-up with 10 players in the field at a time, including 4 outfielders and playing time is close to even for players. Coaches continue to instruct players on proper throwing technique, fielding ground balls, locating and catching fly balls and hitting, while emphasizing the important life lessons of sportsmanship and teamwork. Each player gets a shirt and a visor to keep. There are 10 to 12 scheduled games plus an end of season tournament. Games are 6 innings in length and there is a time limit to keep games at about 2 hours in length at most. While we continue to focus on letting the players learn and have fun, games become more competitive at this level.
6th, 7th, and 8th grade girls play on a diamond with 60 foot bases and a pitching distance of 40 feet. Players learn how to lead-off and steal bases just like a professional softball player, with pitchers now focusing on the drive and windmill pitch with a 12 inch softball. Teams bat a continuous line-up with 9 players in the field at a time, and playing time is close to even for players. Each player gets a shirt and a visor to keep. There are 10 to 12 scheduled games plus an end of season tournament. Games are 7 innings in length and there is a time limit to keep games at about 2 hours in length at most. There are still many opportunities for the players to learn softball skills, but games are much more competitive and even played against teams from other communities.
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Mystery Foto #30 Solved: The Lakeville Hotel on the 1905 and 1906 Vanderbilt Cup Race Courses
My favorite co-author Al Velocci challenged you to solve this Vanderbilt Cup Race course Mystery Foto.
Answers to the Mystery Foto questions:
Describe the location of this Foto and the orientation of the photographer
The building is located on the north-east corner of the intersection of I.U.Willets Road and Lakeville Road in Lakeville (now Lake Success). The photographer on I.U. Willets Road looking north-west.
Associate this Foto with the Vanderbilt Cup Race(s) including its name when the Foto was taken
The building was the Lakeville Hotel owned by Frank Flaherty (also referred to as Lakeville Inn). Flaherty's Corner was on the course for the 1905 Vanderbilt Cup Race (racers came west on I.U. Willets Road and head south on Lakeville Road) and the course for the 1906 Vanderbilt Cup Race (racers came south on Lakeville Road and turned east on I.U. Willets Road).
What other names were later used for the building?
Eleverton Inn owned by R. H. Siverbrand.
Red Lion Inn owned by Tom E. Coffey.
Is this building still standing? If not, when was it taken down?
As documented by Art Kleiner (see Kleiner's Korner), the Red Lion Inn was destroyed by a fire in October 1927.
Congrats to Frank Mendyk, Steve Lucas, Dick Gorman, Art Kleiner and Tim Ivers for correctly identifying the Lakeville Hotel in now Lake Success.
Kudos to Art Kleiner for discovering the actual sad date that the Red Lion Inn was destoyed in 1927.
Original Postcard
The postcard was the first in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle series for the 1906 Mineola Fair.
The copy had a typo in the village name:
"No. 1- Bad Curve on the Vanderbilt Race Course at Flherty's Corner, Lakewill, L.I."
"We watched the auto races from this place. Love from Ethel"
Postmarked Oct. 1905
The 1905 blueprint for the "second contest" showed the turn at the hotel.
This ad ran in the 1905 Program Guide promoting "Accommodations for man or car or both". Frank Flaherty was the proprietor.
Looking west, a car making a turn on to I.U. Willets Road from Lakeville Road.
Driver Joe Tracy and his mechanician Al Poole in their Locomobile in front of the hotel. In 1905, the Locomobile headquarters was in nearly Maple Cottage.
John Warden's Mercedes in front of the well-dressed crowd at the Lakeville Hotel.
Felice Nazzarro driving his Fiat during a practice run. The hotel is in the background.
The 1904 winner George Heath driving his new Panhard.
As seen in the 1906 Belcher-Hyde map, the Lakeville Inn (Hotel) was on the north-east corner of the intersection of Lakeville Road and I. U. Willets Road in Lakeville, now Lake Success.
Eleverton Inn
The Lakeville Hotel was sold several times and often renamed. Here it was the Elverton Inn with R.H. Silverbrand as its proprietor.
In the 1920s, the hotel was called the Red Lion Inn promoting that it was "Near the Great Neck Lodge of the Motor Parkway."
1926 The Red Lion Inn can still be seen.
1950 The Red Lion is long gone. The Lakeville Manor Inn can be seen futher east.
2018 current Google Earth aerial
Kleiner's Korner (Submitted by Art Kleiner)
Note how Lakeville Road intersected Lakeville Road in this map.
Automobile Blue Book 1919
"Good Eats"
"Known for its Good Food"
Brooklyn Daily Eagle October 12, 1927
The Red Lion Inn was destroyed by fire on October 12, 1927.
Manhasset Mail, October 14, 1927
lakeville road
lakeville hotel
elverton inn
al velocci
Jul 26 2018 Frank Mendyk 11:29 PM
The Lakeville Hotel - Lake Success ,intersection of Lakeville Rd and I.U. Willets Rd
photo of hotel looking to the northwest
The hotel was on the 1905 and 1906 Vanderbilt Cup race course.
Names of building - Lakeville Inn, Elverton Inn, and Red Lion Inn.
building burnt down and was taken down in the 1930’s
Photo was card #1 of the Post card series - Brooklyn Mineola Fair series #3
Post card series was originally posted on the Blog on Jan 07, 2014
Jul 27 2018 Steve Lucas 5:34 PM
I believe we are looking at Flaherty’s Corner in the village of Lakeville (now Lake Success). The building is the Lakeville Hotel, sometimes called the Lakeville Inn, on the northeast corner of Lakeville Road and I. U. Willets Road. It was a great place to watch both the 1905 and 1906 Vanderbilt Cup Races. The direction of the photographer appears to be toward the northwest. In later years, the building was also known as the Elverton Inn and the Red Lion Inn. I believe it burned down in the 1930’s, sometime after 1932.
Jul 27 2018 Dave Russo 6:27 PM
Total guess….not the easiest pic to see with the trees blocking the view but this really does resemble the Westbury Quaker Hall at the corner of Jericho Tpk and Post Ave. This was perhaps 1/2 mike away from the former Vanderbilt cup start / finish line on Jericho Tpk. Yes this is still standing.
Jul 27 2018 Joe Oesterle 8:33 PM
Guess. Bull Run Inn. Corner of Northern Blvd and Glen Cove Rd. Moved off corner, about 70-80 years ago. Torn down about 10 years ago.
Jul 29 2018 Dick Gorman 1:07 PM
Mystery Foto #30…. This building, The Lakeville Inn back in the day, was located at the North East corner of the intersection of Lakeville Road and I.U. Willets road in Lakeville. The inn was along the route of the 1905 and 1906 Vanderbilt cup races.
The inn was later named The Elverton Inn and in 1932 became the Red lion Inn. No longer standing because later in the ‘30s it burned down.
Lakeville, by the way, is now Lake Success.
Jul 30 2018 Art Kleiner 6:50 AM
Describe the location of this Foto and the orientation of the photograph:
Willits Road, Lakeville Road in Lake Success (Lakeville). North of today’s LIE. Looking north
Associate this Foto with the Vanderbilt Cup Race(s) including its name when the Foto was taken:
Lakeville Hotel - was a viewing spot for the 1905 and 1906 Cup Races
What other names were later used for the building? Elverton Inn, Red Lion Inn
Is this building still standing? If not, when was it taken down? Building burned in 1927, however other entries onto the blog have it still in business in 1930s.
Jul 30 2018 Tim Ivers 11:30 AM
Looks somewhat like the old Lakeville Hotel on Lakeville Rd. And I.U. Willetts Rd. In Lake Success looking northwest. The 1905 and 1906 Vanderbilt Cup Races passed in front of this hotel. It was later known as the Elverton Inn and the Red Lion Inn. The hotel burned down in the 1930s.
Jul 30 2018 Howard Kroplick 10:05 PM
Judi T.
I think the mystery photo is on Old Jericho Turnpike right bear Jericho HS
Aug 02 2018 frank femenias 2:05 PM
Great multi views of the hotel. The additional photos help show how it really looked on the corner. Willie K’s Deepdale property was just across the street on the southwest corner
Aug 06 2018 Tom 8:04 AM
I like the photo of I.U. Willets Road & Lakeville Road the best. Also Tracy & Poole in the Locomobile. Sharp detail!
Attach image files:
George Heath
Winner of the first Vanderbilt Cup Race (1904)
Felice Nazzaro
Won three of the great races of his day
Al Poole (Mechanician)
Al Poole, the mechanician for driver Joe Tracy, participated in five Vanderbilt Cup Race related races.
Joe Tracy
Participated in five races associated with the Vanderbilt Cup Races (1904-1906)
John Warden
Finish 8th in the 1905 Vanderbilt Cup Race
Fiat #8 (1905)
Finished 6th in the 1906 Vanderbilt up Race
Locomobile #9 (1906)
The American favorite for the 1906 Vanderbilt Cup Race
Locomobile #12 (1906 American Elimination Trial)
Winner of the 1906 American Elimination Trial
Mercedes #9 (1905)
Best performance of German Team in 1905.
Panhard #14 (1905)
Strong second place finish driven by the 1904 winner
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Welcome to Dzikunze: A hungerfree world starts here
Kilifi is a resort town in Kenya. Beaches and hotels are the claim to fame, and tourism is the backbone of its economy. If you were to visit the resort town, you might stay at the Mnarani Club resort, where you can enjoy the amenities of the on-site spa or explore the ocean on a scuba tour.
But an hour’s drive outside of Kilifi lies Dzikunze, a small village where the hard Kenyan rains can cause the walls of the mud houses to start coming apart in chunks.
During the weeks leading up to the 30 Hour Famine, we’ve been following Nelly, a 10-year-old Kenyan girl. Her story is not that different from children all over the world, whose families cannot thrive in their current environment. Dzikunze is where she calls home.
Like many rural towns in Kenya, Dzikunze is a collection of families who live in houses made out of mud packed into a skeleton of branches. Because they are made with earth, the homes blend in with the red clay surrounding them. But clay is not all there is to see.
Coconut trees, corn, kale, and other crops stand out starkly against the red. These are the sustainability and livelihood of many of the people who live here. There are less trees than in years past; many people cut them down for firewood during the drought.
If you were to visit Dzikunze, you would have to make the drive down a red road cutting through thick forest, passing under gates designed to keep out elephants. And instead of signing up for a scuba tour, you might help the family make dinner in a small corner of the house. Corn is stored on a shelf above to dry, and smoke accumulates easily. You’d need to wipe your eyes often.
The bleating of the community goats, which are all penned together, mingles with the laughter of children playing soccer. They’ve made themselves out of cloth and string.
This is Dzikunze village.
Through 30 Hour Famine, we’ll be helping Dzikunze and other towns like it live hungerfree. Right now, the people of Dzikunze struggle to feed their families every day. Memories of green crops are sweeter than the seemingly sparse future.
But together, what’s ahead can be greater than days past. Because a better world is possible, and we believe this is our future to create.
Nelly Video Series
Check out the Nelly video series for your 30 Hour Famine event! The following video series follows a young girl named Nelly from Kilifi, Kenya. We will be releasing new videos each week, so check back every Monday to find more.
Want to experience & visit Kenya? Join the World Vision Leadership trip this summer! Register below.
Kenya Leadership Trip
Nelly #3 – Becoming HungerFree
Nelly #2 – A Day In The Life Of
Nelly #1
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If You Had To Live From A Backpack, What Would You Bring?
If you had to live out of a backpack, what would you bring? I’ve had to ask myself that question quite a few times in my wandering life. Recently, I found myself asking it again, as I sifted through photos and stories of Syrian refugees and the few belongings they carried from home.
A carrier of memories
I am a little obsessed with my backpack. It’s one of those early generation Mountain Equipment Co-op Pika packs, the kind every college girl had about five years ago. Everyone else seems to have moved on to the uber-cool Herschel or the tried-and-true Jansport, but not me. I’m still rocking my cobalt blue, threadbare MEC pack.
Whether trekking overseas or walking to work, I’m rarely without my backpack.
There’s a reason I’m holding on to it, though. We’ve been through a lot together. I bought my backpack six months after I finished university. I was about to move back to Senegal to live with my family. Soon after that, it came with me to my very first job as a writer at a news organization in Tunisia. I can still remember packing it with my Moleskine notebook, my favourite pens and a very loud whistle in case I should run into trouble.
The Only Thing That’s Missing Is You
Mother Teresa once said, “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”
Two weeks ago I saw firsthand the effects of many young and passionate youth coming together to cast stones for a better world.
World Vision hosted a Justice Lab in Edmonton, and for the first time I saw the power of community. Having twenty-five passionate young leaders in the same room created an atmosphere of action and change. We addressed global issues such as education, child protection, water and hunger. However the room really came alive when we started talking about global hunger. Suddenly we were all bouncing ideas off of each other of what we could do in our communities to start making a difference. Our advocacy immediately turned into action. Ideas of contacting local grocery stores to harvest the food they don’t use and starting food trucks where proceeds would go to where extreme hunger is present in the world began to fill the air. I had to take a moment and step back in awe at what I was seeing.
Justice Lab was entirely based off of the idea of “what would happen if you brought together a community of young people who were passionate about social justice?” When we gathered together in Edmonton on February 20th the answer to that question was change. Real global change was igniting our conversation like wild fire. Why? Because extreme hunger is not acceptable and this group of students recognized it and knew they had the power to make a difference. And so do you.
Right now people from all over the world, not just Edmonton, are joining the fight to end extreme hunger. HungerFree is a global movement that believes a hunger free world is possible. There is enough food and resources on the planet to feed everyone. The only thing that’s missing is you.
Join the fight to end this injustice and be a part of the solution to seeing a hunger free world. Organizing a 30 Hour Famine event is great to experience the daily struggle of someone who experiences extreme hunger as well as creating your own community of world changers.
We can’t change the world alone, but we can cast a stone to create many ripples of change.
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A CHRISTMAS SCARE
Sleep left him in an instant, frightened off by the opening of his bedroom door. Chad rubbed his eyes and squinted at the silhouette in the doorway. His heart lurched into second gear. Who was this stranger in shrouded fluorescent mist? He was dressed in the costume of a mountain man. A coonskin cap topped his long unkempt hair, and a fringed rawhide coat hung from his tall lean frame. His features, like his purpose, were unclear.
"Who are you?" Chad asked in a voice that didn't sound like his. "What do you want?"
"Prepare yourself for an important journey," the hollow voice said, and the form instantly dissolved. Darkness rushed into the vacuum of his exit.
Chad threw his covers back and dashed across the floor. He frantically threw the door open. The figure was gone, leaving only the faint smell of pine trees and wood smoke.
Chad crept down the hallway. The carpet tickled his arches with warm assurance that reality had returned. He peered into the family room where the Christmas tree flashed its alternate colors. The floor under the tree was packed with presents. Chris and Amanda would be delighted in the morning. Morning? What time was it? He glanced at the iridescent hands of the mantle clock. Two a.m. It was already morning. A steady gas flame burned in the fireplace. Central heat kept the house warm, but Mom and Dad liked that fire for some reason.
After one last hungry look at the presents, he turned to his room. The mountain man had been nothing more than a dream as he woke. And yet, he had seemed so real. Chad slouched back to his room. "Important journey, huh?" he said under his breath. The only important journey he could think of was the ski trip forbidden by Dad. All because of a stupid history test. What difference did it make how people lived two hundred years ago? No skateboards, no TV - it was boring stuff.
He closed the door behind him and felt his way to the bed. His big toe found the bedpost with sharp accuracy and he swore under his breath. Empowered by the forbidden words, he said them again - this time with more emphasis. He smiled as he crawled into bed, in spite of his aching toe. He was a sophomore - old enough to choose his own words. Contrary to what Mom and Dad thought, sixteen was old enough to give him a few privileges too - even if he was only a few weeks into it. All his friends had a car, and their parents didn't have a cow every time they mentioned dating. How was a guy supposed to have any fun stuck at home all the time? It was a good two miles to the mall - an easy walk, but how would that look?
He pulled the covers up around his neck. Maybe he had something good under that tree this year -something besides clothes and a cassette player. Maybe a boom box with a CD player or maybe a DVD player for the TV in his room. That play station was getting worn out. Maybe.... Somewhere in his Christmas list he fell asleep.
He woke several hours later to a gray dawn. He pulled back the curtains, but a dense fog clung to the ground. He dropped the curtain and groaned. Another dull Christmas. Why couldn't it at least snow?
A loud thump at his door suggested that everyone was waiting on him. He glanced down at his flannel pajamas and shrugged. He'd shower and change later. Right now there were presents calling.
He jerked the door open. "OK, OK, I'll be there in - He gasped as he stared at the scene before him.
The mountain man sat huddled on a chunk of wood in front of a stone fireplace. Bark was peeling from the log walls. Some of the mud had fallen from between the logs, allowing the wind to enter with an icy whistle. The dirt floor was strewn with leaves and pieces of bark. The only window was covered with some kind of dark woolly animal hide. It was a dismal room, lit only by the fire.
The door slammed shut behind him. He swung around, grabbing for the doorknob, but a rawhide strip hung from the plank door. Cold air swept through the cracks, leaping through his pajamas and clinging to his skin.
Of course, it was a dream. He jerked on the rawhide strip and the door swung open. A blast of cold air hit him in the face, robbing him of breath. At least two feet of snow covered the ground and large flakes fell silently as he watched. The snow was so heavy that he could barely see more than a few feet.
"Shut that door!" A voice boomed behind him.
He slammed the door shut against the cold and stared at it in numb silence. He closed his eyes tightly, shivering as he crossed his arms. What in the...? He stared down at the ragged clothes on his body. Where were his warm flannel pajamas?
"Wake up!" He shouted. If he couldn't wake up, maybe someone would hear him and shake him awake.
"You are awake, son." The voice spoke behind him again. This time gently.
Chad turned and stared at the man. "No. This is just a nightmare."
The man shook his shaggy head slowly. A mustache and flowing gray beard covered the lower part of his face, but the dark eyes gazed at him sadly. "This is no nightmare." He pointed a bony finger at a small pile of wood. That's all there is. When that's gone…." He shrugged. "That's how much time you have to figure it out."
Chad blinked. "Figure what out?"
The man walked around Chad and opened the door. Without another word, he left the cabin and closed the door behind him.
Chad grabbed the rawhide and jerked the door open. "Figure what out?" he shouted into the wind. The man had vanished without even so much as a footprint in the snow.
Chad slammed the door shut again and stared at the feeble flames in the fireplace. He slapped his face and gasped at the sharp sting. He was awake! But how could this happen? Where was he, and what puzzle did he have to figure out before the woodpile was gone?
He sat on the chunk of wood, resting his elbows on his knees as he stared at his worn boots. He lifted one foot up and poked his finger through a hole in the bottom. He didn't have any socks on. His pants were made of some stiff rough material, faded and worn. The shirt under his threadbare jacket was scratchy and full of holes.
And the lesson was...he should be thankful for the clothes he got for Christmas? He glanced around, but no magical transformation took place. A log snapped in the fire. He stared at the glowing embers until his eyes burned.
His stomach growled in protest. He clutched his coat closer and shivered. Right now he should be opening presents. Mom would have breakfast ready as soon as the presents were open. Was that it? He should appreciate the things he had. Yes. That had to be it.
"I don't need presents," he said without conviction. "I just want to go back to my family."
He waited breathlessly for a long time, but nothing happened. He let out his breath and stood, swearing fervently. This time the words brought him no joy - no sense of power. He fell to his knees, clasping his hands together as he gazed upward. "God, please forgive me."
A wolf howled outside and the fire snapped again. "Please help me out of this," he added. Surely God was the answer. He was being punished for his foul language, right?
But nothing changed. He was still hungry and cold. The flames were getting smaller. He eyed the tiny woodpile. If he let the fire go out, how would he start it again? He threw one of the logs into the fire and jumped back as the sparks darted toward him.
Maybe if he fell asleep, he would awaken in his room. This couldn't be real. It had to be a nightmare. He curled up on the floor, his arm under his head and his back to the flames. Sleep. That was the answer.
For a long time he lay awake, but finally he slept. When he woke, he was in his room, but it was cold. Neither his flannel pajamas nor the blankets stopped the cold wind. He opened his bedroom door and the hallway lay before him. Even the carpet was cold. The heater must have stopped working. That would explain the cold dream.
"Mom, Dad," he called as he entered the family room. The tree twinkled brightly in the cold room, but the fireplace no longer offered a comforting flame. No presents lay under the tree. He let out a sigh of relief. It had all been a nightmare - right down to the presents under the tree. As he stared absently at the tree, the door swung open behind him. The cold night air slapped him awake.
He woke in the cabin. The door had blown open, allowing snow to float into the room. He jumped up and slammed it shut. He slumped against the door. Had his entire life been a dream? Was this reality? It was a ridiculous thought. But then, so was this situation. He shivered. Hunger gnawed sharply at his stomach. What lesson was he expected to learn before he could leave this miserable cabin?
The shivering became worse and his teeth began to chatter. A quick look at the fire revealed it had burned down to coals. How long had he slept? How long would the remaining fuel last? He placed another log on the red coals and watched anxiously as it darkened and finally burst into flames. He clutched the ragged clothes close to his body and seated himself on the chunk of wood. Only three more logs remained, and then his chair. How much longer would they last?
The wolf howled again - long and lonely. Was the wolf hungry and cold as well? What else roamed out there in the snow...other than a ghostly mountain man? His stomach growled again. Would he starve or freeze first?
"Think!" He said sharply. "What am I supposed to figure out?" But the answer eluded him. The wind forced its icy fingers through the cracks in the cabin. It would be warmer if he could plug those holes. American pioneers had used mud mixed with sod. That part he remembered. In the corner was a small pile of straw. He frowned. But no water - only snow. He searched around the cabin until he found a tin can. He hated to open that door again, but the only water around was in that snow. He pulled the door open and heaped the can with snow. Slamming the door shut, he placed one of the logs in front of it to keep it that way. He sat the can of snow beside the fire and waited.
Eventually the snow melted, leaving the can less than a third full of water. He pulled a piece of loose bark from the walls and scraped some dirt into a pile. Tossing some of the straw in the pile, he then poured the water over it. He mixed it with the bark until it was thick and sticky. Piling it on the bark, he proceeded to poke the mud into the holes between the logs with his fingers. His fingers were numb with cold by the time he used the last of the mud, but the room seemed to be a little warmer.
He filled the can with snow and melted it four more times before he had all the holes plugged with mud. The little room was beginning to feel warmer. Maybe he had flunked that history test, but at least he'd remembered something useful.
Another hour and another log, but he was still no closer to solving the puzzle. He was still hungry, but not as cold. He eyed the rawhide hanging on the door. Would he be forced to boil the nutrients out of it in water as the Donnor party had done when they were trapped in the mountains? At least it would be better than nothing. He grabbed his can and headed for the door. The can was dirty, but maybe he could clean it with snow.
Outside, he dug into the snow again. He filled the can several times and wiped it out. It was cleaner. Shoving the can into the snow again, he felt something hard. He dug into the snow and found a stash of hickory nuts. Yes! He filled the can with snow and his pockets with hickory nuts.
Inside the tiny cabin it was warm. He placed the can of snow next to the fire and used two rocks to break open the hickory nuts. The nuts tasted delicious and they calmed the growling in his stomach. After drinking the warm water from the can, he felt much better. What else was hidden under that snow?
It seemed prudent to stay inside the warm cabin, but how long would the fuel last? Maybe he could find some branches under the snow. They would be wet, but the fire would dry them out. It beat sitting around while all the wood in the cabin burned.
Again he ventured outside the cabin, struggling through the deep snow. The wind had died down and it was no longer snowing. In fact, it looked like the sun might even start shining. Strange, but he no longer felt cold. Maybe it was because the wind wasn't blowing.
Ahead he saw what he was looking for. A branch sticking out of the snow. He pushed through the snow and dug the branch out. It was large, but he managed to break it into pieces. He dug around in the snow until he had an armload of fuel. How long would it last? He carried the branches back to the cabin and placed them beside the fireplace. The fire had burned down, so he added another log. Only two left, but they were lasting longer now. The branches he had found would give him more time - time to think. A few more branches and he would come back to the cabin. Not that it would help. What he needed was a hint or two. Where did that Old Mountain Man go, anyway?
Again he plunged through the snow, this time venturing farther from the cabin. The sky was clearing and the mountain scenery was beautiful. If only he had a pair of ski's. He climbed a hill and looked down into a valley. The frozen edges of the lake glistened like lashes around a dark blue eye. Dad would love this place. The thought brought a sudden homesick pang. He had to find the answer.
Further searching turned up more branches and another stash of nuts. At least he would live for a while longer. He turned back toward the cabin, following his tracks in the snow. He reached the top of the hill and stood staring at the cabin below. It wouldn't be a bad old cabin under different circumstances. He took a step forward and his foot slipped in the snow. He fell and slid down the hill on his back, clutching the precious branches all the way down. At the bottom, he stood, brushing the snow from his clothes. He grinned. If he had time, he'd try that again - without the branches, though. He made a face. Only he didn't have the time. Already the sky was getting dark. It would be cold tonight, so he'd better get inside the cabin.
He built the fire up with sticks and added another log. Supper was another can of warm water and some nuts. It wasn't much, but it kept the hunger pangs at bay. At least he would be warm and dry tonight. Maybe after a little sleep, he could figure out that puzzle.
He curled up with his back to the fire and used his arm for a pillow. For a long time he lay awake, but exhaustion finally claimed his mind in sleep. Immediately he began to dream again. The Mountain man stood over him, smiling.
"So you finally figured it out," the man said.
Chad frowned up at him. "Figured it out? I still don't know the answer."
The man nodded. "You have the answer. It's the question you don't understand."
Chad stared at him. "Then what is the question?"
The man grunted and sat down on the block of wood. "What do you need to be happy?"
Chad sat up. What did he need? The old man was wrong. He still didn't know the answer. He shook his head slowly. "I don't know: what?"
The man chuckled. "Today you were happy when you slid down that hill. You were content with a handful of nuts and a can of warm water. What more did you need?"
Chad scratched his head. He could think of a ton of things, but what he wanted most was to go home. That sounded a little selfish, though. Maybe if his family were here...he caught his breath. "Someone to share all this with?" he asked.
The man shook his head. "Happiness isn't what you have. It's what you do with what you have. You could have sat here and waited until all the wood burned up, but you didn't. When you fell down that hill, you could have cursed your luck, but instead you found the joy in it." He patted Chad on the head as if he were a puppy. "Yes Chad, all you need to be happy is a good attitude. All the other things are wants."
As Chad stared at that grizzled old face, it faded from his vision. The old man was gone. The smell of pine trees and wood smoke faded as well. A peaceful feeling engulfed him a he slept again
When he woke, he was in his bedroom again. He threw back the covers and inspected his clothes. Pajamas, a warm bed, a warm room...finally he had escaped the nightmare. When he opened his bedroom door, the smell of fresh baked cinnamon rolls lured him to the family room. Mom and Dad were watching Chris and Amanda open presents. As usual, they would wait until their children had finished opening their presents before they opened their own.
Dad glanced up as Chad entered the room. "I was beginning to think you were going to sleep all day."
Without a word, Chad strode to the tree and picked up two packages. He placed them carefully on the laps of his parents. "These are for you," he said. They glanced at each other with a puzzled expression and then began opening the presents.
Chad paused for a moment, absently watching them. "I had a dream last night," he began. "An old man with a long white beard and…."
"Was it Santa?" Chris interrupted excitedly.
Amanda ceased her frantic unwrapping and fixed her gaze on Chad. "Well, was it," she persisted.
Chad frowned. Santa? Did Santa always wear a red suit and deliver presents through the chimney? Was he a childhood fantasy, or was he nothing more than the spirit of Christmas?
Chad shrugged. "I guess it probably was."
He knelt and picked up a present addressed to him. How could he explain the dream? Had they ever dreamed something so real that they wondered if it was actually a dream? Had it been a dream or visit from a guardian angel? Perhaps it had been a message from God. Could it have been nothing more than his conscience? After all, nothing had happened that he didn't already know. He had simply never put it all into that perspective before. It had only been a nightmare - and yet, things seemed different this morning. Never before had opening presents been so peaceful.
He smiled as he opened the present. It didn't matter what was inside. Whatever it was, he'd make the best of it.
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This story can be purchased in the collection of short youth stories "YOUTH YARNS."
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Emet m'Tsiyon
Arab Peacemonger Is a Warmonger -- Will CNN Admit It?
UPDATING 6-7-2010
At the beginning of the week, while the Mavi Marmara, a Turkish ferry boat run by the Turkish jihadi foundation IHH [here (pdf) & here & here] was sailing toward Gaza to create a provocation, an incident meant to make Israel look bad in world public opinion, CNN's Rosemary Church interviewed a well spoken humano faker named Osama Kashoo [here] As befits a spokesman for a fake "humanitarian" expedition, Kashoo told CNN viewers that he loved all mankind; he loved peace and all people and all things. See the interview here.
However, other video films were made on the ship showing the very peaceful, loving Mr Kashoo. In one of these films he appears chanting the triumphalist Islamic jihadist battlecry, Khaybar Khaybar ya Yahud, Jaysh Muhammad sa ya`ud. This chant celebrates an early jihad battle victory led by Muhammad himself in which the defeated Jews of the Khaybar oasis were massacred, enslaved, humiliated and dispossessed of their lands, their moveable property and their dignity. Their wives were taken as concubines by the Arab-Muslims, including by Muhammad himself. Here it is again with translation:
Khaybar Khaybar ya Yahud, Jaysh Muhammad sa ya`ud
[Remember] Khaybar Khaybar O Jews, Muhammad's army will return for sure.
Our peaceful, loving innocuous peacenik, Osama Kashoo, sits among a group of other jihadis chanting away, chanting a war cry, a chant of humiliation of Jews. See here. My suggestion is that you watch the two videos, trying to catch a glimpse of Kashoo on the right side of the group of chanters. Here is a still of Mr Kashoo sitting with his friends and chanting, raising his fist in a quintessentially peaceful gesture.
Below is another shot of our two-faced warmonger.
UPDATING June 7, 2010 Thugs of IHH stand over wounded bodies of captured Israeli soldiers. Some of the Turkish thugs carry knives which have been thoughtfully cropped out of the photos by Reuters which took it upon itself to preserve the sacred narrative of innocuous "peace activists" murdered by Israeli commandos without provocation. Thanx to LGF for noting the deliberate alterations or embellishments of two --not one-- photos from the Mavi Marmara [here].
Labels: "Left", Gaza, Khaybar, peace follies, peacemongers
posted by Eliyahu m'Tsiyon at 5:04 PM
See pix of beaten and bleeding Israeli soldiers from the Turkish paper Hurriyet.
http://fotogaleri.hurriyet.com.tr/GaleriDetay.aspx?cid=36575&p=4&rid=2
The Turks no doubt put up these pix to encourage their own goons by showing the Israelis in a humiliating situation.
By Eliyahu m'Tsiyon, at 10:56 AM
Turkish thuggishness plays into White House policy.
By Eliyahu m'Tsiyon, at 5:29 PM
The country of Britain: has condemned Israel's actions - as "barbaric." Together with the UN and other European countries.
Let us just remember who the barbarians truly are.
It was Britain: that went out of its way to sink the ships of escaping refugees from WW2. That is how barbaric the British are. Where was the “Humanitarian Aid” of the British then?
And it was Churchill – who refused all the pleas of Menachem Begin, the Head of the Irgun - to stop the barbaric killing of the refugees on all the boats which the British sank.
Churchill was no hero of WW2, as he is made out to be. He showed his true colours as a barbarian more savage than the Germans.
Churchill could have prevented the murder of millions of Jews by Hitler. Instead, he waited for the Germans to quietly "finish the job." The European countries and the UN are in no position to talk about “Humanitarian Aid”. Their actions in WW2 show them to be savages, and less than sub-human – especially the British.
By Eliyahoo William Dwek, at 7:41 PM
Eliyahoo, you're right about the UK and Churchill. Remember that British troops waited outside Baghdad during the Farhud of 1941 while Jews were being massacred inside the city. That was on orders of the Foreign Office.
On the Baghdad Farhud see:
http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com
http://ziontruth.blogspot.com/2006/05/british-troops-told-to-stand-aside-as.html
http://ziontruth.blogspot.com/2006/05/shavuot-massacre-of-jews-in-baghdad.html
http://ziontruth.blogspot.com/2006/06/glamourous-glimpses-of-life-in-baghdad.html
http://ziontruth.blogspot.com/2006/06/mufti-of-jerusalem-incited-1941-farhud.html
The turkish terrorists got what they deserved.They don't care about anyone's lives even their own. They are perfectly willing to get themselves hurt of killed in order to make a statement about themselves.
By Will, at 10:22 PM
The world swims in lies. Who doesn't know that? Even the dupes are told there are lies about. We aim to dispel the fog of lies, especially about Israel, like our prophets of old and our poets like Yehudah haLevi. We feature historic sources, documents, excerpts from the classics, etc. How shall I render my vows and my bonds, While yet Zion lieth beneath the fetter of Edom, and I in Arab chains? The false prophets cry Peace, and there is no peace. A new post every 2 or 3 days.
Name: Eliyahu m'Tsiyon
Location: Yerushalayim, Israel
צלום דבורה בת יהודה לייב ז''ל Dvoyreh bas Yehudah Leyb, Eliyahu's mother. My own photo will have to await more peaceful times. I have been an observer of the human comedy, and the human tragedy for many years.
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Euro Hypocrites Forget Turkish Mass Murder of Arme...
Close-Up Footage of Mavi Marmara Passengers Attack...
The Not So Peaceful "peace activists" and the Leg...
Turkish Islamist Fanatics Send "Freedom" Flotilla ...
The Palestinian Authortiy --Obama's pets-- Refutes...
A Petition against the Vichyite Petition handed to...
Shlomo Sand's Lies Don't Go Away
The "Peace Process" Is a War Process -- Daniel Pip...
The Hurvah Synagogue before Being Blown up by the ...
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As transmedia publishing evolves, experimentation is the name of the game
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Transmedia publishing is a phrase that means different things to different people. In this interview with Verane Pick (@veranepick), co-founder and artistic director at Counter Intelligence Media, we get an up-close look at what's involved in a transmedia operation and how they use the agile development approach to keep inventing new products.
Key points from the full video interview (below) include:
Transmedia at the heart — Counter Intelligence Media is a transmedia publishing company and is working on finding new ways to tell stories in the digital world. [Discussed at the 00:42 mark.]
The rules have yet to be written — Transmedia is a rapidly evolving area and there's no "right" way of producing this rich content. Experimentation is the name of the game. [Discussed at 2:14.]
Does repurposed content have a role? — Whether it's a digital-first or repurposed content approach, the most important thing to do is first think about the medium and how you want to leverage it. [Discussed at 2:50.]
Using agile in practice — Counter Intelligence Media uses small, independent, highly collaborative teams to create their products. The agile model makes the most sense for them because of all the experimentation and the need to make many adjustments along the way. [Discussed at 6:59.]
App + ebooks — Apocalepsy 911 was an "MVP," or "minimum viable product" in the agile world, for Counter Intelligence Media and serves as the foundation for their larger platform. [Discussed at 9:43.]
Serial publishing — Pick likens their use of serial publishing to a set of Russian nested dolls where all the different layers must be properly aligned. [Discussed at 13:27.]
Gaming mechanisms to come — Game techniques will become one of the "engagement silos" in a future Counter Intelligence Media product. Stay tuned for more details ... [Discussed at 14:58.]
You can view the entire interview in the following video.
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The anchor on ebook prices is gone. Now we'll see where they float
The publishing space remains abuzz in the aftermath of the Department of Justice (DOJ) lawsuit filing last week against Apple and publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Simon & Schuster and Penguin. Much remains to be seen on how the suit will play out with Apple, Macmillan and Penguin (as the others have settled), and how the Big Six will now respond in relation to Amazon.
For a wider view and some insight into what needs to happen next for publishers to survive the tumult, I reached out to Don Linn, president at Firebrand Associates. Our interview follows.
What is the big-picture view of the DOJ lawsuit?
Don Linn: The combination of the lawsuit, circumstantial evidence that's been revealed, and settlements by several of the parties, is a very big event. The point I think has been missed in much of the discussion is the perception that the agency model — and the alleged collusion that had led to it — affected consumers negatively via higher prices. The price umbrella agency effectively created benefitted only the alleged co-conspirators. That's something that never makes anti-trust enforcers happy.
The circumstantial evidence certainly suggests the DOJ had grounds for pursuing an action. "Double deleting" emails is pretty damning, among other things. The fact that three parties have settled, while legally having no effect on the others, clearly weakens the case of the remaining defendants, at least in public, that something happened. We will look back on this as an important date; the date that ebook prices once again were allowed to float. And things seldom float upward.
I'm not an attorney, but I believe that Macmillan, Penguin and Apple have a very difficult legal battle ahead. One I doubt they can win.
Does this strengthen Amazon's position in the marketplace?
Don Linn: Amazon's already dominant position has been further strengthened as their ability to set low prices locked into the Kindle ecosystem should only grow their share of the market. Whether this is a good thing for publishers over time remains to be seen, but most readers will cheer short-term price declines and Amazon's superior customer experience.
Cory Doctorow and others have argued that the DOJ has missed the point with this suit, saying that the DRM lock-in is the bigger anti-competitive threat. Over time this may prove to be true. However, when consumers benefit, regulators can claim a victory.
What do publishers need to do now?
Don Linn: Clearly, the most important thing for those who have settled is to get into — and stay in — compliance with the agreement. Additional legal battles are in no one's interest, which is why I was surprised that two publishers chose to fight.
Separately, the Big Six and others have to determine whether low prices are their enemy and by extension whether Amazon's low pricing is sustainable for them. The choices are pretty stark: either withhold content from Amazon until acceptable terms can be agreed upon, or further adapt business models to adjust to lower pricing. I would expect to see major pushback from the Big Six on Amazon, and some may take IPG's approach of trying to hold out.
Whether that strategy can be successful is questionable, but it may be the only viable approach if they don't believe lower prices can work. If the publishers yield to Amazon, consumers should hope they could — as Mike Cane has argued — extract something in return ... perhaps Amazon's willingness to adopt EPUB as a way to loosen the lock-in.
What do you think readers will get out of this?
Don Linn: As I mentioned before, consumers get the immediate benefit of lower prices, though there are those who argue that Amazon, once it controls the market, will ultimately raise prices for their locked-in consumers. The DOJ may have inadvertently created a less competitive marketplace with this action, though I feel sure they will be back if Amazon or any other party misbehaves to the detriment of consumers.
This interview was edited for clarity.
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Publishing News: The threat of censorship, from a non-government entity
Here are the publishing-related stories that caught my attention this week.
Censorship disguised as a business decision
The PayPal-as-content-police saga continues this week. Publishers Weekly reports that PayPal is backing off Smashwords a bit: "As it stands now, PayPal has contacted Smashwords about the possibility of relaxing the enforcement and has assured the distributor that their account will not be in immediate risk of limitation pending ongoing discussions." The post outlines the background on the situation:
"The issue began February 18, when [Smashwords founder Mark] Coker received an e-mail from PayPal notifying him that Smashwords had until February 24 to correct titles with the controversial topics or else the Smashwords account would be limited. PayPal told Coker: 'Our banking partners and credit card associations have taken a very strict stance on this subject matter. Our relationships with the banking partners are absolutely critical in order to provide the online and mobile services we do to our customers. Therefore, we have to remain in compliance with their rules, which prohibit content involving rape, bestiality or incest.'"
Several anti-censorship and privacy rights organizations, including the Association of American Publishers, the Authors Guild, and the Internet Archive, have signed a letter to PayPal in support of Smashwords. The letter concludes by noting exactly how dangerous PayPal's intended actions are:
"The Internet has become an international public commons, like an enormous town square, where ideas can be freely aired, exchanged, and criticized. That will change if private companies, which are under no legal obligation to respect free speech rights, are able to use their economic clout to dictate what people should read, write, and think."
Magellan Media founder Brian O'Leary also highlighted a bit of the bigger picture:
As the tools of creation and production have become increasingly democratized, efforts to control supply have shifted to the platforms that support this more open process. After all, it's a lot easier to shut down Smashwords than it is to get its thousands of authors to stop writing.
The PW post includes comments that claim PayPal's demands are not censorship, just a business decision (... a decision that just happens to prevent people from being able to buy or read something). You didn't like SOPA? Meet the bankers.
This kind of consumer demand should make you drool
Inspired by the Oatmeal cartoon detailing futile attempts at legally watching the "Game of Thrones" TV show (and several subsequent responses to it), David Sleight over at Stuntbox takes a look at the current state of piracy and makes a compelling argument to corporate America that pirate consumers are an opportunity:
"The audience is telling you, in no uncertain terms, they want your stuff. And they are telling you precisely what stuff. The people you're calling 'thieves' are telling you where you need to be. They are jumping through hoops only slightly less complicated than the ones you set out for them via official channels, displaying the sort of pent-up demand that should make you drool. This is what's commonly referred to in business circles as an opportunity."
Sleight points out that behind private, closed doors, corporate America acknowledges this but can't get seem to migrate the mindset into the boardroom. He offers several proposals to help them get a move-on. A few teasers include: "Start projects by picturing what the user wants to have in their hands and build up from that." And, "... the future is about frictionless access ..." And, "Stop thumping the table with these [bogus] stats." Sleight's piece is well worth the read.
And publishers might take a page from the TED playbook: Joshua Gans at the Harvard Business Review profiles the TED publishing platform, noting not only the openness of the TED talks themselves (the videos are freely available), but also the TED name (adhering to a few rules, anyone can hold a TEDx event). Gans concludes: "TED could have done the traditional publishing thing — put up walls and sold exclusivity. Instead, it has chosen to embrace the notion that information has the most value when it is shared widely. Perhaps traditional publishers of other forms of media should take note."
And in case you missed it, here's author Neal Gaiman on the opportunities of piracy:
What we have here is a failure to visualize
A new study from The Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism shows that newspapers' digital efforts are falling short in making up for losses in print revenues and that "most newspapers continue to contract with alarming speed." Fear of rapid failure seems to be fueling the slow, steady decline. One newspaper executive told the study group, "There's no doubt we're going out of business right now." The report continues:
"The problem, he [the newspaper executive] explained, is the dilemma that faces many trying to innovate inside older industries. If you changed your company and did not succeed, that could hasten the end of the enterprise. 'There might be a 90% chance you'll accelerate the decline if you gamble and a 10% chance you might find the new model,' he said. 'No one is willing to take that chance'."
The study investigates the decline in the industry from many angles — digital advertising to mobile to cultural obstacles. The study also asked newspaper executives to look five years down the road; the results were grim and highlighted the industry's lack of vision. Response highlights include:
The most common scenario was that the newspaper would be printed and delivered to people's homes less frequently, perhaps as little as two to three days a week-or even just on Sunday. This has already occurred in some markets, such as Detroit.
One foresaw a looming era of significantly downsized newsrooms. Another suggested the papers would inevitably get "thinner and weaker."
One thought it would be possible for papers to "limp along," but that another recession could be catastrophic to the industry.
The study report points out what is "probably the strongest underlying finding of this study: The people who run the newspaper industry are unsure of where it is heading or what it will look like."
Suggestions are always welcome, so feel free to send along your news scoops and ideas.
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Publishing News: Apple's textbook foray may not be as disruptive as it hoped
Here are a few stories that caught my eye in the publishing space this week:
The textbook industry might not be as "reinvented" as Apple hoped
The most anticipated, if not the biggest, news this week was Apple's education-centric event on Thursday. It announced iBooks 2 for iPad; iBooks Author, free WYSIWYG book formatting software for authors as well as textbook creators; and a new iTunes U app (also free) that gives users access to a variety of educational content. (Ars Technica has a nice roundup of the event, and Tim Carmody takes an in-depth look at each new feature.)
According to its press release, Apple also announced partnerships with publishers Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, McGraw-Hill and Pearson to offer textbooks through the iBookstore. Many of the new textbooks are priced at $14.99 or less — Peter Kafka at All Things Digital explains how everyone could still make a profit at that price point.
As disruptive as this all may look on the surface, however, John Paul Titlow at ReadWriteWeb outlines four level-headed reasons why the textbook industry might not be as "reinvented" as Apple hopes. Specifically: Apple's solution is expensive and closed platform; it misses the mark on the target audience; forming partnerships with major publishers may be misguided; and competition is as big as the web. Titlow's post is worth reading.
In addition, a post at Business Insider points out that the digital textbooks will be between 2 and 3 GB. The storage on the iPad is rather limited, with the most affordable model having just 16 GB of space. That may be plenty of space ... until your class schedule fills up and you want to have music, games, videos and other apps on your iPad. And to complicate things further, Dan Wineman also uncovers big issues with the end-user license agreement (EULA) for iBooks Author.
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A publishing insider's must-read assessment of Amazon
Sarah Lacy, author and founder of PandoDaily, published an insightful email from an unnamed publishing industry insider this week, in which the person declares, "now we're in Amazon's sights, and they're going to kill us."
From the email:
"We all kinda assumed that Amazon was either using books as a loss leader for other things (like getting people to sign up for Prime or simply gathering customer data), or was maybe planning on raising the prices they sell books for once BN and Borders were eliminated as competition. But I think they actually intend to keep print books at their current prices, and they want ebooks to be even cheaper. What they're actually targeting is the publishers' margin.
"Long-term there's no future in printed books. They'll be like vinyl: pricey and for collectors only. 95% of people will read digitally. Everybody in publishing knows this but most are in denial about it because moving to becoming a digital company means laying off like 40% of our staffs. And the barriers to entry fall, too. We simply don't want to think about it. Amazon is thinking about it, though, and they're targeting the publishers directly."
The insider also points out that "Amazon could probably afford to lose $20 million/year in their publishing arm just to put the other publishers out of business." The letter is a must-read for anyone in publishing. (And a hat tip to John Gruber at Daring Fireball for the post discovery and his related insight about how Amazon's bullying creates opportunities for Apple's foray into books.)
In a similar vein, Don Linn, a former publisher at Taunton Press (among other things), wrote a post over at his blog Bait 'n' Beer with 10 tough questions he'd like CEOs and publishers to answer candidly. Here's a couple of highlights from his list:
"Do you think online piracy is a significant factor in your business? If so, can you quantify its impact?"
"Using a three year time horizon, what do you see as the biggest opportunity facing your company? Are you investing proportionately to the size of that opportunity? What are the biggest obstacles to successfully exploiting that opportunity?"
Publishing executives looking to engage in forward-thinking discussions should check out the TOC Publishing Executive Roundtable being held in New York City on February 13. The event is free, but you have to request an invitation.
SOPA and publishing
Of course, the highest profile story this week was the SOPA/PIPA protest. ReadWriteWeb had a round-up (read: not a slideshow) of the various websites that went dark in protest of the SOPA/PIPA legislation — including O'Reilly.
Much has been written about the bills, but the publishing industry has been noticeably quiet on the subject. Dan Pacheco, founder of BookBrewer.com said as much this week and then spelled out exactly how the bills could affect ebook publishing. He says SOPA could "nullify" safe harbor copyright provisions:
"... one complaint could cause BookBrewer to be labeled a piracy site, and the author as a pirate. Our domain name could be blocked, effectively shutting down BookBrewer, and payments we receive through PayPal could be shut off. The same could happen to Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple, Kobo and all the places where the eBook is sold."
Likewise, Cameron Neylon pointed out a huge problem with SOPA and scientific/scholarly publishing:
"Nature, every Elsevier journal, and every other academic communication medium, are full of copyright violations. The couple of paragraphs of methods text or introduction that keeps being used, that chunk of supplementary information that has appeared in a number of such places, that figure that 'everyone in the field uses' but no one has any idea who drew it, as well as those figures that the authors forgot that they'd signed over the copyright to some other publisher — or didn't understand enough about copyright to realise that they had."
Megellan Media's Brian O'Leary posted a piece on copyright and SOPA/PIPA. He offers a rational suggestion:
"Rather than continue a debate that is heavily influenced by campaign donations, let's try doing it [William] Patry's way: figure out what copyright should do, and measure how well it is doing it. Then, change the law in ways that evidence says will make a difference. Repeat as necessary."
For more discussion on how SOPA could affect the publishing industry, check out the Follow the Reader (hashtag #followreader) discussion today at 4 p.m. eastern on Twitter (rumor has it that Dan Gillmor will be the guest).
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Social is an integral part of tomorrow's reading experience
This post is part of the TOC podcast series, which we'll be featuring here on Radar in the coming months. You can also subscribe to the free TOC podcast through iTunes.
Book reading has always been considered a solitary activity, but maybe that's just because of the limitations of print. Social reading platforms are sprouting up all around us, and mobNotate is one of the more interesting ones. This TOC podcast features insight from mobNotate's founder, Ricky Wong (@kinwong), as well as their technical advisor, Sean Gerrish. They talk about where they are with the mobNotate platform, why social is an important part of tomorrow's reading experience and what it will look like.
(Listen to this interview via the embedded player or download the MP3 file.)
Key points from the full interview include :
Machine learning makes it happen — Related conversations are already happening on the web, but mobNotate ties them back to the text so you don't have to hunt them down. [Discussed at the 0:45 mark.]
Social reading is not an oxymoron — If social reading is implemented correctly it will feel like an on-topic conversation with a lot of really interesting people. If it's done poorly, of course, it's nothing more than a distraction. [Discussed at 1:38.]
Reader apps & devices don't lend themselves to content creation — And that's where a tool like mobNotate comes in, which makes it extremely easy to add your thoughts to the conversation. Think "tapping and swiping" rather than "typing" as well as "curation" rather than "creation." [Discussed at 6:41.]
Social isn't just for certain genres of content — There are different (and better ways) to implement social features on different types of content. [Discussed at 9:35.]
Community is an important part of the value proposition — Social features can help add to the value of your product and therefore help justify a higher price. [Discussed at 11:35.]
Social features can still result in a clean & simple reading environment — Sean's example here of Google "then and now" is a terrific analogy. Social reading functionality needs to be as important to the user experience as images and videos have become to search results. [Discussed at 15:00.]
The 80/20 rule applies here as well — A small percentage of users will likely create and curate the content that's used by the larger audience. [Discussed at 15:46.]
You can listen to the entire interview here.
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Open Question: Is it realistic for publishers to cut Amazon out of the equation?
DRM is a hotly controversial topic, but most publishers continue to insist on employing it to protect content from piracy. In a recent blog post, author Charlie Stross argued that "the strategy of demanding DRM everywhere is going to boomerang, inflicting horrible damage on the very companies who want it." Stross said Amazon is publishing's next biggest threat after piracy, and employing DRM is like handing Amazon a big stick.
Until 2008, ebooks were a tiny market segment, under 1% and easily overlooked; but in 2009 ebook sales began to rise exponentially, and ebooks now account for over 20% of all fiction sales. In some areas ebooks are up to 40% of the market and rising rapidly. (I am not making that last figure up: I'm speaking from my own sales figures.) And Amazon have got 80% of the ebook retail market ... the Big Six's pig-headed insistence on DRM on ebooks is handing Amazon a stick with which to beat them harder. DRM on ebooks gives Amazon a great tool for locking ebook customers into the Kindle platform.
But what's a publisher to do?
A back-channel discussion started brewing around Stross' post, and suggestions of cutting Amazon out of the equation cropped up as a possible solution to its growing hold on the market. Kassia Krozser, owner of Booksquare.com, made a salient point (included here with permission):
Many in the industry see Amazon as a threat (rightly so, in some regards). However, trying to cut Amazon out of the ebook equation means cutting a large readership out of the equation.
One thing we know with absolute certainty about the ebook market is that we do not have a clue how large it is. If you only factor major US publishers into the mix, you get one set of data points. If you factor the entire ebook publishing spectrum into the mix, the numbers relating to market share will look very different — perhaps a bit broader than we'd expect, despite the fact that Amazon would still dominate.
I pay close attention to authors who discuss their digital sales, and while they give mad props to various retailers, they consistently cite Amazon as their largest, most consistent source of sales. Leaving Amazon "out" means leaving a large and growing number of readers out (based on recent press releases from Amazon — sans real numbers, of course ... but nobody gives up real numbers). Put another way, it means leaving a large percentage of sales on the table. I'm fairly certain this is not the goal of authors and publishers.
Stross' point that Amazon is doing very well at locking readers into its platform can't be denied, but its distribution reach also can't be denied. This begs a couple of questions: Could publishers quit Amazon — all of it — cold turkey? If not, how can publishers take advantage of Amazon's platforms without being undermined by them?
I invited Krozser to open the discussion with her response.
Kassia Krozser: Last week's rather confusing co-op story — in which Amazon is apparently demanding higher amounts for (digital) co-op and publisher-generated media — highlighted a fundamental truth: all is not fair in love and business. Like its bricks and mortar relatives before it, Amazon will squeeze vendors as much as possible.
But that is pretty much beside the point. Amazon's consumer base is too large for publishers to play serious hardball — readers have too many options for publishers to lock themselves out of the Amazon readership. And, frankly, it is the policies of many publishers that have led us to what I like to call retailer lock-in.
As a Kindle owner (happy, happy Kindle owner, I will note), it is near impossible for me to patronize other retailers because publishers insist on DRM. Amazon chose its own DRM flavor. As do other major retailers. Cross-compatibility is a fantasy for readers. I love publishers who eschew DRM (and I'd love a serious study that compares pirating of DRM-only versus DRM-free publishers ... something tells me those numbers are very interesting). Without DRM, I can buy from non-Amazon retailers. With DRM, I am stuck.
So, how not to be undermined by Amazon? Give consumers options. Policies that lock readers into a retailer don't help create a diverse marketplace. This is in the control of publishers.
That's Krozser's take. What's yours? Please weigh in through the comments.
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Quid pro quo will define the author-publisher relationship
In a recent interview, author and digital book producer Peter Meyers talked about what we can expect as publishing comes into its own in the digital era. He said customized book apps will largely go by the wayside, and HTML5 as a format will be a bit of a hard-sell to consumers. And using his own experience as a basis, Meyers said publishers aren't in danger of becoming irrelevant.
Highlights from the interview (below) include:
Different kinds of books gravitate toward different kinds of formats — Meyers said the majority of books in the future won't be customized apps. The ones that will be apps will be the ones that require interactivity. [Discussed at the 0:19 mark.]
HTML5 is still a wild card — Meyers said HTML5's core question is transactional: Are people willing to pay for web-based content? Consumers have been reluctant thus far, but as HTML5 gets fully supported, we'll see more experimentation. [Discussed at 1:40.]
Amazon's Fire tablet will be a problem for B&N — Even though both tablets are similar in a lot ways, Meyers pointed toward Amazon's ecosystem and said B&N just doesn't match up to Amazon's content and service offerings. [Discussed at 4:54.]
Will publishers become irrelevant? — Meyers said no. Using his own experience as an example, he highlighted the fact that his publisher (O'Reilly) provides a platform to publicize his work and technological support to produce works in particular formats. What he doesn't get — and said few authors do — is hand-holding, individual attention, detailed line editing, cheerleading and so forth. Meyers said authors need to go in with the expectation that they'll have to do as much for their publishers and their books as the publishers do for them. [Discussed at 5:26.]
Meyers' new book, "Breaking the Page: Transforming Books and the Reading Experience," will be released in the next couple weeks — you can nab a free preview copy now — and he'll host a workshop at TOC 2012.
Stories from the "Breaking the Page" project
The iPad's ripple effect
HTML5 for publishers: Drawing on the screen
What publishers can and should learn from "The Elements"
The paperless book
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A war story, a Kindle Single, and hope for long-form journalism
Across the board, news organizations and publishers are struggling to find business models that let them stay afloat through the digital transformation. Journalists are a common casualty, with those who work in specialized areas encountering a market that's particularly inhospitable.
Marc Herman (@Marc_Herman_), a freelance journalist (notably for The Atlantic), is testing out a new solution: cut out the intermediary and sell the story directly to the readers. He recently took his long-form story, "The Shores of Tripoli," and turned it into a $1.99 Kindle Single. In the following interview, Herman talks about the Kindle Single experience and how he sees the future of journalism playing out.
What is it like to write a Kindle Single?
Marc Herman: Writing "The Shores of Tripoli" was harder than writing a traditional magazine feature. It's a demanding form. It's like a small book, and you have to write it really, really fast. Dave Blum at Amazon told me a reporter who did a Single on Occupy Wall Street wrote it in two days. That's freakishly fast, Usain Bolt-type stuff. To give you an idea, the average story you read in a magazine like National Geographic is 3,000 to 6,000 words long. The "Shores of Tripoli" was 12,000 (the first draft was 18,000). And it has to be written well — the reporting has to be of a very high professional standard, or it's just hackery.
In terms of production, the Single was more like a magazine story than a book. The news cycle mattered more than it does for a book. I had to respond to Qaddafi's death, for example, in real time. After returning from Libya, I happened to be in New York, and I looked up at that famous news ticker and it said, "Qaddafi killed." That's how I learned about the war ending. I have to confess, I had a very narcissistic response to Qaddafi's death: To me, the headline read, "Qaddafi killed; and in other news, Marc's deadline moved up two weeks."
Why did you price "The Shores of Tripoli" at $1.99?
Marc Herman: Most Singles are priced between $0.99 and $2.99. The guy who runs Singles said $2.99 only seems to work with brand-name authors. You're buying the Single because you'll buy anything by Stephen King or Amy Tan, not because that particular theme or story caught your eye. I went for $1.99 and not $0.99 because it seemed to me anything you'll spend a buck for you'll also spend two bucks for. Three bucks starts feeling like the price of lunch to me.
Did the royalty factor in your decision?
Marc Herman: The royalty isn't something I thought about too much, but it turns out to be a further wrinkle. Amazon pays a 35% commission for everything priced under $2.99. It offers a much better royalty — 70% — above $2.99. But only a handful of very well-known authors have found success at $2.99. So what to do? Fortunately, I was able to get a deal in which I get the 70% cut at the lower $1.99 price. That's a special deal for being part of Amazon's curated program, for which I was fortunate to have the story selected. My agent set that up.
It's a big question for the future, I think. Lots of people want the $1.99 price because it seems to be proving to be the sweet spot. But at 35%, I have to sell twice as many copies to make the same money. The royalty doesn't change as sales increase, like they did under deals with legacy publishers.
For journalism, the royalty issue will probably encourage me to do one of two things. You can't expect the sweet deal from Amazon more than once or twice because it's not in their interest, unless you're Stephen King. So, for non-fiction, you'd want to write shorter, faster, punchier stuff, even more closely timed to the news cycle — more like magazine stories — then price them at $0.99. If you produce good stuff at a pace that's roughly the same as that of a monthly magazine — three or four big stories a year — you'd have a shot at making up the lower royalty on each item by producing more titles, and ideally having fans who bought them all. Four would cost the same as a single copy of, say, the New Yorker, right?
The other way it might change is as the market evolves, viable rivals to Amazon may emerge and target that two-tier royalty scheme as a weak spot. In this space, an entity such as Barnes & Noble could compete for the best work just by offering 70% at any price point, no questions asked. We'll see.
What has the response been thus far?
Marc Herman: The most gratifying thing so far is that people seem to be reading the story with interest. I've received some really generous feedback from readers.
In a business sense, I'm cautiously optimistic. We're hanging around the top 500 of the million or so ebooks in the Kindle Store. Rankings measure movement, not volume, so I try not to pay attention to it. But hanging around the top 1,000 or 2,000 or so — the top few percent of sales — is clearly a good sign.
How would you compare the response to your experience with traditional publishing?
Marc Herman: I feel like I'll reach more readers this way than I have in the past. The trend is encouraging. I've sold more copies of "The Shores of Tripoli" in these first two weeks than I have in four years since my old publisher, Random House, brought out a $10 digital version of my first book, "Searching for El Dorado." I'm very certain I'll sell more copies of the Single in the next few months than I sold of that earlier book, despite similarly generous reviews, publicity, etc., for both.
The scheme of doing some on-scene journalism for a known title, in my case The Atlantic, as a loss-leader, and then using that work as the basis for a direct-published, long-form item, seems to be working out. I've only tried this once, and we're not even a month into this experiment. But already, I feel like I've reached a community of readers that compares favorably to my more traditional work — and the work is able to pay for itself. I'm on track to break even on the investment I made to travel to Libya and report the story. Once that happens, the next question is whether people will continue to download the story in large enough numbers for it to become a viable funding mechanism for the next story I decide to do. Right now it's looking promising.
If things keep going how they are going, I think in a few months I'll be able to say I have the beginnings of a viable business model as well as a viable way to bring long-form reporting about international events to the public. I'm still cautious in saying that, however, because it's a very new form, and we just don't know what's influencing people's decisions — it's Christmas season, the Kindle Fire is selling well, Libya is still an important topic. It's really hard to say what's driving this.
Why did you decide to experiment?
Marc Herman: I had nothing to lose. I'd published some of the reporting that became "The Shores of Tripoli" in The Atlantic, and it got a strong response. I had much more material, so I decided to expand it into a long-form story. The question I asked myself was whether the more comprehensive story had better odds of reaching readers in a broad market like Amazon's or a more narrow one — that being the small club of traditional editors, mostly in New York, whom one has to convince to buy work. I've had some success with them in the past, but I decided to bet on the broader market this time.
Traditional magazines have always been a tight, tough market in which to compete, particularly for international reporting. But post-crisis, sadly, it's just not a viable business. You're talking maybe 15 editors in the U.S. with the interest and the means to commission this kind of work. Digital news operations have greater interest but few salaried correspondents — and freelance budgets that boil down to between zero and $0.50 a word, which are not living wages.
How do you see Kindle Singles and their ilk benefiting and shaping the future of journalism?
Marc Herman: The Kindle Single feels to me like an opportunity to prove, in a clear way, a continuing public interest in news, particularly literary journalism. That could use some proving right now. I get the feeling that traditional publishers either feel offended that they have to put effort into articulating their relevance, or are scared they can't. I think we need to make the case because we've lost the public.
Look at something like "Lost in Kandahar." Lots of reporters I know want to cover Afghanistan. They can't get enough work, so, as a professional community, we're having huge trouble keeping Afghanistan on the pubic radar. And then Alex Berenson comes along, spends three days at a base in Kandahar and writes a barn-burner of a story about the experience, and it becomes a best seller for the Kindle. I'd argue he got the same kind of penetration that something like a big story in a big magazine would garner. Great for him, but also great for the journalist who is thinking of going to Afghanistan and can build on the case Berenson's made.
We're just out of the gate with "The Shores of Tripoli." My hope is for it to become an example like Berenson's, but for the Arab Spring. There will inevitably come a point where the editors and producers at legacy titles start saying, "Okay, this story is finished." I'd hope this is an example that can say, "No, this is a richer story than that, and we know so because we can point to a place where a lot of people are still reading and commenting and talking about it, and even paying $2 for the opportunity."
How do Kindle Singles compare to something like Spot.us?
Marc Herman: Spot.us is great, but it's slightly different: Funding journalism is different than linking that funding to the distribution — selling it.
Those of us working in non-fiction have lagged behind the fiction writers in experimenting with direct publishing. That makes sense because a novelist's biggest problem is finding readers while a journalist's biggest problem is finding money. Journalism has higher initial costs than do works of imagination — plane tickets, cameras, etc. So naturally, when you decide to do a story, your attention goes first to solutions for paying expenses, like Spot.us.
Distribution has always been something we expected the publishers or the hardware to solve. I think it's been clear for a while that tablets and ereaders were going to play a large role in a reporter's future prospects, but details were lacking. This year, the tablet boom implied the hardware was catching up to the problems the web had posed for journalism, and which traditional publishing still finds vexing. That finally moved the discussion from just funding to include distribution, in my opinion. Some of us in journalism started looking at what the fiction writers are doing because they're clearly the ones moving the needle on distribution models.
Do you see the Kindle Single as a viable funding model?
Marc Herman: I'm not expecting to be Amanda Hocking, but I do wonder if a few of us working with formats like the Single couldn't do as well as a respectable magazine. Look at Harper's. I trained there in my early 20s. I believe it has a circulation of 300,000 or so, it publishes two or three long features a month, and it sells for a few bucks a copy. That seems like an entity against which a small group of clever reporters could compete — or even better, collaborate — via the Kindle Single model or something similar. At a buck or two a story, you could run a little reporting project off that.
The key is quality. The journalism has to be as compelling and as politically or socially relevant as the stuff the traditional titles are producing. But if I'm already putting my work up for consideration by that caliber of publication, then I should be comfortable putting it in competition against them, too.
This ongoing struggle with digital affects all aspects of the industry — how do you see it shaking out?
Marc Herman: It's a mundane thing to say, but I think it's going to shake out by rewarding the publishers who get their organizational charts in order. I had a meeting at a big, big magazine recently, and I asked them exactly the same question. They've been smart, and their digital operation is profitable — except for the small detail that they are barely paying their writers. I think the bar's too low if we're willing to laud a business model that only works because it gets its raw materials for free — namely, me, reporting from Libya or wherever. The interesting question is that if they're doing so well now, why do they need other parts of the company, or whole other industries — such as contributors who are professors or who work at think tanks — to subsidize the writers who work for them?
Remarkably, at least to me, the editors said the problem was accounting. Many publications pay different rates for print and digital, and run two largely discrete business under the same roof. It's complicated organizationally to start mixing the separate budgets. I realize that is a bit technical, but at bottom, it affects the quality of their journalism, and that affects their ability to hold an audience. They can't hire some potentially fantastic contributors overseas because they can't figure out how to pay them. They pay so little, it doesn't reach the minimum for wire transfers, and paper checks written in dollars can't be funded in, say, Pakistan.
I also imagine that part of the future for Amazon and journalism will be a Video Single or Multimedia Single. The Kindle Fire seems to be headed in that direction. I have zero inside information, but I have to imagine that very soon I'm going to be able to embed video and audio and so forth, and at a reasonable download cost to the consumer. In fact, I'm already working with another reporter and a videographer on models for this, with the expectation that those stories are just around the corner.
How do you envision the future of long-form journalism?
Marc Herman: We'll be fine. The right business models and the appropriate technologies are all enormously important, but in the end, it comes down to the quality of the stories. If you tell a credible story in a captivating way, people won't want it to ever end.
We've been failing people, I think. Publishing is the only industry I can think of in which, when people stopped buying our product, we decided it was because they were too stupid — editors really say that to me. First, they blamed everything on the web or on Craigslist killing classified advertising, which generated a ton of money. Rather than think creatively, the publishers have moved on to blaming the schools for not raising good readers. Or on reality TV for lowering the bar. Or on video games and YouTube for killing attention spans. Readers on the whole are really, really smart. If they are not paying attention, it doesn't mean they don't want the story or can't handle the story. It means the way we're telling it isn't very interesting or useful or fulfilling.
There came a point after coming back from Libya where I got tired of hearing "no" — of discussing how the office politics of some midtown magazine would prevent this story from existing, where virtually every interaction with a publisher involved them somehow complicating the effort to be a non-fiction writer, which is already a considerable commitment. So, at this point I'll go with whomever is expressing a desire to find solutions and with whomever will be most successful at helping me do work like "The Shores of Tripoli." At the moment, that's Amazon. In six months, it might not be. Journalists doing this kind of work are a species of pragmatic idealists — we just want to stay in the game. I don't think we're much concerned with whose team we're on.
This interview was edited and condensed.
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Research and restraint: Two more things to add to your digital publishing toolkit
Since 2009, author and digital book producer Peter Meyers (@petermeyers) has been researching and documenting the digital publishing revolution in his project "Breaking the Page: Transforming Books and the Reading Experience." His investigation into digital books has uncovered a host of tools and use cases. The project has also shown that when it comes to digital book enhancements, just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.
A free preview edition of Meyers' project is now available — in ebook format, of course — and he'll discuss "Breaking the Page" in depth at his TOC New York 2012 session, "Breaking The Page: Content Design For An Infinite Canvas."
In the following interview, Meyers talks about how and why the project got started and what's surprised him thus far. He also reveals the unfortunate connection between today's enhanced ebooks and the font-filled newsletters of the mid-1980s.
What is "Breaking the Page"? What was the inspiration?
Peter Meyers: I was an early adopter of everything that was happening around the world of the Kindle and ebooks. It struck me that it was still the very beginning of the digital publishing revolution, and all that was really happening in the world of Kindle was that publishers were taking these digital snapshots of print books and stuffing them onto the Kindle. As much as I love my Kindle and I love reading Kindle books on platforms like the iPhone, I felt like we weren't yet seeing authors and publishers deliver new kinds of reading experiences.
So, back in 2009 or so when it became clear that the industry overall was undergoing these significant changes and when it also became clear that some kind of tablet device was on the horizon from Apple, I felt that we were on the cusp of a sea change. Publishers and authors and readers alike weren't yet getting their heads around how books were going to change, and I wanted to take a systematic look at what these new kinds of books were going to look like. How are they going to change the things that authors create? How are they going to change the reading experience? What parts of the reading experience can and should stay the same? And I wanted to do so in a way that put the needs of the reader up front. "Breaking the Page," for me, was a way of taking a considered look at all of the innovation that was going on but trying to think through some of the best practices.
How are ebooks missing the point?
Peter Meyers: I'm not sure that I would say plain EPUB ebooks are missing the point. In fact, the sales figures show they're doing an incredibly good job of satisfying maybe everyone except for the bean counters at the big publishing firms, who, at this point, are understandably afraid of how things are looking for the future. But from a reader's perspective, I think traditional plain-vanilla ebooks are doing a great job — you get mystery readers and romance readers and serious literary fans, and they just can't get enough and they're buying more books. If I'm any sort of measure to judge by, I'm buying many more books on all my digital devices.
I think where things were less successful was in that first wave of enhancements, where the entire industry kind of decided collectively, "Hey, we need enhancements. We need enhanced ebooks." And I will raise my hand and say, "Guilty." I was complicit, and I participated in a number of enhancement projects.
The collective reaction on the part of readers was pretty much a big giant yawn of disinterest. Publishers spent a fair amount of money experimenting on that front. Now they're starting to conclude that the time and resources required to create these enhanced books are probably not worth the effort. In some cases, enhancements are a quick way to turn off people who are interested in reading books in the first place.
Which publishers and platforms are "breaking the page" well?
Peter Meyers: I certainly see a lot of experimenting happening out there. At the risk of sounding like a total company shill, I will say that O'Reilly does an admirable job in terms of not thinking of itself as a company that is in the business of selling print books, but staying true to its motto of changing the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators. There are places in which a company, be it O'Reilly or any other publisher, is so centered on books as the unit of delivery that it's hard to respond to a disruption like StackOverflow, for example, where people pose and field questions having to do with technical challenges. StackOverflow is a great and constant reminder that the competitive threats to publishers often don't come from other publishers, but from different approaches.
In the world of textbook publishing, there's a firm called Inkling that specializes in textbooks for the iPad. A lot of what Inkling has done has been successful because rather than taking a PDF replica of a traditional print textbook and cramming it onto the iPad, Inkling has "XML-ified" everything — it's ditched, more or less, the print page. Inkling has a nice little trick in there for teachers who have classrooms that are split between students who have the print version and those who have the iPad version, and the company has really rethought how to design content and reading experiences for the iPad.
Inkling integrates a music textbook and the scores that go along with it. Students can listen to what the music sounds like and follow along as the music is progressing.
What are the most important digital publishing tools?
Peter Meyers: It's funny. On the one hand, the list is pretty easy — it goes something like: Objective-C, HTML5, XML, and anything that will help your development team use those tools in conjunction with an author to create compelling stories or informative teaching material. But on the other hand, this has nothing at all to do with tools. And as crazy as this might sound, I think market research should be part of everyone's toolkit. The reason I say market research is because in this digital publishing world, a lot of times what publishers and authors must do is think through the consumer's need for their products.
For example, if you're a publisher and you've got an amazing coffee table book about great travel destinations for coffee lovers, the market research question might be, "Does that print book do the best job of satisfying people's need to learn about coffee-centric vacations, or will an app do a better job?" In many cases, the answer is going to be, "Print actually does an amazing job when it comes to coffee table books that have to do with travel." So, researching the market before we embark on these digital publishing initiatives is a way of determining where a product fits into the landscape.
Has there been something in your work thus far that has surprised you?
Peter Meyers: The biggest surprise was when I got started, roughly around the time of the arrival of the iPad. I had this hypothesis that storytelling and narrative nonfiction were going to be changed significantly as we entered the world of touchscreen publishing. I've more or less come 180-degrees around on that and come to the conclusion that the bound codex, be it a digital collection of pages or a printed collection of pages, is actually the perfect form for telling a story of about 100,000 words — and it probably just needs words, especially in the hands of the right author.
As so often happens when new technologies arrive on the scene, the new technologies don't eliminate the old technologies. Rather, they add to the kinds of stories that can be told. My revelation was that plain prose stories didn't go away and probably won't go away. They certainly will occupy a smaller portion of most people's media consumption in the years and the decades ahead, but they do a wonderful job in telling a 100,000-word love story or biography or what have you.
The other thing I have found extremely surprising and kind of eye-opening is the way that books, in an age and a time of information overload, provide a source of refuge for people. At the risk of getting too touchy-feely, we're assaulted by so many micro bits of content from status updates and Twitter and Facebook and RSS feeds that books of the 200- to 400-page variety give people a reason to focus and to follow a story. The books actually acquire an even greater value in a digital world because they give people continuity and a thread to follow while the rest of their days are fractured by so many different kinds of information sources.
What will the publishing landscape look like in 10 years?
Peter Meyers: I do spend time thinking about that — ten years from now, is it going to be Steve Jobs' youngest daughter taking over Apple and announcing the iHolograph while graciously ushering out Tim Cook? Who knows, that may be a possibility. What I am a little bit more confident about predicting is that the tools authors and publishers will have at their disposal will be a lot better and a lot easier to use. I really think that we're at a point in time that's analogous to web publishing in the mid-'90s, where most of the good stuff that you could do required hand coding and a certain amount of expertise.
Just looking at the companies I'm following in the world of authoring software and authoring solutions, there's so much activity on that front that's targeted at designing tools that let creative people tell their stories without having to master Objective-C or JavaScript. It's uncommon, I think, to find people who have creative dispositions who are also skilled in these kinds of programming-style tools.
The other thing I see happening in the next decade is more authors emerging who are multi-mode threats. My favorite example these days is David Pogue. He's a great speaker, he's a great writer, and he's also very nimble in the world of putting together fun and entertaining iMovie productions. As the next generation of authors grows up — hopefully somewhat capable in the world of writing — they'll also be adept in other media forums, like audio and video. [Disclosure: David Pogue is the creator of the Missing Manual series.]
Also, the urge to binge on multimedia will subside. It'll be less of a thrill to put every single thing that you can do as an author into your latest production. It's similar to how we all learned in the mid-1980s that putting 28 different fonts in the church newsletter just made it look awful. The instinct to put video and audio in an ebook — and, yeah, we can have a bird fly down as the cover opens — it's just too much. As authors get more skilled with these tools, they'll develop a restraint and a respect for the audience. Authors will know that not everything needs to be included.
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Exposing content via APIs
Publishers and authors obviously have a sense of how they intend their content to be used, but what if there are other ways of accessing and consuming content that a publisher and author didn't even consider? It reminds me of that great Henry Ford quote: "If I'd asked people what they wanted, they would have said 'a faster horse'." The point is, sometimes we just don't know what we want. That's where exposing content via APIs can help. As we talk about in this interview with Fluidinfo CEO Terry Jones (@terrycojones), APIs enable developers to work with your content like a box of Legos, building solutions you may never have dreamed of.
What's an API? — Just as user interfaces enable access to information by users, APIs enable access to information by programmers. [Discussed at the 0:54 mark.]
The "read-only" model is not the future — Publishers have grown accustomed to a one-way communication. We produce content but generally don't let users enhance or modify that content. That may have worked well in the print world, but the digital world demands more. As Terry notes, the real world is "writable." [Discussed at 5:15.]
Publishers are just starting to recognize audience signals — There's value in not only detecting these signals, but also in acting on them. [Discussed at 10:55.]
Reading has always been a social activity — Much takes place in isolation, but think about why page numbers exist, for example. [Discussed at 12:10.]
How do you manage control in an open API access model? — It's not as scary as you might think. There are plenty of control mechanisms that can and should exist when exposing your content via APIs. [Discussed at 13:45.]
Mobile changes everything — Simple paywall access via a browser isn't the best solution. Mobile offers a completely new opportunity to distribute and monetize content ... but it has to be done correctly, of course. [Discussed at 18:50.]
Why not just offer access via HTML5? — HTML5 is a good delivery mechanism, but APIs are more like offering a toolbox for building even more powerful solutions. [Discussed at 28:16.]
Terry Jones interviewed at TOC 2011 (video)
3 ways APIs can benefit publishers
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SHOCKING STUDY REVEALS: U.S. Taxpayers Foot The Bill For Refugee Resettlement…You’ll Never Believe How Much!
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You might want to sit down for this one…Over a five year period, American taxpayers are billed more than $8 billion for the resettlement of thousands of foreign refugees every year, a new study finds.
In research conducted by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), analysts concluded that annual refugee resettlement costs American taxpayers about $1.8 billion a year, and over five years, about $8.8 billion.
FAIR’s research found that of the $1.8 billion annual cost of resettling refugees in the U.S., about $867 million was spent on welfare.
The findings include:
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Since 1980, the U.S. has admitted more than 3.5 million foreign refugees, with nearly 100,000 refugees arriving in 2016 under former President Obama.
President Trump, a critic of mass resettling foreign refugees throughout the U.S., lowered the number of refugees admitted to the country, reducing the annual flow of refugees by 70 percent in his first year in office, as Breitbart News reported.
In his first 11 months, Trump admitted 28,875 foreign refugees to the U.S., a vast difference from the whopping 93,668 foreign refugees admitted in the same time period under Obama. Likewise, for Fiscal Year 2018, Trump has lowered the number of refugees who can enter the U.S. to 45,000, the lowest refugee cap since 1980.
THE U.S. IS A GLOBAL MAGNET FOR REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT BECAUSE OF OUR GENEROUS “FREEBIES”:
Most refugee/asylee resettlement expenditures come in the form of cash assistance, welfare programs and other social services. Federal welfare programs that refugees and asylees can access include the following:
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) formerly known as AFDC
Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
Social Security Disability Insurance
Child Care and Development Fund
Job Opportunities for Low Income Individuals (JOLI)
Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP)
Postsecondary Education Loans and Grants
Refugee Assistance Programs
Earned Income Tax Credit and Additional Child Tax Credit11
State and local welfare programs that refugees and asylees can apply for include but are not limited to:
Job training and employment search assistance
Social services programs
Immigration assistance programs (aiding asylees in filing green card applications, citizenship applications, and petitions for relatives to immigrate to the U.S.)12
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Isaiah Thomas hits Dennis Schroder in head amid heated moment
By Ohm Youngmisuk
BOSTON -- Isaiah Thomas hit several big shots en route to 42 points Friday. But his career night also included a shot to Atlanta Hawks guard Dennis Schroder's head that could subject the Boston Celtics star to punishment from the NBA.
With 1:27 left in the first quarter of Boston's chippy 111-103 victory, Thomas and Schroder were hit with double technical fouls after jawing at each other.As the two were heading downcourt before the verbal exchange, Thomas could be seen throwing his left hand at Schroder's face.
Schroder said he couldn't believe Thomas was not called for anything right after that. After the game, Schroder told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that he spoke to a referee at halftime who "apologized. ... He said he didn't see it."
"I'm not going to let nobody slap me in my face," the backup Hawks point guard told the newspaper."I told him that. If you want to play like that, we'll play like that. I was mad."
Schroder also tweeted his surprise after the game then deleted the tweet.
"Woow... They calling a flagrant foul on me!" Schroder tweeted. "Where I try to protect myself!!! But Isaiah Thomas can hit me in my face!"
Schroder, who also was whistled for a flagrant foul 1 on Thomas with 8:36 left in the fourth, included a picture of Thomas' hand on his face in the tweet.
Thomas, who gave the Celtics their first victory of the postseason to cut the Hawks' lead in the series to 2-1, said he is not worried about a potential suspension or fine.
"I'm not," Thomas said. "Because I didn't mean to hit his head. He got mad. He was talking. It's playoff basketball. That's what it's about. I'm not going to back down from anybody, and he knows that."
The Hawks expect the NBA to review the play.
"I know that [Hawks coach Mike Budenholzer] read us a really long memo before the playoffs started, saying what would happen if you threw a punch," Hawks guard Kyle Korver said. "So I guess we will see what happens. I haven't seen a replay. I know Dennis said he got hit. I'm sure we will see and hear a lot about it in the next couple of days."
Game 3 was physical, with several Hawks and Celtics hitting the floor often. Three flagrant fouls and two technical fouls were whistled.
"Both teams were competing," Boston coach Brad Stevens said. "Sometimes, when you're competing, it gets physical. But I didn't think -- obviously the flagrants, I'll have to go back and look at them -- but obviously they were fouls where they got hit in the head. But I didn't feel like there was anything on either side that was over the line, from my impression when I was watching."
Thomas hit 12 of 24 shots, including 5 of 12 from beyond the 3-point line, and made 13 of 15 free throws to keep Boston in this series. Schroder, who came in as a game-time decision with a sore ankle, scored 20 points on 8-of-14 shooting. Game 4 is Sunday night in Boston.
"My thoughts are, the league will review it," Budenholzer said. "The league does a thorough job in all things like this. As far as an explanation, there wasn't an explanation. There was a double technical. There was no review of the incident in the backcourt by the free throw line."
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Brian Windhorst shares the four reasons it's likely Celtics point guard Isaiah Thomas is suspended for striking Dennis Schroder's head late in the first quarter of Game 3.
Tensions high between Thomas, Schroder
Celtics G Isaiah Thomas and Hawks G Dennis Schroder get into a heated altercation, where Thomas is apparently seen smacking Schroder in the head.
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'They exploited me': Olympic medallist defects from Iran
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Iran's sole female Olympic medalist, Kimia Alizadeh, has announced that she's permanently left her country for Europe. Credit: Getty
Iran's sole female Olympic medalist, Kimia Alizadeh, has announced that she's permanently left her country for Europe.
"Let me start with a greeting, a farewell or condolences," the 21-year-old wrote in an Instagram post explaining why she was defecting. "I am one of the millions of oppressed women in Iran who they have been playing with for years."
Alizadeh became the first Iranian woman to win an Olympic medal after claiming bronze in the 57kg category of Taekwondo at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
Affectionately known in Iran as "The Tsunami," Alizadeh announced she was leaving her birth country amid searing criticism of the regime in Tehran.
"They took me wherever they wanted. I wore whatever they said. Every sentence they ordered me to say, I repeated. Whenever they saw fit, they exploited me," she wrote, adding that credit for her success always went to those in charge.
"I wasn't important to them. None of us mattered to them, we were tools," Alizadeh added, explaining that while the regime celebrated her medals, it criticized the sport she had chosen: "The virtue of a woman is not to stretch her legs!"
Reports of her defection first surfaced Thursday, with some Iranians suggesting she had left for the Netherlands. It was unclear from her post what country Alizadeh had gone to.
On Friday the head of Iran's Taekwondo Federation, Seyed Mohammad Pouladgar, claimed Alizadeh had assured both her father and her coach that she was traveling as part of her vacation, a trip he claimed was paid for by the Iranian government. He dismissed the reports of Alizadeh's defection as politically motivated rumours amplified by the foreign media.
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Alizadeh confirmed the rumours Saturday, saying she "didn't want to sit at the table of hypocrisy, lies, injustice and flattery" and that she did not want to be complicit with the regime's "corruption and lies."
"My troubled spirit does not fit with your dirty economic ties and tight political lobbies. I wish for nothing else than for Taekwondo, safety and for a happy and healthy life, she said adding that she was not invited to go to Europe.
She said the decision was harder than winning Olympic gold. "I remain a daughter of Iran wherever I am," she said.
Kimia Alizadeh, a bronze medallist at the 2016 Rio Olympics, wrote on social media that she had left Iran after growing tired of being used as a propaganda tool.
Her defection came amid anti-government protests in cities across Iran Saturday and international pressure after Iran admitted it had accidentally shot down a Ukrainian passenger airliner, killing all 176 people aboard.
Canada, Sweden and other countries whose citizens died on the plane have increased demands on Tehran to deliver a complete and transparent investigation against the backdrop of fresh US sanctions on Iran and a dangerous escalation with Washington.
"Iran will continue to lose more strong women unless it learns to empower and support them," said US State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus about Alizadeh's defection.
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Akron Public Schools » News » Past Archived News - 2019 » Past Archived News - October 2019 » FirstEnergy Joins College & Career Academies
Kenmore-Garfield Has Partner in Education
Akron Public Schools (APS) Superintendent Dr. David James joined FirstEnergy President and CEO Charles Jones to announce that FirstEnergy will become a named integrated partner in the College and Career Academies of Akron at Kenmore-Garfield High School. FirstEnergy will offer instructional support and real-world learning opportunities in areas of business management, energy and environmental protection, information technology and more. The academy will be named the FirstEnergy Academy of Emerging Technology and Design.
"Students at Kenmore-Garfield are about to experience a new approach to learning that will create opportunities they may not have previously imagined," said James. "FirstEnergy has a wealth of expertise just waiting for our kids to mine."
"FirstEnergy is committed to the Akron area, and we are proud to take a leading role in both education and economic development," said Jones. "The College and Career Academy at Kenmore-Garfield High School is a tremendous opportunity to allow our company and our employees to contribute their expertise to help cultivate our future workforce."
"We're thrilled to partner with FirstEnergy," said Kathryn Rodocker, campus principal of Kenmore-Garfield High School. "The strengths of FirstEnergy align perfectly with the pathways in our emerging technology and design academy. Their willingness to share their time and talent will benefit both our students and teachers."
The collaboration between Akron Public Schools and FirstEnergy was formed with the help of United Way of Summit County. United Way serves as a link between the College and Career Academies of Akron and local businesses to provide hands-on learning opportunities for students and to strengthen the education-to-employment pipeline in Summit County.
"We want Akron's students to be able to imagine themselves doing something fulfilling in their careers," said Jim Mullen, president and CEO of United Way of Summit County. "In order for that to happen, United Way has been connecting local businesses with the College and Career Academies to create first-hand experiences for the students. This also gives businesses the opportunity to demonstrate to our future professionals the skills they will need to succeed in their workplace."
APS was designated a Ford Next Generation Learning Community in May 2017. Ford Motor Company Fund, the philanthropic arm of Ford Motor Company, is supporting the transformation of public high schools into career-themed academies to better prepare students for college and professional success in today's competitive global economy. College and Career Academies of Akron are supported by the following key strategic partners: GAR Foundation, United Way of Summit County, ConxusNEO, Summit Education Initiative, and Greater Akron Chamber of Commerce.
About Akron Public Schools:
Akron Public Schools (APS) enrolls more than 21,000 students and employs 3,000 teaching and non-teaching professionals in Northeastern Ohio. The district, one of the state's largest and most diverse, covers 62 square miles in a city of 195,000. APS educators are committed to rigorous teaching and learning, safe learning centers and community engagement to prepare young people to be well rounded and ready for the challenges of learning that follow in life. The goal of APS is to be the #1 urban school system in the United States. For more information about Akron Public Schools, visit AkronSchools.com.
About FirstEnergy:
FirstEnergy Corp. (NYSE: FE) is dedicated to safety, reliability and operational excellence. Its 10 electric distribution companies form one of the nation's largest investor-owned electric systems, serving customers in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, West Virginia, Maryland and New York. The company's transmission subsidiaries operate 24,500 miles of transmission lines that connect the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions. Follow FirstEnergy on Twitter @FirstEnergyCorp or online at firstenergycorp.com.
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United Way of Summit County takes on the issues that matter most to children and families in Greater Akron. We pursue Bold Goals through forward-thinking strategies, innovative programs and hands-on work in our community. We team up with private and public leaders, local businesses and thousands of volunteers from across our community to create change that matters. Together, we are hand raisers. Game changers. Because there's a better future in store for Greater Akron, and the time is now to make it happen. Learn more at uwsummit.org.
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JAY-Z & Roc Nation Partner With The NFL
posted by Lauren Crawford - Aug 13, 2019
JAY-Z is officially in business with the National Football League.
On Tuesday (August 13), the rapper/business mogul and his entertainment and sports company Roc Nation announced their multi-tiered partnership with the professional American football league. According to the New York Times, Roc Nation will serve as the football league's "live music entertainment strategist," meaning Roc Nation and Jay-Z will consult on entertainment, including the Super Bowl halftime show, the creation of podcasts, visual albums, other events and concerts.
"The N.F.L. has a great big platform, and it has to be all-inclusive," Jay told the NYT. "They were willing to do some things, to make some changes, that we can do some good."
There's no doubt that the NFL's decision to align with the 49-year-old entertainment power player was strategic, given the bad publicity it's faced over the years in regards to the national anthem protests, Colin Kaepernick's collusion case, and boycotts from both sides of the Kaepernick debate. Jay is among many, not only the entertainment industry, but also the United States who has criticized the league for his handling of NFL players' peaceful protests and its alleged blackballing of Kaepernick, which may explain why the new partnership also includes Jay and Roc Nation having great influence over Inspire Change, the NFL's social justice campaign.
"We don’t want people to come in and necessarily agree with us; we want people to come in and tell us what we can do better,” NFL commissioner Roger Goodell explained in an interview. "I think that’s a core element of our relationship between the two organizations, and with Jay and I personally."
According to the NYT, Inspire Change "donates money to groups fighting for criminal justice reform, opportunities in economically challenged areas and better relations between the police and local communities."
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Missions – southern traverse
A couple weeks ago I had a fantastic day stringing together East and West Saint Marys peaks, Lowary Peak, and rest of the Sonielem ridge. It was a beautiful bluebird day and my eyes naturally started to wander farther out to the Garden Wall and deeper north into the rest of the range. Somehow I’d only spent a couple of days in the Missions over the years of living in Missoula, and I had a strong urge to put together a bigger traverse through the range to really get a deeper experience in the place. So I mapped out a potential route with help from Brian Story, who has spent more time in the Missions than anyone I know. He keeps a good blog of his adventures, chock full of helpful info for folks like me interested in traveling through some of the same places.
My friend Justin Angle was game to join, and two friends of his — Jeremy Wolf and Patrick Murphy — decided to join in on the fun as well. I’d never spent any time in the mountains with either Jeremy or Patrick, but knew them both by reputation and knew we’d have a solid crew. It’s not often that schedules and interests line up for four people to band together on a more ambitious and technical day like this; it was a fun break to have the extra camaraderie, versus going solo like I usually end up doing.
Our route was to link together the major peaks in the southern portion of the Mission Mountains, staying as high as possible throughout. We planned to start at McDonald Lake, bushwhack up to the west ridge of Sheep’s Head (which some folks call West McDonald peak), then link to McDonald, Icefloe, Glacier, Mountaineer, Lowary, and East Saint Marys; dropping down the ESM trail to finish. It would be something like 20 miles (15 off trail), 12,000 feet of ascent, loads of fun scrambling up to class 3, and views for miles. I looked forward to this day more than anything I’d planned for a long time.
We left Missoula at 4:30a with everyone piled in my car. I love that quiet excitement that brews when you’re up early and driving out somewhere for a big day in the mountains. There’s something about that mix of the early morning, darkness, coffee, quiet conversation, and anticipation that just hits the right buttons.
We started jogging up the trail at 5:40a, moving well with high spirits. We stayed on trail for about 2.5 miles, then started the bushwhack south up the main drainage leading towards Sheep’s Head. We stayed on the west hillside and ridgeline rather than schwacking up the creek bottom. Don’t know if this is the most efficient route, but it worked well enough for us. Pretty manageable bushwhack, all in all, not too much alder or deadfall. We gained the west ridge of Sheep’s Head in three hours, and made it to the summit in another hour and a half by scrambling directly up the W ridge and at times leaving the ridge to scramble up the south face.
Rain clouds had been threatening from both the east and west all morning, and caught us about a half hour from the top of McDonald. Gusting wind and intermittently spitting rain made us work a bit harder for progress over the final push to the summit, and certainly made me realize how exponentially more difficult a day like this could be with even slightly bad weather. We topped out on McDonald and immediately found a sheltered spot in the rocks to hide from the wind and add layers. As we hit the summit another guy was kicking steps up the soft snow on the south face about a 100 feet from the top, though it was cold and windy enough that our only interaction was a smile and a simple “hey!” By the time he gained the top we had our layers on and were ready to get the hell out of there.
Patrick and I took the 1,500′ glissade down the south face pretty ambitiously. I almost spun out of control and had my ice ax ripped from my hands, and I’m sure he had a similar feeling. Justin and Jeremy played things a lot smarter and in control. We all got our money’s worth, that’s for sure.
We descended to the saddle between the drainage housing Icefloe lake and the Ashley Lakes drainage, then got into a good rhythm climbing Icefloe and Glacier peaks, jogging across the Garden Wall, and climbing Mountaineer. Jogging across the Garden Wall has to be one of the top five most scenic places I’ve ever ran…it is simply stunning.
The Garden Wall. Looking south towards Mountaineer (far left) and Lowary (right third of frame).
There’s a bit of route-finding necessary to keep things at class 3 or below through all this; we picked a route up the east face of Icefloe instead of trying our luck with its north ridge, and also we scrambled up Mountaineer’s west face rather than its NW ridge. The other route-finding through this section was all intuitive enough, and even these two sections “go” without too much trickery. Here and throughout the day we just kept going where we felt the weaknesses were and found a suitably class 3 line through everything just fine. Our key was taking the time to communicate things clearly between all four of us, discuss options, and make sure everyone was confident about each decision and section of scrambling. This extra emphasis on communication usually makes for slower movement than if you’re moving solo, but is absolutely essential for good group travel.
About 30 minutes after leaving Mountaineer the bad weather that had been threatening all day finally caught up to us. Unlike the brief bit of wind and rain that caught us on McDonald, it was for real this time. We dropped into a small depression in the ridgeline to refill water, and then suddenly a hefty, deep rumbling from just out of sight stopped us in our tracks. The ice ax strapped to my pack about three inches from my left ear started buzzing with static electricity, and Justin hollered out that his trekking poles were buzzing too. We didn’t have any great bail options, all we could do in a hurry was to drop about 200 feet directly off the side of ridge until we got cliffed out. We hunkered in between a spine of rock and another large chunk of rock, threw on whatever layers we had, and discussed our options. Lightning started striking on the ridge both in the direction we wanted to go and where we’d come from; we felt the safest option was to stay right where we were and let the storm blow over. It was a slow moving storm. We ended up sitting there for two hours before it was safe to move again.
Everyone but Justin was under-equipped. Patrick and I had forgotten any kind of space blanket or emergency bivvy. We both threw on rainpants and rainjackets over light mid-layer tops, but pretty much started to immediately shiver. Jeremy had a rainjacket but had forgotten pants. He wrapped his space blanket around his legs and fared about as well as Patrick and I. Justin shivered with us for about an hour, then crawled into his emergency bivy sack and was noticeably more comfortable than the rest of us. Never go into the mountains without at least an emergency space blanket, and preferably an emergency bivy sack. Be like Justin.
Misery loves company?
After the storm passed, things looked promising over the rest of our route to the north, so we decided to press on instead of bailing down to Lucifer lake. We got moving again on stiff joints, dropping down the rest of the scrambly ridge and contouring across a few lengthy snowfields. The storm had cleared the air of all particulates, and the evening light looked just as crystal-clear as can possibly be.
Still stiff and cold on the shaded side of the ridge after getting moving again.
Jeremy enjoying the sunshine and moving again after waiting out the storm. Picture is looking north.
The ridge took us to an unnamed peak east of Lowary that is separated from Lowary by a toothy, precipitous ridgeline. We took a cursory look, but it was clearly out of our league. So instead of descending directly west to Lowary, we had to circle back and descend down that peak’s southeast ridge in a series of scrambles and fun glissades. We were a couple hours behind schedule from having to wait out the storm, and between that and our mounting fatigue we decided to skip the last two peaks we’d planned on summiting: Lowary and ESM. So from the basin we put our heads down and soldiered across the basin below those peaks (the basin that drains into No Fish Lake and Dry Lake).
Crystal clear evening light on Grey Wolf
We gained the south standard approach ridge to ESM right at dusk, with the last red glow of the sunset filtering through lightning and tendrils of rain from the thunderstorms hovering over Saint Ignatius. It made for a memorable, surreal scene. More thunder and lightning hovered just south as well, threatening to throw yet another obstacle in our way. We hustled to get below treeline while the going was good.
The steep descent on the ESM trail always seems to take longer than it should, especially at the end of wall-to-wall day. We made it to the trailhead just before 11pm, wrung out after 17 hours on the move but with everything still functioning and in good spirits. Justin’s friend Ben Ferencz met us with chips and beer (hero points there) and shuttled us back to my car at Lake McDonald. From there we struggled through the hourlong drive back to Missoula. I was definitely afraid of falling asleep at the wheel, but luckily I was floating on enough of a high from the day that staying awake wasn’t too hard.
I dropped everyone off and made it back to my house a bit after 1am, a full 21 hours after starting the day. I felt pretty wrung out and physically fatigued, but that’s all to be expected and I just felt grateful to come out of a day like this with no acute injuries.
This was one of the last big days in the mountains this summer where I felt physically on top of my game. Everything was clicking here, mentally and physically. After the struggles with low back pain this spring it was incredibly gratifying to feel strong, to be able to move like I know I can. I’d love to go back and complete the full traverse that we’d planned, but with the back injury flaring up again about three weeks after this day the full traverse will probably have to wait until at least next summer.
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Saddiq Bey
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Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball
Villanova Wildcats men's basketball
Bey scores 33, leads No. 16 Villanova past Georgetown 80-66
By DAN GELSTONJanuary 11, 2020 GMT
Villanova's Collin Gillespie, right, tries to dribble past Georgetown's Jahvon Blair during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game, Saturday, Jan. 11, 2020, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Saddiq Bey was needed to score more to keep Villanova in the hunt to win as tough a Big East conference as it’s been in years.
Bey gave the Wildcats and coach Jay Wright a glimpse of just how effective he can be from long range.
Bey hit eight 3-pointers and scored a career-high 33 points to lead No. 16 Villanova to an 80-66 win over Georgetown on Saturday.
“I think every game we take the same approach,” Bey said. “Take shots when they’re there.”
Bey found them against the undermanned Hoyas. Bey, a 6-foot-8 sophomore forward, hadn’t been much of a 3-pointer shooter this season for the Wildcats (12-3, 3-1). He’d made only 21 and four of those came in a nonconference game against Ohio.
Bey shot just 3-for-10 overall in a win this week at Creighton, hardly a sign he was about to bust out with a career game against the Hoyas (11-6, 1-3).
“I know he improved his shooting but I didn’t think he was going to 8 for 10 from 3,” Georgetown coach Patrick Ewing said. “Sometimes when you hit your first few shots, the basket looks like an ocean.”
Consider, Bey sank only one 3-pointer when he scored his previous-best 27 points in December against Penn.
Left open, and determined to shoot, Bey had a day to remember. He carried the Wildcats early as they coasted toward their eighth win in nine games. Bey had seven 3s and was 9-for-12 overall from the floor when the Wildcats led 56-49; the rest of the team was a combined 9 of 30.
Bey was in Georgetown’s backyard as a four-star prospect at Washington’s Sidwell Friends. But he never had much interest in the Hoyas and originally signed with North Carolina State before he asked for a release from his letter-of-intent.
The Wildcats pounced, another shrewd pickup for Wright, saluted by the Wildcats on Saturday for his Associated Press men’s coach of the decade selection. Bey finished 10 of 15 from the floor and made five free throws.
“We’re spoiled here,” Wright said. “We’ve had really good teams and we know how far we are from being there. These guys have to put the time and the work in.”
Qudus Wahab led the Hoyas with 13 points. The Hoyas missed 11 of 16 3s.
The Wildcats averaged 7.3 3s a game and blew that number out of the stat sheet before most fans were settled in their seats. They made 10 3-pointers on their first 12 baskets and played with desire to push the ball inside. They one time they did, Jermaine Samuels converted a three-point play - of course, three points -- to send the Wildcats into the break up 39-36. Samuels’ free throw was the only one of the half for the Wildcats.
Ewing called a timeout just 30 seconds into the half after Jeremiah Robinson-Earl hit a jumper and Bey made a 3 that kept the Wildcats rolling. The Hoyas made early turnovers that kept them from making this one much of a game.
“I can’t say what I said to them,” Ewing said.
Georgetown: Ewing still has a long ahead of him to make the Hoyas winners, especially with four transfers during the season. “They were crying about minutes, time, touches,” Ewing said. “Now we’ve only got six or seven guys that are going to play. We can’t worry about who’s here, who’s not here. This is our team.”
Villanova: The Wildcats kept on winning to open a stretch of four straight home games.
“We have great upside; a lot of potential,” Wright said.
TIGHT D
Villanova held Georgetown to 41 percent shooting and just two 3s in the second after the Hoyas nearly shot 50 percent in the first to keep it close.
“We knew we were lacking a little bit on the defensive end, so we wanted to get stops right away,” Villanova guard Collin Gillespie said. “I think we did a pretty good job of communicating in the second half. Guys were a little confused in the first half.”
The Hoyas return home Wednesday to play Creighton.
Villanova hosts DePaul on Tuesday.
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A Select Collection of Original Scotish (sic) Airs, For the Voice. To each of which are added Introductory & Concluding Symphonies, & Accompanyments for the Piano Forte & Violin
Part of Records of The Royal Scottish Country Dance Society
By Pleyel & Kozeluch. Published by Printed & sold by Preston, At his Wholesale Warehouses
Musical Repository: a Collection of favourite Scotch, English and Irish Songs
GB GB 3410 RSCDS-8-1-297
The Scots musical museum in six volumes : consisting of six hundred Scots songs with proper basses for the piano forte &c. / humbly dedicated to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland by James Johnson. Vol VI
By James Johnson, 1839 edition. Published by William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh.
The Scots musical museum in six volumes : consisting of six hundred Scots songs with proper basses for the piano forte &c. / humbly dedicated to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland by James Johnson. Vol IV
The Scots musical museum in six volumes : consisting of six hundred Scots songs with proper basses for the piano forte &c. / humbly dedicated to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland by James Johnson. Vol V
The Scots musical museum in six volumes: consisting of six hundred Scots songs with proper basses for the piano forte &c. / humbly dedicated to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland by James Johnson. Vol I
The Scots musical museum in six volumes : consisting of six hundred Scots songs with proper basses for the piano forte &c. / humbly dedicated to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland by James Johnson. Vol II
The Scots musical museum in six volumes : consisting of six hundred Scots songs with proper basses for the piano forte &c. / humbly dedicated to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland by James Johnson. Vol III
The songs of Scotland adapted to their appropriate melodies / arranged with pianoforte accompaniments by G.F. Graham ... [et al.] and illustrated with historical biographical and critical notices by George Farquhar Graham, Vols I-III
By George Farquhar Graham. Published by Wood and Co. Edinburgh.
The songs of Scotland: a collection of one hundred and ninety songs.
By J Pittman and Colin Brown (editors), royal edition. Published by Boosey & Co. London.
The Vocal Melodies Of Scotland Arranged With Symphonies And Accompaniments For The Pianoforte
By Finlay Dun & John Thomson, Edward Rimbault Dibdin (editor) revised edition. Published by Paterson & Sons Edinburgh & Glasgow
Last Leaves of Traditional Ballads and Ballad Airs
By Gavin Greig (collected by) & Alexander Keith (editor). Published by The Buchan Club
Curwen Edition sheet music and songs
c. 1918 c.1940
Published by J Curwen & Sons
The Lyric Gems of Scotland
First Series. Published by John Cameron
The Scottish song book: for contralto: a collection of the favourite songs and ballads of the north arranged for voice with pianoforte accompaniments.
Published by Bayley & Ferguson, London
Lays and Lyrics of Scotland, arranged with new Symphonies and Accompaniments for the Pianoforte by John Fulcher. With a historical epitome of Scottish Song by James Ballantine
by John Fulcher ; with a historical epitome of Scottish song by James Ballantine ; and an appendix of notes historical, biographical and critical compiled by the publishers. Published by Swan & Pentland
Old Scottish Folk Songs Arranged as Vocal Trios for Female Voices
By Alfred Moffat (arranged by). Published by Paterson & Sons
Popular music of the olden time : a collection of ancient songs, ballads, and dance tunes, illustrative of the national music of England : with short introductions to the different reigns, and notices of the airs from writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries : also a short account of the minstrels, Vol II
By W Chappell and G.A. MacFarren. Published by Cramer, Beale & Chappell, London
Scottish Melodies arranged for the Organ or Harmonium
By Carl Heller. Published by C Jefferys
Some of Pat's Party Pieces
By Pat Batt (publisher)
More of Pat's Party Pieces
Skye Boat Song, From Songs of the North
Published by J. B. Cramer
Thomson's Collection of The Songs of Burns, Sir Walter Scott Bart. and other Eminent Lyric Poets Ancient & Modern ? Volumes I-III
By George Thomson. Published by Preston & G Thomson.Each volume has its own index
Thomson's Collection of The Songs of Burns, Sir Walter Scott Bart. and other Eminent Lyric Poets Ancient & Modern ? Volumes IV-VI
Popular music of the olden time : a collection of ancient songs, ballads, and dance tunes, illustrative of the national music of England : with short introductions to the different reigns, and notices of the airs from writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries : also a short account of the minstrels, Vol I
51 Beauties of Scottish Song
Published by Mozart Allan, Glasgow
Vocal Melodies of Scotland
The Auld House, A Scotch Ballad from The Lays of Strathean
By Caroline Baroness Nairne and Elizabeth Rainforth. Published by Paterson & Sons, Edinburgh
Pat's Party Pieces Vol. 5 - Over & Out
A select collection of original Scottish airs for the voice : with introductory and concluding symphonies & accompaniments for the piano forte, violin & violoncello : with select and characteristic verses both Scottish and English adapted to the airs, including upwards of one hundred new songs by Burns.
By Haydn. Published by T Preston
By Joseph Haydn, Ignaz Pleyel, Leopold Kozeluch, G Thomson (editor/seller). Published by T Preston, London.
Novello's Songs. Thirty-six Classical Songs by Various Composers, Vol II.
By W.G. McNaught (editor). Published by Novello & Company, London
Two Hundred and Twenty Popular Scottish Songs Words and Music (Tonic Sol-fa Notation)
Published by Mozart Allen
Pat's Party Pieces - Vol. 3
Vol. 4 - Pat's Final Fling?
50 Selected Songs of Burns staff
n.d. (bef.1971)
Scotland calling in 50 Scottish songs: staff sol fa and words for community singing.
The Collegiate Choir sheet music
Published by Bayley & Ferguson. Includes No. 151, 286, 288, 291, 404, 450, 451, 455, 466, 468
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Strickland: from robotics mentor to applied arts teacher
After years of pursuing engineering and an interest in robotics, Daniel Strickland turned to teaching applied arts and technology at Algonquin.
Rebecca Poretsky
Karthik Yalala, Staff Writer
New applied arts and technology teacher Dan Strickland is not only an enthusiastic teacher, but also is continuing his role as a mentor for the Algonquin Robotics Team 1100.
Before Strickland supervised the robotics team and taught in the classroom, he was an engineer.
“I was an engineer for a long time and then I transitioned into teaching after doing years of robotics,” Strickland said.
Transitioning from a middle school to a high school environment, Strickland said he enjoys teaching and working with students every day instead of once a week. Strickland worked in Melican Middle School last year as a technology education teacher.
“In Melican [Middle School] you only saw [the students] once a week and it’s very difficult to know all the students, but now that I see them every day it’s really good,” Strickland said.
Strickland believes that applied arts and technology department is useful because of the real world application and hands on experience.
“As an engineer, I see the benefit of doing things with your hands and understanding a little bit about applying some of the stuff you learn in class,” Strickland said.
Strickland became interested in teaching after hearing about his wife’s teaching experiences.
“My wife was working in the school system at Proctor Elementary School for a long time,” Strickland said. “Seeing or hearing her experiences helped me lean towards teaching and working with students.”
Strickland said he got into robotics through his son’s elementary school experiences.
“My son was in Lego robotics, which is the smaller thing for middle and elementary school, and then I actually found out about [team 1100] through a parent that was involved with it,” Strickland said. “I didn’t know much about it, but I just started to do it. Immediately, it was something that I was interested in.”
Senior Mohan John has been on the robotics team for four years and enjoys working with Strickland.
“I like the enthusiasm and energy he has for [robotics],” John said.
Strickland is looking forward to teaching classes and mentoring robotics this year. He said his transition is going smoothly and he looks forward to an exciting new school year.
Rebecca Poretsky, Photo Editor
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Day for Change evolves to create larger impact
US History I continues skill-based unleveled program after successful year
Student Council works to promote pep rally spirit
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Steep Hard-X-Ray Spectra Indicate Extremely High Accretion Rates in Weak Emission-line Quasars
Andrea Marlar, Ohad Shemmer, S. F. Anderson, W. N. Brandt, A. M. Diamond-Stanic, Xiaohui Fan, B. Luo, R. M. Plotkin, Gordon T. Richards, D. P. Schneider, Jianfeng Wu
We present XMM-Newton imaging spectroscopy of 10 weak emission-line quasars (WLQs) at , six of which are radio-quiet, and four that are radio-intermediate. The new X-ray data enabled us to measure the power-law photon index, at rest-frame energies >2 keV, in each source with relatively high accuracy. These measurements allowed us to confirm previous reports that WLQs have steeper X-ray spectra, suggesting higher accretion rates with respect to "typical" quasars. A comparison between the photon indices of our radio-quiet WLQs and those of a control sample of 85 sources shows that the first are significantly higher, at the 3σ level. Collectively, the four radio-intermediate WLQs have lower photon indices with respect to the six radio-quiet WLQs, as may be expected if the spectra of the first group are contaminated by X-ray emission from a jet. Therefore, in the absence of significant jet emission along our line of sight, these results are in agreement with the idea that WLQs constitute the extreme high end of the accretion-rate distribution in quasars. We detect soft excess emission in our lowest-redshift radio-quiet WLQ, in agreement with previous findings suggesting that the prominence of this feature is associated with a high accretion rate. We have not detected signatures of Compton reflection, Fe Kα lines, or strong variability between two X-ray epochs in any of our WLQs, which can be attributed to their relatively high luminosity.
https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aad812
K lines
XMM-Newton telescope
power law
time measurement
galaxies: active
galaxies: nuclei
quasars: emission lines
quasars: general
X-rays: galaxies
Marlar, A., Shemmer, O., Anderson, S. F., Brandt, W. N., Diamond-Stanic, A. M., Fan, X., ... Wu, J. (2018). Steep Hard-X-Ray Spectra Indicate Extremely High Accretion Rates in Weak Emission-line Quasars. Astrophysical Journal, 865(2), [92]. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aad812
Steep Hard-X-Ray Spectra Indicate Extremely High Accretion Rates in Weak Emission-line Quasars. / Marlar, Andrea; Shemmer, Ohad; Anderson, S. F.; Brandt, W. N.; Diamond-Stanic, A. M.; Fan, Xiaohui; Luo, B.; Plotkin, R. M.; Richards, Gordon T.; Schneider, D. P.; Wu, Jianfeng.
In: Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 865, No. 2, 92, 01.10.2018.
Marlar, A, Shemmer, O, Anderson, SF, Brandt, WN, Diamond-Stanic, AM, Fan, X, Luo, B, Plotkin, RM, Richards, GT, Schneider, DP & Wu, J 2018, 'Steep Hard-X-Ray Spectra Indicate Extremely High Accretion Rates in Weak Emission-line Quasars', Astrophysical Journal, vol. 865, no. 2, 92. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aad812
Marlar A, Shemmer O, Anderson SF, Brandt WN, Diamond-Stanic AM, Fan X et al. Steep Hard-X-Ray Spectra Indicate Extremely High Accretion Rates in Weak Emission-line Quasars. Astrophysical Journal. 2018 Oct 1;865(2). 92. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aad812
Marlar, Andrea ; Shemmer, Ohad ; Anderson, S. F. ; Brandt, W. N. ; Diamond-Stanic, A. M. ; Fan, Xiaohui ; Luo, B. ; Plotkin, R. M. ; Richards, Gordon T. ; Schneider, D. P. ; Wu, Jianfeng. / Steep Hard-X-Ray Spectra Indicate Extremely High Accretion Rates in Weak Emission-line Quasars. In: Astrophysical Journal. 2018 ; Vol. 865, No. 2.
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AU - Schneider, D. P.
AU - Wu, Jianfeng
N2 - We present XMM-Newton imaging spectroscopy of 10 weak emission-line quasars (WLQs) at , six of which are radio-quiet, and four that are radio-intermediate. The new X-ray data enabled us to measure the power-law photon index, at rest-frame energies >2 keV, in each source with relatively high accuracy. These measurements allowed us to confirm previous reports that WLQs have steeper X-ray spectra, suggesting higher accretion rates with respect to "typical" quasars. A comparison between the photon indices of our radio-quiet WLQs and those of a control sample of 85 sources shows that the first are significantly higher, at the 3σ level. Collectively, the four radio-intermediate WLQs have lower photon indices with respect to the six radio-quiet WLQs, as may be expected if the spectra of the first group are contaminated by X-ray emission from a jet. Therefore, in the absence of significant jet emission along our line of sight, these results are in agreement with the idea that WLQs constitute the extreme high end of the accretion-rate distribution in quasars. We detect soft excess emission in our lowest-redshift radio-quiet WLQ, in agreement with previous findings suggesting that the prominence of this feature is associated with a high accretion rate. We have not detected signatures of Compton reflection, Fe Kα lines, or strong variability between two X-ray epochs in any of our WLQs, which can be attributed to their relatively high luminosity.
AB - We present XMM-Newton imaging spectroscopy of 10 weak emission-line quasars (WLQs) at , six of which are radio-quiet, and four that are radio-intermediate. The new X-ray data enabled us to measure the power-law photon index, at rest-frame energies >2 keV, in each source with relatively high accuracy. These measurements allowed us to confirm previous reports that WLQs have steeper X-ray spectra, suggesting higher accretion rates with respect to "typical" quasars. A comparison between the photon indices of our radio-quiet WLQs and those of a control sample of 85 sources shows that the first are significantly higher, at the 3σ level. Collectively, the four radio-intermediate WLQs have lower photon indices with respect to the six radio-quiet WLQs, as may be expected if the spectra of the first group are contaminated by X-ray emission from a jet. Therefore, in the absence of significant jet emission along our line of sight, these results are in agreement with the idea that WLQs constitute the extreme high end of the accretion-rate distribution in quasars. We detect soft excess emission in our lowest-redshift radio-quiet WLQ, in agreement with previous findings suggesting that the prominence of this feature is associated with a high accretion rate. We have not detected signatures of Compton reflection, Fe Kα lines, or strong variability between two X-ray epochs in any of our WLQs, which can be attributed to their relatively high luminosity.
KW - galaxies: active
KW - galaxies: nuclei
KW - quasars: emission lines
KW - quasars: general
KW - X-rays: galaxies
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The Darwinian dynamic ( evolution).
H. Bernstein, H. C. Byerly, F. A. Hopf, Richard E Michod, G. K. Vemulapalli
The evolution of order in living systems and certain nonliving physical systems obeys a common fundamental principle, here called the Darwinian dynamic. Such ordered systems deviate greatly from the thermodynamic equiprobability rule. Specifically, the fitness of an RNA replicator (its per capita rate of increase) is shown to be a function of adaptive capacities which are intrinsic (in the sense that they are determined by the nucleotide sequence) and of the availability of resources.-from Authors
Quarterly Review of Biology
Bernstein, H., Byerly, H. C., Hopf, F. A., Michod, R. E., & Vemulapalli, G. K. (1983). The Darwinian dynamic ( evolution). Quarterly Review of Biology, 58(2), 185-207.
The Darwinian dynamic ( evolution). / Bernstein, H.; Byerly, H. C.; Hopf, F. A.; Michod, Richard E; Vemulapalli, G. K.
In: Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. 58, No. 2, 1983, p. 185-207.
Bernstein, H, Byerly, HC, Hopf, FA, Michod, RE & Vemulapalli, GK 1983, 'The Darwinian dynamic ( evolution).', Quarterly Review of Biology, vol. 58, no. 2, pp. 185-207.
Bernstein H, Byerly HC, Hopf FA, Michod RE, Vemulapalli GK. The Darwinian dynamic ( evolution). Quarterly Review of Biology. 1983;58(2):185-207.
Bernstein, H. ; Byerly, H. C. ; Hopf, F. A. ; Michod, Richard E ; Vemulapalli, G. K. / The Darwinian dynamic ( evolution). In: Quarterly Review of Biology. 1983 ; Vol. 58, No. 2. pp. 185-207.
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Review: Bill Guy/Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
June 29, 2009 at 11:58 pm by Art Editor
by Art Editor
June 29, 2009 June 29, 2009 Filed under:
On a quest to discover whether Chicago’s green spaces can “yield the same meaning, as say, Walden Pond did for Henry David Thoreau,” Bill Guy took off with his camera around the city shooting color photos of parks, beaches and swathes of grass alongside railroad tracks. To his credit, Guy did not abstract snippets of “nature” from the surroundings of “civilization,” but placed the former ruthlessly within their context of concrete and metal, producing images that might be scenes from Thoreau’s worst nightmares–snowboarders cavorting or sprawled on slushy hills, waders disporting themselves in the lake and amblers pressing their noses through chain-link fences to take in slices of unkempt vegetation squeezed by skyscrapers. Guy is guided by Thoreau’s dictum that “in wilderness is the salvation of the world.” It is up to the viewer to decide if Guy leaves any wilderness in the picture, and if the sights that we see every day beckon us toward salvation. (Michael Weinstein)
Through August 2 at Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, 2430 N. Cannon
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SHIFT (Your Perspective) at Esplanade’s da:ns festival 2018: A Sneak Peek in GIFs
Esplanade’s da:ns festival returns this year from 9 – 21 October. The 13-day celebration of movement features powerful performances from around the world, internationally acclaimed acts and exciting new works. Apart from ticketed performances, the festival offers free programmes, including mass dance sessions, workshops, and da:ns lab, the festival’s annual platform for critical discourse on dance.
One of the festival’s ticketed programmes is Shift, highlighting intriguing, sometimes unusual works that shift one’s ideas of the possibilities of choreography, and what dance can be.
Through the following series of dynamic and colourful GIFs, illustrator Jun Kit brings to life a visual preview of the four performances on show in the da:ns festival’s Shift programme.
Invisible Habitudes by T.H.E Dance Company
Esplanade Outdoor Theatre
11 October 8pm & 12 October 10:30pm
Tickets at $30, concessions available
Invisible Habitudes, a da:ns festival commission choreographed by T.H.E Artistic Director Kuik Swee Boon, expresses the individuality of each of its dancers, telling of real-life experiences, unravelling in each a unique and fluid identity comprised of memory, childhood, ethnicity, culture. The uniqueness of each dancer highlights the need for compassion and inclusivity as antidotes to absolutism and the relentless pursuit of one’s convictions at the expense of others.
The performance was created using T.H.E. Dance Company’s “hollow body” methodology, an improvisation-based approach that focuses on the relationship between the mind, body and heart, where the body is a hollow container that carries an individual’s world. Invisible Habitudes is the first full-length ticketed dance performance at Esplanade’s Outdoor Theatre. In tandem with the production’s themes, the open-air venue allows for interactions with the environment, connecting to the sounds and sights of the wider world. This production is part of T.H.E’s 10th anniversary celebrations.
xhe by Daniel Kok and Miho Shimizu (Singapore, Japan)
Esplanade Annexe Studio
12 October 7pm to 12mn & 14 October 2 to 7pm
Who is xhe? What is xhe? An octopus, an object, a pronoun? This durational, five-hour, multi-disciplinary work is an amalgam of visual installation, electronic music, and dance, that promises an immersive experience, as the viewer is provoked to ponder the many possibilities of what xhe could be. xhe manifests a kaleidoscopic space of imagination, daydream and play, with moving objects, syncretic sounds, uncanny forms and enchanting moments through which one may summon, discover or even become xhe. xhe is suitable for all age groups, and the audience is invited to enter at any point during the performance and is advised to experience xhe for at least 90 minutes.
Conceived by Daniel Kok and Miho Shimizu, xhe is created by an international ensemble of artists, including dance artist Karol Tymiński and electronic music duo Filastine and Nova.
Medium by Rianto (Indonesia)
Esplanade Theatre Studio
16 – 17 October 2018, 8pm
This virtuosic solo is a deeply personal self-portrait of the internationally renowned dancer, Rianto. Its vocabulary is a mix of folk ritual, traditional, and contemporary dance, in interplay with live Javanese singing and percussion by musician Cahwati.
Medium takes viewers on a journey to the roots of Indonesian traditional dance and music, exploring ritual, nature and spirituality with stark minimalism. Rianto’s body in this performance reveals itself a repository of movements from classical Javanese dance, the cross-gender dance lengger, and contemporary dance. Medium is Rianto’s universal call for freedom, for eschewing dogma and for embracing the contradictions, mysteries and layered diversity that is at the heart of Javanese tradition.
AH | HA by Lisbeth Gruwez, Voetvolk (Belgium)
Esplanade Theatre Studio, 19 – 20 October 2018, 8pm
What is the choreography of laughter?
Belgian choreographer Lisbeth Gruwez breaks down the intricacies of this involuntary reflex, exploring the diverse and sometimes paradoxical nuances of laughter: spontaneity and control, beauty and monstrosity, connection and isolation. A dance that leads its five performers “into hypersensitive and precarious spaces” (Paris Danse), this work probes existential questions with a sense of dark humour, as well as conceptual and technical finesse. AH | HA marks Gruwez’s long-awaited return to the da:ns festival after the success of her charismatic solo performance in festival’s 2013 edition.
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da:ns festival 2018 takes place from 9 – 21 October 2018.
This article is sponsored by Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay.
Guest Contributor Jun Kit is a graphic designer and illustrator based in Kuala Lumpur. He has an interest in independent publishing and editorial design, merging digital precision with analog sensibilities. He has contributed work to a range of projects within the realms of art and activism. Occasionally, he exhibits his drawings in galleries, the most recent one being “Heartbreak Hotel” at OUR ArtProjects, Kuala Lumpur. He runs “UGLY MALAYSIANA”, a zine and Instagram account celebrating third world aesthetics.
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Thread starter joe sod
Start date 6 Apr 2019
Betsy Og said:
I wonder can battery technology be applied -
Battery storage is still very expensive, and large scale storage is likely better grid connected rather tan localised to the consumer. Centrica recently obtained permission for a 100MW facility in Kilkenny. A more novel approach I've seen recently is re-purposing disused mine shafts. Very low response time, low complexity and long life span are big pluses. Combine Solutions like those will be required at grid scale to store surplus renewable energy and then release it to meet demand peaks.
Peanuts20
I wonder can battery technology be applied - i.e. the problem with electricity generation is that it must meet peak demand, but you cannot stop and start it with the flick of a switch (ironically enough). So as the generation continues through the night when low demand, could Amazon be charging its batteries?, and use them for the rest of the day or at least for peak 6-9pm? If so then while it'd consume a lot it might not necessarily require much more generation of electricity.
Trouble with these is that they are serving global customers, so peak demand on the data centre does not necessarily equate with peak demand on the National Grid. I always had an issue with the proposed Apple DC in Athenry, it was being sold to the public as some great technological revenue and job creator when in reality is was going to suck power whilst a security guard manned the gates and a dozen technicians made sure everything was working.
I know I started this off with a jokey comment but there is a bigger point to this in that there is far more to reversing climate change then eating fewer big macs and driving a hybrid.
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Betsy Og
Peanuts20 said:
Trouble with these is that they are serving global customers, so peak demand on the data centre does not necessarily equate with peak demand on the National Grid.
But sure that's a good thing, means that less that the time proportionate part of the 4% isn't hitting peak demand hours.
I would have thought the local nature of the issue would make it more feasible for battery type solutions - they have techies on the one site to manage it. Other storage solutions are the "pump water up the hill at night type", but they are definitely more grid than local.
joe sod
Purple said:
The average CO2 emission per passenger mile for aircrafts is actually about 50% lower than for cars. Source
Thats the thing about statistics they are misleading, if you drive a big diesel car 30 miles alone then yes for those 30 miles you have used more carbon than a passenger in an aircraft. However by taking a flight you would be travelling many miles possibly 1000s in a few hours therefore a huge carbon output. It would be many weeks before you would have driven enough to emit that same amount of carbon as that 2 hour flight.
Therefore there is no getting away from it ,flying is the worst thing in terms of carbon output, it has to be by simple logic, to put an aircraft weighing a 100 tons a km into the air and sending it a couple of thousand kms requires enormous amounts of energy. It needs brute force and only petroleum does that
I will now drive to work in an aircraft if they are so fuel efficient. Sorted.
Greta Thornburg left the US a week ago, she is in the middle of the Atlantic somewhere on a yacht, there is a lot of wind power in the Atlantic an awful lot still it will take a couple of weeks at best for her to get across, that more than anything shows you the extreme limitations of wind. Yet an aircraft will fly across it in 6 hours using petroleum and expending an awful lot of energy stored in that petroleum, that shows you more than anything the limitations of renewable energy and why we have yet to find a replacement for petroleum.
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joe sod said:
Crews for that yacht have actually been flown to get to where they need to be to rendezvous with the yacht. The whole thing is a stunt.
odyssey06 said:
Stop showing off.
Sure, but cycling or public transport can replace many commutes. Flying is the only real option when it comes to long distance travel.
The biggest problem with aircraft pollution is where it pollutes; in the upper atmosphere.
We aren't going to stop flying so the solution is electric passenger planes.
That could bring range anxiety to a whole new level!!!
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The right solution is enough battery to get you to space, sure once you're there one boost and away we go (no friction) - on re-entry tis flaps more than engines you need.
All jokes aside, the future might be the likes of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvRTC5ISYgQ Airships!!, yes yes they crash and burn, or is it burn and crash, but that was 80 years ago. They don't need lift, just propulsion. So they're a bit like a 'sky ferry', which means they probably could lift the battery weight needed to run them on electric. Yes it might be slower but something's gotta give. I'll check the link about to electric passenger planes but I have my doubts on whether the battery weight and getting all that grunt up in the air would make them viable.
I have my doubts on whether the battery weight and getting all that grunt up in the air would make them viable
I can't see the battery and engine/motor weight being heavier than the engine and fuel weight on a jet plane, even relative to power output. I'd say we are still 10-15 years away from the engineering capability and 20 years at least away from the regulatory approval and commercialisation of electric powered planes replacing jets but they are coming. In the meantime it is worth remembering that modern aircraft are 80% more fuel efficient than those from the 1960's and new innovations such as the Double Bubble D8 design should see a further reduction of over 60% from current levels in the next 20 years.
That article about electric passenger planes is a bit light on detail, how long does it take to recharge? Ryanairs 20 min turnaround in doubt, maybe you click off the old battery and on the new??
Another key factor in this debate (and a controversial one at that!) concerns the growth in population. There are twice as many people living today across the world compared to 1970. Not to get too Malthusian about it, but surely there's just too many of us?
https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/#growthrate
Firefly said:
Malthuse has been shown to be wrong (many rich countries have declining populations if you exclude immigration) and the world population is forecasted to peek at around 11 billion in the early 22nd century.
That's 50% more people going their thang than today though!
Yes but maybe he will be proven right in this era of globalisation and mass communication, the speed of population growth in the developing world is far higher than the decline in the western world. So far advancements in technology result in increased use of resources. If advancement in technology was resulting in reduced resource exploitation then I would be in agreement. We in Ireland today use far more resources per capita than we did in the 1980s, nobody then was flying to Europe for stag and hen parties, drinking bottled water and buying disposable coffee. the cars today, even if they are electric are far more resource intensive than the cars of the 1980s, they are bigger , heavier, with far more plastic, metals and rare earth metals.
Wow, 11 Billion!, could yez all calm down on the ridin, there's a planet at stake here !! Also, with those numbers we'll need lots of farming, lots of food production.
elacsaplau said:
1. Do you believe climate change is happening?
2. If so, what do you think are the causes?
3. Do you think it is necessary to do something about it?
4. What are your solutions?
1. Yes
2. Excessive burning of fossil fuels
For China to stop burning vast amounts of coal.
1 800 km Menghua coal railway opens
Photo: Xinhua/DW News The north-south Menghua coal corridor opened on September 28. CHINA: The 1 813 km Menghua heavy haul coal railway opened to traffic on September 28 when an inaugural train left Haolebaoji at the northern end of the line. Now renamed in Chinese as the ...
www.railwaygazette.com
Climate clarity
The carbon elephant in the room: ( Data from EIA )
johnhcochrane.blogspot.com
There's already 7.7 billion of us so we are just passed that stage.
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Amazon and WB discussing new LORD OF THE RINGS TV series
By Werthead, November 4, 2017 in Entertainment
williamjm
Location:Cambridge, UK
4 hours ago, Corvinus said:
"Keeping up with the Tolkiens"
Or "Look Who's Tolkien"?
21 minutes ago, Manhole Eunuchsbane said:
I believe WE HAVE WINNAH!
I like "Mid-Shire Murders" as the Tolkien murder-mystery title, but that works too.
Manhole Eunuchsbane
King of Dipshittery
16 minutes ago, williamjm said:
That's pretty schweet.
If you're going with a mystery it has to be Mordor as the murder analog.
Durckad
Opi-YUM!
Location:The Knickerbocker
Law & Mordor: Shelob's Victims Unit
A group of Orcs are tasked with identifying the remains of the various interlopers killed and eaten by Shelob. Hilarity and amputations ensue.
Фейсал
Sellsword
I literally have no idea what this could be or how they could make it work. Anything that pulls on the Silm will quite simply be a mess and a major pain to adapt - the closest thing to a self contained story they could work with is the Children of Hurin or the Fall of Gondolin and even those draw heavily on other works.
The Marquis de Leech
Blood-sucking Aristocrat
Location:Dunedin, New Zealand
http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2017/11/15/104426-in-historic-move-christopher-tolkien-resigns-as-director-of-tolkien-estate/
This clarifies a fair bit. If the TV rights were never sold back when the movie rights were, that explains the involvement of the Estate, rather than Middle-earth Enterprises. Christopher leaving explains the Estate signing off on it.
My initial interpretation was that we were looking at something from the First or Second Age - stuff that the Estate had previously been keeping under lock and key. However, with this new information, it looks much more fanficcy, and much less Silmarillion.
4 minutes ago, Фейсал said:
Someone drew up this years ago, before this was even considered possible, much less likely:
https://silmarillionseries.com/
I also wrote something that envisaged The Silmarillion as a five part movie series:
https://phuulishfellow.wordpress.com/2017/07/19/how-to-adapt-the-silmarillion/
Just You Shut Your Mouth
Location:Long Beach, CA
I like the ideas so far, particularly Law & Mordor (RIP Jerry Orbach, you will never be forgotten), but I was envisioning something more along the lines of Dallas, but you know, with Tolkiens.
57 minutes ago, Durckad said:
I would watch the living fuck out of this show.
I’d only watch if they got S. Epatha Merkerson to play the orc commander. Fuck Dann Florek.
ETA: While I’d prefer Sam Waterston as Mordor’s Executive ADA, I’d be fine with Michael Moriarty as well.
Edited November 16, 2017 by Myshkin
1 minute ago, Myshkin said:
That would be amazing. Ice T has to be involved as well.
The Bard of Banefort
Will I watch this? Most likely. Am I happy that it exists in the first place? Hell no.
Then again, I loved the Hobbit trilogy, so it appears that I'm easier to please than the average LotR fan.
1 hour ago, Roose Boltons Pet Leech said:
It's doable, I guess, but not necessarily optimal. Unless you condense it on a massive scale, in which case it kind of loses it's luster in the first place - The Silm functions more as a sort of Middle Earth documentary/history book than a fluid, structured narrative. So many characters and places and things happening all at once it's ridiculous. That and the sheer magnitude and scale of some the events that happen in the story - along with things like the Silmarils being unadaptable by nature would make for a very complicated, rocky read ahead for the poor sod who theoretically helms this production.
11 minutes ago, The Bard of Banefort said:
Hahah glad i'm not alone. I even liked the third one.
It's pointless we're doomed, thoroughly doomed, utterly doomed
On 14/11/2017 at 5:19 PM, fionwe1987 said:
I think they'd do far better to mine the fall of Numenor, the making of the Rings, the politics between Celebrimbor, Galadriel, Sauron and Gil Galad, Moria's fall, the establishment of Arnor and Gondor, all leading to the fall of Sauron, and ending with Isildur's death and the loss of the Ring.
Yes, I really like the sound of that. Maybe a new generation of Numenoreans each season, with Sauron and the elves staying constant throughout the series.
Eggegg
3 minutes ago, felice said:
Yeah that does sound really interesting. I do wonder about the tone of a show like this however, how you could make something like that work for a general audience.
Werthead
Social Justice Robot from the Future
Location:Colchester, Essex, United Kingdom
15 hours ago, Myshkin said:
New idea: Amazon show about the Tolkien family.
There's actually a movie being made about Tolkien's real life story. Although it's about him, not his kids' legal shenanigans
I do wonder about the tone of a show like this however, how you could make something like that work for a general audience.
I do think Amazon have a problem here in that Middle-earth is, with the exception of the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings storylines, profoundly noncommercial. That's why they're mining the LotR period rather than going back to the Second and First Ages. My experience of trying to get people who like the films to read The Silmarillion or the bits of Unfinished Tales that aren't about the Bilbo Era is that the Hobbits are a key part of the appeal of the stories, not Sauron, the elves or brutal Warhammer-esque total war (which is really what The Silmarillion is deep diving into).
3 minutes ago, Werthead said:
I'll admit I've tried a number of times to read Silmarillion but its an incredibly difficult book to get into or enjoy and I had to simply give up each time. There are surely a number of great stories in there, but it would be an enormous task to flesh them out making them palatable to your average viewer, without ruining what was so liked about them in the first place. LOTR and Hobbit were much easier jobs.
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4 hours ago, Werthead said:
I disagree. I think the difficulty with The Silmarillion is a combination of the early parts putting people off (the Ainulindale is beautiful, but not light reading), and the archaic prose style. If you look past that, the thing has commercial possibilities - Beren and Luthien being the obvious one.
15 hours ago, Фейсал said:
Most people that I know who haven't read the books liked those movies. It only seems to be the Tolkien purists that have such a strong loathing for them. I never read LotR, but I did read The Hobbit after seeing the first movie, and tonally, it wasn't that different to me. They didn't really cut anything, they just added subplots.
The Hobbit trilogy certainly isn't Star Wars prequel levels of awfulness, and the four-hour supercut of the movies is pretty robust. A lot of the new additions work well, like Tauriel, and the Dol Guldur stuff is okay but a bit overblown. Expanding Bard as a character and doing more stuff in Laketown is also fine (but Alfrid is a meh character who eats up far too much screentime). The major problems I'd say are the elimination of almost all location shooting in favour of plasticky, blatant and weak CGI, way too much "Legolas doing awesome shit", the insane run to Mount Gundabad and back in the last film (which is the stupidest thing I've ever seen in my entire life) and the dwarves-vs.-Smaug fight which is completely pointless and implausible and goes on for far too long.
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Azizi Developments records sales of AED 1.3bn at Cityscape Global 2017
Dubai, UAE; 14 September 2017: Azizi Developments, a fast growing real estate developer operating in the UAE for over a decade, has announced that it has recorded sales of AED1.3billion over the Cityscape Global 2017 held between Sep 11 and 13 in Dubai. This has been the most successful edition of the event for Azizi Developments till date.
On day one of Cityscape itself, the entire phase one and 50 per cent of the inventory of phase two of the AED12bn waterfront project Azizi Riviera was sold out.
Inspired by the French Riviera, Azizi Riviera is collectively made up of 69 mid-rise residential buildings of 13,000 units of studio, one-bedroom and two-bedroom apartments, a mega integrated retail district and a four and a five-star hotel. Located in the prestigious Meydan One district, the project commenced construction in July this year with the completion of phase one and two scheduled for the second half of 2018.
Azizi Developments has also witnessed successful sales across a number of its other projects at Cityscape 2017, including Farhad Azizi Residences in Dubai Healthcare City, Azizi Mina serviced apartments on The Palm Jumeirah and residential developments at Al Furjan. The total value of all projects showcased at Cityscape 2017 amounted to approximately AED20billion.
Farhad Azizi, CEO of Azizi Developments, said: “Cityscape 2017 proved to be an excellent platform for us and we are delighted with our performance at the exhibition. The fact that we were one of the busiest stands shows the insatiable appetite of buyers and investors for quality real estate projects which we are committed to deliver. The visit by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum made it even more special for us.”
He added, “Thanks to the vision of His Highness, Dubai has grown to become an attractive destination for developers, home buyers and investors. Azizi Developments is committed to contributing to the realisation of this vision of developing Dubai by delivering world class unique community lifestyle projects to buyers and investors.”
A recent study released by Cityscape Global and a YouGov Survey stated that the UAE has retained its position as the most desirable country for GCC real estate investment in the Middle East.
Azizi Developments has been conceptualising and developing new projects across the city to drive this demand from GCC investors and individual buyers, especially ahead of Expo 2020.
The Azizi Riviera has been Azizi Developments’ most ambitious development till date. Following its success at Cityscape Global 2017, the developer said it would announce two new mega developments at Meydan One in the last quarter of this year. The projects will be four times the size and value of the Azizi Riviera.
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The Canadian financial institution Desjardins was the victim of an insider threat resulting in the data of 2.9 million customers being exposed, including crucial personal and business information.
The Montreal-based credit union was told by the Laval Police Department the information of 2.7 million individual customers, along with 173,000 business clients had been leaked. An investigation found the breach to be the work of an employee, the company said in a statement.
“This incident was not a cyber attack. Desjardins computer systems were in no way breached during this incident, which was the result of illegal acts committed by the above-mentioned former employee,” the company said.
The employee in question has been fired and arrested by the Laval police, CBC News reported.
The consumer data leaked included first and last name, date of birth, social insurance number, address, phone number, email address and details about their banking habits and Desjardins products. Passwords, security questions, and PINs were not compromised.
Business customers had their names, addresses, telephone numbers, and the names of owners and AccèsD Affaires account users. Some information about owners or AccèsD Affaires users may have also been affected. If that is the case, these people will receive a letter informing them of the situation, the company said.
The company has not said what position the insider threat held, the reason behind the release or exactly where the information was found by the police.
The company did first become aware that something was amiss in December 2018 when it spotted a suspicious transaction and then the full extent of the damage was deciphered over the intervening months. The employee was identified and suspended at which point the data leak ended, CBC reported.
Ilia Kolochenko, ImmuniWeb’s founder and CEO, said one issue is enabling a single person to have too much access.
“When just one employee, reportedly acting without acolytes, has uncontrollable access to such a huge amount of confidential data and even manages to take it away, there is a reason to believe that some of the internal security controls are broken. Human factor remains the largest and probably the most dangerous risk that cannot be fully remediated. Most companies considerably underestimate human risk and then face disastrous consequences,” Kolochenko said.
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Niger Loses 17 Soldiers in Ambush Near Mali Border
A government spokesman in Niger says at least 17 Nigerien soldiers were killed and another 11 are missing after an ambush by unknown attackers Tuesday. The attack took place near the village of Tongo Tongo in western Niger. It is in the Tillaberi region where attackers killed four U.S. special forces troops and four Nigerien soldiers in 2017. A security source told the French news agency that Tuesday’s ambush is believed to be a terrorist attack. A group affiliated with Islamic State took credit for the 2017 attack. The area where Nigeria, Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso come together is the scene of frequent militant activity. The Boko Haram group and a splinter group from Islamic State are headquartered in Nigeria and conduct cross-border attacks. VOA
Death Toll from Niger Ambush Rises as Bodies of Missing Soldiers Found
The bodies of 11 missing Nigerien soldiers have been discovered after an ambush by armed men killed 17 of their colleagues on patrol near the Mali border, security sources said. “We have confirmation that the dead bodies of the eleven missing soldiers have been found, bringing the death toll to 28,” a source said late Wednesday. The military patrol was ambushed on Tuesday near the village of Tongo Tongo in the western Tillaberi region, sources said. One of the military vehicles had set off an explosive device. A source referred to what happened as a “terrorist attack”. Several troops were also injured and evacuated to the capital Niamey, a different source told AFP. According to the news site Actuniger, a patrol of 52 Nigerien soldiers happened upon a group of heavily armed men at Baley Beri, near Tongo Tongo. Heavy fighting ensued, lasting more than two hours. AFP
Sudan Crisis: Talks Stall as Military Demands Barricades Removed
Talks on moving Sudan towards civilian rule have been suspended for three days by the country’s military leaders, who demand protesters clear roadblocks. In a televised statement, the Transitional Military Council (TMC) said barricades outside a designated zone in Khartoum should be removed. The setback comes hours after the TMC and the opposition agreed a three-year transition period to civilian rule. Shots were fired on Wednesday as soldiers tried to clear barricades. Protesters in Khartoum said at least nine people were wounded, but that figure could not be verified. Similar violence on Monday left at least six people dead and protesters say those responsible must be held to account. BBC
Sudan’s Junta Declines to Scrap Death Sentences on SPLM-N’s Agar and Arman
Sudan’s military council has declined to cancel death sentences for two leaders of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) jeopardizing rebels’ plans to return to Sudan after the collapse of al-Bashir’s regime. Last month, SPLM-N led by Malik Agar decided to dispatch a delegation headed by its deputy-chairman Yasir Arman to Khartoum. The group said that the delegation will meet with its freedom and change allies and the Military Council to insist that the issues of war should be resolved in one package within the transitional arrangements. According to reliable sources, the leadership of the military council has received contacts from regional leaders urging it to drop the death sentence against the Movement’s leaders and that Arman’s return to Khartoum would strengthen efforts to bring peace to Sudan during the interim period. Sudan Tribune
Tanzania Was East Africa’s Strongest Democracy. Then Came ‘The Bulldozer.’
John Magufuli began shaking things up on his first full day in office. On November 6, 2015, the newly elected president walked unannounced into Tanzania’s Ministry of Finance, peering into empty offices and interrogating frightened staff—letting it be known that a government long characterized by laxity was in for a major change. He later canceled independence day celebrations and redirected the funding to fight cholera, purged more than 10,000 so-called ghost workers from the public-sector payroll, and initiated a crackdown on corruption and underperformance that saw numerous senior officials sacked, some following scoldings on live television. Africa took notice: Twitter users across the continent adopted the hashtag #WhatWouldMagufuliDo to speculate how he might clean up their own governments. Ten months into his first term, polling by Twaweza, a regional civil-society group, found that 96 percent of Tanzanians approved of his performance. The Atlantic
South Africa’s Ramaphosa Says to Speed up Economic Reforms, Fix Eskom
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Wednesday that he would use a new five-year term to speed up economic reforms and fix ailing state power firm Eskom, a week after his African National Congress party was re-elected with a reduced majority. Analysts have said reforms like cutting red tape and overhauling Eskom should be post-election priorities for the ANC, after a decade of slow growth and rising joblessness in Africa’s most advanced economy. “We are in an economy that has not been growing … in an appreciable way. That troubles us,” Ramaphosa told investors at a conference in Johannesburg, acknowledging that South Africa’s regulatory framework had discouraged investment. Reuters
UN Steps up Measures to Combat Ebola at South Sudan-Congo Border
The United Nations is stepping up measures to fight Ebola in South Sudan in case an outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo spills over the border. The UN, the World Health Organization and South Sudan’s Health Ministry are training medical staff and have moved equipment to centers near the border to screen people, UN head of mission David Shearer told reporters Wednesday in the capital, Juba. The hemorrhagic virus has killed at least 751 people in Congo. If it comes across the border, we have measures to deal with it, Shearer said. There is, however, concern that insecurity near the border will complicate efforts to fight the disease, he said. Bloomberg
Eritrea Blocks Social Media, Reportedly to Curb Planned Protests
Eritreans are unable to access social media networks as at today (May 15), the BBC’s Tigrinya Service reports. People have thus been forced to turn to Virtual Private Networks, VPN, to exchange messages. In Eritrea, the internet cannot be accessed via mobile phones, the report added. The government is said to have taken the measure to avert an intended protest as the country gears up for its 26th Independence Day celebrations on May 24. Asmara has yet to officially respond to the development. Communication like media is strictly under government control in the country considered to be a one-party state. Africa News
Feud between Rwanda, Uganda Strongmen Takes Toll
The people living on either side of the Ugandan-Rwandan border at Katuna never much considered the boundary: children crossed for school, workers moved freely and trade thrived. That harmony evaporated in February when Rwanda abruptly closed the crossing, with queues of cargo trucks and thronging merchants turned back as soldiers from both armies marshalled along the forest-clad border. The blockade is a result of the worsening animosity between Rwanda’s Paul Kagame and Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni, once close allies who backed each other into power, but whose relationship has turned deeply hostile. The distrust between the presidents has burst into the open in recent months, with the pair trading accusations of espionage, political assassinations and meddling in each other’s backyards. AFP
‘Go and We Die, Stay and We Starve’: The Ethiopians Facing a Deadly Dilemma
Last week, a car rolled through the town of Gedeb in southern Ethiopia, flanked by federal police. A local official made an announcement to roughly 150,000 people who, displaced from their homes, have sought sanctuary in makeshift camps in the town and across the surrounding farmland. In two days’ time, they were told through a loudspeaker, their shelters – mostly built of firewood, banana leaves and the odd tarpaulin sheet – would be demolished. Food aid, medical treatment and other humanitarian assistance would soon stop. The announcement marked the start of the Ethiopian government’s latest effort to bring an end to a displacement crisis caused by ethnic violence that last year left about 2.9 million people homeless, according to new estimates. The figure, the highest recorded anywhere in the world, seriously mars the record of Abiy Ahmed, the reformist prime minister who took office in April 2018. The Guardian
Foreign Military Activity Increasing in the Horn of Africa
The presence of foreign militaries in the Horn of Africa is increasing, with a wide variety of international security actors—from Europe, the United States, the Middle East, the Gulf, and Asia— currently operating in the region. This is profoundly changing the region’s external security environment, new research finds. A new report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) entitled The Foreign Military Presence in the Horn of Africa Region states that the Horn has experienced a proliferation of foreign military bases and a build-up of naval forces. This presents major challenges for existing African and Horn regional security structures, which are poorly adapted to the new external security politics of the region. It raises the prospect of proxy struggles, growing geopolitical tensions and a further extension of externally driven security agendas in the region. DefenseWeb
Malawi President Dissolves Cabinet Ahead of Polls
Malawi President Peter Mutharika dissolved the country’s 20-member Cabinet on Wednesday, ahead of May 22 elections. A statement by Chief Secretary to Government Lloyd Muhara said until the appointment of a new Cabinet, all ministerial powers, functions and responsibilities will be exercise by Mutharika. “All queries or matters should be directed to the Office of the President and Cabinet,” Muhara said. The dissolution is in line with the Constitution which mandates the president dissolve the Cabinet at any time of his choosing, including during elections, a political analyst at University of Malawi, Mustaf Hussein told Anadolu Agency. “It is expected that the Cabinet be dissolved at this time as we head to the polls to avoid ministers using state resources for campaigning,” he said. Anadolu Agency
Algeria Presidential Elections Heading towards Dead End
Algeria is witnessing what seems to be a state of political blockage due to the authorities’ commitment to organising the presidential elections on 4 July and the rejection of the popular movement and the opposition of any voting under the supervision of symbolic figures of Bouteflika’s regime. At the same time, experts believe that there are ways out of this impasse, and the statement of the Army Command will be the decisive factor. Last week, Abdelkader Bensalah, President of the Council of the Nation, called on political actors in the country to conduct a “clever and constructive” dialogue to agree on conditions that would ensure the integrity of the presidential election, according to Anadolu Agency. Middle East Monitor
Senegal’s Macky Sall Signs Decree Scrapping Post of Prime Minister
Senegalese president, Macky Sall on Tuesday signed a decree that officially abolished the post of Prime Minister. “The President of the Republic today promulgated the constitutional law abolishing the post of Prime Minister”, adopted on May 4 by a very large majority of deputies, says a government statement. The scrapping of the prime minister’s post was initiated by the president at the start of his second term mandate in April which has proven very divisive. on May 4 , Senegalese parliamentarians approved a constitutional reform which called for the abolition of the post of Prime Minister. 124 mps voted in favour of the reform with only seven against while, 7 others abstained. Africa News
Be Patient, Urges Zim Finance Minister as Inflation Continues to Climb
Arresting inflation has proven to be an impossible task for Zimbabwe’s finance minister, professor Mthuli Ncube. He says he needs another year to yield positive results. Ncube, the former chief economist and vice-president of the African Development Bank and a professor at the University of Oxford in the UK, took up the finance hot seat in President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s cabinet in August last year. He vowed to turn the country’s fortunes around within half a year. “If you give me six months, you will see changes, significant changes,” he said at the time. With those six months elapsed, however, there is no sign of inflation slowing down. Times Live
Army Puts Backers Off Multibillion-Dollar Zimbabwe Platinum Mine
A plan to build Zimbabwe’s biggest platinum mine at a cost of about $4 billion is floundering because a military stake in the project has deterred potential backers, according to people familiar with the funding discussions. The African Export-Import Bank has the mandate to raise money for the mine, a joint venture between Russian and Zimbabwean investors. While the bank provided $192 million of its own funds, meetings in the past year with investors including South Africa’s Public Investment Corp., the continents biggest fund manager, failed to bring additional commitments, one of the people said, asking not to be identified because the talks are private. Zimbabwe has the world’s third-largest reserves of platinum, palladium and related metals such as rhodium — which typically occur together — after South Africa and Russia. President Emmerson Mnangagwa is trying to lure investment to the country to help rebuild the economy, devastated during the 37-year rule of Robert Mugabe. Bloomberg
Zimbabwe’s White Farmers: Who Will Pay Compensation?
In Zimbabwe, thousands of white farmers were forced from their farms, sometimes violently, between 2000 and 2001 under a government programme of land reform. The seizures were blamed for destroying Zimbabwe’s economy, and ruined relations with the West. A new plan to compensate the farmers could restore donor confidence but it has divided the country, as the BBC’s Shingai Nyoka reports. The rolling hills beyond the rich farmland remind Dave Wakefield of what he lost. He points out a distinct bald hilltop among them and laughs, “bald like me”. It is part of the Chaddesley Estate, which used to be his 2,000-hectare property. He bought it in 1980 after the government of newly independent Zimbabwe relocated him from another piece of land, which his family had farmed for generations. He purchased Chaddesley with compensation money and a bank loan. BBC
New HIV Map Offers Most Detailed Look Yet At The Epidemic
The United Nations has set a goal of ending the global HIV/AIDS epidemic by 2030. The tide is slowly turning in southeastern Africa — which encompasses countries like South Africa, Mozambique, Lesotho and Botswana — and which remains the epicenter of the epidemic and home to more than half the 36.9 million people living with the disease. The rates of deaths and infections there are declining overall. But a July 2018 report from the United Nations’ AIDS agency found a $5.4 billion shortfall in global funding needed to achieve final victory. A first-of-its-kind new map may help increase the precision of the HIV/AIDS response as some data-savvy researchers narrow their focus on the continent’s worst-affected areas — to the size of a small town. A study published Wednesday presents what these researchers describe as the most detailed map ever produced of HIV prevalence across sub-Saharan Africa. The team behind the map is an international consortium of epidemiologists led by the University of Washington-Seattle’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. Their work appears in the peer-reviewed journal Nature. NPR
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Here's Exactly the News Donald Trump Sees When He's on Twitter
The Washington Post created a Twitter account that automatically retweets all the tweets from the people whom President Donald Trump follows.
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Here’s a claim that seems rock solid in the “post-truth” era: People are conceptualizing reality in wildly different ways, especially since the election of President Donald Trump.
Part of the blame can be placed on “filter bubbles,” which form when website algorithms analyze a person's searches and personal information to deliver them news stories on which they’re likely to click—stories that affirm their existing beliefs. The result is a personalized media landscape that's ideologically homogenous.
“(Technologies such as social media) lets you go off with like-minded people, so you're not mixing and sharing and understanding other points of view,” Bill Gates said to Quartz in 2017. “It's super important. It's turned out to be more of a problem than I, or many others, would have expected.”
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg echoed this sentiment, calling filter bubbles one of the company’s two “most discussed concerns” of 2016, in addition to inaccurate news stories.
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As it becomes clearer how filter bubbles are coloring our interpretations of people, events and ideas, an obvious question arises for America's first “Twitter President”: What does Trump’s filter bubble look like?
@trumps_feed, a Twitter account created by the Washington Post, provides a glimpse. The account retweets all the tweets sent out by people whom Trump follows, effectively replicating what he sees when he uses the app. See for yourself below:
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As of August 2017, these are the accounts which Trump follows on Twitter:
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1 March 2013 Post-spawning dispersal of tributary spawning fish species to a reservoir system
Milan Říha, Milan Hladík, Tomáš Mrkvička, Marie Prchalová, Martin Čech, Vladislav Draštík, Jaroslava Frouzová, Tomáš Jůza, Michal Kratochvíl, Jiří Peterka, Mojmír Vašek, Jan Kubečka
Milan Říha,1,2 Milan Hladík,1,3 Tomáš Mrkvička,1,4 Marie Prchalová,1 Martin Čech,1 Vladislav Draštík,1 Jaroslava Frouzová,1 Tomáš Jůza,1 Michal Kratochvíl,1 Jiří Peterka,1 Mojmír Vašek,1 Jan Kubečka1
1Biology Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, v.v.i., Institute of Hydrobiology, Na Sádkách 7, 370 05 České Budějovice, Czech Republic; e-mail: riha.milan@centrum.cz
2University of South Bohemia, Faculty of Science, Branišovská 31, 370 05 České Budějovice, Czech Republic
3Water-management Development and Construction Ltd., Nábřežní 4, 150 56 Praha 5, Czech Republic
4University of South Bohemia, Faculty of Economics, Studentská 13, 370 05 České Budějovice, Czech Republic
J. of Vertebrate Biology, 62(1):1-13 (2013). https://doi.org/10.25225/fozo.v62.i1.a1.2013
Fish marking
Fish sampling
Dispersal analyses
Dispersal of obligatory tributary spawners
Dispersal of generalists
Obligatory tributary spawners
Reproductive homing
This study investigated the post-spawning dispersal of seven species occurring in a tributary of the Římov Reservoir during the years 2000–2004. Fish were captured during spawning migration to the tributary, marked and released. The subsequent distribution of marked fish was followed in the reservoir and tributary during three successive periods 1) early summer, 2) late summer and 3) the next spawning season. Species were divided into two groups — obligatory tributary spawners (white bream Blicca bjoerkna, chub Squalius cephalus, bleak Alburnus alburnus and asp Aspius aspius) that did so predominantly in the tributary of the reservoir and generalists (bream Abramis brama, perch Perca fluviatilis and roach Rutilus rutilus) that usually spawned in the tributary as well as at different sites within the reservoir main body. We hypothesized that obligatory tributary spawners would distribute across the reservoir after spawning according to their species-specific preferences for certain feeding grounds. We expected a relatively low or erratic postspawning dispersal for spawning generalists. The results of the study revealed that the post-spawning dispersal of obligatory tributary spawners is consistent with our hypothesis and they most likely dispersed according to their feeding ground requirements. The postspawning dispersal of generalists revealed that the assumed low dispersal was relevant for bream and perch while erratic dispersal was observed in roach.
When an artificial reservoir is built by damming a river, the original riverine fish have to cope with new ecosystem conditions, specifically in regards to feeding, overwintering and especially reproduction. Some species that colonize reservoirs are able to complete their entire life cycles in restricted parts of these water bodies (Vostradovský 1968, Vostradovská 1974, Kipling & Le Cren 1984). However, other fish species have to migrate to the extensive parts of reservoirs, including inflowing rivers, due to their different requirements for spawning and feeding grounds as well as winter refuges (Wilkonska 1967, Goldspink 1978, L´Abée-Lund & Vollestad 1985, Lucas & Baras 2001). The reservoir tributary is an ecotone situated on the boundary between a riverine and reservoir ecosystem and represents an important spawning ground for many fish species inhabiting Central European reservoirs (Lucas & Baras 2001, Hladík & Kubečka 2003). Many studies have described intensive migrations from the feeding grounds in the main body of a reservoir or lake to spawning grounds in the tributary for species such as potamodromous salmonids (Kipling & Le Cren 1984, Northcote 1997), pike ( Esox lucius, Kubečka & Křivanec 1990), perch (Perca fluviatilis, Lilja et al. 2003), plus cyprinids such as asp (Aspius aspius, Vostradovská 1974), roach (Rutilus rutilus, Wilkonska 1967, L'Abée-Lund & Vollestad 1985, Lilja et al. 2003), white bream (Blicca bjoerkna, Lilja et al. 2003), bream (Abramis brama, Poddubny 1971, Hladík & Kubečka 2003), bleak (Alburnus alburnus and chub (Squalius cephalus, Hladík & Kubečka 2003).
However, the importance of tributary spawning varies among species. In the Římov Reservoir, Hladík & Kubečka (2003) revealed the intensive spawning migrations of numerous species to the tributary and categorized them into obligatory tributary spawners and generalists. The obligatory spawners (bleak, asp, chub and white bream) require a riverine environment for spawning and do so predominantly in the inflowing river (Peterka et al. 2004). On the other hand, generalists (bream, roach and perch) spawn in the tributary as well as at different sites in the main body of the reservoir.
Soon after reproduction, the spawners abandon their spawning grounds and redistribute back to their feeding grounds (Lucas & Baras 2001). Each species has different feeding ground requirements and the heterogeneous nature of reservoirs provides many types of feeding grounds to support the requirements of a variety of species (Vašek et al. 2004, Prchalová et al. 2008, 2009). The lotic environment of the inflowing river changes substantially to a reservoir lentic environment. Inflowing nutrients from the river make the part adjacent to the tributary the most productive in the reservoir due to having the highest chlorophyll a and zooplankton concentrations. All these factors gradually decrease towards the dam (eg. Hejzlar & Vyhnálek 1998, Seďa & Devetter 2000, Mašín et al. 2003, Vašek et al. 2003). Prchalová et al. (2008, 2009) found that the distribution of fish species follows this gradient and distributes according to their specific habitat conditions and prey concentration requirements.
Species classified by Hladík & Kubečka (2003) as obligatory tributary spawners all possess different feeding ground requirements and thus should disperse accordingly after tributary spawning. Chub is considered to be an omnivorous species preferring running waters (Lammens & Hoogenboezen 1991) and they often occupy lentic waters as a winter refuge (Lucas & Baras 2001). White bream is a bentivorous species, prospering well in turbid and shallow eutrophic conditions (Olin et al. 2002, Mehner et al. 2005, Pekcan-Hekim & Horppila 2007). Bleak is a zooplanktivorus species (Bíro & Muskó 1995, Chappaz et al. 1999, Vašek et al. 2003) and asp is a predatory species (Lammens & Hoogenboezen 1991, Krpo-Cetkovic et al. 2010) that both prosper in eutrophic to mesotrophic conditions (Olin et al. 2002, Mehner et al. 2005). We hypothesized that these species should disperse according to their feeding ground preferences after tributary spawning.
Spawning generalists are not strictly bound to tributary spawning grounds as they are only one of many possible such sites in a given reservoir. Therefore, it could be expected that the tributary spawning grounds are important mainly for individuals with feeding grounds located nearby and thus low post-spawning dispersal can be expected. Roach was observed to disperse throughout the whole waterbody after spawning in the tributary of Lake Arungen, Norway (L'Abée-Lund & Vollestad 1985). Bream remained closed to the tributary of the Elektrėnai reservoir (Lithuania) after tributary spawning (Poddubny 1971). These findings suggest that the assumption of low post-spawning dispersal is valid for bream while roach distribution is driven differently. Post-spawning dispersal patterns have not been studied intensively in common European fish species and therefore it is not known whether these patterns are species- or reservoir/lake-specific.
A large experiment focusing on the migration of fish was carried out in the canyon-shaped Římov Reservoir, particularly focusing on the importance of the tributary in this phenomenon. Fish were captured during migration through the tributary zone of the reservoir by two giant traps during four consecutive seasons in the years 2000–2004. All captured fish were marked and released. The partial results of this experiment were presented in Hladík & Kubečka (2003, 2004). These authors focused to the seasonal pattern of fish migration through the tributary and the effect of reservoir water level fluctuation on spawning migration to the tributary (discussed below in the “Study Area” section). The presented study builds upon these aforementioned studies and investigates the post-spawning dispersal of tributary spawners to the reservoir and inflowing river. Dispersal patterns were evaluated separately for each species during three successive periods - early after spawning (early summer), the late summer and next spawning season (spring).
Map of the Řimov Reservoir, Czech Republic, and its only inflow, the River Malše. The locations of weirs, traps (marking point) and sampling sites (R1–R12 and T1–T8) with indications of their distances from the marking point are shown.
The Římov Reservoir (Fig. 1) was built in 1978 on the River Malše 20 km south of České Budějovice, Czech Republic (dam co-ordinates: 48°51′00″ N, 14°29′29″ E). It is a deep, elongated, steep-sided, drinkingwater supply reservoir. The length of the reservoir is about 8 km measured along its middle axis. The mean flooded area is 210 ha, average depth is 16 m and average storage time is about 90 days. The reservoir is dimictic with well-developed thermal and oxygen stratification in summer. No current occurs in the reservoir main body. The littoral habitats offer areas with different slopes ranging 1–40 %. No true aquatic plants are present in the reservoir and the availability of flooded-terrestrial, near-shore vegetation depends on the water level (Hladík & Kubečka 2004). The reservoir serves mainly for supplying drinking water and the production of electric power. Thus its water level exhibits an annual cycle, with the highest level after snow melting, followed by a gradual decrease by several meters during summer. The main food source for dominant fish species is zooplankton (Vašek et al. 2003). According to the nutrient concentration, the reservoir can be classified as eutrophic to mesotrophic with phosphorus, phytoplankton and zooplankton concentrations decreasing downstream along its longitudional axis (Hejzlar & Vyhnálek 1998, Seďa & Devetter 2000, Vašek et al. 2003).
The River Malše is small with an average discharge of 4.1 m3.s-1 and is the only significant inflow into the reservoir. A description of the river section sampled in this study (see Material and Methods - Fish sampling) was given by Peterka et al. (2004). The river section can be characterized as typical grayling zone, with a 0.15–0.8 m.s-1 current velocity and depths mostly under 0.5 m. Submerged macrophytes occur only occasionally, mostly Batrachium sp., which are used as a spawning substrate by roach and bream. Potamoplankton are very rare, and thus available food sources are bentos or terrestrial insects. The inflowing river is usually several degrees cooler than epilimnion or the reservoir during summer (Hejzlar et al. 1993).
The reservoir fish community is dominated by cyprinids such as bream, roach and bleak and the percids ruffe and perch. These species comprised approximately 90 % of the abundance (fish older than young-of-year) in gillnet catches in the years 1999–2007 (Prchalová et al. 2009). A study of the River Malše fish community revealed that species typical for the reservoir were very abundant in the river as well and the proportion of riverine species was relatively low. Roach dominated in whole river section sampled this study (see Material and Methods - Fish sampling, Hladík et al. 2008).
The importance of the tributary for fish from the Římov Reservoir was initially described by Hladík & Kubečka (2003, 2004). In the first study, they characterized fish migration through the tributary zone of the reservoir mainly by daily numbers and species composition. They followed six periods of fish migration into and out of the reservoir tributary and divided reservoir species into several groups according to their affinity for tributary spawning - obligatory tributary spawners and generalists (both mentioned in the Introduction of this paper), and species spawning out of the tributary (carp Cyprinus carpio, pikeperch Sander lucioperca, catfish Silurus glanis and ell Anguilla anguilla). In the following study, they examined the influence of flooded terrestrial macrophytes availability on tributary spawning migration. The authors found only higher numbers of white bream and bream migrating to the tributary in the year when no flooded macrophytes were available in the reservoir main body. The other investigated species (roach, bleak, perch, chub and roach × bream hybrid) did not react to the absence/ occurrence of flooded macrophytes in the reservoir main body. Their numbers in tributary spawning run were similar in all investigated years or changed according to their proportions in the reservoir stock.
The study was divided into two parts: 1) the capture and marking of migrating fish in the tributary, 2) sampling of fish in the whole area of the reservoir system, i.e. from the dam to the first impermeable Plach weir of the inflowing the River Malše (Fig. 1).
Fish migrating through the tributary area during the spring and summer of 2000–2003 were captured by two specially-constructed giant traps. Each trap was composed of three chambers (entrance frame 3 × 3 m, length of traps 15 m, wings 3 m high and 40 m long, mesh size 15 mm in all parts; for more details see to Hladík et al. 2002 and Hladík & Kubečka 2003). The depth of the installation was from 0.75–2.75 m. Each trap covered the whole cross-section of the river. One trap captured upstream migrants while the other downstream migrants. After extensive sampling during spring and summer 2000, this activity was concentrated to the main fish migration periods during the subsequent seasons (Table 1). These traps sampled the total river discharge for 88 % of the sampling periods; the remaining periods were unmonitored because of flooding (Hladík & Kubečka 2003). During periods of intensive fish migration, the traps were checked and the catches processed daily; during periods of less intense migratory activity, they were monitored three times a week. Fish were identified, measured and batch-marked using a combination of fin clipping and VIE fluorescent elastomer tags (Northwest Marine Technology, Shaw Island, Washington, USA). The VIE tags were injected under the transparent skin of the head and into spaces between the fin rays (Malone et al. 1999). Only adult individuals with running gonads, which represented the bulk of the catch, were taken into account for this study. Therefore, individuals larger than 150 mm were marked, with the exception of bleak in which only individuals larger than 120 mm body length were marked.
Timetable of sampling and marking events in the River Malše and Řimov Reservoir.
Total sampling effort described by meters of examined shoreline of the river or reservoir by electrofishing, square meters of exposed gillnets or sampled littoral areas by seining carried out each year of the study.
Fish were sampled at 22 sites. Eight sites were distributed throughout the river zone (T1–T8, Fig. 1), two sites were at the marking points (each at the position of one tributary trap, MP1–2) and twelve sites in the main body of the reservoir (R1–R12, Fig. 1). Sampling was performed four times in the river: twice in early summer and two more times in the late summer of the years 2000 and 2001 (sampling in the river during spring was not performed and the data are not available for the river at spring). Sampling was done ten times at the marking points and in the main body of reservoir; four times during the spring spawning in the years 2001–2004 (only littoral habitats), three times during early summer in the years 2000–2002 and three times during late summer in the years 2000, 2001 and 2003 (littoral, bentic and pelagic habitats). A detailed time schedule of the study is given in Table 1.
At the river (sites T1–T8, Fig. 1), fish were sampled by electrofishing (BMA-Honda electroshocker, 230V, 50Hz, 2A, Bednář company, Czech Republic), with a single pass applied by wadding through the water. The tributary sampling sites were distributed from traps to the first impermeable Plach Weir: sites T1–T3 were located at the upper part of the reservoir impoundment and at an adjacent part of the river characterized by relatively large deep pools, sites T4–T6 were located below the former partially permeable Cais Weir built approximately 2 km above the traps, site T7 was just above the Cais Weir, site T8 was located below the Plach Weir built approximately 4 km above the traps (Fig. 1). Sampling sites located in the giant traps positions (in marking point) were sampled by giant traps themselves or by electrofishing during periods where traps were not operated (see Table 1).
In the main body of the reservoir, various fishing methods were used for fish sampling: electro-fishing (BMA-Honda electroshocker, 230V, 50Hz, 2A, Bednář company, Czech Republic) and seining (nets of lengths from 10 to 200 m, a width of 4 m and mesh size 10 mm) in the littoral parts and gillnetting (extended Nordic multimesh gillnets; length of nets 40 m; sixteen mesh sizes - 5, 6.25, 8, 10, 12.5, 15.5, 19.5, 24, 29, 35, 43, 55, 70, 90, 110, 135 mm) in benthic (width of the net 1.5 m) and pelagic (width of the net 4.5 m) habitats. Detailed descriptions of these methods are given in Vašek et al. (2004) for gillnetting, Hladík el al. (2008) for electrofishing, and Říha et al. (2008) for littoral seining. A summary of the sampling efforts using all the mentioned methods throughout the study period is given in Table 2.
All fish caught during the marking and sampling process were determined to species, standard length measured within 5 mm accuracy and checked for the presence of tributary marks (fin clipping and VIE mark).
Post-spawning dispersal was tested in seven species: bream, roach, bleak, perch, asp, white bream and chub. These species were divided according to their representation in the fish stock of the reservoir: dominant species (more than 10 % abundance), such as bream, roach and bleak; subdominant species (1–10 %), perch and asp; and rare species (< 1 %), white bream and chub (Prchalová et al. 2009). The post-spawning dispersal of other species captured in the tributary during the experiment (see Hladík & Kubečka 2003) was not tested due to the very low numbers of recaptured individuals.
The post-spawning dispersals of these species were evaluated for three subsequent periods: 1) early summer - June/July - the period after the main spawning run of the tributary spawners, when only multiple spawners (bream, bleak and white bream) are found in the tributary (period 5 according to Hladík & Kubečka 2003), 2) late summer - August/September - the period with no spawning activity of the dominant species, and movement is guided by local feeding (period 6 according to Hladík & Kubečka 2003), 3) next spawning season - the period corresponding to the spring spawning runs of different species of the reservoir (periods 1–3 according to Hladík & Kubečka 2003).
Dispersal during a given twelve-month interval was studied only for fish marked at the beginning of this interval. The study covered four consecutive intervals during the years 2000–2004. At every interval, the whole population of each fish species in the reservoirriver system was considered a closed population because individuals from the newly recruited year classes in the spring were not counted. The mortality of marked and unmarked fish was considered as equal and no new recruits were allowed (Amstrup et al. 2005).
The dispersal of fish within the reservoir system was evaluated for each period separately by the logistic regression model. This model tested whether the probability (proportion of marked fish to all fish of an individual species in the appropriate size range per sampling site) of a captured marked fish is dependent on the distance from the marking point at the tributary. The model assumed that the capture probability of the marked fish decreases with distance from the marking point. The model description is as follows: the binomial distribution Bi(nr, pr) was assumed for the number of recaptured marked fish within each sample. This distribution has one known parameter, nr, the number of all fish examined for marks, and one unknown parameter, pr, the probability that the fish had the mark. This binomial random variable was measured at different distances from the tributary traps (both in the River Malše and in the main body of the reservoir) and described the distribution of the probability on the distance from the tributary traps. This parameter was fitted by the logistic regression model for binomial distribution, whose equation is as follows:
where pr is the capture probability of the marked fish, x the distance from the tributary marking point and a and b are parameters of this logistic model.
The resultant fitted function pr(x) has two parameters, just as a classical simple regression would: parameter a stands for an intercept and parameter b describes the dependence of the capture probability of marked fish on the distance from the tributary marking point. The model assumes a decrease of capture probability and in this case parameter b has a negative value. The lower parameter b value implies a higher slope for the fitted function, which means that if parameter b decreases, then the capture probability of a marked fish closer to the tributary marking point increases. The dependence of the capture probability of marked fish on the distance from the marking point was arbitrarily divided according to this b value into low l (b ≥ -0.5) and high dispersal (b < -0.5). In the case of low dispersal, fish were distributed close to the tributary marking point. In the case of wide dispersal, fish could be found across the whole reservoir or inflowing river. Model examples for several b values are given in Fig. 2. When the model was insignificant, then the capture probability did not depend on the distance from the tributary marking point. In many cases, we experienced a lack of data due to little or no fish caught and thus the model could not be calculated.
Hypothetical examples of model outputs for six values of parameter b. For all examples, the a parameter has a value of 1.
Number of marked fish ( column M). Number of recaptured fish and total number of captured fish ( in brackets) during the study at various distances from the traps ( row below site abbreviations and given in km) and at particular sites in the river (T), directly at the marking point (MP) and in the reservoir (R, see Fig. 1). Sampling sites within 1 km from the traps were combined into units for a better overview. The numbers are delineated according to the sampling period (SP; 1 - early summer, 2 - late summer and 3 - next spawning season). Sampling was not performed in the river during the third period and is indicated as ND (no data).
Fitted functions of the post-spawning dispersal of obligatory tributary spawners during the three sampling periods. Distance from the tributary is on the X axis and the probability of capturing a marked individual on the Y axis. The values and significance of the parameter b for the dispersal model is given for each species as well as river and reservoir locales. Insufficient data for the model are indicated as ND (no data). **p ≤ 0.001, *p < 0.05, NS = not significant.
A total of 33986 fish were captured and marked at the tributary marking point during their migration to tributary spawning grounds in the years 2000–2003. Overall, 22578 fish were sampled in the reservoir and the inflowing river during the subsequent sampling, from which 4462 fish were marked (Table 3).
White bream (all marked individuals as well as all individuals captured during sampling) was recorded exclusively near the tributary in all three sampling periods (only three individuals without tags were caught further than 1 km away from the tributary marking point in the main body of reservoir; Table 3). The dispersal model was thus not applicable due to the extremely low dispersal of the marked individuals (Fig. 3a).
Fitted function of tributary marked spawning generalist distribution during the three sampling periods. Distance from the tributary is on the X axis and the probability of capturing a marked individual on the Y axis. The values and significance of the parameter b for the dispersal model are given for each species as well as river and reservoir locales. Insufficient data for the model are indicated as ND (no data). **p ≤ 0.001, *p < 0.05, NS = not significant.
Chub was almost exclusively recorded in the tributary during all three sampling periods, thereby also demonstrating a very low dispersal (only two individuals were caught further than 1 km from the tributary marking point in the main body of reservoir; Table 3, Fig. 3b). During next spawning season, marked fish were recorded only at the tributary marking point (Table 3).
Bleak was randomly distributed in the tributary in the early summer, while it left the tributary for the reservoir in the late summer. In the reservoir, bleak exhibited very high dispersal in the early and late summer (Fig. 3c). This species was captured only at the tributary marking point (except three individuals) during the next spawning season (Table 3).
The majority of asp vacated the riverine spawning grounds immediately after reproduction and returned to the reservoir. Some asp remained close to the tributary marking point until the early summer and were repeatedly caught in our traps (model insignificant; Table 3, Fig. 3d). In the late summer, only eleven individuals of asp were caught overall and the dispersal model was not applicable to such a low number. However, all individuals (marked and unmarked) were caught only in the main body of the reservoir and four such individuals were marked (Table 3). Such a high proportion of marked fish supported the high dispersal of this species after spawning. In the next spring, asp were recorded only at the tributary marking point (marked and unmarked individuals; Table 3, Fig. 3d).
During all three sampling periods, the marked bream and perch stayed close to the tributary, demonstrating a relatively low dispersal (Table 3, Fig. 4a, b). Low numbers of marked fish species were recorded further from the tributary marking point (maximum distance of 6 km and 8 km for bream and perch, respectively; Table 3). Proportions of marked fish of both species were highest in the tributary marking point during the next spawning season.
In the early and late summer, a high proportion of tributary marked roach remained close to the tributary marking point in the river (low dispersal; Fig. 4c). Some roach dispersed quickly to the main body of the reservoir, resulting in a high dispersal in the early and late summer. During the next spawning season, the marked roach were found almost exclusively at the tributary marking point (Table 3).
The results of this study has revealed that bleak and asp exhibit high post-spawning dispersal, roach an erratic dispersal while other species from both the tributary spawners and generalists groups showed a relatively low dispersal from the tributary. However, some individuals of all species except white bream and chub were observed to wander far from the tributary spawning ground. All species exhibited a relatively high affinity for the tributary spawning ground.
Species classified in our study as obligatory tributary spawners are considered to be mostly eurytopic (except rheophilic chub) with preference for spawning on stony (lithophils - asp), macrophyte rich (phytophil - white bream) or both (polyphil - bleak) substrates (Balon 1975, Aaart & Nienhuis 2003). The possession of these attributes means that all these species should be able to also spawn in the main body of reservoir not only in the tributary. In the case of asp, spawning only in tributaries of reservoirs was supported by the observation of Vostradovský (1974) from the Želivka Reservoir, and thus can be considered as obligatory tributary spawners. On the other hand, while the tributary spawning grounds for bleak and white bream are of high importance, it seems that the location of this activity is not as strictly observed as was suggested by Hladík & Kubečka (2003). Our results showed that a high proportion of these species predominantly and repeatedly spawned in the tributary, as the proportion of marked individuals in the total catch was very high in the whole reservoir during summer sampling as well as in the tributary at spring (Table 3). However, both species were able to occasionally spawn also in the reservoir main body. Main body spawning was observed in bleak only during one year of the study when uncovered stony shores in the littoral areas of reservoir were available (Hladík & Kubečka 2004). The spawning activity of white bream was not detected in the main body of the reservoir but could be assumed from the higher intensity of tributary migration in the year when no submerged macrophytes were available in the reservoir main body (Hladík & Kubečka 2004). It could be concluded that bleak is not an obligatory spawner but most likely “a species with a preference for tributary spawning” because tributary marked fish dispersed throughout the whole reservoir body after spawning. On the other hand, white bream exhibited the lowest dispersal and was almost exclusively caught in the reservoir tributary during all sampling seasons. The predominant occurrence of white bream near the tributary is also in concordance with results obtained from long-term gillnet sampling in the reservoir (Prchalová et al. 2009). This observation suggests that white bream is rather a sedentary species with a high tendency for spawning and feeding in the eutrophic conditions near the tributary part of the reservoir. Therefore, it may utilize tributary spawning simply because of the proximity of this spawning ground to its normal area residence.
Chub was found to migrate to the tributary in the spring and occupy the inflowing river near the tributary marking point during the summer. The observation of spawning chub in the River Elbe (Germany) has shown that chub had migrated to the nearest spawning site a distance 1–13 km far from their feeding habitat (Fredrich et al. 2003). In the Římov reservoir, the tributary is the nearest suitable spawning site because part of the chub population use the main body of reservoir as a winter refuge (Hladík & Kubečka 2003). The observed low dispersal from the tributary spawning ground is in accord with results from another such fish-marking experiment carried out in the River Pilica (Poland), where low dispersal (0–200 m) of chub was found (Penczak 2006). Also Lucas & Baras (2001) suggested that this species often use the same area of the river for spawning and subsequent summer feeding.
A portion of the migrating bleak remained in the tributary until early summer and colonized the whole sampled river section from the tributary marking point up to the Plach Weir. The reason for their prolonged stay in the tributary was probably their multiplespawning behavior (Kestemont et al. 2001). In the late summer, bleak redistributed to the whole reservoir to feed. Vašek et al. (2003) found that zooplankton is the main diet of bleak in the Římov Reservoir. Zooplankton prey is dispersed throughout the reservoir with the highest density near the tributary and upper part of the water body, and decreases towards the dam (Vašek et al. 2003). The trend of capture probability of a tributary-marked individual as well as the distribution of a whole reservoir population of bleak (Prchalová et al. 2009) followed this gradient of their prey concentration.
The results of our study showed that asp dispersed from the tributary to the upper and middle parts of the reservoir. In spite of the low numbers of captured and recaptured asp during the summer, their preference for the upper part of the reservoir is supported by the findings of Prchalová et al. (2009). Yet in contrary to these findings, it seems that asp is a highly mobile species in the riverine environment. Freidrich (2003) found a surprisingly high dispersal of asp in the River Elbe. The author tracked 34 individuals of asp for one year. The length of occupied river sections, as distance from the marking point, ranged from 10–40 km, with some individuals wandering even 100 km. Asp is a predatory species that mainly feeds on small sized individuals of dominant fish species (Krpo-Cetkovic et al. 2010). In the Římov Reservoir, the highest abundance of dominant fish species and their juveniles were found also in the upper and middle parts of the reservoir (Prchalová et al. 2009). Therefore, asp preference for the near tributary parts of the reservoir could be explained by the highest density of its prey in these parts.
Generalists except roach exhibited low post-spawning dispersal during the early and late summer periods. In the early summer, many marked individuals were found at the tributary. Bream is a multiplespawning cyprinid species (Poncin et al. 1996) and its high occurrence in the tributary was caused by repeated reproductive behaviour. Perch occurrence in the tributary was driven by its own spawning and consequently by predation on cyprinid eggs and juveniles during cyprinid spawning runs. In the late summer, they abandoned the tributary and occurred only in the main reservoir body. A major proportion of the recaptured tributary-marked bream and perch stayed close to the tributary marking point and only a minor proportion migrated a further distance from this area. It could be concluded that a high proportion of perch and bream individuals that spawned and were marked in the tributary used feeding grounds up to 1 km away from the marking point. This observed low post-spawning dispersal as well as division of the population into sedentary and mobile groups is consistent with the studies of Poddubny (1971) and Whelan (1983) in the case of bream and Collette et al. (1977) and Johnson (1978) for perch. The reason for these separate sedentary and mobile sub-populations remains elusive.
Roach dispersal was erratic as a portion of marked roach remained in the tributary during both summer periods while other simultaneously dispersed to the reservoir body soon after spawning. These results correspond to the studies of L'Abée-Lund & Vollestad (1985, 1987). These findings suggest a homing tendency for some individuals and a high mobility for others within the same roach population. Baade & Fredrich (1998) documented that roach in the River Spree had a stationary period when movement was within the range of tens of meters, but subsequently some fish moved a longer distance to find a new location or returned to their former place (the home ranges of observed individuals varied between 75 and 3820 m). It seems that roach is a rather mobile species and the prediction of their post-spawning dispersal is difficult.
Many marked individuals of all the observed species were recaptured in the tributary marking point during the next spawning season. This observation demonstrates the presence of reproductive homing of these species, which is the tendency to repetitively return to the same spawning ground. This behaviour can be expected for species with a strong affinity to spawning in the tributary (chub, asp, bleak and white bream) of the Římov Reservoir because of its single tributary. This expectation is supported by the results of our study because during the successive spawning season, these types of fish were almost exclusively caught in the tributary and a high proportion of caught individuals bore the markings from the previous season (52 % in white bream, 50 % in asp, 54 % in bleak and 20 % in chub; Table 3). However, this finding also suggests that 48–80 % of the sampled fish were not caught during the previous spawning migration. There are two reasons for these fish evading initial detection. The first reason pertains to bleak and white bream, which occasionally spawned in the main body. Therefore these species could change between spawning in the main body and in the tributary from year to year. The second reason pertains to all the aforementioned species. The source of error of the present study is that it was extremely difficult to keep giant traps operational during high water discharges. Despite considerable effort to clean the trap wings and additional weight of the lead line, the traps were still not functional for about one tenth of the total study time. Events during these periods may have been significant as these high discharges could have stimulated both active and passive migrations (Lucas & Baras 2001).
The repetitive return to the same spawning ground has already been documented for generalists such as bream (Poddubny 1971, Whelan 1983), roach (Wilkonska 1967, L'Abée-Lund & Vollestad 1985) and perch (Kipling & Le Cren 1984). The proportion of marked individuals of these species in the tributary catch was lower than for most species with a strong tributary spawning boundary, varying between 21–23 % (Table 3) during the next spawning period. In the main body of the reservoir, only spawned bream were detected because perch and roach have unique spawning behaviours that precluded their capture, such as spawning at night for short period for the latter and depth stratified spawning for the former. The proportion of tributary marked bream in the main body of the reservoir was only 1.6 %. Therefore, we can conclude that a relatively large proportion of bream used the tributary spawning grounds repeatedly. However, the finding of marked bream in the main body of the reservoir suggests some individuals that had used the tributary spawning site reproduced in the reservoir body during the next season.
This study is unique in describing the post-spawning dispersal of seven different species in a single water body. In the case of white bream and bleak, it is the first observation of any dispersal pattern at all. The findings of the study confirmed the importance of tributary spawning grounds for the whole reservoir populations of white bream, chub, bleak and asp. The post-spawning dispersal of species with high affinity to spawning in the tributary of the Římov Reservoir (white bream, chub, bleak and asp) presumably was shaped mainly by their feeding ground requirement. However, the influence of diet concentration to this dispersal pattern could not be directly proven by this study because diet availability and consumption of tributary spawners was not studied during our experiment. Also other unknown overlying environmental and physical conditions could shape distribution of these species. The post-spawning dispersal of generalists showed that the assumed low dispersal was the case for bream and perch but erratic for roach. This finding was very much in agreement with those described by previous studies in other water bodies, and confirmed that the post-spawning dispersals of these species are driven by species-specific behavioral patterns.
The study was supported by project No. QH81046 of the National Agency of Agricultural Research (NAZV) and project No. 145/2010/P of the Grant Agency of the University of South Bohemia. We thank to two anonymous referees for constructive comments on the manuscript.
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Milan Říha, Milan Hladík, Tomáš Mrkvička, Marie Prchalová, Martin Čech, Vladislav Draštík, Jaroslava Frouzová, Tomáš Jůza, Michal Kratochvíl, Jiří Peterka, Mojmír Vašek, and Jan Kubečka "Post-spawning dispersal of tributary spawning fish species to a reservoir system," Folia Zoologica 62(1), 1-13, (1 March 2013). https://doi.org/10.25225/fozo.v62.i1.a1.2013
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For Long Lasting Memory: Provincial Photo Studios in Roman Pashkovsky’s Series
Anton Petrov July, 15 2015
Ukrainian photographer Roman Pashkovsky travels to various towns and visits local studio photographers, assuming a different image, from a street boy to a nerd, each time he has his photo taken.
Roman Pashkovsky, 30
Ukrainian photographer. Born in Vinnytsia, lives in Kyiv. Completed a photography course at the Kyiv Institute of Film and Television and Viktor Marushchenko Photography School. Worked for The Village Kyiv and Look At Me. Published in Ukrainian editions of Vogue, Esquire, Forbes, ELLE, Marie Claire, Viva. Currently shoots for advertising agency and works on personal series.
Photo studios were culturally significant in the 90s. For most people going to the photo studio was special, it was not cheap. Every photographer had a number of decorations and furniture: chairs, armchairs, plastic columns and everything else needed to create an original portrait for every client and to help convey their character. As photography developed the demand for photo studios went down and many of them closed. Not all of them though.
The ones that remain usually have a receiving room, a wall where the previous works are displayed and the studio itself where the magic happens. Photographers in these studios still use classic equipment, apply the rules of composition and practice a very traditional approach to their job in general. I felt this myself; no matter how you look and what you wear, their approach doesn’t change.
When I arrived there, I acted like a regular client in need of a portrait. When asked what I do, I gave different answers: a sportsman, a white collar, a student, but I never admit to being a photographer myself.
I started my metamorphosis from choosing a place and clothes. This is how it usually happened: I went to a town and started asking locals and photographers who shoot photos for documents if they knew of any photo studios. I was specific that I needed not just any photo studio, but the classic kind that does portrait art. These places are not on the internet, so they take several days to find. When I arrived there, I acted like a regular client in need of a portrait. When asked what I do, I gave different answers: a sportsman, a white collar, a student, but I never admit to being a photographer myself.
All photographers in the photo studios have the same routine. The have common language. They put me in similar poses. The shoot lasts no longer than 15 minutes and stops whenever the photographer decides he has a good photograph. “Let’s do it one more time just in case” doesn’t happen.
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Scores of singer-songwriters came to prominence in the 1970s and no short list would omit such superstars of the genre as James Taylor, Carole King, Jackson Browne, Joni Mitchell, Cat Stevens and Carly Simon.
And then there’s Jim Croce, who in 15 brief months achieved stardom that came to a sudden, tragic end.
The Philadelphia native, born on January 10, 1943, had spent a number of years pursuing his craft, first during his time at Villanova University (where he was friends with a fellow student, Don McLean). It was then that he learned a valuable skill that informed the records he later made: being able to perform “anything that the people wanted to hear,” while playing the fraternity party circuit, he later explained.
He also spent time playing as a duo with his wife, Ingrid. During those years he worked a variety of blue collar jobs to keep their heads afloat and met the kinds of characters he would later write about in such songs as “Workin’ at the Car Wash Blues” and “Top Hat Bar and Grille.”
His break came when he began working with a college friend, Tommy West, who had formed a production team with Terry Cashman, and was subsequently signed to a deal with ABC Records. Croce’s 1972 album You Don’t Mess Around with Jim included the colorful title track with the catchy lyrics about a pool hustler.
“It appears another star is born”
You don’t tug on Superman’s cape
You don’t spit into the wind
You don’t pull the mask off the old Lone Ranger
And you don’t mess around with Jim
The song was released as a single in June and on September 9 reached #7 on the Record World magazine Singles Chart. (It peaked at #8 on Billboard.) In its review, Record World‘s wrote: “it appears another star is born.”
Watch Croce and his accompanist, Maury Muehleisen, perform the song on The Dick Cavett Show in September 1972
Next up from the album was “Operator (That’s Not the Way it Feels),” which reached #10 on Record World (#17 on Billboard).
In 1973, a first single released prior to a follow-up album achieved only modest success. But on March 20 ABC Records issued “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown.” The catchy song enjoyed a steady ascent up the charts and on July 21 it hit #1. Both songs were included on his July album, Life and Times.
Just two months later, on Sept. 20, Croce died while on tour when his plane crashed just after take-off in Natchitoches, LA. Also killed were Muehleisen, his manager, road manager, comedian George Stevens who was Croce’s opening act, and the pilot.
The next day, his label released “I Got a Name,” the theme song to a movie, The Last American Hero, about NASCAR driver Junior Johnson. (The I Got a Name album arrived on Dec. 1.) The song rose to #5 on the Record World chart (#10 on Billboard).
Its success was likely impeded by the release of another single, “Time in a Bottle,” in November. As Record World wrote of the latter in its Nov. 17 issue: “Released by popular demand out of his first album, tune is already sweeping the country on a wave of emotion. An instant classic and an extremely moving record.”
In just eight weeks, on Jan. 5, 1974, the song became a posthumous, #1 hit. Two weeks later, Croce albums were #1 and #2 on the sales charts, ahead of new releases by superstars the Carpenters, Elton John, Paul McCartney and others.
Related: What were the biggest radio hits of 1973?
In just over one year as a national presence, Croce became a beloved artist whose songs of colorful characters still play and resonate with fans. At 30, he was just coming into his own as the singer-songwriter movement developed. We can only wonder what might have been.
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Nathalie Atkinson: This British drama's thoughtful costuming puts iconic Indian style on display
Nathalie Atkinson
Published October 7, 2015 Updated May 15, 2018
The new British series Indian Summers (airing Sundays at 9 p.m. ET on PBS) is a picturesque period costume drama set in 1932 during the last days of the Raj that's been described as "Downton Abbey goes to India." It's really more of a Falcon Crest with rickshaws, and I've been enthusing about the soapy, highbrow history lesson ever since I binged on the press screeners. I watched it with a critical eye even as I luxuriated in its trappings – the starched collars and creamy three-piece linen suits, the floral cottons and salwar kameez by costume designer Nic Ede (who was wardrobe master on Richard Attenborough's Gandhi).
Initially, however, I watched with unease and concern for what might be even unwitting imperial nostalgia, of the sort levelled at Taylor Swift when her retro Wildest Dreams music video homage to Out of Africa debuted at the MTV Video Music awards to accusations of glamorizing racism and a whitewashed African colonial fantasy. The scrutiny has created an overdue (and frankly welcome) second-guessing about how casually we approach, create and consume cultural products like these, what cultural misappropriation and levels of understanding are involved, and whether (or how much) they can be enjoyed.
Some cultural appropriation and exoticizing dress practices are obvious, like taking ceremonial Navajo headpieces out of context and casually commodifying them as fashion accessories, or donning glam Bindis at music festivals as though they were just another makeup look; the latter prompted South Asian women to take to social media with a #ReclaimtheBindi campaign. Others are less so.
Susan Scafidi, a Fordham law professor, wrote the book Who Owns Culture? and considers both the ownership and authenticity of cultural products through the American legal system and a general ethical framework. Fashion designers casually "ransack the world's closet for inspiration," as Scafidi puts it. The most helpful distinction was between exploitive, or colonialist, misappropriation (headdresses, et al.) and a cultural exchange that is beneficial to the source community. For example, Ralph Lauren's last spring collection, which explicitly referenced British colonial and Indian dress, is worth cringing at. The mash-up of khaki jodhpurs and other cargo-pocket safari separates with vivid jewel-tone silk blouses draped diagonally across the shoulder, sari-style, seemed glib, especially given the powerful negative historical associations of Imperial rule the juxtaposition evokes.
Unlike Lauren, Haitian-Italian designer Stella Jean was inspired by Indian regional costume tradition this fall, but filters her own exuberant sensibility through use of the decorative traditions of the Himalayas, with hand-painted maxi coats and pietra dura motifs – she slays no sacred cows except for the ironic kitsch ones emblazoned on a few skirts. The approach is more in keeping with Alexander McQueen being inspired by details in Indian royal costumes, or the ongoing collaborations that designers like Hermès, Isabel Marant and Dries Van Noten have in craftspeople communities across the sub-continent.
In something of a counterpart to the Metropolitan Museum's mammoth, cross-departmental China: Through The Looking Glass exhibition, the Victoria & Albert Museum is opening the India Festival this week – a series of exhibitions, events and digital initiatives celebrating and exploring the culture of South Asia to mark the 25th anniversary of the museum's Nehru Gallery and the Nehru Trust (for more information visit vam.ac.uk). The India Festival includes large-scale retrospectives like the Al Thani jewellery collection, demonstrating the culture's influence on European jewellery houses of the early 20th century such as Cartier and Boucheron. But the major area of focus is naturally India's material culture – namely, a history of innovative textile production, thousands of years of dyes, pioneering techniques and cotton and silk. These have significance, be they political, religious or cultural.
Thoughtful costuming in Indian Summers reflects this in subtle but significant ways that I appreciated all the more for having questioned the nature of my own appreciation. In one scene, a witness attempts to offhandedly dismiss the white cap worn by a man accused of attempted murder as merely the generic topi style, worn for centuries to shield the head from the sun. In fact, as the V&A's show details, the white cap made with Indian-spun cotton, called a khadi, became code for the self-reliance and nationalist movement, and at the time had a new meaning as a symbol of political defiance (as it did again last year when worn during India's election, not by Gandhi's Congress party but the insurgent AAP party). It was just a small prop, but a larger symbol of opposition and non-cooperation with Imperial domination that adds dimension to the show.
All the very proper English floral dresses do, too: according to the Berg Fashion Library, East India Company directors stationed there wore garments made from English or European fabric rather than homespun Indian cloth. That recalls the advent of chintz, a colourfast patterned cotton made for export to England by the East India Company in the late 16th century. "After many trials," Samuel Pepys wrote in his diary in September, 1663, "I bought my wife a chintz, that is, a painted Indian calico for her to line her new study, which is very pretty." But as the new television drama and museum show demonstrate, it's never just pretty. It's there to be understood.
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Doing Glory to God in Pursuits of the World.
Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VIII — John Henry Newman
"Whether, therefore, ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God." -- 1 Cor. x.31.
When persons are convinced that life is short, that it is unequal to any great purpose, that it does not display adequately, or bring to perfection the true Christian, when they feel that the next life is all in all, and that eternity is the only subject that really can claim or can fill their thoughts, then they are apt to undervalue this life altogether, and to forget its real importance. They are apt to wish to spend the time of their sojourning here in a positive separation from active and social duties: yet it should be recollected that the employments of this world, though not themselves heavenly, are, after all, the way to heaven -- though not the fruit, are the seed of immortality -- and are valuable, though not in themselves, yet for that to which they lead: but it is difficult to realize this. It is difficult to realize both truths at once, and to connect both truths together; steadily to contemplate the life to come, yet to act in this. Those who meditate, are likely to neglect those active duties which are, in fact, incumbent on them, and to dwell upon the thought of God's glory, till they forget to act to His glory. This state of mind is chided in figure in the words of the holy Angels to the Apostles, when they say, "Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven[1]?"
In various ways does the thought of the next world lead men to neglect their duty in this, and whenever it does so we may be sure that there is something wrong and unchristian, not in their thinking of the next world, but in their manner of thinking of it. For though the contemplation of God's glory may in certain times and persons allowably interfere with the active employments of life, as in the case of the Apostles when our Saviour ascended, and though such contemplation is even freely allowed or commanded us at certain times of each day; yet that is not a real and true meditation on Christ, but some counterfeit, which makes us dream away our time, or become habitually indolent, or which withdraws us from our existing duties, or unsettles us.
Yet the thought of the world unseen is apt to do so in various ways, and the worst way of all is when we have taken up a notion that it ought to do so. And indeed this is a temptation to which persons who desire to be religious are exposed in one shape or another in every age, and in this age as well as in times past. Men come to fancy that to lose taste and patience for the businesses of this life is renouncing the world and becoming spiritually-minded. We will say a person has been thoughtless and irreligious; perhaps openly so; or at least careless about religion, and though innocent of any flagrant sin, yet a follower of his own will and fancy, and unpractised in any regular and consistent course of religion. He has, perhaps, been outwardly respectful to sacred things and persons, but has had no serious thoughts about the next world. He has taken good and evil -- religion and the world -- as they came, first one and then the other, without much consideration. He has been fond of gaiety and amusements, or he has been deeply interested in some pursuit or other of time and sense, -- whether it be his own trade or profession, or some of the studies and employments now popular. He has fallen in with the ways of the company in which he has found himself; has been profane with the profane; then, again, has had for a season religious impressions, which in turn have worn away. Thus he has lived, and something has then occurred really to rouse him and give him what is called a serious turn. Such a person, man or woman, young or old, certainly does need to take a serious turn, does require a change; and no one but must be very glad to hear that a change has taken place, though at the same time there may be changes not much better than the change which happened to him, whose soul, in our Lord's language, was but "swept and garnished;" not really changed in a heavenly way, and having but the semblance of faith and holiness upon it.
Now the cases I am speaking of are somewhat like that which our Saviour seems to speak of in the passage referred to. When a man has been roused to serious resolutions, the chances are, that he fails to take up with the one and only narrow way which leads to life. The chances are that "then cometh the wicked one," and persuades him to choose some path short of the true one -- easier and pleasanter than it. And this is the kind of course to which he is often seduced, as we frequently witness it; viz. to feel a sort of dislike and contempt for his ordinary worldly business as something beneath him. He knows he must have what Scripture calls a spiritual mind, and he fancies that to have a spiritual mind it is absolutely necessary to renounce all earnestness or activity in his worldly employments, to profess to take no interest in them, to despise the natural and ordinary pleasures of life, violating the customs of society, adopting a melancholy air and a sad tone of voice, and remaining silent and absent when among his natural friends and relatives, as if saying to himself, "I have much higher thoughts than to engage in all these perishing miserable things;" acting with constraint and difficulty in the things about him; making efforts to turn things which occur to the purpose of what he considers spiritual reflection; using certain Scripture phrases and expressions; delighting to exchange Scripture sentiments with persons whom he meets of his own way of thinking; nay, making visible and audible signs of deep feeling when Scripture or other religious subjects are mentioned, and the like. He thinks he lives out of the world, and out of its engagements, if he shuts (as it were) his eyes, and sits down doing nothing. Altogether he looks upon his worldly occupation simply as a burden and a cross, and considers it all gain to be able to throw it off; and the sooner he can release himself from it, and the oftener, so much the better.
Now I am far from denying that a man's worldly occupation may be his cross. Again, I am far from denying that under circumstances it may be right even to retire from the world. But I am speaking of cases when it is a person's duty to remain in his worldly calling, and when he does remain in it, but when he cherishes dissatisfaction with it: whereas what he ought to feel is this, -- that while in it he is to glorify God, not out of it, but in it, and by means of it, according to the Apostle's direction, "not slothful in business, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord." The Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour is best served, and with the most fervent spirit, when men are not slothful in business, but do their duty in that state of life in which it has pleased God to call them.
Now what leads such a person into this mistake is, that he sees that most men who engage cheerfully and diligently in worldly business, do so from a worldly spirit, from a low carnal love of the world; and so he thinks it is his duty, on the contrary, not to take a cheerful part in the world's business at all. And it cannot be denied that the greater part of the world is absorbed in the world; so much so that I am almost afraid to speak of the duty of being active in our worldly business, lest I should seem to give countenance to that miserable devotion to the things of time and sense, that love of bustle and management, that desire of gain, and that aiming at influence and importance, which abound on all sides. Bad as it is to be languid and indifferent in our secular duties, and to account this religion, yet it is far worse to be the slaves of this world, and to have our hearts in the concerns of this world. I do not know any thing more dreadful than a state of mind which is, perhaps, the characteristic of this country, and which the prosperity of this country so miserably fosters. I mean that ambitious spirit, to use a great word, but I know no other word to express my meaning -- that low ambition which sets every one on the look-out to succeed and to rise in life, to amass money, to gain power, to depress his rivals, to triumph over his hitherto superiors, to affect a consequence and a gentility which he had not before, to affect to have an opinion on high subjects, to pretend to form a judgment upon sacred things, to choose his religion, to approve and condemn according to his taste, to become a partizan in extensive measures for the supposed temporal benefit of the community, to indulge the vision of great things which are to come, great improvements, great wonders: all things vast, all things new, -- this most fearfully earthly and grovelling spirit is likely, alas! to extend itself more and more among our countrymen, -- an intense, sleepless, restless, never-wearied, never-satisfied, pursuit of Mammon in one shape or other, to the exclusion of all deep, all holy, all calm, all reverent thoughts. This is the spirit in which, more or less (according to their different tempers), men do commonly engage in concerns of this world; and I repeat it, better, far better, were it to retire from the world altogether than thus to engage in it -- better with Elijah to fly to the desert, than to serve Baal and Ashtoreth in Jerusalem.
But the persons I speak of, as despising this world, are far removed from the spirit of Elijah. To flee from the world, or strenuously to resist it, implies an energy and strength of mind which they have not. They do neither one thing nor the other; they neither flee it, nor engage zealously in its concerns; but they remain in the midst of them, doing them in an indolent and negligent way, and think this is to be spiritually minded; or, as in other cases, they really take an interest in them, and yet speak as if they despised them.
But surely it is possible to "serve the Lord," yet not to be "slothful in business;" not over devoted to it, but not to retire from it. We may do all things whatever we are about to God's glory; we may do all things heartily, as to the Lord, and not to man, being both active yet meditative; and now let me give some instances to show what I mean.
1. "Do all to the glory of God," says St. Paul, in the text; nay, "whether we eat or drink;" so that it appears nothing is too slight or trivial to glorify Him in. We will suppose then, to take the case mentioned just now; we will suppose a man who has lately had more serious thoughts than he had before, and determines to live more religiously. In consequence of the turn his mind has taken he feels a distaste for his worldly occupation, whether he is in trade, or in any mechanical employment which allows little exercise of mind. He now feels he would rather be in some other business, though in itself his present occupation is quite lawful and pleasing to God. The ill-instructed man will at once get impatient and quit it; or if he does not quit it, at least he will be negligent and indolent in it. But the true penitent will say to himself, "No; if it be an irksome employment, so much the more does it suit me. I deserve no better. I do not deserve to be fed even with husks. I am bound to afflict my soul for my past sins. If I were to go in sackcloth and ashes, if I were to live on bread and water, if I were to wash the feet of the poor day by day, it would not be too great an humiliation; and the only reason I do not, is, that I have no call that way, it would look ostentatious. Gladly then will I hail an inconvenience which will try me without any one's knowing it. Far from repining, I will, through God's grace, go cheerfully about what I do not like. I will deny myself. I know that with His help what is in itself painful, will thus be pleasant as done towards Him. I know well that there is no pain but may be borne comfortably, by the thought of Him, and by His grace, and the strong determination of the will; nay, none but may soothe and solace me. Even the natural taste and smell may be made to like what they naturally dislike; even bitter medicine, which is nauseous to the palate, may by a resolute will become tolerable. Nay, even sufferings and torture, such as martyrs have borne, have before now been rejoiced in and embraced heartily from love to Christ. I then, a sinner, will take this light inconvenience in a generous way, pleased at the opportunity of disciplining myself, and with self-abasement, as needing a severe penitence. If there be parts in my occupation which I especially dislike, if it requires a good deal of moving about and I wish to be at home, or if it be sedentary and I wish to be in motion, or if it requires rising early and I like to rise late, or if it makes me solitary and I like to be with friends, all this unpleasant part, as far as is consistent with my health, and so that it is not likely to be a snare to me, I will choose by preference. Again, I see my religious views are a hindrance to me. I see persons are suspicious of me. I see that I offend people by my scrupulousness. I see that to get on in life requires far more devotion to my worldly business than I can give consistently with my duty to God, or without its becoming a temptation to me. I know that I ought not, and (please God) I will not, sacrifice my religion to it. My religious seasons and hours shall be my own. I will not countenance any of the worldly dealings and practices, the over-reaching ways, the sordid actions in which others indulge. And if I am thrown back in life thereby, if I make less gains or lose friends, and so come to be despised, and find others rise in the world while I remain where I was, hard though this be to bear, it is an humiliation which becomes me in requital for my sins, and in obedience to God; and a very slight one it is, merely to be deprived of worldly successes, or rather it is a gain. And this may be the manner in which Almighty God will make an opening for me, if it is His blessed will, to leave my present occupation. But leave it without a call from God, I certainly must not. On the contrary, I will work in it the more diligently, as far as higher duties allow me."
2. A second reason which will animate the Christian will be a desire of letting his light shine before men. He will aim at winning others by his own diligence and activity. He will say to himself, "My parents" or "my master" or "employer shall never say of me, Religion has spoiled him. They shall see me more active and alive than before. I will be punctual and attentive, and adorn the Gospel of God our Saviour. My companions shall never have occasion to laugh at any affectation of religious feeling in me. No, I will affect nothing. In a manly way I will, with God's blessing, do my duty. I will not, as far as I can help, dishonour His service by any strangeness or extravagance of conduct, any unreality of words, any over-softness or constraint of manner; but they shall see that the fear of God only makes those who cherish it more respectable in the world's eyes as well as more heavenly-minded. What a blessed return it will be for God's mercies to me, if I, who am like a brand plucked out of the burning, be allowed, through His great mercy, to recommend that Gospel to others which He has revealed to me, and to recommend it, as on the one hand by my strictness in attending God's ordinances, in discountenancing vice and folly, and by a conscientious walk; so, on the other hand, by all that is of good report in social life, by uprightness, honesty, prudence, and straightforwardness, by good temper, good-nature, and brotherly love!"
3. Thankfulness to Almighty God, nay, and the inward life of the Spirit itself, will be additional principles causing the Christian to labour diligently in his calling. He will see God in all things. He will recollect our Saviour's life. Christ was brought up to a humble trade. When he labours in his own, he will think of his Lord and Master in His. He will recollect that Christ went down to Nazareth and was subject to His parents, that He walked long journeys, that He bore the sun's heat and the storm, and had not where to lay His head. Again, he knows that the Apostles had various employments of this world before their calling; St. Andrew and St. Peter fishers, St. Matthew a tax-gatherer, and St. Paul, even after his calling, still a tent-maker. Accordingly, in whatever comes upon him, he will endeavour to discern and gaze (as it were) on the countenance of his Saviour. He will feel that the true contemplation of that Saviour lies in his worldly business, that as Christ is seen in the poor, and in the persecuted, and in children, so is He seen in the employments which He puts upon His chosen, whatever they be; that in attending to his own calling he will be meeting Christ; that if he neglect it, he will not on that account enjoy His presence at all the more, but that while performing it, he will see Christ revealed to his soul amid the ordinary actions of the day, as by a sort of sacrament. Thus he will take his worldly business as a gift from Him, and will love it as such.
4. True humility is another principle which will lead us to desire to glorify God in our worldly employments if possible, instead of resigning them. Christ evidently puts His greater blessings on those whom the world despises. He has bid His followers take the lowest seat. He says that he who would be great must be as the servant of all, that he who humbleth himself shall be exalted; and He Himself washed His disciples' feet. Nay, He tells us, that He will gird Himself, and serve them who have watched for Him, an astonishing condescension, which makes us almost dumb with fear and rejoicing. All this has its effect upon the Christian, and he sets about his business with alacrity, and without a moment's delay, delighting to humble himself, and to have the opportunity of putting himself in that condition of life which our Lord especially blest.
5. Still further, he will use his worldly business as a means of keeping him from vain and unprofitable thoughts. One cause of the heart's devising evil is, that time is given it to do so. The man who has his daily duties, who lays out his time for them hour by hour, is saved a multitude of sins which have not time to get hold upon him. The brooding over insults received, or the longing after some good not granted, or regret at losses which have befallen us, or at the loss of friends by death, or the attacks of impure and shameful thoughts, these are kept off from him who takes care to be diligent and well employed. Leisure is the occasion of all evil. Idleness is the first step in the downward path which leads to hell. If we do not find employment to engage our minds with, Satan will be sure to find his own employment for them. Here we see the difference of motive with which a religious and a worldly-minded man may do the same thing. Suppose a person has had some sad affliction, say a bereavement: men of this world, having no pleasure in religion, not liking to dwell on a loss to them irreparable, in order to drown reflection, betake themselves to worldly pursuits to divert their thoughts and banish gloom. The Christian under the same circumstances does the same thing; but it is from a fear lest he should relax and enfeeble his mind by barren sorrow; from a dread of becoming discontented; from a belief that he is pleasing God better, and is likely to secure his peace more fully, by not losing time; from a feeling that, far from forgetting those whom he has lost by thus acting, he shall only enjoy the thought of them the more really and the more religiously.
6. Lastly, we see what judgment to give in a question sometimes agitated, whether one should retire from our worldly business at the close of life, to give our thoughts more entirely to God. To wish to do so is so natural, that I suppose there is no one who would not wish it. A great many persons are not allowed the privilege, a great many are allowed it through increasing infirmities or extreme old age; but every one, I conceive, if allowed to choose, would think it a privilege to be allowed it, though a great many would find it difficult to determine when was the fit time. But let us consider what is the reason of this so natural a wish. I fear that it is often not a religious wish, often only partially religious. I fear a great number of persons who aim at retiring from the world's business, do so under the notion of their then enjoying themselves somewhat after the manner of the rich man in the Gospel, who said, "Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years." If this is the predominant aim of any one, of course I need not say that it is a fatal sin, for Christ Himself has said so. Others there are who are actuated by a mixed feeling; they are aware that they do not give so much time to religion as they ought; they do not live by rule; nay, they are not satisfied with the correctness or uprightness of some of the practices or customs which their way of life requires of them, and they get tired of active business as life goes on, and wish to be at ease. So they look to their last years as a time of retirement, in which they may both enjoy themselves and prepare for heaven. And thus they satisfy both their conscience and their love of the world. At present religion is irksome to them; but then, as they hope, duty and pleasure will go together. Now, putting aside all other mistakes which such a frame of mind evidences, let it be observed, that if they are at present not serving God with all their hearts, but look forward to a time when they shall do so, then it is plain that, when at length they do put aside worldly cares and turn to God, if ever they do, that time must necessarily be a time of deep humiliation, if it is to be acceptable to Him, not a comfortable retirement. Who ever heard of a pleasurable, easy, joyous repentance? It is a contradiction in terms. These men, if they do but reflect a moment, must confess that their present mode of life, supposing it be not so strict as it should be, is heaping up tears and groans for their last years, not enjoyment. The longer they live as they do at present, not only the more unlikely is it that they will repent at all; but even if they do, the more bitter, the more painful must their repentance be. The only way to escape suffering for sin hereafter is to suffer for it here. Sorrow here or misery hereafter; they cannot escape one or the other.
Not for any worldly reason, then, not on any presumptuous or unbelieving motive, does the Christian desire leisure and retirement for his last years. Nay, he will be content to do without these blessings, and the highest Christian of all is he whose heart is so stayed on God, that he does not wish or need it; whose heart is so set on things above, that things below as little excite, agitate, unsettle, distress, and seduce him, as they stop the course of nature, as they stop the sun and moon, or change summer and winter. Such were the Apostles, who, as the heavenly bodies, went out "to all lands," full of business, and yet full too of sweet harmony, even to the ends of the earth. Their calling was heavenly, but their work was earthly; they were in labour and trouble till the last; yet consider how calmly St. Paul and St. Peter write in their last days. St. John, on the other hand, was allowed in a great measure, to retire from the cares of his pastoral charge, and such, I say, will be the natural wish of every religious man, whether his ministry be spiritual or secular; but, not in order to begin to fix his mind on God, but merely because, though he may contemplate God as truly and be as holy in heart in active business as in quiet, still it is more becoming and suitable to meet the stroke of death (if it be allowed us) silently, collectedly, solemnly, than in a crowd and a tumult. And hence it is, among other reasons, that we pray in the Litany to be delivered "from sudden death."
On the whole, then, what I have said comes to this, that whereas Adam was sentenced to labour as a punishment, Christ has by His coming sanctified it as a means of grace and a sacrifice of thanksgiving, a sacrifice cheerfully to be offered up to the Father in His name.
It is very easy to speak and teach this, difficult to do it; very difficult to steer between the two evils, -- to use this world as not abusing it, to be active and diligent in this world's affairs, yet not for this world's sake, but for God's sake. It requires the greater effort for a minister of Christ to speak of it, for this reason; because he is not called upon in the same sense in which others are to practise the duty. He is not called, as his people are, to the professions, the pursuits, and cares of this world; his work is heavenly, and to it he gives himself wholly. It is a work which, we trust, is not likely to carry him off from God; not only because it is His work, but, what is a more sure reason, because commonly it gains no great thanks from men. However, for this reason it is difficult for Christian ministers to speak about your trial in this matter, my brethren, because it is not theirs. We are tried by the command to live out of the world, and you by the command to live in it.
May God give us grace in our several spheres and stations to do His will and adorn His doctrine; that whether we eat and drink, or fast and pray, labour with our hands or with our minds, journey about or remain at rest, we may glorify Him who has purchased us with His own blood!
[1] Acts i.11.
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Open source politics?
September 8, 2011 | Leave a comment
Today’s debate between Republican Presidential hopefuls underlined how broken the current accepted political systems are. Real change, real hope, is very hard to find. I shared the following thought in a few places:
Party politics has to be the next major model to be disrupted by the Internet. If you want to change the world, that’s the big fish.
What might an Internet-informed political framework look like? How would it interact with legacy parties like the Republicans and the Democrats?
The term open source politics was bandied around in the 2004 US election, but at no point did anyone really mean open (policy decisions were always closed to deep participation from the outside world) or source (the underlying decision-making processes were fixed).
But what if we had a political party that really did work like an open source project? Software developed under an open source methodology is typically written in the open, with each changeset published to the world. The code is secure; it can’t be edited by just anyone. Instead, users can fix problems or suggest new features by submitting issues – text descriptions of bugs or new feature requests – or patches – actual code that implements these changes. A user can easily submit a patch that fixes another user’s issue. It’s then up to the project team to merge in the patches and accept or reject issues.
The same processes could work in politics. We already have organizations like mySociety and the Sunlight Foundation that effectively maintain issue lists for localities (see FixMyStreet) and shine light on the legislative process. If those things were formalized and not just endorsed but embraced by government, I believe the result would be a significantly fairer system.
For example, imagine if lobbyists were forced to propose changes to legislation in public, as a patch. Imagine if the Startup Visa campaign could have submitted their legislation as a patch in a centralized place. Imagine if local issues could be linked across a centralized platform to show patterns in public, and if people could submit legislative solutions.
A lot of things would need to be done before this could even begin to be viable. Open source projects suffer a reasonable amount of trolling; imagine what a government would have to endure. There would need to be a good way to filter submissions while ensuring that everyone had a fair chance to be heard. It’s probably a naïve idea; certainly one that isn’t likely to be implemented any time soon. But I can dream.
Photo credit: Rick Perry (who I’m pretty sure compared himself to Galileo today) by Gage Skidmore, released under a Creative Commons license.
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I. A Christian Liturgy, or a devout and rational Form cf divine Worstiip; composed chiefly out of the devotional Parts of the sacred Scriptures, and the most antient Liturgies of the Christian Church, especially those in the Apostolical Constitutions. To which is prefixed, some Observations on the Liturgy of the Church of England; upon the present Way of Worship in the Church of Scotland, and among the Protestant Dissenters of all Denominations. Together with an earnest Recommendation of pre-composed Forms of divine Worship to the latter. By a Protestant Dissenter. Price is.
a. A Discourse concerning, I. The true Import of the Words Election and Reprobation ; and the Things signified bv them in the Holy Scriptures. II. The Extent of Christ's Redemption. III. The Grace of God; where it is inquired, whether it be vouchsased sufficiently to those, Who improve it not, and irresistibly to those who do improve it; and whether Men be wholly passive in the Work of Regeneration? IV. The Liberty of the Will in a State of Trial and Probation. V. The Perseverance or Desectibility of the Saints; with some Reflections on the State of Heathens, the Providence and Prescience of God. By Danitl Wbitty, D. D. The second Edition, corrected.
3. Christ the Righteousness of his People; or the Doctrine of Justification by Faith in him. Represented in several Sermons preach'd at the Merchants Lecture at Pinners-Hall. By Richard Ravulin. Publtfh'd at the Request of the Committee of the Lecture.
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THE following Essay proposes to examine the Scripture-Doftrine of Faith z to rescue it from the Mistakes of Believers, and the Artifices of Unbelievers: to invite the one to a free, the other to a sober Use of their Faculties: to prevail, if possible, on Both to renounce their respective Prejudices; and to recommend, as far as I may, the united Aids of Reason and Revelation. To pursue these Points particularly, and in the iVay of direct Proof, would require more A 2 Time lime and Pains, and be less likely to take Effetf. I have therefore applied my self to the Removal of Impediments, and the . Solution oj Difficulties: especially such Difficulties, as appear to have been chiefly instrumental in retarding the Progress of Christian Knowlege. In what Method this
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I T seems of late a prevailing Opinion among the speculative Part of Mankind, that Moral Excellence means nothing more thaji
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this Notion, is no Part of my present Design. But I judge it necejjary to premise, that, on Supposition of the Truth of it, the main Difficulty, considered in my first Section, will appear to be no Difficulty at all If Ac!ions themselves, have no other Goodness, ^besides their Connection with Public Happiness; / believe it will be impossible to assign any Reason, why Opinions should be thought incapable of Moral Worth. For surely it is of great and general Importance, , that Men Jl:ould judge rightly in
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Impossible Owls: Essays (Paperback)
(CRITICAL THEORY)
This quirky, clever essay collection showcases an impressive variety of topics. Part travelogue, part memoir, and part investigative journalism, Phillips applies his sense of humor and keen observations throughout the work. Phillips’ writing is reminiscent of David Sedaris, but with less snark and more heart.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. SEMI-FINALIST FOR THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR ART OF THE ESSAY.
One of Amazon, Buzzfeed, ELLE, Electric Literature and Pop Sugar's Best Books of 2018. Named one of the Best Books of October and Fall by Amazon, Buzzfeed, TIME, Vulture, The Millions and Vol. 1 Brooklyn.
“Hilarious, nimble, and thoroughly illuminating.” —Colson Whitehead, author of The Underground Railroad
A globe-spanning, ambitious book of essays from one of the most enthralling storytellers in narrative nonfiction
In his highly anticipated debut essay collection, Impossible Owls, Brian Phillips demonstrates why he’s one of the most iconoclastic journalists of the digital age, beloved for his ambitious, off-kilter, meticulously reported essays that read like novels.
The eight essays assembled here—five from Phillips’s Grantland and MTV days, and three new pieces—go beyond simply chronicling some of the modern world’s most uncanny, unbelievable, and spectacular oddities (though they do that, too). Researched for months and even years on end, they explore the interconnectedness of the globalized world, the consequences of history, the power of myth, and the ways people attempt to find meaning. He searches for tigers in India, and uncovers a multigenerational mystery involving an oil tycoon and his niece turned stepdaughter turned wife in the Oklahoma town where he grew up. Through each adventure, Phillips’s remarkable voice becomes a character itself—full of verve, rich with offhanded humor, and revealing unexpected vulnerability.
Dogged, self-aware, and radiating a contagious enthusiasm for his subjects, Phillips is an exhilarating guide to the confusion and wonder of the world today. If John Jeremiah Sullivan’s Pulphead was the last great collection of New Journalism from the print era, Impossible Owls is the first of the digital age.
Brian Phillips is a former staff writer for Grantland and a former senior writer for MTV News. He has written for The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, and Slate, among other publications, and his work has appeared in Best American Sports Writing and Best American Magazine Writing. He lives in central Pennsylvania. Impossible Owls is his first book.
"An absolute blast . . . [Phillips] is able to navigate extraordinary circumstances with curiosity, playfulness, and humility, and his enthusiasm is best seen in his extensive research within these communities and their histories. And this is why I couldn't get enough of this book: Phillips is the perfect adventure guide — down for anything, talented enough to translate the experience." --Arianna Rebolini, Buzzfeed (Best Books of Fall 2018)
"Brian Phillips has a wonderful way of taking readers to entirely unfamiliar places in nature (the Yukon) and in culture (sumo wrestling), and translating those experiences into something that feels visceral, even for people who are stuck at their computers all day. Believe the John Jeremiah Sullivan comparisons and get lost in this captivating essay collection, which brings to life both the extraordinary and the mundane." --Maris Kreizman, Vulture
"As a journalist, Brian Phillips is willing to fall down a rabbit hole to uncover a mosaic of detail within a particular subject. This collection of essays presents some of his greatest examinations into the odd and intriguing . . . Philips takes readers down unexpected paths that are as world-expanding as they are entertaining." --Wilder Davies, TIME
"Brian Phillips has a way of making you care about the things he cares about in the way he cares about them, which is passionately, almost obsessively . . . The essays are invigorating and muscular; the perspective is enthusiastic and vital; the book is a must-get." --R. Eric Thomas, Elle (Best Books of 2018)
"Phillips is a long-form journalist of the old school, a deep research artist, and a killer stylist. His digressive and frequently hilarious explorations . . . ecall the work of John Jeremiah Sullivan and the late David Foster Wallace, with a dash of Janet Malcolm. Impossible Owls is an absorbing and totally distinctive exploration of wildly disparate corners of our world." --Taylor Antrim, Vogue
"[Brian Phillips's] keen eye is absolutely integral to his work, as is his presence in each piece. But he remains the narrator, the observer, he turns his investigations outward rather than inward; he never becomes the subject. Instead, he leads us into the hearts and minds of others, and in doing so, opens portals to times, places and lives outside both our and his first-hand experiences . . . One of the delights of this collection is Phillips’s ability to make the unknown familiar and the unfamiliar known . . . Impossible Owls is layered, narratively organised and analytical on a diverse, often unexpected range of subjects." --Lucy Scholes, The National
"Brian Phillips’s essays are out of this world: big-hearted, exhaustive, unrelentingly curious, and goddamned fun. It’s about time he graced us with this collection." --Nick Moran, The Millions
"[Phillips] has now established himself as a master of long form reporting that is indistinguishable from the literary essay, through which he bares witness to our contemporary moment." --Los Angeles Review of Books
"Eclectic and witty." --Pop Sugar
"[Phillips's] stories feel boyish in the best sense: fresh-faced and adventuresome, casually funny or lyrical as the moment demands." --Harvard Magazine
"Enthralling nonfiction . . . What holds these styles together is Phillips's smart, readable prose as well his obsession with all things alien—the foreign, the puzzling, and the paranormal." --Max McKenna, PopMatters
“Again and again, Impossible Owls proves that Brian Phillips is a cultural codebreaker of the highest order, unlocking the hidden systems of our mad world. Hilarious, nimble, and thoroughly illuminating.” —Colson Whitehead, author of The Underground Railroad
"Long-form narratives both diverting and engaging . . . [Phillips's] keen sensitivities color each scene, and he rarely hides his feelings about the figures he meets. Phillips has fashioned a calling for himself as an American flâneur, casting out into post-colonial frontiers and marveling at the oddities he encounters from the comfortable distance of unsupervised creative prose . . . [Full of] genuine insight the author dredges up from his experiences as well as the sense of a full human mind at large in the world that so many of his recollections approximate." —Kirkus (starred review)
"When Phillips, a jazzy John McPhee, ventures out into the world in pursuit of understanding of a place, mystery, vocation, or obsession, he is attention incarnate. The resulting prismatic descriptions power his vibrant, multidimensional essays, which are built on rich veins of research and further enlivened with crisply recounted conversations and convivially self-deprecating glimpses into his state of mind." —Booklist
“There is a section in Impossible Owls where Brian Phillips writes about tigers, and he notes that what's most astonishing about the animal is not its size or power or beauty, but its capacity to disappear. This is an excellent description of a tiger, but also an excellent description of how Phillips writes. These are big, powerful, beautiful essays—but no matter how personal the content, he just seems to disappear into the paragraphs.” —Chuck Klosterman, author of But What if We’re Wrong? and Eating the Dinosaur
“I most love Impossible Owls for how it sends me returning to the central question that I enjoy most in any work I find chasing after: what do we, as writers, owe a single idea, but to stretch it out beyond whatever our imaginations thought possible? I love that this is a book of highways and historical touchstones and large geographic shifts. But I also love that at the heart of those bigger things, there is the gentle touch of Brian Phillips underneath it all, creating a landscape for a reader to see not his work, but to better see themselves.” —Hanif Abdurraqib, author of They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us
“Impossible Owls takes you deep into worlds both far-flung and familiar — tiger trails, tiny towns of the Yukon, Route 66, a Walmart parking lot. Brian Phillips riffs and reports with abiding curiosity and incisive humor. A fantastic, transporting read.” —Jessica Hopper, author of The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic
“The journeys that make up Impossible Owls lead us to some remarkable, unpredictable places, from the Alaskan wilderness to a supermarket parking lot in southern Japan, from an old movie palace in Moscow to the underground histories of northern Oklahoma. But these far-flung tales all share the same inspirational spark: Brian Phillips' soulful, intrepid spirit, and his masterful ability at turning everyday curiosities into epic quests that you can't stop reading.” —Hua Hsu, author of A Floating Chinaman: Fantasy and Failure Across the Pacific
“Brian Phillips's Impossible Owls takes the American essay in new direction— these narratives are simultaneously stories of questing and strandedness. Characters and landscapes become knowable and disorienting. Tigers, royals, mysterious Russian artists and foreign countries are subjects of Phillips's close, careful journalism, as well as representatives of all the glittering, un-graspable things that lie outside us. Witty, pensive, sometimes whimsical, always truthful, Impossible Owls is testament to Phillips's gift for enchantment, and his genius for knowing exactly where our alienation from the world meets our sympathy for it.” — Supriya Nair
"Entertaining, eclectic, and often insightful . . . Phillips’s narrative voice is consistently appealing, and often laugh-out-loud funny . . . Phillips’s essays leave readers with newfound appreciation for subjects they may not have considered before." —Publishers Weekly
"This eclectic collection from journalist Phillips combines in-depth reporting with personal histories to explore broadly the contemporary human condition . . . The subjects have broad appeal and would be enjoyed by anyone interested in New Journalism as a literary genre. Phillips's essays are not only fascinating and thoroughly researched but written in a distinctive voice that conveys humor, awareness, and vulnerability." —Library Journal
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Nyabadza, F., Kgosimore, M. & Lungu, E. M., Dec 1 2012, Nova Science Publishers, Inc. 238 p.
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Cristea, V. M. & Agachi, P. S., 2014, de Gruyter. 360 p.
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Flipkart bumps up Myntra's annual budget by 25%
Narayanan said Myntra would use the additional money to upgrade technology and to also invest in 3-4 small to medium ethnic brands to ramp up the company’s ethnic offerings
Rasul Bailay
ET Bureau
Updated: May 11, 2017, 08:51 IST
Myntra.com said that its parent company, Flipkart, had hiked its annual budget by a quarter in a bid to bolster Myntra’s position as the country’s largest online fashion retailer. The hike comes amid reports earlier this year that Flipkart intends to cut its annual outlay for Myntra. “This year we got 25% extra money from the Flipkart board,” said Ananth Narayanan, chief executive of Myntra that was acquired by Flipkart for $300 million in 2014. He declined to specify Myntra’s total annual budget.
Narayanan said Myntra would use the additional money to upgrade technology and to also invest in 3-4 small to medium ethnic brands to ramp up the company’s ethnic offerings.
“We will just invest in those brands and that will eventually be run by the entrepreneurs. In addition to our operating budget, our board has asked us to thoughtfully invest more in areas such as technology and brands which will help us continue on our growth trajectory and achieve profitability by March 2018,” Narayanan said in an interview in New Delhi. A boost in Myntra’s budget comes close on the heels of Flipkart’s announcement last month that it had raised $1.4 billion funding from global giants Microsoft, eBay and WeChat-investor Tencent.
Narayanan said the additional budget will boost Myntra’s chance of reaching its milestone of becoming profitable by March 2018 along with Jabong. com, the rival online fashion portal that Myntra acquired last year for $70 million.
The latest fund enhancement for Myntra is a welcome break as ET had earlier this year reported that Flipkart is planning to slash its annual outlay for Myntra as the country’s largest ecommerce company is reallocating resources in its fight against rival Amazon, which is closing in on it and ploughing billions of dollars into India. However, a source said Flipkart’s decision changed especially after the latest fund infusion of $1.4 billion by the marquee foreign investors.
Myntra currently operates a so-called hybrid model where it buys products from vendors to sell on the platforms as well as it runs a marketplace where vendors sell directly on the site without routing it through Vector E-commerce, the largest vendor on Myntra. Now, a host of brands that sell on Myntra said the online retailer is asking them to shift from the earlier model of selling their products to Vector E-commerce to listing directly on its marketplace.
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BREAKING NEWS PAKISTAN POLITICS, NEWS, REVIEWS, FASHION, SPORTS
Home Technology Xiaomi Welcomes Lenovo’s Former Vice President Chang Cheng
Xiaomi Welcomes Lenovo’s Former Vice President Chang Cheng
Mahnoor Nadeem
Chang Cheng, Lenovo’s Vice President and Head of Lenovo Mobile China, announced his retirement from the company on 18th December 2019 with Lenovo’s founder Mr. Liu Chuanzhi retiring the same day. Cheng had joined Lenovo in 2000 as the Director of Research and Development of the notebook business unit and was appointed as the vice president of the company in 2011.
Since the start of his vice presidency, the company struggled to keep afloat in the competitive smartphone market. Hence, throughout his tenure, he was under massive pressure to deliver results. 19 years after joining Lenovo, Mr. Cheng announced his departure citing health issues and saying that he wants to spend some time with family.
Weirdly, hardly after two weeks after taking a leave from Lenovo, Mr. Chang Cheng has joined Xiaomi as the president of the Xiaomi group. He will be responsible for the product planning of the Xiaomi and Redmi smartphones.
The news was confirmed by Lei Jun, founder, CEO, and chairman of Xiaomi when he welcomed Mr. Cheng as the President of the Chinese tech giant. Moreover, Chang Cheng also confirmed the appointment himself by posting on his Weibo account.
Mr. Chang will be responsible for product planning for both Xiaomi and Redmi smartphones, meaning that future phones will be launched under his supervision. We’ll have to wait and see what direction Mr. Chang steers the Chinese phone maker towards during his tenure.
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Former president Jacob Zuma's top 5 tweets since joining Twitter
a year ago 361 views by Samantha Riddle
Msholozi shocked the nation when he signed up for Twitter, Briefly.co.za takes a look at what he has been up to in his debut to the social media platform
Jacob Zuma amused the nation on Friday when he created his very own profile on social media platform Twitter.
Announcing his debut with a short clip, he said he had become aware that he was the subject of a lot of discussions online and wanted to be a part of the conversation.
In the video, the former president revealed that he had joined Twitter in an attempt to ‘move with the times’.
As of today, Zuma has posted 13 Tweets and Briefly.co.za was curious to see which of them had gained the most attention.
Debut on Twitter video
In an effort to convince people that it was truly the one and only Jacob Zuma joining their ranks, Msholozi posted a video to confirm his identity.
In the video, he assured his nearly 120 000 followers that the account @PresJGZuma was truly him.
Soccer clip
Another popular post was a short clip of the former president playing soccer with a group of small children. He tagged Bafana Bafana in the post, saying that someone should let Stuart Baxter know he is match ready.
READ ALSO: Year in review: 2018 has been a busy year for ex-president Jacob Zuma
Sunday Times shade
Taking an opportunity to throw some shade at the Sunday Times, Zuma posted a tongue-in-cheek Tweet about a 2017 article by the newspaper, claiming he owned a property in Dubai.
He asked that the newspaper should supply him with more information on the house so that he could sell it and use the money to cover his legal fees.
Duduzane imposter
With his account gaining a lot of attention, it comes as no surprise that Jacob Zuma had a few parody accounts trying to get a piece of the action.
One user who was impersonating the former president's son took the opportunity to welcome Zuma to Twitter and was rewarded with a response.
Fundraising Fake
With only 11 characters Zuma shut down an attempt by a user to capitalize on the attention surrounding the former president's financial woes. Jacob definitely did not waste time mincing words with this short but clear post.
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