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Home Music HOSH Drops Scintillating New Single, ‘Midnight (The Hanging Tree)’ Feat. Jalja
HOSH Drops Scintillating New Single, ‘Midnight (The Hanging Tree)’ Feat. Jalja
Akshay Bhanawat
German DJ, producer and label owner HOSH teams up with Italian newcomer 1979 on his new single ‘Midnight (The Hanging Tree)’ Feat Jalja, which sees its commercial release on Friday 10th January via Three Six Zero Recordings.
A scintillating slice of melodic house, with vocals by London based singer Jalja, ‘Midnight (The Hanging Tree)’ Feat. Jalja sees HOSH and 1979 craft a sparse, emotive soundscape that lingers long in the memory. The stunning official video sees Tim Burton-reminiscent animation that acts as a perfect visual representation of the track’s eerie yet emotive vibe.
“This track happened like a magic call,” HOSH explains. “When 1979 sent me an instrumental it made a click and in my head I heard the hanging tree vocal on top of it. It turned out it was a perfect match, so I took it from there, made my adjustments and re-recorded the vocal with the talented Jalja.”
Previously released exclusively on Beatport in December 2019 via HOSH’s fryhide label, ‘Midnight (The Hanging Tree)’ Feat. Jalja reached #1 in Melodic House and Techno Tracks playlist and currently sits at #2 in the main Beatport Chart. The track has now been picked up by Radio 1 selectors Annie Mac as this week’s ‘Hottest Record’ and was previously Pete Tong’s Essential New Tune, the first of the decade. The release coincides with HOSH’s set at Berlin’s Watergate on 11th January, while he will also travel to Brazil to play at the fabled Warung Beach Club the following Friday, 17th January.
Affiliated with Diynamic Music and label boss of fryhide, the Hamburg-born artist has been an active member of the electronic music scene for over 15 years. Having made a melodic mark on the scene with the success of releases such as ‘Woohoo’ and ‘Cilantro’ which amassed a combined 5.8 million Spotify streams, HOSH has firmly cemented his position as one of the most diverse artists in the electronic music industry.
A renowned producer and high-quality remixer, HOSH has received support from revered producers Solomon, Tale Of Us, Dubfire, CamelPhat, Solardo, Auntie Flo, Yotto and many more. On the gig front, HOSH enjoyed a typically hectic tour schedule for 2019, performing at the likes of E1 London, Heart Ibiza, Mystic Garden Festival and Exchange LA.
‘Midnight (The Hanging Tree)’ Feat. Jalja sees HOSH deliver another masterful track that’s destined to strike a chord with discerning electronic music lovers.
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Op/Ed: Buck stops with Legislative Assembly Management Committee
by Dermod Travis on Thursday August 22 2019
Interesting dynamics among some of the Legislative Assembly Management Committee (LAMC).
“It's your fault.” “No it's not, it's yours.” “Stop bickering, why don't we all just agree to blame it on the Speaker?” “We can't do that.” “Why not? It makes perfect sense and it gets us all off the hook at the same time.”
Hate to break up the blame game, but no matter how much a few MLAs want to lay it at someone else's doorstep, the fault belongs entirely to the members of the Legislative Assembly Management Committee (LAMC).
Interesting dynamics among some of its members. Two key ones are Sonia Furstenau and Mary Polak.
One could argue that Polak did more to bring about a new government in B.C. than the Speaker, Darry Plecas, ever did when he opted to become Speaker to help keep the legislature working.
Had it not been for Polak's mishandling of the Cobble Hill Holdings' quarry at Shawnigan Lake, when she was environment minister, the B.C. Liberal party might still be in power.
One of the individuals squaring off against the ministry back then was Furstenau, now a Green party MLA, and the quarry is often cited as one of the reasons why the Greens opted to support the NDP.
Attacking Plecas, directly – or by proxy through his chief of staff Alan Mullen – does seem to be the in-thing with a few members of LAMC, versus rolling up their sleeves and helping to fix the mess.
A mess that has been 'the orders of the day' at the legislature long before May 2013, when Plecas was first elected as an MLA, as most everyone at the legislature knows well.
You come away with an eerie sense of déjà vu reading the reports. One of the first early warnings came in 2000, nearly two decades ago.
In 2000, B.C.'s then auditor general, George L. Morfitt, in his Financial Administration of Vote 1 report – nothing like a catchy title – recommended that “LAMC provide an annual public report on the reasons for variances between budgeted and actual amounts.”
In his 2007 Special Audit Report to the Speaker, the then-interim auditor general, Arn Van Iersel, “identified a number of areas for improvement such as general accounting, internal controls, data management, and public reporting.”
He also recommended that business continuity and disaster recovery plans need to be completed and tested. Still a few kinks in that area.
By 2012, an exasperated auditor general John Doyle, informed LAMC that “he (had) anticipated that the Legislative Assembly would meet the basic financial management practices and accounting standards requirements established for the rest of government. However, the Legislative Assembly is clearly falling well short of these basic expectations.”
Doyle noted that he had not “been provided the opportunity to discuss any aspect of this audit with LAMC, as is typical practice, especially given the pervasive and significant nature of the issues identified.”
Yet again, the auditor general noted: “the Legislative Assembly does not produce financial statements (despite being recommended to do so in the 2007 report).”
In 2013, the report on those infamous retirement top ups, plus more on that dastardly paperwork thing.
The draft of that report was likely in the hands of then-Speaker Bill Barisoff weeks before its release, as is standard practice. It's an important yard stick to judge the actions of individuals.
Remember that South African 'safari' former speaker Linda Reid and her husband took in 2013, while attending the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association conference, and the resulting knock it off that echoed across B.C.?
Here's how the Times Colonist put it in an editorial in March 2014: “Stop talking about transparency and accountability, and walk the talk. Do it now, not at some fuzzy future date following a series of namby-pamby committee meetings and policy-planning sessions.”
Short-lived lesson.
The two frequent flyers at the legislature held their spending to a combined $34,572 in the following fiscal year, before the pair's tab jumped to $99,685 the next.
Slice it any way you want, but at the end of the day their record speaks for itself, LAMC failed to step up time and again and it's exactly where the buck stops today.
No one is coming out of this one without a few bruises and nicks. Want to speed things along? Get over your petty intra and inter-party spats and get on with it.
Dermod Travis is the executive director of IntegrityBC.
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When is the last time you told you your wife, husband, girlfriend you love them? If you love someone, you go out of the way to make the person feel comfortable around you. How do you do that? The hand of a mother caressing the child communicates love. In a marriage relationship, love has new depth of meaning in sexual relationship. In the workplace, love and support of colleagues sustains togetherness. 25 Inspirational Quotes For Every Occasion 18 Absolutely Inspiring Friendship Quotes The Best Motivational Video You Will Ever See Love is kind. Love is patient. Love never fails. You love the other people for whom they are and not they offer you back in return for your love. 1. Where can you find love? Love is not on sale in the market place. You’ve been looking for love without success. According to Loretta Young, “Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you.” loretta-young-quote-love-isnt-something-you-find-love-is-something-that 2. When you love someone, you do all it takes to maintain that euphoria feeling of affection. H. Jackson Brown, Jr. concludes that, “Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.” h-jackson-brown-jr-quote-love-is-when-the-other-persons-2 3. What is the difference between immature and mature love? Erich Fromm says, “Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.'” What is your answer? Yes. No. I don’t know. Pick on one. erich-fromm-quote-immature-love-says-i-love-you-because-i-need 4. “A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love,” Max Muller said. You need love and affection to function as a normal human being just as much as a flower needs sunshine to grow. These two elements of love and sunshine are inseparable. max-muller-quote-a-flower-cannot-blossom-without-sunshine-and-man-cannot 5. You’ve a pair of two physical eyes to observe and understand the world round about. You also have insight on matters of life not available on sight because, “Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye,” H. Jackson Brown, Jr. said. h-jackson-brown-jr-quote-sometimes-the-heart-sees-what-is-invisible 6. How would you like to meet the ghost of a dearly departed loved one? “True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen,” François de La Rochefoucauld remarked. Have you seen love? Then you must have seen a ghost. Share the news with someone today. franois-de-la-rochefoucauld-quote-true-love-is-like-ghosts-which-everyone 7. “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” Aristotle couldn’t have chosen a better description for love. Another way of echoing similar sentiments is that Love is two hearts that beat as one. aristotle-quote-love-is-composed-of-a-single-soul-inhabiting-two 8. You’ve been in love before. Forget about the fact not all lovers end up living happily ever after. How did love feel when it was fresh and cozy? 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Christ alone is able to say with authority, “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another,” Jesus Christ commanded his disciples. Do you love enough to lay your life down for someone? jesus-christ-quote-a-new-command-i-give-you-love-one-another 12. “Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier,” Mother Teresa said. This remarkable woman was the embodiment of true love demonstration through her selfless action of ministering to the poorest of the poor. mother-teresa-quote-spread-love-everywhere-you-go-let-no-one-ever 13. How long ago did the woman in your life whisper the words “I love you in your ears?” You probably heard these words one day, week, month ago. 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What is Atari in 2014? New chief says it's 'way, way' beyond T-shirts and licensing
Stephen Kleckner@sosadillatron May 18, 2014 12:58 PM
Image Credit: Atari
When my eyes caught an email invitation to meet with Frederic Chesnais, the new CEO of Atari, my tongue had a knee-jerk reaction.
“What the hell does Atari even mean now days?!?”
The outburst comes from a place many of you may sympathize with. I have the same love for the old-school cartridge factory that some of you may share as well. Atari was the original home gaming juggernaut, and it had a creative, cutting-edge image that was infectious. Before the big crash in 1983 and Nintendo absolutely dominating the later part of the ’80s, Atari was games. This isn’t fake nostalgia coming from a GamesBeat writer born a decade too late. I’m riding into my late 30s with enough 2600 cartridges to build four miniature Warlords-inspired forts in my living room.
The thing is, the Atari legacy has been split and sold several times over. I’d need a giant whiteboard and a crate of multicolor markers to attempt a diagram that makes sense, explaining who owned what of the classic gaming brand and which studios or corporate divisions wound up renaming themselves with some version of the Atari denotation since the 1980s.
The whiteboard drawing of rainbow spaghetti would eventually point to 2013, when Atari’s French mothership, Atari S.A. (aka Infogrames S.A.), and the related North American branches — Atari Inc., Atari Interactive, and Humongous Inc. — filed for bankruptcy. This also saw the U.S. entities attempting to separate themselves from the financial burdens of the French parent company.
Emerging from this convoluted chapter in the company’s long history, Chesnais currently owns and runs all of the post-bankruptcy Atari-based operations, which at least makes it simpler to understand who we are talking about when we say “Atari.”
Aside from dealing with the watered-down identity of the Atari legacy, however, Chesnais is also dealing with an industry that is changing radically. In 2014, everyone is racing to corner virtual reality hardware, independents are finally allowed free rein of the publishing asylum, the economies of the business has changed with concepts like free-to-play, and the mobile market has matured into a cornerstone platform of the industry. Now that Chesnais has control of the brand, where is he going to steer Atari in this new landscape?
Above: Time to hit the switch?
Chesnais is aware of the gigantic whiteboard diagram that I would have to draw in order to make sense of who owned the real Atari up to this point (and the degrees of separation from the original ’80s company everyone associates the logo with). “Yeah … that is one of the challenges we face in the next five years and we need to reposition the brand … gear it more for the future.” Chesnais reflects, “You know, Hasbro got it in the ’90s. Then Infogrames bought it [at the] end of the ’90s. Infogrames renamed itself Atari, but there was kind of, uh … no ‘real’ Atari. Frankly, the best [known] Atari games were all released 30 years ago, right? So I think it is important that we reposition the brand with meaning, taking advantage of social features, online features — but this is not something that we can do in two months or three months.”
Although enthusiasts like myself, who have peeked behind the curtain of the game industry and are aware of all the purchasing and restructuring, may see a brand with wavering identity – Chesnais sees a different reaction to Atari from the masses. “It’s a positive brand, because we show it to everyone and it reminds them of something positive and the appeal of the logo … so for me it’s synonymous with … it is positive. It is fun. It is entertainment. And it is something that we like. Even if we don’t know what [Atari is]. I go through customs and immigration; they ask me … they [customs agents] say, ‘What do you do?’ ‘I do video games.’ ‘Okay. Which company?’ ‘Atari.’ ‘Ahh! Atari!'”
Above: Games like Teleglitch have a distinct Atari homage style
Image Credit: Test3 Projects
One phenomenon Chesnais could take advantage of is the wave of retro-homage that the industry has been riding for the last five years. Although we are seeing the ’80s revival fading out of pop culture, being replaced by the 16-bit sensibility of young twentysomethings who grew up in the ’90s, there are still some 2600-inspired titles floating around the video game medium’s creative consciousness. Teleglitch, for example, is what I’d imagine Doom would look like if it were designed for the limitations of an Atari 2600 console. There is also the Bit.Trip series, which is obviously inspired by the visual sensibilities of the early Atari titles.
“Look, I can’t complain, and it’s true that for us, it is one of these things where we have a brand. … We have more than 220 IPs … games … most of them are really iconic. Look, we’re even in the MOMA, the Museum Of Metropolitan Arts in New York City. There’s an expo and we’re a part of the exposition on the video game side. So, yeah! For us, you know, it can’t hurt us, right?”
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What's the difference between saying "set" prayers and prayers in my own words?
"Pray unceasingly," Saint Paul urges his fledging communities throughout his letters. But Paul never spells out precisely how to do that. He does recommend prayers of petition (asking for what we need) and thanksgiving (giving credit where credit is due). He also models, at the start and finish of every letter, his own prayers of praise and blessing. In addition Paul often quotes hymns he either wrote himself or were circulating around the early church. He advocates that "psalms, hymns, and inspired songs" be sung regularly in a spirit of gratitude.
What we can gather from this varied advice is that both spontaneous and traditional prayers played a part in the lives of early church members. If we go back even further to the time of Jesus, we can see evidence of the same. Jesus often crept off by himself to pray in deserted places or on hilltops. But he also attended more formal synagogue services and even went up to the Temple for major feasts. The prayers of Jesus recorded in the Garden of Olives at the end of his life were quite personal and spontaneous--to say nothing about passionate.
But when his disciples asked him to teach them to pray, Jesus provided for their voiced need with a simple formula of prayer we know as the Our Father or the Lord's Prayer. It begins with praise ("hallowed be thy name"), invokes hope ("thy kingdom come"), and invites a series of petitions from the specific ("give us this day our daily bread") to the far-ranging ("deliver us from evil"). The prayer Jesus teaches also acknowledges personal responsibility for the relationship with God we are crafting by our every decision ("forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us").
Traditional Jewish prayer, particularly in the Book of Psalms, is rooted in the formulas Jesus and Paul espouse. There's room for prayers of asking and thanking, praising and hoping. There's even a prayer-style known as the lament, which is sort of like whining with a faithful conclusion.
What all this suggests is that if you have something to say to God, by all means say it. If you don't know how to begin, our tradition can supply many wonderful starting points for the conversation. But the most important thing, of course, is to engage that conversation-unceasingly!
Matthew 6:5-13; Luke 11:1-13; Ephesians 6:18-20; Philippians 4:6; Colossians 3:16; 4:2; 1 Thessalonians 5:17; see also the Book of Psalms
Articles from VISION magazine on prayer: "Five steps to better prayer" by Sister Melannie Svoboda, S.N.D. "Point and click to pray" by Carol Schuck Scheiber. Online prayer resource: Prayer Support from the Redemptorists of the Baltimore Province
Beginning to Pray by Archbishop Anthony Bloom (Paulist Press, 1988). Also available as an audiobook from St. Anthony Messenger Press.
Prayer by Joyce Rupp (Orbis Books, 2007)
Prayers from Around the World and Across the Ages by Victor M. Parachin (ACTA, 2004)
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Why America is NOT a Christian nation in logic anyone can follow
The evidence that the constitution of the United States was crafted to keep religion out of politics is fairly straightforward. This fact however does not stop those in power who want to wedge their beliefs and preferences into public discourse and laws.
Religion is a powerful force in human affairs. It not only motivates individuals, it can move entire groups and nations to act in ways both good and bad.
It can also be divisive — subjugating the needs and rights of others for an interpretation of an ancient text which the adherent believes is the divine word of the creator of the universe.
So why am I addressing this issue? The tipping point for me was reading about how Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is trying to ban same-sex marriage in his state for purely theocratic reasons.
The lengths Conservative Christians and sympathizers will go in order to argue that they and their views deserve special privileges because they are Christians is astounding.
We could go back and look in depth at the history of the US, the founding documents and invoke all kinds of arguments. Ultimately though, the best arguments against such horrendous attempts to overhaul the United States are very simple.
So let’s dive straight into Roy Moore’s flawed reasoning and I’ll demonstrate, in terms everyone can verify and understand, why America is not a Christian nation in the legal sense of the word.
When asked “Are laws themselves superseded by God?” Chief Justice Moore said:
CLAIM ONE: “I think you’re correct in saying that,” he answered. “This is a Christian nation by the fact that 90% of the churches in America are Christian churches and it’s certainly founded upon Christian principles.
I’m sure most churches in America are Christian. That wasn’t the concern of the founding fathers. The establishment clause preventing the government from favoring or discriminating on the basis of religion was largely to prevent one religious group rising up above all the others.
Furthermore, the constitution guarantees equal treatment under the law regardless of religious affiliation. The appeal to a majority is just an attempt by Roy Moore to lend his arguments credibility that they don’t deserve. It’s also a form of bullying.
CLAIM TWO: “The supreme law of the land is the Constitution of the United States which recognizes many of those principles.”
Here’s the kicker — the Constitution is overtly non-religious (secular) and in a fatal way to Christianity.
Compare the very first of the Ten Commandments to the first amendment to the Constitution.
First Commandment: “Thou shalt have no other gods before me”
The First Amendment (the very first issue the founding fathers felt they needed to address) directly contradicts the First Commandment, presumably the most important commandment to Yahweh.
CLAIM THREE: “Our freedom to believe what we want comes from God. When it comes from God, no man or no court, can take it away. That’s a God-given right under the Declaration of Independence, which is law itself.”
This is ignorance and wishful thinking in its extreme. Again, taking the First Commandment, God has clearly said you have freedom to believe in one god only. That’s not freedom,that’s coercion.
If history is a guide, the human species only attains freedom after fighting off the oppression of autocratic regimes. Multitudes of humans have met their demise bringing this fight. Christianity, as a monotheistic religion, has autocracy as a fundamental principle.
You can’t argue that freedom comes from God and then advance a book he supposedly inspired that is filled with punishments and inducements for disobeying his rules, especially when some of those rules fundamentally oppose basic human rights (such as self determination).
“Why must they continue to flog dead arguments?”
But despite all this obvious evidence, conservatives still try to bring religion to the table. Why? Because it gives them unchallenged power to control the populace. They can justify whatever backwards and regressive laws they like, no matter their real world consequences.
The ambiguity of religious texts means they’re able to pick and choose their interpretations and become righteously indignant to those who stand in their way. In many cases, this feeling of moral superiority and absolute certainty has led to genocide and war — both civil and with other nations.
The religious impulse to absolutism sows the seeds of dictatorship. Just listen to the likes of Rick Santorum and Mike Huckabee. They explicitly want to force everyone else to comply with their beliefs. This is not the role of a public official who is in power to represent the people… ALL people.
Constitutional protection was established so that no one could use their own religious interpretations to enforce their own theocratic versions of the law.
The irony is, most conservatives who buy into this “Christian Nation” fallacy are highly critical of nations that employ the same ideology, but in a different religious background.
They must be envious of government officials in Iran and Saudi Arabia, nations where they can enforce theocratic law in ways that contravene most basic human rights.
What escapes these fundamentalists is that by saying freedom comes from God (the one they believe in) they’re ignoring their own rule book — the Ten Commandments, which categorically states you are free to believe in only one god — Yahweh.
This coercion is intrinsic in the Bible, especially the Old Testament, where many passages point to the death of all who oppose the will of Yahweh.
Freedom makes no sense when it comes with strings attached as it does with monotheistic religion. God quite clearly states that their can only be one true deity. All others are strictly prohibited.
The founders of the US knew this and went on to make the very first amendment to the constitution in direct opposition to what the creator of the universe laid out in the first commandment.
Hence… America is not founded on any religion. The humanistic philosophy that underpins the founding documents strictly prohibits the state from religious meddling.
Being products of the Enlightenment, they knew full well what religious tyranny look liked and realized the only true way to ensure everyone is equal under the law was to scribe a secular constitution that prevented such abuses.
American Constitution Society blog article on Roy Moore
Posted in Politics, Public interest, Science and Skepticism, Useful stuff
Tagged Culture, Ethics, Irrational Beliefs, Philosophy, Politics & Society, Religion, Secular Ethics, Skepticism
Putting and end to being offended
In the wake of the Charlie Hedbo massacre in Paris recently, debates have raged throughout the Western world regarding the free expression and its role in society.
Many conversations have been outright condemnation. Sadly, a good number of other conversations have gone: “Nothing justifies murder, but…”
“We shouldn’t attack ideas with satire and ridicule for fear we might provoke outrage,” they say. This just hands power back to the thugs by giving them exactly what they want — control of others by fear and force.
But here are the facts: Words do not do any intrinsic harm. Ideas don’t have feelings and don’t deserve respect. People deserve respect.
Two things are at play here:
(1) People honestly believe that violence is permissible if someone is provoked
Pope Francis clearly believes this — the paragon of virtue of the Catholic Church supports the wife beater’s (she made me do it) defence, saying: “If my good friend Dr Gasparri says a curse word against my mother, he can expect a punch. It’s normal. It’s normal. You cannot provoke. You cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others.”
It should be no surprise that a Catholic official is in favour of violence towards those who the Church deems as “opposition” (just look at Church history), but this is the meek and mild saviour of the Church speaking! The most popular Pope for a long time because he has appealed to the liberal and non-Catholics.
The kind of revenge society that Pope Francis is advocating is not the sort of society reasonable people want to live in. The idea that violence is justified for any reason other than defense is simply barbaric. We condemn the kids who inflict physical punishment on the playground; we try to stamp out bullying, yet some of us are quick to say that inciting violence if insulted is okay. Progress in human rights, justice and ethical living since the Enlightenment has been away from this kind of meathead justice.
Violence is never the right answer to words and ideas we don’t like. Better ideas and better words are.
(2) People like to gain control by being reflexively offended
In recent years it has become fashionable for some to try to silence others and exert control on public discourse by playing the “I’m offended” card. The notion being that we all must have our feelings protected and if “I say I’m offended then you’d better just stop”.
But the world is constituted in such a way that this is clearly an absurd position. Just look at the droves of American Idol contestants in genuine shock and denial after receiving negative comments about their lack of singing talent. This is likely the first time they ever received any negative feedback because their so-called friends are constantly pumping them up and egging them on to “pursue their dream”.
You have the right to be offended but you don’t have the right to silence people in public discourse just because their arguments are inconvenient or uncomfortable to you. For if it is acceptable to silence others for your benefit, then it must be fine for others to demand that same level of respect of their beliefs from you.
If we try to change the world to conform with our wishes we are in a head-on course with disappointment and suffering.
It is impossible to not offend someone, somewhere. For some, the mere existence of atheists is offensive. Others just can’t be offended at all, though they feel revulsion at things done in poor taste. The thing is, ideas and concepts aren’t intrinsically offensive, people get offended.
Be not offended
Have you ever noticed that if you take two very similar people (similar interests and stations in life) and tell them the same thing they will respond differently? That’s because it’s not the words or the message that matters, it is the meanings people derive and layer on top of the message.
Words do not injure; words merely carry meaning and that meaning can only lead to injury if it is perceived to be so in the mind of the receiver.
Despite this, it blindingly obvious that when we lash out in response to things we don’t like it is because at some level we believe ourselves to have been injured in some way.
This is probably due to the fact that people identify with their beliefs and the more conviction and importance they assign those beliefs, the more sting they’re likely to feel if their beliefs are challenged. While they maybe ideas to us and we might even recognise them to be in error, to the person who holds the belief it is a matter of utmost importance. This is particularly the case when it comes to religion, primarily because those kinds of ideas are at the root of a person’s identity.
How the Stoics handled insults and criticism
As usual, the Stoics had some of the better insights on dealing with anything people had to say, positive or negative. This was because the Stoics knew that too many people place too much importance on what people thought, to the point where it would derail them emotionally.
Many of the following Stoic approaches to handling insults have been used with great effect in anger management classes and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT).
The Roman Stoic Emperor Marcus Aurelius prepared himself for the hostile life in Roman Politics by reminding himself not to be surprised that people ware scoundrels:
“Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today inquisitive, ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All these things have come upon them through ignorance of real good and ill”. People do not choose to behave they way they do so “[t]hat men of a certain type should behave as they do is inevitable. To wish it otherwise were to wish the fig-tree would not yield its juice.” – Meditations 2:1
Much of the shock we experience from the actions and words of others is because we at some level we think people shouldn’t be nasty or provocative. This is however, an unrealistic expectation and Aurelius’ morning reminder posted above is an antidote for such idealistic delusion.
We can’t control other people, but we can control our responses to them.
Another very effective way of dealing with comments is to refrain from thinking of them as negative or positive in the first place. After all, it is the assignment of meaning to statements that governs our emotional response.
“Put from you the belief that ‘I have been wronged’, and with it will go the feeling. Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.” – Meditations 4:7
The above quote reveals a central theme in Stoic training that survives today in modern CBT: Don’t allow your initial impression to catch fire and turn into a full-on emotional outburst. Ultimately, we have the faculty of reason that can pour water on the sparks of emotional fires thereby keeping our equanimity and calm.
Epictetus says it much more eloquently:
Make it your study then to confront every harsh impression with the words, ‘You are but an impression, and not at all what you seem to be’. Then test it by those rules that you possess; and first by this–the chief test of all–’Is it concerned with what is in our power or with what is not in our power?’ And if it is concerned with what is not in our power, be ready with the answer that it is nothing to you. – Enchiridion 1.5
Ideas don’t deserve respect, people do
In a civil society it is our duty to challenge ideas and allow the best ideas to make to survive while discarding those that are subversive, harmful and factually wrong. This can only happen with reasoned debate and inquiry free from corruption.
Words, ideas and pictures don’t have feelings, they can’t endure suffering and can’t be offended. Ideas deserve no special treatment for if they did then the idea that Earth is center of the universe or the ideas of alchemy would not be cast on the trash heap of history as they should be.
This is the big point that people like Pope Francis don’t get: we have only made moral and scientific progress — away from barbarism and the archaic notions that hold humanity back, by criticising ideas, holding them up in the light of day and seeing whether they’re valid, invalid, helpful or harmful.
However, ideas do carry power — power to change society, transform lives and shift wealth. This means people and and heads of corporations and institutions such as religions are motivated to suppress, deny and rubbish ideas that don’t serve their purpose or will lead to a loss of power. This is why we need freedom of speech — to avoid abuses of power in all its guises.
Some things will offend people, regardless of how tame they maybe. You can’t not offend people. If we had a society that remained tight lipped over important issues for fear someone may cry “offense” then that lack of honesty and transparency would be allow all kinds of abuses and toxic ideas to flourish. The bullies would win.
The main take away points:
Words, pictures and actions are not inherently offensive, we become offended.
Words and ideas don’t deserve respect but people do
Ideas don’t have feelings.
Trying to bend reality to meet our expectations is a flawed strategy.
Remind yourself daily, as Marcus Aurelius did, that you will encounter people who are rude, critical, irrational and outright nasty. Expect insult and avoid injury.
Repugnant ideas should be met with counter ideas in a civilised society, so that we can make moral progress.
Violence is only justified when meeting violence, never because we don’t like the words or ideas of others.
Posted in Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Public interest, Science and Skepticism
Tagged Irrational Beliefs, Philosophy, Politics & Society, Pseudoscience, Religion, Secular Ethics
Regression: Hamilton drops fluoride from water supply
Fluoridation has been proven time and time again to reduce public health costs and dental problems. So it is with some disgust that I stumbled upon the decision by Hamilton City Council officials to bow to a misguided minority and remove fluoride from the city’s water supply.
There are many pseudoscientific beliefs prevalent in society so I shouldn’t be surprised that the removal of fluoride from Hamilton’s water supply has happened. But I am shocked and I am perplexed. Fluoride naturally exists in water just not in adequate quantities to protect teeth from decay. And for fuck’s sake this is 2013.
So there are several things wrong Hamilton City Council’s decision:
Firstly, pandering to a vocal minority clearly misguided and misinformed is not an example of good local governance.
The majority of Hamilton’s residents want fluoridated water, so if we’re talking about democratic decisions, the removal of fluoride is a massive fail.
Refusing to listen to the people who actually know what the hell they’re talking about is also a bad idea. Surely public health measures should be based on expert opinion (in this case dentists and medical professionals who are aware of the scientific evidence)?
Most disgusting of all — the deputy mayor of Hamilton Gordon Chesterton claims there is a “lack of clear evidence” for the benefits of fluoridation in water. Since when did Mr Chesterton become an expert in the science behind fluoridation and dentistry?
A public official, like say, a deputy mayor, has an ethical obligation to check the facts behind a policy proposal — especially one that affects the health of the people he/she is representing.
Ignorance is a poor substitute for data
Mr Chesterton’s ignorance is being used to push a political agenda and for what? To appease the whingeing from people who reject science? The dropping of fluoridation is a symptom of a greater problem: The anti-scientific intuitions popular today stemming from bad assumptions (“if it’s natural it must be good”) and poorly constructed conspiratorial musings. All of this bad thinking is inevitable in human populations which is why we need science. Turning our backs on the data (or claiming the data doesn’t exist when it does) is problematic and sad really.
“People are entitled to their opinion, just not their own facts.” – Dr Steven Novella
Ignorance is a poor platform for making decisions period — especially when it will affect the health of citizens. We are lucky to live at a time when science is answering more and more questions and solving more and more problems. We turn our backs on science based medicine at our peril.
And despite what the advocates of the fluoride removal say, the evidence is overwhelmingly clear that fluoride in water supplies is a massive public health benefit (see list below).
I think we can watch dental health deteriorate in the Hamilton region, and it probably won’t be in the people who are opposed to fluoridation. Instead, it will be people in lower socioeconomic homes who can’t afford dental care, have poor dental hygiene and have diets loaded with sugars.
A massive public policy fail
This is yet another massive public health fail. Massive. The ignorance of a few and a pompous deputy mayor who presumes far more expertise than he has will lead to suffering and more pressure on health services.
Let’s be clear about this — those opposed to health measures based on scientific medicine are the exact opposite of what they claim — they’re the ones turning back the clock on progress to a time when a person’s prospects in health, longevity and quality of life were dire.
In the event Mr Chesterton is reading this, here is the evidence you seem to have imagined doesn’t exist:
Fluoride science
National Fluoridation Information Service Review
A scienceBlogs dismantling of anti-fluoridation pseudoscience
Posted in Politics, Public interest, Science and Skepticism
Tagged Alternative Medicine, Bad Ideas, Crap Based Medicine, Culture, Ethics, Irrational Beliefs, New Zealand, New Zealand politics, Politics & Society, Pseudoscience, quack medicine
Gay marriage, the New Zealand Herald and the absurdity of online polls
Online polls are evidence only of the existence of online polls, oh, and that any conclusions drawn from them are absurd.
A recent online poll conducted by the New Zealand Herald showed that public support for gay marriage , counter to earlier polls which showed huge public support for gay marriage, had dropped to 48%.
Okay, an online poll was conducted. That is all we can reliably say about this poll. However, the Herald began using it in stories to demonstrate that “support had dropped” as the parliamentary debate about the proposed gay marriage bill went on.
Can we really say this? Can the results of an online poll be used to draw such conclusions? Or indeed, any conclusions at all?
Methodology? What methodology?
The reliability of any survey or poll comes down to the methodology employed in collecting the responses. Is it a representative sample of the population? Can it reliably ensure only one response per person? What is the sample size? Is it statistically significant?
Online polls typically violate all of these measures and controls. Other than that, it is totally possible to ‘game’ an online poll by rallying supporters to vote one way. My conservative uncle even tried to get me to vote like this on the Herald digipoll in question.
With regards to said Herald digipoll on gay marriage, the sample is self-selected — in other words people voluntarily choose to vote on it. Who would choose to vote on such a poll? Not only those who are emotionally engaged (which touches both sides of the argument) but specifically, those who feel incensed by gay marriage, predominantly those of a conservative persuasion.
This is the same phenomenon that research shows has been employed on social media: negative views on an issue outnumber positive views.
Probably the best illustration of this is review websites. For example, 10,000 people go to a hotel — 9900 have an enjoyable experience while 100 do not. Which reviews are most likely to end up on the hotel review website? Negative views on an issue motivate us to speak out and “right the wrong” so to speak.
Absurd methodology, absurd conclusions
The Herald did repeatedly refer to the result of the Digipoll as a change in opinion — something that cannot be justifiably determined from a poll that was clearly being gamed.
Worse still, Bob McCroskie, director of Family First NZ took these results as confirmation that his campaign of intolerance has swayed public opinion in his direction and that now it’s just politicians who are failing to realise this.
It is ridiculous to suggest an online poll has any correlation with real public opinion. Emotionally heated issues such as gay marriage are always going to attract those who are emotionally invested in the debate and for the most part it is the outraged — the conservative minded who feel gay marriage will signal the end of civilisation.
The unreliability of online polls, indeed any self-selected poll has been noted before. However, media outlets without actual data are using these polls as if they have some validity. This in turns feeds into people’s biases which in turn doesn’t help fuel a productive public debate.
Posted in Politics, Public interest
Functional exercise, functional body (move it or lose it)
How can functional training make you a better human?
As you get older there are several processes occurring that diminish your ability to move as you could 10, 15 and 20 years prior.
Muscles lose their elasticity, strength and flexibility. Joints become less mobile or less stable (depending on their function). All of this adds up to less physical wellbeing.
The symptoms are often made worse by your body’s “history”. Something I heard a few years ago from a 90 year old man really struck me. He said “every bump gets recorded”. His contention was that, while the body can heal from knocks, when one is older those aches and pains come back to haunt us.
Modern society doesn’t help either — sitting down in hunched positions hour-after-hour, day-after-day ultimately trains the body into bad postures and poor function. We sit down for hours, use escalators when we could use the stairs and we slump down on couches for a few more hours to end the day. In short, everyday life is training us to be in bad shape.
strength as a skill versus strength for “show”
Functional strength is more than just about strength in the traditional sense (“look how much I can lift”). Functional strength is primarily about training the nervous system. Renowned trainer and Kettlebell guru Pavel Tsatsouline calls this “greasing the groove”. In other words, strength is created through repetitive training of a specific sequence of movements. Strength is a skill as much as any other physical skill with a specific set of adaptations.
This is why athletes train radically differently to the average gym goer. Professional athletes typically get functional movement screening to see where there are deficiencies in their joint mobility, strength and flexibility.
Because athletes repeat specific sequences of movements at great speed and with great force generation, the risk of injury is always lingering. Minimising that risk while maximising the efficiency of movement is what modern physical training has become for athletes. This is the lesson ordinary humans can take from the pros.
Degeneration interrupted
One thing that always raises my eyebrows is the tendency of trainers to take on clients and give them a vanilla programme to help the client reach their fitness goals. For instance, it is not always a good idea to put a person straight into a weight training program when they can’t even move their bodies properly.
The purest form of functional training is bodyweight training — probably the most underrated form of training there is. What a lot of people don’t realise is that a lot of guys that are gym strong but not functionally strong. This because moving an external load (barbells/dumbbells) is vastly different from moving your own body. External loads can force the body to move through problematic lines.
Someone may well be able to squat a 300 pounds but they probably can’t do a one-legged squat for 1 rep let alone 6-10 reps. As a general rule, why not getting people to train their bodies to move themselves properly before overloading the body with weights?
Relics of a bygone era
In the move from aesthetic, bodybuilding paradigms to a more functional, athletic training ethos, there are inevitable casualties and cast offs. Some exercises — once thought to be staples in any gym goers trick bag — are now relics of the past. Others are borderline but tough to get rid of because they’re so ingrained in the collective psyche.
Leg extensions, leg presses, peck deck flyes, chest flyes, machine squats, leg curls and bicep curls (heresy!) are often ignored by athletes. Why? For the most part, these exercises take the target muscle out of a position of strength, compromising the ability of the muscle to perform as it functions normally. Leg extensions and leg curls are two prime examples of exercises largely useless to athletes.
Functional rules of thumb
Muscles are evolved to fire holistically — as part of a sequence. In the previous example, both leg extensions and leg curls take quadriceps and hamstrings out of their strength and put them into isolation. This is also a way to create functional imbalances, which is a surefire way to invite injuries.
So with all that in mind, here are a few guidelines:
Forget isolation exercises (movements that involve one joint and isolates specific muscles).
Discard the body part approach to programme design and take a movement-centric approach instead.
Address structural and movement asymmetries.
Use bodyweight training to condition muscles, joints and tendons to move through full ranges of motion (a full depth squat is difficult for many people). Train the body to move through natural body motions.
Use progressive bodyweight exercise to increase functional strength (see Paul Wade’s excellent book: “Convict Conditioning” for more on progressing basic bodyweight movements. View some sample workouts).
I want to be clear about the last point — developing functional strength via bodyweight training. The main point is thus: If you can’t move your own weight properly then that’s where you need to start.
Bodyweight training will help you move properly, through full ranges of motion and stave off body degradation that happens as one gets older. Getting stronger in these movements will enable you to be the best human being you can be while avoiding the kind of self-induced “paralysis” that hits most people later in life. Move it or lose it is the name of the game.
Posted in Ice Hockey, Public interest, Training and Exercise, Useful stuff
Tagged Culture, Exercise
The functional fitness revolution
Posted on March 1, 2013 | 1 comment
Fitness and health is such a massive industry that the conventional advice is often never questioned. Despite this, a quiet revolution is happening in the fitness industry.
[This is the first in a 2-part series of posts on how the fitness industry has changed and how you can avoid bad advice and hokey marketing gimmicks].
It was bound to happen. After the heyday of the muscle bound bodybuilding hulks in the 1970s and 80s, physical training had to change.
When I began looking into training and physical fitness in the mid-1990s, pretty much the only resources you could find were of a bodybuilding nature. Many fitness programmes relied on weight training and a bit of aerobics to develop that cardiac-respiratory system (aka heart and lungs!)
While all this is great and the average guy or gal could improve their fitness, these routines were limited in scope and therefore may not have been entirely appropriate for the average gym goer.
Recalibrating fitness goals
Muscle growth in and of itself is great but there must be something more to training than that. Whether this was an overt observation of the fitness community or not I can’t be sure of. What I do know is that sports science and the study of kinesiology (how humans move) have come along way since weight training really took off in the period from the 1950s–70s.
The fitness industry as a whole owes a lot to the pioneers of bodybuilding and strength training. The musclebound hulk like figures (such as Arnold Schwarzenegger, Lou Ferrigno and Lee Haney) were poster boys for an entire generation of trainers.
Bodybuilding is awesome, but in some respects it is a victim of its own success. The huge bulging over-bloated bodybuilders that have become the norm now are such extreme outliers that most guys don’t want to look that way, don’t have the time and simply the perseverance to develop such massive physiques.
Muscle isn’t the end of the story
At heart, all guys are secretly wannabe superheroes. While bodybuilders no longer represent the ideal that most guys are after, professional athletes do inspire awe and respect in the general populace.
It is hard not to admire a Usain Bolt, a Sidney Crosby or a Lebron James. These guys inspire awe in what they can do, rather than in how massive their biceps are.
There’s nothing wrong with big biceps and this post is not an attack on bodybuilding. I’m keen to bloat my chest, shoulders and biceps through training as much as the next guy. An awesome physique is well, awesome! But there is something about a guy who can move like a cheetah, jump like Mike or power his way through opponents like a charging rhino.
What is this functional buzzword anyway?
Modern life combined with the growing realisation that training for just muscular development has led to this functional fitness revolution.
So functional simply refers to the idea that the average person can reach their physique potential in size and ability. Guys can be powerful athletes; ladies can be nimble like a dancer. In fact, these are powerful reasons for why training has gone the functional way — people play sports, hike, cycle, mountain bike and run marathons. Unfortunately for many of us, we spend hours a day de-training ourselves for basic movement by sitting hunched over desks or other suboptimal arrangements.
The sea change in the way training is done can in part be attributed to a number of popular gym disciplines: Pilates, Yoga, Military training approaches and the emergence of Crossfit. Popular exercise magazines are Men’s Health/Women’s Health and Women’s Fitness/Men’s Fitness magazines. There are many more but these publications capture the essence of fitness as a lifestyle rather than an aesthetic only.
Mayo Clinic resources on functional training
Functional Movement Systems
Gray Cook — Functional Movement Screening
Tagged Bad Ideas, Culture, Exercise, Success
Can we at least learn something from this Mayan apocalypse mumbo jumbo?
The failed Mayan apocalypse ramblings could be a positive awakening for humanity, but it won’t be. Read on for why I’m not optimistic.
Sorry but I can’t not talk about the supposed Mayan apocalypse hubbub. I just think that we can learn some lessons from this whole thing. I mean, we laughed at Harold Camping for his absurd pronouncements about the end of the world last year (twice as the math was slightly off).
For starters, the Mayans never made such a prophecy. Even if they did — so what!? The obsession with what the Mayans may or may not have said/thought seems in part to be due to the romantic (false) notion that ancient societies were in some sort of wonderful place, in harmony with nature and the cosmos.
My basic premise
Claims such as those made about a mysterious Planet X destroying the Earth or any other apocalyptic ramblings fail because those making/believing such claims are arriving at conclusions from a faulty epistemology.
Check this list of failed predictions of apocalyptic events (Wikipedia).
Remember, ancient peoples were ignorant of many basic facts that we take for granted today. In fact, you only have to go back a few hundred years to see how primitive our collective human understanding really was. It wasn’t long ago we had no idea of: the germ theory of disease; sun centered solar system; expanding universe; DNA and heritability; evolution and the origin of species; radio waves; electricity; gravity… We were blind to so much.
Misconceptions galore — A Primer on Knowledge
A claim I was presented with recently went as follows (paraphrasing):
“At one time, the research of the day showed that the Earth was the centre of the universe”.
I hear similar statements from people quite a bit. The idea that science is somehow flawed because our understanding of the world was primitive at one point is really unconvincing.
Claims such as “the Earth is at the centre of the universe” stem from primitive intuitions based on limited data — such claims come before research is done.
Remember, science isn’t a “thing”. The word is a noun for a process of fact checking and observation. At one point knowledge on a subject is minimal. The scientific method helps us grow a body of reliable knowledge and increases our understanding. This is what makes science a reliable and valid epistemology.
Therefore (and this is the key point): Human understanding improves over time.
That means, we cast off that which is shown to be false and accept that which we find to be true.
Science has allowed us to open our eyes, lift the veil of ignorance and reveal a world that rich and wonderful and even more important — science has shown us that it is comprehensible, even to our limited brains.
“But science changes over time”
Wrong. Knowledge changes over time. Science is just the method we use to acquire knowledge/discard hypotheses. This is a good thing.
The Mayans had a primitive understanding of reality
The Mayans, like all ancient cultures were superstitious, attributing all manner of natural phenomena to gods and mystical beings. Human progress has been a long history of superstitions being replaced by real knowledge and understanding.
I think we can learn some valuable lessons from these facts about our collective understanding of the universe in which we live, and yet another failed end of the world hypothesis:
Knowledge improves over time.
The process by which we accumulate claims has changed: We now can produce reliable information about reality through validation and testing.
Ancient cultures did not validate claims through a stringent process of checking facts.
They didn’t have sophisticated tools to investigate reality and therefore couldn’t be expected to ask better questions.
Ancient cultures were largely ignorant of basic facts about the natural order.
Ancient cultures did not have privileged information that we don’t know now (as much as we would like to romanticise and claim they did).
Ergo… We must ask ourselves, “How does the ancient claim/philosophy square with our understanding of nature today?”
Ignorance and default thinking
People can still choose to believe that lightning is still mandated by higher powers and that cyclones and earthquakes are sent by gods but this thinking is now optional. When people didn’t know better they defaulted to the supernatural claim. That’s just part of being human.
Conclusion — why nothing will change
If human knowledge improves over time then we can’t look back into the deep past and expect to see great understanding of reality. Even if an ancient culture claimed something about today, that isn’t a reason to believe it (again the Mayans didn’t make an apocalyptic claim, people interpret it that way today).
Here is a prediction: Those invested in the Mayan apocalypse nonsense will probably not change their beliefs even after yet another failed attempt to predict the end of the world. That is just human nature, cognitive dissonance and confirmation bias in action
What we will see is more ad hoc justifications on and beyond 22 December 2012.
Then the next craze will hit town and the we will be entertained/bemused at yet another prediction stemming from flawed epistemology and more lame justifications.
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The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel-1951
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Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Director: Henry Hathaway
Writer: Nunnally Johnson, Desmond Young
Stars: James Mason, Cedric Hardwicke, Jessica Tandy, Luther Adler, Everett Sloane
This biopic follows Rommel’s career after the Afrika Korps, including his work on the defenses of Fortress Europe as well as his part in the assassination attempt on Hitler, and his subsequent suicide.
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Also Known As: Rommel, der Wüstenfuchs West, Le renard du désert, El zorro del desierto, A Raposa do Deserto, Rommel, i alepou tis erimou, Rommel - ökenräven, Rommel, erämaan kettu, The Story of Rommel, Rommel - ørkenræven, Rommel, der Wüstenfuchs, Rommel - A sivatagi róka, Rommel, a Raposa do Deserto, Çöl Kartali, The Desert Fox, Vulpea deşertului, Rommel, la volpe del deserto, De vos van de woestijn, Pustynny lis, Пустинна лисица: Историята на Ромел, The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel, Пустынный лис Soviet, Rommel, el Zorro del Desierto
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Disappointing film, not because of the usually great James Mason, but more rather due than a completely lackluster script.George MacReady was always known to be sinister in films but in this one we see no evidence of that. He is rather bland as a Nazi army officer. Jessica Tandy was completely miscast in the role of Frau Rommel. She is rather droll and lacks sincere compassion at the end when her husband learns his fate.Jewish actor Luther Adler is briefly shown as Hitler and he does a masterful job. The contortions on his face tell the whole story of an insane leader in desperation and denial by 1943.The film lacks total excitement and even the plot itself is staged too quickly. We needed to see the preparation in the failed attempt to assassinate the German misery.
vincentiu tomescu
For me this movie was a disappointment. Somehow I expected that it would explain the reason for General Rommel’s popularity and his success as a military strategist in WW II. But there is none of that, it deals with the last year or two of his life and tries, in a way, to whitewash him. So I just have to suppose that Rommel was primarily an amoral and apolitical technocrat in the conquering and killing business, without any particular charm or notoriety in behaviour. Such real life people just do not make good movie material. I almost feel sorry for James Mason, really one of my favorite actors, who had to impersonate a pretty wooden character. Actually, a good director and a lot of great acting talent was wasted on this movie with the exception of Luther Adler who gives a really memorable and weirdly naturalistic portrayal of Adolf Hitler.There might also be a cultural problem for people like me who are part of the German speaking world. Famous British actors impersonating Germans are just not credible. Rommel, for example, is perceived here not just as a German but as a typical Southerner” from Baden-Württemberg. You immediately think of a certain dialect, a certain kind of wit, a certain way of seeing the world (the total opposite of eg a Prussian junker”). I also think that there are now mixed feelings about the assassination attempt of July 20th, many of those who were in on the conspiracy were not democrats and just wanted the German troops to join the Western Allies against the advancing Bolsheviks (thus prolonging the war forever).The best movie portrayal of an intellectual, intelligent military mind is in my opinion still Patton (1970). Incidentally, General Patton can be glimpsed for a short moment in the ample documentary footing used for this movie, a low angle shot while he is inspecting passing vehicles. The open holster and the revolver with the mother of pearl grips are clearly visible!
stephanie villarreal
I hoped to learn something from this movie, but I was disappointed. It is all about Rommel and lauds him as a great general, but at no time in this entire movie did we ever get an idea of why he was great. What made him so successful? Was it his drive, his unwillingness to accept defeat, his discipline with his men? I was looking for a Patton-like rendition that really gets into the character, but this fell way flat. Most of the dialog is contrived and sensationalized, and feels stale and artificial. There is some good action here and there, but not much. The tail end of the story, which discusses his involvement in the plot to assassinate Hitler, was the most informative part and probably the most interesting. But as a history lesson on Germany’s greatest general, this was a failure.
andres capdevila sole
I was reading the comments of another reviewer which are the same as mine. I noted with interest that the other reviewer remembered that we were taught to ” hate the hun in school.” I just finished reading a new book on World War One, and was truly amazed at the outright lying done by the British and American governments to demonize the German soldier of WW1. Both deliberately lied ( according to the author ) that WW1 German soldiers were “bouncing Belgian babies off their bayonetts.” I now wonder how many lies that we have been told about the WW2 German soldier! General Rommel was a gentleman soldier, and I believe was highly respected by Winston Churchill!
daniel reynolds
Highly talkative and somewhat inaccurate movie about the life and times of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, James Mason, the commander of the legendary WWII Afrika Corps. Completely passing over General Rommels achievements in France and North Africa we first get to see Field Marshal Rommel during the battle of El Alamein in October 1942. Where the British launched their great offensive against the German/Italian troop that within seven months, in May 1943, cleared the continent of Africa of a Nazi military presence with the surrender of some 300,000 axis soldiers. We never get to see in “The Desert Fox” Rommels brilliant victories in the battle of France in the spring of 1940 and his successful hit and run attacks on the much larger British Army as well as his breakthrough, in the late spring of 1942, of the British lines: Rommels brilliant encirclement and capture of Tobruk, a town that held out for 242 days against the Afrika Corps the year before, taking 35,000 British troops captive at the cost of under 500 German and Italian casualties. The movie instead concentrates on Rommels involvement, or non-involvement,in the plot to kill the German Fhurer Adolf Hitler, Luther Adler. Recovering from wounds that he suffered when his command car was strafed by the RAF Rommel is later contacted at his home by German generals Burgorf & Maisel,Everett Sloane & Do Dee Leo,and given an ultimatum to either commit suicide and die a hero or stand trial for treason. Even though the movie tries very hard to paint Rommel as a reluctant but major player in the Generals plot to assassinate Hitler history proves otherwise showing Field Marshall Rommel as a loyal German soldier who followed the orders from his Fhurer almost without question. Rommel did have doubts about Hitler’s military strategy but he let him know about it to Hitler’s great displeasure. Rommells’ low opinion of Hitler’s ability to wage war was in no way comparable to actively trying to have him killed like what happened on July 20, 1944 in Hitler’s military bunker, the Wolf’s liar, in the East Prussian woods. Very effective portrayal by James Mason as Field Marshall Erwin Rommel who was as chivalrous to his enemies in defeat as he was courageous against them in battle which may be why the film makers tried to make him out as one of the major conspirators against Hitler’s leadership to the point of having him killed. The true facts about Field Marshal Erwin Rommel that’s come out and surfaced since the end of WWII doesn’t back up their conclusions at all, in fact Rommel considered the killing of the German leader an act of high treason. The main reason for Rommel’s death, by his own hand,had to do more with him not reporting those who wanted to recruit him into the plot to kill Hitler, which it seemed that he quite didn’t fully grasp, then anything else. The fact that he didn’t want to turn them over, those who approached him with the assassination plot, to the Nazi authorities and thus the dreaded Gestapo was his knowing that it would mean instant death for them and he wouldn’t be able to live with himself if he did.
gundel staude
Based on the book by General Morris, this film looks back at the career of Rommel better known as the Desert Fox for his sterling military manoeuvres in North Africa. We join his story after his many victories against the Allied Forces, at a time when the war has started to turn in the latter’s favour and Hitler refuses to acknowledge this in his orders. Rommel tries to do his duty in the face of what he considers madness but soon his frustrations begin to take him in a different direction.It is unlikely that, if Rommel had not turned against Hitler towards the latter stages of the war, we would have seen a film praising his ability as a commander made less than a decade later (or at all in fact). With this in mind I watched this film with a big pinch of salt and certainly not as a historical piece of cinema mainly because he is presented in such a glowing light. Aside from this, the film is still an interesting introduction to the man, but no more than that because, although we are told about his prowess, we are never allowed to see it. I was interested in the end of his career and life but I would have liked a bit more detail on the battles and skirmishes that he was famous for not necessarily re-enactments but some way of showing his intelligence other than pointing at a few maps or having other officers comment on how great he was. However the film is still engaging and makes for an interesting watch (unless you actually know something about Rommel, in which case it will be frightfully basic), mainly thanks to one main factor.In the title role, Mason is great. I’m not sure about accuracy but he does a good job at producing a character that is intelligent, courageous, loyal but not blindly so. It may have been a bit glowing and brushed over the fact that he did actually fight for Nazi Germany at a very high level but his performance suited the film. Support is roundly good from people like Tandy, Carroll and a nice ironic Hitler from Adler, however the film is very much Mason’s and he takes it and dominates it by the power of his performance.Overall this is no more than a starting point at understanding why Rommel was so highly considered during the war and saluted by Churchill himself in the House of Commons. Without any military detail the film focuses on the fact that he came to hate Hitler and he is presented as loyal, brave but thoughtful as a result. Perhaps not accurate but certainly an interesting watch thanks to the commanding (sorry) lead from Mason.
The promotional materials for this movie in 1951 as well as now might give the impression the movie glorifies the enemy commander in World War II and goes against the brave Americans who served in Europe a few years earlier. This was why some theaters in 1951 (including my own neighborhood theater, the SILVER) refused to show it. Take a harder look and you’ll find the story concentrates on General Rommell and other Germans who conspired to eradicate Adolf Hitler, failed, and paid with their lives. It also takes a hard look at Hitler’s awful judgment in military decisions nearing the end of the war.DESERT FOX was made by Hollywood’s top talent. Written by Nunnally Johnson (the finest screenplay writer of the era) and directed by the always excellent Henry Hathaway, 20th Century-Fox not only gave this their finest, but followed it a year later with the Robert Wise directed DESERT RATS which told of the incredibly effective English and Australian units that held Rommell in check and prevented him from capturing either Cairo or the Suez Canal.This was a patriotic Hollywood staffed with real men of character, many of whom were World War II heroes in private life. It stands in sharp contrast to the girlie-men linguine-spine cowards in Hollywood today. Now we have PEARL HARBOR — which “justified” the Japanese attack — and Steven Spielberg’s god-awful SAVING PRIVATE RYAN — which took the heroic true story of the Sullivan Brothers and turned their great deeds into spineless liberal mush. Similarly, the SILVER, which declined to show an alleged anti-American film in 1951 is now under American Film Institute ownership and can be relied on to play every anti-American movie that comes on the market, while regularly downplaying or ignoring pro-American classics.Both DESERT FOX and DESERT RATS are recent DVD releases. Good movies, deserving your attention.
“True Grit” director Henry Hathaway tackled a controversial subject with his 1951 World War II biography epic “The Desert Fox” with British actor James Mason impersonating this highly regarded Teutonic tank warrior. When Twentieth Century Fox released this movie, many critics and moviegoers thought that what Hathaway and scenarist Nunnally Johnson had produced was nothing short of hero worship for one of Hitler’s henchmen. Based on the biography by British officer Desmond Young, “The Desert Fox” devotes most of its concise 88-minutes looks to the last days of Rommel after a preliminary glance at his career with the Afrika Korps. Generally, the focus of this movie is the part that Rommel played in the 20th July Hitler bomb plot. Rommel is a soldier first but second he believes that Hitler has gone mad, principally because he demands life or death service to the Third Reich. Rommel refuses to waste the lives of his valiant men.History reveals that Rommel played no part in the bomb plot. Here, Rommel does not play a major role but he supports the idea. Nevertheless, he tries to change the mind of Adolf Hitler and reasons with him in one scene. Luther Adler portrays Hitler as an infantile leader prone to temper tantrums of rage. Several other historic high-ranking German leaders appear in “The Desert Fox.” Eventually, Rommel must commit suicide because he has been implicated in the bomb plot and wants to secure the safety of his wife and son. James Mason is, of course, outstanding and makes Rommel look like a kindly, sympathetic man with a high sense of morality.No, “The Desert Fox” is not a battle-oriented movie with combat. Hathaway drew virtually all the battle footage from archival sources, with a glimpse of U.S. General George Patton in one scene. In other scenes, he relies on pretty obvious back projection techniques. In other words, most of “The Desert Fox” is about soldiers discussing orders, situations, and predicaments. Richard Boone, later of “Have Gun, Will Travel,” plays an aide to Rommel. Apparently, the filmmakers felt that they could whitewash Rommel by his stand against Hitler. Hathaway spends at least five minutes on the details of the bomb plot and Hitler’s survival. Rommel appears to have been a model husband and he never loses his temper, even when he disapproves of the subject of conversation.The opening, pre-credit sequence where British commandos attack headquarters hoping to kill Rommel is the best action scene in the film. Such was the uproar that “The Desert Fox” spawned that Twentieth Century Fox produced a sequel “The Desert Rats,” starring Richard Burton, wherein Rommel did not receive a sympathetic portrayal. Twenty years later, when director Henry Hathaway made “Raid on Rommel,” he included a scene with the famous Field Marshall arguing with a British doctor about stamps. Hathaway did not direct “The Desert Rats.” Instead, Robert Wise helmed that war adventure.Indeed, there are many inaccuracies in “The Desert Fox.” The planes that strafe Rommel’s command car change between the first time that we see them and when they actually riddle his command car.
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel was a complicated man, both more and less than the romanticized figure that Desmond Young’s biography and the movie based on it present us with. Like Oliver Cromwell, he should really be seen as he was, warts and all.Rommel (James Mason) was vain, for one thing. He’d won the Pour le Merit in World War I and made sure he wore it. He was sensitive. His letters to his wife, Lucie (Jessica Tandy), are filled with admiration for the flowers that abounded in Libya during the Spring. He had a slight but distinct sense of humor. The Italian General Ettore Bastico became Bombastico in Rommel’s lexicon. And a more thorough investigation of the man suggests he wasn’t very political after all. He may not have even had a clear idea of the plot.But the war in Northern Africa was a peculiar war from beginning to end. The chivalry shown by Rommel and Desmond Young at the beginning is thoroughly believable. The British managed at one point in the see-saw battle to capture an Italian aristocrat. When the Italian government offered money for the man’s return, the offended POW refused to be released, claiming the offer wasn’t high enough. I know. That has nothing to do with the movie but I thought it was pretty funny.The story itself, at least as rendered here, is probably familiar to those with any degree of historical maturity. Rommel is “the desert fox,” constantly outwitting the Allies in North Africa, until the Afrika Korps is bled white by lack of supplies. Back in Germany Rommel is contacted by conspirators in the plot against Hitler, the “July plot,” including an old friend played by Sir Cedric Hardwicke, he of the magnificent voice. Rommel reluctantly joins the plot, although exactly what his role was is never made clear. There is a reference to his “leadership,” but apparently all he wanted to do was make peace with the British, French, and Americans in order to fight the Russians more efficiently. In any case, his involvement is discovered. (After the attempt on his life, Hitler had 5,000 people executed, some by hanging them from meat hooks and filming them while they strangled to death in nooses made of piano wire.) Rommel is permitted to take poison in order to preserve his reputation and insure the safety of his family.James Mason does pretty well by the role. Too well. A few years later he was to reprise the role but, after the criticism this earlier film received for treating Rommel too sympathetically, Mason reverted to the stereotype, a sneering Nazi with an atrocious accent. As his wife, Jessica Tandy, Broadway’s first Blanche Dubois, has a face that combines plainness with nobility. She’s a fine actress but isn’t on screen that much. As von Runstedt, Leo G. Carroll is more grim and sarcastic than usual. Luther Adler as Hitler is plain hilarious. There must be more subtle ways of suggesting megalomania. George MacReady, a nice guy from Providence, Rhode Island, is a Prussian-looking man whether he likes it or not.But it’s pleasing to the eye to see so many actors strutting around in those great German uniforms — the medals, the riding breeches, the leather boots. It must be wonderful to be a man like Rommel, who can enter a crowded office and crisply — without even looking at him — tell his aide to “clear this room.” Who wouldn’t love to be able to do that? I mean, to clear a room without using a gun.Fun, too, to see the occasional news footage of artillery firing and tanks blowing up. By the end of the African campaign, the Afrika Korps was so short of fuel that, if they had a dozen tanks, they were draining half of them to keep the other half moving. There is nothing about Kasserine Pass and the American debacle there — not in 1951 there isn’t.The director was Henry Hathway, “a man’s director,” who gave directions loudly and drank voluminously. The music follows Max Steiner’s Mickey Mouse model. The action on screen is imitated by the score. Listen to it when the parachutists leap from their airplanes.This movie really ought to be seen, especially by those unfamiliar with World War II or without perspective on any war at all. It raises interesting philosophical dilemmas. Okay, you’re a soldier and you follow orders. But suppose the order are given to you by someone who is insane or close to it? It might be called “The Captain Queeg Problem.” Anyway, it humanizes the enemy instead of demonizing him, which might prompt some viewers to think twice about killing those who disagree with us.
erica rivera
Rommel has always been one of those figures that has gone against the grain of “Axis Evil/Allies Good” in WWII. A solid general who acted honorably and even impressed his enemies. His involvement with the attempt to assassinate Hitler was probably more peripheral than this film made it out to be.This film tries it best to make Rommel into the elusive “Good German”, the guy who knew Hitler was a jerkwad, but still tried to do his duty. The Good German was a myth. Those who turned against Hitler turned against him because Germany was losing the war. BUt it was a useful myth in 1951, when there was an attempt to turn the defeated Axis powers into valued allies. By 1951, Russia was the enemy, Germany was a friend, and a noble German to be praised was a godsend.
melissa taylor
It seems 2/3rds of this movie is stock WWII footage with scenes of James Mason (Rommel) interspersed. There’s literally no coverage of Rommel Tactics etc. If you’re looking to see the latter, give this movie a pass.
leonid shtepa
As a character drama, “The Desert Fox” is a superb film; well-written, intelligent dialogue, likeable and well-developed characters, and no ridiculous, hammy “foreign accents” by the film’s mostly British and American actors (except for maybe Luther Adler as Hitler); I would’ve given this flick a nine, or maybe even a ten, if it hadn’t been for the stock footage. I know this wasn’t meant to be a battle-heavy picture, but the continual use of stock footage to supplement for action (esp. the three and a half minute long stretch of D-Day footage) is grating. I had to take off at least a star for that. Otherwise, this is a great film; well-acted, well-written, and realistic. Mason is good (if not terribly exciting) as Field Marshall Erwin Rommel, my second-favorite military hero in history (after Winfield Scott Hancock, from whom I got my screen name), and the supporting cast is superb as well, standouts being Leo G. Carrol as the somewhat cynical and humanistic yet rigidly loyal Field Marshall Von Rundstedt, and Luther Adler, who (in what is essentially a cameo) portrays Adolf Hitler perfectly – a man who is evil (by most everyone’s standards) and flamboyant, with his exaggerated hand movements, eccentric military tactics, and his sudden fits of temper (his dialogue scene with Rommel before he decides to join the plot against Hitler for good) – but also a human side – he listens to his subordinates (though doesn’t always agree with them), and he even gets to crack a joke about Herman Goering (“When you are fat you do not move so fast”) – both Hitler and Goering had appealing senses of humor, though Goering was obviously the more public joker. You can sense, even in Adler’s minimal screen time, how Hitler got to be so powerful. I give this film eight stars for reasons stated above.
rufo cattaneo
I like this film despite its obvious flaws and I’ve always liked James Mason. I can’t fault the acting as the cast were all good.Two main points doubtlessly raised by other commentators.a)The portrayal of Rommel as a good guy went a bit too far. True he became anti Hitler/Nazi in the end, but this seems to have been primarily due to having been abandoned in Africa and having his requests in Normandy turned down by Hitler, not due to any squeamishness about the Nazi state, who’s brutality must have been self evident to him for many years or of Nazi aggression who he was all too willing to promote. Don’t forget he was the mastermind Behind the Blitzkrieg in Holland France and Belgium in 1940 and saw no wrong in that campaign.b) The use of incorrect stock footage, Such as a view of the Maginot line fortification to demonstrate the Normandy beaches. In the strafing attack we see a TMB Avenger transmute into 3 Spitfires who had gun flashes superimposed onto the incorrect section of their wings and also having the sound of whiny pre-war US fixed pitch radial engined planes dubbed over them as did the footage of the Beaufighter strafing. (something that still happens in films today – give em what they expect not what is real) and the tacky patriotic music. Probably taken from the first shelf in the effects room and couldn’t be bothered to look any further. I’m sure military vehicle/weaponry aficionados will have spotted some similar points about the MT/guns portrayed.The scenes in the train and Rommel’s house were authentic enough and seemed to have been filmed on location so its a shame they skimped on these other details.One scene that did amuse me was when the Gestapo man followed the doctor out of the hospital and never shut the door properly behind him. Now this would have doubtless been re shot, in here the guard merely leaned over and pulled it shut.Still a masterpiece of history when compared to ‘Battle of the Bulge’
kerry kelly tomlinson
Even today the name Erwin Rommel conjures up visions of a superlative soldier and a complex man . In short Field Marshal Erwin Rommel was an enigma , a member of the Nazi party and an admirer of Hitler but who fought the cleanest campaign of the war in North Africa . Compare the conduct of both sides in that particular conflict then compare it to say the Eastern front or the Pacific campaign . As BAND OF BROTHERS shows it wasn’t uncommon for either side to execute prisoners even if practical necessity wasn’t involved So Rommel was respected as both a soldier and a human being but THE DESERT FOX is a disappointment . It’s a Hollywood movie that was made just six years after the end of the war so in some places the producers don’t want to praise the subject matter too much which is understandable because an American audience wouldn’t like a movie where the lead character has contemptible views of American servicemen after soundly beating them at The Kasserine Pass . But at other points in the movie Rommel is seen praising Hitler while describing other senior party members as ” Murderers ” ! There thankfully seems to be historical context to all this . Yes Erwin Rommel was an admirer of Hitler because Hitler solved many economic problems like hyper inflation and massive unemployment when he came to power in 1933 so for a German to admire Hitler in those days was the norm however objectionable this may seem with hindsight . Unfortunately once the war ended instantly revisionist opinions amongst the surviving Germans came to the fore where they bleated that they despised Hitler and the Nazis and their genocidal policies and we see this in umpteen movies like DAS BOOT , CROSS OF IRON and THE EAGLE HAS LANDED , so much so that you’d think that there was only a handful of Nazis in Germany from 1933-45 , so at least this movie deserves some credit for putting things into perspective However once again bad history and factual errors creep in as Rommel is recruited into the plot to assassinate Hitler . Rommel may have been asked to take part in the plot to overthrow Hitler but this movie over states the case . Worse it also paints Gerd Von Rundstedt ( Possibly the Wehrmacht’s greatest leader ) as knowing about the assassination plot against Hitler but casually refusing to take part . Despite being no fan of Hitler or his murderous stooges Von Rundstedt was as shocked and as disgusted as the most loyal party member upon hearing of the bombing of Hitler’s headquarters so it’s highly unlikely he’d have had prior knowledge of the assassination plot . The ending is somewhat moving as Rommel is arrested and led away on charges of treason but perhaps the most poignant thing is that in real life Rommel was as innocent as nearly every other person murdered by the Nazis since he took no part in the plot . The story goes that immediately after the plot Rommel’s staff started criticising the fact that it would have been better if the plot had suceeded hence Rommel was falsely suspected being one of the ringleaders which sealed his fate THE DESERT FOX: THE STORY OF ROMMEL is a very disappointing movie on one of the 20th Centuries most respected military leaders . It fails to show his life prior to 1941 when he ironically fought against the Italians in the first world war , of how he made his reputation as a military commander against the French in 1940 and how during the Normandy landings he and Von Rundstedt argued as to how best to use the panzer defences ( As Anzio showed naval firepower would wreak havoc on units close to the shoreline so Von Rundstedt was probably right ) but the movie shoots itself in the foot even more by including stuff that isn’t correct and a film that I once enjoyed seeing as a child is now spoiled for me
ana hamilton
THE DESERT FOX – 1951 James Mason is really top flight in this film about the WW Two German commander, Erwin Rommel. A very watchable film considering how little actual combat scenes are in the production.Most of the film deals with his growing dislike of Hitler and his mob. It suggests that Rommel was involved in the plot to kill Hitler. From what I’ve read on the subject, there seems to be little solid proof either way. The failure of the assassination, lead to the death of several thousand of those involved. Rommel was forced to commit suicide in order to save his family.Mason keeps this one rolling with help from Cedric Hardwicke and a great bit by Luther Adler as Adolf Hitler. Veteran director Henry (True Grit) Hathaway handles the story with a nice even pace.It is really about time that someone made a film about his World War one battles that won him the Blue Max. Or something on his dash to the coast in the Battle of France as well as his early battles with the Afrika Korps.Having said that, don’t let that stop you from watching this one. It is a film well worth the time investment.
robert lejeune
As one very interested in the history of World War 2, I don’t know how I missed seeing this before. I’m certainly not an authority on Rommel, but as far as I could tell (with a few exceptions, such as the DC3/C-47 made up to look like a German transport and the portrayal of von Runstedt as being more competent than is generally credited) it seemed to be historically accurate. This seemed to be one of the better docu-dramas, a type with a not-very-illustrious tradition. What I found particularly interesting was how a movie made 50 years ago could reflect what are considered to be “new” views today. I’m referring particularly to the statement that Hitler was seeking his own destruction (presented as new in the recent Ian Kearshaw biography “Nemesis”) and the lack of total control by the Nazis over what Germans thought, said and where they went (also presented as a “new” view). This reflects well on Desmond Young’s research and the film makers adherence to it.
kevin stone
This is a fine biopic of a worthy and honorable opponent serving a despicable cause. Unfortunately, there is not enough North Africa Campaign in the film to satisfy a war film buff. When I first saw it in the theater, it did whet my appetite to learn more about this horrendous and costly war. I have been interested in it since. The acting is first-rate, and, unlike Enemy at the Gate, the British and American accents don’t detract from the film, the British accents at any rate. As others have noted in their reviews of this film, Rommel probably wasn’t anti-semitic. He deliberately ignored Hitler’s orders to round up Jews during the invasion of France. He also never forgave Hitler for abandoning the Afrika Korps to their fate in 1942, not to Hitler’s less than energetic attempts to keep the DAK supplied.
sjoerd passchiers
Though The Desert Fox is good as far as it goes and James Mason is perfectly cast as Erwin Rommel, one would hope that a fuller biographical study might be done on the screen.Erwin Rommel was one of a group of like minded military leaders in various countries who after World War I, rose to the top of their country’s military establishment because they saw the value of the tank in any future war. Some of those people would be Charles DeGaulle in France, Dwight Eisenhower and George Patton in America, Marshal Tukachevksy in the Soviet Union and Rommel in Germany.In 1942 Hitler as he was constantly doing sent Rommel in to bail out the Italians who up to that point had been running the desert campaign in North Africa. With less men and supplies, his tactical ability bedeviled the Allied command until The Second Battle of El Alamein.The film starts with Rommel as desert warfare genius and then when he does become ill and is invalided out of North Africa, the Allies regain the initiative and beat his famed Afrika Korps. Rommel is then sent to Western Europe to supervise the defenses on the Atlantic.There comes a point when Rommel does realize that his Fuehrer is destroying his country and becomes involved in the plot to kill him and overthrow the government. That is what most of the film deals with.James Mason is a stalwart Rommel a perfect conception of the man they called The Desert Fox. In this mostly male film, Jessica Tandy has little to do but be loyal and supportive as Frau Rommel.Luther Adler who among other parts he played in his long distinguished career was David Ben-Gurion. He goes the whole opposite way in his portrayal of a ranting and malevolent Adolph Hitler. How a man who took his Jewish heritage as seriously as Luther Adler did, prepare for the role of Hitler is beyond my scope. But then again, there were few actors as good as he.Though Mason does a fine job given what limited material he had to work from, archives have been opened and we know a whole lot more about Erwin Rommel. Time for another biographical study.
sirje meier
It wasn’t simply the way Mason captured the screen with a class that few if any actors could handle today. Sometimes, it only takes one scene to make a movie great. The scene between Rommel and Hitler (Mason and Adler) is that scene. You forget that these are actors and immerse yourself in the moment as Rommel becomes the one man who dares confront Hitler about his battle plans. He refuses to back down to the most evil man of our time and it makes this movie one of the best WWII movies ever made.The makers of Pearl Harbor should take note: When you have the people like Rommel and Hitler (Or Roosevelt and Yamamoto) as your characters, you don’t need to invent a silly story line. History is the best story teller of all. This movie is about history.
draga sokac
Out of 20th Century Fox, The Desert Fox is directed by Henry Hathaway and adapted for the screen by Nunnally Johnson (also producing) from the biography of Erwin Rommel written by Brigadier Desmond Young. It stars James Mason as Rommel who in turn is supported by Cedric Hardwicke, Jessica Tandy, Luther Adler, Everett Sloane, Leo Carroll, George Macready & Richard Boone.Possibly the first mainstream film to boldly humanise a German military leader, The Desert Fox is propelled by a mesmerising performance by Mason and backed up by Johnson’s literate script. It condenses Young’s biography into just an hour and half of film, but in that relatively short running time the makers have done enough to give decent insight into a man who the opposition had much respect for. The plot basically takes us on Rommel’s journey from victories in North Africa, where he is loyally followed by the Afrika Korps, to his defeat at El Alamein (infuriating Hitler by disregarding orders), to French coastal defences, his role in the failed attempt to assassinate Hitler and his subsequent death by military command. Shot in a sort of semi-documentary style by Hathaway, with stock war footage flitting in and out of the film, it’s credit to Hathaway that the direction is pacey and doesn’t get bogged down by the necessary long passages of dialogue exchanges. The support cast all do fine work, with Adler’s cameo as the Fuhrer particularly memorable, while the overriding satisfaction comes from finally seeing a Hollywood production capable of an even handed and sympathetic portrait of a opposition leader.Good adult cinema. 7/10
kudriashov liubosmysl davidovich
While a highly rewatchable war movie, with a corker of a performance from James Mason, this motion picture does have its inaccuracies–beginning with its memorable opening. In truth, British commandos did not sneak or charge in, outfitted in nightfighting fatigues; they simply walked in, disguised in Axis uniforms with fake ids. Though the covert mission proved a fiasco, Rommel, in true chivalrous tradition, had these would-be assassins buried with full military honors. However, cinematically-speaking, it’s a gripping moment, and it’s considered the first true pre-credit movie sequence, a trick one would see quite often in later movies, such as the Bond films and others. The movie focuses largely on the Field Marshall’s involvement with the attempted assassination of Hitler, but just how much (or how little) Rommel was involved is still arguable. Curiously, James Mason once mentioned how he was up for the part of Rommel and was competing with another Fox contract-player, Gary Merrill (best known as Bette Davis’s love interest in ALL ABOUT EVE). Mason was impressed by how well Merrill marched and strutted, doing bits of military-like physical action that didn’t come easily to the urbane Mason. Even though Mason ultimately won the part over Merrill, he self-critically felt he didn’t fully do the role justice (though many, including myself, wouldn’t agree with him). Perhaps the studio opted for Mason to bring out a sympathetic quality, because viewers do tend to forget the numbers of Allies who died directly because of the main character! Rommel was a great general for his energetic and ingenious tactics, not for (possibly) wanting Hitler killed.Don’t get me wrong; this movie is still a joy.
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I cannot count the number of times I’ve seen this excellent film. It is endlessly watchable. James Mason plays a very believable Rommel (at least he looked the proper age unlike the actor who played him in PATTON). True, this is an idolized portrait of Rommel, whose reputation in history (after all he was Hitler’s favorite general, an autocratic and egotistical warrior who served his Furher with skill and zeal) was salvaged because of his final opposition to Hitler, an action that caused his death on Hitler’s orders. It would be interesting, as one reviewer wrote, to see a German filmmaker’s take on Rommel’s life.The script is tight, giving the cast excellent opportunities to create intelligent and believable characters. To the film’s credit, the historical events are generqally presented with fairly good accuracy. As a side note: the voice of British General Desmond Morris (upon whose biography the film is based and who gives a running narration throughout) was dubbed by actor Michael Rennie (THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL), but who is not credited.Despite flaws that mark all historical movies of any age, but especially biographies, I highly recommend THE DESERT FOX, especially for it’s acting.
armando guardado bravo
This is a pretty solid attempt to portray a soldier’s great dilemma – balancing loyalty to the state and obedience to orders with the higher calling of loyalty to what’s right and just. Erwin Rommel was one of the great German generals of World War II (a hero in Germany and respected by the Allies.) In the end, he also became involved with the conspiracy against Hitler. The movie shows us some of that development, beginning with his incredulousness at Hitler’s orders that the Afrika Korps stand and fight to the last man in Africa rather than withdrawing to fight another day. According to the movie, it was this “stand and fight to the last man” attitude of Der Fuhrer that finally pushed Rommel over the edge. That makes Rommel consistent with what I know of most of the leaders of the “resistance” (such as it was) to Hitler. The opposition wasn’t political; it wasn’t based on a rejection of Nazi ideology or distaste for Hitler’s racial policies – it tended to be based simply on the belief that Hitler was leading Germany to defeat in the war. That’s the overarching sentiment portrayed here. That being the case, Rommel may not have been the sympathetic character this movie makes him out to be – maybe he just had the smarts to realize that Germany was fighting a losing war. There’s also no mention of his performance during the German invasion of France in 1940, in which Rommel – as a panzer commander – received some German criticism for both his tactics and his tendency to exaggerate his achievements.James Mason was very good as Rommel. His portrayal was believable, although I wish there had been more exploration in the story of where Rommel came from rather than simply starting us abruptly in Africa. Made only 6 years after the end of the war, the movie is also somewhat courageous in presenting a German general (even one who was unsympathetic to Hitler) in such a sympathetic light. I didn’t find this to be structured particularly well. There was too much narration involved, which seemed put an end to any flow the movie might have been trying to develop. Some scenes (particularly of the Allied landings on D-Day) featured a little too much patriotic American and British and French music as the troops went ashore (frankly, listening to the Marine Fight Song or The Marseillaise in a movie about Rommel seemed a bit silly.)It’s an interesting movie, but doesn’t seem to completely capture the man it portrays.
eleanor robertson
The film is a Rommel biography written by Lt.Colonel Desmond Young and screenwriter Nunnally Johnson . It’s based on true events and real characters . In WWII Field Marshal Erwin Rommel won reputation as Germany’s most popular General but he played an important part in the invasions of central Europe and France . At the same time he was regarded by many Allied officers as a master of desert warfare and as a fair-minded professional . Erwin Rommel (James Mason) really achieved fame as the commander of the German Afrika Korps , operating against the British in North Africa and he captured Tobruk ,the key to the British defenses . Quick to see advantage and profit from it , he ran rings round the British for almost two years before being stopped at Alamein and then driven out of Africa by General Marshal Montgomery . Later on , Rommel was given command of Army in northern Italy to prevent an Italian defection and to counter an Allied invasion of Southern Europe . In 1944 he was transferred to command of an army group in northern France.On two occasions,Rommel and Von Rundstedt (Leo G.Carroll) saw Hitler and attempted to convince him that he should end the war while considerable German forces still existed.The pale and shaken Fuehrer met their frankness with angry diatribes.After the Allied invasion of Normandy (June 6,1944) , Rommel was severely injured when his automobile was strafed by a British plane,and he was sent home to Ulm to recover along with his wife Frau Lucie Marie (Jessica Tandy) , his personal assistant Capt.Hermamn (Richard Boone) and military son. By this time , he had become increasingly disillusioned not only by Hitler’s unrealistic military leadership but also by the worldwide reaction to Nazi atrocities . He opposed the project assassination attempt on Hitler’s life on the ground that this action would only create martyr . Rommel never took an active role in the July Plot executed by Colonel Klaus Von Stauffenberg (Edward Franz) , although the conspirators wanted him as Chief of state after the elimination of Hitler.However the plot failure ,one of the conspirators , before he died in agony on a meat hook , blurted out Rommel’s name to his tormentors and his doom was sealed , offered the choice of a court-martial or reprisals against his his family or suicide.In the film appears famous Nazi characters who are well interpreted by awesome actors , as Hitler featured by Luther Adler gives an excellent performance (but doesn’t reach to Bruno Ganz in ¨The downfall¨) , Edward Franz as a magnificent Von Stauffenberg , Leo G. Carroll as Von Rundstedt , Everett Sloane (Gen. Wilhelm Burgdorf) , George Mc Ready (Gen.Fritz Bayerlein) , John Hoyt (Gen.Keitel) and of course Rommel’s James Mason who displays a first-rate interpretation and he’ll repeat role in ¨The Desert Rats¨ (1953) by Robert Wise . The motion picture was professionally directed by Henry Hathaway . Rating : Good , above average and well worth watching .
Wonderful performances, first-rate script and direction (moving musical score in key places, as well), plus a well-structured theme about moral dilemmas of patriotic soldiers who realize they’re obeying evil orders, make this a little-known gem.Did Rommel really participate in the plot to kill Hitler? Hitler sure thought so. He had his favorite general poisoned; about that there is no question.Did Rommel know Hitler before the war? Not sure when they became acquainted but Rommel ran AH’s bodyguard unit for a while, then became one of Hitler’s favorite generals when he helped sweep the British to Dunkirk in 1940.Was Rommel aware of and morally responsible for the Holocaust? A recent award winning Rommel biography cites one scene I wish they could have included in this film: Rommel around 1941 advised Hitler that he was concerned by Allied carping on German anti-semitism. “Why don’t we put some Jews into prominent leadership positions and shut them up?” Rommel suggested. Hitler told Rommel to stick to military matters and, after the general exited the room, told associates: “That fellow has absolutely no understanding of what we are trying to accomplish.”The movie does generally succeed in portraying the theme of a soldier so single-mindedly focused on the professional technique of his job that he only slowly awakens to the moral horror and self-destructiveness of the leader he serves.The Churchill quote used at the film’s ending is meant to address (and answer) the questions about whether it is morally proper to make a film that glorifies a Nazi general. If Churchill could say such magnanimous things about him…and it’s an accurate quote…then so could Hollywood.(Interesting historical note: British film audiences in the early 1950s were not in such a generous mood. The studio quickly churned out the much-inferior “Desert Rats” film, featuring Mason as a more-villainous Rommel, to mollify outraged critics.)Where did the quote come from that is spoken in this film by von Reunstadt: “Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan”? Yes, JFK used it, famously, after the Bay of Pigs fiasco. Many newsmen of the time mistakenly credited the president with originating it, but JFK didn’t claim credit for it. The line has since been traced back to some Italian count in the 1500s. His name was Ciano or something like that. But JFK was a big movie fan and, my guess is, probably learned this aphorism from “The Desert Fox” a decade before using it in his famous post-Bay of Pigs press conference!
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U/West Regional Hospital urgently needs staff, logistics – Think Tank
Upper West Media / August 8, 2018
The Upper West Regional Hospital is in dire need of government’s attention to address the facility’s human and logistical constraints hindering effective healthcare delivery.
The challenges facing the Hospital have caught the attention of stakeholders including the Savannah Development, a policy think tank, which has expressed grave concern about the issue.
The think Tank has therefore called on the government to come to the aid of the Hospital by providing both human and logistical support to enable it to deliver quality services to the people.
Mr. Abu Kansangbata, the acting Executive Director of Savannah Development, who made the call in a statement copied to GNA, raised concerns about the deplorable state of the Hospital.
According to Savannah Development, its investigations showed the hospital was in dire need of personnel like medical doctors, pharmacists, biochemical scientists, pathologists and paediatricians among other critical staff.
“It is stunning to note that the hospital has one of the worse doctor-patient ratio of one doctor to over 500 patients,” it said.
In the area of equipment, the investigations also revealed that the hospital lacks CT Scan, X-Ray machine, computers for entering data and other machines for clinical laboratory investigations.
It said the government’s slogan of “Ghana Beyond Aid” would not be achieved if pertinent issues such as that facing the health facility continued to hinder healthcare delivery in the country.
It therefore called for immediate deployment of health personnel and equipment to help improve healthcare delivery in the hospital.
The statement also called for immediate completion of the new Regional Hospital facility to boost access to quality healthcare services in the Region.
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A Closer Look at Ride Vehicles, Blasters, and Props Revealed for Ant-Man and The Wasp: Nano Battle! at Hong Kong Disneyland
We’re less than a month away from the opening of Ant-Man and The Wasp: Nano Battle! at Hong Kong Disneyland and even more ride images are beginning to surface, including a closer look at ride vehicles, blasters, and props for the attraction. The new attraction will send guests on a critical mission with Ant-Man and The Wasp, who have answered Iron Man’s call for support in defending Hong Kong against Hydra’s attack.
Much like the attraction it replaced (Buzz Lightyear’s Astro Blasters), this will be a shooting arcade attraction where guests will be able to team up with Ant-Man and The Wasp to fight Arnim Zola and his army of Hydra swarm bots.
Image courtesy of Disney and more
Here’s a better look at the D/AGR, or Defense/Assault Ground Rover ride vehicle and the EMP blaster.
Two blasters will be stationed in every vehicle. The SHIELD logo is displayed prominently in each ride vehicle as well.
The queue will also feature artifacts and research items from more than a dozen Marvel movies, TV shows, and comics.
We got a look at the exterior of the ride building back in November, as well as an in-depth look at the merchandise available for the attraction back in January, so it’s exciting to see this project finally come to life. Will you making a trip out to Hong Kong for this latest attraction? Ant-Man and The Wasp: Nano Battle! opens March 31, 2019.
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As the Whitgift School Staff Handbook states, "good relations with parents happily exist at Whitgift". The School is proud of the positive rapport it fosters amongst parents and staff. It welcomes parental support and involvement in its busy Calendar and in the daily life of the School itself.
It is not long before many new parents realise that it is not only their boys who have joined Whitgift. Parents too are an important part of the Whitgift School community and whatever time they have available to contribute to School life is welcome. In its turn, the School provides dedicated resources and activities for parents to enjoy. Some of these are described below to give an indication of what is available.
Whitgift School Parents Association (WSPA)
The School's formal relationship with staff and parents is through the WSPA. As a registered charity, the WSPA undertakes activities which contribute to the School. The Association's Chairman is an ex officio member of the Whitgift School Governors. The School's Headmaster is the WSPA President. All current staff and parents are automatically members. There is no membership fee.
WSPA newsletters and announcements are sent by the School with its half term and end of term mailings. The WSPA organises a number of social events each year designed to encourage parents to meet and enjoy one another's company whilst also raising funds for the School. Regular events include a Burns Supper and Ceilidh, a new Parents' Reception and Quiz Evening and a Summer Ball. In addition, the WSPA supports the School by assisting at Open Morning and Open Evening, organising Second Hand Uniform Sales, providing hospitality to candidates and parents attending Entrance Interviews and at Arts events and helping in the Careers Department.
The WSPA has a Working Group Committee which meets regularly to organise events. If you are a Whitgift parent and would like to be involved with the WSPA then please contact: wspa@whitgift.co.uk, or Leyla Blake, PA to the Second Master on: l.blake@whitgift.co.uk.
Whitgift-Minster Choral Society
The Whitgift-Minster Choral Society is a massed choir made up of parents, staff, and singers from Whitgift School, as well as the Croydon Minster community, who work towards high-quality performances of large choral works, with orchestra, on a project basis. It is great fun, and we always welcome new members. No audition is necessary, although some choral experience is desirable.
The choir is directed by Ronny Krippner (Organist & Director of Choral Music) and, when embarking on a special concert projects, rehearsals take place on Tuesday evenings between 7.00 and 8.30pm, in the Concert Hall.
For further information regarding the Choral Society, please contact the Music Administrator on 020 8688 9222.
Sports for Parents at Whitgift
Parents are also very welcome to attend key sports fixtures outside their son's year group such as the NatWest rugby fixtures which draw large crowds.
Whitgift also has an after-hours sports club. Membership is only available to family and friends of the Whitgift Foundation. If you are interested in applying for membership or would like to come and try the facilities for a day then please contact us at healthclub@whitgift.co.uk, or telephone 020 8633 9945. Please click here for more information about the sports club facilities.
Whitgift School Careers Department
Whitgift parents and Old Whitgiftians assist the Careers Department in a number of ways including help with practice interviews for Sixth Formers in preparation for university applications and employment, and running lunch time and after school careers presentations. They also provide work experience placements, offer advice at the annual Careers Convention, or facilitate group visits to broaden awareness of career opportunities. If you can help in any capacity please contact the Careers Team, at careers@whitgift.co.uk or by telephone on the Careers Department direct line - 020 8633 9914.
Whitgift School Secondhand Uniform
Sales are held once per term. Only good quality and current items of uniform, sports kit and CCF boots are accepted. Parents receive 50% of the sale price, and the balance goes to WSPA funds. The dates are published in the School Calendar and further details can be obtained by contacting Mr John Sullivan by email at wspa@whitgift.co.uk.
Consultation about Whitgift School Developments
The School consults parents before completing its Development Plan for each five year period. The Development Plan is available on the School website. To find out more about WSPA events and support from parents for the School, please consult the School Calendar, the School Office, the WSPA Secretary, or direct to the specific School Departments.
We hope that parents enjoy participating in the Whitgift community and welcome any further ideas of ways to involve parents in School life.
Raeburn Library Parent Volunteers
Do you have some time to spare? Every Wednesday from 2.15 to 3.45pm a group of parents volunteer in the Raeburn Library, putting books back, organising shelves etc. It is a great way of being involved with the School and seeing the boys going about their daily acitivites. All we ask is that you you commit to one afternoon a term (or more if you would like to). If you are interested, please email lucy@sandeberg.co.uk
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Hosted by Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich, Radiolab is a show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and human experience.
Security added to building where worker stabbed
Security has been stepped up at a Camden office building where a state child welfare worker was stabbed earlier this week, but state officials are not talking about it.
The head of a union that represents caseworkers says she has been told Human Services Department police are now working at the building. But Communications Workers of America area director Hetty Rosenstein did not know what the plans were going forward.
She said previously that police officers that had worked from the office were removed after Friday as part of reorganization.
A spokesman for the Children and Families Department did not return messages Tuesday or early Wednesday.
Caseworker Leah Coleman was stabbed on Monday.
Thirty-year-old Taisha Edwards has been charged with attempted murder and other offenses.
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Murphy signs nine bills to protect N.J.’s health insurance gains from federal attack
All state-run plans would be required to cover basic services and not penalize patients with preexisting conditions
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Brownridge, Scott, Calhoun, Larry, Jenkins, H. Donald B., Laitinen, Risto S., Murchie, Michael P., Passmore, Jack, Pietikainen, Jarkko, Rautiainen, J. Mikko, Sanders, Jeremy C. P., Schrobilgen, Gary J., Suontamo, Reijo J., Tuononen, Heikki M., Valkonen, Jussi U. and Wong, Chi-Ming (2009) Se-77 NMR spectroscopic, DFT MO, and VBT investigations of the reversible dissociation of solid (Se6I2)[AsF6](2)center dot 2SO(2) in liquid SO2 to solutions containing 1,4-Se6I22+ in equilibrium with Se-n(2+) (n=4, 8, 10) and seven binary selenium iodine cations: preliminary evidence for 1,1,4,4-Se4Br42+ and cyclo-Se7Br+. Inorganic Chemistry, Vol.48 (No.5). pp. 1938-1959. doi:10.1021/ic8015673
Army Armament Research, Development, and Engineering Center (U.S.) (ARDEC)
Klapötke, Thomas M., Stierstorfer, Jörg, Jenkins, H. Donald Brooke, van Eldik, Ruth and Schmeisser, Matthias (2011) Calculation of some thermodynamic properties and detonation parameters of 1-Ethyl-3-Methyl-H-Imidazolium Perchlorate, [Emim][ClO4], on the basis of CBS-4M and CHEETAH computations supplemented by VBT estimates. Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie, Vol.637 (No.10). pp. 1308-1313. doi:10.1002/zaac.201100144
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Elliott, Hugh St. A., Lehmann, John F., Mercier, Helene P. A., Jenkins, H. Donald Brooke and Schrobilgen, Gary J. (2010) X-ray crystal structures of [XeF][MF6] (M = As, Sb, Bi), [XeF][M2F11](M = Sb, Bi) and estimated thermochemical data and predicted stabilities for noble-Gas fluorocation salts using volume-based thermodynamics. Inorganic Chemistry, Vol.49 (No.18). pp. 8504-8523. doi:10.1021/ic101152x
Elliott, Hugh St. A., Lehmann, John F., Mercier, Hélène P.A., Jenkins, H. Donald Brooke and Schrobilgen, Gary J. (2010) X-ray crystal structures of [XeF][MF6] (M = As, Sb, Bi), [XeF][M2F11] (M = Sb, Bi) and estimated thermochemical data and predicted stabilities for noble-gas fluorocation salts using volume-based thermodynamics. Inorganic Chemistry, Vol.49 (No.18). pp. 8504-8523. doi:10.1021/ic101152x
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Christe, Karl O., Haiges, Ralf, Boatz, Jerry A., Brooke Jenkins, H. Donald, Garner, Edward B. and Dixon, D. A. (David A.) (2011) Why Are [P(C6H5)4]+N3−and [As(C6H5)4]+N3−ionic salts and Sb(C6H5)4N3and Bi(C6H5)4N3 covalent solids? A theoretical study provides an unexpected answer. Inorganic Chemistry, Volume 50 (Number 8). pp. 3752-3756. doi:10.1021/ic2001078
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Canada)
Mazej, Zoran, Ponikvar-Svet, Maja, Liebman, Joel F., Passmore, Jack and Jenkins, H. Donald Brooke (2009) Nitrosyl and dioxygenyl cations and their salts-Similar but further investigation needed. Journal of Fluorine Chemistry, Vol.130 (9 Sp. Iss. SI). pp. 788-791. doi:10.1016/j.jfluchem.2009.06.012
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Canada (NSERC)
Decken, Andreas, Jenkins, H. Donald Brooke, Mailman, Aaron, Passmore, Jack and Shuvaev, Konstantin V. (2008) An experimental and computational investigation of the site selective and lattice driven cycloaddition reactions of SNS+ salts with 2,3-dichloro-5,6-dicyano-1,4-benzoquinone and 1,1,2,2-tetracyanoethylene: Accounting for experimental findings for SNS+ cycloaddition reactions with other related multi cyano-containing compounds using DFT and VBT approaches. Inorganica Chimica Acta, Volume 361 (Number 2). pp. 521-539. doi:10.1016/j.ica.2007.05.033
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
Bruna, P. (Pablo), Decken, Andreas, Greer, S. (Scott), Grein, Friedrich, Jenkins, H. Donald Brooke, Mueller, Birgit, Passmore, Jack, Paulose, Tressia A. P., Rautiainen, J. Mikko, Richardson, Stephanie and Schriver, Melbourne J. (2013) Synthesis of (TDAE)(O2SSO2)(s) and discovery of (TDAE)(O2SSSSO2)(s) containing the first polythionite, [O2SSSSO2]2–. Inorganic Chemistry, Volume 52 (Number 23). pp. 13651-13662. doi:10.1021/ic4022195
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Slovenian Research Agency (ARRS)
Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (U.S.) (SERDP)
Suomen Akatemia [Academy of Finland]
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United States. Air Force. Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
United States. Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA)
United States. Department of Energy
United States. Office of Naval Research (ONR)
Glasser, Leslie and Jenkins, H. Donald Brooke (2009) Single-ion entropies, S-ion degrees, of solids - a route to standard entropy estimation. Inorganic Chemistry, Vol.48 (No.15). pp. 7408-7412. doi:10.1021/ic9009543
Universität München (LMU)
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Both Sides, Now" is one of the best-known songs of Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell. First recorded by Judy Collins, it appeared on the . singles chart during the fall of 1968. The next year it was included on Mitchell's album Clouds (which was named after a lyric from the song). It has since been recorded by dozens of artists, including Frank Sinatra, Willie Nelson, and Herbie Hancock. Mitchell herself re-recorded the song, with an orchestral arrangement, on her 2000 album Both Sides Now.
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The album was reissued in Europe on the Astan label under the title Both Sides Now after original title track "What About Me" was dropped from the album. Both Sides Now" is the well known Joni Mitchell song covered on the album. Other versions of the album kept the title Both Sides Now but include the "What About Me" track. In 1980, Chevron Records (UK) released an album ( 1830) with the same title but with a different cover art - tracks 4 and 5 are a medley and this causes confusion but the Chevron issue is complete. Retrieved 20 November 2014. "Anne Murray - Both Sides Now".
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America's political vitriol resonates with mentally ill, mail bomb suspect's mother warns
Posted: 12:41 PM, Nov 05, 2018
<p>Cesar Sayoc was arrested Oct. 26, 2018 in a case in which explosive devices were mailed to politicians and media. He was arrested in Plantation, Florida.</p>
The mother of mail bomb suspect Cesar Sayoc writes that she is estranged from her son but hurt by his alleged attacks, and she calls on the country -- specifically, President Donald Trump -- to tone down the nasty rhetoric.
She further warned that the political vitriol -- particularly talk of "war" against the media and political parties — could resonate with the mentally ill, like her son, and inspire them to "violently act out in our country," Madeline Sayoc wrote in an open letter to television network ABC , which published the correspondence Sunday night.
Madeline Sayoc also said that her 56-year-old son's relatives had tried, to no avail, to get him help, and that American families need better laws to allow families to "compel and require" treatment, when necessary.
Here is the full text of the letter:
Dear ABC:
I am presently recuperating from surgery last week and having difficulty breathing. Nevertheless, I feel compelled to write this letter to share my feelings and views. I awakened from my surgery in the hospital last week to learn that my son Cesar has been arrested as the accused (bomber).
While I have not lived with my son for 35 years or even heard from him in over four years, I cannot express how deeply hurt, sad, shocked and confused I am to hear that my son may have caused so many people to be put in fear for their safety. This is not how I raised him or my children.
While I am grateful that no one was actually harmed, all of us in America have an absolute right to live their lives without fear of violent harm, injury or death.
My son has been ill for a long time and my family and I have tried, over and over again, without success to urge him to get the help he needs.
We, in America, have a mental health crisis in this country and need to change the laws to allow families to compel and require mental health treatment for those in need of such treatment before their illness worsens to where it is too late.
Similarly, our political leaders, like our President, Donald Trump, need to recognize that there are many sick people in this country who take their rhetoric and words of "War with the Media" and "War with the Democrats" to heart and view such messages as a license to violently act out in our country.
This type of talk excites and incites and is unacceptable. I beg President Trump and others to refrain from talk of War with fellow Americans and remember, as Senator McCain taught us, that we may politically disagree, but we are all patriotic Americans and all we want is a safe country for all Americans.
Humbly,
Madeline Sayoc
Cesar Sayoc of Aventura, Florida, is accused of mailing as many as 16 packages carrying suspected explosives to CNN offices and prominent Democrats, including ex-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama.
Authorities have classified the packages as a "domestic terror attack" that Sayoc had been planning since July. A federal judge in Miami ruled last week that he will be transferred to face charges in New York, where some of the targets of his packages lived and worked.
A letter filed by prosecutors said Sayoc was expected to arrive in New York on Monday and appear before a federal judge Tuesday morning. Prosecutors intend to ask that he be detained until trial, based on the flight risk and the danger he allegedly poses to the community.
In Miami, Magistrate Judge Edwin Torres told Sayoc he stands charged with interstate transportation of an explosive, illegal mailing of explosives, threats against former presidents and other persons, threatening interstate communications and assaulting current and former federal officers. The charges are punishable by 48 years in prison.
CNN and documentarian Michael Moore separately captured footage of Sayoc attending Trump rallies and chanting, "CNN sucks," and holding aloft a sign to that effect. He regularly took to social media to lambast Democratic donors and politicians, some of whom he is now accused of targeting with the mail bombs, authorities say.
Sayoc's attorney, Daniel Aaronson, has said that his client intends to plead not guilty to the crimes.
"Nobody has been able in a court of law to say that those were bombs that he sent," the attorney said. "Therefore there is no reason why he should speak or possibly have any information to impart."
Aaronson has not addressed his client's mental state.
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__NOTOC__ <div style="background-color: pink; border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px;"> <div style="text-align: center;"><strong><big>PLEASE ADD TO THIS LIST.</big></strong></div> Note that this is ''not'' an "official" list; it is almost certain to be incomplete, and may contain ineligible work. Please see the [[Talk:2010 Ditmar eligibility list|discussion page]], or add a question there, if you are uncertain of a work's eligibility. Please try to provide as much information as possible about a given work, but don't worry if you can't provide all the detail in the examples. If you are uncertain how to format an entry, you can copy-and-paste text from another entry in the same section, then modify it. If you can't get it right, '''don't panic'''. Other people are certain to fix the entry for you. If you are keen to learn, try the "[[Help:Contents|Help]]" link in the left-hand menu. </div><br/> This article lists '''works eligible for the Australian SF ("Ditmar") Awards for 2010''' in each of the eligible categories. (Errors and omissions may be corrected at any time.) ==Introduction== The Ditmar Award is awarded subject to [[Ditmar_rules|official rules]], relevant sections of which are listed in each category below. Note also the following: ''3.1 Timeliness: Works are eligible if they were first published or released anywhere in the world in an edition dated in the calendar year immediately preceding the year the award is held, or dated after the opening of nominations for the year immediately preceding the year the award is held if that is earlier than the start of that year (but after the close of that year).'' ''3.2 Australianness: Nominees are eligible if they were Australian citizens or permanent residents in the year their nominated work was released.'' ''3.3 Eligibility of committee members: The awards will be administered by a sub-committee of the Standing Committee of the Business Meeting of the National Australian Science Fiction Convention, and the members of the sub-committee will not be eligible for an award. The Standing Committee shall rule on issues of conflict of interest.'' ===Best Novel=== ''3.4 Novel: A Novel is any work of sf/f/h of more than 40,000 words.'' * ''An Example Novel'', Australian Writer(s), Publisher (Location), 2009. ([http://example.com|Example link to more information]) ===Best Novella or Novelette=== ''3.5 Novella or Novelette: A Novella or Novelette is any work of sf/f/h of 7,500 to 40,000 words.'' * "An Example Novella or Novelette", Australian Writer, in Containing Publication, Publisher (Location), 2009. ([http://example.com|Example link to more information]) ===Best Short Story=== ''3.6 Short Story: A Short Story is any work of sf/f/h less than 7,500 words.'' * "An Example Short Story", Australian Writer, in Containing Publication, Publisher (Location), 2009. ([http://example.com|Example link to more information]) ===Best Collected Work=== ''3.7 Collected Work: A collected work is a sf/f/h collection or anthology, magazine or journal, ezine or webzine which must pay contributors in other than contributor copies and incidentals, or the editor/s of which declare the work to be professional. At least one edition of a collected work must have been issued in the eligible calendar year.'' * ''An Example Collected work'', Australian Editor(s), Publisher (Location), 2009. ([http://example.com|Example link to more information]) ===Best Artwork=== ''3.8 Best Artwork: An artwork is a single work or series of related works of art in any medium other than text.'' * ''An Example artwork'', Australian Artist, in Containing Publication, Publisher (Location), 2009. ([http://example.com|Example link to more information]) ===Best Fan Writer=== ''3.9 Fan Writer and Fan Artist: These awards are made to writers or artists for a work or body of work first published, released, or made available for public viewing in the eligible calendar year. The writer or artist must have received no payment other than contributor copies and other incidentals (coffee mug, t-shirt, poster, etc.)'' * Australian Writer, Example work(s), in Containing Publication(s), Publisher(s) (Location(s)), 2009. ([http://example.com|Example link to more information]) ===Best Fan Artist=== ''3.9 Fan Writer and Fan Artist: These awards are made to writers or artists for a work or body of work first published, released, or made available for public viewing in the eligible calendar year. The writer or artist must have received no payment other than contributor copies and other incidentals (coffee mug, t-shirt, poster, etc.)'' * Australian Artist, Example work(s), in Containing Publication(s), Publisher(s) (Location(s)), 2009. ([http://example.com|Example link to more information]) ===Best Fan Publication=== ''3.10 Fan Publication: This award is for work in any medium first published, released, or made available for public viewing in the eligible calendar year. The writer or artist must have received no payment. Eligible works include, but are not limited to, a periodical, journal, fanzine, ezine or webzine.'' * ''Australian Fan Publication'', Australian Writer, Artist or Editor, Publisher (Location), 2009. ([http://example.com|Example link to more information]) ===Best Achievement=== ''3.11 Best Achievement: This award recognises an outstanding achievement related to science fiction, fantasy or horror and not eligible in any other category of these awards.'' * Australian Achievement, Australian Achiever(s), details of Achievement including location and date if appropriate. ([http://example.com|Example link to more information]) ===Best New Talent=== ''3.13 Best New Talent: The Best New Talent award recognises excellence of achievement in any field of the genre by an individual who has not been nominated for a recognised award three or more years before the year the award is held. Recognised awards include but are not limited to: Australian SF ("Ditmar") Awards, WA SF Achievement Awards (Tin Ducks), Aurealis, Hugo and Nebula Awards. An individual is only eligible for two consecutive years.'' * Talented Australian, details of Achievement(s). ([http://example.com|Example link to more information]) ===William Atheling Jr Award for Criticism or Review=== ''3.12 The William Atheling Jr Award: The William Atheling Jr Award is for the writing or editing of a work or related work of criticism or review pertaining to the genres of science fiction, fantasy, and horror.'' * Australian Writer or Editor, for Work, in Containing Publication, Publisher (Location), 2009. ([http://example.com|Example link to more information]) [[Category:Ditmar Awards]]
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Jersey Village, Texas
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Jersey Village is a city in west-central Harris County, Texas, United States, located at U.S. Highway 290, Farm to Market Road 529, and the Southern Pacific Railroad. The city is located in the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area. The population was 7,620 at the 2010 census.
The 1936 Harris County highway map indicated several residences in the area. Clark W. Henry owned 1,236 acres (5.00 km2) of land on which he operated F&M Dairy and raised Jersey cattle. Henry discontinued his dairy when his health declined, and he gave the land up so a residential community could be built in 1953. Henry and LeRoy Kennedy, members of the Garden Oaks Baptist Church, began developing the community in February 1954. At first the city had 5 miles (8 km) of streets and drainage, gas, sewage, and water services. Several houses were established along Jersey Drive. The first family moved to the subdivision in late October 1954. The community developed a school, a park, and an 18-hole golf course. Jersey Village incorporated on April 16, 1956, with all 58 votes in favor of incorporation and a volunteer police force. Because of the incorporation, Houston did not incorporate Jersey Village's territory into its city limits.
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Jersey (/ˈdʒɜːrzi/, French: [ʒɛʁzɛ]; Jèrriais: Jèrri [ʒɛri]), officially the Bailiwick of Jersey (French: Bailliage de Jersey; Jèrriais: Bailliage dé Jèrri), is a Crown dependency of the United Kingdom, a possession of the Crown in right of Jersey, off the coast of Normandy, France. The bailiwick consists of the island of Jersey, along with surrounding uninhabited islands and rocks collectively named Les Dirouilles, Les Écréhous, Les Minquiers, Les Pierres de Lecq, and other reefs. Jersey was part of the Duchy of Normandy, whose dukes went on to become kings of England from 1066. After Normandy was lost by the kings of England in the thirteenth century, and the ducal title surrendered to France, Jersey and the other Channel Islands remained attached to the English crown.
Jersey is a self-governing parliamentary democracy under a constitutional monarchy, with its own financial, legal and judicial systems, and the power of self-determination.
The island of Jersey is the largest of the Channel Islands. Although the Bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey are often referred to collectively as the Channel Islands, the "Channel Islands" are not a constitutional or political unit. Jersey has a separate relationship to its Crown from the other Crown dependencies of Guernsey and the Isle of Man, although all three Crowns are held by the monarch of the United Kingdom. It is not part of the United Kingdom, and has an international identity separate from that of the UK, but the United Kingdom is constitutionally responsible for the defence of Jersey. The Commission have confirmed in a written reply to the European Parliament in 2003 that Jersey is within the Union as a European Territory for whose external relationships the United Kingdom is responsible. Jersey is not fully part of the European Union but has a special relationship with it, notably being treated as within the European Community for the purposes of free trade in goods.
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Jersey is the debut solo extended play (EP) by American singer and actress Bella Thorne, released on November 17, 2014 by Hollywood Records. Thorne promoted the EP for a one time, in the event Shall We Dance on Ice, in Bloomington, Illinois, on December 16, 2014, when she performed "Jersey".
“Everything is very different so it is hard to say I have some Coachella music, I have some R&B, some more Ke$ha talk-y music, I wanted there to be a song for everyone I don’t want it to just be you hear a song on the radio and say, ‘Oh that kinda sounds like Bella Thorne,’ like she would sing a song like that. I want it to be so versatile and different.”
In March 2013, Thorne announced she'd been signed to Hollywood Records, and began working on her debut album. On 23 April 2013, she discussed details about her upcoming album, telling MTV: “What fans can expect is [for it] just to be very different from anyone, because I don’t like to be one of those artists where you can be like: ‘Oh yeah, I know them from that song.’ All my songs are very different from each other. So I don’t want to be known as only one genre.” On 28 March 2014, Thorne announced her debut album would be named as the single, and confirmed it will consist of eleven songs.
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What a Time to Be Alive is a collaborative mixtape by Toronto-based rapper Drake and Atlanta-based rapper Future. It was released on September 20, 2015 via the iTunes Store and Apple Music. The mixtape was released under the labels of A1, Cash Money, Epic, OVO Sound, Freebandz, Republic and Young Money.
The mixtape debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200. The artwork is a stock image that was purchased from Shutterstock.
The mixtape was first teased by a range of sources including DJ SKEE, Angela Yee and Ernest Baker, and was officially announced on Drake's Instagram on September 19, 2015, when he revealed the mixtape's release date and cover art. Drake and Future premiered the album on Beats 1 on OVO Sound's "OVO Sound Radio" show on September 20, 2015, after which it was released on the iTunes Store and Apple Music.
What a Time to Be Alive received generally positive reviews from critics, receiving a normalized metascore of 70 out of 100 on the review aggregate website Metacritic based on 24 critics.Billboard described Drake and Future's chemistry as expected and said "Future deals with personal demons that he tries, and fails, to drown in drugs; Drake is mostly about insecurities and lesser gravity".Rolling Stone gave the album 3.5 out of 5 stars, attributing the "fresh and spontaneous" feel to the quick production of the album, where "both artists [are] playing off their louder-than-life personalities without overthinking the details." However, Sheldon Pearce in a Pitchfork Media review suggests that this limited time-frame for making the album is the sonic downfall of the mixtape arguing that the album "wasn't created with the care or the dutiful curation we've come to expect from both artists when solo."
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Jersey released: 2005
Itinerary released:
Boy With a Rifle
TV Dinner
Alow Summer
Counting the People That Walk By
Sleep on Souvenirs
Moondial
Touch the Ground
Noir A.M.
Darkline
Half an Hour
Generation Genocide released: 2004
The Battle's Just Begun released: 1999
Generation Genocide
The Story of '53
One Way St.
Violation Detonation
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Following a restructure, and with an earlier Spending Review looming on the horizon, Arts Council England is briefing clients.
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The first of a series of nine Arts Council England briefing sessions for National Portfolio Organisations (NPOs) takes place at Colston Hall, Bristol on Friday 9 November. ACE has invited National Portfolio organisations (NPOs), major partner museums and recipients of strategic funding to briefing events across the nine current ACE regions.
ACE said: “As a result of the government’s requirement that Arts Council [England] cuts administrative costs by 50 per cent by 2014/2015, we have reviewed how we will work in the future.
“At these client briefings we’ll introduce the new model for the Arts Council [the result of a major restructure announced last week] and discuss changes to the way we work together. We will also discuss latest thinking on the possibility of an earlier Spending Review, and the compelling story we can all tell about the contribution culture makes.
“Sessions are intended to be conversations with open space to talk as well as to listen. You will hear from us, we want to hear from you and you will have the opportunity to talk to your peers and ask questions of us and of each other.”
The Government’s current Spending Review, presented by the Chancellor George Osborne in October 2010, fixed government department budgets to 2014/15. Whilst a review for the period beyond 2015 was originally forecast for Spring 2014, MPs have unofficially suggested that this will be bought forward to 2013 – clearly of substantial concern for ACE and its clients.
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In the 1st Century A.D. the Romans designed two types of spoons, similar in style to the spoons below, that ultimately had far-reaching influence. The first a ligula, was used for soups and soft foods. It had a pointed oval bowl and a handle ending in a decorative design. The second style of spoon was called a cochleare, was a small spoon with a round bowl and a pointed, slender handle for eating shellfish and eggs. The earliest English spoons were likely modelled after these two types of spoons due to the Roman occupation of Britain from A.D. 43 to 410.
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The 15 Most Satisfying Moments In Game Of Thrones
By Rosie Lewingdon January 12, 2018 // 5:53 pm
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Seven long years have passed since HBO’s Game of Thrones first aired the silver screen, and in all of that time many satisfying moments occurred. Whether it be a deceased character being avenged or a character coming out on top after having endured hardships, the moment has happened. We have composed a list of 15 of the most satisfying moments that we all know we enjoyed watching.
The Reunion Of Jon Snow & Sansa Stark
7 long years had passed since the cousins, believed to be half siblings – Jon Snow and Sansa Stark – had last seen each other before he rode north to join the brothers of the Nights Watch and she rode south to Kings Landing to further her courtship with Joffrey Baratheon.
Sansa – having escaped her abusive husband Ramsay Bolton in the last episode of season 5 – ventured to Castle Black in season 6, where Jon was believed to still have been the Lord Commander of the Nights Watch.
Weary and tired, the believed to be last member of House Stark, Sansa rode into the courtyard of Castle Black and dismounted nervously as the brothers of the Nights Watch and wildings stared at her with curiosity.
She looked around until she caught sight of Jon Snow standing on the ramparts. Without taking his eyes off of her, he made his way down the stairs and onto the courtyard. They stared at each other bewilderedly before fiercely embracing as the House Stark theme swelled in the background.
Daenerys Takes The Khalasar
Having been captured by the Khalasar in the last episode of season 5, Daenerys Targaryen was taken back to Vaes Dothrak where her fate was to be decided by the many Khal’s who had gathered there.
When she was brought before the Khal’s, they began to discuss what to do with her including taking turns raping her or giving her to the Masters of Yunkai. She, talking in fluent Dothraki, told them about the promises Khal Drogo made her the last time she was there.
They mocked her but she told them they were small men who were not fit to lead the Dothraki people but she was. They told her they would definitely rape her as well as let their bloodriders do so as well but she merely smiled and placed her hands on the fit pits.
She told them they would not serve her, they would die, before pushing all of the pits over which caused the temple to be engulfed in flames. As she stepped out of the burning temple unharmed, the Dothraki bowed to their new leader.
Daario Naharis Joins Daenerys’ Cause
While Daenerys was bathing, Daario Naharis, Ed Skrein version, snuck in her tent and held Missandei at knife point. It seemed as though he was going to kill her but he released her and revealed himself. He – under Daenerys command – let her go.
They discuss why he is there and he reveals that he killed his captains, who wanted him to kill Daenerys. He explains why she should trust him and as he does, she steps out of the bath and is dressed by Missandei.
He withdraws his sword and bows before her, pledging his sword, lie and heart to her and her cause.
Jon Is Named King In The North
In the Great Hall of Winterfell, the northern lords discussed what to do for the coming winter and the White Walkers that come with it. They appear to dismiss Jon Snow’s warnings and say that they wish to return to their own castles.
There is tension in the room but Lyanna Mormont, the lady of Bear Island, stands up and dresses several of the lords who were directly affected by the Bolton’s – whom Jon defeated and liberated the north from. She states that she and House Mormont have always remained loyal, and that the only person they will address as king, is a Stark – whom, despite not having the name, Jon is.
The other lords apologise for not committing to his cause at first and begin to pledge their loyalty. The entire hall, even the Wildlings and Knights of the Vale, raise their swords and declare him the King in the North.
The Death Of Viserys Targaryen
Spiteful and cruel, the Beggar King – Viserys Targaryen – violently abused his younger sister – Daenerys Targaryen – and threatened her if she should not comply with him in episode 1 of season 1.
His cruelty became even more apparent when he sold her as a bride to a frightening Dothraki warlord in exchange for an army, especially when she begged him not to and he told her that to claim his throne – he would let the Khalasar of 40 thousand men and their horses rape her.
When his sister began to break free of his control, he tried to beat her – whilst she was pregnant although he did not know at that time – but she hit him round the head with a golden belt, which in hindsight acted as foreshadowing for his satisfying death.
After having drunk excessively, he stumbled into Khal Drogo’s hut and shouted about wanting his crown. When he was told his place is back with the common Dothraki people, he threatened the lives of Daenerys and her unborn child.
Khal Drogo had him restrained and his arms broken while he melted his golden belt. Daenerys looked on as her husband poured molten gold over her abusive brother’s head and watched emotionlessly as he fell to ground with a chilling clank.
Tyrion Escaping & Killing Tywin
In season 4 of HBO’s Game of Thrones, Tyrion Lannister, having been accused of the murder of King Joffrey I Baratheon and having lost his trial by combat – waited in the dungeons of the Red Kept for his impending execution. His elder brother, Jaime Lannister, however freed him after and emotional goodbye.
Instead of meeting Varys, whom was going to take Tyrion across the Narrow Sea to Essos, Tyrion took a crossbow and went to his father’s chambers – where he found Shae, his former lover who spoke out against him at his trial.
He killed her by choking her to death, though it pained him greatly, before finding his father using the toilet. He fired several shots are being goaded by Tywin and watched his father slump against the wall behind him.
The Hound Joins The Brotherhood Without Banners
Having seen the corpses of the people who took him in and cared for him, Sandor ‘The Hound’ Clegane picks up an Axe and goes to hunt them down. He finds the murderers ready to be hung by the Brotherhood without Banners.
They discuss their reasons for both wanting to kill the murderers. Beric Dondarrion tells the Hound that he can kill one of them but the Hound claims that he wants to kill two of them. He then kills the two he was given permission to kill.
He then sits around a fire with the Brotherhood and eats. As he does so, Beric tells him that he should join them. Thoros of Myr explains that the Brotherhood have a purpose that the Lord of Light has given them. Beric tells him is not to late to begin helping and he agrees to join them.
Arya Stark Killing Walder Frey & Wiping Out House Frey
Having betrayed Robb Stark – the elder brother of Arya Stark – and orchestrated the Red Wedding – in which the murder of Robb, Talisa – Robb’s pregnant wife – and Catelyn Stark – the widow of Ned Stark and mother of Robb, Sansa, Arya, Bran and Rickon Stark – in season 3 of HBO’s Game of Thrones, Walder Frey had his name put on Arya’s list of names.
After serving Walder Frey a pie made from his sons in the last episode of season 6, Arya cut off his face and posed as him in the first episode of season 7. She poisoned the wine that she served to the member of House Frey and reminded them of the atrocity they committed during the Red Wedding.
Before she walked out of the hall nonchalantly, she removed the face of Walder Frey and revealed herself as Arya Stark – the girl who avenged the Red Wedding.
The Death Of Ramsay Bolton
Manipulative and psychotic, the former bastard, Ramsay Bolton, made his onscreen debut while posing as the man sent to rescue Theon Greyjoy. Playing one of his many sick games, he freed Theon and then had him caught and brought back to Winterfell.
He tortured him in many ways but the cruellest was when he cut off Theon’s genitals and sent them to his father – Balon Greyjoy. He took everything away from Theon and forced him to go by the moniker ‘Reek’ and made him sleep in the kennels.
After being legitimised, he was betrothed and married to Sansa Stark to secure the north but he turned abusive the night of their wedding when he forced Theon to watch him rape her. He beat and raped Sansa until her eventual escape in the last episode of season 5 of HBO’s Game of Thrones.
After losing the Battle of the Bastards, he was chained up in the kennels. Sansa gained her revenge when she allowed his hounds to eat him alive.
Jon Snow Executes Janos Slynt
Having betrayed Ned Stark and being generally crooked to begin with, Janos Slynt was sent to the Wall by acting hand Tyrion Lannister. Once at the wall, it didn’t take long for Janos to grow hatred and resentment towards Jon Snow, siding with Alliser Thorne against Ned Stark’s “Bastard”.
Slynt showed his true colors during the Battle of Castle Black, where he cowered away with Gilly and her baby, while the rest of the Nights Watch was fighting the Wildling attacks on both sides of the wall.
Jon Snow being (rightfully) elected as the new Lord Commander of the Nights Watch only added insults to Janos’ injuries. When ordered by the new Lord Commander to take men and re-build Greyguard, an old Nights Watch castle now in ruins, the former Commander of the City Watch decided to confront the Lord Commander and contest his orders.
Slynt, again, showed his true colors once he realized Thorne wouldn’t have his back then, and he was sent to the executioner’s block, only for Jon Snow to chop his head, in the same way his “father” Ned had lost his due to Slynt’s treachery; A poetic moment that brought some sort of justice for Ned Stark’s Death.
Tyrion’s Confession At His Trial
Having been wrongly blamed for the murder of King Joffrey I Baratheon, his uncle – Tyrion Lannister – was made to stand trial for the crime.
Despite being given the opportunity to live and join the Nights Watch, Tyrion chose to make a confession after being prompted by Shae – his former love – who told the court he and Sansa Stark – his wife whom she grew jealous off – planned to murder Joffrey.
He stood at his podium and confessed that he was guilty, not for killing Joffrey but for being a dwarf – which he states he was on trial for all his life.
As Tywin tries to send him away for causing commotion amongst the people, he demanded trial by combat as the House Lannister theme swelled and he and Tywin stared at each other hatefully – ending the episode.
Arya Stark Butchers Meryn Trant
Having killed Syrio Forell, the former swordsmanship teacher of Arya Stark in season 1 of HBO’s Game of Thrones, the perverse Kingsguard – Meryn Trant – made his way onto her list of names.
While in Braavos, Meryn Trant visits a whorehouse and asks for young women. Arya posed as one and while the other two girls screamed in pain as he beat them, Arya made no sound. He sent the other girls away and continued to beat her until revealed herself and leaped at Meryn Trant.
She stabbed him in the face multiple times and stuff cloth into his mouth while she taunted him and told him about why she was going to kill him. While telling her was no one, and nothing, she slit his throat.
Daenerys Burns The Slaver, Spoke Valyrian All Along
While in Astapor, Daenerys negotiates with a slaver to buy an army of unsullied soldiers. He speaks in Valyrian and his serving girl – Missandei – translates what he says but leaves out the insults he throws at Daenerys, believing she cannot understand them
She, solemnly, trades Drogon to the slaver in exchange for the army. He continues to insult her while struggling to hold onto Drogon. She tests out the loyalty of her new army by speaking commands in Valyrian.
Shocked that she speaks Valyrian, the slaver struggles to hold Drogon who is fighting to break free. Daenerys tells the unsullied to kill all those who have enslaved people. They do as she says and the slaver commands people to kill her but she says Dracarys and Drogon burns the slaver alive.
Jon Snow Kills The Mutineers, Avenges Jeor Mormont
Having killed Jeor Mormont in a mutiny at Crasters Keep, Karl Tanner made himself an enemy of the Nights Watch and Jon Snow. To avenge their Lord Commander, Jon Snow and a small group of Nights Watch Brothers venture north beyond the Wall and attack the group.
Although Karl has the upper hand at first because of his dirty tactics and fighting styles, Jon eventually earns the upper hand when one of Crasters daughters – whom Karl and the other mutineers raped and abused – stabbed him in the back.
While he was distracted by her, Jon stabbed Karl through the scull with Longclaw, the Valyrian steel blade that Jeor Mormont had gifted Jon with for saving his life many years prior.
The Purple Wedding: The Death Of Joffrey Baratheon
Petulant and cruel, the False King – Joffrey Baratheon – found great pleasure in taunting and abusing people. His first act of true cruelty on screen was when he cut the butchers boy’s face until Arya Stark stopped him. He threatened her and shouted obscenities at her until her direwolf, Nymeria, attacked him.
His true nature, however, reared its ugly head when he was crowned King Joffrey I Baratheon. The power having gone to his head, he executed Ned Stark on false charges of treason despite promising Sansa to grant him mercy.
From then on, he continued to taunt and abuse Sansa Stark by forcing her to look at her fathers decapitated head, having his Kingsguard beat and humiliate her, and threatening to rape on her on her wedding night to his uncle – Tyrion Lannister.
During season 4 of HBO’s Game of Thrones, on his wedding day, he taunted them both by having a company of dwarf actors act out the War of the Five Kings. He laughed as Sansa was close to tears as the dwarf mimicking her brother was ‘killed’.
When he began to spluttered and choke after drinking from the poison cup, his face purpled and blood poured from his nose as he died painfully.
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Executive’s Desk: Demo Day helps startups prove their viability
By Kathleen Gardenswartz
Mia Jaramillo, left, of the intergenerational startup Teeniors, gives smartphone pointers to Carolyn Kidder. (Dean Hanson/Albuquerque Journal)
Trish Lopez is restless, and she has every reason to be. She has spent the past three months in the ABQid accelerator program, testing assumptions, talking to hundreds of users and customers, building a website and logo – all while tenaciously driving her startup, Teeniors, forward.
Lopez’s natural charisma makes the program’s required networking effortless, but it’s Teeniors’ mission – to match tech-savvy teens with seniors who need help using technology to connect with loved ones – that is motivating this intergenerational solution.
Since the ABQid accelerator program began June 1, Lopez has successfully validated her business model, launched a beta product with which to sample her target audience, run four events at senior centers around Albuquerque and gathered mounds of user feedback that she’s using to continuously refine her invention.
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In the little time she has between running events and figuring out how to write an executive summary, she’s preparing for her six-minute presentation to the Albuquerque community at the ABQid Demo Day on Friday at the Epicenter in Downtown. In that time, Lopez has to convince city leaders, industry professionals and potential customers that her startup is game-changing and worth a deeper look. The pressure is on.
Lopez is right to be nervous, but all New Mexico residents should feel just as invested. The stakes are high, and positive employment numbers are radiating from cities with robust and growing startup technology sectors and entrepreneurial ecosystems that are supported by innovation programs and startup accelerators, such as ABQid.
The ABQid accelerator is a 12-week intensive program designed for high-growth startups that empower entrepreneurs to develop their businesses and launch their products while being supported by a network of mentors, advisers and business experts.
During the accelerator program, startup teams go through a process of customer discovery and market validation that requires them to conduct extensive user interviews, testing and in-depth research. Startup teams receive intensive mentorship, access to networks and industry connections, and critical feedback on their products. ABQid encourages teams to focus on refining their market strategy with a goal of launching their products quickly and efficiently.
Paul Szauter, CEO of equine genetics company EquiSeq, took full advantage of the ABQid accelerator program, absorbing and learning from the sometimes challenging feedback mentors provided. “I’m a recovering academic,” he said, “and ABQid has provided a crash course in how to take a great idea and turn it into a high-growth business. The mentorship from this program has been great and has really opened doors for me.”
Szauter said he was also inspired by the ABQid speaker series, a new component of this year’s curriculum. Each week during the accelerator program, startup teams and their mentors heard from successful entrepreneurs, such as Albuquerque native Joel Spolsky, the creator of Trello and CEO of Stack Exchange; Jared Tarbell, a founder of Etsy; Alan Webber, a founder of Fast Company magazine; and Gary Oppedahl, a serial entrepreneur and economic development director for the city of Albuquerque.
Demo Day is one example of how it’s an exciting time to be an entrepreneur in New Mexico: Startups have the chance to start here, grow here and make an enormous impact on the future of the state’s economy. Startup accelerator programs are not a magic bullet, but the numbers prove that creating a program for entrepreneurs that combines a curriculum, intensive mentorship, networking and connections gives promising startups a place to take flight.
For more information about Demo Day, visit www.abqid.com/2015/08/07/2015-abqid-demo-day/.
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24 Hour Fitness Opens 38th Club in Greater Orange County Area
The New Club Demonstrates Regional Growth in the Company’s Area of Influence
Fullerton, CA - July 25, 2017
24 Hour Fitness® is joining the flourishing Northern Orange County city of Fullerton, CA. The city’s vibrant cultural, arts and entertainment scene are the perfect setting for the addition of a fitness amenity, in the form of the new 24 Hour Fitness Fullerton club.
A grand opening event is scheduled for Saturday, July 29, 2017, 9:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m., 24 Hour Fitness®
Fullerton club, 130 E. Imperial Highway, Fullerton. The community is invited to this free celebration, which includes club tours, prize drawings, group training demonstrations, innovative GX24® studio classes and more.
A special appearance by Nolan Cromwell, former Rams All-Pro and Pro Bowl Defensive Back who was a key member of the Rams Super Bowl XIV season, will be present at the Grand Opening event from 10:00 – 11:00 am. Guests are invited to receive an autograph or take a photo with Cromwell.
The Fullerton area has gone through a renaissance of sorts, with a vibrant music scene and strong arts programs. People of all ages are flocking to the area to experience the Southern California lifestyle. Health and wellness play an important role in that lifestyle. The addition of this club location demonstrates a continued commitment and investment in the growth of 24 Hour Fitness in the Southern California region where the largest percentage of the company’s nationwide clubs are located.
“As an influx of fitness alternatives begin to extend into this growing community, 24 Hour Fitness is proud to offer an affordable, high-quality fitness option for our residents,” said Phillip Ayers, General Manager. “Our goal is to offer members a variety of fitness options to help them stay focused and motivated. The backbone of our in club experience is building a strong community of like-minded individuals. The motivation and support our members get from each other is a part of the magic that keeps them connected to the club and our team of fitness professionals who guide them on their individual fitness journeys.”
The modern new club features 41,000 square feet of quality amenities including:
GX24® and cycle studios with popular studio classes such as Zumba®, BodyPump®, POP Pilates, RPM® and bootybarre® included with membership
Hundreds of digital studio classes available on demand, for times when you want to take a class on your own or with friends
Personal and small group training programs, designed to elevate performance and motivation*
Rows of cardio and strength machines, plus free weights for every level of fitness
Dedicated zones for TRX® resistance training, core work, stretching, functional and sports-specific workouts
Multi-functional Olympic Training rig, used by athletes and fitness enthusiasts for both high-intensity training and Olympic lifting
Indoor lap pool for swim workouts and aqua classes
Whirlpool, steam room and sauna for relaxation and recovery
Spacious locker rooms with private showers
Pro shop for convenient access to nutritional products, snacks and workout gear
Kids’ Club for children up to age 12*
24 Hour Fitness offers a network of more than 420 locations nationwide, as well as signature content and programming including:
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The Spacewalk That Almost Killed Him
How Luca Parmitano survived the scariest wardrobe malfunction in NASA history.
Luca Parmitano pauses outside the space station on his first spacewalk. A week later, things were a lot more hectic. (NASA/ESA )
The best way they know to prevent bad days is to learn from experience, and to train astronauts, in every way they can, to handle every kind of circumstance they can think of. Asked what was the most important factor in his ability to handle his ordeal last July, Parmitano says, “I have a hard time when people say I was cold as ice, that I did such a great job. I have a hard time taking credit for that. What happens is that you get trained. And all the people who contributed to that should take the credit. I followed the route [back to the airlock] because I had studied the station—because somebody on the ground told me to study it.”
A few hours after the spacewalk, Korth and Eversley participated in a press conference in Houston to brief reporters about what had happened. Shortly before meeting the press, the ground team had been sobered to hear Parmitano, in a private teleconference, tell the full story. Until they heard his version, says Kimbrough, “we never really understood how bad it was.”
Eversley opened her statement to the press with “It was a good day today. The crew is inside and safe.” That may have sounded strange to the rest of the world, considering how far off track the EVA had gone. But her colleagues knew just what she meant.
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An Everlasting Instruction, Imam al-Husayn’s Journey to Makka
Abu Muhammad Zaynu'l 'Abidin
Introduction: Events of Truth are Everlasting
Imam al-Husayn’s Flight to Makka
Reasons Behind Imam al-Husayn’s move to Makka
1. The Importance of a Global Platform
2. Opposition Against Falsehood
3. Seeking Refuge in Allah
An Everlasting Instruction
The Holy Qur’an says:
إِنَّ هَذَا لَهُوَ الْقَصَصُ الْحَقُّ
Surely this is an account of Truth. (3:62)
Historical records tell us that after Mu'awiya’s death, Yazid, his invalid issue, occupied the station of caliphate and wrote to his governor in Madina to force Imam al-Husayn (‘a) among others to pay the oath of allegiance to him, or else execute him.
When the Imam (‘a) is asked to pay his oath of allegiance to Yazid, he presents a rational exposition, worthy of consideration. He first introduces himself and then Yazid, and thereafter says:
مِثْلِي لاَ يُبَايعُ مِثْلَه
'My example [who it utterly submissive to Allah] cannot give his hand to the like of Yazid [who is an open sinner]"
In short, he ('a) says:
Premiss 1: I am a manifestation of truth.
Premiss 2: Yazid is a manifestation of falsehood.
Premiss 3: A manifestation of truth cannot unite with a manifestation of falsehood.
Conclusion: Hence I cannot agree to pay the oath of allegiance to him.
The interesting point here is that the Imam ('a) does not merely say "I will not pay the oath of allegiance to Yazid". Rather he says 'anyone like me (mithli) does not/cannot pay1 the oath of allegiance to anyone like Yazid (mithlahu)".
Therefore, this statement is not a personal issue, but a universal lesson for all times and all places. It is a direction for every truth-seeker and informs the wrongdoers that a truth-seeker will never yield to falsehood.
Thereafter Imam al-Husayn ('a) resolves to leave Madina for Makka with his noble family members. This forms the basic anecdote of this short treatise. It is a move of truth towards Truth from the champion of truth (haqq) itself.
It is narrated in al-Irshad2 that:
فسار الحسين (عليه السلام) إلى مكة و هو يقر أ " فَخَرَجَ مِنْها خائِفاً يَتَرَقَّبُ قالَ رَبِّ نَجِّنِي مِنَ الْقَوم الظَّالِمِين) و لزم الطريق الأعظم
Then al-Husayn ('a) journeyed to Makka while he recited the following verse [of the Qur'an]: 'And he left the place in the state of fear and apprehension; he said: 'O Lord, save me from the oppressors' (28:21) and he [the Imam] adhered to the main highway.
The above verse speaks of Prophet Musa (‘a)’s escape from Egypt when fleeing from Fir'awn, but is also applicable for Imam al-Husayn (‘a) too. Just as Musa (‘a) flees from Fir’awn and his comrades, al-Husayn (‘a) flees from the Fir’awn of his time.
The 'state of fear' in the verse however should not be mistaken for 'fear of death' for infallible leaders are far from such states. The fear in this verse perhaps was from any event that would hamper his path from fulfilling his mission of awakening the slumbering folk and reviving Islam in their hearts and minds of the Muslims. Thus he did not want to be martyred before he fulfills his mission.
Then when Imam al-Husayn ('a) reaches the outskirts and sees its mountains, he recites3 the following verse of Qur'an:
وَ لَمَّا تَوَجَّهَ تِلْقاءَ مَدْيَنَ قالَ عَسى رَبِّي أَنْ يَهْدِيَنِي سَواءَ السَّبِيلِ
And when he turned his face towards Midian he said: 'maybe my Lord will show me the right way.' (28:22)
This verse also pertains to Prophet Musa ('a) when he enters the city of Midian. Imam al-Husayn ('a) by reciting the verse perhaps sought Divine help to carry out his mission of conveying his message and stance to all the Muslims of the world in the proper way. He seeks guidance so that he may fulfill his mission in the best possible manner.
The decision taken by Imam (‘a) to come to Makka reveals his timely move and extreme astuteness. He would have gone to other places suggested by his companions, as a result of which he would be safe from the calamities and able to adopt a life of repose.
However, he had a loftier mission, and the only way to carry out the same was to go to a place where he would get a global audience who would be able to communicate to their people the pathetic state of the government, so that every committed Muslim rises for the truth.
1. Here la yubayi'u can be both narrative of the reality and informative as well. Thus by this statement one can inform his addressee the reality that (1) truth never unites with falsehood, and (2) truth will not unite with falsehood.
2. Shaykh Mufid, Kitab al-Irshad, v. 2, p.33
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Ministry of Tourism in Oman Announces Eid Al-Adha Events in All Governorates of the Sulta…
Ministry of Tourism in Oman Announces Eid Al-Adha Events in All Governorates of the Sultanate and Launches Special Tourist Offers and Packages
Published August 16th, 2018 - 09:55 GMT
Castle Al Dakheleyah - Jabreen Castle.
Ministry of Tourism in Oman has announced that it will organize recreational activities across all its governorates during Eid Al Adha, as part of its effort to achieve Oman’s tourism strategy goals (2040), aimed at promoting economic diversification, creating employment opportunities, attracting investments, enhancing the value and sustainability of natural and cultural monuments and preserving the heritage and environment of the country. Locals and tourists will be able to take part in a series of cultural festivals beginning with the Silver Jubilee Park in Sohar, on the second day of Eid Al-Adha and the Al Rustaq Castle Theater in South Al Batinah on the second, third and fourth day of Eid. In the governorate of Dhofar, another event will be held at Etienne Land, as well as 2-4 days of Eid al-Adha and Musandam. The Eid celebration will be held at Khasab Cultural Sports Club in Khasab State during the third day of Eid. Lulu in the state of Abra. In addition, the festival will be held in the governorate of the interior in the Azqi General Park during the 2-4 days of Eid al-Adha in the state of Azqi. A heritage festival will be held in Al-Dhahirah governorate in Ibri province during the second day of Al-Adha Eid.
The campaign, launched by the Ministry and in cooperation with Oman Air and Holiday Me, aims to establish Oman as a preferred destination for short holidays for tourists from the region and a vacation destination for tourists from around the world, taking the country to the top of the global tourist map by 2040. The campaign focuses on highlighting the unique cultural attractions of the Sultanate, as well as the attractive landmarks and historical sites that embody the rich heritage of the Sultanate, at the regional and local levels.
The campaign includes special discounts on airline tickets and accommodation that encourage tourists to visit Oman and soak in its rich culture and traditions. These discount packages are part of the ministry’s efforts to strengthen tourism in the country by forging partnerships between the public and private sectors in various tourism related fields.
Haitham bin Mohammed Al Ghassani, Assistant Director General for Tourism Events and Awareness at the Ministry of Tourism stressed the pioneering role played by the ministry in cooperation with various stakeholders, to enhance the Sultanate's position on the regional and international tourism map by highlighting different areas that reflect the local culture and heritage of Oman.
He said: “We are continuously working to highlight the Sultanate’s position as an ideal destination for leisure activities as well as for important events and world championships. Oman’s natural beauty has been attracting an increasing number of tourists from the region and from around the world and we are confident that our tourist-friendly initiatives will go a long way in bolstering its growing global repute as a holiday destination of choice. The new campaign complements the previous marketing campaigns carried out by the Ministry, which aims to promote the country’s tourist and natural attractions, placing it in an advantageous position for achieving the national tourism strategy and increasing tourism’s contribution to GDP to 10 per cent, by 2040.”
To learn more about the promotion please visit the website www.omanair.com/en/m-holidays-hotel-packages and www.holidayme.com.
Oman Ministry of Tourism
Oman Ministry of Tourism will facilitate economic diversificatio, preservation of cultural integrity and protection of the environment of the Sultanate of Oman.
Tourism will be developed as an important and sustainable socio-economic sector of the Sultanate of Oman in a manner that reflects the Sultanate's historic, cultural and natural heritage and ethos of traditional hospitality.
"قاطع الرؤوس" في قبضة الاستخبارات العراقية
Published February 23rd, 2019 - 09:39 GMT
مقاتلين من داعش/ أرشيفية
أعلنت الاستخبارات العسكرية العراقية، أمس الجمعة، عن اعتقال قاطع الرؤوس في "داعش" على الحدود العراقية السورية، الذي ظهر في أكثر من فيديو وهو ينفذ عمليات إعدام.
وقالت المديرية في بيان على صفحتها في موقع "فيسبوك" إن "مفارز مديرية الاستخبارات العسكرية في الفرقة 15 ، وإثر معلومات استخبارية دقيقة، ألقت القبض على أحد الإرهابيين الذين تسللوا عبر الحدود العراقية السورية والمعروف بـ (قاطع الرؤوس)".
وأضافت أن "هذا الشخص معروف بقاطع الرؤوس"، وأنه "ظهر بعدة إصدارات للدواعش أمام أشخاص قام بقطع رؤوسهم في العراق وسوريا".
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Tracking Twitter's IPO, And Its Upside
by Kelly Liyakasa // Thursday, November 7th, 2013 – 2:59 pm
After going public, Twitter saw its stock price nearly double in early trading to a $45.10 high during the early morning hours of day one on the New York Stock Exchange. Twitter sold 70 million shares to raise $1.82 billion with a market cap of $18 billion through the IPO. As trading began, that valuation grew to $25 billion.
Then came the downgrades. An hour or so into trading, Internet equity research firm Pivotal Research Group issued a (much-lower) $30 price target. Senior analyst Brian Wieser told AdExchanger, “This is going to be a very volatile stock.”
“Twitter is a great company,” he reiterated. “They’ve made a lot of great choices. They’re on a wonderful trajectory. They’ll be a very successful business. But the market is ascribing an undue amount of value to that. … I think it’s important for any investor to have a true north of what the potential of the business is at any point in time because the market is going to be volatile around a wide range of still-evolving expectations of what is still a very nascent company.”
Twitter is the last of the mega-social media platforms to go public. So no surprise today has been one of the most anticipated trading days in technology since Facebook’s rocky entry on NASDAQ more than a year ago.
On the floor at the New York Stock Exchange, CEO Dick Costolo told Bloomberg TV’s Emily Chang that Twitter is “an indispensable companion to life in the moment.” He went on to say, “Twitter is the second screen for the live experience. Twitter and TV work. We’re investing to make sure we’ve got international teams driving unique regional content into the platform.”
Over 70% of Twitter users are outside of the US “and we will continue to invest in that,” Costolo continued. According to Twitter’s SEC filing, just 25% of its total revenue last quarter came from advertisers with billing locations outside of the US – suggesting a large potential upside.
“We are seeing tremendous interest from brands to see how they can leverage second screen campaigns,” commented Maren Lau, a partner and SVP at IMS, a media and marketing agency that leads Twitter’s digital ad efforts in Latin America as its exclusive sales partner. “This integration between television and mobile is critical. Look at what happened with the Super Bowl last year on Twitter in terms of engagement. Next year is going to be a banner year for advertisers looking to reach both Latin American consumers and consumers who will be in Brazil [for the World Cup] at that time.”
In addition to eyeing its global growth proposition, Twitter continues to pave new paths for marketers. This summer, it enabled retargeting for email marketers who matched CRM data with cookie IDs for account holders. Then, Twitter rolled out Lead-Generation cards with direct links to CRM and the analytic chops to measure spend vs. leads derived.
Twitter’s moves to monetize have seemingly centered around the cross-platform marketer. Its acquisition of social TV startup Trendrr followed the $90-million purchase of Bluefin Labs last February. The company recently entered a partnership with NBC Universal and Comcast, enabling cross-platform actions (setting a DVR to record, for instance) through “See It.”
Twitter also inked a similar deal with CBS and brewed more ways to ramp up broadcast content with Amplify, an audience extension program designed for TV networks to surface short-form video content in the Twitter stream with tagalong ad placements for broadcast advertisers.
"Any way you look at it, Twitter's IPO is another example of how fast this market is changing and the massive opportunity to be a game-changing company,” commented James Borow, CEO of real-time marketing platform SHIFT, an ads API partner. “Twitter is now poised to solidify its position as the de facto medium for public communication. The market has realized the opportunity Twitter has in front of it, and the long term trading potential is tied to its ability to continue building out the infrastructure for real-time public communication."
As Twitter pushes to prove out its value to investors, its acquisition of mobile ad exchange MoPub buy may be among its greatest challenges and opportunities. As Wieser noted in a research note, “the most direct business opportunity for MoPub relates to taking share in the market for in-app mobile advertising, especially including real-time-bidded (RTB) inventory.” Independent exchanges like Nexage and Velti could be eyed as formidable competitors.
“Our view remains that Twitter's choice to buy MoPub likely relates to broader strategic goals designed to help Twitter extend the reach of its advertisers' campaigns across the broader mobile web,” Wieser wrote.
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Paid user acquisition strategy: 5 ways to become an App Store Champion
Marne Litfin
Product Content Strategist
When it comes to mobile user acquisition, the only consensus among professionals is that there’s more than one way to win. In fact, there's an incredible range of choice, including video ads, incentivized installs, app cross-promotion, email, social media, app store optimization (ASO), native ads, banner ads, interstitial ads, offer walls and more.
Native ads: Blend in for best results
Native ads are different from banners and interstitial ads. They seamlessly blend into the space you’re currently browsing in, adopting the look and feel of that environment.
We decided to take a deeper look into different types of acquisition strategy. What follows is a spotlight on the best paid strategies for user acquisition campaigns. In mobile marketing, paid media includes opportunities like native ads, banner and interstitial ads, native app preloading, traditional adverts (think print and TV), retargeting, and working with top influencers.
Video ads: Personalization + localization = Inspiration
Between 2011 and 2016, video ads doubled in volume - and it’s expected that US mobile video ad spend will balloon to $7bn over the next year and a half. Users who arrive at your app after clicking on a video ad have retention rates three times higher than that of users who came to your app from a non-video ad.
Mobile video advertising is unique in its capacity to contain exceptional content. In particular, user-generated content gives viewers insight into how the app will function once it’s installed and simultaneously inspires users to share, post and engage with the app directly upon install.
Localized video ads that respect the styles and languages of the geographic targets can further personalize the advert and give it an individualized feel (which lends itself well to retargeting campaigns). What’s on the horizon for video ads? Engaging, playable ads that users can participate in.
Cross-promotion: Stand on the shoulders of giants
In-app cross-promotion is a strategy that works well with multiple types of ads, including video, native, banner and interstitial ads. The idea is simple: you promote your app through one that already has a built-in audience whose interests overlap with your potential audience. This can mean promoting your newest gaming app in a game you already have, or advertising in a related but non-competitive app with a robust user base with relevant interests.
For example, if your app provides live music listings in a specific region, you could think about cross-promoting with a regional record store’s app. The best opportunities for cross-promotion are non-competitive and appeal to common interests between the two groups of users.
Incentivization: Because everyone loves a reward
Rewards come in many forms. Incentivized downloads, temporarily-free installs, referral rewards - these types of promotions can all have massive viral impact on customer acquisition.
The perfect storm involves a few conditions:
The campaign makes it clear that the reward is a one-time (rare), special treat. This is so a potential user doesn’t think they can simply wait for the offer to come around again. Users who think they’ll get something for free by waiting it out aren’t necessarily what you’re aiming for. It’s important to communicate that the reward is temporary - which fuels a sense of urgency.
The reward could be well-publicized in a burst campaign that has maximum impression reach.
The biggest positive to a reward-based campaign is that they can quickly give your app the power-up it needs to make it into the app store listings. Because so many users find apps just by browsing lists in the store, this can quickly compound your efforts. Rewards are also opt-in, meaning that users are automatically more engaged than users who arrive via traditional ads. Combined with the relatively low cost to run, reward campaigns can easily be integrated into push notifications for a campaign that is unobtrusive and has viral potential.
The major challenge of reward-based UA strategy is that both Apple and Google have gotten wise to the game and have taken steps to limit the extent to which incentivized offers can affect your app’s rankings in the store. Some networks have found that moving away from pay-per-install and instead towards pay-per-engagement (the advertiser would only pay for a complete install + secondary in-app action) campaigns have reduced the risk of incurring penalties. If you decide to move forward with a reward-based acquisition strategy, keep in mind that you’ll also need a plan in place for how to keep your new users engaged once they’ve arrived.
Retargeting: Hold on to the users you already have
Rather than target new customers who have never heard of your app, a retargeting campaign is designed to target those who are already further down the funnel. Users who have already shown interest in your app (for example, they’ve clicked on an ad already but never installed, or they’ve installed the app but have abandoned their shopping cart and failed to complete conversion) are your target. Depending on whether you want to drive volume (with banners) or engagement (with native ads), a retargeting campaign segments customers into cohorts which allow for laser-like retargeting with personalized messaging.
The main reason to pursue a retargeting campaign together with an acquisition campaign is LTV. It’s not only cheaper to retain already-interested users than it is to acquire brand new ones. These users often have greater (and sometimes exponentially greater) value over time.
Want to read more on user acquisition strategy? We have lots of tips on the topic. Take a look at our soft launch strategy guide to learn about what it takes to get started. From there, you can look at the three areas of focus which can help you identify the areas of your campaigns to optimize for even better performance.
Sometimes, it's good to wade in. Here we review soft launches and how they could improve UA campaigns.
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HSPA+ phone
T-Mobile G2's CPU Clocked At A Paltry 800Mhz
Aaron Gingrich
2010/09/02 6:34am PDT Sep 2, 2010
G2 (Vision)
Chalk this one up under the 'lame' category: looks like the T-Mobile G2's CPU ticks along at just 800 MHz. In a world of 1+ GHz smart phones, that's definitely something of a letdown.
A slower clock speed doesn't always equate to lesser performance - but without any solid previous benchmarks to illustrate what this new(er) CPU is really capable of, it's hard to say whether this is going to be nearly as adequate as T-Mobile claims.
Engadget Scores Blurrycam Shots Of T-Mobile G2
2010/08/20 8:31am PDT Aug 20, 2010
Just like the title says: some real, live shots of the T-Mobile G2 out in the real world have landed in Engadget’s lap. Based on the photos, it looks like the earlier leaked renders were pretty accurate, albeit the colors were off. It’s not a bad looking piece of kit, though it is does look a bit utilitarian. In fact, it looks like what I’d imagine the Nexus Two to look like.
G2, T-Mobile's First HSPA+ Device, Gets A Website To Call Its Own
Jaroslav Stekl
2010/08/18 10:30am PDT Aug 18, 2010
G1 (Dream)
It seems appropriate since the G1, the phone that kicked off the Android revolution, was killed off a few weeks ago, and since T-Mobile is about to introduce their first HSPA+ capable device, that they would call this device the G2. Well, after countless rumors about a G2 (starting a few hours after the G1's launch), the device has finally been announced on T-Mobile's HSPA+ site.
That's right, the G2 is official, will be the first phone to utilize T-Mobile's 4G-like HSPA+ network, and will have its specs handed out to the media and a select group of people "over the coming weeks." These are exciting times ahead of us, folks, so stay tuned to Android Police for lots more coverage on the G2 and other upcoming Android devices.
T-Mobile’s First HSPA+ Phone May Be The myTouch 3G HD
T-Mobile certainly dropped a big hint when the word “Vanguard,” believed to be the codename for the HTC Vision, was discovered all over the source code of their HSPA+ phone teaser page. But, according to a leak from Android Central, this phone might not be the slider we’ve seen before – it could be the next model in the myTouch line.
Called the myTouch 3G HD, the phone appears to have the same button layout as the myTouch 3G Slide, including the Genius Button and trackpad.
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HTC Vision Spotted Again – T-Mobile Branding, HSPA+, Could Be Called The G1 Blaze
2010/07/25 7:10pm PDT Jul 25, 2010
Details are scarce on this one, but a new shot of the HTC Vision has been leaked. With the shot came a few new details: it’s likely headed for T-Mobile (either in the US, overseas, or both), and will be named the G1 Blaze.
As we’ve stated before, the device packs what has quickly become standard fare for high-end phones:
3.7” Screen
Eclair (Android 2.1) + Sense
HSPA+ (rumored)
Launching in September
Slide-out four row QWERTY keyboard
If it’s true that this phone is going to be packing HSPA+, it could be a big winner – so far, T-Mobile has no phones that support it, and it’s pretty speedy.
HTC Vision Will Have HSPA+, Coming To T-Mobile In September?
A few days ago, we found a couple of blurrycam pictures of the HTC Vision. Yesterday, a blurrycam shot of T-Mobile’s roadmap leaked, and it shows an HTC Vanguard releasing on September 9. Now, Engadget has word that the HTC Vision is launching in September – the same time the HTC Vanguard is shown launching on T-Mob’s roadmap. The Vision will be T-Mobile’s first HSPA+ phone. (As I’ve mentioned before, HSPA+ is pretty awesomely fast, and expanding like the wind.) The specs are rumored to include a 3.7” screen, slide-out 4 row QWERTY keyboard, Android 2.1 with sense, and a 1 Ghz processor.
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Here’s What The MCU Gets Right That DCEU Gets Horribly Wrong
July 4, 2018 Movies By Vasu Sharma July 4, 2018
Marvel has been the unmatched Ruler of superhero movies since Iron Man in 2008, becoming the highest grossing company in Hollywood. Four out of fifteen top grossing movies of all times belong to Marvel and on the other hand, DC has been struggling with their story arc. Except Wonder Woman, their films have failed to create a major impact and this leads to the question: What does MCU gets right that DCEU gets wrong.
We’ll start with the time taken in building a universe. The foundation of a universe is really important and if we talk about Marvel, it launched four solo movies prior to Avengers in 2012. These four movies did wonders for the universe and helped the audience connect in a better way before comibing the characters.
However with DCEU, they started well with Man of Steel but then rushed into it and the sequel to Man Of Steel gets it all confusing, with Wonder Woman and Batman stepping in, creating confusion. Suicide Squad saw a whole line of villains which came out as a spinoff story. Only Superman and Wonder Woman got a proper story arc before Justice League and this led to fans disliking the movies.
The second is Marvel’s trust in directors and this led to critical and commercial successes like, Civil War, Ant Man and Doctor Strange. All movies have notable plot points and each film is dosed with an appropriate amount of uniqueness. Thor and Ant-Man were funny in their own respective ways and saw Marvel turning into a more comedic universe than DC. However, with DC, the films have mostly received negative feedback and demands control away from Zack Snyder and David Ayer. Marvel always knew how far one should take while DC always seemed in a hurry; clueless.
Now we’ll talk about playing to an audience. Marvel is lucrative and over the years, we’ve seen comedy, drama and action in the movies. Almost all Marvel films play on the same tone and have used the formula pretty well. With DC, Warner Bros hired Zack Snyder and his vision of Superman worked fine among fans and Man of Steel received mix reviews and did well in the box office. DC realised its mistake soon after Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and this exactly why Marvel makes his movies simply with a ‘please the audience’ approach than having an artistic vision.
Marvel has successfully utilised the brand tone and has built the rest of the MCU with the same vibe as that in Iron Man in 2008. A fan goes to watch a Marvel film with a straight mind: to see mind boggling action and some funny quips while with DC things are just the opposite and they’re not able to explore the light or the dark side distinctively. Batman v Superman left the kids baffled out of the theatres and Suicide Squad and Justice League looked really badly edited and this resulted in negative feedback by both fans and critics. Only Wonder Woman has done the Justice to the character and we hope DC learns from its mistakes.
Talking about source material, Marvel has recently been appreciated by all for its capability of picking and connecting the characters. We’ve seen so many plot lines connected to each other and I’m sure there must be so many which still haven’t been noticed by fans. They’ve been brilliant in their interpretation of the character and bringing it into life onscreen.
In DC, the adaptations have often been distorted like, Superman snapping off Zod’s neck and Batman turning into a killer in BvS and both these renditions were not taken gladly by fans. Suicide Squad failed to come out as their team of anti-heroes and well, tying Steppenwolf to Lex Luthor in Justice League made no sense at all! WB needs to learn how to intermingle characters with mor purpose and sense.
Talking about TV, Marvel has its own Netflix series and even though, the film and TV universes never interact, there are occasional crossovers which always attract the fans and gets the MCU experience going. However, with DC, there is no connection whatsoever between their TV and film universes and that’s why we have two Supermen and two Flashes. Also, DCUE can hinder any character which they don’t want on TV, like Deathstroke who won’t be appearing in Arrow. Though DC’s Arrowverse is also liked by fans but obviously MCU’s interconnected universe seems more exciting to fans.
Another thing which makes MCU better is that it’s very careful in releasing its promotional content before a movie’s release like Thor losing his eye in Ragnarok or who dies in Infinity War. Marvel knows what to serve and when and never spills the beans. However, DC isn’t very good with surprises and we all remember the Doomsday spoiler before Batman v Superman which affected the film’s marketing heavily. In Justice League, they kept Superman’s presence in the film a secret for sometime until dropping the bomb themselves by releasing a single trailer featuring Superman. If this wasn’t it, they went on to release posters with Superman in front. Yikes. Pretty bad marketing, ain’t it?
In short, Marvel is more confident and there are rarely any internal developmental issues in the company while DC is surrounded by drama leaks and criticism based on its bumpy past record. We hope that WB fixes their internal issues and we see it shaping into a better universe.
Mortal Kombat 11 Mod Adds Kronika, Cyrax, and Sektor as Playable Fighters
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Vasu Sharma manages content and takes care of the editorial board at Animated Times. He's 22 years old and has done his masters in journalism from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai.
Phase 4 MCU’s ETERNALS Time period probably revealed
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Harley Quinn’s New Look Has been Leaked from Birds of Prey
Sukriti Chowdhury
George Clooney Weighs in on Who Should Play the Next Batman
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Ghost in the Shell Arise: Borders Parts 1 & 2 (15) Blu-Ray
Border 1: Ghost Pain
When cyborg hacker Motoko Kusanagi is hired to investigate a devastating bombing, she must fight her way through a maze of phantom memories to unlock her mysterious past – and track down the evil mastermind behind the attacks.
Border 2: Ghost Whispers
Witness the formation of the legendary Public Security Section 9. When a clandestine organization hacks every car in the city, Kusanagi recruits a lethal team of cyber operatives that includes a badass brawler with Special Forces training, an explosives expert, a technology specialist, and a chain-smoking jack-of-all-trades with a sordid past. Together this ruthless gang of enforcers sets out to clamp down on the chaos and make the city safe again.
Product Code MANB3517
Ghost in the Shell Movie Double Pack (15) Blu-Ray
Ghost in the Shell Movie Double Pack (15) DVD
Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex: The Laughing Man (15) DVD
Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex: Individual 11 (15) DVD
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (15) DVD
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (15) Blu-Ray
Ghost in the Shell: SAC Solid State Society (15) DVD
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Complete Series Collection (15) DVD
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Jennifer Lopez with Alex Rodriguez for Golden Globes
Jennifer Lopez films with A-Rod for Super Bowl LIV Commercial
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 10 (ANI): American actor and singer Jennifer Lynn Lopez filmed with fiance Alex Rodriguez, for Super Bowl LIV Commerical.
On Thursday the singer was seen putting some serious work at the Hard Rock Hotel in ft. Lauderdale, where she was on the set with A-Rod, mega-producer DJ Khaled, rockstar Steven Van Zandt and NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
According to TMZ's obtained behind-the-scenes- pictures as well as videos it seemed Jennifer was sporting a tight white outfit from top to bottom, and flanked by a huge filming crew.
While Alex, on the other hand, was seen wearing a blue sport coat, and DJ Khaled was decked up in a bright yellow tracksuit.
Kareem was spotted in his classic pilot attire.
JLo was seen fleeing from the car in one of the scenes and the crew has been filming as per TMZ for nearly two days.
Lopez has been busy as she is rehearsing for her co-headlining gig with Shakira in the Super Bowl Show in Miami for the season's biggest football game and has high hopes for her performance.
Lately, the singer was also vocal about her upcoming show at the Super Bowl. (ANI)
Jennifer films with A-Rod
Super Bowl LIV Commercial
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pyngrok – a Python wrapper for ngrok
By Alex Laird in Uncategorized
pyngrok is a Python wrapper for ngrok that manages its own binary and puts it on our path, making ngrok readily available from anywhere on the command line and via a convenient Python API.
pyngrok is available on PyPI and can be installed using pip.
pip install pyngrok
That’s it! pyngrok is now available as a package to our Python projects, and ngrok is now available from the command line.
open a tunnel
To open a tunnel, use the connect() method, which returns the public URL generated by ngrok.
from pyngrok import ngrok
# Open a tunnel on the default port 80
public_url = ngrok.connect()
The connect() method can also take an options parameter, which allows us to pass additional options that are supported by ngrok.
get active tunnels
It can be useful to ask the ngrok client what tunnels are currently open. This can be accomplished with the get_tunnels() method, which returns a list of NgrokTunnel objects.
tunnels = ngrok.get_tunnels()
# A public ngrok URL that tunnels to port 80 (ex. http://<public_sub>.ngrok.io)
public_url = tunnels[0].public_url
closing a tunnel
All open tunnels will automatically be closed when the Python process terminates, but we can also close them manually.
public_url = "http://<public_sub>.ngrok.io"
ngrok.disconnect(public_url)
the ngrok process
Opening a tunnel will start the ngrok process. This process will remain alive, and the tunnels open, until ngrok.kill() is invoked, or until the Python process terminates.
If we are building a short-lived app, for instance a CLI, we may want to block on the ngrok process so tunnels stay open until the user intervenes. We can do that by accessing the NgrokProcess.
ngrok_process = ngrok.get_ngrok_process()
# Block until CTRL-C or some other terminating event
ngrok_process.process.wait()
The NgrokProcess also contains an api_url variable, usually initialized to http://127.0.0.1:4040, from which we can access the ngrok client API.
If some feature we need is not available in this package, the client API is accessible to us via the api_request() method. Additionally, the NgrokTunnel objects expose a uri variable, which contains the relative path used to manipulate that resource against the client API. This package also gives us access to ngrok from the command line, as shown below.
other useful configuration
authtoken
Running ngrok with an auth token enables additional features available on our account (for instance, the ability to open more tunnels concurrently). We can obtain our auth token from the ngrok dashboard and install it like this:
ngrok.set_auth_token("<NGROK_AUTH_TOKEN>")
# Once an auth token is set, we are able to open multiple tunnels at the same time
ngrok.connect()
ngrok.connect(8000)
This will set the auth token in the config file. We can also set it in a one-off fashion by setting it for the “auth” key of the options parameter passed to connect().
The default ngrok config file lives in the home directory’s .ngrok2 folder. We can change this in one of two ways. Either pass the config_path parameter to methods:
CONFIG_PATH = "/opt/ngrok/config.yml"
ngrok.connect(config_path=CONFIG_PATH)
or override the DEFAULT_CONFIG_PATH variable:
ngrok.DEFAULT_CONFIG_PATH = "/opt/ngrok/config.yml"
binary path
The pyngrok package manages its own ngrok binary. However, we can use our ngrok binary if we want in one of two ways. Either pass the ngrok_path parameter to methods:
NGROK_PATH = "/usr/local/bin/ngrok"
ngrok.get_tunnels(ngrok_path=NGROK_PATH)
or override the DEFAULT_NGROK_PATH variable:
ngrok.DEFAULT_NGROK_PATH = "/usr/local/bin/ngrok"
This package puts the default ngrok binary on our path, so all features of ngrok are also available on the command line.
ngrok http 80
For details on how to fully leverage command line usage, see ngrok’s official documentation.
Clone the pyngrok repository and contribute on GitHub. If you find issues, report them on GitHub. Pull requests for fixes and features are also warmly welcomed.
With wildfire season upon us, use this handy texting tool to find out what the air quality is in your area. Simply text your zip code to (415) 212-4229 for air quality updates. You can also add “map” to the text to be sent an image of your region.
This service isn’t just useful for individuals with limited access to smartphones or the Internet. It also alleviates the load put on air quality sites like AirNow, which are often overloaded and unavailable during wildfire season due to the spike in traffic. Texting this number instead is a great way to get the same information without bogging down those sites, helping them to stay up for others who need to access them.
Spread the word and stay safe! If you’re interested in nerding out over the code, feel free to check it out on GitHub, and if you have questions or comments, tweet @alexdlaird to let him know.
Alex and Jess Are Raising Our Future
By Alex Laird in Dreaming, On the Side
“Talk is cheap.” That’s what we say. And, to a degree, it’s true. But bear this in mind: all action is precipitated by talk. People will often try to silence your voice expressly for that reason — because they know it will lead to action.
In the age where hating on millenials is trendy, dismissing the value of social media is equally in vogue — there’s a correlation there, but that’s another post for another time. But like any form of communication, it has its pros and cons, and you get out of it what you put into it.
This is what we put into it. A group of like minded and motivated parents from all across the country banded together using social media to encourage, educate, and challenge each other (and our peers) ideologically and politically while raising the level of discourse. You’ve seen us posting since well before the election, and you’ve seen us continue to join our collective voices as concerned citizens and parents since.
Today, we launched our next initiative: a PAC (Political Action Committee). Raising Our Future is focused on funding federal candidates who are fighting to make a better world for our children on issues of educational equity, social justice, and family planning.
We just launched yesterday. In one day, we raised over $15,000 and took our new Facebook page to 1,300 members. We shared the stories of dozens of founding members throughout the day (we’ll continue this in the days and weeks to come), each post reaching, on average, 2,500 people.
“Stop talking and do something about it.”
We did. We have. We are. We are a force to be reckoned with. Join us.
#RaisingOurFuture #ROFPAC #WeStartedAPAC
Like Us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ROFPAC
Follow Us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rof_pac
Our Story: https://www.raisingourfuture.org/2017/07/25/alex-and-jess-are-raising-our-future
DONATE: https://www.raisingourfuture.org/donate
Family, Internet, Jess, Politics
Django Dropzone Uploader
By Alex Laird in Tech
Ever been on a trip and, upon return, needed a quick and easy way for all your friends to send you their pictures and videos without burning CDs, sending massive emails, or using third-party services? Or, maybe a better question, ever wondered how to construct a basic Django application with Amazon’s web services, for instance S3?
Look no further. Below is the basic code for a drag-and-drop Django web application that allows users to upload files directly to an Amazon S3 bucket.
Deployment Setup
The code for this project can be found on GitHub.
You’ll need the following installed before cloning or forking the source code:
PyCrypto (if you’re on Windows, look at these installers)
This project will write to an Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 storage bucket, so it’s assumed you have an AWS account. If not, create one. S3 is a storage platform from Amazon, and EC2 allows you to spin up virtual servers, which you can use to host this project. If you’re new to AWS, Amazon will likely give you the first year of their smallest EC2 instance free.
This project also includes a deployment script, which allows you to easily deploy the project from your local computer to your server.
Here’s what you need to setup in AWS to ensure your account is ready to receive a deployment of this project:
Launch an EC2 instance running Ubuntu Server (or some other Debian-based operating system)
Save the .pem key pair file for the EC2 instance as ~/.ssh/myserver.pem
Create an EC2 Security Group that has port 80 opened
Create an S3 bucket
Generate an AWS Access Key and Secret Access Key
(Optional) Create an elastic IP and associate it with the EC2 instace you created
(Optional) Create a DNS entry of your choosing to point to the elastic IP (AWS will generate their own DNS entry that you can also use, if you don’t have your own domain name)
Fork the Code
Now you’re ready to clone, configure, and deploy the code to your EC2 server.
Fork the repository on GitHub
Clone your forked repository
Modify the variables at the bottom of djangodropzonetos3/settings.py to customize the application
You must specify valid values for AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, and AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME in settings.py
Modify the HOSTNAME variables at the top of fabfile.py to point to your EC2 instance’s DNS entry
Modify the REPO_URL variable at the top of fabfile.py to point to your fork of the repository
The fabfile.py in the repository will take care of setting up the environment for you, including installing and configuring a web server. Isn’t that handy? So you’re ready to deploy by doing the following:
From the Command Line at the root of the cloned source, execute “pip install -r reqs.txt”
From the Command Line at the root of the cloned source, execute “fab deploy”
That’s it. If this deployment is successful, you should be able to navigate to the hostname for your server in a web browser, drop and save the files, and see them stored in your S3 bucket.
Now, start poking around in the code to learn the ease and awesomeness of Django and how this was accomplished! Leave your thoughts in the comments section below!
Instructional, Programming
DD-WRT NAT Loopback Issue
NAT loopback is what your router performs when you try to access your external IP address from within your LAN. For instance, say your router forwards port 80 to a web server on your LAN. From an outside network, you could simply visit your external IP address from a browser to access the web server. Internally, if NAT loopback is disabled or blocked, you would not be able to access this the same way.
There are any number of valid reasons why you’d want to allow NAT loopback on your network. If you’re like me, you simply want internal and external access to operate in the same way. NAT loopback is needed to accomplish this, and it is simple and safe. Don’t be fooled by the plethora of forum posts crying that NAT loopback is disabled on routers purposefully, that it opens up dangerous security holes, or that it will destroy your network and ultimately your livelihood as you know it. Like the vast majority of scare tactic-based content on the internet, it’s false. Your router will not stab you in your sleep if you allow NAT loopback … although it may emit higher levels of radiation, lace your lipstick and food with carcinogens (compliments of the government, of course), and kill Brad Pitt. Again. Coincidentally, the posts never specify why the claims might be true, lack credible sources, and are rarely found outside of back alley forums. We’re still talking about NAT loopback, right? The internet has made us so gullible …
The primary reason for the security concern is that some consumer routers appear to intentionally disable NAT loopback by default, and there is no way around this with stock firmware. However, this is not an intentional barrier, it’s just a constraint of limited stock firmware. Nothing new there. The simplest solution to this is, as usual, to flash DD-WRT to your router. Then, follow this tutorial to allow NAT loopback.
Before proceeding, ensure NAT loopback actually doesn’t work with your version of DD-WRT. Different versions of DD-WRT implement NAT with slight variances, so it’s possible your version of DD-WRT may not actually need the special rules below.
To check if NAT loopback is working on your router, you’ll need your external IP address. If you don’t know your external IP address, just Google “what is my ip”. Now, open a Command Prompt and ping your external IP address. If the command times out, NAT loopback is not working.
In the DD-WRT Control Panel, navigate to the “Administration” tab and click on “Commands”. Add the following rules, then click “Save Firewall” to ensure the rules execute even after the router is rebooted.
insmod ipt_mark
insmod xt_mark
iptables -t mangle -A PREROUTING -i ! `get_wanface` -d `nvram get wan_ipaddr` \\
-j MARK --set-mark 0xd001
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -m mark --mark 0xd001 -j MASQUERADE
That’s it! Now, try pinging your external IP again from the Command Line. This time you should receive packets.
DD-WRT is a always evolving. The developers have stated that they aren’t planning on fixing this issue, but if this procedure doesn’t work for you, leave a comment below and I’ll check to see if something has changed in the latest version of DD-WRT. I’ll try to always keep the tutorial updated with instructions for the latest DD-WRT build.
Also, if you previously followed my DD-WRT Guest Wireless tutorial, this fix should work for both interfaces.
DD-WRT Guest Wireless
If you’ve done any amount of work with routers, you know that it doesn’t take long to start craving consistency. And more advanced functionality that the cheap home interfaces simply don’t grant you. This is the point where you usually break down and start research things like Tomato, OpenWrt, and DD-WRT, just to name a few of the more popular alternatives.
These alternate firmwares don’t just provide a consistent administrative experience across all compatible models and brands, they also turn a cheap home router into a flexible and competitive enterprise router.
DD-WRT is my personal firmware of choice. Powerful, flexible, and stable. One thing that I demand in a router is the ability to broadcast a secondary SSID for my guest’s to be able to access wireless internet in my home without also having access to my entire network of computers and devices.
Gladly, because my router’s firmware was extremely slow and buggy, I flashed my Cisco E2500 router with “mini” DD-WRT firmware (the E2500 also supports the “big” firmware). But after reviewing getting the two wireless networks setup on my router, it was brought to my attention that there are no good tutorials for how exactly you are to do this using DD-WRT. The tutorial provided on their own website, in fact, does not work. So, I find that it falls upon me to put out my particular configuration for two mutually exclusive wireless networks from a single router, both networks having access to the WAN port (that is, internet access). There are, of course, multiple ways to do this. Feel free to leave alternative suggestions in the comments.
Create Two Wireless Networks
First, create your wireless networks by clicking clicking on “Wireless” and then “Basic Settings”. We’ll setup security in a moment. After you’ve configured your private wireless network setup, click “Add” under “Virtual Interfaces” to add the “wl0.1 SSID”. Give your guest network a separate SSID, and select “Enable” for “AP Isolation”.
Now click “Save” and “Apply Settings”.
Setup Wireless Security
Navigate over to the “Wireless Security” tab. After you’ve setup the wireless security for your private network, setup similar security for your guest SSID. I would advise against leaving your guest wireless completely open, but since you’re going to be giving out this password to your guests, it should probably be a little simpler than your private network’s key.
Create Bridge
At this point, you have two wireless networks broadcasting on two separate SSIDs. Both networks should have internet access, but you’ll also notice both networks dish out IPs in the same subnet, and both networks are clearly able to see each other. While you may like and trust your guests, that doesn’t mean you necessarily want them to have access to all your network devices. To separate the network routing, we need to create a bridge and place the guest network into a different subnet.
Click on “Setup” and then on the “Networking” tab. Under “Create Bridge” click “Add” to add a new bridge. Give the bridge a name, and modify the IP address of the bridge to be in a different subnet than your private network. For example, my private network grants IPs in the subnet 192.168.1.0/24, so my guest network in the image below is setup to grant IPs in the subnet 192.168.2.0/24.
Now click “Save” and “Apply Settings”. Though the page may refresh right away, you may need to wait about a minute before the bridge is available to use in the next few steps.
Assign Guest Network to Bridge
Under “Assign to Bridge” click “Add”. Select the new bridge you’ve created from the first drop-down, and pair it with the “wl0.1” interface.
Create DHCP Server for Guest Network
We’re almost there! We’ve created a bridge in an alternate subnet, but the alternate subnet doesn’t have a DHCP server, so our guests currently cannot access the guest SSID (unless they assign themselves a static IP). Scroll to the bottom of the “Networking” page and under “Multiple DHCP Server” click “Add”. Ensure your newly created bridge name is selected from the first drop-down menu.
Now click “Save” and “Apply Settings”. Congratulations, we now have a working, separate guest network! Unfortunately, while users can connect to the network and DHCP is running, guest users aren’t able to access the internet quite yet.
Create Firewall Rules for Guest Network
Navigate to the “Administration” tab and click on “Commands”. We need to add three rules to our firewall settings before our private network is completely secure and our guest network has internet access. Add these three rules (one per line) to the “Commands” text field, then click “Save Firewall” to ensure the rules execute even after the router is rebooted.
iptables -t nat -I POSTROUTING -o `get_wanface` -j SNAT --to `nvram get wan_ipaddr`
iptables -I FORWARD -i br1 -m state --state NEW -j ACCEPT
iptables -I FORWARD -i br1 -o br0 -m state --state NEW -j DROP
Improve Guest Security
Pete Runyan commented with a few more ways to nail down the security of the guest network. For one, your guests likely assume that their device on the guest network is not accessible from other devices on the same network, so you’ll want to add the firewall rules below to make that true. It’s also probably unnecessary (depending on your needs) to allow users on the guest network SSH, Telnet, or GUI access to the router. Append these firewall rules to harden the security of all of your networks!
iptables -I INPUT -i br1 -p tcp --dport telnet -j REJECT --reject-with tcp-reset
iptables -I INPUT -i br1 -p tcp --dport ssh -j REJECT --reject-with tcp-reset
iptables -I INPUT -i br1 -p tcp --dport www -j REJECT --reject-with tcp-reset
iptables -I INPUT -i br1 -p tcp --dport https -j REJECT --reject-with tcp-reset
You should now have two working SSIDs: a private one for your home network, and a guest network for your visitors. Both networks should have internet access. The private network will function the same as a LAN and single wireless network did before, with the wireless network having full access to the LAN connections. The guest network, on the other hand, is separated from the private network. Additionally, each individual device on the guest network is separate from another, so guests cannot see each other.
If you’ve gotten to this point and something is not working, or your guest network does not have internet access, don’t be alarmed. DD-WRT is a always evolving, and it’s entirely possible bridge settings or firewall rules for the latest build have changed. If this tutorial does not produce the desired result, please leave a comment below. I’ll try to always keep the tutorial updated with instructions for the latest DD-WRT build.
If you are using DD-WRT and experiencing issues with NAT loopback (accessing your public IP address from within your network), I have a tutorial to help resolve that issue here.
Geocentral Location; Addresses to Coordinates
Recently, I needed to plot numerous addresses on a map and, ultimately, find the geocentral location of all addresses. The geocentral location is the weighted center of all the addresses, which can be useful in helping determine numerous things, including the average distance between all addresses and some other location.
The geocentral location is attained through relatively simple vector math. Let’s say, for instance, you have a set of points on a graph. Adding each point together would give you the weighted center of all the points, which can help you determine quite a bit about how that population of points interacts with you or each other.
I’ve put together a simple script below that interacts with Google Maps to do just that. Input a list of addresses in the text box below, attain the coordinates for each address, and plot each address, and the address’ geocentral location, on the map below.
A few things to keep in mind:
One address per line
Addresses must be properly formatted
Ensure no address lines are blank
The geocentral location is marked with a blue flag
In order to keep strain on my server low, the tool below only allows 150 or less addresses to be processed. The source is available on GitHub here, so you’re welcome to modify the tool for use on your own server.
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 970 University Ave, Los Gatos, CA 95032 3000 Hanover St, Palo Alto, CA 94304 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, CA 95014
Calculate Coordinates
Drop Markers
If you try unable to use this tool, either an address is malformed or Google has changed a part of their Maps API. If you’re certain that all of your addresses are properly formatted and the tool still does not appear to work for you, send me an email so I can update check if Google has updated their Maps API.
Google, Internet, Programming
A Correction for the WSJ: So, Who Did Invent the Internet?
Recently, Gordon Crovitz wrote an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal titled Who Really Invented the Internet? Fortunately, it’s only an opinion piece, because there was little more than opinion, littered with plenty of misinformation, in the writing. You can read the article here.
Now, it’s not like I look to the WSJ for the latest technology information (or, in this case, technology history). Far from it. And generally when a here’s-the-truth-you-never-knew article starts with political propaganda, it’s pretty safe to assume that whatever comes next is going to be absurd. The article’s introduction could essentially be summarized as, “Obama said something that was true, but I’ll be darned if I can’t find a way to make it sound false!”
Even still, to those of us in the technology field, the “first computer” and “who invented the internet” discussions are highly revered and hotly debated, so when someone not in the industry starts boasting that they have a complete and final answer to these discussions, we usually just scoff. In Crovitz’s defense, he seems to be confusing “internet” with “World Wide Web” and many other terms that merely relate to networking and computers. But that’s about the extent I’d go to to defend him; he’s a conservative author trying to make something out of nothing just because a liberal said it.
Due to the fact that I’m more than a little OCD, I wound up relating the history of internet technology through the ages to my Grandpa, who originally sent me the Crovitz article. Much of the details below are in response to specific parts of Crovitz’s article, so, as painful as it may be, I recommend you read that article first. Alright, ready? Begin.
Personal Computer: The term “personal computer” was not coined until 1975 for the Altair 8800. However, it is highly disputed that Xerox created the first “personal computer”, by whatever modern definition you use. IBM created the first electronic computer in 1953 (the IBM 701), Digital Equipment Corporation created the first digital computer in 1960, and Hewlett-Packard release the first mass-produced digital computer in 1968, the HP 9100A.
Personal Workstation: This is the term the WSJ author is looking for in their article. The first personal workstation, a “workstation” being a computer that can be connected to another computer (in this case, through the Ethernet technology he referenced), was created by Xerox in 1974. However, the computers used by ARPANet were technically also workstations, just not mass produced.
Intranet (take special note of the “a”): A connection between two or more computers within the same network. The network in your house is an “intranet”.
Internet (take special note of the “e”): A connection between two or more networks. The wires that connect your house’s network to mine are the “internet”.
ARPANet: The first computer network (or “intranet”), created by the Department of Defense, which was fully implemented in 1969. I’ve never heard it associated with nuclear strikes or anything of the sort. It was created merely to replace slow and overused satellite communication between government agencies. When originally created, it did not use TCP/IP, it used NCP.
DNS: DNS stands for “Domain Name System”. It’s interesting that, for an article claiming Ethernet was more defining to the internet than TCP/IP, the article makes no mention of DNS, the third essential component to the modern internet. Though you type in “google.com” to get to Google, Google’s website actually lives at an Internet Protocl (IP) address of 173.194.34.165. This IP address is similar to your human’s street address. People cannot be expected to remember an IP addresses for their favorite websites, so DNS was invented to resolve a host name (google.com) to an IP address. This is similar to me saying “Ben and Jerry’s on Navy Pier” instead of “Ben & Jerry’s – NAVY PIER, 700 East Grand Ave., Chicago, IL 60611-3436”.
RFC: RFC stands for “Request for Comment”. The article does not mention these, but they are crucial to understand when things were adopted. They’re sort of like the Congressional bills of the technology world, but more well-defined. RFC documents are official definitions of technological protocols or interfaces. When something is adopted as a standard, an RFC fully defining it is written, and, if other people want to interface with it, they use that “law” to know how things work. The very first RFC, RFC 1, was called “Host Software” and dictated the infrastructure of ARPANet. RFC 791 was for TCP/IP 1981. RFC 894 was for Ethernet in 1984. RFC 1035 was for DNS in 1987. These dates do not necessarily correspond to when the interfaces were created, but they do indicate when the interfaces were standardized and/or adopted.
World Wide Web: The World Wide Web was formally introduced in 1989. The World Wide Web is, in very loose terms, the combination of HTTP, HTML, and database communication that transfers web content by a standardized means to a web browser.
Difference Between Intranet and Internet
So, what is the difference between the an “intranet” and the “internet”. First of all, the foundational structures of the “internet” are identical to the “intranet” (that being TCP/IP referenced in the article). Once there was the possibility for the intranet, the possibility for the internet also existed, but it was not realized until a bit later, which is why Xerox is trying to claim credit for that. It’s a chicken-or-the-egg argument. Naturally, each company (and the Pentagon) claim different loose definitions of all these terms so that they can claim credit for actually inventing the end result. The fact is, none and all of them invented it … which coincides with Obama’s remarks pretty well, if you ask me.
TCP/IP and Ethernet
First of all, it’s sad that the article references Vinton Cerf but makes no mention of Bob Kahn. They collaborated together to define TCP/IP, but Kahn rarely gets the credit he deserves. Kahn was actually the one with the idea of TCP/IP, and Cerf was in charge of the implementation and later the RFC definition.
Secondly, it should be highly suspect that much of the WSJ author’s claims come from a book written about Xerox. More significantly, after the WSJ article was published, the author of the cited book released a statement refuting the article and saying the article misrepresented the content of his book.
Naturally, Xerox will claim “full credit” for a discovery, as many other companies have done as well, but they cannot claim full credit as they utilized standards that had already been put in place (namely TCP/IP). However, their contribution to the internet’s development was equally strong. Ethernet was merely a communication standard that allowed passing data (at very high speeds) between two computers using TCP/IP. Neither technology would ever have been adopted by the private sector (and ultimately the world) without something like …
The Domain Name System was invented in 1983, and the internet would not exist without it, just like TCP/IP and Ethernet. I won’t go into details of why it was necessary, but it was created when issues were seen in how hosts were resolved with ARPANet. It was obvious that as ARPANet got larger, the way hosts were resolved (me asking, “Hey, what’s Mom and Dad’s address?) would become weaker and weaker (and certainly slower and slower). So they decentralized their host resolution to several Domain Name Systems rather than a centralized location at the Pentagon. This was essentially the birth of the privatized internet, as we know it, but that is not to discredit its foundations.
So Did Xerox Invent the Internet or Not?
Short answer? No. Xerox has never been one of the discussion points in the “who invented the internet” within knowledgeable circles.
Long answer? It’s a bit arrogant for Xerox (or any one company or government organization) to accept or take full or even majority credit for the invention of the modern day internet. It was a combined effort of multiple unrelated parties, companies, and government entities. People usually credit the Department of Defense with the creation of the internet because, well, they created the first internet. And without the funding and research for TCP/IP, the advancement toward what we have today would have been much slower (assuming it ever happened at all). Additionally, though Xerox coupled TCP/IP with their own technology to make Ethernet, they did not use Ethernet on the internet. They used it on their own intranet, or internal network, because at the time only government organizations had access to the internet. More importantly, TCP/IP and other internet protocols could exist outside of an internal network, which is where Ethernet is used. Ethernet is used to join computers to an intranet, not to join networks to the intranet. Xerox’s contribution certainly increased the speed and reliability of internal network communication, but that is an indirect contribution to the internet. It is not an essential part of the components that makeup the internet.
What About the Privatization of the Internet?
The reason the internet became privatized had little to do with little government/big government politics, as the WSJ implies, and everything to do with decentralization. The fundamental structure and combination of TCP/IP and network-to-network communications led to DNS, and once DNS was introduced it became obvious that the internet was going to become a worldwide tool that could not be contained or centralized by any one government or entity. Ironically, however, the U.S. government did still control the all DNS servers, and government organizations were the only ones with access to the internet.
Though Xerox enabled reliable intranet communications with Ethernet (which, by the way, was given back to the government for their use primarily), ARPANet expanded to become the internet, and DNS offered the potential to use the service around the globe, it was not commercialized. It was not until 1992 when Congress passed a bill (spearheaded by Al Gore, which is usually why people misquote him to make the joke in which he claims to invent the internet) that allowed commercial access to the internet. This began the privatization of the internet, but the government still controlled all DNS servers.
For six more years the internet was essentially still controlled by the U.S. government, but commercial entities were allowed to use it. In 1998 (not sure what event the article is referring to when it says 1995), the Clinton administration issued a mandate to form a non-profit organization called the International Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). The U.S. government gave control of all DNS servers, maintenance, and documentation of internet infrastructure to ICANN. And you thought Google owned the internet. At that point, the internet became officially and completely privatized.
Doesn’t Britain Claim They Invented the Internet?
Actually, no. If you watched the Olympics 2012 Opening Ceremonies, Tim Berners-Lee was paraded through the stadium and loudly proclaimed as the “inventor of the World Wide Web”. And there’s the distinction. London never claimed he invented the “internet”. There is a difference. The “internet” and the “World Wide Web” are two distinct things, though they obviously operate together and are essentially synonymous to the average internet user today.
In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee had an idea for a database of hypertext links. Berners-Lee implemented what he called the World Wide Web with the collaborative help of Robert Cailliau. It didn’t take long for the two of them to realize the potential the World Wide Web could offer to the internet, so in late 1990 Berners-Lee developed the protocol necessary to transmit World Wide Web data across the internet: HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and HyperText Markup Language (HTML). Along with this, he developed the first web browser, which he called simply the WorldWideWeb. Joining HTTP, HTML, and a browser with the internet gave Berners-Lee the ability to pass much more valuable data from point to point, displaying that data in a specifically intended way to the end-user.
In regards to the WSJ article, it’s also possible that the author of the WSJ was confusing the term “internet” with “World Wide Web”. By 1994, better graphical browsers had been created, and the World Wide Web standard had pretty well been adopted, but primarily only by universities and research labs. In late 1994, Berners-Lee founded the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which maintains many of the standards for the World Wide Web still today. After W3C was founded, and in early 1995, the potential the World Wide Web coupled with the internet had to offer the commercial world became apparent, and the internet really started taking off.
Even still, the Department of Defense, Vinton Cerf, and Bob Kahn do deserve full credit for the creation of the first intranet/network and the initial ideas for networking protocols. The natural successor to that was Ethernet, DNS, and ultimately a privatized and distributed internet as we know it today.
Here’s a more simple example to help with the comparison. Assume for a moment that, prior to Henry Ford, nobody had ever done anything with a vehicle that moved (without assistance from an outside force) from point A to point B. Ford created the Quadricycle as his first vehicle. He then adapted that into the Model T. Is the Model T any more or less of a vehicle? It has more of the parts that we’re used to today, and it was certainly much more luxurious. But to say then that, because the Model T is more like what we have today, the Quadricycle was not a vehicle is silly. The Quadricycle was still a vehicle that moved you from point A to point B. The Model T was the natural successor to that, and cars have progressively become more and more advanced (with newly invented technology added to them) as society has advanced.
In the same way, ARPANet moved network information from point A to point B. The internet was the natural successor to an intranet, but the same ideas and fundamental technology were used for it, so it is safe to say that the government formed what has become the internet. Which, I believe, was President Obama’s point. No argument here that the internet boomed came in 1998 when it was fully privatized, but the internet also would not have been established in the first place without government research and funding.
Internet, Politics
The Napster Revolution
I’ve recently been reading through Steve Jobs’ biography, a phenomenal work by Walter Isaacson. A point that Isaacson keeps coming back to throughout the book is that Steve Jobs revolutionized six different industries: animated movies (through Pixar), personal computing, tablet computing, phones, digital publishing, and music.
I don’t disagree with Isaacson. Jobs did revolutionize the way that digital media (including music, movies, books, and more) is marketed and sold today. But before you can have the corner on the market, there needs to be demand. And the revolution that realized the screaming demand for easily accessible digital media around the globe started in a college dorm room during the summer of 1999.
It started with two adolescents, Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker, who shared mutual interest in hacking and programming. Though the teenagers never met at this point, they continued to chat over IRC in the years to come, bouncing various software ideas off each other.
During his Freshman year of college at Northeastern University in Boston, Fanning had an idea to simplify online music acquisition for him and his roommate. It was 1998, and the easiest way to download MP3s was through various websites. Each website had a different interface. Each a different library of music. Many broken links. All were very slow.
Fanning wrote a piece of software that fixed this. It provided a single, clean interface that searched all the major MP3 websites, providing results only for working links. It was effective. But it still wasn’t a comprehensive library.
By the end of his Freshman year, Fanning had dropped out of college and was mulling over ideas for a music sharing program that didn’t rely on limited libraries and websites that were taken down and relaunched on a weekly basis. He worked out the good and bad ideas for such a program with his internet buddy, Parker, over IRC, slowly growing more confident in his idea and its architecture.
By midsummer, 1999, Fanning sat down at his uncle’s for a sixty-hour programming spree, and it was during those sleepless hours that Napster was officially born.
The Architecture
His idea was simple enough. All he needed to do was combine three existing protocols into one client: computer-to-computer connectivity (which was accomplished in instant messaging clients like IRC), file sharing (which was implemented in many instant messaging clients and exhibited in operating systems like Windows), and advanced search (which was illustrated by MP3 and internet search engines).
Fanning had already implemented two of the three features in the MP3 search program that he wrote during his Freshman year of college. The third feature, computer-to-computer connectivity, was the innovation that led his first program to become Napster.
The issue with Fanning’s first program was the same issue independent MP3 websites had: it relied on the servers of third-party websites that were frequently taken down for a number of reasons. Using computer-to-computer connectivity, Napster utilized each user’s computer as a server on the Napster network. Rather than searching the server of a website, Napster searched the computer’s of user’s that were currently logged onto the network.
There still was a centralized server for Napster—which is what eventually led to the service’s downfall—that indexed MP3 files and their locations. This allowed the Napster to still provide a very rapid search functionality.
Amazingly, in its two years of operation, the centralized server for Napster never went down. Not once.
Sharing and Searching
Napster did not blindly search a user’s entire computer for MP3 files—Fanning was originally a hacker, but he still understood privacy. Nor was Napster able to search a client’s computer if the Napster client was not running. So how did user’s music library become part of the Napster network?
The user would need to install the Napster client on their computer
The user would need to share a specific folder on their computer
The user would need to have the Napster client running
Assuming these three criteria were met, any MP3 files within the user’s shared folder would be indexed on the centralized Napster server and available for download by other logged on users.
Any other user using the Napster client could then browse for songs by artist, song, album, etc. The search would be indexed through the centralized Napster server, and results returned from the index would be shown to the user. When a user selected a song for download, the Napster server would return the IP address of the user’s computer that contained the desired song, connect the two user’s computers, and transfer the file.
The Rise …
After Fanning’s sixty-hour programming marathon, Napster was born. It was June of 1999, and Fanning and Parker released the beta of Napster to thirty of their friends. It was meant to be a small group for testing. But obviously, given the described architecture above, the more computers that user Napster, the larger the Napster library would be. Fanning and Parker’s friends saw this potential, and less than seven days later, the purposely small test group had spread the download from thirty to 15,000 users.
Its users unaware of the legal implications, Napster went viral. Less than a year from its release, Napster was the fastest growing website in history and had acquired over 25 million users. This growth rate was unprecedented and was a surprise to everyone except Fanning, Parker … and anyone that used the service. Napster was wildly popular on the internet for two blissful years. Before Napster’s user base started to decline (due to the hot legal attention it was receiving), the service peaked at 80 million registered users.
Fanning believed his idea would be popular. But he had no idea of the demand that it would generate. Prior to the release of Napster, digital media was not easily accessible to the general public. Napster opened our eyes to the convenience we could be affording. Unfortunately, the convenience Napster offered was relatively short lived. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) had taken its focus off nearly every other legal dispute it had to focus its crosshairs squarely on Napster.
… And Fall
How much damage (if any) Napster did to the music industry will be a topic of debate that will never find a good answer. While the RIAA may point out that, at its peak, Napster shared roughly 2.79 billion MP3s per month among its users, others would tell you that a song downloaded for free does not always correlate to revenue lost. A statistician on the other side of the argument might point out that, during the year Napster was most popular, revenue for the music industry increased by $500 million. Neither of these facts provide hard evidence for either side of the case, but they make for good argumentation.
Regardless, the service Napster provided was solely free MP3 distribution, and there’s no doubt that the means by which Napster did this violated copyright law. The RIAA, along with major record labels, artists, producers, and other corporate giants, banded together to file litigation against Napster. The litigation itself wasn’t overly complicated, and the Napster company effectively dissolved in July 2001, two years after launching the Napster service, one year after injunction.
But the Napster rise, fall, and lawsuit were extremely interesting. No, the litigation itself was nothing to write home about. It was the companies sponsoring the litigation, as well as Napster, that illustrated both the irony of the situation and the need for something like Napster with a legal face. Because many of the same companies that sponsored the litigation against Napster, and even sued Napster itself, were the same companies that had (and continued to, even after injunction) funded Napster.
While the litigation departments of media companies around the world were building cases against Napster, the software departments were integrating components of Napster into their own applications. AOL, Yahoo, and Microsoft, for instance, each introduced instant messaging clients that had a Napster button on every chat window, which allowed you to quickly share a song with a friend. You may recall that AOL merged with Time Warner in late 2000, which caused Warner Music to be renamed to Warner Music Group. Point being, Warner Music Group was one of the many groups involved in litigation against Napster, but their parent company AOL Time Warner was funding the very company they were suing.
AOL was not the only house divided. German media giant Bertelsmann saw the potential in Napster, but they also saw how susceptible it was to legal disputes. So they invested $85 million into the company, asking them to develop a better, more secure distribution system. All this, even while Bertelsmann’s media division was also funding the RIAA and its lawsuit against Napster. And finally, when the dust was still settling in early 2002, Bertelsmann offered to purchase Napster for $20 million. The offer was rejected, and Napster quickly disintegrated as its employees (and executives … and board) took their severance pay and fled at the sight of bankruptcy. For as spectacular as the formation of Napster was, the day the company finally closed its doors was downtrodden and quiet.
The Gnutella Network
The end of the Napster service did not end the Napster idea. And even though Bertelsmann offered Napster $85 million to develop a secure distribution system that the company never had time to develop, someone else did: two people named Justin Frankel and Tom Pepper, co-founders of Nullsoft, a small software company recently purchased by none other than AOL. Justin and Tom developed a more robust and secure peer-to-peer file sharing network, and they called it Gnutella. Mind you, this wasn’t years after the RIAA smashed Napster into the ground. They began working on their alternative to Napster in 2000, and the Gnutella network began to catch the attention of the public’s eye in early 2001, when Napster’s legal battles were ramping up.
To AOL’s credit, they did try to stop Gnutella from growing up and living a long and healthy life. The day after the Gnutella source code was publicly released on Nullsoft’s website, AOL demanded the project be shut down. But, of course, it had already been downloaded thousands of times, and it was already being redistributed on countless sites. So AOL’s move to pull it off their servers was said to be similar to closing the barn door after you let the horse out.
The Gnutella network, unlike Napster, was not a client. It was both a protocol and an idea. The downfall of the old MP3 sites was that both their index server and their libraries were centralized servers owned by the sites. The downfall of Napster was that, though their libraries were on their user’s computers, they still had a centralized server that indexed all MP3 files and the computers on which they were stored. The Gnutella network removed all centralized server and instead used each user’s computer as a server and also a relay. The relay was what acted in place of a centralized index server. And since the Gnutella protocol was open source, anyone could make a client that connected to it. And there are … many.
When you logged on to the Gnutella protocol using a Gnutella client, for instance LimeWire or Morpheus, the protocol on your computer would ping several other computers that it thought might be logged on. Each of those computers also had a list of computers they knew were logged on, so they would return that list to your Gnutella client. Once Gnutella found other logged on users, it would remember those addresses the next time you started the service—this way if one of the servers did go down for any reason (even copyright violation), it still had other alternatives. When you searched for a file on Gnutella, it would send the request down the chain of clients you were attached to, and clients attached to those clients, until it found a match.
In this way, the Gnutella network was completely distributed. There were no centralized servers, so there was nothing for copyright holders to seize when an infraction was suspected. Sure, they would seize your computer, since it was one of Gnutella’s servers. But there were millions of other servers out there just like you. And for this reason, the Gnutella network has never been (and likely never will be, as its effectively impossible) shutdown; it has only grown since its inception. Certain clients have legally been shutdown before, but since they are open source, they would simply reemerge a few days later.
Modern Distribution
The Gnutella network today is the most widely used peer-to-peer distribution network (aside from torrenting). Though illegality popularized these distribution systems, they are primarily used for legitimate transfers today, though obviously they do still house illegal content.
More importantly, however, the digital media revolution that Napster started, however controversial it was and is, finally forced the media sources to reevaluate demand for their products. Piracy initially caused CD sales to plummet and thus the music industry to lose money. But once key distributors like Apple, Amazon, and even eventually Napster again (purchased by Rhapsody and reintroduced legally for a fee) finally saw the demand that Napster enlightened them to, the music industry recovered (though they’d like you to believe they’re still limping along). Sure, CD sales have all but died, and some stores like Best Buy don’t even carry CDs, but digital sales have surpassed what CD sales used to be. The digital revolution also opened new possibilities. For instance, Pandora, offering you a digital streaming alternative to your radio.
But the demand for digital content didn’t stop at music. Companies like Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Instant emerged. Products like the iPad and Kindle are hugely popular. And TV stations started streaming their content online. Even non-internet-based companies like Redbox were formed based on consumer’s desire for on demand content.
Now, I’m not condoning illegal activity. And downloading music or movies from LimeWire or The Pirate Bay is very bad, kids. But there is a lesson to be learned here. When the culture begins to change, and the culture realizes a new possibility that never existed to them before is now a reality, don’t resist it. The amount of money the record labels and RIAA put into legislation and litigation before they even consider changing with the culture to provide legal alternatives to services such as Napster far surpassed the money they were losing in records sales. When the culture advances, advance with it. That’s what technology is all about.
Unless the culture advances into a murdering machine. That should still be frowned upon.
Apple, Internet, Movies, Music, Servers
Reagan.com Email is a Misguided Effort
I heard a commercial with the booming and illustrious voice of Rush Limbaugh. After I recovered from banging my head against my desk, I reflected on what was said in the commercial.
Rush pointed to the popular free email providers (Yahoo, Google, and others) to remind you that they scan your email. To remind you that they sell your email address, and other information about you, to the highest bidder. To remind you that the use of these free email addresses may increase your risk of spam mail. In contrast, purchasing an email address from Reagan.com provides you with private and secure email, and your information will never be sold.
I was intrigued.
I found that Rush was not the only conservative advertising this servic. Fox, CBS, and many others also endorsed it, though for slightly different political reasons; they primarily portrayed it as an email alternative “for conservatives”. They said that, unlike these free services, Reagan.com email would not have you unknowingly contributing to “the liberals”. These are hard-and-fast definitions, people.
Michael Reagan, founder of Reagan.com and son of, you guessed it, Ronald Reagan, has this to say about his service:
[…] every time you use your email from companies like Google, AOL, Yahoo, Hotmail, Apple and others, you are helping the liberals. These companies are, and will continue to be, huge supporters financially and with technology of those that are hurting our country.
Because apparently liberals are the only ones that are interested in using technology to advance our country. And apparently “the liberals” are the only people benefiting from these huge corporations. Obviously, they would never help “the conservatives”. Regardless, this is a relatively empty claim as its never actually substantiated.
Politics aside, allow me to explain to you from a technical perspective why the commercials endorsing Reagan.com and even the information on Reagan.com is largely misleading.
First, let’s address the script Rush was fed in his advertisement. It is well known and accepted that free email providers, along with many paying internet providers as well, will harvest and sell your information to advertising companies. It’s well known because these companies clearly state this in their Privacy Policies. The claim is that the Reagan email service, which costs you $40 per year, does not do this. However, if you read through the Privacy Policy for Reagan.com, it is true that Reagan.com says they will not collect your information, but they do allow their affiliates to collect your information.
We may also use one or more advertising network providers to help present advertisements or other content on this website. These advertising network providers use cookies, web beacons, or other technologies to serve you advertisements or content tailored to interests you have shown by browsing on this and other websites you have visited. Advertising network providers collect non-personally identifiable information such as your browser type, your operating system, web pages visited, time of visits, content viewed, ads viewed, and other click stream data.
The key phrases here are that their “advertising network providers” have the right to collect information about “content viewed”. I don’t know about you, but the content I primarily view while logged onto my email is … email.
The use of cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies by these advertising network providers is subject to their own privacy policies, not our privacy policy for this website or its Service.
Reagan.com uses the affiliate networkadvertising.org for their ads (why they show ads on a service they charge for is beyond me). Ironically, if you look through the list of partners of Network Advertising, four companies may quickly jump out at you: Microsoft (Hotmail), AOL, Yahoo, and Google. Just to name a few. Which means much of the same ad revenue that these companies may generate from your use of their free email services may still be generated for them through your use of Reagan.com.
This last point is key to highlighting the disconnect between the claim of the Reagan.com email service and the reality of the internet’s interconnectivity. This disconnect has also recently been highlighted with the controversial SOPA and PIPA bills passing through Congress. You have politicians proposing bills, or in this case making a buck using the influence of politics, on technical subjects in which they have little to no understanding.
If privacy is what you seek, you cannot use the internet, and you certainly cannot use email (unless it is isolated to an internal network). Even if a given email was secure and private while on the Reagan.com servers, any incoming and outgoing messages will go through a server at some point somewhere in the world that is likely owned, operated, or affiliated with one of the internet or server giants, including Google. Coincidentally, even if you had a Reagan.com email address and sent an email to yourself, the email would still go through one of these external servers before returning to you.
Next claim. Reagan.com is email for conservatives, right? So supposedly using Reagan.com will support a conservative agenda rather than a liberal agenda. Perhaps directly, and on the very surface, but indirectly (and about half an inch below the surface down to bedrock) no. As I said before, you can’t take something as intertwined and complex as the internet and expect to take the biggest internet giants out of it. Ironically, on the same site that Michael Reagan is falsely boasting that his service will get you away from those Big Brother liberal companies, he provides instructions for how to configure his email service to work on your mobile device. You know, the one made by Blackberry, Apple, or Motorola (owned by Google) running the Android OS (also owned by Google).
Let’s give Reagan the benefit of the doubt. Let’s assume he’s not trying to insinuate it’s Big Business we should distrust. Maybe he’s suggesting Google, Yahoo, and the like sell your information to the government, and that’s where the privacy risk comes in. This is half true … although they don’t sell it. And, again, Reagan.com won’t get you away from this. Even when using Reagan.com, as soon as the email leaves the Reagan.com servers, the United States government will have the opportunity to seize and view the email. They probably won’t, unless you’re a terrorist suspect, but they always have the right, no matter your provider, thanks to the Patriot Act. Heck, even on the Reagan.com servers the government has the right to seize it under this act.
There’s a phrase that somebody said once goes something like:
Is it really free if it costs you your privacy?
That’s up to you to decide, really. But if you believe internet companies are the only ones tracking personal information about your daily habits … well, let’s just say you should stop shopping at Target. Or Wal-Mart. Or Best Buy. Or really any major chain in America. Personally, I don’t think a corporation tracking your habits to better serve you with ads related to your interests is an invasion of your privacy.
The cost of Reagan’s supposedly private and secure email service is $40 per year. This service is rented from a man who has no technical expertise and is not a server administrator. His Terms of Service clearly and painfully guarantee you nothing in terms of support, up-time, warranty, or back-up. And if you’re expecting new features in the future … well, don’t hold your breath.
On the other hand, companies like Google and Yahoo have incentive to provide you with new features. They have incentive to guarantee you up-time, because every second their servers are down is ad revenue lost for them. They have dedicated support teams to ensure their servers are always running at peak health, and they have redundantly connected servers and farms, just in case.
Reagan’s servers go down? I’m sure they’ll get it back up eventually. But, you know, you’ve already paid them your $40, so they don’t lose money by the second when the service is down. And it is owned by a politician … so don’t expect a quick turnaround.
I reject so many comments to this post as spam. Not just be because hateful ignorance is spam, but because those comments largely miss the point of the post. Though I am clearly a liberal (which many comments try to point out to me as some sort of shocking revelation), my liberal bias does not go into a factual understanding of how the Internet and email communication works. I never suggest in the post that you should not get Michael Reagan’s email service, I merely point out the fact that the money is still going to contribute to the same liberal policies as the free email services.
This post, I would think, would be something that conservatives would want to be informed of. Sure, the first few paragraphs contain a few political jokes, but the content of the actual post has little to do with actual politics. Ironically, conservatives instead comment to tell me that my facts are just opinions, and that the opinions of conservatives, politicians, and commentators are apparently more factual than a software engineer and server administrator. You’re certainly entitled to that belief. But don’t waste your time commenting on this post, because unless you actually have something constructive and relevant to share with the class, it won’t be approved.
I also realize that rejecting the political comments of raging conservatives simply validates their feelings of suppression and victimization. I’m more than happy to give you that satisfaction, so by all means, still post your comment and I’ll gladly “censor” you. You’re obviously here not to actually gain a better understanding of the world but simply to stick to your own worldview regardless of facts or expertise.
Of course, most of those comments seem to be written by people who clearly haven’t actually read this entire post, so it’s also unlikely they’ll read this disclaimer. Oh well! Liberal politicians and their policies welcome your $40 subscription to Reagan.com!
Internet, Politics, Servers
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The AlleyWatch NYC Startup Daily Funding Report: 10/3/17
Here are the latest venture capital, seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 10/3/17. This page will be updated throughout the day to reflect any new fundings.
$8M - Series A
HYPR, the enterprise-focused security solution to decentralize authentication, has raised a $8M Series A round from Mesh Ventures, Boldstart Ventures, RTP Ventures, and RRE Ventures. Founded by George Avetisov, Roman Kadinsky, James V. Barcia, and Bojan Simic in 2014, HYPR Corp. has now raised a total of $11.8M over three rounds.
Vestwell
Vestwell, the white label retirement investment platform for financial planners, has raised a $8M Series A round from Commerce Ventures, FinTech Collective, Primary Venture Partners, and F-Prime Capital Partners. Founded by Aaron Schumm in 2016, Vestwell has now raised a total of $12.5M over two rounds.
$2.4M - Venture
Grow Labs, the smart planting system that allows consumers to produce their own organic produce, has raised a $2.4M funding round from Tank Hill Ventures and Resolute Venture Partners. Founded by Andrew Wanliss-Orlebar, Idan Cohen in 2015, this is the company's second round of funding.
Frame.io
$20M - Series B
Frame.io, the workflow management platform for teams that leverages video, has raised $20M in Series B funding from Shasta Ventures, SignalFire, and Accel Partners. Founded by Emery Wells and John Traver in 2014, the company has now raised a total of $32.2M in funding over three rounds.
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Crisis, Covenant and Creativity
Nathan Lopes Cardozo
Publisher: Urim Publications
Crisis, Covenant and Creativity deals with some of the most widely discussed issues in contemporary Jewish religious life.
How do religious people deal with tolerance when they are convinced that their religious beliefs carry the truth and that others are mistaken? To what extent should the modern application of “Halachic decision making� be influenced by existential wonder and the religious mission and philosophy of the Jewish people? How does Halachic living lead to a greater awareness of the mystery and beauty of life? As the search for Jewish Identity becomes more and more complex, what is the meaning of Jewish authenticity in light of Jean Paul Sartre’s understanding of anti-Semitism?
Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo is a world renowned thinker, lecturer, and ambassador for Judaism and the Jewish people. He is known for his original insights into how Judaism relates to and remains relevant in our complex, modern times. A prolific author, Rabbi Lopes Cardozo’s books and essays are read by laymen, Rabbis and academicians throughout the Jewish and non-Jewish world. He is a sought-after lecturer on Judaism and Israel at numerous institutions throughout the world, including the Jewish studies programs at Cambridge, Oxford and Harvard Universities, various Young Israel communities, the Orthodox Union, and the Union of Sephardi Communities. He is the founder and Dean of the David Cardozo Academy and Machon Ohr Aaron in Jerusalem and pens a weekly “Thought to Ponder,� which may be subscribed to through the website www.cardozoschool.org. Rabbi Lopes Cardozo is a distinguished member of the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish Community, received his rabbinical degree from Gateshead Talmudical College, and holds a Doctorate degree in philosophy.
A Unique Perspective: Rav Breuer's Essays 1914-1973 Jewish Theology in Our Time by Rabbi Elliot J. Cosgrove(Hardcover) The Complete Mesillat Yesharim ( English-bound edition) To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility by Jonathan Sacks
Halakhic Man, Authentic Jew Mentor of Generations: Reflections on Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik Song of Teshuvah: A Commentary on Rav Avraham Yitzchak HaKohen Kook's Oros HaTeshuvah And From There You Shall Seek - Uvikkashtem Misham
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Stacy Heydt
Accredited Spin-Off Judge
6620 State Highway Kk
Marshfield, MO 65706-9964
Stacy has immersed herself in all things related to fiber since she purchased her first alpacas in 2001. She volunteers at fleece shows and judges Spin-Off, Fiber Arts, and Skein competitions for AOA’s National Fleece and affiliate shows. She gives fiber related seminars at AOA national conferences. She is the current chair of the AOA Fiber and Fiber Products committee and is one of the founding members of the United States Alpaca Fiber Council (USAFC).
She loves sharing her love of fiber with others. In addition to writing articles for Alpacas Magazine, in 2014 she wrote the reference book, The Fiber Factor — A Simplified Guide to Alpaca Fiber. And the children’s book about alpacas, art and fashion, The Fashionable Mrs. Blue has a Plan and a Clue the following year. In 2015 she opened a fiber art studio, Fun Fibers, where she makes products using alpaca fiber and a variety of art techniques. She shares these kits with a variety of programs to introduce kids to textiles and agriculture. Her kits are also available through her wholesale program to farms around the country.
Art has always been a part of her life. She learned the needle arts as a child and after their first shearing in 2002, she learned to spin, weave, felt and dye her alpaca’s fiber. Now she teaches her art techniques at fiber fairs, events and at private farms around the country. In 2016 she received the prestigious designation of “Juried Artist” from The Best of Missouri Hands art association.
Stacy is excited to be one of the inaugural accredited spin-off judges. She worked closely with Wini Labreque to develop this program and present it to the JTCC for consideration and ultimately its implementation. She hopes this program will continue to grow and attract new spin-off judges so that alpaca owners can receive valuable information about their fleece, how it spins, and its purpose in the textile industry.
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Champion, Karen
Glaser, Judy
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Keske, Judy
Kinyon, Karen
Labrecque, Winifred
Macedo, Maureen
Menn, Gabrielle
Taylor, Elizabeth
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For the past few years, we've homeschooled on a year-round plan. Jude was struggling to catch up, plus had physical, occupational, and speech therapy appointments. It made sense to plan on twelve months to accomplish things instead of just nine - it gave us a buffer for missing days due to appointments. When you'd ask what grade he was in, he'd tell you the one that corresponded to his age. It was good enough. Anybody asking him and making small talk really was just interested in trying to figure out how old he was, while anybody who needed to know where he truly was academically (doctors, therapists, etc.) would be asking me and giving me the chance to qualify "this grade on paper, using that grade level books." While we have chosen to "officially move up grade levels" in September, following the "regular" school calendar, we have run our learning year from June to June. Up until this year, Jude was as much as three or four years behind, because his language skills were so delayed. It took a full calendar year to finish things. However, this year, he's been closing the gap at a lightning pace.
When I planned out his curriculum last fall, we began a formal grammar program. I wasn't sure if we'd start with Level 1, or jump in higher. Ultimately, I decided to start at the beginning, and just go at an accelerated pace. He finished the Level 1 book by Halloween, and Level 2 by just past Christmas! There was a lot that he already knew but didn't realize. For example, he knew what persons, places, and things were, but didn't realize they were called "Nouns." He was aware that if he wanted help spelling "here" or "hear" he'd need to use them in a sentence to figure out the context, but not that they were called homophones. He's just begun Level 4 - he's nearly caught up to grade level! Woo hoo!
He also has been zooming through other areas. For last fall, I decided on five full-length novels for reading/literature, and while I was certain it would last us until Christmas, I fully expected them to last us through to spring. However, he zoomed through them, too, and was not struggling at all with the content and studies. I'm proud of him, but I'm left thinking, "Now what?" I planned on him needing more time than he did. Based on his track record, June Meg never thought to warn March Meg that she might need to be ready with more stuff! Oops. I've decided that homeschool curriculum is kind of like kids' clothing: things are the right fit for so long you think you'll never outgrow, and then one day kiddo wakes up, and nothing is right!
Technically, he's Grade 4 (if anyone asks), but whatever we pick now will likely last him until at least the beginning of "Calendar Grade 5." My checkbook is kind of hoping it will last him a little farther, but at the speed he's going, I think it's best not to count on it. Crew curriculum reviews will stretch things, but our core program definitely needs assessment and re-planning. I'm finding that while hands-on/interactive programs still work very well for him, he's also responding very well to activities with a classical-style format. Based on that, I think I have a plan for the next six moths or so:
Ignatius Press Faith and Life - Our Heavenly Father
Math U See Epsilon
Growing with Grammar - Level 4
IEW Fix It! Grammar - Level 1
Memoria Press Literature Studies-
Mr. Popper's Penguins, Farmer Boy, A Cricket in Times Square, Homer Price, and Poetry for the Grammar Stage
Independent Reading: interest-led new and classic books in a Lexile Range of 650-800
Read Aloud: classic books in a Lexile Range of 730-880
Spelling: Spelling You See - American Spirit
Writing: Memoria Press - Fables
Copywork: IEW Poetry Memorization
We reviewed this last year, and Jude struggled because it was a standalone thing for him. This time, we're going to turn each into a unit study, using copying, chunking, etc. It's also going to double as speech/articulation practice.
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Hi! I'm Meg, a city girl from Philadelphia transplanted to a 19-acre farm in the Garden State of New Jersey. I started blogging to share about Jude's adventures homeschooling, and our adventures have grown to include his brothers and our friends. Welcome!
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DoD partners with VA, implements Women’s Health Transition Training Program
By Staff Sgt. Victoria H. Taylor, Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs / Published July 17, 2019
Department of Veterans Affairs Women's Health Trasition Training. (Courtesy graphic)
ARLINGTON, Va. (AFNS) --
The Department of Veterans Affairs partnered with the Department of Defense to implement the first Women’s Health Transition Training. The program is an in-person and virtual course designed to provide a female perspective to active-duty, Reserve and National Guard servicewomen who plan to transition to civilian or Reserve/National Guard status.
According to the VA, women are the fastest growing subgroup of U.S. veterans. They face greater health-related challenges after military service compared to their male counterparts, including: chronic pain, obesity, musculoskeletal issues, depression and suicide. Since 2001, age-adjusted rates of suicide among women veterans have increased by 85.2%, versus 30.5% among men.
“The biggest obstacle that the VA faces is simply awareness on what they provide to female veterans,” said Maj. Alea Nadeem, Headquarters Air Force deputy mission manager and member of the Air Force Women Initiatives Team. “That statistic, it was heartbreaking to learn, and it really drove me to help in developing this program that could potentially save lives.”
Data collected uncovered that fewer women veterans seek services and support from the VA. For example, women veterans with a psychiatric diagnosis do not connect with VA mental health care until a median of 2.4 years post military service vs. a median of 2.1 years in male counterparts.
“These trends underscore the need to recruit servicewomen into (Veterans Health Administration) health care and support services immediately after military separation,” Nadeem said.
In July 2018, the VA Women’s Health Transition Training Program started as a pilot at five Air Force bases. By June 2019, the training began operating as an official VA program and expanded to Army, Navy, and Marine Corps installations. The training is expected to transition ownership to the Veterans Benefits Administration in 2021.
“By providing relevant VHA health enrollment information, and describing the extent and depth of services offered at VHA related to women’s health, women veterans will learn how to access the health care services that they need and want at the VA in a timely manner,” Nadeem said.
The in-person courses are currently being provided in multiple national locations and the virtual offering is expected to be deployed August 2019. To attend an upcoming course at one of the available locations, please reach out to the site contact provided below:
Upcoming In-Person Date
Fort Jackson, S.C.
Call the Transition Service Manager at 803-751-1723
MacDill Air Force Base, Fla.
Visit the Military and Family Readiness Center or call 813-828-0145
Joint Base Andrews, Md.
Visit the Airman and Family Readiness Center or call 301-981-2450
The Pentagon, Arlington, Va.
Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio
Naval Base San Diego, Calif.
Call Mr. Stan Beason at
Norfolk Naval Station, Va.
Visit the Fleet and Family Readiness Center or call 757-444-6089
Joint Base Lewis McChord, Wa.
Visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/womens-health-transition-pilot-training-at-jblm-tickets-51261264823 or call 253-477-4744
Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, S.C.
Fort Bragg, N.C.
Email the Transition Services Manager at William.b.McMillian.civ@mail.mil
Travis AFB, Calif. November 3, 2019 Call the Airmen & Family Readiness Center at 707-424-7600
Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif.
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Ogun Assembly Passes N449.97bn 2020 Appropriation Bill
Ogun state House of Assembly on Friday passed the 2020 budget proposal of N449.97bn presented to it by Governor Dapo Abiodun.
The passage of the bill marked HB. No. 032/OG/2019- Year 2020 Appropriation Law, at the plenary presided over by Speaker Olakunle Oluomo at the Assembly Complex, Abeokuta, followed the presentation of the report of the House Committee on Finance and Appropriation led by Hon. Olakunle Sobukanla.
There was a bit adjustment in budget size in the capital expenditure with an increment of N2.1bn for capital projects.
The realignment moved the capital estimate from N269,132,349,884.46bn to N271,232,349,884.46bn.
Hon. Sobukanla subsequently moved the motion for its adoption, seconded by Sylvester Abiodun and unanimously supported by all the lawmakers through a voice vote.
There were also adjustments in the recurrent expenses of six agencies, capital estimates of nineteen others and the revenue targets of seven agencies; resulting in the recurrent expenditure being slashed from N154.896bn to N152.796bn and subsequent reduction in the recurrent expenditure by N2.1bn.
The capital expenditure, therefore, witnessed an upward review from N269.132bn to N271.232bn with an increment of N2.1bn.
The Majority Leader, Yusuf Sheriff, moved the motion for the third reading, seconded by the Minority Leader, Ganiyu Oyedeji and the Acting Clerk of the Assembly, Deji Adeyemo did the third reading of the bill.
Earlier, Speaker Oluomo had read the Bill clause-by-clause before the lawmakers.
In passing the bill into law, Oluomo, who lauded his colleagues and staff of the Assembly for their dedication and support, which led to the timely passage of the bill, said the prompt passage of the Appropriation Bill was a Christmas cum new year gift to the people of the State and therefore directed that the clean copy of the bill be transmitted to the Governor for his assent.
It would be recalled that Governor Abiodun had on December 3, 2019 presented the budget proposal of N449.974 billion for the next fiscal year before the members of the State House of Assembly.
The budget christened “Budget to Build Our Future Together” has N269.132bn representing (60.31%) for capital projects, with N180.842bn (39.69%) set aside for recurrent expenditure, while salaries and allowances were put at N83.238bn, just as pension and gratuities would take N25.94bn, representing 18 percent of total expenditure with the balance of N71.659bn resulting in 16 percent of the total budget earmarked for overhead cost.
Meanwhile, Governor Dapo Abiodun has assured that his administration would perform better with the 2020 budget that had just been passed by the State House of Assembly, given what his government was able to achieve with the inherited budget of the immediate past administration in the State.
Abiodun gave the assurance during the Christmas Thanksgiving service at the Emmanuel Villa, Iperu- Remo, saying that his government would do a lot more once the budget was passed.
“We have done our bit in the last six months, operating with the budget we inherited. I believe that the House of Assembly will be passing our budget before the end of the year by the grace of God, meaning that we will be able to do much more because we have put together a budget that encapsulates our vision,” he said.
The Governor also reiterated his administration’s commitment to the provision of focused and qualitative governance, while creating an enabling environment for Public Private Sector Partnership, so as to be distinguished as inclusive, participatory, transparent and accountable.
Ogun Assembly Passes N449.97bn 2020 Appropriation Bill Reviewed by Francis on 07:57 Rating: 5
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The Virtual Console is packed with many amazing old-school games. Titles such as Super Mario Bros. 3, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, and Star Fox 64 are all quality titles. But there are a few games that will sadly never appear on Nintendo’s retro download service.
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Netflix has finally come to the Wii, but if you’re concerned with video or audio quality, it’s just not the way to go.
5 Reasons the Wii Totally Sucks: Nintendo’s Dynamo is Not All It’s Cracked Up to Be
Sure there are more Wiis in America than any other console. Sure, it’s super popular, and a now integral piece of pop culture in this country. That doesn’t change the fact that it totally sucks, and we’ll tell you why.
Five Recommended Upcoming WiiWare Games
WiiWare has just launched in the States, giving Wii owners the joys of buying games from the comfort of their couches without even having to put on pants. But which games to choose? Here’re five suggestions.
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Altova UModel 2020 Basic Edition
Source Control with Git
Support for Git as a source control system in UModel is available through a third-party plug-in called GIT SCC plug-in (http://www.pushok.com/software/git.html).
At the time when this documentation is written, the GIT SCC plug-in is available for experimental use. Registration with the plug-in publisher is required in order to use the plug-in.
The GIT SCC plug-in enables you to work with a Git repository using the commands available in the Project | Source Control menu of UModel. Note that the commands in the Project | Source Control menu of UModel are provided by the Microsoft Source Control Plug-in API (MSSCCI API), which uses a design philosophy different from Git. As a result, the plug-in essentially mediates between "Visual Source Safe"-like functionality and Git functionality. On one hand, this means that a command such as Get latest version may not be applicable with Git. On the other hand, there are new Git-specific actions, which are available in the "Source Control Manager" dialog box provided by the plug-in (under the Project | Source Control | Source Control Manager menu of UModel).
The Source Control Manager dialog box
Other commands that you will likely need to use frequently are available directly under the Project | Source Control menu.
The following sections describe the initial configuration of the plug-in, as well as the basic workflow:
•Enabling Git Source Control with GIT SCC Plug-in
•Adding a Project to Git Source Control
•Cloning a Project from Git Source Control
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‘Riverdale’ tribute to Luke Perry to feature his ‘90210’ co-star
The show revealed more details about the tribute at Comic-Con.
Alex Darus
[Photo via YouTube]
Late Riverdale actor Luke Perry is set to be honored in a special way during the season 4 tribute, the show revealed at San Diego Comic-Con.
As previously reported, Perry passed away unexpectedly after suffering a major stroke back in February.
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At the end of April, Riverdale aired the episode containing the final scene with Fred Andrews, who was played by Perry.
Then, executive producer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa revealed that the series would be addressing Perry’s death in season 4.
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Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favour fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
Analysis, meaning and summary of Robert Frost's poem Fire and Ice
michelle easson says:
It’s interesting to consider how Frost viewed nature ~ as metaphor and inspiration, from which he drew insight into humanity. Many of his poems seem to be about the transitory nature of Nature, how nothing remains the same and embracing/accepting the moment (before it passes) is both practical and vital–enlivening and necessary. Man must learn to live with himself, to enjoy his own company and make life livable, which requires an acceptance and understanding of one’s own nature. The refusal to be overwhelmed or outdone by circumstances and one’s own emotions is key to survival. He talks about the refusal to succumb to the challenges presented by one’s situation (refusal to “sink under being man and wife,” impasse of having to choose which fork in the road to take and the second-guessing or lament over what might have been). He refrains from giving advice or proselytizing and recognizes that finding/making one’s way is personal, individual, and an “inside job.”
Whether by fire or ice, the ending/endings come, and the ‘preference’ is rather arbitrary in that sense. For Frost, desire is preferable to indifference and the relative ‘chill’ of intellectualism, but “either will suffice” in leading to the same end. It’s the way one wants to live, based on one’s own true nature, that makes the difference and creates the choice. Either end of the spectrum has its advantages and disadvantages, but according to what he knows of his own nature (and his own emotions), fire/desire is preferable. Hell may be made of either fire or ice (or both, as in Canto 32 of Dante’s Inferno, in which he/Dante describes traitors as being “submerged, while in a fiery hell, up to their necks in ice”). Ice can be experienced as cold and/or hot — the difference in perception having to do with the intensity and prolonged exposure. It’s a brilliant poem, so concise and yet vast in its implications. Of course, for us, the metaphor is all the more literal–whether humanity brings about its destruction by incineration of Global Warming, or a nuclear winter–the exhaustion of the Earth’s molten core. Relationships, human nature, or the actual “end of the world” — the poem speaks to all of these…
I think he is talking about how the wold will end and that he dosent care how because he lived a good life
Nataile says:
My sister Mandi is crazy, so exuse her. This poem is quite beatiful. I persoaly would prefer fire for it would be a faster death over ice which could take hours, while fire would be almost instant.
this is my fav poem by Rob. Im eattin khiken pot pie. this poem wuz also in twilight #4. gtg goin snowbordin.
Vanessa Calvillo says:
This Is My Favorite Poem And Poet I
i agree with this poem because if i was to die twice i would want the world to end in both ways fire and ice is teh best poem frost has written
Fire and Ice by Robert Frost is a great poem, with alot of different meanings that other people see it as.
My opinion is that hes talking about “Hate”(ice) and “Desire”(fire), with these two great forces (fire and ice) are used as the destruction to end the world. But i think what Robert Frost was explaining was that “Desire” was his first choice because we all know that if u had “Desire” it would be more mentally stronger than “Hate” which is in my opinion, true.
I’ve just got this poem given to me in my synoptic paper for my A level english exam, all your points have been really interesting!
I’d like to think that the only reason that he talks about the end of the world is to justify how destructive and strong he imagines these two forces to be.
I feel like he’s just giving himself an excuse to talk about what he really wants to explore which I thought could be his two comparisons to fire and ice – desire and hate. By comparing them to such elements he makes them appear almost godly and unbeatable. He does of course present them very negatively but by using the word ‘great’ it seems to me that he might have some sort of facsination with them.. Like he knows that they are awful, but he also deems desire and hate to be things that are natural (like fire and ice).
Anyway, I’m rambling… It’s a pretty interesting poem though!! xx
Miss.K.Sadler says:
I have studied Robert Frost’s poetry and i know that he tends to focus on the use of nature which is why i think he is refering to ice as a killer of nature when he says that it will suffice.
this poem is aight you know
i think Robert Frost means that fire and ice can be equally destructive whether your talking about actual physical destruction or in people. Hate can be expressed as either a hot temper(fire) or cold silence burrowed deep inside(ice).
P.S. Hillary Clinton’s a man.
Elizabeth and Anderson says:
We are thinking about writing a paper on this poem but I dont know. It is good. Right now as we speak Elizabeth and Anderson are in english class. Elizabeth has spanish next and Anderson has chemistry next. ELizabeth is scared to death because she might get her spanish exam back and she thinks she failed. Anderson got an 82 on her spanish exam. goodbye…….for now!!!!!
this is a good poem. I think Im going to write a paper about it, but i have not decided yet between this poem and some others of frost’s. Im in my english class right now. I have spanish next. goodbye
Gary Alan Graham JR. says:
I love this poem. it’s great. little freaky thinking of the end of the world though.
eric e. says:
This poem was awsome baby!
The poem discusses the end of the world, with Frost positing that it could end in either fire or ice. He relates the two elemental forces with the human emotions desire and hate, respectively, and suggests that while the chill might of hate certainly has the power to end the world, his experiences have led him to believe that it is in the fires of passion that the end times will be found.
To Georie from United States,
First of all, just because you have an interpretation, it does not mean that everyone else’s is incorrect.
Second, I believe it is known that Robert Frost was not involved in some sort of relationship problem at the time when he wrote the poem.
Third, if you think that just because some interpretations sound strange that the author is deranged and should be placed in asylum, you are very, VERY stupid.
That’s about it.
That’s not quite the type of destruction Frost means, David.
Frost means the destruction of the internal, spiritual world. The metaphor fits quite well, since fire and ice may someday destroy the physical world.
gabriel d. says:
i love yor specific details nice work.
i like the poem it describes how mentally it is nice work.
I have to write a critical analysis on this poem for my English 214 class. I believe that this could be talking about the destruction of the world, a relationship, the peace between countries, or ones own personal world in his/her own mind. Either way, it seems to be his way of expressing two different ways that things could end be it physically, or mentally.
Elsisbeth says:
Yes great poem.
Does anyone what type of poem this is???
hmmm, i think its a good poem talking about how he feel’s inside, ho he belives he’ll end
I think fire and ice is a masterful poem describing that too much hate “fire” is bad for a person to have, but having too much pasion “ice” for a person could be bad. PEACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fred Fletcher says:
Some know what it means to have the world end for they have felt it,endured it, and each day miss that world they once knew, enjoyed, and loved. The passion of desire and its energy can take one to new shores that can burn and destroy, the passions of desire that rip apart our family and career. These passions that burn like a fire out of control that engulf that which we love and need and then destroy it, making the world we know and love end in a blaze of passion. This is the end, the passionate end, the fire. Then again there is another end. The icy state of fear, that grip that draws you into your gut and leaves your body cold and stiff. It makes it hard to move and turns the world gray and dank. It freezes and kills the delicate life of summer. Leaving a world that is as dead and as ended as one that passion could have taken away on another day. I hold with fire but know that hate can take and is as great.
Georie, everyone has the right to have an opinon! An intelligent person (and you undoubtedly consider yourself one) pays attention to everyone’s perspective. By insulting them, you only acomplish showing them your real self (which is ill informed, to use an euphemism).. The artist only gives us his toil, in order (for us) to interpret it in whichever way we want. If you feel like diverging, go ahead, but avoid calling anyone stupid, avoid isolating yourself in a superior sphere, you’re not nearly qualified.
Georie says:
Everyone that commented is stupid. Its not talking about the world ending it is about A relationship ending. He is talking about it ending in fire meaning Fast and ice meaning snow. All you people just dont know how to read poems
This poem is discussing, what Frost believes, to be the end of the world. There are two ways he believes that the world will end. By fire or ice, whether these two words are metephors or not is irrelivant. Either way the world will end. It could end by the sun, or by an ice age. The world could end by the sheer desire for something (fire) or by the ruthlessness of hate (ice). When we desire something some will do anything to suffice there deminish for whatever it is they want. This desire spreads through them like a wild fire. When you hate someone/something you have cold icy feelings for that object. You see so no matter if this is a class A metaphor or not, the world will end in one way or another by either God or some sort of element!
From reading this poem, I extrapolate that Robert may be:
A) Possibly just playing ‘see what the losers can come up with’
-Some scholars have stated that this may be a very straight-forward side of robert that we are not used to reading.
B) Could be giving a soft opinion on literally how the world will end.
-Many people infer that Robert is expressing that he believes the world will end in rage and hatred, (not lust, as many people may argue! From what I understand, lust is usually means sexual desire).
C)Telling us how the world does infact end, and how, since he does know God, Allah, Budda, (you know the whole gang of almighty immortals)
D) Using the end of the world to relate to something smaller
_-My cool english teacher has told us this is called a Homeric Similie, assuming Robert likes to use some of Homer’s writing techniques.
E) I DONT KNOW! I am only 14.
F) Wilson High is pretty kool, and you know it…..Go Bruins (We rock and you know it)! 😛
This poem has two meanings (to my understanding). How the world will end and how relationships conflict with each other. The more obvious and clear cut meaning is how the world will end. Will it end in a supernova (fire) or will the sun eventually run out of fuel (ice). With his last two stanza’s “Is also great” and “would suffice”, I believe Frost thinks that death by fire would be a worse fate than ending the world with ice
i really like this poem. i think it is about how everything has to end sometime, be it the world or a relationship or anything. but its better to have loved something while you had it rather than losing it before you even had a chance to get to know it. and if you did have the chance to get to know it first, then you would be able to make the choice about how it will end. maybe robert frost is talking about past relationships where he has loved someone or something so much that he has been able to make some sort of a decision about how it will end. perhaps he was in a close relationship with a nother person and s/he was going to die. so he would have the decision whether he wanted to say good bye to her and be with her until the last minute, or say goodbye in advance so she wouldn’t have to see him cry. that is a very ditailed example but i think it fits. i really liked this poem and i’m using it in an essay i am writing right now!
El says:
Ok u guys do no that the world isnt like ACTUALLY gonna end that way. Its gonna go when the sun blows up. or something. Anyway but I really do like this poem, except i don’t like the “would suffice” part at the end of it. but if the world were gonna end in fire or ice i’d say fire cuz i know more desire than hate. maybe cuz nobody could ever hate me ha ha! Adios amigas
This poem was wonderfull. It was his Best poem of all time. Very touching.
Red06chik says:
I truley believe this poets words hold great truth… what is the point in loving if it all will just perish because true happines in love does not exsist. It is better not to love at all (end in ice) then to be hurt twice (perish twice) and end in hatered (fire) because your broken soul will only lead to the original state one should have belived in, in the first place. youll become cold and bitter… might as well be cold and bitter in the first place then experience a dreadful feeling and then end cold hearted.
I love this poem it is my favorite poem of all time. It’s the best poem ever.
Thomas Conran says:
it could be his response to the great war a.k.a. WWI. “The world will end in fire” fire could represent the war and struggles that were going on. and ice could be the forshadow that the time off war will end the war because Germany suffered from the loss of claims and took blame for WWI.
Robert Frost is twisting an age old question of how the world will end, with human relationships. “Some say the world will end in fire, / some say in ice.” As we read through the poem, though it is short, it answers more than just the obvious question posed; it tells us of the author’s feelings towards relationships.
On the outside, Frost is examining what will bring the world’s demise, but underneath he is describing a relationship. “From what I’ve tasted of desire / I hold with those who favor fire.” Fire would certainly be able to destroy the world in his opinion; but at the same time he is saying he has come to know love, and it is covetable.
But he goes on to say that ice would also be able to destroy the world, that coldness would be a sufficient end. “To say that for destruction ice / is also great / and would suffice.” So he never really answers the question of how the world will end, and that is appropriate when you think about it because no one really knows for sure. But as I said this poem isn’t just about answering some arcane uncertainty, it’s about his feelings toward relationships.
This is a man who has seen love and knows the upside of it, the power of it (“I hold with those who favor fire”). But he has been hurt and he has seen both sides of passion, passionate love and passionate hate (“I think I know enough of hate”), and if he had to go through the pain of losing someone twice, he would choose not to love at all (“But if it had to perish twice / To say that for destruction ice / is also great / And would suffice”).
Summarized in one simple line: Frost would rather not love at all, than to have loved and lost. There’s an underlying tone here, not how the world will end – but that it will end. Relationships will end – and to a larger extent life will end. And Frost is simply saying that we will all come to our end eventually; whether we meet that end after a passionate marriage that ended badly or a life of solitude devoid of much joy or sorry, we will end – and maybe the latter of the two is good enough.
actually the poem is a parallel of the earth ending in fire and ice and desire and hatred destroying humans to the same effect.
Katelynn Harker says:
Dear mr.Frost,
You have really inspired me to speak my mind.Esspecaily
my teacher Ms.Lauren Mummert.I was woundering if you can come to Alameda Elementay School on 2732 N.E Fremont & 27th ave.Portland Oregon.I’m In Mrs.Deans room if you get a chance.My whole class wrote acrostic poems and we just finished doing free verse ppoems.We would love to read them to you!!!!!!!!! THAANX A LOT!!!
I need help writing a essay on the theme of frost poems! well I think the theme is about nature or most of his poems. And im in highschool so nothin to smart.
Tree says:
Notme, it would be very appreciated if you don’t disrespect other people’s poetry. I don’t even know what it means, but it’s a great poem. I can’t stop reading it!
bobonia says:
na na na na na na na na na na. bla bla bla bla.
it will end in ice!
cause I like rice
gross is lice
cute as mice!
number 6 on dice
large pizza slice
Ashlynn says:
This poem im doing for a school project, and we didnt know that a really short poem could mean like a bazillion things! ITS FREAKING SWEET!!
I LOVE THIS POEM SO MUCH
hellow people who have no lifes reading this
ppl u have to read the words and understand the meaning. if u rather have the world end in fire then it would end in desire just like it said. but if you want the world to end in ice the its hatred that would end it.
Gordon Cheng says:
This matters not how horrendouse this poem is, it might be short but it is still a great poem.
Tom Supertom says:
I believe that this poem should be taken very seriously, since contains the clue to the location of the hidden gold within the secret Nazi moonbase. But beware the gold is guarded by hillfolk, armed with blunderbusses and whipped toppings. It is common knowledge that the Nazi-Communist-Anarcho-Syndicalist-Hooligan-Grand National Symphony Orchesta Party is behind such evils as Disney on Ice and the Shakesperean play Othello. Beware the Nazi soldiers, mounted upon steeds of musk oxen, travelling the remote plains of Chef Boyardee. If you are stopped simply act flaccid like Flynn and become like a spongey foam. Remember not to let cheese scout release their spores of kitty litter to smite thee. Thou shalt prevail with the finding of the sacred froot loop of destiny located in the bowels of a tuna factory
– Tom Supertom Infotrac Business Edition 7.8, leader of the Nazi Communist Tribal Council and enemy of all caterwauls and jabberwockies
Aarika says:
I too am using this poem as the basis for an english project and everyones comments have been helpful. It’s amazing that one poem with only ten lines can have so many diffrent interpretations and get people to react so strongly. As for my personal opinion I think Frost is trying to convey how he thinks the destruction of a thing (the world, a soul, a relationship) would end in fire (rage, passion, hate what have you)and if that thing got a second chance how it would end in ice (indifference, non-caring, coldness) but that it would still end. Thanks again for eveyones help and opinions.
Nick B says:
Hey Moog
Hi this poem is one of the greatest poems i have ever read, this poem has been kept in the bosnian archives in the yao ming dynasty. Until Joseph Stalin and his neo confederation of comunist rebels snatched it from the moors. A few words that decribe robert frost would be moot and iago. On my travels throught the adirondacks i encountered pac-man and shared his poem with chinny woo and the carney folk from montpeiler. One day three mexican bandit were walking down 302 and i asked them if they had any brussel sprouts and they replied in sheer obscinity undale undale then a herd of ravid musk oxen and swept them of thier feet to impending death. By the time i reached munich i found a basket full of bked ham .
Raymond P. Harris says:
I believe this poem symbolizes the efforts of our fine fire and rescue academy. The fire, is in itself, fire, and the ice is representing water and/or fire exstinguishers. Robert states that he would rather be with thee who favours fire which is the Iraqi and Muslim nations who are trying to destroy the world. In a sense, we are the ice, our military services are the exstinguishers. They are like a clothy drape, draping over the terrorism. The reason our military is needed, our great loin cloth of justice, is because the generic turbans of the Muslim nations are not great enough to smite thy hindering flame.
could you please stop leaving unnecassary commenting on the threads, you are spamming the boards, and i will see that you are convicted.
Dyl B. says:
All hail Tom super tom infotrac business edition 7.8, the leader of the Nazi Communist Tribal Council, and winner of the goblet cup of the Hitler Dynasty trophy plaque, once said by the wise Bosnian bushmen. Lidkey 1.0, on seek and destroy mission. His neo plasma data chip sautered to his head is combusticating and grilling its cheese to Beethovens “Fur Elise”. Monkey monkey monkey monkey monkey monkey, on the pogo stick. Remember to eat your Lynksys (R) Etherfast Cable/DSL routers, and always fight your’re earbrows off.
Congradulations!
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AzNx says:
God, morons you are truely so clueless? This poem symblolizes so much. Fire, represents the hatred in the world, as Ice represents the “I don’t care” of the world. Fire is the power hungry mongrels of this world who want power and are greedy, Ice represents the people who wont do anything, and wont stand up for anything. He isn’t just blabbering about some random things, this has true meaning in it. As people try to predict how this world will end, will it end by the Sun fading out and turn this world into a second ice age? Or will our own people, the power hungry mongrels bring the earth to it’s downfall? People these days, if this keeps up we will be our own deaths. The economic problems, natural resources, they will deplenish and we will eventually die. As for the Ice, those people wont do anything and wont do anything to solve the problems. So which will be our downfall? Fire or Ice?
Dre says:
I thought this was a really lame poem. its short and i didnt get it even though i thought about it for like an hour. there are many better poems then this. I think R. Frost had nothing to do when he wrote this poem.
chris mccomb says:
when you consider “the end of the world” as mentioned in this poem as the end of the soul, ti brings a lot more into perspective. The ‘inner death’ will be brought about by one of two things: desire (fire) or hate (ice). the ‘inner death’ isn’t permanent, however, because it only leads to a rebirth of the soul, in a newer, purer form. Thus desire and hate aren’t bad, but simply a means of growth.
Wilford, your ideas look very similar to the website:
http://www.geocities.com/sir_john_eh/fireice.html
seen that before???
Poems are usually vague so that people can interpert them the way they wish, like a painting. One can not read the mind of Robert Frost so one is left to the interpertation. Reading these comments, people say its about love or the destruction of the world, if thats what you believe then thats what you believe. Robert Frost is an exquisite writer, whose poetry touched alot of people. He could be writing about his wife or he may just as well be writing about the apocalypse. No one truely knows. So if you can, basically, back up what you think than your positively correct.
mass says:
this poem was pretty good i give it a 3 out of 5
This poem is a reflection of his wanted revenge and hate from his childhood. He was humiliated and he stated how he would some day show them. This poem is about the way things will end between his humiliators and him.
slip says:
this poem is a nice poem
Yanilly says:
I Honestly don’t know what Robert Frost was trying to convey in his poem “Fire and Ice”. I think perhaps he was really talking about the end of the world. I know for a fact that he wrote this poem during a war. World War one stands out but I am not sure. Nevertheless, maybe he was trying to express the opinions of the people during the war, concerning how the world would end. To me fire symbolizes desire to be the best or greater power. The battle of the fittest in other words. Finally, ice symbolizes hatred against the countries. For example the United States disliking the spread of communism.
I first read this poem in my late twenties, and only because my fifteen year old sister had to read it and analyze it for her school project. When I first read it, obviously, I thought of the end of the world, but after really paying some more attention and re-reading it over and over again, it became more apparent to me that this poem is about an ill-fated romance that by Frost’s account could either end very tragically with the desire to hate one another and cause each other much pain (fire) or simply give each other the “I don’t care attitude” (ice) and go on with their lives while inside dying to perhaps embrace one another.
Lorena Marie says:
This is my favorite poem by Frost. It is short yet powerful in words and meaning. ‘Tis all…
Freya says:
THis is my favourite poem of all.
maxwell sheffield says:
i think the poem means the nanny is a good show
love…falalalalalalalalalalalala ta tee ta tee ta… that is love
Sorry I know that was random and had nothing to do with this umm… *cough cough* intersting poem!
boo says:
the fire represernts my burning love for frost and the ice is my moinkey bitibg my ear……..oooooooooh abu
Johnboy says:
Well i think ur all tossers because you miss the godamn point. You people cant read. The guys is about an alien invasion, hes warning us RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!!!!
Your MOTHER says:
I prefer ice than fire,
for fire is the warmth,
and the ice likes the cold.
But fire causes chaos,
burning people’s homes,
eating away at our work.
Fire melts the ice,
but the ice douses the fire,
no-one should say:
another is the better.
I like apples.
PS. George Bush is a monkey in disguise!
SOME say tha world will end in fire,
Some say in ice . They call me tha black folks president.
From wizzy I’ve tasted of desire
I hold wit those who favor fire fo’ real.
But if it had ta perish twice, 5
I think I kizzle enough of hate
To know that fo` destruction ice
Is also bootylicious
And would suffice hittin that booty
This poem reminds me of my wedding lots of fried rice and frozen beer !! Buzzzz
Everyone is relating this to ultimate gloom and doom with the end of the world. If you look at other Frost poems he commonly wrote poems about his wife (ex. the silken tent). The poem is a comment on his marriage. Fire is like the hatred or someone “spitting fire”. But ice is the cold shoulder she puts on him that is just as painful. The destruction of the world is not to be taken literally. Frost is too good to just throw something that simple out as the world will either catch on fire or go through an ice age.
Kelson Dearth says:
I like this poem, the first time i read it was in 4th grade the poem stuck out to me because i wasn’t the happiest person. I feel the poem is discribing as prity much every one else said fire is desire and ice is hate I personaly feel that the world will end in ice. I guess i just realy like this poem.
Jim Boone says:
FLAT OR ROUND
Some say the world is surely flat,
Some call it round.
From standing here on my bath mat
I hold with those who favor flat.
But from an Aussie’s vantage ground,
I think I would equivocate
And say that when Down Under round
When upside down.
–Jim Boone
FN: With apologies to Robert Lee Frost
Hi, I have seen all your comments in order for me to do some research for my literature. I am very impressed by all your work…you guys have really given very insightful comments.Anyway, this is what I think.
In his poem “Fire and Ice” Robert frost compares and contrasts the two destructive forces: fire and ice. In the first two lines of the poem he presents two options for the end of the world: an end by fire or by ice. He takes the position of fire in the next two lines and relates fire to desire. This comparison suggests that Frost views desire as something that consumes and destroys. Desire does indeed have a way of consuming those it infects. However, in the next stanza Frost makes the case for the destructive force of ice. He compares ice to hate. This comparison relates to the reader a view of hate as something that causes people to be rigid, unmoving and cold. Also, ice has a tendency to encompass things and cause them to crack and break. The last line of Frost’s poem asserts that the two destructive forces are equally great. Fire, or passion, consumes and destroys quickly, leaving ashes in its wake. Ice, or hatred, destroys more slowly. It causes object to become so immovable that they crack from the pressure created, leaving split fragments that once were whole. From the views frost states in this poem it would be fair to extrapolate that he believes the world will end in violent war for coveted things. However, Frost also could conceive of an end of the world caused by people becoming too rigid, unmoving and set in their ways and ideas that the world breaks apart into factions. Perhaps the destructive force of ice described in the poem was at work in the “cold” war. The Soviet block was set in its belief in communism, and the NATO countries were firmly convinced of the virtues of capitalism and individuality. Cracks formed, creating fragments of a former whole, Europe. Fire was at work in early wars in which nations desired more money and territory. It may be fitting then that Frost said the second destruction would be brought about by ice. Fire destroyed Europe in the World Wars, but was rebuilt and then destroyed by ice. Care must be taken, evidently, to keep the world at room temperature.
rachid says:
well the world will end but how,with fire or ice ,noone knows exept allah.and noone should have the right to predict how….
i really like this poem it made a really good statement to me and i think the frost is a really good write
Ummm… this poem isn’t about the literal destruction of the world. I don’t feel like explaining it all but if you read Dante’s Divine Comedy it might actually make some more sense. Trust me on this; they go together.
Brendan Webber says:
The opposite of love is note hate, it is apathy.
For the unanalytical, this story is simply about predicting if the world will end in fire or ice but if you look further you can see it is a contrast of the fire and ice in humanity. The world could either end in a passionate fury of fire which signifies desire or cold disconsolate ice which lacks the passion of love. Frost makes his choice of passion but then says if he had another choice he would have chosen ice. For all it’s lack of passion, it does not also have to deal with the hate and sorrow after the passion is over and one is left in bitterness. Frost would rather not have loved than to have loved and lost.
I Conor, dubiously review this silly poem and declare Frost was writting about nothing save fire and ice. Perhaps he was sitting at a campfire drunk.
Very good poem.. Very good comparison using Fire and Ice
I believe that this story is a comparison of to emotions. Hatred and lust are to powerful emotions that I believe he was feeling at the time he wrote this very poem. The hatred in his heart was being fought by the lust in his heart. Mixed emotions got to him, and he express his feelings the only way he could by poem. If you watch cartoons, think about how cartoon charecters eyes flame up when they really hate someone. Like Daffy hating Bugs, or Elmer hating Bugs; it’s signifying the hatred for one another. You notice that you get an icy feeling deep down inside. Like there is no one around who even gives a damn about you. Thats a thought that sends a chill down my spine. Comparing fire and ice is an imagery statment that hides the true meaning of this poem. Which is when you put hate vs. lust you get a STALMATE.
okeyonna says:
I THINK THAT FROST IS A VERY TALENTED PERSON. BASICALLY THIS POEM IS A BOUT HATE. WHAT IT IS TALKING ABOUT IS THE DESIRE TO HATE. BASCiALLY FROST IS TELLING US HIS OPOIN WHICH IS DESIRE TO STRONGER THAN HATE. EVEN IF HATE CAN BE VERY STRONG. MAYBE DESTRICTION IS A BETTER WORD THAN STRONG. SO IT MAY LOOK LIKE JUST A POEM ABOUT THE END OF THE WORLD, BUT IF YOU LOOK CLOSER IT’S ABOUT THE DESIRE AND HATE. FROST JUST USES THE END OF THE WORLD AS A METAPHORE FOR THOSE THINGS.
I believe that Frost is criticizing the modern world. He wrote this poem after WWI, didnt he? Fire could represent the weapons and wars, while ice could signify hatred. “From what I’ve tasted of desire”. Is this quote referring to WWI, and the ice, what is it? The lust between nations? Please give me some feedback
You are all wrong im a college graduate of harvard and just recently figured out this poem. Its a metaphorical meaning on nothingness…. He means the world could end in fire or ice. There is no reason to spend time thinking of the poem when the answer is so simple
sakina says:
hello every one i am a student of critical reading and my opinion about this poem is that Robert frost is only talking about the end of the world but he compairs fire to bad ness and ice to care free attitude. 1ooos of people have tried to bring peace to the world but have failed and died doing sooo but mean ness and hatered never ended but keeps increasing….
robert frost in my opinion feels the same that it will end in fire which today means wars and massditruction… he must have writen this long back but was thinking a lot ahead
Hate is often equated with ice, as in ‘ice-cold hatred’, or ‘giving someone an icy stare’. Lust similarly is often equated with fire, to ‘burn with lust’ etc. It seems to me that Frost was writing at a time when the two major schools of thought in the West were Materialstic or Religious. The reference to the destruction of the world by ice is the scientific belief that the universe will essentially run out of energy as it tends to entropy. The religious (specifically christian) belief that the universe would be destroyed by fire in the second coming of the Christ. Frost, on the other hand, recognises enough of the evil in human kind to believe that neither of these things is necessary to destroy the world. The lust and greed in human nature could destroy it long before either of these two events could happen. On the other hand, the sheer malice and hatred in human nature could also destroy the world. Frost suggests that he thinks that lust and greed are more likely to end the world, but that hatred could also be the culprit.
Don’t be so quick to ridicule someone else’s exposition
Could this possibly be inspired by WWI? Think about it, all the thoughts of destruction and hate that go with war must have influenced him in some way to write this. Robert Frost is my favorite Poet by the way.
I could call you a heinous b!tch, but I’m not that harsh. You probably have a perfectly good reason for unleashing the fire of you pseudointellect, who am I to say amything? If Frost was indeed commenting on the power of lust vs. the power of hate, which is which? Since when is iciness equated with either of the two? It appears your analysis crumbles under the slightest amount of pressure. Try harder next time, and don’t be so quick to attack. As the kids nowadays say-
Slow your roll.
everyone who has added a comment who thinks that this poem is about the end of the world you are wrong. well that’s what i think. i did an analysis of this poem for my year eleven literature class and what it’s talking about is desire and hate. basically frost is telling us his opinion which is desire is stronger than hate, even if hate can be very strong, maybe destructive is a better word than strong. so to the ignorant it may look like just a poem about the end of the world but if you look closer it’s about the desire and hate, frost just uses the end of the world as a metaphore for those things.
I have no idea what this poem is talking about! Did something happen in 1923 to make him write this poem?
I don’t have anything against looking deeply into something, a person can look deeply at anything. But for me, sometimes I just like to marinate in simplicity for a bit, then take it slow as I look deep… Rushing into depth can just make people look like fools.. Who knows, maybe thats a rare goal of a poet, just simplicity…
I think Robert from Canada is right about this poem….i also think he ment to say “buddha” in stead of “bohta”…..but i would just like to say marry me robert…i love U!
Glen Wollney says:
This poem is talking about the destruction of our world. The author wrote this poem in opinion, not in fact. The author wrote this to express how he felt about the world ending. Anyways the world is not going to end anytime soon.
My interpretation of the poem is that death is inevitable. People can argue back and forth on how we will perish but, in the end, we all will sometime and it makes no difference whether it is by ‘fire’ or ‘ice’.
i dont know what others think but from my understanding the poem is saying that some think the would will in in “fire”(aka our desires) and some say “ice” (aka hate) but the writer says he “holds with those who favor fire” saying our own desires will lead us to our end, people in this world who want too much power and will ultilmently destroy themselves and us along with them. i dont realy get the “if it had to perish twice” part but he says he knows enough of HATE and our hate for each other will destroy us just as well as desire and it would “suffice”.
micheala says:
the bible says in the end the world will be destroyed by fire then God will make the heavens fall and the chosen will live even though im only 13 that does not mean i am not as smart as you and that im engnerant becouse i am as skilled as you and i hope that you will understand may God bless you and your family
Bryonna says:
I think that the poem is extremly magnificent. The way he captivates people’s opinions. He is just the messenger listening and jotting down notes. Its just extravagant! Robert Frost really outdone himself in this poem so good im gonna write one right now.
Notice how i’m using the same format he used. Here it goes:
Heart to heart is how I feel
When ever you are near me
Heart to heart is how we are
I never will fear thee
Our love is strong
As long as you remember
and will last so long
Don’t be a pretender
Heart to heart,
mind to mind,
Part to part
We are entwined
I think this is a peacful poem about nature. As bohta once said nature is with one
dillon says:
This poem is so meaningful, yet it also gets you thinking on what he is talking about and how it is possible. I used this poem, along with many other’s with the same “nature” theme for an english research paper.
some people over look its meaning, and they dont look closely, they never read between the lines.
I think that he might be saying in a way, that death is inevitable and the cause of or the way that one dies matters little, for in the end, death is still death.
I believe that Amir is correct. Thanx Amir it helped me b/c i am tryin to write a critical lens DBQ analysis on it.
Fire and Ice: well this is a very good poem. Frost ponits out that we all have a choice on ways we want the world to end
This is an interesting peom. I think the world will end in ice though.
When I read this poem I had to stop and think for a second and figure out what he was trying to get across to the reader. Then I figured it out. It is a great poem and also my favortive poem by him. To figure out what it means you’ll have to read it and figure it out by yourself. It is the best poem I have ever heard and Robert Frost inspired me to go into poetry and it will probably inspire yu too.
MadMax says:
When I read the poem, I found it kind of interesting that Mr. Frost spoke about the end of the world so nonshalantly, that to me means that he himself has excepted the fact that death comes to all and no one can stop the inevitable.
Fire and ice, like most of robert frosts other poems, reflects his own life, as well as a universal meaning. the tone of the poem is very matter-of-fact, yet contrasts greatly with the real meaning of the poem- which is the end of the world!this tends to be shocking to the reader!Only such a skilled and poetical man such a Robert Frost could crate a poem so short and to the point, yet with obvious ‘undertones’. perhaps the poem is Frost pointing out that it is desire/ hatred in the world which he believes will end the world in it’d doomsday, however if we analyse it close enough we see that Frost also points out that love is just as powerful enough! Can you spot it?
Irony is plainly obvious in the poem, however to the the reader with less analysation skills, that here Frost is unable here to make a decision between fire and ice. he emphasises with the choice of his words, so unbelievably mundane. the tone is so plain, yet it is the most over-powering feature in this poem.
I could go into more detail, about this poem or any other of Robert Frost’s poems, i have analysed the biggest majority of them, and been trained in analysitation, though not by my own choice! (being a virgo explains it! we tend to generally over analyse everyone and everything!) therefore feel free to ask, and i’ll be willing to help any Robert Frost fans in need of a poem fully analyzed!
laura labonte says:
This is a very complex poem that if you read it enough times you might understand it. All of your opinions and comments really helped me understand it so I used it in a very big school poetry projet. Thanks a bunch!
Alai says:
i real like it it nice i read can i. im am going to read more poem buy he. so i wow………
It realli dont matter wiether the earth will end in results of a fire or ice. I think think that either way it goes its still bad and we all die. My advice is to just live life to the fullest and dont let nothing stop u from acheivein your goals.
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I honestly have to say, I read this poem in 7th grade and I have been hooked on Robert Frost ever since. This poem is so meaningful, yet it also gets you thinking on what he is talking about and how it is possible. I used this poem, along with many other’s with the same “nature” theme for an english research paper.
unger says:
niether fire or ice will destroy this world…. our own kind would most likely destroy this world. we are ignorant enough to do so…. we still dont understand/answer the common questions man has askedsince the beginning of time.
i like this poem. But it conveys a lot. It sounds very sad, doesn’t it? Ending the world seems to be the final result. I hope share more ideas with your guys.
hillary kirk says:
absolutly one of the most purest forms of art to have ever touched my heart in such soft beauty spoken words.
Alli Bohv says:
I like this poem. It happen to be my favorite one of Mr. Frost. It really make you think of bad time in future. I hope it never happen.
darlene smith says:
this poem was a wonderful poem it really makes you think on how many beliefs there is about how the world will end
good’day how yall im good hope you like the poem cause i really loved it it was ausome it really made me think about what he meant here if he really meant fire and ice or if he was trying to make you think e-mail me about ur answer!! bye luv yas
Destiney says:
I too had an English assignment on this poem and Jonathan’s point was also helpful(thanx).Also, I think its interesting that he tastes desire whereas he knows hate.
I htought that the poem was so awesome. It really makes you think about how you would rather have the world end.
Fire and ice is my idea of the best poem he has ever wrote. The meaning is very deep and shows many of the ideas and thoughts of the way the world may end.it is very short but it has a great meaning.
Reflection by Kate
I really admire the poem Fire and Ice. I don’t know if it is the thought of the world ending, let alone in fire or ice, or me thinking that the world will ever end
I wonder why the world is so full of hate. Why not love, care, and friendship? The only way I can imagine the world ending would be from us fighting, and hating. I wish that the world could keep on living forever, and never perish.
Just want to thank alex, Poindexter and Jonothan. Another great poem on this site if anybody wants to read one is called the rave. It’s by Edgar Allen Poe. and don’t believe anybody who says it’s very gothic. It’s not.
this poem really does make you think… alot! i’m going to use it for a english project… i think the class will be thinking as hard as i was. personaly i thing the wrold will end in fire or said in the poem disire the reason for my thinking this is because the world has so many people who are so sick that they all are so power hungry that they will end up killing the world and hten themselves! and when they do i want to be long gone!
cstar says:
I love this poem its my favourite one. When reading this it makes you think how our world will end and its also makes you ask the questions of life.
Poindexter says:
It’s interesting. My dog pointed out to me that fire can melt ice, melted ice becomes water, and water can put fire out. How ironic that one can kill the other.
i m gonna use this for my english assignment too…we hav to make a poetry notebook…using this one for precise diction as in “fire” and “ice”…thanks for ur comments jonathon
I also used this poem for my english class, and thank you Jonathon, your comments were helpful. Why is it that the author agrees with those who favor fire, rather then ice? I thought it was interesting that one of the messages in the poem was, to taste of desire is to know of hate.
Andrew Kahan says:
I thought his poem made you sit down and think about what frost is saying. I wonder if he has a chode
This is a very interesting poem, I used it for a poetry assignment in my English class as well. I personally don’t know how the earth will end, but I can tell you one thing, I don’t want to be here to find, and if I am lucky enough, I wont be.
I don’t think the world can end by fire alone, or ice alone. It will take both desire and hate. As for killing off all the smart ones, who said they weren’t part of the problem.
Kassandra says:
Oooh! Spooky! I like how the world is supposed to end in two opposite ways. If I didn’t take the Bible’s view, I’d say that the world would end because all the stupid and sick people got together and killed off all the smarter people such as doctors and great poets.
The author tries to alegorically personify the danger and destruction that could be caused by desire and hate by symbolizing these two negative human qualities as fire and ice.
Wow! this poem had me thinking quite a bit! i used it for my english assignment, and all of your comments were, indeed, very helpful!
“Fire and Ice” is a short poem but contains a lot of deep meanings. in the poem, Frost uses fire as the desire for power and ice as hatred. he is saying that both feelings is enough to end the world. however if we look at it from a different point of view, we can also interpret this poem with science and the bible. for the bible say that the world will end in fire while science tells us that the world will end in ice.
Most likely, the world will be killed off by people who don’t wonder how the world will be killed off. So I’ll go with ice.
It makes you wonder how our world will end doesn’t it? will the world be killed off by fire or by ice? hum
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Area III ROKA Support Group Commander Departs
By Sgt. 1st Class Vincent AbrilJanuary 9, 2014
1 / 4 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Korean Augmentees to the United States Army assigned to Area III salute during a change of command ceremony Dec. 23, 2013 at Camp Humphreys, South Korea. Maj. Seung Gon Park superseded Maj. Seung Gon Park as the new Area III Republic of Korea Army Support Group commander. (Photo Credit: U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Jae Hyung Park, 2nd CAB PAO) VIEW ORIGINAL
2 / 4 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Eighth United States Army Republic of Korea Support Group commander, Col. Suk-Jae Lee oversees a change of command between Area III Republic of Korea Army Support Group commanders, Maj. Soon Keun Hong (outgoing) and Maj. Seung Gon Park (incoming) Dec. 23, 2013 at Camp Humphreys, South Korea. Maj. Seung Gon Park superseded Maj. Seung Gon Park as the new Area III Republic of Korea Army Support Group commander. (Photo Credit: U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Jae Hyung Park, 2nd CAB PAO) VIEW ORIGINAL
3 / 4 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Area III Augmentees to the United States Army prepare to render honors during a change of command ceremony Dec. 23, 2013 at Camp Humphreys, South Korea. Maj. Seung Gon Park superseded Maj. Seung Gon Park as the new Area III Republic of Korea Army Support Group commander. (Photo Credit: U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Jae Hyung Park, 2nd CAB PAO) VIEW ORIGINAL
4 / 4 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Command Sgt. Maj. Gary Sanders, senior enlisted advisor to the 602nd Aviation Support Battalion, 2nd Combat Aviation Brigade and native of Cincinnati, Ohio, says farewell to the outgoing commander of the Area III Republic of Korea Army Support Group, Maj. Soon Keun Hong during a change of command ceremony Dec. 23, 2013 at Camp Humphreys, South Korea. Maj. Seung Gon Park superseded Maj. Seung Gon Park as the new Area III Republic of Korea Army Support Group commander. (Photo Credit: U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Jae Hyung Park, 2nd CAB PAO) VIEW ORIGINAL
CAMP HUMPHREYS, South Korea -- Area III Republic of Korea Army Support Group commander, Maj. Soon Keun Hong, relinquished command Dec. 23, 2013 to incoming commander, Maj. Seung Gon Park, in the MP Hill Fitness Center at Camp Humphreys.
Hong, a native of Seoul, South Korea provided leadership and direction to all Korean Augmentees to the United States Army assigned to Area III for the past year. His reputation working to enhance support to U.S. commanders and the local community earned him praise by the Eighth United States Army ROKA Support Group commander, Col. Suk-Jae Lee, during the change of command ceremony here.
"Maj. Hong has maintained strong combat support readiness ensuring the successful operation of the combined forces through continuous liaison work with the Eighth United States Army," said Lee. "He also planned and supported various ROK-U.S. friendship events and formulated a detailed wartime KATUSA management plan."
Lee went on to praise Hong for establishing positive relationships with the local community by providing English classes to children of low-income and multi-cultural families while starting various programs for the disabled and senior citizens who live alone.
Hong earned a positive reputation as the Area III ROKA Support Group commander but is perhaps better known for his service as the 2nd Combat Aviation Brigade's ROKA Support Group commander during his tenure from July 2011- Nov. 2012 where he led KATUSA's assigned to the aviation brigade. Known as a motivated commander, Hong never hesitated to include U.S. Soldiers in KATUSA training such as his regular quarterly ruck marches. His contributions to the effectiveness of teamwork between U.S. and KATUSA Soldiers were well received by senior leaders within the brigade.
"Major Hong's was such a great guy to work with and I feel he represents the true meaning of [we go together]," said 1st Sgt. Mark A. Bedwell with Company B, 4th Attack Reconnaissance Battalion, 2nd Aviation Regiment, 2nd CAB and native of Broken Arrow, Okla. "His leadership and dedication to the KATUSA's and U.S. Soldiers is a key component to the continued strengthening of our Alliance and I will certainly never forget what he has done for 2nd CAB and Camp Humphreys."
During his drive to ensuring the Alliance remains strong, Hong placed a strong emphasis on reaching out to U.S. Soldiers while conditioning and mentoring the KATUSA's under his direction by instilling pride and a sense of purpose in them.
"KATUSA's, you are the representatives of a 75-yearlong ROK-U.S. combined force," said Hong during his final remarks during the ceremony. "The rapidly changing situation in north Korea is threatening the safety of our nation and there could be a provocation at any unexpected moment. In such a reality, KATUSA's become more important as they show the unity of the ROK-U.S. Allied Forces. KATUSA's should engrave the true meaning of their existence and place the ROK-U.S. Alliance in your hearts to further strengthen this combined force."
Park, a native of Jeonju, South Korea, supersedes Hong and has vowed to dedicate himself to the mission he inherited. Hong will move on to another position in the ROK Army as he continues to serve his country and soldiers.
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Celebrating a new school year
By Patrick YoungAugust 2, 2019
1 / 1 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Sgt. Amanda Tetreault and the 3rd ID rock band performs songs to help open the DoDEA back-to-school rally for teachers and staff, July 29 on Fort Stewart at Kessler Elementary School on Fort Stewart. (Photo by Pat Young) (Photo Credit: Patrick Young) VIEW ORIGINAL
Department of Defense Education Activity educators and staff held an energized back-to-school rally for teachers at Kessler Elementary School, July 29, on Fort Stewart.
Fort Stewart-Hunter Army Airfield Garrison Commander, Col. Bryan Logan, the 3rd Infantry Division rock band, color guard and ascot, Rocky, joined educators from Diamond, Murray and Kessler elementary to celebrate the upcoming school year.
The band opened the event with lively music, which stoked the room's energy and enthusiasm, with songs including Born to be Wild, Walking on Sunshine and Beat it, among others.
Amidst the music Logan and Rocky took the stage to say thanks to returning teachers, and good luck to new DoDEA staff members.
"You are the front-line in the war against ignorance," Logan said. Adding, without teachers, there would be no doctors, lawyers and other professionals. He said a good education opens the gateway for people to purse their dreams.
He encouraged educators to continue their quest for excellence; to challenge themselves and never stop pushing others to learn; and to face each day with a smile.
DoDEA's South Carolina/Fort Stewart community superintendent, Kathleen Reiss, was also on-hand to congratulate the district for an outstanding previous year and to wish the educators and staff, another great year.
"I'm very excited to see the start of a new school year," Reiss said before the event kicked off. "I always look forward to everyone coming back from the break."
She said last year, district schools exceeded many national standards including the AdvancED Index of Education Quality, with the national average being around 280 and the local district rating 355.
Reiss applauded the efforts of students and educators, specifically in the sixth, seventh and eighth grades and Algebra classes, whose score ranged between six and eight points higher than the national average.
She said the 2018 progress was excellent and looked forward to educators building on to those advancements.
Reiss also noted she only had the opportunity to see the start of the school year, noting she planned on retiring in August. She said in her 44 years of service, she has never missed a school-opening.
Reiss said she appreciated the support of the parents and hoped they would continue to be involved with their children's learning and volunteering at the schools.
Contact the installation school liaison office, 767-6533, or visit online at https://home.army.mil/stewart/index.php/my-fort/newcomers-1/school for local school information.
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Performance: Alexandra Bachzetsis at the High Line
In PRIVATE: Wear a mask when you talk to me, which debuted in 2016 at the Festival DañsFabrik in Brest, France, the artist and choreographer Alexandra Bachzetsis enacts a series of gestures from various dance styles, including Tsifteteli and Zeibekiko, which are both native to Greece. The work is influenced by Trisha Brown’s 1983 Set and Reset and Marianne Wex’s 1979 Let’s Take Back Our Space: “Female” and “Male” Body Language as a Result of Patriarchal Structures. Bachzetsis will explore the intersections of staged performance, candid movement, and socialized behavior, with a particular focus on the role gender plays in all this.
The High Line at 14th Street, 8–9 p.m.
Elle Pérez, Binder, 2015/2018, which will be included in “This Is Not a Prop” at David Zwirner.
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Opening: “This Is Not a Prop” at David Zwirner
“This Is Not a Prop” considers the nuanced relationship between bodies and objects, and will feature work by Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Hannah Levy, Paulo Nazareth, Christina Quarles, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, and others. Included will be examples of the German artist Franz West’s furniture and his “Adaptives,” sculptures meant to be touched and held by viewers, which their creator viewed as being a way to understand how art can be a social experience. As part of “This Is Not a Prop,” the gallery will also present performances by Gordon Hall between July 10 and July 26.
David Zwirner, 525 and 533 West 19th Street, 6–8 p.m.
Opening: The Racial Imaginary at the Kitchen
Organized by the poet Claudia Rankine’s organization the Racial Imaginary Institute and the Kitchen, this presentation, titled “On Whiteness,” comprises a group exhibition, performances, residencies, and a symposium that examines and questions the notion of “whiteness as a source of unquestioned power,” per a release. The exhibition considers the ways in which art can disrupt and reimagine prevailing ways of representing whiteness (and, by extension, blackness), and it includes work by Titus Kaphar, Glenn Ligon, Toyin Ojih Odutola, and Cindy Sherman, among others. Aspects of the project were inspired by philosopher Sara Ahmed’s essay “The Phenomenology of Whiteness,” in which she explores the many ways whiteness can shape institutions.
The Kitchen, 512 West 19th Street, 6–8 p.m.
Mel Chin, Aileen, 2015, concrete, Hi-Standard .22 revolver, which is included in “The Racial Imaginary.”
Opening: “On the Periphery of Vision” at Jane Lombard Gallery
Curated by Christopher Phillips, this group exhibition brings together five artists whose work focuses on the inarticulable everyday moments that often go unnoticed. Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s short film Ashes makes use of a 35mm camera to shoot a series of 20-second clips depicting a kind of ethereal mundanity, while Michelle Charles relies on painting, drawing, and photography to explore the formal properties of crystal balls. Also on view will be work from the Japanese artist Shimpei Takeda, who makes otherworldly gelatin silver photograms using a natural process inspired by the changing of the seasons in his home country, as well as Bae Youngwhan’s porcelain objects and Koo Donghee’s video Static Electricity of Cat’s Cradle.
Jane Lombard Gallery, 518 West 19th Street, 6–8 p.m.
Jeanette Mundt, Born Athlete American: Aly Raisman II, 2018, oil and glitter on canvas.
COURTESY THE ARTIST; SOCIÉTÉ, BERLIN; AND GREENE NAFTALI, NEW YORK
Opening: “Painting: Now and Forever, Part III” at Greene Naftali and Matthew Marks Gallery
The third edition of this sprawling collaborative survey—the first was staged in 1998 by Pat Hearn and Marks, the second in 2008 by the current organizers—makes an argument for the continued relevance of contemporary painting. The two galleries have assembled an exhibition featuring over 40 painters from around the world, including Nicole Eisenman, Gang Zhao, and Vija Celmins. Their work, which runs the gamut from process-based abstraction to internet-inspired figurative compositions, will be shown across five of the galleries’ spaces.
Green Naftali, 508 West 26th Street, Ground Floor and 8th Floor, 6–8 p.m.; and Matthew Marks, 522 and 526 West 22nd Street and 523 West 24th Street, 6–8 p.m.
Opening: “Putting Out” at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise
“Putting Out” is a group exhibition that explores the role sex and labor play in today’s world. “You may believe that you are not repressed, but you are,” artist Reba Maybury states in a press release accompanying the exhibition. “Sex and labour are now intertwined more than they ever have been, because there are invisible people out there doing the work for you.” Maybury, Leilah Weinraub, Juliana Huxtable, Sophia Al Maria, and Cosey Fanni Tutti are among those who’ve contributed work to the show.
Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, 291 Grand Street, 3rd Floor, 6–8 p.m.
Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Mirror Study (Q502097), 2016, archival pigment print.
©PAUL MPAGI SEPUYA/COURTESY THE ARTIST, YANCEY RICHARDSON GALLERY, TEAM GALLERY, AND DOCUMENT
Opening: “Intimacy” at Yossi Milo Gallery
This exhibition is curated by Stephen Truax and draws on his Artsy essay “Why Young Queer Artists Are Trading Anguish for Joy,” which highlights a group of artists whose work has focused on sexuality and honesty. His exhibition will place an emphasis on intersectional identities and artists’ personal and political expressions of sex and the body. The 70-plus works featured here will draw on the legacy of the AIDS crisis during the 1980s and the increased visibility of members of the LGBTQI+ community today. Among the artists included in the show are TM Davy, Hugh Steers, Nan Goldin, Kia LaBeija, Elle Pérez, and David Wojnarowicz, whose Whitney Museum retrospective opens next month.
Yossi Milo Gallery, 245 10th Avenue, 6–8 p.m.
Opening: Condo New York at Various venues
The New York edition of Condo—the gallery share program in which local venues host out-of-towners, who pay a minimal fee—returns to Manhattan for the second year in a row this week. Twenty-one New York galleries will turn over part or all of their space this year to 26 visiting outfits from locales as distant as Pristina, Kosovo, and Kolkata, India. Organized by Chapter NY owner Nicole Russo and Simone Subal Gallery founder Simone Subal, the program will include shows put on by such galleries as Nanzuka (of Tokyo), Galerie Crèvecoeur (of Paris), and Park View/Paul Soto (of Los Angeles and Brussels).
Various venues, 12–8 p.m. Consult Condo New York website for details
Hanne Lippard, Bag, 2015, audio, 10 minutes, 9 seconds. Installation view at “Ars Viva Prize,” 2016, at Staedtische Galerie, Karlsruhe, Germany. The artist’s work will be on view as part of Condo, in the presentation at Metro Pictures by Lamba Lamba Lambda, which is based in Pristina, Kosovo.
COURTESY THE ARTIST AND LAMBDALAMBDALAMBDA, PRISTINA
Concert: Warm Up at MoMA PS1
The first event in the Warm Up 2018 summer concert series will feature sets from Cashmere Cat, Venus X & Asmara, Valee, NÍDIA, Fuck U Pay Us, and Meriem Bennani. (Bennani is no stranger to PS1, having had her first solo museum show there in 2016.) For this year’s Warm Up series, MoMA PS1 has enlisted the duo Dream the Combine to transform the museum’s courtyard into an interactive playscape complete with oversized mirrors, a runway, and a hammock. Aptly, their new construction is called Hide & Seek.
MoMA PS1, 22-25 Jackson Avenue, Queens, 12–9 p.m. Advance tickets $12/$14/$18
"Intimacy"
"On the Periphery of Vision"
"Putting Out"
"This Is Not a Prop"
Alexandra Bachzetsis
Stephen Truax
The Racial Imaginary
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Apartamentos Residencial Doña Carmen 3000
7,97,9 - 107,9
Navarra, 19 (Esquina Avda. Valencia)| OROPESA DEL MAR
the booking conditions
Apartments in Apartamentos Doña Carmen 3000 can accommodate up to 6 guests in one or two double rooms with a double bed or single beds and a double sofa-bed in the sitting room. The apartments have a fully-equipped kitchen with oven, ceramic hobs, microwave, fridge, washing machine, air conditioning and television. They have a sitting/dining room, full bathroom and terrace.
The Apartamentos Doña Carmen 3000 complex has a swimming pool and restaurant, covered parking 250 m away (additional cost) and lots of bars, restaurants and shops. All the apartments have bedding, a television and basic kitchenware. Doña Carmen 300 apartments do not include towels, tea towels or table linen.
Animals are welcome in these Oropesa del Mar apartments (supplementary charge).
Apartamentos Acapulco Marina Dor 3000
De 13 Opiniones
c/Amplaries 11-23| OROPESA DEL MAR
The Acapulco Marina D'Or Apartments 3000 can accommodate up to 6 people with two double bedrooms and a sofa bed in the living room.
The apartments with a capacity of 4 people have 2 double bedrooms without a sofa bed.
The usual layout of the bedrooms consists of one bedroom with a double bed and another bedroom with two single beds. All apartments have a bathroom, a kitchen open to the living room, furnished terrace and living room with television and is equipped with everything you need for a holiday.
Acapulco Marina D'Or Apartments 3000 provide bedding, but no towels or dish towels. Towels can be requested at reception or the guests can bring their own.
The building in which the Acapulco Marina D'Or Apartments 3000 are located has an elevator for all of its guests, making it ideal for people looking for apartments with a lift in Oropesa del Mar.
The common areas of the building are highlighted with beautiful gardens, a playground and a pool for adults and children, ideal to cool off after a day at the beach.
The building has air conditioning included in the price, as well as heating and free parking upon availability.
Apartamentos Bernat Pie de Playa 3000
calle Pamplona, 6| OROPESA DEL MAR
The Apartamentos Bernat 3000 complex was refurbished in 2016 and virtually all its furniture is new. These apartments can accommodate up to 6 people in 2-4 person studios and apartments with 1 or 2 bedrooms.
The studios have a camp bed and a two seater sofa-bed in the sitting room. The apartments have 1 or 2 double bedrooms with double beds and a two seater sofa-bed in the sitting room. All the studios and apartments have a sitting/dining room, open-plan kitchen, full bathroom and terrace.
All the apartments have a gas cooker, fridge, microwave and television.
The apartments have bedding for guests but do not include towels, tea towels or table linen.
The Apartamentos Bernat 3000 complex is surrounded by restaurants, bars and is 700 m from a supermarket. It is also very close to the beach, making it the perfect location for a relaxing holiday.
Guests in the complex can enjoy use of the outdoor pool; there also a lift in the building.
Apartamentos Vistamar Marina Dor 3000
De 5 Opiniones
c/ Amplaries 33-37| OROPESA DEL MAR
In the complex where the Vistamar Marina D'Or Apartments 3000 are located, there are two types of apartments. One has a capacity of 4 people and the other has a capacity of 6 people.
In both cases, the apartments have 2 double bedrooms with a double bed or two single beds. The usual layout includes a bedroom with a double bed and another with two single beds. The difference therefore between the apartment of 4 and 6 is the sofa bed that the client can find in the dining room.
In the 6-person apartment, there is a double sofa bed. In the 4-person apartment the sofa in the living room is not a bed.
Bedding for all guests is provided. However, towels are not included. The guests can bring their own or request them at reception.
Tablecloths and kitchen towels are not provided either. However, a small cleaning kit for a first use is available.
The buildings Vistamar I, Vistamar II and Vistamar III, where the Marina D'Or Apartments are located, have an area with a swimming pool for adults and children, as well as a green area to enjoy the sun without having to go to the beach.
The Vistamar Marina D'Or Apartments 3000 have both heating and air conditioning, making them ideal for both winter and summer.
In addition, the building has parking available to customers.
The Marina D'Or apartments accept pets upon request and at an additional cost.
Apartamentos Costa Azahar Marina Dor 3000
Avda Central 42-46| OROPESA DEL MAR
The Costa Azahar Marina D'Or Apartments 3000 have 2 double bedrooms with either a double bed or two single beds. The normal layout consists of one bedroom with a double bed and the other with two single beds.
There are 2 types of apartments within the complex, one with capacity for 4 people and the other with capacity for 6 people. The difference between both being the sofa bed in the living room in the 4 person apartment.
All apartments have a full bathroom, kitchen, terrace and living room with television. The kitchen has an oven and microwave, refrigerator, washing machine and hot plates.
The apartments of Marina D'Or provide bedding for all guests. However, linens and towels are not included. They can be requested at reception or you may bring your own.
Costa Azahar I and Costa Azahar II, where the apartments of Marina D'Or are located, have an elevator for their guests as well as a nice pool for adults and another for children with green areas.
The apartments have air conditioning available to customers, as well as a parking space.
If you travel with a dog to Marina D'Or, these apartments accept pets upon request.
Air conditioning: on request and with supplement (10 €/day, 50 €/week, 80 €/fortnight)
Apartamentos Colomeras 3000
Carrer dels Ullals, 10| OROPESA DEL MAR
The complex where Apartamentos Colomeras 3000 is located is a recently constructed complex and therefore all the apartments are completely new and perfectly equipped with modern furniture.
There are apartments with 1 or 2 double rooms (double bed or two single beds) and a sofa bed in the dining / living room, meaning up to 6 guests can sleep there.
Each apartment has a fully equipped, independent bathroom, fully equipped kitchen opening up to the living room, with microwave, oven, fridge and washing machine, with the basic cutlery and implements suitable for the capacity of each apartment.
The living / dining room has a television and access onto the terrace, also with the necessary items for the apartment capacity. It is also air-conditioned, with a supplementary charge.
These apartments include bed linen for all the guests, but do not include kitchen or table cloths. Towels can be rented in reception with a supplementary charge.
Apartamentos Colomeras 3000 have a communal, outdoor swimming pool for all our guests and a children's playground in the communal areas.
There is also parking on request, with a supplementary charge to be paid directly in reception on arrival, and a lift, making these apartments ideal for people with reduced mobility.
Open from 9 to 15:30 and from 17:30 to 23:00
Apartamentos Los Almendros 3000
Calle Encarnación Calatayud, 1| OROPESA DEL MAR
The residences where the Los Almendros 3000 Apartments are located have some apartment’s blocks and duplex. The Apartments have 2 double rooms with 2 spots in each one that can have a double bed, two single beds or bunk bed. In the living room it is also a double sofa bed giving to the apartment a maximum capacity to 6 persons.
The kitchen is joined to the dining-living room. Nearby we have the access to the terrace that is all equipped for you to enjoy the summer afternoons breathing some fresh air.
The kitchen is equipped with a microwave, oven, refrigerator, washing machine and kitchenware according to every apartment’s capacity. They also have a complete bathroom with a bath or a shower, the bathtub is more usual than the shower.
Those apartments come with bedding for all their guests but not table linen or kitchen rags. The clients will be able to rent towels in the reception.
The residence where are the Los Almendros 3000 Apartments enjoy some spacious common zones with a swimming pool with adults and children zones only for the clients. They also include a complete basketball court and a futsal field for make your holidays the most entertaining possible.
Those apartments have hot/cold air conditioning under petition and supplement at the arrival. They also have a lift making them a good option for disabled people.
And they offer a parking service under request and supplement at the arrival too.
Apartamentos Galicia 3000
Avenida del Mediterráneo 47-54| OROPESA DEL MAR
The Galicia 3000 Apartments have 2 double rooms with 2 spots in each one that can have single beds or doubles or bunk beds. The single beds used to be more usual. We also have a double sofa bed that give to the apartment a maximum capacity for 6 persons.
The living-dining room is furnished in accord with the capacity of every apartment and are composed by a television, a sofa; table and chairs for have meal. From the living-dining room we have access to the spacious terrace. In some apartments it is an ocean view but we can’t confirm which one you will have until your arrival.
They also have a complete bathroom with a bathtub or a shower. The tub is more usual than the shower.
The kitchen is equipped with a microwave, an oven, refrigerator, washing machine and the basic kitchenware in accord with every apartment capacity.
The apartment is furnished with bedding for every guest numbered in the booking but not kitchen rags or table linen. We don’t give towels, they can be rented in the reception desk or you can also come with your own ones.
The residence where the Galicia 3000 Apartments are located is on the seafront and have a private pool for the guests and a recreation area.
They also have a lift, making them a great option for the disabled people and adults.
The complex is one of the apartments in Oropesa that admit pets so you will be able to go to the beach with your dogs or cats or any other pet.
Apartamentos Mondrían Marina Dor 3000
Carrer de la Pinada, 3| OROPESA DEL MAR
Apartamentos Oropesa 3000 Sin Piscina
Varias ubicaciones| OROPESA DEL MAR
The Apartamentos Oropesa 3000 without swimming pool have 1, 2 or 3 double bedrooms with a double bed or two single beds and a double sofa bed in the living / dining room, and can therefore accommodate up to 8 guests.
All the apartments have kitchens equipped with oven, vitro-ceramic hob, washing machine, fridge and microwave, as well as the necessary cutlery and utensils according to the capacity of each apartment. These apartments do not include kitchen or table cloths.
Guests can enjoy their free time on the comfortable sofa beds while they watch television. Moreover, access to a fully fitted out terrace is from the dining room, where they can relax enjoying the summer evenings in Oropesa del Mar.
Bed linen is provided for all the guests and towels can be collected from reception on request with a supplementary charge.
Apartamentos Oropesa 3000 without swimming pool have air-conditioning and heating, and covered parking for clients, on request with a supplementary charge.
Animal lovers can travel with their dogs to Oropesa since these apartments allow pets with a supplementary charge payable on arrival.
There are supermarkets, and chemists less than 300 metres from the apartments, making them ideal for travelling with your family.
Apartamentos Acropolis 3000
calle Galicia, 11| OROPESA DEL MAR
Apartamentos Acrópolis 3000 have 1 or 2 double bedrooms with double beds or two single beds and a sofa bed in the living / dining room, meaning up to 6 people can sleep.
The apartments also have a fully equipped kitchen, making them idea for your holidays, with vitro-ceramic hob, oven, fridge, washing machine, microwave and even a coffee maker. They also have cutlery and utensils suitable for the capacity of each apartment. Kitchen and table cloths are not provided.
All the apartments have large furnished terraces with a washing line, and full bathroom with bath tub and also a living / dining room with television.
Apartamentos Acrópolis 3000 are air-conditioned for clients, which must be requested on arrival (with supplementary charge), and heating.
These apartments in Oropesa allow pets, and dogs, cats and any other pets are welcome, although reception does need to be told. Travelling with pets entails a supplementary charge.
The complex has a communal swimming pool available for all clients.
The building is fitted with a lift and is therefore ideal for persons with reduced mobility.
Apartamentos Tenerife 3000
Calle Tenerife 16| OROPESA DEL MAR
The Apartamentos Tenerife 3000 apartments feature two double bedrooms and a sofa bed in the lounge-dining room, allowing them to comfortably accommodate up to six people.
The typical configuration is one bedroom with a double bed and the other with twin beds, although both bedrooms may have twin beds or double beds. Guests can state their preference in the Comments (Observaciones) field when booking and it will be considered, although confirmation can’t be given until arrival.
The lounge-dining room has a double sofa bed, furniture to cover the needs of the number of guests, and a television. The lounge opens onto a spacious balcony or terrace, some with sea views.
The kitchen is fully equipped with oven or microwave, fridge and hob, and cookware and tableware for the needs of the number of guests. Tablecloths and dish towels are not supplied, but bed lined is provided for all guests.
Guests can hire towels at reception or bring their own.
The Tenerife complex in Oropesa de Mare housing the Apartamentos Tenerife 3000 apartments has outdoor parking available to guests on request and with a supplement.
Pets are accepted at these apartments on request and with a supplement, making them ideal if you plan to travel with your dogs, cats or any other pet.
The complex has lifts, making them accessible for people with reduced mobility.
There are also spacious communal areas, beautiful gardens and an open-air pool that is available for use by guests during the high season.
Apartamentos Mistral 3000
Avenida del Mar 39-41| OROPESA DEL MAR
The Apartamentos Mistral 3000 apartments feature two double bedrooms and a sofa bed in the lounge-dining room, allowing them to comfortably accommodate up to six people.
The bedrooms may have twin beds or double beds, most commonly with a double bed in one bedroom and twin beds in the other. Guests can indicate their preference for type of bed, although confirmation can’t be given until arrival.
The apartments come with cookware and tableware needed for the number of guests, and the kitchen is equipped with an oven or microwave, hob and fridge. There is a lounge-dining room with television, and a full bathroom.
Bed lined is supplied, but tablecloths and towels are not provided. Guests can hire towels at reception, or bring their own.
The Apartamentos Mistral 3000 apartments accept pets on request and with a supplement, so there is no need to think twice if you are planning to travel to Oropesa del Mar.
There is also a lovely pool in the complex for guest use, ideal for the evenings after a full day on the beach.
Apartamentos Entreplayas 3000
Calle Teruel, 23| OROPESA DEL MAR
Apartamentos Entreplayas 3000 have 1 or 2 double bedrooms with single beds or a double bed, and a sofa bed in the living / dining room.
The living / dining room leads to a furnished terrace with all the necessary items to enjoy the sea breeze in summer affording some wonderful views of the Oropesa del Mar landscape in the distance.
The kitchen is located next to the dining / living room which is fully equipped with microwave, oven, washing machine, fridge, electric hob and cutlery and utensils according to the capacity of each apartment. They also have a fully fitted bathroom with bath tub.
These apartments in Oropesa do not include towels (although they can be rented in reception), but do include bed linen. There is a television in the living / dining room.
Apartamentos Entreplayas 3000 have a communal area with a swimming pool for use by all the guests in the complex. There is also covered parking for all the apartments, on request and subject to a supplementary charge.
If you are travelling to Oropesa with your pet, these apartments are ideal, since they allow animals, always on request and with a supplementary charge payable at reception on arrival.
The building has a bar/café and restaurant, and there are also supermarkets and a chemist's less than 300 metres from the apartments, making them ideal for travelling with your family.
Apartamentos Terrazas Al Mar 3000
calle Els Ullals, 2| OROPESA DEL MAR
Apartments in Apartamentos Terrazas al Mar 3000 have a double room with a double bed and a two seater sofa-bed in the sitting/dining room; they can accommodate up to 4 people.
All the apartments have a fully-equipped kitchen with sufficient kitchenware for all guests. Kitchens have a washing machine, microwave and a coffee maker. There is a television in the sitting/dining room and a full bathroom.
Bedding is provided but table linen and towels are not included.
Apartments in the Apartamentos Terrazas al Mar 3000 complex have air conditioning (supplementary charge).
There is also a swimming pool for use by guests.
Pets are welcome on request (supplementary charge) making these apartments the perfect choice when travelling to Oropesa del Mar with your pet.
Apartamentos Mar de Oropesa 3000
Avenida Columbretes, 4| OROPESA DEL MAR
There are two types of apartment in Apartamentos Mar de Oropesa 3000:
- 4/6 apartments with 2 double rooms (double bed or two single beds) and a two seater sofa-bed in the sitting/dining room; they can accommodate up to 6 people;
- 6/8 apartments with 3 double rooms (double bed or two single beds) and a two seater sofa-bed in the sitting/dining room; they can accommodate up to 8 people.
All the apartments have a fully-equipped kitchen with sufficient kitchenware for all guests. Kitchens have a fridge, washing machine, microwave, ceramic hobs and a coffee maker. There is a television in the sitting/dining room, full bathroom and terrace.
Apartments in the Apartamentos Mar de Oropesa 3000 complex have air conditioning (supplementary charge).
The complex also has a swimming pool and a children's play area.
Animals are welcome on request (supplementary charge) making these apartments the perfect choice when travelling to Oropesa del Mar with your pet.
Apartamentos Oropesa Varios 3000
oropesa- varias ubicaciones| OROPESA DEL MAR
Apartments in Apartamentos Oropesa Varios 3000 can accommodate up to 6 people in 1 or 2 room apartments with a two seater sofa-bed. All the apartments have a sitting/dining room with television, beds and bedding for all guests (2 double beds, 2 single beds or sofa-bed), a full bathroom and fully-equipped kitchen with washing machine and the basic kitchenware needed for a great holiday.
The apartments do not include towels (these may be hired from reception), tea towels or table linen.
Animals are welcome (supplementary charge paid directly) so the apartments are the perfect location for spending a holiday in Oropesa with your pet. Cots are available on request (supplementary charge).
All the facilities you could need for your holiday are close to the apartments: restaurants, shops, supermarkets, bars, cafés, etc.
The agency reserves the right to charge management expenses in the event of cancellations made within time periods other than those stated above.
Apartamentos Oropesa del Mar Suites 3000
Avenida del Mar, 37| OROPESA DEL MAR
Apartamentos Oropesa del Mar Suites 3000 is in a newly-built complex; the apartments are brand new and furnished with modern furniture.
The apartments have 1 or 2 double rooms (double beds or two single beds) and a sofa-bed in the sitting/dining room; they can accommodate up to 6 people.
Each apartment has a separate, full bathroom, an open-plan kitchen with a microwave, oven, fridge, washing machine and sufficient kitchenware for maximum occupancy of the apartment.
There is a television in the sitting/dining room and this room leads out onto a large, furnished terrace. The apartments have air conditioning.
All the apartments have bedding for guests but do not include tea towels or table linen.
Apartamentos Oropesa del Mar Suites 3000 has an outdoor, communal swimming pool for use by all guests and a children's play area in the communal areas.
Parking is available on request (supplementary charge paid at reception on arrival) and there is a lift so the apartments are suitable for guests with reduced mobility.
Apartamentos Marina D'Or 3000
Varias ubicaciones en la urbanización de Marina D'or| OROPESA DEL MAR
All the apartments in Apartamentos Marina D´Or 3000 have two double rooms with a double bed or two single beds and a double sofa-bed in the sitting room. The apartments have a separate kitchen that is fully-equipped with a washing machine, microwave and fridge plus sufficient kitchenware for maximum occupancy of the apartment. They have a sitting/dining room, full bathroom and terrace.
All the apartments have a gas cooker, fridge and television. Bedding is included for all guests. Tea towels and table linen are not included.
Apartments in Apartamentos Marina D´Or 3000 have bedding for all guests, a television, air conditioning in the sitting room and a swimming pool in the same complex.
Pets are welcome (supplementary charge) and cots are available on request.
The apartments have access to the Marina D'Or residential complex, which has a spa, water parks, play centres, restaurants, shops, cafés, etc.
Apartamentos Villas de Oropesa 3000
Urbanización Nova Oropesa, Avenida Jaume I 2, esc. 1| OROPESA DEL MAR
The Apartamentos Villas de Oropesa 3000 complex consists of two-storey houses that are completely independent from one another. The houses can accommodate up to 6 people in 2 large double rooms with double beds or two single beds and a sofa-bed in the sitting/dining room.
Each apartment has a large terrace and a garden on the ground floor, making them the perfect location for a family holiday in Oropesa del Mar.
The houses are fully furnished and equipped with everything you might need. They have a full bathroom on the first floor and a toilet on the ground floor next to the sitting/dining room with open-plan kitchen that leads to the two terraces.
Kitchens have a washing machine, fridge, microwave and all the necessary kitchenware for a wonderful holiday.
There is a television in the sitting room. The apartments do not include tea towels, table linen or towels but bedding is provided for all guests.
Apartamentos Villas de Oropesa 3000 has excellent communal areas inside the private complex, including beautiful gardens and a paddle tennis court.
Apartamentos Oropesa Primera Línea 3000
Varias ubicaciones.| OROPESA DEL MAR
The Apartamentos Oropesa Primera Línea de Playa 3000 complex can accommodate up to 6 people in 2-4 person studios and apartments with 1 or 2 bedrooms. All the studios and apartments have a sitting/dining room, open-plan kitchen, full bathroom and terrace. The studios have bunk beds and a double sofa-bed in the sitting room. The apartments have 1 or 2 double bedrooms with double beds and a double sofa-bed in the sitting room.
The Apartamentos Oropesa Primera Línea de Playa 3000 complex is just metres away from restaurants, bars and supermarkets. It is also very close to the beach, making it the perfect location for a relaxing holiday. The complex has a lift.
Apartamentos Oropesa Playa 3000
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Apartments in Apartamentos Oropesa Playa 3000 have 1 or 2 double rooms and a sofa-bed in the sitting room; they can accommodate up to 6 people. The apartments have an open-plan kitchen, full bathroom and terrace. Kitchens have a fridge, oven and hobs.
These Oropesa de Mar apartments have a television and the basic kitchenware you will need for a great beach holiday.
Pets are welcome at Apartamentos Oropesa Playa 3000 but towels/table linen are not provided.
There are countless shops, bars and restaurants nearby so guests can enjoy the wonderful Mediterranean cuisine of this area.
Apartamentos Oropesa Ciudad de Vacaciones 3000
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Apartments in Apartamentos Oropesa Ciudad de Vacaciones 3000 are 90 m2 and can accommodate up to 6 people in 2 double rooms with a sofa-bed in the sitting room. They have two bathrooms and a kitchen with a toaster, coffee maker, microwave, oven, washing machine and fridge.
Guests at Apartamentos Ciudad de Vacaciones 3000 are provided with bedding but not towels or sheets. The complex includes one parking space per apartment, air conditioning, kitchenware and a television.
These Marina D'Or apartments have a lift and pets are welcome (on request, supplementary charge). They have a communal garden with a tennis court and swimming pool for use by all guests staying at the complex.
Marina D'Or also has a spa, children's play areas, water parks, bars, nightclubs, restaurants, etc.
Apartamentos Concha Playa 3000
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Apartments in Apartamentos Concha Playa 3000 can accommodate different numbers of people: up to 8 guests in 1, 2 or 3 double rooms plus a two seater sofa-bed in the sitting room of each apartment. The apartments have a sitting/dining room, full bathroom, terrace and kitchen with a fridge, microwave, washing machine, electric cooker and sufficient kitchenware for maximum occupancy of the apartment.
There is a television in the sitting room.
Apartamentos Concha Playa 3000 has parking in the same building (supplementary charge), a lift, and the option of a cot or bringing your pet (both with supplementary charge).
Guests can enjoy use of the tennis court, garden and adults'/children's pool. There are restaurants, bars, cafés and shops near the apartments.
Apartamentos Bonaire 3000
Avenida Madrid, 18| OROPESA DEL MAR
Apartments in the Apartamentos Bonaire 3000 complex can accommodate up to 6 people in 2 double rooms with a two seater sofa-bed in the sitting room. These tourist apartments have a fully-equipped open-plan kitchen, sitting/dining room, full bathroom and terrace. Kitchens have an oven, ceramic hobs, microwave, a washing machine and there is a television in the sitting room.
The Apartamentos Bonaire 3000 complex has a swimming pool in the same building and a cot or pet can be included as a supplement (depending on availability).
Bedding is provided for all guests but towels, table linen and tea towels are not included.
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Included in price: Pre-arrival cleaning, bedding, television, basic kitchenware, appropriate use of water/gas/electricity.
Not included: towels, table linen, tea towels.
Other extra services: cots, pets (always on request with supplement paid at reception).
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Apartamentos Neptuno Oropesa 3000
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The Neptuno Oropesa Apartments 3000 have 1 double bedroom and a double sofa bed in the living room that can accommodate up to 4 people, 2 of whom will sleep in a bedroom and two more on the sofa bed in the living room. The apartment has an open kitchen to the living room, one bathroom and a terrace. The kitchen is equipped with a fridge, oven and hot plate.
These Oropesa del Mar apartments have a television and provide the basic utensils and kitchenware necessary for a beach holiday.
The bedrooms are double occupancy and can have either double or single beds, more commonly a double bed will be included.
In the dining room there is a television included in the price of the apartment.
Neptuno Oropesa Apartments 3000 allow pets so if you want to travel to Oropesa with your dog, they are an incredible option.
The building has an elevator, which given its great height and spectacular views, it is a good option for those who have reduced mobility.
In the surrounding area there are countless shops, bars and restaurants where you can enjoy the Mediterranean cuisine of the area.
Apartamentos Estación Oropesa 3000
Ferrán Antequera, 11| OROPESA DEL MAR
The Oropesa Station Apartments 3000 have 3 types of capacity and can accommodate up to 8 people in apartments with 1, 2 or 3 bedrooms. All bedrooms are double occupancy that together with the double sofa bed in the living room allow up to 8 people to rest comfortably.
The beds can be double, single or bunk beds. The usual layout is of 2 single beds in the 1 bedroom apartments, and a double bed and 2 or 4 single beds or bunk beds in the other apartments.
In the dining room there is a television from where you can access the terrace, ideal to enjoy the breeze of summer afternoons.
All apartments are perfectly furnished and equipped with a full bathroom and a fully equipped kitchen with a fridge and a microwave, as well as the necessary utensils and kitchenware to spend a magnificent holiday.
The apartments do not include tea towels, tablecloths or towels, but they do provide bed linen for all guests.
The Oropesa Station Apartments 3000 allow pets so if you are looking for apartments that admit dogs in Oropesa, they are an ideal option, well located and at a very good price.
In addition, some of the apartments have adapted rooms so they are perfect for people with reduced mobility. The building has an elevator for the use of all guests.
These Oropesa Pueblo apartments have covered and limited parking spaces. It is recommended to book in advance if you require parking.
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College Admissions Officers are Supporting the #NeverAgain Movement
by Grace Franklin on March 15, 2018 in Admissions, In the News, Uncategorized
It’s not news that within days of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students had taken things into their own hands, or, rather, had framed the conversation in their own words: “we call B.S.” Senior Emma Gonzalez sounded this refrain at a gun-control rally on the Saturday, Feb. 17, and it continues to reverberate a month after her call for legislative reform.
Dates are significant in this surge of teen activism, because they occasion each act of protest. On Feb. 21, a week after the Parkland shooting, students across the country walked out of school at 10 a.m. for 17 minutes, one to commemorate each life lost. Yesterday, on the one-month anniversary of Parkland, students walked out again, joined in many cases by parents, teachers, and administrators.The New York Times covered it in real time with their live updates article. A third national walkout is planned for April 20, the 19th anniversary of the Columbine shooting.
Dates are also significant, because it is spring, the season of college acceptances. In less traumatic years, acceptances are perhaps the biggest concern for high school seniors. So it shouldn’t be surprising that many paused — in the midst of a movement so consequential that it has brought teens into congressional offices for policy talks — to make sure all’s well on the admissions front.
Trepidation was spurred by some high school administrators who have made it clear that students who walk out during the school day will face disciplinary ramifications. Curtis Rhodes, a Texas superintendent, has gotten the most press for his announcement on the Needville High Facebook page that students who walk out will face three days of suspension “no matter if it is one, fifty, or five hundred students involved.” A school district in New Jersey threatened to ban protesters from senior prom and graduation. Other districts, like Waukesha County, WI, sent letters home to parents telling them that participating students would not be excused from their in-class responsibilities.
The Common App asks whether students have been disciplined at school, and most colleges indicate that their offer of acceptance may be rescinded if a student gets suspended during the final semester of his or her senior year. As seniors began reaching out to admissions counselors, the response from higher ed institutions was overwhelmingly in support of peaceful political activism.
An admissions counselor at MIT was among many who published a swift reply to applicant queries writing, “We have long held that students should not make decisions based on what they think will get them into college, but instead based on values and interests that are important to them … We also believe that civic responsibility is, like most things at MIT, something you learn best by doing.”
In an effort to help students stay informed about colleges’ stances on discipline related to activism, the National Association for College Counseling (NACAC) created a digital resource where nearly 300 colleges and major universities have posted their policies.
Most schools have not only vowed to uphold admissions offers, but also applauded peaceful student activists.
“We are proud to support all students for participating in peaceful walkouts for gun control or other causes,” the Yale Undergraduate Admissions Office tweeted.
“We share the national frustration and sorrow over gun violence across the country,” tweeted UVA, “and we admire and are grateful for student activists who are leading the charge for change.”
Lawyers have been quick to volunteer aid should students face infringement of their First Amendment rights, and the ACLU has sent letters to superintendents whose disciplinary measures border on discrimination. In the wake of this pushback the Needville Facebook post was removed and threats to bar students from senior events were withdrawn, because, as the ACLU explains in a recent blog post, schools are not allowed to discipline students differently based on the content or political nature of their protests.
Schools are within their rights, however, to uphold existing disciplinary measures for missing school without an excused absence or causing a disruption during the school day. Such disciplinary actions often include detention or the inability to make up missed work for a grade, and, in some cases, suspension.
Despite higher ed approval, this issue of activist-related discipline is by no means cut and dry. In an interview with BuzzFeed, Bob Mosier, Chief Communications Office for Anne Arundel County Schools in Maryland, explained that administrators have a responsibility to keep students safe and are wary of situations where a crowd of unsupervised students are gathered outside or marching down a street beyond school grounds.
Some students have indeed done more than walk out to an on-campus common area for 17 minutes. On Feb. 20, hundreds of students from West Boca Raton High School walked 11 miles to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High to express their support and sorrow for the victims and survivors.
As students across the country assembled for the March 14th national walkout, as lawmakers prepare to vote on the STOP School Violence Act this week, and as Fla. Gov. Rick Scott’s signing of a firearms restriction law on March 9th attests, the stakes of this student-led movement are high and the consequences are real — both on the national stage and at the level of personal disciplinary records.
Requests for permission from college admissions counselors alongside impassioned participation in the political process highlight the crux of the high school senior experience – a teetering between adolescence, where rules of conduct are clear-cut and permission slips excuse absences, and adulthood, where one gains freedom and with it responsibility. As students consider their stance on firearms legislation, whether to engage in protests, and if doing so will affect their future as college freshmen, the most responsible thing to do is stay informed: Learn Your Rights. Find Out Your Future College’s Stance on Activist-Related Discipline. Understand the Movement.
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O's 6-pack has bitter, losing taste Brewers finish sweep, 6-4, beat Mussina to extend win drought; Loss is 10th in 15 games; Offense fails to cash in on 2-error gift in 8th
Joe StraussTHE BALTIMORE SUN
A bad day that became a bad week has officially evolved into a bad month. Unable to take advantage of another late-inning opportunity, the Orioles completed a weekend washout against the Milwaukee Brewers yesterday in a 6-4 loss that looked painfully familiar.
Not even a Mike Mussina start, a Roberto Alomar home run or a two-error play by the Brewers could rescue the Orioles from their sixth straight loss.
It's become enough of a downer that manager Davey Johnson turned a question about eight stranded runners into positive spin. "We hadn't been on," said Johnson. "That was a good sign."
The bad sign: The unsettling three-game sweep was the first by the Brewers against the Orioles since Aug. 16-18, 1991. Not since April 13-15, 1987, had they done the deed in Baltimore.
The Brewers' previous ineptness on the road only made the hurt worse. They exited the All-Star break 12-30 on the road, while the Orioles were 25-13 at home. The sweep equaled the Brewers' longest road winning streak this season.
The worse sign: The Orioles never led in the series, managed only 17 hits and have now held a lead in seven of their last 54 innings played.
Good sign, Part II (or the closest thing to it): The charging New York Yankees lost, keeping them 4 1/2 games back.
"We're still in first place. We can't feel pressure because the Yankees are getting closer and closer," Alomar said. "You can't look back. Just keep looking forward, and whatever happens happens."
What's happening now isn't good. The Orioles have lost six straight for the first time since April 19-25, 1996. The Orioles left yesterday's game with a .269 team average, one of six AL teams below .270.
Asked for his theory, Rafael Palmeiro, one of the few to have a good series offensively (6-for-12), offered a common sentiment: "It's baseball, man. It's baseball."
But it's definitely not Orioles baseball, the kind that left them a nine-game lead as recently as June 22. On June 12, before they began a three-game sweep of the Atlanta Braves, the Orioles were hitting .280, fourth in the league. Since, they have scraped around at a .245 pace.
Even the acquisition of designated hitter Geronimo Berroa has done little to slow the slide. Since Berroa played his first game here June 29, the Orioles are hitting .254 with a 5-7 record. The sore-shouldered Berroa still hasn't found his footing within a new lineup; Johnson put him in the No. 2 hole yesterday. A single yesterday raised his Orioles average to .167 with one extra-base hit and four RBIs in 48 at-bats.
Indeed, yesterday's loss, the Orioles' 10th in 15 games, reinforced the perception of a once-robust team now too thin to function fully.
Catcher Lenny Webster never had made more than four straight starts in the majors until Chris Hoiles partially tore his right medial collateral ligament June 16. He has resembled a workhorse since. Though Webster caught Saturday night's 3-2 loss, Johnson approached him about catching 15 hours later within a Sunday blast furnace. The alternative was giving 0-for-13 Tim Laker his fifth start.
Working on two sore legs, center fielder Brady Anderson fell deeper into a 1-for-20 slump that has dragged his average to a season-low .292. Hoiles reports to Bowie tomorrow to begin a rehab assignment. Webster has started 39 games, six fewer than Hoiles.
Yesterday, Webster played with a bad cold. When the game's most critical situation found him in the eighth inning, he went to the plate lightheaded. "I've got to do what I can to help this team win, even if that means going out there six out of seven days," Webster said. "If that's what Davey wants, then that's what I'll do. But it's definitely tough."
Mussina (10-3) allowed five runs on eight hits in 6 1/3 innings. He fell behind 2-0 on Dave Nilsson's first-inning home run with two outs. Nilsson entered the game hitting .050 (1-for-20) against Mussina.
One of the few Orioles not fighting a slump, Alomar answered in the third inning with an opposite-field, two-run homer off Brewers starter Jeff D'Amico (7-4), who beat the Orioles for the second time in 20 days.
Mussina, bothered by the flu all week, was undone in the sixth inning by a series of extra-base hits. Jeromy Burnitz led off with a double, but the rally appeared headed nowhere until Jose Valentin doubled over first base with two outs. Former Oriole Jack Voigt added the final insult when he followed with a two-run homer to left. Voigt has four home runs in 47 at-bats this season, two this weekend.
Four of the Orioles' past six losses have come by one or two runs, only intensifying the pain.
"It's not like we're getting wiped out by the other team," Alomar said. "We're in close games. But they're making the right moves."
Added Webster: "Every ballclub is going to experience it during the course of the year that old Murphy's Law thing. Whenever something can go wrong, it does go wrong. At some point you've just got to smile about it, because it'll bring you down if you don't. You have to laugh about it just to keep your sanity."
If so, yesterday's eighth inning was a laugh riot. Given a chance to break out against the Brewers' bullpen, the Orioles instead failed to get a ball out of the infield with the tying run on base.
With the Orioles trailing 5-3, Alomar and Palmeiro led off with ground-ball singles over second base against left-hander Ron Villone. With right-hander Bob Wickman on the scene, Cal Ripken followed with a routine ground ball to first that ended in a two-error circus. Tim Unroe booted the ball toward second. Unwilling to let the play die, second baseman Mark Loretta forced a throw to Wickman covering. The throw sailed behind him, allowing Alomar to score and Palmeiro to take third.
The inning then collapsed.
With none out, Palmeiro was ordered to run on contact. When B. J. Surhoff topped a grounder to second, Palmeiro was easily thrown out at the plate, but the tying run remained in scoring position.
"It's 2-0 [count] with B. J., first-and-third. I expect the score to at least be tied, and that's a whole different ballgame," said Johnson.
But this wasn't different. Jeffrey Hammonds walked to load the bases, and Webster appeared. Saturday night, Johnson allowed him to bat against the right-handed Wickman in the seventh inning with two outs and the tying run at second. Webster grounded out on a checked swing. This time, he lashed a one-hop grounder to Loretta, who began a rally-killing double play. Murphy's Law rules.
Orioles tonight
Opponent: Toronto Blue Jays
Site: Camden Yards
Time: 7: 35
TV/Radio: HTS/WBAL (1090 AM)
Starters: Blue Jays' Robert Person (3-5, 4.80) vs. Orioles' Scott Kamieniecki (6-4, 3.92)
Tickets: 1,300 remain
Alums' revenge
Three of Milwaukee's ex-Orioles had the weekend of their lives upon returning to Camden Yards:
Jack Voigt before series
Avg. .. .. ..(H-AB) .. ..R .. ..HR .. .. .RBI
.229 .. .. ..(8-35) .. ..4 .. ...2 .. .. ...7
Weekend stats
Ben McDonald before series
W-L .. .. .. .ERA .. ...IP .. ...H .. ..ER .. ..K
7-6 .. .. ...4.24 .. ...121 .. .114 .. .57 ...102
1-0 .. .. ...0.00 .. .. .6 .. ...0 .. ...0 .. ..4
Doug Jones before series
Sv .. .. .. ..ERA .. ...IP .. ...H .. ..ER .. ..K
20 .. .. .. .2.70 .. ..43.1 .. ..41 ....13 .. .47
3 .. .. .. ..0.00 .. .. .3 .. .. 1... ...0 .. ..2
Off on wrong foot
A quick review of the Orioles' ineptitude in a three-game sweep by the Brewers to open the second half:
They never held the lead
Went 2-for-18 with runners in scoring position.
Brewers' wild pitches and errors contributed to three of the Orioles' five scoring innings (four of five if you count Geronimo Berroa's disputed single in third inning yesterday) in the series.
Jimmy Key, Scott Erickson and Mike Mussina took a 33-10 record into weekend, but finished it 0-3. They yielded five homers in 18 2/3 innings after entering series with 31 in 356 1/3 , or one every 11 1/2 innings. Their combined pitching line:
IP .. .. ...H .. ..ER .. ..BB .. ..K .. ..HR
...18 2/3 .. .. ..23 .. .10 .. ...4 .. ..11 .. ..5
The Orioles' offense was woeful, managing just seven runs and 17 hits (only two for extra bases) in the three games. Some of the individuals who struggled:
Ripken 0-12 .. .. .. ..Anderson 1-12
Alomar 2-12 .. .. .. ..Berroa 2-11
Surhoff 1-9 .. .. .. ..Webster 1-9
Pub Date: 7/14/97
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A detached former barn with a first floor two bedroom apartment with agricultural restriction. The property also has attached outbuildings with potential for development and is set in level gardens of about half an acre in the popular Herefordshire village of Staunton On Wye
New House Farm, Staunton On Wye, Herefordshire
A detached former barn enjoying a pleasant rural location close to the village centre. At present the property comprises a first floor two bedroom apartment with agricultural restriction, ground floor stores and adjacent single storey buildings providing loose boxes, stable, garden room and garage, with potential for the creation of further accommodation (subject to appropriate planning permission).
The barn is set in level gardens with driveway, in all about 1/2 acre.
Constructed of stone and blockwork with timber clad upper storey, standing under a tiled roof. The existing accommodation, which has off-peak electric heating and partial double glazing installed comprises:
• External metal steps up to a raised timber deck / platform (11'2" x 10'8") with a small-pane, fully glazed entrance door in to open plan living area / kitchen / breakfast room
• Kitchen (10'8" x 9'9") consisting of area with exposed timber framing and lofty ceiling
• Living room (18'4" x 9'9") with exposed timbers and roof trusses, front and rear aspects. Fully glazed double doors to lobby giving access to a:
• Three piece shower room (6'2" av. x 5'7") with avocado coloured suite
• Bedroom one (9'5" x 8'10") with night storage heater. There is separate access and currently also a wide timber archway through to:
• Bedroom two (9'6" x 9') with night storage heater,
On the ground floor: there are currently three rooms, each having separate access via half-heck / stable style doors. These comprise a:
• Utility / cloakroom (14'10" x 8'5") with concrete floor, an exposed stone wall, pedestal wash hand basin (h & c), low flush w.c., and plumbing for an automatic washing machine. Electricity meter and trip-board.
• Store room (15'9" x 9'3" av.) with concrete floor and concrete block-work wall to the rear,
Adjacent to the barn are a range of connected outhouses of considerable length, consisting currently of:
• Beast house (25'3" x 16'1") with an internal height of 15' 10" approximately to the apex. This building is of brick and blockwork construction standing under an interlocking tiled roof, having a concreted floor and divided internally by blockwork walls to provide two loose boxes and a smaller feed store. There is a small sink with a wall-mounted electric water heater, one single power point and a cold water tap. Electricity trip box.
• Storage barn (20'5" wide x 17'2") with an internal height of 15' approximately to the apex, of brick and stone construction under a tiled roof and having a concreted floor. This building is accessible via two stable-type access doors and has electric light and window openings to the rear.
• Garden room (13'1" x 12'5") of brick and block-work construction under a tiled roof and with a glazed, small-pane entrance door, solid floor having fitted carpet, exposed beams, one single power point and uPVC framed front window.
• Adjacent garage (24' x 13'10") built of stone and brick under a tiled roof, formerly a cowshed, having timber double doors and fluorescent lighting.
The property stands in virtually level gardens extending to about ½ an acre; principally grass and with two vehicular entrances off the roadside. The main entrance with a concreted apron / driveway gives access to the dwelling and adjacent buildings and there is ample room for parking.
Adjacent is a level lawn with Silver Birch trees as well as various shrubs including Hydrangea and Buddleia. Whilst the majority of the ground is located to the front of the range of buildings, there is access from under the verandah to a small rectangular area of rear garden, which is gently sloping and down to grass enclosed on two sides by hedges, a public footpath is understood to pass close to the back of the building across this area.
Mains electricity and water are connected.
Drainage is understood to a septic tank and soak-away.
Night storage heating is installed.
Telephone (subject to British Telecom transfer regulations).
None of the services nor any of the fixtures and fittings included in these sales particulars has been tested.
Agricultural Occupancy Restriction
New House Farm was granted planning permission in 1982 for conversion of the first floor of the existing farm building to form an agricultural workers' apartment, application 82/550. Special conditions attached to the granted consent included “The occupations of the dwelling shall be limited to persons employed or last employed in agriculture as defined in Section 290 (1) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1971, or forestry, or the dependants of such person residing with him (but including the widow or widower of such a person)". The condition applied to New House Farm which specifically restricts the occupancy of this dwelling to people whose employment is in agriculture.
This property is situated close to the village centre of Staunton-on-Wye, which has several amenities close at hand including a primary school, a church, a doctors' surgery, a public house, a village hall and the nearby Oakchurch country store. The village enjoys a regular bus service and the important local centre of Hereford is about seven miles distant with its diverse range of amenities.
Seller: Nigel Ward And Company
Email: salerooms@nigel-ward.co.uk
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11 Amazing Facts About Cocktails And Bartending
How many facts about cocktails do you know? Do you know which liqueurs are sung to as they age? How many bubbles are in a bottle of champagne? What did the first cocktail shakers look like?
Our favourite facts about cocktails and bartending
1) Why Do We “toast?”
Let’s go back in time. The Ancient Romans used to drop a piece of toast into their wine for good health. They would put the toast in their fellow drinkers’ wines too and that’s where the phrase, “to toast”, comes from!
2) Sing For Your Spirits
Having a sing in the shower starts your day off in the right way, but what do you think about singing to your drinks (okay, it happens sometimes when you’ve had a few too many…). Well, Hudson Bourbon play dubstep to their barrels, and Mozart Dark Chocolate Liqueur play Mozart to their casks!
3) The Three Sip Rule
Did you know that in Texas, USA, there is a state law that prohibits you from having more than three sips of beer whilst standing?! Okay, I guess we’ll just have to sit down and enjoy our drinks then…
4) Shake Up A Penguin
Zero animal cruelty here, we’re talking about shaking a cocktail in a penguin-shaped tin. The first cocktail shakers were actually shaped like penguins! One of the weirder facts about cocktails!
5) Margarita Mad
How many Margaritas could you drink in an hour? We’d say two or three max, but did you know that 185,000 Margaritas are drunk every single hour in the USA, making it the most popular cocktail in the States!
Shake your way around the world with a bartending certificate in your hand!
6) Saint Bellini
Ever wondered where the name Bellini came from? The creator of the drink, Giuseppe Cipriani, thought that the pink drink looked like a saint’s toga that was seen in a painting by Giovanni Bellini, hence, he named the cocktail after the artist. Whether you think it looks like a toga or not, we’ll take two!
7) The Man Behind Tiki
Ernest Raymond Beaumont Gantt is commonly recognised as the founding father of tiki bars and cocktails including the Zombie. In 1933, he opened up a small bar in Hollywood called Don the Beachcomber’s. The bar was influenced and decorated with objects Ernest had found on his travels throughout the South Pacific. The bar became an instant hit, not only with the locals but also with celebrities like Charlie Chaplin! Ernest eventually decided to legally change his name to “Donn Beach” which demonstrated his love for his bar and everything tiki.
8) This Is Not Refreshing!
Want to advertise your new cocktail or spirit? Well, you won’t be calling it refreshing! This word is banned when talking about anything alcoholic.
9) Pineapples In Puerto Rico
Did you know Puerto Rico’s national drink? If you like getting caught in the rain, you’ll love this one! It’s the Pina Colada!
10) Stories Of Squares
Ever wondered why Jack Daniels is in a square bottle? There’s actually a really practical idea behind it. As well as being original and standing out from other bourbon bottles, the square bottles don’t roll about and smash when being transported, and they’ve been that way since 1895.
11) These Cocktail Facts Are Popping
There are an estimated 49,000,000 bubbles in every bottle of champagne! Each bottle has three times more pressure than a car tire, so watch your eyes when you’re popping those bottles!
Now you know the 11 best and most interesting facts about cocktails. Use them to impress your friends or win a quiz one day!
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Rich Beck
‘Class…Substituting Today For Your Teacher Is New York Yankees Pitcher Rich Beck!’
October 27, 2016 July 26, 2011 by Tom Owens
Sounds like a monster movie:
The Teacher Wore Pinstripes!
Looks like he’s pitching to White…
Would you rather face hungry American League hitters, or a classroom of ornery high schoolers?
Rich Beck has done well against both lineups. A veteran teacher, Beck’s career was cut short by military service during the Viet Nam War.
Beck writes like a great teacher. He began his reply with:
“Wow, Tom! You are testing an old fella’s memory but I’ll try to answer your questions.”
Then, in the first time in the history of this blog, I received a hand-drawn SMILEY FACE!
First, I asked about one of his most dominating games, striking out eight Senators. Did the Ks come from fastballs or breaking stuff? Swinging or called?
“Probably fastballs and sliders. Don’t recall called third strikes vs. swinging but there is a website (address escapes me but suppose you can Google it) that gives play-by-play of games back to that era and that would answer the called vs. swinging question.”
Beck is referring to http://www.retrosheet.org/. Here’s the recap of Beck’s brilliance.
The same amazing website has the vitals on Beck’s Sept. 19 shutout against the Tigers at Yankee Stadium.
Beck added:
“I believe that was a 0-0 game going into bottom of 8th. I do remember Ray Barker, who was playing first base that day, hit a two-run triple in the bottom of 8th. As far as the stats you quote…it was ugly but we turned two DPs I believe. I remember getting out of one inning with a fly to left with the bases loaded.”
I never got to cheer for Beck the Yankee. However, the work he’s doing as a teacher is worthy of a standing ovation. In fact, I cheer for all educators. A good pitcher wins games. A good teacher changes LIVES. Beck commented:
“I have been a substitute teacher my whole teaching stint — 1992 fall to fall of Nov. 1998 and then against from Feb. 2007 to date after working for a market research firm, The Nielsen Company, from 11/98 to 12/06. Most subbing (95 percent) is done at middle and high school level.”
Learn more about Beck with this fascinating biography written by Joe Schuster, available as part of the SABR Biography Project.
One final thought: I read once that Phillies announcer Harry Kalas recorded answering machine messages for fans. Imagine how the late Yankee Stadium PA announcer Bob Sheppard would have sounded on a school intercom.
“Students…now entering the classroom…number 23…former New York Yankees pitcher, Rich BECK!”
Coming Wednesday: The milestone 500th post for Baseball By The Letters
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2012 Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Vieilles Vignes, Domaine de la Janasse
Red | Ready, but will improve | Domaine de la Janasse | Code: 24141 | 2012 | France > Rhône > Châteauneuf-du-Pape | Southern Rhône Blend | Full Bodied, Dry | 15.0 % alcohol
This cuvée contains 85% Grenache, with 10% Mourvèdre, and, at 5%, a little less Syrah than usual. It apparently weighs in at an immodest alcohol level, although this is hard to discern, such is its poise and balance; floral and savoury, rich and yet feminine, this is one of the great wines of this or any other vintage.
Simon Field MW, Rhône Wine Buyer
Brother and sister tam of Christophe and Isabelle Sabon have taken Janasse into the pantheon of greats, seemingly by not doing very much at all, their policy of minimum intervention and organic viticulture deemed the be the key to their success. Behind this seeming inactivity, there is constant work and refinement however, with subtle changes allowing them to hone in on perfection with great skill. 2012 appeals to them; it is more rounded than 2010 and more powerful than 2011; the best of all possible outcomes in other words.
The Wine Advocate - Up in the top handful of wines in the vintage (which should come as no surprise to anyone who follows this estate), the 2012 Chteauneuf du Pape Vieilles Vignes is a full-bodied, beautifully concentrated, rich and layered Chteauneuf that doesnt put a foot wrong. Made from 85% Grenache, 10% Mourvedre and the rest Syrah, it offers blockbuster notes of blackberry, liquid-violets, spice and serious minerality to go with awesome mid-palate depth and layers of sweet tannin. Like the Cuvee Chaupin, it will be better in another handful of years and thrill through 2027.
Jeb Dunnuck - 31/10/2014
Domaine de la Janasse was established in 1973 by Aimé Sabon. Brother and sister team of Christophe and Isabelle Sabon continue to work wonders at Janasse, and farm 80 hectares of vineyards spread over a number of wine appellations: Châteauneuf du Pâpe, which is all located in the north-east of the appellation in the commune of Courthézon to be precise, Côtes du Rhône, Côtes du Rhône Village, but also Vin de Pays de la Principauté d'Orange and Vin de table.
Concrete tanks are used for the Grenache and oak for the Syrah and Mourvèdre; in other words, everything is fairly traditional; it is the quality of the raw materials which is so impressive and for that reason alone, leaving aside the clear skill and vision of the Sabons, that we are delighted to take on these excellent wines in our listings.
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Southern Rhône Blend
The vast majority of wines from the Southern Rhône are blends. There are 5 main black varieties, although others are used and the most famous wine of the region, Châteauneuf du Pape, can be made from as many as 13 different varieties. Grenache is the most important grape in the southern Rhône - it contributes alcohol, warmth and gentle juicy fruit and is an ideal base wine in the blend. Plantings of Syrah in the southern Rhône have risen dramatically in the last decade and it is an increasingly important component in blends. It rarely attains the heights that it does in the North but adds colour, backbone, tannins and soft ripe fruit to the blend.
The much-maligned Carignan has been on the retreat recently but is still included in many blends - the best old vines can add colour, body and spicy fruits. Cinsault is also backtracking but, if yields are restricted, can produce moderately well-coloured wines adding pleasant-light fruit to red and rosé blends. Finally, Mourvèdre, a grape from Bandol on the Mediterranean coast, has recently become an increasingly significant component of Southern Rhône blends - it often struggles to ripen fully but can add acidity, ripe spicy berry fruits and hints of tobacco to blends.
Châteauneuf-du-Pape is the largest and most important wine appellation in the southern Rhône. It is home to more than 3,200 hectares of vineyards and over 80 growers; more wine is produced in Châteauneuf than the whole of the northern Rhône put together. The vineyards are bounded to the west by the Rhône river and to the east by the A7 autoroute.
Châteauneuf-du-Pape was the first ever Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée established in France, in 1932. Small, rounded rocks from the ancient river bed known as galets roulés are a key aspect of what makes Châteauneuf -du-Pape wines so distinctive, with the rocks reflecting heat back into the vines at night, thus increasing ripeness and reducing acidity.
The gloriously rich red wines, redolent of the heat and herbs of the south, are enhanced by the complexity which comes from blending several grape varieties. Fourteen are permitted for reds: Grenache, Mouvedre, Syrah, Cinsault, Vaccarese, Counoise, Teret Noir, Muscadin, Picpoul Noir, Clairette, Grenache Blanc, Rousanne, Picpoul Gris and Picardin. With red Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Grenache typically dominates with Syrah and Mourvèdre in support.
White Châteauneuf-du-Pape is becoming increasingly sought-after, even though it represents less than 10 percent of the total production. Here, five grapes are permitted: Grenache Blanc, Clairette, Roussanne, Bourboulenc and Picardin.
Recommended Producers: Château de Beaucastel, Clos de Papes, Vieux Télégraphe, Château Rayas,, Domaine de la Charbonnière, Sabon, Château La Nerthe, Domaine Perrin
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Huawei can introduce the Hongmeng OS operating system along with Mate 30
by - Vikas on - July 11, 2019
After meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the G20 summit, US President Donald Trump allowed Huawei to formally cooperate with US companies. The easing of sanctions should allow the Chinese technology giant to access Android updates and Google services, but it seems the company is not abandoning the idea of creating its own mobile operating system for its devices. Resource Huawei Central, citing an anonymous source, said that Huawei has started sending emails in which invites people to take part in testing their operating system on a new smartphone. The letter also says that the Android alternative will be released along with the Mate 30 series of smartphones, although there is no exact confirmation of this.
The source claims that the letter does not disclose the name of the mysterious operating system Huawei, but most likely it is about Hongmeng OS, which is rumored to be called Ark OS on the international market. Last month, Huawei filed an application in several countries to register the Hongmeng and Ark OS trademarks. It is expected that the new operating system will support the entire ecosystem of Huawei devices.
In March this year, Huawei consumer head Yu Chengdong announced that the company has long been developing its own operating system in case the United States denies access to Android and Windows. He later said that in China it could be released in the fourth quarter of 2019, and on the international market in the first quarter of 2020.
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Best Lawyers for Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law in Washington, United States
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Jeffrey A. Beaver
Miller Nash Graham & Dunn LLP
Real Estate Law Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law Litigation - Real Estate
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Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law Definition
The Takings Clause in the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits the government from taking private property, except “for public use,” even when it offers just compensation. Many state constitutions and statutes have provisions similar to the federal Takings Clause. In “classic” taking situations, eminent domain and condemnation are invoked to provide land for public schools, roads, hospitals, utilities, and similar customary public uses.
More recently, government has perceived a need to expand the exercise of eminent domain beyond its classic takings context to include a variety of “rationally conceivable” public benefits thinly tethered to public use. In these instances, lawyers are asked to advise their clients on whether the government has been faithful to its constitutional duties to take property only for a public use upon payment of just compensation and in accordance with statutory procedures enacted to protect property owners.
In instances where governmental regulations “go too far” and impose burdens on private interests that should be borne by the public as a whole, lawyers evaluate whether the regulation unconstitutionally deprives the owner of all economically viable use of property or has a significant impact on its value and the owner’s investment-backed expectations.
The Takings Clause also places limits on the power of government to impose exactions for development permits. These exactions may be fees, dedications of real property, or other obligations asserted to offset the impact of a development project. Under the doctrine of unconstitutional exactions, a benefit demanded of the landowner must have a nexus to the impact of the development and be roughly proportional to its anticipated effects.
In many instances, lawyers in this practice area engage experts in appraisal, construction, development, economics, environmental remediation, engineering, permitting, planning, zoning, and related professions to secure fair treatment, fair value, and a fair understanding of whether one of the most potent powers granted to government has been exercised in fidelity to lawful mandates.
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Cades Schutte LLP
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Haloween Ball at Vinopolis and Diwali at Dishoom
By Luke Nicholls
20-Oct-2011 - Last updated on 21-Oct-2011 at 08:54 GMT
Vinopolis' Haloween Ball features the Bombay Sapphire cocktail with a twist, and two Absinthe tastings
With Diwali and Halloween both falling this month, restaurants, bars and hotels including Vinnopolis and Dishoom tell BigHospitality about special events and promotions they are running to attract customers.
Halloween Ball
Vinopolis, the wine and spirit tasting venue in London’s Bankside, is hosting a Halloween Ball featuring themed drinks, fancy dress and special music. Taking place on Friday 28 October, customers are encouraged to come dressed in their ‘scariest attire’. Drinks on offer include the Bombay Sapphire cocktail with a ‘twist’ and two Absinthe tastings. Also included in the night is the opportunity to be photographed on the ‘black’ carpet, or in the ‘haunted’ black cab booth complete with ghostly chauffeur. Party-goers can enjoy four regular wine tastings and two beer tastings, along with a special serving of Toad in the ‘Ole. After dinner, scary surprises and a Halloween-themed DJ will round off the evening. Tickets are priced at £32 each and can be bought at http://www.vinopolis.co.uk/specialevents/1981.php.
Diwali at Dishoom
Dishoom, London’s first Bobmay café in Covent Garden, is celebrating Diwali with a day of facepainting, pavement artm storytelling and film. The restaurant is showcasing a Diwali menu between 18 and 30 October, a family day and Diwali on Sunday 26 October. The Diwali menu includes PhaldariKofta Ruby, a dish of dumplings stuffed with vegetables, paneer and pomegranate, and the Diwali Biryani. Desserts include a choice of a Gola ice or Kulfi, followed by the House Chai. Diners will also receive complimentary mithai, traditional Indian sweets, as part of the festivities. Artist Dameon Priestly will be creating a traditional rangoli (floor art) outside the restaurant. On the Sunday, storyteller Vayu Naidu will narrate the story of the celebration of light. In the evening, a special screening of the film Sita Sings The Blues will be shown from 6.30pm. For more information visit http://www.dishoom.com/2011/10/diwali-at-dishoom/.
Matilda’s Stupendous Afternoon Tea
To welcome Matilda the Musical to London’s Cambridge Theatre, Radisson Edwardian Mercer Street Hotel in Covent Garden has launched Matilda’s Stupendous Afternoon Tea. The pre-show tea, at the hotel’s Dial Bar, offers teatime snacks including Miss Honey ham sandwhiches, Bruce Bogtrotter’s brownies, Miss Trunchbull’s trifle and Wormwood’s Wonderful Chocolate fondue. Each child will also be given a complimentary copy of Roald Dahl’s classic to take away with them. Matilda’s Stupendous Afternoon Tea costs £13.75 for kids and £29.50 for grown-ups and is served daily from 2pm-5pm at Dial Bar. The newly-refurbished 137-room Merccer Street Hotel is located in Seven Dials Village. To book the tea, go to http://www.radissonedwardian.com/matilda-afternoon-tea.
Light up Diwali
To celebrate the festival of light, Indian restaurant The Chilli Pickle in Brighton has created a celebratory lunch and dinner menu that will run throughout the week. The Diwali King Thali lunch will arrive on a giant tray and include; vegetable or meat curry, dal, thoran, vegetable side dish, riatta, street snack, handmade pickles & chutney, masala pappad, mini butter naan, rice and dessert for £13. The dinner menu features nibbles followed by two or three courses, priced at £19.50 and £23. Chef patron Alun Sperring said: “We hope that by celebrating Diwali all week long it will enable more people to come and try authentic dishes in relaxed surroundings. The menu is a combination of street food and regional delicacies we are proud to serve.” The Chilli Pickle recently came 86th in the 2011 National Restaurant Awards. For more information on the menu, visit http://www.thechillipickle.com/the-chilli-pickle-light-up-diwali.
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Action! Rescue
Gerry Bailey, Felicia Law (author), Iralu (illustrator)
Publisher: BrambleKids Ltd ISBN: 9781909711914
The book examines the ways we move across our planet on land, on and in the water, in the air, and in space. And it looks at the science that lets us! A combination of action photography and both factual and cartoon illustrations,bring this STEM-based project alive.
Lost in the Cave
Felicia Law & Gerry Bailey (author), Leighton Noyes (illustrator)
A brave Adventure and his colleague manage to escape a dangerous situation in Joe and Dr. Bea enter a cave on a quest to discover the secretive creatures that inhabit it. As they pass through tunnels and chambers, the encounter the rich stalactite and stalagmite formations that develop in many limestone caves. Descending deeper, they find what they came to see and more!
Joe and Dr. Bea will track the course of a river from its origins as a small spring in the mountains to its mouth, the point where it enters the sea. They are keen to see how the river changes and what happens along its banks. But their main purpose is to find out how a dam that has blocked its waters is affecting the waters on the other side. Along the way, they must navigate some dangerous rapids.
Escape from the Volcano
A brave Adventure and his colleague manage to escape a dangerous situation near a Volcano. Set in a challenging environment where essential STEM skills come in handy. Joe and Dr. Bea are about to climb the slopes of a volcano which they suspect might erupt very soon. They take all their special equipment with them so they can measure changes in the slope, the heat and the gas coming from its mouth. They know a lot about the world's different volcanoes and how they behave - but the two scientists are taken by surprise and must rely upon a robot to help them.
Challenge in Space
Joe and Dr. Bea have been chosen to train as astronauts after which they will visit the International Space Station. There they will carry out some useful scientific experiments. It's an exciting challenge as they must cope with space travel, microgravity, cramped conditions - and in a dangerous moment, a meteor bombardment that threatens to knock Joe away from the spaceship.
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Extinct! Volume 1
Felicia Law & Gerry Bailey (author), Mike Spoor (illustrator)
Scientists tell us that 99.99% of ALL animal and plant species that have ever existed ARE NOW EXTINCT. What does 'extinct' mean and why does it happen? This book looks at the strange and very different kinds of animals that have walked the planet and which we will never see.
Energy and Movement
Gerry Bailey & Felicia Law (author), Mike Philips (illustrator)
This book explores the energy produced by the wind and moving air generally to power machines such as the windmill and wind turbine, and to help people and objects travel both at speed and more slowly through the air. It also looks at the way chemical energy can be stored and used and examines the contribution made by the famous inventor of the dynamo, Michael Faraday.
This book explores the simple machines that help reduce effort, that help lift or move loads or speed up work. Useful machines such as the wheelbarrow, crane and plow use levers, pulleys and wheels and axles, while the screw and rudder can help change the direction of moving water. The book also examines the contribution made in the 1400's by the famous Italian inventor, Leonardo da Vinci.
Structures and Buildings
Felicia Law & Gerry Bailey (author), Mike Philips (illustrator)
Leo is a genius. His pet cat named Pallas is not! But together they come up with some brilliant inventions. Full of brainy ideas and way ahead of his (Stone Age time, Leo tackles inventions that will change the way people live and work for hundreds of years to come. STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) forms an important focus of learning in schools worldwide.
An Island Adventure
Felicia Laws, Gerry Bailey (author), Leighton Noyes (illustrator)
Can science save your life? In Science to the Rescue, Joe an adventurous scientist, must apply his knowledge of science to survive being alone in six challenging environments around the world. Learn about the geographic, climate, and geological features of each environment as you follow Joe in each exciting story of survival.
An Arctic Adventure
Felicia Law, Gerry Bailey (author), Leighton Noyes (illustrator)
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Gerry Bailey (author), Yuliya Somina (illustrator)
The STEM Encyclopedia of Water presents an opportunity to explore a familiar science topic in a new way. A cross-curricular approach allows all the sciences to come together along with history, art and legend - building a thorough understanding of the presense of Water on our planet.
Bob Harvey, Felicia Law (author), Yuliya Somina (illustrator)
The STEM Encyclopedia of Heat presents an opportunity to explore a familiar science topic in a new way. A cross-curricular approach allows all the sciences to come together along with history, art and legend - building a thorough understanding of the presense of Heat on our planet.
The STEM Encyclopedia of Wind presents an opportunity to explore a familiar science topic in a new way. A cross-curricular approach allows all the sciences to come together along with history, art and legend - building a thorough understanding of the presense of Wind on our planet.
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HomeNew BikesBike NewsCleveland Misfit, Ace Deluxe Pricing Revealed For India
Cleveland Misfit, Ace Deluxe Pricing Revealed For India
Modified On Mar 20, 2019 By Praveen M. for Cleveland Cyclewerks Ace
The two motorcycles will enter the country via the CKD route and will go on sale from this month
Cleveland Cyclewerks has revealed the prices of its two India-bound products, the Ace Deluxe and Misfit. The Misfit costs Rs 2.5 lakh while the Ace Deluxe is priced at Rs 2.24 lakh (both ex-showroom India). At this price, the Misfit is the most affordable cafe racer in the country after the discontinuation of the Royal Enfield Continental GT. However, it would be too soon to say it justifies its price tag.
The two motorcycles draw power from a 229cc, air-cooled, single-cylinder engine that’s mated to a 5-speed gearbox. The carbureted motor produces 15.4PS of peak power at 7000rpm and 16Nm of torque at 6000rpm.
Going by the engine configuration and power output, the pricing seems to be on the higher side. This might be down to the company’s CKD approach, with imports coming in from China and being assembled in Pune, India. 6-7 per cent of the parts are localised including parts like tyres, headlights, wire assembly and fluids.
To put things into perspective, a similarly sized (displacement-wise) Bajaj Pulsar 220F costs only Rs 96,448. For the price Cleveland is asking, you can get the KTM 390 Duke at Rs 2.4 lakh (both prices, ex-showroom Delhi). The Duke offers a whole lot of kit with way more power and torque output.
Both the bikes are equipped with upside down front forks, twin rear shock absorbers and disc brakes on both ends. The bikes are expected to have ABS once they go on sale this month as the safety regulations require new bikes displacing more than 125cc to have the essential safety feature.
Cleveland Cyclewerks will open its first dealership in Mumbai this month, followed by Pune, Indore, Chennai, Bengaluru, Kochi,Trivandrum, Hosur, Salem and Coimbatore in the future. Thirty more cities are planned to be added to this list, but that will be confirmed by 2019. The Ace Deluxe and Misfit don’t really compete against the current crop of motorcycles in the segment, considering its pricing, output figures and displacement.
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Berlin – a warm loud evening : Jun 26th, 2015
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Madoff Litigation: Can the Lost Billions be Recovered? How?
This webcast featuring three of the top lawyers and professionals in the securities litigation field addresses the key questions arising from Bernard Madoff's alleged $50 billion scheme: How much money has been lost? Where did it go? What avenues of possible recovery exist and what are the chances of success? Who is entitled to recover?
Please join panelists Gerald Silk of Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP; Brad Friedman of Milberg LLP; and Dr. Fred Dunbar of NERA Economic Consulting as they address these questions as well as your questions in a free, one-hour webcast. Moderated by Bruce Carton, Editor of Securities Docket.
This webcast is sponsored by NERA Economic Consulting.
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Gerald Silk, Brad Friedman, Dr. Fred Dunbar
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Navigating the Minefield of Dodd-Frank’s Whistleblower Provisions (2019 Update) Recorded: Jan 13 2020 96 mins
F. Joseph Warin, John W.F. Chesley, Sean X. McKessy, Jim Barratt
The SEC’s Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Program continues to be a robust source of information driving the Commission’s enforcement docket. In FY 2019, the Office of the Whistleblower received more than 5,000 whistleblower tips from 70 foreign nations and every U.S. state, handing out $60 million in cash awards in return. On top of that, Dodd-Frank-related litigation continues apace in the federal courts and legislative / regulatory responses to the Supreme Court’s decision in Digital Realty Trust wind their way through the halls of Congress and the Commission. Together these trends provide the perfect storm for keeping in-house counsel and compliance professionals up at night.
Securities Docket is pleased to present its eighth annual webcast on Dodd-Frank’s whistleblower provisions. This year’s panelists once again include leading practitioners in all aspects of Dodd-Frank whistleblower litigation and investigations, including F. Joseph Warin and John W.F. Chesley of Gibson Dunn, former SEC Office of the Whistleblower Chief Sean X. McKessy of Phillips & Cohen, and Jim Barratt of Ankura Consulting.
This free 90-minute webcast will include a dynamic and participatory discussion on the statutory and regulatory framework of Dodd-Frank’s whistleblower provisions, their interpretation by the SEC Office of the Whistleblower and federal courts, and provide participants with practical tips for navigating the minefield of whistleblower complaints.
SEC Enforcement: Current Developments and What’s Ahead for 2020 Recorded: Dec 10 2019 68 mins
Bill McLucas, Doug Davison, Marty Wilczynski
In this annual webcast, our panel will discuss key SEC enforcement issues from 2019, now, and what to expect ahead. Among other items, the panel will address:
• enforcement priorities;
• current legal and policy issues arising from enforcement cases; and
• developments in ICO’s; cyber-related matters; insider trading; FCPA; financial reporting; remedies and sanctions; and the Whistleblower Program.
Please join panelists Bill McLucas from Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP; Doug Davison from Linklaters; and Marty Wilczynski from Ankura Consulting as they address these and other key developments in SEC enforcement.
Leveraging Data Analytics to Minimize Risk in the Financial Services Industry Recorded: Mar 25 2019 59 mins
Joshua Dennis, Ellen Lafferty, Dan Ward, A.J. Bosco
The financial services industry generates and records massive amounts of transactional, operational, and other business data on a daily basis. Yet, the challenge financial institutions face is how best to leverage myriad data sources to effectively mitigate business and regulatory risk.
On March 25, Securities Docket presents a panel of industry and data analytics experts to help brokers, dealers, financial services leaders and their counsel turn data into valuable insights to spot and prevent fraud. Join Joshua Dennis, StoneTurn; Ellen Lafferty, HSBC; and Dan Ward, Ropes & Gray for this thought-provoking panel moderated by A.J. Bosco. Participants will gain an actionable understanding of how data analytics can be used to uncover useful information, suggest conclusions and support sound decision-making in the financial services industry.
SEC Enforcement: Current Developments and What’s Ahead for 2019 Recorded: Mar 1 2019 63 mins
Bill McLucas, Doug Davison, Marty Wilczynski, Steve Richards
• developments in ICO’s; cyber-related matters; financial reporting; remedies and sanctions; and the Whistleblower Program.
Please join panelists Bill McLucas from Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP; Doug Davison from Linklaters; and Marty Wilczynski and Steve Richards from Ankura Consulting as they address these and other key developments in SEC enforcement.
The Securities Class Action Landscape:A Look Back at 2018 & What’s Ahead in 2019 Recorded: Feb 21 2019 49 mins
Jeff Lubitz, Stefan Boettrich
2018 was a watershed year in the securities litigation marketplace. In addition to the record number of newly-filed cases, there was significant growth in the dollar value of settlements, both in the U.S. and across the world. During calendar year 2018, 441 new cases were filed in U.S. federal courts, plus dozens more in state courts and in countries such as Australia, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. The value of settlements included significant sums in the U.S., including Petrobras ($3 billion) and Wells Fargo ($480 million), plus more than a dozen non-U.S. settlements led by Ageas (f/k/a Fortis - €1.3 billion).
As we enter the new year, 2019 will likely see similarly robust activity. Already, dozens of newly filed cases are in the court system and the amount of pending litigation is substantial, with a total of more than $1 trillion in Investor Losses (NERA’s measure of case size). Additionally, a few noteworthy settlements were finalized in early 2019, including Wal-Mart ($160 million) and Cobalt International ($146 million).
This webinar will be valuable to all financial and legal professionals practicing in this area. Attendees will benefit from ISS and NERA's timely insights into the complex and rapidly-growing securities litigation environment.
Hosting the event will be ISS Securities Class Action Services and NERA Economic Consulting. Speakers will include Jeff Lubitz, Executive Director at ISS, and Stefan Boettrich, Senior Consultant at NERA. Attendees will gain additional insight as Mr. Lubitz will discuss ISS Securities Class Action Services’ latest report, “The Top 100 U.S. Class Action Settlements of All-Time,” while Mr. Boettrich will highlight data from NERA’s “Recent Trends in Securities Class Action Litigation: 2018 Full-Year Review.”
2018 was a record-breaking year for the SEC’s Office of the Whistleblower. The Office announced the largest whistleblower award, received the highest number of whistleblower tips, and awarded more dollars in 2018 than in all prior years combined.
Meanwhile, in Digital Realty Trust v. Somers, the Supreme Court limited the definition of “whistleblower” under Dodd-Frank to a person who has reported a suspected securities violation to the SEC. In response, the SEC has proposed amendments to Rule 21F-2, along with other proposed changes to the claim review process and the award determination process. These trends and changes provide the perfect storm for keeping in-house counsel and compliance professionals up at night.
Securities Docket is pleased to present its seventh annual webcast on Dodd-Frank’s whistleblower provisions. This year’s panelists once again include leading practitioners in all aspects of Dodd-Frank whistleblower litigation and investigations, including F. Joseph Warin and John W.F. Chesley of Gibson Dunn, former SEC Office of the Whistleblower Chief Sean X. McKessy of Phillips & Cohen, and Jim Barratt of Ankura Consulting. This free 90-minute webcast will include a dynamic and participatory discussion on the statutory and regulatory framework of Dodd-Frank’s whistleblower provisions, their interpretation by the SEC Office of the Whistleblower and federal courts, and provide participants with practical tips for navigating the minefield of whistleblower complaints.
What Should Crypto Funds Expect From The SEC Going Forward? Recorded: Dec 3 2018 65 mins
Boris Richard (FTI Consulting), Jeff Bandman (Bandman Advisors), Ivana Rouse (Akin Gump), Peter Altman (Akin Gump)
This webinar will examine the regulatory and enforcement landscape facing crypto-asset investment managers amidst surging ICO and STO issuance and a sharply increased scrutiny by the SEC of crypto issuers and their token offerings, as well as broker-dealers and digital asset managers.
Our expert panel will address regulatory and compliance issues that crypto funds often encounter, including SEC registration, requirements for qualified custody, valuation of crypto assets for reporting purposes, and fiduciary due diligence best practices.
The panel will also provide guidance on recent SEC enforcement actions against crypto asset managers and discuss expectations of the future SEC stance with respect to crypto funds.
The Webinar will cover key issues including:
-- Does the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 apply to crypto funds, including SEC registration obligations and compliance with the Custody Rule?
-- What is the current state of digital asset custody and what are the future developments in the qualified institutional custody solutions for cryptocurrencies?
-- How should the manager of a crypto fund value its assets, including for the purposes of handling redemptions?
-- What are the current independent third party valuation advisor approaches for valuing digital tokens?
-- How can the manager of a crypto fund satisfy its fiduciary obligations with respect to diligence of digital assets and counterparties involved?
-- Based on the recent empirical evidence with regard to ICOs and the performance of exchange-traded digital tokens, what are the key due diligence parameters that a crypto fund manager should assess?
-- How is the SEC stance on cryptocurrencies in general and crypto asset managers in particular evolving? and
--What recent SEC enforcement actions with respect to crypto asset managers have we seen and what approach in the future is the SEC likely to take towards crypto funds in terms of examination and enforcement?
Corporate Board Oversight of Cybersecurity: A Blueprint for Success Recorded: Oct 17 2018 67 mins
John Reed Stark, David R. Fontaine
The Gist:
What cyber-related actions should corporate boards be undertaking and more importantly, what should corporate secretaries, general counsels, outside lawyers and other corporate advisors be telling their corporate board clients regarding cyber? This webcast offers, for the first time, a realistic, concrete, pragmatic, detailed, sensible and effective vision for corporate board behavior, designed to tackle head-on the mounting and potentially devastating risks that flow from cyber-attacks and other data security incidents.
Some More Specifics:
With cyber-incidents capturing headlines around the world with increasing frequency, businesses and regulators have come to recognize that cyber-incidents are not a passing trend, but rather in our digitally connected economy, an embedded risk that is here to stay.
Our panel will address issues including how cybersecurity risk has clearly elevated itself to the top of corporate agendas; the implications of the SEC’s 2018 Statement on Cybersecurity Interpretive Guidance as it relates to the duties and responsibilities of corporate boards and corporate officers; why corporate directors must now must consider themselves “on notice” when it comes to cybersecurity; and why corporate boards must now take tangible steps to translate their high-level concerns around cybersecurity risks into specific behaviors and precise actions that are identifiable, capable of being readily implemented and heavily documented.
Please join John Reed Stark, former Chief of the SEC’s Office of Internet Enforcement, now President of John Reed Stark Consulting LLC and David R. Fontaine, former CEO of Kroll, now Senior Advisor to Duff and Phelps (following Kroll’s acquisition by Duff and Phelps), for this timely and relevant webcast.
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Jeff Litvak, Jason Tolmaire
This webcast will cover issues that lawyers often encounter in commercial litigation with reviewing and understanding financial statements. Our panel of accounting experts will cover fundamental accounting concepts and components that are the basis of the financial statement reporting- the statement of financial position (balance sheet), the statement of profit and loss (income statement) and the cash flow statement.
Our panel will also show how to derive meaningful conclusions about the performance of a business through financial ratio analysis and trend analysis.
In addition to understanding and analyzing financial statements, the webcast will highlight recent changes in generally accepted accounting principles that will affect the presentation of information contained in the financial statements.
Please join Jeff Litvak, CPA/ABV/CFF, ASA and Jason Tolmaire, CPA/ABV, both of FTI Consulting’s Forensic & Litigation segment, as they address these issues as well as your questions.
The Bribery Act, Chapter 7: The Americanisation of UK Corporate Crime Recorded: Jun 28 2018 62 mins
Vivian Robinson QC, Barry Vitou, Richard Kovalevsky QC, Julian Glass
The Americanisation of the SFO!
7 years after the entry into force of the Bribery Act, this webcast will look at how far the UK has come. Our panel of expert UK attorneys and consultants will look back over the last 12 months and forecast where we see developments in the year to come.
Our panel will cover key issues including:
--What next with new Director Lisa Osofsky?
--DPA’s, and what next?
--House of Lords review into the Bribery Act – what are they looking at and will anything change?
--Privilege: With the ENRC appeal about to be heard and a couple of new cases in the last 6 months, what is the position right now? Are witness notes protected, or not?
--And much more!
Please join Barry Vitou, Shareholder and Head of London White Collar Defence and Special Investigations, Greenberg Traurig; Julian Glass, Senior Managing Director, Forensic & Litigation Consulting, FTI Consulting; Vivian Robinson, Partner, McGuire Woods; and Richard Kovalevsky QC - 2 Bedford Row for this free webcast in which we'll address these issues and your questions.
The Death Knell for ICOs and Crypto Exchanges? Recorded: May 30 2018 66 mins
John Reed Stark, David Fontaine
The crypto-financing landscape, still barely in its infancy, is caught up in the perfect storm. Initial coin offerings (ICOs), a term meant to describe the offer and sale of digital assets issued and distributed on a blockchain, as well as crypto-trading platforms, where ICO tokens and coins trade like common stock, are under greater scrutiny than ever before – and with good reason.
•Congress has held hearings about crypto-related frauds, expressing grave concerns and demanding regulatory and law enforcement action ASAP;
•The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is on a crypto-enforcement rampage filing new cases every week and remains poised to bring many, many more;
•The U.S. Department of Justice is arresting crypto-related lawbreakers, locking up crypto-promotors and affiliates for a variety of felonious conduct;
•Several U.S. States have initiated crypto-related round-ups and prosecutions, including the New York State Attorney General, who has issued a comprehensive and sweeping first round of inquiry to a broad range of crypto-trading platforms;
•The U.S. Treasury Department and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) have begun a slew of regulatory and enforcement actions pertaining to the litany of anti-money laundering (AML) responsibilities and requirements of crypto-related businesses; and
•The Internal Revenue Service has announced its intention to make sure all crypto-associated taxable events are fully paid and properly recorded.
This webcast explores, in plain English, the various U.S. statutes, rules and regulations which apply to the crypto-marketplace – and how the application of both old and new laws should ultimately shut down all ICOs and crypto-trading platforms involving U.S. investors. Discussion during this one-hour session will focus primarily on the extensive catalogue of applicable SEC and AML regulations.
Securities Regulation of Digital Assets Recorded: Apr 26 2018 57 mins
Alma Angotti, Gino Soave, Martine Beamon and Jai Massari
As a follow-up to our April 4th, 2018 webinar ("Anti-Money Laundering Regulation of Digital Assets"), Alma Angotti, Managing Director and Global Investigations & Compliance Practice Co-Leader and Gino Soave, Director at Navigant; and Martine Beamon and Jai Massari, Partners at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP will examine the impact of the federal securities laws on digital assets.
-- The SEC’s jurisdiction over digital assets and activities involving digital assets
-- The recent focus on the role of intermediaries and gatekeepers in digital asset markets
-- The state of play of enforcement involving digital assets and how the SEC’s approach can guide development of an effective compliance program
The First 48 Hours: Incident Response Strategies Following a Cyber Incident Recorded: Apr 24 2018 53 mins
Luke Tenery, Ted Theisen, Christopher Todd Doss, Daron M. Hartvigsen
This webcast analyzes the first 48 hours following a cybersecurity incident, and lays out incident response strategies that facilitate critical decision making and enable victim companies to rapidly recover.
Having evolved significantly over the past several years, cyber incident response has moved beyond just quantifying the data exposure and hunting for end-point threats. New techniques such as user behaviour analytics and cloud identity management are two examples of game changers in modern incident response. Traditional hard drive forensics were historically the primary source of evidence during a cyber investigation and are now just one component of the effort where broader crisis management, threat pursuit, and information assurances take on prominent roles in the response.
Join Ankura’s senior cybersecurity experts as they share their respective decades of experience in leading organizations through some of the most complex incident response engagements. Learn valuable insights into new approaches in IR that are imperative in today’s initial response in the First 48 hours of a significant cybersecurity incident.
--What are the primary risks and efforts that the most elite incident responders are concerned about in the First 48 hours of a significant security incident?
--What are the key questions inside and outside counsel are asking cybersecurity experts in the First 48 hours of a significant security incident?
--What are some of the new and emergent approaches to cyber IR to better providing better assurances to the victim organization?
--Where are some organizations missing opportunities for greater assurances during the response in the First 48?
The Fate of ALJs and Other Critical Issues Presented in Lucia v. SEC Recorded: Apr 10 2018 68 mins
Britt Whitesell Biles, Meryl D. Grenadier
This seminar will analyze Lucia v. Securities and Exchange Commission, in which the Supreme Court will address the constitutionality of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (“SEC”) Administrative Law Judges. Oral argument in this case is set for April 23, 2018. Among other items, this session will cover:
· An overview of the SEC administrative process, including the genesis of the constitutional challenges to the forum and the changes that the SEC made to its Rules of Practice in response to those constitutional challenges;
· A review of the key Appointments Clause jurisprudence leading up to Lucia;
· An analysis of the potential outcomes of Lucia; and
· A practical discussion of the potential impact of Lucia on SEC administrative proceedings, whether pending or already adjudicated.
Please join Britt Whitesell Biles and Meryl D. Grenadier from Stein Mitchell Cipollone Beato & Missner LLP as they discuss this important Supreme Court case and its potential impact on SEC administrative proceedings. Ms. Biles recently joined Stein Mitchell from the SEC, where she served as Assistant Chief Litigation Counsel in the Division of Enforcement. At the SEC, Ms. Biles investigated and litigated securities enforcement actions, including administrative proceedings. In 2017, Ms. Biles received the SEC Chairman’s Award for Excellence for leading the litigation in the SEC’s groundbreaking law firm hacking case in which Chinese nationals were charged with securities fraud for trading on the basis of material nonpublic information that was stolen from law firms when their networks were hacked.
Anti-Money Laundering Regulation of Digital Assets Recorded: Apr 4 2018 68 mins
Alma Angotti, Gino Soave, Claiborne (Clay) Porter, Jason Somensatto
Within recent months, U.S. and international regulators have been moving swiftly to regulate cryptocurrency in various ways. On February 13, 2018, the U.S. Department of Treasury Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), in a letter to Senator Ron Wyden, Ranking Member on the Senate Finance Committee, reiterated its position that cryptocurrency exchanges are required to register as Money Service Businesses (MSB). The requirement to register as an MSB triggers the obligation to develop, document an anti-money laundering (AML) and sanctions compliance program.
In a panel discussion, Alma Angotti, Managing Director and Global Investigations & Compliance Practice Co-Leader at Navigant; Gino Soave, a Director in Navigant’s Global Investigations & Compliance Practice; Claiborne (Clay) Porter, Managing Director and Head of Investigations at Navigant; and Jason Somensatto, Of Counsel at Orrick discuss the practical effects of FinCEN’s position and how companies in this industry can ensure that they don’t run afoul of AML and sanctions regulation and enforcement.
-- Determining whether your organization should be registered as an MSB
-- Developing, implementing and maintaining an effective AML and sanctions compliance program
-- How to address AML and sanctions compliance in an ever changing regulatory environment
Preparing for the New Revenue Recognition Rules & Other Corp. Accounting Updates Recorded: Mar 15 2018 62 mins
Cathy Connolly, Jonathan Shapiro
The first quarterly reporting deadline for public companies is quickly approaching, and that reporting for the first time will include significant disclosures related to the newly-implemented accounting standards. By January 2018, companies were expected to update revenue recognition rules for all revenue arising from contracts with customers, which requires not only a change to financial statements, but related disclosures, business processes and internal controls over financial reporting.
In a panel discussion, Cathy Connolly of StoneTurn and Jonathan Shapiro of Baker Botts will focus on the changes brought about by the new rules, and address the questions they raise.
-- What types of issues may be brought to light? From what sources (internal, SEC, other)?
-- How does a company and its counsel respond?
-- What is the board’s response?
-- How can the key problems be quickly identified, and an effective response, including a remediation plan, be implemented?
One Year Later: French Anti-Corruption Law (Sapin II) Update Recorded: Feb 27 2018 63 mins
Xavier Oustalniol, Daniel Kadar, Dominique Laymand
Sapin II, the new French anti-corruption law, has been in effect for nearly a year now. The new law required companies with operations in France to implement compliance programs, created a new French anti-bribery agency, and created a judicial agreement similar in structure to the U.S. deferred prosecution agreement (“DPA”).
In a panel discussion, Xavier Oustalniol of StoneTurn, Daniel Kadar of Reed Smith and Dominique Laymand of Ipsen will provide an update on how these changes in French law are impacting companies and whistleblowers.
-- A Look at the Anti-Corruption Landscape
-- How are Affected Companies Handling the New Compliance Rules?
-- Quantifying the Anticipated Impact of the Law in Years to Come
A Review of SEC Enforcement in 2017 and What’s Ahead for 2018 Recorded: Jan 18 2018 63 mins
In this annual webcast, our panel will analyze key SEC enforcement developments from 2017, and will discuss what to expect in 2018. Among other items, the panel will address:
• new SEC leadership and its new priorities;
• current legal and policy issues arising from cases involving the FCPA, financial fraud, insider trading, and investment management; and
• developments in the Whistleblower Program, the new Cyber Unit and Retail Strategy Task Force, and other ongoing initiatives.
Please join panelists Bill McLucas from Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP; Doug Davison from Linklaters; and Marty Wilczynski and Steve Richards from Ankura Consulting as they address these and other developments in SEC enforcement.
Navigating Dodd-Frank’s Whistleblower Provisions and the FCPA (2017 Update) Recorded: Dec 7 2017 97 mins
F. Joseph Warin, John W.F. Chesley, Greta B. Williams, Sean X. McKessy, Jim Barratt
In the midst of reported declines in securities enforcement, 2017 was yet another record year for reports to the SEC’s Office of the Whistleblower. In the six-year history of Dodd-Frank’s whistleblower provisions, the SEC has turned tens of thousands of tips into nearly a billion dollars in enforcement actions, returning over $160 million of the pockets of whistleblowers. In 2017, the SEC continued to financially reward those who come forward with information concerning potential securities violations as well as take aggressive enforcement actions against those alleged to have discouraged whistleblowing through retaliation or restrictive severance agreements. On top of all this, the federal courts continue to teem with civil anti-retaliation claims and the Supreme Court has agreed to decide the foundational question of whether Dodd-Frank’s anti-retaliation provisions apply to those who have not reported to the SEC.
These trends, coupled with dynamic developments in FCPA enforcement, provide the perfect storm for keeping in-house counsel and compliance professionals up at night.
Securities Docket is pleased to present its sixth annual webcast on the intersection of Dodd-Frank’s whistleblower provisions and the FCPA. This free 90-minute webcast will include a dynamic and participatory discussion on the statutory and regulatory framework of Dodd-Frank’s whistleblower provisions, discuss their interpretation by the SEC Office of the Whistleblower and federal courts, analyze their intersection with the FCPA, and provide participants with practical tips for navigating the minefield of whistleblower complaints.
The Growing Impact of Corporate Investigations:Trends in SEC and DOJ Enforcement Recorded: Nov 9 2017 69 mins
Rex Homme, Catherine Moreno
Internal investigations have become a much higher-stakes issue for companies of all sizes. The SEC filed a record high number of enforcement actions in 2016. In recent years, the U.S. Department of Justice has expanded its interest in internal investigations from the “what” and “why” to also include an emphasis on “how” companies conduct them. Now, the two agencies are more actively coordinating on investigations involving accounting fraud and FCPA issues.
In a panel discussion, Rex Homme of StoneTurn and Catherine Moreno of Wilson Sonsini will focus on the impact of heightened scrutiny on corporate compliance programs, best practices for responding to government inquiries and how to avoid enforcement actions.
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Title: Madoff Litigation: Can the Lost Billions be Recovered? How?
Live at: Jan 14 2009 7:00 pm
Presented by: Gerald Silk, Brad Friedman, Dr. Fred Dunbar
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Shocking sight of pony dumped by roadside triggers call for greater action against cruelty
Warning: Some people may find this story distressing
Andrew McQuarrie
The dead pony near Pucklechurch pictured by Dan Smith (Image: Dan Smith)
A dead pony found dumped by a roadside has prompted calls for a clampdown against animal abusers.
Dan Smith, 26, was stunned to come across the young horse on a quiet lane near Pucklechurch, South Gloucestershire.
He said: “I was just gutted at the fact that someone has put the time and the money into the horse to look after it and then for someone to throw it on the side of the road like a bit of rubbish, it’s a bit gutting.”
Mr Smith, of Emersons Green, fears the horse’s demise marks the most recent case of animal cruelty in the Bristol area.
Dan Smith, 26, of Emersons Green, shared pictures of a dumped pony in a bid to raise awareness of potential animal abuse
It comes after a family were devastated to receive footage of their cat with its head cut off.
Mr Smith said his partner, who keeps three horses, was alerted to the dead pony at around 8am this morning (September 29).
When Mr Smith went to investigate, he was so aghast at the sight of the cob he published pictures on social media to raise awareness among the local community.
He told Bristol Live: “You can’t go around dumping horses at the side of the road - they need to be disposed of properly.
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“People like us spend hundreds and hundreds going about it the right way.”
Mr Smith said he contacted the RSPCA, who suggested getting in touch with South Gloucestershire Council.
The horse was removed at around 4pm, according to Mr Smith, who thought the animal must have been in good condition prior to its death.
He said: “It looks like it’s been really well cared for. It’s been shod and it’s a healthy weight and it was a stallion.”
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But the Network Rail technician urged the authorities to step up their efforts to catch anyone guilty of animal cruelty.
He said: “In Bristol there has been so much lately with domestic animals being abused, I think the police need to do more to tackle it and prosecute those responsible.”
Within four hours of Mr Smith’s Facebook post being published it had been shared more than 1,000 times and generated more than 600 comments.
Police announced this evening that they have now arrested and released a man under investigation following the beheading of the cat.
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GOLD Comedy Is More Than Just a Comedy Class: It’s an Empowerment Tool for Women
For years, the stand-up comedy world has been a man’s domain. Women coming up through the ranks have been gaining steadily (like Lena Waithe or the entire cast of Ghostbusters), but in a climate where members of the old guard are being outed for their alleged mistreatment of women (looking at you, Louis C.K.), it may be a scary prospect for younger women and non-binary folks to figure out just how to get out there.
Which is where GOLD Comedy School comes in. Its brand new online class for women and “other” (non-binary, genderqueer and trans) aspiring comedians launches TODAY, and for a mere $19 gives students the goods to get a stand-up routine polished and ready for the stage.
GOLD founder Lynn Harris believes that making comedy more accessible to women is essential (check out her new Time magazine essay, “Louis C.K. Is Just the Latest Reason We Need More Women in Comedy“). Harris believes now is the best time to give girls and women the tools to succeed in a male-dominated industry.
Using the tagline, “COMEDY is POWER,” GOLD wants to enable young women and NB folks to hone their skills and learn everything from how to write a joke (including writing prompts, character style, and delivery) to what a stage performance should look like. Using examples like Tig Notaro, nerdy comedian Naomi Ekperigin, and some classic Ellen Degeneres stand-up, the five-module course should get you from being snarky with your friends to slaying on stage.
As Harris explains, the entire comedy world sidelines women’s voices. GOLD intends to harness the comedy world — as an art form, a business, a consumer product, and a cultural expression — and to give that power to women and girls to achieve the same status as already-famous men.
“It doesn’t matter whether you’re in a middle-school classroom or a corporate conference room, girls and women are made to second-guess who we are. Be more of this, be less of that, fix this, change that,” Harris told The Cut in 2016. And that’s exactly what she’s hoping will end, whether or not students of GOLD Comedy end up in Hollywood or not.
“What makes you different is what makes you funny and what makes you funny is what makes you strong. The message is: don’t fix anything about you. Comedy is power and I want more people to have that power.”
Would you take an online comedy course? Tell us @BritandCo!
(Photo by Vivien Killilea/Getty Images for SiriusXM)
Kat has been a writer, social media maven and mom for longer than she's willing to admit. She's also spent time in front of and behind the camera, interviewing celebs, politicians and acting as a producer for fashion and artistic photography shoots. When she isn't writing for various orgs and publications, she's hanging with her kids, husband and French Bulldog, Peter, in Toronto, Canada.
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NEWS: Safety and health experts gather in Singapore
By Matthew Holder on 05 September 2017
Over 3,000 delegates arrive in Singapore to attend the XXI World Congress on Safety and Health 2017 (3-6 September) to focus on prevention and a vision zero. However the new digital economy is quickly established as a common concern, bringing new risks that might waylay the best laid plans.
There was little doubt about the main theme of the Congress. Sunday's opening ceremony, with presentations by the Singapore Prime Minister, Congress President and leaders of the ILO and ISSA, all made the same point that it's now time to act on a belief that all work-related accidents and illnesses are preventable.
This 'vision zero' is graspable if the right approach is taken to empower individuals with the right knowledge and skills, and if good work can become the norm. The theme continued into Monday with the launch of ISSA's Vision Zero campaign, a celebration uplifted by waving flags, dancing drummers and bright visuals (see headline picture and below).
Of course with 2.78 million deaths at work a year, costing $2.97 billion (ILO), this vision seems a little far off. Is there not a danger that Congress falls into a gap between rhetoric and reality - a gap of its own making?
The global economy is deeply fragmented and unequal and though leaders of safety and health remain adamant that change can be delivered and speakers spoke about a range of interventions, from the role of inspectors to customised training to insurance, the feeling persists that a truth glossed over is still a truth.
Though the UK's Kevin Myers made a good point that inspectors can trigger more worker involvement - commonly believed to be critical to preventing deaths and illnesses - with inspectors dwindling and investment in public services threatened, how many workers are going to see these inspectors?
Picture by Matthew Holder
Congress is, however, very good in recognising the changing world of work and the kinds of risks it can create. Since the last Congress in 2014, the pace of change has increased and now there is much more talk of automation, precarious working practices and the 'gig'-economy (also called here 'Uberisation').
Technological change seems to be overtaking anxieties around demographic change as the 'big one' for the safety and health community to get to grips with. ISSA's President Joachim Breuer gave a thought-provoking talk of the risks: digital platforms that demand 'likes' can generate conditions where workers have to put up with unacceptable behaviour; where workers are turned into independent contractors they can lose influence over their working environment; and vitally where you have people and AI machines working together, who owns the risk, and therefore controls it?
If that last question is ignored then workers lives may well be put at risk in a new form of 19th Century laissez-faireism. President Breuer's brave stab at this was to call for liability to rest with the software developers - a logic that has appeal but likely to be vehemently opposed.
With so many OSH leaders present, Congress is also an opportunity to listen to the latest research. Christa Sedlatschet from EU-OSHA delivered a presentation on how EU member states are implanting OSH strategies at the country level.
There was a rich gathering of material showing how member states are keeping up with requirements to track existing, new and emerging risks and demographic change. There is also a new EU-OSH information system in the offing, though it is unclear when this work will be completed - some talk at Congress of a release by the end of 2017.
Monday's Symposia on 'OSH in the new digital world,' once again returned to a main topic of the Congress. A range of experts from Germany, Finland, Slovakia and Australia spoke. The one that grabbed attention was Cameron Stevens from Australia who pointed out that all OSH experts are futurists - they are all about predicting and mitigating risks before accidents occur.
He continued his interest in OSH professionals and the value they will bring once automation gets hold of many of our jobs. For Cameron, some of their role will be automated but OSH training for professionals needs to focus on those human capabilities that are essential and irreplaceable (according to Cameron) - curiosity, empathy, design thinking. This requires a mind shift in the industry that he for one is still waiting to see.
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From cult comedy film to family show
PUBLISHED: 17:10 11 February 2009 | UPDATED: 17:23 16 August 2010
The cavernous proscenium arch and generous acting area at the Churchill make it ideal for staging musicals, and a full house greeted the latest production of
The cavernous proscenium arch and generous acting area at the Churchill make it ideal for staging musicals, and a full house greeted the latest production of Little Shop of Horrors with avid anticipation.
With a nod and a wink to the Rocky Horror Show, Howard Ashman and Alan Menken have given a Jewish twist to the horror genre with this New York setting of Roger Corman's low-budget thriller flick.
A cunning set by David Farley shows us the inside and outside of Mr Mushnik's (Sylvester McCoy with a Yiddish touch) florist shop on skid row. Outside in the shabby street, three winos and a hooker introduce us to the run-down neighbourhood where the action takes place.
Three wisecracking local girls pump out a high-energy number where they sing to us of the harsh realities of life at the bottom of the ladder, and the alluring Audrey (beautifully performed by Clare Buckfield) Mr Mushnik's platinum blonde assistant weaves her way through the bums to makes her appearance in the shop, late, as usual, and with a nasty black-eye from her new love interest, the leather-clad biker Orin Scrivello. Alex Ferns makes the most of this gross character and we are not at all sorry to see him suffocate himself with an overdose of nitrous oxide. Seymour, a dysfunctional nerd (artfully captured by Damian Humbley) has been taken in by the kindly Mr Mushnik, and helps out round the shop. However, his interest in plants has taken a slightly kinky twist when a little old Chinese man sells him a strange green pot-plant with a domed head and a thirst for blood.
Mathew White has done a great job of recreating this iconic show for the Churchill (and beyond) and the highs and lows are engineered superbly to deliver a sparkling mix of horror, glamour, Rock-n-Roll and horticulture.
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Author: Anthony Horowitz
Category: Fiction / Fiction: Age Groups / Fiction: Age 15 - 16
BIC Subject: Espionage & spy thriller
Published By: Random House Australia
Published: 16-Apr-2019
Format: Paperback, 352 pages, 0x0mm
THE NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Exciting... 007 is back? Daily Express 'Evil villains, fast cars...and the story rips along? Guardian The explosive prequel to Casino Royale, from bestselling author Anthony Horowitz ***** A SPY IS DEAD One body. Three bullets. A British agent floats in the waters of the French Riviera, murdered by an unknown hand. A LEGEND IS BORN Determined to uncover the truth, James Bond enters a world of fast cars, grand casinos and luxury yachts. But beneath the glamour, he soon encounters a dangerous network of organised crime. THIS IS HOW IT ALL BEGAN It?s time for Bond to earn his licence to kill. He must find those responsible and unravel their devastating plan - before he becomes their next victim... ***** 'Tremendous fun... Horowitz has the discipline and skill of a first-class action writer? Sunday Express 'Horowitz excels at action sequences? Sunday TimesTHE NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Exciting... 007 is back? Daily Express 'Evil villains, fast cars...and the story rips along? Guardian The explosive prequel to Casino Royale, from bestselling author Anthony Horowitz ***** A SPY IS DEAD One body. Three bullets. A British agent floats in the waters of the French Riviera, murdered by an unknown hand. A LEGEND IS BORN Determined to uncover the truth, James Bond enters a world of fast cars, grand casinos and luxury yachts. But beneath the glamour, he soon encounters a dangerous network of organised crime. THIS IS HOW IT ALL BEGAN It?s time for Bond to earn his licence to kill. He must find those responsible and unravel their devastating plan - before he becomes their next victim... ***** 'Tremendous fun... Horowitz has the discipline and skill of a first-class action writer? Sunday Express 'Horowitz excels at action sequences? Sunday Times
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Wife of former rifleman found dead at the weekend says her husband didn't get enough support for his PTSD
Christchurch veteran who suffered from PTSD died at the weekend
By Greg Luckhurst
THE WIFE of an ex-rifleman from Christchurch has said that a lack of support from the military after his service contributed to his death.
Alicia Davis said has criticised a ‘lack of intervention’ to help her husband Jamie through PTSD.
Mr Davis, 30, went missing on Friday night. His friends immediately shared photographs on social media and joined the police in a widescale search.
However, a police statement confirmed his body was found on Saturday morning in the Totton area.
Mrs Davis said: “He heard over the radio that his best mate get shot in the head and die, he was involved in IED explosions and he has been shot at.
“However, when he came back, he received no help from the army and it still seems as though nothing is being brought forward.
“Jamie went through severe PTSD and I was worried about him getting any help. He would get referred to doctors, but they wouldn’t know how to deal with it.”
Although a happy, smiling man on the surface, Mr Davis suffered from severe night terrors. His PTSD was triggered by fire alarms and crowded spaces.
He was 18 when he deployed out to Iraq and 19 when he was sent on his first tour of Afghanistan for 4 Rifles.
“The fact that servicemen put their bodies on the line for their country and sacrifice everything, you would at least expect there to be help in place when they come back to the UK,” Mrs Davis said.
“I have no problem with people going out to represent their country at war, but you will see so much stuff at that age which can affect you in later life.
“They risk everything for all of us and it’s disgusting that the help isn’t there when they need it.”
Veterans minister offers condolences to family and friends of former rifleman Jamie Davis
Mr Davis had two young sons, 11-year-old Brandon, who is autistic, and eight-year-old Freddy.
He played tighthead prop for East Dorset RFC and was a key member to the team both on and off the pitch.
When it was announced Jamie gone missing on Friday night, many of his teammates at East Dorset lent a hand with spreading the appeal on social media and helping with search efforts.
“I couldn’t believe the support and how many people helped out, they dropped everything to try and find him,” said Alicia.
“When we found out on Saturday morning, I had heard they all the boys had met up at the club. So, I made a point of going down there to tell them the news and pass on my thanks in trying to look for him. They were all gutted.
“Since then the support I have had has been brilliant, guys have been messaging me to see if I am OK and whether I need any help with shopping or the kids.”
Morgan Edwards, captain of the East Dorset Ladies Team, set up a crowdfunding page on GoFundMe, which has raised nearly £4,500 for the family in just a couple of days.
She said: “He was our number three, a fantastic player and a really wonderful guy. He would be at every fundraiser or event at the club.
“First of all, we would like to help his family out and cover the initial costs. His passing was very untimely for the family so we would like to help them out as best we could
“We’re looking to donate the money left over from the fundraiser to a charity of his wife’s choice.
“We also want to see what we can do within the sport to promote mental health.”
Members of the local rugby community have pulled together in sending their condolences and agreeing to host fundraisers in Jamie’s name.
Alicia said: “My youngest son has been saving up his Christmas money and pocket money for months now.
“When I showed him the GoFundMe page and he saw how much people were donating and the messages they had left on the page, he decided he wanted to donate all of the money which had saved up to the crowdfunding page.
“He said he wanted his daddy to go to a good place.”
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For any readers who have been affected by this story, call the Samaritans helpline on 116 123.
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Camp Countdown
Saturday, Jul 13, 2019 07:00 AM
Camp Countdown: No. 12 - Five positions to watch at training camp
Free agent signee Ty Nsekhe will be among the top candidates battling for a starting spot along the new-look offensive line later this summer.
Bills training camp is right around the corner and we shift our focus to the key position groups that have some ground to cover this summer in preparation for the regular season.
1. Wide Receiver
Josh Allen has some new weapons this season. The second-year quarterback will get his first chance to utilize a fully healthy group when training camp begins.
John Brown missed some OTAs due to personal reasons, Cole Beasley had core muscle surgery in the spring while Zay Jones and Robert Foster each dealt with nagging issues that kept them on the sidelines during OTAs and minicamp. All four figure to be a full go at St. John Fisher.
All eyes will be on Brown and Beasley because they're brand new free agent acquisitions, but they also need a ton of reps to build chemistry with Allen in the passing game.
Jones is bigger and stronger than ever entering year three. He led the Bills in receiving yards (652) and touchdowns (7) last season and could be primed for a breakout year.
Foster can focus more on diversifying his routes and re-establishing the timing with Allen this season instead of worrying about his roster spot. Foster can be the key to opening up the offense in 2019.
2. Right Tackle
The starting right tackle position is still up for grabs. Rookie Cody Ford received the majority of first-team reps throughout the offseason with free agent acquisition Ty Nsekhe missing minicamp after suffering an injury near the end of OTAs.
The Bills also have free agent signee LaAdrian Waddle who rotated at each tackle spot but mostly with the second team.
Nsekhe is looking to earn his first full-time starting role in the NFL at age 33 after backing up linemen in Washington the past four seasons, earning 16 career starts.
The Bills traded up to draft Ford in the second-round of the 2019 NFL draft and certainly expect him to bring the same physical style he was known for at Oklahoma.
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3. Tight End
It seemed as if Tyler Kroft's foot injury derailed the Bills' plans for its tight end position this season. Kroft, whose timetable to return is unknown, was the prized free agent addition to replace Charles Clay.
But the Bills were almost clairvoyant in drafting a pair of tight ends in this year's draft. Dawson Knox and Tommy Sweeney each bring something different to the table .
Knox is the uber-athletic pass catcher whose former experience has helped him gain a firm grasp of the offensive scheme, while Sweeney is known as more of a versatile tight end after operating in a pro-style offense at Boston College.
The two rookies have stepped into the top two tight end roles comfortably with teammates at the same position missing time. Kroft is still the presumed starter when healthy but both rookies can make solid impacts early in their careers.
A major contender for the starting role in the absence of Kroft, however is third-year player Jason Croom, who flashed last season and was putting together a strong spring before a hamstring injury sidelined him.
4. Cornerback
Tre'Davious White will be the number one cornerback this season but that seems like the only firm decision made among his position contingent. Levi Wallace is battling to keep his role opposite White on the outside and the battle has heated up at the nickel position with Taron Johnson and Siran Neal.
The Bills boast a youthful group at cornerback with all three current starters (White, Wallace, T. Johnson) entering either their second or third seasons.
Wallace was undrafted and earned his spot with the team midway through 2018 while Johnson powered through a shoulder injury his rookie season. The two are confident they can keep their spots for the upcoming season but have a pair of veterans breathing down their necks for that spot.
Buffalo brought back E.J. Gaines, who played with the team in 2017, and added former first-round pick Kevin Johnson through free agency. Gaines is still familiar with the defense and has chemistry with everyone on the 2017 roster. Johnson was a standout from camp, consistently getting his hands in the passing lanes. Head coach Sean McDermott has emphasized the importance of winning the turnover battle this season, and whoever makes the most plays on the ball could find their way into the starting lineup.
Free agent addition Kevin Johnson will get a chance to compete for a starting cornerback spot at camp this summer.
5. Guard
The least set position along the offensive line is at guard. Neither guard spot boasts a clear front-runner and the Bills have plenty of options.
Spencer Long, Ike Boettger, Jon Feliciano, Quinton Spain, Wyatt Teller and Jeremiah Sirles are the top competitors for the two spots.
Long has the versatility to play either guard spot or center and earned snaps on the first team offense at all three positions. Feliciano has previously worked with offensive line coach Bobby Johnson in Oakland and has the physical and nasty style that coaches like to see.
Spain started 48 out of 50 games at left guard for Tennessee and wants to keep his starting role with the Bills. He's recovering from a thumb injury but should be cleared for training camp.
Boettger, Teller and Sirles all got playing time for the Bills last season. Buffalo knew it needed to upgrade the offensive line and brought in competition for the young players. Teller probably has the best chance to compete for a starting role.
Camp Countdown: No. 1 - Will the Bills return to the playoffs?
Camp Countdown, presented by Connors & Ferris, will examine some of the more pressing issues facing the team on the field, and players who could make a difference as the team makes its final preparations for the regular season.
Camp Countdown: No. 2 - Three reasons why Josh Allen's game will take a big leap forward
Camp Countdown: No. 3 - Can Buffalo's defense repeat as a top 5 unit?
Camp Countdown: No. 4 - Which rookie will have the most immediate impact?
Camp Countdown: No. 5 - Who will be the top target in the Bills passing game?
Camp Countdown: No. 6 - Who are the training camp sleepers?
Camp Countdown: No. 7 - Three reasons why there should be a takeaway spike in 2019
Camp Countdown: No. 8 - What should be expected from Brian Daboll's offense in year two?
Camp Countdown: No. 9 -10 things to know about camp at St. John Fisher College
Camp Countdown, presented by Connors and Ferris, will examine some of the more pressing issues facing the team on the field, and players who could make a difference as the team makes its final preparations for the regular season. In this edition, we present fans 10 things they should know when paying a visit to camp this summer.
Camp Countdown: No. 10 - Who will be the starting right tackle?
Camp Countdown, presented by Connors and Ferris, will examine some of the more pressing issues facing the team on the field, and players who could make a difference as the team makes its final preparations for the regular season.
Camp Countdown: No. 11 - What should be expected from Ed Oliver?
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How Apple's latest acquisition could make the iPhone 7's camera amazing
Lisa Eadicicco
Apple just bought an Israel-based camera company called LinX for an estimated $20 million, as the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.
LinX's technology won't only enable the iPhone to take better, sharper images — it could also allow the phone to capture three-dimensional photos, eliminate an annoying aesthetic problem where the cameras on the latest iPhones stick out, and solve a bunch of other problems, according to analysts from Macquarie:
Macquarie writes (emphasis ours):
LinX is an Israeli CCM maker with leading technologies in multiple sensors, which provides better performance in terms of low light shooting, HDR, refocusing, color fidelity, and shutter lag...Apple should be able to reduce the height of CCM by replacing one large sensor with multiple smaller ones (so no more protruding cameras), reduce noise, improve sensitivity and sharpness in a low-light environment, and enable 3-D object modeling.
In other words, it sounds like LinX's technology would enable Apple to improve the quality of the iPhone's camera without having it protrude from the back of the device like it does on the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus.
The analysts also note that the iPhone 7 could come with a "duo cam" feature thanks to LinX, which sounds similar to what the HTC One M8 already offers. This means that the phone would come with more than one camera sensor, so that it could captures depth of field images that look three dimensional, and you'd be able to add effects like blurring the background.
Although there's no indication that Apple will use LinX's technology for any of its products, the reported acquisition comes as the competition is making improvements to their smartphone cameras, too. The camera on the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge, for example, takes much better low-light images than the Galaxy S5 and can track subjects as they move.
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American Begonia society Convention Tours for 2015
Buxton Branch has three days of tours planned for Convention attendees. Enjoy reading about these destinations below. Look for information about programs and speakers in the next Begonian.
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. Photo used with permission by Bill Manley.
Photos used with permission of Harvard Natural History Museum
Wednesday, July 29th Trip to Harvard Museum of Natural History and Lyman Estate Greenhouses
The Glass Flowers and Sea Creatures in Glass at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, Cambridge, MA
The Glass Flower collection, one of the museum’s most famous treasures, represents 847 plant species and includes over 3,000 models on display. The collection was created by German glass artisans, Leopold Blaschka and his son, Rudolf. The Blaschkas signed an exclusive contract with Harvard to make the collection, working on the models over five decades from 1886 to 1936. The collection of Blaschka Glass Invertebrates contains 430 models of marine and terrestrial animals; before being commissioned by Harvard to make the Glass Flowers, the father and son team meticulously shaped glass into these lifelike models. Click here to go to the Harvard Museum of Natural History permanent exhibits website. Also, there are some very interesting articles about the collection, one is a blog perspective from a local horticulturist, The Glass Flower Exhibit - Harvard Museum of Natural History, and the other is an article that appeared in the Journal of Antiques and Collectibles, The Fragile Beauty of Harvard's Glass Flowers. The museum has shared with us a recent article that may also be of interest, Forever in Bloom, Glass Flowers at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.
Photos used with permission of HistoricNewEngland.org
Lyman Estate Greenhouses, Waltham, MA
The Lyman Estate consists of an historic mansion, carriage house, 37 acres of gardens and grounds, and a complex of four greenhouses which are among the oldest surviving greenhouses in the U.S. The complex of greenhouses include an 1804 grape house, 1920 camellia house, 1840 orchid house, and a 1980 sales greenhouse where visitors can purchase plants, including begonias, gesneriads, and succulents. Click here to go to Historic New England website for more information.
One of Logee's begonia aisles-- plants ready for sale.
Thursday, July 30th Logee's Greenhouses and Store, and Roger Williams Botanical Center
Logee’s Greenhouses, Danielson, CT
Logee’s Greenhouses was started by William Logee in 1892 as his interest grew in tropical and unusual plants. William’s eldest son, Ernest Logee, became interested in horticulture, focusing his interests in the unusual form of begonias. Ernest hybridized begonias for Logee’s and was one of the original founders of the American Begonia Society, creating the Buxton Branch in Massachusetts. Please note that Logee’s greenhouses are not handicap accessible. Click here to go to Logee's website.
Roger Williams Botanical Center, Providence, RI
The Botanical Center at the Roger Williams Park is the largest indoor garden open to the public in New England, encompassing approximately 12,00 square feet in two connected greenhouses filed with plants, fountains, a fish pond, and a small waterfall. It is also the home of the Rhode Island Branch of ABS, meeting at the Botanical Center since its inception in 2008. Those who do this tour will enjoy seeing begonias grow in more natural conditions, such as in the ground and even a begonia growing on a tree branch! Click here to go to Roger Williams Botanical Center website.
Friday, July 31st Trip to Tower Hill Botanic Garden
Tower Hill Botanic Garden, Boylston, MA
Tower Hill is the only botanic garden of its kind in New England. It has eight distinct gardens dedicated to woody plants, vegetables, plant systematics, winter interest, fruits, perennials, and wildlife. The Orangerie and Limonaia house non-hardy plants from around the world with an emphasis on those from the southern hemisphere and Mediterranean regions. Tower Hill is the site of an orchard displaying the Davenport Collection of more than 199 pre-20th century apple varieties.
Click here to go to Tower Hill Botanic Garden's website.
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Use of Cannabidiol in the Treatment of Epilepsy: Efficacy and Security in Clinical Trials.
By | Brain Disorders, Epilepsy, Nervous System Diseases, Neurologic Manifestations
Authors: Serena Silvestro, Santa Mammana, Eugenio Cavalli, Placido Bramanti, Emanuela Mazzon
Molecules, April 2019
Cannabidiol (CBD) is one of the cannabinoids with non-psychotropic action, extracted from Cannabis sativa. CBD is a terpenophenol and it has received a great scientific interest thanks to its medical applications. This compound showed efficacy as anti-seizure, antipsychotic, n…
Cannabis use predicts risks of heart failure and cerebrovascular accidents: results from the National Inpatient Sample.
By | Brain Disorders, Cardiovascular Diseases, Medical Cannabis, Nervous System Diseases
Authors: Aditi Kalla, Parasuram Krishnamoorthy, Akshaya Gopalakrishnan, Vincent Figueredo
Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine, September 2018
BACKGROUND: Cannabis for medicinal and/or recreational purposes has been decriminalized in 28 states as of the 2016 election. In the remaining states, cannabis remains the most commonly used illicit drug. Cardiovascular effects of cannabis use are not well established due to a…
Evidence for cannabis and cannabinoids for epilepsy: a systematic review of controlled and observational evidence.
By | Brain Disorders, Epilepsy, Medical Cannabis, Nervous System Diseases
Authors: Emily Stockings, Dino Zagic, Gabrielle Campbell, Megan Weier, Wayne D Hall, et al
Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, July 2018
Review evidence for cannabinoids as adjunctive treatments for treatment-resistant epilepsy. Systematic search of Medline, Embase and PsycINFO was conducted in October 2017. Outcomes were: 50%+ seizure reduction, complete seizure freedom; improved quality of life (QoL). Tolerab…
Efficacy of artisanal preparations of cannabidiol for the treatment of epilepsy: Practical experiences in a tertiary medical center.
Authors: Giulia S. Porcaria, Cary Fub, Emily D. Doll, Emma G. Carter, Robert P. Carson
Epilepsy & Behavior, March 2018
Medically refractory epilepsy continues to be a challenge worldwide, and despite an increasing number of medical therapies, approximately 1 in 3 patients continues to have seizures. Cannabidiol (CBD), one of many constituents of the Cannabis sativa or marijuana plant, has rece…
Cannabinoids in treatment-resistant epilepsy: A review.
Authors: Brooke K. O’Connell, David Gloss, Orrin Devinsky
Epilepsy & Behavior, May 2017
Treatment-resistant epilepsy (TRE) affects 30% of epilepsy patients and is associated with severe morbidity and increased mortality. Cannabis-based therapies have been used to treat epilepsy for millennia, but only in the last few years have we begun to collect data from adequ…
Cannabidiol as a new treatment for drug-resistant epilepsy in tuberous sclerosis complex.
By | Brain Disorders, Epilepsy, Nervous System Diseases
Authors: Evan J. Hess, Kirsten A. Moody, Alexandra L. Geffrey, Sarah F. Pollack, et al
Epilepsia, October 2016
OBJECTIVE: Tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) is an autosomal-dominant genetic disorder with highly variable expression. The most common neurologic manifestation of TSC is epilepsy, which affects approximately 85% of patients, 63% of whom develop treatment-resistant epilepsy. He…
Δ9-THC Intoxication by Cannabidiol-Enriched Cannabis Extract in Two Children with Refractory Epilepsy: Full Remission after Switching to Purified Cannabidiol.
Authors: José A. S. Crippa, Ana C. S. Crippa, Jaime E. C. Hallak, Rocio Martín-Santos, Antonio W. Zuardi
Frontiers in Pharmacology, 30 September 2016
Animal studies and preliminary clinical trials have shown that cannabidiol (CBD)-enriched extracts may have beneficial effects for children with treatment-resistant epilepsy. However, these compounds are not yet registered as medicines by regulatory agencies. We describe the c…
Clinical Endocannabinoid Deficiency Reconsidered: Current Research Supports the Theory in Migraine, Fibromyalgia, Irritable Bowel, and Other Treatment-Resistant Syndromes.
By | Anorexia, Behavioral Health, Brain Disorders, Clinical Endocannabinoid Deficiency, Digestive System Diseases, Headache Disorders, Immune System Diseases , Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Multiple Sclerosis, Nervous System Diseases, Parkinsonian Disorders, Stress Disorders - Post-Traumatic
Authors: Ethan B. Russo
Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research, 1 July 2016
Medicine continues to struggle in its approaches to numerous common subjective pain syndromes that lack objective signs and remain treatment resistant. Foremost among these are migraine, fibromyalgia, and irritable bowel syndrome, disorders that may overlap in their affected p…
Cannabidiol in patients with treatment-resistant epilepsy: an open-label interventional trial.
Authors: Orrin Devinsky, Eric Marsh, Daniel Friedman, Elizabeth Thiele, Linda Laux, et al
The Lancet Neurology, March 2016
BACKGROUND: Almost a third of patients with epilepsy have a treatment-resistant form, which is associated with severe morbidity and increased mortality. Cannabis-based treatments for epilepsy have generated much interest, but scientific data are scarce. We aimed to establish w…
Cannabinoids and Epilepsy.
By | Epilepsy
Authors: Evan C. Rosenberg, Richard W. Tsien, Benjamin J. Whalley, Orrin Devinsky
Neurotherapeutics, October 2015
Cannabis has been used for centuries to treat seizures. Recent anecdotal reports, accumulating animal model data, and mechanistic insights have raised interest in cannabis-based antiepileptic therapies. In this study, we review current understanding of the endocannabinoid syst…
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Calculate Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) when buying a property in Bradford for £250,000.
Calculate Stamp Duty has been setup as a simple website and tool to do just that ... Calculate your stamp duty land tax liability, when purchasing a new home or property in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
When you buy a residential property in Bradford that is greater than £125,000 then a Stamp Duty Tax levy is applicable.
I am buying a property in Bradford, when is Stamp Duty Land Tax due? Which property transactions attract a Stamp Duty charge or SDLT?
Stamp Duty is due and payable if you:
buy a freehold or leasehold property in Bradford
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Rates of Stamp Duty in England, Wales and Northern Ireland when buying a residential property in Bradford for £250,000
From 4th December 2014 the Stamp Duty Land Tax system was overhauled by the UK Government. The old slab style system of taxation was replaced with a progressive tax system similar to UK income tax. The new residential rates are calculated as follows:
0% on the first £125,000 of the property price - nothing to pay
2% on the next £125,000
10% on the next £575,000
12% on the rest (above £1.5 million)
New Rates of Stamp Duty (SDLT) that come into effect from 1st April 2016 for buying properties in Bradford for £250,000
From the 1st April 2016, Stamp Duty Rates for anyone purchasing an additional property in Bradford will change. Additional property includes buy to let investments and second homes in Bradford. Each bracket will essentially attract an additional 3% surcharge. The rates will be as follows:
3% on the first £125,000 of the property price
Second Properties, Buy-To-Let and Second Homes in Bradford that are purchased for £40,000 or less
Anybody purchasing a second home, buy-to-let property or additional home in Bradford that is under £40,000, will not have to pay any Stamp Duty on the transaction.
Are there any properties that are exempt from these changes?
You will not be liable for the higher rate of stamp duty (sdlt) if your residential property is:
a caravan, mobile home or houseboat
outside England, Wales and Northern Ireland
What about Foreign Investors or people that own a property abroad, but are also looking to buy a second home in Bradford?
These people will also pay the higher rate of Stamp Duty, if you buy a residential property in England, Wales or Northern Ireland and you already own one outside these countries.
What about Stamp Duty in Scotland?
Stamp Duty Land Tax no longer applies in Scotland. Instead you pay Land and Buildings Transaction Tax when you buy a property.
What about Stamp Duty (SDLT) relief and discounts for First Time Buyers in Bradford?
On the 22nd November 2017, the UK Government announced a cut and reduction in Stamp Duty Rates for First Time Buyers, a move that is hoped will provide a stimulus for the UK housing market and help younger generations living in and around Bradford on to the property ladder.
HM Treasury has predicted that the SDLT reduction will help nearly 80% of first time buyers avoid paying stamp duty altogether. These changes currently apply to first time buyers in England, Wales & Northern Ireland.
What are the new First Time Buyer 2017 Stamp Duty Rates for buying a property in Bradford?
In England, Wales & Northern Ireland, the new stamp duty (SDLT) rates for anyone buying a property up to £500k in Bradford are:
Up to £300,000 Purchase Price = 0%
£300,001 to £500,000 = 5% (on that portion of the purchase price)
If you are a first time buyer and you purchase a property in Bradford for more than £500,000, then you will be subject to the standard SDLT rates. The first-time buyer relief is only available on Purchase's LESS THAN £500,000.
As a first time buyer in Bradford you can use our online Stamp Duty Calculator to accurately calculate your SDLT. Our First Time Buyer Stamp Duty Calculator has been fully updated with the new UK Government SDLT rules announced on the 22nd November 2017.
Did the UK Government abolish SDLT relief for First Time Buyers?
Back in March 2012, the UK Government abolished stamp duty relief for First Time Buyers.
When buying in Bradford, when does Stamp Duty (SDLT) have to be paid to HMRC?
The SDLT tax must be paid within 30 days of completion.
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Please make sure that before you exchange on your property, that you have accounted for the amount of Stamp Duty Tax that is due and that you have the funds available, to allow for the tax to be paid promptly. If you or your conveyancing solicitor does not file this in time, you could face a hefty fine.
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Massachusetts woman says faith restored after phone call from Pope
On 07.03.14, In Pope Francis, Uncategorized, by Guest+
Days after the death of her 25 year-old son, Stephany Nicolo from Wakefield, Massachusetts called the Vatican and left her name and number with a representative. Distraught with anguish, she told the Vatican that she did not believe in God anymore.
The grieving mother thought she would never hear back.
According to a July 2 Fox News article:
On Friday, weeks after Nicolo made the call, she awoke at 6:40 a.m. to find a missed call and voice message on the cellphone sitting in her living room from a man — speaking in accented English — who identified himself as a representative from the Vatican.
The voice of an older man, who Nicolo believes is the Pope, can be heard in the background at the beginning of the recording.
A Vatican spokesman could not immediately confirm if it was indeed His Holiness in the background on Nicolo’s message, but she is taking it on faith.
“I missed it by 10 minutes,” she said. “I couldn’t believe it. I had to play it several times.”
“I’ve always loved my faith, but when your child is taken, you can’t help but question it,” said Nicolo, who described herself as a devout Catholic. “It renewed my faith and belief in God.”
After receiving comfort from the Holy See, her faith has been restored.
“I want him to know I love him. He has helped me so much in my time of grief. There are no words to describe what this phone call has done for me.”
Nicolo said that the Pope sent her “a big hug and a blessing,” while she mourns the loss of her son.
Local priest at St. Joseph’s Parish in Wakefield, Fr. Ronald Barker believes this act of kindness showcases the true character of Pope Francis. “It says so much to me about the Pope. He really thinks about simple things like this. It touched me,” he told Fox News on July 2.
Pope Francis, known for making such personal efforts as the Vicar of Christ, continues to be a model of humility and charity. The pontiff courageously demonstrates, especially through this touching story, how to be a true brother in Christ to those in need.
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Cave writing.
Into the Deep Woods
by Jonathan Arena
AVAILABLE now!
Thriller. Suspense. Mystery.
Light a candle and enter the deep woods. Six stories separated by poems await you. Girl hears a crash in the night and investigates. Young man understands the importance of family. High school journalist uncovers a local legend. Hero and writer journey into a dark forest to hunt a beast. Father rediscovers his role in the worst of circumstances. Old woman goes blind but sees everything.
What readers are saying.
"Dark. Fun. Mysterious. Filled with strange and unforgettable characters... It was a pleasure to get lost in the deep woods. Ps. You'll never forget the Spoon Man."
"This book isn’t a one time read, it is meant to be enjoyed multiple times. The reader who is looking for short stories and a bit of poetry will enjoy and appreciate this book."
"Very well written. It feels like you are in the story particularly the novella, The Cost of Three. Once I started to read the book, I could not put it down. Looking forward to reading more from this author."
"Superb, beautifully written, extremely talented Author & can’t wait for more!"
"Each story has a twist you don’t expect. It’s a pick up and start reading until you’re finished type of book."
"This book is probably one of the best books I’ve read lately and would make a great gift for any reader."
"Stories full of action and emotional depth."
Sneak peeks.
Madeline lifted her head from the warm pillow and stared across the bedroom. Her eyes adjusted to the dark, and the silhouettes of stacked boxes soon sharpened.
The urge to unpack was strong but her mother insisted, rather shouted, that she get a good night’s sleep before her first day of school. Not the first day. Only her first day. At a new school, in a new city, as far away from her father as her mother could afford.
She rested her head back down on the pillow, but now it felt cold. She flipped it over, but the other side was freezing. She sighed and just lay there.
Glass smashed somewhere in the house. Madeline sprang from the bed sheets and looked to the door. She had left it open in the hope that it would help her sleep, but that was never going to be the case. She could not remember where the nightlight was packed, but now more than ever she wished she had searched a little harder.
Her heart jumped from her chest when a second crash rang through the walls.
It came from downstairs.
Her eyes were beautiful. Bluer than the sky and deeper than the sea. The sunrise on her freckled cheeks intoxicated the young man.
“We should get married,” he said.
Sorrow marred her face, and she slipped out of his hands. “You know we can’t.”
“Then let’s run away.” He gently raised her chin and gazed far back into her endless pupils where the entire world seemed captured.
“You know we can’t do that either. Our families need us.”
He laughed. “I’m the youngest of ten. My father doesn’t need me. He’s been telling me that my whole life. He only cares for his damn grapes.”
“Well…” She looked back at the blades of grass. “Mine needs me.”
The young man’s focus strayed to the distance. Movement in the valley below snatched his attention and held it. Twelve knights on horseback traversed the narrow dirt road wedged between rows and rows of vineyards and the odd villa. They flew the King’s Banner and trotted with confidence. Four of them held torches.
He stood for a better look. “They’re early. The King’s Games are not for three moons.”
The young woman joined him and seemed even more surprised. Almost stunned. “Where are the barrel wagons?”
Spoon Man
Spoon Man. Spoon Man. The words repeated in my head over and over. It had such a whimsical ring to it. The perfect name for such a mysterious man.
The stories from classmates offered pieces of the puzzle, glimpses of the story, but it was all hearsay. All of it except for one thing. The one thing that sprouted every rumor and every tale. Thousands of spoons decorated his lonely property in the nearby forest.
I write this story because I met Spoon Man one afternoon. An afternoon I will never forget, not in a hundred years. It was all because I wanted to win Best Student Journalist at my high school so I would be accepted by my dream college. And this was the story of all stories. Romantic, I know. I lost the award, but the visit remains close to me.
The overgrown foot trail to his home was a long and arduous one. Nearly two miles from the road but worth every step. The weather had cooled the previous week, and the leaves were beginning to change. Autumn rustled and blew, but when I arrived at the cabin, everything seemed still.
All but the wooden spoons.
The spoons hung in rows from the porch ceiling, along the roof and around the chimney, and they swung from the branches of trees. They knocked and clanked together with the shifting breeze, echoing in the empty woods. The entire property was adorned like a festival. But there was no sign of anyone or anything else. The unrehearsed symphony remained the only evidence of habitation.
The closer I walked, the more unmistakable the details of the spoons became. Carved from a variety of wood, they were stunning. Pristine and well-designed, sanded and oiled, some even painted with colors and patterns. Every shape and size you could imagine. The diligence and craftsmanship were obvious. Spoon Man had incredible talent. It must have been from all the practice.
And with each stride forward, my heart raced.
The Black Forest darkened with each stride.
Bruxton and Drunn reckoned it was midday, but sunlight dared not pierce the thick canopy of gnarled trees and branches. Drunn remained close to the light of Bruxton’s torch as his companion hacked at the thorn-covered vines.
The darkness outside the circle of torchlight was as scary as it was unknown. Drunn kept his head on a swivel. Every sound, crunch or rustle snatched his attention and held it. But only until the next.
The insects were loudest. Humming, buzzing, squirming, fluttering, slithering. All of it created a constant and uneasy tone surrounding them. The torch kept the critters at bay but would do little against a large predator.
The two men had no idea what they were seeking.
Broken fences, slain livestock and missing property offered only clues and nothing more. The most telling indication was always the great big tracks left behind in the mud, dirt, everywhere. The tracks had to belong to a massive beast. And it had to be living in the Black Forest.
The beast’s presence had only been felt in the last year. Where did it come from? Perhaps it widened its hunting territory. Perhaps it lost its previous one to an even larger predator.
The questions remained unanswered because no one had seen or heard the beast despite its great size. No one except Hargerrard. He was the first human victim.
“May we stop a moment?” Drunn asked.
“No.” Bruxton waved his torch at a giant winged insect as it frantically tried to escape the light. Slimy wings brushed against Drunn’s nose in his attempt to dodge it. The ugly creature disappeared into the black of the forest.
“I would like to scribble some notes.” Drunn wiped his face thoroughly.
“Tales are more powerful when you feel what the characters feel. I want to capture those feelings, Bruxton. My feelings. Your feelings. The darkness. The sounds. I want to capture it all.”
“I am certain you will feel the same when we stop. I am also certain the darkness and the sounds will follow us wherever we go.”
So they trekked on.
The Cost of Three
novella.
His heart pounded like a ceremonial drum before a sacrifice. Morning sunlight poured onto the new paint of Mark Frasier’s luxury car. Sweat dripped from his nose, and his hands shook nervously.
He drove into the empty parking lot of a corporate building and backed into a space next to the bay doors for loading and unloading trucks. He straightened out twice and checked his gold watch. 6:42 am.
He closed his eyes and waited a moment. Today was the first day of his new life. He was still not sure what kind of life, but it would certainly not be a good one, not how he imagined it.
He opened his cell phone.
No missed calls and no missed texts.
Communication from his family would have done him wonders, but he clipped a security badge to his belt and exited the car. He did not lock it because he planned to be back soon, and in a hurry.
Mark wore no jacket, but the weather deserved one. Goosebumps ran down his arms as he trekked all the way to the front of the building, where double doors greeted him.
He swiped the badge and stepped inside. Two security guards sat in chairs beside a metal detector and watched him enter, but not suspiciously. They nodded.
“You’re early, Mark,” Curtis said.
“Lots to do.” Mark forced a smile.
“Don’t you dare tell me the score,” Eddie said. “I recorded it at home. Plan to fall asleep to it in a couple hours.”
“I won’t.” Mark stepped through the metal detector.
No beep.
“Enjoy the day,” Eddie said.
“You too.” Mark continued through the building to where a series of elevators lined the hallway. He pressed the down button and waited. And waited. He stood there for an eternity. He peered over to the guards and back to the elevator, then back to the guards. They paid him no mind, but that did nothing to settle his heart rate. His sweat dripped onto the beautiful granite floor.
DING.
The elevator doors slid open and Mark stepped inside. He pressed the button labeled B4 and then the one to close the doors. He pressed the latter again. And again.
The doors closed and the elevator descended.
Mark stared at his reflection in the stainless-steel interior. He studied the look on his face and the clothes on his back. This was it. Nothing would be the same.
The elevator traveled several stories and stopped at its destination. The door opened to reveal a metallic hallway. Two closed doors faced opposite one another and nothing else. He walked into the one labeled MEN.
He approached one of ten lockers and scrolled the combination lock. 32-17-28. He undressed and slipped into blue scrubs. He clipped the security badge to the waistband of the drawstring pants and checked his cell phone once more. 6:54 am and still nothing.
He tried centering his thoughts, but his conscience screamed over everything. It was impossible to think. He placed his phone and keys in his pocket.
The door swung open. Henry Goodison walked in and looked at Mark as if he had seen a ghost.
“Whoa, Mark.” Henry approached his locker. “You startled me. Didn’t expect to see anyone in this early.”
“I have to catch up on a few things.” Mark shut his locker. “You?”
“Uh, yeah. Me too. Did you have to work on Saturday?”
“Can’t remember the last Saturday I didn’t work. Where were you?”
“I asked for it off because it was my daughter’s birthday.” Henry smiled. “And they gave it to me, can you believe it?”
Mark smiled. “Glad to hear it.”
“And how about that game last night?”
“Missed it.”
“You? Missed the game? Never thought I’d see the day.”
“Who won?”
“Oh, I didn’t see it either.”
“See ya in there, Henry.”
“Uh, wait, Mark?” Henry stood there in his boxer briefs as Mark turned. His eyes were troubled, and his mouth quivered as if ready to spill words, but his tongue refused to cooperate. “Never mind.”
“Have a good day, Henry.” Mark exited the other side of the bathroom. Another door requiring another badge swipe, and it led to a long corridor with bright fluorescent lighting.
He considered whether or not Henry had acted strangely. Whether he acted strangely. But he chalked it up to his imagination and shrugged it off. He had bigger matters at hand.
Mark stopped at a sliding glass door. B402. He pressed a red button and the door opened. The room was small and had little except for dispensers of hairnets, beard nets, safety glasses, face masks, gloves, shoe covers, hand sanitizer and alcohol wipes.
He gowned up and looked at the mirror on the wall. He always thought he looked silly in a hairnet, especially a beard net, but nothing seemed funny now. He stared deep into his own eyes. He wanted to cry but held it together.
“You can do this. For them.”
He opened the sliding door into the next room and stepped inside. A short hall led to a single door with a digital clock overhead. 7:02 am. He swiped his badge once more and the door opened. Another airlock with additional gear. Three hazmat suits, large boots and thick gloves hung from hooks on the wall.
He put on the gear and stared at his reflection again. He barely recognized his own face, his own eyes. He punched the mirror to erase the stranger, and it shattered. Pieces rained down on the floor. Hundreds, maybe even thousands of pieces, in a Hygiene Zone Three airlock. A bizarre smile covered his face, but it was brief.
He turned to the next door. B417. He entered a seven-digit code into a keypad, and the automatic doors opened.
Three four-hundred-gallon stainless-steel kettles sat bolted to the floor. Tags on all three read SULFURIC NINE. A mutation of sulfuric acid that the company had patented four years earlier. A considerably more dangerous chemical than its parent.
Mark stared at the kettles before heading toward another door. He opened it to find a room loaded with fifty-gallon drums with toxicity warnings and special lids. Stacks of small platforms on wheels with the capacity to hold a barrel each lined the storage room as well. He unstacked and laid them out on the floor. He then worked to lift as many empty barrels as there were platforms.
He wheeled eighteen over to the kettles.
He attached a thick hose to the bottom of the first kettle. He secured the connection many times over and made several adjustments. He attached the hose to an engine pump and another to deliver product from the pump to the seal on top of the barrel lids. He inspected the connections, screws and seals a few more times.
When he was comfortable and after a deep breath, he released the lever underneath the kettle to allow Sulfuric Nine to flow freely into the hose, but not through the pump.
Mark looked at the clock on the wall. 7:18 am.
Plenty of time.
He pressed a couple of buttons on the engine pump screen, and it turned on. The hose vibrated as the chemical rushed into the barrel. The potent smell of the chemical stung his nostrils through the suit.
After thirty seconds, the pump clicked off. The barrel was full. Mark detached the hose and locked the seal on the lid, careful to hold the open end of the hose upward to avoid drips. He moved it to the next barrel and filled that one too. He did it over and over until all eighteen were full. He drained the first two kettles but only needed a hundred or so gallons from the third.
Nine hundred gallons of Sulfuric Nine.
It scared him to death.
7:41 am. Mark wheeled the barrels into another airlock after entering a code with his large gloved fingers. The airlock led to an open room with a sliding metal door. He fit as many barrels as he could and opened the other side. He moved the barrels in and then headed back for more. He managed it in four trips.
With all eighteen inside, he slipped out of the boots and hazmat suit. Back in his scrubs, he punched the code into the keypad beside the metal door, and it slid open.
It was an elevator.
He wheeled eleven barrels inside and clicked the button for the warehouse.
The elevator rose four stories while Mark watched the clock above the door. 7:49 am. The doors opened to reveal another airlock. He pushed the barrels inside and then into the large warehouse filled with rows and rows of pallet racks and materials. He unloaded the barrels from the elevator and headed back down for the others.
The warehouse clock read 7:54 am when he wheeled all eighteen to the third bay door. It took him nine trips. But on the seventh, he heard an elevator open further down the warehouse. He froze and waited.
Henry exited with a similar barrel on a platform. HYDROCHLORIC FIVE. The two found each other’s eyes and hesitated. But they both knew. They knew they’d had comparable nights and were in the same position. Henry had a family, same as Mark. After the brief moment, the two men went back to work.
Mark opened the bay door.
A tractor trailer was parked against the door with its back already open. Two rugged men armed with scars and semi-automatic rifles waited with wry smiles.
One looked at his watch and used his rifle to signal Mark to work, so the helpless chemist sprang to action and pushed the barrels inside the trailer by himself.
The armed men watched and chuckled.
When he was done, one of the men waved his rifle toward Henry, so Mark helped his coworker wheel the Hydrochloric Five into the trailer as well.
“How’s your family?” Mark whispered.
“I don’t know. Yours?”
The armed men closed the trailer door, and the truck drove away as if headed to a routine delivery. There was a sense of relief, but it was short-lived.
Mark and Henry found each other’s eyes one last time and jumped out of the bay door without another thought. And despite their clumsy landings, they sprinted to their cars like Olympic athletes.
Mark fumbled his keys but recovered, rattling through them to find the one he needed. He found it and slammed it into the ignition. 8:06 am.
Mahpiya opened her eyes one morning and was blind. She had known it was coming for a while now and felt lucky to have held on to her sight for sixty-six winters. Better than most.
But this was it. Total and absolute blackness. It curled around her and gripped tightly. There would be no escaping it, not this time, but she knew the layout of the tipi, and the camp stayed much the same even when it moved.
So she replaced the darkness with the familiar and started with the fire pit. The heart of the tipi, of any home. Then the several large stones confining it to the center. The few burnt logs and pile of ash from last night’s fire lingered. She’d awoken to the sight so many times, it was second nature to her.
She looked up to where she knew the dreamcatcher was hanging from a wooden beam. It swayed gently back and forth as heavy gusts from the open plains battered the outside of the buffalo skin walls. Stitched together with great skill, several tanned hides sheltered her from the howling wind she could hear so clearly. She focused on it and nothing else.
When she opened her eyes, a new scene appeared. The endless grass of the wide-open plains surrounded her as she rode bareback on a white-and-brown horse. She was younger, much younger, no more than fourteen. And her eyes worked perfectly.
She embraced the wind blowing through her thick black hair. The rolling hills, whistling winds and waving grass dominated her senses. It was the feeling of freedom, and she savored it. Only her horse offered such a thing, and she loved him for it. She leaned forward and kicked her heels to hasten the pace.
Her eyes widened. The horse tried stopping but only collapsed brutally in the effort. She and her horse stumbled into a large hole that dropped fifteen feet into a jagged cave.
They fell, and they fell hard.
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Ruth E. Richardson
Hollister Hall, Room 271
rer26@cornell.edu
Richardson joined the faculty in January, 2002, after finishing her Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley, where she also received her M.S. Her B.S. in Chemical Engineering was earned at Manhattan College in Riverdale, New York. She has had internships as both a Chemical Engineer with Air Products and Chemicals and an Environmental Consultant with Malcolm Pirnie Consultants. She was introduced to laboratory research as an undergraduate through a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Grant, which was awarded to study the pathogenicity of various microorganisms isolated from HIV+ patients at Cornell's Weill Medical College/New York Hospital.
While at Berkeley, she enjoyed tenures as an NSF Graduate Fellow, an EPA STAR (Science to Achieve Results) Fellow, a University of California Toxic Substances Research and Teaching Program Trainee, a Tau Beta Pi Graduate Fellow, and an officer in the Microbiology Graduate Student Group. She also worked with the USEPA and the Army Corps of Engineers on treatability studies at a creosote-contaminated Superfund site in Washington State. Such experiences sparked and nurtured her interests in bioremediation, molecular biology, and the science/policy interface--especially in the areas of chemical and microbial contamination of water and soil.
At Cornell, Dr. Richardson's research has focused upon the application of molecular biological tools to improve basic understanding of microbes relevant to bioremediation, sustainable wastewater treatment and sustainable bioenergy and apply this understanding to the deployment of microbial processes in environmental and reactor systems.
Dr. Richardson's research group studies the activities of populations within microbial communities through the study of genomics, transcriptomics and proteomics. While DNA-based techniques still serve as an anchoring point in bioenvironmental engineering, gene presence and characterization only provide insights into potential activity. Instantaneous activity levels are much more tightly tied to RNA and protein (particularly enzymatic proteins). With the wealth of information obtainable by querying RNA and protein pools, it is not only possible to determine whether a particular gene is being expressed under certain conditions, but it is also possible to use the data to develop molecular biomarkers of specific activities in environmental and reactor systems. The main techniques used by the group are quantitative reverse transcription PCR (qRTPCR) to assay RNA pools, microarrays, and tandem mass spectrometry of biomarker peptides. Together these methods provide a wealth of information about the enzymes and other proteins being expressed by individual populations within a consortium of organisms. The main application of these "omics" is the study of consortia containing Dehalococcoides ethenogenes - the first organism shown to bioremediate chlorinated ethenes (perchloroethene - PCE - and trichloroethene - TCE) to harmless ethene gas. The key challenges the lab is focused on are honing the list of key biomarkers of dehalorespiration and quantitatively relating net expression levels to bulk activity (in this case net dehalorespiration rates). Additionally, stress biomarkers can inform bioremediation efforts in the field. Information on in situ stresses felt by key populations can guide site managers to effective actions to take to jump start failing bioremediation efforts. Myriad proteomic techniques are also employed by the lab to better identify key oxidoreductase enzymes expressed by iron and sulfate reducing bacteria that can bioremediate Uranium contamination in groundwater. Another focus in the lab is the growth of high-lipid producing algae as biofuel feedstock. While algae are reported to be up to 100 times more productive per-acre than land plants, and they can be grow on marginal lands and in saline environments (minimizing competition for land for food crops) many challenges still exist with respect to sustainable commercial scale algae growth and harvesting. This research involves genomic and transcriptomic characterization of high-performing marine algal strains being selected for growth in pilot scale facilities. A final thrust in the Richardson lab is the development of human waste treatment systems that are low cost, robust, and suitable for deployment in regions of the world (the "Global South") where economic, energy, and technical expertise constraints must all be considered.
Research Group Members
Teaching Interests
In general Dr. Richardson's teaching focus is in the area of bioenvironmental engineering - teaching both lecture and laboratory courses. However heteaching duties have also included instructor duties for the Engineers for a Sustainable World class (CEE4920) and a short course developed for Cornell's NSF-IGERT in Cross-Scales Biogeochemistry and Climate. This "Bootcamp" covers molecular biological methods and applies them to microbes playing key roles in green house gas cycling (CEE6055)
Service Interests
Dr. Richardson has served Cornell, the broader academic community, and local watershed health issues over the last year. She serves on the Issues Committee of the Cayuga Lake Watershed Network and was a two term past Board of Directors member. Key issues or interest are hydrofracking, invasive species, and septic system maintenance and repair. Dr. Richardson is also currently the faculty advisor to the Engineers for a Sustainable World student group and Women's Soccer clubs. As well as being the project supervisor for a service learning project (the ESW Biofuels team) she also advises several undergraduate students in independent research each semester.
Mansfeldt, C B., G W. Heavner, A R. Rowe, B. Hayete, B W. Church, R E Richardson. 2016. "Inferring Gene Networks for Strains of Dehalococcoides Highlights Conserved Relationships between Genes Encoding Core Catabolic and Cell-Wall Structural Proteins.."PLoS one 11 (11): e0166234-e0166234.
Mansfeldt, C B., L V. Richter, B A. Ahner, W P. Cochlan, R E Richardson. 2016. "Use of De Novo Transcriptome Libraries to Characterize a Novel Oleaginous Marine Chlorella Species during the Accumulation of Triacylglycerols.." PLoS one 11 (2): e0147527-e0147527.
Otwell, A E., S J. Callister, E M. Zink, R D. Smith, R E Richardson. 2016. "Comparative Proteomic Analysis of Desulfotomaculum reducens MI-1: Insights into the Metabolic Versatility of a Gram-Positive Sulfate- and Metal-Reducing Bacterium.." Frontiers in Microbiology 7: 191.
Otwell, A. E., R. W. Sherwood, S. Zhang, O. D. Nelson, Z. Li, H. Lin, S. J. Callister, Ruth E. Richardson. 2015. "Identification of proteins capable of metal reduction from the proteome of the Gram-positive bacterium Desulfotomaculum reducens MI-1 using an NADH-based activity assay: Metal reductases from Gram-positive metal reducer." Environmental Microbiology 17: 1977-1990.
Richardson, R E. 2013. "Genomic insights into organohalide respiration." Current Opinion in Biotechnology 24 (3): 498-505.
Selected Awards and Honors
Appointed to the EPA Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) Environmental Engineering Committee 2016
Chi Epsilon Honor Society Induction 2014
Mr and Mrs. Richard F. Tucker Cornell College of Engineering Teaching Award (Cornell University) 2014
College of Engineering Excellence in Advising Award (Cornell University) 2008
Paper featured as a "Key Research Article" by Environment Progress (Environment Progress (environmentProgess.com)) 2013
BS (Chemical Engineering), Manhattan College, 1994
MS (Civil Engineering), University of California, Berkeley, 1995
Ph D (Civil Engineering), University of California- Berkeley, 2001
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Carol McGiffin Breast Cancer Exclusive Life Story Interview
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In Feb 2015 Carl McGiffin confirmed to the Sunday People that she has been battling breast cancer for a year.
If anyone can beat cancer McGiff can! She’s a tenacious, spirited, a fighter and a winner in all areas of her life!
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Carol McGiffin:
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All followers of Loose Women know that she is not to be messed with.
For more than 10 years she entertained ITV audiences with her sometime brutal, other times hysterical honesty.
Hear a rare, in-depth and Exclusive BBC interview with McGiff & Belfield….
On August 22nd 2013 Loose Women’s Carol McGiffin entered the Celebrity Big Brother house!
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Carol is an English broadcaster of radio and television, best known for her regular appearances on daytime talk show Loose Women. She married Chris Evans in 1991; the couple separated in 1994 and divorced in 1998.
After appearing on the twelfth series of Celebrity Big Brother, McGiffin is currently now a regular panellist and presenter on the spin off show Bit on the Psych.
Listen when McGiff, Kaye Adams, Colleen Nolan and Denise Welch came in to visit Belfield at Capital Gold:
Throughout summer 2012, Carol regularly reviewed the daily newspapers on This Morning. In 2012, she appeared in the Bristol Hippodrome in Aladdin the musical.
In August 2013, she entered the Celebrity Big Brother house to compete in the twelfth series, where she finished in fourth place.
Interview recorded by Alex Belfield at www.celebrityradio.biz and the BBC 2011.
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Emily Laurore aims to help others with her role in the NAACP
Courtesy of Wyoming SeminaryEmily Laurore on the Mock Trial team
Amazing Kid from Wyoming Seminary Emily Laurorecv23laurorep5Warren Ruda / The Citizens’ Voice
WARREN RUDA / THE CITIZENS’ VOICE Emily Laurore, 15, a Wyoming Seminary senior, is president of the youth council through the local chapter of the NAACP. Emily got involved with the NAACP because her mother, a member herself, started bringing her to meetings when they lived in Michigan.
Amazing Kid from Wyoming Seminary Emily Laurorecv23lauroreWarren Ruda / The Citizens’ Voice
WARREN RUDA / THE CITIZENS’ VOICE Tennis is one of Emily Laurore’s many activities.
By Sarah Scinto / Published: October 23, 2016
With 15 years of life experience behind her, Emily Laurore knows she can make a difference.
The Wyoming Seminary senior wants to help other students and kids learn that for themselves in her capacity as president of the youth council through the local chapter of the NAACP.
“It’s all about believing in yourself and believing that you can help other people,” she said. “If there’s an impact you want to make and you’re committed to doing that, you can make it happen.”
Emily got involved with the NAACP because her mother, a member herself, started bringing her to meetings when they lived in Michigan.
“When we came here that was something we wanted to be a part of,” she said.
Now that her youth council has received its formal charter, Emily said they are planning a luncheon where Wilkes-Barre Councilwoman Beth Gilbert will speak. The theme, Emily said, is “Our voices matter, our lives matter, we matter.”
“We’re showing a different side of the youth in Wilkes-Barre and showing other kids they can make a difference as well,” she said.
Emily started her freshman year at Wyoming Seminary at 12 years old. Back then, her highest ambition was to become a neurosurgeon.
Then she joined the mock trial team and found a passion for the law.
“I definitely want to be an attorney,” she said. “I want to find a way to combine science and law.”
As a senior, Laurore juggles her NAACP duties with her positions as captain of the mock trial and tennis teams. She said a typical day starts with heading to school in the morning, tennis practice or matches from 3:30 p.m. until 5:30 p.m., mock trial from 7 p.m. until 10 p.m. some nights, and only then does she have time do her homework.
“And then it starts again,” she said. “It’s really about managing your time... and getting help from other people, setting aside time to study.”
On top of tennis, mock trial and NAACP meetings, Emily also plays piano. She played an honors recital at Carnegie Hall in New York City last year and plans to audition for that recital again.
She has started applying to colleges — the University of Pittsburgh is her top choice.
She’ll be 16 when she starts college next year, but the potential age difference between Emily and her classmates does not make her nervous.
“I’ve always identified with people older than me,” she said. “Ultimately I’m really happy about the decision.”
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Guerline L. Laurore
Q. What successful parenting strategy can you share with other parents?
A. I think my biggest strategy has been praying. Praying to God for guidance and doing research. When Emily was younger I did get a sense that she was interested in learning. She was able to read the Bible when she was 3 so what I did was just try to foster that and provide her with enrichment opportunities so that she could continue to be challenged.
Q. At what moment did you realize your child was special?
A. I didn’t really realize it myself; I think my brothers did because she was 18 months and she was watching a tape with the ABCs and they said ... she was saying the letters before the tape was saying the letters. They were like “Guerline, I think she knows the letters!” She was able to start reading very early so we tried to help her with that.
Q. What is the greatest challenge you’ve encountered in raising your child?
A. The greatest challenge has been to find the right balance in terms of keeping her enriched, keeping her challenge but also allowing her to be a child and be socially adaptive with her peers. That has been the challenge because you still want her to be at a level intellectually. She started HS at the age of 12 so she was a lot younger, she looked younger, but as far as intellectually she was ready but we weren’t sure if socially she was going to be ready. We prayed a lot for her, for protection, for guidance and she was blessed to be in a community like Wyoming Seminary where the students were very embracing, the teachers, the staff were very much willing to assist her and just to treat like a normal child and I think very rarely did she feel that she was too young to be here. Everyone has been so welcoming that we’ve been very blessed to find this school.
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Flying into City of Derry Airport
Find out everything the City of Derry Airport has to offer.
Arriving at City of Derry Airport
The arrivals areas for domestic and international passengers are on the ground floor of the terminal building. When you have disembarked the aircraft follow instructions by staff and signs for arrivals. If you are arriving on an international flight, you will pass through passport and immigration control and UK Border Force.
Click on the link for additional Guidance for visitors arriving in the UK – ‘Top Tips for Travellers. UKBF
Passport and Immigration
When passengers arrive at City of Derry Airport, a UK Border Agency Officer will request your passports, travel documents and any supporting documentation necessary for your visit for inspection.
Watch this video for some useful advice from UK Border Force on a fast and easy journey through Passport Control.
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For full details on entry requirements into Northern Ireland, please visit the UK Border Force website.
After passport control, follow the arrivals signs to the baggage reclaim area. Baggage trolleys are provided in international and domestic arrival reclaim hall and other key areas around the terminal building free of charge – please help yourself if you require one. In the interests of safety, children (or adults) must not play or ride on baggage trolleys.
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If you have goods to declare in excess of the allowance and commercial goods, please go to the Customs point. If you have nothing to declare you can proceed to the exit past the Customs station. To find out exactly what you can take through UK Customs, visit HM Revenue & Customs website
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Never carry anything into the UK for somebody else.
Never bring goods which are prohibited into the UK. If in doubt, ask at the Customs enquiry point.
If passengers are unsure about duty/tax free entitlement, they are advised to go to the Customs enquiry point.
The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs operates a system of pre-authorisation for all pets including assistance animals imported in to Northern Ireland (NI).
It is a legal requirement for Northern Ireland that all pets (dogs, cats, ferrets) and assistance dogs who travel directly into Northern Ireland must do so under the conditions of an Import Authorisation (ie a licence) issued by the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs.
This licence must be applied for and obtained in advance of travel to Northern Ireland. Additionally, airlines must give a minimum of 48 hours advance notification to DAERA Portal Branch of any animals to be carried (aldergrove.portal@daera-ni.gov.uk).
On arrival if the pet owner does not have the correct documents or their pet hasn’t been properly prepared it will be licensed into quarantine until it fully meets the entry requirements or sent back to the country it travelled from. The pet owner must pay the costs for this.
For further guidance please see attached link to DAERA website on Travelling with Pets: https://www.daera-ni.gov.uk/articles/travelling-pets.
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2006 Dodge Avenger Concept
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The Paris Motor Show in 2006 became Dodge Avenger’s point of introduction on the market. This concept car was launched in Britain, and has attained popular success among coupe vehicle owners. Also known for its similarities to the Dodge Daytona which hasn’t been in production since 1993, the Dodge Avenger was in production since 1995; it was debuted with a 103” wheelbase, had two engine options, and either manual or automatic transmissions. The car quickly adapted 16” wheels, which immediately became standard. In year 2000, Dodge discontinued the 4-cylinder engine, leaving the Avenger with a 6.0L engine. An extra sports trim could be purchased separately, and it included alloy wheels along with other sports accessories and options.
The 2006 Dodge Avenger Concept is a bit of a downgrade, but it was designed to fit the European market, which isn’t as power-hungry as American muscle car lovers. It holds a 2-liter, 122 cu. in. engine with direct fuel injection. This red-hot sedan looks appealing to prospective buyers who are looking for a mid-size class vehicle. The innovative design features a long hood, a sexy rear spoiler, and slick shoulders that could have made a bold statement on the American roads, had this model been put to production. The 2006 Dodge Avenger Concept breaks away from the boring presumption that all mid-size class cars are your average sports vehicle.
It’s a shame that this four-door car didn’t have a market for it in the United States at the time of its debut at the Paris Motor Show. Perhaps this was because of it’s small diesel engine, yet gas-guzzlers like the ever-popular Hummers survived nonetheless. The designers decided to up the wheel game by putting 19” silver five-spoke wheels on the 2006 Dodge Avenger Concept. Its attractive chrome tip exhaust pipes sounded nice, and the red break pads that could be seen through the wheel spokes made it truly stand out of the crowd. The car’s deep side sills, short height and solid traction made it overall a fun to drive car.
How did it fare in Britain? The 2006 Dodge Avenger Concept was Dodge’s second concept car. It was also Dodge’s fourth vehicle on the European market; according to their spokesperson, the car would provide stiff competition to Mazda6 and Alfa Romeo 159. The truth is, Dodge needed to leverage their market due to lowering numbers in car sales in the U.S. As of Q3 of 2006, Dodge sold over 1,840,000+ vehicles in America, but only 129,300 cars outside of the United States. Due to the oncoming recession, Chrysler knew that Dodge would need to become a household name overseas, and this is exactly what they tried to do by introducing the Avenger in Europe.
Dodge’s latest entry in Europe was the 2008 Dodge Journey, which featured a bigger engine and more transmission options. However, this 5-door wagon doesn’t even come close to the sex appeal of the 2006 Dodge Avenger Concept, which the United States, unfortunately, will never see.
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Newcastle United FC Transfer News
Chelsea boss Frank Lampard's update on Olivier Giroud's future amid Newcastle United loan link
The Magpies were linked with a loan move for the Chelsea frontman this weekend
Frank Lampard has stated he will not stand in Olivier Giroud’s way if he wants to join Newcastle United on loan - but only if it fits in with Chelsea’s plans.
With their transfer embargo now lifted, the Blues are chasing Lyon’s Moussa Dembélé, but have not made a breakthrough so far.
With Newcastle desperate for extra firepower, Steve Bruce has admitted that United have had some “knock backs” on targets so far.
When asked about former Arsenal man Giroud’s situation, Lampard - speaking after Chelsea’s FA Cup win over Nottingham Forest - said of the 33-year-old Frenchman: "There is no update in Oli. I have spoken with him.
“If it’s something he wants to do, it’s good for me and the club then we’ll see.
“But it has to be all three."
When asked about transfers following the FA Cup draw with Rochdale on Saturday, Magpies' boss Bruce said: “Yes (we’re looking for a striker).
“We’ve had a couple of knock backs already.
“We’ll keep working away.
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The Way of St Benedict, by Rowan Williams (Bloomsbury, £12.99 (Church Times SPECIAL OFFER PRICE £10.99); 978-1-4729-7307-8).
“With typical eloquence and wisdom, in The Way of St Benedict Rowan Williams explores the appeal of St Benedict's sixth-century Rule, showing it to be a document of great relevance to present day Christians and non-believers at our particular moment in history.”
To Call on His Name: Perspectives on the Jesus Prayer, by John Gill (Sacristy Press, £14.99 (£13.50); 978-1-78959-070-8).
“John Gill’s comprehensive study of the Jesus Prayer considers an ancient mystical prayer practice from the Christian East. He discusses the historical development of the prayer and its basis in scripture, patristic spirituality, theology, and psychology.”
Christobiography: Memory, history, and the reliability of the gospels, by Craig Keener (Eerdmans. £45 (£40.50); 978-0-8028-7675-1).
“Building on recent work in the study of ancient biographies, Craig Keener argues that the writers of the canonical Gospels followed the literary practices of other biographers in their day. In Christobiography he explores the character of ancient biography and urges students and scholars to appreciate the Gospel writers’ method and degree of accuracy in recounting the life and ministry of Jesus.”
Wearing Well: Exploring the biblical imagery of clothing, by Frances Shaw (Regent College Publishing, £8.99 (£8.10); 978-1-57383-576-3).
Let’s be Honest about our Doubts: The positive nature of doubt, by John Cox (Kevin Mayhew, £8.99; 978-1-83858-042-1).
“A six-week group study course, ideal for Lent but suitable for any time of year. John Cox takes an honest look at various aspects of the complex and often thorny subject of doubt.”
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Cohiba cigars are the most well-known cigars in the entire world. Need more info than that? You got it. Synonymous with extravagant taste and complex flavor, true cigar enthusiasts know Cohiba to be one of the best cigars brands around. Originally crafted in the streets of Havana, Cuba, this is a classic that everyone’s heard of. Today, these premium handmade cigars are manufactured in the Dominican Republic, but they’ve stayed just as delicious and artistic as they were from the start.
Since then, Cohiba has done much to keep up with the cigar industry. Cohiba Comador was crafted by Jay-Z himself, and epitomizes the definition of top-shelf luxury. For the fans of full-bodied cigars, Cohiba Nicaragua introduced a mixture of finely aged tobacco leaves into a bolder profile than Cohiba’s other classic blends. But of course, the most popular Cohiba cigar has always been the original. Cohiba Red Dot is the result of five years of intense research and study. These blenders wanted to make a perfect replica of the original Cuban Cohiba, and have done so flawlessly. It’s 90+ rated countless times, and its undeniably creamy and smooth. You can shop all of Cohiba's fantastic blends here, at Cigars International, for the best prices available.
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Asus Deploys New Ubuntu Netbooks (Yes, Netbooks)
Written by Christopher Tozzi
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is on the verge of releasing a major new operating system. Uncertain what prospects the new platform holds for them, hardware vendors are exhibiting renewed interest in shipping alternative operating systems, such as Linux, on their machines. Is it early 2007 again? Not quite, but it kind of seems that way in light of Asus’s introduction of a new Ubuntu netbook. Here’s the scoop.
Yes, Asus is actually calling this machine, the F201E, a “netbook” — for its customers in Germany, at least, which is currently the only market where the device is available for preorder. That’s significant language in an era when netbooks by most accounts went out of fashion a couple years ago, after becoming synonymous with terms such as”underpowered,” “small screen” and “unable to run post XP versions of Windows well.”
On the other hand, whether this device actually qualifies as a netbook may be a matter of debate. Priced at 299 euros, it’s not quite as inexpensive as the netbooks of yore, which could be had in some cases for little more than $200. At the same time, while its 4GB of memory and Intel Sandy Bridge Celeron processor are not exactly top of the line, the machine also boasts hardware somewhat more powerful than that of traditional netbooks, which generally sported Atom CPUs and no more than 2GB of RAM.
The Asus F201E and Ubuntu
The F201E’s most interesting characteristic, however, is not its hardware profile but rather the fact that one of the preinstalled operating system options is Ubuntu Linux. That’s an interesting move on Asus’s part, particularly because it comes just before the release of Windows 8 on Oct. 26 — which happens, in fact, to be precisely the same day that the F201E is slated to go on sale in Germany from Amazon.de.
Why might Asus, which started offering Linux on its devices long ago but has never made a particularly strong commitment to open source platforms, now be making Ubuntu an option? We can only speculate, but if we take the era of Windows Vista’s debut as a guide, perhaps the reason is that Asus is unsure how successful the newest version of Windows will prove on its hardware.
In other words, just as the release of Vista prompted a flurry of interest among OEMs in open source alternatives — with the strongest example being Dell (NASDAQ: DELL), which launched a line of Ubuntu laptops and PCs in early 2007, just as Vista was hiting the market — Asus now may be aiming to keep its options open in case Windows 8 is not received as well as Microsoft hopes.
This isn’t to say Windows 8 will prove to be a total catastrophe that gives rise to the mythical Year of the Linux Desktop. That won’t happen, no matter how much one believes in the omnipotence of St. Ignucius.
The news does show, however, that Linux is far from dead as a desktop operating system in the eyes of at least one major international hardware vendor. And it suggests that rigid loyalty to Microsoft among OEMs may not be as complete as it once appeared.
And by the way, the F201E is only one of two new Asus laptops rumored to be offered with an Ubuntu option. According to Notebook Italia, a second device, the X201E, will also be sold with Ubuntu. It remains to be seen, however, in which markets Asus will make that machine available.
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D.Chapman October 17, 2012 @ 9:24 pm
Why not Canada, If I had the money I would open a All linux store 🙁
AC October 30, 2012 @ 5:57 am
I’d buy the Linux version, if it were sold in the US. Particularly if a larger battery is available.
I will not buy the Win8 version.
The VAR Guy October 31, 2012 @ 10:07 pm
D. Chapman: Open an online store… then send The VAR Guy the URL 😉
AC: The VAR Guy purchased quite a few netbooks in his time. Then, along came the tablet…
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The County's Water and Watershed System
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George Hayes serves as the director of Chesterfield County Department of Utilities, a public water and wastewater utility that uses state-of-the-art technology to deliver the highest quality products and services to more than 108,000 water and 92,000 wastewater customers. The department works with an annual operating budget of $70 million, owns one water-treatment plant, two wastewater-treatment plants, and controls 23 water storage tanks and 39 pump stations. Mr. Hayes served as assistant director of Chesterfield Utilities for approximately nine years before becoming director in 2015. Prior to Chesterfield County, Hayes worked for Henrico County for 10 years, and also worked for New York City’s Department of Environmental Protection. Hayes graduated from Manhattan College with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering and is a registered Professional Engineer in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
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NextSwitchere Review: Complete Exchange Overview
Review of Theta Token: Blockchain Powered Video Streaming
Steve Walters on November 27, 2019
Theta Token is taking the blockchain to video streaming, seeking to decentralize video streaming and video on demand.
Their vision is to provide high quality video streams without the buffering issues often seen today. In addition, they plan on utilizing bandwidth and storage from users to reduce the cost of video streaming while also improving the quality.
However, with such strong competition, does it have what it takes?
In this Theta Token review, we will take an in-depth look at the project including the team, technology, unique selling points and prospects for the THETA token.
Theta Token Overview
We already know that internet users have a huge appetite for video and video streaming services. That’s been proven by the popularity of YouTube, Twitch, Live.ly and the video streaming additions to Facebook and Twitter, as well as the increasingly popular Tik Tok.
In fact, networking hardware company Cisco estimates that over two-thirds of today’s internet bandwidth is taken up by video streaming. That amount is expected to increase to 82% over the next 18-24 months.
While that’s all well and good, today’s video streaming is not perfect. Many video streams suffer from what is known as “last-mile” delivery problems. The Content Delivery Networks have created an infrastructure where large datacenters provide streaming services for specific geographic areas.
However, streams are only as good as the infrastructure that feeds into the actual users homes, and this can sometimes be slow and cause frequent lag, rebuffering and choppy streams.
Traditional CDN Network vs. Theta Token “Hybrid” solution. Source: White Paper
Theta Token’s team has come up with a solution to the “last-mile” problem using decentralized blockchain technology. That has led to the world’s very first Decentralized Streaming Network (DSN).
In this blockchain network users are incentivized to share their unused memory and bandwidth to improve the overall network. This leads to better overall performance for everyone, all across the globe. According to the Theta labs founder, Mitch Liu
At its core, Theta is enabling users to share their idle bandwidth and computing resources to mine Theta tokens and in turn cache and relay video streams to others in the network
Technology behind Theta Token
The Theta blockchain network is secured by a Proof-of-Stake consensus mechanism, which is far less demanding computationally, and has a higher transaction throughput when compared with Proof-of-Work protocols. By using PoS as the consensus mechanism it’s possible to have many different devices acting as viewers and caching nodes.
You might wonder how Theta Token is handling the issues of scalability in blockchain and video streaming. They have developed a Resource Oriented Micropayment Pool to solve scalability issues. In addition, they are implementing something called Proof-of-Engagement to track the delivery of video segments.
The distribution and collection of rewards on the platform is handled by Smart Streaming Contracts, which are a specific type of smart contracts on the Theta Token blockchain.
Here are more detailed explanations of these new concepts:
Resource-Oriented Micropayment Pool
The Resource Oriented Micropayment Pool was created by Theta Token specifically to create off-chain payment pools that users can for off-chain withdrawals. They have been designed to be resistant to double spending and also offer more flexibility than other off-chain solutions.
Resource Oriented Micropayment Pool overview. Source: Whitepaper
If a double spend is attempted it is detected by the validators on the Theta Network. One use case for the Resource Oriented Micropayment Pool is to allow for payments to multiple caching nodes without using on-chain transactions.
The major benefit of using this solution is that it allows for much greater scalability by keeping many micro-transactions off the blockchain.
Proof-of-Engagement
As you might guess from the name, this is a protocol that proves viewers have actually watched a live video. It’s a means of providing transparency for advertisers, as well as being a means for users to earn Theta tokens in return for their engagement.
The Proof-of-Engagement protocol is necessary to create a reliable measure of video stream engagement and a trustworthy way for viewers and advertisers to measure their video stream engagement.
Smart Streaming Contracts
Smart Streaming Contracts are type of smart contract or incentive contract used to help facilitate reward distribution and collection.
Examples of Incentive Contracts on Theta Network. Source: Whitepaper
There are a number of use cases for Smart Streaming Contracts, including:
Advertisers rewarding streamers and viewers;
Viewers gifting rewards to streamers;
Gift contracts for multiple streamers;
Premium or paid video content;
Subscriptions to streamers content or to Decentralized Content Networks;
Cachers can share rewards with viewers and content streamers.
The Smart Streaming Contracts were designed to be executed by validators, which means the original person or entity who funds the contract doesn’t need to be involved with distributions or validations.
Theta Token Network
The THETA tokens were launched in December of last year and are currently ERC-20 tokens. Once the blockchain launches (est. late 2018) these ERC-20 tokens can be exchanged for native tokens at a 1:1 ratio.
These tokens are already a part of the SLIVER.tv platform and are used to reward viewers, streamers and those who share their resources (memory/bandwidth) with the Theta Network.
In fact the mainnet did not launch until March 12, 2019, which was a few months late, but the launch went well, with no issues. In addition to swapping the ERC-20 THETA tokens, users also received an airdrop of the Theta Fuel (TFUEL) tokens.
The Theta Network Value Proposition and the TFuel Token Flow
Theta Fuel was created to be similar to the “gas” used in the Ethereum network. With the launch of the mainet the Theta Fuel tokens are being used as the reward token of the Theta network.
One of the most important aspects of the Theta mainnet launch was the introduction of Theta Fuel (TFUEL), the “gas” or payment token of the Theta Network. TFUEL powers on-chain operations like payments to relayers for sharing a video stream, or deploying or interacting with smart contracts.
Relayers earn TFUEL for every video stream they relay to other users on the network. You can think of Theta Fuel as the “gas” of the protocol. In conjunction with THETA, the staking and governance token of the protocol, these two tokens make up the economic system of Theta Network.
There are numerous stakeholder and nodes that help prop up the Theta Token ecosystem. The network was created with 5 major groups of stakeholders:
Streamers/Influencers – These are the content producers of the network who produce live content and videos for later consumption. They are rewarded with Theta tokens for their contributions.
Viewers – The users who come to SLIVER.tv to consume video content. They provide viewer engagement, which is arguably the most important part of the entire video streaming network. Viewers are rewarded for viewing and engaging with videos and can also choose to be rewarded for viewing advertisements.
Advertisers – They use the platform to promote services and products to the viewers. They spend Theta tokens to buy advertising time in the network, and to sponsor influencers.
Caching Nodes – These are the computers and servers that provide the network with caching services to improve the quality and delivery of the video stream. They are also rewarded with Theta tokens.
Ingest Nodes – These are nodes which assist in providing various bitrates, stream resolutions, etc. They provide their services to the caching nodes for live streams and are rewarded for doing so.
Most recently Theta has been testing their new Guardian Nodes, which will finalize blocks in the Theta multi-BFT consensus protocol. These Guardian Nodes are meant to be run by members of the Theta community, and are rewarded with TFUEL. Those wishing to run a Guardian Node must have a computer or server with minimum technical specifications, and must stake 100,000 THETA tokens.
Image via Theta Token Twitter
The hardware requirements to run a Guardian Node are:
Internet speed: 5Mbps+ up and down;
CPU: 8 cores or more;
Memory: 32 GBytes or more;
Disk size: 1TB or more, SSD hard drive preferred.
The on-boarding on pre-Guardian nodes began in March 2019, and as of November 2019 Theta announced the first 100 Guardian nodes have been selected to run on the Theta testnet.
Theta Token Team & Partners
The Theta Token team is led by CEO and co-founder Mitch Liu, who was also co-founder of the video streaming site SLIVER.tv as well as Gameview Studios and Tapjoy.
A second co-founder is Jieyi Long, who was also a co-founder at SLIVER.tv as well as holding a PhD in computer engineering from Northwestern University. SLIVER.tv is a video game streaming service similar to Twitch, and is one of the backbones in the Theta Token infrastructure.
Adding to the knowledge and growth of Theta is an experienced group of Media Advisors, which includes YouTube co-founder Steve Chen, and Twitch co-founder Justin Kan.
From Left: Mitch Liu (CEO), Jieyi Long (CTO), Ryan Nichols (Chief Product Officer), Riz Virk (Head of Corp Development)
The Theta Token team has forged several crucial partnerships, including one with Twitch that will allow viewers to earn Theta Fuel Tokens (TFUELHETA) by sharing their bandwidth to broadcast streams.
It also has partnerships with Steam, a video game provider, and with the decentralized cloud computing blockchain Aelf. One other key partnership is with the startup accelerator Play Labs. More recently it has formed partnerships with SamsungVR and with Littlstar, a media platform that gives Theta access to 100+ million Playstaion platforms.
Theta Token Community
The community behind any blockchain project is certainly an important factor to consider as it helps with both spreading the news about the platform, and ultimately with adoption.
The largest community following Theta is on Twitter, which you might expect as Twitter followings seem to be highest for blockchain projects. Theta Network has nearly 70,000 Twitter followers.
What is surprising is the number of Facebook followers the project has. Typically blockchain projects don’t see much activity from Facebook, but the Theta Network’s Facebook page has over 62,000 followers.
Telegram has become increasingly important for blockchain projects, and they often use Telegram as their first place to share news, and as a place to carry on discussions about changes within the platform and community. Theta has almost 11,000 Telegram members, which isn’t a bad showing on that platform.
Another surprise for the project comes from Reddit, which is usually a popular hangout for cryptocurrency enthusiasts, but in the case of Theta there are just 1,111 followers for the Theta subreddit. There are also over 4,000 followers on a defunct Theta subreddit that moved almost a year ago.
Token Price Performance
Rather than holding a public ICO, the Theta Token team held a private sale in which $12 million was raised. The pre-sale token price was $0.15 and by the following month the price had more than doubled to an all-time high of $0.314425 on January 27, 2018.
THETA Price Performance. Image via CMC
Of course that was during the huge rally in blockchain markets in January 2018. After the price dropped back, reaching an all-time low of $0.040310 by December 15, 2018. Price spiked again in March 2019 when the mainnet launched, topping out at $0.185540 on March 10, 2019.
Since then the price has been drifting lower, and as of November 25, 2019 the price is roughly half the private sale price at $0.073423.
TFUEL Price History
TFUEL appeared on exchanges on March 28, 2019 at an opening price of $0.017001 and it closed nearly unchaged that day at $0.017193. Price fell over the next several weeks, but a spike higher in late May allowed TFUEL to print an all-time high of $0.025061 on May 25, 2019.
Price has been declining ever since and as of November 25, 2019 TFUEL is at its all-time low of $0.002503.
Buying & Storing THETA & TFUEL
The two largest exchange services for THETA are being provided by Binance Exchange and BkEx. There’s also decent volumes being exchanged at Huobi Global, UpBit, and DigiFinex. There’s a handful of other exchanges selling THETA, but with smaller volumes.
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Nearly all the trading volume in TFUEL is at Binance, although there is a small amount being exchanges at Upbit and Bitrabbit. There are only a few other exchanges listing TFUEL and the volumes being exchanged are negligible.
The Theta native wallet was released just days before the mainnet was launched. On March 9, 2019 Theta announced the release of the native web wallet, which can be used for both THETA and TFUEL tokens. This who prefer more security in their cryptocurrency storage can opt for the Trezor or Ledger hardware wallets.
There are also several third-party wallets that support storage of THETA and TFUEL and these include the Trustwallet and the Atomic wallet. Theta Labs has also released mobile versions of the Theta wallet for both Android and iOS
Development & Roadmap
This all sounds well and good but how much development output have the team been pushing recently?
One of the best ways to get a sense of this is to look into a project’s GitHub. By observing the total commits to their open source repositories, we can get a sense of the raw output.
So, I decided to dive into the Theta Token GitHub. Below are the total commits to the top two most active repos over the past 12 months.
Commits to Select Repos over past year
As you can see, the developers have still been busy working on the core protocol. This is a bit less than we would expect from a project in this stage of development but its still progress.
In fact, if we were to look at sites such as CoinCodeCap, it is clear that the Theta Labs code output falls quite far behind. There are a further 8 code repositories but none of these had any reasonable development in them recently.
In terms of the Roadmap, they are still to expand the content delivery network for other file formats by the end of the year. 2020 could be slightly more interesting as they have the following currently planned:
Powering Global Content Delivery with both Static and dynamic web content
Integrate Theta data delivery into IoT devices such as cars, Smart TVs and other data rich devices.
Optimize Theta Network to use the new 5G Infrastructure.
If you wanted to keep up to date with the latest business developments, then you are best suited to follow their Twitter account as well as their official blog.
Since the launch of the Theta live streaming platform back in 2016 the project has come a very long way. With THETA now live on the SLIVER.tv platform and the mainnet working well, the team has been working to expand the partnerships and reach of the Theta Network.
Video streaming has a huge and increasing demand in the 21st century, and the Theta Token team is looking to make their platform the go-to blockchain for video streaming. It remains to be seen if they can succeed, but they have a very talented and experienced team and a solid vision. Plus they have a very good start compared with some other similar projects.
There are more interesting things being planned now the network is launched, including shared mining rewards to distribute rewards among several users; anti-piracy measures to dis-incentivize piracy.
They are also planning for the inclusion of a general service platform that goes beyond streaming videos, but provides such services as smart streaming contracts. The team has also been looking into ways to integrate the Theta platform into smart TVs, which would theoretically give Theta hundreds of millions of new users.
Despite some recent downward pressure the THETA token is the 66th largest coin on Coinmarketcap.com, while TFUEL is the 277th largest. With the launch of Guardian nodes on the testnet the token bears watching as it could see a rally similar to the one that took place when the mainnet was launched.
Disclaimer: These are the writer’s opinions and should not be considered investment advice. Readers should do their own research.
Posted in: Review
Tagged in: Aelf, Blockchain, CDN, DSN, TFUEL, Theta, Video Sharing, YouTube
Posted by Steve Walters
Steve has been writing for the financial markets for the past 7 years and during that time has developed a growing passion for cryptocurrencies.
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How to Model an Anechoic Coating
by Linus Andersson
Dolphins and bats have relied on echolocation for millions of years. Yet, it would take until the early 1900s before humans first developed and used sonar. Not long after came the first countermeasure: the anechoic coating. Today, we’ll look at how you can model the reduction in echo that this provides using COMSOL Multiphysics®. Similar modeling techniques can also be used for other periodic structures, such as perforates, phononic crystals, and various sound absorbers.
Anechoic Coatings
To avoid detection by sonar during World War II, the German Navy covered their U-boats in rubber sheets with drilled air holes at regular distances. The same basic technology of embedding periodic patterns in spongy coatings is still in use, although the specifics are evolving. Finding the pattern and material properties that will minimize the echo for a desired range of frequencies is not an easy task, but one that lends itself very well to modeling.
Let’s find out how you can set up a model of an anechoic coating using the COMSOL Multiphysics® software. For our demonstration, we’ll consider a coating discussed in Ref. 1. The authors of this paper propose a quadratic array of tiny cylindrical holes stamped into a thin polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) film. The film is placed on the submarine hull with the holes facing the steel. Hence, the holes form air bubbles, even when the vessel is submerged in water. Despite having a thickness of only 0.2 mm, this setup results in less than 10% reflectance for most of the frequency range between 1 and 2.8 MHz, and less than 50% reflectance all the way up to 5 MHz.
Finding the Smallest Unit Cell
When setting up models with periodic geometries, the first thing you want to figure out is how far you can reduce the size of the model geometry. The figure below shows the periodic pattern of air cavities. The blue dashed-line square indicates an obvious and completely general choice of unit cell. Flanked by periodic Floquet boundary conditions, this geometry would allow for incident radiation from an arbitrary angle. See our Porous Absorber model for an example of oblique incidence on a periodic structure.
Top view of the periodic pattern with two candidate unit cells.
By assuming perpendicular plane wave incidence, we can exploit not only the periodicity, but also the geometric mirror symmetries. After establishing the x– and y-plane symmetries, it can be easy to forget that there is one mirror plane left, forming a 45-degree angle with both the x– and y-axes. This leaves us with the green solid-line triangle in the illustration, constituting 1/8 of the full periodic unit cell. Keep in mind, of course, that failing to notice and use a symmetry is not the end of the world — it merely makes the model more expensive than necessary to run.
Truncating the Geometry
Here is what the resulting geometry looks like, with water above the PDMS and steel below it:
Model geometry produced in COMSOL Multiphysics® with the add-on Acoustics Module.
We will take both the steel and the water to continue indefinitely beyond the modeled geometry. While this is clearly a good assumption for the water, it may seem like a less than obvious choice for the steel. Outer submarine hulls can be just a few millimeters thick, and omitting the other side of the hull means neglecting any reflections that might occur on the inside.
However, the transmission into the steel is small because of the high acoustic impedance contrast between the PDMS and the steel. Also, much of the reflected sound would likely be absorbed by the coating. Therefore, including the full thickness of the steel domain is left as an exercise for the curious reader. If you try this, please tell us about it in the comments section!
Materials that go on “forever” can be modeled either with various low-reflecting boundary conditions or with perfectly matched layers (PMLs). The former work optimally under the assumption of perpendicular plane waves. PMLs are more general, making them the preferred choice in nonperiodic, open geometries. For more information on PMLs, see our blog post on perfectly matched layers for wave electromagnetics problems — the considerations and conclusions are similar in pressure acoustics and structural mechanics.
So, can we expect only perpendicular plane waves at the ends of our geometry? To know for sure, we need a primer on diffraction theory.
The transmitted and reflected waves caused by a plane wave incident on a periodic pattern can be described as a sum of plane waves propagating in a finite number of discrete diffraction angles. In the immediate vicinity of the pattern, you will, of course, also have some arbitrarily shaped evanescent fields. Nevertheless, the propagating waves are all plane.
Typically, most of the acoustic energy will end up in the “zeroth diffraction order”, which is just the refraction and mirror reflection of the incident wave. Reflected higher diffraction orders occur at angles where the path distance between radiation traveling in the same direction from two neighboring unit cells is an integer number of wavelengths. This happens according to the equation
mc_i=fd(\sin(\theta_i)+\sin(\theta_{r,m}))
Here, m = 0, +/-1, +/-2,.. is the diffraction order; ci is the pressure speed of sound in the incident medium; f is the frequency; d is the width of the repeating unit cell; θi is the angle of incidence; and θr,m is the angle of the mth order reflected diffracted wave.
Similarly, for the transmitted diffraction orders, we have
mc_i=fd(\sin(\theta_i)+c_i/c_t\sin(\theta_{t,m}))
with ct being the pressure wave speed of sound in the final medium and θt,m the angle of the mth order transmitted diffracted wave.
Let us now look at the anechoic coating model, with θi = 0. For an mth order reflected diffracted wave to exist, we need
-1<\frac{mc_i}{fd}<1
So, if c_i/(fd)>1, we have no reflected diffracted waves. In the same manner, provided c_i/(fd)>{c_i/c_t}, we have no transmitted diffraction orders. The pressure speed of sound is higher in steel than in water, so diffraction would arise in the reflected waves first. With d = 120 µm and ci = 1481 m/s, we can finally conclude that there is no diffraction at frequencies below 12.3 MHz.
Setting up the Anechoic Coating Model
Having decided that PMLs are not required in the relevant frequency spectrum, we need only leave a sufficient depth of water and steel in the model so that most of the evanescent wave content will have died out before reaching the exterior boundaries. For boundary conditions, we use a Low-Reflecting Boundary in the steel and the pressure acoustics counterpart, Plane Wave Radiation, in the water.
Speaking of Pressure Acoustics, that interface applies both in the water and in the air cavities. When modeling small confined spaces, the Thermoviscous Acoustics interface can be worth considering as a potentially more accurate option. However, it is only needed if the thermal and/or viscous boundary layers have a significant thickness. At the frequencies that we are concerned with here, these layers do remain much thinner than the dimensions of the cavity.
The steel and PDMS domains are modeled with Solid Mechanics. If you select Acoustic-Solid Interaction, Frequency Domain in the COMSOL Multiphysics® Model Wizard, you get the two relevant interfaces and an Acoustic-Structure Boundary automatically connecting them together.
The model is excited with an incident perpendicular wave added to the plane wave radiation condition. To find out the transmission, reflection, and absorption coefficients, you need to extract what fraction of the energy is passing through, being reflected, and being absorbed, respectively.
The transmitted power is simple. The outward mechanical energy flux is automatically available as solid.nI, so all you need to do is integrate that over the low-reflecting boundary terminating the steel domain. Divide that by the incident power, which for a plane wave has a known analytical expression, and you achieve the transmission coefficient.
The net acoustic intensity comes as a vector (acpr.Ix, acpr.Iy, acpr.Iz). To get the reflected power, take the negative of the z-component and subtract its integral over the inlet from the incident power. Divide by the incident power again and you have the reflection coefficient. Finally, the absorption coefficient is most conveniently achieved from the condition that all three coefficients sum up to 1.
The below plot shows the resulting transmission, reflection, and absorption coefficients. The results are generally in good agreement with those in the paper (referenced at the end of this post).
Get the Anechoic Coating Model
Look at other acoustics models and apps with periodic geometries:
Porous Absorber
Acoustic Reflection Analyzer
SAW Gas Sensor
Read related blog posts:
Learn about the transfer impedance of a perforate
Another blog post on modeling an RF anechoic chamber discusses similar techniques applied to electromagnetic waves
V. Leroy, A. Strybulevych, M. Lanoy, F. Lemoult, A. Tourin, and J. H. Page: Superabsorption of acoustic waves with bubble metascreens, Phys.Rev. B 91, 020301(R), 2015
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Carrie Underwood's life was reading straight from the storybooks: one of the few American Idol Winners with ongoing success; a professional athlete for a husband; a beautiful baby boy. The string of great fortune turned sharply in 2017, when Underwood began the unfathomable experience of three consecutive lost pregnancies. This was atop a frightening fall at her home that ended with her face in nearly 50 stitches. Sharing these moments with her fans makes the beamingly-beautiful singer (seriously, check out the "See You Again" video where she looks as much like an angel as you're likely to see walking around) more human.
The recent lowpoints in Underwood's life clearly fed "Cry Pretty," but not overfed. If anything, they reinject some tenderness into her catalog that it sometimes lacks. The Oklahoman has a voice with incredible horsepower. That instrument can outrun the emotion in some of those booming story songs about other people (think of all those "Two Black Cadillacs" knockoffs). The listener doesn't have to wonder as much about Underwood's interior feelings as a mother with songs like "The Bullet" - a timely take on the legacy of gun violence, or "Spinning Bottles," about the loneliness of an addict's lover. Like many country records, there's a complicated relationship with alcohol. For some of the tracks, getting sad and loaded is precisely the ticket ("Ghosts on the Stereo" and "Drinking Alone"). But it's not all glum, or even exclusively country - "Southbound" goes right for a joyous dance groove. Debut single "Love Wins" brings a wheelbarrow of epic-sounding inspiration, and "Low" is just a jaw-dropper of a torch song vocal - the ball's in Martina's court.
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Thoroughbred & Vintage at Fontwell House
An Important Auction of Pre and Post War Racing, Sports and Touring Motor Cars
Fontwell Park Racecourse
BN18 0SX
Wednesday 6th September from 12.00pm to 6.00pm
On the day of the sale from 10.00am to start of sale
Fontwell, near Goodwood, Sussex, UK
Admission by Catalogue (Admits Two)
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1989 Alfa-Romeo Spider 2000
27,900 miles from new - with factory hard top
The Italian co-star Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft had in the 1967 film The Graduate, a sleek red Alfa Romeo ‘Duetto’ Spider, brought the great marque to the attention of millions who had never heard the name before....
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1963 Bentley S3 Standard Steel Saloon
Offered at No Reserve
The last Bentley to be built on a separate chassis, in 1962, saw the introduction of the Bentley S3 factory bodied standard steel saloon and at first glance it would appear that the all new S3 was merely...
1967 Land Rover Series II
Screen Featured in the ITV Television Drama “Heartbeat”
Some ten years after the original Land Rover’s introduction, it was felt that the time had come to update the Land Rover’s somewhat primitive slab-sided styling. The result was the Series II, which featured the more rounded sides...
1973 Peugeot 304 S Cabriolet
The car offered here today has recently come out of a long term single family ownership of over 30 years in Holland. Imported into the UK by the current owner, the car is said to have been beautifully...
1961 Porsche 356B Coupe
Desirable Super 90 engine
The 356B, produced from 1960 through 1963, represents the mid-point in this design’s progression. In what is known as “T5” form, the B introduced new front and rear sheet-metal, while retaining the curved front trunk lid and rounded...
1972 March 722 Formula 2
Between 1975 and 1985 the 1600cc single seater class in British Hill climbing was particularly competitive; top line competitors, such as Mario Andretti used the opportunity as a stepping stone to the more competitive and more powerful single...
1963 Lotus 23B
Eligible for the Master Historic Race Series - FIA Historic Technical Passport
Introduced at the 1962 Racing Car Show, the 23 was arguably the most successful sports racer ever to wear a Lotus badge. Another typically brilliant Colin Chapman design, the nominal two-seater owed much to its 20 / 22...
Original Unrestored Example
Porsche’s strong historical links with Volkswagen were re-affirmed in 1969 with the launch of the Porsche-designed 914, a mid-engined, Targa-top sports car to be assembled by Karmann of Osnabrück. At the time Volkswagen needed a new car to...
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1951 Jaguar XK120 Roadster – UK delivered from new
The Property of a Gentleman - In current ownership for Three Decades
It was at the 1948 London Motor Show that Jaguar threw the sports car world into turmoil with its stunning XK120. Here was a car with incredible style and looks, a powerful six cylinder engine installed in an...
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Hunger by the numbers: Forgotten Harvest takes a new data-driven approach
Forgotten Harvest to shift operating model to get more nutritional mix of food to hungry, identify gaps in emergency food service
Looking for larger building near current site or property to build one
Has launched $14 million campaign to fund the new site
Forgotten Harvest
Forgotten Harvest CEO Kirk Mayes.
As a national model for food rescue operations, Forgotten Harvest could have rested on its laurels.
But when it hit its 25th anniversary in 2015, shortly after Kirk Mayes came on board as CEO, it began questioning if it would it rescue and distribute food otherwise headed for the landfill in the same way, if it started all over again.
After a deep-dive into its operating model, the Oak Park-based food rescue realized it could make improvements in its distribution process that would get a better nutritional mix of food to the soup kitchens, pantries and shelters it supplies by shifting from "just-in-time" distribution of nearly half of the food it rescues to bringing all of its food back to its warehouse to be mixed before sending it back out in more balanced fashion.
And by working with the emergency food agencies it supplies to collect data on the people coming for help, it could help address geographical gaps in emergency food providers and work with local churches and community groups to fill them.
To accommodate the operating shifts, Forgotten Harvest will need a bigger building, CEO Kirk Mayes said. It's launched a $14 million campaign to fund renovation or construction of a larger site, with room for more freezer space and at least 17 loading docks.
It's also training the more than 250 agencies it supplies with food to collect and enter client data that will help identify distribution gaps.
While a pound of potatoes will fill an empty stomach, it doesn't provide the same benefit as a more balanced meal, Mayes said.
Across the course of the year, the nutritional mix of food Forgotten Harvest supplies to area agencies looks very much like the US Department of Agriculture recommended plate, he said. But that's not the case on a day-to-day, location-by-location basis. There might be lots of bread or cake and proteins donated one day and a large load of tomatoes or potatoes another day. One agency might get 10 leftover Little Caesar's pizzas, while another gets none.
"That variation is happening at every agency," Mayes said.
"We can't dictate what comes to us … but what we will be able to do in-house is mix the types of food" going to each agency or mobile food pantry, he said.
And at the same time, Forgotten Harvest will be refining the territory it distributes to so food goes to the places that need it the most, Mayes said.
Data-informed approach
There were more than 1.4 million food insecure people in Michigan in 2016 or about 14 percent of the state's population, according to Feeding America, a Chicago-based national association for food banks and food rescues.
Half or 699,050 of the hungry were in southeast Michigan (Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, Livingston, Washtenaw and Monroe counties).
After more than doubling the amount of food it was distributing between fiscal 2010 and 2015 to 41 million pounds or "meals" (and 45.8 million pounds last year), Forgotten Harvest realized it needed to take a step back to make sure it was meeting the areas of highest need and doing it in the most efficient way, said marketing manager Chris Ivey.
It had been looking at macro indicators like the rates around poverty, unemployment, home owner/renter status and median income, derived from the Chicago-based national Feeding America's Map the Meal approach, Mayes said, to arrive at an understanding of hunger in the region,
But with a $90,000 grant from the Kresge Foundation in 2016, it's working toward a better, real-time assessment of food insecurity among those coming for help.
Forgotten Harvest worked with Data Driven Detroit to identify the flow of food going out to the community from all sources so it could see under-served areas. And Loveland Technologies adapted its system for updating vacant property information to help Forgotten Harvest identify where people seeking food come from to help the nonprofit understand where it needs to start concentrating volumes of food.
The food rescue is now training its emergency food partners on the Link2Feed system to get more direct data on things like where people are coming from to inform things like distribution routes while also identifying service gaps. It teamed up with Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan to purchase the system, and the two are sharing the data from it, Mayes said.
About 67 of its emergency food partner agencies have been trained so far and are collecting and inputting client data for each person coming for food assistance. He estimates the remaining agencies will likely all be entering data by next summer, but at least one local funder has invited the food rescue to submit a grant proposal to accomplish that sooner.
Forgotten Harvest also plans to make changes to its website to help those in need more quickly find an emergency food provider near them by providing a map and local search function.
Operating model shifts
To get to a more nutritional mix of food deliveries, Forgotten Harvest plans to bring all of the food it rescues back to its warehouse to be sorted, refrigerated and mixed for each delivery, whether to an agency or an individual through one of its 70 weekly mobile pantries, rather than taking nearly half of it directly to a pantry or soup kitchen as it currently does, Mayes said.
It will continue to follow all safe handling requirements for all of the food it rescues, while dropping food off to agencies on the day they need it within 72 hours of it coming to the warehouse, vs. the same day it picks the food up, as it currently does much of the time, he said.
Forgotten Harvest worked with Ghafari Associates to review its pickup and drop-off routes, current truck fleet and facility.
A larger building with more space for storage, sorting and packaging, refrigerators and freezers is needed for the new model, along with 17 loading docks, versus two at its current, 30,000-square-foot, Oak Park building on Greenfield Road near 9 Mile Road, Mayes said.
In the future "everyone is going to get something from the farm, from (food) manufacturers and from the grocery stores," he said.
The food rescue plans to hire one additional employee but primarily, it will rely on its more than 16,000 volunteers as it shifts its operational model.
The new site will also enable Forgotten Harvest to bring 15 of its 80 employees back under the same roof with the rest of the staff. Currently, those finance and development employees are working from donated office space in Southfield, given space constraints in its building.
The nonprofit is seeking about 77,000 square feet of space on eight acres and hopes to have something in hand by year's end, Mayes said.
"The place we are right now is a logistical sweet spot" for Forgotten Harvest's service area of Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties, he said, adding it hasn't yet made a decision about selling or leasing the site.
"We'd like to stay somewhere close to where we are now," across from the former Northland site in Oak Park, he said.
Forgotten Harvest, which is operating on a cash budget of about $9 million this year, has no existing debt, but it could consider taking some on to get into the new building, Mayes said.
How Kermit the Frog ended up at the Detroit Institute of Arts
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Public to tour 3 Land Bank-owned homes near FCA expansion in Detroit
Anisa Jibrell
Properties are scheduled to be listed for sale Aug. 12
Shuttle services will be available
Open-house event will be held from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday
Detroit Land Bank Authority
Detroiters can tour three vacant homes on the city’s east side situated on the western border of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles’s $2.5 billion expansion plan.
Detroiters will get a chance to tour three vacant homes on the city's east side situated on the western border of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles' $2.5 billion expansion site.
The homes, owned by the Detroit Land Bank Authority, are part of a group of 30 properties scheduled to be listed for sale Aug. 12, according to the authority's public information officer Alyssa Strickland.
Shuttle services will be available at the Building Blocks neighborhood event this Saturday from the Salvation Army on Conner Street to each open house — including 3993 Beniteau St., 3833 Garland St., and 4430 French Rd. — and from the Canfield Consortium community garden on Montclair St. where a family-friendly block party will be held, according to a release.
FCA plans to convert its Mack Avenue engine plants on Detroit's east side into a new assembly plant, and retool the Jefferson North Assembly plant. It also plans investment in three other plants in Warren and Sterling Heights, bringing its total investment in the Detroit area to $4.5 billion.
The homes are located within walking distance of the planned expansion, and gives prospective FCA employees and others an "early opportunity to own a home," the release said.
The automaker is planning add nearly 5,000 jobs between the Mack Avenue and Jefferson North plants, of which Detroiters will have first priority.
This will be the first opportunity the public has to purchase the homes, Strickland said.
The open-house event, from 11 a.m.-3 p.m., will feature a DJ, pizza, face painting, ice cream truck and more at the community garden, the release said.
Once listed for sale, the properties will be available on the authority's Own-It-Now platform at buildingdetroit.org.
Joe Louis Arena demolition stalls, city pushes completion date to June
Plan for Alamo Drafthouse movie theater in Detroit scrapped over parking
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`` Passing `` By Nella Larson
`` Passing `` By Nella Larson Essay
1954 Words Oct 17th, 2016 8 Pages
To pass is to disguise oneself as a difference race, or more specifically in this context for a black man or woman to pass as white. Some pass for a more advantageous position in society. Others pass out of pure fear for security. Some pass permanently, abandoning their heritage and living a life of hiding and others pass temporarily and sporadically. In the novel, “Passing” by Nella Larson, we are given an in-depth look into the racial struggles that existed in the early twentieth century and the relationship between two women who both pass, but in different ways and for different reasons. This raises more questions about how passing has developed over time and could even be prevalent in today’s society in a different context. To fully understand how these racial issues have evolved into the time period of the novel, we need to look further back into their historical context. Racism has always existed in our country. In a letter that Thomas Jefferson wrote to Francis C. Gray on March 4th, 1815, Jefferson uses mathematics to explain what fractions of African American blood constitute an individual being categorized as white, black, or mulatto. We see a very calculated and seriously thought out argument by Jefferson, who was a slave owner himself and the biological father of mulatto children. This letter clearly implies that being white is universally superior to being black, even though he avoids using the word ‘white’. Jefferson would go as far as implying that being black…
Essay Summary Of Passing By Nella Larson
Within the novel Passing by Nella Larson, the author reveals what it is to pass, in chapter two of Passing, Irene has agreed to go to a tea party at Clare’s home where she meets Gertrude, but more importantly she meets Jack Bellew, Clare’s husband. In this scene Irene is exposed to the tranny of Jack Bellew and how race ethics has forced Clare into becoming a white woman. Clare’s husband Jack Bellew who calls Clare “nig” on the basis that “when [they] got first married, she was as white as...a…
Essay Analysis Of Nella 's ' Passing By Nella Larson
Passing by Nella Larson captures the clash between the status quo and the weakening driving forces of change that young African-American women faced in the 1920’s. The novel introduces the dynamic of two pale-skinned African-American women, Irene Redfield and Clare Kendry who are childhood friends that are light enough to pass for white. Though Irene decided to live as a black woman, she’s only a part of the black community superficially as she practices white standards while living as a black…
Essay Analysis Of Passing By Nella Larsen
of two wonderful female authors. Those two strong writers are Nella Larson and Nikki Giovanni. However this paper will look at the similarities and differences of other work that we’ve been reading, and also the videos as well. While looking at the acceptance of the darkness of African American skin pigment. The book Passing by Nella Larsen is about two childhood friends that lost touch over time. Two black women one of which is passing her name is Claire, who faces the advisories of being raised…
Essay The Inner And Outer Conflict
In passing”, Nella Larson focuses on the inner and outer conflict one has around one’s identity. Larson’s book draws main attention on the life of Irene Kendry and Clare Redfield, who are two black women that are able pass in their society as white women. Larson shows how easy it is for one to lose one’s identity through Irene’s and Clare’s life struggles. In this essay, I will explain Irene and Clare’s individual emotional and external struggles that they went through in order to protect themselves…
In “Passing”, Nella Larson focuses on the inner and outer conflict one has around one’s identity. Larson’s book draws main attention on the life of Irene Kendry and Clare Redfield, who are two black women that are able pass in their society as white women. Larson shows how easy it is for one to lose one’s identity through Irene’s and Clare’s life struggles. In this essay, I will explain Irene and Clare’s individual emotional and external struggles that they went though in order to protect them selves…
Essay The 's Search For Identity
ever blended a chicken Top Ramen flavoring packet into your strawberry smoothie? Do you cut your vegetables with a straw? Just as a chicken, strawberry smoothie is appalling and using a straw as a knife is unacceptable, so was the racial mixing of Nella Larsen’s white mother and black father in the late 1800s. Growing up as a biracial woman during a time of black discrimination from whites, she could never find her place in the world. She never belonged to the persecuted blacks or the persecuting…
Essay Passing By Nella Larsen And The American Dream
Passing The novel, Passing by Nella Larsen, tells a story of two African- American women’s during the Harlem renaissance who work hard for the American dream. Larson’s novel demonstrates certain conflicts such as betrayal, jealousy, race, and sexuality. Both Clare and Irene are light skinned who may pass as white. Irene embraces her race while Clare abandons her race by passing as white. Irene works hard for her American dream and as a black woman it is very difficult to become a successful middle…
Essay Race And Gender : Racial Divide Among Americans
(1903). In an effort to reconstruct the public’s perception of the black identity, Harlem Renaissance writers delve into the marginalization of black women. Jessie Fauset, Nella Larson, and Zora Hurston use their texts to depict how black women are the most relegated group where men and family become priorities. Plum Bun, Passing, and Their Eyes are Watching God represent Du Bois’ theme of twoness through the main characters’ struggle to be themselves in a world that restricts their agency. Characters…
Essay The Harlem Renaissance By Nella Larson
Throughout the Harlem Renaissance, Nella Larson wrote intermittent narratives that emulated portions of her life, such as Passing; these narratives emulate her desire for access to wealth, middle-class comfort, and white privileges. Larsen herself, scuffles with identity after her Negro father from the Virgin Islands dies at her age of two, and her Danish mother marries a man of her race and nationality. At the age of five, Larsen attends a small private school whose pupils were mostly German and…
Essay Bread Givers And Nella Larsen 's Novel
The early 20th century was not a particularly good era for women. During this time of womanhood, the conventions were to get married and have children. In Anzia Yezierska’s novel, Bread Givers and Nella Larsen’s novel, Quicksand, the female protagonists desire more than marriage and find a place for themselves to be independent, stable women. Bread Givers and Quicksand explore the image of American female identity in the early 20th century. Sara and Helga both struggle with their gender identities…
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Australia's oldest exhibiting Aboriginal art gallery
exhibition MEXICO & URUGUAY | O Tempo dos Sonhos | OUT OF THE DREAMING | Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art
From 19th to 26th March 2020
Mexico - Various Locations in South America
Touring exhibition throughout South America Curated by Djon Mundine AO and Adrian Newstead OAM
O Tempo Dos Sonhos -
OUT OF THE DREAMING:Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art
Touring exhibition throughout South America
Curated by Djon Mundine AO and Adrian Newstead OAM
CAIXA Cultural presents OUT OF THE DREAMING: Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art, an international show visiting Latin America for the very first time and bringing artworks from a remote land which still shares common characteristics with Brazil. Organized in association with 2 Levels, Ta ana Flores Produções and Coo-ee Art Gallery, the exhibition features an emblematic selection of contemporary Australian art produced by the Aboriginal artists from that country.
Canvases, sculptures and paintings using various materials gracefully decorate the walls of the rooms at CAIXA Cultural Sao Paulo and provide visitors with an opportunity to experience a culture that integrated itself and was integrated into their settlers' culture. It also encourages a reflection on the different colonial models and their impacts on art and the culture of the peoples.
Hence, by making this project possible, CAIXA contributes to critical thinking and education of the people, thus proving again its commitment to Brazilians. Since its foundation back in 1861, its has been working hard to raise the quality of life of the people. In addition to its role
as a government bank and partner in the governmental policies, CAIXA supports and stimulates culture, especially to make the events tour the seven units of CAIXA Cultural.
It is not easy to reach so many people and places, but this is a challenge that is worth facing. After all, for CAIXA, life asks for more!
Australian Indigenous art has a most significant place in the history of Australia. Indeed, it can justifiably claim to be the art of the oldest continuous living culture in the world.
This exhibition pays tribute to and shows the richness of that culture and the way in which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples continue to practice their age-old art traditions, including in new contemporary mediums.
The creative arts are means by which artists are able to communicate, to share their stories, histories and unique cultures with peoples from all over the world. This exhibition, which will tour several cities in Brazil during 2016, includes works by many of Australia's finest Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders artists. The realisation of this exhibition also demonstrates the vital role galleries, art consultants, and important national institutions can play as brokers in that communication process.
This exhibition creates an opportunity for reflection and a meeting of cultures. I hope that the artworks resonate with Brazilian artists and people, who represent such a range of different cultural traditions.
I congratulate and express my appreciation to the Caixa Cultural for supporting this wonderful exhibition, the most significant collection of Australian Indigenous art to be exhibited in Brazil.
It is an added pleasure that this wonderful exhibition has been arranged as an important part of the Australian now festival.
Thanks also to 2 Levels Exhibitions and Coo-ee Art Gallery, Sydney, which have brought this dynamic exhibition to Brazil, and to Kangaroo Tours, Miller & Co. and Tatiana Flores Produções and all the curators and arts workers in both countries that have supported this project.
I am sure that everyone who visits will be well rewarded and enriched by this magnificent visual presentation of Aboriginal art.
Mr. John Richardson
A PERSONAL NOTE FROM ANNE AND ADRIAN NEWSTEAD
Anne and I have just returned from a whirlwind trip to South America during which we visited Chile, Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay. Beside sheer enjoyment, our purpose was to attend the opening of our touring exhibition O Tempo Dos Sonhos (Out of the Dreaming) in Recife, participate in two soirée’s/book launches to which journalists, curators and art enthusiasts were invited, and to meet with Australian consular officials and local Museum directors in order to extend the tour beyond 2019.
The exhibition O Tempo Dos Sonhos (Out of the Dreaming) was created for presentation during the DEFAT sponsored Australia Now Festival held Sao Paulo in April 2016 as a precursor to the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games. It was developed by myself (Cooee Art Director Adrian Newstead), and Indigenous Art Curator Djon Mundine, in collaboration with the International Curator Clay D'Paula and sponsored by the Caixa Foundation, the cultural arm of Brazil’s second largest Bank. Following its outstanding success in Sao Paulo (population 12 million), the Caixa Foundation hosted the exhibition during the following two years in Rio de Janiero (6.5 million), Brazilia (2.9 million), Curatiba (1.9 million), Forteleza (2.6 million) and Recife (1.6 million) while the International car manufacturer Fiat sponsored the exhibition in Belo Horizonte (2 million). Additional 2018 venues are located in Salvador (2.9 million) and the picturesque heritage city of Ouro Preto.
Book Launch and Soiree with artists, collectors, and curators - Recife, Brazil (June 2018).
The exhibition was specifically devised to engage and develop South American audiences by drawing upon the curator's collective experience in that region. Djon Mundine previously organised Aboriginal art exhibitions for the Havana Biennale, and the Pinocoteca do Estado de Sao Paolo in 2002 while Clay de Paula and I presented the Aboriginal exhibition Heroic Narrative which included artworks that had featured at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in 2010 at venues in Sao Paolo and Rio de Janeiro during 2012. A duel Australian/Brazilian citizen with a Masters Degree in Art & Curatorship from the University of Sydney, Clay de Paula has been promoting Aboriginal Art in Latin America since 2013 in collaboration with Cooee Art Gallery.
International curator Clay D'Paula at the opening of O Tempo Dos Sohnos in Recife, Brazil.
Our curatorial approach was particularly influenced by the ground-breaking exhibition Mestiso Histories, staged at the Tomiotake Museum in Sao Paolo during 2015. This exhibition examined the colonial experience of Brazil as seen through the eyes of artists commenting on the inter-racial history of the Portuguese settlers, former African slaves and Indigenous people of Brazil. The Aboriginal Australian works selected by the curators for the O Tempo Dos Sonhos were thoughtfully selected to draw parallels between the colonial history of Australian Aboriginal communities and that experienced by the first nations peoples of South America through artworks drawn from Australian collections spanning the period of 60 years. Exposure to Aboriginal Art is relatively new to this audience and the curatorial team included specific references in the catalogue essays and the exhibition itself which compare the separate but parallel histories of indigenous cultures and communities in Australia and South America. They also posed the question: How did indigenous artists in Australia make the transition from producing curio’s and items of purely ethnographic interest into highly valued and internationally recognised ‘contemporary’ art while that of the Indigenous Latin Americans failed to do so?
Curator Djon Mundine and artist Willurai Kirkbright at the symposium in Belo Horizonte.
This project promoting the art of 73 Aboriginal artists to South American audiences for the first time, has been specifically targeted to create a new audience in South America for Aboriginal Art and all things Australian. It has created the opportunity for education, cultural exchange and developing artistic and curatorial relationships while building interest in Australian Indigenous art, Australian inbound Tourism, and Australian cultural products in Latin and Central America. Brazil’s middle and upper-income earners are more numerous than the entire population of Australia. The potential for inbound tourism and trade in cultural products is unlimited.
This exhibition includes artworks by many of the seminal leaders of the various regional indigenous movements (such as Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Rover Thomas, and Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri) as well as showcasing artworks by more than 30 currently living and practicing artists. There is a pressing imperative to develop new audiences for Aboriginal art. Investment in production from various levels of government must be matched by market development and promotion. The number of galleries exhibiting Aboriginal art in Australia has halved in the past decade - earnings in remote art centres have fallen by 126% (Ninti One report).
More than one million people will have seen this exhibition before its return in 2020.
Over 500,000 visitors have already seen this powerful and vibrant collection of Aboriginal art in Brazil. It is expected that up to one million people will eventually see and visit the exhibition (this forecast is based on the published number of people that visit exhibitions at the participating venues each year). The exhibition will potentially reach over 40 million people through radio, TV, newspapers, magazines and social media.
Thousands of school children have been able to participate and view the exhibition.
To date workshops and symposia with South American artists, arts administrators and curators have been held in Belo Horizonte and Curitiba. Presenters have included Ilana Goldstein (Brazilian Anthropologist and specialist in Australian Aboriginal Art), Juliana Podolan Martins (specialist in Indigenous Art), Carolina Lock (respected Brazilian Art Curator), Gustavo Malucelli (Latin American Indigenous artist) , Djon Mundine (Aboriginal Art Curator from Australia) , Clay D’Paula (Art Curator and Cultural Producer), Willurai Kirkbright (Australian Aboriginal artist) and Ricardo Resende (renowned South American Contemporary Art Curator), while I have conducted soiree’s and book events in several of the cities visited by the exhibition. In Belo Horizonte alone, thousands of school children visited the exhibition and many of these took advantage of the education workshop facility provided by the gallery. These workshops for young people and the symposia aim to build a support network for the further development of a market for Aboriginal art in Latin America.
O Tempo Dos Sohnos will be held at the Museum of Pre-Columbian and Indian Art in Montevideo, Uruguay during the first quarter of 2019.
In Brazil, the exhibition has been greatly supported by the Australian Ambassador(s) Patrick Lawless and John Richardson, Consular staff, Austrade, and DFAT through it Council of Latin American and Australian Relations (COALA) as well as Australian and Brazilian companies involved in the arts and business and education sectors - such as the Caixa Foundation, Kangaroo Travel and Latino Australia Education.
Brazil's population of 210 million people includes 25 million at the top socio-economic level (i.e. as large a potential audience as Australia's total population). Australians and Brazilians share a love of nature, vibrant colour, and rich and divergent cultures. This exhibition includes art by more than 70 indigenous artists that have come from more than 20 community art centres and individual artist's agents.
Adrian and Anne at Museus e Centros Culturais - Casa Fiat, Belo Horizonte.
At its first venue in Sao Paulo, the exhibition generated $AUD335,000 in publicity for an investment in media of just $AUD25,000. For a small sample only of the vast publicity and media generated by the exhibition during the past 3 years view the following links:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWeoj2F2ZY0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ndFIQbwmlU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOUwAZtFMWE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gxpSd14gXI
https://www.promoview.com.br/regional/nordeste/caixa-cultural-fortaleza-exibe-obras-de-artistas- aborigenes-da-australia.html
http://www20.caixa.gov.br/Paginas/Noticias/Noticia/Default.aspx?newsID=4068
http://divirta-ce.blogspot.com.au/2016/08/exposicao.html
http://portal.cativaimagem.com.br/Arquivos/Materias/Radio/18092017-0824-8d1b962a-0fb0-44cc-b75d-bc704de83319.mp3
http://portal.cativaimagem.com.br/Arquivos/Materias/Televisao/20092017-0759-318424bb-375f-49e5-94e7-63c0c8cdbe43.mp4
http://portal.cativaimagem.com.br/Arquivos/Materias/Televisao/26092017-2108-9aa41f08-ca5c-4511-a713-185ac3d78299.mp4
http://portal.cativaimagem.com.br/Arquivos/Materias/Radio/26092017-1502-7e2c0eb8-e186-4e6e-a206-001d6e305fe3.mp3
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In the Beginning of Time - 1995
Paddy Fordham Wainburranga 9
#8180 LOCATION: Bondi Beach
The Horso Creek Massacre (1880’s) - 1998
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Ice is cheap and effective, but it can leave a sloshy mess in your cooler. Is there a better solution for keeping the contents of your cooler cold?
Ice packs promise to keep your cooler cold without the hassle and mess of dealing with cubed ice. Most of the packs are filled with nontoxic chemicals, some of which are supposed to stay cold for a prolonged period of time.
To find the best ice pack, we selected eight models priced from $3.49 to $29.99. If a manufacturer offered multiple sizes of a product, we chose the largest available. Most of the packs were hard-sided, but we also included two soft-sided ice “blankets” meant to line the bottom of a cooler. Only one product is filled with plain water; the rest use proprietary nontoxic liquids or gels. We froze the packs for 24 hours before each test.
To get a preliminary read on their ability to stay cold, we started by removing the ice packs from the freezer, affixing a thermometer to each, and tracking how long they took to warm from a baseline of about 32 degrees to 50 degrees. With the exception of the two ice blankets, which were both completely thawed in less than 7 hours, all the ice packs stayed below 50 degrees for at least 12 hours. We did find that ice packs that weighed 2 pounds or less called it quits sooner than larger 4- and 5-pound packs.
We saw the same trend when we placed the packs in identical pools of 75-degree water and tracked the temperature of the water as it chilled and ultimately started to warm up again: The smallest ice packs had minimal cooling power, and the ice blankets weren’t much better, but large ice packs worked well, keeping the water cold nearly twice as long (as much as 7 hours) as the others.
So far only the obvious was clear—larger ice packs stay colder longer. So couldn’t you just use more of the small ice packs to achieve the same result? To find out, we lined the bottom of identical large, 38-quart rolling coolers with as many packs of each model as would fit without overlapping—between one and three packs for each model. We filled another cooler with 5 pounds of loose ice (the smallest amount we could buy at the grocery store) to see how plain ice would compare. We loaded 24 cans of 40-degree seltzer and soda into each cooler so that they were all about half full and tracked the air temperature inside each cooler. Every hour we removed a can from the same spot in each cooler, opened it, and recorded the temperature. Our goal was for the cans to stay under 50 degrees, which we found to be a nice drinkable temperature.
The good news: With size accounted for, every ice pack kept the contents below 50 degrees for more than 8 hours, a reasonable length for a party or tailgate. But we didn’t stop there. The cans in the two coolers with ice blankets warmed up to an unpalatable 60 degrees within 24 hours. All of the coolers with hard-sided packs kept cans around 50 degrees for 36 hours, which is when we finally stopped tracking them. While these results were impressive, we were astounded to find that the clear winner was the plain bagged ice, which brought the drinks down to a frosty 33 degrees and consistently kept them 10 degrees colder than any ice pack over the course of 36 hours—even after a day and a half, sodas in the cooler with plain ice hadn’t even climbed to 40 degrees.
While none of the manufacturers would tell us exactly what materials they used in their ice packs, our science editor explained that common ice pack contents such as hydroxyethyl cellulose, sodium polyacrylate, and silica gel (all nontoxic materials used in other household items from cosmetics to cat litter) perform similarly to water, but they can also prevent bacteria growth. While some also have a thicker, gel-like consistency, which moves slower than water and can prolong thawing a bit, he suggested that the amount of liquid in each pack matters far more than the type.
There was only one way to find out exactly what and how much was inside each pack, so we sliced into each one and emptied the contents. The best-performing ice packs contained more than 45 ounces of cooling medium, about double the amount in smaller packs and up to four times as much as was in the lowest-performing ice blanket. The cooling mediums themselves were all different, ranging from colored watery liquids to clear, thick gels.
To see if any of the cooling mediums were objectively better at chilling than the rest, we weighed out 75 grams of each, put them in identical containers, and froze them. We also included an equal amount of frozen water as a control. The next day, we took the containers out of the freezer and tracked their temperatures as they thawed to room temperature. The result? The liquids stayed pretty close in temperature as they thawed. While we noticed that gels consistently stayed a few degrees colder than liquids, it wasn’t enough to make a marked difference in overall performance. It also came with a trade-off: air bubbles were often trapped in the slower-moving gels, which formed bulges in the plastic as they froze. Packs with large bumps were unsteady in coolers—no good if you’re transporting something delicate—say, a pie or a tray of deviled eggs.
Ultimately, if you don’t mind the cleanup and have time to go to the store, plain ice will do a good job of keeping the contents of your cooler cold (loose ice cubes can snugly surround the contents of a cooler the way rigid ice packs can’t). But if you’re looking for a reusable option that won’t leave your cooler dripping wet, go for a hard-sided ice pack. Though we preferred larger products, all the hard-sided ice packs performed nearly equally once we compensated for size. Since none of the ice packs proved to have superpowered liquids worthy of a splurge, we heavily considered price in our rankings by computing the cost per ounce of liquid for each product. The best ice packs give you more liquid for less money.
Our favorite was the Arctic Ice Alaskan Series, X-Large ($20.99), a hard-sided 5-pound ice pack that held the most liquid in our lineup. While its $0.33 per ounce of liquid is a far cry from the $0.04 per ounce of plain ice, this ice pack kept a 38-quart cooler chilly for 14 hours, didn’t form bulges as it froze, had a convenient handle, and can be reused over and over to maximize savings.
We tested eight ice packs priced from $3.49 to $29.99. If a manufacturer offered multiple sizes, we purchased the largest ice pack available. We used temperature-tracking software to conduct three different temperature tests. First, we attached thermocouples directly to the ice pack as it thawed from frozen to room temperature. Next, we tracked how well each pack could chill room-temperature water. Finally, we lined the bottom of identical 38-quart coolers with each model (using one, two, or three packs depending on their size), loaded the coolers with 24 cans of chilled soda, and tracked the temperatures of both the cooler and the sodas over 48 hours. Before each test we froze the ice packs for 24 hours. We also disassembled each pack to examine its contents and froze an equal weight of each to compare its melting properties with those of ice. We rated the products on their cooling ability, materials, size, and value. Prices shown were paid online, and products appear in order of preference.
COOLING: We tracked the temperatures of the ice packs over three temperature tests; two of the tests used individual packs, while the third used however many packs it took to line a standard cooler. Our favorite products stayed below room temperature for more than 18 hours and kept water and soda chilled at a palatable 50 degrees for more than 6 hours.
MATERIALS: Our favorite products were made from hard plastic. Lower-ranked products had thin plastic housings that punctured easily. We also docked a few points from products that formed bulges in the plastic as they froze.
SIZE: We preferred larger ice packs that could line a chest cooler using only one pack, which meant we had to buy, store, and maintain fewer ice packs for the same cooling results. Lower-ranked products took as many as three packs to line the cooler. We also docked points from products that concealed a small amount of liquid with a lot of bulky packaging, which made adding another ice pack for better cooling results impractical.
VALUE: We weighed the liquid in each ice pack and calculated the price paid per ounce of liquid. Products were awarded points if their cost per ounce of liquid was $0.25 or less. We awarded fewer points to products that were more expensive.
Design Trifecta 360 Knife Block
Admittedly expensive, this handsome block certainly seemed to live up to its billing as “the last knife block you ever have to buy.” The heaviest model in our testing, this block was ultrastable, and its durable bamboo exterior was a breeze to clean. Well-placed medium-strength magnets made it easy to attach all our knives, and a rotating base gave us quick access to them. One tiny quibble: The blade of our 12-inch slicing knife stuck out a little
Lodge Classic Cast Iron Skillet, 12"
Our old winner arrived with the slickest preseasoned interior and only got better. Broad enough to cook two big steaks, it browned foods deeply, and its thorough seasoning ensured that our acidic pan sauce picked up no off-flavors. Though its handle is short, the pan has a helper handle that made lifting easy. It survived abuse testing without a scratch. An excellent pan, at an excellent price, that you’ll never have to replace.
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