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Grimsby Town 3 Macclesfield Town 1
Coca-Cola League Two JON Parkin’s spectacular first goal of the season could not prevent Macclesfield slipping to their first defeat in five games as they suffered more away day blues at Grimsby.
Coca-Cola League Two
JON Parkin’s spectacular first goal of the season could not prevent Macclesfield slipping to their first defeat in five games as they suffered more away day blues at Grimsby.
The injury-plagued marksman fired a brilliant 43rd-minute equaliser - just 11 minutes after coming on as a substitute in his only his third appearance this year.
And the Silkmen had a golden opportunity to put themselves on course for their first league win in eight months on the road when David Beresford raced through at the start of the second half.
But the in-form winger, who had Danny Whitaker in support, fluffed his chance and the Mariners ensured Macc left empty-handed.
Tom Newey put Grimsby, who boasted an equally wretched home record, losing the last five games at Blundell Park, ahead on 61 minutes with a fine 25-yard strike.
And Gary Cohen sealed the points with a jinxing run and finish on 80 minutes to send Grimsby, temporarily, to the top of the table.
"We got a fantastic equaliser through big Parky, who we’ve missed, and had a wonderful chance to go 2-1 in front," said manager Brian Horton. "It seems like everything goes against you when you’re at the bottom of the league, but to lose 3-1 was a little bit harsh.
"That’s the first blip in five games and I don’t think we look like a team that are second from bottom - but we are. And we’re giving too many goals away."
As has so often been the case away from home, Macc started brightly before Mariners created a series of chances. Michael Reddy and Jones both went close before Mark Bailey made an important block as the dangerous Reddy honed in on goal. It took another superb challenge from David Morley to halt Cohen’s burst into the area a minute later.
The Silkmen’s cause was not helped by the loss of full-back Bailey on 32 minutes, forcing Horton to reshuffle his troops with the introduction of striker Parkin.
It took a fine point-blank save from Fettis to deny Jones from six-yards out, but the goalkeeper could not prevent the forward opening the scoring with a powerful header from Ciaran Toner’s inviting cross on 41 minutes.
Parkin struck back almost immediately when he shook of two defenders to hammer a 20-yard volley in to the top corner. The striker nearly added an equally spectacular second two minutes after the restart when he let fly from distance again.
Beresford then missed his golden opportunity and the rest, as they say, was history.
GRIMSBY: Mildenhall, McDermott, Newey, Whittle, Toner, Ramsden, Bolland, Cohen, Parkinson (Andrew 81), Jones, Reddy. Subs (not used): Downey, Barwick, Gritton, Croft.
MACCLESFIELD: Fettis, Bailey (Parkin 32), Morley, Bullock (Miles 77), Harsley, Beresford, Whitaker, McIntyre, Briscoe, Navarro, Wijnhard. Subs (not used): Barras, Deasy, Brightwell. Booked: Bullock. Star man: Jon Parkin.
Referee: Eddie Iderton.
Attendance: 3,658 (94).
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Interview: Cora Bissett and David Greig on Whatever Gets You Through the Night
Anna Burnside
Photo: Jannica Honey
Night-themed project brings together theatre, music, film and a book
We’ve all been there. The ouzo from the back of the cupboard has been drained. Fag ends float in abandoned mugs of wine, David Bowie’s Low is on repeat. Any moment now the sun will penetrate the landlord’s sick-coloured curtains. It’s that moment at the end of the party when, as Cora Bissett puts it, ‘you realise that you are the dregs’.
People are around between midnight and 4am, says her collaborator David Greig, for a reason. ‘You’ve been up all night talking until you actually say, “Are we going to get off with each other?” or finally say, “I can’t take this any more, I’m going to leave.” You’re only awake then if something weird is going on.’
In Whatever Gets You Through the Night, Greig and Bissett take the intense experiences of the wee small hours, as imagined by some of the country’s creative A-list, and turn them into a theatrical tour of pre-dawn Scotland. Bissett, whose CV includes the bands Darlingheart and Swelling Meg as well as acting and directing, was approached by Glasgow’s Arches to create a show that combined live music with theatre in a ‘not-a-musical’ way.
She knew she wanted Greig on board and much of the work was done in the hotel rooms and sun loungers of Australia, while on tour with Greig’s play Midsummer, in which Bissett co-stars.
‘We had identified ten bands and ten writers we were interested working with and asked them to create a song or a page of text, a scene or a piece of prose, which happens somewhere specific in Scotland between the hours of midnight and 4am. They have created all these snapshots of life through the night, moments happening.’
Musical input has been driven by Greig and Bissett’s third collaborative partner, Edinburgh band Swimmer One, who downloaded their in-depth knowledge of new music to Bissett and Greig’s iPods. This has been an enjoyable education for both: ‘I love music but had lost touch a bit,’ says Greig. ‘Then here I was being a bit of a fanboy, listening to bands I loved and bands I’d not heard yet.’ That many of these are named after damaged body parts, such as Wounded Knee, only adds to the pleasure. ‘One of the delights for me has been finding Dan from Withered Hand. He’s fantastic.’
Dan Willson’s plangent narratives about eyeliner and cigarettes were new to Bissett as well, as were experimental electro-popstrels Conquering Animal Sound, folktronicists Meursault and Mogwai’s protégés, Errors. She was also keen to involve Eugene Kelly of The Vaselines, Deacon Blue’s Ricky Ross and Emma Pollock, who have all contributed songs. Not all of these are what their creator’s back catalogue might suggest. ‘If the only thing this show does is prompt Eugene Kelly to bring into this world the song “Chips and Cheese”, then that’s enough,’ says Greig. ‘It’s his homage to our great national dish. We are doing it as a six-part harmony with a horn section. That alone is worth the ticket price.’
Joining them are writers from stage (Kieran Hurley, Stef Smith) and screen (Annie Griffin). There are poets such as Alan Spence as well as some whose writing crosses into performance (Alan Bissett, Kirstin Innes, Skye Loneregan). Bissett will direct the show while Greig is what would be called dramaturg, if it wasn’t a word he makes a point of avoiding. ‘I’m just working with Cora to give it a shape. I’ve written some joiny-up bits, when it needs an idea to connect up a song or a scene. Cora’s shaping the show and directing it, I’m keeping an eye on the audience’s emotional journey.’
For Greig, who also directs and recently curated the One Day in Spring series for A Play, a Pie and a Pint and the National Theatre of Scotland, this is an agreeable way of working. ‘I was not asked if I would write a play,’ he says with some relief. ‘I was asked to look at all the bits of text and ideas and songs, and work with Cora to help make that into the shape of an evening, so that the audience wants to know what’s happening next.
‘As I listened to all the songs, I realised they were all about connecting. When do we feel most alone? If we are up at 4am, it’s then, when the taxi driver tells us his life story or we see someone crying on a street corner into a poke of chips. That impulse to connect is at its strongest because we’re at our most atomised.’
It’s a big subject set over a sprawling landscape: a farewell on Loch Lomond, a Skype affair, a virtual reality game, Queen’s Park on Glasgow’s southside, the dark starry skies of Galloway Forest Park. Bissett wants to ‘put the songs centre stage and build the other emotional and visual elements around them’. Not every one is used in its entirety and some of the written pieces are reduced to fragments.
This is not what writers of words or music want to hear, so at the start of the process 18 months ago, everyone was warned there would be liberties taken for the live show. ‘I have to be a bit sharp sometimes,’ says Greig. ‘I’ll say, “This scene is fantastic but these three chunks of dialogue are the moment, that’s what we’ll have, with that very sad song ending, it bounces us brilliantly into this next song. And maybe that song can only go as far as first bridge …”’ There will, however, be an album and a book, produced by co-collaborators Swimmer One, to accompany the show, in which every contribution will be pristine and untouched. Filmmaker Daniel Warren will include the songs in a film, which will be shown at Edinburgh’s Summerhall as part of its Fringe programme.
Back in the big club space at the Arches, what can the audience expect? ‘It will feel like a big student flat,’ says Bissett. ‘Dark and grungy. I want us to get through the night together.’ In place of a set there are huge projection screens. Kim Beveridge, the digital artist from Bissett’s award-strewn Roadkill, has been filming imagery that will complement the music.
‘Even if the actors just stood about, the people paying the ticket price get to see a pretty amazing gig,’ says Greig. ‘A beautifully chosen set of people playing really good music.’ Some of the music is live, some recorded. Kelly’s gastro anthem is sung by the cast. ‘And the cream on top of cake is that we are arranging your emotional journey through that.’
‘What I like,’ adds Bissett, ‘is that we really really give you the space to listen to songs. I used to listen to music carefully, and proper proper musos will still sit and listen through to an album. But I’m guilty of using shuffle, tune in and out. So this is not little clips. Listen to this, the words, these beautiful shifts. Just stop for a second. Let’s all be present. What we do physically and visually will heighten that.’
And that’s it. Oppression, revolution and other issues associated with Greig and Bissett’s back catalogues can all be left in the bedroom with the coats (where someone will probably, at some point in the evening, throw up over them). ‘Sometimes we work on very overt subject matter that can be very politically engaged, dealing with huge big issues,’ says Bissett. ‘There’s no issue here. It’s a kind show, we’re all sitting in this big flat together. There’s something warm about it. I’d like it to feel like your best mate.’
The Arches, Glasgow, Tue 26–Fri 29 Jun, and Summerhall, Edinburgh, Thu 23 Aug.
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High Court sanctions claimant for failing to update budget
Budget failure: sanction need not be nil assessment
A claimant’s failure to update his budget in advance of an unplanned preliminary hearing has led a High Court judge to rule that “every assumption” would be made against him in assessing the costs.
Mr Justice Warby said ordering no costs would be disproportionate, and was in any case not a sanction prescribed by CPR 3.18 (relating to assessing costs where a costs management order has been made) or the practice direction.
Simpson v MGN Ltd & Anor [2015] EWHC 126 (QB) concerned the costs of a preliminary hearing on meaning and an application to strike out a plea of justification in a libel claim brought by Premier League footballer Danny Simpson against the Daily Mirror.
The claimant’s original budget had included a contingency for such a hearing – which the defendant contested – but Master Yoxall declined to direct a preliminary issue and so neither approved nor disapproved the figure. However, the defendant’s contingency was agreed.
The claimant then sought an order for the preliminary hearing and served an amended budget on the defendant, which failed to respond until two working days before the hearing; the claimant had not filed the amended budget with the court in the meantime.
The hearing was largely a success for the claimant but the defendant argued that his approved costs budget did not make provision for the hearing and there was no good reason to depart from it, meaning no costs should be allowed. The claimant described this as “rank opportunism”, especially given the late reply to the claimant solicitor’s letter on the amended budget.
Warby J said the application of rule 3.18(b) – not departing from a budget unless there is good reason to do so – was not straightforward here, given that the claimant had put forward a budget for this phase of the litigation which was not agreed, approved or disapproved, while the defendant’s budget had been agreed.
“I am inclined to think that the wording of CPR 3.18 was not aimed at such a situation, but rather at ensuring that once the court has reached a decision on what it is reasonable for a party to spend on a given phase that conclusion should be final in the absence of some good reason. However, that was not a point addressed in argument and I reach no conclusion on it.
“Assuming that I am wrong in this, it seems to me that on the facts of this case there is good reason to depart from the budget approved by Master Yoxall for this phase of the litigation, by allowing recovery of some costs by the claimant.”
Among the factors the judge took into account were that the claimant’s proposed budget for this phase had been known from before the overall budget was set, the revised budget that was sent through, and the defendant’s delayed response to it – “that is not a co-operative approach”, he said.
Further, “the claimant’s failure to comply has had only a modest impact on the efficient dispatch of this litigation, and no appreciable impact on the efficient conduct of litigation overall. It was never likely to have any substantial impact on either.”
Making every assumption against the claimant in assessing the hearing’s costs was a “just and proportionate” sanction that “in more general terms provides a sufficient incentive to parties to comply”.
The defendant also complained that while the claimant had filed its costs schedule for the hearing with the court, it had not been served on the defendant.
Again Warby J noted that this failure to comply with paragraph 9.5 of practice direction 44 did not prescribe a sanction of no costs being recovered.
However, he said the failure led to unnecessary delay in costs in resolving the assessment and he made a deduction from the costs claimed to reflect this.
Overall the claim for £24,096 was slashed to £10,500 (both including VAT), with the major reduction coming from only allowing the costs of one counsel when two had been instructed, which Warby J said was not necessary.
Jon Lord, a Council member of the Association of Costs Lawyers, commented: “This ruling shows how some of the kinks in the budgeting process still need to be smoothed out; otherwise they risk just introducing an unnecessary layer of costs into litigation.
“In keeping with the football theme of the case, the only goal scored was an own goal by Mr Simpson in failing to serve his team sheets (budget and statement of costs) on the opposition before the game. The penalty for that was sensibly proportionate in the form of the additional cost caused by his failure.”
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Scientists Examine 100 Trillion Microbes in Human Feces
By Ker Than 2006-06-01T14:00:00Z
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The human large intestine is a 5-foot long, dark, dank and twisting corridor whose repetitive contractions function to squeeze the last remaining drops of water and the final bits of nutrient from feces before expulsion from our bodies.
Aiding the large intestine in this task are trillions of microbes that reside in the gut, where they help digest foods we would otherwise have to avoid. In this way the bugs contribute to our overall health.
Some of these tiny settlers are with us from birth, imparted from our mothers, while others gradually colonize our bodies as we grow. This microbial community is as diverse as any found in Earth's seas or soils, numbering up to 100 trillion individuals and representing more than 1,000 different species.
"This is the densest bacterial ecosystem known in nature," Jeffrey Gordon, a microbiologist at Washington University in St. Louis, told LiveScience. "The density of colonization of the distal gut is just enormous."
Now a significant chunk of genes from those microbes has been decoded.
Using fecal samples from two healthy adult volunteers who did not receive any antibiotics or other medications for a year prior to the study, Gordon and colleagues have described and analyzed more than 60,000 genes from each individual.
The team's findings, detailed in the June 2 issue of the journal Science, will help scientists better understand how these microscopic life forms perform their many functions. It will also help researchers determine whether the microbial communities we each carry inside are evolving as a result of changing diets and lifestyles.
A better understanding of these things could allow scientists to one day manipulate the microbial communities within us in order to improve health.
For example, an upcoming study by Buck Samuel, a graduate student in Gordon's lab and a co-author in the current study, finds that one of the microbes whose genes were analyzed helps determine how much calories we absorb from the food we eat. Called Methanobrevibacter smithii, it eats up hydrogen waste products released by other microbes in our gut and converts it into methane gas, which we release, discreetly or otherwise.
Samuel and colleagues found that mice that have large concentrations of M. smithii in their guts are fatter than those that don't have the bacteria. The finding, which Samuel presented at a recent meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, presents the intriguing possibility that scientists could plant different microbes in our guts to help us gain or lose weight.
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How Blood-Bloated Mosquitoes Stealthily Avoid a Swat
After a mosquito bites you and drinks its fill, how does it escape quickly and sneakily, to avoid getting smacked? To make their liftoff smoother and less noticeable to their victims, blood-bloated mosquitoes adjust their takeoff technique, researchers have discovered.
Using an array of high-speed cameras and 3D-motion analysis, scientists tracked 63 takeoff maneuvers in mosquitoes, describing their results in a new study. They found that full mosquitoes prepared for liftoff by first beating their wings, then gradually increasing downward pressure with their legs, and finally pushing off almost imperceptibly. The early wingbeats reduced the amount of force the mosquitoes required for a speedy departure, reducing the chance that an irritated host would detect their movements and crush them with a swift swat. [How Mosquitoes Find a Tasty Host]
Female mosquitoes must feed before they lay their eggs, and a blood meal can nearly double a mosquito's weight. Successfully escaping after feeding would not only improve female mosquitoes' chances of reproducing, but could also enable them to further spread vector-borne diseases — such as malaria — to their next victims, the study authors reported.
Capturing evidence of a mosquito's precise wing and leg movements at takeoff required a setup in the laboratory that was "rather complex," study lead author Florian Muijres, an assistant professor with the Department of Animal Sciences at Wageningen University in the Netherlands, said in a statement.
The researchers trained three cameras on both unfed and sated Anopheles coluzzii mosquitoes as they prepared to lift off, capturing exceptionally slow-motion video shot at 13,500 frames per second (video that appears to be moving in real time is typically shot at 30 frames per second), and tracking 1,620 wingbeats.
Photomontage of a blood-fed mosquito taking off. (Image credit: Florian Muijres, Wageningen University)
They discovered that the mosquitoes began beating their wings about 30 milliseconds before lifting off from the surface. During that time, the insects slowly pushed their legs downward, so that the liftoff was almost imperceptible. By comparison, fruit flies exerted nearly four times the force of the mosquitoes during takeoff, much of it generated by muscles in their legs that mosquitoes lack, the scientists found.
Surprisingly, the blood-heavy mosquitoes did not appear to sacrifice speed for stealth in their takeoffs. Even though the mosquitoes were lugging a load of blood that weighed approximately as much as their own bodies, they could still take off quickly by adjusting the direction of their wing beats to accommodate both the extra weight, and how carrying it affected their body alignment, the study authors reported.
While prior studies had explored how blood-feeding insects targeted and bit their hosts, much less was known about how they escaped after biting them, the study authors wrote. Their findings about mosquitoes suggest that other insects may employ similar adjustments to their takeoff after eating, to fly under the radar and live to bite another day, according to the study.
Analyzing how insects subtly adjust their landings and takeoffs to accommodate changes in their weight could even inform the designs of tiny flying robots, study co-author Sofia Chang, a doctoral candidate at the University of California at Berkeley, said in a statement.
"That is a field where miniaturization is a Holy Grail," Chang said.
The findings were published online Oct. 18 in the Journal of Experimental Biology.
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Can Drinking a Lot of Water Give You a Headache?
By Andra Picincu Updated September 12, 2019
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Have a headache from drinking water? This may come up as a surprise, but you might be overhydrated. Drinking too much water can lead to migraines, cramping, fatigue and electrolyte imbalances, among other symptoms.
A high water intake may dilute sodium in the body and lead to hyponatremia.
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A high water intake may dilute sodium in the body and lead to hyponatremia. This electrolyte disorder is often the culprit behind headaches, confusion, fatigue and irritability.
Dehydration, Overhydration and Headaches
Until recently, health experts recommended drinking at least eight cups of water per day. There is still a lot of debate on how much fluid is needed daily for optimal health.
The Mayo Clinic, for example, states that water intake depends on age, activity level, overall health, climate and other factors. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, on the other hand, recommends the consumption of 11 and a half cups of fluids per day for women and 15 and a half cups for men. Fruits, vegetables, soups and other high-water foods count toward your daily fluid intake. Harvard Health Publishing states that healthy people may drink four to six cups of water daily.
Read more: 12 Ways to Make Water Taste (Much) Better
One thing is for sure: drinking too much water can be just as harmful as drinking too little. Both dehydration and overhydration may lead to headaches and affect your overall health.
A low fluid intake, vomiting, diarrhea and intense exercise can all contribute to dehydration. Its symptoms include lethargy, dizziness, thirst, dry mouth and mood swings. Headaches are a sign of dehydration too, according to Harvard Health Publishing.
Drinking too much water isn't better either, as it may lead to hyponatremia, a common electrolyte disorder characterized by low sodium levels in the bloodstream. This condition may cause changes in mental status as well as muscle cramps, headaches and even death.
Headache From Drinking Water
If you're having a headache from drinking water, hyponatremia may be the culprit. Excessive water levels in the body may dilute blood sodium, leading to electrolyte imbalances. At the same time, your cells begin to swell, points out the Mayo Clinic. These biochemical reactions may cause various symptoms ranging from mild to severe:
Fatigue and low energy
Muscle cramps and spasms
There are two main types of hyponatremia, according to a Nov-Dec 2014 report published in the Indian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism.
The acute form, which causes fluid accumulation in the brain, occurs in 48 hours or less, causing seizures and altered mental status. If left unaddressed, it may lead to coma and death. Illicit drug users, marathon runners and individuals with psychogenic (primary) polydipsia, a condition that causes excessive thirst, are at greater risk of developing this disorder.
Read more: 8 Surprising Things Giving You a Headache
Chronic hyponatremia has less severe symptoms that take longer to kick in. It may cause nausea and vomiting, poor appetite, digestive discomfort and gait disturbances in the elderly.
What Can You About It?
The best thing you can do to avoid a headache from drinking water is to monitor your fluid intake, especially during intense exercise. Endurance athletes, for instance, are at higher risk for hyponatremia, warns the Mayo Clinic. Intense exercise depletes electrolytes and increases thirst, causing you to drink more water than usual. A high fluid intake will further affect your sodium levels and disturb electrolyte balance.
True Sport, an organization supported by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, recommends that athletes drink at least one ounce of water per pound of body weight per day and adjust that amount based on activity levels and outside temperature.
Ideally, you should drink about 16 ounces of fluid two hours before exercise and another 8 to 16 right before training. Consume four to six ounces of water every 15 to 20 minutes during intense exercise. Once you're done training, weigh yourself and drink 16 to 24 ounces for every pound lost.
Listen to your body on off-training days. Drink water every few hours, but don't go overboard. If you're always thirsty, consult a doctor. Excessive thirst may indicate an underlying condition, such as diabetes or polydipsia.
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Harvard.edu: "How Much Water Should You Drink?"
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Lombard Odier is pleased to announce that it won “Best Private Bank for Socially Responsible and Impact Investing” and “Best Private Bank in Europe for Philanthropy Services” at the prestigious Banker/Professional Wealth Management Global Private Banking Awards 2017, held in London on 26 October.
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The awards were collected by Lombard Odier’s Head of Impact Office Bertrand Gacon, and Global Head of Philanthropy Maximilian Martin, at a gala evening at the Four Seasons Hotel on Park Lane in London. Also in attendance were Robert de Guigné and Guillaume Bonnel from our Impact Office, Mara de Monte from our philanthropy team, Anna Josse, founder of Prism the Gift Fund, Michael Le Garignon and Tatyana Kravchenko from our Independent Asset Managers team, and London banker Dylan Samuel.
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Posted on 7th May 2010 at 2:19 pm.
British Airways (BA) has slammed Unite’s ‘callous disregard’ for air travellers, after the union urged its members to reject a new pay deal from BA boss, Willie Walsh. The move could result in industrial action from the 14th May onwards, with walkouts lasting between ten and twelve days.
Willie Walsh once claimed that Unite is trying to ‘ruin’ British Airways. Despite the union’s protestations, the longer that BA is held to ransom by its own staff, the more likely it is that the airline will be toppled by debts and tribunals. Unite clearly have the upper hand, but that hasn’t stopped the union launching a fresh attack on Britain’s flag-carrier.
Unite was responsible for strikes totalling seven days during March, costing BA around £45m. Not to be outdone, the airline retaliated, and revoked all travel perks for striking staff, including free travel. The move was seen as an act of desperation at the time, but BA’s revenge struck an unexpected chord with staff members.
Yesterday, Unite demanded that BA reinstate all employee benefits, in addition to the demands that it has made in previous months. The request directly precipitated Unite’s call for its members to reject BA’s latest pay deal, and could result in further strikes throughout May and June. BA cannot afford any more setbacks, however.
The recent eruption of the Eyjafjoll volcano stripped an estimated £100m from BA’s bank balance, and £2.15bn from the European aviation industry as a whole. Unite remains unsympathetic. Casual observers could be forgiven for thinking that Unite is trying to punish BA’s hubris, rather than protecting the interests of its members.
Unite recently founded the specialist cabin crew branch, BASSA, otherwise known as the British Airlines Stewards and Stewardesses Association. Despite its name, the department exists solely for the protection of BA cabin crew, and is currently polling its members for opinions on the length of future strikes.
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London based writers Ann-Marie Fyfe and Cahal Dallat are spending the spring semester on LR’s Hickory campus, where they will teach creative-writing and host weekly poetry workshops.
London based writers Ann-Marie Fyfe and Cahal Dallat are spending the spring semester on LR’s Hickory campus, where they will teach creative-writing and host weekly poetry workshops. Fyfe and Dallat also gave a joint poetry reading Feb. 28 as part of the 30th anniversary season of LR’s Visiting Writers Series. Both writers regularly teach workshops and classes at London’s leading live literature venue, the Troubadour Coffee-House. Fyfe and Dallat also help organize Ireland’s annual John Hewitt Summer School, which offers opportunities to explore issues of difference and identity through literature and creative writing for individuals across Northern Ireland.
Fyfe is a poet, arts organizer, creative writing teacher, and former chair of Britain’s Poetry Society. Her fifth and latest poetry collection is titled “House of Small Absences.” She has also recently completed “The Voyage Out,” an 18-month teaching, writing, and performing tour funded by the Arts Council England. Her memoir/travel-journal of the tour, which explored coastal regions and communities in Britain, Ireland, United States, and Canada, will be published this year.
Dallat is a poet, musician, critic, regular BBC Radio 4 Saturday Review contributor since 1998, occasional reviewer for TLS and Guardian among others, and founder/organizer of WB Yeats Bedford Park Artwork Project. He is a former winner of Ireland's leading poetry prize, the Strokestown International, and his recent awards include the 2017 Keats-Shelley Poetry Prize and 2018 Harry Ransom Center Research Fellowship at the University of Texas in Austin. His latest poetry collection is titled “The Year of Not Dancing.”
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Pound and the Perfect LadyDonald Davie
Vol. 7 No. 16 · 19 September 1985
Pound and the Perfect Lady
Donald Davie
Pound’s Artists: Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts in London, Paris and Italy
by Richard Humphreys.
Tate Gallery, 176 pp., £12.95, June 1985, 0 946590 28 1Show More
Ezra Pound and Dorothy Shakespear: Their Letters 1909-1914
edited by Omar Pound and A. Walton Litz.
Faber, 399 pp., £25, January 1985, 0 571 13480 7Show More
Thanks to Clive Wilmer among others, an exhibition of paintings, sculptures, photographs and printed material bearing on Pound’s interests in ‘the visual arts’ was mounted for the Cambridge Poetry Festival on 14 June, and could be seen in Cambridge’s not sufficiently renowned Kettle’s Yard Gallery until 4 August; it will now be at the Tate from 11 September to 10 November. Humphrey Carpenter’s report on the exhibition for the TLS of 28 June will hardly choke the turnstiles. The show has, he said, ‘something of the air of a school reunion about it’, and with a few exceptions ‘it is the Pound business much as usual.’ No one, he thinks, who is unfamiliar with ‘Pound’s P.T. Barnumising for the visual arts’ will know what to make of it. This tone is intolerable, and augurs very ill for Carpenter’s biography of Pound, said to be in the works. No one who reads the three solid essays in what is described as the catalogue of the exhibition (though it isn’t quite that) can think that ‘Barnumising’ in any way describes Pound’s ardent response to painting and sculpture, photography and architecture, first in London 1908-1920, then in Paris 1920-1925, and thereafter in Italy. Carpenter, predictably, finds the three essayists – Richard Humphreys, John Alexander and Peter Robinson – ‘taking a rather solemn approach to the whole thing’; whereas, he assures us, Pound’s exertions on behalf of these arts partook ‘more than a little of the amiable joke’. Before it is through, Pound’s centenary year will bring on indigestion in even the most devoted Poundians. But whether his artistic life was, as a few think, exemplary, or, as rather more think, a fearsomely cautionary fable, it is at all events a matter of some solemnity, and the amused weariness of we-have-heard-it-all-before will not serve in 1985 as it did in 1920 or 1940 or even, scandalously, as late as fifteen years ago. We have not heard it all before, unless we have read, as few of us have, Harriet Zinnes’s compendium Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts, which all these essayists draw on very heavily. Amiable joking was never what Pound intended, and only a total insensitivity to his tone of voice could lead one to think otherwise.
Solemn? ‘Sedate’ is a better word for these essays. And two of them might be called even pedestrian. No harm in that: pedestrian documentation is what there is a call for – Pound himself, and his admirers emulating him, have been so sprightly for so long that they have persuaded people they, and he, cannot be in earnest. All the same, John Alexander’s piece on the Paris period would have made livelier and easier reading if he had not, like Richard Humphreys on the London years, limited himself so self-effacingly to the documentation, necessary thought that is. The problem, for instance, of Pound’s admiration for Brancusi, and of how that fits or does not fit with his other proclivities and principles, cannot for much longer be left where Alexander leaves it. On the other hand, his account of Pound’s attitude to Fernand Léger is new to me, and fascinating. Peter Robinson’s essay on Pound and Italian art is quite another matter: altogether more ambitious and probing. Out of D.S. Chambers and Michael Baxandall and some Italian scholars Robinson measures up Pound’s ideas about the right relation between artist and patron against what we know of how patronage in fact worked in the ducal fiefs of Renaissance Italy; and when he deals with the closeness of Pound’s views on this and related matters to Ruskin’s ideas (a theme common to all these essayists), Robinson dares to broach the too long forbidden topic of the poet’s antagonism – inertly received, so some would say, rather than considered – to Christian faith and Christian ethics. Ruskin’s espousal of a craftsmanly aesthetics, Robinson points out, is grounded in Christian convictions about the humility proper to a fallen creature: lacking such grounds, Pound’s holding to the craftsmanly not only seems arbitrary and unargued, it is as often presumptuous as humble. It’s Peter Robinson, too, who won’t stay content with ritually shocked head-shaking at Pound’s Fascism. When Pound in an early Canto includes among a hero’s conversational topics
And men of unusual genius,
Both of ancient times and our own,
Robinson detects ‘a severe confusion of categories and contexts’, and he asks: ‘Might we not distinguish in kind between literary promotion, such as Pound’s for Joyce, in war or peace, and advocacy such as Pound’s for Mussolini in war rather than peace?’ Well, so we might, but we might also think that ‘literary promotion’ is an inadequate description of Pound’s sustained and inventive activities on behalf of his notably non-reciprocating Irish colleague. In any case, Pound has the centuries on his side when he equates a genius in statecraft – Jefferson if not Mussolini – with a genius in an art or in speculative thought. In fact, the equation is more challenging the other way round: Pound thinks Joyce a phenomenon deserving equal attention with Mussolini – a temperate judgment that the years may be thought to have vindicated. Art is at least as important as politics, whether in peace or war, and it is Pound’s intransigent conviction of this that brings out the philistine in others besides Peter Robinson. The statesman as artist – God knows it is a dubious and dangerous idea, but to get rid of it probably involves demoting statesmen and aspiring statesmen from the privileged position that they still enjoy in public estimation.
Omar Pound, with Walton Litz of Princeton, has edited the letters that his parents exchanged through their protracted courtship, and their publishers have made of this a very pretty book. This is appropriate, for the story that the letters not so much tell as adumbrate comes through with a wistful fragrance that is very affecting if one reads slowly. Omar Pound must know the full story, but rightly I think, though rather austerely, he has left it for us to piece together. And some of the nuances are lost on us, or left hanging as possibilities. Was Frederic Manning, for instance, the Australian who would later write Her Privates We, in love with Dorothy, and wounded when she preferred Pound? We are not told. This is not to say that the letters can be left to speak for themselves. On the contrary, the two young persons communicate in a jokily affectionate private language, often about people in a not undistinguished but certainly restricted circle of acquaintances and Shakespear connections, who lived according to social codes now utterly unremembered. Accordingly, even those who have learned some of the relevant names from Pound’s biographers would be quite at sea if the editors had not marshalled, deftly and compactly and sometimes wittily, some very out-of-the-way information. Even so, the world that we have to enter – the world of the solidly professional bourgeoisie and minor gentry of pre-1914 England – is so remote from us, so exotic, that we can’t always keep our bearings. One is astonished, for instance, at how the daughter of Olivia Shakespear, no ordinary mother, was restricted, even in the arty society that she and Olivia frequented, by the still rigid conventions that wheeled her, uncomplaining but always chaperoned and often bored to tears, through a round of pointless visitings. Dorothy Shakespear, one sometimes feels, was not much less imprisoned than Elizabeth Barrett had been, and in not much less need of a poet-errant to liberate her. Neither the captive nor her would-be liberator wasted much time complaining: these were the rules of the game, and the two of them could only be patient.
Patience is not what we associate with Pound, and from time to time he seems to have kicked over the traces (at least once to be ticked off for it by Dorothy): yet we see all over again that the young Pound was well content with Edwardian England, was hopeful of it and ready to abide by its rules in everything that mattered. Of course, where Dorothy was concerned, that was his only strategy if he wanted to secure her in the end. And in fact that is one of the affecting things: the story that we read is undoubtedly a love-story. One had doubted this. Our information about the later phases of the Pound marriage is certainly imperfect. (And why should it not be? So Omar Pound might legitimately ask.) But such information as we have undoubtedly reflects more credit on Dorothy than on Ezra. One was forced to envisage the possibility that Ezra courted Dorothy, not cynically indeed, but abstractedly, impulsively, without due consideration. This correspondence, though Dorothy figures in it more prominently than Ezra, I believe puts paid to such suspicions. By 1913 Pound is confiding in his fiancée as, we must believe, he did to no one else. In their private code Yeats, who was to marry Dorothy’s cousin and best friend Georgie Hyde-Lees, figures as ‘the Eagle’. And in 1913 we have Pound writing of Yeats, who had just published The Grey Rock’, that the latter is ‘very fine, but his syntax is getting obscurer than Browning’s’, then confessing: ‘I wonder which is worse, to die in the aromatic subtlety of a disappearing cadence (à la ME) or to stodge one’s nobility into an incomprehensible narrative, à la The Eagle.’ (The allusion to Pope’s ‘Essay on Man’ is one of the few that the editors pass over.) This is very astute criticism of Yeats: but more to the point is that Pound here confesses self-doubts such as he would have concealed from anyone he did not trust absolutely. As we read the correspondence we seem to see Dorothy growing out of the gushing flibbertigibbet that she was in 1909 into a person altogether more substantial. But this is almost certainly an illusion: as she becomes surer of her hold on the affections of her poet, so she becomes surer of herself, can dispense with affectations, and dares to speak with a certain authority about compositions that her lover sends to her – animadversions that the poet in turn receives quite humbly.
Although students of Pound will fasten with delighted alacrity on such passages as the one just quoted about Yeats, and on one or two similar passages (for instance, one of January 1914, where he speaks with hostility about symbols and symbolism), still this book doesn’t really belong with other Poundiana. Its place is at least equally with The Diary of an Edwardian Lady, or even, since through long months the lovers are at opposite ends of Italy, with E.M. Forster’s Room with a View. Its fragrance is real, and penetrating: but it does not release itself at the first casual opening of the pages.
And yet the fact must be faced: however much patient sympathy we bring to our reading, we close the book feeling frustrated. For Dorothy is still not in focus, and one begins to think that she never will be, even if the correspondence of the Pounds’ later years is some day published. Dorothy, one suspects, was always too much ‘the perfect lady’, and schooled too thoroughly in the pre-1914 code of proud reticence (a code which incidentally her husband also adhered to), for her to escape the role of ‘poor Dorothy’ that some recent writers have cast her in. Certainly she could not compete on anything like equal terms with Hilda Doolittle, the poet H.D. who, having mythologised her relations with Pound in a roman à clef many years ago, did it all over again just before her death in End to Torment, a supposed ‘memoir’ which people seem disposed to take literally, though in its scattiness it may well be as fictionalised as the novel had been. It does not help, I’m afraid, now when American cultural chauvinism wants to reclaim Pound, that Dorothy was an Englishwoman whereas Hilda, the childhood sweetheart from Bethlehem, Pa., was echt-American. H.D., nicknamed ‘the Hamadryad’, is the subject of much high-spirited comedy in the letters that Ezra and Dorothy exchanged, and this ought to provoke second thoughts in those who want to take Hilda’s account at face-value: H.D. may have honestly persuaded herself that she was the great (though virginal) love of Pound’s life, but it’s unlikely that Pound thought so, nor need we. Dorothy however remains, not nebulous exactly, but enigmatic. The odd anecdote – for instance, James Laughlin’s of 1965 about how she advanced his education in Rapallo by reading to him the stories of Henry James – brings her momentarily into focus, but then she disappears again behind a smokescreen of gracious good breeding. The loss is grievous. For when the Pisan detention-camp in 1946 compelled the poet to breach, though guardedly, the barrier of his reticence, he certainly wrote about the women he had loved; and if Dorothy is of that company (as she must be, surely), we need to know just where she figures, and on what terms. It is the reader of moving and extraordinary but cryptic poetry who needs to know this, not the perhaps nosey biographer.
Donald Davie is a poet and critic. Three for Water Music, a collection of poetry, and his anthology, The New Oxford Book of Christian Verse, were published last year. A memoir, These the Companions, is due out in July and Dissentient Voice: Enlightenment and Christian Dissent is to be published in June. These will be reviewed in this journal by Christopher Ricks. He now teaches at Vanderbilt University, Tennessee.
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Facebook “Parent-Child” Structure Benefits High-Volume Advertisers
September 26, 2019 | Contributed by: Casey Zaffin
Facebook recently introduced a new Business Manager structure, formally called 2-Tier and informally known as “Parent/Child”, that will improve the customer ads management experience for high-volume resellers, agencies, and multi-location brands.
The Old Way
Before the “Parent/Child” structure, enterprises who published high volumes of ads on Facebook on behalf of SMBs or locations were required to create Ad Accounts in their Business Manager for each advertiser. This is known as the 1-Tier Business Manager structure.
In a typical setup for a brand, agency, or SMB reseller who is publishing Facebook Ads on behalf of their locations or customers, each customer has their own Facebook Ad Account within the brand, SMB reseller, or agency’s primary Business Manager. All Advertiser Pages are shared with the single Business Manager. A single System User manages all Ad Accounts and Pages within the Business Manager.
There are several limitations of the 1-Tier structure which introduced friction into the ability of high-volume SMB resellers, agencies with multi-location customers, or large multi-location brands to scale their social advertising to hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands of locations. The limitations include:
There is one system user under the Business Manager with access to all of the pages and ad accounts. This means that there is a single point of failure, and if the system user’s access token was compromised, all ad accounts would be compromised.
The same one system-user has access to all the pages, which means that if the system-user was blocked due to scale issues or policy violations, it would affect all ad accounts.
There is a limit on how many ad accounts a Business Manager can have, as a matter of Facebook policy. Once the limit is reached, it is a manual process to ask Facebook for permission to increase the limit. Typically, new Business Managers have a limit of 1 or 5 ad accounts, and increases are granted in relatively small allotments. This is a major inhibitor for a high-growth, high-volume Facebook Ads reseller, agency, or multi-location brand.
If a certain number of ad accounts are blocked for policy violations under a Business Manager, it blocks the entire Business Manager or its system-user. Because there are some assets that live at the Business Manager level, all of your clients’ assets are present at the Business Manager level. This, in turn, means that you must track which Pixel/Custom Audience/Product Catalog belongs to which user.
The Parent/Child Solution
Facebook’s new 2-Tier structure provides an answer to the limitations of the 1-Tier structure. The new Business Manager structure is only available to Facebook Marketing Partners who utilize Facebook’s APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) to automate and simplify campaign management.
The new structure introduces a unique “Child” Business Manager for each Advertiser, with the Advertiser’s page shared into that Child Business Manager. The Child Business Managers are independently managed and operate in isolation from each other.
The benefits of the 2-Tier Structure include:
There is no limit on the number of Child Business Managers, so high-volume SMB resellers, agencies, and multi-location brands can seamlessly scale their Facebook campaigns to an infinite number of locations without any manual work.
All location assets are housed and managed within their respective Child Business Managers, including their Business Pages. This helps to organize assets more efficiently.
Ad Accounts or Campaigns that are blocked for policy violations are insulated within their Child Business Managers, so no impact is felt by other clients.
There are some important considerations when moving to the new 2-Tier Structure. Most importantly, only Facebook Marketing Partners with programmatic access to Facebook publishing tools can implement the structure and provide you with access to Child Business Managers.
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Contributed by: Casey Zaffin
Casey Zaffin, VP, Client Management – Resellers at Tiger Pistol, has more than a decade of experience in digital marketing automation. In her time working with SMBs, multi-location brands, and resellers, she has helped her clients execute on product positioning, launch strategy, sales enablement, fulfillment, and performance management.
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Strongman to pull 8-tonne bus for charities
November 15, 2019 Keelan Balderson Community, News
A Lincoln strongman is raising funds for charity by lifting a 300kg car and pulling an 8-tonne bus.
Dave Johnson strongman
David Johnson, a personal trainer and competitive strongman, will perform the feats of strength in front of an audience outside St Marks Shopping Centre on December 14.
He is also challenging members of the public to pledge £5 to see who can hold Pacific Gym’s 6kg bag of protein powder in front of them for the longest time.
Money is being raised for the Salvation Army, Linkage, and Let Them Eat Cake, a local group of volunteers who feed the homeless of Lincoln.
David said: “I know these organisations are genuine and not eating up the money on bosses bonuses and wages.”
Let Them Eat Cake said they couldn’t thank him enough.
“Winter is a particularly tough time for Lincoln’s rough sleepers, Dave is an absolute star,” they said.
The Sensory Bus, Image: Linkage
David will be pulling the purple ‘Sensory Bus’ owned by Linkage, which is designed for people with learning disabilities such as autism to engage their senses.
He will also be deadlifting a car and is considering adding some other challenges to the event.
The power-lifter started doing strength-based exhibitions in 2010 after his friend Mark Browne was diagnosed with terminal cancer, and has since begun competing against others as well.
“I promised him I would do events in his memory when that time came.
“I try to do something every year for those less fortunate,” he said.
So far Dave has pulled numerous buses and fire engines, and even the Lancaster bomber while dressed as The Hulk.
The latest event is free to the public and will begin around 2pm on December 14, at St Marks Square. Donations can be made on the day.
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Facebook to pay US$5b over Cambridge Analytica privacy breach
David Shepardson, Reuters
Facebook Inc will pay a record-breaking US$5 billion (RM20.6 billion) fine to resolve a government probe into its privacy practices and will boost safeguards on user data, the US Federal Trade Commission and the social media company said on Wednesday.
After the stock market closed, Facebook disclosed, as a part of its earnings report, that the FTC told it last month that the commission had opened a separate antitrust investigation of the company.
The FTC, which early in the day issued a statement and held a press conference about the privacy settlement, did not mention an antitrust probe.
The FTC probe, that resulted in the US$5 billion settlement, uncovered a wide range of privacy issues.
It was triggered last year by allegations that Facebook violated a 2012 consent decree by inappropriately sharing information belonging to 87 million users with the now-defunct British political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica.
The consultancy's clients included US President Donald Trump's 2016 election campaign.
The FTC voted 3-2 to adopt the settlement, which the three Republican commissioners called the settlement "a complete home run" that exceeded any possible court award. Both Democratic commissioners said it did not go far enough or require a large enough fine. The settlement requires court approval.
Republican FTC chairperson Joe Simons stressed the FTC's limited authority and desire to avoid a long court fight.
"Would it have been nice to get more, to get US$10 billion, instead of US$5 billion for example, to get greater restrictions on how Facebook collects uses and shares data?" he asked at a press conference. "We did not have those options. We cannot impose such things by our own fiat."
Democratic FTC commissioner Rohit Chopra complained that the penalty provided "blanket immunity" for Facebook executives "and no real restraints on Facebook's business model" and does "not fix the core problems that led to these violations" or limit Facebook's ability to collect data.
Facebook confirmed it would pay the US$5 billion fine and said the settlement would provide "a comprehensive new framework for protecting people's privacy." Its shares closed about one percent higher.
The Securities and Exchange Commission said Facebook agreed to pay an additional US$100 million (RM411.2 million) to settle allegations that it misled investors about the seriousness of its misuse of users' data.
Under the settlement, Facebook's board will create an independent privacy committee that removes "unfettered control by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (photo) over decisions affecting user privacy."
Facebook also agreed to exercise greater oversight over third-party apps, and said it was ending access to friend data for Microsoft Corp and Sony Corp.
The Republican FTC majority said the settlement "significantly diminishes Mr. Zuckerberg's power - something no government agency, anywhere in the world, has thus far accomplished."
Under the deal, Zuckerberg and other Facebook executives must sign quarterly certifications attesting to privacy practices. The FTC said a false certification could result in civil and criminal penalties.
Facebook also is barred from asking for email passwords to other services when consumers sign up. It is barred from using telephone numbers for advertising if they are obtained in a security feature like two-factor authentication. The company must also get user consent to use facial recognition data.
Facebook said it may find additional problems as it initiates a review of its systems and warned it will take longer to roll out updates.
In a Facebook post, Zuckerberg said: "We're bringing our privacy controls more in line with our financial controls." He added that when features are added or modified, "we’ll have to document any risks and the steps we're taking to mitigate them."
The FTC also said that Cambridge Analytica's former CEO Alexander Nix and former app developer Aleksandr Kogan had agreed to a settlement restricting how they conduct business.
Several lawmakers criticized the settlement. Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut called it "a fig leaf" that offers "no accountability for top executives."
"By relying on a monetary fine to deter Facebook, the FTC has failed to heed history’s lessons. Facebook has already written this penalty down as a one-time-cost in return for the extraordinary profits reaped from a decade of data misuse," said Blumenthal, a Democrat.
Republican Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri also criticised the deal, saying it "does nothing to hold executives accountable. It utterly fails to penalise Facebook in any effective way."
Facebook confirmed that marketing vice president Michel Protti had been nominated to be chief privacy officer for product, but under the settlement he must be approved by the new board committee overseeing privacy.
Other legal issues loom. On Tuesday, the US Justice Department said it was opening a broad investigation of major digital technology firms into whether they engage in anticompetitive practices.
The department did not specify Facebook or any other company, but cited concerns raised about "search, social media, and some retail services online."
Leaders in those areas include Google parent Alphabet Inc, Amazon.com Inc, Facebook and possibly Apple Inc.
FTC decided to settle probe
The Democrats on the FTC complained that the US$5 billion penalty may be less than Facebook's gains from violating users' privacy.
"Until we address Facebook's core financial incentives for risking our personal privacy and national security, we will not be able to prevent these problems from happening again," Chopra said.
The other Democratic commissioner, Rebecca Slaughter, said the FTC should have taken Facebook and Zuckerberg to court.
She also criticised the FTC's decision to grant Facebook and its executives a release from liability for any claims that prior to June 12, 2019 it violated the earlier FTC settlement.
Slaughter said the FTC failed "to impose any substantive restrictions on Facebook's collection and use of data from or about users."
Chopra said the settlement means "the commission - and the public - may never find out what Facebook knows... It is difficult to conclude that the commission got the better end of the bargain."
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DnB nearly tripled its investment in Intel stock in the fourth quarter. The bank also sold nearly half of its stake in AMD stock.
This basket of dividend growth stocks can help your portfolio stand out in 2020
These stocks have low price-to-earnings valuations relative to the S&P 500 that also appear likely to continue raising their dividend payouts more quickly than the broad market.
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Why Nvidia (NVDA) Stock is a Strong Buy Ahead of 2020 Chip Growth
Nvidia shares have soared roughly 60% in the last year as part of a broader semiconductor market climb that has come despite an overall sales and earnings downturn. So is now the time to buy NVDA stock?
Using Technical Analysis: Cramer's 'Mad Money' Recap (Friday 1/17/20)
No matter how pessimistic the stock market gets, one thing remains true, Jim Cramer told his Mad Money viewers Friday. Cramer dedicated all of Friday's episode to the art and science of technical analysis, picking the best charts from his weekly "Off the Charts" segment and analyzing even closer. Cramer said it's because charts are like the footprints at the scene of the crime, clues to what the big money managers are likely thinking.
How Comcast's new streaming service measures up to AT&T's HBO Max
Analysts say Comcast's Peacock "didn’t seem as compelling" as the offerings for HBO Max.
7 5G Stocks to Connect Your Portfolio To
Editor's note: "7 5G Stocks to Connect Your Portfolio To" was previously published in November 2019. It has since been updated to include the most relevant information available.I have discussed the importance of various 5G stocks to buy before, but, of course, such a notion is nothing new. This latest telecom innovation represents a shift in the industry. Major players and even government bodies have pushed for 5G integration. But to truly understand the phenomenon behind 5G stocks, we should look back in time to the 4G upgrade.It's been more than a decade since the first 4G handset hit U.S. retail stores. Back then, we witnessed the same challenges that we must address today; namely, the lack of viable networks.InvestorPlace - Stock Market News, Stock Advice & Trading TipsHowever, the massive increase in data transmission speeds made efforts to overcome the challenges worthwhile. For instance, some early 4G networks download speeds of 100Mbps, substantially greater than an average 3G download speed of 2Mbps. That's the allure of 5G stocks.Moreover, think about the amazing technologies that either sprouted or were improved via 4G's introduction. For example, we take for granted today that we can hail a ride through Uber (NYSE:UBER) or Lyft (NASDAQ:LYFT). But the viability of this platform was really only possible through the 4G network. The same can be said about mobile streaming on services such as Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX). * 7 Large-Cap Stocks to Give a Wide Berth In other words, 5G doesn't just offer an industry from which to pick stocks to buy. Instead, this technology enables other technologies to flourish. It's a force-multiplier, one that comes around only once every several years.With that, here are my seven picks for 5G stocks to buy: AT&T (T)Source: Lester Balajadia / Shutterstock.com AT&T (NYSE:T) is a name that almost everyone is familiar with. However, it doesn't get much love as a candidate for stocks to buy. Even though T stock represents an iconic brand, the underlying company has unprecedented debt levels from expensive acquisitions.Even worse, those acquisitions apparently aren't gaining satisfactory traction. Of course, I'm referring to the $85 billion Time Warner acquisition. Initially, AT&T bought the company on hopes of original content strength and streaming revenue opportunities. However, fears of AT&T cannibalizing itself has put off some investors from T stock.But with all due respect, I think this perspective is shortsighted, as signified by the recent AT&T rally. I believe AT&T is one of the best 5G stocks to buy. With the coming network rollout, it's not just about technological prowess; instead, the rollout will require massive resources and wide-ranging telecom assets.Few names have the capacity to integrate 5G competently. Although it has some big issues, T stock is one of those players. Qualcomm (QCOM)Source: Shutterstock Under almost any other circumstance, Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM) would easily qualify as one of the best 5G stocks to buy. Thanks to its next-generation chips, Qualcomm has an early head start on this transformative telecom innovation. That right there is a good enough reason to seriously consider QCOM stock.However, legal troubles with Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) have cast a dark cloud over QCOM stock.Typically, semiconductor firms sell licenses of their core technologies, but Qualcomm charges royalties on top of innovations that are only loosely associated with the initial license.After settling the suit last year, Qualcomm added about 50% to its stock price and has since marched steadily upward. * 10 Cheap Stocks to Buy Under $10 As I have argued in the past, tech firms have ceased to exist in a vacuum. Instead, we're in a tech cold war for future digital dominance. Therefore, I believe the future is bright for QCOM stock because, well, it has to be. Micron (MU)Source: Shutterstock Speaking of vacuums, the 5G industry itself doesn't ply its trade in isolation. Instead, you see natural synergies and partnerships to help make the most of the tech in the shortest time possible. That's why on your shopping list of 5G stocks to buy, you shouldn't overlook Micron Technology (NASDAQ:MU) and MU stock.Earlier this year, Micron and Qualcomm announced a partnership to develop 5G-enabled autonomous driving platforms. This is a great example of the far-reaching impact of 5G technologies. With exponentially faster transmission speeds, autonomous vehicles can more quickly transition from concept to reality. Additionally, 5G speeds should make such AVs safer as they can react to dynamic conditions or dangers.Another plus for MU stock is the geopolitical environment. Micron of all companies on my list of stocks to buy recognizes the economic threat that is China. After suffering sometimes brazen acts of corporate espionage, Micron realizes that American tech firms haven't played on equal ground with the Asian juggernaut.But thanks to the no-nonsense Trump administration, MU stock has some executive support. Moving forward, I like that measure of confidence. Nvidia (NVDA)Source: Shutterstock If you're a hardcore gamer, you typically associate Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) with its gaming-centric graphics processors.However, the semiconductor firm has evolved into a comprehensive tech umbrella, providing solutions with data science, artificial intelligence, and deep learning. But what does this have to do with 5G stocks to buy?Simply, we're moving to a point now where no tech innovation occurs in isolation. Prior to 4G, most computerized solutions focused on data analytics and big data. But with 4G's data-transmission speed upgrade, engineers were able to realize multiple AI applications, such as AVs and other automated platforms. Since Nvidia leads in these innovations, NVDA stock provides attractive exposure. * 9 Up-and-Coming Small-Cap Stocks to Watch But with 5G, several industries are looking to take the next step in automation. In many cases, this means that companies are looking to replace human operators with AI-driven systems.Of course, such a notion is further out on the horizon. Still, I'd keep NVDA stock on my must-watch list, especially since shares are currently deflated relative to their all-time highs. Xilinx (XLNX)It's a theme that consistently runs throughout 5G stocks: no one player owns the entire 5G supply chain. Thus, part of the problem regarding the next-gen telecom rollout is the broader lack of equipment upgrades.Simply put, 5G requires multiple components, from the network down to the chips used to facilitate data transmissions.While it might not be a household name, 5G investors should check out Xilinx (NASDAQ:XLNX) and XLNX stock.For one thing, the company has introduced a groundbreaking chipset that covers the entire sub-6 GHz spectrum. This is essentially the radio frequency that makes 5G possible.Second, several 5G players already use Xilinx chips. That number will surely rise as the rollout deepens. Furthermore, Xilinx will likely pick up additional clients, making XLNX stock an attractive proposition.Finally, Xilinx offers critical solutions in growing and lucrative markets such as AI and data centers. Thus, no matter what happens with 5G, XLNX stock will likely benefit from robust demand. Ericsson (ERIC)Without any historical context, 5G investors would probably peg Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) as one of their top stocks to buy.After all, Ericsson provides the communications equipment that makes the 5G rollout practically accessible. Therefore, ERIC stock is an easy buy.Of course, Ericsson's long-term price chart tells a different tale. During the tech bubble of the late 1990s to early 2000s, ERIC stock was a legitimate three-digit security. As we all know, the bursting of that bubble deflated virtually all tech players.Later, ERIC stock peaked around the $20 level before collapsing during the last major housing crisis and the Great Recession. With shares currently trading hands at under $10, I can understand the hesitation regarding holding the bag. * 4 Energy Stocks to Power the New Year However, Ericsson does have a major geopolitical tailwind in the form of the U.S.-China trade war. With Huawei at least temporarily out of the picture, Ericsson has an opportunity to take advantage. This is one of the riskier propositions among 5G stocks to buy. But if you can stomach it, ERIC stock offers an intriguing opportunity. Semtech (SMTC)Analog and mixed-signal semiconductor supplier Semtech (NASDAQ:SMTC) offers natural exposure to 5G, along with other lucrative segments like the Internet of Things, data centers, and mobility. That said, SMTC stock has seen better days. Shares enjoyed a solid start to the year before negative earnings revisions for the year attracted volatility.However, I believe the nearer-term volatility in SMTC stock is just a blip on the radar. For one thing, Semtech features very stable financials. It has a relatively small debt load relative to its cash holdings.Moreover, Semtech has delivered consistently positive earnings, leading to an equally consistent free cash flow. Thus, the company can respond to fresh opportunities without worrying about the financial impact.Second, the 5G network is bound to grow in both scope and complexity. Not only are individual companies racing for an edge, so too are countries. Such dynamics provide a pathway to profitability for SMTC stock, making the nearer-term noise just that: noise.As of this writing, Josh Enomoto was long T stock. More From InvestorPlace * 2 Toxic Pot Stocks You Should Avoid * 9 Retail Stocks Goldman Sachs Says Are Ready to Rip * 7 Services Stocks to Buy for the Rest of 2019 * 6 Stocks to Buy and 1 to Sell Based on Insider Trading The post 7 5G Stocks to Connect Your Portfolio To appeared first on InvestorPlace.
CenturyLink Secures DOI Task Order for Network Modernization
CenturyLink (CTL) wins a mini contract from the U.S. Department of the Interior to deliver modern network services for the preservation of nation's natural resources.
WNBA star thriving in expanded analyst role at Turner Sports
Candace Parker has started business ventures in real estate and media production outside of her duties as a studio analyst.
NBC Unveils Spending Plans and More for Its Peacock Streaming Service
Comcast-unit NBCUniversal plans to spend $2 billion on new content for Peacock, the latest entry in the streaming wars.
Save the DVD! AT&T's Warner Bros. and Universal shake hands on deal to sustain the humble disc
The DVD – once the must-have in family rooms around the country – is getting some much-needed help from two unlikely partners.
CenturyLink scores federal network task order worth $1.6B
The task order calls on CenturyLink to deliver managed core network and security services across the Department of Interior's enterprise network
Where a Global Bond Fund Finds Yield in a Low-Rate World
The Dodge & Cox Global Bond fund offers solid returns even as some developed countries’ bonds have negative yields.
Cord Cutters Haven't Killed The Cable Industry — It's Bringing Them Their Broadband
Remember how the cable industry was going to crash as subscribers cut the cord and started streaming everything? Morgan Stanley analyst Benjamin Swinburne said the cable industry in 2019 was a surprisingly good year. The sector, which saw stocks up about 45%, is winning not necessarily on traditional cable TV but as a provider of broadband internet.
HBO Max chief not worried about its $15 subscription price
HBO Max will cost more per month than streaming services from Disney and Apple, who charge less than $10.
Dwyane Wade deepens ties to Georgia through marketing deal
One of the fastest growing companies in the TV technology industry has reached an agreement with former NBA star Dwyane Wade in a deal that makes him the brand’s first U.S. ambassador. Hisense USA, which is headquartered out of Suwanee, Ga., is partnering with the three-time NBA champion in a multi-year comprehensive marketing deal. Wade will support the brand’s efforts by being featured in marketing campaigns and supporting product launches.
AT&T's Breakout Level to Watch
AT&T is gearing up for earnings at the end of the month - when the telecommunications and media company reports its numbers in a week or so, analysts are looking for earnings of about 87 cents a share. At a glance, AT&T has been a great example of an outperforming blue-chip name: Shares have posted total returns of 31.4% in the trailing 12 months, beating the rest of the S&P 500 in the process. On the surface, it might look like AT&T's momentum is stalling.
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As the domestic policy of the Ottoman Empire, “Chamber of Commerce” was established in 1885 in İzmir, the trade city of the centuries. This establishment was first beneficial for the tradesmen. However, it could not be active in long wars and occupation period. Positive works increased in Republic period. İzmir Chamber of Commerce strengthened its long-standing structure and became the leading non-governmental organization of Turkey. For now, it has 55 thousand active 85 thousand inactive members. İzmir Chamber of Commerce has always been the symbol of innovations and changes since İzmir Economics Congress in 1923 in which Atatürk was also present. İzmir Chamber of Commerce which has always increased its incomes for over a century has established “İzmir Chamber of Commerce Foundation for Encouragement of Social Assistance” with the leadership of Ekrem Demirtaş in 1988. Among its aims was “opening private universities in order to educate the young people to serve for the economics of the country.” The basis of this aim was the item in 1923 İzmir Economics Congress which said “Schools for economics education should be established, executed and supported by the chambers of commerce in big cities that are trade centers.” The Foundation that survives with the support of the benefactors in İzmir has supported many students by opening primary school buildings, İzmir Chamber of Commerce Foundation Industry Vocational High School and vocational courses. The Foundation that also serves in health sector has established İzmir Chamber of Commerce Süleyman Taştekin Eşrefpaşa Clinic. However, the foundation university that İzmir was looking forward could be established in 2001. The support of İzmir Chamber of Commerce and Foundation has the biggest role in the success of İzmir University of Economics from the very first academic year to today. After the establishment of the first foundation university Bilkent in Ankara in accordance with the 130th item of the Constitution, in February 15, 1990 İzmir Chamber of Commerce Foundation for Encouragement of Social Assistance President Ekrem Demirtaş said “We will establish a university with foreign medium of education.” Because with the amendments in Higher Education Law numbered 2547 the Regulations of Higher Education Institutions that came into effect by being published in the official gazette dated April 10, 1991 and numbered 20841 let establishing a foundation university. Hereupon, Ekrem Demirtaş, the chairman of the board of directors of the foundation that changed its name into İzmir Chamber of Commerce Health and Education Foundation” announced that they would establish an economics university in November 17, 1999. After that, bureaucratic and legal procedures began. The works became more intensive when İzmir Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors fully supported the Founder Board of Directors. However, there was a problem, the place to establish the university could not be found. In the meantime, in the meeting of Privatization High Commission dated November 14, 2000 numbered 2000/83it was decided to establish İzmir University of Economics in Sümer Conglomerate area with 160 000 m² in Halkapınar which was losing money. This decision was precluded by the bureaucrats in İzmir, the trade unions, Law on the Protection of Natural Heritage, Chamber of Architects and some political party members. The Nazilli Chintz Factory which was in the same decision was assigned to Adnan Menderes University without problem. The founders worked day and night, looked for alternative places and the University was established officially with 2 faculties, 5 vocational schools, and 2 institutes with the Law numbered 4633 published in official gazette numbered 24373 dated April 14, 2001. The date that the legislation was enacted is being celebrated as the foundation date of the university. Meanwhile, after some researchers with the proposal of Metropolitan Mayor Ahmet Piriştina the university was decided to be established on July 01, 2001 in Grand Plaza hotel which was abandoned for nine years. The bureaucratic procedures and hard amendment works against time were completed. There were 288 students in the first year in the conference hall, classes, office rooms, restaurant, cafeterias, student dormitory and main building that was completed in three months. With the beginning of the courses on Monday, October 22, 2001 and the official opening ceremony on Friday, October 26, 2001 9th President of Republic Süleyman Demirel gave the first lesson.
The Mission of the İzmir University of Economics is to educate and equip qualified students with leadership attributes, entrepreneurial capabilities, critical thinking skills and the ability to contribute valuable research in a variety of sciences.
The Vision of the İzmir University of Economics is to become a pre-eminent institution of higher learning at the forefront of education on a universal level and to pioneer valuable research in a variety of disciplines.
The Basic Values of the Institution
Participation; the fostering of an academic environment which is universal, flexible, pluralist, transparent and open to collaboration.
Innovation; to take part in interdisciplinary research and development activities, which are effective, creative and on the leading edge of new discoveries,
Social Responsibility; to be responsible within the community by effectively managing its social resources in the production and dissemination of universal knowledge,
Perfectionism; to consistently focus on the best possible outcome in every activity.
İzmir University of Economics, Sakarya Caddesi, No:156
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Crystalline materials news, August 2014
Move over graphene: Ultrafast charge transfer in photo-excited MX2
The new graphene? The next big thing in the high-tech world are the two-dimensional semiconductors known as MX2 materials.
Combining plasmonics and optical microresonators for a new light source
By combining plasmonics and optical microresonators, researchers have created a new optical amplifier (or laser) design.
Biomimetic photodetector ‘sees’ in color
Researchers have created a CMOS-compatible, biomimetic color photodetector that directly responds to red, green and blue light, like a human eye.
Recipients of the 2013 Acta Student Awards
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26 August 2014Subhash Mahajan
Promising ferroelectric materials suffer from unexpected electric polarizations
Surprising locked charge polarizations that impede performance.
Nano Today on World’s Top 5 list in three journal categories
Singapore-based journal records its highest impact factor of 18.432.
Insights into a new class of semiconducting materials
Researchers describe their investigations of the fundamental optical properties of a new class of semiconducting materials.
Precisely placed imperfections key to enhancing performance
Nitrogen vacancy centers in diamond film.
12 August 2014Nina Notman
Pairing old technologies with new for next generation electronic devices
UCL scientists have discovered a new method to efficiently generate and control currents based on the magnetic nature of electrons.
How does water react with metal oxides?
A multi-institutional team has resolved a long-unanswered question about how two of the world’s most common substances interact.
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Home » Optical materials » News » New sensitive nanophotonic sensor that can read molecular fingerprints
New sensitive nanophotonic sensor that can read molecular fingerprints
25 June 2018 | Laurie Donaldson
Specially designed dielectric resonators amplify and detect the characteristic molecular absorption fingerprint of materials on their surface. When incorporated into a pixelated metasurface, they can generate a distinct bar code for each molecular analyte, enabling imaging-based and chemically specific detection without the need for conventional spectrometry.
A team from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland have developed a new nanotech sensor that converts molecular fingerprints into bar codes, which can then be analyzed and classified with advanced pattern recognition and sorting technology. Although infrared spectroscopy is generally used to detect and analyze organic compounds, this groundbreaking, imaging-based method eliminates the need for such a difficult technique with its bulky and expensive instruments.
The chemical bonds in organic molecules have a particular orientation and way of vibrating, with every molecule having a set of specific energy levels usually in the mid-infrared range, and therefore absorbing light at different frequencies to produce a unique “signature”. Infrared spectroscopy works by identifying whether a molecule is present in a sample by checking if the sample absorbs light rays at the molecule's signature frequencies. However, IR spectroscopy inhibits device miniaturization and is difficult for certain applications, as well as being constrained by low sensitivities.
As described in Science [Tittl et al. Science (2018) DOI: 10.1126/science.aas9768], this study developed a highly sensitive system with an engineered surface covered with hundreds of small sensors called metapixels. As a molecule touches the surface, how the molecule absorbs light changes the behavior of all the metapixels it touches. The arrangement of the metapixels is such that different vibrational frequencies are mapped to different areas on the surface, producing a pixelated map of light absorption that can then be translated into a molecular bar code. Artificial intelligence could one day help provide a whole library of molecular bar codes, offering a way to quickly identify small amounts of compounds in complex samples.
“This method opens exciting new directions for detecting interactions between multiple molecular species in complex samples, especially when the absorption fingerprints of the molecular components show features with large spectral separation or low magnitude” Hatice Altug
While previous approaches for surface-enhanced infrared absorption sensors tend to use metallic antennas, these are constrained by the intrinsic losses of these metals. Instead, this nanophotonic sensor design based on dielectric resonators allows for the imaging-based readout of analyte absorption fingerprints. As coauthor Hatice Altug told Materials Today, “This method opens exciting new directions for detecting interactions between multiple molecular species in complex samples, especially when the absorption fingerprints of the molecular components show features with large spectral separation or low magnitude”.
As the approach can function with broadband light sources and detectors, it can be miniaturized, making it suitable for practical applications such as realizing a portable medical testing device that generates bar codes for each biomarker found in a blood sample. It could also support the detection of pesticides in field-deployed water testing or the quantification of polymer compositions in materials science.
Höganäs develops magnum cartridge
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Lab profile: David Simpson, University of Melbourne
Defect centers in diamond are now being used as sensitive quantum probes for a variety of applications.
Scoping the polymer genome: A roadmap for rational polymer dielectrics design and beyond
Volume 21, Issue 7, Pages 785–796Arun Mannodi-Kanakkithodi, Anand Chandrasekaran, Chiho Kim, Tran Doan Huan, Ghanshyam Pilania, Venkatesh Botu, Rampi Ramprasad
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PRAYERS FOR THE SICK. And, as offerings to Jesus on the cross in atonement for sins, they can have enormous redemptive value. St. Francis de Sales once wrote: “The Prayer of the sick person is his patience and his acceptance of his sickness for the love of Jesus Christ. Make sickness itself a prayer, for there is none more powerful,
Q: I noticed in the missal for the days of Lent there is included after the Prayer after Communion, a Prayer over the People. On weekdays this is optional. Why does the Catechism of the Catholic Ch.
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On November 1, Duterte once again sparked anger in Asia’s biggest Catholic nation for poking. “I think it should obvious to people by now that our country is being led by a very sick man. We pray f.
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Prayer: Almighty and Eternal God, the everlasting health of those who believe; hear us for Thy sick servant ( name inserted here) for whom we implore the aid of Thy tender mercy, that, being restored to bodily health, he ( or she) may give thanks to Thee in Thy Church. Through Christ our Lord. Prayer Source: Catholic Family Handbook, The by Rev.
Almighty and Eternal God, the everlasting health of those who believe; hear us for Thy sick servant (name inserted here) for whom we implore the aid of Thy tender mercy, that, being restored to bodily.
Consecration of the Sick to Mary Give Me Strength, Lord Prayer to Our Lady, Health of the Sick Prayer to Our Lady, Health of the Sick Offering of the Sick for Vocations.
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But James says that the anointing and the prayer of faith bring about spiritual effects: the sick person is saved. to “confess your sins to one another” doesn’t prove the Catholic interpretation wr.
Gospel Song One Day At A Time Lyrics Amazing Grace Harlem Gospel Choir Amazing Grace, How sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me I once. (When I get to Heaven) Every day- (Gonna shout ) Every day (2 times). Where countless worshippers will share one song, Once upon a time, for Houck. he scribbled the song’s first verse. It was months until
Huck Finn And Religion Get an answer for ‘In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, what life lessons does Huck learn from his journey?’ and find homework help for other The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn questions at. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Questions and Answers. The Question and Answer section for The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a great resource to
That is why when we hear about someone else who is sick, our heart goes out to them and we want to do whatever we can to help alleviate their pain. In many cases we aren’t able to do anything besides.
Catholic toggle menu. Prayer for a Sick Person – Anonymous. We humbly beseech thee to behold, visit, and relieve thy sick servant _____ for whom our prayers are desired.
The Twelve Step Prayers were created using the text of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous. The text used to develop the prayers are shown at the end of the prayer in parenthesis.
Spiritual Sabbatical Places Page 1 of 8 Proposal for Pastoral Sabbatical Submitted by the Rev. Stephanie E. Anthony to the Session of First Presbyterian Church of Hudson, WI September 16, 2014 Two angles facing left, which often indicate, "return to the beginning." Two angles facing right, which often indicate, "advance to the end." There’s nothing like a well-earned sabbatical
The group says at least 21 people have died in public hospitals during the outage. A group of doctors on Sunday held a mass to pray for the sick, and later walked to the J.M. de los Rios hospital t.
MANILA, Philippines — For calling saints “stupid” and “drunkards,” President Duterte has been described as “very sick” by an official of the Catholic. to people by now that our country is being led.
Anointing with Oil (5:14) "Is any one of you sick? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord" (5:14). The elders are instructed to "prayer over [the sick person] and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord" (5:14).
A Prayer for Healing Sick Family or Friends. I ask, in the name of Jesus, that you would heal this disease, that you would have compassion and bring healing from all sickness. Your word says in Psalm 107:19-20 that when we call out to you the Eternal one you will.
The Catholic Chaldean Bishop of Aleppo. to work together for the rebirth of the country and to serve the elderly and sick people. Muslims have been struck by the solidarity of Christians towards th.
Does God Give Faith A number of recent books and articles would have you believe that—somehow—science has now disproved the existence of God. We know so much about how the universe works, their authors claim. Spiritual Sabbatical Places Page 1 of 8 Proposal for Pastoral Sabbatical Submitted by the Rev. Stephanie E. Anthony to the Session of First Presbyterian Church
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Prayer for The Sick Person Is a Powerful way to talk to God On Your Intentions with Main Keyword of “The Sick Person Prayer” you can share this Prayer with your friends who are indeed for such , Kindly note that you can use our Homepage to see More Prayers.
Prayer to Mother Mary For a Sick Relative or Friend March 6, 2012 by Jisha Here is a beautiful prayer to Our Lady seeking her intercession for the healing of our sick brothers and sisters.
“I think it should be obvious to people by now that our country is being led by a very sick man. We pray for him. We pray for our country. David, vice president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference.
1500 Illness and suffering have always been among the gravest problems confronted in human life. In illness, man experiences his powerlessness, his limitations, and his finitude. Every illness can make us glimpse death. 1501 Illness can lead to anguish, self-absorption, sometimes even despair and.
a prayer for the sick. (an inspiring short prayer for someone to pray for a friend or family member who is sick or in ill health) Father, Your love is as wide as the oceans. As deep as the sea. And as tall as the heavens. May your spirit rise like a mightly wave and come and restore those who are ill.
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New RS-485 IC Increases System Reliability and Fault Detection in Motor-Control Circuits
Keywords: RS-485, rs485, tranceivers, EIA-TIA-485, 15kV ESD protected, fail safe, high common-mode voltage, high CMR, fault detection, motor control, optical encoder, high-reliability, ESD protection
APPLICATION NOTE 578
Abstract: Applying a unique 3-channel RS-485 transceiver displaying many unusual features increases reliability and fault-detection in motor-control applications. Designed specifically for motor shaft encoder applications, the MAX3097 and MAX3098 feature three differential channels to handle optical encoder data, ±15kV ESD protection, increased common mode rejection to -10 and +13.2V, three separate fault-alarm flags, and fail safe open and short detection. Alarm flags indicate open or shorted line conditions, excessive common-mode voltage range, and low-signal strength.
Modern factories use large electric motors to control machines that are necessary for the operation of the plant. For increased flexibility and accuracy, these electric motors are sometimes processor-controlled. It is imperative that the electronics controlling these large motors are designed in such a way that, if a problem occurs, the motor is safely and quickly shut down. Failure to detect a problem and to sufficiently control the motor can result in the destruction of expensive equipment, as well as in injury or possibly even death. The MAX3097E/MAX3098E were specifically designed to be used with motors in absolute positioning control loops. These parts have unique features which enable a safer and more robust design in harsh industrial environments. To better understand the unique features of the MAX3097E/MAX3098E, let's first review the basics of motor control.
Figure 1. The major building blocks of processor-controlled electric motors.
The blocks in Figure 1 include a processor, motor-drive circuitry, an electric motor, and an encoder. The processor decides how hard and where the motor should be driven. The motor-drive circuitry contains all the necessary power electronics to drive the motor and the encoder provides position, direction, and velocity information to the processor, thus closing the loop. To understand the operation of the MAX3097E/MAX3098E, it is necessary to have a good grasp of the operation of the encoder.
Encoder Operation
The function of the encoder is to provide velocity, direction, and position information to the processor. Motor encoders can take many different forms. The MAX3097E/MAX3098E is designed to operate with a three-output encoder, which is typically optic in construction. Optical encoders work by shining light through a wheel or onto a marked disc, which turns with the motor. Depending on the application and the accuracy required, encoders can be found with differing numbers of slots/marks around their edge. In addition, another slot positioned below is used for indexing. Two optical sensors are positioned in such a way as to give quadrature information on the primary slots. The net result is three digital outputs, commonly referred to as A, B, and Z. See Figure 2.
Figure 2. Optical encoder disk.
The encoder wheel typically makes one revolution for every revolution of the motor or is at a geared ratio. Thus, the frequency of the digital signal coming from the A and B outputs varies proportionally with the velocity of the motor. For example, a 1000-line encoder directly coupled to a motor spinning at 5000RPM results in a frequency of 83kHz. So, by measuring the frequency of either the A or B output, the processor can determine the motor's velocity.
Direction can be determined by measuring the phase difference between the A and B outputs. In Figure 2, if A rises before B, then the motor is turning in one direction, or if B rises before A, the motor is turning in the other direction.
The index pulse can be used as a reference point for where the motor is in a rotation. Once it is known where the index pulse is, the A and B outputs can be counted to more accurately determine position. With a 100-slot optical encoder, the position of the motor shaft can be resolved to less than 4 degrees.
Making the Electronics Remote
How does the MAX3097E/MAX3098E fit into the picture? There is one more missing piece to the puzzle. In a typical industrial set-up, it is often desired to have all the control electronics at a central point to ease maintenance and wiring issues. If you take, for example, a conveyer-belt system, the belt can be hundreds of feet long, but the control electronics are normally situated locally in a cabinet. This presents a problem for the designer, because the environments in which these systems are used are often noisy electronically. To reduce noise, designers have often taken the approach of transmitting the three-encoder signals by means of an RS-485 device (for the purposes of this article, RS-422 and RS-485 can be used interchangeably). RS-485 is a natural because of its high immunity to noise and ability to drive large distances. In a typical application, quad drivers and receivers are used: 26LS32 and 26LS31 or similar devices, as shown in Figure 3.
Figure 3. A typical remote installation of a motor encoder.
This solution is significantly more robust than a system not using RS-485 drivers. However, there are problems that occur with long line lengths, which the MAX3097E/MAX3098E are specifically designed to address, improving on 26LS31 and 26LS32 type devices in the following ways:
High ESD protection
Better common-mode rejection
Fault recognition
All parts are protected against ESD, but the MAX3097E/MAX3098E are protected to levels much higher than typical: 15kV using the human-body model. This means there is a less likely chance that an ESD event will cause an error, causing the motor controller to cease functioning properly. A detailed description of ESD structures is beyond the scope of this article, but further information can be obtained from the application note 651, "ESD Protection for I/O Ports."
The environment where motor encoders are used is generally very noisy electrically. Common-mode differences can occur between various grounds within the system. Typical RS-485 devices have a common-mode rejection range of -7V to + 12V. In the MAX3097E/MAX3098E, Maxim extended this range from -10V to +13.2V.
Although the advantages described above are helpful, the real power of the MAX3097E/MAX3098E lies in their ability to recognize and indicate faults to the motor controller's µP. Looking at Figure 4, notice that there are five pins, labeled AlarmA, AlarmB, AlarmZ, AlarmD, and Delay. These pins are unique to the MAX3097E/MAX3098E and provide the motor controller with information that a physical line error has taken place. Once the motor controller has determined that an error has occurred, appropriate action can be taken to ensure an orderly and safe shutdown of the system.
Figure 4. MAX3097 pinout.
The AlarmA, AlarmB, and AlarmZ all function identically, but indicate faults on their respective wires. The Fault-D output is an OR of the three signals. In addition, it has a programmable delay built in. This output should be used for global alarm. The delay is there to stop a false triggering of the fault detectors when signals are crossing over each other. The errors that can be detected and how the MAX3097E/MAX3098E can be used to determine which errors have occurred are described below.
Detecting Excessive Common-Mode Range
As stated previously, the MAX3097E/MAX3098E have a common-mode range of -10V to +13.2V. Although this is significantly better than the common-mode range of typical RS-485 devices (-7V to + 12V), it is still possible to go beyond this range. If the common-mode input range of a typical RS-485 receiver is exceeded, it cannot be relied upon to be giving the correct output state. This is also true for the MAX3097E/MAX3098E, but the relevant alarm-pin output will be driven high, indicating to the processor that the data is unreliable. See Figure 5.
Figure 5. This shows the fault alarm on channel A due to the excessive common-mode range; the fault indicates that the data during this period can be unreliable.
Detecting Open-Circuit Input Wires
With any run of cable, it is possible for wires to fall out of connectors, for connectors to break, and for cables to be inadvertently cut.
Typically, a receiver connection contains a terminating resistor to dampen reflections, as shown in Figure 6. Usual values are either 100Ω or 120Ω, depending on the impedance of the connecting cable used.
Figure 6. Receiver input connection.
Figure 6 shows the connection of the receiver of the motor encoder signals. Because of the terminating resistor's presence, if A\ is suddenly disconnected then the voltage level of A\ would be pulled toward the voltage level at A. In the MAX3097E, there is a threshold comparator that trips the fault output if | VA-A\ | < 400mV. This technique allows the part to detect if there is an open circuit on one of the lines. For this technique to work, the terminating resistor must be present. Therefore, a terminating resistor should be placed on the same board as the receiver, rather than being connected across external screw terminals where there is a chance it could fall off.
During normal transitions, there is a crossover time for signals A and A\. This would trip the fault comparator, as |VA-A\| < 400mV. To avoid spurious signals, the global fault output (Fault D) should be used. The MAX3097E/MAX3098E include a fault-blanking feature on Fault D that makes sure that the output doesn't toggle until the fault has been present for a fixed period of time (user-settable with an external capacitor). This ensures that the motor controller isn't unnecessarily interrupted for spurious crossover signals.
Detecting Input Wires Shorted Together
With long wire runs and terminal block connections, it is easy for wires to get shorted together. As RS-485 is usually transmitted down a twisted pair, the chances are that the differential signals will get shorted together.
This situation is very similar to the one with the open circuit, in that if A and A\ are shorted together the voltage differential will be less than 400mV, thus the fault output.
Figure 7. Detecting shorts between differential signals.
Detecting Poor Signal Strength
On long runs of cable from an encoder to control electronics, the signal at the received end can become less than the 200mV required differential signal specified by RS-485 and RS-422. For example, the cable could be installed and the received input level |VA-A\| could just be greater than 200mV on installation. If over time moisture enters the cable, the capacitance of the cable will increase. As a result, the received input |VA-A\| will drop to below the 200mV threshold. In this case, the received data is not guaranteed and the MAX3097E/MAX3098E flags a fault condition. In Figure 8, the detection circuit is shown in operation.
Figure 8. Detecting poor signal strength.
Different installations require either a safety threshold or the maximum wire length allowed. In order to accommodate these two needs, the signal-strength thresholds are different for the MAX3097E and the MAX3098E. In the MAX3097E, the low-voltage differential detection is centered on 0.4V, in order to ensure that a signal of less than 200mV is flagged as a fault. In the MAX3098E, this fault threshold is centered on 0.2V, to make sure that the minimum level of the signal can be received. The choice between these two components depends on if the system design is required to issue an early warning (the MAX3097E) or if achieving the maximum distance is required (the MAX3098E).
"Incremental Optical Encoders", Computer Optical Products, Inc., Application Note, December 1996.
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Having revolutionized the luxury vehicle market, Mercedes-Benz is now doing the same for warranties, becoming the first in the industry to eliminate mileage restrictions on its Certified Pre-Owned vehicles.
When you drive off in your Certified Pre-Owned Mercedes-Benz, you’re protected by the MBCPO Base Limited Warranty, which runs for 1 year and covers unlimited miles – as well as any remainder of your vehicle’s original 4-year/50,000-mile Mercedes-Benz New Vehicle Warranty. When your one-year base term runs out, the MBCPO Extended Limited Warranty program lets you buy an extra 1 or 2 years of warranty coverage regardless of miles. The Extended Warranty is an incredible value, offering exceptional coverage at an affordable price. You not only get the legendary quality and reliability of a Mercedes-Benz, but an extra level of security against an unexpected repair.
With the Extended Limited Warranty, you can drive confidently, knowing your MBCPO is protected for up to two additional years, no matter where the road takes you or how many miles it takes to get there.
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EPC North notebook: ‘Next play’ mentality worked for ES South in win over Whitehall
By Keith Groller
Matt Walters (left), East Stroudsburg South's first-year head coach, poses in 2017 with longtime Cavaliers coach Ed Christian, who retired last season after 38 seasons in charge of the South program. coach. (KEITH GROLLER / THE MORNING CALL)
First-year East Stroudsburg South coach Matt Walters said there’s a sense of pride that comes with being the only Eastern Pennsylvania Conference North division team to beat an EPC South team in Week 1.
Two years in a row the Cavaliers have beaten Whitehall in the opener.
Last year, no other EPC North team registered a win over a South team, including the playoffs.
“Anytime you get a win over a Lehigh Valley team you’re going to celebrate it a little bit … there’s one for the mountain,” Walters said. “We love to play the Lehigh Valley schools. We promote our kids to play the best in order to improve. If you don’t win the game, what are you going to get better? How are you going to grow? You’re going to grow more from that than you are by playing a team you’re going to mercy-rule within the first 12 minutes.”
Matt Walters, left, took over for longtime East Stroudsburg South coach Ed Christian, who led the Cavaliers for 38 years. Walters is a 2011 graduate of East Stroudsburg South. (KEITH GROLLER / THE MORNING CALL)
Walters pinpointed a key moment that turned things around for the Cavaliers in their 41-28 win at Whitehall.
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“Whitehall was up 14-7 in the first quarter and we threw an interception to give them a first down at our 18,” Walters said. “They they had a first-and-goal at the 9. Typically, a Lehigh Valley school puts that one in and goes up two scores and our kids’ heads go down and the steamroll begins. But our kids made sure they didn’t focus on what happened before and focused only on the task at hand. We got the stop and a 91-yard touchdown run the next play.”
Walters, who replaced legendary coach Ed Christian after Christian led South for 38 years, brings freshness, passion and exuberance to the Cavaliers.
He is a 2011 South graduate and 2015 East Stroudsburg University grad.
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“We don’t want our highs to get too high or our lows to get too low,” Walters said. “We can’t control what happened on the last play. We can only control the pace of the game and how we play it. Whether we just had a good play or a bad play, it’s important to turn the page.”
The win over Whitehall may have been a good way to start, but Friday’s EPC North opener against a solid Pocono Mountain West team is more critical for a team looking to win the division title for the first time and secure its first championship since winning the last Mountain Valley Conference crown in 2013.
Since Pocono Mountain West played Saturday afternoon, Walters and staff saw the Panthers play Easton in person. The Red Rovers won 40-21, but it was 26-21 after three quarters.
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“This might be the best, or second best, team in Pocono Mountain West history,” Walters said. “They did have a MVC championship team in 2007, but this team has athletes and is very well-coached. They do a lot of good things on both sides of the ball. We need to find a way to get the ball out of the hands of Kaleb Monaco. The number of carries Monaco gets could have a direct correlation to winning or losing this game."
While Walters is in his first year and has learned his trade from coaching icons like Christian and Denny Douds, he has great respect for Jim McCarroll, who is the only coach West has had. This is his 18th season. No one in the EPC or Colonial League has been with his current school longer.
“He’s a coach you look up to and what’s impressive is how he fights through adversity,” Walters said. “He’s always energetic, always positive about his kids. He has had longevity with that program and I respect that and look forward to coaching against him.”
Canaries ready to soar?
Allen showed a lot of promise in its 62-33 loss to Emmaus.
“It was 44-33 with about 11 minutes left and our kids were excited and fought hard,” Canaries coach George Clay said.
Even though the Green Hornets scored the final 18 points, there were plenty of positives for Allen, which will spend the next two weekends on the road — at Pleasant Valley Friday and East Stroudsburg North on Sept. 7.
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Kwalieb Bullock returned two interceptions for touchdowns, including a 100-yarder. Gavoni Hall ran for more than 100 yards and a TD. Ezekial Rabenold ran well and scored a touchdown and Nyjier Reed was a force on defense.
Emmaus had more than 400 yards rushing, but the Canaries won’t face another team with that kind of firepower until Nazareth Oct. 11.
Allen beat Pleasant Valley and North last year and hopes to be 2-1 again.
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“We want to keep pushing forward and show that we’re more competitive this year and capable of winning,” Clay said. “We’re not good enough to slack off and expect to win this week. We need to make sure we have another good week of practice and come out Friday night prepared. The kids are doing everything they can right now. We need to keep getting a push from them.”
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Beef exports shatter records in 2018, pork remains lower than usual due to trade issues
Source: US Meat Export Federation
By Ryan McCarthy
WASHINGTON – New US beef export records were established in 2018, while pork continued to fall behind goals, according to the US Meat Export Federation (USMEF).
Thanks to growing demand in South Korea, Japan, Taiwan and the ASEAN region, exports of beef advanced 7 percent in volume to 1.35 million metric tons (mt), up 7 percent from 2017 and exceeded the previous 2011 record by 5 percent. Export value increased to $8.33 billion, breaking the 2017 record by $1.06 billion and a 15 percent increase from last year. In the December numbers, beef export volume was slightly down from the prior year, to 112,777 mt, but value still increased 4 percent to $700.2 million.
US exports in 2018 accounted for 13.5 percent of total beef production and 11.1 percent for muscle cuts, which is up from 12.9 percent and 10.4 percent, respectively, from the year before.
Beef broke another record in export value per head of fed slaughter by averaging $323.14 which was a 13 percent increase over 2018 and exceeded the 2014 record by 8 percent.
The largest market of growth for the year was South Korea where US export volume increased 30 percent from 2017 to 239,676 mt and jumped 43 percent in value to $1.75 billion. That is an increase of $526 million over the previous record set in 2017.
“There may have been no greater ag trade success story in 2018 than US beef exports to Korea,” said Dan Halstrom, USMEF president and CEO. “Less than a decade removed from street protests opposing the reopening of this market, Koreans now consume more US beef per capita than any international destination. This is a testament to the US beef industry’s strong commitment to the Korean market and the outstanding support received from the US government – through both USDA promotional funding and the negotiation of the Korea-US Free Trade Agreement (KORUS), which has dramatically lowered import duties on US beef.”
Pork export volume reached a record 2.44 million mt in 2018, which was 0.5 percent below the 2017 record, according to USMEF. Export value went down 1 percent from a year ago to $6.39 billion and was the third-highest total on record.
For December, pork exports totaled 209,780 mt, a 5 percent year-over-year decrease, valued at $527.4 million, which represents a 11 percent decrease.
In 2018, exports accounted for 25.7 percent of total pork production, which was down one percentage point from 2017. Muscle cuts only went up to 22.5 percent from 22.3 percent from a year ago. Export value per head slaughtered averaged $51.37 in 2018, down 4 percent from the previous year.
Before May, results for pork were holding strong in the US’ leading market of Mexico, but retaliatory tariffs on US pork went into effect in June in response to US tariffs on steel and aluminum imports. Export volume to Mexico held up relatively well, finishing the year at 777,143 mt – 3 percent below the 2017 record.
However, export value took a big hit, declining 13 percent to $1.31 billion – the lowest since 2015. The decline in value from June through December was 24 percent, totaling $218 million, showing the large degree to which US producers and exporters bore the cost of Mexico’s 20 percent retaliatory duty.
“The US pork industry understands the vital importance of the Mexican market, and with strong industry support USMEF has intensified its efforts to retain as much of this business as possible,” Halstrom said. “This includes enhanced outreach in every sector, from large processors, to regional supermarkets, to specialty retailers and restaurant chains. While these efforts have been successful, the decline in export value clearly shows the negative impact these retaliatory duties have imposed on the US pork supply chain.”
Exports of US lamb in 2019 climbed 77 percent to 12,866mt, the largest since 2012. Export value also increased 19 percent to $23.4 million, the highest since 2014.
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Peer Problems in Teen Years Linked to Higher Risk of Metabolic Syndrome at 43, Researchers Find
By Kathleen Doheny
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June 28, 2012 -- Teens who have more peer problems than normal are at higher risk of health problems as adults, Swedish researchers report.
They followed more than 800 Swedish teens from age 16 to 43. The researchers assessed peer problems as teens, asking teachers to weigh in. They followed the teens to see who developed a condition known as metabolic syndrome, which raises the risk of heart disease, stroke, and type 2 diabetes.
They found a link. ''Peer problems at a young age are correlated to an increased risk of metabolic syndrome in middle age," Urban Janlert, MD, PhD, professor of public health at Umea University, Sweden, tells WebMD.
"It's a moderate risk, I would say," Janlert says.
The new research ties in with other findings about the effects of so-called toxic stress in childhood and later health, says Benjamin Siegel, MD. Siegel is chairman of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) committee on psychosocial aspects of child and family health.
The study is published online in PLoS One.
Teen Peer Problems and Adult Health: Study Details
Janlert's team asked the teachers of more than 1,000 teens to assess each student's isolation. Teachers also told how well a student was liked and how well they got along with school peers at age 16.
At ages 16 and 43, the men and women completed a questionnaire about their social circumstances, behaviors, and health.
At age 43, they had health exams. Measurements included:
To be diagnosed with metabolic syndrome, three of five factors must be present:
Elevated blood sugar
Large waist (above 35 inches for women, 40 for men)
Low level of "good" or HDL cholesterol
Elevated level of triglycerides
The greater the teen peer problems, the higher the risk of metabolic syndrome at age 43, Janlert found.
As an example, he says, "if there is a 40% increase in peer problems compared to people who are assessed to have normal peer problems, there is a 36% increased risk of metabolic syndrome at age 43."
Overall, they estimated that 19% of the women and 34.5% of the men had metabolic syndrome. Janlert says they cannot prove cause and effect, only a link.
"We haven't shown that to take peer problems away will make the problems [in adulthood] disappear," he says.
The link may be indirect, he says, even though they took into account other factors that increase the risk for metabolic syndrome. The peer problems, for example, may reflect problems in the family that play out at school.
The link between teen peer problems and later ill health was slightly stronger for women. "I think social support is more important for women than for men," he says.
The findings are no surprise, says pediatrician Michael Yogman, MD. Yogman is a member of the AAP's committee on psychosocial aspects of child and family health. He reviewed the findings for WebMD.
"We are now seeing increasing data about the crossover and intersection of environmental stress, which is referred to as toxic stress, and these long-term effects on metabolic and regulatory systems," he says.
"We think it has to do with the stress response, the fight-or-flight response," says Yogman, who is also chairman of the board of the Boston Children's Museum. "When that response is extreme in a sustained way, without any kind of support or buffer, it can reset blood pressure, sugar metabolism, fatty acid metabolism, very basic biological systems."
Siegel agrees. He says the link is probably tied with stress and the stress hormone cortisol, and their effects on the body.
"There is a difference between toxic stress, which is permanent and causes problems, and limited stress, which you can do something about," he says.
Teen Peer Problems: Tips for Parents
Parents can help their teens reduce peer problems and the stress it causes, the doctors say.
"The way to buffer stress is to be supportive," Yogman says. "If your child is isolated at school and doesn't have any friends, I think you need to intervene."
Parents should consider introducing their teens to activities they might enjoy, such as sports or music, he says. The goal is to improve their peer relations.
Communication is key, Siegel says. "Talk to your adolescents and see if you can be sensitive to the changes they are going through."
Be especially sensitive to those teens with weight problems, Siegel says. "Kids who are more obese go through more peer problems."
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SOURCES: Gustafsson, P. PLoS One, June 27, 2012. Urban Janlert, MD, PhD, professor of public health, Umea University, Umea, Sweden. Benjamin Siegel, MD, chairperson, American Academy of Pediatrics' Committee on Psychosocial Aspects of Child and Family Health; professor of pediatrics, Boston University. Michael Yogman, MD, pediatrician; member, American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Psychosocial Aspects of Child and Family Health; assistant clinical professor of pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; Cambridge, Mass.; chairman of the board, Boston Children's Museum.
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Broad Lung Ca Screening Wins Reader Support
by John Gever, Deputy Managing Editor, MedPage Today August 11, 2013
Most MedPage Today readers appear to agree with recent recommendations that older people with heavy smoking histories should undergo CT-based screening for lung cancer.
In fact, according to results of our recent survey -- unscientific, to be sure -- three-quarters would go farther than the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) and recommend screening for all current and former smokers irrespective of age or the intensity of past smoking.
Just over half of the 2,582 respondents said they would support screening for anyone with a smoking history, and another 22% said all current or former smokers with a family history of lung cancer should be screened.
In July, the USPSTF said CT-based lung cancer screening was justified for individuals 55 to 79 years old with a 30 pack-year smoking history, including current smokers and those who quit within the past 15 years.
Outside those parameters, however, the task force indicated that the evidence did not support a favorable benefit-risk balance, in light of the large number of false-positive results from CT-based screening.
Reader comments on the MedPage Today survey showed a different split than the responses, with about half scoffing at the idea of trying to help smokers at all.
The first comment received, from Tammy D, said, "If they won't heed the recommendation to quit smoking, I doubt they will have much interest in having a CT scan just because it is recommended."
Another reader called smokers a "super-careless category of people" who had already ignored numerous recommendations to kick the habit and who therefore would not benefit from CT screening "or any other test."
"Dr Dave," whose screen-name also indicated that he is a head and neck oncology surgeon, asked about the long-term value of screening. "SURE, we will pick up more cancers to work on, operate on, monitor, medicate, radiate, 'counsel' patients about, etc., but will they do their part? ... Will the smoker do his/her share and at least quit?"
Yet another reader said, "People who make bad decisions should be held accountable," and suggested that the screening be paid for by smokers themselves.
But other comments objected to these characterizations of smokers.
"The stigma of smoking with many folks (including the cancer patient) saying (or thinking) that smokers and former smokers deserve to get lung cancer and die has led to underfunding for lung cancer research compared to other cancers ($1 per death for lung cancer versus $10/death for breast cancer)," wrote Andrea Borondy Kitts.
Said another reader, "The role of medical personnel should be to maximize the health of the patient and not to judge."
As the week wore on, a few respondents turned to the specifics of the USPSTF recommendation.
One physician, Stephen Sorsby, wrote: "The potential harms of screening, even in the high-risk population that USPSTF recommends, have not been reasonably explored yet." Not only are there many false-positives that lead to additional procedures and risk, but the CT scans themselves carry a risk from radiation exposure, he noted.
Sorsby also worried that "most people ... don't understand statistical demonstrations of risk and respond to such recommendations based on their emotional response rather than any logic."
He suggested that lung cancer mortality might be reduced more effectively by supporting efforts to promote smoking cessation rather than screening for those who already have the disease.
"Dr. Crain" argued that CT-detected lung cancers "have an 80% cure rate," whereas waiting for tumors to become symptomatic leads to cure rates of 10%. "Why let the patients die?" this reader asked.
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Last time we checked, ANR's Brian Robertson and Michael-John Hancock said they were busy recording an album.
So when 10K Islands' Will Suter emailed us about the band's upcoming show at Mamushka's, we asked for an update on Robertson and Hancock's doings.
"[They've] added [a] live drummer, Luke Moellman, to the mix for their last run of shows around CMJ this past fall," Suter says via email. And Moellman, according to Suter, will be a bit more involved in the recording process for ANR's follow-up to 2010's Stay Kids.
But between recording sessions, ANR will take a trip over to Austin for South by Southwest where the band will play a string of dates alongside another local Miami outfit, Plains. "We'll be announcing those [shows] over the next couple weeks," Suter promises.
Already, though, SXSW showed ANR some love earlier this week when it posted "It's Around You," the group's visual collaboration with performance artist Jillian Mayer and filmmaker Lucas Leyva.
In the meantime, go check up on the duo (trio?) at Mamushka's this Saturday, along with Miami native Sam Friend.
ANR with Sam Friend. Saturday, February 4. Mamushka's, 31 NW 36th St., Miami. Admission is free. Ages 21 and up. Call 786-991-3823 or visit Mamushka's Facebook page.
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The Harley Quinn actress in The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon revealed about her upcoming film that is anticipated much among the audience. The Suicide Squad spin-off film features the Harley Quinn as the main lead and girl gang along with her titled as Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn).
The Harley Quinn character played by Margot Robbie is much loved among fans and the spin-off film is starred and co-produced by the actress herself. As announced earlier, the film is titled as Birds of Prey added with a long quote in the title card.
Speaking about the long title for the film, the producer and actress of the film said, "It's not a very serious movie, so we thought the title should reflect that Birds of Prey makes it sound very serious and that kind of - that's kind of like 'Hey, don't worry I'm in this too!'".
She usually has a love towards the lengthy title and said that the 2013 film with a pretty long title, 'The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared' looks cool. The title and also the film is great and recommended to watch the film.
The girl gang movie has Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Huntress, Jurnee Smollett-Bell as Black Canary, and Rosie Perez playing as Renee Montoya and Robbie as the badass Harley Quinn directed by Cathy Yan.
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Senate votes to hire more veterans service officers
Jun 28, 2007 at 12:01 AM Jun 28, 2007 at 5:26 PM
The Illinois Senate passed legislation Thursday to hire more veterans service officers in the state.
Senate Bill 82 would authorize $3.2 million in state funds for veterans organizations to hire service officers. It was sponsored by Sen. Martin Sandoval, D-Chicago.
Service officers help veterans apply for benefits such as Veterans Administration medical care. They work through organizations such as the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars.
The VFW has a backlog of 1,400 cases just in Chicago, an officer of that organization said several weeks ago.
With Thursday’s 43-0 vote, the bill has now passed both legislative chambers and goes to the governor for his signature.
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June 2019 GSM Results
This entry was posted on June 21, 2019 by chiefbozx
Hi everyone! Apologies for the lengthy delay in this propaganda GSM results post – I personally have had a lot of IRL things thrown at me in the last couple of weeks, but I’m happy to finally report that on June 9, 2019, we had a General Staff Meeting. The public portion of the meeting, which included most of the topic discussions, is available here.
Rules page finally updated (and 2K rule change)
The Rules page of the website has finally been updated to account for the new rules that we approved way back in the spring. It’s a super fancy page now. Just click the header of the appropriate section to expand that section’s rules. Please let us know if you have any questions, or if there are any rules that didn’t transfer over.
At the GSM we adjusted the railway block limit from 2,000 to 4,000 blocks. Railway companies no longer need to email staff for permission to build rail lines that have 2,001-4,000 blocks between stations.
Changes to city rank promotion procedures
We approved two changes to the procedures for promoting cities to the Senator, Governor, and Premier ranks.
First, the threshold of approval required for Premier cities to be promoted has been lowered from 85% to 80%. We want to allow some dissenting opinions, while still ensuring that candidates have widespread support.
Second, we are instituting a cooldown period for cities that repeatedly fail to be promoted. Candidates who attempt a promotion to a city rank will need to wait for an additional period of time above the usual waiting period between attempts, beginning with their fourth attempt.
Candidates for Senator and Governor who are subject to cooldown must wait 28 days from receiving feedback before they can re-apply (as opposed to 14 days).
Candidates for Premier who are subject to cooldown may not re-apply at the next GSM following receipt of feedback.
These cooldowns are now enforced for new candidates; existing candidates who were in the voting process at the time of the GSM were allowed to continue as normal. Once a promotion is successful, cities are no longer subjected to cooldown.
New Premier cities
Having approved these changes to the city rank promotions procedure, we approved two Premier cities: Espil (by EspiDev) and Kolpino City (by MishkaMan)! Their acceptance speeches are as follows:
I would just like to thank the entire MRT community for creating this amazing and friendly environment! Without it, I don’t think I would have had the motivation to build Espil. This, however, is not the end of the story for Espil, as I will still keep on building 😉
EspiDev
This is honestly the best gaming community I’ve ever been a part of. I remember I joined in 2013 as user “pppppppppoooooop” and was rejected a few times, then gave up (for reference, I did not make this username, it was procedurally generated by Mojang when I made the account and didn’t type in a username by accident, so I was stuck with it until Mojang added a username change feature). Fortunately, I tried again in 2015 and was accepted. Building Kolpino City has been such an accomplishing and enjoyable experience for me, and I really appreciate everyone who helped me out. I am very grateful to Frumple and the staff for spending their time, money, and effort to managing and upholding the community to high standards as well as supporting the players with the many tools they implement and update. Thank you.
MishkaMan
Space World has returned
After much enthusiastic debate, we have re-enabled the Space World. Please note that we will be monitoring usage, and if we start running low on available disk space, the Space World may be removed again in the future (especially if its usage remains low).
New #mature Discord channel
We have added a new #mature Discord channel, which relaxes, though does not waive, General Rule #9 (“Do not make sexually explicit comments in public chat and voice channels”). This channel allows explicit content in context, but extreme content is still banned. Per Discord’s Terms of Service, this channel is marked as NSFW, and is opt-in for members age 18 and over. To request access to the channel, please post in #request-access-to-mature and staff will process your permissions as quickly as possible.
Additional community issues
We will consider making some changes to Central Park to improve accessibility and wayfinding.
We will not make any changes to seaplanes: by design, they are required to take off and land on water, and therefore are not compatible with traditional airports or airfields.
We considered a proposal to change how local and project channels are displayed in game, but decided against this.
Members are permitted to request shortened nicknames in Discord, provided there are no conflicts. For example, MinecraftYoshi26’s Discord username is shortened to “Yoshi”. Please ask a member of staff if you would like your Discord nickname changed.
We have enabled the /mv spawn command on all worlds for all players. You can use this to teleport back to the spawn point of the world you’re currently in.
MRT Line Extensions
sesese9 will be extending the Desert Line west from H28, terminating in Graycloud.
_HeavenAngel_ will be performing a short extension to the Savannah Line, bringing it to a junction with the Southern Line.
As always, please don’t build along or claim any stations along the new lines until they are officially opened. We’ll post instructions on how to request stations once the lines are finished.
Roads and Other Rails
IntraRail has been granted permission to serve MRT Land.
SEAT has been approved to serve some towns in the vicinity of Larkspur, pending a small reroute.
The B246 and B355W, proposed by FooteChicken and friends, have both been approved. (FooteChicken, please don’t use letter suffixes in road numbers in the future.)
Projects and events
With the anniversary on the horizon, we’ve reviewed several event funding proposals. Approved events and projects will start at a variety of dates, some to be announced in the near future, so keep an eye out for announcements by the respective organizers.
Anniversary Meme Awards, proposed by chiefbozx: Approved
MLS Shovelers’ Cup, proposed by Skelezomperman: Approved
The Amazing Race 10, proposed by MinecraftYoshi26: Approved
Big Brother 4, proposed by MinecraftYoshi26: Approved
MRTvision Screenshot Contest 4, proposed by MinecraftYoshi26: Approved
MGA Golf Events, proposed by London150: Approved
The Amazing Glitch, proposed by CodyHM: Approved, provided that organizers do not participate.
Jupiter Motors Rolling Stock Building Competition, proposed by CodyHM: Denied, as we believe there is significant incentive for Cody and other organizers to profit unfairly from this event.
Zoo Community Build, proposed by BernCow: Denied.
Inactive Asset Transfers
MikeRoma’s assets have been transferred as follows:
Mike’s Fresh Produce: autobus22
Royal Cars: woorich999
Melon Shop: supykun
iMorgan: MIKE24DUDE
The random fort near Larkspur has been transferred to Vickiposa.
The town of Genesis has been transferred to FredTheTimeLord.
walehellothere requested ownership of AEville, but this was rejected.
The Central City Performance Center, along with all other builds on that block, has been transferred to daltdisneyland.
D9 Station has been transferred to Pueffe, pending an OK from Missa_Solemnis.
That’s all for now, thanks everyone!
<3, Chief
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Angels' Escobar, Maldonado hit 1st HRs
By Maria Guardado
TEMPE, Ariz. -- Yunel Escobar and Martin Maldonado hit their first home runs of the spring as the Angels beat the A's, 14-3, in the penultimate Cactus League game for both squads Tuesday at Tempe Diablo Stadium.Escobar crushed a two-run shot off Liam Hendriks to power a five-run outburst in
TEMPE, Ariz. -- Yunel Escobar and Martin Maldonado hit their first home runs of the spring as the Angels beat the A's, 14-3, in the penultimate Cactus League game for both squads Tuesday at Tempe Diablo Stadium.
Escobar crushed a two-run shot off Liam Hendriks to power a five-run outburst in the fifth. The Angels also scored five runs in the sixth, highlighted by Maldonado's three-run homer off Grant Holmes.
Maldonado finished 2-for-3 with five RBIs. Jose Pujols and Nolan Fontana drove in one run apiece for the Halos, while Ben Revere added two doubles, including a two-run shot in the eighth. The Angels connected for five doubles in the game, including shots by Pujols, Cameron Maybin and Sherman Johnson.
Jaff Decker, who is battling for Oakland's fifth outfield spot, went 1-for-2 with a double and a walk. The A's were held scoreless until Brett Vertigan got them on the board with an RBI single in the ninth.
A's starter Logan Shore, the club's 2016 second-round Draft pick, allowed one run on two hits while striking out three and walking one over four innings. The 22-year-old right-hander blanked the Angels through the first three innings before issuing a leadoff walk to Kole Calhoun in the fourth. Calhoun advanced to third on a single by Pujols and scored when Pujols was caught attempting to steal second base.
• Shore part of next wave of A's big leaguers
"I know it's Spring Training," Shore said, "but that's kind of something you always dream of, is getting a start there in a big league game, especially to face that lineup with some of the best guys in baseball."
Right-hander Bud Norris bolstered his case to make the Angels' bullpen by striking out five over two scoreless innings in his seventh appearance of the spring. Norris, who lowered his spring ERA to 2.92, said he has not yet been told whether he's made the team.
"They haven't said much," Norris said. "They're keeping it pretty close to the chest, so we'll see what happens."
Athletics Up Next: The A's will close out play in the desert with a road matchup against the Cubs at Sloan Park on Wednesday, before returning to Oakland for the Bay Bridge Series. It will be right-hander Kendall Graveman's final tuneup before his first career Opening Day start. First pitch is scheduled for 1:05 p.m. PT.
Angels Up Next: Right-hander Matthew Shoemaker, who is currently lined up to pitch on Opening Day, will start the Angels' final Cactus League game against the Brewers on Wednesday at Maryvale Baseball Park. First pitch is scheduled for 12:05 p.m. PT and will be live on MLB.TV.
Maria Guardado covers the Angels for MLB.com.
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Edwin Wong has created and written a book on a new playwriting form, which he calls the Risk Theatre Model of Tragedy. With the help of Langham Court Theatre, he hosted an international competition for the writing style this year. The winner will workshop their play here in October. Don Descoteau/Monday Magazine
Taking risks: Victoria theatre expert and author gains traction for his new model of tragedy
Edwin Wong releases Risk Theatre book, hosts successful global playwriting competition
Aug. 20, 2019 6:30 a.m.
By Rae Porter
Monday Magazine contributor
There’s something of a theatrical revolution happening within the quiet, shady streets of the Rockland neighbourhood.
Plumber by day, award-winning classicist by night, Edwin Wong has brought the ancient art of tragic theatre smack-bang into the 21st century with his self-published book, The Risk Theatre Model of Tragedy: Gambling, Drama, and the Unexpected (Friesen Press 2019).
The Risk Theatre model re-brands and re-frames tragedy as a high stakes game of chance where protagonists place high-risk bets; be they essential human values, friendships and relationships, or their own dignity and integrity, against unexpected outcomes.
Shrugging off any misconceptions that this is purely an academic tome, Wong keeps the pace trotting forward at a smart clip; laying out his ideas clearly and concisely, while providing a detailed lens by which to interpret classic tragedy (think Macbeth and Oedipus of yore) and a template by which new works can be created for a modern audience. The Risk Theatre Model of Tragedy is currently sitting on library shelves, from the University of Victoria all the way to the Russian National Library in Moscow, with plans to be in 50 more by the end of the year.
In celebration of the publication, Wong teamed up with Langham Court Theatre, Canada’s oldest community theatre company, and launched a global search for the next great tragedy.
“A lot of people are afraid to write tragedy,” Wong says. “It’s old, it’s mysterious, it’s about kings and queens; the one-per-centers, and for today’s audience that’s not very popular.”
He enlisted the help of Langham general manager Michelle Buck; Keith Digby, an accomplished playwright and screenwriter, and playwright/director Michael Armstrong to run the competition. Wong believed there would be interest from Canadian playwrights and expected “about 50 entries or so. We got 182 playwrights from 11 countries entering.”
The eventual winner was New York/Austin based playwright Gabriel Jason Dean with his piece In Bloom. Set to the backdrop of the war in Afghanistan, In Bloom follows Aaron, a documentary filmmaker, and his journey to tell the truth, precariously balancing between altruism and imperialism.
As part of his competition prize, Dean will be flown out to Victoria to take part in a professionally led workshop, culminating in the staged reading of his winning play before a live audience at Langham Court Theatre on Sunday, Oct. 20 (watch for more details later).
Already, the call is out for submissions for the 2020 competition, with an increased prize package.
Wong hopes the competition continues to grow; providing a platform for playwrights, be they new or established, and all while keeping the dramatic spotlight directly on Victoria.
“We punch above our weight when it comes to arts and culture,” he says “As for the competition, with a fantastic theatre behind you and a playwriting blueprint to follow – well, it is a great reason to bring the world here!”
As far as risks go, this is one seems to have paid off.
editor@mondaymag.com
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Noria was a nice place. Beautiful coast, booming economy and a place for everyone. Of all the provinces, Noria was one that the Jarl of Kriege rather enjoyed visiting. He trotted through the busy streets of the city atop his shire horse along with his unit of 6 heavily armoured horsemen to guard him. He had his usual traveling gear with a simple shirt and pants, topped off with a gambeson jacket and chainmail tunic with his ornate antler-hilt dagger and the infamous sword of Kriege on his belt around his hips. Coupled with his enormous horse, imposing figure and very intimidating units flanking him his presence carried weight. Several people made sure to get out of his way, noble and commoner alike.
He had sent word long before to the head of House Hael, one of the families in charge of Noria that he was quite familiar with and the first on his list for his grand plan. Now he was in the city and a couple hundred meters from their estate. He stopped by their entrance and gave his identity. Things seemed a little tense around the estate. Of course the Jarl hadn't heard of the attempt on the young lord's life a week or two ago. They opened the gates and he rode his enormous horse to the entrance, letting the stable boy lead his horse and the horses of his men to the stable. Making sure his outfit was presentable he entered the estate, his left hand resting on the golden pommel of his ancient sword.
His tall figure strode through the lobby, until he came to a halt and awaited the lord of the estate or one of his representatives to come meet him. As he waited he looked around, enjoying the peaceful sounds around the estate and the distant echo of the city's goings-on.
Norian Lord
Silas Hael
Click. Click. Click.
Silas' cane tapped quietly on the polished manor floor as he entered the main foyer of his home. He was surrounded by several heavily armored guards and had his own sword hanging from his hip.
His leg would take time to recover, but the world didn't stop just because he had bee injured. Besides, he has far from helpless. With each hardship his magic seemed to grow somewhat, now aided by the amulet that had been gifted to him. The simple yet ornate necklace hanging around his neck, its red jewel warm against his skin.
He made eye contact and smiled at the older man as he entered. He had heard of the leader of Kriege before but had never had any dealings with their province. "Lord Kriege its a pleasure," he said welcomely as he tipped his head slightly in respect. "I pray your trip was uneventful?" he asked casually.
Heinrich looked over to Silas, but he was rather confused by the fact that he was walking with a cane...and limping. Silas gave a nod and Heinrich returned it with a nod of his own. "Lord Hael, a pleasure to meet you. I had heard of your father's tragedy, you have my sympathies. I've had my run-ins with him in the past, he was a good man." he said politely.
Silas' comment was returned with a small smile. "Unfortunately, yes. For the most part at least...Pardon me, lord Hael, but is an armed guard necessary? I can promise you that looking like I'm ready to kill a man is simply my natural appearance. I'm not here to attack you, I can promise you that." he reassured with a chuckle, eyeing the troop of guards surrounding Silas. Usually being escorted by an armed guard wasn't a good thing at all. It was making him slightly nervous, reflected by him resting his left hand on the golden pommel of the ornate longsword underneath it.
"Is there a place where we can talk in private?" he asked politely, preferring to get down to business as soon as he can.
A smile crept across his face. It had seemed like a lifetime ago since his Father had been killed, even if it had only been a little over a year. "I thank you for your kind words. My Father spoke well of you and your home," he said as he continued to listen to the man.
"My apologies, I didn't mean to offend. I assure it is not you who I distrust," he said standing up straighter. He didn't like the small collection of guards either. It made him feel like a helpless child, even in his injured state, Silas was a still a deadly warrior but there was little to do to put his sisters at ease. "Times have been..." he said pausing to think of the right word "...exciting as of late and never hurts to have a few extra swords around," he said with a small smile.
"Absolutely. We may talk in my study," he said gesturing down the hall. "Can I have anything brought for you, Lord Kriege?" he asked politely as they made their way down the hall before Silas stepped into the study. He waved the guards off, who would stand by outside the door. They moved passed the large table with maps and sea charts, the lifeblood of his house's income before coming to a large desk.
Silas lowered himself down into his chair behind the desk and pointed gestured for Lord Kriege to do the same on the opposite side. "Now, what is it that you wished to speak of?" he asked.
Silas led him to his personal study and shortly after asked for refreshments. "A glass of water would be much appreciated, lord Hael. And the same for my men as well, if it's not too much trouble." he answered, making sure to remember that his men weren't all as hardy as he was. They wanted to follow but he waved them off, ordering them to relax. The image they and Silas' guards created was somewhat amusing. Two groups of guards all clad in heavy armour simply staring at each other. Hopefully it doesn't get too awkward.
They entered the study and Silas motioned for him to have a seat. He thanked the man and slumped into the seat with a bit of a grunt. He eyed Silas as he also lowered himself into his seat with a bit of difficulty as well. "You sound about as bad as I do." he quipped with a smirk.
Silas moved on to business and Heinrich's posture shifted. He sat upright in his seat and rested his hands on the arm rests of the chair. "Well to be blunt, I want to form an alliance with Noria for what's to come and I figured I could start with the two strongest Houses. You and House Varn...but a mutual friend of ours has brought it under my attention that they can be a little...untrustworthy when it comes to business." he kicked right off with a professional tone and got right to the juicy part of the negotiation.
"I'm preparing for expansion. My borders are becoming stifling and with all the business flowing through Kriege I need to expand. But an expansion like that might not go down so peacefully, especially given our relationships with our surrounding provinces. I want to broker an alliance with you for not only an exchange of goods and services, but for us to aid each other should the season unending come rolling in. Given my relationship with your House and your reputation, I thought it would be wise to come to you first."
He let out a chuckle at the remark. For a man so young, Silas moved like someone who was easily 30 years older. His leg was slow to heal, no doubt due to crude methods he had used to close the fatal wound after he had been attacked. Silas was no healer and fire not been a kind doctor to him.
He listened as the northerner explain the reason for the meeting. He bristled slightly at the mere mention of House Varn. Things were boiling over in Noria; soon there would either be House Hael or House Varn. Silas feared for the city when that conflict finally arrived. He didn't add anything to the conversation, only occasionally nodding as Heinrich continued to speak.
As he finished, Silas sat forward slightly. Noria had always been a neutral place, a place of commerce, but maybe those days were numbered. Conflict was bubbling up in more places than just Noria, all over lines were being drawn, subtle lines. "Who do you expect issues from?" he asked out of curiosity. He only knew surface-level knowledge of the political state of the North, his focus having been required home since he had assumed control of his House. The obvious question would be how the Empire would handle such an expansion. These types of dominoes were the ones that could throw the entire continent into war if they began falling.
"I am certainly open to trade deals between our houses. I would need to know more of your intentions before committing anything more. Also, regardless of what any of the other houses may say, any type of military alliance would need permission from the entire council." he said meeting the man's eyes.
Of course, that was assuming there was a council after everything. It certainly wasn't Silas' intentions to seize control of the province, but a struggle may be all be inevitable at this point.
Heinrich eyed him for a second or so before talking. "To be blunt...Leore and Ironmere. Riverkeep is tough, but I can handle them. I have my fears that Leore will see my advancement as a threat to their province, same with Ironmere. Now my army's big but not big enough to take on two provinces of that size at the same time...especially if Leore asks for a favour from their newfound friends in the Empire." he explained truthfully. Silas didn't strike him as a liar or backstabber. Plus having his troops there when everything goes south will be a boon.
Silas was open for trade, but his question about the Jarl's intentions struck him as odd. That second part was also not very encouraging. "My intentions is to make my people happy. Our borders are getting a little tight around the waist and conducting trade with Noria will bring in not only the resources to sustain this expansion but it will be a boon for our economy. We are, after all, a trading hub. And our supply of fish and other resources have been dismal to say the least." he explained. A smirk appeared faintly. "And I've heard Noria's quality of drinks are quite an experience." he said with a shrug, trying to work some terrible humour in.
"As for military expansion, I'm not expecting you to send troops to fight my battles for me. I just want the reassurance that you'll be there if the time comes. And thus far I was under the impression that the other lords of Noria don't even come close to your House's power." the smile faded as he got serious once again. "And I might not be familiar with the conflict between your Houses, but I don't think dealing with them first will be in the benefit for both our provinces." he decided to push his luck. He had heard only rumours about them, but from personal experience he wasn't a fan of House Varn. They're a last resort.
"Of course if you are in need of assistance, my people and I will be there right beside you if you get in trouble through this whole mess." he reassured Silas. So far it sounded as if he would give nothing in return, but that's not the Kriege way. Anything he asked he would offer back.
He looked on as Kriege explained those who he thought he might have trouble with. There was no love lost between Silas and Tybalt of Leore. Any man who could kill his own brother for power was a disgrace in SIlas' mind, though he cared for Lillith. His hesitation did not only come from his loyalties but also what all was involved if war broke out.
"I don't think I have to mention this, but I will. A war with Leore may very well involve fighting the legions as well," he said, meeting the man's eyes. The Imperial army stayed out of the affairs of the provinces for the most part, but they would certainly march northward at the first sign of something resembling a rebellion. "The lady of Leore being the daughter of the Emperor almost guarantees it," he said, look of concern still on his face.
He thought for a moment. It could be an opportunity to secure more independence for Noria who had long been chaffed under Imperial rule but to potentially dedicate his relatively small army so far away would be disastrous if Varn was left in the picture. He let out a breath. "I agree to opening trade up between our two territories and can commit to that immediately. The Norian armies aren't much use to anyone unless they are united under one house instead of the five they are currently. Things here need to be settled before I can commit to such a thing as military aid." he said with a serious face.
Silas was a man of his word, he wouldn't promise his soldiers if he had no intention of sending them should they be called on.
Silas reminded Heinrich of the dangers of messing with Leore and the Jarl gave a nod. "Oh, trust me. I know. The last thing I need now is to be swarmed by the legion. And like you said, the Emperor's daughter is there...and with child from what I hear. Provoking them will be a problem I don't want to deal with. I hope to negotiate with them to make sure they don't view my expansion as a provocation. But if it happens that they march up there and attack, I hope you understand that I won't be able to back down." he explained to the young lord. The Empire was a beast he didn't want to wake. Not yet, at least. But hw was sure that if they were to march, the won't be marching their whole army up. Plus at that point enveloping them would seem like a good possibility...hopefully all this planning wouldn't be necessary.
Silas agreed to trade, but he explained that he couldn't use his army effectively without the help of the other Houses. Heinrich eyed him for a few seconds, thinking. "If you need help to take control of the province, I can have 4000 troops on your doorstep in a fortnight. A week with a forced march and even more if needed. All you have to do is give the word." he said flatly and calmly as he dropped one hell of a bombshell on the boy.
He stared hard at the man. The possibility of actually going to war with the Empire seemed absurd to him. Even if that was something Silas was at all interested in, they would need more than just the two of them.
His expression grew harder when the man offered a sizeable amount of troops. With those soldiers and the ones already at his command, it would be possible to take the city by force but is that what he wanted? His issues weren't with the city, they were with one Lord. Would Silas be able to sacrifice Norian lives to settle those issues? Did he have a choice at this point?
No. He had to try to take out Varn as peaceably as possible. It was possible to the rest of the houses would fall into line afterward. A million possibilities ran through his head. He tried to trace down down each of their possible outcomes. He needed friends. He had asked Lillith for help, but it was obvious that any sort of friendship between his house and Leore would be impossible at this point.
"Deal. I'll accept your offer of troops and in return, we will help defend against attacks from the surrounding provinces," he said. It was the best he could offer currently. Varn would promise this man the world for his assistance, but Silas was a man of his word and would only offer what was available. "Once things are settled here, it would become more clear what exactly I have to offer," he commented.
Heinrich gave a smile when Silas agreed. Defending against other provinces were more than enough for now. "Of course. And thank you, my lord. Both our beautiful provinces will benefit from this alliance." he said politely and slowly rose from his seat. He held his right hand out for the man to shake as his left rested on the gilded pommel of his longsword.
Once Silas shook his hand he would look to the door then to the young lord again. "Exciting times are awaiting us." he said with a smirk.
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Boxing legends Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, George Forman, Sugar Ray Leonard, Manny Paquiao, Floyd Mayweather at one point have been promoted by the company top rank and on Saturday, Albany native and Albany High grad Abraham Nova will be following in their shoes.
I was a little kid I heard about them fighting and winning all these good things…I was like hey let me try it out. I try out and I found that I was really good…
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Abraham Super Nova’s opponent on Saturday is veteran Pedro Navarrete. He steps into the ring with more than fifty fights under his belt.
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by Katya Guillaume / Jan 19, 2020
Albany High grab Abraham Supernova stepped into the ring, making his top ranked debut. Supernova took on 38 year old Pedro Navarrete. He came in with 17 victories coming by way of knockouts.
Confident in his fight tonight, used his jab round after round and took his time and it paid off. After round four of eight scheduled, Supernova picked up win number 18 and knockout number 14.
McAdam earns shutout as Thunder rout Railers, 5-0
by Evan Pivnick- Adirondack Thunder / Jan 19, 2020
GLENS FALLS, NY – The Thunder snapped their two-game losing skid with a 51 shot performance in a 5-0 victory over the Worcester Railers on Saturday night in front of a crowd of 4,433 at Cool Insuring Arena. John Edwardh notched four points (1G, 3A), Matt Salhany (2G, 1A) and Mike Szmatula (1G, 2A) each put up four-point performances.
Eamon McAdam earned his first shutout of the season, turning away all 25 Worcester shots to record his ninth win of the season.
Men’s Basketball Falls at Stony Brook 70-62
by UAlbany Athletics / Jan 19, 2020
Closing out a two-game road swing, and riding a four-game winning streak, the University at Albany men's basketball team visited Stony Brook Saturday night, falling to the Seawolves 70-62 after going cold from deep in the second half.
Stony Brook scored first, but UAlbany responded with a 8-0 run to take an 8-2 lead with 17:13 remaining. During the streak, with 18:26 remaining, Cameron Healy hit his first three of the night, extending his made-threes streak to 51 games.
The Seawolves snapped the streak with a layup with 16:55 to go. Ahmad Clark next hit a three to put UAlbany up 11-4. The Great Danes hit four of their first five shots from the floor, but then hit a cold streak, sinking just one of their next eight.
Stony Brook closed within on with 11:45 to go after a three-pointer cut UAlbany's lead to 13-12. The Seawolves briefly took the lead on their next possession, hitting another three to go up 15-13.
Adam Lulka put UAlbany back on top 16-15 with 10:40 to go with a three pointer. Neither team scored for the next two minutes, when Romani Hansen hit a jumper to put UAlbany up by three. Lulka then put UAlbany up five with 7:57 remaining in the first half.
Over the final 7:09, Stony Brook outscored UAlbany 15-7. A 6-0 run put the Seawolves on top 21-20 with 5:45 to go. Their run extended to 11-0 before UAlbany scored again, with Healy hitting two free throws with 3:00 remaining in the first to cut Stony Brook's lead to 26-22.
UAlbany closed within one in the final minute, when Healy hit another three, bringing his first-half total to 10 points. Stony Brook pulled away slightly at the end of the half, and entered the locker room leading 30-27.
Healy led all scorers at the break with 10 points. Three other Great Danes, Clark, Lulka, and Trey Hutcheson, each scored five. Stony Brook saw three players score eight or more points. UAlbany outshot Stony Brook 7-1 off the bench, but shot just 10-29 from the floor in the first half, while the Seawolves shot 11-24.
Stony Brook scored the first six points of the second half, bookending halftime on an 8-0 run. Healy snapped the streak with a layup with 18:14 to go, bringing UAlbany within seven, 36-29.
The Seawolves took their first 10-point lead with 15:36 remaining in the second, 40-30, following a layup, snapping a combined two-minute scoreless streak. UAlbany responded with a 7-2 run to close within five just over one minute later.
UAlbany cut Stony Brook's lead to five two more times, first with 13:02 remaining and next with 11:09 remaining, before the Seawolves began pulling away for good. Stony Brook slowly rebuilt its lead to double digits, leading 60-50 with 4:58 to go. The Seawolves led by as many as 13 late in the game, before UAlbany's comeback attempt brought the Great Danes within eight, making the final score 70-62.
Clark led all scorers in the game with 21 points, but shot just 7-21 on the night. Healy finished with 15, and Hutcheson scored 11. UAlbany shot 3-16 from deep in the second half, while Stony Brook shot 16-25 overall, but just 8-17 from the line. The Seawolves committed 21 turnovers, leading to just 16 UAlbany points. Two Seawolves scored 20 points each.
Next: UAlbany returns to SEFCU Arena to host UMass Lowell on Wednesday, January 22. Tipoff is scheduled for 7:00 p.m.
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Most corrupt Badal family lacks moral credentials to attack others: Punjab Congress
Chandigarh: The Punjab Congress today ridiculed the immediate and the extended family of Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal for being synonymous with corruption and said the people in the state had a right to know as to how a “humble” farmer family with average holding had multiplied its wealth thousands of times during the last few years. In a statement issued here today, party General Secretary Rajanbir Singh said Badal and now his estranged brother Gurdas Singh Badal used to have a small transport company by the name of Dabwali Transport. While the family of Gurdas Singh Badal which had almost the same size of holding as the Senior Badal family had not made any money, the ruling Badal family had multiplied its wealth exponentially. This had happened mainly whenever Badal had become the chief minister. The PPC spokesperson and General secretary said the people had not forgotten that the Gurgaon plot on which Badal’s seven star hotel had been built after coming into power in 1997 was resumed by the Haryana government as the family had no money to pay the arrears. He said the people had also not forgotten the fact that the Sector 9 residence of the Badal family was bereft of any good furniture forl years. Now this family was coming up with another seven star resort in the vicinity of Chandigarh connected to the Chandigarh airport with a six lane highway which had been planned at the cost of the Exchequer keeping this hotel in view. He said before casting aspersions on others, both Parkash Singh Badal and his son and Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal must share this grand formula of overnight success with the people as the state was in deep crisis facing a mountain of debt with lakhs of unemployed youth looking for employment avenues. He said the people of the state had also the right to know as to how the menace of addiction had spread like epidemic in the state. The smuggling of narcotics was not possible without police and political patronage. He said it was the Akali Dal-BJP alliance which had been ruling the state since 1997 barring five years of Congress rule and as such, it was Badal himself who was responsible for whatever was happening in the state. He said it was now talk of the town as to who were the politicians who had patronised drug smuggling in the state. There was just one name which was on the lips of each and every person in the state and the man was part of the extended Badal family. He said Arun Jaitley could foretaste his defeat in Amritsar when this state of affairs was made known to him. Rajanbir said it was also known to the people as to how Badal Junior had pressured some transport companies in a bid to take them over. Even small transporters were now feeling threatened. He said after drugs, illegal mining of sand and gravel and transport were the other areas dominated by the mafia controlled by the Badals. He said the Badals should learn a lesson from the humiliating victory of Harsimrat Kaur Badal in Bathinda who could just manage to scrape through, despite the fact that all the last five years, Bathinda was under special focus. The people of Bathinda had shattered the myth of the so called invincible strategic planning of Sukhbir. He said it was the mafia operations which had made the people angry against the Badal government and the same was reflected in Bathinda.
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Pope Francis Invited to Visit New York's Homeless LGBT Youth
May 12, 2015 /1 Comment/in Schools & Youth /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor
Following an open letter published in the New York Times last spring, Carl Siciliano, an advocate for the homeless, again wrote to Pope Francis on behalf of the LGBT youth for whom he provides care.
Siciliano heads the Ali Forney Center in New York, a social service agency helps young LGBT people experiencing homelessness. Often, they end up on the street because religious parents’ rejection of them. This second letter repeats the invitation to dialogue, this time during the Pope Francis’ visit to New York in September. He also encouraged the pope to reconsider the church’s teachings on homosexuality because of the harm they cause. The Huffington Post reported that Siciliano wrote to the pontiff:
“My hope has been strengthened by learning that you will come to New York City this September as a prelude to your participation in the World Conference of Families. What a remarkable opportunity for your to call on families to love and cherish their LGBT children. I hope that such a call might be inspired by your listening with compassion to our youths tell of being driven from their homes by parents who believe that being LGBT made them sinful and evil; that witnessing their suffering would awaken you to the terrible harm caused by religious condemnation of homosexuality.”
Of between 320,000 and 400,000 LGBT youth who are homeless in the United States each year, approximately 40 percent have faced family rejection as the cause of their homelessness. A Rolling Stone article last fall explored this troubling reality through the lens of several teens’ stories, which you can read about here. LGBT youth from religious households are eight times more likely than their heterosexual peers to be thrown out. Knowing this reality, Siciliano asked the pope:
“I hope that you might listen with compassion to our youths tell of the abuse they suffered in their homes. Some youths tell of being beaten or strangled by parents. Others suffered psychological torment; some tell of being forced to recite condemnatory biblical passages late into the night, others tell of their parents saying that God was disgusted by them, that they were an abomination.”
Life on the streets and in shelters is problematic as well, given the elevated rates of sex work, mental health problems, substance abuse, and self-harm these youths experience. Taken in full, this creates in Siciliano a “horror at how the mesage of God’s merciful love in the Gospels has been deformed by religious hostility towards LGBT people” when parents “sacrifice their children” for religious beliefs.
Siciliano concludes by inviting Pope Francis to visit the Ali Forney Center and meet the homeless LGBT youths who live there, “for none are poorer, more abused, more cast aside, more deprived of love than our homeless LGBT youths.” While this visit is unlikely, Pope Francis is also known to surprise the world with his gestures of compassion.
If nothing else, Siciliano’s letters and work should raise the profile of this devastating issue and stir the church’s response. Addressing the suffering of these youth requires no discussion of homosexuality or gender identity beyond loving each child a person created in God’s image. In addition, the injustices inflicted against them by members of our church community who profess belief in Christ, must be ended. The letter is also a reminder for all of us to invite church leaders into our lives to “come and see” the suffering and the goodness of LGBT people’s lives.
For more information on homeless LGBT youth and what you can do to help, visit Bonding 2.0‘s post “How Can the Catholic Community Support LGBT Homeless Youth?”
–Bob Shine, New Ways Ministry
Tags: Catholic, Gay, Homelessness, LGBT, Pope Francis
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Pardon the Pun
Chicago restaurants have some clever, witty names
By Matt Bartosik • Published at 8:51 am on October 22, 2008
Check Please, Chicago
Walking through Wrigleyville on a bar-hopping Friday night, you might never guess that we Chicagoans are a witty bunch.
However, Lynn Westney, a reference librarian at the University of Illinois at Chicago, knows better.
According to her paper—"Dew Drop Inn and Lettuce Entertain You: Onomastic Sobriquets in the Food and Beverage Industry"—Chicago has some of the most clever, pun-influenced restaurant names anywhere.
As of 2000, Chicago has more hot dog vendors than Burger King, Wendy's, and McDonald's outlets combined. With all the competition out there, restaurants need to stand out from the rest. Many have fun names like Wiener & Still Champion, the Weiner's Circle, Hot Doug's, and Franks for the Memories.
However, the puns aren't limited to just funny franks. Take for example Once Upon a Thai, the Hearty Boys, Tequila Mockingbird, and II Jacks (named after father and son, both of which are named Jack).
With the plentitude of amusing names in the city, your next restaurant visit may sound like pun.
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Miss. Governor Candidate Insists Female Reporter Should Have a Man With Her
“I wanted to cover Foster because I love my job," reporter Larrison Campbell of Mississippi Today tweeted. "His campaign refused my request because they sexualized me."
Published at 8:44 pm on July 11, 2019
A female reporter who was denied access to a Mississippi gubernatorial candidate because he didn’t want to be seen spending time alone with a woman who is not his wife says, “How’s that not sexism?”
The candidate meanwhile is using the controversy in a campaign fundraising email that says the "liberal media" and Hollywood "are attacking me for my Christian faith and choosing not to be alone with another woman," according to a report in Mississippi Today.
One of Mississippi Today's reporters, Larrison Campbell, revealed Tuesday that when she asked to follow Republican candidate Robert Foster on the campaign trail, his staff said she would have to bring a male colleague along. Foster told The Associated Press he made the request because "it's unprofessional to be alone with a woman who's not my wife."
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Ashton Kutcher’s Alleged Mistress Starts Talking
By Eric Alt • Published at 6:35 am on October 12, 2011
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When last we left them, troubled couple Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore were reportedly working on keeping their marriage intact amid rumors that Kutcher had been unfaithful. Sara Leal is not helping that process.
The 22-year-old San Diego native was rumored to be have been Kutcher's partner in infidelity when the "Two and a Half Men" star was partying - solo - in the Southern California city on his sixth wedding anniversary. Now, she has given an interview with Us Weekly with all the juicy details.
The administrative assistant said Kutcher "just came up and kissed" her before the pair, along with an unidentified third woman, ended up nude in a hot tub.
"I didn't think it was out of the ordinary," says Leal. "I wasn't self-conscious about getting naked."
Leal claims that Kutcher told her he was "separated" from Moore at the time of their meeting. "He lost his towel and I took my robe off," continues Leal. "Then we had sex. He was good."
Although still a case of "he said, she said," there has so far been no word on how Leal's comments will affect the seemingly fragile state of Kutcher and Moore's marriage.
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California Athletics | March 23, 2014
No. 17 Cal survives test from Pepperdine
MALIBU, Calif. -- Leading at one point 3-1 in the overall contest, California got a clutch performance from freshman Filip Bergevi to hold off Pepperdine and ultimately edge the No. 46 Waves 4-3 on Sunday at the Ralphs-Straus Tennis Center. Cal improved its record to 10-3 after the nonconference victory, while Pepperdine fell to 10-11.
Bergevi, ranked 117th in singles, defeated No. 115 David Sofaer 6-3, 3-6, 6-4 on court No. 3 to wrap up the win.
The Bears began the match by winning the doubles point. The 76th-ranked tandem of senior Ben McLachlan and freshman Andre Goransson started with an 8-3 win against Alex Giannini/Tom Hill on court No. 2, and then Cal juniors Gregory Bayane and Chase Melton upset the Waves’ team of No.15 Francis Alcantara/Alex Sarkissian 8-4 to capture the point.
Pepperdine tied the match at 1-1 when 27th-ranked Alex Sarkissian beat the 84th-ranked McLachlan 6-0, 6-1. But sophomore Mads Engsted gave the lead back to Cal with a 6-3, 6-1 win against Kento Tanaka-Tamaki on court No. 6. Bayane beat Hill on court No. 5 7-5, 6-2 to make the score 3-1.
The matches tightened up from there, as Cal senior Campbell Johnson -- ranked 81st -- dropped a three-setter, 6-1, 3-6, 6-2, to Francis Alcantara on court No. 2, and Goransson, ranked 113th, took Stefan Menichella to two set tiebreakers before falling 7-6(5), 7-6(3). That knotted the overall match at 3-3.
In Bergevi’s match, he hit a passing shot down the right line in the third set to beat Sofaer and clinch the dual.
“We had a strong start to the match with some high quality doubles, but we followed it up with a lack of focus in singles,” Cal head coach Peter Wright said. “Pepperdine played well enough to win, and it took some high-pressure tennis from Filip Bergevi to pull us through. Chase Melton and Gregory Bayane continue to be impressive every time they take the court in doubles.”
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Oncogene. 2000 May 15;19(21):2468-73.
The role of STATs in transcriptional control and their impact on cellular function.
Bromberg J1, Darnell JE Jr.
Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology, Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10021, USA.
The STAT proteins (Signal Transducers and Activators of Transcription), were identified in the last decade as transcription factors which were critical in mediating virtually all cytokine driven signaling. These proteins are latent in the cytoplasm and become activated through tyrosine phosphorylation which typically occurs through cytokine receptor associated kinases (JAKs) or growth factor receptor tyrosine kinases. Recently a number of non-receptor tyrosine kinases (for example src and abl) have been found to cause STAT phosphorylation. Phosphorylated STATs form homo- or hetero-dimers, enter the nucleus and working coordinately with other transcriptional co-activators or transcription factors lead to increased transcriptional initiation. In normal cells and in animals, ligand dependent activation of the STATs is a transient process, lasting for several minutes to several hours. In contrast, in many cancerous cell lines and tumors, where growth factor dysregulation is frequently at the heart of cellular transformation, the STAT proteins (in particular Stats 1, 3 and 5) are persistently tyrosine phosphorylated or activated. The importance of STAT activation to growth control in experiments using anti-sense molecules or dominant negative STAT protein encoding constructs performed in cell lines or studies in animals lacking specific STATs strongly indicate that STATs play an important role in controlling cell cycle progression and apoptosis. Stat1 plays an important role in growth arrest, in promoting apoptosis and is implicated as a tumor suppressor; while Stats 3 and 5 are involved in promoting cell cycle progression and cellular transformation and preventing apoptosis. Many questions remain including: (1) a better understanding of how the STAT proteins through association with other factors increase transcription initiation; (2) a more complete definition of the sets of genes which are activated by different STATs and (3) how these sets of activated genes differ as a function of cell type. Finally, in the context of many cancers, where STATs are frequently persistently activated, an understanding of the mechanisms leading to their constitutive activation and defining the potential importance of persistent STAT activation in human tumorigenesis remains. Oncogene (2000).
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Title: Pediatric Homicide Related to Burn Injury: A Retrospective Review at the Medical University of South Carolina
Journal: Journal of Forensic Sciences Volume:51 Issue:2 Dated:March 2006 Pages:396-399
Author(s): William F. Zaloga D.O.; Kim A. Collins M.D.
Date Published: March 2006
Publisher: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/
Type: Report (Study/Research)
Annotation: This study reviewed the characteristics of all burn-related cases involving victims 17 years old and younger that were referred to the Medical University of South Carolina Forensic Pathology Section from January 1975 to December 2002 (28-year period).
Abstract: Data were obtained on the victim's age, sex, and race; type of burn injury; reported location (where the incident occurred); time of year; cause and manner of death; scene history; perpetrator; injury-death time interval; and autopsy and toxicology findings. Of the 124 cases studied, 108 were classified as accidents, 12 as homicides, and 4 as undetermined. The 12 homicides consisted of 9 fire-related fatalities and 3 scald deaths. All homicides involved victims 1-8 years old. Eleven of the homicides occurred at home, and 1 was in a vehicle. Perpetrators of the eight home-fire homicides were mothers in five cases, a sister in one case, and undetermined in two cases. The three homicidal scaldings involved victims 1-2 years old. In addition to providing data from the South Carolina study, this paper also reports on a literature review of research on childhood burns. The literature indicates that the most common types of childhood burns are scalds (48 percent), flame burns (28 percent), and contact burns (11 percent). The majority of fatal childhood burn injuries are fire-related. Males have a slightly higher burn-related death rate than females; and Black children are at greater risk for burns than White children. A 1998 study found that a child 3 years old or under from a single-parent, poor family and with a scald or thermal-contact burn was most likely to have been intentionally burned. Inflicted burns are reported to have a characteristics pattern, which must be linked with a specific history, these patterns are described by the authors. 1 figure and 15 references
Main Term(s): Police policies and procedures
Index Term(s): Child abuse detection; Child abuse fatalities; Child burn victims; Death investigations; Forensic sciences; Homicide investigations; South Carolina
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Welcome! The seventh North Cornwall Book Festival was a rain-splashed, packed-out joy. If you weren’t lucky enough to be there, or simply want to revisit it, go to our Podcasts page and you can hear many of the talks there.
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‘American Horror Story: 1984’ episode one: a love letter to ’80s horror that puts the ‘camp’ in summer camp
Don your legwarmers! We're back to the '80s for a recap of episode one 'Camp Redwood'
Gary Ryan
Knives out: who will survive the new series?
Putting the ‘camp’ into summer camp, American Horror Story has returned for its ninth season with 1984: a knowing, love letter to the decade’s slasher flicks. Strap in for sex, gore and spandex as we recap the first nostalgia-fuelled episode.
It’s a radical cast change and break from the past for the anthology
With series mainstay Evan Peters sitting this instalment out, AHS: 1984 marks the first season were the premiere contains none of the original actors from series one, Murder House. In fact, none of the usual marquee names – Jessica Lange (who exited after 2014’s Freak Show, before returning for an Emmy-nominated guest turn in last year’s Infinity War-esque Apocalypse), Kathy Bates, Angela Bassett, Frances Conroy – appear, leaving some of the younger regulars to step up and take centre stage. Even AHS doyenne Sarah Paulson – busy filming creator Ryan Murphy’s Netflix One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest origin story Ratched – has a so-far-unknown reduced role.
Playing against type, Emma Roberts (known for machete-mouthed bitches like Madison Montgomery from Coven) assumes the lead as Brooke Thompson, the seemingly strait-laced archetypal ‘final girl’. Billie Lourd is sassy wannabe aerobics-champ Montana Duke who looks like she’s stepped off the set of Madonna’s Desperately Seeking Susan, while Cody Fern – who impressed last year as the spawn of Satan – dons a crop top as fitness instructor/actor Xavier Plympton. Leslie Grossman is Margaret Booth, the Bible-bashing survivor of 1970’s “worst summer camp massacre” who decides to buy and re-open Camp Redwood, in order to “take all of my darkest memories and turn them into something bright and happy”.
Newcomers to the series include the first acting credit for actual Olympic medal-holder Gus Kenworthy, who has the tongue-in-cheek role of jock Chet Clancy, disgruntled at being kicked off Team USA for “peeing out a pharmacy”, and wanders around half-naked resembling what the offspring of a protein shake and a steroid pill having sex would look like.
Ryan Murphy-verse veterans Matthew Morrison (Glee’s Mr Schue) and Angelica Ross (Pose) join the franchise. The former plays well-endowed camp activities manager Trevor Kirchner who was edited out of a Jane Fonda workout video because his colossal cock was “flopping around like a baby elephant’s trunk”, while the latter quietly impresses as camp nurse Rita Chambers. At the moment, the characters feel more like standard tropes (‘the virgin’, ‘the athlete’, the so-called ‘promiscuous one’), but that’s fine because…
It’s an ode to ‘80s slasher films
From the Friday the 13th /Sleepaway Camp lakeside summer camp setting to a Halloween-referencing escape of the serial killer (Mr Jingles) from a sanatorium, it’s crammed full of homages to video nasties of the era.
The rote plot could have been written by AI: in 1970, nine people are murdered at Camp Redwood by Mr Jingles (John Carroll Lynch), a Vietnam Vet with penchant for collecting his victims’ ears as trophies (You gotta have a gimmick!). Fast forward 14 years to the titular 1984, and – albeit missing one lug-hole – survivor Margaret has decided to re-open the camp, presumably thanking her lucky stars that Google and Trip Adviser haven’t been invented.
Xavier secures a summer job there and invites his friends: Chet (happy to escape LA because the Olympics are about to be held there), Montana and Ray (DeRon Horton – whose guest-star status suggests his tenure is going to be shorter than Gus Kenworthy’s IMBD.com credits) to join him. Brooke – who meets the gang at an aerobics class – is initially reluctant, until she’s attacked by the real-life serial killer Richard Ramirez, aka The Night Stalker (Zach Villa, reprising his role from AHS: Hotel) in her house, escaping by fending him off with a frying pan. Naturally, he pledges to hunt her down and finish the job.
Driving there, the gang run over a hiker I Know What You Did Last Summer style with their van. And the pleasing clichés abound: a local gas station attendant (played by Don Swayze, Patrick’s younger brother) warns them to turn around. Xavier phones his answer machine to discover a Black Christmas warning from a gruff, menacing voice: “You can’t just take your dick and run away. There’s nowhere to run. Nowhere to hide.” There’s the death-after-sex trope, dead bodies going awol and everybody insisting the only person who witnessed them was “tripping”, and one of those more-falling-over-than-running chase sequences (which is ingeniously inter-cut with footage from the 1984 Olympics) involving Brooke being hunted through the woods by Mr Jingles.
Then, right at the end, despite being told the lines are down, the payphone starts ringing as Brooke answers – cue a reveal that there are two serial killers in the camp, setting us up nicely for a Freddy vs. Jason Mr Jingles/Night Stalker battle royale.
It’s authentically ‘80s
This season is so camp and painfully ‘80s, it makes Glow look like Ingmar Bergman by comparison. From the synthy title sequence featuring footage of retro fitness videos and Ronald Reagan, to its John Carpenter-leaning soundtrack to the cinematography which boasts multiple jittery tracking shots, it evokes the atmosphere of a flickering, well-worn ‘80s VHS. There’s references to the era galore: Montana tells Brooke she has a “rad body…like the girl from Cheers” (Shelley Long), while Margaret says she campaigned alongside Charles Keating, the moral crusader on the losing side of The People Versus Larry Flint. And an enjoyable Easter Egg is that the gym in which we’re introduced to the characters via a hip-thrusting workout is called Perfect Aerobics – referencing the 1985 curio aerobics film, Perfect, starring the original Scream Queen Jamie Lee Curtis. It’s Pumping Irony! Upcoming decade-centric episode titles meanwhile include ‘Slashdance’ and ‘Red Dawn’.
There are connections to the wider American Horror Story mythos
This season initially appears more stripped-down and standalone compared to last year’s fankwank Apocalypse which saw the regulars reprise their “greatest hits” characters (Portraying four different protagonists, Evan Peters, for example, played everything bar the title sequence).
But there are connections to the wider mythos. A ghost version of Richard Ramirez was last glimpsed attending a dinner party held by James March in season five’s Hotel Cortez alongside fellow serial killers Aileen Wuornos, John Wayne Gacy, Jeffrey Dahmer and the Zodiac Killer – like some kind of nightmarish Come Dine With Me. A notorious real-life serial killer, he was active in Los Angeles and San Francisco between April 1984 and August 1985, and was convicted of thirteen counts of murder in 1989. Meanwhile, nurse Rita mentions that she works at Hawthorne Hospital – a nod to Apocalypse, which featured The Hawthorne School For Exceptional Young Men, an underground outpost for warlocks.
Fan theories suggest first appearances may be deceptive
As fun as episode one is, there are concerns that the pastiche-premise may not stretch to ten full episodes, which has prompted fan speculation that the show hasn’t fully shown its hand and there may be a Roanoke-style twist. The George Orwell/reality-TV implying title has hinted to some that this could be a game show along the lines of Cabin In The Woods/My Little Eye – a theory further bolstered by a ‘Survivors Sweepstakes’ promo. Certainly, it feels like we’re watching a horror tape. Other ideas that have been mooted include that the campmates are actually in a Black Mirror-like virtual reality simulation.
The music is suitably Now! That’s What I Call The ‘80s
Naturally, it boasts an era-specific soundtrack: Frank Stallone’s cheesy ‘Far From Over’ (from 1983 film Staying Alive), Bananarama’s ‘Cruel Summer’ (omnipresent in 1984 thanks to its inclusion in The Karate Kid), Rockwell’s on-the-nose ‘Somebody’s Watching Me’, Def Leppard’s ‘Photograph’ and Hall and Oates ‘Private Eyes’.
It’s set to be hornier than a Love Island contestant test-driving Viagra
Ryan Murphy once posted a fan theory on Instagram that every season of AHS is connected to Dante’s Inferno and its nine circles of hell – Limbo (Murder House), Gluttony (Hotel), Greed (Freak Show), Anger (Roanoke) Heresy (Cult), Fraud (Asylum) and Treachery (Coven). Only ‘Lust’ and ‘Violence’ remain, which means it’s safe to assume that the former is 1984’s (loose) connection. Sex is a massive part of the exploitation genre, and the sign-posts in episode one are there: it starts with a botched threesome, Glee’s Mr Schue is packing a prosthetic penis, and celibacy-enforcing Margaret is warning of the gender-segregated cabins: “Girls are red, boys are blue. Don’t even try to make purple….I’m not banning self-abuse, though every stroke soils your soul”.
A post shared by Ryan Murphy (@mrrpmurphy) on Jul 29, 2017 at 11:38pm PDT
Other observations
After last year’s triumphant-yet-sprawling Apocalypse, it’s probably best that AHS went back-to-basics. For a series that originally set out to reference and subvert the tropes of horror, it was starting to develop its predicable own: every season, Sarah Paulson would star as twelve different characters, Jessica Lange would deliver a long bourbon-drenched monologue while drawing wistfully on a cigarette, Kathy Bates would attempt a baffling accent and there would be a gratuitous shot of Evan Peters’ #LegDay buttocks. And a show that kick-started the trend for horror being taken seriously again by critics has began to look less original in light of a cinematic horror golden age, and could do with a refresh.
Yet for a show that was once lauded as a safe haven for underused older actors and praised for re-introducing them to a new generation in gif-able form (Rebecca De Mornay was probably waiting by her phone, poised to be cast as a sinister eye-patch wearing nanny with a penchant for @More_Milf quotes), there’s a change of pace provided by the fact that the mainly-millennial cast skews younger, which makes it tonally closer to Scream Queens – Ryan Murphy’s short-lived campus comedy/horror slasher (which starred both Emma Roberts and Billie Lourd, as well as Jamie Lee Curtis) than traditional American Horror Story. And for a series that’s used to tackling meaty issues (Asylum and Freak Show), the slender narrative, which so far relies heavily on “Spot the reference!” for enjoyment, means there has to be something more lurking underneath.
But this is American Horror Story – which sometimes has a tendency to veer completely off the rails – so frankly, anything could happen. Jessica Lange could turn up as a Pamela Voorhees mother-of-the-serial killer. Eighty-six year old AHS vet Joan Collins could rock up as Chet’s same-age, fellow 20-something girlfriend with nobody batting an eyelid or commenting that when she read Shakespeare in school, it was just the comment he wrote in her yearbook. Hell, it could all be an elaborate Scare Maze. But for now at least, there’s enough here to intrigue and – with a cast playing it with enough infectious gusto – to suggest we’re in for a ride.
American Horror Story airs on FX, Thursdays, 9pm
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TAMWORTH'S Plain Street Playing Fields were a buzz of activity on Sunday morning thanks to the second day of the 2019 National Primary Games. Kids from around the region and the state flocked to the fields for the second day of the Games' rugby league competition. A crowd of more than 2000 spectators gathered to watch some of the rugby league stars of tomorrow battle it out. Read Also: More than 800 youngsters battled it out during the second day's competition, all vying for a place in the finals. Love sport? Subscribe today and receive a sports fan discount. Each team put in a massive effort, backing up for several games throughout the day. The competition concluded at 12.30pm on Sunday. Sign up to receive The Leader's breaking news and top stories straight to your inbox.
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TAMWORTH'S Plain Street Playing Fields were a buzz of activity on Sunday morning thanks to the second day of the 2019 National Primary Games.
Kids from around the region and the state flocked to the fields for the second day of the Games' rugby league competition.
A crowd of more than 2000 spectators gathered to watch some of the rugby league stars of tomorrow battle it out.
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More than 800 youngsters battled it out during the second day's competition, all vying for a place in the finals.
Love sport? Subscribe today and receive a sports fan discount.
Each team put in a massive effort, backing up for several games throughout the day.
The competition concluded at 12.30pm on Sunday.
Sign up to receive The Leader's breaking news and top stories straight to your inbox.
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Girls' website tackles eating disorders
PUBLISHED: 09:31 24 January 2008 | UPDATED: 08:49 13 July 2010
CHILDREN as young as 11 are among hundreds of people around the world seeking help to combat eating disorders from a website set up by a north Norfolk teenager.
Meg Crayford-Noble is amazed at the huge response to her campaign, on the social networking Myspace site, which has attracted 1300 on-line supporters in four months.
It challenges pro-anorexia (ProAna) and pro-bulimia (ProMia) websites which encourage vulnerable sufferers to keep losing weight with “thinspirational” photos of emaciated girls and tips on deceiving doctors and parents.
North Walsham High School student Meg, and her friend Elinor Goodhead, who attends Cromer High, say they know the dieting pressures on teenage girls in a Size 0 culture which admires super-slim celebrities like Nicole Richie and Victoria Beckham.
They are aware of pupils at their schools with eating disorders and say a growing number of males are also falling victim to eating and compulsive exercise disorders.
The girls and local supporters are staging a charity gig this Saturday to officially launch their Fight To Live campaign.
They plan to donate 75pc of the proceeds to national eating disorders charity Beat and plough the rest into future fund and awareness-raising events.
“Eating disorders are not about choice. They are a mental illness,” said Meg, 16. “In the last couple of years at junior school girls start reading magazines about celebrities and fashion and I think every girl would say they have felt the pressures and thought: 'wouldn't it be nice if I was a bit thinner?'”
Elinor, 15, added: “Even the magazines with articles about the dangers of eating disorders will have something about diets, or fashion photos of thin models, on other pages. You can't get any magazines for teenage girls without something in.”
Meg believes her site has filled a gap because young people are more likely to confide in others their own age rather than in parents and other adults.
“I never judge people. I just listen and encourage them to go and talk to their GP in confidence,” she said.
Messages, from as far afield as China, Australia and the USA, were left by sufferers, ex-sufferers, their friends and loved ones, and up to 50 had been from children aged 11 and 12.
“I find it inspiring and I enjoy it,” said Meg. “It takes a lot of courage for some people and when they say things like: 'Thank you so much. You've made me realise that I do need help', it makes it all worthwhile.”
·View the website at: www.myspace.com/fighttolivecampaign
FIGHT To Live's launch gig takes place this Saturday, January 26, in B2@Brickmakers, Sprowston Road, Norwich.
Bands Daggers and Diamonds, Snowblind, A is for Automatic Weapons, and Airstrip 51 are all playing for free. The venue and ticket production have also been donated.
The event is open to anyone aged 15 or over. Tickets cost £4 on the door, from the Theatre Royal in Norwich, or via 01603 598688. Doors open at 7.30pm and the music starts at 8pm.
·AT least 1.1m people in the UK are affected by an eating disorder, with those in the 14-25 age group being most at risk.
·As many as one woman in 20 will have eating habits which give cause for concern.
·Females are 10 times more likely than males to suffer from anorexia or bulimia.
·In a survey of 600 young people with eating disorders, the charity Beat found that only one pc felt they could talk to their parents, nine pc would talk to someone at school, 17pc might approach a doctor or nurse, and 92pc felt they couldn't tell anyone.
·In 2006 NHS hospitals treated 58 children under 10 for eating disorders. This included 35 boys.
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The History of Niemann-Pick Type C
Niemann-Pick Disease was named after the two scientists who originally described it and distinguished it from other lipid storage disorders, Albert Niemann in 1914 and Luddwick Pick in the 1920's. At that time diagnosis was restricted to infants with infantile neurodegenerative disease and Hepatosplenomegaly (HSM), the simulateneous enlargement of both the liver (hepatomegaly) and the spleen (splenogmegaly). However, in 1958 Crocker and Farber widened the definition to include patients with slow developing or absent neurologic disease. Later Crocker classified the disease into 4 groups which presented differently:
Distinguishing feature
Primary pathophysiology
Genetic Cause
Infant disease with very poor prognosis
Acid sphingomyelinase deficiency
SMPD1 gene mutation
Juvenile form with lung involvement
Pan-ethnic subtype with non age-related occurrence and brain complications
Defect in cellular cholesterol trafficking
NPC1 or NPC2 gene mutation
Same as Type C but with Nova Scotian ancestry
NPC1 gene mutation
Type D closely resembled Type C, except for its restriction to the Nova Scotian ancestry and has therefore now been merged into one type NPC. However, NPC is distinct and separate from Niemann-Pick Diseases Type A (NPA) and Type B (NPB). NPC is caused primarily by a biochemical defect in its lipid transportation whereas NPA and NPB are caused primarily by a deficiency of acid sphingomyelinase.
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All Boroughs
Feliz Navidad: Brooklyn Group Throws a Posada, A Traditional Mexican Christmas Party
By NY1 News Brooklyn
PUBLISHED December 20, 2015 @5:47 PM
New Yorkers got an early taste of Christmas in Brooklyn with a Mexican twist.
The non-profit Mixteca hosted a Posada at Industry City in Sunset Park.
A Posada is a traditional Mexican Christmas Party.
The party featured games, crafts and a magician. Organizers say the annual event is a tradition for people of Mexican heritage.
"As many thing as we do, it's about recreating the cultural traditions of the Mexican community," one organizer said. "They love the posada, the posada is a big thing in Mexico it's reminiscent of the travel of the, it's an original it's a religious motif."
Visitors were also treated to a pop-up market and were offered a taste tour of different cultures' cuisines across the neighborhood.
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Wow, what great moments for Malawi sports in just a week
March 21, 2018 Duncan Mlanjila - Nyasa Times 2 Comments
Just a week after Malawi won a gold medal in chess through Chipanga Chiletso at the African Amateur Chess tournament that was held in Livingstone, Zambia, boxer Isaac Chilemba went on to win the WBC International Light Heavyweight title and the WBA Oceania Light Heavyweight title in Australia.
He beat by points Blake Caparello. It’s such a good feeling to be given these two titles and we are all hoping that Chiletso will go on to do well at the World Amateurs in Italy and come back with a title or even a medal itself.
In the same week, King of Malawi chess, Candidate Master Joseph Mwale, participated at the Pearson Boardwalk tournament that was held in Port Elizabeth, South Africa where he came 4th out of 10 participants most of them being International Masters and also a Grandmaster Grover Sahaj of India, who went on to win the tournament.
At this tournament Mwale was vying for the higher title of International Master (IM) norm. A player requires three norms to become an IM or GM. Mwale was playing in a tournament with IMs so he had to show potential by beating them and finishing reasonably ahead of some of the IMs.
After that, he was to obtain an IM norm and if he was to play two more tournament that are similar in nature (having IMs in it), he would automatically get the IM title after acquiring 3 norms. That is the standard way by of world chess governing body, Fide, of obtaining titles.
There are other few instances when one would get the title outright like when you win a zonal tournament or when one wins the African individual championship, they can become a Grandmaster by default.
So we have something going on so well in these two sports disciplines. Chilemba has made Malawi proud before and it’s great to the ears to hear him being announced to the ring as a Malawian rather than as a South African as was before.
Chilemba was trained here in Malawi and he trekked to South Africa where he was sharpened. As he was doing well the South Africans wanted to claim him as their citizen and at times they displayed the South African flag.
But on his own, Chilemba started posting his images on social media with the Malawian flag in the background. I doff my hat to him for choosing to remain associated with Malawi.
In netball, we have three Malawians representing us through Mwawi Kumwenda and Mvula as players in Australia and England respectively with Mary Waya as coach in England.
Unlike football, Malawi netball is so well respected and Mary Waya was considered to be a coach there in order to tap ideas from an African perspective because the giants in world netball know that sooner or later Africa might start to conquer them.
What a week it has been for Malawi sport and we hope to have the best of things to come, even in football that has disappointed us for so long.
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Che Wanimiliyoni
Why single out Malawi footballers as the only punch bags internationally? Where do we stand in basketball, tennis, cricket, etc the type of sports recognised world over not only in british commonwealth countries. Let netball be recognised in olympics and you will see where we will stand: much worse than football.
Wanjiku
Forget about football.
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The Hyundai i30 at full throttle
Hyundai i30 2017
At full throttle
Car envy. You want to deny it but the truth is we’ve all been there. Whether it was your colleague, your best friend or your boss who bought the latest and greatest vehicle, isn’t important. It was all about the car. That car. The one that they now owned and you wish you had. Not every car can evoke this response, though a Hyundai that certainly can, is the striking i30. Designed for the discerning driver, the Hyundai i30 makes an impression wherever it goes with its powerful flowing lines and striking appearance.
But the i30 Car is not just about looks – underneath the styling is a car with a five-star Euro NCAP award winner with six airbags and numerous other safety features, as well as all the luxury features you would expect as well as dual zone climate control, park assist and cruise control.
It's the new people's car: Accessible, appealing in design and great to drive," said Jochen Sengpiehl, vice president marketing at Hyundai Motor Europe.
Featuring an all-new 1.4-litre T-GDI turbo motor which has 103 kW, and Hyundai has its own three-cylinder turbo unit which packs a healthy 88 kW. A naturally aspirated 1.4-litre engine with 73 kW is also available. For the turbodiesel fans, a 1.6-litre is available in three states of tune. You can choose a six-speed manual gearbox, or let the car shift for you with the seven-speed dual-clutch transmission.
The i30 exceeds on every level – this is truly the ultimate city driver with five-star safety and luxury features. It also offers excellent fuel economy for its size, starting at an average of 7.8 L/100 km so taking it out on the Namibian open roads will be nothing but a pleasure for the lucky driver
Side Mirrors Adjustment - Electric
Side Mirrors Folding Function
Electric Front & Rear Window Operation
Park Assist - Rear
ABS (Anti-Lock Braking System) with EBD
ESP (Electronic Stability Program)
VSM (Vehicle Stability Management)
Flex Steer Functionality
Air Conditioning - Automatic
Steering Column Adjustment
Steering Wheel Multi-function Controls
Experience the Hyundai i30 the way you want with Hyundai’s Flex Steer options. Choose between Comfort, Normal and Sport options to get the most pleasure out of your driving experience.
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The Census in Context: What You Need to Know for 2020
Event | March 5, 2020 8:00 pm ET
Did you know the census effects school funding? The 2020 census will take place this spring, and an accurate count will have a huge impact on funding and policy decisions for your school. Formulas based on census data provide the basis for distributing more than $675 billion in federal funds annually, including Title I, special education, professional development for teachers and principals, school lunch assistance, and after-school programs. Census data also determines the boundaries for 435 congressional districts and the school board that makes local decisions affecting your students every day. Unfortunately, minorities, low-income families, immigrants, and English-language learners are among the historically undercounted populations, and school leaders are well positioned to be advocates for these students.
Principals are some of the most trusted leaders in their communities, as recently identified by the Pew Research Center. Now, we need your help to ensure an accurate census count in 2020. During this free virtual event, learn from census experts and principals about how the census affects school funding, and strategies you can use to encourage families to participate.
Zach Scott
Senior Manager, Federal Engagement & Outreach
Jocelyn Bissonnette
Director, Funders Census Initiative
Funders’ Committee for Civic Participation
Dr. Chris Thuman
Ingleside Middle School Principal
Trevor Greene
Superintendent, Yakima School District
Statistics In Schools Podcast #1
Event | April 30, 2020 ET
Do you want to know how the 2020 Census impacts school funding? Learn about that and more on the first Statistics in Schools podcast featuring Kaile Bower and Kimberley Glascoe from the U.S. Census Bureau.
New Financial Transparency Requirements for Schools: What ESSA requires and what school leaders need to know about per-pupil expenditure
Webinar | January 14, 2020 2:00–3:00 pm ET
As part of the changes under the Every Student Succeeds Act, states are now required to break down spending of local, state, and federal education dollars for each school and calculate a per-pupil expenditure (PPE). This is a change from previous requirements when hard numbers were only reported at the district level and averages were used for PPE data in individual schools.
With more information now publicly available on district funding allocations per school, it is critical for principals to know how to answer questions from parents, members of the community, policymakers, and the media about why their school receives a certain level of funding and why the district allocates a specific amount of per-pupil spending. This new information is also a powerful tool for school leaders to support the collective goal of leveraging funding to get the most for their students.
NASSP wants to ensure that our members, stakeholders, and all principals are equipped with the knowledge they need about the new PPE data and reporting requirements. Please join this informational webinar with the Collaborative for Student Success and HCM Strategies to get the information you need about PPE, and learn how you can use the new data to advocate for your school and students.
Adam Ezring
director of policy, Collaborative for Student Success
Duncan Robb
director, HCM Strategies
Jessica Lawrence
K–12 fellow, HCM Strategies
Greg Waples
senior manager, NASSP
Taking Congress to School
Webinar | August 21, 2019 12:00–12:30 pm ET
NASSP’s Policy & Advocacy Center hosted a free webinar, “TAKING CONGRESS TO SCHOOL: How principals can invite policymakers to their buildings and conduct shadowing visits”. State and federal lawmakers are constantly crafting education policy, but they often do so without adequate knowledge of the current challenges schools and principals face. You can change that by showing them firsthand what schools need to thrive. Learn how you can invite your members of Congress or other elected officials to shadow you for the day.
NASSP Senior Manager of State Engagement and Outreach
NASSP Senior Manager of Federal Engagement and Outreach
Aaron Huff
NASSP Board of Directors, Advocacy Committee Chair and Principal, Benjamin Bosse HS, Indiana
Vicki Puckett
NASSP State Coordinator and Principal, Mercer Island HS, Washington
Creating Safe and Inclusive Schools: The Federal Role in Addressing Discriminatory School Discipline
Event | May 1, 2019 12:15–1:30 pm ET
Join NASSP’s Policy & Advocacy Center and Learning Policy Institute as the team cohosts this congressional briefing.
In December of 2018 the Trump administration rescinded federal guidance that provided research-based practices for reducing discrimination in discipline policies and their application. Nonetheless, there remains an important federal role in enforcing student civil rights protections and supporting state and local efforts to reduce the use of exclusionary discipline policies.
Data from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights Data Collection demonstrate that students of color, students with disabilities, and other historically underserved students, are disproportionately suspended and expelled compared with their White and nondisabled peers. These disparities are not a result of more incidences of misbehavior; instead, students of color are punished more harshly for the same behaviors, especially non-violent offenses like tardiness or “talking out of turn.” Research shows that these discriminatory and exclusionary discipline practices have a significant negative impact on these same students as even one suspension can double the likelihood of a student dropping out. Research also shows that zero-tolerance policies make schools less effective and less safe—not safer—for students.
Recognizing that these policies are ineffective and have a lasting, negative impact on students, a number of states and districts have adopted approaches to school discipline designed to create more inclusive learning environments that are safe for all students.
During this briefing, speakers will discuss:
The results of state and local efforts to create positive, non-exclusionary school discipline policies.
Current and previous federal actions related to student discipline policies and practices and their impact on historically underserved students.
Research-based policies and practices for creating safe and inclusive learning environments.
The role of the federal government in protecting student civil rights and supporting state and local efforts to eliminate policies and practices that have a discriminatory impact.
The Learning Policy Institute will also release as new report, Protecting Students’ Civil Rights: The Federal Role in School Discipline.
Jessica Cardichon, Director of Federal Policy, Director, DC Office, Learning Policy Institute
Ashley Harrington, Director, National Social Justice Program, UNCF
Lynn Jennings, Senior Director of National and State Partnerships, The Education Trust
Zakiya Sankara-Jabar, National Field Organizer, Dignity in Schools Campaign
Carolyne Quintana, Principal, Bronxdale High School
Johanna Molina, Senior, Bronxdale High School
Remarks by
Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR)
Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.
Registration and a light lunch will begin at 11:45 a.m. The briefing will start promptly at 12:15 p.m. Lunch will be available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Seating is limited. Please RSVP by April 29, 2019.
The Importance of Mental Health in Comprehensive School Safety and Security Efforts
Event | April 11, 2019 12:00–1:30 pm ET
Location: 2212 Rayburn House Office Building
Sponsored by Reps. Susan Brooks (R-IN) and Rick Larsen (D-WA), co-chairs of the Congressional School Safety Caucus. Presenters will discuss how Congress supports the critical coordination between school-based mental health professionals, administrators, and public safety professionals in order to protect our children and those who care for them.
· Michele Gay, Sandy Hook parent and co-founder and executive director of Safe and Sound Schools
· Ed Clarke, chief safety officer with Montgomery County Schools and former director of Maryland
School Safety Center
· Dr. Kelly Vaillancourt Strobach, NCSP, director of Policy and Advocacy at the National Association of School Psychologists
· Dr. Christina Conolly, NCSP, director of Psychological Services with Montgomery County Public Schools
· Paul Kelly, principal of Elk Grove High School in Elk Grove Village, IL, and 2018 Illinois High School Principal of the Year
· Benjamin S. Fernandez, school psychologist working as the coordinator of Prevention Services for Loudoun County Public Schools
Please RSVP by April 9.
2019 Advocacy Conference
Event | March 18–20, 2019 ET
Congressional Briefing: Student Voice And Youth Engagement In The 2018 Midterm Elections And Beyond
Event | January 31, 2019 ET
Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, D.C.
Young people voted in large numbers in the 2018 midterm elections. In fact, there was a greater voter turnout among those age 18–31 than in any midterm election in the past 25 years. Motivated by civil rights, gun violence prevention, and educational opportunity, young people—including many high school and middle level students—have taken a leading role in mobilizing, organizing, and effecting change in their communities over the past two years.
Members of NASSP’s Student Leadership Advisory Committee participated in a panel to discuss the issues that are motivating voter turnout and civic engagement among their generation and the projects they are leading around the country to register voters, influence policy, and engage their peers.
As the administrator of the National Honor Society, National Junior Honor Society, National Elementary Honor Society, and National Student Council, NASSP was proud to provide this opportunity for students, teachers, and school leaders to make their voices heard.
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NASSP-Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Congressional Briefing: Creating Supportive and Inclusive Environments for LGBTQ Students
Event | October 4, 2018 1:00–2:30 pm ET
The briefing featured the voices of principals, LGBTQ youth, and policy experts who offered guidance for school leaders on creating a safe and welcoming school climate and policy recommendations for Congress to support those efforts.
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Leveraging Principals to Retain Quality Teaching and Boost Student Learning
Event | October 3, 2018 12:00–1:30 pm ET
The role of the principal has significantly expanded in recent decades. Gone are the days when a principal’s sole managerial responsibilities were largely administrative, which is now just a sliver of a principal’s day-to-day responsibilities. To lead a school effectively, principals must also fulfill the role of instructional leader and create the learning conditions that support teaching and learning. Principals are in classrooms, observing and evaluating instruction, and connecting teachers with the appropriate professional learning opportunities. What federal support do principals need to carry out these important functions? On October 3, we explored these questions and analyzed the problems principals are tackling every day, including teacher shortages and creating a safe and healthy school climate.
Student Support and Academic Enrichment (SSAE) Grant Briefing
Event | September 25, 2018 2:00–3:30 pm ET
The Title IV-A Coalition held a briefing on the Student Support and Academic Enrichment (SSAE) grant program under Title IV-A of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) in late September.
Did you know that every district in all 50 states will receive funds for the Title IV-A flexible block grant program, which was funded at $1.1 billion in FY 2018 and supports safe and healthy schools, well-rounded programs, and the effective use of technology? The briefing explained how districts are using these funds across the country to help create a safe and well-rounded school climate.
At the briefing, education experts and district leaders discussed how program funds can be used for mental health services, violence prevention programs, STEM, physical education, music and arts education, advanced placement courses, computer science, and professional development for technology and blended learning programs.
David Deschryver, Director, Whiteboard Advisors
Dr. Gregory C. Hutchings, Jr., Superintendent, Alexandria City Public Schools
Jeff Meisenheimer, Principal, Lee’s Summit North High School
Christina Connolly, Director Psychological Services, Montgomery Country Public Schools
The Title IV-A Coalition is an alliance comprised of more than 30 national organizations working together to advocate for maximum funding and successful implementation of the flexible block grant, which is authorized at $1.6 billion for FY 2019 under Title IV, part A of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). The block grant, known as the Student Support and Academic Enrichment (SSAE) grant program, is designed to ensure that high needs districts have access to programs that foster safe and healthy students, provide students with a well-rounded education, and increase the effective use of technology in our nation’s schools. The Coalition believes that if fully funded and administered the way Congress intended under ESSA, the SSAE grant program has the potential to adequately support school districts in their central mission of providing our students with the skills, resources, and support they need to succeed. #MoreTitleIVA
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2018 National Principal of the Year Capitol Hill Day
Event | September 25, 2018 12:00 am ET
The 2018 Principals of the Year from all 50 states and Puerto Rico visited Capitol Hill to meet with their Representatives and Senators to discuss how Congress can support quality education for all students in America.
2018 National Principals Conference: Advocacy Sessions
Event | July 11, 2018 ET
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The Power of Student Voice Matters—Do You Listen? at National Principals Conference
It’s all about listening to what students have to say and empowering them to advocate for change in their schools, their local communities, and beyond. Expert school and student leaders shared strategies for engaging students and ways to use NASSP’s Building Ranks and Raising Student Voice & Participation (RSVP)—a program of National Student Council.
Education And The Path to One Nation, Indivisible at National Principals Conference
Fifty years ago, in response to civil unrest that raged across the county, the Kerner Commission that was appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson issued a seminal report on racial division and disparities in the United States. In the report, the commission concluded that, “Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white—separate and unequal.” Today, many of the same issues plague the country, and concerns over civil rights, racial division, and racial disparities are more pressing than ever. This session was co-hosted by the NASSP Policy & Advocacy Center and the Learning Policy Institute, and brought together researchers, policymakers, and educators to discuss education as the foundation for change and what policy levers and practices are needed to eradicate racial inequities that have persisted in historically marginalized communities and can improve educational opportunities for all students.
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The Role of Principals in Leading Equity Through Deeper Learning at National Principals Conference
K-12 education today is charged with developing new kinds of skills and competencies for the success of all students in college, career, and civic life. This interactive session offered a robust exploration of research and resources for school leaders interested in supporting equitable deeper learning strategies in their schools.
State of American Education Session at National Principals Conference
The fourth annual State of American Education consisted of a crossfire-style debate between two thought leaders in education policy who discussed emerging issues in education reform at the national level. John Merrow, a well-known former education correspondent for “PBS News Hour,” moderated the discussion and addressed hot topics such as changing student demographics, educational equity, teacher quality, private school vouchers, testing and accountability, and college and career readiness.
Congressional Briefing on High-Performing Middle Schools
Event | June 27, 2018 2:00–3:00 pm ET
The Association for Middle Level Education, National Association of Elementary School Principals, National Association of Secondary School Principals, and National Forum to Accelerate Middle-Grades Reform hosted a Special Briefing on:
HIGH-PERFORMING MIDDLE SCHOOLS:
THE NEED TO ENGAGE ADOLESCENTS IN THE CLASSROOM
*LEARN MORE ABOUT THE PRESENTERS HERE
NASSP Policy & Advocacy Center Congressional Briefing—Protecting Our Schools From Gun Violence
Event | April 17, 2018 12:00 am ET
After one of the deadliest shootings in American history at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, the need to improve school safety and protect our communities from gun violence has never been more urgent. In this event, the NASSP Policy & Advocacy Center brought school leaders who had experienced shootings and gun violence incidents in their schools to Capitol Hill to share their stories and offer policy recommendations to lawmakers. The event also featured remarks from Congressman Ted Deutch (D-FL) who represents Parkland, NASSP Executive Director JoAnn Bartoletti, and members of NASSP’s Student Leadership Advisory Committee.
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NASSP Student Leadership Advisory Committee—2018 Capitol Hill Day
Event | January 25, 2018 12:00 am ET
NASSP/ILA Congressional Briefing—Improving Student Literacy: Leadership Needed at Every Level
Event | November 29, 2017 12:00 am ET
NASSP partnered with the International Literacy Association to host a congressional briefing on November 29, 2017, that focused on the importance of leadership to improve literacy instruction for students. Senator Christopher Coons (D-DE) provided remarks at the briefing along with NASSP Executive Director JoAnn Bartoletti, who advocated for Title II funding to improve professional development in literacy for educators.
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2017 National Principals Month Congressional Briefing
Event | October 24, 2017 12:00 am ET
During National Principals Month, NASSP partnered with NAESP and AFSA to host a congressional briefing where a panel of principals informed members of Congress and their staffs about how states planned to use professional development dollars in their ESSA plans to support school leaders.
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Event | February 2, 2017 12:00 am ET
Protecting Our Schools From Gun Violence
Improving Student Literacy: Leadership Needed at Every Level
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RAF Defford guided walk
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Join our tour guide who will show you where during the Second World War, a substantial part of Croome Park was requisitioned for the building of a large military airfield, known as RAF Defford.
Join one of our guided RAF Walks
The RAF Guided Walks will start at 11am, departing from the Visitor Centre and returning around 1pm.
These walks are very popular so booking is essential - tickets available at reception or phone 01905 371006 (please note numbers limited to 25) Sturdy walking shoes are advised.
Please see our What's On page for the current schedule of walks
This walk highlights points of interest in Croome’s park that relate to the top-secret airbase which was home to Airborne Radar testing and development during the Second World War and the early years of the Cold War. The walk takes in key points of interest around the park including views across the airfield and the crash site of a Wellington bomber.
Retrace their steps with our walks booklet
The footsteps of wartime personnel are followed in a RAF Defford walks booklet (£2.50 available from reception). Discover for yourself where the secret Second World War airbase once stood on a 2.8 mile walk around the park .
Purchase a copy of the RAF Defford Walk booklet
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Discover more at Croome
The Restaurant at Croome
The restaurant is in the Visitor Centre has been restored from a ruined RAF wartime building.
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Croome Court
At the heart of the park, Croome Court, the former home of the 6th Earl of Coventry is a light, open space. Displays created by collaborating, as the Earl once did, with emerging new craftsmen and designers to create a house and garden into a landscape to remember.
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Baseball|After Long Delay, Mets Lose to Braves on a Homer in the Ninth
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Braves 2, Mets 1
After Long Delay, Mets Lose to Braves on a Homer in the Ninth
The Braves' Freddie Freeman hitting the game-winning home run against the Mets in Atlanta.
Credit...Scott Cunningham/Getty Images
By Andrew Keh
ATLANTA — The game here on Monday between the Mets and the Atlanta Braves began 3 hours 43 minutes after its scheduled start time, amid a lingering drizzle. Once under way, it was finished quickly, the teams looking eager to get a decent night’s sleep before a scheduled day-night doubleheader Tuesday.
It was a lean contest that did not get its first exciting moment until its last swing. At 1:23 a.m., Freddie Freeman, the Braves’ first baseman, blasted a game-ending two-run homer off Dillon Gee, sending the Mets headed to their hotel beds early Tuesday as 2-1 losers.
Gee, the starting pitcher, sparkled for the Mets until the final inning, but he could not notch the first nine-inning complete game of his career. Through eight and a third innings, he allowed five hits and one walk while striking out six.
“He pitched an outstanding game,” Manager Terry Collins said. “You couldn’t have asked for a better job.”
Gee has been stellar on the mound since his May 30 victory at Yankee Stadium. The loss Monday ended his streak of wins at three.
Tim Hudson went seven innings for the Braves, allowing one run while scattering six hits.
The first four innings were completed within an hour, the teams’ mutual hurriedness apparent. Swings came early and often, while the clock ticked past midnight.
Gee needed just 64 pitches to get through the sixth inning, and so he came up to bat during the top of the seventh, with two outs, a man on second and the game scoreless. Hudson whipped a sinker down the middle of the plate, and Gee drilled it through the left side of the infield, putting the Mets ahead, 1-0.
The Mets’ offense was otherwise quiet, save for Lucas Duda, who had four hits, tying a career high.
Duda was moved to first base on Monday after spending the season playing left field. Collins seemed hesitant last week to play Duda at first base, his natural position, because he did not want to send the wrong message about Ike Davis, who was sent to the minors to work on his swing. Collins changed his mind Monday, and Duda’s comfort level was plain.
Besides his four hits, he showed his aptitude around the bag, too, making a clean pick on a bounced throw from Daniel Murphy to prevent a potential game-tying run in the eighth inning.
But there was nothing anyone could do to stop the Braves in the ninth. Gee recorded a quick out but gave up a single to Justin Upton. Up came Freeman, the cleanup hitter, who drove a 2-2 slider from Gee just over the right-field fence.
It was a long day, and for the Mets, there was nothing to show for it.
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Perry County judges recognized for improving access to justice
Judge Luann Cooperrider of Perry County Probate Court/Juvenile Court and Judge Dean Wilson of Perry County Municipal Court are the 2018 recipients of the Ohio Legal Assistance Foundation Presidential Award for Pro Bono Service.
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Angie Lloyd: State should boost its services for immigrants
OLAF Executive Director Angie Lloyd writes in an op-ed that Ohioans should call for more immigration, not less. Ohio has a vibrant immigrant story in which Ohio’s immigrants contribute mightily to our state in a variety of positive ways, spurring both economic and community growth. Read more in The Columbus Dispatch.
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Ohio’s 513,592 immigrants sustain state’s population, economy
Our Pathway to a Brighter Future: Ohio's New Americans says Ohio's newest residents could help reverse its declining population, provide much-needed innovation and diversity of ideas, and offer a solution to its looming shortage of workers in fields like healthcare. Read more in The Plain Dealer.
LSC Receives $25 Million Spending Boost from Congress
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New report finds immigrants play vital role in Ohio’s economy
The Ohio Legal Assistance Foundation, in partnership with a group of philanthropy organizations, has released a new report, Our Pathway to a Brighter Future: Ohio's New Americans, revealing that immigrants play a crucial role in Ohio’s economy and that further investments in services for immigrants would expand positive outcomes. “Immigrants and their children represent the [...]
The American College of Trial Lawyers Issues Statement on Latest Round to Defund Legal Services Corporation
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Provide right to counsel in housing cases to reduce evictions, tackle poverty: Hazel Remesch (Opinion)
Cleveland Legal Aid lawyer Hazel Romesch writes in an op-ed that providing a right to counsel for low-income tenants facing eviction could offer huge payoffs both in keeping these families from becoming homeless and for the region. Read more on Cleveland.com.
Defunding Legal Services Corp., per Trump’s wishes, would cut almost $4 million from local legal aid groups
Crain's Cleveland 2/14/18
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Nominations Sought for 2018 Foundation Presidential Award
The Ohio Legal Assistance Foundation Presidential Award is presented annually to law firms or individuals who have made outstanding efforts in improving access to justice through pro bono or volunteer service. Past recipients include John P. Gilligan (2017); Paul D. Hancock (2016); Hon. Colleen Falkowski (2015); and GE Aviation Legal Department (2014). Nominations for the [...]
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Voluntary Pro Bono Reporting Deadline Approaching
The Ohio Legal Assistance Foundation and the Supreme Court of Ohio are reminding and encouraging Ohio attorneys to take part in voluntary pro bono reporting. The opportunity to report 2017 pro bono activities is available through Feb. 15. Read more here.
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Sandia Peak Tramway Serves Up Fall Views In Anticipation Of Winter
19th October 2009 | Jill Adler, Associate Editor
Resorts in this article: Sandia Peak
Ride the [R345R, Sandia Peak] Tram to the views or enjoy dinner at High Finance Restaurant. The Tram's tentative ski and board season opening is Dec. 19, 2009.
Head up to Sandia Peak before ski season and craziness starts. Sink your teeth into the solitude and fall chill as you rise above the deep canyons, along a 2.7 mile cable, as some of nature's most dramatic beauty unfolds. Take in the 11,000 square-mile panoramic view of the Rio Grande Valley and the Land of Enchantment when you arrive at the observation deck atop 10,378 foot Sandia Peak in the Cibola National Forest.
The Tram has transported more than nine million passengers and celebrates its 43rd anniversary this year. The Tram, located 45 minutes east of Albuquerque, is one of the most popular tourist attractions in Central New Mexico not just because you can ski the area in winter but it is an engineering marvel.
Passengers ascend 4,000 feet in about 15 minutes across cables supported by only two towers between the terminals. The Rio Grande, volcanoes, the Jemez Mountains, the Sangre de Cristo Mountains and Santa Fe are all within scope as you glide along the western face of the rugged Sandia Mountains and reach the Peak. The original track cables were replaced in 1997 and the track cable brakes close automatically and hold the car firmly in place in an emergency or haul cable failure so no need to fear for a B-movie type catastrophe.
The Tram will shut down Nov. 2 - Nov. 13 for maintenance.
More information. Or call 505-242-9052.
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Back to Thinking
Orora awarded for excellence at 2013 PCA Packaging Design Awards
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Orora has again been recognised for excellence at the 2013 Packaging Council of Australia Packaging Design Awards, receiving Gold for the Carlton Draught Keg Can in the Beverages category.
Announced in Melbourne on 27 November, the awards recognise excellence in Australian packaging design and innovation across a range of categories including Food, Beverages, Health & Beauty, Household & Office, Seasonal & Promotional and Industrial applications. Judging for all categories is based on technical excellence in all areas of the packaging design and production process, with particular focus on design & materials, environment & sustainability, consumer accessibility and innovation.
Receiving Gold, the Carlton Draught Keg Can was developed in conjunction with Orora Innovation & Design, Cowan Packaging & Design and the Carlton & United Breweries (CUB) Brand team. The end result is a beverage can that differentiates this iconic beer in the increasingly competitive canned beverage sector. Judges were impressed by the way this pack ticked every box, saying it was a brilliant revamp that certainly increased the value of the Carlton Draught brand.
Brian Lowe, Group General Manager of Orora Beverages, believes the Keg Can is an innovative way to help drive growth for this core CUB brand.
“Australian beverage manufacturers are faced with the constant challenge of finding new ways to differentiate their product and get noticed on shelf. Working together with CUB, we have found an effective way of leveraging our innovative packaging capabilities and pushing the boundaries of design to help reinvigorate Carlton Draught in a novel way,” Mr Lowe said. “Innovation is core to our business, and we look forward to continuing this focus for our customers now that we have demerged from Amcor and have become ‘Orora Limited’.”
Alister McCausland, CUB Marketing Manager said the Keg Can was about championing the Aussie pub experience. “You see a keg and instantly think of having a beer at the pub,” Mr McCausland said. “We all know the pub is the best place to enjoy a fresh Carlton Draught with your mates, but for those times when grabbing a stool at the bar just isn’t possible, holding a Keg Can at home will absolutely be the next best thing.”
This award follows the company’s ongoing success at the PCA Packaging Design Awards, receiving the Gold Sustainability awards in 2008 and 2010, as well as the Gold awards for Brand Design and Industrial Packaging in 2010, the Bronze award for Innovation in 2011 and the Gold award for Industrial Packaging in 2012.
For the full list of results from the 2013 Awards, visit www.pca.org.au/results2013/apda/
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(10) Penn State Downs (17) Memphis in 84th Cotton Bowl
ARLINGTON, Tx. – (10) Penn State 53, (17) Memphis 39
by FRED GOODALL, Associated Press / Jan 18, 2020
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Mission accomplished for Florida International's James Morgan, Charlotte's Benny LeMay and Navy's Malcolm Perry in the East-West Shrine Bowl.
The trio shined for the East in a 31-27 victory, with Morgan leading two first-quarter touchdown drives and LeMay rushing for a pair of TDs, including the game-winner. Perry took a direct snap from center and sprinted 52 yards for a TD on his only carry.
by JOHN NICHOLSON, Associated Press / Jan 18, 2020
LA QUINTA, Calif. (AP) — Andrew Landry and Scottie Scheffler broke away Saturday at The American Express.
Landry shot a 7-under 65 at PGA West's Jack Nicklaus Tournament Course to join Scheffler atop the leaderboard at 21-under 195, four strokes ahead of third-place Rickie Fowler.
by KRISTIE RIEKEN and JIMMY GOLEN, Associated Press / Jan 19, 2020
Players from two teams at the center of baseball’s sign-stealing scandal faced their fans on Saturday for the first time since the Houston Astros and Boston Red Sox ousted their managers amid the fallout from the investigation into Houston’s elaborate scheme.
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New research shows infrastructure spending is not out of control
EDMONTON – In advance of the release of the 2011 Alberta Budget, one which will certainly include a significant amount of infrastructure spending, the Parkland Institute has released a new fact sheet demonstrating that infrastructure spending in Alberta is not out of control, and that in fact more is needed.
The fact sheet takes the Government of Alberta’s own figures for infrastructure spending since 1993, and adjusts them for inflation, population growth, and boom time cost escalation. The results are surprising.
“Despite the fact that we appear to be spending significantly more on infrastructure, the reality is that increases, at least in real terms, have been moderate,” says Parkland’s research director Diana Gibson.
So moderate that, even according to the Auditor General in 2010, very little progress has been made in addressing the $7 billion infrastructure deficit that existed at the end of Ralph Klein’s tenure as Premier.
The Institute is also careful to point out, however, that increased infrastructure spending on its own will accomplish very little.
“Every new infrastructure dollar must bring with it increased spending in training, education, staffing and operations to actually run new facilities,” says Gibson. “These expenses necessitate spending increases in those areas beyond inflation and population growth.”
The fact sheet concludes by highlighting the need for the provincial government to increase its spending on infrastructure, maximize the impact of its infrastructure dollars by making those investments during economic downturns rather than boom periods, and increase funding to services to ensure that new facilities do not sit empty.
The Parkland Institute is a non-partisan public policy research institute in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta. The fact sheet “Unpacking Alberta’s Infrastructure Spending” is available for download on its website at http://parklandinstitute.ca.
Parkland Institute researchers Diana Gibson and Regan Boychuk will be at the 2011 Budget speech at the Alberta Legislature, and will be available for comment and analysis in the rotunda or by phone immediately following.
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Festival #1
PVF#1, GHENT, 8-11 MAY 2018
PVF::PROGRAM
PVF::WORKSHOPS
Parallel Perceptions
Impression from the video-walk by Maya Dalinsky & Elli Vassalo
Disrupt what we know!
Screenshot from the work of Natalia Calderón
A Place Where We Exist
Screenshot from the work of David Dhert
Le parti du rêve de logement
Screenshot from the work that Aurélia Van Gucht will be presenting
Place Ambassadors
Screenshot from the work that Catia Rebelo will be presenting
On Moving Public Spaces in De Sterre
Screenshot from the work that Claudia Faraone will be presenting
ABOUT PVF#1
The Participatory Video Festival is an initiative of three PhD researchers from Ghent University; Tessa, Julie & Maarten, who all experiment with participatory video methods in their research projects.
The Festival’s aim is to explore the possibilities and value of participatory video for social sciences. Participatory video appeals to many students and researchers, but is not institutionalized (yet) as a ‘conventional’ research method. The Festival’s aim is to push the PV agenda and learn from the most innovative and relevant video-using trends in- and outside academia; in participatory action research, visual ethnography, visual arts, activism, advocacy work and so on.
The festival welcomes finished and unfinished video-materials of both early career as well as established scholars exploring human cultures, economies, politics and histories in their many facets. We also welcome submissions from filmmakers, artists and activists who include a research aspect in their projects. The Festival is open to all forms and styles of filmmaking, without restriction to theme and length.
During the festival, some experienced visual researchers, filmmakers and activists will introduce you to participatory video and show how they engage with PV in their work. Also, festival participants will be sharing their experiences and (raw) video materials.
EVERYBODY WELCOME - NO REGISTRATION FEE
& screenings
Kris Rutten
KEYNOTE - Critical arts: the ethnographic turn (revisited)
Since the 1990s there has been a wave of art practices, productions and events that show significant similarities with anthropology and ethnographic research in their theorisations of cultural difference and representational practices which has been referred to as the ethnographic turn in contemporary art. At the same time, there has been growing interest in anthropology for contemporary art that started from a problematisation of the different possible ways to communicate ethnographic findings and insights. This interest has been referred to as the ‘sensory turn’ in anthropology and ethnographic research (Pink 2009). Arnd Schneider and Chris Wright (2006: 4) assert that ‘[a]nthropology’s iconophobia and self-imposed restriction of visual expression to text-based models needs to be overcome by a critical engagement with a range of material and sensual practices in the contemporary arts’. This implies that the ethnographic turn in contemporary art can be related to – and runs parallel with – a sensory turn in anthropology and ethnographic research. This is exemplified by anthropologists who are collaborating with artists, by artists who are creating projects generating anthropological insights, and by art projects that are produced as outcomes of ethnographic research. In my presentation, I will discuss the interrelationship between these different ’turns', based on a series of special issues of the journal Critical Arts that I have been guest editing together with An van. Dienderen. The following questions are addressed: In what way does art connect cultures and communities across borders? How does one capture people on camera (or recorder) with respect and integrity? What does it mean to make art in an age of “superdiversity”? What are the implications of shifts in our media ecology for the production, mediation, and representation of “culture”?
Kris Rutten studied Art History and Comparative Cultural Studies, and obtained a PhD in Educational Sciences with a dissertation on the rhetorical and narrative turn in education. He is currently working as professor at the Department of Educational Studies of Ghent University and specifically within the research group Culture & Education. His main research interests are (new) rhetoric, cultural studies, literacy studies, educational theory and the ethnographic turn in contemporary art.
Read more about Kris Rutten.
Katrien Pype
KEYNOTE - Making of Pentecostal Melodrama
Katrien Pype will talk about her book 'Making of Pentecostal Melodrama' (2012). How religion, gender, and urban sociality are expressed in and mediated via television drama in Kinshasa is the focus of this ethnographic study. Influenced by Nigerian films and intimately related to the emergence of a charismatic Christian scene, these teleserials integrate melodrama, conversion narratives, Christian songs, sermons, testimonies, and deliverance rituals to produce commentaries on what it means to be an inhabitant of Kinshasa.
Katrien Pype is a research professor (BOF-ZAP, tenure track) with the Institute for Anthropological Research in Africa (KU Leuven University) and Birmingham Fellow (part-time) at the Department of African Studies & Anthropology at the University of Birmingham (UK). Her main research interests are in popular culture and technology, in particular entertainment, communication and cultural performances. She committed to using the anthropological tools of in-depth fieldwork in order to explore the social and symbolic contexts of people's life worlds. She has written about the production of television serials, politics and news production, and the participation of elderly people in local media worlds, all in the context of Kinshasa, DR Congo. She currently guides a team working on technology cultures in urban DR Congo and beyond (1960-present), in which 5 doctoral and postdoctoral scholars and herself will produce ethnographies of medical, energy and communication cultures in Kinshasa (DR Congo), Kikwit (DR Congo) and Nakuru (Kenya). She is also involved in a comparative research program on New Media Practices in a Changing in Africa, coordinated by Prof. Dr. Jo Helle-Valle (Development Studies at HiOA, Norway).
She co-initiated the CongoResearchNetwork (CRN) with Reuben Loffman and Aldwin Roes. CRN is an academic community that aims at enhancing dialogue and collaboration among Congo-scholars in the human and social sciences. To that extent, CRN organizes conferences and workshops in Europe and in DR Congo and publishes an online database of Congo-researchers. More information about previous and planned activities, the CRN workshop series in Kinshasa, and profiles of Congo-researchers can be found on the website of CRN.
Read more about Katrien Pype.
An van. Dienderen
SCREENING & DIALOGUE - "Film is the celebration of a relationship"
Belgian Filmmaker An van Dienderen works at the intersection between documentary, anthropology and visual arts. While exploring various documentary strategies and the anthropological relation between self and other, she also investigates the medium of film in a self-reflective way. She investigates the opposition of fact and fiction, imagination and observation, representation and experience, using the importance of the image in our multicultural society as a point of departure. Her work shows the absurd, poetic, and often touching stories that these oppositions can hold in everyday life.
She graduated in audiovisual arts (Sint-Lukas, Brussels), obtained a PhD in Comparative Cultural Sciences (Ghent University), and was a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley. She made several documentaries screened worldwide, awarded with (inter)national prizes. She regularly publishes on visual/performative anthropology, is a lecturer and artistic researcher at the School of Arts Ghent, and initiated the international art workspace SoundImageCulture.
Read more about An Van Dienderen.
Christina Stuhlberger
Christina Stuhlberger (b.1982, Passau) is a filmmaker working in Brussels. She obtained a BA and MA in Audiovisual Arts at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK) Ghent, as well as a BA and MA in Environmental Engineering at the University of Applied Sciences in Triesdorf. She is artist in residence at the Beursschouwburg in Brussels from 2017 till 2021 where she curates the Tumbleweed screening program for young filmmakers. Christina Stuhlberger won the VAF Wildcard for experimental film (2014) as well as the Cedric Willemen Prize for young artists working with moving image (2017). Her latest project is produced by Auguste Orts.
Read more about Christina Stuhlberger.
Effi & Amir
Effi Weiss (born in Israel, 1971) and Amir Borenstein (born in Israel, 1969) are an artist duo who have worked together since 1999. As visual artists, their work shifts between different disciplines such as video, performance and partcipatory projects. Their project "Housewarming" explores a two-dimensional dystopian landscape of deserted half-built houses in Albania. The filmmakers invade the houses and occupy their empty, liminal space and its missing furniture. The local community comments in song and speech about the new arrivals and their enterprise of an immigration in an opposite direction, from the full to the empty, from excess to lack.
Read more about Effie & Amir.
Mark Saunders
SCREENING & DIALOGUE
Mark Saunders is an award winning independent documentary filmmaker, community media activist and writer. He is the founder of Despite TV, founding member of INURA (International Network for Urban Research and Action) and Spectacle, a radical media practice.
His films, including Battle of Trafalgar (on the 1990 poll tax revolt), The Truth Lies in Rostock 93 (on the rise of fascism in East Germany), Exodus Movement of Jah People and Exodus from Babylon, (about Exodus, the utopian urban collective), have been broadcast in the UK and internationally.
His work has been presented at Tate Britain, Institute of Contemporary Arts, National Film Theatre and the Photographer's Gallery, among others, including international festivals and TV. He has lectured internationally on urbanism and documentary and been published by Mute magazine and Routledge.
Read more about Mark Saunders.
Nick Mai
SCREENING & DIALOGUE - "Understanding sexual humanitarianism from the global South through participative ethnographic filmmaking"
Nick Mai is a sociologist, an ethnographer and a filmmaker whose writing and films focus on the experiences and representations of migrants working in the sex industry. His two film-installations Samira and Travel form the diptych resulting from the Emborders art-science project questioning the effectiveness and scope of humanitarian initiatives targeting migrant sex workers and sexual minority asylum seekers through ethnographic research and ethnofictional filmmaking. In order to get their rights recognised and avoid deportation migrant women, men and transgender people selling sex need to represent their biographies and experiences according to stereotypical canons of exploitation and sex-gender taxonomies that are geared towards the global North and that often act as humanitarian biographical borders excluding them from protection and asylum.
Throughout his career as a sociologist, Nick aimed to convey the sensuous, performative and intersubjective dimensions of knowledge production as well as migrant’s understandings of their own needs and priorities, which often express experiences and sensibilities of the global South. In order to do so he developed a participative, creative and filmmaking-based methodology inspired by Jean Rouch’s ethnofictions and including research subjects as active producers and performers of their own representations by transcending the distinction between fiction and non-fiction, participation and observation, knowledge and emotions. His intention in approaching the genre of ethnofiction is to convey the complexity of migrants’ understandings of exploitation and self-realisation, to protect their identities and to challenge currently hegemonic neoliberal criteria of authenticity in scientific, documentary and humanitarian terms.
Trailer Samira: https://vimeo.com/262982625
Trailer Travel: https://vimeo.com/139963138
SEXHUM website: https://sexualhumanitarianism.wordpress.com/
Read more about Nick Mai.
Maarten is a PhD researcher at the Conflict Research Group at Ghent University. He examines the so-called “Anti-gang”, a rather ambiguous 'everyday policing actor' in the city of Goma (DRCongo). On their demand Maarten facilitated the movie “street life”, a fiction movie made by the Anti-gang wherein they perform how they see their life and role as policing actor in the cités of Goma.
Read more about Maarten.
Schiltz
Julie is a PhD researcher at the Department of Special Needs Education at Ghent University. She works on a VLADOC project with South Sudanese refugee youth in northern Uganda and uses photos and videos to better understand how youth experiences their lives in the refugee settlements. She also aims to use video as a means to disseminate her PhD results with a broader audience, as many of the youth explicitly wanted to share their stories.
Read more about Julie.
Boeykens
Tessa is a PhD researcher inspired by multiple disciplines and qualitative methods at the History Department of Ghent University. She investigates the production and mobilization of historical narratives in 'post-conflict' Guatemala. Through ethnographic fieldwork & participatory video, she explores the relation between narrativity and political action in indigenous victim-survivor communities in the Alta Verapaz Department. This resulted in a performative ethnography of a participatory video process with a community of returnees resisting the construction of a hydroelectric dam on its territory.
Read more about Tessa.
Questions? info@participatoryvideofestival.com
Venue &
De Koer is a local hotbed in full development in the middle of the 'Brugse Poort' neighbourhood in Ghent; a concrete space in the city as a dynamic playing-field for many projects and initiatives — artists in residency, collective building processes, music and film programming, a soap garden, a community oven and an unruly bar that's open on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday evenings.
Meibloemstraat 86, Ghent, Belgium
Getting to De Koer from Gent Korenmarkt (city centre) takes about 17 min by bus.
Getting to De Koer from station Ghent St-Pieters takes about 20 min by bus.
Check Google Maps for your travelling plan.
P+R Bourgoyen (9 min by bus, 20 min walk)
SUGGESTIONS FOR ACCOMODATIONS
Hostel Uppelink (18 min by bus, 25 min walk) - Use the code "PROMO" if you make your reservation to get a 5% PVF#1 discount!
Ibis Gent Centrum St Baafs Kathedraal *** (20 min by bus, 30 min walk)
Ibis Gent Centrum Opera ** (25 min by bus, 32 min walk)
13 O'clock Hostel (23 min by bus, 30 min walk) - 15% PVF#1 discount if you mention the Festival when making your reservation!
KaBa Hostel (30 min by bus, 40 min walk)
The Cover Hostel (21 min by bus, 30 min walk) - PVF#1 discount if you mention the Festivan when making your reservation!
info@participatoryvideofestival.com
We also organize workshops for visual researchers on how to generate impact with your PV project, how to rethink participation using video, how to get started with participatory video editing and video production and how to generate knowledge through arts based research.
The venue of the festival is De Koer in Ghent.
There is no registration fee.
We look forward to welcoming you to the first edition of the Participatory Video Festival!
© 2018 by Tessa Boeykens, Ghent, Belgium
Keynotes & screenings
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More Than One Way to Gauge How Much Americans are Driving
April 11, 2016, 7am PDT
Last year the U.S. Department of Transportation reported an increase of 3.3 percent in miles-traveled. During that same period, use of toll facilities, i.e., where motorists elect to pay to drive, increased 7.7 percent according to a new analysis.
An In-Depth Look at the Indiana Toll Road Bankruptcy
November 24, 2014, 12pm PST
Angie Schmitt and Payton Chung have created a three-part series on the Indiana Toll Road and how its example informs the use of private finance to build and maintain highways.
Struggling Toll Roads Make for Good Investments
October 30, 2014, 7am PDT
In another example of a struggling toll road attracting no shortage of investors, the poor revenue performance of the San Joaquin Hills Transportation Corridor Agency in Orange County, California has not dissuaded investors, as the returns are high.
Tolls vs Taxes and the State of the American Highway
Making up only seven percent of U.S. interstate miles, the future of toll roads is bright according to Brooking's Robert Puentes and Diane Rehm's other guests in a 52-minute, wide ranging discussion on gas taxes, toll roads, and privatization.
No Shortage of Investors Lining Up to Operate Bankrupt Toll Road
October 17, 2014, 1pm PDT
Many were surprised when the Indiana Toll Road's operator declared bankruptcy on September 22. Just as surprising may be all the interest by global investors in bidding to replace the bankrupt Australian-Spanish consortium as the new operator.
Another (Surprising) Toll Road Bankruptcy
September 22, 2014, 9am PDT
It wasn't supposed to go this way. When Indiana leased the state's namesake, but failing, 157-mile toll road for $3.8 billion to an Australian-Spanish consortium in 2006 for 75 years, analysts predicted a handsome return for investors.
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Statement on Budget Process Reform Principles as Joint Select Committee Holds First Hearing
“Our country is on an unsustainable fiscal path, and reforming our broken budget process can be an important part of improving our fiscal future," said Michael A. Peterson, President and CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation.
https://www.pgpf.org/press-release/2018/04/statement-on-budget-process-reform-principles-as-joint-select-committee-holds-first-hearing
CBO 10-year Outlook: Report Shows Real Damage Done to Fiscal Outlook
“Today’s CBO report confirms that major damage was done to our fiscal outlook in just the past few months," said Michael A. Peterson, President and CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation.
https://www.pgpf.org/press-release/2018/04/peterson-foundation-statement-on-cbo-10-year-outlook-report-shows-real-damage-done-to-fiscal-outlook
How Tax Cuts Are Affecting Revenues and Rates
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act will lower revenues significantly and made changes to both tax rates and bracket widths.
https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2018/03/how-tax-cuts-are-affecting-revenues-and-rates
The Tax Reform Tradeoff
To help better inform the current debate over tax reform, the Tax Policy Center (with a grant from the Peterson Foundation) put real numbers behind different scenarios for tax reform that are both distributionally neutral and fiscally responsible.
https://www.pgpf.org/the-tax-reform-tradeoff
Peterson Foundation Statement on President’s Budget
“Today’s budget represents a dramatically worse outlook than what was released just last May," said Michael A. Peterson, President and CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation.
https://www.pgpf.org/press-release/2018/02/peterson-foundation-statement-on-presidents-budget
Peterson Foundation Statement on Budget Deal
“After adding trillions to our national debt in last year’s irresponsible tax bill, our leaders are now adding another $300 billion in deficits over just the next two years," said Michael A. Peterson, President and CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation.
https://www.pgpf.org/press-release/2018/02/peterson-foundation-statement-on-budget-deal
Peterson Foundation Statement on State of the Union Address
“In order to truly help our economy, infrastructure investments must be paid for, because adding more debt hurts our economy," said Michael A. Peterson, President and CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation.
https://www.pgpf.org/press-release/2018/01/peterson-foundation-statement-on-state-of-the-union-address
Peterson Foundation Statement on End to Government Shutdown
“Piecemeal budgeting is a form of fiscal irresponsibility because it injects uncertainty and unpredictability into our economy," said Michael A. Peterson, President and CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation.
https://www.pgpf.org/press-release/2018/01/peterson-foundation-statement-on-end-to-government-shutdown
Tax Extenders: The Potential Hidden Costs in Tax Reform
Congress has a proven track record of extending tax provisions without paying for them.
https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2017/12/tax-extenders-the-potential-hidden-costs-in-tax-reform
Why You Should Care that 2017 Tax Cuts Will Add to the National Debt
Piling on more debt can harm our economy by crowding out private investment, reducing our fiscal flexibility, increasing the risk of a sharp jump in interest rates, and lowering confidence and certainty.
https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2017/11/why-you-should-care-that-tax-cuts-add-to-the-national-debt
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pt Health made it to the 2018 List of Best Workplaces™ Ma...
pt Health made it to the 2018 List of Best Workplaces™ Managed by Women
Canada NewsWire
HAMILTON, ON, Dec. 4, 2018
HAMILTON, ON, Dec. 4, 2018 /CNW/ - pt Health is proud to announce that our organization has been named on the 2018 list of Best Workplaces™ Managed by Women.
pt Health , a Canada-wide network of physical rehabilitation clinics, is the first physiotherapy provider officially certified as a Great Place to Work® through an independent analysis focused on workplace culture, autonomy, and job satisfaction conducted by Great Place to Work® Institute Canada.
pt Health knows that employee happiness is vital for any company to be successful, and through our vibrant and enriching culture we have demonstrated why we are a Great Place to Work. All team members are valued as an integral part of the company's success, which pt Health focuses on just as much as ensuring patients are satisfied with the care they receive at our clinics.
At pt Health we pride ourselves on having proportionate representation among management and benefit from a diversified management team - we have a great appreciation for our women leaders who are paving a road for other women to follow.
"The vibrancy of our diversity is a key advantage of our company," says pt Health CEO Heather Shantora, "Many trailblazing women came before me in healthcare and I hope to honour their resilience. Healthcare is a unique sector in that it is largely made up of women. What an honour it is to lead such a passionate group of professionals and I hope I can show the next generation of women that female CEOs not only deliver, but thrive in business".
About Great Place to Work®:
Great Place to Work® (www.greatplacetowork.ca) is the global authority on high-trust, high-performance workplace cultures. Through proprietary assessment tools, advisory services, and certification programs, Great Place to Work® recognizes the Best Workplaces™ across the world in a series of national lists including those published by Fortune magazine (USA) and The Globe & Mail (Canada). Great Place to Work® provides the benchmarks, framework, and expertise needed to create, sustain, and recognize outstanding workplace cultures.
Follow Great Place to Work® at www.greatplacetowork.ca and on Twitter at @GPTW_Canada
About pt Health:
pt Health is the largest woman-led physical rehabilitation company in Canada. With a network of over 230 clinics across Canada serving over 3,000 patients a day, each pt Health clinic offers a unique and integrated combination of physiotherapy, massage therapy, chiropractic care, and acupuncture, all with a 97% patient satisfaction score.
Learn more about pt Heath's commitment to excellent patient care at pthealth.ca or follow us on Twitter at @pthealthphysio
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Phoenix Petroleum inks 5-year deal to supply fuel to ANFLOCOR
Phoenix Petroleum Philippines recently signed a five-year supply agreement with Anflo Management and Investment Corporation (ANFLOCOR) to supply fuel to its agricultural and trucking businesses. Under the contract, Phoenix will supply diesel, gasoline, and Jet A-1 fuels to four of ANFLOCOR’s affiliate companies: Tagum Agricultural Development Company, Inc. (TADECO), Davao Packaging Corporation (DAPACOR), Panabo Trucking Services, Inc. (PTSI), and Davao Agritech Inc. (DAAI).
Present during the signing on October 5, 2016 at The White House, Davao City were (from left) ANFLOCOR AVP for Purchasing Richard Go, AVP for Studies Group Dante Arevalo, Phoenix VP for Finance Chryss Alfonsus Damuy, Chief Finance Officer Joseph John Ong, Chief Operating Officer Romeo de Guzman, ANFLOCOR President and CEO Alexander Valoria, SVP and COO for Banana Operations Vincent Floirendo, SVP and General Manager for Industrial Companies Jesse Chiongson, Board of Director Anthony Sasin, and Davao Agritech AVP and General Manager Capt. Ronald Go.
The Anflo Management and Investment Corporation (ANFLOCOR) manages and oversees businesses in various industries like agriculture, real estate, merchandising, and trucking that make up the ANFLOCOR Group of Companies.
Phoenix Petroleum is the leading and fastest growing oil company today with an expanding network of operations nationwide. It has almost 500 retail stations nationwide and supplies fuel to commercial and industrial companies in industries such as agriculture, power, construction, transportation, and mining.
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“I think what he said was absolutely true,” President Donald Trump said when asked if he was pleased with William Barr’s comments to senators that he believes the FBI spied on Trump's campaign. | Alex Wong/Getty Images
Trump: 'There was absolutely spying into my campaign'
By KATIE GALIOTO
Updated 04/11/2019 03:38 PM EDT
2019-04-11T03:38-0400
President Donald Trump on Thursday told reporters “there was absolutely spying into my campaign” in 2016, feeding partisan tensions about the anticipated release of special counsel Robert Mueller’s final report and the origins of the Russia investigation.
The president’s declaration comes a day after Attorney General William Barr told senators that he believed the FBI spied on Trump's campaign and that he planned to investigate the genesis of the 22-month probe into whether Trump associates colluded with Russia to interfere in the 2016 election.
“I think what he said was absolutely true,” Trump said when asked if he was pleased with Barr’s comments. “There was absolutely spying into my campaign. I'll go a step further — in my opinion, it was illegal spying, unprecedented spying and something that should never be allowed to happen in our country again.”
During a hearing about the Justice Department’s budget Wednesday, Barr told members of a Senate Appropriations subcommittee he is concerned “unauthorized surveillance” occurred on the campaign.
“Spying on a political campaign is a big deal,” he said. “I think spying did occur. The question is whether it was adequately predicated. And I’m not suggesting that it wasn’t adequately predicated. But I need to explore that.”
Barr's FBI 'spying' claim amps up fight over Mueller probe
By ANDREW DESIDERIO
Two days after announcing Mueller had concluded his investigation last month, Barr sent a four-page memo to Congress that said the special counsel did not find sufficient evidence that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia. The attorney general also said the investigation did not clearly determine whether the president intended to obstruct justice.
Uncertainty surrounding the Mueller investigation has caused sharp partisan divides, as Democrats accuse Barr of mischaracterizing the special counsel’s findings, while Trump and his congressional allies repeatedly claim the report exonerates him.
Barr on Wednesday said he plans to release a redacted version of the report within the next week.
Former FBI Director James Comey, speaking at a cybersecurity conference in San Francisco on Thursday, expressed concerns about Barr's comments and warned that “denial of a fundamental attack“ opens the door for interference in future U.S. elections, Bloomberg reported.
“I really don’t know what he’s talking about when he talks about spying on the campaign,” Comey said. “The FBI and Department of Justice conduct court-ordered surveillance. If the attorney general has come to the belief that that should be called spying, wow, that’s going to inspire a whole lot of conversations in the Department of Justice.”
Trump on Tuesday accused the former FBI director — whom he fired in 2017 — of an “attempted coup,“ furthering his frequent claims that the Mueller probe was a plot to remove him from office concocted by political opponents.
Barr said Wednesday he has not yet set up a team to look into the the origins of the counterintelligence probe, but his stated intent to do so alarmed Democrats, who suggested the attorney general was carrying out Trump's bidding.
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Is Europe’s Gender Equality Resolution a ‘Provocation’ Against Russia?
Leonid Slutsky
Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the State Duma
“It’s a provocation, specifically to coerce the Russian delegation to slam the door and pull out of PACE.”
Source: TV Channel Rossiya-24, January 9, 2019
The PACE letter was sent to all other parliaments
The Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly's letter sent to Russia and all other member states proved Slutsky’s claim was false. The letter said all PACE delegations should include at least “one member of the under-represented sex appointed as a representative.”
Russian Embassy Bizarrely Suggests the Poisoned Skripals Drove to Chemical Weapons Lab
Russian Embassy in the United Kingdom
Russian Embassy
"Meanwhile, the investigation is still not allowed to tell the public where S. (Sergei) and Y. (Yulia) Skripal were, and what they were doing after they drove from their home in the direction of Porton Down laboratory with phones supposedly turned off on the morning of March 4."
Source: Russian U.K. Embassy official website, January 8, 2018
Law enforcement did not report that Sergei and Yulia Skripal drove to Porton Down on the day they were poisoned.
The road on which the Skripals were spotted leads to Porton Down, but it also leads to the cemetery where Sergei’s wife and son are buried. It was established long ago that Sergei and his daughter drove to visit their graves.
Russian Embassy in Canada Uses Butina Case to Attack #MeToo and Feminism
Russian Embassy in Canada
A screen shot of the Russian Embassy in Canada's Twitter account.
“#FreeMariaButina is a showcase that exposes all bias & hypocrisy of #feminist agenda, actively promoted in some western countries … #MeToo someone?”
Source: Twitter, December 27, 2018
Criminal charges against Butina have no connection with feminism or the Me Too movement
The Russian Embassy in Canada has tried to tie the conspiracy case of Maria Butina to the Me Too movement against sexual harassment and assault. The embassy said her conviction shows the “bias and hypocritical” nature of western feminism. But Butina’s prosecution has no link to #metoo or feminism.
Putin Says Russian Military Companies Can Operate if They Do So Legally, but They Don’t
President of the Russian Federation
“Now about Wagner and what people are doing. Everyone must stay within the law, everyone. … We can ban private security activity in general, but one has only has to do this and, I think, they will come to you with a large number of petitions, demanding protection of this labor market. We have almost a million people working there. If this Wagner group is violating something, then the Prosecutor General’s Office should give a legal assessment.”
Source: Annual Presidential Press Conference, December 20, 2018
Wagner’s activities are explicitly illegal under Russian law.
Wagner -- which has enjoyed support from the Russian defense establishment and is most likely a creation of the Russian Defense Ministry -- is in violation of the Russian law banning mercenary activity.
Does Putin Know What’s Happening to Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia?
"We should treat the representatives of all religions in the same way - this is true, but still, it is also necessary to take into account the country and the society in which we live. True, this does not mean at all that we should include representatives of religious communities in some destructive, or even in terrorist organizations. Of course, this is complete nonsense, you need to carefully deal with it. Here I agree with you."
Source: Kremlin, December 11, 2018
Putin has publicly commented on the topic a year ago
Incidents of state persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia have been recorded as far back as 2007. The Russian Supreme Court designated the church as an “extremist organization” in April 2017. Is it really possible that Vladimir Putin knew nothing about this?
Breaking Butina? Lavrov Says Plea Squeezed Out of Confessed Russian Agent
“I have reasons to assume that the goal of the [detention] conditions that were created for her was to break her will and make her admit to something that she most probably did not commit."
Source: TASS Russian News Agency, December 14, 2018
The detention conditions were not specifically designed to break Butina.
While a debate rages within the U.S. regarding the country’s plea bargaining system and the use of solitary confinement, there is no evidence that Maria Butina was faced with circumstances that deviate from current norms in the U.S. criminal justice system.
Russian Sources Blame Coalition for Destroying Hospital in Syria, Even Before it Was Damaged
Russian state-owned media outlet
“The Friday airstrikes of the US-led Coalition have completely destroyed a hospital in the Syrian city of Hajin in the eastern Deir ez-Zor province, Ikhbariya broadcaster reported.”
Source: Sputnik, December 7, 2018
The hospital was still standing as of December 9.
The original ‘report’ of destruction emerged from Islamic State media, was picked up by Syrian media and later the Russian state media outlet. The hospital in question was still standing as of December 9. An explosion was reported in the hospital that day, but what caused it is unclear.
Russian Foreign Ministry Distorts Ukraine Famine Legacy
Official Russian Foreign Ministry Twitter Account
“#Famine in 1930's in USSR was common tragedy for Ukrainians, Russians, Kazakhs, other Soviet people. Stating that it was ethnically targeted(#Holodomor) is wrong & misleading. History shouldn't be rewritten & distorted for sake of politicised ‘blame Moscow, #Russia’ narrative” (sic)
The statement omits important facts about the famine.
While the Russian Embassy’s statement included facts, it portrayed the Soviet man-made famine as simply a “tragedy” rather than a deliberate policy by Moscow.
Russian Reporter Blames George H.W. Bush and the Persian Gulf War for Fomenting ‘Chaos’ in the Middle East
Dmitry Smirnov
Kremlin Special Correspondent for Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper
“At the age of 94, George Bush Sr. died - the man who started the Gulf War, marking the beginning of the current chaos in the Middle East.
If we say nothing but good about the dead, about Bush Sr. say nothing.”
President George H.W. Bush did not start the war in the Persian Gulf.
While many have criticized President George H.W. Bush for an inconclusive outcome of the Persian Gulf War, it is simplistic and misleading to attribute Middle Eastern conflicts, or “current chaos” to Bush’s actions in 1991.
Peskov Denies Blockade of Ukraine-bound Shipping Through Kerch Strait
Dmitry Peskov
Russian Presidential Press Secretary
"I don’t know about any restrictions. On the contrary, we know that traffic through the Kerch Strait continues normally."
Source: TASS
Ukraine reports its vessels are still being denied access to the strait.
While Russian shipping seems unaffected, Ukraine reports that ships bound for its Sea of Azov ports are still being denied access through the Kerch Strait.
Video Fact Check: 8 Putin Claims Regarding the Kerch Strait Incident
Multiple claims are covered, see below.
Source: Rossiya 24, November 28, 2018
Multiple claims (see article)
There are questions about several of Putin’s claims.
Several of Putin’s claims are false, one is unclear, and one may be true, but not in the way the president of the Russian Federation puts it.
Russian Coast Guard Rams Ukrainian Tugboat, Official Denies Ramming is ‘a Tactic’
Dmitry Belik
State Duma Deputy from Russian-occupied Crimea
“Unlike Ukraine, we don’t drag our military into adventures and do not shirk international law. And if Ukraine indicated its position, pushing it into international waters, then it shouldn’t make loud statements about ‘ramming, attacks, provocations.’ Moreover, our vessels have moved far ahead in their technological development, we do not use ramming as a tactic."
Video released by Russia disproves the claim.
A video shows the Russian Coast Guard vessel deliberately ramming an unarmed Ukrainian tugboat. Claims that it had violated Russia’s borders don’t hold water.
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South Carolina coach Will Muschamp never had a reason to worry about his job next year, but knows his 2020 season must be substantially better. AP/Brian Blanco
'We believe' is the biggest reason Will Muschamp remains Gamecocks head coach
By David Cloninger dcloninger@postandcourier.com
David Cloninger
COLUMBIA — There was never a vote taken to determine if head football coach Will Muschamp would be given a fifth year at South Carolina, after his fourth ended with a 4-8 thud.
He was always going to be back, to get a chance to reverse course from a 2019 season that should have been showing off his most experienced and talented team. Instead, it was a splotch on an otherwise decent record that’s resulted in staff changes and a blackened cloud hovering over the program.
In a sport where instant success is demanded and bad years aren’t tolerated, why the trust in Muschamp? In a season where Florida State fired its coach mid-year, and SEC brother Arkansas did the same, why is USC standing by its man?
Speaking with USC administrative and athletic officials over the past three weeks, the most common answer was belief. Not hope, not being forced to because of financial restrictions.
But belief.
“I believe in him,” athletics director Ray Tanner said during a November radio interview. “People may say, ‘Well, you led the charge in hiring him. You’re going to say that.’ If I didn’t believe in him I wouldn’t say that.”
Several members of USC’s Board of Trustees were contacted for this story and all deferred to letting BOT Chairman John von Lehe speak for them.
“We believe it’s in good hands, and I think the best thing a trustee can do is stay out of the school’s athletic program and let the professionals run it,” von Lehe said.
Tanner hired Muschamp and would naturally want to give his choice every opportunity to succeed. He also understands that at USC, a school with one conference championship and a lifetime football record just 25 games above .500, sustained success has only arrived in blips.
Muschamp’s tenure, unfortunately for him, came two years after the biggest blip of all, that of Steve Spurrier’s three straight 11-2 seasons, with the school’s only SEC East title the year before that.
Former Gamecocks quarterback Jake Bentley headed west
Since World War II, four coaches have had five-year stints at USC (Warren Giese, Marvin Bass, Sparky Woods, Brad Scott), with Richard Bell serving a one-year tenure in 1982. The coaches with the most success (Paul Dietzel, Jim Carlen, Joe Morrison, Lou Holtz, Spurrier) served more than five years, and presided over most of the program’s greatest seasons and moments.
Muschamp notched a nine-win season in his second year. It’s one of only seven seasons of at least nine wins in the program’s 135 years.
That didn’t go away, nor did a program-first three bowl games to begin a tenure, because of 4-8 in 2019. With Year 5 seemingly the historic swing vote between good and bad coaching reigns, it seems logical why Muschamp would get a chance to build on his success in Years 1-3, despite one bad season in Year 4.
“We’re certainly not happy with where we are today, record-wise, coach Muschamp or anyone else affiliated with football,” Tanner said. “My stance is I know what goes on and I believe strongly that our fan base and our biggest supporters are going to be very happy at some point. It’s not today, because nobody wants to have four wins as we sit here. But I believe strongly in what we’re doing.”
Buyout and the Board
Conversations with administrators revealed that what was thought to be a big reason to keep Muschamp — his buyout, where he would have been owed at least $18.75 million if he were to be fired — wasn’t so. Yes, it’s a hefty chunk of money to pay somebody not to work.
But it wouldn’t have been a deterrent. If they really wanted to make a move, they would have found a way. Instead, they considered 2019 a mulligan and trusted Muschamp to again stabilize the program.
USC head coach Muschamp's buyout reduced due to restructuring of his contract
Muschamp, perhaps cognizant of that, voluntarily voided his annual $200,000 raise to give running backs coach Thomas Brown a salary bump, which affected Muschamp’s buyout. It dropped the total if he were to be fired after next season to $13.2 million.
Former quarterback Perry Orth has seen both sides. He was on the team that finished the 2013 season ranked fourth in the country and on the team that was 3-9 just two years later.
“After the (win over Georgia this year), the outlook of the season was incredibly different from how it ended,” Orth said. “But when you lose guys on offense, when you’re already limited … it just puts you behind the 8-ball that much more.”
Sapakoff: Better get Clemson now because Tigers are about to get better
By Gene Sapakoff
Muschamp took a 2-4 team in the midpoint of his first year to a bowl game with a freshman quarterback. Nine wins followed in 2017, followed by a 2018 season that had seven victories, but was bedecked with injuries.
Recruiting continues to flourish. He has verbal commitments from coveted Top 60 running back MarShawn Lloyd and Top 90 QB Luke Doty for next year.
His current players graduate and stay out of trouble, Muschamp quickly and firmly dealing with any who stray outside the lines.
“Will has done a great job developing a true culture and identity of a program. We want to be a blue-collar program that wants to play physical and have a high academic standard,” Orth said. “He’s recruited better players and people. He really cares about his players, and his players play hard for him.”
‘It’s on us’
It can be considered grasping to say it, but the team didn’t quit on Muschamp. His players always believed they could pull off another upset as they did at Georgia.
“He’s honest with you, he’s going to be there with you. He is a great coach,” receiver Chavis Dawkins said. “We always got his back, like he got our back.”
With Muschamp calling the plays, the defense did well enough that the Gamecocks could have salvaged a bowl game berth with just a bit more from their offense. Yet hampered by injuries, they managed one touchdown in their final three games.
To his credit, Muschamp immediately made a move to find a new offensive coordinator, and landed a big name in former Georgia offensive coordinator/Colorado State head coach Mike Bobo. He also is looking for a new strength coach, after the injuries of the past two years demanded a change.
Gamecocks to pay Mike Bobo $1.2 million per year as offensive coordinator
It was a tough year for the Gamecocks, but they never had any dissension or rebellion among them. Many went out of their way to combat the nastiness they couldn’t help but hear.
“He said if he had any comments on anything, he’d get fined? I don’t know if I’d get fined, but I may get kicked off,” linebacker Ernest Jones said. “So I’m not going to say what I want to say. But when I see people talk about him and how he’s unfit for the job, they don’t personally know him and know everything he does to get us prepared.”
There isn’t a win minimum stapled to next season for Muschamp to get a sixth year. There does need to be progress, and not in the other areas he’s drastically improved.
He needs to win more games.
“Is it win, or else? Not all the time,” Tanner said. “But winning is part of the equation, there’s no doubt about that.”
Muschamp has some young talent returning, although he loses his top three rushers, two of his top three receivers and his second-leading tackler. The schedule is much more favorable than last year, or at least in the first two months, before the Gamecocks take on a November slate of Georgia, LSU, Wofford and Clemson.
Sapakoff: My application for the Gamecocks' offensive coordinator job
By sheer disbelief that it couldn’t be, 2020 has to be better than 2019.
“There is some positive progress to at least latch onto,” Muschamp said in his final post-game press conference two weeks ago. “I look forward to having a long tenure here at the University of South Carolina, and coaching here for a long time, and getting this thing turned.”
He believes it more than his school believes in him. How firm each side’s belief is will be determined in one year.
Follow David Cloninger on Twitter @DCPandC.
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Gene Sapakoff column: If South Carolina Gamecocks sports fans are frustrated, they have a right; the confluence of football, men's basketball and baseball struggles plus Clemson's football success — all played out over social media — makes this a historically miserable stretch.
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From Rock Hill, S.C., David Cloninger covers Gamecock sports. He will not rest until he owns every great film and song ever recorded.
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Atucha Nuclear Power Plant
Atucha-1 was opened in 1974, Atucha-2 due to start in 2012
Atucha-1 335MW
Lima, about 100 miles from Buenos Aries, Argentina
$2.4bn (Atucha-2)
Siemens PHWR
29% (Atucha-1)
Mix of natural and enriched uranium (0.85%)
Siemens (Atucha-1)
ENACE (Atucha-2)
Plant Owner
Areva NP (Atucha-1)
NASA (Atucha-2)
Main Contractor
Siemens is supplying further electrical equipment and services to Atucha-2
Areva has been responsible for building over 100 nuclear power plants.
Areva took over Atucha-1 after Siemens left the nuclear energy business.
Simplified flow diagram of a pressure vessel heavy water cooled and moderated reactor.
Circuit parameters for Atucha-1 pressure vessel HWR.
Horizontal section of Atucha pressure vessel HWR.
The Atucha nuclear power plant site includes two units – Atucha-1 and Atucha-2. They are located in Lima, about 100 miles from Buenos Aries. Atucha-1 unit has a capacity of 335MW. Construction of the long delayed 700MW Atucha-2 is complete and currently in the trial operation phase.
Both units were designed to take a Siemens heavy water cooled, moderated pressurised heavy water reactor (PHWR).
Siemens main contractor for Atucha-1
Atucha-1 was opened in 1974, nearly two years late. It was Latin America’s first nuclear power plant. Siemens was the main contractor, but much of the work was done by domestic Argentine companies.
Atucha-1 used the original Siemens pressurised HWR line. Atucha-1 operated well until a major shutdown to make internal reactor repairs in 1989. The fuel channels were then completely replaced, but there have been more shutdowns since then. Improvements since then have included reducing the tritium content and incorporating hydraulically driven control rods.
Atucha-1 has a reinforced concrete reactor building with spherical stainless-steel housing for containment. It uses a mix of natural and enriched uranium (0.85%), with heavy water for moderation and cooling. The single pressure vessel holds the whole reactor core. Neutron economy is good, so allowing once-through natural uranium fuel cycle. The circular reactor core has vertical fuel assemblies, each in a fuel channel. Coolant channels pass through a circular tank with moderator water inside the pressure vessel. The heat from this moderator tank preheats the feedwater. Electricity is delivered at 220kV to the grid.
In 1994, the Autoridad Regulatoria Nuclear (ARN) Agency took over regulatory responsibilities from the CNEA nuclear energy agency. Operation of Atucha-1 was given to Nucleoeléctrica Argentina SA (NASA). This was done in preparation for an unsuccessful privatisation. When Siemens left the nuclear energy business, it transferred Atucha-1 to Framatome, now Areva NP. Siemens instead transferred Atucha-2 to NASA so that the project could be completed. Siemens also supplied electrical equipment and services for the project.
Atucha-2 not yet complete
Atucha-2 was proposed in 1979, with Siemens and CNEA having formed ENACE to act as architect / engineer. In 1981, ENACE started construction of the 700MW Siemens reactor next to Atucha-1.
"Atucha-1 was opened in 1974 and was Latin America’s first nuclear power plant."
The original cost was to be around $1.5bn, and Atucha-2 was initially scheduled to be finished in 1987. The pressure vessel was eventually installed at the end of 1999, but building stopped when about 80% complete because of lack of funding and technological obsolescence of the original design, with a new set of companies involved.
The IAEA reported several main items to complete including the electro-mechanical, I&C mounting, heavy-water inventory and first core fuel deliveries.
In 2006, the project was restarted as part of the Argentinian Government’s $3.5bn strategic plan. The government discussed updated designs for Atucha-2 with Atomic Energy of Canada in 2007. The plant is being built with an investment of $2.4bn.
Pre-start testing phase of the plant commenced in September 2011. The plant is expected to begin operations in early 2012.
Argentina still has nuclear plans
Argentina has been looking at nuclear power to fill its energy gap and reduce gas usage. It does have (inactive) uranium mines in the country, and is able to enrich uranium and process fuel rods. As part of the $3.5bn strategic plan, the government is planning to extend the life of the Embalse Candu plant by 30 years and build a fourth reactor Atucha-3. The government has started a feasibility study for the $2bn fourth reactor.
Argentina, however, still has no solution to getting rid of radioactive waste from its plants.
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TENS in the Treatment of Primary Dysmenorrhea
Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS)—as a treatment modality for primary dysmenorrhea—can act as a pain relief mechanism for women with painful menstrual cramps.
By Howard Smith, MD and Vian Younan, MD
Dysmenorrhea is the occurrence of painful uterine cramps during menses and is the most common of all gynecologic complaints. Dysmenorrhea is divided into primary and secondary forms. Primary dysmenorrhea has no known pelvic pathologic etiology. Whereas secondary dysmenorrhea is related to the presence of pelvic lesions secondary to organic disease such as endometriosis, salpingitis, PID (pelvic inflammatory disease), adhesions, etc.1
Characteristically, primary dysmenorrhea starts shortly after menarche. The pain lasts for 48-72 hours of menstruation and is most severe during the first or second day of the menstrual cycle. Reported prevalence rates are as high as 90 percent.2 It is the leading cause of absenteeism of women from work, school, and other activities.3,4 A recent study of young Hispanic adolescent females showed that menstrual pain was significantly associated with school absenteeism and decreased academic performance, sports participation, and socialization with peers.5
In fact, 42 million women in the United States suffer from painful menstrual symptoms. Of these, about 3.5 million are unable to function for one to two days each month because the condition is so severe. In an older study, the economic implications were clearly presented — dysmenorrhea accounted for 600 million lost work hours and $2 billion in lost productivity annually.6
Women with primary dysmenorrhea have increased production of endometrial prostaglandin, resulting in increased uterine tone and stronger, more frequent uterine contractions. Majority of prostaglandins are released during the first 48 hours of menstruation, thus explaining the timing and limitation of symptoms. Prostaglandins stimulate an increase in myometrial muscle tone and contractions, and release of vasopressin in uterine blood vessels which may result in ischemic pain and other associated symptoms.1
Survey of Treatment Approaches
Pharmacologic options for the treatment of dysmenorrhea have traditionally been nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) or the oral contraceptive pill (OCP). Both of these act by reducing uterine muscle activity.6 However, about 10 percent of affected women do not respond to these measures. In addition, the side effect profile of these drugs may make them less desirable in certain candidates. In fact, pharmacologic treatments may not be indicated in females who may not be able to tolerate the side effects of anti-inflammatory agents (traditional NSAIDS or cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitors) or who may not wish to take the OCP for other reasons.
Non-drug treatments have included transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS). Electrodes are placed on the skin and electric current applied at different pulse rates and intensities to stimulate these areas in efforts to provide pain relief. High frequency TENS (also referred to as conventional TENS) usually consists of pulses delivered at 50-120 Hz at a low intensity (see Figure 1). Low-frequency TENS (also referred to as acupuncture-like TENS), on the other hand, usually consists of pulses delivered at 1-4 Hz at high intensity and with long pulse width. (See Figure 2.)
Figure 1. Illustrative comparison of high frequency TENS (50 to 120 Hz) and low frequency TENS (1 to 4 Hz).
In obstetrics and gynecology, TENS has been found to be effective in alleviating labor pain.7 TENS seems to work by altering the body’s ability to receive or perceive pain signals, rather than by having a direct effect on the uterine contractions.8
Pain relief with TENS is postulated as involving two possible mechanisms, the gate-control theory as proposed by Wall and Melzak in 1965,9 or endorphin-mediated pain relief.10 The “gate” to sensory input is present in the spinal cord, which is stimulated by activity in small-diameter nociceptive fibers and closed by activity in large-diameter fibers. Therefore, if electric stimulation is applied to a peripheral site, the large diameter fibers are activated first and thus inhibit the small nociceptive fiber input transmitted to higher centers. The “gating” effect is established at the dorsal horn level of the spinal cord thereby inhibiting the transmission of pain-related impulses.9 This mechanism is thought to be responsible for the action of high frequency TENS.
Other studies on TENS have shown the pain relief attributed to TENS is reversible with opioid antagonists, leading to postulations that it somehow stimulates endogenous endorphins.10 An increased release of endogenous endorphins, resulting in potent analgesic effects, has been demonstrated with electrical stimulation. Pain relief that is partially reversible by naloxone has been shown to occur in low frequency TENS.11 However, increased levels of endorphins are found in CSF with both high and low frequency TENS.11,12
Studies have indicated that the effectiveness of TENS varies with the pulse frequency. Results of such studies, conducted utilizing both low- and high-frequency TENS, are discussed in the following sections.
Low Frequency TENS
In an early study of TENS and dysmenorrhea by Neighbors, et al, low frequency TENS was found to be an effective treatment modality.13 They treated 10 women with acupuncture-like TENS and 10 women with a placebo pill. They found a statistically significant reduction in pain immediately for subjects treated with acupuncture-like TENS, with 7 experimental subjects receiving at least 50% relief of pain and only 1 control subject receiving the same amount of relief.13 A similar study by Lewers et al, with 21 women divided into two groups — acupuncture-like TENS vs. a placebo pill — found there was no statistically significant difference in pain relief among the two groups.14 Both groups showed an average 50% reduction in pain immediately post-treatment. However, all test subjects in the study were also involved in a different experiment involving electrical conductance at four auricular acupuncture points and this may have accounted for the the skewed results.14
Another study by Santiesteban, et al., allocated women into Low Frequency TENS vs. Placebo TENS. Treatment time was 30 minutes. Pain relief was assessed prior to treatment and immediately after treatment, at 4 hours, 24 hours and 30 days. They showed no difference between the experimental and the control group for pain relief.15,16
High Frequency TENS
A study by Mannheimer et al, randomized women to the following three groups. High frequency TENS, Low frequency TENS, and placebo TENS. Treatment for all groups was 30 minutes in duration and then discontinued until pain returned. Upon return of pain, the subjects could reinstitute TENS and a record of use was kept. Pain was rated immediately before and after use. There was no significant difference between the two types of TENS but the high frequency TENS achieved slightly more pain relief.15,17
Dawood and Ramos performed a randomized clinical trial of 32 women with primary dysmenorrhea. The subjects were treated with conventional TENS for two cycles, placebo TENS for one cycle, or ibuprofen 400 mg four times a day for one cycle.18 Ibuprofen 400 mg was allowed as a rescue medication to relieve pain. The investigators and subjects were blinded to whether “real” or sham TENS was used.18 Results showed that TENS alone provided good to excellent subjective pain relief in 42.4% of patients compared with 3.2% in the placebo TENS, and the “real” TENS group also had significantly reduced diarrhea, menstrual flow, clot formation, and fatigue compared with placebo TENS.18 With TENS therapy, one-third of the subjects did not require any sort of supplemental pain medication. In those that did require backup (rescue dose) ibuprofen, the doses needed were significantly lower than those in placebo TENS cycles or cycles treated with ibuprofen alone.18
A study by Milsom, et al compared the effect of high-intensity transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation and naproxen on uterine contractility and intrauterine pressure in patients suffering from primary dysmenorrhea.19 It was an open, randomized crossover study on 12 women with primary dysmenorrhea. Intrauterine pressure was recorded with a micro transducer catheter, and a pain score was assessed by a visual analog scale. Before treatment all subjects showed high resting uterine pressure. Naproxen reduced all uterine activity parameters, including resting pressure, active pressure, and frequency of contractions. There was no significant change in uterine activity in women who received transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation — however, the pain score was significantly reduced (p<0.001) from the period 30 to 60 minutes after treatment with TENS. A similar reduction (p<0.0001) was recorded during the period 90 to 120 minutes with naproxen. The only side effect was that TENS caused discomfort during nerve stimulation, however, this only lasted a few seconds. The results of this investigation showed that both naproxen and TENS reduced pain from primary dysmenorrhea, but that TENS does not seem to work by decreasing uterine activity. The article theorized that perhaps, the stimulation decreased local ischemia and thus decreased pain.19
In a more recent subjective report on primary dysmenorrhea, sixty-one women were treated with TENS for two menstrual cycles, and self-reported the results.20 Thirty percent reported marked pain relief, 60% reported moderate pain relief and 10% reported no change in pain score. No side effects were reported.20
TENS modality tested
Hz; Pulse width
Neighbors et al. LF-TENS vs. Placebo pill 1; 40 microsec Statistically significant relief in pain with LF-TENS
Lewers et al. LF-TENS vs. Placebo pill 1; 40 microsec No difference between the two groups
Santiesteban et al. LF-TENS vs. PF-TENS 1; 250 microsec No difference between the two groups
Mannheimer & Whalen HF-TENS vs. LF-TENS vs. PL-TENS 50-100; 40-75 microsec No difference between LF-TENS and HF-TENS
Dawood & Ramos HF-TENS vs. PL-TENS vs. Ibuprofen 100; 100 microsec HF-TENS provided significant pain relief and patients used lower ibuprofen doses
Milsom et al. HF-TENS vs. Naproxen 70-100; 200 microsec HF-TENS significantly reduced pain
LF-TENS: low frequency TENS HF-TENS: high frequency TENS PL-TENS: placebo TENS
Table 1: TENS studies in dysmenorrhea
Discussion and Conclusion
Review of published studies shows that TENS may be an effective treatment modality and/or therapeutic adjunct for primary dysmenorrhea. The most serious side effect of TENS was discomfort at the site of electrical stimulation. However, the women that had this uncomfortable sensation, stated that they would still be willing to undergo the treatment in order to be rid of painful menstrual cramps that hinders their lives for a few days each month.14 However, more studies need to be done on the practicality of using a TENS unit on adolescent women who are more affected by primary dysmenorrhea than the rest of the population.
Currently available studies suggest that high frequency TENS (50 to 120 Hz) seems to be more effective for pain relief than placebo TENS (see Table 1). Low frequency TENS (1 to 4 Hz) may not be more effective than placebo TENS. High intensity transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation appears to be an effective and safe form of therapy in patients with primary dysmenorrhea.
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7. Kaplan B, Rabinerson D, Pardo J, et al. Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) as a pain-relief device in obstetrics and gynecology. Clin Exp Obster Gynecol. 1997. 24(3): 123-6.
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12. Han JS, Chen XH, Sun SL, et al. Effect of low- and high- frequency TENS on Met-enkephalin-Arg-Phe and dynorphin A immunoreactivity in human lumbar CSF. Pain. 1991. Dec;47(3):295-8.
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BIOLASE Announces Clearance of the Epic Hygiene Laser for Dental Hygienists
New Hygiene Laser designed by Dental Hygienists for Dental Hygienists
BIOLASE, Inc.
Dec 09, 2019, 09:00 ET
IRVINE, Calif., Dec. 9, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- BIOLASE, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIOL), the global leader in dental lasers, announced the launch of their new Epic Hygiene laser at the Greater New York Dental Meeting, in New York City from Nov. 29 - Dec. 4. The laser has officially been granted Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance.
Epic Hygiene is the latest innovation in proven Epic laser technology, designed by dental hygienists for dental hygienists. This new laser system gives dental professionals a total solution to effectively manage non-surgical periodontitis and increase clinical production. The system includes proven step-by-step clinical protocols, including pocket therapy and perio debridement, for easy implementation.
"We were thrilled to announce the launch of the Epic Hygiene at this years' Greater New York Dental Meeting," said BIOLASE CEO, Todd Norbe. "This laser is the latest technological innovation for dental hygienists and is designed with our mission of advancing dentistry across all fields. There was no better place for an announcement like this than at one of the largest dental congresses in the world."
Epic Hygiene now gives dental hygienists the ability to offer dental laser technology to their patients, including minimally invasive and virtually pain-free treatments that allow for quicker procedures and faster recovery times. Each system includes hygiene specific training, turnkey practice guidebooks with step-by-step practice integration tips, and access to exclusive on-call Epic Expert support, with leading clinicians to provide peer to peer support.
To learn more about the Epic Hygiene laser, please visit go.biolase.com/EpicHygiene or call 855-292-5690.
About BIOLASE, Inc.
BIOLASE, Inc. is a medical device company that is a global market leader in the manufacturing and marketing of proprietary dental laser systems that enable dentists and dental specialists to perform a broad range of minimally invasive dental procedures, including cosmetic, restorative, and surgical applications. BIOLASE's laser systems are designed to provide clinically superior, patient-friendly results for many types of common dental procedures compared to those achieved with traditional instruments. BIOLASE has sold 38,900 laser systems to date in over 90 countries around the world.
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Hudson Yards announces the inaugural ticket release for New York’s climbable staircase, the centerpiece of The Public Square and Gardens
New York, New York City Mar 12, 2019 City Centers
Manhattan’s newest neighborhood opens to the public on Friday, March 15th. Hudson Yards today announced that tickets for New York’s climbable staircase, temporarily known as Vessel , are now officially available on the Hudson Yards website: www.hudsonyardsnewyork.com/discover/staircase . Starting…
The Shops & Restaurants at Hudson Yards to open March 15 at noon
New York, New York City Mar 12, 2019 Retail, City Centers
New York’s next great fashion and foodie destination brings more than a mile of shopping and dining experiences to Manhattan’s West Side. Grand opening weekend filled with diverse offering of experiences and special programming to welcome New Yorkers and visitors. The Shops & Restaurants at…
Hudson Yards powers new neighborhood with first-of-its-kind hiring initiative
New York, New York City Mar 13, 2019 Our Company, City Centers
Public-private partnership already responsible for hundreds of job placements with hundreds more expected in the coming months Hudson Yards today announced details about the creation of the Hudson Yards Hiring Network, an innovative public-private collaboration designed to identify and recruit…
Related Companies announces strategic partnership with Greenfield Partners to acquire leading omni-channel e-commerce fulfillment provider Quiet Logistics
New York, New York City Mar 13, 2019 Our Company, Our Brands
Strategic investment recognizes rapidly expanding e-commerce needs of both digitally native and brick-and-mortar brands. Infusion of capital and owned-facilities growth plan will allow Quiet Logistics to expand its strong leadership position in the marketplace and offer clients unrivaled…
Uber Elevate announces partnership with Related Companies to develop skyports for Uber Air
New York, California, Santa Clara, New York City Jun 11, 2019 News, City Centers
Uber and Related release a skyport rendering in Santa Clara showcasing what aerial ridesharing hubs could look like in the future in the Bay Area. Today Uber Elevate announced that Related Companies will be its preferred development partner supporting its Uber Air network in the United States. As…
Related Companies and Hudson Yards partner with NYC Pride and The NAMES Project Foundation for WorldPride
New York, New York City Jun 21, 2019 News, City Centers, Retail
Hudson Yards will display panels of The AIDS Memorial Quilt as part of an initiative with NYC Pride and The NAMES Project Foundation as part of WorldPride events. The Shops and Restaurants will show their support for the community through special initiatives, events and limited edition products…
35 Hudson Yards unveils residential amenities designed by Tony Ingrao dedicated to wellness, leisure and entertainment
New York, New York City Jul 15, 2019 News, City Centers, Residential
Hudson Yards unveils 22,000 square feet of private residential amenities at 35 Hudson Yards, along with new model residences on the 55th and 65th floors. The building features architecture by David Childs and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; interiors by designer Tony Ingrao; and an array of…
Hudson Yards officially opens
Manhattan’s newest neighborhood welcomes New Yorkers and visitors as the grand opening weekend commences. The Hudson Yards development is already contributing more than $10 billion to the city’s GDP during construction. Today the Hudson Yards neighborhood officially opened to the public, marking a…
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Restauration Kopernikus in Nuremberg
Very welcome in the Restauration Kopernikus in Nuremberg, where a gastronomic and cultural event of a special kind awaits you, in which all senses are addressed Restaurant. For visitors and guests of the historic city of Nuremberg a trip to Krakow Tower is a must and the resident of the tower itself Restaurant "Copernicus" completes this tour perfectly, because here good food from the region and traditional Franconian specialties with the historical Bastion and international flair a unique combination received. But not only Schäufele, roast pork or beef rolls make Restauration Kopernikus so special, the beer garden, the large hall or the cocktail bar are due to the German-Polish flairs a highlight for guests and locals.
The Krakow's tower itself is one of the most striking, but also the oldest buildings in downtown Nuremberg and in addition to our restaurant example, a cultural center, an art gallery and a bar. The unusually wide variety of services and facilities is the result of intensive contacts between the Polish Krakow and Nuremberg, which date back to the Middle Ages. The good contacts between the two cities in 1979 for the first time written down long before twinning became the norm. As a special sign of this so-called intimate involvement Partnerhäuser the other city have been launched, in order to teach the Partnership to citizens and their guests, and so to manifest the closeness in both places. Meanwhile, there is a Cracow House in this form since 1996 and is the only facility of the Polish city outside the country's borders. The connection between the Franconian cuisine and Polish cuisine and the name of one of the greatest students of Cracow University are just two of many examples of active international understanding. How simple, but also original and intense can be such an understanding between two peoples, a glance at the menu of the restaurant Restauration Kopernikus. Of course, a focus on typical Franconian specialties such as roast shoulder of pork, roast pork or beef rolls, but also typical Polish dishes include distinctive and especially tasty accents. Together with the Franconian beers and cask ales gives our offer a memorable dining experience between Central Franconia and the Vistula. Good eating at Nuremberg has a name and the words "Restauration Kopernikus".
Among major regional, national and international attention the Restauration Kopernikus was newly opened in March of 2002. Our entire team has our service with numerous innovations enriched, revised the menu card and improves the comfort. You can convince them either in our restaurant, in Krakow's tower or in the idyllic beer garden itself, where our beer garden is considered one of the finest of its kind in Nuremberg. Accessible he is a historic battlements and it is an oasis of peace and relaxation amidst the city center of Nuremberg.
But no matter where they enjoy our services, you are everywhere surrounded by the evidence of a long and fruitful friendship between the two cities as well as unique historical and cultural exhibits.
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Ukraine wants to search Iran plane crash site for possible missile debris
Alexander Cornwell, Babak Dehghanpisheh, Natalia Zinets
DUBAI/KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine outlined four potential scenarios on Thursday to explain the deadly crash of one of its airliners in Iran, including a missile strike and terrorism, as Iranian investigators said the plane was on fire before it fell to the ground.
Kiev said its investigators wanted to search the site of Wednesday’s crash southwest of Tehran for possible debris of a Russian-made missile used by Iran’s military. An initial report by Iran’s civil aviation organization said the plane had experienced an unspecified technical problem.
The Ukrainian International Airlines Boeing 737-800, flying to Kiev and carrying mostly Iranians and Iranian-Canadians, crashed shortly after taking off from Tehran’s Imam Khomeini airport, killing all 176 people on board.
The Iranian report cited witnesses on the ground and in a passing aircraft flying at a high altitude as saying the plane was on fire while in the air.
It said the three-year-old airliner, which had its last scheduled maintenance on Monday, encountered a technical problem shortly after take-off and started to head toward a nearby airport before it crashed. The report said there was no radio communication from the pilot and that the aircraft disappeared from radar at 8,000 feet (2,440 m).
It is so far unclear if any technical issue could be related to a maintenance fault or defective part.
The disaster puts a renewed spotlight on Boeing, which faces a safety crisis over a different type of 737, though the plane that crashed in Iran does not have the feature thought to have caused crashes of the grounded 737 MAX.
The Iranian report referred to the crash as an accident.
Investigations into airliner crashes are complex, requiring regulators, experts and companies across several international jurisdictions to work together. It can take months to fully determine the cause and issuing an initial report within 24 hours is rare.
A Canadian security source told Reuters there was evidence one of the engines had overheated.
The crash happened hours after Iran launched missile attacks on U.S.-led forces in Iraq, leading some to speculate that the plane may have been hit.
The initial assessment of Western intelligence agencies was that the plane had suffered a technical malfunction and had not been brought down by a missile, five security sources - three Americans, one European and the Canadian - who asked not to be named, told Reuters.
UKRAINIAN THEORIES
Ukraine Security Council Secretary Oleksiy Danylov said the country’s investigators wanted to search for possible Russian missile debris after seeing information on the internet.
He referred to an unverified image circulated on Iranian social media purportedly showing the debris of a Russian-made Tor-M1 surface-to-air missile of the kind used by the Iranian military.
Ukrainian investigators into the crash include experts who participated in the investigation into the 2014 shooting down of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17, Danylov said.
Debris of a plane belonging to Ukraine International Airlines, that crashed after taking off from Iran's Imam Khomeini airport, is seen on the outskirts of Tehran, Iran January 8, 2020. Nazanin Tabatabaee/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS
The Malaysian airliner was shot down on July 17, 2014, over territory held by pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine as it was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, killing all 298 people on board.
In a televised statement, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy earlier asked people to refrain from speculation, conspiracy theories and hasty evaluations regarding the crash. He declared Thursday a day of national mourning.
Zelenskiy said he would speak by telephone with the Iranian president to step up cooperation in investigating the crash.
Ukraine is looking at various possible causes, including a missile attack, a collision, an engine explosion or terrorism.
Countries recognized under a UN-administered convention as participants should nominate who they wish to be involved in the Iran-led investigation, the Iranian report said.
Canadian Foreign Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne called his Iranian counterpart to stress the need for Canadian officials “to be quickly granted access to Iran to provide consular services, help with identification of the deceased and take part in the investigation of the crash”, a Canadian statement said.
“Canada and Canadians have many questions which will need to be answered.”
Britain wants a transparent investigation, Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s spokesman said on Thursday following a call between the British leader and Zelenskiy.
“The prime minister said that there needed to be a full credible and transparent investigation into what happened,” the spokesman said.
As the country where the plane was designed and built, the United States would usually be allowed to be accredited but neither side has said whether U.S. investigators will be dispatched to Iran.
Iran’s aviation body could not be reached for comment to clarify its position.
Tensions between Washington and Tehran have risen with the United States’ killing of a top Iranian general on Friday. Tehran retaliated with a missile strike on U.S. targets in Iraq.
The Ukrainian airliner took off at 6:12 a.m. local time and was given permission to climb to 26,000 feet, the report said. It crashed six minutes later near the town of Sabashahr.
Bodies and body parts recovered from the site of the crash have been taken to the coroner’s office for identification, the report said.
Smouldering debris, including shoes and clothes, was strewn across a field where the plane crashed on Wednesday. Rescue workers in face masks laid out scores of body bags.
Onboard were 146 Iranians, 10 Afghans, 11 Ukrainians, five Canadians and four Swedes, the report said, but said some may have held citizenship of other countries.
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Ukrainian authorities have said those on board included 82 Iranians, 63 Canadians, and 11 Ukrainians.
The Tehran-Toronto via Kiev route was a popular for Canadians of Iranian descent visiting Iran in the absence of direct flights.
Reporting by Alexander Cornwell & Babak Dehghanpisheh in Dubai, Natalia Zinets & Pavel Polityuk in Kiev; Additional reporting by Tim Hepher in Paris, Jamie Freed in Sydney, Allison Lampert in Montreal, Steve Scherer in Ottawa, Laurence Frost in Paris, Matthias Williams in Kiev, Mark Hosenball in Washington and David Ljunggren in Ottawa, Elizabeth Piper in London; Writing by Alexander Cornwell, Editing by Angus MacSwan, Catherine Evans and Nick Macfie
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Progressive Service Company | 110 Fortune Way | Raleigh, NC 27617
* Total number of reviews and star-ratings are based on data collected during the time period Progressive Service Company has been using the ReviewBuzz system and may not directly match the data found on each public review site.
By Charles D. on 01/10/20
Kevin installed our new dishwasher in record time - I'm sure his next job could be on a pit crew for NASCAR. Additionally, the job was performed professionally - clean and patient with operation instructions for first use. Excellent job - highly recommend Progress...
Kevin installed our new dishwasher in record time - I'm sure his next job could be on a pit crew for NASCAR. Additionally, the job was performed professionally - clean and patient with operation instructions for first use. Excellent job - highly recommend Progressive for appliance installs. Like
By Craig B. on 12/24/19
Excellent service from start to finish... very through; they even checked prior Samsung installations to make sure they were done right
By Rick J. on 12/23/19
Jimmie provided excellent service mitigating my water leak. He is courteous a true professional.
By Alan S. on 12/20/19
Kevin performed exceptionally well with the installation of a microwave oven and toilet. He was quick, pleasant and went out of his way to be helpful. Kevin was the best!
By David B. on 12/13/19
Called at 9:28 tonight phone is still ringing 877 325 0180, not a peep over 14 mins.
By Mary L. on 12/09/19
Cody and Joey Did a perfect Job! They were so courteous! Went above and beyond to help! Difficult situation went smoothly! I would recommend them to anyone! Thank you Cody and Joey! Make sure you use Cody C
By Eric D. on 12/04/19
I needed a toilet install, so I used Progressive Service Company. I wasn't familiar with Progressive Company, but the company works with Lowe's and Home Depot. Anyway, Kevin and Shane of Progressive Service Company did a great job. The two removed my old toilet,...
I needed a toilet install, so I used Progressive Service Company. I wasn't familiar with Progressive Company, but the company works with Lowe's and Home Depot. Anyway, Kevin and Shane of Progressive Service Company did a great job. The two removed my old toilet, installed the new one, and explained the installation warranty. I thought the toilet installation would take a lot longer but they were finished in no time, and I was able to make my meeting for work. If you need a toilet install, I highly recommend them.
By Kimberly B. on 12/04/19
Extremely pleased with this team!! Were punctual and kind and very informative! Highly recommend!!
By Eileen F. on 12/02/19
Kevin C. was courteous, efficient, and overall did an excellent job. Thank you.
By Mary H. on 12/02/19
Kevin arrived on time and after assessing the work to be done, he promptly went to work removing the old dishwasher. He knew exactly what to do without having to glance at the installation manual before installing the new dishwasher. The dishwasher water hose deliv...
Kevin arrived on time and after assessing the work to be done, he promptly went to work removing the old dishwasher. He knew exactly what to do without having to glance at the installation manual before installing the new dishwasher. The dishwasher water hose delivered with the dishwasher was broken. Fortunately, he had one on his truck so there was no downtime to go get another one. Kevin was professional and pleasant. When he finished the installation, although there was hardly any debris on the floor, he offered to clean it up. He gave me a quick demo of how to use the new dishwasher before he left. Kevin reflects well on Progressive Service as a company that offers a very high level of service to its customers.
By Jim Moore- H. on 11/26/19
Out of the blocks they were very good, sincere and I felt good about it. But, when I called to get an update on my service call, which was scheduled for 10:00am to 1:00pm, 2 hours and 48 minutes had passed of their 3 hour window. I did receive a call 40 minutes ...
Out of the blocks they were very good, sincere and I felt good about it. But, when I called to get an update on my service call, which was scheduled for 10:00am to 1:00pm, 2 hours and 48 minutes had passed of their 3 hour window. I did receive a call 40 minutes later and the CSR stated that the service tech got tied up on he call before mine. They stated that I would get a call when he was on the way. Well, 3 more hours had passed, my day was blown so I called and cancelled. By the way...it was now 3:56pm...I
By Joseph L. on 11/23/19
Marcus Carter did a fantastic job installing dishwasher. Punctual to the minute, knowledgeable and friendly, answered all my questions, even showed me all the features like a car salesman. You can tell he’s a perfectionist.
By Leonard W. on 11/23/19
Noah M. of Progressive Service Company in Wake County, NC gets an A+ for his recent installation of a garbage disposal in our home in Raleigh. He was prompt, very polite, personable and knew his business in installing the disposal/incinerator. My wife and I salute...
Noah M. of Progressive Service Company in Wake County, NC gets an A+ for his recent installation of a garbage disposal in our home in Raleigh. He was prompt, very polite, personable and knew his business in installing the disposal/incinerator. My wife and I salute Progressive Service Company for having such a responsible and professional technician on their staff. Leonard & Janet Wilson
By LaTanya R. on 11/23/19
Excellent company
By Thomas E. on 11/14/19
5 star service. Great customer experience. Kevin C went above and beyond! Highly recommend.
By Kristina Trujillo S. on 11/14/19
Really helpful, super friendly, left no mess and installed dishwasher quickly. Great experience
By Kevin T. on 11/14/19
Shane B. was on time for both scheduled appointments, he was very professional and courteous and performed an outstanding plumbing job at my home. he answered all my questions with great feedback and helpful hints/suggestions to maintain the work that was done. I ...
Shane B. was on time for both scheduled appointments, he was very professional and courteous and performed an outstanding plumbing job at my home. he answered all my questions with great feedback and helpful hints/suggestions to maintain the work that was done. I would definitely use and recommend Progressive service company for plumbing needs.
By Kathy C. on 11/10/19
Best in class. Explained everything as it was done. Definitely will use them again
By Marybeth S. on 11/08/19
Noah installed our dishwasher today, he was amazing. Not only did he install the dishwasher, he replaced our sink valves and let my two little boys watch.
By michael c. on 11/05/19
darryl, and his crew (three gentlmen) were the best . whole house heat and air, and it was cold outside.start at 9am finish at 5pm.everything works and they did what had to be done.it is all new and works great. JUST LIKE IN THE OLD DAYS------------------------THAN...
darryl, and his crew (three gentlmen) were the best . whole house heat and air, and it was cold outside.start at 9am finish at 5pm.everything works and they did what had to be done.it is all new and works great. JUST LIKE IN THE OLD DAYS------------------------THANK YOU ALL PS. LISA IN THE OFFICE KNOWS TAKES ALL THE WOORIES OUT OF HAVING NO HEAT . THANK YOU.
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By Rice University | June 11, 2019
Antennas of Flexible Nanotube Films an Alternative For Electronics
Antennas made of carbon nanotube films are just as efficient as copper for wireless applications, according to researchers at Rice University’s Brown School of Engineering. They’re also tougher, more flexible and can essentially be painted onto devices. The Rice lab of chemical and biomolecular engineer Matteo Pasquali tested antennas made of “shear-aligned” nanotube films. The…
By Rice University | June 6, 2019
Molecular Bait Can Help Hydrogels Heal Wounds
Like fishermen, Rice University bioengineers are angling for their daily catch. But their bait, biomolecules in a hydrogel scaffold, lures microscopic stem cells instead of fish. These, they say, will seed the growth of new tissue to heal wounds. The team led by Brown School of Engineering bioengineer Antonios Mikos and graduate student Jason Guo…
By Rice University | May 28, 2019
Chemists Build a Better Cancer-Killing Drill
An international team of scientists is getting closer to perfecting molecule-sized motors that drill through the surface of cancer cells, killing them in an instant. Researchers at Rice University, Durham (U.K.) University and North Carolina State University reported their success at activating the motors with precise two-photon excitation via near-infrared light. Unlike the ultraviolet light…
New Way to Beat the Heat in Electronics
A nanocomposite invented at Rice University’s Brown School of Engineering promises to be a superior high-temperature dielectric material for flexible electronics, energy storage and electric devices. The nanocomposite combines one-dimensional polymer nanofibers and two-dimensional boron nitride nanosheets. The nanofibers reinforce the self-assembling material while the “white graphene” nanosheets provide a thermally conductive network that allows…
By Rice University | April 25, 2019
Coal Could Yield Treatment For Traumatic Injuries
Graphene quantum dots drawn from common coal may be the basis for an effective antioxidant for people who suffer traumatic brain injuries, strokes or heart attacks. Their ability to quench oxidative stress after such injuries is the subject of a study by scientists at Rice University, the Texas A&M Health Science Center and the McGovern…
Rice, Northwestern Find New Ways to Image, Characterize Unique Material
Graphene can come from graphite. But borophene? There’s no such thing as borite. Unlike its carbon cousin, two-dimensional borophene can’t be reduced from a larger natural form. Bulk boron is usually only found in combination with other elements, and is certainly not layered, so borophene has to be made from the atoms up. Even then,…
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3D Printed Tissues May Keep Athletes in Action
Bioscientists are moving closer to 3D-printed artificial tissues to help heal bone and cartilage typically damaged in sports-related injuries to knees, ankles and elbows. Scientists at Rice University and the University of Maryland reported their first success at engineering scaffolds that replicate the physical characteristics of osteochondral tissue – basically, hard bone beneath a compressible…
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Next Up: Ultracold Simulators of Super-Dense Stars
Rice University physicists have created the world’s first laser-cooled neutral plasma, completing a 20-year quest that sets the stage for simulators that re-create exotic states of matter found inside Jupiter and white dwarf stars. The findings are detailed this week in the journal Science and involve new techniques for laser cooling clouds of rapidly expanding…
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Mighty Morphing Materials Take Complex Shapes
Rice University scientists have created a rubbery, shape-shifting material that morphs from one sophisticated form to another on demand. The shapes programmed into a polymer by materials scientist Rafael Verduzco and graduate student Morgan Barnes appear in ambient conditions and melt away when heat is applied. The process also works in reverse. The smooth operation…
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Engineers Demonstrate Mechanics of Making Foam With Bubbles in Distinct Sizes
It’s easy to make bubbles, but try making hundreds of thousands of them a minute – all the same size. Rice University engineers can do that and much more. Rice chemical and biomolecular engineer Sibani Lisa Biswal and lead author and graduate student Daniel Vecchiolla have created a microfluidic device that pumps out more than…
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Light Triggers Gold in Unexpected Way
Rice University researchers have discovered a fundamentally different form of light-matter interaction in their experiments with gold nanoparticles. They weren’t looking for it, but students in the lab of Rice chemist Stephan Link found that exciting the microscopic particles just right produced a near-perfect modulation of the light they scatter. The discovery may become useful…
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A new technology that relies on a moth-infecting virus and nanomagnets could be used to edit defective genes that give rise to diseases like sickle cell, muscular dystrophy and cystic fibrosis. Rice University bioengineer Gang Bao has combined magnetic nanoparticles with a viral container drawn from a particular species of moth to deliver CRISPR/Cas9 payloads…
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Rice University scientists have found a simple method to attach drugs or other substances to antibodies, the powerful proteins that are central to the body’s immune system. The Rice lab of bioengineer Han Xiao developed a technique called pClick, which uses a cross-linker that snaps to a specific site on antibodies and serves as a…
By Rice University | October 25, 2018
Ice-Age Climate Clues Unearthed
How cold did Earth get during the last ice age? The truth may lie deep beneath lakes and could help predict how the planet will warm again. Sediments in lake beds hold chemical records of ages past, among them the concurrent state of the atmosphere above. Scientists led by a Rice University professor and her…
By Rice University | September 24, 2018
Study Sheds Light on—and Through—2D Materials
The ability of metallic or semiconducting materials to absorb, reflect and act upon light is of primary importance to scientists developing optoelectronics – electronic devices that interact with light to perform tasks. Rice University scientists have now produced a method to determine the properties of atom-thin materials that promise to refine the modulation and manipulation…
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Particles Pull Last Drops of Oil From Well Water
Oil and water tend to separate, but they mix well enough to form stable oil-in-water emulsions in produced water from oil reservoirs to become a problem. Rice University scientists have developed a nanoparticle-based solution that reliably removes more than 99 percent of the emulsified oil that remains after other processing is done. The Rice lab…
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Physicists Find Surprising Distortions in High-Temperature Superconductors
There’s a literal disturbance in the force that alters what physicists have long thought of as a characteristic of superconductivity, according to Rice University scientists. Rice physicists Pengcheng Dai and Andriy Nevidomskyy and their colleagues used simulations and neutron scattering experiments that show the atomic structure of materials to reveal tiny distortions of the crystal…
System Selectively Sequesters Toxins From Water
Rice University scientists are developing technology to remove contaminants from water – but only as many as necessary. The Rice lab of engineer Qilin Li is building a treatment system that can be tuned to selectively pull toxins from drinking water and wastewater from factories, sewage systems and oil and gas wells. The researchers said…
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Theorists Find Mechanism Behind Nearly Pure Nanotubes From the Unusual Catalyst
Growing a batch of carbon nanotubes that are all the same may not be as simple as researchers had hoped, according to Rice University scientists. Rice materials theorist Boris Yakobson and his team bucked a theory that when growing nanotubes in a furnace, a catalyst with a specific atomic arrangement and symmetry would reliably make…
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Just because an animal is soft and squishy doesn’t mean it isn’t tough. Experiments at Rice University show the humble hydra is a good example. The hydra doesn’t appear to age – and apparently never dies of old age. If you cut one in two, you get hydrae. And each one can eat animals twice…
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Borophene, the atomically flat form of boron with unique properties, is even more interesting when different forms of the material mix and mingle, according to scientists at Rice and Northwestern universities. Scientists at the institutions made and analyzed borophene with different lattice arrangements and discovered how amenable the varied structures are to combining into new…
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A System Purely for Developing High-performance, Big Data Codes
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Magnesium Magnificent for Plasmonic Applications
Rice University researchers have synthesized and isolated plasmonic magnesium nanoparticles that show all the promise of their gold, silver and aluminum cousins with none of the drawbacks. The Rice lab of materials scientist Emilie Ringe produced the particles to test their ability to emit plasmons, the ghostly electron bands that, when triggered by energy from…
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Statistics, Records and Reference Works
Featured content from Reading Australian Rules Football 2017
Comprehensive content from Reading the Game 2005
Works in this chapter include bibliographies, encyclopedias, dictionaries, compilations of records and statistics, or general football year books and annuals. Some club year books and annuals have been listed separately in the ‘Clubs – Major Leagues’ and ‘Clubs – Minor Leagues’ chapters.Reference works are typically those which provide brief information for the initial stages of research, or references to additional information or sources.
Works in this section are arranged alphabetically by author, or by title if their is no identifiable author.
Reading Australian Rules Football 2017 List (in preparation)
Reading the Game List 2005
The A.B.C. Football Guide and Register, Gordon & Gotch: Melbourne.
An annual guide first published in 1886 and similar in content to the earlier, The Footballer: An Annual Record of Football in Victoria, circa 1875-1879 The A.B.C. guide contained fixtures for senior and junior level football, club notes, which later expanded to very short club histories, season reviews, analyses of team performances and the obligatory reproduction of the laws of the game. The State Library of Victoria holds microform copies for most issues published from 1886 to 1895 and some original copies. The Guide was published initially by Gordon and Gotch and then from 1895 by the Melbourne Sports Depot. It is not clear when it ceased publication, but a later production, The Victorian Football Follower, contained advertisements for the A.B.C. Guide in 1908 issues, advising that copies of the A.B.C. Guide could be obtained from the Melbourne Sports Depot in Elizabeth Street, Melbourne. TH.
The Argus and the Australasian Football Guide, The Argus: Melbourne, 1931.
The Argus Football Guide 1937, The Argus & Australasian Ltd.: Melbourne, 1937.
Atkinson, Graeme, Everything You've Ever Wanted to Know About Australian Rules Football, but Couldn't Be Bothered Asking, Five Mile Press: Canterbury, Vic., 1982.
An excellent, imaginative and comprehensive compilation of records, statistics and trivia relating to elite-level competitions in all states and the VFA between the 1850s and the date of publication in 1982. The section titled 'The Good Old Days' has an interesting selection of match reports, old rules, coaching advice and recollections from the early days of football. Useful for trivia buffs and researchers. TH.
Atkinson, Graeme, Hanlon, Michael, 3AW Book of Footy Records: All the Great Players, Matches, Goals, Kicks, Brawls and Sensations from More Than 100 Years of Aussie Rules in Australia, Matchbooks: South Melbourne, 1989.
A comprehensive and fascinating collection of football records, statistics, anecdotes, famous incidents and football innovations. Examines all senior football competitions in Australia, including the VFL, SANFL, WAFL, VFA and senior football in other states, with some notable references to junior competitions. This is one of the better publications of this type, with some black and white pictures included. TH.
Australian Rules Football, Associated Publishers: Adelaide, 1963.
A typical year book which includes features such as 'Football Milestones', 'Giants of the Past', 'State and Club Records', 'Brownlow and Magarey Medalists', as well as season previews, an article about dwindling crowds in South Australia and the story behind Ian Mackay's famous mark taken in the SANFL Grand Final of 1952. TH.
Australian Football League, AFL the Great Australian Game: The Essential Guide to Understanding the AFL Game, AFL: Melbourne, 2001.
Also published in 2000. TH.
Australian Football League, A Guide to Australian Football, Australian Football League: Melbourne, 1997.
Bartlett, Kevin, Kevin Bartlett's Book of Football: Stories, Statistics, Trivia, Five Mile Press: Noble Park, Vic., 1995.
Bartrop, Paul R. & Australia 1788-1988: A Bicentennial History, Scores, Crowds and Records: Statistics on the Victorian Football League since 1945, Historical Statistics Monograph, History Project Incorporated: Kensington, NSW, 1984.
Bartrop, Paul R., Australia 1788-1988: A Bicentennial History, & History Project Incorporated, Scores, Crowds and Records: Statistics on the Victorian Football League since 1945, Historical Statistics Monograph, History Project Incorporated: Kensington, NSW, 1986.
Blair, Peter R., Brownlow Medal Records, Allsport: Toorak, Vic., 1976.
Blair, Peter R., History of the Brownlow Medal: Fairest and Best, Sabey & Associates: Hawthorn, Vic., 1997.
The story of every Brownlow medal winner, with full voting tallies for each season from 1924 to 1996, short articles by Jon Anderson on various aspects of Brownlow history and an introductory chapter about Charles Brownlow. Includes three pages of statistics, as well as black and white pictures of all winners and an index. An earlier edition was published in 1976 with the title Brownlow Medal Records. TH.
Bowen, Nick & Salttery Media Group, Australian Football League Official Fixture Guide 2011, Slattery Media Group: Docklands, Vic., 2010.
Boyle and Scott (Firm), Boyle and Scott's Footballers' Pamphlet for 1891: Containing Revised Rules of Football; Diagram Showing Position of Players on the Field; VFA. Club Fixtures for Season; and Price List of Football Material, etc: Melbourne Pater & Knapton, Printers, 1891.
Campbell, R. H., Football Facts, Speciality Press: Melbourne, 1928.
Canberra Australian National Football League, Handbook 1966, CANFL, Canberra, 1966.
Clement, Dave, Facts and Figures from 100 Years of Australian Rules Football, Printed by Sands & McDougall: Perth, WA, 1967.
Collins, Traven, The Easy A-Z Footy Book: In the Age of the Drop Punt, Bookmen Press: Melbourne, 1994.
A pocket sized dictionary of words and expressions, with brief descriptions of their meanings but no etymological content. TH.
Conway, Sean & Seddon, Ron, Aussie Rules Ok: A Dictionary of Australian Rules Football, Sky Pub.: Padbury, WA, 1989.
Hundreds football words or expressions are explained, ranging from cliches and slang, to more straightforward terms such as 'pass', 'goal', 'boots' and positional terms such as 'Rover' and ‘Rucks’. It includes most terms which are peculiar to Australian Rules football, such as 'behinds', 'ride', 'had the sit', 'crumbs' and 'blind turn'. There are omissions, such as 'white maggots', 'straight down the guts', 'across the face' (of goal) and 'pack'. Some entries are merely popular Australian expressions such as 'Ave a go yer mug'. Lacks etymological content for popular linguistic terms, such as 'barracking' and 'ocker'. Includes a mixture of older and more contemporary terms, including old and new nicknames for VFL, SANFL and WAFL clubs and contains several cartoons and a useful index. TH.
Country Football 95, Eclipse Sports Publishers: Northcote, Vic., 1996.
A comprehensive record of country football in Victoria in 1995, including a short season overview for every league and summaries of all team performances for senior, reserve and under 18 age teams, as well as Grand Final reports and results of all finals series and final ladder positions. 53 leagues are featured in an excellent publication which does not seem to have been published beyond its first edition. TH.
De Lacy, H. A., The Sporting Globe Football Book: Instructive, Informative, Pictorial: A Record of Australian Football, Printed and published by Edgar H. Baillie for the Herald and Weekly Times: Caulfield [Vic.], 1946.
An early football publication with a range of feature articles, instructional pieces and a guide for football fans, in a structure common to early football books. Contents include articles on how to play the game written by coaches and star players of the era, statistics, records, fixtures, ground details, team colours, a chronology of the game and some articles on the history of the game. Contains some coverage of interstate football and an article by Haydn Bunton comparing football in the different states. Also published in 1948 and released in 1953 and 1954 as The Sporting Globe Football Annual: Informative Pictorial Record of Australian Football. TH.
Denham, Greg & Bond, Graeme, Football Year 95: A Record of the 1995 Australian Football League Season, Pagemasters: Carlton, Vic., 1995.
Devaney, John, Full Points Footy. Volume One: Encyclopedia of Australian Football Clubs, Full Points Publications: [Lincoln, England], 2008.
Devaney, John, Full Points Footy's SA Football Companion, Full Points Publications: [Lincoln, England], 2008.
Devaney, John, Full Points Footy's Tasmanian Football Companion, Full Points Publications: [Lincoln, England], 2009.
Devaney, John, Full Points Footy's WA Football Companion, Full Points Publications: [Lincoln, England], 2008.
Donnelly, Jack, Football Guide 1947, W.R. Rolph: Launceston, 1947.
Review of Australian Triennial Carnivals, complete with records and detailed scores of all games played since 1908; records, scores and interesting facts associated with all State premiership and intrastate games; TFL, NTFA, NWFU, Huon Association, VFL, VFA. and SA League roster match results in 1946; careers and photographs of great players and teams. Publisher’s blurb.
Downes, Stephen, Ross, John, & Hutchinson, Garrie, The Whole Australian Football Catalogue: The A-Z of All Things AFL, HarperSports: Sydney, 2001.
An encyclopedia of VFL/AFL football with occasional references to non-Victorian personalities and topics. There are entries for significant players, coaches, administrators, media personalities, teams, incidents, football terminology, grounds, tactics, skills, records and awards, footy politics and issues and the organisation of the game. The entries range from a few sentences to almost a page and several black and white images supplement the text. TH.
Dunstan, Keith & Hook, Jeff, Footy, an Aussie Rules Dictionary, Sun Books: Melbourne, 1983.
A satirical A to Z look at Australian Rules Football. It is written by Ketih Dunstan, author, journalist and founder of the Anti-Football League - a charity organisation that pretends there are better things to do on Saturday afternoons. TH.
ESPA Savings Bank, Football, History, Rules Records, Facts, Fixtures, The Bank: Melbourne, 1963.
A 30 page booklet with VFL and VFA fixtures, statistics and records, a historical overview of the game, ‘hints for juniors’ and the laws of the game. Authorised by the Australian National Football Council. Also published in 1962. TH.
Eagleson, Robert D., McKie, Ian, & University of Sydney. Australian Language Research Centre, The Terminology of Australian National Football, Sydney University Australian Language Research Centre Occasional Paper, 3 vols, Australian Language Research Centre, University of Sydney: [Sydney], 1968.
An academic study by the Australian Language Research Centre Project, based at Sydney University, which used Australian Rules football as a case study to investigate the development of the English language in Australia and its connection with social activity. Part of the project was the compilation of a glossary of football and the identification of regional variations in terminology. Published in three parts as part of a series of Occasional Papers. TH.
Ferguson, Ian & Kingsbury, Brad, 'Chewy on Ya Boot!': Aussie Footy Dictionary, Brolga: Melbourne, 2006.
Fiddian, Marc, Ladders without Snakes, Raccoon Tail Books: Forest Hill, Vic., 2009.
Fine, Mark & Browne, Ashley, The Book of Footy Lists, Slattery Media Group: Docklands, Vic., 2011.
Football Digest: The Story of Post-War League Football, 1946-1961, Platypus Press: [Melbourne], 1962.
A general reference book which includes complete statistics for 'post war' football between 1946 and 1961. Other sections include club profiles, star player profiles for 1961, coaching notes by Melbourne star Brian Dixon and an overview of the growth of the game during this period. The statistics section includes a record of 'sharp shooting' teams and some black and white pictures are reproduced. TH.
Footy Facts 2007, Forrester Systems: Bentleigh, Vic.
Football Victoria, Australian Football: Our Game: A Reference Guide to the Development of Australian Football in Victoria, Football Victoria: Jolimont, Vic., 2005.
Gabbe, Belinda & Deakin University, School of Human Movement, Tackling Australian Football Injuries: A Review of the Literature, Research Report / Deakin University, School of Human Movement, Deakin University, School of Human Movement: [Burwood, Vic.], 1998.
Gleeson, Michael, AFL 2002: The Official Yearbook, Harper Collins: Sydney, 2002.
Gleeson, Michael, Diary of a Season: AFL 03: Every Team, Every Game, Every Issue, HarperSports: Pymble., NSW, 2003.
Hanna, Glynis & Footscray Institute of Technology Library, Australian Football Literature 1960-1980, Footscray Institute of Technology Library: [Footscray, Vic.], 1981.
Harms, John, Daffey, Paul, & Malarkey Publications., The Footy Almanac 2010, Viking: Camberwell, Vic., 2010.
First published in 2007? Annual publication. Also online. TH.
Harris, Jim & Bergin, Brian, Aussie Rules Dictionary, Rigby: Adelaide, 1983.
Hayman, Dion, Russo, Steve, & South Australian National Football League, The Complete Book of SANFL Records, D. Hayman: Prospect, SA, 1990.
Hibberd, Jack and Hutchinson, Garrie, The Barracker's Bible: A Dictionary of Sporting Slang, McPhee Gribble: Melbourne, 1983.
This dictionary was styled as a ‘glossary of sporting terms, jargon and slang that enjoy currency in Australia' and includes a great number of Aussie Rules terms, as well as prominent terms used in various codes of football played throughout the nation. Each term is identified by an abbreviated code, such as 'AR' for Australian Rules football. Some archaic words are included, with most terms in common use at the time of publication. Helpfully, this dictionary provides examples of word usage with various quotations or sentences, providing guidance on the meaning or context of football slang. This volume also includes comical illustrations by Noel Counihan and Barry Dickens. TH.
Hogan, Tim & Australian Society for Sports History, Reading the Game: An Annotated Guide to the Literature and Films of Australian Rules Football, ASSH Studies, Australian Society for Sports History: Melbourne, 2005.
Holmesby, Russell & Main, Jim, The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: Every Adelaide AFL Player Ever (and All Other AFL Clubs), The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: Club Editions, BAS Publishing: Melbourne, 2004.
Club editions for all AFL clubs for this standard reference work. TH.
Holmesby, Russell & Main, Jim, The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: Every AFL/VFL Player since 1897, 5th Ed., Crown Content: Melbourne, Victoria, 2003.
An invaluable record of every VFL/AFL player since the inception of the league in 1897. Each entry contains a brief summary of the player's career, including the number of games played for all clubs, goals scored and list of major achievements and awards. Most players with more than a handful of games contain a brief written record of their career, while more prominent, infamous, or colourful players receive longer entries. Recent editions have given larger entries for current and more famous players. More recognition has also been given to players who played a handful of VFL/AFL games but were particularly prominent in other states, such as Western Australian great Jack Sheedy. First published in 1992 with multiple subsequent editions. TH.
Hunt, Paula & Manton, Glenn, Mongrel Punts and Hard Ball Gets: An A-Z of Footy Speak, Red Dog: Fitzroy, Vic., 2006.
Hunt, Rex, Rex Hunt Presents the Football Bible 94, Crossbow Publishing: Jolimont, Vic. Moss Vale, NSW, 1993.
Hutchinson, Col, Lovett, Michael, & Sinclair, Cameron, AFL Record 2005 Guide to Season: The Official Statistical History of the AFL - a Publication of the Australian Football League, Australian Football League Publishing/Geoff Slattery Publishing Pty Ltd: [Sydney], 2005.
Jervis, Bob & Agars, Merv, The South Australian Football Year Book, Printers' Associates: Adelaide, SA.
Junior Football Council of Victoria, Handbook 1978, Supreme: North Melbourne, Vic., 1978.
Laidlaw, Robert, Platten, John, Cornwall, Peter, & Jarman, Andrew, Platts' and Jars' SA Footy Year Book 2000, Evanston Gardens Robert Laidlaw, 2000.
Limb, Ivon & Pagoda, Charles, Footy's No Joke: A Humorous, Satirical Explanation of the Aussie Rules Idiom, IGL Enterprises: Adelaide, 1986.
Lines, Peter, Encyclopedia of South Australian Country Football Clubs, Peter Lines: Cowell, SA., 2008.
Lovett, Michael, AFL Record Season Guide 2011: The Official Statistical History of the AFL, Slattery Media Group: Melbourne, 2011.
A comprehensive guide to the AFL 2011 season with an exhaustive statistical history of the VFL/AFL competition. This is a publication which has greatly expanded since its first publication in 1996 and includes a detailed summary of the previous season, a preview of the forthcoming season, a guide to all current clubs, players, coaching and support staff, league officials and grounds, very short player profiles for all current players and a full record of the player draft since its inception. Also includes laws of the game, draft and salary cap regulations. Preceded by the smaller, but similar annual AFL Media Guide published between 1992 and 1995 and the Official VFL Year Books published throughout the 1980s. Includes black and white photographs and an index. TH.
Lovett, Michael & Australian Football League, AFL Finals '99: The Official Finals Statistical History of the AFL, Australian Football League: [Melbourne], 1999.
Main, Jim & Dunn, John, Footy Annual, Lansdowne Press: Melbourne, 1967.
A detailed record of club and league statistics and player awards in the VFL competition. Includes a chronological history of Australian Rules football, Australian championship details, some records from the VFA and interstate competitions and various statistical oddities. This publication aimed to be the Wisden of Australian football and mirrored that publication by including a selection of the 'Five Footballers of the Year'. TH.
Main, Jim & Piesse, Ken, Holden Football Handbook: Celebrating 125 Years of Football, Wedneil: Melbourne, 1983.
Contains profiles and statistics for all VFL clubs and includes photographs of most regular senior players and coaches for all clubs. There are brief summaries of Brownlow medallists and the top twenty players who didn't win the Brownlow. TH.
Main, Jim & Piesse, Ken, The A to Z of Football, Wedneil Publications: Melbourne, 1982.
McDonald, John, Bond, Graeme, Football Year 94: A Record of the 1994 Australian Football League Season, 4th Ed., Pagemasters: Richmond, Vic., 1994.
First published in 1991. Annual publication. TH.
Mid Gippsland Football League, Mid Gippsland Fl Results, 1935 to 1988: Seniors, The League: [Gippsland, Vic.], 1988.
Mundy, B. J., BJ's Clubstats, All new revised edition, B.J. Enterprises: [Adelaide], 1986.
The Official AFL 1998 Footy Album, Sunday Times: Perth, WA, 1998.
Petkovski, Suzi, Drop Punts and Torpedoes: The Best Ever Footy Quotes, Random House Australia: North Sydney, NSW, 2007.
This books remembers all the aspects of AFL that footy fans love - the champions, the coaches, the media, the long goals, the high marks, the wins, the losses, and, of course, the biffo. Suzi Petkovski has collected quotes, commentary and phrases from across all the glory days of AFL and it will come right up to the grand final this year. Publisher’s blurb.
Piesse, Ken, The Complete Guide to Australian Football, Sun: Chippendale, NSW, 1993.
Piesse, Ken, The Complete Guide to Australian Football, Rev. Ed., Ironbark, Pan Macmillan Australia: Sydney, 1995.
Port Adelaide Football Club (SANFL), Coffey's Port Adelaide Football Year Book, McCallum Ltd.: Adelaide.
Power, T. P. & Victorian Football Association, The Footballer: An Annual Record of Football in Victoria, Henriques and Co.: Melbourne, 1875.
This is a very early annual football publication, providing a guide to the current season with some information about the features of the game. The contents include some details of the administrative structure of the VFA, including a list of office bearers and the laws of the game. A list of city, suburban and country clubs in Victoria provides details of club membership numbers, formation dates, team colours, office bearers and team player lists, with brief notes about all players. There are also inter-colonial match reports, review articles, statistics on the previous Melbourne provincial and school football seasons and a short account of the Framlingham Aboriginal football team. Original and photocopied issues are held by the State Library of Victoria for 1875, 1876 and 1879. Issues for 1879 were published by the Victorian Football Association. TH.
Roberts, Michael & Winkler, Michael, The Official AFL Yearbook 2000: All the Season's Stars, Stats and Stories, Viking: Ringwood, Vic., 2000.
Earlier edition published 1999. TH.
Rodgers, Stephen, 100 Years of AFL Players, 3 vols, S. Rodgers: [Camberwell, Vic.], 1996.
Rodgers, Stephen, The Complete Book of VFL Records, S. Rodgers: [Maryborough, Vic.], 1987.
Rodgers, Stephen & Browne, Ashley, Every Game Ever Played: VFL/AFL Results 1897-1997, 6th Ed., Viking: Ringwood, Vic., 1998.
A record of every VFL/AFL match played, with quarter-by-quarter scores for every home-and-away and finals match and final ladder placings for each year. Each chapter includes a summary of the season with notes about major developments in the game, significant milestones, changes in grounds and a short account of the Grand Final. First published in 1983 as Tooheys Guide to Every Game Ever Played: VFL Results 1897-1982. TH.
Shop Assistants and Warehouse Employees' Federation of Australia. Victorian Branch., The Shop Assistants' 1959 Football Guide, Victorian Branch of the Shop Assistants' Union: [Melbourne], 1959.
Slattery, Geoff, AFL '96: The Official Guide to Australia's Greatest Game, Hamlyn Australia, a part of Reed Books Australia: Port Melbourne, Vic., 1996.
South Australian National Football League, 2006 SA Football Media Guide, [SANFL]: [Adelaide, SA], 2005.
South Australian National Football League, Record Year Book, Percival Publishing.: Adelaide, SA.
Stoward, John, Australian Rules Football in Tasmania, J. Stoward: Hobart, 2002.
A comprehensive compendium of league premiers, club and league records and individual records for major awards such as league best and fairest winners and highest goal-kickers. Covers all Tasmanian senior, reserve grade and under 18 football competitions. TH.
Sun-Herald (Sydney NSW), The Sun-Herald Ultimate Football Guide 2001: League, Union, AFL, Sun-Herald: Sydney, 2001.
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Taylor, Kevin, Footystats: 2000 Edition: Australian Football League Statistics 1897-1999; a Comprehensive Study of League Football, ACP Action: Melbourne, 1999.
Taylor, Kevin, Main, Jim, & Australian Broadcasting Corporation, ABC Grandstand Footy Book 1996, ABC Books: Sydney, 1996.
A football 'companion' including statistics, round-by-round records, brief club histories, player lists for 1987-1995 and snippets of football trivia. TH.
3LO (Radio Station: Melbourne Vic.), Football Melbourne, 3LO Melbourne, Broadcasting Co. of Australia: Melbourne, 1927.
A pocket size guide for the VFL and VFA season, containing laws of the game, VFL and VFA teams and colours, a brief history of Australian Rules football, ground sizes, records and very brief schools and amateur football sections. Contains a photograph of 3LO broadcaster Rod McGregor Later editions published around 1928,1932, 1933 and 1935. TH.
1928 edition is online via State Library of Victoria.
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The Victorian Football Guide for 1892: Containing the Victorian Football Association Fixtures for 1892; Revised Rules of Football; Plan of the Playing Ground; Premiership Records for the Past Season, and Other Important Football Information, The Victorian Cricketing & Sports Co.: Melbourne, 1892.
Editions also published 1893 and 1894.
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Trust teams take to the turf
Community Trust enjoy opportunity to take to the Madejski Stadium pitch before renovations begin...
Once the professionals have finished with the pitch, there is often opportunity for others to tread the turf at Madejski Stadium before renovations to the pitch begin in earnest ahead of the new campaign.
And towards the end of last week, our Community Trust ran a series of soccer schools in the stadium bowl, giving all ages and abilities the chance to experience football on the hallowed turf.
Last Friday afternoon, disability programmes were run - and 11-a-side game took place between BCA college's SEND students and a Bobi XI.
The Bobi XI was made up of players from the local disability league, many of whom earned the opportunity to play through working with the Trust in the past through its EFL Trust-funded programme.
The BCA college side comprised of students our Trust see on a weekly basis through its SEND schools and college coaching programme.
At 5pm, a second 11-a-side game kicked off featuring players from the Trust's Health and Wellbeing team pitted against CFP Newbury - a team that the Community Trust have helped create through its programme; CFP Newbury have received 10 weeks' free coaching from qualified Trust coaches through another EFLT-funded initiative.
In total, more than 70 people with disabilities engaged in football on the Madejski Stadium pitch that day!
The previous day had seen girls take centre stage; an all-girls soccer school and girls development camps were run throughout the day, with a massive 95 participants enjoying the Madejski Stadium experience.
And in the morning we had played host to two more 11-a-side fixtures - part of the Advanced and Elite Games programme the Community Trust have taken part in since September.
The friendly league is played during each school holiday on a triangular tournament basis with each team having to host one event during the season.
Taking part were Coventry City, Northampton Town, Swindon Town, Oxford United, Luton Town, Stevenage, the Royals and two teams we hosted last week - Wycombe Wanderers and Woking.
First up our Under-14 Elite group played two 25 minute periods against both Wycombe and Woking. And then it was the turn of the Community Trust's Under-16s side.
The games proved competitive and, once the boys had got to grips with the large Madejski pitch, there was a high standard of football on display.
And it was another excellent opportunity at the end of the season for these teams to enjoy playing on a stadium pitch.
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Crosby Construction has been awarded an ambitious renovation project at Irwin Elementary School in Fort Wayne.
The $3.6 million renovation will encompass a 35,000-square-foot area and include a new HVAC system, water and sewer lines, electrical service, communication system, and Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)-approved elevator and exterior concrete access ramps. A new administration area, windows, doors, wall and floor finishes, and ceilings will be also be included in the project.
This is a two-phase project with a completion date for the first phase August 2014 and the second during the summer of 2015.
Located at 3501 South Anthony Boulevard, Irwin Elementary is part of Fort Wayne Community Schools. Built in 1927, the school is named for John S. Irwin, who served as superintendent of Fort Wayne Community Schools from 1875 to 1896.
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Charlene Nijmeh
Charlene Nijmeh has worked hard to build her company into a successful
commercial green enterprise that not only benefits the environment, delivers affordable clothing to the World's poor, but also helps support the creation of micro enterprises in developing countries that gives the most impoverished people a sustainable source of income that helps pulls them out of poverty.
As of Jan 2015, Charlene's company will divert over 25 million lbs of unwanted but recyclable textiles out of our nations landfills every year.
Of course the cause she most champions is the environment. Raised in a Native American household (the daughter of the Chairwoman of her tribe ) Charlene was raised to believe in the responsibility bestowed on the people of this Planet to protect mother Earth. Her love for the environment guided her to produce an educational green DVD that teaches students the importance of living a green lifestyle.
Rosemary Cambra
The daughter of farm workers whose older sister once marched with Cesar Chavez, Cambra says her coming of age as an activist came in 1969 when she was a young woman. That year, she and some friends with access to a fishing boat set sail for Alcatraz and briefly joined the landmark Native American protest occupation of the island.
About a decade later, she became the Muwekma's leader by default, she says, after many of the tribe's younger males, newly returned from the Vietnam War, were either too busy starting families or too disillusioned to take up the recognition struggle.
Norma Sanchez
Norma Sanchez, executive director of the tribal council of the local Muwekma, laments the millions needed to secure federal recognition, a feat beyond many tribes without bankrolled investors.
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Canada sanctions Saudis linked to Khashoggi killing
The move to be annouced at the G20 summit in Buenos Aires
Nov. 29, 2018 8:20 a.m.
Canada is imposing sanctions on Saudi Arabian nationals linked to the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland is announcing the move at a G20 summit in Buenos Aires.
RELATED: Trump says report on Khashoggi death expected in a few days
The sanctions freeze any assets the targets might have in Canada and says they cannot enter the country. The United States has already done something similar.
Freeland says the sanctions are designed to target individuals who, are in the opinion of the government, responsible for or complicit in the writer’s October killing.
Khashoggi was a critic of the Saudi monarchy. Though he was living in exile in the United States, he went to the Saudi consulate in Istanbul to get paperwork for his impending marriage and never came out.
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The Saudi government’s story about what happened has changed repeatedly, from questioning whether Khashoggi actually disappeared to admitting that he was killed by Saudi agents in what a prosecutor has called a bungled rogue operation to bring him back to Saudia Arabia.
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Rediff.com » Business » Investors: Beware of your broker
Investors: Beware of your broker
By Sanjay Kumar Singh
Last updated on: April 27, 2018 08:38 IST
If you leave too much money lying in your trading account or hand over your securities to brokers, there is always the risk that they could use it to trade in the markets.
Experts tell Sanjay Kumar Singh how investors can protect their funds and securities from misuse.
Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com
Biplab Sen (name changed on request), an Odisha-based investor, is one of those who has lost money due to a Gurgaon stockbroker defaulting on payouts to clients.
Sen had the first inkling of trouble when his trading terminal stopped working early in February.
When he called up the broker, he was told there were technical problems which would be resolved soon.
Despite a long wait and repeated phone calls, the terminal did not resume functioning, and later the broker too stopped responding.
Subsequently, the Bombay Stock Exchange declared the Gurgaon broker a defaulter.
The 90 clients of this broker that Das is in touch with have lost an estimated Rs 100 million (Rs 10 crore).
Total defaults are estimated at more than Rs 1 billion (Rs 100 crore).
It is suspected that the firm's promoters sustained losses in the markets, then tried to recover their money by trading more with clients' cash and shares, but failed. They are now absconding.
One reason such shenanigans occur is that clients sometimes agree to transfer securities from their demat account to the broker's pool account.
"Clients do so because brokers promise them an interest rate of 7 to 10 per cent for keeping their securities in the pool account," says Jatin Khemani, founder and chief executive officer, Stalwart Advisors, a Sebi-registered independent equity research firm.
By keeping more shares in his pool account, the broker can take bigger positions in the futures and options (F&O) segment.
"But the F&O segment is inherently volatile. One wrong investment decision can take the broker down. And if he has pledged your shares, you stand to lose too," says Khemani.
Sometimes, clients also keep their shares in the broker's pool account to get higher margins for the trades they wish to execute. They give stocks instead of cash.
Such handovers can prove risky.
The broker has access to any money lying in your trading account.
Those who trade regularly have no option but to keep considerable sums in their trading accounts.
The only precaution they can observe is to keep a close tab by checking their accounts regularly.
Buy-and-hold investors, who don't need the money daily, should transfer any excess sum to their bank account at the earliest.
Many brokers do proprietary trading, which means that they use their firm's capital to trade.
"Ideally there should be a firewall between clients' money and the firm's capital, but this is not always maintained in the real world," says K Vaidyanathan, lecturer of finance at the Indian School of Business.
The moment the broker sustains losses in proprietary trading, the temptation to use the funds or securities belonging to clients becomes too great.
It is best to keep both out of his reach.
If the broker's relationship manager asks you to allow him to trade on your behalf, and promises a high rate of return, reject such suggestions outright.
The broker's job is to execute buy and sell orders on your behalf.
"Don't give power of attorney (PoA) to your broker to trade," says Sandeep Parekh, founder, Finsec Law Advisors. If a PoA was given inadvertently at the time of filling up the form, it could be revoked at any time.
According to Vikas Singhania, executive director, Trade Smart Online, "If you need help regarding where to invest, take the mutual fund route, or pay a fee to a Sebi-registered investment advisor who deals in stocks."
When you sell shares, those shares have to be taken out of your demat account and handed over to the exchange.
One way you can give your broker the power to do so is by filling up a physical slip.
For most people, and especially those who trade frequently, this can prove cumbersome. So clients give a PoA that allows their broker to handle this task.
"Clients should give limited purpose PoA so that the broker can only transfer shares from their demat account to the exchange, and nowhere else," says Shrey Jain, founder, SAS Online, a Delhi-based discount broking firm.
Each time you buy or sell a share, you receive an SMS message both from the stock exchange and the depository.
The broker also sends a contract note at the end of the day. Study these documents closely.
If transactions have occurred without your permission, get in touch with the broker immediately.
"If you trade directly, you must take time out to go through the documents and SMS messages," says Singhania.
Mechanisms for redressing investor grievances are available both with the stock exchanges and the Securities and Exchange Board of India, the market regulator.
An exchange can impose penalties on the broker.
If widespread fraud is suspected, it can send a team to examine the broker's books, and in extreme cases, suspend his membership.
If you are not satisfied with the exchange's actions, complain to Sebi either online via SCORES (Sebi complaints redress system) or at one of its regional offices.
If you look at the list of brokers who have defaulted on client payouts in the recent past, most of them are smaller or medium-sized entities.
Hence, it may be wiser to stick to one of the national, or better known, entities.
If you decide to go with a smaller entity, get word of mouth feedback from a number of people about his professional integrity.
Also, check for how many years the broker has been in this business.
If he has survived several market cycles, it is a sign that his systems are robust.
The NSE lists both the number of clients that a broker has and the number of complaints against him.
If the proportion of complaints to clients is high, avoid that broker.
Finally, run an online check on the broker's reputation.
How to lodge a complaint in SCORES:
First approach the listed company or registered intermediary for redressal of complaint.
If this entity rejects the complaint, or does not respond, or if you are not satisfied with the reply, lodge a complaint on SCORES.
From August 1, 2018, investors will have to lodge a complaint on SCORES within three years from the date of cause of complaint.
File your complaint by going to the Sebi Web site, and then to Investor corner/complaint registration.
A PDF document of up to 2 MB size can also be attached to support the complaint.
On successful submission, you will get a unique registration number, which should be mentioned in future correspondence.
If you are not able to register a complaint online, send it by post to any of the Sebi offices.
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Lathallan School takes on The Duke of Edinburgh’s Diamond Challenge
written by Chantelle Kelly June 3, 2016
The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Charity (DofE) is celebrating its Diamond Anniversary throughout 2016, having supported millions of young people in the UK and across the globe to achieve DofE Awards since it was founded in 1956.
Lathallan School is getting into the spirit by taking on the DofE Diamond Challenge – a one-off initiative organised by The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award (DofE) in celebration of their Diamond Anniversary.
The entire senior school from Lathallan – all 135 pupils – will be undertaking a day hike up Ben Nevis on 10 June 2016. Not only is Lathallan School keen to promote outdoor learning, it also has the highest uptake of Duke of Edinburgh pupils in the country.
Headmaster Richard Toley said: “This is a fantastic opportunity to celebrate the Duke of Edinburgh Award scheme in its Diamond Jubilee year. As the school with the largest percentage of DofE uptake in Scotland, we wanted to combine our passion for outdoor learning with a special event such as this, and taking on Ben Nevis is the perfect challenge”.
Barry Fisher, Director of Duke of Edinburgh in Scotland will be joining Lathallan School on their ascent. He said: “I am absolutely delighted to be taking part in Lathallan’s Diamond Challenge event – climbing up the UK’s highest peak with pupils and teachers. Lathallan have grown to be one of the most successful DofE’s groups in Scotland in a very short period of time and have a tremendous commitment to the DofE programme within the school and the DofE Charity itself. The Diamond Challenge will help the DofE Charity raise important money to enable more young people to benefit from the programme and we are delighted that Lathallan were one of the first Licensed Organisations to support this initiative”.
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Lava Etab Xtron review
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As more Indian brands explore the Android tablets segment, consumers are getting access to devices that sport decent specifications, and run the latest version of the OS, at attractive price points. We’ve recently seen Acer launching a 7-inch budget tablet running Jelly Bean, and now we have Lava launching its first Jelly Bean tablet, the Etab Xtron, in the Indian market, for Rs. 6,499. We take an in-depth look at the tablet.
Unlike the Acer Iconia B1, the Etab Xtron exudes a feeling of durability, with its solid build. The 7-inch tablet looks compact yet sturdy. The front of the tablet features a 7-inch screen, which is surrounded by a large bezel. You’ll also spot a front shooter right at the middle.
The back of the tablet is made of polycarbonate but has been given a brushed aluminium finish. The frame extends to the front, and adds to the design of the tablet. A microSD card slot and a 3.5mm headphone jack sits on the top, while there are no ports on the bottom.
The power button, a volume rocker, and a refresh/’return to home screen’ button, a micro-USB port and a microphone are located at the right hand side of the tablet. There are labels or markings for these ports and buttons at the back. There’s some Lava branding at the bottom left corner of the back and Xtron branding at the middle. The speaker grill is also placed at the top left corner of the back.
The 7-inch TFT display comes with a resolution of 1024×600 pixels, which is decent compared to other 7-inch budget tablets in the segment. Images and videos looked good but text, specially with smaller font size was not very legible. The screen brightness is average, and although we found that it’s reflective to some extent, visibility under sunlight was not bad. The display has an IPS panel that facilitates wider viewing angles, which essentially means that more than one person can view content playing on the screen properly, even from different angles. We found that this holds true in the case of the Lava Etab Xtron, and we were able to view media playing on the screen from different angles. The touch sensitivity is good, and we didn’t encounter any issues while using the device.
Software/ Interface
The Lava Etab Xtron runs Android 4.1 – Jelly Bean, the latest iteration of the operating system, and doesn’t include any custom skin. It’s a stock build of the OS bundled with a few third party apps including music streaming app, Saavn, a file browser, an app for Video-on-demand service, BigFlix, education app EduKart, PingPong- a game, a video player and a local deals and search app, UAhoy. We like the fact that there’s no bloatware.
The Etab Xtron is one of the few tablets that runs Jelly Bean. Unlike the Nexus 7, the tablet’s onscreen controls are on the bottom left instead of the centre, and the notification panel and quick access settings (for Wi-Fi, Screen rotation, brightness, sound and shortcut to settings) are located at the bottom right.
During our use, we didn’t notice much lag while navigating through menus, and Google’s much touted ‘Project Butter’ makes the overall experience more responsive than tablets running Ice Cream Sandwich.
The other major feature that Jelly Bean brings is ‘Google Now’, a voice based information assistant and an extension of Google search. You can ask questions and the tool returns answers or search results. It uses ‘cards’ which are essentially small boxes that offer different sets of information ranging from weather forecast, directions, traffic information, scores, appointments, and currency conversion, among others. Google Now collects information based on the user’s behaviour, location and even email to offer information, automatically.
We’re not sure if the tablet will get updated to Jelly Bean 4.2, but if it does, features like multi-user accounts (different profiles and access for different users) and lock-screen widgets would also come to the tablet.
The tablet comes with a 2-megapixel front-facing camera. Although, personally we’re no fans on using tablets for clicking needs, some may miss having a rear camera that can be used for taking casual shots or just for scanning some documents. The pictures that we clicked with the front camera, indoors, were decent. The camera does a decent job when used for making video calls over Skype or other video chat apps.
Performance/ Battery Life
The tablet is powered by a 1.5 GHz Cortex A9 dual-core processor, a Mali-400 GPU and 1 GB of RAM. We did not encounter any crashes while working on this tablet and multitasking was comfortable. We also did not notice much lag and were able to play tablet optimised games and HD video clips, without a hitch as the bundled video player supports all major video file formats. The tablet comes with the native Android browser and renders all webpages well. Adobe Flash is pre-installed allowing the browser to display Flash videos, banners and other elements. The speakers on the tablet deliver good quality sound at even high volume levels but the output through the speaker grill was not very loud. There’s no voice calling but the major omission is Bluetooth connectivity. We’re not sure why Lava had to exclude it since most major Android devices offer this functionality, and consumers might use it for wireless file transfers or for connecting a wireless input device. However, we see a lot of budget tablets these days ship without Bluetooth and we’re not convinced it’s a good trend.
The tablet comes with a 3,500 mAh battery and we were not very happy with the backup that it offered, specially when playing multimedia files. We were able to get around 3.5 hours of video playback, with the display on full brightness levels. The standby time with push notifications and emails on was decent, though. With intermediate usage during the day, we were able to get a day of backup.
The Lava Etab Xtron is a decent tablet. At a price of Rs. 6,499, it offers a good package with decent hardware, compact form factor, a screen that supports wide angled viewing and the latest version of Android, Jelly Bean. It’s a good value for money proposition. It’s also interesting to look at if you’re looking for an e-reader or for a device for browsing the web.
Looking at competing devices, the Acer Iconia B1-A71 is also an interesting 7-incher, which also offers Bluetooth connectivity, but is inferior in terms of build quality and costs more. If you’re looking for a tablet that also offers voice calling, the Huawei Mediapad Lite is another good option available, but you’d need to shell out around Rs. 7,000 extra. The Wickedleak Wammy Desire is another 7-inch tablet running Jelly Bean, available at a price of Rs. 6,800.
Runs Jelly Bean
Good performance
Decent build quality
Battery life could have been better
No Bluetooth
Ratings (Out of 5)
Design: 3.5
Display: 3
Performance: 3.5
Software: 4
Battery Life: 2.5
Camera: 2
Ecosystem: 3.5
Value for Money: 3.5
Overall: 3.5
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"A Passage Through Memory" (2016) by Jose Antonio Aguirre
"A Place for Everything and Everything in its Place" (1993) by David Bunn
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"A Tribute to Industry" (1994) by Horace Washington
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"Above and Beyond" (2002) by Guy Angelo Wilson
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"Aerial Plaza" (2010) by Carl Cheng
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"Angel Train" (1995) by Patrick Mohr
"Angelus" (2017) by Robert Vargas
"Anthony Quinn" or "The Pope of Broadway" (1984) by Eloy Torrez
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"Aquarius" (1969) by Jerome Kirk
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"Arnold Schwarzenegger" (2013) by Jonas Never
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"Azusa Horticultural Paradise" (2016) by Lynn Goodpasture
"Azusa Light & Water" (2001) by di Giacomo
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"Balance" (2006) by Kathleen Caricof
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"Baldy View" (2014) by Alba Honoré Cisneros
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"Basket Dancer" (1987) by Glenna Maxey Goodacre
"Beach Scenes" (1970) by Millard Sheets
"Beachball" (2007) by Romero Britto
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"Belltower" (2014) by Mark Bradford
"Ben Carlson" (2016) by Jake Janz
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"Birds" (c. 2013) by Jeff Morse
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"Blue Line Totems in Red" (1994) by Roberto Salas
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"Boom Boom Peal Step From Ocean Hill" (2017) by Michael Stutz
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"Bus Home" (2002) by Dennis Oppenheim
"But When The Thaw Comes" (2002) by Mark Venaglia
"Butterfly Cluster" (2005) by Anita Margrill
"Caballeros Gate" (2003) by Paul Hobson
"Cabrillo's Discovery of California" (1932) by Dean Cornwell
"California Coyote" (2017) by John Mahoney
"California Landscape" (1937) by Milford Zornes
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"Canto 79" (1979) by Joseph L. Young
"Canyon Chess and Checkers" (1981) by Marlo Bartels
"Canyon Preserve" (2006) by Michele Taylor
"Canyon Spirits" (2000) by Ralph Tarzian
"Canyon Walkers" (2018) by Brittany Ryan
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"Carlsbad Golfers" (2007) by T. J. Dixon and James Nelson
"Celestial Chance" (1995) by Sally Weber
"Celluloid" (1959) by Merrell Gage
"Centennial Bench" (2004)
"Cerritos Air Disaster Memorial" sculpture (2006) by Kathleen Caricof
Cerritos Veterans Memorial (2006) by James T. Russell
Cesar E. Chavez Memorial (2013) by Ignacio Gomez
"Chain Reaction" (1991) by Paul Conrad
"Chandeliers" or "Natural, Technological, Ethereal" (1993) by Therman Statom
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"Children in Flight" (1995) by Tom Farrange
"Children's Mural" (1978) by Daniel Alonzo
"China Alley Memorial" (2004) by Qi Pang and Songyun Guo
"Chinatown Mosaics" (c. 1968)
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"Christopher Columbus" (1973) by Francesco Perotti
"Citrus Roots" (2001) by Art Mortimer
"Citrus Traditions" (1997) by Frank Matranga
"City Above" (1991) by Terry Schoonhoven
"City of Dreams" (1996) by Richard Wyatt
Civic Clock Tower (1971)
"Claremont Village Mural" (2000) by Art Mortimer
"Classic View" (2013) by Meghann Nelsen
"Coastal Helix" (2014) by Roger White Stoller
"Coastal Rail Trail Benches" (circa 2004) by Alber de Matteis
"Coffee Cup" (date and artist unknown)
"Cognizance" (1985) by Bill Bedford
"Colors of the Canyon" (2013) by Marsh Scott
"Companions" (1995) by Mineko Grimmer
"Composition in Stainless Steel and Bronze No. Eleven" (1987) by Gidon Graetz
"Compton: Past, Present and Future" (1995) by Eva Cockcroft
"Conductor and Ballerina" (2009) by Hacob Jambazian
"Conductor's Pocket Watch" (1994) by Rod Baer
"Cone" (1995) by Cosimo Pizzuli
"Connector" (2006) by Richard Serra
"Contemplation" (2001) by T. J. Dixon
"Convergence" (2011) by Matt Dehaemers
"Conversations With Michael" (2015) by Giorgio Tuscani
"Coronado Plaza Tower" (2013) by CoSA Students
"Cougar III" (1996) by Gwynn Murrill
"Cougar Intaglio" (2008) by Gwynn Murrill
"Cougar Park Mural" (2015) by Art Mortimer
"Cougars I and II" (1991) by Gwynn Murrill
"Countdown Leader" (2007) by Brady Houghton
"Cradle" (2010) by Ball-Nogues Studio
"Craftsman Village" (2007) by Art Mortimer
"Crenshaw Stories" (1995) by Buzz Spector
"Crossed Currents" (1999) by Don Merkt
"Crown Lair" (1989) by Lloyd Hamrol
"Curved Air 7" (c. 1980) by Alexander
"Cyclist" (date and artist unknown)
Dabah sculpture (1972) by Simi Dabah
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"Dana Point" (2018) by Aleena Malik
"Dance Door" (1978; installed 1982) by Robert Graham
"Dance With the Midnight Moon" (2005) by Kevin Robb
"Dancing Gabrielenos" (1997) by Janet Tuck and Geraldine Waldman
"Dancing Partners" (date and artist unknown)
"Dawn to Dusk in the Estuary" (2005) by Harrison and Cartozian
"Declaration" (2001) by Mark di Suvero
"Defenders of the Union" (1906) by Theodora Ruggles Kitson
"Del Amo Wheel" (1999) by Colin Gray
"Desert Desert" (1989) by Michael Anderson
"Desert Star" (1992) by Robert Perless
"Desertscape" by Vista Elementary School students
"Dewey Weber" (2015) by Phil Roberts
"Different Strokes" (2009) by Paul Tsanetopoulos
"Digital Divide" (2009) by Dan Corson
"Disk Fountain" (1985) by Calvin Abe
"Dissimilar Equals" (1987) by Bill Bedford
"Dissimilar Equals" (circa 1987) by Bill Bedford
"Divine Order: The Manifestation of the Soaring Spirit" (1995) by Charles Dickson and Escudero-Fribourg Architects
"Diving Porpoise" (1962) by John Edward Svenson
"Dogs at Play" (2015) by Karena Massengill
"Dolphin Fountain" (date unknown)
"Dolphins" (1997) by George Lundeen
"Dominguez Field and the Famous Titans of Aviation" (2015) by Faustus Fernandez
"Dorothy" (2018) by Levi Ponce
Dosan Ahn Chang-Ho Memorial (2001) by Community Design Group
"Double Ascension" (1973) by Herbert Bayer
"Dragonfly" (2004) by Kevin Robb
"Dream Catcher" (2017) by Janet Echelman
"Dream Stream" (2001) by Anne Marie Karlsen
"Dreamer" (1991) by David L. Phelps
"Dreaming" (2016) by John Mahoney
"Drive-By Art" (1992) by Lars Hawkes
"Duke Paoa Kahanamoku" (1990) by Jan Gordon Fisher
"Eagles" (c.1999) by Gary Price
"Early Pomona Family" (1962) by Millard Sheets
"Echo Echo" (1996) by Guy Dill
"Edges and Ends" (2000) by Christopher Mercier and Tom Farrange
"Eggs" (1969) by Harold L. Pastorius
"Egremont II" (1972) by Herbert Ferber
"Eiler Larsen (The Laguna Greeter)" (1986) by Guy Angelo Wilson
"Einstein and Beyond" (1998) by Gifford Myers
"El Deseo de Progresar" (2004) by Ricardo Mendoza
"El Monte Legion Stadium Nocturne" (2014) by Vincent Ramos
"El Monte Station Murals" (2014)
"El Niño Perdido" (2009) by Alexandro de la Loza
"El Nuevo Fuego" (1985) by East Los Streetscapers
"El Quetzalcoatl de Xochicalco" (2003) by Roberto L. Delgado
"El Sol - The Sun" (1993) by Francisco Letelier
"Elations" (2017) by Poetic Kinetics
"Electric Fountain" (1931) by Robert Merrell Gage and Ralph Carlin Flewelling
"Elsinore Grand Prix" (2014) by Robin Golden
"Emerald Rings" (1992) by Harold L. Pastorius
"Enagua" (2015) by Ned Kahn
"Endangered Species" (1990) by Emily Winters
"Endangered" (1992) by Mark Stasz
"Endless Miles" (2018) by Rob Ley
"Endless V" (2012) by Jaume Plensa
"Enduring Heroes" (2017) by Christopher Slatoff
"Engraved in Memory" (2012) by Daniel Gonzalez
"Entry Arches" (1986) by R. M. Fischer
"Envisioning the Future" (2004) by Kevin Stewart-Magee
"Ephemeral Views: A Visual Essay" (2012) by Ronald J. Llanos
"Erratic" (2007) by Roxy Paine
"Escena Wind Wave" (2012) by Steve Rieman
"Espejos Abstractos" (1987) by Guy Dill
"Esprit" (c. 1990) by Patty Fiedler
"Eternal Smoke" (1987) by John Jagger
"Eternal Spring" (2000) by James T. Russell
"Eternal Sunset" (2003) by John Barber
"Euclid" (2002) by Victor Hugo Zayas
"Everyday People" (2003) by Pat Ward Williams
"Executive Action III" (2005) by Ed Benavente
"Exhibit A" (1992) by Mary Chomenko
"Extinción" (2015) by DourONE
"Eyes Open, Mind Open" (2017) by Shepard Fairey
"Faces of Elysian Valley" (2017) by Freyja Bardell and Brian Howe
"Facing the Sun" (2018) by Lauren Evans and Margaret Lazzari
"Failed Ideals" (1995) by Jim Isermann
"Falcon" (2002) by Michael Maiden
"Falling Water 3 7 & 5" by Jack Zajac
"Family" (2005) by Bruce Chaban
"Felipe De Neve" (1932) by Henry Lion
"Fields of Light" (2004) by Jacqueline Draeger
"Fiesta at a Mission" (circa 1928) by Albert Herter
"Fiesta" (2007) by Carol Gold
"Film Strip U.S.A." (1981) by Natalie Krol
"Fire Bird" (1986) by Richard Lippold
"Fire Break" (2012) by Garin Baker
"Fire Station 136 Series" (2008) by Jason Greene
"Fire Station 93 Series" (2008) by Jason Greene
"Firefighter Heritage" (2016) by Betsy Schultz
"Fireflies" and "Abby" (1999) by Jane DeDecker
"Five Elements" (2003) by Efrain Olivares
"Flight to Infinity" (1991) by Judith Shea
"Floating Dog and Flying Cat" (2016) by Mark Lere
"Florence Nightingale" (1937) by David P. Edstrom
"Flow" (2005) by May Sun
"Flower Tree" (2016) by Matt Wedel
"Flowers and Flames" (2008) by Christopher Lee
"Flying M" (1995) by Paul Wheeler
"Flying Morrison" (2013) by Jim Coke
"For The Conductor" (2010) by John Neumann
"For Your Intellectual Entertainment" (1995) by Daniel Martinez
"Fork in the Road" (2008) by Ken Marshall
"Forward Motion" (2004) by Gordon Huether
"Founding of the Pueblo De Los Angeles" (1932) by Dean Cornwell
"Fountain of the Rain Forest" (2000) by Sandy Scott
"Fountainhead Rockscape" (2003) by Tomas Lipps
"Four Arches" (1973) by Alexander Calder
"Four Deities" (dates/artists unknown)
"Four Lines Oblique Gyratory - Square IV" (1973) by George Rickey
"Four-Square (Walk Through)" (1966) by Barbara Hepworth
"Frank Augustus Miller" (1999) by Richard Myer
"Freedom" (2014) by Herb Alpert
"Frozen Music, Opus for Pasadena" (2002) by Arthur Stern
"Fusion Series #3" (1998) by Shannon Owen
"Gandhi" (2012) by Jasu Shilpi
"Gateway Beacon" (1989) by David Wilkins
"Gateway to Los Angeles" (2015) by Jenna Didier
"Gateway to the San Gabriel Valley" (2011) by Art Mortimer
"Gear Head 1" (2010) by Kathleen Smith-Schooley
"Gene Autry" (2009) by DeL'Esprie
"General Harrison Gray Otis" (1920) by Paul Troubetzkoy
"Geologica 42" (2003) by Michael C. McMillen
"George Chaffey, Jr." (2018) by John Edward Svenson
"George Washington" (1933) by Jean-Antoine Houdon
"Gestation III" (1991) by Baile Oakes
"ghandiG" (2002) by Peter Shelton
"Giant Binoculars" (1991) by Claes Oldenburg, Coosje van Bruggen
"Gift of the Valley" (2017) by Tony Sheets
"Gifts of a Lifetime" (2003) by Harry Reese
"Glendora" (2009) by Michael Hillman, Citrus College students
"globe on pedestal" (circa 2004)
"Going to the Olympics" (1984) by Frank Romero
"Gold Line Bridge" (2012) by Andrew Leicester
"Good Friends - Nakayoshi" (1984) by Eiichi Ishida
"Gordon and Lily" by Victor Salmones
"Gorilla" (2013) by Isabelle Alford-Lago
"Grace" (2014) by Terry Thornsley
"Great Gathering Place" (1992) by Jacqueline Dreager
"Grizzly Bear" (2017) by John Mahoney
"Grove" (2007) by Lynn Basa
"Guardian of Water" (1939) by Donal Hord
"Hail and Farewell" [or untitled] (1995) by Richard Turner
"Hammer" (date and artist unknown)
"Hammering Man" (1988) by Jonathan Borofsky
"Hand Holding a Bowl of Rice" (2007) by April Greiman
"Hands With Plane" (2015) by Case Maclaim
"Handstand" (1986) by Milton Hebald
"Hard To Reach" (2003) by Debbie Jane Elmer
"Harlequinade" (2005) by Wayne Healy
"Harmic Arch" (1989) by Guy Dill
"Hawk Raising" (2017) by John Mahoney
"Health is Multi-Cultural" (1997) by JoeSam
"Heat Exchanger" (1980) by Harold L. Pastorius
"Helix" (2005) by James Hill
"Helms Coach Gone A Rye" (2002) by Art Mortimer and Andrea Cohen Gehring
"Hermosa Beach 9/11 Memorial Sculpture" (2012)
"Hermosa's Great Wave" (2015) by John Van Hamersveld
"Hide-n-Seek" (1995) by JoeSam
"High Flying" (2009) by Jon Seeman
"Highland Park Gateway" (2003) by Teddy Sandoval, with Paul Polubinskas
"Historic Flowers of Carlsbad" (2006) by Kim Emerson
"Historical Claremont" (1990) by Merrilyn O'Neill
"History of Electricity In and Around Indio" (2000) by Jim Fahnestock
"History of the Date Industry in the Coachella Valley" (1998) by Chuck Caplinger
"History of the Pico Neighborhood" (1983) by Ann Elizabeth Thiermann
"History of Water in the Coachella Valley" (2003) by Don Gray
"Holey Gates" (2004) by Susan Landau
"Hollywood Gateway" (1993) by Catherine Hardwicke
"Homage to a Starry Knight" (1990) by Rip Cronk
"Homage to Ballona Creek" (1994) by Lucy Blake-Elahi
"Homage to Cabrillo: Venetian Quadrant" (1985) by Eugene Sturman
"Homage to Quetzalcoatl" (1992) by Dora De Larios
"Home" (1992) by Charles Arnoldi
"Hope, Dream" (1993) by Sandra Rowe
"Horizon" (2010) by Blake Rankin
"Horse and Tree" (c. 1962) by Millard Sheets
"Huberth Tree" (2001) by Gülhis Celâyir-Monezis
"Hula Kahiko" (2000) by Lark Grey Dimond-Cates
"Hunter and Hounds" (1925) by Henri Alfred Marie Jacquermat
"Hymn of Life: Tulips" (2007) by Yayoi Kusama
Idaho Gate (1912) attr. Greene and Greene
"I Have a Dream" (1999) by Lisa Reinertson
"Iglecia de Pensamiento" (1978) by Dan Clapp and others
"Illuminated Fig Leaves" (2002) by Kim Abeles
"Illumination" (2007) by Brad Goldberg
"Illuminations" (1993) by Ann Preston
"Illuminations" (2006) by Terry Braunstein
"IMAG_NE" (2019) by Emma Ann
"Image Emergence: Promenade of Clouds" (2011) by Craig Cree Stone
"In Central Park" (1999) by Jerry Rothman
"In the Eye of the Beholder" (2001) by Anne Marie Karlsen
"In The Living Rock" (2004) by Samm Kunce
"In The Meadow" (2014) by Phung Huynh
"Indians and Yuccas" (1968) by Millard Sheets
"Inertia" (2019) by Miguel A. Del Real
"Infinity" (2014) by Cliff Garten
"Innate" (1985) by Bill Bedford
"Inner Dance" (2002) by Mark Leichliter
"Inspired by John Raimondi's "Ceres" " (c. 2013)
"Inspired by John Raimondi's "Dian" "(c. 2013)
"Intercept" (2005) by James T. Russell
"Interface" (1984) by Bill Bedford
"Interface" (c. 1984) by Bill Bedford
"Interlude" (1999) by Gary Price
"Intermittent Constancy" (2015) by Paul Chilkov
"IO" (2015) by Carol Bove
"Iron Works for Paseo Colorado" (2001) by Michael Amescua
"It Takes All Kinds" (2006) by IMO
"It's Your Fault" (2001) by Leah Vasquez
"Jack Herer" (2013) by Brian "TAZROC" Garcia
"Jean De Fiennes, Vetu" (1884-95) by Auguste Rodin
"Jeanne d'Arc" (1895, 1964) by Adolphe Roberton
"Jessica" (1987) by Dee Toscano
"Jet Delivery Airplane" (circa 2008) by Dan Romero
"Jonah and the Whale" (1918; inst'd. 1985) by Carl Milles
"Jose Gaspar De Portola" (circa 1929) by Albert Herter
"Joy of Music" (1996) by George Lundeen
"Juan Bautista De Anza" (circa 1929) by Albert Herter
"Kaikoo IV and XVI" (1987) by Betty Gold
"Kaloseidos" (2003) by Ralph Bacerra
"Karl Benjamin" (2012) by David P. Flores
"Keep It Clean For The Next" (2011) by Sandra Jones Campbell
"Keep It Clean, Malibu" (2014) by Lindsay Carron
"Keeping Watch" (2012) by Steve Farley
"Kinetic Energy" (2003) by Ries Niemi
"Kioku" (2003) by Jun Kaneko
"Kneeling Man With Hammer" (1992) by Viola Frey
"Kosmic Krylon Garage" (2004) by Kenny Scharf
"L'Entreinte" (1980) by Jean Wolff
"L.A. Family Baroque" (1992) by Bill Barrett
"L.A. Freeway Kids" (1984) by Glenna Boltuch Avila
"L.A. Sonata" (2013) by Judithe Hernandez
"La Ballona" (1995) by May Sun
"La Brea" (2011) by Shepard Fairey
"La Caresse d'un Oiseau" (1967) by Joan Miró
"La Gente del Pueblo" (2003) by Roberto L. Delgado
"LA Metro Loteria" (2012) by Jose Lozano
"LA: City of Angels" (1993) by Cynthia Carlson
"Lady America" (2008)
"Lady Liberty" (1973) by David Wilkens
"Lady of the Lake" (1934-35) by Ada May Sharpless
"Laguna Coastline" (2004) by Mia Tavonatti
"Laguna Tortoise" (2003) by Michele Taylor
"Landings" (2009) by Nobuho Nagasawa
"Last Call" (2014) by Allison Renshaw
"LAX Gateway Pylons" (2000) by Paul Tsanetopoulos
"Leaping Lynx" (2017) by John Mahoney
"Legacy of Literature" (2001) by Rosalind Cook
"Levitated Mass" (2012) by Michael Heizer
"Library Steps" (1989) by Lawrence Halprin
"Life Force" (2005) by Dora De Larios
"Life in the Desert" (2013) by S.C.R.A.P. (Student Creative Recycle Art Program)
"Life in the Foothills" (2014) by Miriam Balcazar
"Lifeguards in Hermosa" (2017) by Joanna Garel
"Light Gate" (2015) by Mags Harries and Lajos Héder
"Light of Learning" (1926) by Lee Lawrie
"Light Overhead" (2001) by Sheila Klein
"Light Trap" (2005) by Laddie John Dill
"Light Wave" (2002) by Laddie John Dill
"Lighthouse" (circa 2012)
"Lillith" (2004) by Rosalind Cool
"Lincoln in Meditation" (1962) by Henry van Wolf
"Lincoln" (2005) by Mark Lundeen
"Literary Figures" (2011) by Art Mortimer and local students
"Little Treasures" (2012) by Scott and Naomi Schoenherr
"Local Color" (2016) by Constance Mallinson
"Local Gradient" (2014) by Phillip K. Smith, III
"Local Odysseys" (1994) by Terry Braunstein
"Location" [untitled] (1995) by Rene Petropoulos
"Locus: City Imprints" (1995) by Steve Appleton
"Los Angeles Holocaust Monument" (1992) by Joseph L. Young
"Los Angeles Opens Its Heart of Compassion" (2014) by Cliff Garten
"Los Angeles Teachers" (c. 1997) by Juan Hector Ponce
"Los Molinos" or "Los Molinos Business District" (2011) by Andi G
"Lucy and Desi" (2000) by Francois Bardol
"Luminaire" (2002) by Denny Haskew
"Luminaries of Pantheism" (2015) by Levi Ponce
"MacArthur Park, Urban Oasis" (2010) by Sonia Romero
"Mach Band" (1980) by Jay Willis
"Madison Mansion" (2002) by Linda Pollack, Claudia Reisenberger, Christina Ulke
"Madonna of the Trail" (circa 1929) by August Leimbach
"Magic Carpet Ride" or "The Cardiff Kook" (2007) by Matthew Antichevich
Mahatma Gandhi Memorial (2006) by Madan and Aruna Garge
"Making Lemonade" (2006) by Nancy Mooslin
"Makua and Kila" (2001) by Holly Young
"Male Figure of Balzac" (2009) by Christopher Georgesco
"Malevich's Pick-Up Sticks" (2006) by Peter Shire
"Malibu Sweet 16" (2007)
"Mama Watts" (circa 1965) by Bill Watts
"Mandril de Rosa" (c. 2000) by Marsh Scott
"Maravilla Hearts of Token" (2009) by Jose Lopez
"Mark Twain" (2003) by Gary Price
"Marmalade Dragonflies" (2009) by Benbow Bullock
"Matriculated Nature" (2007) by Tom Otterness
"Memorial Flagpole" (1927) by Lee Lawrie and Bertram Goodhue
"Memorial Park Mural" (2011) by Roberto Del Hoyo
"Mer-man" (circa 1962) by Betty Davenport Ford
"Mermaid in the Sea" (2012)
"Messenger of the Puul" (1991) by Curt Mattson
"Mia Chan IV" (2007) by Michael Todd
"Mi Casa Es Su Casa" (1971/2013) by Millard Sheets
"Mind, Body and Spirit" (1986) by Gidon Graetz
"Mine" (Corona Del Mar clock tower) (2005) by Andrew Michael Phillips
"Miner" (1925) by Henry Lion
"Mirage" (2008) by Ted Shaal
"Mission to Masterpiece" (2009) by Betsy Schulz
"Mobius Bench II" (2003) by Vito Acconci
"Modern Screen" (2007) by Erika Rothenberg
"Mojo" (2008) by Christian Moeller
"Molecule Man" (1981) by Jonathan Borofsky
"Monument to Balzac" (1897) by Auguste Rodin
"Monument to Sharing" (2017) by Fallen Fruit
"Monument to the Special Olympics" (2015) by Kent Twitchell
"Moon Bench" (2016) by Andrea Benitez
"Morning Mist" (2014) by Wendy Jann
"Morning Shot" (1991) by Rip Cronk
"Mosaics & Fountains" (circa 2002)
"Mother and Child" (1984) by Harold L. Pastorius
"Mother and Child" (2001) by Lisa Reinertson
"Mother Earth and Father Sky" (1996) by Alber de Matteis
"Mountain Scene" (2008) by Dan Van Clapp and Perales
"Moving Pictures" (2001) by Wick Alexander and Robin Brailsford
"Moving Towards The Future" (2012) by David Ocelotl Garcia
"Msgr. Oscar A. Romero" (2013) by Joaquin Serrano
"Multi-Verse" (2008) by Kipp Kobayashi
"Multiplicity/Various Ways of Seeing" (1992) by Anne Marie Karlsen
"Muse Dancers" by Bruce Thomas
"Music" (1993) by Leonardo Nierman
"Music of the Spheres" (1994) by Nancy Mooslin
"National Humane Alliance Fountain" (1905)
"Native" (2016) by Brian McCutcheon
"Nature Redone" (2018) by Eric Garcia
"Nature Re-Presented" (2014) by Sol Mesz
"Neighborhood Portrait: Reconstructed" (2012) by Jessica Polzin McCoy
"Neons for Pershing Square" (1993) by Stephan Antonakos
"Neptune Water Spouts" (1975) by Betty Davenport Ford
"Night Sail" (1985) by Louise Nevelson
"Night Shift" (1981) by Jim Huntington
"Night Watch" (2017) by John Mahoney
"NoHo Gateway" (2009) by Peter Shire
"North, East, South, West" (1981) by Michael Heizer
"North Wave and South Wave" (2003) by Larry Gill
"Nothing Exists" (2015) by Cyrcle
"Nuestra Reina de Los Angeles" (1934-35) by Ada May Sharpless
"Oasis" (2015) by Douglas Hollis and Anna Valentina Murch
"Oblique" (2001) by Albert Paley
"Ocean Dancer" (1998) by Lyle London
"Ocean Steps" (2011) by Debbie Collette and Patti Linnett
"Ocean" (2018) by Rachel Rodi
"Oceanlife, Sun and Waves" (2002) by Kim Emerson
"Oceans of Time" (1994; 2001) by Eric Orr
"Octopus" (2013) by Isabelle Alford-Lago
"Oculus Sol" (2012) by Buster Simpson
"Of Two Lineages" (2017) by James Dinh
"Oiseau" (1981) by Joan Miró
"Olympiade '84" (1986) by Milton Hebald
"On Saturdays" (2012) by Robbert Flick
"One Sphere Five Arcs" (2005) by William Wareham
"One Voice" (2009) by Phillip K. Smith, III
"Oneness" (1966) by Eino Romppanen
"Ontario Town Square Mural" (2014) by Andrea Benitez
"Oomo Cube" (2014) by Nicole Maloney
"Opus Notem Galateæ Unum" (1991) by Judith Shea
"Orange Grove" (1999) by Meg Cranston
"Orange Lobby" (1991) by Richard Haas
"Origins" (2017) by Debra Scacco
"Orit Haj" (2013) by Jenna Didier and Oliver Hess
Orr sculpture (1991) by Eric Orr
"Our Best" (1998) by Francois Bardol
"Our Lady of DTLA" (2013) by Robert Vargas
"Our Legacy: Forever Presente..." (2004) by José Antonio Aguirre
"Out of Sight" (2006) by Franka Diehnelt and Claudia Reisenberger
"Overcoat" (2009) by Merge Conceptual Design
"Pablo at the Beach" (2013; installed 2015) by Guy Dill
"Palm Trees and Paint Brushes" (2012) by Stephanie Leonard
"Panoramas" (2016) by Abel Alejandre
"Panoramic" (1995) by Barbara McCarren
"Parallel Dance" (2003) by Cheryl Ekstrom
"Parallel History I" (2005) by Charles Fine
"Pasadena Egrets" (circa 1974) by David Wynne
"Pasadena Panorama" (2001) by Margaret Nielsen
"Pasadena Robinson Memorial" (1997) by Ralph Helmick, John Outterbridge, Stuart Schechter
"Passersby" (2005) by MERGE
"Pat Nixon" (1997) by Ivan Schwartz
"Pathways to Freedom" (2002) by Michael Massenburg and Robin Strayhorn
"Paul Revere" (2002) by Dee Clements
"Peace Memorial" (1991) by Márton Váró
Peace Monument of Glendale (2013)
"Peace on Earth" (1969) by Jacques Lipchitz
"Pelican Brown" (2005) by T. J. Dixon and James Nelson
"Perfect Union" (2011) by Jeff Laing
"Perpetual Motion" (c. 1996) by Bruce Stillman
"Photo Collages" (2005) by Anna O'Cain and Richard Keeley
"Pieces Together" (2014) by Lawrence Argent
"Pier Ave. 1924" or "Beautiful Hermosa Beach" (2011) by Art Mortimer
"Pierre De Wissant, Nude" (1884-95) by Auguste Rodin
"Pierre De Wissant, Vetu" (1884-95) by Auguste Rodin
Pioneers Monument 1934
"Pioneros de la Rivera de San Gabriel" (2016) by Robin Brailsford
"Pirate's Cove" (2015) by Art Mortimer
"Playground" (2003) by Tony Smith
"Pomona" (1957) by Jean and Arthur Ames
"Portal to Big Sur" (date unk.) by Aaron Appel and Abe Toke
"Portrait Heads" (2012) by Michael Stutz
"Portrait of Abbot Kinney" (2004) by Rip Cronk
"Portrait Of My People #619" (1995) by Willie Middlebrook
"Portraits" (officially untitled) (2003) by Tony Gleaton
"Postcards From Ballona" (1997) by Francois Bardol, Lucy Blake-Elahi, Lori Escalera
"Pre-Natal Memories" (1976-1980) by Mark di Suvero
"Pride of La Verne" (2003) by Kevin Stewart-Magee
"Pride of the Foothills" (2012) by Michael Hillman, Citrus College students
"Primordial Reflections" (1996) by Albert Paley
"Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalaniana 'ole" (2001) by Sean Browne
"Projections on Lake" (2007) by various artists
"Prometheus Bringing Fire to Earth" (1935) by Nina Saemundsson
"Proud Puma" (2017) by John Mahoney
"Psychic Body Grotto" (2017) by Anna Sew Hoy
"Psychogeographies" (2015) by Dustin Yellin
"Pua'I wai" (1994) by Billy Al Bengston
"Puck" (c. 2003) by Elizabeth MacQueen
"Puka o ka moku" (1994) by Billy Al Bengston
"Punk and Skate in Hermosa" (2018) by Daniel Inez
"Pyramid" (1996) by John Outterbridge
"Quetzalcoatl" (1968)
"Quotation Courtyard" (1995) by Barbara McCarren
"Raccoon Family" (2004) by Betty Davenport Ford
"Raising the Flag at Monterey" (circa 1928) by Albert Herter
"Ram" (1977) by Charles O. Perry
"Raoul Wallenberg" or "Angel of Rescue" (1988) by Franco Assetto
"Raptor Intaglio" (2008) by Gwynn Murrill
"Raymond Starburst" (2003) by Marlo Bartels
"Reach For The Sun" (2000) by Gary Soszynski
"Read, Reach and Realize" (2002) by Wayne Healy and East Los Streetscapers
"real green" (1995) by Kim Yasuda
"Rebirth" (2013) by Nicole L. Ponsler
"Rebuilding of the Palomares Adobe" (1941) by Frank Stauffacher
"Reclining Figure II" (1967; installed 2016) by Edoardo Villa
"Reclining Figure" (1981; inst'd. 1984) by Henry Moore
"Recreations of Long Beach" (1936) by Stanton Macdonald-Wright
"Red Car Man" (2014) by Daniel Stern
"Red Car Woman" (2014) by Daniel Stern
"Red Echo" (2010) by Konstantin Demopoulos
"Red Roses" (2016)
"Redlands Heritage" (1980) by Millard Sheets
"Relief Ship at San Diego" (circa 1928) by Albert Herter
"Rendezvous" (2008) by Tuan
"Resting Raccoon" (2017) by John Mahoney
"Rev. King, Jr. and Dr. Drew" (1998) by Tina Allen
"Reverence for an Era" (2005-2006) by Kerry Zarders
"Rider's Dream" (2003) by Michael Amescua
"Right Above The Right-of-Way" (2016) by Susan Lorgoreci
"Ring Of Fire" (2004) by Peter Erskine
"River of History" (1996) by May Sun
"River of Life" (2000) by Robin Brailsford
"River of Time" (2016) by Cha-Rie Tang
"River" (2001) by Guy Angelo Wilson
"Rivers of the World" (1997)
"Rock Pile Carve" (2000) by George Stone
"Ronald Reagan" (2011) by Miriam Baker
"Rondelle" (2005) by Lyle London
"Rose Abstraction III" (2006) by Alber De Matteis
"Rose Lobby" (1990) by Richard Haas
"Rotunda Ceiling" (1926) by Julian Garnsey
"Route 66 America's Main Street" (2012) [artist unlisted]
"Route 66" (2013) by Phil Yeh
"Route 66" (2014) by Brian Worley
"Running for the Blue Line" (1997) by Elliott Pinkney
"Sage Owl" (2017) by John Mahoney
"Saint John the Baptist" (1878-80) by Auguste Rodin
"Salmon Run" (1982) by Christopher Keene
"San Angelo Landscape" (2015) by Mara Lonner
"Santa Monica" (1934) by Eugene H. Monrahan
"Santiago Park Mural" (2011) by Roberto Del Hoyo
Scanga sculpture (2006) by Italo Scanga
"Scenes From Ivanhoe" (1926) by Julian Garnsey and A. W. Parsons
"Scenes of the Old West" (c. 1979) by Denis O'Connor, Susan Lautmann Hertel
"Science, Arts, Places, Past" (1999) by Antje Hammer
"Sea Breeze" (2015) by Sukhdev Dail
"Sea Passage" (2005) by James Hubbell
"Seagrass" (2011) by Barbara Grygutis
"Searching Squirrels" (2017) by John Mahoney
"Seeds of Summer" (2011) by Guy Angelo Wilson
"Self-Preservation Revised" by Ed Pogue
"Semper Memento" (2011) by Jorg Dubin
"Sentry" (1999) by John Okulick
"Separated United Forms" (2009) by David Schafer
"Sequi" (1985) by Nancy Graves
"Serenade" (2001) by Dee Clements
"Seth Thomas Clock" (1966) by Seth Thomas Clock Company
"Setting the Tables" (2014) by Jeanine Centuori, Russell Rock
"Shard Towers" (2002) by Stanton Hunter
"Ship in a Bottle" (2011) by Mark Dion
"Short Stack" (2005) by Bruce Chaban
"Shoshone" (1982) by Mark di Suvero
"Sierra Leone" (1983) by Woods Davy
"Sign of the Time" (1999) by Jack Sullivan
"Simple Gifts" (2001) by John Fisher
"Siren Call of Filmland" (2003) by Paul Hobson
"Sister Cities Clock" (2019) by Dan Romero and Dina Romero
"Sisyphus" (1985) by Alexander Liberman
"Site Lines Past" (c. 2018) by Jeanine Centouri and Russell Rock
"Sitting Figure on a Short Bench" (2000) by Magdalena Abakanowicz
"sixbeastsandtwomonkeys" (2009) by Peter Shelton
"Skateboarder" (1999) by Studio 2
"Skyspace: Dividing the Light" (2007) by James Turrell
"Sliver" (2010) by Christian Moeller
"Solar Alignment" (1992) by Ernest Shelton
"Solar Shift" (2006) by Roy Nicholson
"Soulful Sunrise Melody" (2016-2017) by Luis Sanchez
"Sound and Sight" (2002) by Raymond Persinger
"Source Figure" (1992) by Robert Graham
"South Central Suite: Slauson Serenade, South Central Codex" (1995) by East Los Streetscapers
"Sower's Dream" (2011) by Guy Angelo Wilson
Spanish American War Memorial, Seventh Regiment Monument (1900)
"Spatio Virtuo Teatro" (2006) by Jason Meadows
"Spine" (1993) by Jud Fine
"Spiral of Life" (1985) by Baile Oakes
"Spires" (2006) by Sylvia Tidwell
"Spirit of American Youth" (2008) by Donald Harcourt De Lue
"Spirit of Freedom" (1993) by Janet Tuck and Geraldine Waldman
"Spirit of Peppertree Square" (2015) by Maureen McProud Wheeler
"Spirit of the Lima Bean" (1980) by Isamu Noguchi
"Spirit of the San Gabriel River" (2016) by Andrea Myklebust and Stanton Gray Sears
"Spiritual Flight" (1976) by Elijah David Herschler
"Sports All Stars" (2012) by Maureen Wheeler
"Sports Cut-Outs" (2005) by Anna O'Cain and Richard Keeley
"Squeeze" (2007) by John Clement
"Starting Over" (2014) by Harold Cohen
"Statue of Freedom" (2006) by Michael Maiden
"Steel Workers" (2003) by Jacquelyn Giuffre
"Stone Tree Inverted Post" (2003) by Jud Fine
"Story Circle" (2012) by Jules Rochielle and Chad Clark
"Street Eyes" (2001) by John Okulick
"Streets" (2010) by Eric Powell
"Strength of the Maker" (2003) by Jacquelyn Giuffre
"Suka: Place of the Bees" (1995) by Meg Cranston
"Sun Glitter" (1932; inst'd. 1985) by Carl Milles
"Sun Ribbon" (1980) by Claire Falkenstein
"Sun Yat-sen" (c. 1961)
"Sunburst" by Bill Ware
"Sundancer" (2001) by Miles Addison Pepper
"Sunday Drive" (2016) by Mike Stilkey
"Sundial Clock" (1968) by Imre Kalinscak
"Sunny Southern California" or "Centennial Mural" (2007) by Neal and Dawn Von Flue
"Sunrise Sunset" (1980) by Jill Casty
"Sunset at Trestles" (2013) by Ashley Keene
"Sunset Dinner" (2013) by Michael Ravetti
"Sunsets" (2016) by Miriam Baker and Rhonda Jones
"Support" (1999) by Louis Longi
"Surfer on a Wave" (2003) by Robert Pashby
"SWAY" (2017) by Nick Petronzio
"Swimmer Solstice" (1998) by Robin Brailsford
"Symphony Mural" (2009) by Kevin Mitchell
"Syncretic Manifestations" (2009) by Paul Botello
"Telltales Wind Ensemble" (2004) by Douglas Hollis
"Temple City Past and Present" (2015) by Art Mortimer and local students
"Ten Soaring" (2007) by Lyle London
"Territorial Dispute" (1995) by Chester Armstrong
"The Art of Surf" (2017) by Roark Gourley
"The Bandstand" (2015) by Carole Choucair Oueijan
"The Big Wave: Gateway to Santa Monica" (1989) by Tony Delap
"The Blessing of the Animals" (1978) by Leo Politi
"The Brea Angel" (2014) by Cheryl Ekstrom
"The Building of a Mission" (circa 1928) by Albert Herter
"The Burghers of Calais" (1884-95) by Auguste Rodin
"The Claremont Stelae" (2001) by East Los Streetscapers
"The Cocoa Bear" (2017) by John Mahoney
"The Conversation" (1987) by Alex McCrae
"The Corazon" (1983) by Erwin Binder
"The Crown Jewel" (1994) by Gifford Myers and Marlo Bartels
"The Dalton Tile Murals" (2008) by Bob Zoell
"The Dinosaurs of Santa Monica" (1989) by Claude and Francois LaLanne
"The Doughboy" (1924) by Humberto Pendretti
"The Drummer" (1990) by Barry Flanagan
"The Elements" (2006) by Jane DeDecker
"The Evolution of Los Angeles" (1988-1989) by Tony Sheets
"The Evolution of Printing" (1988) by Tony Sheets
"The Family" (2000) by Gregory Hawthorne
"The Far Off Summer" (1989) by Carol Miller
"The First Artists in Southern California: A Short Story" (2003) by John Valadez
"The First Experience" (1984) by Erwin Binder
"The Freedom Sculpture" or "Freedom: A Shared Dream" (2017) by Cecil Balmond
"The Great Wall of Los Angeles" (1977-1983) by Judith Baca and Others
"The Greatest" (2015) by Cryptik
"The Hats" (2018) by Michael Davis and Eugene Daub
"The Intimacy of Place" (2012) by Christofer C. Dierdorff
"The Journey" (1999) by Gary Price
"The Landing of Cabrillo at Catalina Island" (circa 1928) by Albert Herter
"The Law Givers" (1960) by Albert Stewart
"The Lion's Fountain" (2004) by Douglas Olmstead Freeman
"The Literate Fence" (1993) by Ries Niemi
"The Location" (2016) by Daniel Stern
"The Lone Sailor" (1984) by Stanley Bleifeld
"The Love That Binds" (2016) by Jose Calderon and Roberto Delgado
"The Moment" (2016) by Dan Romero
"The Motion of the Planet" (1997) by Gifford Myers
"The Movies: Fantasies and Spectacles" (1993) by Joyce Kozloff
"The Muralists" (1995) by Terry Schoonhoven
"The Museum of Space Information" (1995) by Carl Cheng
"The Pasadena Way" (1990) by Robert Irwin, Douglas and Regula Campbell
"The Path of Life" (2003) by De L'Esprie
"The People's Council" (2006) by Linda Brunker
"The Photo Shoot" (1989) by Seward Johnson
"The Preciousness of the Hunt" (2014) by Faith47
"The Raven" (2017) by John Mahoney
"The Riddle of the Sphinx" (2001) by Richard Turner
"The Roots of our Lives" (1994) by Denise Filz
"The Savant Guard" (2006) by Christina Ulke and Ashok Sukumaran
"The Seven Centers" (1993) by Renée Petropoulos
"The Steps We Take" (2014) by Eloy Torrez
"The Stones of Life" (1997)
"The Stop" (2010) by Walter Redondo
"The Sunbathers" (1983; 2016) by Leonard Glasser
"The Swan" (c. 1960) by Jack Zajac
"The Thinker" (1880) by Auguste Rodin
"The Triumph of Civilization" (1926) by Lee Lawrie
"The Unconscious" (2010) by Franz West
"The Walking Man" (1905) by Auguste Rodin
"The Wall: Las Memorias" (2004) by David Angelo, Robin Brailsford
"The Waterman's Wall" (2013) by Randy Morgan
"The Whaling Wall" (1996) by Wyland
"The Wheels of Change" (2003) by Chusien Chang
"Thin Cube With Sphere" (2009) by Dore Capitani
"Three Graces" (1963; installed 1996) by Julie MacDonald
"Three Graces" (2006) by Peter Fink
"Three Moons" (1993) by John Okulick
"Three Pylons" (1989) by Harold Pastorious
"Three Scenes from Shakespeare" (1963) by Millard Sheets, Denis O'Connor
"Three Sheets to the Wind" (1998) by Andrea Cohen Gehring
"Three" (1975) by Charles Perry
"Through the Looking Glass" (2009) by Clement Hanami
"Tide Pool Paddleboard" (2013) by Larry Gill and Gavin Heath
"Tides of Time" (2007) by John Okulick
"Tiger Swallowtail" and "Yerba Santa" (2016) by Lt. Mustardseed
"Tim" (2013) by Michael King and Wade Koniakowsky
Tim Kelly Lifeguard Memorial (1965, 2000) by William Maloney, Chris Barela
"Time and Presence" (1993) by Robin Brailsford
"Time Connected" (2012) by Scott and Naomi Schoenherr
"Time Piece" (2012) by Donald Lipski
"Timekeeper" (2014) by Susan Narduli
"Timeline" (2009) by Alber De Matteis
"Todos Juntos" (2016) by Siobham Burke and Rob Berry
"Tom Bradley" (1987) by Serge Sarkis
"Topiaries" (2012) by Christie Beniston
"Torso" (2003) by Robert Graham
"Tortilla Flats" (2008) by MB Hanrahan and Moses Mora
"Touch of Venice" (2012) by Jonas Never
"Tracinda Deer" (1991) by Joe Fay
"Tracinda Obelisk" (1992) by Joe Fay
"Tractor" (date and artist unknown)
"Transformative Illumination" (2016) by Wenceslao Quiroz
"Traveler" (1993) by Terry Schoonhoven
"Tree for Elijah" (2009) by Italo Scanga
"Tree of Life" (1997) by Dora De Larios
"Tree Trimmer" (2005) by Robert Tolone
"Tree With Birds" (1963) by Helen Richter Watson
"Trench, Shafts, Pit, Tunnel, and Chambers" (1982) by Bruce Nauman
"Triforium" (1975) by Joseph Young
"Trio" (2000) by Jorg Dubin
"Trolley" (date and artist unknown)
"Tropical Sounds" (2000) by Jun Kaneko
"Truth or Fiction" (1995) by Nobuho Nagasawa
"Tsunami" (2001) by Mark Leichliter
"Twelve Principles" (1994) by Joe Lewis
"Two Figures With Ring" (1987) by John Frame
"Two of Hearts" (1997) by Tim Doyle
"Two Open Rectangles" (1977) by George Rickey
"Two Sphinxes" (1926) by Lee Lawrie
"Two Urns" (2009) by Anne Marie Karlsen
"Ultimate Challenge" (1976) by Edmond E. Shumpert
"Ulysses" (1988) by Alexander Libermann
"Under the Sea" (circa 1988)
"Union Passage" (1998) by Guy Angelo Wilson
"Universal Musicans" (1995) by Eva Cockcroft
"Unknowable Origins" (2012) by Tom LaDuke
"Untitled III" (2005) by Mark Lere
"Upland Pride" (2003) by Art Mortimer
"Upland Waiting Station" (2008) by Art Mortimer
"Uptown Rocker" (1986) by Lloyd Hamrol
"Uranus" (circa 1980) by Alexander
"Urban Dualities" (2012) by Samuel Rodriguez
"Urban Light" (2008) by Chris Burden
"Utsurohi 91" (1991) by Aiko Miyawaki
"Vamos Juntos" (2014) by Martin Durazo
"Venice Beach Chorus Line" (2004) by Rip Cronk
"Venice Beach" (1990) by Rip Cronk
"Venice Kinesis" (2010) by Rip Cronk
Venice Public Art Walls
"Venice Torso" (2007) by Robert Graham
"Veterans Are Timeless" (circa 1994) (artist unknown)
"Vibrant Hills" (2013) by Hannah Daly
"Villa-Parke Mural" (c. 1992) by Betty Dore
Ysmael R. Villegas Memorial (1995) by Gary Coutrer
"Volleyball in Hermosa" (2016) by Bo Bridges
"Voyager" (2003) by Linda Brunker
"Wading Pool" (2000) by R. M. Fischer
"Wakeup and Dream" (2018) by Friedrich Kunath
"Walk On Words" (2013-2017)
"Walking Family #2" (date and artist unknown)
"Walking Family" (date and artist unknown)
"Walking Fingers" (2015) by Case Maclaim
"Wall of (Un)Fame" (1995) by Erika Rothenberg
"Wall Play" (2013) by Helle Scharling-Todd
"Wallace Fountain" (1872) by Charles-Auguste LeBourg
"Walter" (1991) by Edna Martinek Henry
"Wanderers" (2012) by Willie Middlebrook
"Warriors United" (2013) by Cheryl Ekstrom
"Water Henge: H20 = Life" (2009) by Kim Emerson
"Water Street: River of Dreams" (2003) by Cheri Gaulke
"Water Tank Mural" (2018) by John Van Hamersveld
"Water Tower" (2000) by John Okulick
"Waterdance" (2012) by James Parkhurst
"Watts Towers" or "Nuestro Pueblo" (1921-1954) by Sabato (Simon) Rodia
"Wave 1" (2009) by Doug Snider
"Wave Dance" (2002) by Marsh Scott
"Waves" (2018) by Gordon Huether
"We Know Who We Are" (1995) by June Edmonds
"We Too Were Once Strangers" (2015) by Richard Turner
"Weather Field No. 1" (2013) by Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle
"Welcome Home" (2017) by Shepard Fairey
"Welcome to Long Beach" (2011) by John M. Valadez
"West Coast Jazz" or "Hermosa Jazz" (2012) by John Pugh
"Whale of a Mural" (1983) by Daniel Alonzo
"Whale Watch" (1994) by Terrie Bennett
"What Wall" (1998) by Eric Owen Moss
"What We Created" (2015) by Carole Choucair Oueijan
"What You Wore, What You Wear" (2016) by Carmen Argote
"Wheels" (2010) by Anne Marie Karlsen
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The Listener’s Companion series book is for all audiences;
Explore the genius of Beethoven through his music
TACOMA, Wash. – Geoffrey Block, a celebrated author of books on American musicals and composers, had no plans to write a book about Beethoven, arguably the public’s most adored composer of classical music.
After all, thousands of volumes had been written on the man, so “Why Beethoven?”
When his publisher, aware that Block had written his Harvard dissertation on Beethoven years earlier, offered the possibility of undertaking such a work, Block was tantalized.
For the question had to be asked: What is this “magic ingredient” that makes the unkempt, afflicted genius of composition as appealing today as two centuries ago? Indeed, why was Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony chosen to carry the story in the movies A Clockwork Orange and Die Hard? Why does the Peanuts’ character, Schroeder, play only Beethoven on his toy piano in more than 250 comic strips? And why is Beethoven’s Ode to Joy performed at the end of every Olympic Games, a tradition that has stood since 1956?
In his new book, Experiencing Beethoven: A Listener’s Companion (Rowman & Littlefield, October 2016), Block answers the question his way:
“Despite his fiction-worthy biography, iconic scowl, and the powerful image of a man raging and shaking his fist against a stormy face on his deathbed, I am convinced that the answer to “Why Beethoven?” is to be discovered in his music,” Block wrote in the book’s introduction.
With that, Block takes the reader along for what he describes as “a guided tour of the music created by this ‘unlicked bear’”—a sobriquet given to Beethoven by Italian composer Luigi Cherubini, who saw his rival as “unpolished and crude.”
Block’s 270-plus page book uses language and stories aimed as much at the musical layman as at long-standing fans. It is a story about the creation of great music, told by a talented and conversant author, in the context of the composer’s personal and professional life, and the cultural milieu of the time.
Experiencing Beethoven devotes three chapters to single works (Fidelio, Ninth Symphony, and String Quartet No. 14 in c-sharp minor). Several more chapters cover other symphonies (First, Eroica, Fifth, Pastoral, Seventh, and Eighth), eight piano sonatas written over the course of his career (including Pathétique, Moonlight, Tempest, Appassionata, and two late sonatas), and string quartets from every period. The volume covers history’s first important song cycle, An die ferne Geliebte (To the Distant Beloved), as well as other songs, and the piano bagatelle Für Elise. Block also introduces the reader to some fascinating but lesser-known works (Joseph Cantata, Wellington’s Victory, Diabelli Variations).
Not for a moment, though, does Block pretend that Beethoven’s music alone endowed him with his godlike status among composers.
“[Beethoven] also profits from his compelling backstory, the story of a driven creator who managed to transform a composer’s greatest nightmare, the emotional suffering brought about by the affliction and shame of deafness, into music that is full, not only of anger and pain, but joy, or to use the word Beethoven used at the beginning of the Ninth Symphony’s finale, Freudenvollere (joyfulness),” Block wrote.
Acknowledging this, the author transports readers to historic concerts, including the unfortunate debut of Fidelio in 1805, several days after France’s Napoleon had invaded Vienna, leaving the theater almost empty, and the private and unofficial Vienna debut of the String Quartet No. 14 in c-sharp minor, performed in 1828 for Franz Schubert, who was on his deathbed.
Stories from Beethoven’s life are told with help from the scholars who studied the near 2,000 letters that the composer wrote throughout his lifetime, the 171 entries in his diary from 1812 to 1818, the 50 musical sketchbooks, and the 113 conversation books that were Beethoven’s means of communicating as his deafness progressed. One significant letter, Block writes, reveals how much Beethoven suffered from his deafness and how he vowed to conquer the affliction and live for art. Another may have been sent to the unnamed woman he loved, known only as the Immortal Beloved—a woman who was ready to leave her husband and children for the unruly musician.
Beethoven readily broke rules in his composition of music and the often breathtaking result posed a challenge to his contemporaries. Yet, during his lifetime, he became the most acclaimed composer of the era. Experiencing Beethoven takes the reader directly into the composer’s personal world and deep into the music that was the world he cherished above all else. Block sums up Beethoven’s incredible gift to us at the end of his introduction to the book:
“Like his fictional contemporary, Goethe’s Faust, Beethoven was a kind of musical alchemist who, in the course of remarkably varied works, converted suffering into joy, a joy that is ours to savor, nourish, and treasure.”
Book Orders are currently eligible for a 25% discount off the list price (hardback and ebook). Please order using this code: 7A3AUTHF from https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442245457
Geoffrey Block is distinguished professor of music history at University of Puget Sound. He is the author of Ives: “Concord” Sonata (1996); Enchanted Evenings: The Broadway Musical from “Show Boat” to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber (1997, 2nd ed. 2009); and Richard Rodgers (2003). He was co-editor and contributor to Charles Ives and the Classical Tradition (1996); and the editor of The Richard Rodgers Reader (2002) and two series of books on the American musical (Yale Broadway Masters and Oxford’s Broadway Legacies).
Press photos of Geoffrey Block and the book cover can be downloaded from pugetsound.edu/pressphotos
Photos on page: From top right: Book cover; Beethoven, painting by Joseph Karl Stieler, 1819 or 1820; Geoffrey Block, by Ross Mulhausen
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg rubbed elbows with the likes of Lenny Kravitz and Lupita Nyong'o at the 'Oscars of science' on Sunday (FB)
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg attended the eighth-annual Breakthrough Prize Ceremony on Sunday night, where he rubbed elbows with musician Lenny Kravitz, actress Lupita Nyong'o, and Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi.
Mark Zuckerberg and Lenny Kravitz at the 8th annual Breakthrough Prize Awards
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Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, both attended the event, which is referred to as the "Oscars of science."
Zuckerberg presented multiple awards and smiled for photographers amid increasing scrutiny over recent decisions by Facebook not to fact-check political ads.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has had a rough few weeks.
He had a rocky day in late October testifying in front of Congress, where he spent hours getting lambasted by a bi-partisan committee of politicians . He took a principled stand on free speech that caused hundreds of his own employees to speak out against his policy. And he warned investors that next year is likely going to be even worse .
But on Sunday, Zuckerberg alongside his wife, Priscilla Chan spent the evening rubbing elbows with the likes of Hollywood elite: Lenny Kravitz, Lupita Nyong'o, Ron Howard, and many more at the eighth-annual Breakthrough Prize Ceremony in Mountain View, California. He was also among some of Silicon Valley's biggest names, from Google cofounder Sergey Brin to Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi.
Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan posed for photos prior to the awards the event is often referred to as the "Oscars of science."
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Former Facebook Vice President of Communications Rachel Whetstone, who now serves as chief communications officer at Netflix, stopped to talk with Zuckerberg and Chan.
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Third Quadrant.
Planet Enaya.
The White Palace.
Private Speers slid down the wall in a daze. She landed on her feet but stumbled backwards and ended up sitting on her butt. She had hit the wall head first, her outstretched arms doing little to protect her from the reinforced concrete.
It had happened too quickly, she hadn’t been ready. And what would she have done if she had been? They hadn’t trained her for that kind of attack. A throw onto the ground to pin someone, that she could have found a way to deal with. But to throw someone at a wall… it was just stupid, and embarrassing.
She turned, rising into a crouch. A click in the back of her neck indicated her organic was active. Her hair, short as it was, stood on end.
“Enough, Private,” said Captain Tek. “Stand down.”
Figaro looked at Speers without sympathy. She was ready to use everything she had to claw back her pride, but if she had to use everything against an unaugmented boy, what kind of pride would that gain her?
“You lost,” he said. “And I went easy on you.” That wouldn’t calm her any, but she would have to swallow her anger. The Seneca Corps didn’t stand for insubordination.
“Don’t you think that was a little cheap?” said Captain Tek.
“Out there, there are no rules and regulations,” said Figaro, mimicking her own words back at her. “And no starting bell.”
“Do you really think you would win against someone like her if she went all out?” said the captain.
Figaro could see she wasn’t going to accept his demonstration as proof. “Each situation is different. I dealt with this one as I thought appropriate. If she was really trying to kill me, I would have done it differently. But Private Speers has been with my mother for several years. I’ve watched her train and spar with the others. I know all her moves. I beat her because you train your people to observe and react. I didn’t give her time to do that. Next time, she won’t make the same mistake. Next time, I’ll know that.”
“You didn’t know he was going to move, did you?” said Ganesh to the angry soldier. “He disguised his intentions and you never saw him coming.” His words were filled with pride. “I really am a most marvellous teacher, it turns out.”
“Do you really think a soldier needs such tricks?” said Captain Tek.
“But you see, my dear captain, I’m not training him to be a soldier, I’m training him to be a magician.” Ganesh laughed, pleased with himself and pleased with his student. But mostly pleased with himself.
Captain Tek nodded, downturned mouth unimpressed. “I see. And what about me? Do you think you could deal with someone like me?”
“If I had to,” said Figaro.
“Shall we test the theory?”
“Alright,” said Figaro.
She moved much faster than anyone Figaro had fought before, including organics, and she hadn’t activated any of hers.
Figaro felt the air shift around him. He could hardly see her, let alone predict her moves. Something hit him in the chest — a hand, a foot, he wasn’t sure — his feet were swept away and he was falling. He hadn’t made a single move of his own so far. He felt her near him and he struck out with his hand, but he didn’t hit her. Not that he’d meant to.
She kicked him in the side before he hit the ground and there was a loud crack.
“It seems you don’t know all my moves,” she said, standing over him.
“True,” admitted Figaro, sitting up and rubbing his thigh. Fortunately, the crack hadn’t been one of his bones. The soldier had a satisfied look on her face. Her commander had avenged her. “But now I know one more than I did. Each situation is different, Captain. Here.” He held out the bracelet she had asked him to wear. It was broken.
Ganesh laughed even louder this time. Captain Tek scowled, checking the pocket she had put the bracelet in, and stormed out of the training hall, the soldier hurrying after her.
“Well,” said Ganesh, “it seems you are more ready than I imagined. I wouldn’t be surprised if you were put on the Seneca most wanted list after that impudent display. Good job. If they offer a decent price, I might hunt you down myself.”
“I know all your moves,” said Figaro.
Ganesh helped Figaro to his feet and slapped him on the back. “Yes, yes you do. Use them well.” He walked away, still laughing.
It wasn’t the smartest idea to aggravate the Seneca Corps but he wasn’t about to be controlled by them. His parents already did that more than he was comfortable with, although their intentions were well meant.
He returned to his room to get changed and caught sight of himself in the mirror. His formal Ollo jacket looked smart and sharply cut to fit his torso. The light blue military-grade material showed no signs of wear and tear, the gold braid looked immaculate as ever. His silver hair looked wild and messy.
The buttons down the front of his jacket were embossed with the head of Aurelias Ollo, his distant ancestor and founder of the Ollo dynasty. The head was round in profile on the buttons, no hair. There were some clippers in the dresser drawer. He took them out and set to cutting off his lovely locks.
By the time he finished, his hair was shorter than Private Speers’. At this length, it was hard to tell what colour it was.
“I was joking about your hair. I’m actually quite fond of it.”
He turned to find Private Speers standing there. He hadn’t heard her come in, either because of the clippers or because she hadn’t wanted him to.
“I get that quite a lot,” said Figaro. “But it’s too recognisable. I don’t want people to identify me easily. Or remember me when asked. The whole point of this is for me to be incognito.”
She came closer. “Did you enjoy throwing me around like that. Made you feel all strong and powerful, did it?”
“Not really,” said Figaro. “I would have preferred a kiss.”
She smiled. “All that time we spent together, I thought it was just good old-fashioned lust, but you were really just learning all my moves, huh?”
“Among other things,” said Figaro.
She put her arms around his waist. “I guess I should have done the same.”
“Shouldn’t you be protecting my mother and unborn sister?”
“We do get breaks, you know?”
“No, you don’t. Did your captain send you?”
She let go of him. “You have a very suspicious mind. I think that’s what attracted me to you. You think like one of us.”
“Thank you?” said Figaro.
“You shouldn’t have done that to the captain. She isn’t happy.”
Figaro shrugged. “She isn’t my captain.” He wondered what Speers had been sent here to do. Convince him to wear another bracelet? Probably not.
He did understand why the Corps was so unrelenting. A simple look at the history of organics made that clear.
Women had suffered immeasurably when organics were first discovered. Having a high compatibility quotient meant a better chance of being able to integrate with an organic artefact, but the true potential of a high CQ came in the form of children. Two people with high CQs were much more likely to produce a child with a high CQ.
Men were able to spread their seed far and wide, but women had a limited window for reproduction. Which made women with exceptional CQs very valuable. As breeding stock.
They were kidnapped, bought and sold, impregnated to exhaustion and mental failure. The prize was considered worth any sacrifice.
It didn’t take long to work out how to identify those who were compatible, but no one knew why one person could join with the alien technology, and another couldn’t. Trying to engineer a high CQ proved impossible. They had no luck decoding the DNA of high CQ individuals in the lab. In vitro fertilisation produced nothing of use. Children had to be made the old-fashioned way, which meant women who weren’t willing to cooperate were impregnated by natural means in a very unnatural manner. Without consent. Often, without consciousness.
A hundred years of terror for ‘gifted’ women followed.
The Corps rose to defend their own. Women found ways to obtain organics and used them — to protect themselves and their sisters. They employed extreme measures from the start. If a man was found guilty of violating a CQ woman, his whole bloodline would be eradicated, from his children to distant relatives. There was no appeals process, just summary execution.
Universal outrage and indignation was ignored. The Seneca Principle was simple. If you don’t want your family tree burnt to the ground, don’t touch without permission. It was stunningly effective. Entire planets were ready to turn in one of their own rather than anger the Seneca Corps, because entire planets had been destroyed for crossing the Seneca Principle. Hell hath no fury like a Seneca strike force, nor does it have the ordnance.
They would ensure his sister had the right to choose her own destiny, for which he was grateful. But he planned to be the one who kept her safe.
“If you’re here to plant a device on me, you should know I’ll be scanned before I leave.”
Private Speers nodded. “I still have to try.”
“I understand,” said Figaro. “Orders are orders. Do you mind trying while naked?”
“I was told to use any means necessary. Are you hoping to learn some more of my moves?”
“Do you have any new ones?”
She started taking off her uniform. “I’m sure I can think of some.”
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Impeachment—From the Ukrainian Perspective
Join Columbia's Harriman Institute and NYU’s Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia for the second meeting of the 2019-2020 New York Russia Public Policy Seminar. As the United States enters the next phase of the impeachment process, join a panel of experts as they consider what this means for Ukraine, Ukraine’s relations with Russia and Russia and Ukraine’s relations with the U.S. moving forward.
Russia in the Middle East at a Time of Growing Tensions: A View From Israel
Join the Wilson Center's Kennan Institute for a talk on Russia's presence in the Middle East as new tensions rock the region. What are Russia’s strategic objectives in this moment of change? Is Russia looking to fill the power vacuum left by a weakening Iran? Two top Israeli analysts offer their perspectives.
Post | Jan 15, 2020
Putin Signals Intention to Continue Steering Russia Beyond 2024, but Will He Solve Country’s Structural Problems?
Vladimir Putin caught much of Russia’s ruling elite off guard when he fired the entire government on Jan. 15. With implementation of Putin’s much-prized national projects by the government in trouble and real incomes declining year after year, it was, perhaps, only a matter of time before Russia’s ultimate decision-maker was to sacrifice someone from the government’s socio-economic bloc. However, few Kremlin insiders expected Putin to fire not only all the ministers, but also the premier (and one-time president), Dmitry Medvedev, with more than four years still left in Putin’s fourth term. Yes, Medvedev has been chronically unpopular, but some Kremlin watchers thought that the loyal premier would only be axed sometime closer to the end of Putin’s fourth term to please the public ahead of a reconfiguration of power in Russia in 2024.
Russia Analytical Report, Jan. 6-13, 2020
The Prospects for US-Russia Arms Control
With the demise of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) and an unclear future for New START, U.S.-Russian arms control is in dire condition. Join CSIS for an analysis of the different options for U.S.-Russian arms control with Andrey Baklitskiy.
Russia in Review, Jan. 3-10, 2020
Facts | Jan 09, 2020
U.S.-Russian and Multilateral Agreements to Prevent War
China, Russia and the World Order
Join Georgetown University's Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies for a lecture by Dr. Bobo Lo. He has written extensively on Russian foreign policy, and his latest book is titled "A Wary Embrace: What the China-Russia Relationship Means for the World."
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An ambulance was called to Hastings town centre
Stephen Wynn-Davies
One person has been taken to hospital after an incident in a Hastings town centre restaurant.
A spokesman for the South East Coast Ambulance Service (SECAmb) confirmed an ambulance was called to Waterfalls, in Robertson Street, at 12.50pm on Monday (November 18).
On Tuesday (November 19), a SECAmb spokesman said crews were responding to reports of person in need of medical attention.
He added: “One ambulance crew attended the scene and one patient was assessed and treated before being taken to Conquest Hospital.”
The spokesman did not say in what condition they were taken to hospital.
Harry and Meghan, Duke and Duchess of Sussex, to give up 'Royal Highness' titles
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