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Site of Saw Mill off Dalehouse Lane
Description of this historic site
The site of a saw mill which was in use during the Imperial period and which is marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1905. The rear gardens of modern houses now occupy the site that is situated 100m south of The Common, off Dalehouse Lane, Kenilworth.
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Notes about this historic site
1 ‘Saw Mill’ marked.
2 Nothing remains of the building and the area is now the back garden of a couple of houses.
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Kenilworth (518)
Industrial Age - 1751-1913 (7547)
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MWA3282
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Forensic investigations 'scrapped' for some crimes in Plymouth
There is now a plan to transfer control of the forensics service from Devon & Cornwall Police to the Dorset force
Edward Oldfield
Forensics team at the scene of a murder in Plymouth
Concerns have been raised that forensic investigations are no longer being carried out into some "low-level" crimes in Plymouth .
A council meeting heard claims that people reporting break-ins and criminal damage are being told the incidents do not qualify for a forensics team to be sent out.
Forensic investigators use scientific techniques to gather evidence from crime scenes such as fingerprints and DNA.
Councillors said it appeared there was now a policy to rule out the use of forensics at "low-level" crimes which are more common in urban areas like Plymouth. They complained it would damage public confidence in the police and harm crime prevention.
The Labour-controlled authority voted for leader Tudor Evans to write to the Police and Crime Commissioner Alison Hernandez opposing a plan to transfer control of the forensics service from Devon & Cornwall Police to the Dorset force. The letter will also ask for an "evident reduction" in the service for Plymouth to be reversed.
Four police forces in the South West joined a regional forensics organisation in 2014 to improve efficiency and make savings.
In October Devon & Cornwall and Avon & Somerset announced they were planning to transfer the employment of their forensic teams to Dorset by October 2019, creating a single employer for 300 people.
A statement said the collaboration had seen services improve and staff would still be based locally. The aim was to strengthen effectiveness of the service and streamline working practices. Wiltshire has decided against the jobs transfer but will stay in the collaboration.
At a meeting on Monday, councillors in Plymouth highlighted cases of “low-level” crime where they said people were told forensics had been ruled out, including a break-in and theft of equipment from a lock-up used by a youth group in Mutley , and criminal damage to cars.
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Cllr Gareth Derrick, a Plymouth member of the Devon and Cornwall police and crime panel, called on the council to oppose the transfer and demand forensic services be restored in Plymouth.
Cllr Derrick said the transfer was opposed by the GMB union and added: “It will remove important decisions about crime scene investigation away from local control.”
He said the change would damage public confidence in policing and harm longer-term crime prevention, and warned that criminals would be more likely to offend if they realised some crimes would not be forensically investigated.
His motion put forward for discussion at the meeting said: "While generating some financial savings for Devon and Cornwall Police there is also increasingly strong evidence that crime scene investigation is now significantly degraded, operating under a Service Level Agreement that prohibits “forensics”attendance at “low-level” crime scenes, damaging public confidence and undermining their effectiveness in contributing to crime investigation and prevention at all levels.
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"Effective forensic investigation is particularly crucial in urban areas such as Plymouth where there is a prevalence of acquisitive crime (eg car theft and theft from buildings) and criminal damage.
"These crimes have a significant impact on their victims and are often linked (forensically and otherwise) to more serious and organised criminal activity."
But Conservatives accused Labour of scaremongering and said the council meeting was not the right place to discuss policing.
Conservative Patrick Nicholson accused Cllr Derrick, a former Labour candidate for the job of Police and Crime Commissioner, of “political posturing”.
Cllr Nicholson said councillors did not have enough information about the proposals and suggested a meeting should be set up with the commissioner and the police to discuss the issue.
The council voted in favour of Cllr Derrick's motion with 28 votes in favour and 22 abstentions, instructing the leader to write to Ms Hernandez calling on her to keep forensic staff under local control "to retain the integrity of our policing services, and to take steps to reverse the evident reduction in the use of forensic investigation which damages public confidence in policing and inhibits long-term crime prevention."
Ms Hernandez, a Conservative elected to the Police and Crime Commissioner job in 2016, said after the meeting: “The councillor putting forward this motion did so without consulting me or the chief constable and therefore the debate that followed was, regrettably, based on the false premise that Devon and Cornwall Police stood to lose some operational ability because of these proposed changes.”
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Last year Ms Hernandez withdrew from a proposed merger between the Devon & Cornwall and Dorset forces, although they continue to work together in an alliance for some services.
She said last year about the plan for the forensic service: “The move to one employer has been driven by management as the best option to deliver an efficient forensic service and staff welfare is at the heart of the decision.
“I believe that Dorset is best placed to deliver an excellent forensics as Chief Constable James Vaughan has been involved at a national level from the very beginning and I am sure he can give effective leadership to the team.”
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Rik Henderson · 1 August 2014
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Price when reviewed $50
A gorgeous update to what was already one of the best games around
Solid acting
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You might have played it to death before and find little reason to buy
Very rare graphical glitches
There seems to be a trend, now that the next generation of gaming has arrived, to bulk games libraries with relaunched and remastered versions of classic titles. The Last of Us Remastered on PlayStation 4 is among those to head up that list.
Not including some rehashed versions of indie downloadable titles and ports of other existing games such as Minecraft, we've also seen a remastered version of Tomb Raider as a PS4 and Xbox One next-gen release, and Grand Theft Auto V is heading to both consoles before the end of 2014.
But it's The Last of Us that's piqued our interest perhaps more than others because it's a game we adored on PlayStation 3. And on the PS4 it's like upgrading from DVD to Blu-ray with all the graphical flourishes and bonus extras that give us a hankering to play it again.
So whether you're new to the title or not, does The Last of Us still stand up to scrutiny as one of the best games of recent times?
A timeless classic
Although it's technically a re-release, The Last of Us Remastered is not like most other games, or even other classics from a slowly winding down but glorious generation of gaming. At its heart it is timeless, offering gameplay mechanics that haven't grown old. They can and will be bettered someday, but if it were released for the first time today, few would argue that there is anything better out there.
For many The Last of Us Remastered will be a brand new game. If you never played it on PS3, have made your first console investment in the PS4, or have even ventured over to the land of PlayStation from camp Xbox, then get ready for an epic all-new experience.
So regardless of sating the appetites of those hankering for another journey through the eerie landscapes of Naughty Dog's imagination, the game should be given as much respect as any other new title that crosses our desks here at Pocket-lint.
Which is almost pointless anyway, to be honest, because even when seen as a minor rehash The Last of Us still blasts the pants off all opposition on the PS4. It was essentially next-gen gaming on a current-gen console when it was first released. Now it returns and manages to be the first stand-out next-gen game to hit Sony's platform.
Next-gen graphics
Running at 60 frames per second and in 1080p, The Last of Us Remastered simply looks spectacular. Fans of the original game might be excused for initially not being taken aback by the sheer wealth of changes Naughty Dog has made to the graphical presentation. Everything is familiar and much of the opening scenes and set pieces are in the dark, where the visual feast is hampered by a restricted and muted colour palette. Step out into the sun though and you will shed a tear at its beauty. Or, at least, go "wow" and then move on.
Faces are easier to be impressed by because the extra detail is much more noticeable. Remember, The Last of Us on PS3 ran at 30fps and in 720p. Aside from the extra processing power that helps lighting ambience and blooms seem much more tangible, there is a more crisp playing field to play with, while that frame rate bump enhances the smoothness of motion.
Sometimes that looks a little fake rather than cinematic - just switch on the "Motion Plus" style picture processing on your TV and you'll see what we mean - but it adds fluidity to the character animations. And gun battles and fighting sequences seem more responsive too.
The plot of the game is identical of course. You still play - and spoiler alert, skip two paragraphs if you want to come at the game fresh of storyline knowledge - Joel as he treks across a post-apocalyptic US of A with Ellie, who you also play later in the game, at his side. And the action and stealth-based sequences are all in the same places.
What's new with the Remastered release is that you get all the downloadable extras bundled at no extra cost. That includes some of the multiplayer additions, but also the extended single-player side-story, Left Behind. It puts you in the shoes of Ellie as you find out some of her past and what happened to her during a pivotal gap in the main storyline.
This side mission/truncated additional game is not quite as fully realised as the main event, but still a beautiful and, at times, terrifying experience that adds even more value.
But there are new additions for PS4. Remastered includes Photo Mode which, like on Infamous: Second Son, enables you to pause the action and set-up camera angles and lighting to take in-game grabs from the position you like the most. It's an interesting way to encourage fans to post their favourite moments on social networks and little more than that, but we've certainly found it useful to get screengrabs ourselves. If only all games carried such a feature.
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We also like how the PS4's DualShock 4 has been utilised to enhance the experience. Apart from using the large touchpanel at the top to open the crafting menu, there are points in both the main game and Left Behind when the speaker of the controller is used to further the interaction.
For example, we found a Dictaphone recorder and rather than play the message back through our home cinema sound system, it played through the DualShock's tinny speaker instead. It was authentic sounding and a nice touch, similar to how it's done in the latest Wolfenstein title.
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The LED light on the front of the controller comes into its own too, changing colour to reflect the on-screen action. Needless to say, if you get munched by a Clicker - the scary as heck zombie-like enemies in the game - then it turns red.
Multiplayer remains perhaps a less well-known element of The Last of Us. It's not fair to say it has been tacked on, but the focus has always been on the most incredibly scripted single-player game in existence, not on how many 13-year-olds from half way around the globe you can wipe out (yes, we know it's an 18-rated game, but we're not stupid). We do like the fact that the player vs player action is more like that in the single-player game - you will do better by being cunning than simply running and gunning.
There is also an interesting meta-game that asks you to look after a camp of survivors, with multiplayer gameplay benefiting the group. You'll probably take a while to get round to it though because there's a lot of single-player game hours waiting to be played through first.
Whichever way you look at it, The Last of Us Remastered is a work of art. The PS3 version has already gone down in history as one of the finest examples of interactive storytelling the games industry has ever mustered and Naughty Dog, the game's developers, would have had to jump an almighty shark to balls this up.
But not only has it managed to take something so very near perfect and enhance it, it has found the missing elements to make it totally perfect this time around.
Even if you have little interest in the survival horror storyline, the stealth gameplay or the thoroughly engaging characters, The Last of Us Remastered is a game that you can use to finally show off your next-generation games console. Much like those that used its forebear to show off their current-gen machines.
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Disasters and accidents of Su-22 aircraft in Poland. 2007.
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Kraków 2007-09-01
Disasters and accidents of Su-22 aircraft in Poland.
1 On 1986-08-09, Su-22 M 4 nb 9514 No. 29514. The pilot survived because he used the catapult chair. Probably the first use of the K-36 catapult chair in Poland.
2 On October 23, 1986 at 2237. Aircraft Su-22 M 4 nb 7104 No. 27104. Lieutenant pilot Bogusław Siwiec - he died.
The pilot of the Su-22 aircraft practiced the attack on ground targets in night conditions. The pilot misinterpreted the altitude of the flight: 1200 m, when in fact he was at a height of 200 m. The plane hit the ground near Waplewo.
Lieutenant pilot Bogusław Siwiec
3 On 1989-05-17, at 07:57. Aircraft Su-22 M 4 nb 4602 No. 24602. Pilot Lieutenant Jacek Gabryś - he died.
The pilot performed a training flight at a low altitude. The plane fell to the ground in a deep bend because there was a stall in flight. The pilot did not attempt to catapult.
Pilot Lieutenant Jacek Gabryś
Place of disaster.
4 On 1989-12-20. Aircraft Su-22 UM 3 K nb 104 No. 66104 belonging to the 6. PLMB in Piła. The pilots catapulted successfully.
During an overnight landing at the airport in Piła, due to excessive depreciation caused by pilot errors, the plane caught on the trees' crowns. The pilots, due to the sufficient speed, picked up the machine up and were able to catapult to a height of approx. 60 m. The plane fell a few hundred meters from the Piła-Wałcz road. It exploded and burned completely.
5 On 1990-01-30, at 12:01. Aircraft Su-22 M 4 nb 3714 No. 37714 belonging to the 8th PLMB in Mirosławiec. A pilot, Lieutenant Colonel Andrzej Wyciślik, died.
Task: Flight on the technical flight of the plane.
Circumstances of the crash: The pilot performed a technical flight of the aircraft during the day
in normal atmospheric conditions. At an altitude of 10,000 m, due to the freezing of water droplets in the main installation of air pressure receivers, erroneous indications of pilot and navigational instruments occurred. Improper operation of the remote control, resulting from reading erroneous indications of the instruments, led to switching off the engine in the air. The pilot did not catapult, but he attempted to land in the contingent area near Czaplinek. During the landing, the plane crashed, the pilot died.
Cause: The crash was caused by the pilot taking incorrect action due to improper interpretation of erroneous indications of aneroid-membrane devices.
Su-22 M 4 nb 3714
Pilot Lieutenant Andrzej Wyciślik
6 On 1991-06-21. Aircraft Su-22 M 4 nb 8614 No. 28614.
The pilot performed tasks over the training ground in Nadarzyce. He led to a stall. Fortunately, he catapulted. The plane is broken.
7 On 1993-06-04. Aircraft Su-22 M 4 nb 3619 belonging to 6 PLMB in Piła. The pilot catapulted successfully.
During the start there was a failure and engine shutdown. The pilot successfully catapulted to a height of 20 meters. After this incident he returned to flying. The plane burned down after collision with the ground. The cause of the failure was incorrect technical service.
During the flight near Nowa Wieś the pilot led to a stall. He happily catapulted. The plane was broken.
9 On 1995-07-25, at 8:33. Aircraft Su-22 nb 4610 No. 24601 with 6 PLMB in Piła. During the drop of the bomb on the training ground in Nadarzycach, an untimely explosion took place and the major pilot, Jerzy Stramek, was killed.
Task: Experimental flight on the Nadarzyce training ground as part of the test-and-receive research of the test bomb party.
Circumstances of the catastrophe: The disaster occurred during an experimental flight on the Su-22 M 4 airplane on the Nadarzyce training ground. The pilot was to perform a flight of six aerial bombs with igniters of a new type, a volley of two bombs. In the first incident, the pilot dropped two bombs from a height of about 40 m. After dropping the bombs in the second incident, after 1.2 seconds from the dump the bomb on the left side unexpectedly exploded under the fuselage, 18 m from the hull, when the parachute opened braking. The plane was in the so-called the zero zone of the explosion was violently struck by shards, heat waves and shock waves. Leaking fuel leaked from unsealed tanks. After 5 seconds from the moment of the explosion, the plane collided with the ground and exploded. The pilot was killed.
Cause: The cause of the disaster was a premature explosion in the air of one of the bombs, soon after being dropped in a mowing flight. The explosion was caused by the design defect of the bomb. The plane, struck by shards and waves of thermal and shock explosion, lost control and ignited.
Pilot Major Jerzy Stramek
10 On 1995-11-07 at 10:03. Aircraft Su-22 UM 3 K nb 610 No. 68610 with a crew of Lt. Col. Bogdan Kawka and Lieutenant Colonel Wacław Macko in the vicinity of Czaplinek collided with the ground during acrobatics. The pilots died.
Pilot Lieutenant Colonel Bogdan Kawka
Pilot Lieutenant-Colonel Wacław Macko
11 On June 13, 2001, at 0:33. Aircraft Su-22 UM 3 nb 102. Night landing crew in the composition of major Maciej Górkiewicz and second lieutenant Arkadiusz Madej at the airport in Powidz finished with the death of the crew.
Pilot major Maciej Górkiewicz
Pilot lieutenant Arkadiusz Madej
12 On 2003-08-19, around 3:45 pm, during the anti-aircraft drills on the Ustka training ground there was an air accident Su-22 M 4 nb 9307 No. 29307 with 8 ELT (tactical aviation squadron) from Mirosławiec. The pilot Lt. Col. Andrzej Andrzejewski, due to the sense of threat, catapulted. After the rescue operation, the pilot was taken by a helicopter Mi-14 PS from the base in Darłowo. The pilot was transported to a field hospital in Wicko Morskie. The Commission found that as a result of a misunderstanding in the decision-making process during combat shooting, two anti-aircraft missiles of the Kub system were launched while the aircraft carrier-carrier SRCP-WR did not leave the firing zone yet. As a result, Kub's combat head exploded near the plane. The pilot made the right decision to leave the plane.
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With POLOT, incessantly since 2007
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Reimagining Transit in the Denver Region
The Reimagine RTD initiative will imagine the future of transit service in the Denver region. Already a debate has begun about which direction the RTD should take.
October 4, 2019, 9am PDT | James Brasuell | @CasualBrasuell
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John Aguilar reports on a new Regional Transportation District effort to revamp bus service in the Denver area as ridership declines in keeping with national trends.
According to Aguilar, "the Regional Transportation District will formally unveil a two-year effort — dubbed Reimagine RTD — to plan for the 'future of mobility' in metro Denver amid the rise of ride-sharing services such as Uber and Lyft and the prospect of self-driving vehicles filling the streets one day."
"RTD, which turned 50 in July, has faced a steady stream of bad headlines in the last couple of years as it hit big delays in rolling out new commuter rail lines, raised fares to one of the higher price points in the nation and wrestled with a driver shortage that it’s still trying to resolve," according to Aguilar.
Aguilar quotes Ben Fried, a spokesperson for New York City-based TransitCenter, with additional criticism of RTD operations, saying the transit system has been allowing bus service to languish as it has expanded rails service around the region. Andrew Goetz, a University of Denver geography professor who specializes in transportation issues, on the other hand, is quoted urging RTD to partner with innovative transportation companies to maintain its relevance.
RTD looks to “reimagine” service in a fast-changing Denver metro transportation landscape
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What Was the Biggest Surprise of This Year's Emmys?
Emmy Surprises 2012
September 24, 2012 by Shannon Vestal Robson
All of this year's Emmy Awards have been handed out, and while some categories had repeat winners (yes, Modern Family still rules), there were a few big surprises. We're still kind of in shock that Damian Lewis won outstanding lead actor — not because he didn't deserve it, but because Bryan Cranston had never lost before. He wasn't the only lead actor to raise eyebrows; Jon Cryer's comedy win for Two and a Half Men was also unexpected. But maybe the biggest surprise wasn't a victory, but a loss, which is what Mad Men experienced across the board. The series lost all 17 categories it was nominated for — a record shutout. But which of these was the biggest surprise for you? Weigh in below.
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Miss Minford takes volunteerism to Nicaragua
By Portia Williams - portiawilliams@civitasmedia.com
Miss Minford, Tori Reffit
Tori Reffit, Miss Minford, with Nicaraguan child during the week-long mission trip Reffit participated in with members of Cornerstone Church of the Nazarene in Wheelersburg.
Tori Reffit, Miss Minford (center, with pageant ribbon), in Nicaraguan with children and other mission team members during their recent mission trip to Nicaragua.
MINFORD — Accompanied by 17 other mission team members, Tori Reffit, Miss Minford took her spirit of volunteerism to Somoto, Nicaragua on a mission June 26-July 3, 2016.
As Miss Minford, Tori Reffit will be competing in the River days pageant in Sept. Each contestant is required to have a platform, and Reffit chose volunteerism.
“We stayed in Somoto, Nicaragua, which is a little town. We have been going for what I think is our seventh year there. Each year we go to that specific town, but always do something different there,” Reffit said. “I definitely encourage everyone to go on a mission trip, if they have the opportunity to go. My dad is one of the pastors at my church, which is Cornerstone Nazarene in Wheelersburg, and he is the Spanish interpreter for them. He has been going on mission trips to Nicaragua for many years, I believe this is his fourth year, I have always wanted to go with him, but did not have the opportunity to.”
Volunteerism is Reffit’s platform, and missions helped her to fulfill it.
“I became Miss Minford, and my platform is volunteerism, and I have been very eager to go on a mission trip with my church. I was told that they had an extra ticket, and that I could go. This was so amazing, and I was so excited,” Reffit said. “I was raising money for it, and God just really blessed me to be able to have that opportunity to go.”
Conducting Vacation Bible School (VBS) sessions were an important part of the mission trip that Reffit participated in.
“Some of the best things that we did while we were in Nicaragua, were the Vacation Bible Schools, or VBS’s. We were there for a week, and we did one each evening that we were there. We were able to pass out bags of food,” Reffit said. “To see these stressed, poor communities, to see how joyful they were whenever we came there, and were able to give them things that they don’t normally have, things that we normally take for granted here.”
Love transcends language barriers, according to Reffit.
“Another one of the highlights was singing songs like, ”This Little Light of Mine’ and as missionaries we knew it in English, and they were singing it in Spanish,” Reffit said. “They were singing it in Spanish, and we were singing it in English, and it was amazing to see how two totally diverse cultures can come together, and meet at that point because we both speak the language of love, and that God can just bring us altogether by speaking that love language.”
Hector Reffit, Tori Reffit’s father said
“She has volunteered quite often over the last few years, and what she chose to do this year was to hold a fund drive at her school collecting items to take to Nicaragua to give to some of the poorest families in their country,” Hector Reffit said. “She also held an event at our church where she had the other River Days contestants and a group at out church called Nos Ama ( which means, He loves us in Spanish) and we packaged all the items to take to Nicaragua. As Tori’s father, some might think I am a bit biased when it comes to my feelings toward her, but I really don’t think that’s the case. Tor is one of those people, and I am both thankful and proud of all that she has accomplished.”
Tori Reffit said the goal should be to make the world a better place through acts of kindness, no matter where a person is.
“As I said, I really want to encourage people to go on a mission trip. It does not have to be out of the country. I believe that you can volunteer in many different ways through random acts of kindness even, to make someone’s day, or make someone smile,” Reffit said. “I definitely want people not to take what we have here in the United States for granted, and try to make the world a better place.”
http://portsmouth-dailytimes.aimmedianetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/28/2016/07/web1_MissMinford.jpgMiss Minford, Tori Reffit
http://portsmouth-dailytimes.aimmedianetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/28/2016/07/web1_IMG_0545.jpgTori Reffit, Miss Minford, with Nicaraguan child during the week-long mission trip Reffit participated in with members of Cornerstone Church of the Nazarene in Wheelersburg.
http://portsmouth-dailytimes.aimmedianetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/28/2016/07/web1_thumbnail_IMG_0536.jpgTori Reffit, Miss Minford (center, with pageant ribbon), in Nicaraguan with children and other mission team members during their recent mission trip to Nicaragua.
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Journal for September 2000
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Camera IconTwo Australians have been gored by fighting bulls during the final bull run of the San Fermin bull run in Pamplona, northern Spain. Credit: AFP
Two Australians gored at Spanish bull run
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Two Australians and a Spaniard have been gored by a bull that broke from the pack during the final bull run of this year’s San Fermin festival, health officials from the northern Spanish city of Pamplona say.
Spanish media identified the Aussies as “JC”, 30, from Adamstown Heights, NSW, and “BK”, 27.
Navarra reports “JC” was lifted suffered a goring in the left leg that left a 15cm wound after the bull cornered him before lifting him into the air, while “BK’s” right arm was injured.
Neither are in critical condition.
This took the number of gorings to eight for the eight bull runs that provide a high-adrenaline morning rush to the non-stop party that draws around one million people each year.
Camera IconParticipants run next to a fighting bull on the sixth bull run of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, northern Spain. Credit: AFP
While five of the bulls stayed in a group on Sunday and charged through the twisting streets with their guiding steers, one bull drifted back and provoked havoc in the crowds of runners.
The bull flipped one man over its horns and slammed him onto the cobblestone street. It then clipped another two runners who were trapped against a wall. Regional hospital spokesman Tomas Belzunegui said the man who had been tossed by the chocolate-coloured bull named Rabanero was gored in the leg, while another man was gored in the right arm and a third in the armpit. The hospital said the wounds were not life- threatening.
Camera IconA reveller is tossed by a heifer after the fifth bull run of the San Fermin festival. Credit: AFP
The Red Cross reported several other injuries from knocks received from the bulls and steers, or from runners tumbling out of the way.
The previous seven bull runs had produced five gorings of three Spaniards and two Americans.
The six bulls involved in the 850-metre run to the bull ring will be killed at the ring later on Sunday.
The San Fermin fiesta was made famous internationally by Ernest Hemingway in his 1926 novel “The Sun Also Rises.” Sixteen people have died in the bull runs since 1910. The last death occurred in 2009.
Camera IconParticipants run next to a fighting bull on the sixth bull run of the festival. Credit: AFP
Animal rights protesters have also become a fixture in Pamplona. On the eve of this year’s festival, dozens of semi-naked activists staged a performance simulating speared bulls lying dead on Pamplona’s streets to draw attention to what they see as animal cruelty for the sake of entertainment. Bullfights are protected under the Spanish Constitution as part of the country’s cultural heritage.
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New Top Chef Spinoff: Former Cheftestants Get Extreme
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Dominique Chatterjee | January 22, 2014 | 11:00am
Long-running reality competition shows like Project Runway, Survivor, and Celebrity Apprentice love to bring back former contestants for a second chance at the title. But after 10 regular seasons, five seasons of Masters, two seasons of Just Desserts, and an All-Stars season -- Top Chef is going to do one better. This Bravo TV show isn't settling to re-invite cheftestants for a reboot.
Top Chef Extreme debuts this summer, and the episodes will feature one-on-one cook-offs with chefs from both Top Chef and Top Chef Masters. The new series will culminate in a finale that pits the episode winners against one another to decide, once and for all, who is the fiercest chef among Top Chef alumni.
Cheftestants and judges have yet to be announced, and there's no word on what makes the new battles extreme. But we're hoping to see Hugh Acheson (Masters Season 3) and Tiffani Faison (Seasons 1 and 8) go hunting, butcher a moose with a chainsaw, and cook it over an open fire.
To what extremes do you want the chefs to go, and who do you want to see return?
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Zobm Ransomware enciphers photos, documents, and data alike. You can tell that your files were affected by this malicious application from the .zobm extension that should be at the end of each encrypted file’s name. The next thing you might notice if you receive this threat is its ransom note, which ought to be available via a document called _readme.txt. In such a case, we advise reading our full article so you could learn all the essential details about this malware. For users who came here to learn how to get rid of Zobm Ransomware, we can offer our removal instructions placed at the end of this article. They show how to erase the threat manually, which could seem difficult for inexperienced users. If you find the task challenging, you should get a reliable antimalware tool and let it help you eliminate the malware.
Many users who receive threats like Zobm Ransomware, launch them without even realizing it. As you see, hackers can disguise malicious launchers to look harmless, or they can attach malicious scripts carrying threats to files of various types. For instance, a user could receive an email saying that he should open an attached file. The malicious attachment might not seem harmless as it could look like a text file or even a picture. Needless to say that opening such a file could initiate a malicious application’s installation. If you do not want to make such a mistake, you should always scan attachments or any other data received from unknown or unreliable sources with a reliable antimalware tool.
Moreover, users should know that they may not notice the malware entering their system. Threats like Zobm Ransomware can work silently without drawing attention up until they encrypt all targeted files. This malicious application seems to be after personal data like photos, videos, archives, and so on. After encrypting each file, the threat should mark it with the earlier mentioned .zobm extension. For instance, a picture titled winter_view.jpg could become winter_view.jpg.zobm. All the rest of the files that do not have this extension should not be encrypted. Files left unaffected should belonging to the operating system and other software installed on an infected device. Usually, hackers leave such data alone to ensure that users can easily access their ransom notes and pay a ransom.
Zobm Ransomware’s ransom note (_readme.txt) should be dropped on a computer soon after the threat finishes encrypting files. It should contain a message that can be seen on most ransom notes displayed by ransomware applications that belong to the Stop Ransomware family. At first, the message ought to explain that files were encrypted, and there is no other way to restore them but to get decryption tools. The second part of the note ought to tell how to purchase such tools. According to it, a user should pay 490 US dollars in 72 hours. If a user does not pay the ransom in a given time, it gets doubled, and hackers may demand to pay 980 US dollars. Even so, we do not recommend rushing into anything. First, you should carefully think whether your files are worth such a sum. Next, you should consider if you want to risk losing it in vain.
There is a risk you could end up wasting your money as there are no guarantees that Zobm Ransomware’s developers will deliver promised decryption tools. Thus, we advise you to think carefully before deciding if you should put up with the hacker’s demands. No matter what you choose to do, we recommend not to leave the malware on your computer. It might be able to restart with the operating system, which means it could start encrypting new files every time your device gets restarted. To avoid such a risk, we advise deleting Zobm Ransomware with the instructions located below or a reliable antimalware tool. If you need more help with its removal or have questions about it, feel free to leave us a comment at the end of this page.
Erase Zobm Ransomware
Click Ctrl+Alt+Delete.
Choose Task Manager and select Processes.
Find a process belonging to the threat.
Mark it and click End Task.
Exit Task Manager.
Find the malicious application’s launcher (suspicious file downloaded before your computer became infected).
Navigate to: %LOCALAPPDATA%
Look for a folder with a long name from random characters that should contain a malicious .exe file, for example, 0115174b-bd55-4caf-a89a-d8ff8132151f.
Right-click the malicious folder and press Delete.
Go to C: disk and find a file called _readme.txt, right-click it, and select Delete.
Check this location: C:\SystemID
Find a file named PersonalID.txt and remove it too.
Restart the computer.
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Micropapillary Adenocarcinoma of the lung: Recent updates and literature review
Paloma del C Monroig-Bosque1, Ahmed N Shehabeldin1, and Jae Y Ro2*
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1Department of Pathology and Genomic Medicine, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, USA
2Department of Pathology and Genomic Medicine, Houston Methodist Hospital, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, Houston, TX, USA
*Corresponding author: Jae Y Ro, MD, PhD, Houston Methodist Hospital, Department of Pathology and Genomic Medicine, 6565 Fannin St. Houston, TX 77030, USA, Tel: (713) 441-6420; Fax: (713) 793-1603; E-mail: jaero@houstonmethodist.org
DOI: 10.17352/aprc.000035
Received: 26 December, 2018 | Accepted: 09 January, 2019 | Published: 10 January, 2019
Keywords: Micropapillary; Lung; Adenocarcinoma; Prognosis
Monroig-Bosque PDC, Shehabeldin AN, Ro JY (2019) Micropapillary Adenocarcinoma of the lung: Recent updates and literature review. Arch Pulmonol Respir Care 5(1): 001-011. DOI: 10.17352/aprc.000035
Background: Lung cancer is the most frequent cause of cancer-related death worldwide. For adenocarcinomas, histological subtyping is typically performed (e.g. lepidic, acinar, papillary, micropapillary, and solid), as suggested by the World Health Organization. Among these, micropapillary carcinoma has been a focus of significant research in recent years, as it is the newest subtype and has the worst prognosis. Herein, we summarize the most relevant findings of this morphological variant in detail with anecdotal experience and a review of the published literature.
Results: A PubMed query for “adenocarcinoma of the lung” resulted in 177 full-length articles. The reviewed articles were grouped by category as follows: 1) history (2002-2008), 2) morphologic/diagnostic features, 3) prognostic implications, 4) molecular features and targeted therapies, and 5) radiologic/imaging findings. Our results consistently showed that a micropapillary carcinoma component is associated with poor prognosis in patients with lung adenocarcinoma. Additionally, our investigation highlighted the fact that there have been no studies validating the diagnostic/morphologic criteria that should be used to achieve an accurate diagnosis of micropapillary lung adenocarcinoma. Nonetheless, we present that molecular studies continue to emerge, and there is significant opportunity for targeted therapeutic options that remains to be explored in depth.
Conclusion: Our review offers insight into novel studies focused on micropapillary lung adenocarcinoma. We present the potential for new research opportunities, particularly molecular studies aimed at determining targeted treatment options.
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IASLC/ATS/ERS: International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer, American Thoracic Society and the European Respiratory Society; WHO: World Health Organization; STAS: Spread Through Air Spaces; HR: Hazar Ratio; RFS: Recurrence Free Survival; MFS: Metastasis Free Survival; OS: Overall Survival; DFS: Disease-Free Survival; PD-1: Programmed Death 1; PDL-1: Programmed Death Ligand 1; GLUT1: Glucose Transporter 1; MMP9: Matrix Metalloproteinase 9; TTF1: Thyroid Transcription Factor 1; CEA: Carcinoembryonic Antigen; SP-A: Surfactant Apoprotein A; EGFR: Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor; IQGAP1: Ras GTPase-Activating-like Protein; SCLC: Small Cell Lung Cancer; NSCLC: Non- Small Cell Lung Cancer; LADC: Lung Adenocarcinoma; EML4: Echinoderm Microtubule Associated Protein-Like 4; ALK: Anaplastic Lymphoma Kinase; HER2: Human Epidermal Receptor 2; PET: Positron Emission Tomography; CT: Computed Tomography; HRCT: High-Resolution Computed Tomography; TDR: Tumor-Shadow Disappearance Ratio; SUVmax: Maximum Standardized Uptake Value; DSS: Disease specific survival.
Lung adenocarcinoma has been the most common cause of cancer-related death in both men and women for many years [1]. Recently, diagnostic accuracy has improved with the use of imaging techniques that can efficiently identify tumor lesions. This allows for faster time to treatment and more conservative, less invasive surgical options with decreased morbidity [2]. Morphology continues to be the most immediately crucial information that allows tumor grading and subtyping as it has implications for patient prognosis. In 2011, the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer, American Thoracic Society, and the European Respiratory Society (IASLC/ATS/ERS) revised the classification of lung adenocarcinoma by proposing new morphological criteria to provide a uniform diagnostic terminology for multidisciplinary patient management. This classification delivers histological subtyping based on pattern recognition and a semi-quantitative assessment of each pattern in 5% increments [3]. This new classification system has been tested in hundreds of cases in clinical datasets, and has shown to accurately define prognostically significant subgroups of lung adenocarcinoma [4].
Micropapillary lung adenocarcinoma is an important histological variant consisting of micropapillary morphology. It is similar to variants seen in other organs such as the breast, urinary bladder, and ovary. Micropapillary adenocarcinoma has been recently included in the World Health Organization (WHO) updated classification. Micropapillary adenocarcinoma is considered equivalent to poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma and resembles a morphology associated with a high-grade lesions [5,6]. Herein we aim to review studies published within the past ten years, that allude to the possibility of lung adenocarcinoma. Additionally, we reviewed updates from the past 3-5 years (including up to four years ago for molecular studies), and summarized the most relevant morphological/diagnostic features, prognostic implications, molecular changes, treatment modalities, and radiological/imaging findings.
A review of literature was performed as follows:
* Inclusion criteria
- A broad PubMed search was performed using “micropapillary lung adenocarcinoma” in the title/abstract of any article.
- We narrowed the article types to include case reports, clinical conference, clinical study, clinical trial (including phases I-IV), comparative study, controlled clinical trial, editorial, guideline, meta-analysis, multicenter study, observational study, randomized controlled trial, review, and systematic review.
- Of the searched articles, only the ones that were written in English, from human studies with adults of ≥19 years, and with full text available were reviewed.
* Exclusion criteria
- Articles in languages other than English, animal studies, and articles with only abstracts available for review were excluded.
* Withdrawal criteria
- Studies of micropapillary variants of adenocarcinomas in other organs (e.g. colon)
- Articles focused on other tumor types, or other morphologies (e.g. adenoid cystic carcinoma, lepidic lung adenocarcinoma)
- Manuscripts for which the PubMed link was not accessible
- Non-relevant case reports
- Articles that referred to non-targeted/cytotoxic therapeutic modalities
* Analysis
Using our research criteria, we found 177 full-length articles available for review. The articles were classified as follows: 1) initial description of micropapillary histology in lung adenocarcinoma from more than 10 years ago (2002-2008), 14 articles; 2) morphologic/diagnostic features, 1 article; 3) prognostic implications, 28 articles; 4) molecular features and targeted therapies, 20 articles; and 5) radiology/imaging, 5 articles. Table 1 contains the articles explored in detail, as well as those cited for future review.
A. History (2002-2008).
The first report found with our literature query was published in 2002 by Amin et al. [6]. In their study, the authors acknowledged that micropapillary carcinoma in lung had been recognized, but no importance had yet been given to it. However, the authors were aware that micropapillary architecture had prognostic relevance in other organs such as breast, urinary bladder, and ovary. They studied 35 cases of lung adenocarcinoma with a micropapillary component. They observed that the primary tumors metastasized in 94% of the cases, most with a predominant micropapillary component in the metastatic site. This study suggested for the first time that a micropapillary morphology could be observed in primary lung tumors. Furthermore, this study asserted that recognizing the micropapillary component was important because this morphology could be correlated with aggressive tumor progression [6].
Miyoshi et al. were the first to describe the morphologic features of the micropapillary pattern in lung primary tumors. They simply described it as “small papillary tufts lacking a central fibrovascular core” [7]. This criterion continued to be used in subsequent years [8,9]. Additionally, a handful of research groups evaluated the prognostic implications of the histological component, and published the details of how their patients showed higher propensity to develop lymph node metastasis and had an overall decreased survival compared to those without a micropapillary component [7-12].
Approximately two years after the first proposal of micropapillary components in lung primary tumors, preoperative detection of a micropapillary component was desired for making treatment decisions, given that this structure was associated with worse patient prognosis. Thus, cytology became an important tool for diagnosis. Hoshi et al. defined the cytological features important in the diagnosis of micropapillary components as: round, 3-dimensional, cohesive clusters of neoplastic cells (consisting of >3 and <20 cells) with a pseudopapillary configuration. In their study, patients with these features in early stage I disease had worse prognosis compared to controls [13]. Furthermore, a case report by Duncan et al. described the features seen in a primary lung cancer with significant micropapillary components as highly cellular malignant cells arranged in tight three-dimensional clusters, papillae without fibrovascular cores, and discohesive sheets of cells. Their avascular papillary structures and cell clusters were composed of overlapping atypical nuclei with irregular nuclear membranes and prominent nucleoli. Additionally, they described many discohesive individual cells, and clear spaces at the periphery of the cell balls, accentuated with Romanowsky stain [14]. These features were to diagnosis micropapillary carcinoma at the time, and some are still used.
Few studies utilizing additional diagnostic tools such as immunohistochemical profiles and/or molecular diagnostics were described early on. In our review of literature, Amin et al. demonstrated that among 15 cases, they found the following immunostain results: 80% were TTF1 (thyroid transcription factor 1) positive, 93% CK7 positive, and 13% CK20 positive [6]. Kawakami et al. showed that MUC1 was positive in the outer surface of micropapillary tufts, while non-micropapillary components showed reactivity limited to the luminal surface of carcinoma cells, suggestive of what has later been described as inverted nuclear polarity [11]. In a case report, Kuroda et al. performed an immunohistochemical workup in an autopsy case of a patient who had metastatic lung adenocarcinoma with micropapillary features. Their results determined that the micropapillary component was positive for cytokeratin CK7, CK19, TTF1, carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA), and surfactant apoprotein A (SP-A), but negative for CK20, estrogen receptor, progesterone receptor, uroplakin III, and CA125 [15]. Additionally, a study by Sanchez-Mora et al. evaluated the prognostic significance of various markers in five autopsy cases. They found p53, Ki67, and c-myc were elevated in more than half of their cases. Cyclin D1 (43%), epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) (36%), and Bax (43%) were also found to be expressed. Only cyclin D1 and Bax expression were associated with significantly worse survival [16].
In relation to molecular diagnostics, two studies were found from 10 years ago. In the first, Motoi et al. performed gene expression and KRAS and EGFR mutation analysis on 100 cases. This study from 2008 demonstrated that micropapillary subtype correlated strongly with EGFR mutation, but did not correlate with clusters of genes seen in other histological subtypes [17]. Similarly, a year later Ninomiya et al. studied 63 cases of lung adenocarcinoma and found that EGFR mutations were significantly associated with micropapillary pattern [18].
More than 10 years ago, Miyoshi T, et al. hypothesized a possible mechanism for the metastatic potential of tumors with micropapillary morphology. They speculated that the metastatic potential was mediated by a deficiency in Ras GTPase-activating-like protein (IQGAP1), which is ubiquitously expressed in humans. In the micropapillary component, deficiency in IQGAP1 causes the integrity of the entire cadherin-catenin-actin network to be compromised and the cellular adherent junction disassembled, resulting in the release of carcinoma cells organizing in a micropapillary pattern [19]. Similarly, Kamiya et al. in 2008 found that laminin was identified in the basement membrane of normal alveolar cells and neoplastic cells of the main tumor, but was not found in any cell with micropapillary tufts. They also suggested that cells with the micropapillary pattern are likely to have acquired anchorage-independent growth and a potential for high malignancy [9].
B. Morphologic/diagnostic features
We did not find any recent publications within the last three years where the main focus was assessing the criteria used to diagnose micropapillary lung adenocarcinoma. There have not been any consensus studies among experts to determine which features are unique in lung, and which are similar compared to micropapillary tumors in other organs. A recent review article by Cao et al. summarized some of the criteria that have been suggested in the literature for the past years [20]. They concluded that the cellular tufts with absence of fibrovascular core (Figure 1) tended to be a hallmark for this entity. This was very different from other tumor types in which vessels and neovascularization are important. In the lung, it is though that tumor cells nourish from surrounding fluids in the alveolar surfaces. Micropapillary tumor cells are generally small and cuboidal with minimal nuclear atypia, detaching and/or connecting to alveolar walls (Figure 2). Cell matrix can be absent, and polarity is usually inverted with peripheral nuclear polarization (Figure 3). The clusters are usually located at the periphery of the tumor. The disordered micropapillary structures are thought to facilitate spread to lymphatics and other tissues [20].
Figure 1: Cellular tufts of micropapillary adenocarcinoma with absence of fibrovascular core.
Figure 2: Micropapillary adenocarcinoma with small and cuboidal tumor cells and minimal nuclear atypia, detaching and/or connecting to alveolar walls.
Figure 3: Micropapillary adenocarcinoma with peripheral nuclear polarization.
C. Prognostic implications
The majority of recently published research articles regarding lung adenocarcinomas were based on the architectural grading system established in the classification system by IASLC/ATS/ERS in 2011. The established classification system was the most effective system out of three proposed models (architectural, Kadota, and Sica;) because it made the best distinction between the outcome of low-grade, intermediate-grade, and high-grade stage I adenocarcinomas (for a detailed review of the systems please refer to the publication by Sica et al from 2010 [21]). These findings have already been validated in older and more recent studies [22-24]. Thus, the IASLC/ATS/ERS grading system was used for this entity. Morphologies are defined as follows: lepidic as well differentiated, acinar and papillary as moderately differentiated, and solid and micropapillary as poorly differentiated.
The two poorly differentiated morphologies—solid and the more recently described micropapillary—have been the focus of significant research throughout the years. A study by Zombori et al. showed that both solid and micropapillary patterns are more frequently seen in patients with recurrence, and that predominance of these patterns is associated with unfavorable prognosis, particularly for micropapillary. Zombori et al. demonstrated that among tumors with the same main morphologic pattern, the presence of micropapillary as a secondarily predominant pattern correlated with worse prognosis. Their results highlighted the significance of describing both a predominant and a secondary predominant pattern in lung adenocarcinomas, similar to what the Sica grading system suggests [21,24,25]. Additional studies have confirmed these findings. For example, Zhao et al. showed that adenocarcinomas harboring micropapillary and/or solid components as a secondary, non-predominant pattern had higher rates of metastatic lymph nodes and shorter median recurrence-free survival (RFS) and overall survival (OS) [26].
In multivariate analysis, micropapillary and solid morphologies together have the worst prognosis compared to well- and moderately-differentiated morphologies (i.e. lepidic, acinar, and papillary). This demonstrates that subtyping is a significantly independent prognostic factor [27]. Similarly, several studies have shown that harboring micropapillary morphology has the equivalent clinical recurrence and survival outcome as tumors with solid morphology [28,29].
Currently, certain assumptions that can be made about tumors with micropapillary carcinoma components. The presence of a micropapillary carcinoma is sufficient to predict nodal upstaging and decreased recurrence free survival (RFS) [30]. Compared to the other adenocarcinomas, micropapillary carcinoma has been shown to have the lowest overall survival (OS) and disease-free survival (DFS), sometimes even lower than the only other poorly differentiated diagnostic category, solid adenocarcinoma [24,31,32]. Similarly, it has been shown that the presence of the micropapillary pattern with confirmed micrometastasis confers significantly worse RFS and OS [33]. Finally, several studies have confirmed that the presence of micropapillary pattern is an independent predictor of occult mediastinal lymph node metastasis. Taken together, these observations have potential therapeutic implications for the management of early-stage lung adenocarcinoma [34].
Additional studies contributed other interesting insights about micropapillary carcinoma. Hung et al. evaluated the prognostic value of clinicopathological variables for specific organ site MFS in a cohort of 182 patients with lung adenocarcinoma and distant metastasis. The metastatic sites identified during follow up included: contralateral lung metastasis (51.1%), brain metastasis (44.5%), bone metastasis (39.0%), and liver metastasis (8.9%). The micropapillary variant in particular was strongly associated with brain metastasis (hazard ratio (HR), 2.686). Micropapillary predominant subtype (HR, 2.186) was a significant prognostic factor for decreased brain metastasis free survival (MFS). Overall, this study underscores that there are significant differences in the metastatic behavior between predominant pathological subtypes of lung adenocarcinoma, and that these findings should encourage clinicians to focus on detailed follow up strategies in these cases. Further studies are needed for complete validation [35].
Regarding treatment options, a recent study by Luo et al. in 2016 focused on patients with stage IB invasive adenocarcinomas. This study showed that adjuvant chemotherapy was associated with a better DFS [36]. In patients with micropapillary or solid patterns, adjuvant chemotherapy significantly improved DFS, but not OS [36]. The significant association between micropapillary and solid patterns and occult N2 lymph node metastasis in lung adenocarcinoma, has led researchers to hypothesize that radical mediastinal lymph node dissection may help to identify occult lymph node metastasis in these patients.
Factors correlated with poor prognosis
STAS: Tumor spread through air spaces (STAS) has been reported as a novel poor prognostic factor in the latest WHO classification. Two recent studies regarding the prognostic significance of STAS have been recently published. In one study, Morimoto et al. retrospectively reviewed the clinicopathological characteristics of 444 patients with pulmonary adenocarcinoma who underwent surgery and had tumors with micropapillary pattern and surrounding free tumor clusters in the periphery (i.e. STAS, although they used the terminology “free tumor clusters”). Morimoto et al. defined the “free tumor clusters” or STAS as three small clusters containing <20 nonintegrated micropapillary tumor cells that were within air spaces and >3 mm apart from the main tumor. In their study, a total of 31/67 patients with micropapillary tumors also had free tumor clusters. Locoregional recurrences were more common in these patients, and they had a lower five-year RFS rate compared to patients with micropapillary adenocarcinoma but no free tumor clusters [37]. In another study, Masai et. al found that STAS-positive patients commonly had tumors with the micropapillary components and with lymphovascular and pleural invasion. Notably, the presence of STAS and tumor margins less than 1.0 cm are significant risk factors for local recurrence in early disease stage [38].
Podoplanin: Tumor microenvironment has also been shown to predict disease outcome. For example, Podoplanin is a well-conserved, mucin-type transmembrane protein that has recently been shown to be positive in cancer associated fibroblasts, and is associated with lymphatic invasion and high-grade solid and/or micropapillary components constituting ≥1% of the entire tumor. Positive podoplanin was also associated with decreased DFS [39].
Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT): The outcomes after stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) for early-stage adenocarcinoma of the lung correlate highly with histologic subtype. Micropapillary and solid tumors portend significantly higher rates of locoregional and metastatic progression. The histologic subtype determined from core biopsies after SBRT is a prognostic factor and could have important implications for patient selection, adjuvant treatment, biopsy methods, and clinical trial design [40].
Pathologic index predicting survival:. Lee et al. aimed to determine the prognostic significance of a pathologic index designed to take into account morphological subtypes and overall tumor heterogeneity. This study used a cohort of patients and determined the HR of each pattern individually. Based on the HR of each subtype, four indices were developed [41]. The validation group consisted of 148 patients with completely resected adenocarcinomas. One of their indices enabled significant patient stratification in the validation cohort according to DFS, and showed the highest Harrell’s C index (a measure of how well binary outcomes in a logistic regression model fit). This novel pathologic index reflects tumor heterogeneity in lung adenocarcinomas and has good prognostic ability to predict survival [41].
MMP9: In a cohort of 104 cases, Yu et al. analyzed the activity of matrix metalloproteinase 9 (MMP9). Their results showed that levels of MMP9 were the highest in micropapillary and solid predominant subtypes of lung adenocarcinomas. In contrast, MMP9 levels were low in acinar and papillary subtypes, and even lower in the lepidic subtype. Multivariate analysis revealed that pathological subtype and activity of MMP9 were independent prognostic factors for DFS [42].
Mucinous variant of micropapillary carcinoma: In survival analyses, mucinous variant of micropapillary carcinoma tended to be more aggressive compared with non-mucinous micropapillary cacrcinoma. However, the prognostic value of the mucinous variant was not shown to be statistically significant in a study by Kamata et al [43].
Prognostic factors by tumor size
Tumor size ≤1 cm: Zhao et al. studied small invasive lung adenocarcinomas and found that the tumors with high heterogeneity and the presence of micropapillary component in 5% or more of the adenocarcinomas was significantly correlated with lymph node involvement and tumor recurrence. Stage IA patients who underwent limited resection had a higher risk of recurrence than did those treated by lobectomy [44].
Tumor size ≤2 cm: Yoshida et al. evaluated 21 cases and found that a micropapillary component was associated with a higher frequency of lymphatic invasion, vascular invasion, and lymph node metastasis. Additional correlation with findings on imaging techniques were performed (for detailed results please refer to the Radiology/Imaging section) [45].
Tumor size ≤3 cm: Hung et al. investigated the prognostic factors in patients with node-negative lung adenocarcinoma 3 cm or smaller to find potential candidates for adjuvant chemotherapy. Their study showed that patients with the micropapillary and/or solid predominant patterns had significantly higher risk for recurrence. This study also suggested that these patients could benefit from adjuvant therapy [46]. In completely resected lung adenocarcinoma cases of less than 3 cm, micropapillary pattern was a significant predictor of occult N2 lymph node metastasis in a study including 471 patients performed by Hung et al. [47]. Additionally, a more detailed study by Yu et al. evaluated 2,268 cases of lung adenocarcinoma (≤3 cm) and found that lymph node involvement (pN1+ pN2) was present in 3.2% patients with tumor size ≤ 1.0 cm, 14.5% patients with tumor size >1.0 cm but ≤2.0 cm, and 31.1% patients with tumor size > 2.0 cm but ≤3.0 cm. Among these histotypes, lymph node involvement was the highest in tumors with solid and micropapillary patterns (47.6% and 47.2%, respectively) [48]. Finally, Matsuoka et al. evaluated 86 patients with acinar and papillary-predominant tumors and found that solid or micropapillary components had the most significant effect on DFS and disease specific survival (DSS) in multivariate analysis [49].
Molecular features and targeted therapies: In the 1980’s, primary lung cancers were crudely divided into small cell lung cancer (SCLC) and non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). This distinction was largely based on the response of these two categories to different cytotoxic chemotherapeutic agents [50]. In the 2000’s, the differential response of patients with NSCLC to newer therapies such as anti-angiogenic agents and tyrosine kinase inhibitors prompted further subclassification of NSCLC [51,52]. Since then, driver mutations of lung adenocarcinoma (LADC) have been identified, and in the current era of precision medicine, detection of molecular changes is crucial to guide targeted therapies. Moreover, in patients with actionable molecular changes, the addition of selective inhibitors improves outcomes compared to standard cytotoxic chemotherapy [53-55].
Most Common Mutations and Translocations: Variable rates of EGFR, KRAS, and BRAF mutations and ALK translocations in micropapillary LADC have been reported. KRAS, EGFR, and HER2 mutations are mutually exclusive [58-61]. According to a study performed on 425 micropapillary LADC cases from a Western European cohort, the most common alterations detected, in descending order, were KRAS, EGFR, BRAF, and ALK [56]. However, a meta-analysis performed with 48 studies and 19,502 cases of LADC with an incidence rate of micropapillary carcinoma of 0.101 showed that the most common molecular alterations were EGFR mutations, followed by KRAS mutations and ALK translocations [57].
While KRAS mutation is found more commonly in male smokers [56], EGFR mutations are found more commonly in LADC in female non-smokers [55,56]. EGFR is a transmembrane glycoprotein receptor that when activated triggers the activation of a signaling cascade that drives cellular proliferation. Overexpression of EGFR in cancer cells is associated with a poor prognosis and resistance to chemotherapy and radiation. Therapeutics such as erlotinib, gefitinib, afatinib, and osimertinib, which consist of either monoclonal antibodies that target the extracellular binding domain of the EGFR receptor or small-molecule inhibitors that function by inhibiting intracellular signal transduction, have been developed to combat the proliferation effects of EGFR overexpression in cancer cells [62].
In recent studies, Matsumura et al. presented a hypothesis of the carcinogenetic pathways for the development of wild-type and mutated EGFR in LADC. Their investigation was conducted on 337 samples of resected LADC and 177 biopsy samples of surgically unresectable advanced tumors from a Japanese cohort. Their findings suggested that EGFR-mutated LADC may develop from terminal respiratory units, shown as a lepidic pattern with hobnail or spheroid cellular features, and may progress to form predominantly papillary and micropapillary patterns. In contrast, EGFR wild-type LADC may develop from central airway compartments, and shows lepidic pattern with a more columnar morphology, and progresses to form predominantly acinar and solid patterns of invasive LADC. Although papillary and micropapillary components were rarely seen in EGFR wild-type tumors, they represented a minor component and their association with the malignancy grade in EGFR wild-type tumors was not found to be statistically significant [63].
Similarly, a study performed on 107 cases from a South Korean population showed a correlation between EGFR mutation, micropapillary predominant subtype of LADC, and the presence of any amount of lepidic subtype [64]. However, similar studies done on cases from a Western cohort showed results that are not consistent with those found in East Asian cohorts. De Oliveira, et al. studied 15 cases of micropapillary LADC patients from a Western cohort and found that EGFR mutations were only present in three of the 15 cases; KRAS and BRAF mutations detected in five and three cases, respectively [60]. In another study, Suda et al. [65], investigated the heterogeneity of expression of mutant EGFR protein and EGFR gene copy number in an autopsy case. In their study, they sampled 15 tumor specimens from different sites from a patient who had extensive metastatic disease. Their results suggested that tumor progression does not lead to EGFR mutant protein and EGFR gene copy number alterations. Due to the high fidelity of the metastases with the primary tumor, they advocated for using biopsy specimens from metastatic lesions as surrogates for the primary tumor. They also documented the higher mutant-specific EGFR protein in the micropapillary components of the examined lesions compared to the non-micropapillary components.
Regarding molecular studies and clinicopathological features, Wang et al. [66], studied lung adenocarcinoma correlated with echinoderm microtubule associated protein-like 4 (EML4)-anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) fusion and EGFR mutations. In their study, tumors with predominantly micropapillary pattern (n = 5) contained EGFR mutation, but no EML4-ALK mutations. Additionally, another study of 100 LADC cases showed a correlation between micropapillary architecture and EGFR mutation [67]. LADC with the presence of a solid or micropapillary growth pattern and high CpG island methylation, but no EGFR mutations was associated with a lower OS [68].
Human Epidermal Receptor 2 (HER2), also known as ERBB2, is another member of the EGFR family of receptors that has no ligand receptor, but does tyrosine kinase activity [61,69]. In LADC, HER2 mutation is more common in females [70]. Micropapillary LADC, particularly mucinous type, showed higher incidences of HER2 and ALK mutations with lower incidences of EGFR mutation in two studies [58,71]. Patients with tumors harboring HER2 mutations have been shown in clinical trials to respond to several types of targeted therapies (i.e. trastuzumab, afatinib, and ado-trastuzumab, either as single agent or in combination with a cytotoxic chemotherapy) [72].
EML4-ALK fusion is the most common gene fusion found in LADC [58], yet it is still rare, especially with micropapillary growth pattern [56]. In a study from India on 240 LADC cases, 17 cases harbored ALK rearrangement, of which only one case had micropapillary predominant histology [73]. In a study of samples from 18 patients with LADC who had a primary presentation with metastatic pleural effusion, 10 cases had EGFR mutations, three had KRAS mutations, and one case showed ALK translocation [74]. The detection of ALK translocation predicts enhanced sensitivity to ALK specific tyrosine kinase inhibitors, such as crizotinib, ceritinib, and alectinib. Treatment with these targeted therapies improves outcomes in selected patients [56].
Programmed Death 1 (PD-1) and Programmed Death Ligand 1 (PD-L1): The interaction of PD-1 and PD-L1 confers immunity to cancers cells against T-cell targeted killing when the cancer cells express PD-L1. PD-L1 testing by immunohistochemistry indicates use of monoclonal antibodies against PD-1, e.g. pembrolizumab, in patients with advanced NSCLC. In their study of 476 patients with LADC, Kim et al. [75], showed that PD-L1 mRNA and protein expression in primary LADC is more frequent in tumors with higher grade micropapillary and solid patterns compared to lower grade lepidic predominant patterns. Furthermore, they showed that PD-L1 expression was associated with higher rates of KRAS mutations, but lower rates of EGFR mutations. Conversely, Kwong et al. [76], showed that of 74 LADCs studied, 53% of micropapillary and solid components showed PD-L1 membranous positivity by IHC staining, compared to 35% in the acinar and papillary components and <1% in the lepidic and invasive mucinous components. Interestingly, Takada et al. [77], showed in a study of 417 surgically resected primary LADCs that PD-L1 protein expression, detected by IHC staining, was correlated with higher histologic grades (i.e. micropapillary and solid predominant patterns), wild-type EGFR status, higher T and N stages, and presence of pleural and vascular invasions, as well as male sex and smoking history. Finally, another report by Kim et al. concluded that PD-L1 expression is also correlated with nodal metastasis [58].
Glucose Transporter 1 (GLUT1): Glucose Transporter 1 (GLUT1): Glucose transporter 1 (GLUT1) is a cell surface transporter of glucose normally found in red blood cells and the blood-brain barrier [78]. Aberrant expression of GLUT1 has been documented in several malignant neoplasms, including those of the breast, prostate, thyroid, stomach, and squamous cell carcinomas of the head and neck [79]. The expression of GLUT1 and carbonic anhydrase IX in NSCLC, in conjunction with metabolic tumor volume and total lesion glycolysis measured by positron emission tomography (PET) scanning, was assessed by Koh et al. as a prognostic marker in 269 resected NSCLC. Multivariate analysis showed that GLUT1 expression was an independent risk factor for a lower OS rate in patients with LADC. GLUT1 expression was also associated with micropapillary and solid patterns, higher rate of lymphovascular invasion, and advanced pTNM stage [80]. Glucose transporter 1 (GLUT1) is a cell surface transporter of glucose normally found in red blood cells and the blood-brain barrier [78]. Aberrant expression of GLUT1 has been documented in several malignant neoplasms, including those of the breast, prostate, thyroid, stomach, and squamous cell carcinomas of the head and neck [79]. The expression of GLUT1 and carbonic anhydrase IX in NSCLC, in conjunction with metabolic tumor volume and total lesion glycolysis measured by positron emission tomography (PET) scanning, was assessed by Koh et al. as a prognostic marker in 269 resected NSCLC. Multivariate analysis showed that GLUT1 expression was an independent risk factor for a lower OS rate in patients with LADC. GLUT1 expression was also associated with micropapillary and solid patterns, higher rate of lymphovascular invasion, and advanced pTNM stage [80].
In summary, there is wide variation in the genetic profiles that drive the growth, evolution, and development of LADC. Gene mutations and translocations can be exploited as targets for new medication that offer better outcomes for select patients. Precise molecular testing in LADC is becoming more critical to identify patient subsets that will benefit from targeted therapies. Factors like race, gender, age, and smoking history influence molecular alterations. Despite the advances in molecular testing, around 40% of all LADC cases have an unknown mutation status. Moreover, several identifiable mutations either have no targeted therapies or have targeted therapies that are in still in clinical trials. More studies are needed to explore the full molecular landscape of LADC and identify actionable mutations.
Radiology/imaging: Currently, it is well-accepted that the micropapillary component of tumors represents a distinct entity associated with higher tumor aggressiveness. In the past, it has been shown that even the most modern multimodality PET or including computed tomography (CT) imaging technology may fail to adequately visualize this important component, with relevant prognostic implications. Thus, histopathology remained the single, most crucial diagnostic tool in the surgical specimen or in preoperative biopsies or cytology [83]. Few recent studies have shown progress to address this diagnostic deficit. For example, Yoshida et al. recently demonstrated that adenocarcinoma with a micropapillary component was significantly more frequently detected with high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) in solid nodules (17.8%, 16/90) than in either ground-glass nodules (1.5%, 1/67) or part-solid nodules (5.3%, 4/76) [45].
In a separate study, Lee et al. evaluated in 723 tumors the prognostic value of the newest classification system recommended by the IASLC/ATS/ERS together with the value of imaging biomarkers, including PET and CT. The predominant histological subtype and pattern subgroups were quantified, and the tumor-shadow disappearance ratio (TDR) on CT and maximum standardized uptake value (SUVmax) on PET were assessed. Over a period of 3.8 years of follow up, only 3.2% of cases had micropapillary predominant features. These results showed that in patients with stage I LADC, histologic subtypes and radiologic features, including TDR-4, TDR-2, and SUVmax were found to be significant predictors of DFS and OS. Particularly micropapillary, along with solid morphologies, in LADC had the lowest TDRs and the highest SUVs, both of which are associated with worse prognosis. The TDRs on CT and SUVmax on PET, along with new histologic classification schemes, appear to be promising parameters for the prognostic stratification of patients with LADCs, allowing for the triage of patients who necessitate further staging workup and adjuvant therapy [84].
Moon et al. performed a retrospective review of 350 patients that underwent curative LADC tumor resection. A total of 87% of the tumors were PN0, and 12.9% were PN1/2. Their data showed that in cases diagnosed as clinical N0 by chest CT and PET scanning, the possibility of occult lymph node metastasis increases with SUVmax greater than 5. Additionally, in those same cases, the pleural, lymphatic, and vascular invasion, as well as a micropapillary component, were more frequently observed [85].
Finally, a single study correlating mutational status of tumors and findings on imaging was reported by Wang et al. They retrospectively reviewed 153 patients underwent who surgery to treat LADC. After identifying the histological subtype, they detected EGFR mutations and retrospectively analyzed the characteristics assessed by CT in the tumor compared to a mutation-negative cohort. There findings demonstrated that EGFR mutations correlated with micropapillary morphology subtype and with air bronchograms on CT imaging. In addition, EGFR mutations were independently associated with other CT-identified characteristics, including ground-glass opacity/tumor ratio [86].
Our review of the literature published about micropapillary LADCs provides a current and accurate update of the field, including review articles, retrospective reviews, and studies with large patient cohorts. We included all articles identified by our search criteria dated from more than 10 years ago to evaluate how this entity was discovered and how it was accepted by researchers. In our opinion, the work of Amin et al. was crucial to assert that micropapillary carcinoma was an entity likely to be found in LADCs, and that its presence did not necessarily persist in metastatic tumors, though it is a possibility in primary tumors [6]. Early researchers found that lymph node involvement, lymphovascular/ pleural invasion, DFS, and OS were significantly worse in patients with micropapillary morphology in their tumors, and that those patients had a poor overall prognosis. To date, even more studies have continued to confirm these findings.
The initial findings about the importance of the micropapillary component on prognosis were so significant that the IASLC/ATS/ERS revised the classification of LADC by proposing new morphological criteria in order to provide a uniform diagnostic terminology for multidisciplinary patient management. This terminology was described in the most recent version of the WHO recommendations in 2014. Additional details about this subtype of morphology have emerged; however the majority are for prognostic purposes. Interestingly, we did not discover any studies that have investigated the morphologic criteria used to objectively diagnose micropapillary adenocarcinoma. However, in our experience, we have seen that there are differences in the criteria used among pathologists, even within the same institution. In our opinion, we assert that more than four cells per cluster, multiple clusters in single alveolar/lacunar space (very slender, 3-4 cell thickness), and inverted nuclear polarity is a clinically useful diagnostic triad. However, there is an unmet need to publish consensus among experts in the field and to objectively evaluate the criteria that allow high levels of concordance among pathologists.
Molecular studies have been exponentially increasing, and they present promising results regarding potential targeted therapeutic alternatives for patients. At this time, increasing the accuracy of prognosis and the OS rates remains a huge challenge in the field. Advanced radiological and imaging techniques can be helpful to determine prognostic relevance and assess potential therapeutic modalities. Nonetheless, morphology is and will likely continue to be one of the most important methods to rely on when diagnosing and predicting lung carcinoma.
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by Tony-Paul de Vissage, 2011
The first half of “Night-Man” is a vampire novel spanning the centuries. Beginning during the Plague the book then jumps to the reign of Vlad the Impaler, then the French Revolution, and Charleston in the days before the Civil War. Then comes a bit set in the present day. But it doesn’t stop there.
Overall this is a very enjoyable and innovative book, chronicling the “life” of the vampire Damian La Croix. It does have a few technical problems, however.
Two thoughts come to mind when reading this book. They frequently come to mind, when reading the works of new authors. The first is Show them, don’t tell them.
Instead of having the character thinking, “All accepted it as something deserved…” show other characters expressing this sentiment, and have the hero express his disagreement. First, it sounds more believable and second, it’s far more interesting for the reader. People talking with each other make it a scene. Scenes consisting of people thinking means the reader is thrust in the role of a mind-reader. Some of us are not comfortable with that.
Now that’s not to say that the writing is bad. In fact, once we get to the first exchange of dialog, the story has a definite life to it. Lopping off the first few pages would have made a better start.The other classic (and sadly ignored) rule is, Write what you know about. But de Vissage has done his homework. He knows medieval France and the customs and he understands the stranglehold that the Church had on people in those days.
And yet, in describing the all-consuming plague that he strikes Limousin in 1249, he seems to be describing the Black Death of the next century. Yes, there were outbreaks before, but even those ended by AD 750, and none was as pervasive as the one described in this book until the bubonic bacteria re-entered Europe in 1347-48.
De Vissage refers to Vlad the Impaler as a Transylvanian, but in fact he was a Wallach and invaded Transylvania in a campaign of ethnic cleansing to eradicate the Saxon population. The term Romanian would be anachronistic.
Later, a chapter is labeled 1789, but in the text Damian refers to the year as 1792. Then the following chapter begins in 1790. A little proofreading goes a long way. It might also help avoid sentences like “They wasn’t affected by holy water or garlic.”
I don’t like the modern word cock to refer to the penis. In the Middle Ages, they called it a wick or a member or even manhood. ‘Jail’ was commonly spelled ‘gaol’. And the word ‘vampire’ was unknown in the English language until about 1800. But for the most part, de Vissage has a very good command of medieval words and sentence structure.
The reciprocal is also true. Stories set in the future, while no one can say how that future will turn out, should be no more like the present than stories set in the past. Without giving away too much of the plot, de Vissage shows Damian walking through all time periods, including those yet to come.
In the far off future we see Damian walking down Park Avenue and going into a Starbucks and ordering a coffee. But this occurs some 1300 years in our future! Wouldn’t all that change? How many company names today have been around even a hundred years? If people still imbibe coffee in the future, might they not inject it? Eventually in the book, civilization is wiped out by an asteroid. Won’t we have lasers to demolish wayward asteroids?? And shouldn’t butlers be robots or holograms? To me, the parts of the book set in the future come across as unimaginative. Whatever else the future will be, it will be different.
I’m reminded of recent episodes of Doctor Who, in which the Doctor travels ten billion years into the future and humans are still using AK-47s. Have we already achieved the height of technology? In the far future, people would be as likely to carry an AK-47 as a flintlock musket.
However, there are some imaginative bits here, such as vampires being stuck outside buildings because the access programming that opens doors can not register their undead presence. And if de Vissage loses points on the un-futuristic future he describes, he gains them on story.I love that a bloodline is shown and followed. Geraint infects Damian, who infects Armand and Antoinette. And Domingo de Leyanda, a Jewish vampire, has no fear of the Cross—only the Star of David and the Seal of Solomon.
And as the author of a trilogy about Vlad Dracula, naturally I wanted to see how Tony de Vissage’s portrayal of him compared to mine. Overall, our interpretations are quite similar. We both show the Impaler as cold and cruel and making bargains with supernatural forces. I have Dracula dealing with those forces from an earlier date, but the image of a mortal Vlad the Impaler hiring Damian and his marauding legion of darkness is very cool.
I also love the scene where a Walachian soldier, fearing Vlad’s ire, suddenly feels his butt puckering in fear of impalement. Despite the portrayal in so many books, movies, and artwork, Vlad never impaled anyone through the stomach or chest—instead he used the anus. Gravity did the work from then on. De Vissage realizes this and describes the act in loving detail.
Our visions of the Undead bear more differences. His vampires do not become bats but simply sprout bat wings when the need arises. As such, they can wear armor in battle. My vampires (of Dracula’s line) transform fully and as such can not wear armor. However, they can carry weapons in their claws and use them upon reverting to their natural form. Most modern vampire tales and movies are squeamish about showing this ability. Fortunately, we both show vampires as supernatural beings, fearing the sign of the Cross and wincing at the sound of prayers.
Like Anne Rice, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, and Jane J. Oliver, de Vissage emphasizes and peoples his book with mostly male vampires. I, however, always thought the female to be the deadlier of the species. So, although I wrote a trilogy about a King Vampire, my Dracula is surrounded by queens—just as Bram Stoker indicated.
I definitely recommend “The Night-Man Cometh”. I just wish de Vissage had watched a few more episodes of Star Trek.
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History - Ancient/Greece
Clio's Other Sons
Berossus and Manetho
John Dillery
A discussion of the first written histories of Babylon and Egypt
Soon after the death of Alexander the Great, the priest Berossus wrote the first known narrative and comprehensive history of his native Babylon, and the priest Manetho likewise wrote the first such history of his native Egyptian civilization. Nothing like these histories had been produced before in these cultures. Clio’s Other Sons considers why that is: why were these histories written at this point, and for what purposes?
Berossus and Manetho operated at the crossings of several political, social, and intellectual worlds. They were members of native elites under the domination of Macedonian overlords; in their writings we can see suggestions that they collaborated in the foreign rule of their lands, but at the same time we see them advocating for their cultures. Their histories were written in Greek and betray active engagement with Greek historical writing, but at the same time these texts are clearly composed from native records, are organized along lines determined by local systems of time-reckoning, and articulate views that are deeply informed by regional scholarly and wisdom traditions. In this volume John Dillery charts the interactions of all these features of these historians. An afterword considers Demetrius, the approximate contemporary of Berossus and Manetho in time, if not in culture. While his associates wrote new histories, Demetrius’ project was a rewriting of an existing text, the Bible. This historiographical “corrective” approach sheds light on the novel historiography of Manetho and Berossus.
“Clio’s Other Sons will be required reading for scholars of Hellenistic history and the history of Egypt and the Near East.”
—Andrew Erskine, University of Edinburgh
John D. Dillery is Professor of Classics, University of Virginia. This is his third book.
"[Dillery's] book is clear and accessible, almost colloquial in style; its many footnotes attest to the author's wide scholarship; and the bibliography surveys well the whole of Hellenic and Hellenistic cultural history."
R.I. Frank, Choice
"This study not only enriches our appreciation of Hellenistic historiography, but provides a model for approaching the intersections of native and hegemonic worldviews."
--CJ-Online
"Clio’s Other Sons is excellent. It is an immensely stimulating book that will foster much future research on Berossus and Manetho."
--Bryn Mawr Classical Review
"Clio’s Other Sons is a remarkable contribution to the study of the Hellenistic intellectual world and the interface between Greek and Near Eastern cultures at the crossroads of a new era."
--Classical Philology
“Dillery’s thought-provoking monograph represents a significant addition to Hellenistic history and the study of connections between the Greek world and Near East … [it] sets the study of both Berossus and Manetho on a new footing…”
-- Journal of Hellenic Studies
"John Dillery's comprehensive and absorbing study discusses two of the most intriguing figures of the Hellenistic era."
--The Weekly Standard
"Long and complex in arguments and details, Clio’s Other Sons is well worth the time it takes to read and it sets a higher standard for those engaged in writing about the Hellenistic world of non-Greeks."
--Histos
"Important and stimulating ... this is a sizeable contribution to the Manethonian theme, with a number of good observations and judgements."
--Bibliotheca Orientalis
Runciman Award, First Runner Up, 2016
“John Dillery’s Clio’s Other Sons is beautifully written, could not do more to make some very difficult questions clear, and deserves a wide readership.”
--Professor Tom Harrison, Chair, Runciman Award Committee
Epiphanius of Cyprus
Provincial Soldiers and Imperial Instability in the Histories of Tacitus
The Law of Ancient Athens
Textual Rivals
Antisthenes of Athens
Late Sophocles
Corrupting Luxury in Ancient Greek Literature
DOI: 10.3998/mpub.6511531
2 tables.
Berossus, Manetho, Demetrius the Chronographer, Hellenistic Historiography, Narrative History, Chronography and Synchronism, Space and authentication of history, Ancient Colonialism and National Advocacy, Regime Change, Culture of Defeat
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Horsemeat Scandal Goes Global As World’s Largest Food Maker Pulls Tainted Pasta From Spain And Italy
First it was Ireland, then the entire UK, then Germany, and gradually it spread to all of Europe (except for France of course, where it was always a delicacy). But it was only once its finally crossed the Alps and made its way to the Swiss factories of Nestle, the world’s largest food maker, did the horsemeat scandal truly go global. The FT reports that “the escalating horsemeat scandal has ensnared two of the biggest names in the food industry, Nestlé, the world’s number-one food maker, and JBS, the largest beef producer by sales. Switzerland-based Nestlé on Monday removed pasta meals from shelves in Italy and Spain and suspended deliveries of all processed products containing meat from German supplier, H.J. Schypke, after tests revealed traces of horse DNA above 1 per cent. Nestlé said it had informed the authorities….Nestlé withdrew two chilled pasta products, Buitoni Beef Ravioli and Beef Tortellini from sale in Italy and Spain. Lasagnes à la Bolognaise Gourmandes, a frozen meat product for catering businesses produced in France, will also be withdrawn.”
And now we wait as the panic spreads across the Atlantic to the US, where every food purist, who until recently stuffed themselves full of pink slime and still eats bucketfulls of the mysterious “meat” known as KFC, will accuse their retailer of horseplay, and demand that every burger be triple tested at massive bottom line losses to already profit-strapped food producers everywhere (but will certainly help Madison Avenue as horse ads become the latest advertising meme).
From the FT:
“We are also enhancing our existing comprehensive quality assurance programme by adding new tests on beef for horse DNA prior to production in Europe,” said Nestlé, which just last week said products under its labels were not affected.
The European food industry has already been crippled as the horsemeat scandal unfolds:
Nielsen, the consumer research group, said sales of frozen burgers in the week to February 2 fell 40 per cent, and more than two-thirds of British adults said they would be less likely to buy frozen meat products in the future.
Two people who attended the meeting described it as “constructive”. However, the minister was challenged by several people on how quickly the Food Standards Agency and the Department of Environment acted on intelligence it had received on the food supply chain. One retailer also said an attack by David Cameron on the supermarkets on Friday “had not necessarily been helpful”.
The testing, which some supermarkets already carry out, will mean extra costs for retailers at a time of weak consumer confidence.
Suppliers reckon they will end up bearing the brunt of the cost – adding to the pressure on margins which, some say, caused the problem in the first place.
“The people who in the end will suffer are the food manufacturers, because they will be forced to undertake testing. And the people with the power in this relationship on the whole are the food retailers,” said one industry player.
Many believe equine testing is just the tip of the iceberg. “I am sure this will rapidly move on to other species,” said Adam Couch, chief executive of Cranswick, a meat and pastry goods supplier, which has not been implicated in the scandal.
This is good news for KFC, because once the testing spreads to Yum’s restaurant chain, half the DNA that is consumed on the premises will be found to have no earthly basis, and thus, well, “you must acquit“.
As for those who are still a lap behind the latest newsflow in the race for the horsemeat-free trifecta, the Guardian has conveniently released the definitive guide to the Equine scandal.
Horsemeat scandal: the essential guide
With the Europewide scandal over the contamination of meat products, from beefburgers to lasagne, showing no sign of abating, study the issue in depth and learn all you need to know about how it came to this with our essential guide.
1. Where did the horsemeat scandal begin?
The Food Safety Authority of Ireland tested a range of cheap frozen beefburgers and ready meals from supermarkets last November for the presence of DNA from other species which were undeclared. It found horse DNA in over one-third of the beefburger samples, and pig in 85% of them.
The majority of the beef ready meals also contained pig DNA but not horse. One beefburger sample from Tesco turned out to be 29% horse instead of beef. Until then supermarkets and enforcement bodies had not tested for horse in beef products, because no one expected it to be there.
There are conflicting reports as to whether the agency began its investigation as random surveillance or after having been tipped off. Because the findings were so serious and likely to do huge damage to commercial interests, the FSAI then spent two months retesting before announcing its findings on 15 January.
The Irish and UK supermarket supply chains are highly integrated. FSAI says it alerted the UK Food Standards Agency in November since what was on sale in Ireland would also be on sale in the UK; the FSA told MPs that it only found out in January. No one knows how long the adulteration has gone on.
2. Where did the horse and pig found by the Irish in beef products come from?
The Irish survey identified three factories as the source of beef products that had been contaminated or adulterated: Silvercrest Foods in Ireland, Dalepak in Yorkshire and Liffey Meats in Ireland. Silvercrest and Dalepak are both subsidiaries of ABP Food Group, one of the largest beef processors in Europe.
ABP pointed the finger of blame at its continental suppliers, with the FSAI saying these were in the Netherlands and Spain. It later said the horsemeat had entered its chain through suppliers in Poland. The Polish government checked its horse slaughterhouses and found no irregularities in labelling. Five weeks into the scandal and the links in the Irish chain have still not been fully established.
Huge blocks of frozen meat at a cold store in Northern Ireland, Freeza Foods, which had been quarantined by officials suspicious of its labelling and state of packaging, were found to contain 80% horse. Freeza Foods said the meat blocks had been delivered to its store by meat broker McAdam Foods but that it had rejected them and only continued storing them as a “goodwill” measure for McAdam. McAdam said it in turn had been sold them by a meat trader in Hull, Flexi Foods, which imports from Poland and elsewhere. ABP confirmed it had been supplied materials by McAdam but the two companies have given conflicting accounts of what the deliveries have been.
ABP has also confirmed that it has been supplied with beef by Norwest Foods, based in Cheshire, with operations in Poland and Spain, which is now also part of FSA inquiries.
The first case of horsemeat being found in fresh beef surfaced this week, when Asda withdrew its fresh beef bolognese. Its supplier was the Irish company Greencore, which said it had in turn been supplied the meat by ABP.
3. Why did some products contain so much more horse than others?
Industry sources and food safety officials believe there are different types of adulteration taking place. Where trace levels of DNA of the wrong species, particularly pig, have been found in beef, the most likely explanation is that they have been contaminated either by failure to clean production lines thoroughly enough between different processing, or that the DNA is present in protein additives widely used in the industry to bulk out cheap so-called value or economy ranges. An economy beefburger can legally contain as little as 47% beef.
Manufacturers add other cheap ingredients including water and fat, and use concentrated proteins to bind the water and fat in. They may appear on labels as “seasoning”. One of the cheapest sources of these protein additives is pork rind. It is possible that horse hide is now also being used. The widespread adulteration of cheap chicken breast with pig and beef proteins and water has been uncovered in previous scandals. The beef proteins were derived from hydrolysed cattle hides. It is not illegal to use these protein concentrates so long as they are identified correctly to the manufacturer.
Where horse has been found above trace levels, however, experts believe they are looking at fraudulent substitution of horse for beef. Where horse has been found in high concentrations, they say it suggests industrial scale adulteration.
4. How did the rest of Europe get involved?
Once the Irish authorities had reported their findings, the UK FSA asked industry to test all its beef products for horse. The next round of tests revealed that the “beef” in frozen lasagne and spaghetti bolognese made for Tesco, Aldi and Findus by a French manufacturer, Comigel, was up to 100% horse.
Comigel was making cheap beef meals for supermarkets and branded companies in 16 different countries so the scandal spread rapidly, with horsemeat meals being withdrawn in Germany, Sweden, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, as well as Ireland and the UK.
5. Is the source of the Irish horsemeat the same as the French one?
The trail of the French manufacturing scandal has taken a different route to the Irish/British one so far. Comigel had subcontracted its ready meal production to a factory in Luxembourg, Tavola. It was supplied with meat by a company called Spanghero. Spanghero had bought meat from a Dutch fraudster already convicted of passing horse off as beef, Jan Fasen.
The Dutch trader ran a company called Draap, which spelled backwards is paard or Dutch for horse. It was registered in Cyprus in 2008, with an offshore vehicle in the British Virgin Islands. It emerged during Fasen’s trial in Holland that he had supplied French companies with horsemeat imported from South America and Mexico fraudulently labelled as Dutch and German “beef” going back to 2007.
The horsemeat found in the recent tests on ready meals exported from France was said to have been sourced by Draap from Romania. The Romanian government has said its meat was legally exported correctly labelled as horse. The French government said Spanghero was the first agent to stamp the horse as beef; Spanghero has denied doing so deliberately. Fasen says Spanghero and French manufacturers were in on the deception from the beginning.
6. Why are the supply chains so complex?
The food and retail industries have become highly concentrated and globalised in recent decades. A handful of key players dominate the beef processing and supermarket sectors across Europe. They have developed very long supply chains, particularly for their economy lines, which enable them to buy the ingredients for processed foods from wherever they are cheapest at any point, depending on exchange rates and prices on the global commodity markets. Networks of brokers, cold stores operators and subcontracted meat cutting plants have emerged to supply rapidly fluctuating orders “just in time”. Management consultants KPMG estimate there are around 450 points at which the integrity of the chain can break down.
7. Why has it happenened?
Supermarket buyers and big brands have been driving down prices, seeking special offers on meat products as consumers cut back on their spending in the face of recession. The squeeze on prices has come at a time when manufacturers’ costs have been soaring. Beef prices have been at record highs as has the price of grain needed to feed cattle. The cost of energy, heavily used in industrial processing and to fuel centralised distribution chains, has also soared. There has been a mistmatch between the cost of real beef and what companies are prepared to pay.
8. How is the meat industry regulated?
Licensed slaughterhouses across Europe are required to have an official vet in attendance when slaughtering takes place – in the UK most used to be directly employed by the government but many are now supplied under contract to the Food Standards Agency by the private company Eville & Jones. Plants over a certain size are also required to have a meat hygiene inspector. A trend to deregulate and leave industry to police itself, begun under the last government, has seen numbers of inspectors fall from 1,700 at the height of the BSE crisis to around 800 now. Smaller cutting plants are no longer subject to daily inspection. The Food Standards Agency has limited powers – it has depended on industry alerting it to the results of tests voluntarily. Enforcement largely falls to individual local authorities and their trading standards officers, and their budgets have been slashed.
9. What about industry claims that it has full traceability?
The industry has previously boasted that it has full traceability of its supply chain which it audits frequently. The current scandal shows that that traceability is not worth the paper it is generally written on. Most of the factories caught up in the scandal have accreditation with mainstream auditing schemes such as that run by the British Retail Consortium but it failed to spot the problem.
10. What happened to government control of food safety and standards?
The Food Standards Agency was set up in the wake of the BSE crisis when it became clear that one agency that co-ordinated all regulation on food safety and quality was needed. Political memories have been short, however. The coalition government broke up much of the FSA in its bonfire of the quangos, so that responsibility in the current scandal is split. The FSA is still in charge of food safety; the Department of Health is responsible for nutritional standards, and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs covers labelling and veterinary medicines.
11. Where do the horses come from?
The Polish and Romanian governments have not only protested their innocence of exporting horse as beef but also pointed out that their horse slaughtering industries are not large enough to account for the scale of adulteration that is emerging. Respected animal welfare organisations have warned governments for several years about the growing trade in knackered horses both between Ireland, the UK, France and Belgium, and between North and South America, and continental Europe. Much of the latter is landed via Belgium. The welfare charities have documented horses in the thousands that have been moved by networks of horse dealers without proper passports. They are a mixture of horses bred for racing and pets.
12. What part do UK horse abattoirs play?
There is an established transport corridor for horses for slaughter from Ireland through Scotland or Wales to England and on to Europe. Last week a horse abattoir in Yorkshire, Peter Boddy, was raided along with a Welsh meat trading company. Three men have been arrested on suspicion of offences under the Fraud Act. The Peter Boddy abattoir, now closed, was small, with official records showing it slaughtered 44 horses last year.
13. Why are governments talking about organised crime?
Previous convictions of dealers and traders along with intelligence suggest a link between the horse trade, meat laundering and various forms of trafficking. Lorries transporting horses have been used as cover for smuggling large quantities of cannabis between the UK and Northern Ireland and lorries transporting horsemeat to the continent are believed to be used for people smuggling on the return journey.
14. Is it a health problem?
The government said at first that there was no health risk from horsemeat, but a leading government public analyst pointed out that it could not be sure until it knew the source of the horsemeat. The latest advice from the chief medical officer is that there is a risk but that it is very low.
Horses are routinely treated with an anti-inflammatory drug called phenylbutazone, or “bute”. Bute is banned from the human food chain, because it can in rare cases cause a potentially life threatening illness, aplastic anaemia, or bone marrow failure. Since it is not known what triggers the illness, it has not been possible to set any safe level for bute residues in human food. Doses from horsemeat are likely to be very low. Horse passports are supposed to record any bute administered so that animals can be excluded from going for food, but with large numbers of fake passports in circulation, some horses containing bute have been eaten.
Since the scandal the government has changed the rules so that horse carcasses may now only be released for consumption once they have been tested for bute. The first batch of tests found around 4% of horse testing positive. The horse trade from the Americas has similarly been bedevilled by problems with horse passports and drug contamination.
This article was posted: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 at 6:03 am
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Arrival Of High Dynamic Range TV Highlights Artistic Intent Challenges
Strategy Analytics
10 Nov, 2016, 14:00 GMT
HDR10 And HLG Set To Become Leading HDR Industry Standards
BOSTON, Nov. 10, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- The latest trend in television technology, known as High Dynamic Range (HDR), will help raise the viewing experience to new levels of engagement, according to a new report, "High Dynamic Range TV: Content and Technology Implications", from Strategy Analytics. HDR also highlights the importance of "artistic intent". HDR allows movie and TV producers to create video content which better reflects reality and can help viewers to see pictures which are closer to what the director intends. But the report also suggests that confusion in marketing and consumer messaging may prevent HDR delivering on its full potential.
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HDR is a new set of technologies which will improve the quality of TV and video images. It is becoming available on many of the latest 4K Ultra HD TVs and has been introduced by leading SVOD services such as Netflix and Amazon as well as YouTube. HDR improves the contrast between whites and blacks so that more detail is available in many scenes and highlights become more dramatic. A related technology, Wide Color Gamut (WCG), also improves images by making colors more realistic.
There are a number of competing HDR technologies, including Dolby Vision, HDR10 and HLG (Hybrid Log Gamma), which was originally developed by the BBC. The report concludes that HDR10 has already become the leading standard, and HLG will also become widely adopted during 2017, while Dolby Vision will remain as a premium HDR option.
"HDR allows content creators to get closer than ever before to delivering artistic intent," says David Mercer, Principal Analyst and the report's author. "But they still have to decide which technologies to use and understand the different ways HDR is implemented in consumer TVs."
The report finds that TV manufacturers are describing HDR in many different ways, and that there are many differences in the capabilities of HDR-enabled TVs. Some will deliver a superior HDR performance, but even basic HDR TVs will offer a significant enhancement over non-HDR TVs.
"HDR ultimately raises the question of what artistic intent means and whether there is a single technology that can deliver it," says Mercer. "The creative community is only now beginning to explore the potential for HDR to transform the video experience and its impact on viewers."
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Friday, Oct 04, 2019 08:29 AM
Raiders vs. Bears: How to watch the International match
Raiders.com Staff
We've officially made it to London, Raider Nation, but if you were unable to make the trip across the Pond, don't fret.
This Sunday, the Silver and Black will face off against the Chicago Bears, and it's a game you certainly won't want to miss. Under the bright lights of the all-new Tottenham Stadium, the Raiders will play host in front of thousands in the first international matchup of the year. It's rare that these two squads meet, and it should be an entertaining battle.
Here's how to watch the action on Sunday:
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Home » Knowledge & Tools » Impact Stories » Lessons Learned Story: Supervening forces, persistence, and shelf life
Lessons Learned Story: Supervening forces, persistence, and shelf life
Description: Few international development projects unfold exactly as planned, and what happens after the project produces its knowledge products can be even more unpredictable. In the worst of cases, outside forces come to bear that completely destroy the chain of causation that makes up the theory of change. The question then may be, can a new chain be constructed? Can the theory of change be repaired? Do a project’s knowledge products have a shelf life? Do they go stale?
The forest governance assessment in Liberia, carried out by PROFOR in cooperation with the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility, offers a case example. PROFOR carried out a participatory governance assessment and produced its report in 2013. The report identified priorities in anticipation of a program of governance reform to prepare the country to participate in REDD+. What came next was the Ebola outbreak of 2014–2015. This disrupted international assistance and government function.
All has not been lost, however. In 2016, Liberia revised its Strategic Environmental and Social Assessment prepared as part of REDD+ readiness and drew on the governance assessment report. This year, the “Strengthened Regulatory and Institutional Arrangements for Implementation of REDD+” component of the World Bank’s Liberia Forest Sector Project is directing attention again to the priorities identified in the assessment.
As another example, the assessment described for the DRC (a governance deep-dive sub-case) had its influence blunted by political concerns: presidential elections, tensions with the opposition, and a tough political climate. These led to most of the reforms being put on standby, where they largely remain.
As a third example, in 2014 the World Bank developed a project to engage stakeholders in exploring the dynamics of the timber trade between Russia and China. The trade is known to involve a large volume of illegally harvested timber. The project bridged two Bank regions and had the support of Bank regional and country offices as well as the forest agencies in the two national governments. A fair amount of effort went into project design and the writing of a preliminary knowledge product (the project concept note). The Bank formally approved funding for the full project. The effort then ran into a supervening force: the leadership of Russia’s federal forest agency changed. The new head placed a hold on all new projects, to study and reconsider them in light of the new leadership’s priorities. Since then, there has been no movement to allow implementation and no clarity on whether the agency intends to permanently withdraw approval of the project.
Discussion: These cases invite three questions. Are supervening forces like these always unpredictable? When they are predictable, can we anticipate them in project design? And to the extent that they are unpredictable, can we nevertheless design projects and their knowledge products to be more resistant to them?
The three cases suggest that some supervening forces are quite unpredictable (e.g., Ebola). Others we can predict may recur but on no particular schedule (the change of leadership in the Russian Far East case). Still, others are so likely that we can call them foreseeable (the elections and political uncertainty in DRC).
Unfortunately, the nations most in need of help are often the most prone to political and other upsets. In fact, instability is often a contributing cause of their need for assistance.
What can we do about all this? One thing is to take a hard look at the context where we will be working and ask ourselves what we can reasonably foresee and what we cannot fully foresee but still guard against. Indeed, we already ask project planners to assess risk, but assessing risk sometimes becomes a rote exercise and an afterthought rather than an integral part of project planning. Perhaps providing project planners with some case studies of the costs of poorly anticipated risks would encourage them to give risks more careful consideration.
Another path worth exploring is seeking ways to extend the “shelf life” of our knowledge products. Liberia shows that supervening forces do not always stop progress permanently. Persistence in pursuing a development goal can pay off. In the DRC case, it is accepted that the governance assessment was well conceived and executed and when the time is right the TTL will revitalize the findings and recommendations. When the country is ready to resume development, the old knowledge products can still be influential if they maintain currency.
These few cases do not offer any general rules on how to assure relevance over the long run, but in this uncertain world of development, we should make an effort to build long-term relevance into our knowledge products.
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The Quiet Revolution
So far our description of the nerve cell resembles the classic neuron doctrine. The classic doctrine can be traced to the work of Santiago Ramon y Cajal and Charles Scott Sherrington in the first decades of the 1900's. Their ideas lasted half a century almost unchanged.
In the 1970s there was a "quiet revolution" in neuroscience (Schmitt, Dev, and Smith, 1976). This was due to the emergence of the electron microscope, a tool that allowed researchers to see neural structures much tinier than could be seen before.
In 1900, Cajal had to strain to see a whole neuron in an optical microscope. By 1965, researchers could look directly at synapses in an electron microscope.
New findings accumulated quickly without much of a splash. The cumulative effect was to introduce a universe of complexity. Most of the ideas from the classic doctrine, taught to introductory students as typical of neurons, proved to be oversimplifications.
What caused the "quiet revolution" in neuroscience?
This change occurred so quickly that many people outside the field of neuroscience missed it. Pick up any science textbook for children, even half a century after the quiet revolution, and chances are you will see the classic doctrine of the 1930s and 1940s.
If you see references to dendrites as "input structures" and axons as "output structures," that is a clue that you are reading a 1940s-era description of neurons. The findings that dendrites and axons could act as both input and output structures came early in the quiet revolution.
Synapses were found to occur between any two parts of neurons. There were dendrodendritic synapses (from dendrite to dendrite), somatodendritic synapses (from soma to dendrite), dendrosomatic synapses (from dendrite to soma) and even axoaxonic and somatosomatic synapses.
The statement that "dendrites are input structures" is obsolete in another way. It fails to acknowledge the detailed information processing inside dendrites.
In a Science article titled, "Dendrites Shed Their Dull Image," Barinaga (1995) summarized the newer perspective:
"...Dendrites, once thought to be mere adding machines, seem to be more actively involved in shaping the responses of neurons..."
"...their finely branched network acts as a two-way highway, not only conveying incoming messages to the cell body, but also relaying information from the cell body back to their own outer reaches..."
In perhaps the biggest surprise about dendrites, researchers found that dendrites–as they stretch away from the cell body–sometimes turn into axons (Dacey, 1988).
What were some surprises discovered during the quiet revolution?
In other words, a structure which looks and acts like a dendrite, complete with dendritic spines receiving inputs from axons, may travel onward, branch, and become an axon. The basic parts of a neuron are not as easy to identify and distinguish as once thought.
Gap Junctions
In the classic neuron doctrine, neurons communicated by chemical means. During the quiet revolution, it was discovered that some neurons were directly connected.
These connections are called gap junctions or electrotonic (not "electronic" but "electrotonic") synapses. These are synapses without transmitter substances. At these locations, a nerve impulse is passed immediately to the next neuron through gaps in the membranes.
These synapses are extremely fast. There is no synaptic delay caused by chemical transmitters going across a synaptic cleft. Thus they are often found in escape systems where they help trigger quick getaway movements.
What are gap junctions? Where are they commonly found?
Gap junctions are especially common in fish and invertebrates (animals without backbones). They also exist in the retina of the human eye, where fast information processing is at a premium.
Weak Electrical Interactions and Local Circuits
The classical neuron doctrine said a neuron communicated with other neurons by firing nerve impulses when pushed over a threshold by many excitatory inputs. Each neuron was said to be a little on/off switch, activated only when it received enough nerve impulses from other neurons.
However, the quiet revolution of the mid-1960s revealed that neurons were not on-off switches. Some neurons conduct all their business with weak electrical interactions.
These electrical potentials are different from nerve impulses in two ways. They are hundreds of times weaker than the electrical disturbances of a nerve impulse.
Unlike nerve impulses which are "all or none" (sometimes compared to a toilet flushing) weak interactions are graded and variable in their effect on neighboring synapses. Some neurons using these weak electrical interactions never fire nerve impulses.
How do weak electrical interactions differ from nerve impulses?
Weak electrical influences are important in dendrodendritic synapses: synapses between two dendrites. Distances between two parts of the same dendritic tree are often so small there is no room for nerve impulses to travel anyway.
Dendrodendritic synapses form local circuits: tiny areas, only a few microns (millionths of a meter) across. In local circuits, several twigs from dendritic trees may form many synapses with each other, producing feedback loops of various kinds.
Local circuits are so small that a thousand would fit inside the dot of an exclamation mark. These circuits are especially common in humans. During the quiet revolution, researchers discovered the human brain had more local circuits per cubic centimeter than any other brain studied (Schmidt, Dev, and Smith, 1976).
Biomolecular Transfer
All the simple assumptions embodied in the textbook neuron of the 1930s and 1940s have been replaced by complexities and variations. Your brain, and its neurons, are much more complicated that scientists first suspected.
One important modern finding is that neurons can exchange large biomolecules such as proteins and RNA. This is important because proteins and RNA are capable of carrying enormous amounts of information.
Sending nerve impulses to a neuron is like tapping out a message in Morse code (a combination of dots and dashes). Nerve impulses are all-or-none signals, like the dots and dashes of Morse Code.
Transmitting a biomolecule such as a protein or RNA to another neuron, by contrast, is more like passing a book through a window. The speed may be slower, but the amount of information passed in a single act is much greater.
What is biomolecular transfer, and why is it important?
Axons and dendrites have narrow transportation channels within them called microtubules, 200-300 angstroms wide, and neurofilaments, 100 angstroms wide. An angstrom is one ten-millionth of a meter.
Microtubules are capable of "rapid and precise" delivery of transmitters, proteins, and other large molecules. Biomolecules can be transported to specific areas within the neuron or to synapses with other neurons (Aletta and Goldberg, 1982).
Within a single axon of a neuron, different rate components can be detected, each for a distinct macromolecular complex. In other words, axons are great, multi-laned highways. Each type of substance has its own lane, and each lane moves at its own speed.
What are microtubules and neurofilaments? What happens inside them?
One highly speculative theory (championed by Roger Penrose in Britain and Stewart Hameroff in the United States) suggested consciousness was generated by quantum effects in microtubules.
Why microtubules? To Penrose, they were just small enough to be subject to quantum effects, just large enough to avoid getting lost in the thermal noise of the brain.
Penrose wanted to use quantum effects to explain consciousness because quantum effects are something special, outside the normal bounds of the physical sciences. Penrose does not believe consciousness arises "merely" from computational processes in the brain.
That is not a very scientific form of reasoning. The brain is plenty complex enough to generate surprising emergent phenomena found nowhere else.
Why do Penrose and Hameroff suggest that quantum effects in microtubules might be involved in consciousness?
Physicist Max Tegmark published an article in 2000 showing quantum changes operate on a time scale far too fast for neurons. The effects proposed by Penrose and Hameroff could not work, he said, unless the brain was cooled to near Absolute Zero to avoid background noise and heat. "It's reasonably unlikely that the brain evolved quantum behavior," concluded one physicist (Seife, 2000).
Even if they do not carry out quantum computing, nerve cells obviously participate in very complex and subtle forms of information processing. If you add up the findings of the quiet revolution–gap junctions, local circuits, biomolecular transfer–there is complexity for scientists to investigate for centuries to come.
Half a century ago, psychologists modeling nerve cell interactions on computers tended to assume information was passed between neurons in a binary (on/off) code. This provided a handy analogy to the binary code of newly-emerging computer technology.
How is a previous assumption of psychologists now known to be dramatically wrong?
Now it is clear that analogy is dramatically wrong, or at the very least, incomplete. Much information processing of neurons involves tiny weak electrical potentials that are graded (not all-or-none, therefore not binary) and precise exchange of complex molecules.
"Neurons are People"
If you add up all the findings of the quiet revolution, it becomes clear that neurons are highly complex systems in their own right. They are not just tiny beads in a chain, the way they looked in textbook diagrams of the 1950s.
The more a scientist works with individual, identifiable neurons in a creature like Aplysia, the sea slug (which has large, easy to see neurons), the more each neuron seems like an individual. The eminent neuroscientist Theodore H. Bullock is said to have remarked, "Neurons are people."
What did Bullock mean by saying "Neurons are people"?
What did Bullock mean? Probably he was referring to what might be called personality in neurons. Each has predictable ways of responding to certain situations.
We refer to pets and even inanimate systems such as cars as having personalities, when we get to know their quirks and charms. Apparently neurons can evoke the same response.
Aletta, J. M. & Goldberg, D. J. (1982). Rapid and precise down regulation of fast axonal transport of transmitter in an identified neuron. Science, 218, 913-916
Barinaga, M. (1995) Dendrites shed their dull image. Science, 268, 200.
Dacey, D. M. (1988). Dopamine-accumulating retinal neurons revealed by vitro fluorescence display a unique morphology. Science, 240, 1196-1198.
Schmitt, F. O., Dev, P. & Smith, B .H. (1976). Electronic processing of information by brain cells. Science, 193, 114-120.
Seife, C. (2000). "Cold Numbers Unmake the Quantum Mind". Science, 287, 791.
Tegmark, M. (2000). "Importance of quantum decoherence in brain processes". Physical Review E., 61, 4194-4206.
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Elite nannies often know the households of the rich and powerful better than the parents themselves.
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When you hire people to run your household, it's possible that they just might get to know how it works better than you do.
Business Insider interviewed seven elite nannies to find out what they learned about the households of the rich and powerful but were afraid to tell to their bosses. The nannies had feedback on everything from household security to their job responsibilities.
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Bricks on maps instead of circles
In his recent newsletter, Stephen Few introduces the concept of using bricks as "A New, More Perceptible Method for Encoding Quantitative Values in Geospatial Displays".
Now, I am not a fan of geospatial data visualizations at the best of times and have blogged and tweeted about that in the past (for example, see Do we really need maps for analysis?) I particularly don't like the ideal of using bubble size to encode value on a map so the idea the bricks might be a better idea was intriguing.
Stephen uses a map of the US and juxtaposes the use of bricks with another map using circles to contrast. It is quickly obvious that the bricks are much easier to compare, say, Washington State with Florida. With the circles it is difficult to perceive the difference. With the bricks, one can see the difference easily.
Inspired by Stephen, and challenged by Brian Dunphy on Twitter, I decided to have a go at doing this in QlikView. It was a fair challenge and helped me build up some skills with using the jQuery library (which is embedded with QlikView in version 11+ so you don't need to load it separately). Here is the result (using the old QlikView Google Maps demo document of London properties):
Not bad! But I quickly noticed a problem with this application, which Stephen mentions in his article. When circles overlap, they are still legible. When the bricks overlap, they become completely unreadable!
So, it can work quite well where the data points are spread apart, but not great where there is overlap. I think that if you are doing something for states / provinces / countries, where the data points are more distinct and can be controlled, then this can be useful. But I might still choose a bar chart!
Stephen Redmond is CTO of CapricornVentis a QlikView Elite Partner. We are always looking for the right people to join our team.
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Ralf Becher 1 May 2013 at 22:08
I've alse read Stephen Few's newsletter about the bricks with high interest and made some thoughts about a QlikView adaptation. I think this cannot really work on a street level because it's hard to understand where the bricks are belonging to. Maybe the better usage, as you mentioned, is within bounderies like regions or counties drawn by an SVG map (there's an SVG extension already)..
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Stephen is a Senior Manager at Accenture, leading the Enterprise Insights Studio, centred at The Dock in Dublin, delivering AI solutions for internal teams. He has over twenty years’ experience delivering data and analytics projects both in the public and private sectors. He has extensive experience with AI and machine learning, Big Data, graph databases, digital assistants, advanced analytics, data visualisation, architecture and project management. He has a proven track record in communicating effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. He frequently presents on data topics to a mix of business and technical audiences. He also lectures part-time on data analytics at the National College of Ireland. Stephen is a published author and has a global reputation, including been recognised as a Qlik Luminary (2014 through 2019). Stephen holds a Master’s Degree in Data Analytics and an Advanced Diploma in Information Technology. He is the author of Mastering QlikView, QlikView Server and Publisher, the QlikView for Developers Cookbook and DevLogix, a Guide to SalesLogix Development (5 editions).
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Malcolm (Mal) & Sarah Skelton live in Cairns, Far North Queensland with their two children, Nathan & Jarrod.
Sarah has a rare progressive neurological disease called Friedreich Ataxia, a fatal, genetic, neurological, degenerative disease, believed to affect around 1 in 30,000 people. Friedreich’s is usually diagnosed in childhood or adolescence. As it progresses, it causes complete incapacitation, vision, hearing and speech failure, combined with severe heart disease, scoliosis and diabetes. In later stages, patients usually suffer from cardiac failure in their late thirties. Intellect remains unimpaired. Sarah is thirty eight.
It is a debilitating, and devastating for their family. Recent research has identified a number of possible gene therapies for the condition with a number of pharmaceutical companies targeting the condition in their research – aimed at a cure.
Mal will stop at nothing to find a treatment for his wife, to play his part. He is attempting join a small and elite group of athletes to cross the Tasman sea. Mal will row for upwards of 50 days, unassisted, over 2500km (>1500mi) in a custom build ocean kayak from Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, Australia to New Plymouth, New Zealand in 2016/2017.
Seven years in the making, Mal has been training. He is a regular at the gym and his training runs consist of open water kayaking events - one of 97km and another 400km from Townsville to Cairns in 3.5 days beating the unofficial record by over 5.5 days.
“It is my life’s duty to do whatever I can, and to push myself as hard as I can to help raise awareness and much needed funds for Friedreichs research. To see the effects Friedreich Ataxia has on a loved one, and to sit back and do nothing is unthinkable.” ~ Malcolm Skelton
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Trump Starts Sexist Attack on Kirsten Gillibrand
Trump's Demeaning Choice Of Words In Attack On Kirsten Gillibrand Is No Accident
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On Monday, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand said President Donald Trump should resign over the multiple allegations of sexual assault and harassment against him, and called for Congress to launch an investigation of the president.
President Trump should resign. But, of course, he won't hold himself accountable. Therefore, Congress should investigate the multiple sexual harassment and assault allegations against him.
— Kirsten Gillibrand (@SenGillibrand) December 11, 2017
To date, more than a dozen women have accused Trump of sexual misconduct. By his own admission, Trump says women have to be treated "like shit" and has bragged about grabbing women "by the pussy" and being able to "do anything" to them because he's famous.
Tuesday morning, Trump lashed out at the allegations and at Gillibrand — and the words he chose to describe the Democratic senator from New York are telling.
First, the president called the accusations against him "false" and "fabricated," and denied knowing or even having met the women who have gone on the record about their claims. (One of Trump's accusers, Summer Zervos, was on The Apprentice with Trump.)
Then, Trump launched intro a diatribe against Gillibrand, claiming she "begged" him for campaign donations and called her "used."
Lightweight Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a total flunky for Chuck Schumer and someone who would come to my office “begging” for campaign contributions not so long ago (and would do anything for them), is now in the ring fighting against Trump. Very disloyal to Bill & Crooked-USED!
Many picked up on Trump's not-at-all subtle coded language against Gillibrand as overtly sexual and intentionally demeaning.
Are you really trying to bully, intimidate and slut-shame @SenGillibrand? Do you know who you're picking a fight with? Good luck with that, @realDonaldTrump. Nevertheless, #shepersisted. https://t.co/mYJtBZfxiu
— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) December 12, 2017
When Trump accuses a woman senator of being ready to "do anything" for campaign contributions, isn't that a scurrilous sexual innuendo meant to mock, discredit and humiliate her? Is that how others read it? https://t.co/uxd4LDQ35r
— Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) December 12, 2017
I hope we've matured to the point that society understands that shame lies not in being called a whore, but in making the insinuation. https://t.co/z6GjRqIRMc
"Outrageous, but not surprising. Donald Trump’s bullying and coded language are no match for women like Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who are fighting for our values and holding this incredibly incompetent president accountable for his dangerous agenda," Stephanie Schriock, president of EMILY's List, said in statement in response to Trump's comments.
Sexist and degrading language like Trump used is pervasive in American culture, and perpetuates violence and oppression against women. Studies have shown that misogynistic language also has negative effects on women's mental health such as depression and low self-esteem.
“Perceptions of sexism or discrimination lead women to doubt their qualifications to enter the political arena,”Jennifer Lawless, a professor of government at American University, told the Atlantic last year before the election. “I worry that the way Donald Trump has behaved will stick around in women’s minds and further perpetuate the idea that women can’t be successful if they run for office.”
Gillibrand responded to Trump's attack by saying she will not be silenced.
You cannot silence me or the millions of women who have gotten off the sidelines to speak out about the unfitness and shame you have brought to the Oval Office. https://t.co/UbQZqubXZv
This story was originally published December 12, 2017 at 10:59 am. It has since been updated.
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Meet The Cara Cara: Instagram's Trendiest Orange
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Cara Cara oranges are a fruit that citrus insiders — imagine being a member of that exclusive club — have been fans of for quite some time. This variety of navel orange actually first became available in the United States back in the late 1980s. However, it wasn't until recently that we started noticing fruit eaters everywhere getting excited about Cara Caras. We've seen them for sale at larger grocery chains — not just farmer’s markets — and over the past few weeks, several of our Money Diarists have coincidentally mentioned snacking on Cara Caras. Still, even with all this new attention, some confusion around the oranges remains. As Cara Caras transition from a speciality fruit to a mainstream snack, we're exploring what exactly they are and why, all of a sudden, everyone seems to be eating them.
If you're the type of shopper who likes to stick to your grocery list and get in and out of the store as fast as possible, you may not even know about the Cara Cara's existence. Well, as we mentioned before, it's a variety of navel that has pink flesh instead of that classic orange interior. The pink shade is caused by the presence of lycopene, the same antioxidant that gives tomatoes their red color, Joan Wickham, director of communications for Sunkist Growers, told Refinery29.
The differences between Cara Caras and other navel orange varieties are more than just skin deep. They differ in flavor, too. Monique Bienvenue, Bee Sweet Citrus' director of communications, points out that the pink navels are less acidic than other citrus varieties and have a sweet, "berry-like" flavor.
With all they have to offer, it's interesting that we're only just now seeing Cara Caras gaining mainstream popularity. Bienvenue credits the growing interest in "America's farm-to-fork movement" for the Caras' recent rise. "While Cara Cara navels have been around for quite some time, there hasn’t been as much of a focus on specialty produce until the last decade or so. Foodies, bloggers, health enthusiasts, and chefs have really helped to shape today’s modern food scene by highlighting seasonal foods, and calling out unique flavors in meals and drinks," she says.
There's no doubt that the farm-to-table movement had great influence on Cara Cara's popularity expanding over the past decade, but what about their rise in just the past couple of years? Wickhams thinks this may be thanks to Instagram. "I tell people a lot that I think Instagram has been one of the best things to happen to the citrus industry. Partially, we’ve had trouble merchandising Caras because if they’re just in the store in a bulk section of fruit, they seem like they’re just going to be a more expensive navel orange because there’s no difference on the outside. But, with Instagram and so many gorgeous photos of the interior of citrus fruits, I think we’re beginning to get some of those education points to consumers," Wickham explains. That's right, the same social media platform that has spread the word about food gimmicks like Unicorn Fappuccinos and rainbow bagels is also sharing information about specialty fruit, like the fact that they're in season during winter and they're usually seedless.
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Unlike the Unicorn Frappuccino, however, Cara Caras are a food trend that both citrus experts agree is here to stay. With their color, flavor, and nutritional value, Caras have exactly what modern consumers look for in their fruit purchases. "As more and more consumers continue to make a conscious effort to eat healthy foods and focus on making their own meals, there’s no doubt that they will continue to seek out specialty produce items like Cara Cara navels," Bienvenue tells us. She added that the Cara's uniquely sweet flavor lends itself to use in many different dishes or as a standalone snack, which makes it stand out amongst other specialty produce.
Wickham agrees that Caras are a particularly promising fruit variety. In 2016, Sunkist conducted research that showed only 22% of consumers had heard of Cara Caras, and of those, 60% had tried them. The most intriguing statistic they came up with, though, is that 85% of consumers who tried them, made repeat purchases. So, as more people get educated about and tries these pink navels, their popularity will undoubtedly continue to grow. In the meantime, the Cara Cara’s production cycle needs time to catch up. "Because it takes five to six years for a citrus tree to produce, it takes some time to get enough acreage into production so there’s enough to buy to really kickstart strong demand. I think that we’re at that place now with Cara Caras, so I think we’re going to continue to see that trend," Wickham says. While we wait for more Cara Cara trees to mature, we'll just be over here scrolling through our feeds searching for the next Insta-famous fruit.
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Home Sports News Football News Jurgen Klopp has become the second quickest manager to reach 100 Premier League victories
Jurgen Klopp Has Become The Second Quickest Manager To Reach 100 Premier League Victories
Liverpool defeated Everton in their recent Premier League clash, which makes Jurgen Klopp the second quickest manager to reach 100 Premier League victories
Written By Minaam Ansari | Mumbai | Updated On: December 05, 2019 15:19 IST
Liverpool defeated Everton in the Merseyside derby on December 4, 2019 in the Premier League with a 5-2 scoreline. Jurgen Klopp’s side now have an eight-point lead over second-placed Leicester City. While Premier League champions Manchester City are placed third in the table, 11 points adrift league leaders Liverpool.
"What the boys made of this difficult game was exceptional" 💪
Jürgen Klopp on tonight's performance, becoming the fastest manager in #LFC history to 100 league wins and much more... https://t.co/t1jaS7NVPj
— Liverpool FC (@LFC) December 4, 2019
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WP4 - Skeletal diSEASE
Working Group (WG) CDG & Skeleton
Working Group Leader (WGL): Pr David Coman.
Department of Metabolic Medicine, The Lady Cilento Children's Hospital, Brisbane, Australia
This research group is coordinated by Prof David Coman, Prof Fernando Pimentel and Dr Vanessa Ferreira (APCDG).
Skeletal affectation is CDG is still poorly understood, even among the most common types of this family of rare metabolic disorders. However, more and more CDG types have been identified with mild/moderate/severe skeletal abnormalities. Skeletal complications can have a highly negative impact on the quality of life of these patients. A better understanding of the causes, frequency and clinical manisfestations, will help us to put in place more adequate and efficient prevention and treatment strategies.
We partnered with Pro Ravi Savarirayan, who is a top international expert on skeletal dysplasias and a senior clinical geneticist in Australia.
Any student, research groups, researchers, clinicians, patient organisations or other stakeholders who would like to become more involved within this project, are most welcome to get in touch to discuss possible future opportunities and collaborations. Fulfill the contact form available at the end of the page
Prof David Coman
Email: david.coman@hotmail.com
David graduated from the University of Queensland in 1995 and completed his General Paediatric Training in 2005 and sub-specialty (Metabolic Medicine and Clinical Genetics) training in 2006. David has an active interest in research and was awarded a Masters of Philosphy from the University of Queensland in 2007. David is the Medical Director of Paediatrics at the Wesley Hospital, the Academic Lead for Paediatrics for the UnitingCare Clinical School, and a staff-specialist at the Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital. David is currently involved in multiple research projects aimed at novel disease discovery, improved diagnostic testing and treatments for children with Inherited Genetic Disorders. His particular clinical and research interests include Galactosaemia and CDG. A greater understanding and coordination of translational research from the bench and back to the bedside is critical to improve quality of life for patients with rare diseases like CDG.
List of the 6 publications with a major impact for CDG research:
Lalani SR, Liu P, Rosenfeld JA, Watkin LB, Chiang T, Leduc MS, Zhu W, Ding Y, Pan S, Vetrini F, Miyake CY, Shinawi M, Gambin T, Eldomery MK, Akdemir ZH, Emrick L, Wilnai Y, Schelley S, Koenig MK, Memon N, Farach LS, Coe BP, Azamian M, Hernandez P, Zapata G, Jhangiani SN, Muzny DM, Lotze T, Clark G, Wilfong A, Northrup H, Adesina A, Bacino CA, Scaglia F, Bonnen PE, Crosson J, Duis J, Maegawa GH, Coman D, Inwood A, McGill J, Boerwinkle E, Graham B, Beaudet A, Eng CM, Hanchard NA, Xia F, Orange JS, Gibbs RA, Lupski JR, Yang Y. Recurrent Muscle Weakness with Rhabdomyolysis, Metabolic Crises, and Cardiac Arrhythmia Due to Bi-allelic TANGO
2 Mutations. Am J Hum Genet. 2016 Feb 4;98(2):347-57. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2015.12.008. PMID: 268057812. Bursle C, Brown D, Cardinal J, Connor F, Calvert S, Coman D. DMP1-CDG (CDG1e) with Significant Gastrointestinal Manifestations; Phenotype and Genotype Expansion. JIMD Rep. 2016 Aug 2. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 27481510
Coman and Gole Glycobiology and the Paediatric Eye in Health and Disease. Pediatr Therapeut 2013, S3 http://dx.doi.org/10.4172/2161-0665.S3-004
Coss KP, Byrne JC, Coman DJ, Adamczyk B, Abrahams JL, Saldova R, Brown AY, Walsh O, Hendroff U, Carolan C, Rudd PM, Treacy EP. IgG N-glycans as potential biomarkers for determining galactose tolerance in Classical Galactosaemia. Mol Genet Metab. 2012 Feb;105(2):212-20. doi: 10.1016/j.ymgme.2011.10.018. PMID: 22133299
Coman DJ, Murray DW, Byrne JC, Rudd PM, Bagaglia PM, Doran PD, Treacy EP. Galactosemia, a single gene disorder with epigenetic consequences. Pediatr Res. 2010 Mar;67(3):286-92. doi: 10.1203/PDR.0b013e3181cbd542. PMID: 19952866
Coman D, Irving M, Kannu P, Jaeken J, Savarirayan R. The skeletal manifestations of the congenital disorders of glycosylation. Clin Genet. 2008 Jun;73(6):507-15. doi: 10.1111/j.1399-0004.2008.01015.x. Review. PMID: 18462449
Prof Fernando Pimental dos Santos
Dr. Fernando M. Pimentel dos Santos graduated in medicine in 1991, following which he did a specialization in rheumatology, having concluded it in 1999. Dr. Pimentel dos Santos received his PhD in Medicine/rheumatology from NOVA Medical School in 2012. After completion of his degree he was appointed as a Coordinator of Rheumatology in Surgical and Medical Specialities and as Coordinator of Master Programmes, at the NOVA University in Lisbon. Dr Pimentel dos Santos is also a researcher at CEDOC (chronic disease research centre at NOVA University). His interests are focused on musculoskeletal diseases (Spondyloarthritis in particular) and their inflammatory, immunologic and genetic background; patient-reported outcome measures is also another focus of interest. In particular his laboratory is currently working on understanding the pathophysiology of these diseses trying to identify new biomarkers with interest for an early diagnosis and therapeutic development. His work in the field of CDG is focused on unravelling immune and skeletal-related complications. He aims to contribute for CDG lives by advancing research, clinical knowledge and care, and by fomenting awareness for this group of rare disease among the medical community. With over 35 publications in peer-reviewd journals, Dr Pimentel is also an Invited referee for several journals and associated Editor of Acta Reumatológica Portuguesa and Frontiers in Medicine.
List of 6 publications in the field of CDG – if not applicable please specify up to 6 publications that can have an impact for CDG research
To be added soon
Pf Jaak Jaeken
Professor Jaak Jaeken received his M.D. degree from the University of Leuven in 1967. From 1967 to 1973 he trained in paediatrics at the same university. Subsequently he completed a research fellowship in metabolic diseases at the University of Zürich.
In 1975 he returned to Leuven. The contribution of Prof. Jaeken to medicine is exceptional, mainly in the field of metabolic disorders, due to the princeps-description of several metabolic diseases. In 1980, Prof. Jaeken was the first to describe patients with a congenital disorder of glycosylation (CDG). He received his Ph.D. in 1985. In 1999 he received the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Zürich, and in 2000 from the University of Havana. Since 2006, he is Emeritus Professor at the Faculty of Medicine. Prof. Jaeken is currently on the the Editorial Board of The Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease (since 1994) and of Brain & Development (since 2004). He is a member of numerous societies and councils and he has received many prizes and honours. Prof. Jaeken’s publication list includes 517 papers, including 339 peer reviewed international publications, 2 books, 32 book chapters. He was guest editor of 2 special volumes on CDG. He hopes to continue working in the CDG field. He is an inspiration for the CDG community.
The list of the 6 publications with a major impact for CDG research:
JAEKEN J, VANDERSCHUEREN-LODEWEYCKX M, CASAER P, et al. Familial psychomotor retardation with markedly fluctuating serum proteins, FSH and GH levels, partial TBG-deficiency, increased serum arylsulfatase A and increased CSF protein: a new syndrome? Pediatr Res 1980; 14:179
JAEKEN J, VAN EYCK HG, VAN DER HEUL C, CORBEEL L, EECKELS R, EGGERMONT E. Sialic acid-deficient serum and cerebrospinal fluid transferrin in a newly recognized genetic syndrome. Clin Chim Acta 1984;144:245-247
JAEKEN J, SCHACHTER H, CARCHON H, DE COCK P, CODDEVILLE B, SPIK G. Carbohydrate-deficient glycoprotein syndrome type II : a deficiency in Golgi-localized N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase II. Arch Dis Child 1994; 71:123-127
VAN SCHAFTINGEN E, JAEKEN J. Phosphomannomutase deficiency is a cause of carbohydrate-deficient glycoprotein syndrome type I. FEBS Lett 1995;377:318-320
JAEKEN J, Matthijs G, Saudubray J-M, et al. Phosphomannose isomerase deficiency: a carbohydrate-deficient glycoprotein syndrome with hepatic-intestinal presentation. Am J Hum Genet 1998;62:1535-1539
JAEKEN J, VLEUGELS W, REGAL L, et al. RFT1-CDG: deafness as a novel feature of congenital disorders of glycosylation (CDG). J Inherit Metab Dis 2009; 32:756-757
Prof Paula Videira
Email: p.videira@fct.unl.pt
Professor Paula Videira received her Ph.D. in Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade Técnica in 2002. After a post-Doctoral position in the same institution, in 2005 she was invited as assistant professor in the Department of Immunology at Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. She founded the Glycoimmunology research group in 2007, which she leads until today. In 2005 Paula moved to Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia and she was appointed as a faculty member, assistant professor.
Her main interests are to conduct research in Glycobiology and Immunology, with the goal of identifying novel therapeutic targets. Her group is interested in identifying the role of aberrant glycosylation in cancer and congenital disorders of Glycosylation and its implications in immune response. The ultimate goal is to develop novel antibody-based and dendritic cell (DC)-based immunotherapies. Paula is presently leading both national and international research projects. She supervises six PhD students and several Master students and post docs. She is an author in more than 50 international peer-review publications.
She is the director of the CDG & Allies - Professionals and Patient Associations International Research Network. Thus, Paula work in the field of CDG is focused in fomenting awareness and collaborations between professionals and patients advocates. She is also currently investigating CDG associated immunopathology, aiming to identify key mechanisms and to contribute to improve to ameliorate CDG lives. This work is fully supported thanks to the generosity of families and friends who contributed with little donations during the “One CD=One live CDG” crowdfunding campaign done in 2014.
List of publications in the field of CDG:
Silva M, Silva Z, Marques G, Ferro T, Gonçalves M, Monteiro M, van Vliet S, Mohr E, Lino AC, Fernandes AR, Lima FA, van Kooyk Y, Matos T, Tadokoro CE and Videira PA. Sialic acid removal from dendritic cells improves antigen cross-presentation and boosts anti-tumor immune responses- Accepted by Oncotargets
Cabral MG, Silva Z, Ligeiro D, Seixas E. Crespo H, Carrascal M, Silva M, Piteira AR, Paixão P, Lau JTY, Videira PA. 2013 The phagocytic capacity and immunological potency of human dendritic cells is improved by α2,6-sialic acid deficiency. Immunology, 138:235-45; doi: 10.1111/imm.12025.
Silva Z, Konstantopoulos K, Videira PA. 2012. The Role of Sugars in Dendritic Cell Trafficking. Annals of Biomedical Engineering (invited review, Special Issue). 40:777-89; doi: 10.1007/s10439-011-0448-5.
Crespo HJ, Cabral MG, Teixeira AV, Lau JTY, Trindade H. Videira PA, 2009. Effect of sialic acid loss on dendritic cell maturation. Immunology. 128: e621-31 (doi:10.1111/j.1365-2567.2009.03047.x)
Videira PA, Amado IF, Crespo HJ, Alguero MC, Dall’Olio F, Cabral MG, Trindade H. 2008. Surface α2,3- and α2,6-sialylation of human monocytes and derived dendritic cells and its influence on endocytosis Glycoconjugate Journal 25:259-68
List of current research projects dedicated to CDG:
PhD thesis " Deciphering immunological aspects of Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation (CDG) using a multidisciplinary approach "
(Supervisor of the PhD student Rita Francisco)
Presentation selected within 2 conferences:
Pf Paula Videira's presentation given during the First World Conference on CDG 2013 available at the APCDG Youtube Channel at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmdrRfzavgJoU67NUf68xpg
Pf Paula Videira's presentation at the Second World Conference on CDG 2015 available at http://www.apcdg.com/education.html
From her unique perspective of being a sister of a patient with a rare disease named Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation (CDG) and Cell Biologist, Vanessa founded the Portuguese CDG Association and other Rare Metabolic Disorders (APCDG-DMR).
Prof Ravi Savarirayan
The faces of CDG researchers involved in the project
“CDG & Skeleton”
Carlota Pascoal
Dorinda da Silva
Rita Francisco
Carlota Pascoal has a biochemistry degree by Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, and has concluded her MScs' on Biochemistry for Health at Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica - Universidade Nova de Lisboa. In March 2018, she was awarded the 4th Liliana Scientific Initiation Scholarship.
Her main goal is to contribute for the improvement of Public Health, she is highly motivated and committed to''Assessing immune response in Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation''. Her research is developed under the scope of CDG & Allies - Professionals and Patient Associations International Network (CDG & Allies - PPAIN).
Dorinda da Silva, received her Biochemistry degree in University of Algarve – Faro, Portugal. She defended her PhD thesis on “Study of redox and calcium transport systems microdomains in the plasma membrane of neurons”, in University of Extremadura – Badajoz, Spain. Her work is developed under the scope of the CDG & Allies – Professionals and Patient Associations International Network (CDG & Allies – PPAIN). She integrated our working group since beginning February 2016. Dr Dorinda is highly motivated to make a difference in patients lives.
Rita Francisco has a Masters’ degree in Molecular Genetics by the University of Minho and among her main scientific interests are genetic disorders. In 2016, she was awarded the 3rd Liliana Scientific Scholarship. In March 2017, she won a PhD scholarship awarded by Fundação para as Ciências e Tecnologias (FCT) and she is now dedicating herself to unravelling the immunological aspects of CDG. Rita is highly driven and motivated to make a difference in the lives of adults and children living with Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation (CDG). Her work is developed under the scope of the CDG & Allies – Professionals and Patient Associations International Network (CDG & Allies – PPAIN). In addition, she is our CDG patient advocate manager and CDG International Patient Relations.
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Drake’s Passage Red Bull web series
While "Professional Motorcycle Dude", Drake McElroy is travelling around the world as a judge for the Red Bull X fighters he is simultaneously producing a series titled "Drakes Passage". Now up to it's ninth episode Drake has already visited Mexico, Egypt, Spain, Russia and London and has been having a helluva time. "Drake's Passage…
While “Professional Motorcycle Dude”, Drake McElroy is travelling around the world as a judge for the Red Bull X fighters he is simultaneously producing a series titled “Drakes Passage”. Now up to it’s ninth episode Drake has already visited Mexico, Egypt, Spain, Russia and London and has been having a helluva time.
“Drake’s Passage is a new travel series every Thursday morning at 10 AM P. Drake McElroy, a professional motocross rider and all-around curious guy, takes you on a wild new adventure to some of the most iconic cities in the world.”
Drakes outgoing personality and happy go lucky attitude are what really makes this series a fun watch. There’s plenty of two wheeled action and unscripted hijinx so get comfortable and enjoy episode 1 – 9 below. You can then subscribe to the Drake’s passage Youtube channel to get all future episodes as they are released…and seeing as he’s in London I’m pretty sure episode 10 will feature a visit to the Ace Cafe (if not I’m unsubscribing).
Episode 1: In this premiere episode, Drake partakes in mezcal alcohol tasting, joins a mariachi band in Plaza Garibaldi, forces down pulque (more alcohol) at a pulqueria, gets a religious cleansing and tries some sketchy street tacos.
Episode 2: In the second episode, Drake meets up with some of Mexico’s top young riders and challenges them to a small enduro competition on their own soil. Later, Drake decides to step into the ring to experience one of Mexico’s most well known traditions in this week’s episode of Drake’s Passage.
Episode 3: After 27 hours of travel, FMX rider Drake McElroy goes inside the great Pyramids of Giza with fellow rider Robbie Maddison. He then gets some much needed air as he tries to use his dirt bike skills on a rogue camel. After the Pyramids, Drake cruises the Nile and learns to play the oud. He also tries his bartering skills at the historic Khan el-Khalili Bazaar. Itching to see Cairo on two wheels, Drake takes a tour of the city on a motorcycle and finishes the day at the El Fishawy coffee house.
Episode 4: In this week’s episode, Drake shows off his creative side and learns about one of Egypt’s oldest traditions. Later, Drake makes a memorable visit to one of Cairo’s most historic and chilling landmarks, the City of the Dead, before experiencing some of Egypt’s traditional cuisine.
Episode 5: Right off the plane in Madrid, Drake loads up for a massive water fight with more than 10,000 people. After drying off, he enjoys dinner and a traditional flamenco performance. He then gets back in his element with some vintage low-rider bicycles and cruises around town. Finally, Drake gets his mind blown when checks out arguably the biggest collection of Spanish motorcycles around, more than 400 bikes.
Episode 6: In this week’s episode, Drake continues to enjoy the Spanish lifestyle. After learning about one of the country’s most popular delicacies and honing his knife skills at one of the world’s oldest restaurants, Drake experiences Madrid’s nightlife at a funky rock and roll club. He then takes a motorcycle ride through the Spanish countryside, soaking up the country’s history and putting the perfect end to an amazing trip.
Episode 7: Drake arrives in Moscow and heads straight to the historic Sandunovsky baths to recover from his travels before heading to an underground club to watch a notable psychedelic band and chat with them after the show. It’s then off to the Moscow River for a day of wakesurfing with a top Russian DJ and a trip to the radio station for an interview. Finally, Drake gets a taste of the Cold War, going 18 floors below the street as he explores an underground Soviet bunker.
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Episode 9: In this week’s episode, Drake visits London where he meets up with “Super Ted” James, one of the most innovative custom fixed bike builders around, before heading to judge the Red Bull X-Fighters event that night. The next morning, he takes a train ride north to visitdarts legend Bobby George, aka “Bobby Dazzler,” at his home pub, where he discusses life and gets some pointers on his darts game. It’s an experience he’ll never forget.
I think I need to get myself a job at RedBull!
You can follow Drake’s exploits via his facebook page or on the Drakes Passage Youtube channel.
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November 13, 2019 / 5:18 AM / 2 months ago
FOREX-Kiwi takes flight as New Zealand's central bank surprises by standing pat
Tom Westbrook
* Kiwi soars after RBNZ dashes rate-cut expectations
* Dollar steady elsewhere near multi-week highs
By Tom Westbrook
SINGAPORE, Nov 13 (Reuters) - The beaten-up New Zealand dollar soared 1% on Wednesday after the central bank unexpectedly left interest rates on hold, while most other major currencies were little changed.
“It’s flying. It was a massive surprise,” said Imre Speizer, head of New Zealand strategy at Westpac Bank in Auckland. “There’s a lot of position exiting going on.”
Almost all analysts had forecast a cut in the 1% benchmark rate to a record-low 0.75%. Futures markets had priced in a better-than-75% chance of a cut as slack spending and a global slowdown held New Zealand’s economic growth at a six-year low.
But after two cuts this year, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand said it saw no urgency to ease policy again. Short positions, which had crept up to their highest level in more than four years, unwound fast.
The kiwi zoomed almost a cent higher after the decision, before settling a percentage point stronger for the day at $0.6303. Yields on two-year New Zealand bonds jumped by their most in more than two years.
The currency has been one of the worst performing majors this year, dropping 4.7%. The day’s rise, while other currencies were mostly flat, has it on track for its sharpest one-day jump since January.
“It’s all been about the New Zealand dollar,” said Commonwealth Bank FX analyst Joe Capurso.
Elsewhere, the U.S. dollar was mixed and moves slight as investors looked for news on U.S.-China trade negotiations and awaited testimony from Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell before a congressional committee at 1600 GMT.
The first public hearings in Trump’s impeachment inquiry also begin an hour earlier at 1500 GMT.
Hopes for an imminent deal to wind back tit-for-tat tariffs the world’s two largest economies have imposed on each other have lifted the dollar 1% this week to an overnight one-month high of 98.423 against a basket of currencies.
Jitters over violence in Hong Kong and a lack of fresh details on trade talks in an overnight speech from U.S. President Donald Trump provided some support, holding the greenback steady and also lifting the safe-haven Swiss franc.
Against the Japanese yen the dollar bought 109.06 yen - not far below the 5-1/2-month high of 109.48 it hit last week. The Swiss franc rose 0.2% to 0.9908 per dollar, its strongest in a week.
The dollar scaled a month-high against the euro overnight and traded marginally below that level at $1.013 on Wednesday.
The Australian dollar was pinned at $0.6842 by weak, but largely expected, wage data.
The British pound was steady at $1.2847, after a brief boost from the Brexit Party’s decision not to contest Conservative-held seats at December’s election faded.
Trump’s speech at the Economic Club of New York mostly reprised well-worn criticism of the U.S. Federal Reserve for failing to cut interest rates deeply enough and rhetoric about China’s “cheating” on trade.
However his remark that a deal “could happen soon,” was enough to steady the dollar, while his threats of further tariffs if talks fail knocked the Chinese yuan.
“(It) was heavy on rhetoric and light on detail, leaving markets none the wiser,” National Australia Bank’s senior FX strategist Rodrigo Catril said in a note.
China’s yuan weakened past the 7-per-dollar mark after the speech and fell a little further to 7.0178 per dollar on Wednesday. (Reporting by Tom Westbrook. Editing by Lincoln Feast & Shri Navaratnam)
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Clark County Commission has nearly 100 applicants to consider for stadium authority
Clark County commissioners will have nearly 100 applications to choose from when they appoint three members to the new stadium authority board Nov. 15.
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The Glycemic Index Explained
The Glycemic Index was developed in 1981 to help people (especially diabetics and athletes) to maintain stable blood sugar levels.
The glycemic index (GI) is a ranking of foods on a scale from 0 to 100 according to the extent to which they raise blood sugar levels after eating.
Individual foods with a high glycemic index release glucose into the bloodstream quickly. This causes blood sugar levels to rise rapidly. Individual foods with a low glycemic index release glucose more steadily over several hours. This helps to keep blood sugar levels relatively calm.
Pure glucose has a ranking of 100 on the glycemic index and all other foods are ranked in relation to glucose.
Foods that rank as “high” on the index include ice cream, croissants, raisins and other dried fruit, bananas, carrots and watermelon. Foods that rank as ” moderate” on the glycemic index (45-60) include most types of pasta, baked beans, green peas, sweet potatoes, orange juice, blueberries and rice. “Low” glycemic index foods (under 45) include beans, cruciferous vegetables and high-fiber, low-sugar cereals, low-fat unsweetened plain yogurt, grapefruit, apples and tomatoes.
It remains a very useful comparative indicator of how quickly foods are absorbed into the bloodstream.
For the latest information (2005), see GI Diet Method
Drawbacks of the Glycemic Index Ratings
GI Ratings are for Individual Foods – not Combinations of Foods
As pointed out by the American Diabetes Association (ADA), the differences in rates of digestion ranked by the Glycemic Index are not as great as they appear. The ADA says that differences in the GI ratings of many foods are less accurate when foods are eaten together at mealtimes. For example, jelly/jam is a food with a high GI rating. But when eaten with (say) wholemeal bread as part of a meal or snack – the combination of the jelly + bread is digested more slowly and should therefore merit a lower GI rating.
High-Fat Products May Score Low on the Glycemic Index
Fat slows digestion. Therefore several foods like chocolate, sausages and peanuts, end up with a low GI score. Yet there is a clear statistical correlation between the consumption of fat, fast food and rates of obesity-related disease, like heart disease and strokes. So following a diet plan based exclusively on the Glycemic Index may actually increase your riskof a heart attack and stroke.
The Glycemic Index is only Part of the Jigsaw
For diabetics who need a handy guide to which foods have what effect on blood sugar levels, or for athletes who need different ‘energy-giving foods’ at different times, the Glycemic Index is very useful. Also, anyone suffering from insulin insensitivity will definitely benefit from a diet based on lower GI foods. But, when it comes to weight loss and nutrition, the Glycemic Index is only part of the jigsaw.
The GI rating of steamed potato is 50% higher than the GI rating for a Snickers bar.
Does this mean we should replace potatoes in our diet with Snickers bars? I don’t think so.
The GI rating of white rice is only 3 points higher than Brown rice.
Does this mean it doesn’t matter which type of rice we choose? I don’t think so. Brown rice is full of wholegrain goodness.
A Snickers bar is not a good diet food and white rice contains significantly less nutrition than brown rice.Yet if we were guided exclusively by the Glycemic Index we would choose Snickers bars rather than steamed potatoes and see no difference between white and brown rice. The Moral? The Glycemic Index is only one important part of the weight loss and nutrition jigsaw. Other factors, including calories, saturated-fat content and general nutritional requirements are important considerations in choosing a healthy weight loss diet.
My Low GI Diet
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Guide to Carbohydrates
How Carbs Are Digested
How Carbohydrate Affects Blood Sugar
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Health Risks of Excessive Insulin
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Guide to Glycemic Index (GI)
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How GI is Measured
What Determines GI Value of Carb-Rich Foods
Guide to Glycemic Load
GI Values of Meals
How to Reduce GI Value of Meals
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Which is Best: Low Carb or Low GI Diet
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Carbs and Our Modern Diet
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Nuldoid
"I loved it. It's the kind of story you think about at times through the day... There were so many interesting, unusual and inventive things in this book, it seemed there was something new with the turn of each page: froote, [the Nuldoid's] penchant for arguing, Delnoids, the Source, Moronoids, Roundabouts, Sloidelobbs, not to mention the ridiculous notion that elected officials actually work for the people. I liked that the life beneath the Crust was similar, but so different, from life on the Crust. The journey to Nuldoid was wrought with peril and adventures at every turn, in locations unparalleled on the Crust. All of this and more sets your book apart from any other."
—Larry Jenkins
"This book is so hard to put down! Definitely my favorite book ever. Mr. Woody describes the characters beautifully. A great book for adventure lovers! And I am waiting for the next book to come out."
—DELANEY DE MOTT, 10 years
“It’s such a challenge these days to get kids hooked into reading. I took a chance on The Wheel of Nuldoid. It’s one of the best books I’ve ever read. With its comedy and dialogue, it sets the right tone for my students. Teachers are competing against technology. We have to be so animated to keep kids’ attention, and this book does it.”
—BARBARA DeMARTINO, Middle School Teacher
Lake Elsinore, California
"Lewis Carroll with a touch of Mark Twain. On the surface, The Wheel of Nuldoid is a wonderfully playful fantasy for kids, with an adult philosophy primer below. A fantastic trip all around."
—IAN GURVITZ,
Television Writer/Producer
"This is the greatest book I've ever read."
—ASHLEY TABACH; Los Angeles, California
“If you’re a fan of The Hobbit and The Wizard of Oz, you’ll love The Wheel of Nuldoid! Woody takes the reader on a whirlwind trip to a hundred magical places that are both wildly funny and awe-inspiring. If you think funerals are fun and weddings are depressing… you might be a Nuldoidian.”
—JEFF FOXWORTHY, author of
New York Times Bestseller,
Dirt on my Shirt
"I finished this book around two days ago, and it is one of the best books I have read in a long time. Russ Woody goes beyond being a good author."
—BEAU; Orange, California
"A rescue mission can take you to the center of the Earth and back again. 'The Wheel of Nuldoid' tells the tale of Warren Worst as he follows a kidnapped friend into the bowels of the Earth. Only in sixth grade, he seems ill-equipped for all the strange creatures and adventures he finds in the city of Nuldoid, found at the center of the Earth. An entertaining and charming fantasy for young readers, 'The Wheel of Nuldoid' is a very highly recommended pick."
—THE MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW
"Without a doubt, the funniest, finest, most comprehensive book ever written about the creatures of Nuldoid."
—TED DANSON, actor
"I quite enjoyed my trip to Nuldoid. Russ Woody has a most intriguing imagination with a good dose of sentimentalism thrown in. The story reminded me in parts of Eoin Colfer’s Artemis Fowl series and I could definitely see other stories about Nuldoid come from Woody. I liked the way he didn’t talk down to a YA audience and used some pretty big words. It’s good to introduce YA’s to vocabulary, especially when the Nuldoid-speak is such a grammatical mess! But by the end of the book I could practically speak Nuldoid myself, which really scares me. All in all, I think The Wheel of Nuldoid was a very nice foray into the YA market and look forward to where Russ Woody goes from here with it."
—FIONA DARROW, author
“Wanted to let you know that your novel has surpassed the 11-year-old test. My stepson, Noah, is thoroughly enjoying it and won't let me have the book back until he's finished! With an endorsement like that, I'm looking forward to the read. Assuming I ever get it back.”
—RALPH SCOTT, Petaluma, California
"This is an awesome book. I would really recommend it to anyone over the age of seven or eight. I found that as I was reading it, I actually could block everything out that was going on around me, and I was just engrossed in the story. Very creative! Please make it a movie too!"
—CHRISTOPHER ROGERS, Florida
"Holy Lloyd an' Floyd, yas gots we talkin' jus lika dem Noids! What a fantastic book. I couldn't put it down and as soon as I turned the last page I flipped it right back to the front and read it again. Loved it! The creatures of Nuldoid are so original and entertaining in their behavior, outlook on life and death, and especially their speech patterns, not to mention a great story that there is no way this book won't become the next Harry Potter. I'm anxiously awaiting a sequel."
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Labour responds to Tories’ promise of high speed Hastings trains
Peter Chowney SUS-190118-132118001
Richard Gladstone
Published: 09:02 Friday 29 November 2019
Labour has responded to the Conservatives’ pledge to bring faster train services between Hastings and London.
The Tories would have to spend a vast amount of money, upwards of £20 billion, to create a faster rail service between Hastings and London, Labour said.
The opposition party said this figure is based on the £400 million-per-mile cost of the current HS2 project linking London to the north.
Besides replacing track, the project would involve a major restructuring the station set-up at Ashford International, Labour added.
The party said this cost has been skirted around in a statement last Saturday (November 23) by Secretary of State for Transport Grant Shapps, who pledged to ‘fast track fast trains’ from Ashford to Hastings and Eastbourne.
Peter Chowney, Labour’s candidate for Hastings and Rye in next month’s General Election, said: “How will they modify the Marshlink line to raise the speed limit above the current 40mph?
“How much will the signalling, bridge and track works cost to achieve that?
“It’s rich of the Tories to allege what they claim are uncosted commitments by Labour when they produce this. It is another Tory promise they know can’t be delivered.”
Labour said it was also misleading that the Javelin trains would travel at 140mph from Hastings to Ashford.
The party said that is the top speed of Javelin trains between cities and in practice the speed would be nothing like that.
Mr Chowney said: “Former MP Amber Rudd promised in 2015 that the work to bring Javelin trains to Hastings would be in the next Network Rail control period. It wasn’t.
“The Javelin trains they are proposing may reduce commuting times, at great cost, but would do nothing to help local manufacturers get their goods in and out of Hastings.
“Several schemes to do this have been scrapped.
“Are they gong to electrify the line? If not, are they intending to use bi-mode battery, diesel or hydrogen fuel cell Javelin trains – none of which yet exists?
“What’s needed is a properly planned-out review of the transport infrastructure in this area, and in the South East generally, and then a fully-funded programme of improvements, not one-off vanity projects.
“There has been great work done by Transport for the South East, chaired by the Conservative leader of East Sussex County Council Keith Glazier but none of their plans mention making the Marsh Link line a priority.
“We need a strategic transport network that’s designed to minimise climate change, as well as speed up journey times.”
Labour has said it would bring the railways back into public ownership, cap fares and start a rolling programme of electrifying the rail network.
Conservatives promise to introduce fast trains to Hastings.
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Irt Cottage
Irt Cottage sits near the banks of the crystal clear River Irt which runs from Wastwater, perfectly placed for paddling and stone skimming. Get out on the lake with local company Westlakes Adventure, they offer kayaks and paddle boards to keep all the family amused, alternatively have a paddle or a wild swim. Why not come along prepared for a fell walk and take on one of the Lake District's icons on your visit? Scafell Pike, Scafell and Great Gable are all stunning walks from the valley floor. Alternatively take a gentler stroll up Irton Pike or around the lake shore and take in "Britain's Favourite View". Nearby Muncaster Castle makes a great day out with something for all ages to enjoy while in the neighbouring valley of Eskdale there is the Ravenglass and Eskdale Steam Railway. It's a family favourite that everyone will love.
Wasdale is one of the big three mountain valleys of the Lake District, with some of its most dramatic and unspoilt scenery. Mighty peaks dominate the head of the valley. Great Gable, Kirk Fell, Yewbarrow and the Scafells, the highest peaks in England, surround Wasdale Head, which is renowned as the birthplace of British climbing.
Nether Wasdale is a charming little hamlet just over a mile from the southern edge of Wastwater. It harks back to a bygone era with its tiny church nestled next to a small village green with a maypole where the May festival is held each year. It boasts two pubs, The Strands and The Screes run side by side and the Low Wood Hall restaurant is just up the hill.
The valley of Wasdale must certainly be ranked as one of the most beautiful and tranquil places in the entire country. While its staggering scenery is a magnet for walkers, cyclists, divers, swimmers and general potterers it still retains its unspoiled quality and feeling of remoteness. It's a place with many superlatives attached to it, indeed it is the proud home of England's highest mountain, deepest lake, smallest church and also the competition for the World's biggest liar!
The valley stretches for 12 miles from Wasdale Head down to the village of Gosforth. The fertile area at the valley bottom is a patchwork of fields which has scarcely changed since the 9th century when Norse farmers colonised the area. This then leads to the crystal clear lake and magnificent mountains rearing skyward from it. St Olaf's, England's smallest church, is set amongst a small wood of yew trees. The roof beams are said to have come from Viking ships. The churchyard holds the graves of many climbers who died on the fells.
Wasdale offers unrivalled opportunities for walking with the mightiest Lakeland peaks, the Scafells rearing up from the valley's floor being an obvious choice for the energetic and well prepared rambler. Don't be intimidated by the high mountains of the valley. There are plenty of less demanding options too for example the pleasant woodland walks around the village of Nether Wasdale and at the bottom of the lake.
The famous Wastwater Screes appear to climb straight out of Wastwater's depths, rising to a height of almost 200ft. This immense wall of crags and shattered rock runs the length of the lake and is a sight to behold from the opposite shores of the lake especially at Sunset. For the sure-footed, there is a path directly beneath the Screes, crossing a tricky boulder field.
The valley is the birthplace of Cumbrian rock climbing with great Lakeland pioneers such as the Abraham brothers making the most of the mighty crags of the valley. These days climbers flock to the great walls of Scafell and Great Gable. The Barn Door shop at Wasdale Head is a highly reliable source of information for routes and sells an inordinate amount of equipment.
Wastwater is an absolute jewel, a crystal clear lake which is a delight to behold. The lake is very peaceful as motorboats aren’t permitted (apart from the mountain rescue team!). You are welcome to bring your own kayaks, canoes and rowing boats and enjoy the mountain scenery from a different perspective. There are plenty of picnic spots and beautiful places to swim or go for a paddle in fact it’s a wild swimmer's paradise. Wastwater is a magnet for divers and rumour has it there is a gnome garden in the depths of the murky waters and the remains of a WW2 airplane. For expert divers only of course!
If you’d like your outdoor adventures taken care of by experts then Westlakes Adventure is a company based nearby providing outdoor activities for individuals, couples, families and groups. Their activities include rock climbing, ghyll scrambling, paddle boarding and kayaking. Why not book a family kayaking trip on the lake?
Gosforth and its surrounding area is a treasure trove of footpaths and Bridleways that any devotee of the great outdoors will enjoy. The village is a bustling little place, which is incredibly well served for the foodies among you. There are two pubs on the village square and two more within half a miles' potter of the village centre. One of our favourite places to eat is The Wild Olive, an excellent Italian restaurant with a wood fired pizza oven and a lovely little play room for children as well as access out to the village's play park.
There are also plenty of options for visitors to enjoy outside of the valley. Muncaster Castle makes a great day out, it sits high above the estuary where the river Esk meets the Irish Sea at Ravenglass and has a well-deserved reputation as one of Cumbria’s most popular attractions. The 13th Century Castle makes a great rainy day visit where you can learn more about its colourful history. As you can imagine with a castle in such an incredible position on the very edges of the country, it is steeped in history, with tales of kings and queens of murder and intrigue and ghostly presences everywhere! The grounds at Muncaster are just as much of a delight as you can watch stunning bird of prey displays, explore a meadow vole maze, enjoy the play-park, café and shop as well as seeing the most stunning displays of bluebells and rhododendrons when in season.
Eskdale is another iconic yet unspoiled valley in the western lakes. As well as big hikes to the highest fells, there are some lovely walks on the valley floor and along the beautiful river Esk. Why not take a walk up from the village to the wonderfully named Giggle Alley, from here you can head to the Japanese Garden a beautifully tranquil spot. Alternatively a gentle potter along paths from the village of Boot will take you to Stanley Ghyll Force, a stunning waterfall tumbling 60ft into a deep pool below.
One of the most popular things to do in Eskdale is to take a trip on the famous Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway, more popularly known as the La'al Ratty. This narrow gauge steam railway makes a leisurely seven-mile journey from Ravenglass to Boot taking in some staggering scenery along the way. Whether you choose to make the journey from the charming coastal village of Ravenglass or from further up the valley at Dalegarth station in Boot you can enjoy great walks and indeed a play park and café at either end. With prior arrangement you can put your bikes on the train at either end of the line and cycle back via the Eskdale Trail.
Moving away from the mighty fells inland why not consider exploring the coast? Ravenglass is the only coastal village within the Lake District National Park. It makes a delightful place for a visit with its feeling of a gentle old fashioned way of life. Ravenglass is where three rivers meet (Esk, Irt, and Mite) to form an estuary and natural harbour. 2000 years ago, it was the location for an important Roman port and military fort and later became a bustling fishing town. Why not take a bike and explore either the 11-mile Eskdale trail or follow some of the Hadrian's Cycleway?
Eight miles away on the coast is Seascale, a Victorian seaside village with an excellent local ice cream shop. Seascale is also home to an excellent links golf course. Walking south along the beach for a mile will take you to the sand dunes at Drigg. A great place for a family picnic and paddle on a sunny day or just for a wild and windswept winter walk. St Bees is another seaside village further up the coast offering lovely walks along to secluded coves to the north.
Whitehaven is a Georgian Harbour town 17 miles up the coast with a colourful history involving rum, sugar and piracy! The Rum Story makes a great place to start your visit and from there you can follow their ‘Quest’ around the town’s historical landmarks. It is also the start to the 140-mile long C2C cycle route. Closer by is Egremont where you can find the remains of a Norman Castle and just south of the town is Florence Mine, the last working iron ore mine in Europe, and part of the rich mining history of West Cumbria.
The Wasdale Head Show and Shepherds Meet, which takes place in early October, is a great opportunity to mingle with the locals in stunning surroundings. Watch the fell runners making light work of the incredibly steep climb up Kirk Fell, sample the local ale and food stalls and browse the crafts. You can also see vintage machinery and watch the serious business of Herdwick sheep judging.
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Singapore Subsidiary Company Registration
In this page, you will learn how to set up a Subsidiary Company in Singapore. We will help you understand the requirements, procedure, and timeline for incorporating a Singapore Subsidiary Company. For more information about the various incorporation options for foreign companies, please read our guide on Singapore Company Registration Options for Foreign Companies.
How to Register a Singapore Subsidiary Company?
A Singapore subsidiary is a private limited company incorporated in Singapore in which the majority shareholder is a foreign or a local company. It has a legal identity distinct from the parent company’s.
This page provides a detailed overview of a Singapore subsidiary company registration process. A properly structured subsidiary company is a very tax efficient corporate body; hence, this form is the most common type of entity registered in Singapore by foreign companies.
A Singapore subsidiary is the most preferred choice for foreign companies to establish their presence in Singapore. Singapore allows 100% foreign shareholding. The shareholder’s liability is limited to the value of the shares it subscribes to. Singapore does not restrict the repatriation of any profit or capital of a Singapore subsidiary.
Incorporation of a Singapore Subsidiary Company comes into existence upon registration under the Companies Act (Cap 50) with Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA). A Singapore subsidiary company is also considered a resident company for tax purposes.
What are Singapore Subsidiary Registration Requirements?
Proposed Name of Subsidiary
The company name must be approved by ACRA before the Singapore Company can be incorporated. ACRA will reject a proposed company name for the purpose of incorporation if the name is identical to another existing company name; or undesirable or identical to names reserved by the Minister in its register.
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A minimum of at least one corporate shareholder is required. A director and shareholder can be the same or different person(s). 100% local or foreign corporate shareholding is allowed. The Singapore Companies Act allows a minimum of one and a maximum of 50 shareholders for a Singapore Private Limited Company. Details of shareholders will appear on public records.
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A Singapore Private Limited Company must have at least one director who must be an “ordinary” resident in Singapore, i.e. a Singapore citizen, a Singapore permanent resident or a person who holds an Employment Pass/EntrePass or a Dependant Pass with a residential address in Singapore.
There is no limitation on the number of additional local or foreign directors a Singapore Private Limited Company can appoint. The director must be at least 18 years of age, and must not be bankrupt or convicted of any criminal malpractice in the past. Information of the directors will appear on public records. Directors can also be shareholders or vice versa.
The company secretary must be a natural person who is an “ordinary” resident in Singapore. The Singapore Companies Act requires each company to appoint a company secretary within six months of incorporation.
Share Capital/Paid-up Capital
The minimum paid-up capital for the registration of a Singapore company is S$1 or its equivalent in any other currency. The parent company may own 100% of the company’s shares. There is no concept of authorized capital in Singapore.
Every company registered in Singapore is required to have a registered office address. The registered address must be a physical address and cannot be a PO Box. The use of the residential address is allowed for certain types of business.
The governance structure of a company and the interrelationship between the company and its shareholders are governed by the company’s constitutional documents (the Memorandum of Association and the Articles of Association) as well as by the provisions of the Companies Act. It is also not uncommon to find the members of companies (usually in joint venture arrangements) entering into ‘shareholder agreements’ as among themselves to capture some of their key rights and obligations in relation to how the company is to be structured and managed.
Memorandum and Articles of Association:
The Memorandum and Articles of Association of a company must be lodged with ACRA. The Memorandum specifies the activities in which the company may engage in whereas the Articles of Association specifies the rules governing the internal management of the company.
An auditor must be appointed within 3 months of the Singapore subsidiary registration.
A Singapore subsidiary must file audited accounts annually. However, dormant companies may file unaudited financial reports.
What are the Audit Exemption Criteria for Singapore Subsidiary Company?
All subsidiary companies must file an audit report unless it meets the new Audit Exemption criteria for a “small group”. For a group to be a “small group”, the parent and the subsidiary company must meet at least 2 of the 3 quantitative criteria on a consolidated basis:
aggregate turnover must be not more than SGD $10 million
the aggregate balance sheet total must be not more than SGD $10 million at the end of the financial reporting period
the number of employees at the end of each financial year does not exceed 50.
What are the Tax incentives for Subsidiary Company?
Subsidiary companies incorporated in Singapore can take advantage of the republic’s extensive network of Free Trade Agreements (FTA) and Avoidance of Double Tax Agreements (DTAs). If the company has at least one individual shareholder holding with at least 10% shares of the subsidiary company, the firm is entitled to Zero Tax on the first S$100,000 of chargeable income for the first 3 consecutive years.
Procedure and Timeline for Singapore Subsidiary Registration
The registration of a Singapore subsidiary company is a dynamic process that is conducted online. Foreign companies are required to appoint a professional services firm to set up an entity in Singapore. The registration can be completed in just a few hours, provided that all documents are in order. Registration procedure for Singapore subsidiary is as follows:
Average Timeline
1 Complete our full detail online form to expedite the Subsidiary incorporation process Client 10 minutes
The following documents/information are/is required for the registration of a Singapore Subsidiary:
A certificate of incorporation of the parent company
An extract from the Registrar of Companies that shows the current registered address and directors of the parent company
Passport particulars and residential address details of individuals who will act as the directors of the Singapore subsidiary
Payment for the services
Note: All documents must be in English and any non-English documents must be translated into English. Client Depends on you
Upon completion of the above, we will
1 Reserve Subsidiary company name Rikvin 10 minutes
2 Prepare necessary incorporation documents Rikvin 30 minutes
3 Sign and return incorporation documents Client Depends on you
1 Incorporate the company with the Accounting & Corporate Regulatory Authority of Singapore Rikvin 20 minutes
2 Prepare company documents for bank account opening and handover to the client Rikvin 15 minutes
What are the Singapore Work Visa options for Subsidiary Companies?
If you plan to relocate your management and key employees to Singapore to run their newly setup Singapore subsidiary, we can help you with your EP application.
Foreign corporations that do not intend to relocate to Singapore to operate the company must appoint a Singapore resident director in accordance with the Singapore Companies Act.
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How to Open a Singapore Corporate Bank Account
Once the subsidiary company has been incorporated, you may open a corporate bank account with any of the local or international banks based in Singapore.
If you are unable to come to Singapore, you may choose a bank that allows the opening of a corporate bank account without your physical presence subject to bank “KYC” ( know your client) due diligence policies.
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Post Registration and Compliance
Some business activities in Singapore are subject to regulation by government authorities. Even if your business firm has been registered you cannot begin operations unless you have the necessary approval or license from the relevant government authorities.
Private schools, video companies, travel agencies, liquor distributors, money lenders, banks, financial advisers, childcare centers and importers, wholesalers and retailers of liquor licenses are some examples of businesses that need permits to operate.
Registered Office Hours
You must have a registered office address and the office must be open to the public for a minimum of three hours per day during normal business hours on weekdays.
Business registration number issued by ACRA must be on all letterheads, invoices, billings or other documents used for official business communications.
If your business activities involve import, export, and transshipment in and out of Singapore, you will need to register your company with the Singapore Customs and obtain a CR Number or commonly known as Custom Registration. The central registration number is mandatory for Singapore companies or organizations engaged in trading activities.
Singapore Goods and Services Tax Registration
Goods and Services Tax (GST) is a tax on the supply of goods and services in Singapore and on the import of goods into Singapore. Goods exported from Singapore and international services provided from Singapore are exempt from GST. The current rate is 7%.
All Singapore businesses must register for GST if their annual taxable revenue is more than S$1 million, or currently making taxable supplies and the annual taxable revenue is expected to be more than S$1 million. The business is expected to register for GST within thirty days from the time it is deemed liable.
You may also choose to register for GST voluntarily. Approval for voluntary registration is at the discretion of the Comptroller in IRAS. Once approval is given, you must remain registered for at least two years.
Registration of Singapore Central Provident Fund (CPF)
The Central Provident Fund or CPF is a compulsory pension fund scheme in which the employer and employee contribute a percentage of the monthly salary to the fund. CPF contribution by the employer is mandatory for all local employees who are Singapore citizens or permanent residents earning more than S$50 a month. The maximum CPF contribution rate for employer and employee is 16% and 20% respectively and can be lower depending on certain factors such as employee age, permanent resident status, etc. CPF contribution for foreign employees is not required.
All work passes employees need not contribute to the CPF.
Ongoing Singapore Company Compliance Considerations
Once your Singapore Subsidiary Company is incorporated, you must comply with the statutory requirements set by Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA) and Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS).
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A Reminder that Vintage Minis Make Great Race Cars
Bring a bunch of Minis to a race track, and you're going to have a good time no matter what.
By Brian Silvestro
Goodwood Road & RacingYouTube
You might think watching low-horsepower city cars drive around a big, open track would be boring, but you'd be wrong. Goodwood had an entire race dedicated to vintage Minis at this year's Member's Meeting, and it was one of the most fun events to watch all weekend.
Despite having under 100 horsepower, early Minis are incredibly quick around Goodwood's road course simply because they're so light. Long, sweeping turns most cars have to slow down for can be taken flat-out by the Minis, with drivers tossing the car into the corner and balancing the slides. It looks incredibly fun from the outside, and makes for some seriously good racing, as evidenced in this highlight clip.
Drivers Nick Padmore and Nick Swift battled for the lead for the entire 20-minute race, swapping places an amazing seven times throughout. We can only imagine how big the smiles on their faces were by the time the checkered flag was waved.
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Rakuten Super Logistics Picks InVia Robotics for Goods-to-Person, RaaS Systems
E-commerce order fulfillment requires speed, precision, and flexibility. 3PL Rakuten is working with InVia Robotics to automate its warehouses through robots as a service.
Rakuten is deploying mobile robots for goods-to-person processes in its U.S. warehouses.
Mike Oitzman
InVia Robotics announced today that it has partnered with Rakuten Super Logistics to help automate RSL’s warehouses in the U.S. This announcement highlights Rakuten as a new customer for InVia.
“Rakuten is a huge company with huge potential for InVia,” said Lior Elazary, founder and CEO of InVia Robotics. “They now want to get as many of their U.S. warehouses equipped with InVia robots as quickly as possible.”
InVia offers an automated storage and retrieval solution (AS/RS) in which mobile robots autonomously move throughout a warehouse to acquire storage containers of individual products off the shelves. They then deliver the containers to human picking stations in a process known as a goods-to-person workflow.
The InVia Robot Management System (RMS) takes orders from the warehouse management system (WMS) and then routes the robot to the correct storage location within the warehouse.
The human picker remains stationary at the pack-out station, and the robots deliver totes or boxes containing the correct part to the picker.
Rakuten is one of the largest third-party logistics providers (3PLs) in the U.S. Because the company provides the fulfillment end for thousands of small to midsized e-commerce businesses, there is a high product mix at its warehouses. Throughput is thus critical to the bottom line for Rakuten.
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RaaS critical to Rakuten
The robots-as-a-service (RaaS) business model of InVia was one of the key selection criteria for Rakuten. RaaS can help shorten the robot sales cycle and reduce the risk of implementation for the customer.
With RaaS, Rakuten only pays for the throughput of the system. As a result, it can contain the handling costs within its warehouses. As a 3PL, controlling costs is key to remaining profitable with all of RSL’s customers.
For InVia, “selling the solution in a RaaS model puts pressure on us, as it seems every customer we talk to is ready to move forward right away, as there is little risk and a huge return on their end,” said Elazary.
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“For RSL and our broad array of clients, inVia Robotics presents an exciting opportunity to scale demand, manage costs, and improve inventory accuracy utilizing a RaaS model,” explained Michael Manzione, RSL’s CEO. “Our partnership with inVia is indicative of our company’s commitment to providing clients with state-of-the-art technology designed to maximize efficiency and minimize costs.”
InVia deployed 20 robots into about 3,000 square feet of Rakuten’s Las Vegas warehouse. This was just the initial pilot deployment.
The system was completely deployed over a weekend, and it has already demonstrated that it can improve throughput by 300%.
According to Elazary, the 300% improvement is currently just on the fulfillment side of the warehouse. The companies expect higher returns once the robots are leveraged to manage the replenishment and reverse logistics workflow as well.
News, Supply Chain, AI & Software, Mobile Robots, RaaS, robots as a service
author Mike Oitzman
The Market Spec Group was founded to deliver best practices, market insights, and strategic guidance for the industrial automation and service robotics markets. For over 25 years, Mike Oitzman worked for market leading companies such as Adept Technology, Remedy/BMC Software, and Hewlett-Packard. At HP, he helped introduce the first generation of HP’s cloud-based solutions and led the product management team for HP’s largest SaaS solution. Oitzman is a recognized speaker and expert in the “Robots-as-a-Service” and mobile robot markets.
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Webinar: LTE UE RF Measurements - Reloaded
Rohde & Schwarz LTE Webinar from March 16, 2011
LTE is reality. Today, more than 17 networks using different frequency bands and bandwidths are in operation in various countries. LTE-capable terminals have undergone initial RF conformance testing, but some of the specified test cases have just been finalized in the relevant standard (3GPP TS 36.521-1). Are you familiar with PRACH measurements? And what about power dynamics? Then it is time to take a detailed look at what has been finalized, and what has changed.
The Rohde & Schwarz webinar focuses on the amendments made to 3GPP TS 36.521-1 and explains the enhanced test definitions. The webinar illustrates on the R&S®CMW500 wideband radio communication tester how the specified RF test cases can be performed and automated, and how the results can be interpreted.
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Safe, highresolution radio frequency security screening
The R&S®QPS product series provides highresolution security scanning and was specifically designed to promote faster, more effective and comfortable people screening at security checkpoints. Utilizing safe millimeterwave radio frequency technology, R&S®QPS security scanners automatically and safely detect potentially dangerous person-borne threats and contraband.
The R&S®QPS system improves detection while reducing potential false alarms systematic of existing technologies.
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Security operations have long demanded higher performance technology to support efficient checkpoint operations with the ability to detect an expanding range of threats and prohibited items. The challenge faced by screening systems is not simply accuracy but safety. While we want powerful systems that effectively detect threats, these same mechanisms must not harm the people who are scanned. A prime concern would be unhealthy exposure to ionizing radiation.
Passengers screening: The millimeterwave frequencies used for passenger screening reflect off the surface of the human body.
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Low-power, non-ionizing millimeterwave scanning
R&S®QPS technology operates in the millimeterwave range of the electromagnetic spectrum, similar to the frequencies used by vehicle parking sensors. The systems produce no ionizing radiation and their output power is less than a fraction of the output power of a mobile phone.
The waves and energy emitted by the R&S®QPS travel through clothing, but do not penetrate the body. Instead, the waves “bounce back” and are combined to create an avatar with indicators showing where items have been detected within clothing.
R&S®QPS systems do not penetrate the skin and do not disrupt the atomic structures of cells or DNA like X-rays and other types of ionizing radiation do.
Safe for pregnant women and for individuals with hip/knee replacements, metal pins or other orthopedic implants, the R&S®QPS eliminates the need for special screening.
Emitted power from the R&S®QPS is 40 000 times lower than the ICNIRP guidelines of 1 mW/cm2 at a distance of 5 cm from the panels.
No interference danger
Millions of patients worldwide rely on cardiac pacemakers and defibrillators to keep their hearts beating regularly. R&S®QPS technology has been tested by third-party labs and it has been conclusively demonstrated that its extremely low power is safe for human exposure (https://www.escardio.org/The-ESC/Press-Office/Press-releases/security-millimetre-wave-body-scanner-safe-for-patients-with-pacemakers-and-defibrillatorsEuropean Society of Cardiology, ESC Congress – August, 2018 report presented by Dr Carsten Lennerz, German Heart Centre Munich, Technical University ofMunich and German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK)).
In fact, at the surface of the panels, the power of a single R&S®QPS scan is 40 000 times below the limit permitted by the International Council on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP). It is 500 000 times lower than permitted levels for the scan volume of the system. R&S®QPS systems process takes only 64 ms, which is 5 times faster than the blink of an eye. With electromagnetic energy over 1000 times less than the power emitted by a modern mobile phone, one million R&S®QPS scans causes less exposure than one minute of talking on a mobile phone, making the R&S®QPS safe for both the security operator and individuals being screened.
Unparalleled detection: High-resolution millimeterwave technology provides unparalleled detection of both metallic and non-metallic materials with a significantly reduced false alarm rate.
High-frequency millimeterwave yields high resolution detection
The R&S®QPS operates at a higher frequency range and delivers substantially improved performance and detection capability than currently deployed legacy AIT technology. With a resolution of 1.9 mm (smaller than the size of a match head), R&S®QPS technology can detect small quantities of contraband, threat material and anomalies. This increased eAIT performance addresses the well documented performance challenges of older AIT systems and supports mission critical security screening at airports, borders, buildings and in loss prevention applications where the detection of many different and smaller objects is required.
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By Joyetter Feagaimaali’i-Luamanu, 07/05/2018
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The Minister of Prisons and Correctional Services, Tialavea Tionisio Hunt, has the "authority" to declare a building or land a prison.
That’s the opinion of the Attorney General, Lemalu Herman Retzlaff, in relation to the ongoing saga involving two notorious convicts who had been moved to the Apia Police station after a failed mass prison break plan last year.
Tagaloasa Filipaina and Ovaleni Poli have been housed at the Apia Police station since the incident last December.
But they have hired a lawyer to fight the decision in Court.
Last week, Supreme Court Justice Vui Clarence Nelson ruled that the Apia Police Station is not by law a prison.
But in an email to the Commissioner of Police, Fuiava Egon Keil, the Attorney believes the prisoners don’t have to be moved.
The Commissioner of Prisons and Correctional Services, Taitosaua Edward Winterstein, is copied on the email.
“Justice Nelson was not asked to decide if the detention was unlawful, he was asked to decide if there is a case to answer,” the letter reads.
“He was dealing with the preliminary stay application, not the actual Court case itself. We have re-read the decision and reconsidered para 17 and we are of the view that HH’s comments cannot therefore mean that the Applicants’ detention at Apia Police station is unlawful.
“He is saying that the Applicants have an arguable case that the detention given his determination that the Order is invalid. The matter needs to be set down then to argue.”
Lemalu goes on to say that the prisoners therefore can still be detained in the Apia Police station “until the actual case is heard by the Court and a definite determination is given as the lawfulness or otherwise of their detention at Apia Police station.”
The Attorney General also points out that the Government can easily remedy the situation “by having Apia (Police station) declared a Prison.”
“We have looked at the Prisoner’s and Corrections Act 2013 considering our discussions (and) the reasons why they were transferred to Apia Station,” he said.
Lemalu quoted section 16 of the Prisoner’s Act, which gives the Minister the power to declare a building or land a prison.
He adds that the Commissioner also has the power under Section 16 (4) to make arrangements for prisoners to be kept at a location designated by the Commissioner as a temporary prison.
“Either option can be taken immediately,” he said.
“It is recommended that these steps be taken as we cannot have persons we need to hold in Apia for whatever public reason in future, claiming that cells are not a prison.”
It was not possible to get a comment from Minister Tialavea yesterday.
Chinese Lunar New Year celebration at Vailima
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A 90-year-old mother from Nofoali'i has credited God for her longevity, saying it was due to her obeying and taking care of her parents.
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SDG&E buying power from Mexican wind farm
Sempra Generation says it is selling half of the Energia Sierra Juarez project to BP
By Onell R. Soto
Wind turbines at La Rumorosa in Baja California, not far from where Sempra Energy proposes to build a massive wind farm. — John Gibbins / Union-Tribune
Should we build big wind farms east of SD?
In January, developers, activists and politicians chimed in on the wind debate. See what they said when we asked their opinion: Big wind in the county, questions and answers
Part of a larger battle
Fights over power lines and solar farms are filling court dockets and administrative hearings.
Pro: On one side are those who see energy from the region’s renewable sources as an essential ingredient in the fight against global warming and, not coincidentally, as a business opportunity.
Con: On the other are conservationists worried about the impacts on plants, animals, Indian and historic sites; residents concerned about property values, health and views; and consumer advocates warning that unnecessary projects will lead to higher utility bills.
San Diego Gas & Electric said Tuesday that it has signed a deal with a sister company for power from a big wind farm to be built just south of the border starting next year.
The Energia Sierra Juarez project makes sense because it will produce power when it is most needed, said Jim Avery, who is in charge of making sure SDG&E has enough electricity to meet the region's needs.
"This will have a much better correlation with our system peak than any other wind regime in California," he said. "Our electric peak occurs when we have a Santa Ana wind. When we have a Santa Ana wind, the winds are coming right across this plateau."
He said the project meets requirements that it produce power at the "least cost, best fit" for the region.
SDG&E and other utilities are required by state law to increase the amount of renewable power they purchase to 33 percent by 2020. Last year, 11.9 percent of SDG&E's power was from such sources.
Wind projects east of San Diego have drawn opposition from critics who say they destroy unique environments and contribute to an industrialization of rural areas.
Avery said he expects that to continue with this contract.
"I don't know I've ever done a project that people don't complain about," he said.
The sister company, Sempra Generation, also announced that it is selling half of the project to BP Wind Energy, a subsidiary of energy giant BP.
It has similar partnerships with BP for wind farms in Indiana and Colorado.
The 20-year SDG&E contract is significant because it clears the way, economically, for construction of the first, 156-megawatt, phase of the wind farm.
Mexican government officials have issued a building permit for the wind farm, said Sempra Generation spokesman Scott Crider, but it is waiting for permission from the Mexican Energy Regulatory Commission to make and export the electricity.
The project is also awaiting approval from the U.S. Department of Energy for a cross-border power line, from San Diego County for three transmission towers and from state regulators for a new substation on the southeastern corner of the county.
"We anticipate having the project fully permitted by the end of 2011," Crider said.
Sempra Generation expects that project to eventually produce as much as 1,000 megawatts and line dozens of miles of ridgelines in Baja California, taking up a bigger area than the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.
An earlier deal Sempra Generation had inked to sell wind power from Mexico to Southern California Edison collapsed due to delays in the construction of the Sunrise Powerlink, Avery said.
Although the project would tie into a different power line, the Southwest Powerlink, capacity for its power is dependent on Sunrise construction, he said.
This contract is the first between Sempra Generation and SDG&E, both of which are owned by Sempra Energy. It will require approval from the California Public Utilities Commission.
By state law, the two subsidiaries are operated independently. Because they are related, dealings between them are subject to special scrutiny.
For example, Sempra Generation bid for the power through a process in which other power producers were also competing, not through a one-to-one approach.
The companies' negotiations for this project were witnessed by an independent observer who reports to the PUC.
Also, SDG&E doesn't usually say how much it is paying for power, but Avery said it will pay about 12 cents a kilowatt-hour for this electricity, in the low end of how much it has agreed to pay for wind electricity.
Bill Powers, an engineer who favors building renewable projects closer to population centers, said that price is too high, citing state power price statistics.
"It looks like SDG&E will be paying too much for Sempra Baja wind power," he said.
But David Peck, an analyst with the PUC's Division of Ratepayer Advocates, said the price is competitive with what wind developers are now getting.
The corporate relationship between SDG&E and Sempra Generation will draw extra scrutiny, he said, but "we are hopefully that projects like the Energia Sierra Juarez project will get built to help meet the state's renewable goals."
Still, he added, as one of the first Mexican projects buitl to supply California's renewable requirements, "there may be unforseen hurdles that the developer will encounter along the way."
See and download the map below as a PDF: The region's wind future
Hundreds of turbines are planned for the mountains and valleys east of San Diego. Aaron Steckleberg
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Women's Soccer Streaks End with 2-1 Loss to Washington
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -
Second-ranked Santa Clara women's soccer team fell to Washington 2-1 tonight at Buck Shaw Stadium.
With the loss, two streaks ended in the Bronco recordbooks. Santa Clara's 32-match home win streak and its 45-match regular season win streak ended. The last time Santa Clara suffered a home and regular season loss was Oct. 31, 1997, a 1-0 overtime defeat to WCC foe Portland.
"I've never been that concerned with streaks, especially those that carry over into a new season," head coach Jerry Smith said. "Every season is a new year, and our goal has always been to figure out what works and be the best team we can be come playoff time. Sometimes this process helps you get there. I actually feel good about being able to see how this team responds and comes back from a lossthis is the first time we can test that in two years, since the last two years our first loss ended the season."
Santa Clara falls to 2-1-0 while the Huskies remain undefeated at 4-0-0.
The Huskies' Megan McKinstry put the visitors on the scoreboard by escaping from a scramble with a 7-yard straight shot that found the back of the net. Teammate Caroline Putz scored the game-winner at the 63:08 mark.
Santa Clara senior midfielder Rachel Weber scored her second goal of the season, putting the Broncos on the scoreboard during the 87th minute.
Santa Clara begins a stretch of six straight matches against opponents ranked in the top 25 when it visits South Bend, Ind., for the Notre Dame Tournament. The Broncos will play No. 4 Notre Dame on Fri., Sept. 8, at 7:30 p.m. CST and then round out the tournament against No. 9 Connecticut on Sun., Sept. 10, at 11 a.m.
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SCU 0 1 1
Washington Solo 7
SCU Gordon 6
Washington 11
SCU 21
WASH Megan McKinstry (Unassisted) 17:17 WASH, 1-0
WASH Caroline Putz (Megan McKinstry) 63:08 WASH, 2-0
SCU Rachel Weber (Unassisted) 87:41 WASH, 2-1
June 26, 2001 Clemens Ready to Lead Charge
June 21, 2001 Clemens Rediscovers Love of Soccer
June 18, 2001 Women's Soccer Trio Called into U.S. U-21 Training Camp
June 18, 2001 WUSA's CyberRays Celebrating SCU Soccer Excellence on Wednesday
May 25, 2001 Takin' It to the Top
May 24, 2001 Women's Soccer Recruits to Play in adidas Cup
May 14, 2001 Hawkins Scores a Goal and Assist as U.S. U-21 Women Defeat Mexico
May 10, 2001 Smith To Take U-21 Women To Mexico
May 9, 2001 Hawkins Becoming a Leader for Broncos
May 3, 2001 Celio Receives NCAA Post Graduate Scholarship
April 27, 2001 Slaton Named 2001 Arthur Ashe Jr. Female Sports Scholar of the Year
April 25, 2001 Women's Soccer Announces 2001 Schedule
April 15, 2001 As Wagner Goes, So Go the Broncos
April 12, 2001 Sisters look forward to making history in WUSA
April 12, 2001 Women's Soccer Alumni Set to Shine in WUSA
March 22, 2001 Jerry Smith Named U.S. Under-21 Women's National Team Head Coach
March 17, 2001 U.S. Team Falls to Sweden 2-0 at Algarve Cup
March 17, 2001 U.S. Women Fall 4-3 to Norway in Algarve Cup
March 13, 2001 United States Defeats Portugal 2-0 in Algarve Cup
March 12, 2001 Canada Defeats U.S. Soccer Team
March 8, 2001 Hawkins Among Eight Players to Make International Debuts
March 6, 2001 Hawkins, Kraus Join U.S. Soccer on European Tour
February 27, 2001 Wagner Named U.S. Soccer Youth Female Athlete of the Year
February 14, 2001 Women's Soccer Signs Eight to Letters of Intent
February 8, 2001 Bronco alum Nikki Serlenga: A Midfielder at the Mall
February 2, 2001 Santa Clara's Clemens brings experience to Charge
December 20, 2000 Women's Soccer Closes Season in Quarterfinals
December 12, 2000 Santa Clara Women's Soccer Alumni Photo Gallery
December 11, 2000 Five More Bronco Soccer Players Selected by WUSA Teams in Day Two of Draft
December 11, 2000 Five Bronco Soccer Players Selected by WUSA in Day Two of Draft
December 10, 2000 Six Bronco Soccer Players Selected by WUSA Teams in Day One of Draft
December 8, 2000 Slaton Earns First Team NSCAA All-America Honors
November 24, 2000 Women's Soccer Loses a Heartbreaker in an NCAA Quarterfinal
November 24, 2000 Santa Clara Quotes
November 23, 2000 Horvath's Health Gives Broncos a Season of Thanks
November 22, 2000 Women's Soccer Faces Top-Ranked Notre Dame in NCAA Quarterfinal
November 18, 2000 Women's Soccer Upsets BYU 2-1 in NCAA Third Round
November 15, 2000 Women's Soccer Travels to BYU for NCAA 3rd Round
November 11, 2000 Women's Soccer Upsets California 2-0 in NCAA Second Round
November 10, 2000 Women's Soccer Travels to Cal for NCAA 2nd Round
November 8, 2000 Women's Soccer Hosts Cal Poly in NCAA First Round
November 8, 2000 Women's Soccer Defeats Cal Poly 3-1 in NCAA's First Round
November 5, 2000 Women's Soccer Shuts Out San Diego with a 4-0 Victory
November 5, 2000 Women's Soccer to Host Cal Poly in NCAA First Round
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SAS® Viya™ named to Database Trends and Applications Trend-Setting Products for 2018
Cary, NC (Dec 07, 2017)
Powerful technology from analytics leader SAS has once again placed the company on a prestigious list of innovative products. Database Trends and Applications magazine (DBTA) placed SAS® Viya™ on its fifth annual list of trend-setting products in data management and analysis. The products on the list are recognized as being both innovative and effective in helping customers address evolving challenges and opportunities within their businesses.
“Today, more than ever, businesses rely on IT to deliver a competitive edge,” said Thomas Hogan, Group Publisher of Database Trends and Applications. “However, it has become very difficult to sift through all the hype and identify products that produce results in the real world. We created this list to do the heavy lifting for you and point out the products that are really transforming enterprise data management and analysis.”
SAS Viya is part of a larger strategy for the SAS Platform, which encompasses all SAS technology products. SAS offers software for the entire analytics life cycle, from data access and preparation, analytical discovery and model building, through to production deployment and ongoing management.
“Organizations that rely on SAS derive measurable value from their analytics programs,” said Fiona McNeill, Global Product Marketing Manager at SAS. “SAS Viya modernizes key aspects of the SAS Platform and enables our customers to bring together all of their analytics assets, uniting SAS with open source technologies. SAS is able to address the diverse needs of our customers, scale with growing data volumes, and address new use cases – all from a resilient and trusted platform.”
With the newest release of the SAS Platform on Dec. 12, SAS is releasing an integrated visual user experience to improve productivity across the analytics life cycle. Building upon a long history of machine learning, SAS now taps into the latest deep learning algorithms and continues to invest heavily in embedding artificial intelligence (AI). This includes the development of natural language understanding to enhance customer interaction and address the diverse needs of organizations to drive even more insights from data.
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So, it seems it’s not just us who feels this way about the Software-Defined Central Office. A study by consultants Arthur D. Little, AT&T, Deutsche Telekom and Telefónica outlines the importance of the telecoms industry moving to a more virtualized, converged and cloud-based architecture for its access networks – which they refer to as a CCO (Converged Central Office PoD).
This, they say (and we couldn’t agree more!), will enable the industry to meet three current challenges - demand growing faster than revenues, technology convergence and the increasing value delivered by third parties within their ecosystems.
Dr. Hans-Jörg Kolbe, Head of Deutsche Telekom’s Access 4.0 DevOps organization notes: “It is important for us to further develop the disaggregated Central Office and cloud technology to broaden our partner community, in order to attract the best technology and thinking into building our future networks based on the Access 4.0 design.”
The report argues that the new CO pod architecture can be used to catapult the telecom fixed and mobile access industry production model into a cloud-like future. And more than that, the architecture provides a safe place for each operator to innovate and explore new services, and to transform skills, operations, and business processes to benefit from improved agility.
You can watch some of the key contributors of the report discuss its findings and implications in an ONF panel discussion below.
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Frazier Finds a Kick and Two Titles
By Marc Bloom
Athlete: Wesley Frazier
School: Ravenscroft School
Mile PR: 4:42.78
2 Mile PR: 10:10.86
5,000m PR: 16:18.01
Wesley Frazier of North Carolina won last Friday night’s New Balance Indoor Nationals High School girls 5,000m championship by a lean over a stunned Erin Finn of Michigan. Both girls broke Finn’s national record of 16:19.69, set at the same event in 2012. Their times could not have been closer, 16:18.01 for Frazier and 16:08.02 for Finn, who’d set a blistering pace, only to pay for it in the final laps at the New York Armory track. Finn had come through the 3200m in 10:11 with a huge lead and looked full of life. But as Finn faded, Frazier rallied and spun some magic with a breathtaking kick and homestretch drive to victory.
Frazier, a 17-year-old senior at Ravenscroft School in Raleigh who will do her college running at Duke, came back on Sunday afternoon to capture the 2 mile in convincing fashion in 10:12.23. Those were Frazier’s first national indoor titles. She has also won three national outdoor titles at the New Balance Nationals in Greensboro, N.C.
Her remarkable 5,000m rally: “I was trying to stay on my pace and not get too caught up in how far away Erin was. With two laps to go, I saw I was catching her and told myself to hold back a little. The last 200 I felt so good. That kick — I don’t know where it came from.”
The new record: “I didn’t know I could run 16:18 and I didn’t think I’d won. It was a shock.” Of her anguished look at the finished, Frazier said, “Yeah, that hurt.”
Facing Finn: Two weeks earlier in Seattle, Finn won the Brooks invitational 2 mile in 10:08.24 with Frazier second in 10:14.88 on the oversized Washington 307-yard track. “Having that race helped me set my pace for the 5K,” said Frazier.
A busy indoor season: Ravenscroft, a small private school, does not have indoor track, so Frazier has been competing on her own, and with her busiest winter ever, mainly to help her soph sister Ryen (who had a competitive nationals 5K/2M double herself) get more comfortable with big meets. Wesley’s other indoor victories this season include the Boston Grand Prix junior mile in January in 4:48.94.
Time Travel: Last Friday Frazier (along with her sister and father Tim, who coaches the girls) had to get up at 3 A.M. to catch an early flight. They were lucky they did, as subsequent flights were delayed or cancelled because of the snowstorm. “I slept the whole way,” said Frazier.
Her 2 mile victory: Between the Friday night 5,000m (run at 9:30) and the Sunday 2-mile (run at 12:30), Frazier took an ice bath, did a 20-minute shake-out run and re-focused on her race plan for her second race. “I wasn’t completely fresh,” she said afterwards, before rushing to the airport for a 4 o’clock flight back home.
Steady training: She’s been running 40 miles a week. She does 4-mile tempo runs on neighborhood roads at 5:45 pace. Her interval work includes 5 x 900m with 60 seconds rest. Wesley tries to carry her 800 pace for another 100 meters.
Early success: Frazier, 5-foot-2 and 100 pounds, started competing in sixth grade and made the Foot Locker cross country nationals as a Ravenscroft freshman, placing 10th. She made Foot Locker again as a sophomore and rose to prominence later that season at outdoor nationals with an amazing triple in Greensboro: winning the 5,000m in 16:24.83, taking third in the 2 mile in 10:10.86 and capturing the mile in 4:44.76 on successive days.
Her take on Mary Cain’s superstar emergence: “She’s incredible. I wish I could watch her run more. I love what she’s doing for the sport.”
Upcoming race calendar: Frazier will open up in the Raleigh Relays 2 mile on March 29 and then look ahead to the May 25 adidas Grand Prix Dream Mile in New York, where Frazier’s fifth-place 4:42.78 in 2012 still stands as her PR. Then she expects to return to outdoor nationals in Greensboro, in June, where it would surprise no one if she went for another 5K/2M/mile triple.
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The Victorian state government was recently reported to be investigating whether it could make it easier for bullying victims to sue schools. This was prompted by the case of a 13-year-old boy who had to undergo surgery after being bullied at a private school in 2016.
All forms of bullying have the potential to create long-term and often disastrous psychological as well as physical effects. Some young people who have died by suicide were found to have done so after persistent bullying.
Evidence is emerging of the links between school bullying and offending and depression in later life, for both the bullied and the bullies.
Schools have a legal obligation to address bullying behaviour of pupils and provide support for both the victim and the perpetrator.
Assault and the law
Outside school, physical bullying behaviour such as pushing and punching would be assault and dealt with in the criminal justice system.
State lawmakers now further addressing different forms of bullying. For example, the Crimes Amendment (Bullying) Act 2011 (Vic) focuses on stalking and other behaviour designed to threaten or cause physical or mental harm, and the proposed Statutes Amendment (Bullying) Bill 2017 (SA) criminalises bullying behaviour including threatening, degrading, humiliating, disgracing or harassing another person face to face or online.
There is no reason any of these laws would not apply within schools.
Emotional bullying in all its varying forms poses greater difficulty wherever it occurs. Australian law is gradually introducing responses to emotional abuse. There are avenues for complaints of digital bullying, for example, under the Enhancing Online Safety Act 2015 and the Enhancing Online Safety (Non-consensual Sharing of Intimate Images) Act 2018.
External complaint avenues and criminal ramifications are one thing. But what about cases where a child was bullied persistently and whose complaints to the school went unheeded? Can a school be sued for the harm caused to a student?
The New South Wales courts have said yes. In three notable cases, former students received compensation by proving the school was negligent due to its inaction. Jazmine Oyston, David Gregory and Ben Cox proved they had suffered ongoing mental harm from bullying that their schools failed to address.
In holding the schools liable, the courts set valuable parameters of a school’s legal responsibility.
A school owes a legal duty of care to its students directly and through its staff. This duty exists when the situation is in the school’s area of control – on school grounds, on or waiting for school transport, and on school-organised excursions or activities.
Satisfying this requirement becomes more fuzzy when the harm occurred through digital media, or outside what could strictly be called school activities, such as sports or work experience.
Once control is established, the extent to which the school knew or ought to have known of the bullying is the next concern. In each of the above cases, the evidence details a litany of complaints and concerned parent contact with the school.
Jazmine Oyston’s school days were stained by pushing, name calling and harassment. The school was aware of this due to her complaints and her severe anxiety and panic attacks (at one stage an ambulance was called to the school).
David Gregory and Ben Cox had similar stories of physical bullying. Ben’s mother was called to the school on several occasions when he had varying degrees of physical harm. She had voiced her deep concerns to the principal.
What school personnel did or did not do is the next focus. In Ben’s case, even after these incidents, the school failed to recognise the bullying behaviour of the other pupil, even telling Ben “bullying builds character”.
Schools may point to their anti-bullying policies if conduct like this occurs, but these are not enough if the school can’t show policies were known and followed.
For the school to be liable for damages, the school’s inactivity must be proven to have caused the harm. This can be easier to prove when it comes to physical harm, but the link between bullying and a psychiatric illness may be more difficult.
This is especially problematic when the psychiatric condition develops some time later as other factors in the person’s life may come into play. But it has been done.
David Gregory was in his 30s when he made the claim his psychiatric illness was a direct result of the persistent bullying he suffered when at school more than a decade earlier. He was awarded nearly half-a-million dollars compensation from the NSW government.
Greater recognition
The above cases and others where this kind of harm is central now show a much greater recognition of delayed development of psychiatric harm.
While the law for proving when and why a school should pay is now reasonably clear, argument on the facts may provide some wriggle room for educators and their insurers less inclined to accept liability, as is the case with the Melbourne schoolboy reported above.
Court action may go over many years with several appeals before final determination – in Jazmine’s case from 2007 to 2013.
It rarely serves the parties well, particularly when weighed against the cost, time, energy and anxiety already on top of significant harm.
When the facts point to a school’s liability, its priority and that of its insurers should be to acknowledge shortcomings and accept responsibility for the harm. They should focus on reaching a fair and just settlement rather than devising means to oppose or delay the claim.
If you are being bullied and need help, contact kidshelpline on 1800 55 1800.
If you or anyone you know is experiencing suicidal thoughts, contact Lifeline on 13 11 14.
Sally Varnham, Professor of Law, University of Technology Sydney This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
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The lethal "zombie" knife Joshua Gardner smashed against the window of a passing car had only one use - killing. And the dash-cam video of last May's incident in south London left no question about the teenager's intent - to do harm.
Yet, despite Gardner's attack being caught on film, he received only a suspended sentence, even though he was on the Met's gang list with a previous conviction for a theft committed at knifepoint.
As a youth worker I spent more than 20 years dealing with the Joshua Gardners of west London and know full well the circumstances that push them into crime.
But I also know what arguments work in keeping them away from crime.
Jail is one. And right now the thugs knifing each other in London don't fear the justice system. That needs to change.
Put simply, Londoners need a mayor who is tougher on crime. And while funding is certainly a factor it isn't an excuse to avoid action - you still have to crack on and keep people safe.
Yes, that means supporting families and creating better opportunities for our young people, but it also means prioritising existing budgets to maximise police numbers and drive down crime.
According to Government figures, criminals handed "soft" sentences over the past 11 years went on to commit a further 5.5 million offences. And people are angry about it.
The Attorney General's Office received 837 requests for a review under the Unduly Lenient Sentence scheme in 2016 - a 17 percent rise on the previous year.
People are losing faith in the system. I support mandatory jail time for adults caught carrying a knife for a second time.
The same goes for the perpetrators of acid attacks and moped-enabled crime.
While not the maker of laws, a mayor is still able to influence sentencing policy.
When elected, I will establish a unit that will object to sentences for violent crimes considered too lenient.
We need to have a society where it is once again the criminals who are under pressure, not our communities.
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Mike Roe | March 27, 2018
Do you want to track the Dodgers as the new season gets underway, but either don't have cable or are at work during the game? Maybe you want to keep an eye on the boys in blue but have an office job that gives you checks in black and white, and you want to keep your bleeding red for your favorite team from sending your bank account into the red as well. Or maybe you just aren’t going to have access to a TV at the time. Here are four ways to check the Dodgers out this season.
1. Track what’s happening with MLB.com’s free Gameday service
Want to see what’s going on as if the Dodgers game was a video game? You have to pay if you want to watch video (with alternate angles!) or listen to audio with Major League Baseball's MLB.tv service — but you can watch virtual avatars simulating the game with MLB Gameday for free. Just visit MLB.com/scores, then click on the Gameday button beneath the game you want to follow. Or, you can keep it more old school by tracking scores on the scores page — alongside video highlights.
2. Follow what’s going on on Twitter
Want to keep an eye on things but don’t want to stare at a streaming video feed? You can follow what’s happening with Twitter. The Dodgers themselves tweet highlights and results at @Dodgers, plus you can do a search for “Dodgers” or track what’s happening on various popular hashtags, including #Dodgers, #ThinkBlue and #ITFDB (It’s Time For Dodgers Baseball).
3. Listen to the radio, over the air or online
The official Dodgers radio broadcaster in L.A. is AM 570 L.A. Sports. As noted above, you can also pay to listen to audio from MLB.tv — but the service isn't available for local, "in-market" games, which are blacked out as part of their contracts with local broadcasters. The Dodgers broadcasts are also available in Spanish on 1020 AM KTNQ.
4. Stream ESPN on your computer, phone or tablet
ESPN lets you watch the opening day game and others throughout the season online... well, some of you, at least. Due to various cable company deals and other red tape, you have to already be a cable subscriber — sorry, cord cutters — but most major cable company subscribers can log in and stream the Dodgers online, or using ESPN's mobile apps available on iOS and Android. That also means you can find a friend who has cable, and team up with them to watch online — or just hang out at their place for the foreseeable future.
Many other Dodgers games throughout the season will be on SportsNet L.A., but you have to subscribe to Charter Spectrum, Time Warner, or Bright House in the L.A. area to get this channel. However, five of the games this season will be shown on KTLA, expanding your options for potentially checking the Dodgers out. You can find out more in the SportsNet L.A. FAQ.
How are you tracking the Dodgers? Let us know in the comments or by tweeting us at @KPCC.
This story has been updated; it was originally published in 2013.
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Plastic as a Soil Stabilzer
Soil stabilization is the permanent physical and chemical alteration of soils to enhance their physical properties. Stabilization can increase the shear strength of a soil and control the shrink-swell properties of a soil, thus improving the load-bearing capacity of a sub-grade to support pavements and foundations. Stabilization can be used to treat a wide range of sub-grade materials from expansive clays to granular materials. Stabilization can be achieved with a variety of chemical additives including lime, fly ash, and Portland cement, as well as by-products such as lime-kiln dust and cement-kiln dust. These are the existing techniques to improve soil stabilization. This paper presents the details of studies conducted on the possible use of waste plastic for soil stabilization. We think that the addition of plastic strips into the soil will be a innovative technique to improve the shear strength, tensile strength and California bearing ratio (CBR) value of the soil in an economic way.
Soil stabilization can be done in many ways. But the stabilization using waste plastic fibers is an economic method since the stabilizer used here is waste plastic materials, which are easily available. A plastic material is any of a wide range of synthetic or semi-synthetic organic solids that are moldable. Plastics are typically organic plastics of high molecular mass, but they often contain other substances. They are usually synthetic, most commonly derived from petrochemicals, but many are partially natural.
Plastic as a Soil Stabilizer
In the investigation the waste plastic materials has been chosen as the reinforcement material and it was randomly included in to the clayey soils with different plasticity indexes at five different percentages of fiber content (0%, 1%,2%, 3%, 4%) by weight of raw soil. The use of plastic fibers in unreinforced soil tremendously increases the CBR value, Shear Strength, Resistance to desiccation cracking, reduces Consolidation and Swelling.
Improved Properties Of Soil By Using Plastic As Soil Stabiliser
i) CBR Value
ii) Increased shear strength
iii) Reduction in consolidation settlement
iv) Reduction in swelling
v) Reduction in cracks
vi) Avoids disposal problems of plastic
CBR Value
The California bearing ratio (CBR) is a penetration test for evaluation of the mechanical strength of soil. To find out the change of CBR value of the fiber reinforced soil with respect to unreinforced soil, CBR test is conducted. In this study, in order to find the optimum percentage of fiber content for the stabilized peat soil that would provide the maximum strength, peat soil samples at their natural water content were mixed with different percentages of cement and polypropylene fibers and were cured in air for a period of 90 days and then CBR test was performed on them. The samples examined for this purpose were prepared by adding 5, 15 and 25% cement and 0.1, 0.15, 0.2 and 0.5% polypropylene fibers. The sample which showed the maximum value of CBR after 90 days of curing was chosen as the optimum percentage of polypropylene fibers for further evaluation of strength of the stabilized peat soil.
Effect of stabilization on CBR value
The results of CBR tests for stabilized peat soil samples with cement and polypropylene fibers after air curing for 90 days .The CBR value of undisturbed peat soil is 0.785%. With the addition of 50% cement, it increased to 34% for unsoaked condition and 30% for the soaked condition. With the addition of 0.15% polypropylene fibers with 50% cement, this increased to 38% and 35% for unsoaked and soaked conditions. The results indicate that as cement amount in the mixture is increased, the CBR values also increase and addition of polypropylene fibers causes a further increase of the CBR values.
Increased Shear Strength
This experimental work has been performed to investigate the influence of Plasticity Index and percentage of waste plastic materials on the shear strength of waste plastic materials on the shear strength of unsaturated clayey soils. For this purpose, clayey soils with different plasticity Indexes were used and mixed with different percentage of waste materials to investigate the shear strength parameters of unreinforced and reinforced samples in terms of direct shear test. In order to determine the shear strength parameters (C and φ) of unreinforced and reinforced samples, a series of shear box tests at vertical normal stresses of 100-300 KPa and strain rate of 0.2% mm/min were carried out in accordance with ASTMD 3080.shear stresses were recorded as a function of horizontal displacement up to total displacement of 17 mm to observe the post failure behavior as well. Verification tests were also performed in order to examine the repeatability of the experiments.
Effects of stabilization on shear strength
Soil can be non-liner variation because the reinforcement materials exhibited a distribution with In general angle of internal friction increased with fiber content. The variation of with percentages of fiber contents leads to a conclusion that the behavior of the fiber included. The shear strength of fiber reinforced soil is improved due to the addition of the waste plastic fibers and it is a non linear function. Up to a critical fiber content shear strength increased considerably and later small reduction is observed. However shear values are greater than unreinforced soil.
ii) REDUCTION IN CONSOLIDATION SETTLEMENT
In order to assess the effect of random fiber inclusion on consolidation settlement, swelling and hydraulic conductivity, oedometer tests were conducted according to ASTM D2435-96. In the current investigation all samples were prepared using the same dry density and molding moisture content equal to 70% of the liquid limit.
Consolidation settlements results
Effects of random fiber inclusion on consolidation settlement of soil samples were evaluated as function of fiber length, content and consolidation pressure. Prior to the fiber inclusion, consolidation settlement of unreinforced soil sample was determined. A Constant pressure, increasing the fiber contents from 1 to 8% resulted in reducing consolidation settlement of the samples. This is a common trend with all fiber lengths examined. Maximum and minimum consolidation settlements of 7.5 and 2.6 mm were respectively measured for the unreinforced sample and the sample reinforced by 8% fibers having 5mm length . This shows a reduction in consolidation settlement of approximately 25%.
Reduction In Swelling
Oedometer was used for swelling saturated on molding; they showed no affinity for further water absorption after flooding the oedometer water bath. Therefore, they did not exhibit much free swelling in order to be able to assess the effects of fiber inclusions on this characteristic. Therefore, volume changes during the unloading stage of the consolidation tests were measured and used as an indication of the possible effects of fiber inclusion on swellings. The swellings presented were measured after unloading the maximum consolidation pressure of 200kPa.
Effects of swelling test
It can be seen that by increasing the fiber content, the amount of swellings decreased. The unreinforced sample produced the highest swelling of about 3.4mm. This was reduced to approximately 1.5mm for the sample reinforced with 8% fibers having 5mm length which is a substantial reduction in swelling. For constant fiber contents, an increase in the fiber length from 5 to 10mm resulted in a slight increase in swelling. As a whole, however, the increase in the fiber length did not have a significant effect on swelling reduction. This was particularly true when the fiber contents remained constant. It can therefore be concluded that with the increase in fiber contents and lengths, the soil/fiber surface interactions were increased. This resulted in a matrix that binds soil particles and effectively resists tensile stresses produced due t swelling. Resistance to swelling is mainly attributed to cohesion at the soil/fiber interfaces.
Desiccation Cracks
Oedometer rings were used to investigate the effects of random fiber inclusion on desiccation cracking of the soil. After molding, confining rings containing the specimen were placed in open air in the laboratory at a temperature of about 30°C. Samples were regularly weighed and when no changes in three consecutive measurements were observed, they were considered completely dried. Then, samples were used for observational examination of the extent of cracking.
Effects of desiccation cracks
Observational examination of samples after desiccation showed that by increasing the fiber contents and lengths, the extent and depth of cracks were significantly reduced. It can be seen that extensive, deep and wide cracks were formed in the unreinforced sample. The reinforced sample, however, has mainly experienced separation from the metal ring with no visible sign of cracks forming within the sample. This clearly shows the effectiveness of random fiber inclusion in resisting and reducing desiccation cracking which is of paramount importance in surface cracking of clay covers used in landfills. Therefore, it can be concluded that random fiber inclusion seems to be a practical and effective method of increasing tensile strength of the clayey soils to resist volumetric changes.
Reduce Environmental Hazards
The most important point is the environmental concern regarding the effects of waste plastic in soil and the problems and threats that is related with their excessive usage and disposal. This gives an effective solution to waste treatment with the advent of soil reinforcement.
Plastic is one of the major toxic pollutants of our time. Being a non-biodegradable substance, composed of toxic chemicals, plastic pollutes earth, air and water. Beside all these ill effects we here suggested one method which drastically change the view by which the people are concerned it today. Here without affecting the normal texture of the soil we are stabilizing it with the fiber format of the plastic.
1. Carol J. Miller and Sami Rifai, (2004), “Fiber Reinforcement for Waste Containment Soil Liners”, (ASCE) Journal,(1-5).
2. S. A. Naeini and S. M. Sadjadi ,(2008) ,” Effect of Waste Plastic Materials on Shear Strength of Unsaturated Clays”, EJGE Journal, Vol 13, Bund k,(1-12).
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Atmosphere: Listening at the Stoltz
Story by Sarah Ensor // Photos by Caroline J. Phillips
The Stoltz Listening Room, celebrating its 10th anniversary, is cool, intimate space on the second floor of The Avalon Theatre. The room, originally built as a ballroom, was renovated specifically as a small music venue with great acoustics.
As The Avalon Foundation staff members began to consider developing a small music venue, they were approached by Keith Stoltz, who wanted to honor his parents’ 50th anniversary by supporting The Avalon. Jack and Susan Stoltz are huge supporters of the theater, and he wanted to honor their commitment to the arts and the community.
The staff responded by pitching Keith Stoltz an idea for the room. Their proposed renovations would have cost roughly $50,000. Stoltz said it should be better. His vision for the project brought it to about $200,000, and he funded the whole project.
The Avalon hosts roughly 100 performances a year, and while shows demanding smaller crowds did well financially, it was a bit lonely to have a small crowd in the 400-seat theater. The Stoltz Listening Room, sold out at 60 people, feels electric and exciting, and it has developed a reputation among musicians for being a great venue.
“When a band is hot in there, the camaraderie gets blended together with the music,” said Tim Wiegand, marketing director for The Avalon Theatre. “It’s a place you’re just going to check out again.”
The same is true for musicians who return again and again to perform in the space. And it’s no wonder. The entire room was renovated for listening, from the shape and position of the stage to the fabric in the curtains and the chairs. A banquette under the windows lends to the lounge feel, and original photos by American photographer Pete Turner, known for his ultra-saturated images. Turner was the eye behind many great album covers. If you think of the style of some of your favorite jazz albums, you are probably thinking about Turner’s work.
The room, although designed for acoustics, has a moody, cohesive aesthetic.
“A lot of different elements went into creating that feeling,” said Al Bond, president and CEO of the Avalon Foundation.
A Few Tips:
Arrive at the venue early to get your favorite seats. Grab drinks at the bar, and mingle with others before the show starts. The second floor is accessible by stairs and elevator.
The Spot:
The Stoltz Listening Room at The Avalon Theatre on Dover Street in Easton.
The Digs:
A 60-seat music venue with two walls of windows offering views of Easton.
The Vibe:
1970s-jazz-club cool, friendly, comfortable
When to Go:
Almost any weekend
Who to Take:
A hot date or a group of music-loving friends
Sign up for emails at avalonfoundation.org
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By Benjamin Zephaniah
Genre: Coming of Age
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In the moving and compelling debut novel from Benjamin Zephaniah, a young man's life is completely changed when his face is badly scarred in a car accident.
Martin seems to have it all. He's cool, funny, and he's the undisputed leader of the Gang of Three, who roam their East London estate during the holidays looking for fun. But one night after the Gang leave a late night rap club, Martin accepts a ride from Pete, a Raider's Posse gang member. Too late, he realises that the car is stolen, and that the police are after them.
What happens next will change Martin's life and looks, and show him the true meaning of strength, courage, discrimination and friendship.
Brilliantly written and with a real ear for dialogue, fans of Angie Thomas and Malorie Blackman will love Benjamin Zephaniah's novels for young adult readers:
Refugee Boy
Teacher's Dead
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David Marr - arch hypocrite
Sometime author and LAME commentator David Marr has been giving a great deal of publicity to and favourable commentary about an unauthorised biography of another LAME commentator, one Alan Jones. The biography in question was written by yet another LAME commentator by the name of Chris Masters. Masters makes a great deal of the alleged homosexuality of Jones. Marr agrees with Masters' castigation of Jones. The alleged homosexuality of Jones is alleged to have led to grievous character flaws in Jones. As far as I can tell, the character flaws manifest themselves in Jones' political outlook (with which Marr and Masters disagree).
So far so good, it just looks like a straightforward case of homophobia. Gross, gratuitous and nasty, but commonplace nevertheless.
But here's the kicker. Marr is a homosexual who wrote a biography about another homosexual (author Patrick White). Marr has also leapt to the defence of other homosexuals who have been "outed" in the past.
Hmm... it seems that Marr wishes to make a case that some homosexuals warrant our sympathy, and others don't. I agree with him in a sense - after this witch-hunt I have sympathy for one homosexual - Jones, and no sympathy for another - Marr.
Incidentally, spot the pun in the title... and the rug on Marr's head (which seems to have increased in area since I did this caricature).
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Huck Off
In an era of one-upping each other, when do pro skiers call it quits?
Rob Story
Is cliff jumping the future of skiing, or just an awe-inspiring freak show on the margins of the sport?
I met skier Jamie Pierre for the first time on a Thursday morning last March. Within 90 minutes, I saw him flip off a 40-foot cliff at Snowbird and land on a tree buried in the snow. It hurt him like hell, but he broke no bones nor punctured any internal organs. Two hours later, at Alta, he got into a screaming argument with his friend and photographer Lee Cohen before popping off a 50-footer. Eight minutes after that, he tried to board a midmountain chair without showing his season pass. When a lift supervisor demanded to see it, Pierre snarled, "Do you know who I am?" The supervisor, who naturally found Pierre's comment rude, answered, "No, asshole, do you know who I am?" A sneering Pierre tore open his coat and thrust the pass toward the liftie in a manner that could have led to blows, but didn't.
Early the next morning, Pierre hiked from Brighton to a cliff above Wolverine Cirque. As Cohen and I aimed cameras from an aerie above the Alta side of the cirque, Pierre attempted an American cliff-jumping record of 160 feet. During his stunningly long free fall, he pulled a Lincoln loop-reaching toward his tips and cartwheeling forward from the takeoff while somehow managing to rotate his torso. He stuck the landing. It was by far the biggest, most impressive air I've ever seen.
Fifteen minutes later, while hiking out, Pierre had a seizure, likely due to the minor concussion he suffered on the landing. "I've averaged at least one concussion per year since the early '90s," Pierre tells me. He seldom wears a helmet: "If it's a matter of my body going instantly from terminal velocity to zero, a helmet isn't gonna help much."
Pierre goes bigger than anyone alive, but I wonder what good it does him. Is hurling your meat off massive cliffs any way to make a name in skiing?
It's hard to say. Pierre's 160-vertical-foot Lincoln loop occurred almost 10 years to the day after Tahoe bartender Paul Ruff died in an attempt to set the world-record cliff jump. At the time, the recognized record of 140 feet was shared by two skiers: soft-spoken John Tremann, who later left extreme skiing to become a born-again Christian, and Chuck "Huck" Patterson, who has since become better known for his big-wave surfing. After inviting friends, photographers, and cinematographers to a 160-foot cliff near Kirkwood, California, Ruff, and his dream of selling the footage to tabloid TV, splattered on some volcanic rocks.
Nonetheless, skiers have spent the last decade going bigger and bigger. Canadian Jeff Holden became an immediate cover boy with a gargantuan 150-footer in Alaska a few years back. But just going big isn't enough-huckers keep tweaking the inhuman art of leaping into a void by throwing spins, tricks, and crotch grabs. A recent Nissan ad sells Pathfinders with footage of hospital-air flips by Micah Black, Kent Kreitler, and Shane McConkey.
The sport's obsession with catching air long ago brought us V-legged Finns yumping Nordic style in the Olympics and, more recently, rubbery teens flipping about in terrain parks. But executing practiced jumps off man-made ramps doesn't send a shiver up skiers' collective spine like feral cliffs do. Unlike jibbers and Olympic ski jumpers, cliff huckers never know if their leaps are makeable. It's skiing's ultimate mind game. Ruff's friends, for instance, had reservations about his plan. But they hesitated to tell him so, fearing they'd cloud the positive attitude he'd need for his attempt. Still, Ruff's brains interfered anyway. Right before popping off the lip, he appeared to heed a basic human instinct and made an inexplicable, certainly unplanned, check turn. It was a "Whoa! What the hell am I doing?" hesitation. And it crimped his trajectory. Without the check turn, he might have cleared the murderous rocks... and survived to see his jump surpassed by some other loon.
These days, the world record belongs to Paul Ahern of New Zealand. In 1995, Ahern jumped an asttounding 225 feet into wind-packed snow, cushioning the blow by filling his backpack with Styrofoam. The fact that jibbers such as Tanner Hall make six figures a year while virtually no one even knows who Paul Ahern is suggests that cliff hucking is in no way a ticket to stardom. It gets you short-term attention, sure, but it's a dangerously poor way to make a career.
Pierre, who turned 30 last February, is only now carving out a profitable niche. "This is the first year that I can afford my lifestyle, instead of busting ass all summer to pay back my winter vacation," he says. "Sponsors thought I was just a hucker and wouldn't last, but now people realize I'm here to stay." Pierre has proven sufficiently photogenic to deliver all kinds of contemporary freeskiing imagery. He's not just screwing up his courage and plopping off nature's skyscrapers. He also stomps gap jumps-the suddenly de rigeur practice of going huge horizontally. He was the first person to nail Pyramid Gap, a 93-foot span between tailing piles in the Wasatch backcountry, over which he nonchalantly threw a floating back flip. For the latest Teton Gravity Research film, he soared off a kicker and over the third story of the Snowbird parking garage. But cliffs are where his heart is. "I moved to the Rockies from Minnesota to ski big terrain, not angled ice skating rinks like we had at home. I wish I was a better park rider, but jumps aren't that impressive to me if someone else can do it. If you can do it too, I'm wasting both of our time."
Sometime in the next few months, Pierre plans to break Ahern's record. At first he didn't want to say where. But after reassuring him that neither I nor the other 10 million skiers on earth would try to scoop him, he revealed that he's eyeing a 235-foot behemoth off the back side of Grand Targhee. Does it scare him? "As soon as it's over 65 feet, it's all the same," Pierre says. "A 70-footer is the same as a 160-footer, pysche-wise and impact-wise. You just gotta time the free fall better."
Iffy physics aside-forget 160 feet, he'll still be accelerating at 235 feet-there's got to be more to such carcass hurling than timing. So I asked Pierre what he does up on the edge of the abyss. "I stomp my skis into the snow, double click my poles together, and say a Hail Mary," he says. "I'm a strong Christian. Pronouncing my faith is the least I can do for the Holy Spirit for taking care of me for so long."
I find it fascinating that Pierre, like Tremann before him, asks God along on his jumps. Few freeskiers I know of rave about Christianity. Those with film credits often act arrogant, with an outsized sense of entitlement. But the more you talk to Pierre, the more you realize his outbursts are due to the singular focus it takes to hurl his corporal being into space. "I come off as short-tempered," he says, "but I apologize as soon as everything goes well." He also goes out of his way to credit family, girlfriend, and peers for his success. Call him a rare breed. Or, given his habit of hucking cliffs, call him an endangered species.
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Remembering Gay Rights Activist Frank Kameny (1925-2011)
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Frank Kameny donated picket signs to Brent Glass, former director of NMAH, and curator Harry Rubenstein in 2006. (Photo by Harold Dorwin)
By Megan Gambino
smithsonianmag.com
On hearing the news that pioneering gay rights activist Frank Kameny died on Tuesday at 86 years of age, I started digging through some of his papers—neatly digitized by the Kameny Papers Project. Of the memorabilia in the online archives, I was particularly intrigued by some instructions for picketing disseminated by the Mattachine Society of Washington, an equal rights advocate group for gays and lesbians that Kameny co-founded in 1961.
The Society’s precepts were: “Picketing is not an occasion for an assertion of personality, individuality, ego, rebellion, generalized non-conformity or anti-conformity. It is an occasion for an organized effort, by a group or a movement, as such, working in a calculated, coordinated fashion, to make its existence, message, and grievances known where they need to be known. Therefore the individual picketer serves, merely, to carry a sign or to increase the size of the demonstration; not he, but his sign should attract notice and attention.”
It went on to include rules for the signs, one of which stated, “Signs will be neatly and clearly lettered.”
In its collection, the National Museum of American History has 12 such picket signs, donated by Kameny in 2006, that were used in civil rights marches and protests for homosexual citizens at the White House, Pentagon and U.S. Civil Service Commission in the 1960s. In clear print, the posters say things like “First Class Citizenship for Homosexuals” and “Discrimination Against Homosexuals Is As Immoral As Discrimination Against Negroes and Jews.” One, with the inscription “Homosexual Citizens Want to Serve Their Country Too,” is currently on display, with other protest material, in the museum’s American Presidency exhibition. And, another, which reads “Sexual Preference is Irrelevant to Federal Employment,” was actually used by activist Barbara Gittings, who Kameny called the “Founding Mother” of the gay rights movement, at an early protest at the White House.
Kameny was personally invested in the cause because of the discrimination he had faced. In 1957, only five months into working as an astronomer for the government’s Army Map Service, the Harvard graduate was fired on the grounds that federal investigators had learned that he was a homosexual. Kameny fought the decision. In 1961, he became the first to petition the Supreme Court with a discrimination claim based on sexual orientation. The Supreme Court denied his case, but he went on to devote his career to gay rights. He led the first ever protest for gay rights in front of the White House in 1965, and through his efforts in 1973, the American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from its list of mental illnesses.
“He was a very smart, blunt, articulate man. He didn’t pull his punches, which is one of the things that many people loved about him and many people found hard to take. He put himself out there. And he didn’t give up. He was relentless, like a dog on a bone,” says Katherine Ott, curator in the division of medicine and science at the National Museum of American History, who met the activist on a few occasions. “At one point he had the Washington chapter of the Mattachine Society writing letters to members of Congress, the Supreme Court, to the Pentagon and to the U.S. Civil Service Commission, with grievances about discrimination against LGBTQ people. He had a lot of energy, and he was on it.”
Kameny, who called himself a “pack rat,” saved many artifacts from the early days of the gay rights movement in the attic of his home in Washington, D.C. Arguably, he had the most complete record of the movement. So, when he started thinking about who to bequeath the objects to about seven years ago, museums, libraries and archives were clamoring. “We had been talking to him for awhile,” says Ott. “We really wanted to have something here.” In 2006, he donated more than 70,000 letters, documents and memorabilia to the nation. His papers went to the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress. And the National Museum of American History acquired picket signs and a few campaign buttons for its politics and reform collection.
“The posters are great because they are handmade. You can see the passion and commitment in them,” says Ott. A couple of the buttons have the slogan “Gay is Good” on them, which Kameny coined in 1968. The phrase was inspired by Stokely Carmichael’s “Black is Beautiful.” Kameny told the Washington Post in 2005 that if he could only be remembered for one thing, he wanted to be remembered as the guy who came up with that slogan.
Ott hopes that people continue to recognize Kameny’s involvement in a movement that really contributed to “that evolving understanding of what it means to be gay that we’re benefiting from now.”
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Long-serving Taunton fire fighter Bob Wheeler receives 'a hero's farewell' with a brigade funeral
His daughter described him as a "true hero" that no one will ever forget
A retired fire fighter received a hero's farewell on Thursday (August 27) as friends, family and former colleagues gathered to pay their respects.
Bob Wheeler, one of Taunton's long serving fire fighters, was also known as a father, husband, grandfather and a friend.
Born and raised in the town, he retired from the fire service in August 2010 after originally joining in March 1981.
The 62-year-old was diagnosed with cancer on July 9 and passed away on August 9 - just four days from his 63rd birthday.
A hease carrying Bob Wheeler was met by a uniformed guard of honour who walked alongside the hearse to the chapel. (Image: Donna Squire)
Upon hearing the news of his death, Taunton Fire Station paid tribute to Bob Wheeler by flying their flag at half mast from the day he passed away until the day after his funeral.
Funeral directors, Crescent Funeral Services, co-operated with his family to hold a special brigade funeral.
The hearse was escorted from Taunton Fire Station and travelled through the town along with a fire engine.
Upon arriving at Taunton Deane Crematorium, he was met by a uniformed guard of honour who walked alongside the hearse to the chapel.
The funeral's organisers shared the emotional farewell on their Facebook page.
A post reads: "On arrival we were greeted by an overwhelming number of guests wanting to pay their respects to this much loved and respected man.
"This was not only a brigade funeral, this was very much a heartfelt family farewell for a man who was at the centre of a loving family.
"Even the youngest member of the family took part, Bob's five-year-old grandson walking alongside the funeral director escorting his 'Grandad Bobo' into the chapel and his granddaughter presenting his Ceremonial Silver Axe.
Bob Wheeler served as a fire fighter at Taunton Fire Station for nearly 30 years (Image: Donna Squire)
"Music and memories of happy times were the focus of this service and those gathered were able to share the odd smile through their sadness.
"We will always help to create a meaningful and special farewell for all and a funeral service a family can look back on with fondness and thanksgiving for a life well lived.
"Special thanks to Bob's family for allowing us the honour of caring for them and for sharing Bob's story."
His daughter, Donna Squire, told Somerset Live how the former fire fighter battled his illness with bravery until his death.
A board covered in photos and memories of Bob Wheeler (Image: Donna Squire)
"His fight against cancer was a short one but he never gave up he always had a smile on his face and would always say 'this is the hand I've been dealt and I shall deal with it'", she commented.
"We as a family cared for dad at home until he passed away."
The reception featured a collage of photographs of Bob were posted on a board with the message "we miss you Bobo".
A floral message of 'Dad' was also accompanied by a floral tribute with a packet of Walkers crisps.
Donna explained: "It was a standing joke with my dad and my daughter as to who was going to have the last packet so my daughter wanted a floral tribute to say she had the last packet which made it more personal for my daughter Tasha."
This floral tribute was in reference to a running joke between himself and his granddaughter (Image: Donna Squire)
She also thanked the directors for organising the "most amazing and fitting funeral".
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One family member, Emma Wheeler, posted: "Our brother, our dad and wonderful husband will be sadly missed, as so many people have said a tribute to a truly loved man, sleep well mate."
The axe given to Bob Wheeler following his retirement (Image: Donna Squire)
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Many yachts arriving in the region covered by this pilot book are following the traditional circumnavigation routes via north Australia. Darwin is generally the last point of departure from Australia for yachts cruising through Indonesia and on to the Andaman or South China Seas.
Capital of Australia’s Northern Territory, Darwin is in the cyclone zone; the most famous to hit the city was Tracey back in 1973.
Darwin is a major support centre for commercial prawn and fishing industries, and a hub for oil, gas and mining. The Australian Navy has its northern patrol boat fleet stationed here. As a result it’s an excellent place for cruising yachts to stop for repairs and maintenance. All the major engine and yacht equipment suppliers have shops and service centres here.
All vessels over 25 metres entering Darwin Harbour limits must have a pilot on board. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a commercial or private vessel. Every marina demands comprehensive paperwork and vessel insurance in place before they’ll let you into their locks. Start a conversation in advance and email a copy of your insurance to avoid the irritation of waiting on anchor out in the roads.
It can be difficult to secure a berth in one of the four Darwin marinas, all accessed via locks due to the tidal range. In the dry season from April to October, marina berths are hard to come by, so book in advance. July is the most difficult month due to the influx of visiting yachts joining the ‘Sail Indonesia Rally’ and the ‘Darwin to Ambon Yacht Race and Rally’.
Darwin to Singapore
There are three main routes from Darwin to Singapore. The first is checking in at Kupang, West Timor then leaving Savu and Sumba to the south, crossing through the island chain via the Komodo Strait. A westerly route then follows to the north of Sumbawa, Lombok, Bali, Java and north to Singapore.
Alternatively, leaving Darwin and laying a course for the Northern tip of East Timor before turning west to follow the northern reaches of Alor and Flores joining the same route north of Sumbawa. It is possible to use any of the straits between the Indonesian Islands to traverse from the Indian Ocean to the Flores Sea, but particularly the Lombok and Alas Straits have significant current and tidal races. The rule of thumb is it floods to the north and ebbs to the south.
For those not wishing to check into Indonesia, the best route is west to Christmas Island (which is Australian territory) some 1,600 miles from Darwin, then north to the Sunda Strait past Krakatoa and onward to Singapore.
There are currently three yacht races and rallies organised from Darwin into Indonesian ports. It is commonplace for yachts to join these events because they offer a security clearance and mass check-in facilities, including immigration clearance and cruising permits for Indonesia.
Anchorages in Darwin
Below, we list the main anchorage locations for Darwin that are featured in the book – together with one sample anchorage. For a complete list of all 600+ anchorage locations, go to Southeast Asia Pilot index
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Hearing into Inxeba complaints underway
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Image: Supplied Scene from the movie The Wound
The Film and Publications Board is today holding hearings into complaints against Inxeba (The Wound) laid by The Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa (Contralesa).
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Bloodhound project - World Land Speed Record attempt
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Today the BLOODHOUND team unveils, for the first time, the complete life size Show Car, which at 12.8m, is longer than four Minis parked end to end.
The 1:1 replica is the result of three years of aerodynamic study and ten exhaustive design evolutions to perfect the shape and aerodynamic package of the planet’s ultimate car.
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The Show Car started life as 5 m3 polystyrene blocks, which were then cut into bucks and moulds using 3 axis machining by Baker Patterns of Birmingham. Fibreglass and resin was then laid over the bucks in a process that took many thousands of painstaking hours to hand finish. The work was done by CHW Composites and Mike Horne Design on the Isle of Wight, who previously worked on ThrustSSC – still the only car in the world to have officially gone supersonic. The BLOODHOUND model was then given the six coats of Akzo Nobel aerospace paint by Jon Benton and his team at Aero-Composites, who are more used to painting military and civil aircraft than forty- four foot long ‘streamliners’. The 950kg showcar, which separates into three sections, was then transported to Farnborough by hauliers G&J Lockwood Ltd.
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“Seeing our EJ200 run on the test bed was an amazing sight, and marks a significant milestone in the development of BLOODHOUND SSC.” Said Mark Chapman, Chief Engineer, “There's a feeling in the team that everything is starting to become very real and that BLOODHOUND SSC no longer exists just on a computer screen.”
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The Researcher, Founder and Codifier of Spiritism
Pressing forward with progress, Spiritism will never be surpassed, because if new discoveries were to show it to be in error on one point, it would modify itself on that point. If a new truth is revealed, it accepts it."
Go on! Find out more about this an awesome man known by the pen name Allan Kardec.
'Allan Kardec'?
Professor Rivail was known by his educational publications. At the suggestion of the Spirits, he decided to use the pen name Allan Kardec to differentiate his Spiritist works from his educational published books. Allan Kardec was his name on a previous life when he was druid monk.
Kardec & Pestalozzi
Pestalozzi's school of thought in the Institute of Yverdon was based on spiritual values. He believed students should not only receive ordinary education but also moral teachings. The idea was to transform children in righteous individuals.
In 1832, Kardec married the teacher Amélie Gabrielle Boudet and founded with her in Paris, an educational institution similar to the one Yverdon.
GET TO KNOW ALLAN KARDEC
Spiritism started in France in 1857 with the publication of the Spirits' Book by the renowned French educator and writer Hyppolyte Léon Denizard Rivail, pen name Allan Kardec.
In a transcendental sense, Allan Kardec was as advanced consciousness, a spirit who had a direct intuition and experience of superior dimensions of life.
For him, God and Christ were not merely objects of belief, but living facts. However, like Pascal, the great mathematician and philosopher, Allan Kardec was trained on the examination of the fundamental realities of life through rational inquiry.
In the tangible evidences of a spiritual realm, he found the point of union to advance a new vision and purpose for the human spirt.
Allan Kardec deduced a code of moral and ethical behavior through methodical analysis of every aspect of the phenomena as only a man of his training could.
Kardec is credited with establishing the points of interaction between the natural laws and the invisible world, which he believed to be the final destination of all residents of the physical realm.
Kardec had a vision, however, that in some aspects went beyond the points above. He had a reason to see the value of Christian Spiritism from a wider angle. The French social and religious environment of his time was firmly molded by Catholic institutions. On the other hand neighboring countries, especially Switzerland and Germany, had become the fertile bed for the Protestant movement. Faith had only two colors, and they were not inclusive at all. In matters of religious choice, the grays and pastel colors were prohibited. He saw the futility of forcing allegiances in matters of religious choice.
Following the orientation of illuminated intelligences, made the gospel of Jesus, the moral centerpiece of Spiritism. By attaching only a secondary role to the Old Testament and the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament, Spiritism was safely protected from the theological wars that have harmed Christianity for centuries.
With this approach, Spiritism turned into a Christian lighthouse of hope and consolation.
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"Science without Spiritism finds itself utterly powerless to explain certain phenomena by laws of matter alone; while Spiritism without science would lack support and control. The study of the material laws should precede that of the spirituality, as it is matter that first touches the senses. If Spiritism had appeared before scientific discoveries, it would have been rejected, as is the case with all that comes before its time." AK
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Baylor WR Corey Coleman to enter NFL Draft
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Baylor redshirt junior receiver Corey Coleman told reporters after Saturday's loss to Texas that he will forego his senior season and enter the NFL Draft.
Entering Saturday as the FBS leader with 20 touchdown catches, Coleman was introduced as part of senior recognition at McLane Stadium and was appreciative of the program after the game.
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"Me, Coach Briles, my mom and Coach Kaz discussed it, and that's what we think the best route is," Coleman said on his decision to turn pro. "I'm thankful for the Baylor program ... and Briles believing in me."
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FootGolf—It Really Is a Sport—Is Growing in Popularity, And It's Harder Than You Think
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It's a beautiful, albeit windy, April day, and I'm about to kick a soccer ball into a hole to the left of the green. I'm only about 20 feet away, but I can't do it. My first shot sails embarrassingly wide right. My second does the same. My third is dead on, but it strikes the flagstick in the center of the hole and bounces back onto the grass a few inches away. I tap in my fourth attempt and slowly turn around to see if anyone is guffawing at my incompetent display. No one has seemed to notice. I'm safe.
This is FootGolf, apparently a new soccer/golf hybrid that's harder than it looks. You start by booting a soccer ball from the tee box. From there, you keep kicking it until the ball drops into a 21-inch-diameter hole, located to the left or right of the green. The player with the fewest number of kicks wins.
Dutch soccer players invented FootGolf in 2009 as a way to unwind after soccer practice. The American FootGolf League was founded in November of 2011.
The sport has since gained popularity, expanding from 40 accredited courses (regular golf courses that have added the aforementioned larger cup) a few months ago to 92 courses in 29 states today, according to Robb Schulze, Cleveland Metroparks golf administrator. The Cleveland Metroparks have two of the aforementioned accredited courses, Mastick Woods and Shawnee Hills, the former of which was the scene of my futility as a footgolf newbie.
"It's easier and it's much less expensive than golf," Schulze said. "If you can roll a ball in front of you, you can play this game. You don't have to worry about whiffing it like you do in golf."
FootGolf differs from regular golf in other ways besides the size of the ball. The official uniform required at AFGL tournaments includes knee-high argyle socks and Hogan hats. Don't worry though. If you're playing a weekend round with friends, that outfit is merely "suggested."
Strategy differs too. In golf, the accuracy of your tee shot can be the difference between making birdie and hacking your way to a triple bogey. In FootGolf, as long as you don't rail your tee shot out of bounds (incurring a one-kick penalty), location doesn't matter as much. Distance is the difference maker.
"Off the tee you have a little leeway left and right, because you can save yourself with that second shot," said Tom Beck, striker for the AFC Cleveland Royals, a minor league professional soccer team, who was out at Mastick Woods playing FootGolf for the first time.
Beck admitted that even for a pro soccer player, the game is not easy, which made me feel slightly better about my dismal performance. It does raise questions though: since golf and soccer are frustrating enough individually, doesn't combining them double the frustration? Why subject yourself to it?
For starters, if you have legs, you can kick a ball.
"You get people who maybe have a bad back and can't play golf, or they've never played golf in their life, but they can kick a ball," Schulze said. "It increases activity level with people, gets them up and moving. I think it's easy to get everyone involved."
Roberto Balestrini, founder of the AFGL, says FootGolf can be addicting: "You can go into it just wanting to have fun and get a tan for a few hours, but then you start playing and say, 'Hey, I want to get good at this!'"
Each accredited golf course is expected to sponsor the formation of its own local FootGolf league, combining tournaments with casual play, according to Balestrini. For those eager to get serious about FootGolf, the first AFGL Pro-Am tournament takes place this September in New Jersey. I need about six months of serious practice before I would ever consider playing the sport competitively, but as a Saturday afternoon recreational activity? I'm all for it.
If you find yourself launching your golf clubs into the air more often than you hit the green, or grow tired of playing to an all-nil tie with your buddies in a pickup soccer match, FootGolf might be what you're looking for. You can find more info on the sport at the American FootGolf League's website.
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Jordan Zirm - Jordan Zirm is an Associate Content Director for STACK. After earning his BS in Journalism from the University of Missouri, he spent time writing for "Cleveland Scene Magazine" and Complex Media before joining STACK.
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STACK INFRASTRUCTURE to Expand Data Center Presence in Chicago
Jun 20, 2019 | Press Release
Adjacent Development to More Than Double Capacity in a Key STACK Market
DENVER, CO – JUNE 20, 2019 – STACK INFRASTRUCTURE (“STACK” or the “Company”), the data center company built from the ground up to address the technology infrastructure needs of rapidly scaling enterprises and hyperscale businesses, today announced plans for a significant expansion of its Chicago data center campus. The future development will be adjacent to STACK’s existing facility, which currently offers 13MW of critical power and 221,000 square feet of space. The new multi-story data center will offer at least 20MW of additional critical capacity with the possibility of additional growth, bringing STACK’s total capacity at its Chicago data center campus to at least 33MW.
“Chicago is one of a number of important and growing markets for our clients, and as a result, it is a key market for STACK. We’re committed to investing here so that we can continue to support our clients and stay ahead of their needs,” said Brian Cox, Chief Executive Officer of STACK. “In keeping with our core commitment to being a trusted partner, this project delivers on our promise to strategically evolve and align our offering with our clients’ growth trajectories.”
STACK is committed to being the data center industry leader in building and delivering flexible critical infrastructure solutions that meet and support the complex requirements of enterprise and hyperscale deployments. The Company’s offering includes hyperscale campuses and build-to-suit data centers (“HYPER STACK™”), immediately available wholesale colocation and private data suites (“READY STACK™”), and powered shell options (“POWER STACK™”).
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Basalt’s first retail pot shop aims to create a buzz
Marijuana | November 28, 2014
Scott Condon
The Aspen Times
Pete Tramm, a partner in Roots RX, Basalt's first and only retail pot shop, opened the store in 2014. The Basalt Town Council directed the staff Tuesday to look into revamping the restrictions on pot shop locations.
Aspen Times file photo | Scott Condon/The Aspen Times
Basalt’s first recreational marijuana shop plans to create a buzz with a grand opening Saturday after a soft opening earlier in the week.
Roots RX opened at 165 Southside Drive, south of Big O Tires and on the opposite side of the street. Owners Pete Tramm, of Basalt, and Robert Holmes, of Aspen, also have a recreational pot shop of the same name in Eagle-Vail.
Tramm said Roots RX aims to be a real locals’ shop. For the immediate future, anyone who can show they live where the ZIP code starts with 816 will get a 25 percent discount on purchases, Tramm said. All towns in the Roaring Fork Valley have such ZIP codes. Even without the discount, Roots RX will strive to be competitive or better in price than other recreational pot shops in the valley, he said.
Basalt town government lifted its moratorium on recreational pot shops earlier this year and established only two licenses for such businesses. Tramm and Holmes have been issued the only license granted thus far. At least one other application is pending.
Aspen, Carbondale and Glenwood Springs already have recreational pot shops operating. Snowmass Village has banned them because officials say they run counter to the resort’s family-friendly image.
The Basalt Town Council placed strict zoning restrictions on the location of pot shops as well as advertising limits. Tramm said he will rely on newspaper ads and word-of-mouth to get customers familiar with the somewhat obscure store location. He hopes to appeal to Roaring Fork Valley residents who are getting car work done at Big O Tires or Basalt Quick Lube, which is across the street, and those making grocery runs to Whole Foods Market and City Market 3 miles farther downvalley.
Roots RX went upscale in its interior. Tramm likened the shop to an upscale jeweler.
“The only difference being we’re selling cannabis instead of jewelry,” he said. The partners invested heavily in an “odor-modification system,” he said.
Paintings by midvalley artist Linda Loeschen will be featured on the walls. There is a big-screen television and there will soon be a sectional couch to give the store an inviting feel.
Museum display cases are stocked to convey quality over quantity. A case inside the front door promotes a Black Friday special — buy two vaporizers, and get a battery for them for free, a $25 value. Another case promotes THC-infused bath soaks as a Christmas stocking stuffer.
The display case stocked with pot-infused edibles resembles something from a high-end chocolatier. Chocolate bars, truffles and rolls (resembling Tootsie Rolls), all from the Denver company Dixie, line one case. A 50-milligram package of Dixie Rolls sells for $15. A variety of mints are featured in another case; elixirs are blended in various cases.
A humble nine varieties of marijuana to smoke are on display at the present time. Roots RX is buying from The Farm in Boulder and chose varieties that are uncommon in stores, a sales clerk explained. Afghani is the high-end offering at $30 per gram. On the other end of the spectrum is Moonshine Haze at $20 per gram.
The store size is about 1,250 square feet, but it’s got an open feel. Customers “won’t feel rushed,” Tramm said.
Roots RX aims to sell more strains of marijuana next year. Tramm and Holmes intend to build a greenhouse in Missouri Heights and grow their own supply. Their application was the second grow operation approved by Eagle County.
Tramm said he also would scout for mom-and-pop, Colorado-based suppliers of edibles and other products.
Roots RX is open from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. seven days per week. Hors d’oeuvres and refreshments — the untreated varieties — will be offered at Saturday’s grand opening.
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Fresh Market settles overtime suit
The Fresh Market said Tuesday that it has agreed to pay up to $5 million to settle a class-action overtime lawsuit.
In the lawsuit, filed in Connecticut, plaintiff Jeffrey Ouellette alleged that the company did not properly compensate certain department managers under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act. The complaint purports to state a collective action on behalf of a class of department managers in stores in states in which the company previously used the fluctuating workweek method of compensation.
The Fresh Market, Greensboro, N.C., said it denies the allegations underlying the lawsuit, but agreed to enter into the settlement agreement in order to avoid "further expense and inconvenience and the risk inherent in uncertain complex litigation."
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‘Pride and Prejudice’: Popstars edition
Mary (Melissa WolfKlain), Elizabeth (Mary Mattison), Mrs. Bennet (Heather Orth), Kitty (Chanel Tilghman) and Lydia (Tara Kostmayer) read a letter from Netherfield in the World Premiere Musical “Pride and Prejudice,” presented by TheatreWorks Silicon Valley December 4, 2019 – January 4, 2020 at the Lucie Stern Theatre. (Photo: Courtesy of Kevin Berne/TheatreWorks)
By Anupriya Dwivedi on December 17, 2019
Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto, Opening/Press Night, Dec. 7
I find it unfathomable to imagine turning up to a premiere of yet another rendition of Jane Austen’s 200-year-old classic (no matter how impressively musical) and not comparing it to the “Pride and Prejudice”: the one and only, the BBC masterpiece with Colin Firth. To adapt this rich source material is a hard task — from the razor-sharp witticism in the powerhouse that is Elizabeth Bennett to the layered transformation of a character like Darcy, there’s a lot to be channeled here. Speaking of powerful characters, any adaptation must also measure up to Cary Mulligan’s Kitty Bennet, Rosalind Pike’s Jane Bennett and Keira Knightley’s Elizabeth in the 2005 film by Joe Wright.
Austen’s take on the chick flick formula: girl meets boy. Boy appears to be less than respectable doing less than optimal things. A cruel misunderstanding ensues. Boy then swiftly redeems himself, and the couple flourishes. As you can tell, this formula has been milked dry across multiple formats and stories. Thankfully, this TheatreWorks production, directed by Richard Kelley and featuring music and lyrics by Paul Gordon delivers enough to stop us from viewing it as just another musical. Tough predecessors aside, there is a lot of artistic ground to cover here. Developing complex social commentary, layered and evolving characters and sprawling but very foreign English estates like Pemberley in two hours requires mastery of one’s art.
And Paul Gordon is no stranger to British classics. TheatreWorks produced his west coast premiere of “Jane Eyre” in 2003. The Broadway run of this production bagged five Tony Award nominations. Following this, Gordon produced “Emma” (2006). While Paul’s traditional love for classic literature continues with this latest work, “Pride and Prejudice” is marked by a distinctly contemporary musical texture. Some tracks were so hummable and “fresh,” I predict this show may be a hit even for the young adults. I’m not saying they should trade in their Eillish and Mendes tickets just yet but would encourage them to give this a go. It’s not chance that this production was chosen to mark TheatreWorks’ 70th World Premiere.
This story of the Bennets is set in 1810, with five headstrong young women, anxious parents and high-stakes circumstances. In the gender discriminatory Regency era, if the male head of the family died, his estate would be passed on to his nearest surviving male relation. This was the situation our Bennet sisters found themselves in where they were required to marry to avoid being at the mercy of distant cousin, a thoroughly repulsive Mr. Collins (played to perfection by Brian Herndon). It would make for a pretty serious subject matter were it not for the delightful levity provided by the entertaining Bennet family. Elizabeth rightfully declares at the very beginning, “They’re mad! The lot of them! But not my father. And not Jane.”
Soon enough, Elizabeth (Mary Mattison) and her older sister Jane meet a bumbling handsome Mr. Bingley (Travis Leland) and the dark, mysterious and stately Mr. Darcy (Justin Mortelliti). Darcy is brilliantly portrayed by the talented Mortelliti and is shown to be a loner simply because his place in society makes for a solitary existence. This pain comes across in his beautiful reflection about the solitude of a “man of stature” (hint: that’s him): “The world we live in is the world they long for … So I keep my distance.”
Through a sprawling two hours, the story covers the clearing of misunderstandings, uncloaking of villains, softening of hearts and unleashing of love. At times the bubbly contemporary music gets a bit much on the pop charts side but mostly remained fun. Similarly, the levels of soppy cheese varied — from the insightful (painful) “he’s just a man of my acquaintance” and the disappointed in love Jane Bennet to the sugary redundant “I’m amazed by how much I love you, how much I care,” crooned by Darcy.
Apart from the incandescent Mattison, Melissa Wolfklain (Mary Bennet) easily scooped up the most laughs of the night (and was my personal favorite) by her totally unnecessary but hilariously deadpan intros to the set. Other notable performances were from Taylor Crousore playing the slimy Mr. Wickham, Lucinda Hitchcock Cone (the OTT elegant Lady Catherine De Bourgh) and Heather Orth (Mrs. Bennet riddled with daughter marriage anxieties and a general 24/7 shredded-nerves-type disposition). Finally, the winning performance of the night was the sheer chemistry between the leads — a prerequisite for this story — effortlessly delivered by Mattison and Mortelliti.
All in all, this was a cheerful and wholesome holiday show. I haven’t found my Darcy, but it’s tremendously satisfying to appreciate that we no longer live in a world where the worst fate is “dying an old maiden.”
The show runs until Jan. 4.
The headline of this article has been corrected to clarify that it is a review of the show, not a preview. The Daily regrets this error.
Contact Anupriya Dwivedi at adwivedi ‘at’ stanford.edu.
Anupriya Dwivedi
Anupriya is a Masters student at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford. Similar to her portfolio life, career and interests, her contributions to the Daily are also a motley combination of Arts & Life (Music, Culture and Theatre), Sports Photography and some News. Anupriya has moved to Stanford from Switzerland, where she was working as a strategy consultant. She has also been a feature writer for The Times of India, has published thought pieces on banking, culture and strategy and even won a National science fiction writing competition. Her writing wildly oscillates between the formality derived from her academic life (Neuroscience at the University of Oxford as a Commonwealth Scholar) and an irreverence from her culture soaked lifestyle in London and Zurich. When she's not attending theatre premieres in Palo Alto, or buried in GSB work, she also contributes to popular science journals or writes geeky policy memos.
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B. Dolan Bio
2019 tour dates have been announced! For details: CLICK HERE.
Stay tuned for info on the upcoming full length EPIC BEARD MEN album.
B. Dolan is an explosive, confrontational hip-hop lyricist and performer from Providence, RI who first came on the scene in 2008. Starting with a lo-fi, apocalyptic concept record titled “The Failure,” Dolan floored listeners with tracks that were at turns personal, poetic, sweeping and strange. Years ahead of it’s time stylistically, it was released by Sage Francis’ Strange Famous imprint, where fans began slowly gravitating to the album and to Dolan’s intense live performances. One of those fans, producer Alias, would become the sole collaborator on Dolan’s 2010 follow up “Fallen House, Sunken City”, an underground rap opus that was praised by critics and fans alike, cementing Dolan’s place in the landscape.
Turning to hip-hop’s favorite unofficial format to explore different styles and experiment, Dolan then released a three part mixtape series titled “House of Bees vols. 1-3” Political mixtape tracks like “Film the Police,” “Which Side Are You On?” and “The Devil is Alive” would become some of the rapper’s biggest anthems, while an exhaustive worldwide tour schedule won an army of fans for the unlikely bearded emcee from the Northeast.
in 2015, Dolan upped the ante yet again by self-producing “KILL THE WOLF”, an entire LP with a cast of over 30 musicians, vocalists and beatmakers. This 5-year opus in the making reinforces Dolan’s status as a complex lyricist and introduces him as a ambitious, versatile producer who’s dedicated as ever to vision and concept over fleeting hip-hop trends. “Kill The Wolf” features contributions from a diverse group of peers that included Kathleen Stubelek of the hardcore act Circle Takes the Square, Dave Lamb from Brown Bird, Buck 65 and Aesop Rock.
Since his signing to SFR, Dolan has toured exhaustively and internationally to win himself a devoted cult following. So far his continually shapeshifting presentation, outsider perspective, and masterful execution have kept them coming back. KILL THE WOLF TOUR 2016 is B. Dolan’s first headlining tour of North America. It begins this March and will continue throughout the year.
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It would be easy for an album to go astray amidst such varying styles, but Dolan stays in firm command as the expert conductor, driving the album’s layered and visionary sound. “KILL THE WOLF” sets out with a goal of demolishing the boundaries of what was previously thought possible in a B. Dolan record; bringing the best techniques from his catalogue into a new era of production value by fusing live guitars, analog synths, violins and upright bass with formidable vocals and intricate lyrics.
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Where green tea is steamed but never oxidized, and white and oolong teas are only partially oxidized, black tea undergoes full oxidation. After picking, the leaves of the tea plant are withered, rolled, and fermented for a number of hours before the black tea is finally dried and packed into different shapes and sizes.
This unique processing method actually accounts for the stronger and more flavorful taste of Ceylon black tea. The way Ceylon black tea is packed is also another reason why its flavor is longer-lasting, making them excellent products for export and shipping.
There are several varieties of black tea. The main difference is in the places or regions where the tea plants are grown. Like wine regions in France, Australia, and California, black tea that come from one region has slight characteristic differences from black tea grown in other regions. Because of this, black tea types are often named after the name of their growing region in order to make it easier to identify them by association.
One important type of back tea is Ceylon Black Tea, grown on an island of the same name in Sri Lanka where extreme climate and rough physical nature of the countryside play an important role in its characteristic taste.
Before Ceylon was ever a tea growing region, it was first a coffee region. Coffee planting in Sri Lanka started around the 1800s, roughly three centuries after the Portuguese first landed in search of spices. In 1837, Sri Lanka recorded a historic 4,000 acres of coffee on the island of Ceylon alone, prompting coffee trade and export in the then British colony. However, nearly forty years later, coffee planting in Sri Lanka suffered a huge setback from which they were never able to recover.
It was in the beginning of 1865 when coffee planters of Ceylon noted a leaf fungus appearing that caused the leaf to die and drop off - the dreaded Hemileia vastatrix or "Devastating Emily." For a time, planters planted at a faster rate to overcome it, to no avail. By 1867, planters began looking at tea and planted them at fields, rather than at trials. The reversal was dramatic, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, himself, wrote in his De Profundis:
"Those were the royal days of coffee planting in Ceylon, before a single season and a rotting fungus drove a whole community through years of despair to one of the greatest commercial victories which pluck and ingenuity ever won. Not often is it that men have heart when their one great industry is withered, to rear up in a few years another as rich to take its place, and the tea fields of Ceylon are as true a monument to courage as is the lion at Waterloo."
The first Ceylon black tea that was produced in the 1860s was literally rolled by hand or arm, on bungalow verandah floors, or on tables and then fired over charcoal fires. The resultant Ceylon black tea was a fruity, full-bodied beverage with a slightly smoky taste.
Today, Ceylon black tea leaves are processed using developing machines, but quite a few are still made the old-fashioned way.
Like all typical teas, China black tea comes from the leaves of the Camellia sinensis plant grown originally in the Yunnan Province of China and available only for export to the foreign markets. Today, China black tea is still a favorite among tea drinkers, especially the English where black tea is constantly the main ingredient in English tea breakfast.
The Chinese call it hong cha because of the color of the infused liquid and the red edges of the oxidized leaves. At one time, it is said that China black tea was considered of lesser quality and not desired by the Chinese themselves, and was therefore exported. This is probably why, to this day, black tea is what everyone outside of China thinks of when talking about tea, whereas, tea in China is understood to mean green tea. Regardless, the black teas of today have come a long way from being considered as low quality tea.
Antoher name for China black tea is Congous - its name in the international tea trade business. The name actually comes from the Chinese term gong fu or kung fu. Northern Congous are also referred to as Black Leaf Congous, "the Burgundy of China teas", and Southern Congous as Red Leaf Congous, "the Claret of China teas."
How to Make China Black Tea
The first step in making China black tea after plucking the leaves is to allow them to wither. Next comes rolling, the purpose of which is to break open the surface of the leaves and allow the remaining moisture or sap to escape and coat the surface of the leaves. This sap is what contains the polyphenols or tannins, which are said to be powerful antioxidants and give teas their health benefits.
After rolling, the leaves are exposed to the air and controlled conditions of heat and humidity to oxidize or ferment them. In the process, the polyphenols are oxidized as well and transform into compounds called theaflavins, which gives the leaves a bright coppery red color. Another chemical reaction occurs and the theaflavins form into another compound called thearubigins, which ultimately render China black tea its final dark brown or black color.
The theaflavins are also associated with the "brisk" flavor and brightness of China black tea. The thearubigins, on the other hand, are responsible for the tea's strength and color. After a few hours, when oxidation is complete, the aroma of China black tea changes from a "leafy" smell to a "fruity" one.
The last step is drying and firing. This is when China black tea is subjected to extreme heat - sometimes in an open fire - in order to change the color of the leaves to its characteristic black color.
China Black Tea Types
* Ching Wo (Fujian Province) - includes Lapsang Souchong and Panyang
* Dayeh (Yunnan Province)
* Dian Hong (Yunnan Province)
* Hainan (Island of Hainan, South China Sea)
* Keemun (Keemun County, Anhui Province) - includes Mao Feng, Hao-Ya, and Ji Hong
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* Pingsuey (Lung Ching, Hangzhou district of Zhejiang Province)
* Yi Chang (Hubei Province)
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The finale of Saturday's Virtuosity featured David Braid's new composition.
Audiences Wowed By Performances at SweetWater 2016
The SweetWater Music Festival wrapped up the 13th edition of the weekend music event, which took place from September 16 to 18, in Meaford and Owen Sound. This year’s performances by “the stellar line up” including Artistic Director Mark Fewer, the Gryphon Trio, and James Campbell wowed audiences at all four concerts. SEE PHOTOS
“I think everyone had a terrific time and enjoyed the concerts completely,” said SweetWater Board Chair Colleen Purdon at the Festival’s conclusion. “It was a wonderful collective effort by the artistic director, all of the board members, our manager, and our great volunteers.”
She added an extra thanks to Mark Fewer for bringing all the amazing musicians to the Historic Leith Church and Owen Sound’s Roxy Theatre, the two concert venues. From her perspective, the program was an inspiration for everyone who attended.
“People were just so positive about the music, and the vibe.”
The weekend’s other featured musicians included Ensemble Caprice’s Matthius Maute, soprano Meredith Hall (who enchanted audiences during Friday’s night’s sold out Early Music Rock Stars), Mark Edwards, Steven Dann, Joseph Phillips, and Katie Legere.
During Saturday afternoon’s Brave New World at the Roxy, percussionist Aiyun Huang redefined what a SweetWater concert is all about with her performance of “Eagle Claw Wu Tsiao Chen Wins.” With a Hong Kong "B" action film screened behind her, she recited a re-written script in Mandarin and synchronized her percussion performance with the action on the screen. It was an incredible performance to see in person that will not be forgotten by anyone who attended.
Saturday night’s Virtuosity at the Roxy offered some incredible performances. The audience left the theatre during intermission spellbound after the performance of the acclaimed Gryphon Trio, consisting of cellist Roman Borys, violinist Annalee Patipatanakoon, and pianist James Parker. Parker’s performance on the piano was alone worth the price of admission.
Virtuosity concluded with David Braid’s new composition, Corona Divinae Misericordiae (Chaplet of the Divine Mercy). Along with almost the entire 2016 SweetWater line up, the piece also featured a community choir. They were all led by world-renowed conductor Nicholas Michael Smith. It was an incredible performance to end the evening.
Sunday’s A Classy Finish was aptly named. The Gryphon Trio returned for a second time performing Beethoven’s The Ghost piano trio, Opus 70, No. 1. A highlight of afternoon came after the intermission when James Campbell and James Parker teamed up for a performance of Weber’s Grand Duo Concentrate, Opus 48. The audience loved it.
SweetWater’s three free, interactive musical activities on Saturday morning at the Harmony Centre attracted both young and old. The little ones loved the fun performance provided by Matthias Maute and Mark Edwards. Afterwards, a record crowd came out for the always popular Classical Jam, which included Mark Fewer, members of the Gryphon Trio, and Steven Dann. The Luthier Exhibit also was a big hit as many people had a chance to get a close up look at how string instruments are made by some of the best luthiers around.
The SweetWater Music Festival is supported by Canadian Heritage and the Ontario Arts Council. SweetWater 2016 was fortunate to be sponsored by the Eva Leflar Foundation, Community Foundation Grey Bruce, the New Classical 102.9 FM, Tamming Law, the Medley Family, the Municipality of Meaford, the Jean Medley SweetWater Endowed Fund, Grey Bruce Laser Vision, Van Dolder’s, Nicol Isurance, Glen Drummond and Kimberley Love, Christopher Little RBC Dominion Securities, Medical Record Storage, Doug Cameron’s Owen Sound Subaru, David Black CIBC Wood Gundy. SweetWater is also generously supported by many individual donors.
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Each year, the SXSW Programming Team curates a list of significant trends that provide insight into the future of tech, entertainment, and culture. From the 10 trends identified for the 2019 event, the Doc and Genre Films Are Booming at the Box Office Trend explores the rise in popularity of documentaries and genre/horror films in recent years.
Doc and Genre Films Are Booming at the Box Office Trend
Documentaries and genre/horror films have historically been seen as niche areas in the film industry, but what changed in the past few years? What led to films like A Quiet Place and Hereditary becoming such box office and critical successes? This March at SXSW 2019, dive into the film industry and learn about the creative and operational tools movie theatres and movie studios use to sell tickets, hear from two-time Academy Award-nominated and two-time Emmy and Peabody Award-winning producer Jason Blum in his Featured Session with John Pierson, and explore the changing landscape of film production in the session, The Truth About Producing.
“Programming the SXSW Midnighters section is always a favorite part of my job, and this year was no exception,” said Jarod Neece, SXSW Senior Film Programmer. “We get to peek into the collective consciousness of the world of genre filmmakers working today. This year’s selections are a mix of horror, thriller, sci-fi and fantasy with a good dose of feral children, haunted houses, extraterrestrial creatures and the undead to creep out SXSW audiences late into the night. Genre films can be found throughout the entire SXSW program, from Jordan Peele’s Us on Opening Night to our Closing Night Film, Pet Sematary!”
Get to know the industry and learn more about the defining factors leading to the recent pop interest in documentary and genre filmmaking. Be sure to add these sessions to your 2019 SXSW schedule!
Doc and Genre Films Are Booming at the Box Office Session Highlights
Crazy Rich Wakanda: Building Buzz & Selling Seats
Featured Speakers: Jason Blum & John Pierson
Hereditary: The Anatomy of an Instant Horror Classic
The Truth About Producing
What is Impact Distribution and How Do You Do IT
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Late winner earns Buccs men victory
A last-gasp strike from Bradley Milburn-Anderson ensured TeamBath Buccaneers made it two wins from two at the start of their 2010/11 England Hockey League Conference West campaign.
Buccs and Fareham were tied at two goals a-piece for the final 30 minutes of Saturday’s game before the 20-year-old struck to earn TeamBath Buccs a 3-2 win.
Richard Bendry had put Buccs ahead midway through the first half and Phil Ball made it 2-0 after 22 minutes, before James Seagar pulled a goal back for the visitors just before the break.
Kent Langridge levelled up for Fareham five minutes into the second half. But then Milburn-Anderson – a product of Buccs’ Junior Academy – netted his first Conference West goal to ensure Buccs secured all three points.
Buccs men’s firsts return to action on Saturday (2 October) with a trip to Guildford.
Buccs ladies’ firsts recorded the first point of their 2010/11 Conference West campaign with a 0-0 away draw at Swansea. Despite some good build-up play, Buccs couldn’t break the deadlock and the game ended in a goalless draw.
They host Staines at 1pm on Sunday (3 October).
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Anonymous bully reporting adopted by Illinois district
With bullying and cyber bullying on the rise, districts and schools are looking to step-up their anti-bully efforts with student-centered programs.
McLean County Unit 5 District in Normal, Ill., is one such district. The 13,314-student district is piloting the CyberBully Hotline from SchoolReach in six of its schools, including four junior and two senior high schools. The solution will provide schools and its students a two-way communications tool that allows students to send text messages -- or leave a voicemail -- anonymously with school officials. In response, those officials can immediately reply, also anonymously, and provide students the support they need to effectively address the offensive bullying act, whether they are witnessing it, or on the receiving end of it.
“We are dedicated to keeping our students safe whether they are at school or not,” said Nancy Braun, behavior interventionist and external coach for Unit 5. “We currently have a number of effective bully prevention programs in our schools including the Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports system that encourages the “expect respect” philosophy, but it was important to us to add one more layer – one that empowers students to successfully report bully behavior and one that will give our administrators a better understanding of when bully behavior is happening. Is it on the buses to and from school, or during lunchtime, or perhaps at school sporting events? With the addition of the CyberBully Hotline, we have a comprehensive solution that can help us not only reduce tensions but find the patterns and quell them.”
Schools and districts that purchase the program receive an exclusive telephone number that accepts both text messages and voice calls anonymously. In addition each school receives anti-bullying posters that not only create awareness of the school’s own unique telephone number, but also reinforce the “Bullying is Wrong” message.
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The Cable Confusion Report
The other day, I just happened to be rummaging through the bunch of cables spread across two bookcases in my home office for something to connect to my Logitech Harmony 900 universal remote. It was one of those USB micro or mini thingies, and I had to unfurl several inter-wrapped cables to find the one that fit. At the other side is the traditional USB A connector, the one that seems always to be inserted upside down the first time you try.
The rest of the cables consist of the usual collection for a long-time Mac user. There were a couple for FireWire 800, a few Ethernet, and other USB styles, plus standard RCA audio cables. I suppose I should sort this mess out someday and get rid of stuff that I no longer use. And I haven’t included the multi-shelf storage cabinet that sits in a shed next to this little home. I haven’t looked in there for years, and no, not because I worry about what’s crawling in there aside from cords and plugs.
Well, yet another cable standard has been foisted on us. Beginning with the controversial 2015 MacBook, and a handful of other computing devices, we now have USB-C, which will add to the confusion, and it may soon get worse.
To be sure, USB-C has one positive aspect aside from an up to 10 gigabit per second performance potential (it’s five gigabits on the MacBook I hear), and that’s a reversible plug, similar to Apple’s Lightning connector. That will forever eliminate the annoyance of almost always inserting a plug in the wrong direction.
Now the other day I read an interview with an official of the USB Implementers Forum explaining how the current USB 3.1 standard can befuddle people. But the confusion is taken with equanimity, as if it’s a perfectly normal thing. So you have the Type-C connector itself. Forgetting the various specs for the protocol, there is the standard USB A cable, the one that is designed to go in one direction. But don’t forget those other USB connectors, the tiny ones used in smartphones, remotes and other gear, the micro and the mini, perennial sources of confusion since you have to look real close at a device to see which one you need.
Well to make matters ever more involved, it appears that the forthcoming Thunderbolt 3 standard, offering twice the bandwidth of Thunderbolt 2, which is in use on most Macs nowadays (except for a certain MacBook), will use a USB-C style cable. What this means is that you may end up connecting the right connector to the wrong peripheral once Thunderbolt 3 gear is available.
Don’t even ask me to explain how this can become ever more convoluted than the current USB plug configuration mess. But in case you’re wondering, both Thunderbolt and Thunderbolt 2 use a Mini DisplayPort cable, same as you’d use to attach external displays that support that standard. Otherwise, get an adapter.
I can see the value of simplicity, although it will take a while for the situation to sort itself out. PC makers, for example, haven’t been too keen on Thunderbolt which, as with FireWire, is often perceived as an Apple standard, even though the developers of the interface include Intel.
What would probably happen is that, when Thunderbolt 3 is available, there will be more of them to replace existing USB ports, thus allowing you to connect most any peripheral with the proper adapter. I suppose there might be one or more traditional USB A ports as well to avoid an adapter mess, though probably not on Macs since Apple will invariably want to offer the latest and greatest technology.
Support for Thunderbolt 3 is incorporated into the forthcoming Intel Skylake processors, which are due later this year. That may ultimately simplify matters of handling the multiple connection schemes. Cheap PCs will stick with USB-C or a legacy USB port. Costlier PCs, such as Macs, will switch to multiple Thunderbolt 3 ports to handle everything, and that includes FireWire. The port’s intelligence will figure out what you’ve connected to it and provide the appropriate support. So the benefit would be an all-in-one connection scheme for mid-priced and high-end PCs that, over time, might eventually eliminate multiple sources of confusion.
Except when you take a Thunderbolt 3 peripheral and attempt to connect it to a port that only supports USB-C. Simplicity has its problems, and this will likely be yet another source of technical support calls.
Of course all this might be academic in a few years, when everything, or most things, are wireless. That would certainly cater to Apple’s minimalist tastes, and the dream that a portable computing device wouldn’t have to make a physical connection to connect to anything.
Until then, expect just more confusion when you have to sort out that mass of cables on a shelf somewhere.
<a href="https://www.technightowl.com/2015/06/the-cable-confusion-report/" >The Cable Confusion Report</a>
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4 Responses to “The Cable Confusion Report”
DFS says:
“Of course all this might be academic in a few years, when everything, or most things, are wireless. ” This of course doesn’t apply to cables that deliver power. When I’m on the road I’m always unhappy about the number of cables I have to take along to recharge my various devices. Thunderbolt has its strong points and I’m extremely grateful to have it so I can keep on using my old iMac as an external monitor. But it sure would simplify my life if I could recharge all my devices using a single micro USB cable.
Mr. Smith says:
It is true that the many variations of USB-C connector and cable capabilities will probably be a new source of confusion, there is no doubt.
If there’s a little Thunderbolt logo next to a USB-C connector, and you use a cable with a Thunderbolt logo and USB-C connectors, then you’re using Thunderbolt 3 and it should Just Work(1). That’s the good news.
“both Thunderbolt and Thunderbolt 2 use a Mini DisplayPort cable”
no, they both use a mini DisplayPort *connector*, but a Thunderbolt *cable*. You can use a mini DisplayPort cable, but the only thing you’ll successfully connect to that Thunderbolt port with a DisplayPort cable is a display.
“Support for Thunderbolt 3 is incorporated into the forthcoming Intel Skylake processors”
no, it is in the Alpine Ridge Thunderbolt controller.
“Costlier PCs, such as Macs, will switch to multiple Thunderbolt 3 ports to handle everything, and that includes FireWire.”
no version of Thunderbolt tunnels FireWire. FireWire is available by putting a FireWire controller at the end of the PCIe bus which is tunneled out of the host by the Thunderbolt connection. That hasn’t changed with Thunderbolt 3;
Thunderbolt 3 adds native support for USB 3.1 Gen 2 (the 10Gbps flavor of USB). So if you plug a USB device of any speed into a Thunderbolt 3 host controller’s USB-C port, it will work.
In most cases, if you plug in an incompatible device, or use the wrong cable, the device or the cable will provide enough information to the host to allow it to tell you what you need to do.
For more information, look here:
https://thunderbolttechnology.net
(1) Just Work: at 20Gbps or 40Gbps, depending on whether the Thunderbolt cable is active or passive.
@Mr. Smith, So there’s no confusion. When I set up an iMac with Retina 5K display, I used a FireWire 800 to Thunderbolt connector for my backup drives. So the hardware did have FireWire support using the Thunderbolt 2 port.
As far as the differences between cables and connectors are concerned, most people don’t notice the fine details of the cable. Just the connector.
It sounds like things are moving in a good direction. In five or ten years all connectors will be USB-C, and all connections will be on a “best effort” basis. The transfer speed will depend on negotiations between the units at either end of the cable. I’m sure there will be problems with out of date drivers resulting in slower speeds now and then, but that’s a problem we have now. If nothing else, it means there will only be one cable type to stock and lug around.
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This jellyfish-inspired electronic skin can tell a robot that you're hurting it
By Duncan Geere 2017-11-02T18:13:12.305Z
Warning of damage
Most prototypes of electronic skin that have been developed over the last decade or so are designed to sense only light pressure. The sensor that recognises when the skin is being touched doesn't respond effectively to harder impacts. In some cases they just break.
So engineers at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology have developed a system that could let robots know when they're hit hard enough to potentially cause damage. And it's inspired by jellyfish.
To be specific, the Atolla jellyfish - which lives in the deep ocean and flashes its bioluminescent organs dramatically when it senses danger based on changes in water pressure.
Physical threat
Bin Hu and his team built on that idea of a visual warning of a physical threat to develop a system that lights up when it's damaged. It's made of two layers that allow it to detect slight pressures - like a leaf or a breeze - as normal.
But between the layers is another that's embedded with phosphorescent materials which glow brighter and brighter as physical force increases. Being able to sense a wider range of pressures, the researchers say, makes the system more like human skin.
"Mimicking the pressure-sensing behavior of biological skins using electronic devices has profound implications for prosthetics and medicine," wrote the researchers in a paper published in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces.
"Its mechanically robust and stretchable properties may find a wide range of applications in intelligent robots."
Spider silk could make your smartphone calls clearer
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How Apple CarPlay turns the 2018 Hyundai Kona into a better car
By John Brandon 2018-10-22T11:33:45Z
Hook up your phone to add an in-car computer with well designed, familiar controls
Photo credit: Josiah Bondy
If you buy a crossover at the low price of $19,500 (about £15,000, AU$27,000), you might not expect there to be too many high-tech features. Many crossover models from Lexus, Chevrolet, and Ford cost well north of $20,000 (about £15,300, AU$28,200). The newly introduced 2019 Ford Edge costs almost $30,000 (about £23,000, AU$42,200).
The 2018 Hyundai Kona is a different beast, though. For under $20,000, you won’t find high-tech features like pedestrian detection, braking mitigation, or even adaptive cruise control (at least in the model I tested). However, the Kona does support both Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, and that turns the center display into an all-purpose car computer.
Familiar and easy
I tested CarPlay with a brand new iPhone XS Max on loan from Apple. The connection worked perfectly after selecting an option to allow CarPlay to work and accepting the connection on my phone. Immediately, the display changed from only a few basic options for radio and navigation into a familiar interface designed by Apple for ease-of-use.
I tested making phones calls to myself on another phone, started a new GPS nav route, played music from the Google Play Music app, and talked to Siri. On the Kona, you can configure a button on the steering column to activate Siri after a short press or a long press. Using the voice assistant while I was driving, I asked about the weather, concerts in my area, the hours at the library, and left myself an entire grocery store list without ever taking my eyes off the road.
I’ve tested CarPlay many times before, but mostly on higher-end cars like an Audi A6 and a Ford Expedition that already offered many tech features. What impressed me about CarPlay and the Kona is that, if I was the buyer for this entry-level crossover, I’d be happy to find out I can use a digital assistant, a familiar navigation system, and control all of my music easily.
Voice only
I’ve been testing cars for about seven years now (and working as a journalist for 17 years). This trend of using the user interface from Apple or Google (with the Android Auto operating system) is one that has lasted for a few years, and the car companies must be happy with the arrangement.
The car features on a lower-end vehicle priced for everyday drivers and not the luxury market are a good match for Apple and Google, which could take advantage of this market condition by enhancing their offerings even more, and eventually by partnering with companies like Hyundai to tap into the car systems. I could see CarPlay working with the climate settings soon, allow you to set the temperature by voice. With Google, drivers could set up a payment system as well to pay for your McDonald’s order in the drive-thru lane.
It’s certainly coming. Maybe someday the Apple interface will be the only thing you see, including the speedometer, some of the safety systems, the radio, the voice control, and all of the climate control settings. This would free the car companies up to worry less about the car interface and more about actually making sure the safety features work.
For now, the Kona is a basic crossover that I liked mostly because of the price and the fact that it has a no-frills design. It’s enhanced greatly by the genius of Apple.
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Do you want to "save" Windows XP?
by Andy Moon in IT News Digest , in Microsoft on January 15, 2008, 11:48 PM PST
InfoWorld has started an online petition and campaign to "save" Windows XP from Microsoft's planned obsolescence at the end of the year. In the first 36 hours of the campaign, over 12,500 people had signed the petition and added comments to the Save XP Blog.
From Infoworld:
The vast majority of comments supported the petition drive, providing a variety of reasons that both individuals and companies do not want to lose the option to keep new XP licenses available after June 30. Lack of compelling benefits in Vista, coupled with the training, support, and other costs of upgrading was the most cited reason. Some cited compatibility concerns.
An IT strategist with the Burton Group, Ken Anderson, came up with an apt analogy of XP's impending demise.
Anderson likened the reaction to XP's impending demise to what happened in the 1980s when Coca-Cola replaced its classic Coke soda formula with New Coke, causing massive protests and forcing the company to bring back the now-rechristened Coke Classic. "XP has come to the point of being Coke Classic," he said.
Save Windows XP (InfoWorld)
12,500 sign 'Save XP' petition (InfoWorld)
This campaign comes on the heels of reports that Vista shipped on only 39% of all PCs shipped in 2007, with small businesses choosing XP by a 2 to 1 margin. Many businesses don't want to go through an expensive upgrade cycle, which would be required for many older PCs, as the hardware requirements for Vista are far higher than those for XP. Another big issue for businesses is training, as retooling users on a new operating system can be an expensive proposition. At least one writer has called for Microsoft to build a business model for XP that "delivers what users want, at a level of cost and disruption they are prepared to accept."
Vista Still Trails Windows XP In Shipments -- And Performance (bMighty)
Do we need a campaign to save XP? (ZDNet UK)
I have an XP desktop at work along with a tablet running Vista. Personally, I am perfectly happy with XP, but I am not turned off by my Vista machine, because it has the hardware to run the new OS pretty well. However, we have nearly 300 computers deployed that will not meet the hardware requirements for Vista. In my opinion, upgrading the RAM for all of those machines is a project that we will not engage in. Do you think XP needs to be "saved"?
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Stock spammers switch to MP3 files
by Paul Mah in IT News Digest , in After Hours on October 19, 2007, 1:48 AM PST
Stock spammers are probably running out of luck with image and PDF spam. In the latest twist, they are now trying out spamming by means of sending out MP3 files.
Posing as music from famous stars, they in fact contain a monotone voice asking the listener to invest in an obscure Canadian company.
According to The Register:
The MP3 files are being widely spammed in e-mails that often contain no subject line or message body, net security firm Sophos reports. Some of the filenames used include hurricanechris.mp3, allforone.mp3, carrieunderwood.mp3, elvis.mp3, baby.mp3, fergie.mp3, and bbrown.mp3.
The female (apparently British) voice on the MP3 file, recorded at low bit-rate and randomly altered to avoid detection by anti-spam filters, seeks to attract interest in Exit Only, a Canadian firm that runs a Web site marketplace for new and used motors.
If you are curious, or are a closet spam-lover, you can have a listen at a 30-second snipper from Sophos here.
Do you reckon that blocking MP3 and other audio files at the gateway would be viable here?
Comment and share: Stock spammers switch to MP3 files
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Setting the Record Straight About Catholic History
January 18, 2017 | Edwin Benson
A Review of the Book Bearing False Witness: Debunking Centuries of Anti-Catholic History by Rodney Stark (West Conshohocken, PA: Templeton Press, 2016).
If you are known to be an observant Catholic, then you have had this conversation. Some question of doctrine comes up—abortion, same-sex “marriage,” divorce and remarriage, or what have you. We explain the Church’s position. A discussion ensues. We begin to make some headway. Our “enlightened” friend, colleague, or acquaintance cuts us off saying, “Of course, the Vatican has its own sins to repent.” Then he/she alludes to some error from the past. We feel ill-equipped. We start looking for a way to escape without looking stupid or being forced to apologize for some long-ago pope. Making it even more uncomfortable, our own educations have led us to believe that our inquisitor may be right.
That situation changes if you have read Bearing False Witness: Debunking Centuries of Anti-Catholic History by Rodney Stark. In this 268-page volume, Professor Rodney Stark takes aim at what many of us “know” or think we know about the history of Catholicism.
Most of us have been exposed to at least some of the “black legends” that Stark discusses. Everyone is familiar with the tales of cruelty associated with the Crusades and Spanish Inquisition. We have all heard about complicity in the slave trade, the persecution of Galileo, and sins against the victims of the Holocaust. This book deftly explains how the “facts” that everybody knows about such matters are grossly inaccurate.
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Not a Catholic himself, Stark currently teaches at Baylor University, the largest Baptist university in the world. Notwithstanding, he is clearly sympathetic with the importance of Catholicism in the development of Western civilization and culture.
Perhaps the most useful part of this book is its organization. Each chapter covers a different error. Stark consistently presents the prevailing opinion before refuting it, as seen in this example, referring to Saint Thomas Aquinas and the Scholastic School of philosophy:
Sir William Dampier (1867-1952) spoke for most conventional academics when he complained that scientific thought was “quite foreign to the prevailing mental outlook” of the Scholastics, who were enmeshed in a “tangle of astrology, alchemy, magic and theosophy” and were absolutely hostile to experimentalism. Not so! The Scholastics were fine scholars who founded Europe’s great universities, and who were the first to formulate and teach the experimental method; it was they who launched the rise of Western science (page 136).
Stark also employs his own sense of humor to connect the material to current events. “No doubt it was very ‘unenlightened’ of the Crusaders to be typical feudal warriors, but it strikes me as even more unenlightened to anachronistically impose the Geneva convention of the Crusaders while pretending that their Islamic opponents were either UN peacekeepers or hapless victims” (page 112).
One great feature of the book is that Stark includes information about the scholars who most influenced his thinking on the subjects of each chapter. This is useful for anyone who wants to delve more deeply into that topic.
Occasionally, Stark says things that may make traditional Catholics uneasy. This can be seen, for example, in a chapter titled “Church and non-Church magic.” “Non-Church magic” is superstition and witchcraft. “Church magic” refers to pilgrimage sites “where supplicants could seek all sorts of miracles and blessings” and the “extensive array of incantations, prayers, and rites” performed by priests (page 124).
That being said, the book’s virtues far outweigh its shortcomings. This is a great book to have in your library, not just for your own information—but also to lend to that anti-Catholic friend that you were talking to at the beginning of this review. There is much in it that all-knowing friends should know.
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Movie Review: Wedding Crashers (2005)
A raucous comedy, Wedding Crashers thrives within a clever premise that feeds themes of friendship, growing up, and meeting your match.
In Washington DC, John and Jeremy (Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn) are best friends and colleagues at work, where they mediate between married couples going through nasty divorces. Well into adulthood but still acting like college fratboys, they get their kicks by crashing weddings, enjoying unlimited food and drink, dancing the night away and picking up women revved-up by the idea of idyllic romance for hot one-night stands.
After a hectic season of wedding crashing, John begins to question the juvenile lifestyle. But Jeremy insists on one last wedding: the daughter of William Cleary (Christopher Walken), the very wealthy Secretary of the Treasury, is getting married. Despite John's protestations they crash the wedding and a subsequent Cleary family weekend, and unexpectedly get entangled in complex relationships with two of Cleary's daughters. John falls in love with the free spirited Claire (Rachel McAdams), who is already in a relationship with the insufferable Sack Lodge (Bradley Cooper). Jeremy seduces the wild youngest daughter Gloria (Isla Fisher), not knowing exactly how much trouble he is getting into: she is more lustful than he is, and plays him like a cheap fiddle. Meanwhile, Cleary's wife Kathleen "Kitty Kat" (Jane Seymour) is prowling all available men to get her cougarish kicks.
Wedding Crashers is often hilarious. Director David Dobkin quickly establishes the unique yet rational premise, and allows his two lead actors to let loose. John and Jeremy behave like teenagers who have found the magical key to a life of unlimited partying and casual sex with beautiful women. But the film succeeds well beyond its title. After the initial montage of wild crashing, the story settles down to what's next for the two men, and the challenge of finding their way out of unevolved and circular habits to launch into something resembling adulthood.
Vaughn and Wilson make for a terrific pair of underdeveloped men, John and Jeremy unwilling to let go of their youth despite John's growing doubt that they should really be beyond immature antics. Wilson gets the more thoughtful role, and imparts sensitivity to go along with fading boyishness. Vaughn is more driven to hang on to the past, Jeremy living his life according to an arcane code of caveman behaviour developed by the legendary Chazz (Will Ferrell, who makes a late, uncredited appearance).
John is therefore more open to fundamental change and once he sets eyes on Claire he can start to see his way to a different and better future. Jeremy is generally blind to any life that compromises his instinctive need to have uncontrolled fun, and it takes a large wallop to the side of the head in the form of Gloria to knock him off his default path. The shifting dynamics between the two men is at the heart of the movie, as their deep friendship is tested by diverging expectations.
Rachel McAdams is her usual appealing girl next door, although in this case a very rich girl next door, and McAdams tends to smile too much throughout the film. More fiery is Isla Fisher who creates in Gloria a borderline nymphomaniac, an impulsive, uninhibited, and fun-loving woman, the kind who can singe Jeremy with her own afterburners.
The script by Steve Faber and Bob Fisher populates the Cleary family with weird and wonderful members, including an uncensored grandmother (Ellen Albertini Dow), a creepy artist son (Keir O'Donnell), the lustful Kitty Kat and, most troublesome for John's pursuit of Claire, her intended beau Sack Lodge. In a pre-stardom role, Bradley Cooper goes all out to make Sack a loathsome rich jock full of self-entitlement and just enough social talent to fool many people most of the time. They combine to create a madcap family with enough pitfalls to trip up the best that John and Jeremy can offer in terms of infiltrative deceit and subterfuge.
The Wedding Crashers are definitely uninvited, but prove to be spectacularly funny and successful guests.
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Outrage over Brighton bondage bridal fair
By Bill Gardner
A bondage bridal fair featuring rubber wedding dresses risks “damaging” the sanctity of marriage, a priest has claimed.
Hundreds of blushing brides-to-be are set to descend on Brighton for the fetish-themed Quaint, Queer or Weird Wedding Spectacular on Sunday.
According to organisers, the show’s must-sees will include a fetish trio parading in wedding dresses and a Pirates of the Caribbean-inspired bridal corset designed by a firm called Angels Carrying Savage Weapons.
But Father Ray Blake, a Catholic priest at St Mary Magdalen Church in Upper North Street, Brighton, labelled the 18 plus event as “bizarre”.
He said: “Sexual fantasies belong in the bedroom, not at the wedding altar.
“Marriage is ultimately about building a stable environment for the procreation of children.
“It’s supposed to be about partnership, but this event seems to be designed for the fulfilment of individuals.
“From a Catholic point of view, marriage is sacred and I think dressing up in fantasy outfits risks damaging that.”
The show, themed Bygone to Bondage, will be hosted by Dawn Gracie, the self-styled Ring Mistress of Ceremonies.
Guests will be transported to the event through a “Narnia- inspired entrance”, with free alcoholic shots handed out on |the door.
But the fair’s organiser, Lesley Taylor, claimed she herself was a regular churchgoer and said many of Father Blake’s views were “spot on”.
She said: “I’m married, I’ve taken those vows and they are very important to me.
“I’m not encouraging people to turn up at the altar in bondage gear, but I am saying there are options out there.
“I agree with a lot of what he says but I feel there is a growing desire for weddings where people want to be individual. I think Brighton can handle it.”
Doors open on Sunday at 10.30am until 4.30pm at Proud Cabaret, St George’s Street, Brighton. Tickets are £5 on the door.
For more information visit www.quaintqueerweird.com.
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Electoral Commission urged to rethink lobbying act guidance
18 August 2014 by Sam Burne James
The law firm Bates Wells Braithwaite has sent an eight-page document to the commission criticising a lack of consultation and the way the guidance is organised
Pressure is building on the Electoral Commission to rethink its guidance on the lobbying act after the law firm Bates Wells Braithwaite criticised the document as confusing and suggested significant amendments.
An eight-page document from BWB, sent to the Electoral Commission on Friday, criticises the commission’s failure to consult on the guidance before it was published, and the way in which the guidance is set out and organised.
The National Council for Voluntary Organisations will also write to the commission today to make various recommendations. "We think additional clarity in a number of areas of the guidance would be helpful," said a spokesman for the umbrella body.
The criticism comes after the charity leaders group Acevo, the online campaigning platform 38 Degrees and the international NGOs association Bond sent a joint letter to the commission calling for urgent changes to the guidance.
The Transparency of Lobbying, Non-party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014, which received royal assent in January, tightened the rules on what campaigners can spend on certain qualifying activities in the period ahead of national elections.
The Electoral Commission published 300 pages of guidance on the rules in July, before the start of the first regulated period, which will begin on 19 September.
BWB’s submission says there are fundamental problems with the way the purpose test – how a campaigner decides if their activities could be considered as procuring electoral success for a particular party or candidate – is described and the law interpreted. "We fear uncertainty alone will deter legitimate campaigning which ought not to be regulated in law," it says.
The explanation of the public test – the way an organisation decides if its activities are directed to the public rather than supporters or a private, closed group – is also unclear, it says. "It would be helpful to some organisations if there could be a more extensive definition of who is the public," the guidance says.
BWB says more information is needed on the relevance of previous legislation and on the sanctioning regime for those breaking the rules, among other areas.
Rosamund McCarthy, a partner at BWB, said the document was based on its conversations with charities and campaigners, and had been made available to all 120 people who attended a meeting organised by Acevo, Bond and others earlier this month.
She said the document had also been sent to the UK’s three charity regulators. "We are very concerned that the resources of the Electoral Commission and the charity regulators could be taken up with unnecessary complaints based on a misunderstanding of the legal test, so we do hope they are sympathetic to the points that we raise," she said.
A spokesman for the Electoral Commission said: "Feedback on the commission’s guidance from non-party campaigners, which range from charities and faith groups to trade unions and business groups, has largely been positive.
"One of the things people have told us is that they would like more fact sheets to help them better understand the rules, and we are currently working on these."
Asheem Singh, director of public policy at Acevo, said that the Electoral Commission had responded to its letter, but he was dissatisfied with the response. "They undertook to make some changes in response to that, but my instinct is that the changes are little more than superficial, which isn’t good enough," he said.
"It is increasingly appearing as if we might have to take stronger action. We are taking legal advice on that right now, we are looking at all of our options."
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‘Mumbai’s Shaheen Bagh’: Gateway of India Midnight Protest Goes On
Meghnad Bose
Updated: 06.01.20
“This is unprecedented!”
That’s a phrase we kept hearing again and again outside the iconic Gateway of India late on the night of Sunday, 5 January, as hundreds of Mumbaikars gathered for a massive midnight vigil in solidarity with Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), hours after masked goons assaulted students and professors on campus.
If Mumbai residents coming out of their homes at midnight for a protest seems unlikely to you, wait till you hear this. The impromptu protest is still on, after more than twelve hours since it began.
The call for the continuous sit-in was unplanned as well. A while after 2 am on Sunday night, one of the protesters from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences made a remark, which immediately resonated with many of those gathered. She said, “Why should we leave this place? Why should this protest end tonight? We should stay here. Let us make the Gateway of India Mumbai’s Shaheen Bagh!”
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The anger against what happened in Delhi was palpable, but the protest was entirely peaceful. From chants of “Azadi” to slogans saying “We Are JNU”, from poetry recitals to passionate speeches by students and activists, the condemnation of the attack on JNU rang loud and clear.
The Delhi Police, which comes under the purview of the central government, was slammed for its role in allowing the violence.
Mohammad Ikram, a 46-year-old fashion designer, was one of the protesters on Sunday night. “I am here to protest against the violence in JNU. If you beat and assault anyone who disagrees with you, it is called a dictatorship,” he said.
How did Ikram find out about the protest, we asked him. “I got a message on WhatsApp from a friend at 1:30 am, saying that a protest was on, and I came here immediately.”
Mohammad Ikram, a 46-year-old fashion designer, at the Gateway of India protest.
(Photo: Meghnad Bose/The Quint)
There was also a candlelight vigil to show solidarity with the JNU students, as the protesters assembled on the pavement across the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel near the Gateway of India.
A candle in solidarity.
And as the night passed, and the sun dawned, the candles may have burned out but Mumbai’s spirit did not.
Can Gateway of India then truly become Mumbai’s Shaheen Bagh? Given how the city has chosen to surprise us, who knows?
Assault on a University: JNU Edition
Violence broke out in JNU on Sunday night as masked men armed with sticks and rods attacked students and teachers and damaged property on the campus.
At least 28 people, including JNU Students’ Union (JNUSU) President Aishe Ghosh, were injured as chaos reigned on the campus for nearly two hours.
Eyewitnesses alleged that the attackers entered the premises when a meeting was being held by JNU Teachers' Association over the issue of violence on the campus, and assaulted students and professors. They also barged into three hostels.
Video footage shows a group of men, who were brandishing hockey sticks and rods, moving around a building.
The Left-controlled JNUSU and the RSS-backed Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) blamed each other for the incident.
(With inputs from PTI)
Also Read : Hours After JNU Attack, Student Protests Spread Across Country
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Tengami: A Fold Between Worlds.
by David Klemke on January 30, 2015
Games aspire to be many things but rarely do they aspire to emulate another medium, especially a physical one. The burgeoning genre of cinematic style games and walking simulators have their visions set towards emulating the medium of film but past that the examples are few and far between. You can then imagine my intrigue when I first saw Tengami, a game that seeks to emulate a pop-up book, lavishly styled to look like it was set within feudal Japan. It’s an ambitious idea, one that could easily go south if implemented incorrectly, but I’m happy to report that the whole experience is quite exceptional especially when it comes to the sound design and music.
Tengami is probably the first game in a long time where I can’t sum up the opening plot in a single paragraph as whilst there’s some skerricks of story hidden within the short poems between scenes there’s really not a lot in them. As far as I can tell you’re searching for the blossoms to restore your cherry tree back to life although what your motivation for doing so isn’t exactly clear. Still the environments provide enough atmosphere and presence to give you a kind of motivation to move forward, if only to see more of the paper-laden world you’ve found yourself in.
The art style of Tengami really is its standout feature, done in pop-up book style using real paper textures that the devs scanned in. Initially it had a bit of a LittleBigPlanet feel to it, with the real world textures and 2D movement in a 3D world thing going, however it quickly moves away from that and firmly establishes its unique feel. All of the environments look and feel like they’re straight out of a pop up book, complete with the stretching and crumpling noises when you move various elements around. Tengami is simply a joy to look at and fiddle with, evoking that same sort of feeling you got when playing around with one as a kid.
Coming in at a very close second is the original soundtrack done for Tengami by David Wise. The music seems to swell and abate at just the right times and the score is just incredible. I’m more than willing to admit that my love of the soundtrack might stem from my interest in all things Japanese but looking around at other reviews shows that I’m not the only one who thoroughly enjoyed it. I’m not sure if he was in charge of the foley as well since the soothing sounds of waterfalls, the ocean or just the breeze on quieter sections was just beautiful. If you’re playing Tengami on a mobile device I would wholeheartedly recommend you do so with a pair of headphones as otherwise you’d really be missing out.
With all that focus on the art and sound it would be somewhat forgivable if Tengami was a little light on in the mechanics department but thanks to its unique pop-up book style it’s actually quite an innovative little title. As you make your way through the world you’ll encounter parts which can be folded in and out of existence, between two planes or between different states. It’s like a pop-up book that’s able to exist in a higher dimension, able to shift elements in and out as it pleases. It’s quite intuitive and for the most part you’ll be able to quickly figure out what you need to do or, at least, stumble your way through by trying every option.
The puzzles are pretty straightforward, often only a couple slides or folds away from being completed. The challenge ramps up gradually as you progress through every scene and towards the end they actually start to become quite challenging. However the one fault here is that new mechanics aren’t introduced in a logical fashion and, if you’re like me and know a little Japanese, you can find yourself trying to solve a puzzle in completely the wrong way. The hint system (and the full official walkthrough) are enough to make sure that you won’t be stuck at these for too long but it’s still a mistake that a lot of these minimalist type games make.
The only drawback to Tengami’s incredible design and polish seems to be its length as the game is incredibly short, clocking in at just over an hour and a half for my playthrough. This is not to say that I would’ve preferred for them to cut corners on other things in order to extend the play time, far from it, more that the focus is on quality rather than quantity. For some this can be a turn off, especially when you consider the current asking price, but for me the price admission was well worth the short time I got to spend with it.
Tengami is a beautifully crafted experience, recreating that tactile feel of a pop-up book in a new medium and elevating it with impressive visuals and an incredible soundscape. It’s a short and succinct experience, choosing to not overstay its welcome in favour of providing a far more highly polished experience. As a game it’s quite simple, and suffers a little due to its minimalist practices, but overall it’s a great experience one I’m sure multitudes of players will enjoy.
Rating: 8.75/10
Tengami is available on PC, iOS and WiiU right now for $9.99, $6.49 and $9.99 respectively. Game was played on the PC with 1.5 hours of total playtime and 100% of the achievements unlocked.
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Geek girls lauded on Ada Lovelace Day
Tweets, sites big-up world's boffins of the female persuasion
By Brid-Aine Parnell 7 Oct 2011 at 15:32
Today was Ada Lovelace Day, a day for commemorating women's contribution to science and technology, named after the woman who is widely credited as being the world's first computer programmer.
Augusta Ada King, the Countess of Lovelace and daughter of Lord Byron, was an English writer who collaborated with British mathematician Charles Babbage on notes about his Analytical Engine – a steam-powered mechanical computer.
The engine was never built in Babbage's or Lovelace's lifetimes, but a project is now underway in the UK, headed by British programmer and blogger John Graham-Cumming, to build a working model.
Lovelace translated an article by Italian mathematician Luigi Menabrea on the engine for Babbage, and added extensive notes on it, including an algorithm for the steampunk machine that many consider to be the first computer program – a method for calculating a sequence of Bernoulli numbers with the contraption.
There is some debate about how much of her notes were her own work and how much was at Babbage's direction, but she has nevertheless had a computer language named after her and had a medal from the British Computer society awarded in her name in 1998. She was also played by Tilda Swinton in the 1997 film Conceiving Ada.
The idea of having a day named after Lovelace is more about recognising women in maths, science and technology than the lady herself, though.
The Twitterati has marked the day with shout-outs to women, such as this list of female tweeters involved in the tech, science, environment or health world, and the website findingada.com has been urging readers to tell their stories about women in the sciences who have inspired them. ®
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Order fulfillment tipping point reached for mobile robots, says Interact Analysis
By The Robot Report Staff | September 3, 2019
Autonomous mobile robot adoption will grow strongly in order fulfillment, predicts Interact Analysis.
LONDON — A new research report from market intelligence firm Interact Analysis states that the growth potential is huge for autonomous mobile robots, specifically in order fulfillment applications.
The report noted that Amazon.com Inc.’s acquisition of Kiva Systems in 2012, and its subsequent dominance of online retailing through heavy adoption of robotics and automation, has triggered two significant trends in the industry. First, it led to the emergence of dozens of robotics start-ups to fill the vacuum that Kiva left behind. Second, it has forced retailers and logistics companies to adopt automation to keep pace with the e-commerce giant.
Interact Analysis said it believes a “tipping point” is approaching for autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) used to support order fulfillment. Excluding Amazon, more than 100,000 AMRs will have been deployed for order fulfillment by the end of 2020, and more than 580,000 will be installed over the next five years, said the report.
A ‘perfect storm’ for order fulfillment
Although fewer than 300 sites had deployed order fulfillment AMRs by the end of last year, Interact Analysis predicts explosive growth due to a “perfect storm” of a number of key drivers. The report also discusses the “Amazon Effect,” whereby e-commerce companies are being forced to increase speed and flexibility of their operations to keep up.
Record low unemployment rates, coupled with the ongoing shift of younger generations away from manual labor, have also created a major shortage of warehouse workers, increasing demand for automated systems. The speed with which the technology has matured and moved beyond the early adopter stage has made deployment an increasingly attractive option.
“With Amazon deploying Kiva’s goods-to-person approach for order fulfillment, it’s easy to see why others like GreyOrange, Geek+, and Quicktron have followed in its footsteps, and [they] arguably have seen greatest success so far,” said Ash Sharma, research director at Interact Analysis.
“Despite this, AMR vendors have emerged with a variety of different approaches and sub-approaches,” he added. “The question over which technology or approach will ‘win’ is not an easy one to answer. All approaches are forecast for strong growth — albeit at different paces and timeframes — and the approach preferred will depend on a number of variables.”
“While in every industry, there are always winners and losers, right now, it appears that the size of the untapped opportunity and the underlying drivers of demand are more than strong enough to support all the vendor types we see today,” Sharma said. “As a result, we expect very promising growth for the majority.”
About the mobile robots report
The mobile robot market is set for a major transformation over the next decade as AMRs get widely adopted in warehouses and logistics centers following years of pilots, said Interact Analysis. The industry is now growing rapidly as the technology hits the mainstream, driven by an acute labor shortage and e-commerce boom, coupled with increasing customer demands for faster and cheaper delivery and high return rates.
At the same time, automation and robotics continue to proliferate in manufacturing environments, amidst a backdrop of Industry 4.0 and shifts in consumer demand, leading to faster and shorter design cycles and a strong need for manufacturing flexibility.
Interact Analysis also made the following points about the methodology of its report:
The 2018 edition of the report was the first bottom-up analysis of the mobile robot market. In this 2019 edition, two experienced research directors spent four to five months researching and analyzing the industry, using primary research to build an updated assessment of the industry.
The report uses well-modeled forecasts to 2023 with clear and transparent assumptions for all market segments.
It includes detailed discussions of the key issues/trends impacting the mobile robot market, based on 40+ hours of primary interviews with key industry stakeholders.
An in-depth analysis of the supplier landscape is included to help you understand your competitors, suppliers and potential partners more accurately.
For the full report and more information, visit Interact Analysis’ site.
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2017 Webby Awards Nominations: Beyonce, ‘Pokemon Go’ and Teen Vogue Among Top Contenders
Celebrities, TV shows and news outlets are among the groups nominated for the 21st annual internet awards ceremony
Jeremy Fuster | April 4, 2017 @ 5:00 AM Last Updated: April 4, 2017 @ 5:03 AM
The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences (IADAS) unveiled their nominee list for the 21st Annual Webby Awards on Tuesday, and as always, the list was filled with celebrities, TV shows, movies and news organizations that made waves on the internet this past year.
Among this year’s nominees are the music video for Beyonce’s hit single, “Formation,” the viral hit smartphone game Pokemon Go, and Teen Vogue’s in-depth political reporting tailored to younger audiences.
IADAS members including Jimmy Kimmel, “Making a Murderer’s” Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos, Questlove, Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian, and Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Opal Tometi will select the Webby Winners, which will be announced on Tuesday April 25, 2017. The public can also vote for the Webby People’s Voice Award, which all nominees are eligible for.
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Winners will be celebrated at a ceremony held at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City on Monday, May 15, 2017. This year’s show will be available on demand at webbyawards.com the morning of Tuesday, May 16. The Webby Awards video channel will feature all the show highlights, including special performances and all the hallmark 5-Word Speeches from the night’s big Winners.
The organizations earning the highest number of nominations this year include: Google (16), Vice Media (15), Conde Nast (14), BBC (12), National Geographic (12), HBO (10), Washington Post (9), ESPN (9), and The New York Times (9).
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Some of the categories include:
Best Overall Social Presence (Social)
- National Geographic’s Social Presence
- NASA’s Cassini Mission Social Media
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon / Social Experience
- Game of Thrones
- Old Spice Social
Best Web Personality/Host (Film & Video)
- Joe Hanson – It’s Okay to be Smart
- Good Mythical Morning
- Kid President
- Not Too Deep with Grace Helbig
- Teaching Shane Dawson How to Make a Musical.ly
Games (Mobile Sites & Apps)
- Pokémon GO
- Dots & Co
- NBA LIVE Mobile
- The Walking Dead No Man’s Land Mobile Game
- Star Wars Arcade
Humor (Websites)
- The Onion
- Cracked
- CollegeHumor
- The Daily Show: Black Trump – “They Love Me”
- Funny Or Die
Interview/Talk Show (Podcasts & Digital Audio)
- Another Round
- The Gist with Mike Pesca: “Jesse Eisenberg, Part 2” (starts at 6:13, ends at 21:02)
- The Axe Files
- In The Thick
- FiveThirtyEight Politics Podcast
News (Websites)
- BuzzFeed News
- Quartz
- The Washington Post
- BBC Newstream
Weird (Websites)
- OMGYES *Note for Judges: May Contain Explicit Content*
- Museum of Hotel Keys
- Emoji Book
- The Big Draw: Selling the Soviet Past
- Napflix I Siesta Video Platform
For a full list of nominees and to cast your vote, click here.
11 Coolest Products at CES 2017 (Photos)
CES, the international tech extravaganza in Las Vegas, is when many of the world's leading manufacturers debut some of their most futuristic products. This year was no different.
Check out some of the coolest products from this year's show:
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Hisense 4K Laser Cast TV
This smart TV from an fast-growing Chinese manufacturer (which now owns the Sharp brand) features laser projector technology with a robust 2,700 lumens that make it viewable in bright daytime light. The 75 inch model costs $13,000.
Bosch Mykie
Mykie, a voice-operated personal assistant for the kitchen, can inform home cooks just how much longer the roast needs in the oven and if they have all the right ingredients in their (connected) fridge.
This augmented reality smartphone, powered by Google's Tango technology, can overlay information and objects when looking through the camera. No need to use your imagination to see if a piece of furniture is a good fit in the living room.
Samsung FlexWash and FlexDry
The South Korean conglomerate's new home laundry system combines two washers or dryers in one appliance, allowing people to wash a pair of jeans in cold water and sheets in hot water at the same time.
NVIDIA's newest set-top box combines pay-TV, over-the-top streaming services and a 4K video game experience in one device. Users can watch Netflix, play pre-loaded games on the cloud, and even cast PC games to the TV for a much better picture. Oh yeah, the Shield has a built-in Google Assistant that can easily search through content and control a smart home. It is available now for $199.
Evapolar
This portable water-evaporation air conditioner, about the size of a small subwoofer, packs a serious punch that blows away what an electric fan can do. It was backed on crowdfunding platform Indiegogo.
Moen U shower system
This smart shower connects to an app via wi-fi and allows home bathing enthusiasts to program up to 12 different settings. It also lets you know when the water's hot enough through the app. But its best feature may be the ability to pause the hot water to step out and take a phone call -- and stay that temperature when it's started up again.
Foldimate
The Israeli-made device (which isn't for sale yet) automatically folds laundry into perfect rectangles. Enough said.
This smart pet toy is a ball with a two-way video and audio interaction, which allows dog and cat owners to see and talk to their furry friends through an app. It also allows users to move the ball around the room through directional controls in the app, giving the family's most loved member active playtime when his best friend is half a world away. PlayDate was also funded on Indiegogo.
Sony UBP-X800
The Japanese conglomerate always makes a splash at CES, and Sony rolled out a suite of shiny new products this year. The most interesting might be its mass-market Ultra HD Blu-ray player with 4K support, which brings a ridiculously sharp picture to home consumers. Pricing hasn't been announced yet.
LG Gram 14
LG continues to develop its line of smart appliances, unveiling new models with a door that becomes transparent with a tap, to avoid the energy-wasting fridge inventory checks. But its new laptop -- which weighs a little more than 2 pounds and has a 21-hour battery life -- might be its most exciting product this year.
From laser 4K TVs to an internet-connected shower, the Consumer Electronics Show remains the premier showcase for tech innovation
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The Murderbot Diaries
Exploring the Perils and Triumphs of Queer Friendship When You’re a Murderbot
Anya Johanna DeNiro
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Artificial Condition cover art by Jaime Jones
When we had last left our favorite Murderbot, it was fleeing, leaving the beginnings of a comfortable life behind, before that life had even started—departing PresevationAux and Mensah, who had given Murderbot a path out of being a SecUnit. But what is a Murderbot, whether sentient or not, who doesn’t do murderbotting? Is this the Artificial Condition indicated in the title?
No—Murderbot is on a mission to discover what happened in the “incident” in which, not yet sentient, it killed lots and lots of clients in a mining facility and had its memory partially wiped. There is a trauma that haunts Murderbot now that it’s alive, awake, and in possession of a conscience, however snarky it is. In the previous installment of the Murderbot Diaries, All Systems Red (which I wrote about here), Murderbot was just beginning to find its footing, with a newfound sense of emotional agency, and a sense of belonging to something that’s more than a purely contractual connection. In the midst of forging this new identity, however, the very conditions that allowed it to form new bonds also opened up these old wounds, and so it had to leave the comfort of what it was just beginning to know.
So after you’ve ever given up everyone you’ve ever cared about and you set out on your own—what about the other people who come into your life? Even if you don’t want them to?
Enter ART.
I know this might be hard to believe, but trans women aren’t a monolith.
Little did I know this when I first came out! I had been, like so many other people, inundated with a flattened (and whitened) depiction of trans women in just a few narrow stereotypes. The best I thought I could hope for was to aim for a kind of earnest stereotype that was just entering into broad public consciousness—one who ascribed pretty closely to a sincere trans woman hoping to “pass” and not rock the boat.
Of course, this got gloriously shot to hell once I started meeting other trans women. Yes, we often joke about all knowing each other—about all liking roller derby and tube socks and working in IT. But I can assure you, this is not the case.
What’s more, some trans women are irascible. Some are “difficult.” (Often for really excellent reasons, including targeted street violence, harassment, and lack of access to health care, for example.) Some trans women are difficult, but you still want to be really good friends with them, even if you don’t know it yet. And of course, you’re not going to click with everyone, or even with a lot of people. There’s a difference between being “difficult” and worth someone’s time and being toxic.
Friendship is tricky when you are first fully becoming yourself.
When Murderbot gets transport to the mining facility on an empty research vessel—using its vast media library from Space Netflix as a form of currency—it thinks little of it. Murderbot doesn’t remotely consider that the transport ship it’s smuggled itself on-board could possibly have its own wants and needs.
However, it soon realizes that it’s made a huge mistake: ““How the hell was I supposed to know there were transports sentient enough to be mean?”
How indeed, Murderbot? How indeed.
ART—a Murderbot-derived acronym for “Asshole Research Transport”—is sarcastic; or at least Murderbot reads every attempt at communication as sarcastic. With the amount of processing power ART has, and with the fact that Murderbot is hanging out in its belly for the duration of a long journey, Murderbot is forced to engage with it. In a cascade of “oh shit” moments, Murderbot slowly realizes that ART wanted company on the long voyage…which is the last thing Murderbot wants.
As in All Systems Red, creating relationships in the midst of boredom, usually through the copious use of Space Netflix, plays a huge part in the narrative. It’s their shared enjoyment of Murderbot’s favorite serials that draws ART out of its shell (Murderbot notes that some metaphorical hand-holding is required when ART became “emotionally compromised by a fictional media serial.”). And it’s the way an unlikely friendship develops.
ART has no qualms about asking Murderbot tough questions. It’s difficult when you’ve worked hard to establish an identity, however fragile it may be, and other queer people start poking holes in it. Even out of concern.
“You will be identified as a SecUnit.”
That stung a little. “I can pass as an augmented human.” Augmented humans are still considered humans. I don’t know if there are any augmented humans with enough implants to resemble a SecUnit. It seems unlikely a human would want that many implants, or would survive whatever catastrophic injury might make them necessary. But humans are weird. Whatever, I didn’t intend to let anyone see more than I absolutely had to.
“You look like a SecUnit. You move like a SecUnit.”
To me this stung as much as anything I’ve read in awhile, because this is a conversation about passing. And you don’t really want to hear about passing from someone else who is in a not-quite-similar situation as yourself.
What makes this so difficult is—let’s say you do want to pass, as fraught with peril as that concept is. Maybe to blend in at a new job, or maybe it’s an issue of survival, of not wanting to be harassed on the street (or in the case of our Murderbot, being captured for being seen as a rogue SecUnit). Such advice about eyeliner or posture or voice pitch or whatever, when unsolicited from a cis person, is nigh well unbearable. But when it comes from someone who’s been more or less in the same boat as you, it can be frustrating because it can be right. Or at least right-ish.
And maybe it’s not only your new friends that are stubborn.
So ART literally helps Murderbot to pass: in its medical suite, it shortens Murderbot’s arms and legs (all SecUnits have a uniform height), and to essentially create “a list of biological features that humans might notice subliminally.” (Such as hair; this was especially poignant, as getting rid of the hair you don’t want and growing the hair you do want can be a constant battle as a trans woman.)
Murderbot has to trust ART to implement these changes. It’s desperate enough to place part of its—how else do I put this—transition into ART’s metaphorical hands. The impetus behind the decision being that Murderbot has places to go, and places to be. Theory is wonderful, but actually putting one’s body on the line to try to meet important goals is another story altogether.
Murderbot’s goal, then, is to investigate the horrendous mining incident, which led to it hacking its Governor Module. And here is where ART really shines. Despite all the snarkiness and the borderline frenemy status between these two non-humans (ART seems to gain a great deal of satisfaction from telling Murderbot “I told you so”), ART puts its, er, money where its mouth is, and acts as Murderbot’s constant virtual companion while it orbits the mining colony, providing constant backup during the investigation, which of course becomes a lot more complicated than Murderbot had originally expected.
ART is a striking reminder that it’s not always the most outwardly “nice” peers who are the most reliable friends. Rather, it might be someone who’s irascible, pedantic, or “difficult” that will offer support and loyalty when it’s most needed. Those outward traits and apparent hostility don’t exist in a vacuum, however, and often mask a deep desire for connection—and ART just does stuff for Murderbot, like sterilizing surfaces and destroying evidence once things go south. And although those two go their separate ways, Murderbot is emotional at its departure. Murderbot itself is well aware of how it puts up its own masks and barriers to keep others from getting to know it better. Changing one’s entire life and mode of being takes time. But Murderbot discovers that it can still keep, and perhaps reconfigure, those barriers, while still being helpful and even grateful to others it comes across in its travels. That is perhaps the strongest lesson of Artificial Condition—that you don’t have to be perfect, or perfectly open, in order to care for others.
Anya Johanna DeNiro writes, among many other things, YA novels about the adventures of young trans women. She also recently released A Bathroom Myth, a pay what you want Twine game as a fundraiser for the Transgender Law Center. For the most part, she can be found online at Twitter @adeniro.
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The Free Library > Health > Psychology and mental health > The Psychological Record > March 22, 1999
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Mechanism of stimulus classes formation in concurrent discriminations in rats.
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There are many studies on a mechanism of stimulus classes formation in pigeons and rats. These studies make it clear that there are two main views on the mechanism of stimulus classes formation in pigeons and rats: One is a categorization process based on simple similarity between stimuli (Bhatt & Wasserman, 1989; Fersen & Lea, 1990; Vaughan & Herrnstein, 1987), the other is stimulus associations on the basis of reinforcement concordance (Delius, Ameling, Lea, & Staddon, 1995; Edwards, Jagielo, Zentall, & Hogan, 1982; Nakagawa, 1978, 1986, 1992, 1998; Urcuioli, Zentall, Jackson-Smith, & Steirn, 1989). Nakagawa (1978, 1986, 1992) has advocated a cue-associations theory on the mechanism of stimulus classes formation in concurrent discriminations in rats. According to Nakagawa (1978, 1986, 1992, 1998), during the original training, rats learn a connection between a positive stimulus and an approach response as well as a connection between a negative stimulus and an avoidance response for each discrimination task. They also form associations (i.e., cue associations) between the discriminative stimuli with the same response assignment during overtraining in concurrent discriminations. Nakagawa (1998) has made it clear that 120 trials of overtraining results in facilitating the formation of stimulus classes between the discriminative stimuli with the same response assignment, and that 240 trials of overtraining results in stimulus classes formation between the discriminative stimuli.
In spite of the reliability of stimulus classes formation between the discriminative stimuli in two concurrent discriminations in rats, a specific question remains. How do rats form cue associations or stimulus-stimulus associations (i.e., stimulus classes) between the discriminative stimuli with the same response assignment? That is, how do rats dissociate stimulus dimensions of two pairs of stimuli used in concurrent discriminations? This is a very important and ever fundamental issue in behavior analysis in studying the mechanism of stimulus classes formation in pigeons and rats. This problem has received far too little experimental attention in concurrent discrimination learning.
Zentall, Steirn, Sherburne, and Urcuioli (1991) have assumed a mechanism of the dissociation between stimulus dimensions of two pairs of stimuli as follows: Stimuli can have both unlearned and learned representations. An unlearned representation is one that is elicited by stimulus without learning and should be isomorphic with the stimulus [e.g., a red sample (R) could produce a "red" representation; a vertical sample (V), a "vertical" representation]. A learned representation is one that is established through experience. The learned representation might be arbitrary (e.g., R and V samples might both evoke an arbitrary representation "A"), or it could involve the unlearned representation of another stimulus. For example, in the many-to-one task, a V sample might produce a "red" representation, because both V and R samples were associated with the circle comparison (C) (p. 197). Although this assumption is speculative; it does, however, provide a possible explanation for stimulus classes formation.
One way to demonstrate that stimuli can have both unlearned and learned representations is to examine the effect of compounding discriminative stimuli after training on two concurrent discrimination tasks. According to this assumption advocated by Zentall et al. (1991), if the animals could form stimulus classes between the discriminative stimuli with the same response assignment in two concurrent discriminations (A+C-, B+D- for example), when they experienced a positive stimulus (A+) [or a negative stimulus (C-)] of the one discrimination task on a trial, they should then have not only the unlearned representation of the positive stimulus (A+) [(or the negative stimulus (C-)] but also the learned representation of another positive stimulus (B+) [or another negative stimulus (D-)] of the other discrimination task at the same time. Thus, when the animals were given both a new positive stimulus which had been comprised of two positive stimuli between the two discrimination tasks used in the original training (a positive compound stimulus) (A+B+) and a new negative stimulus comprised of two negative stimuli between the two discriminations used in the original training (a negative compound stimulus) (C-D-) after receiving enough overtraining, introduction of these new stimuli should then have little disruptive influence on the animals' subsequent discrimination performance. Because one stimulus has both the unlearned representation of it and the learned representation of another stimulus categorized in the stimulus class, the animals should be familiar with these two stimuli.
The present experiments were conducted to investigate directly whether or not each member of a stimulus class had both an unlearned representation of itself and a learned representation of another stimulus after forming stimulus classes between the discriminative stimuli in two concurrent discriminations. At the same time, the present research investigated how much overtraining was required for each member of the stimulus class to have both an unlearned and a learned representation. In order to achieve these aims, the present experiments conducted a limited parametric study of the training variable.
The animals learned to discriminate concurrently two pairs of simple stimuli where the responses to one stimulus of each pair were rewarded and the responses to the other were not rewarded (A+C-, B+D-). One third of the animals were then concurrently overtrained in the two discrimination tasks for 10 days. Two thirds of the animals were then overtrained in just one of the two discrimination tasks for 10 days, either the A+C- task or the B+D- task for example. All the animals were tested four times with compound stimuli: after reaching the original learning's criterion (0), after being overtrained for 1 day (1), for 5 days (5), and for 10 days (10). The expectation according to both the assumption advocated by Zentall et al. (1991) and the findings of Nakagawa (1986, 1992, 1998) is that discrimination performance of the animals overtrained in two discrimination tasks should be superior to those of the animals overtrained in just one discrimination task on both the 5 and 10 test conditions.
Twenty-four experimentally naive male Sprague-Dawley rats were used. They were about 150 days old with an initial average body weight of 325 g. The animals were handled for 5 min a day for 12 days and were maintained on a daily 2-hr feeding schedule prior to the experiment. The amount of food in the daily ration was gradually reduced until the body weight of each animal was 80% of the baseline weight at the start of the experiment. Water was always available for the animals in their individual home cages. The animals were maintained on a 8-16-hr light:dark cycle, with light off at 10:00 p.m.
An automatic Y maze, shown in Figure 1, was used. The apparatus was painted medium grey inside and was illuminated throughout the experiment by a 10-W fluorescent lamp suspended 100 cm above the top of the apparatus. The start box measured 18 cm in height, 12 cm in width, and 15 cm in length. The distance from the start box to the bifurcation was 30 cm. The arms of the Y maze were 25 cm in length. Two end walls and side walls of the apparatus were medium-grey Plexiglas and the ceiling was clear Plexiglas. In the center of the end wall the start box had a food tray (5 cm x 4 cm x 1 m) into which a milk pellet was delivered from a feeder when the animals made a correct response. The end wall feeder when the animals made a correct response. The end wall each arm had one screen (12 cm square, 5 cm from the floor) and one response lever (4 cm square, 5 cm above the floor) at the center below each screen. A guillotine door opened and closed automatically to control access to the start box. That is, when the animals ran across a photo beam at the exit of the start box located 3 cm from the guillotine door, stimuli were rear-projected automatically onto screens; the animals ran down, pressed a correct response lever, returned to the start box, crossed a photoelectric gate located 7.5 cm from the end wall in the start box, and then the guillotine door closed automatically and after 10 sec the guillotine door opened automatically. The programming of events and data collection were carried out on line using a laboratory computer. Sound masking was provided by white noise from a blower fan (50 dB).
Stimuli
Training stimuli. Discriminative stimuli were rear-projected onto the screens by means of two Handy Cabin in-line projectors (Handy Cabin Ltd.). When the animals pressed a correct response lever, the discriminative stimuli disappeared. For a vertical-horizontal stripe discrimination, a vertically striped stimulus and a horizontally striped one were used, having alternating black and white lines, 1 cm in width. The triangle-circle discrimination used an equilateral triangle (with 10 cm sides) and a circle (with a diameter of 7.4 cm).
Test stimuli. Compound stimuli were used as test stimuli on test trials: A positive compound stimulus comprised both a positive stimulus of one discrimination task used in the original training and a positive stimulus of the other discrimination task. A negative compound stimulus was formed similarly. For example, if a triangle was a positive stimulus on the triangle-circle discrimination task and vertical stripes was a positive stimulus on the vertical-horizontal stripes discrimination task in the original training, a positive compound stimulus was comprised of a triangle on the right half of the slide and vertical stripes on the left half of the slide, and vice versa. A negative compound stimulus was comprised of a circle on the right half of the slide and horizontal stripes on the left half, and vice versa [ILLUSTRATION FOR FIGURE 2 OMITTED].
Magazine training and shaping of lever press. The animals were concurrently given both magazine training and lever-press training in a Skinner box (15 cm high, 22.5 cm wide, and 15 cm long) with one screen measuring 5 cm long and 5 cm wide for 5 days until they pressed the lever at least 50 times for 30 min a day.
Pretraining. After completing both magazine training and lever-press shaping, the animals were given pretraining for 10 days prior to the beginning of the training phase until they pressed the lever at least 30 times per day on each side in the automatic Y maze. A medium-grey stimulus was rear-projected onto the screen during both shaping of lever press and pretraining.
Training. A trial in this experiment is defined as a response-stimulus sequence beginning when the animals start from the start box after opening the guillotine door, run down in the runway, press a correct response lever, and return to the start box.
Discrimination training (Original learning). The animals were trained concurrently to a criterion in the original learning for 24 trials a day on two discrimination tasks: triangle versus circle and vertical versus horizontal stripe. The criterion was 22 correct trials out of a possible 24 for each discrimination over 2 successive days combined. A self-correction training method was used in which, if the animals pressed the incorrect response lever, they were allowed to return to the choice point and to press the correct response lever. The positive and negative stimuli were counterbalanced. The order of trials with the two discrimination tasks followed four predetermined random sequences. The position of a positive stimulus also followed four predetermined random sequences. The animals were given one 45-mg milk pellet when they made a correct response. Intertrial interval was 10 sec.
After reaching the criterion, the animals were divided into three groups of eight animals: E, C-I, and C-II, matched with respect to the number of days to reach the criterion. The animals of Group E received further the same training on the two discrimination tasks for 10 days after reaching the original learning criterion. The animals of both Groups C-I and C-II received the training in just one of the two discrimination tasks for 10 days after reaching the original learning criterion. The animals of Group C-I received further training on just the triangle-circle task and those of Group C-II received further training on just the vertical-horizontal stripe task during overtraining.
Test. The animals of each group were tested four times with the compound stimuli task, after reaching the original learning criterion (0), after being overtrained for 1 day (1), for 5 days (5), and for 10 days (10). On each test, the animals were given five trials. They were given a reward on every trial regardless whether they pressed the correct or incorrect response lever. Other aspects of the conditions were the same as for the original training
The group mean days-to-criterion on each discrimination task in Phase 1 training for each group are shown in Table 1. There was no indication of difference among these three groups in the rates at which they learned in Phase 1 training, and this observation was supported by statistical analysis. An ANOVA using group (E vs. C-I vs. C-II) and task (V-H vs. T-C) with repeated measure revealed that neither effects of group [F(2, 21) [less than] 1] and of task [F(1, 21) [less than] 1] nor interaction of group x task [F(2, 21) [less than] 1] were significant. The standard deviation of Table 1 appeared to be larger than the differences between the means. This was caused by the arrangement to equalize total number of days to criterion in the original learning for each group. The mean percentage of errors for all the animals during overtraining was 8%.
Means and Standard Deviations of the Number of Days to Criterion in
Phase 1 Training in Experiment 1
T-C H-V
Group / Task
M SD M SD
E 66.38 9.51 65.50 9.75
C-I 67.88 7.49 64.25 6.20
C-II 66.50 13.68 63.75 15.60
Note. T = triangle stimulus, C = circle stimulus, H = horizontal
stripe stimulus, V = vertical stripe stimulus.
The results for each group in Phase 2 test are illustrated in Figure 3. An ANOVA using group (E vs. C-I vs. C-II) and degree of overtraining (0 vs. 1 vs. 5 vs. 10) with repeated measure was performed on the number of correct responses on each test phase, which revealed a statistically significant effect of group [F(2, 21) = 42.45, p [less than] .001] and a significant group x degree of overtraining interaction [F(6, 63): 2.97, p [less than] .05]. As the amount of overtraining increased, the number of correct responses of Group E increased significantly [F(3, 84) = 6.57, p [less than] .01], whereas those of both Groups C-I [F(3, 84) [less than] 1] and C-II [F(3, 84) = 1.64] neither increased nor decreased, which were at random level. There were significant differences in the number of correct responses on the 10 test condition [F(2, 84) = 15.89, p [less than] .001] and the 5 test condition [F(2, 84) = 5.00, p [less than] .01] among these three groups. A t test was used to compare the difference in the number of correct responses on the 10 and the 5 test conditions between these groups. The animals of Group E made significantly more correct responses on the 10 test condition than those of both Group C-I [t(14) = 4.34, p [less than] .01] and C-II [t(14) = 5.19, p [less than] .01] On the 5 test condition, the animals of Group E also made significantly more correct responses than those of both Group C-I [t(14) = 2.64, p [less than] .05 and Group C-II [t(14) = 3.24, p[less than] .01].
The animals of Group E did not make more errors on both the 10 [[x.sup.2](1) = 1.85] and the 5 [[x.sup.2](1) = 2.38] test conditions than during overtraining, whereas they made significantly more errors on both the 1 [[x.sup.2](1) = 19.42, p [less than] .01] and the 0 [[x.sup.2](1) = 39.69, p [less than] .01] test conditions than during overtraining. By contrast, performance of the animals of Group C-I on the 0 [[x.sup.2](1) = 33.95, p [less than] .01], the 1 [[x.sup.2](1) = 52.39, p [less than] .01], the 5 [[x.sup.2](1) = 28.67, p [less than] .01], and the 10 [[x.sup.2](1) = 45.82, p [less than] .01] test conditions, measured in terms of percentage of error, was significantly inferior to that during overtraining. Performance of the animals of Group C-II on the 0 [[x.sup.2](1) = 33.95, p [less than] .01], the 1 [[x.sup.2](1) = 19.42, p [less than] .01], the 5 [[x.sup.2](1) = 52.39, p [less than] .01], and the 10 [[x.sup.2](1) = 66.83, p [less than] .01] test conditions also, measured in terms of percentage of error, was inferior to that during overtraining
With regard to the number of correct responses on the test, overtraining significantly improved discrimination performance in Group E, whereas it did not influence discrimination performance on the test in either Group C-I or Group C-II. In addition, for the animals of Group E, discrimination performance on both the 5 and 10 conditions were not inferior to that during overtraining, whereas those on both the 0 and 1 conditions were significantly inferior to that during overtraining. Furthermore, discrimination performance on both the 5 and 10 test conditions in either Group C-I or Group C-II were significantly inferior to that during overtraining. But there were not significant differences in the number of correct responses on both the 0 and 1 conditions among these three groups. These findings indicate that the introduction of compound stimuli has little disruptive influence on the animals' discrimination performance on the test after 10 days of overtraining in Group E, but it has a disruptive influence on the animals' discrimination performance on the test in either Group C-I or Group C-II. Nakagawa (1992, 1998) shows that the rats form stimulus classes between the discriminative stimuli with the same response assignment after overtraining. Taken together, the findings of this experiment make it clear that, after building up stimulus classes between the discriminative stimuli, each member of the stimulus class has both the unlearned representation of itself and the learned representation of another stimulus. Thus, these findings support the assumption advocated by Zentall et al. (1991).
The animals of Group E did not make more errors on the 5 test condition than during overtraining. This makes it clear that each member of the stimulus class begins to have both unlearned and learned representations after 120 overtraining trials. This finding is in line with the findings of Nakagawa (1998) with rats and Nakagawa (1985) with young children that rats begin to form stimulus classes between the discriminative stimuli with the same response after 120 overtraining trials in the concurrent discriminations and that young children begin to form stimulus classes between the discriminative stimuli after 12 overtraining trials in the concurrent discriminations.
Discrimination performance on the test for the animals in Group E was superior to those of the animals in either Group C-I or Group C-II on both the 5 and 10 test conditions, whereas there was no significant difference in discrimination performance among these three groups on both the 0 and 1 test conditions, which was at random level. The findings make it clear that overtraining in two concurrent discriminations results in the effective compounding of the discriminative stimuli, whereas overtraining in just one of the two discrimination tasks does not result in the effective compounding of the discriminative stimuli. They indicate that the effects of overtraining in two concurrent discriminations differ from those observed in a single discrimination. The findings are in line with the findings of Nakagawa (1992).
Alternatively, superiority of discrimination performance of the animals in Group E on the 5 and 10 test conditions to those of the animals in both Group C-I and Group C-II may be caused by strong response tendencies to all stimuli as a result of overtraining. Namely, in order to perform well with the relatively novel stimuli used on test sessions, the animals need to have strong appropriate response tendencies to all the constituent elements of the test stimuli. Only overtraining in the two discrimination tasks is likely to allow this. Poor discrimination performance on both the 5 and 10 conditions in both Group C-I and Group C-II was caused by receiving just one task during overtraining and by generalization decrement produced by the introduction of novel stimuli (i.e., compound stimuli).
The results in Experiment 1 indicate that stimuli have both unlearned representation and learned representation after forming stimulus classes as a result of overtraining in two concurrent discriminations. An alternative possibility is, however, that the findings in Experiment 1 may be caused by strong response tendencies to all stimuli as a result of overtraining.
To test the above possibility further, Experiment 2 examined the effect of extinction on the compounding of the discriminative stimuli. If strong appropriate response tendencies to all stimuli as a result of overtraining would cause the effective compounding of the discriminative stimuli, when the animals were given extinction training after overtraining, appropriate response tendencies to all stimuli should then be perfectly extinguished with the consequence that the control of all the constituent elements of the test stimuli should be lost. Therefore, on the test trials after extinction training, the animals' discrimination performance should be at random level. Thus, the present experiment was conducted to investigate whether the effective compounding of the discriminative stimuli was caused by strong appropriate response tendencies to all the constituent elements of the test stimuli as a result of overtraining. In order to determine this, the animals were concurrently trained in two discrimination tasks similar to those described in Experiment 1. The animals were then overtrained on the two discrimination tasks. After completing overtraining, the animals were given extinction training in either both discrimination tasks or just one of the two discrimination tasks. After completing extinction training, the animals were given test trials with the compound stimuli. The expectation according to the alternative possibility (i.e., response tendencies account) is that discrimination performance on the test for the animals given extinction training on both discrimination tasks would be inferior to those of the animals given extinction training on just one discrimination task.
Fourteen experimentally naive Sprague-Dawley rats (12 females, 2 males) were used. They were about 130 days old with an initial average body weight of 155 g. All details of feeding schedule and apparatus were the same as in Experiment 1.
Training stimuli. For a white-black discrimination, a white stimulus and a black one were used. The same stimuli as in Experiment 1 were used for a vertical-horizontal stripe discrimination.
Test stimuli. Compound stimuli were used as a test stimulus on test trials: A positive compound stimulus comprised both a positive stimulus of one discrimination task used in the original training and a positive stimulus of the other discrimination and similarly for a negative compound stimulus.
Magazine training and shaping of lever press. All details of magazine training, shaping of lever press, and pretraining were the same as in Experiment 1.
Discrimination training (Original learning). The animals were trained concurrently to a criterion in the original learning for 24 trials a day on two discrimination tasks: white versus black and vertical versus horizontal stripe. All details of discrimination training were the same as in Experiment 1.
After reaching the criterion of the original learning, the animals received the same training for an additional 10 days with the original training.
Extinction. After completing overtraining, the animals were divided into two groups: W and P, matched with respect to the number of days to criterion. The animals of both Groups W and P were given the same extinction training method as in Nakagawa (1986) to criterion. That is, for the animals in Group W, both doors were locked on all trials on both the white-black discrimination and the vertical-horizontal stripe discrimination tasks, although positive stimuli were still changed from side to side. Extinction continued for the animals in Group W until both positive and negative stimuli were chosen equally often over 12 successive trials on each task. For the animals in Group P, both doors were locked on all trials on the vertical-horizontal stripe discrimination, but the animals continued to receive the original discrimination training on all trials on the white-black discrimination task. Extinction continued for the animals in Group P until both positive and negative stimuli were chosen equally often over 12 successive trials on the vertical-horizontal discrimination.
Test. The animals of each group were tested seven times with the compound stimuli: After reaching the 50% level of correct responses on one training session in the original learning (50%), after reaching the 75% correct responses level (75%), after reaching the original learning criterion (0), after having received 24 overtraining trials (24), having 120 overtraining trials (120), having 240 overtraining trials (240), and after extinction (Ext.). The animals were given five trials on each test. They were given a reward on every trial, regardless of which lever they pressed.
The group mean days-to-criterion on each discrimination task in Phase 1 training for each group are shown in Table 2. There was no evidence of a difference between these two groups in the rate at which they learned in Phase 1 training, and this observation was supported by statistical analysis. An ANOVA using group (W vs. P) and task (W-B vs. H-V) revealed that neither effects of group [F(1, 12) [less than] 1], and of task [F(1, 12) = 3.22] nor interaction of group x task [F(1,12) [less than] 1] were significant. The standard deviation of Table 2 appeared to be larger than the differences between the means. This was caused by the arrangement of equalizing total number of days to criterion in the original learning for each group. The mean percentage of errors of all the animals during overtraining was 7.7%.
The mean days-to-criterion in extinction were 2.43 (SD = 0.73) for Group W and 2.71 (SD = 1.48) for Group R The analysis by a t test revealed no significant effect of group [t(12) = 1.63].
B-W H-V
W 27.43 19.19 45.14 14.28
P 28.29 22.00 44.29 18.73
Note. B = black stimulus, W = white stimulus, H = horizontal stripe
stimulus, V = vertical stripe stimulus.
The results for each group in Phase 3 test are illustrated in Figure 4. An ANOVA using group (W vs. P) and degree of training (50% vs. 75% vs. 0 vs. 24 vs. 120 vs. 240) with repeated measure was performed on the number of correct responses on each test, which revealed a statistically significant effect of degree of training [F(5, 60) = 18.66, p [less than] .001]. A t test was used to compare the differences in the number of correct responses on each test condition. The animals of the two groups combined made more correct responses on the 240 test condition than the 120 test condition [t(13) = 2.73, p [less than] .05], the 24 test condition [t(13) = 5.55, p [less than] .01]. They made more correct responses on the 120 test condition than the 24 test condition [t(13) = 3.01, p [less than] .05], the 0 test condition [t(13) = 5.40, p [less than] .01], the 75% test condition [t(13) = 8.08, p [less than] .01], and the 50% test condition [t(13) = 6.76, p [less than] .01]. They made more correct responses on the 24 test condition than the 0 test condition [t(13) = 3.31, p [less than] .01], the 75% test condition [t(13) = 4.43, p [less than] .01], and the 50% test condition [t(13) = 3.31, p [less than] .01]. There were no significant differences in the number of correct responses among the three test conditions: the 0, the 75%, and the 50%.
The animals' performance on the 240 test condition, measured in terms of percentage of errors, was significantly superior to that during overtraining [[x.sup.2](1) = 8.68, p [less than] .01), whereas the animals' performance on the 120 test condition was not inferior to that during overtraining [[x.sup.2](1) = 1.43], and those on the 24 test condition was inferior to that during overtraining [[x.sup.2](1) = 6.77, p [less than] .01].
On the test after extinction, Group W made significantly more correct responses than Group P [t(12) = 7.70, p [less than] .01].
The animals' performance on the test after extinction in Group W, measured in terms of percentage of errors, was not inferior to that on the 240 test condition [[x.sup.2](1) = 1.50], whereas the animals' performance in Group P was significantly inferior to those on the 240 test condition [[x.sup.2](1) = 33.72, p [less than] .01], the 120 test condition [[x.sup.2](1) = 33.72, p [less than] .01], and the 24 test condition [[x.sup.2](1) = 4.97, p [less than] .05], which was at random level.
The mean percentage of correct responses on each trial on the test after extinction in both Group W and Group P are shown in Figure 5. An ANOVA using group (W vs. P) and trial (first vs. second vs. third vs. fourth vs. fifth) was performed on the number of correct responses on each trial, which revealed significant effect of group [F(1, 12) = 784.55, p [less than] .01]. That is, the animals in Group W made more correct responses on the test than the animals in Group P did. However, there was no significant difference in the number of correct responses on the first trial between Groups W and P. The animals in Group W made perfect discrimination performance on the second, the third, the fourth, and the fifth trials, whereas the animals in Group P performed at random level on each trial. That is, the animals in Group W made perfect discrimination performance after food reinforcement was reintroduced, whereas the animals in Group P did not improve after food reinforcement was introduced again.
This experiment essentially replicated the pattern of results seen in Experiment 1 which indicated that overtraining in concurrent discriminations resulted in effective compounding of the discriminative stimuli. This indicates that each member of the stimulus class has both the unlearned representation and the learned representation after overtraining.
The main purpose of this study was to investigate the effective compounding of discriminative stimuli as a result of overtraining was caused by response tendencies to all the constituent elements of the test stimuli. In the present experiment, the animals' performances on the test after extinction in Group W were neither superior nor inferior to that on the 240 test condition, whereas the animals' performances on the test in Group P were significantly inferior to that on the 240 test condition, which were at random level. This result is not in line with the expectation according to the response tendencies account. Therefore, these findings make it clear that the effective compounding of the discriminative stimuli, as a result of overtraining seen in Experiment 1, is not caused by response tendencies to all the constituent elements of the test stimuli.
In addition, although there was no significant difference in discrimination performance on the first trial in the test after extinction training between Groups W and P, the animals in Group W made perfect discrimination performance on the second trial after food reinforcement was reintroduced, and so on the third, the fourth, the fifth trials. But the animals' performance in Group P was not improved after food reinforcement was reintroduced, which was at random level [ILLUSTRATION FOR FIGURE 5 OMITTED]. The additional findings are not caused by strong response tendencies to all stimuli as a result of overtraining, because there was significant difference in discrimination performance on test trials between Groups W and P. Indeed, if response tendencies to all stimuli are responsible for the difference in discrimination performance on test trials between these two groups, discrimination performance on test trials for Group W should then be inferior to that of Group P and be at random level. But the phenomenon was not observed. Thus, the additional findings indicate that both the unlearned and learned representations which each member of the stimulus class has acquired during overtraining remain intact after extinction, and they reinstate their functions when food reinforcement is introduced again on the first trial of the test. This finding is in line with the findings of Nakagawa (1986) that an effective interchange of the discriminative stimuli between two discrimination tasks is possible after extinction training. The extinction training used in the present experiment made the animals in Group P withhold both approach responses to a positive stimulus and avoidance responses to a negative stimulus of the one discrimination task (i.e., the extinguished task), whereas it made them continue to choose a positive stimulus and to avoid a negative stimulus of the other discrimination task (i.e., the unextinguished task) likely during overtraining. That is, the extinction training breaks up the relation of the unlearned and learned representations of one stimulus which have been acquired during overtraining for the animals of Group P. Thus, for the animals in Group P, each member of the stimulus class has only the unlearned representation of itself but not the learned representation of another stimulus after food reinforcement is introduced again. In contrast, the extinction training made the animals in Group W withhold both approach responses to each positive stimulus and avoidance responses to each negative stimulus of the two discrimination tasks. That is, the extinction training does not break up and rather maintains the relation of the unlearned and learned representations of one stimulus acquired during overtraining. Thus, for the animals of Group W, one stimulus has both the unlearned representation of itself and the learned representation of another stimulus formed during overtraining after food reinforcement is introduced again. The reinstatement of both the unlearned and learned representations relation by the reintroduction of food reinforcement is responsible for the superiority of the animals' discrimination performance on test trials in Group W to the animals' discrimination performance in Group P.
Two experiments have examined a premise of stimulus classes formation between the discriminative stimuli. That is, two experiments have examined whether stimuli have both the unlearned representation of itself and the learned representation of another stimulus via the same response or common shared response following the same consequence through experience using compounding of the discriminative stimuli procedure in two concurrent two-choice discriminations as a function of overtraining in rats. In Experiment 1, the animals were concurrently trained on two discrimination tasks to criterion. After reaching the criterion, they were overtrained in either two discrimination tasks (Group E) or just one of the two tasks (Group C-I or Group C-II) for 10 days. They were tested four times with compound stimuli: after reaching the criterion (0), after being overtrained for 1 day (1), for 5 days (5), and for 10 days (10). The animals of Group E made more correct responses on the 5 and 10 test conditions than either the animals of Group C-I or Group C-II. As the amount of overtraining increased, the number of correct responses of Group E increased, whereas those of both Groups C-I and C-II neither increased nor decreased, which were at random level. The effect of overtraining on discrimination performance on the test trials for the animals in Group E was replicated in Experiment 2.
These findings make it clear that overtraining facilitates compounding of the discriminative stimuli with the same response following the same consequence in two concurrent two-choice discriminations. Namely, they indicate that overtraining facilitates each member of the stimulus class having both the unlearned representation and the learned representation in two concurrent discriminations. These findings are basically in accordance with the findings of Nakagawa (1986, 1998). Thus, the results of the present two experiments produce several lines of evidence indicating that each member of the stimulus class has both the unlearned representation and the learned representation in two concurrent two-choice discriminations in rats. Furthermore, Experiment 2 shows that the animals' test performance after extinction in Group W is superior to the animals' test performance in Group P, and that the former is very excellent but the latter is poor and at random level. These findings provide stronger evidence that both the unlearned representation and the learned representation of stimuli acquired during overtraining remain intact after extinction and they reinstate their functions when food reinforcement is introduced again.
The main purpose of the present experiments was to investigate a premise of stimulus classes formation between the discriminative stimuli in two concurrent discriminations. The results of the two experiments reported here provide stronger evidences for the assumption that a mechanism of dissociation exists between discriminations dimensions advocated by Zentall et al. (1991). Thus, a premise of stimulus class formation between the discriminative stimuli in two concurrent discriminations is what one stimulus has both the unlearned representation of itself and the learned representation of the other stimulus with the same response assignment during enough overtraining in two concurrent discriminations in rats. That is, there are two premises for the animals to form stimulus classes in two concurrent discriminations: the one is that the animals receive enough overtraining (i.e., 240 overtraining trials) in two concurrent discriminations, the other is that one stimulus has both the unlearned representation of it and the learned representation of another stimulus. This conclusion is supported by the findings of Nakagawa (1992, 1998). Nakagawa (1992, 1998) showed that being concurrently overtrained in two discrimination tasks is necessary for the animals to form stimulus classes between the discriminative stimuli.
The results of the present experiments indicate that the number of correct responses on tests increases rapidly after 120 overtraining trials. Nakagawa (1998) found that the animals began to form stimulus classes between the discriminative stimuli after 120 overtraining trials. The findings of both the present experiments and Nakagawa (1998) make it clear that each member of the stimulus class begins to have both the unlearned representation and the learned representation in two concurrent discriminations after 120 overtraining trials, and at the same time, they begin to form stimulus classes between the discriminative stimuli with the same response following the same consequence. Thus, the process that one stimulus has both the unlearned and learned representations in two concurrent discrimination tasks is not necessarily in conflict with stimulus classes formation process advocated by the cue-associations theory (Nakagawa, 1986, 1992). Conversely, it seems that in nature both processes may always act synchronously.
The results of the experiments reported here make it clear that there are two premises for the animals to form stimulus classes between the discriminative stimuli in two concurrent discriminations in rats. Thus, the results of the present experiments may contribute to understanding a mechanism of stimulus associations in animals.
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