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TSHIAMO TABANE
Local Enterprise Authority (LEA), a parastatal established to support the development of Small and Micro-Medium Enterprises (SMMEs) is struggling to provide some of its core activities due to severe shortage of financial resources, according to LEA senior management.
In the latest annual report, LEA Board Chairperson, Batlhatswi Tsayang, noted that their efforts to support SMME development and encourage economic diversification are frustrated by shortage of financial resources and this has been worsened by government’s failure to rationalize entities targeted at entrepreneurial development.
According to the report, since 2009 the organization has been hampered by reduction in the financial resources and is unable to achieve its mandate. LEA was established nine years ago in accordance with the Small Business Act to promote entrepreneurship. The parastatal is also, among others, mandated to promote economic diversification in this country.
Tsayang has suggested that while maintaining the noble mandate of LEA, a rationalization of the mandates of government entities charged with entrepreneurship development should be implemented to allow better channeling of the currently limited resources and achieve efficiency gains. “The duplicity of the mandates of government entities such as; Gender Affairs Department, Agri-business promotion, Youth Development Fund and Poverty eradication and Coordination unit is a self-defeating rather than an effective way of achieving entrepreneurship in Botswana,” he said.
Tsayang added that due to the constrictive budget which is negatively affecting LEA’s performance they have decided to revise some statutes governing it to increase cost recovery initiatives and revenue generating activities. “The organizational performance for the 2015/16 financial year was 85% against a target of 75%. Even though we have been able to exceed our set target, the performance results do not fully reflect progress towards attainment of the objectives of the Small Business Act,” said the board chairperson.
Tsayang is worried that LEA is struggling to improve some of the lagging indicators such as investment value, sustainable jobs created, and creating small and medium enterprises during the 2015/2016 financial year. 113 Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) were registered against a target of 127 compared to a total of 4 460 registered against a target of 1800 during the financial year 2015/2016. A total of 636 jobs were created against a target of 700. Total investment value of P94.5 million was registered against a target of P203 million, according to the LEA 2015/2016 annual report.
LEA CEO Tebogo Matome has also emphasized that with the severe budgetary constraints LEA has to reduce the number of training and mentoring interventions, together with the monitoring visits to clients. The CEO also indicated that limited budgetary resources have also resulted with talent drain at LEA: “The effect of the budgetary constraints is mainly felt on our human resources. We are not able to offer competitive remuneration packages, resulting in us losing talent and an inability to replace this talent. Once employees have gained the necessary expertise and experience they are attracted by other better paying institutions.”
LEA has indicated that despite the challenges there has been progress as they have managed to establish one incubation project which is expected to start providing training on the production of various commodities using low tech production techniques and processes at the beginning of this year.
The organization added that Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for the leather park project is ongoing and that the next stage is the creation of the Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV)- a company that is going to own, build, operate and maintain all the components of the project. LEA is also in the process of appointing a technical advisor and project manager for the leather park project.
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Cairn lines up rigs for Greenland as Desire comes up dry in Falklands
• Cairn Energy plans to drill four wells in Greenland
• Desire Petroleum's fourth Falklands well came up dry
Tim Webb
Tue 4 Jan 2011 14.10 EST First published on Tue 4 Jan 2011 14.10 EST
Cairn Energy plans to start drilling in Greenland in April two mothns before the season normally begins. Photograph Theo Allofs/Corbis
Cairn Energy could begin drilling for oil in Greenland in April this year, two months earlier than the usual start of the season.
Analysts said that they expected the Greenland authorities to extend the period when oil companies can begin exploring for oil, which is limited because of safety concerns over the icy winter conditions .
It is thought that the FTSE100 company, which announced its new Greenland drilling programme for the year, will first drill in virgin waters off the south coast, where ice melts earlier in the year. It will then restart activities in Baffin Bay, which lies further north just within the Arctic Circle, in June. The drilling season in Greenland normally runs between June and the end of September.
Greenpeace, which opposes the opening up of Arctic regions to oil exploration, said last night said: "Conditions, whether in April or August, mean drilling is going to be a huge risk for the environment and for investors."
The environmental group disrupted drilling for two days last August when four activists managed to board Cairn's drilling rig, the Stena Don. Greenpeace then claimed victory in October when Cairn admitted that it had spent $185m (£119m) during the season and only managed to complete two wells, neither of which resulted in a commercial discovery despite traces of hydrocarbons being found. Shares plunged by more than 7% on the news.
The company announced today that it had secured two rigs to drill up to four wells in Greenland waters this year, subject to approval from the authorities. It did not say when or where they would operate.
Analyst Richard Rose from Oriel Securities, the stockbroker, said: "Cairn seems confident that the window for drilling in its southern Greenland acreage would be open for a wider period. We expect the Greenland authorities will allow drilling to take place probably in April because there are not the same ice issues as in Baffin Bay. But it's never been drilled before."
He added that there was still a slim chance of success. "Drilling in Greenland is still seen as high risk given the lack of drilling to date and frontier nature of the acreage. It's a huge opportunity but I wouldn't describe the market as being confident that it will make a commercial discovery. After some positive drilling results last year, I'd say the odds have gone from 20-1 to 10-1."
Cairn has been accused of talking up its prospects there. Another analyst, who did not want to be named, said: "The company is probably more optimistic and bullish about it than I am at the moment."
There was less good news for rival oil company Desire Petroleum which was struck again by the Falklands curse. The Aim-listed explorer admitted that the fourth well it has completed since February off the north coast of the islands came up dry. Shares closed 26% down on the news, adding to losses sustained last month when it revealed that a prospect contained water and not oil. The company has enough cash to drill one well and carry out seismic surveying of its acreage adjacent to the only commercial find to date, by rival Rockhopper.
Peter Hitchens from Panmure Gordon, who covers Rockhopper, said: "Desire has been unlucky. They are starting to run out of cash a bit."
Oriel Securities' Rose said: "It's looking pretty poor for Desire Petroleum. The infill seismic survey they will undertake to the south of Rockhopper's Sea Lion discovery is key and might throw up an extension to the field or new prospects. Apart from that, the prospect inventory looks weak."
The company's only assets are the rights it owns to drill some blocks off the Falklands.
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CM urges Japanese cos operating in State for businesses expansion
Date :14-Jan-2020
Staff Reporter :
CM meets JETRO’s Managing Director in New Delhi
Chief Minister Kamal Nath has urged Japan’s companies already operating in the State to expand their business. He said that investment-friendly environment has been created in the state. Comprehensive changes as well as simplification in policies and rules have been made. CM was speaking during meeting with the Chief Managing Director of Japan External Trade Organisation (JETRO) Yasuyuki Murahashi in New Delhi on Monday.
He discussed the possibility of Japan’s investment in detail with Murahashi. During the meeting, he informed Murahashi that there is a wide scope of investment in solar energy, food processing, textile, garments as well as in logistic hub. Inviting the Japanese companies for investment in the State, he said that the State Government will render full co-operation to the existing companies in the state for business expansion. He further added that positive and trustworthy environment has been created for industrialisation in the State.
Separate policies have also been framed for industries of different technologies. He said that Japan’s technology is famous all over the world. “We intend that this technology should also be used at greater extent in Madhya Pradesh along with whole India,” he told. He said that a special team of officials and industrialists from Madhya Pradesh will soon visit Japan to invite Japanese investors to explore the possibility of Japanese investment in the State.
Before the meeting with the CM, the MD of JETRO and others investors were briefed on the industrialisation and potential for investment in the state along with the concessions being given by the government and its policies. Chief Secretary S R Mohanty, Additional Chief Secretary and Resident Commissioner I C P Kesri, Principal Secretary (Industries) Dr Rajesh Rajoura, Principal Secretary New and Renewable Energy Manu Shrivastava and Officers of the Japan External Trade Organisation were present.
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Pier Village/Casino Theatre, St. Simons Island, Georgia
Bringing live theatre to the Golden Isles since 1956
The oldest community theatre in the Golden Isles is committed to bringing the stage alive with a variety of shows. Four performances plus a Young Peoples Summer Workshop (YPSW) are presented annually. Residents and part-time residents alike are invited to not only attend these performances but also audition or work on the production teams.
You can now pre-purchase tickets for all regular season shows, but not for specific performances. They can be picked up at Will Call or the Box Office during the run of the show, are usable for open seating at any performance of the show, and entitle the purchaser to be admitted to the theater before the Box Office opens. PLEASE NOTE: Proof of purchase must be presented when picking up tickets from Will Call.
Season ticket holders and purchasers of individual show tickets are encouraged to attend early in a show’s run to avoid sold out performances.
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ISTANBUL HOUSTON FLIGHT TICKET
As one of the most popular destinations in Turkey, Istanbul is an extremely attractive city by its ceaseless social life, advanced job opportunities, and fascinating art and cultural events. Shining out by the wonderful ambiance of the utterly glorious palaces, peaceful mosques with their minarets rising in the sky, together with the inns, bridges and fountains of the historical heritage, this major metropolis promises a splendid holiday for all its guests.
Turkish Airlines is one of the most frequently preferred airlines by the passengers travelling from the landmark Turkish city, Istanbul, to Houston, one of the largest cities of the United States. Take a look at the flight ticket alternatives offered between these cities now to enjoy a comfortable journey of high quality up in the clouds.
Book your ticket now
Turkish Airlines offers one direct flight every day from Istanbul to Houston. Ongoing regularly all year round, flights in this route take off from Istanbul Airport (IST) and land at Houston George Bush International Airport (IAH) within nearly 13,5 hours.
From: Istanbul
The largest Turkish metropolis, Istanbul is located in the northeastern Turkey, hosting the beautiful Bosporus connecting the Marmara inland sea with the Black Sea. Extending over both Asia and Europe, this magnificent city is simply enthralling by all its charm and spectacular landscape of the Bosporus, accompanied by the adorable historical mansions along. Make sure to see the historical icons of thousands of years in the stunning Historical Peninsula, including but not limited to the Topkapı Palace, Hagia Sophia, Beyazıt Square and Grand Bazaar and enjoy a pleasant night at the Beyoğlu district thereafter.
Istanbul has two airports to manage the city’s busy air traffic: Istanbul Airport (IST) serves in the European side, whereas Sabiha Gökçen Airport (SAW) is located in the Anatolian side of the city. Those booking their flights from Istanbul to Houston with Turkish Airlines start their journeys from Istanbul Airport (IST).
Transportation from the city center to Istanbul Airport (IST)
Istanbul Airport (IST) is located on the D20 road. Even though the airport is approximately 35 km from the city center there are many transportation options available to passengers.
When it comes to public transport, the scheduled IETT buses and Havaist shuttles depart from many spots in the city. If you would rather not use public transport you can catch a taxi. Guests that want to travel privately and with ease can rent a car from car rental companies based at the airport. It takes around 30 minutes to reach the airport from the city center by taxi and costs around 100-110 TL.
For more detailed information check our transport information page.
Ranking among the top largest metropolises in the United States, Houston is situated along the Texas Bay. As a pioneer in space studies both in country and worldwide, Houston is often cited as the Space City, hosting the NASA Space Center. This lovely town welcomes a large number of visitors all year round as an ideal holiday destination in the months of summer by its beautiful coastal strip by the bay, as well as its vibrant beaches.
Houston Natural Science Museum and the Space Center are the top popular spots in the city. Moreover, Galveston Island is the favorite of especially the families with children by its amazing theme parks. Besides, as a highly active city also in art, the live performances held in 9 different exhibition halls in the center get credit from the tourists. The Museum District and the Hermann Park nearby are also the noteworthy attractions in Houston. The park has various social spaces like the zoo, Japanese gardens, walking tracks and recreational picnic areas along the lake. On the other hand, Kemah Boardwalk district appeals to those fond of mobility by many restaurant and entertainment centers around.
There are two airports in Houston: William P. Hobby Airport (HOU) and Houston George Bush International Airport (IAH). Passengers with a flight ticket to Houston with Turkish Airlines land at Houston George Bush International Airport (IAH).
Transportation from Houston George Bush International Airport (IAH) to the city center
You may use the municipal buses for reaching the center from Houston George Bush International Airport (IAH), which is 35 kilometers from the center. The public buses Metro Bus 12 serve between 06.00 and 20.40 and reach the center within nearly thirty minutes. In addition, you may rent a car from the airport or take the cabs available 7/24, if you are interested in a private transport.
An enjoyable travel awaits you
We have collected expert opinions for you on our Fly Good Feel Good page which will provide the basics of a comfortable travel and enable you to fly with ease.
With the best dining on board experience including the most special tastes from Turkish and World cuisines, your flight is transformed into a feast.
With the most enjoyable movies, music, games and more appealing to different tastes, traveling becomes much more pleasant thanks to our inflight entertainment system.
You can travel with your pets like cats, dogs and birds, and share the excitement of discovering new destinations with them.
We have good news for our passengers wishing to transport their sports equipment! We carry the first set of your golf and ski equipment free of charge.
Take a close look at the features of our renewed mobile app carrying your travel experience a step further.
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Monastero Santa Rosa Hotel & Spa
Via Roma 2 Conca dei Marini 84010 Italy
Former convent with a stunning clifftop setting on the Amalfi Coast
The views from the infinity pool stretch from Ravello to Positano
The huge spa is set in the convent's former wine cellar
"A former 17th-century convent turned blissful resort, blessed with five-star service" -- Conde Nast Traveler
Set on a clifftop, Monastero Santa Rosa is a converted 17th-century convent overlooking the Bay of Salerno on the Amalfi Coast.
Painstakingly restored over the course of 10 years, the hotel features an original stone exterior and valued ceilings, and is decorated with antiques and abstract artwork. Located in the fishing village of Conca dei Marini, it makes a great base for exploring the Amalfi Coast. Ravello and Positano can both be reached within 40 minutes and it's around an hour's drive from Sorrento.
The hotel is set in a 4-tiered garden where many of the restaurant's ingredients are grown and there's a heated infinity pool overlooking the coastline. The cavernous spa is located in the convent's former wine cellar and features Roman-style baths, a rock sauna, a steam room and a hydrotherapy pool. The restaurant serves dishes that are typical of the region and the wine cellar stocks over 400 bottles.
All 20 rooms are individually decorated and have sea views and huge bathrooms. Each room is named after different herbs that the nuns would have grown in the garden.
Via Roma 2
Conca dei Marini 84010
Sauna / Steam Room
Laundry / dry cleaning
iPod/iPhone docking station
Complimentary valet service
Children and additional guests: The Hotel is not suitable for children aged 15 and under.
Extra bed available on request and in Superior Suite and higher categories only: 154€ per night for children aged 16 and over, and adults. This includes breakfast. Supplements are not included automatically in the total price and will be charged directly by the hotel.
Fees: City tax not included in the total price: 4€ per person, per night, payable at the hotel.
Additional details: Hotel is closed for winter season and will reopen in April 2018.
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Langham London Hotel: World's First Grand Hotel, Reborn for the 21st Century
Europe England London
Max Jacobson, Guest Author
A former journalist for the Los Angeles Times, Max Jacobson has covered travel, food, and wine for 35 years.
Langham Hotels
The Langham, London is an elegant Victorian hotel with 380 rooms and suites. It offers a quintessential London hotel experience for visitors who wish to enjoy British tradition and culture.
The Langham, London opened in 1865 and is considered Europe's first grand hotel. It reopened in 2009 after a three hundred million pound refurbishment. Celebrities who have been drawn to The Langham, London over the years include Oscar Wilde, Antonin Dvorak, Winston Churchill, Noel Coward, and Diana, Princess of Wales. The hotel is the flagship of Langham Hotels International, headquartered in Hong Kong.
Visitors arrive at The Langham, London amidst British fanfare. At night, the façade of The Langham, London is festively and alluringly lit. Any time, the most flavorful way to arrive is in a traditional London cab, Taxis enter a circular porte-cochere once used to greet horse-drawn coaches. The uniformed footmen are still there for you.
Location of The Langham, London
The Langham, London is situated on a quiet corner at 1 Portland Place in central London's Marylebone district. The hotel is steps from:
• Bustling Oxford Street and its shops
• Oxford Circus, a main station of the London Underground ("Tube")
• The BBC is across the street; the hotel has long been an informal clubhouse for legendary BBC announcers and reporters
• Bond Street's bespoke tailor shops
• Tranquil Regent's Park, a few minutes' pleasant walk away
Is The Langham, London the Right Hotel for Your Next London Vacation?
©The Langham, London
Will The Langham, London Be in Sync with Your Travel Style?
The Langham, London may be the right London hotel for you if:
• You like grand hotels with dignified service and traditional decor
• You're an Anglophile
• You demand a perfectly quiet hotel room
• You love dining in your hotel when its restaurants are great
• You always take advantage of your hotel's spa and/or gym
The Langham, London may not be your ideal London hotel if:
• You don't like vintage hotels, however legendary
• You seek a contemporary setting with a cutting-edge vibe
• And you're looking for trendy nightlife
See what The Langham London's hotel rooms and suites are like >>
Guest Accommodations at The Langham, London
©Langham Hotels
Big, Beautiful Rooms and Suites at The Langham, London
The 380 rooms at The Langham, London blend classic proportions and architectural details with contemporary furnishings. It's a very appealing style.
Rooms range from trim, comfortable Classic rooms to a variety of suites. The biggest is the nearly 5,000-square-foot Sterling Suite, shown above. It has two bedrooms, a library, and more.
My suite was nearly 600 square feet. It was furnished plushly but not fussily, with a beautiful wood parquet floor. The suite's centerpiece was its luxurious, gloriously comfortable king bed. Other room highlights:
• Study with a writing desk and armoire
• Touch-sensitive minibar
• Full-length gilt mirror
• Working fireplace
• Three closets with robes, slippers, and a safe
• Pod coffeemaker, fruit basket, complimentary Hildon water
• Bose wave radio with iPhone/iPod
• Vase of roses
Langham, London suites' sizable bathrooms contain:
• A blue marble floor
• Deep, sunken tub ample enough for two
• An enclosed shower with good water pressure
• His-and-hers sinks
• Deluxe amenities including Quercus by Penhaligon toiletries
Room drawbacks at The Langham, London are few:
• Lighting operation is confounding; I am pretty handy but still had to call engineering to show me how to control the system
Club Lounge at The Langham, London
The hotel's VIP Lounge called the Langham Club. Privileges are conferred upon guests in rooms of the Grand Junior Suite category and above. Complimentary offerings include:
• A deluxe breakfast
• Hot and cold snacks and canapés
• Hot dishes during the evening
• An open bar with top-shelf liquors like premium Scotch
• See if a club-floor upgrade is worth it to you
See if you'd like The Langham London's dining and drinking venues >>
Restaurants & Bar at The Langham, London Hotel
©Langham Hotels & Resorts
High Tea Was Invented Right Here at The Langham, London
High tea is a beloved English tradition now. But this splendid tradition was established right here at The Langham, London in the years after the hotel opened in 1865.
The Langham, London's high tea was first hosted by a lady-in-waiting to Queen Victoria, Anna Maria, Seventh Duchess of Bedford, as a novel form of late-afternoon entertainment and social life for her "aristo" set. The hotel was the first commercial establishment to serve this refined pre-dinner meal.
Today's Tea Ritual: The Langham Afternoon Tea with Wedgwood
Today, The Langham, London's tea service is a signature of this hotel and Langham Hotels worldwide. The Langham Afternoon Tea with Wedgwood is beautifully served on English-made Wedgwood porcelain. It is served in The Langham, London's elegant Palm Court room, shown above. The surroundings are lovely, the service impeccable
The food served at this lovely tea service is creative and delicious, with an emphasis on modern desserts. Amongst Executive Pastry Chef Cherish Finden's creations is a chocolate cake with flavors of espresso and amaretto; a chocolate-and-yuzu confection; and marzipan macaron sin strawberry and lemon. All are served on a harmonious Wedgwood plates.
The Langham, London's Famous Restaurant Roux at The Landau
The hotel's upscale restaurant, Roux at the Landau, is run by Michel Roux, the London celebrity chef. He achieved three Michelin stars at Michael’s Waterside Inn, the famous restaurant located on the Thames.
Roux at the Landau is an excellent bet for dinner. The restaurant is also a draw for its international breakfasts: English, Continental, Japanese, and Lebanese.
Artesian Bar at The Langham, London
The hotel's Artesian Bar at The Langham, London (seen above) is a draw for Langham guests and Londoners alike. It offers seductive atmosphere and hand-crafted cocktails made with classic technique and modern ingredients.
Read about the top-shelf spa & gym at The Langham London >>
Spa & Fitness at The Langham, London
Spa and Fitness at The Langham, London
The Langham, London's various fitness options are known as The Langham Health & Fitness Club. Its offerings include:
• Chuan Spa, with a seductive Asia vibe, offers both Western and Eastern and Western treatment modes, like TCM (traditional Chinese medicine); a small Vitality Pool; steam and sauna baths, and meditation areas
• The 24-hour Fitness Center, with state-of-the-art TechnoGym equipment (cardio and circuit-training machines) and roving personal.
• A 16-meter (52 1/2 feet) lap pool and Jacuzzi
How to connect with The Langham, London >>
Connect with The Langham, London Hotel
The Langham, London: For More Info
• The Langham, London's website
• By phone (+44) 20 7636 1000 and via email
• On Facebook and on Twitter
• The Langham, London,1c Portland Place, Regent St. London, U.K. W1B 1JA
• Meet The Langham, Chicago (in a fab landmark building)
As is common in the travel industry, the Guest Author was provided with a complimentary visit and High Tea for the purpose of describing the hotel.
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Do constraints on women worsen child deprivations? Framework, measurement, and evidence from India
This paper provides a framework for analyzing constraints that apply specifically to women, which theory suggests may have negative impacts on child outcomes (as well as on women). We classify women’s constraints into four dimensions: (i) low influence on household decisions, (ii) restrictions on mobility, (iii) domestic physical and psychological abuse, and (iv) limited information access. Each of these constraints are in principle determined within households. We test the impact of women’s constraints on child outcomes using nationally representative household Demographic and Health Survey data from India, including 53,030 mothers and 113,708 children, collected in 2015-16. We examine outcomes including nutrition, health, education, water quality, and sanitation. In our primary specification, outcomes are measured as multidimensional deprivations incorporating indicators for each of these deficiencies, utilizing a version of UNICEF’s Multidimensional Overlapping Deprivation Analysis index. We identify causal impacts using a Lewbel specification and present an array of additional econometric strategies and robustness checks. We find that children of women who are subjected to domestic abuse, have low influence in decision making, and limited freedom of mobility are consistently more likely to be deprived, measured both multidimensionally and with separate indicators.
Alberto Posso; Stephen C. Smith; Lucia Ferrone
Evidence on Social Protection in Contexts of Fragility and Forced Displacement
Rigorous research in humanitarian settings is possible when researchers and programmers work together, particularly in the early stages when responses to humanitarian challenges are designed. Six new rigorous research studies from five countries: Ecuador, Mali, Niger, Lebanon and Yemen illustrate this point.
Amber Peterman; Jacobus de Hoop; Jose Cuesta; Alexandra Yuster
Ethical Considerations When Using Social Media for Evidence Generation
2018 20 Jun 2018
There are significant ethical implications in the adoption of technologies and the production and use of the resulting data for evidence generation. The potential benefits and opportunities need to be understood in conjunction with the potential risks and challenges. When using social media to directly engage children and their communities, or when establishing partnerships with these organizations for data collection and analysis, adoption of these technologies and their resultant data should not be exclusively driven by short-term necessity but also by the long-term needs of our younger partners. When engaging with social media and indeed most technology, thoughtfulness, reflection and ongoing interrogation is required. This paper examines the benefits, risks and ethical considerations when undertaking evidence generation: (a) using social media platforms and (b) using third-party data collected and analysed by social media services. It is supplemented by practical tools to support reflection on the ethical use of social media platforms and social media data.
Gabrielle Berman; James Powell; Manuel Garcia Herranz
As of January 2017, 2.78 billion people worldwide were classified as active social media users. Of these users, 1.87 billion use Facebook. Thirty-nine per cent of Facebook users are between the ages of 13 and 24 (approximately 729 million young people). Available data also show that in 2014, approximately 31 per cent of users of the top five social media platforms were aged between 16 and 24 years. With the enormity of this coverage as well as over 40 per cent growth in usage from the previous year in countries like India, UNICEF has and continues to look at ways to use these platforms and the data generated to connect with and understand the reality of children today and to ensure more child-centred/user-centred policies and services. This brief provides an overview of the critical ethical considerations when undertaking evidence generation using social media platforms and using third-party data collected and analysed by social media services. It is supplemented by checklists that may be used to support reflection on the ethical use of social media platforms and social media data. This brief is based on a more in-depth Innocenti Discussion Paper which provides further guidance and tools.
‘Cash Plus’: Linking Cash Transfers to Services and Sectors
Cash transfers have been successful in reducing food insecurity, increasing consumption, building resiliency against economic shocks, improving productivity and increasing school enrolment. Despite the many successes of cash transfer programmes, they can also fall short of achieving longer-term and second-order impacts related to nutrition, learning and health outcomes. A recent study highlights how so-called ‘Cash Plus’ programmes, which offer additional components or linkages to existing services on top of regular cash payments, may help address such shortcomings.
Keetie Roelen; Tia Palermo; Leah Prencipe
Economic Transfers and Social Cohesion in a Refugee-hosting Setting
There is increasing interest in understanding if social protection has the ability to foster social cohesion, particularly between refugees and host communities. Using an experimental evaluation of transfers, including cash, food and food vouchers to Colombian refugees and poor Ecuadorians in urban and peri-urban areas we examine if transfers resulted in changes in social cohesion measures. The evaluation was a cluster-randomized control trial examining a short-term programme implemented over six months by the World Food Programme. We examine six aggregate dimensions of social cohesion, derived from 33 individual indicators, in addition to an overall index of social cohesion. Overall results suggest that the programme contributed to integration of Colombians in the hosting community through increases in personal agency, attitudes accepting diversity, confidence in institutions, and social participation. However, while having no impact for the Ecuadorian population. There were no negative impacts of the programme on indicators or domains analysed. Although we are not able to specifically identify mechanisms, we hypothesize that these impacts are driven by joint targeting, messaging around social inclusion and through interaction between nationalities at mandated monthly nutrition trainings.
Elsa Valli; Amber Peterman; Melissa Hidrobo
A mixed-method review of cash transfers and intimate partner violence in low and middle-income countries
Ana Maria Buller; Amber Peterman; Meghna Ranganathan; Alexandra Bleile; Melissa Hidrobo; Lori Heise
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Survey results for VFX, animation and gaming
by Unifor | Apr 10, 2017 | News, Organizing News | 0 comments
Unifor Local 2000 conducted an anonymous online survey for people working in VFX, animation and game development. We asked questions on age, job description, top workplace problems and possible solutions, including unionization. Thank you to all who participated! Based on the overwhelming response, it’s clear you’re all facing similar issues that require creative, collective solutions. We’ve been meeting with people, talking about how unions and a collective agreement can bring lasting, positive changes to the workplace. These are exciting times for Vancouver’s tech workers and for us as a union. Unifor has the background and experience to turn workers’ ideas into reality. For those who haven’t taken our survey, it’s not too late to make your voice heard. The survey was not scientific, and the respondents were self-selecting, as it was entirely voluntary.
The overwhelming majority of respondents (61 per cent) worked in visual effects, 39 per cent worked in animation, and only eight per cent in game development. (People could choose more than one answer.)
Fifty-six per cent of the respondents were in the 30 to 39 age range. Thirty-seven per cent were in their 20s, and only six per cent were 40 or older.
Workplace issues:
We asked a multiple-choice question about the top problems in the workplace, and job instability came first at 58 per cent, with poor management close behind at 57 per cent. Long hours/unpaid overtime ranked third, with 44 per cent.
What are the top problems in your workplace?
(Note: Because respondents can chose more than one response, the results add up to more than 100 per cent.)
I really like the people where I work. I just feel that they’re not paying us nearly enough as to what they should be, especially with overtime and benefits. – survey respondent
Survey respondents could also add their own comments about workplace problems, and the top three emerging themes were low pay, long hours and problems with management. A couple of respondents noted that long hours and unpaid overtime were two separate issues, and while they weren’t happy with the long hours, they were at least paid overtime. Lack of sick days, no benefits and uncertainty around the next contract were also cited as cause for concern. It wasn’t all bad; two people reported positive experiences in the workplace.
Respondents were asked to describe one thing they would like to change about their job, and we sorted responses into theme-based categories. Management issues came out on top. People cited various problems, such as unrealistic scheduling, “surprise” overtime, lack of communication, and poor planning. Work-life balance issues were closely behind. People complained of long hours, short, unrealistic deadlines and a culture of expected overtime. Issues related to job stability/certainty were the third highest-ranking concerns, followed by overtime pay and salaries.
Word cloud: What kinds of solutions would help your industry?
We asked people for solutions that would help their industry. Better management was the top theme, especially around scheduling realistic deadlines, and better coordination, planning and communication. Improved pay or transparency around wages tied for the second most common theme alongside client-related problems. Some called for studios to push back against unrealistic client demands and the fixed bid process, where studios undercut each other at the workers’ expense. A few raised women’s issues: mainly child care and sexual harassment, while others bemoaned the lack of sick days.
Unions:
We also asked respondents to share their feelings about unions. The overwhelming majority (55.67 per cent) were interested but unsure what it would mean, while 19.59 per cent were all for it and ready to sign up, and 8.25 per cent were terrified their employer would find out. A couple of people expressed concerns that work may move overseas should their industry unionize in Vancouver.
I don’t know of any 2D TV studio in town paying overtime. They give unmanageable quotas and tell staff it’s their own fault for not completing the work on time. It’s a problem. – survey respondent.
Many left email addresses to get involved in our group to talk about industry solutions and unionization. If you’re interested in joining our group, email jmoreau@mediaunion.ca.
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A Modern Invention
Davide Tarizzo
Translated by Mark William Epstein
A paradigm-shifting genealogy of biological life as metaphysical concept rather than a scientific category
The word “biology” was first used to describe the scientific study of life in 1802, and as Davide Tarizzo demonstrates, our understanding of what being alive means is an equally recent invention. Circumventing tired debates about the validity of science and the truth of Darwinian evolution, Tarizzo instead envisions a profound paradigm shift in philosophical and scientific concepts of biological life.
The translation of Italian philosopher Davide Tarizzo’s Life is a cause for celebration. Tarizzo goes where others haven’t in order to ask the following question: when did we actually become alive? His answer is deeply unsettling. Part political philosophy, part genealogy of aliveness, part faithfully radical account of Darwinian evolution, Tarizzo has written a vertiginous reflection on what it truly means to be ‘savagely’ alive—in other words, biopolitics 2.0. Not to be missed.
Timothy Campbell, Cornell University
Theory and Philosophy, Film and Media, 2018 Cultural Studies catalog, 2018 Geography catalog
The word “biology” was first used to describe the scientific study of life in 1802, and as Davide Tarizzo demonstrates in his reconstruction of the genealogy of the concept of life, our understanding of what being alive means is an equally recent invention. Focusing on the histories of philosophy, science, and biopolitics, he contends that biological life is a metaphysical concept, not a scientific one, and that this notion has gradually permeated both European and Anglophone traditions of thought over the past two centuries.
Building on the work undertaken by Foucault in the 1960s and ‘70s, Tarizzo analyzes the slow transformation of eighteenth-century naturalism into a nineteenth-century science of life, exploring the philosophical landscape that engendered biology and precipitated the work of such foundational figures as Georges Cuvier and Charles Darwin.
Tarizzo tracks three interrelated themes: first, that the metaphysics of biological life is an extension of the Kantian concept of human will in the field of philosophy; second, that biology and philosophy share the same metaphysical assumptions about life originally advanced by F. W. J. Schelling and adopted by Darwin and his intellectual heirs; and third, that modern biopolitics is dependent on this particularly totalizing view of biological life.
Circumventing tired debates about the validity of science and the truth of Darwinian evolution, this book instead envisions and promotes a profound paradigm shift in philosophical and scientific concepts of biological life.
$27.00 paper ISBN 978-0-8166-9162-3
$108.00 cloth ISBN 978-0-8166-9159-3
248 pages, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, December 2017
Series: Posthumanities, Volume 44
Davide Tarizzo is assistant professor of moral philosophy at the University of Salerno.
Mark William Epstein has translated numerous books, including Lars-Henrik Olsen’s Tracks and Signs of the Animals and Birds of Britain and Europe and Luca Peliti’s Statistical Mechanics in a Nutshell.
In this outstanding book, the biological paradigm of modern life is traced back, probably for the first time, to its philosophical and metaphysical sources. By connecting Darwin's dangerous idea with those of Kant's and Schelling's, Davide Tarizzo raises the most challenging questions about our future of living beings.
Roberto Esposito, author of Bíos: Biopolitics and Philosophy
Introduction: A Savage Ontology
1. Modernity: The Threshold of Autonomy
2. Life: Genesis of a Metaphysical Paradigm
3. Us: On the Use and Abuse of Life for History
Translator’s Acknowledgments
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Bíos Biopolitics and Philosophy A significant political theorist advances the discussion of biopolitics
A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans with A Theory of Meaning The influential work of speculative biology—and a key document in posthumanist studies—now available in a new, accurate English translation
Improper Life Technology and Biopolitics from Heidegger to Agamben How biopolitics can get beyond its obsession with death
Life, Emergent The Social in the Afterlives of Violence Understanding biopolitics anew, through life and not death, in the aftermath of mass violence
Political Spaces and Global War A disquieting genealogy of globalization by a major contemporary thinker
Philosophy after Friendship Deleuze’s Conceptual Personae Redefining the goals of future political philosophy—and removing its justification for war
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Sabancaya volcano
stratovolcano 5967 m / 19,577 ft
Peru, -15.78°S / -71.85°W
Current status: erupting (4 out of 5)
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Last update: 19 Jan 2020 (Volcanic Ash Advisory)
Typical eruption style: explosive and effusive
Sabancaya volcano eruptions: 2016, 2015, 2014, 2003, 2000, 1998, 1997, 1990-95, 1988, 1986, 1784, 1750, <1595(?)
Wed, 25 Dec 06:32 UTC M 3.6 / 10 km 13 km Southern Peru
Tue, 17 Dec 19:04 UTC M 3.6 / 12 km 28 km Southern Peru
Sabancaya volcano (its name meaning "tongue of fire" in Quechua Indian language) is located in the southern Peruvian Andes and one of Peru's most active volcanoes.
The stratovolcano is covered with several glaciers and located in the saddle between the older stratovolcanoes Ampato (6288 m) and Hualca Hualca (6025 m) and the only one of the group that has erupted in historic times.
Sabancaya belongs to one of South America's volcanoes with the oldest recorded history of eruptions.
Historic records of eruptions from Sabancaya date back to 1750, but its name already appears in written accounts from 1595 AD, suggesting that it had been active around or before that date as well.
Both Nevado Ampato and Nevado Sabancaya show only little erosion due to glacial cover, suggesting that much of their summit edifices are geologically young.
Activity within the past 10,000 years consisted of explosive plinian eruptions followed by effusive eruptions of voluminous andesitic and dacitic lava flows. These flows surround the volcano on all sides except the north flank.
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We open the festival with the the scary Sundance sensation UNDER THE SHADOW, a supernatural tale that’s drawn comparisons with previous festival gem, THE BABADOOK. After her husband leaves to fight in the war with Iraq, an Iranian mother and her young daughter are left to cope by themselves in an increasingly deserted apartment building. It’s soon clear that someone or something else has moved into the building with them, an evil spirit with a sinister agenda of its own that threatens their lives. One the scariest films of the year, UNDER THE SHADOW is not to be missed!
IN A VALLEY OF VIOLENCE (USA) Toronto Premiere
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AS THE GODS WILL (Japan) Toronto Premiere
THE HUNGER GAMES meets BATTLE ROYALE in the latest outrageous masterpiece from legendary Japanese horror icon Takashi Miike (ICHI THE KILLER). A mysterious, powerful entity takes over a high school and forces the teens to play a series of deadly elimination games, from which only a few will survive. Adding to the freakishness: all the death matches involve innocent toys from childhood coming to life and terrorizing the players!
THE VOID (Canada) Closing Gala Film & Canadian Premiere
Toronto After Dark 2016 closes with the much-anticipated Canadian Premiere of THE VOID, Jeremy Gillespie and Steven Kostanski’s follow-up to their previous cult sensations MANBORG and FATHER’S DAY. With a throwback to classic horror master John Carpenter, THE VOID brilliantly combines a tense siege movie with a terrifying creature feature. Sheriff Carter picked the wrong night to pay a visit to the remotely located local hospital. Outside, a gang of white sheeted creeps surrounds the place, threatening the lives of anyone that wants to leave. Inside, a deadly sinister and multi-tentacled life form is on the loose. Featuring an intense atmosphere of terror plus outstanding practical creature effects, THE VOID is a dark horrifying experience you won’t want to miss!
THE REZORT (UK/Spain) North American Premiere
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CREEPY (Japan) Toronto Premiere
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ANTIBIRTH (USA/Canada) Toronto Premiere
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KILL COMMAND (UK) Special Presentation
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THE LURE (Poland) Toronto Premiere
Picking up multiple awards on the festival circuit since its Sundance hit debut, THE LURE is a one-of-a-kind sensation, a horror musical from Poland featuring man-eating mermaids! When a sleazy promoter hires two strange young girls to sing at his nightclub, he doesn’t count on their ability to also turn into carnivorous blood-thirsty fish! Unfortunately no full trailer available to show you how awesome this film is. Just trust us when we say that THE LURE is a crowd-pleasing unique cinematic experience featuring some great bloody kills interspersed between stunning musical numbers and is simply not to be missed!
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Utah Valley Quilt Guild
Established in 1982 to promote the Art of Quilting through educational and social means and to provide service.
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Bonnie Bryce
Recap by Maureen Tuttle
Bonnie Bryce was the first president of Utah Valley Quilt Guild and organized the group in 1982.
For those of you who weren’t able to attend our October meeting with Bonnie Bryce, I wanted to pass on a few interesting things that Bonnie shared with us.
After taking a quilting class with Carol Hatch, who was the Utah Quilt Guild President at the time, Bonnie asked Carol how to start a quilting group. Carol said, “Just do it”. So Bonnie “just did it”, and aren’t we all so glad?
Bonnie put an article in the newspaper for the first meeting, which was held at the Orem City Library with 19 members attending. After the first year the membership grew to around 200 and it has stayed high in numbers ever since. (We currently have 270 members.) Hortense Harward suggested having a hospitality table at each meeting, and along with her daughter and daughter-in-law (Marsha Harward of Corn Wagon Quilts fame), she did a fabulous hospitality table for over 20 years.
Sarah Hacken was the first Vice President of the guild, so she was the President in the second year. Both Sarah and Liz Fisher, the first program chairman of the guild, had been in quilt guilds in other places so they were wonderful resources as the meetings began. Mazey Buckley started the first newsletter and named it “Patchwords”, which we are all still enjoying as we read this. ☺
Bonnie says, “I couldn't have had a more wonderful first teacher than Carol. She was determined to teach us everything she knew about quilting and she knew a lot. Penny Stephenson was in that class with me.”
Thanks again, Bonnie, for a wonderful presentation and for starting this wonderful guild!
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The share price of DNLM is down 42% from its highs in 2016 and we believe at its current price DNLM represents a good opportunity to acquire a quality business at an attractive price.
DNLM is a UK brick and mortar retailer with 172 stores in the UK focused on homewares.
DNLM was founded in 1979 by Bill Adderley, with the first store opening in Leicester in 1984. While no longer having an active role, Bill still holds 24% of shares outstanding. In 1996, Will Adderley, Bill’s son, took over day to day operations and was instrumental in growing the group to its current size. Will is currently deputy chairman and holds 26% of shares outstanding.
Over the last 40 years the Adderleys have built DNLM into the largest homewares retailer in the United Kingdom (39 consecutive years of increased sales), with a 8.1% market share of homewares. While Dunelm’s core business is in homewares, DNLM is also expanding its furniture offering (particularly online), which currently accounts for about 10% of sales and 1% market share. We think it is important to distinguish at this stage the homewares market from the furniture market. While Dunelm often gets grouped into the same market as furniture retailers, homewares is a fundamentally different business. Both have a similar TAM (total addressable market) of about $12bn in the UK but the furniture market is made up of significantly higher valued goods and is therefore more cyclical. This is reflected in the fact that the average DNLM customer has an average basket size of £30 and typically shops at DNLM every 4 to 6 month. This therefore makes selling homewares less risky than furniture. This is further illustrated by the fact that LFL (like for like) sales in 2009 dropped only 6% and profit margins remained stable at around 9%.
Disciplined capital allocation
Over the last decade DNLM has built an excellent track record of shareholder value creation, doubling revenue by reinvesting capital at a ROIC above 30%.
This has been possible because management has been disciplined in opening stores in locations where unit economics are very attractive, typically achieving a pay back of less than 3 years. While we don’t believe the unit economics of opening stores will be as attractive going forward, we do believe that a payback of 4 years will be achievable. By achieving such high return on capital and growing in a disciplined and steady way, management has been able to pay on average all of its FCF (free cash flow) to shareholders in the form of dividends or special dividends and thus considerably increase returns to shareholders. DNLM is a perfect example of how a high ROIC can create a significant amount of shareholder value.
Due to the fragmented nature of the homewares and furniture market (see below), we believe there is still room for DNLM to grow, particularly in London where it has a lower retail footprint. Management has a target of doubling revenue in the medium term through a combination of store expansion and online growth.
Like for like growth has historically been around 2% over the past decade but as shown below it has been quite volatile.
While We believe the 2% LFL sales growth will continue going forward, the composition of this growth will change as more and more sales comes from DNLM’s online channel.
We think DNLM will be able to grow at a faster rate than the 2% LFL growth rate as it still has room to open more stores, particularly in London. DNLM has a medium term revenue target of £2bn with about 35% coming from online sales. Historically DNLM has opened around 8 stores per years and while we expect this to moderate, we think this will still be a driver of growth going forward. In the diagram below, note that DNLM opened 10 stores in the latest financial year.
Why are the shares down?
Over the past few years the company has put more emphasis on online sales and this culminated in the acquisition of Worldstores in November 2016. The last 2 years have not been easy for Dunelm, with weak consumer spending in the UK, uncertainty due to Brexit, sales shifting online and a slower than expected integration of Worldsores. The acquisition of Worldstores was important to acquire the IT infrastructure to allow DNLM to accelerate its online sales. Worldstores did however operate under a different business model (more furniture sales, no own brands, lower gross margins, loss making) and this diluted results for the group as a whole. With the integration of Worldstores now mostly complete, margins should start to improve as management can focus on the core business.
Notwithstanding the difficult environment over the past 2 years, the underlying business has not done as badly as the share price suggests, although, as seen below operating margins have deteriorated (to a large extent due to the Worldstores acquisition.)
In terms of revenue growth, total revenue in 2017 and 2018 was up 8.5% and 9.9% respectively. Like for like sales in 2018 was up 4.2% (up from -0.5% in 2017), with online sales up 38%. Online sales now account for 16% of total sales. Over this period the share price has fallen 51% and although the share price has recently recovered some ground we think the shares are still undervalued by at least 30%.
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Atiku’s appeal: CUPP alleges plot to alter seniority in selection of panel justices
On October 10, 2019 3:15 pmIn News, Politicsby David O Royal
…Vows to reject any move to handpick panel members
By Joseph Erunke
As President Muhammad Buhari and former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, both candidates of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in the 2019 president election shift their battle to the Supreme Court,the Coalition of United Political Parties, CUPP, has alleged of plans in some quarters to jettison seniority in the selection of panel justices.
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The CUPP, at a press conference, Thursday, in Abuja,claimed the ruling APC led federal government was mounting undue pressure on the Chief Justice of the Federation and the “entire court to accept a handpicked panel and jettison the age-long tradition of the court of selecting the most senior justices of the Supreme Court to sit on the panel.”
Spokesman of the opposition coalition, Ikenga Ugochinyere, who addressed the media, said the coalition would not accept such action.
“We have it on good authority that the All Progressive Congress APC led Federal govt has been mounting undue pressure on the Chief Justice of the Federation and indeed the entire court to accept a handpicked panel and jettison the age-long tradition of the Court of selecting the most senior justices of the Supreme Court to sit on the panel,” it claimed.
The text of the briefing read thus:”As you are already aware the opposition consensus candidate Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has approached the Supreme Court of Nigeria to appeal the controversial and unpopular judgment of the Court of Appeal which dismissed his Petition.
“By the provisions of the 4th alteration of the 1999 constitution as amended, the Supreme Court of Nigeria has 60 days from the date of the filing of the Notice of Appeal. These processes have kick started and everyone is awaiting the composition of the names of the 7 man panel by the Chief Justice of Nigeria.
“The disquiet and bad blood caused by the APC in the Supreme Court now is a clear desecration of the highest temple of justice in the land.
PDP, Atiku will fail again at Supreme Court, says BMO
“We have it on good authority that the All Progressive Congress APC led Federal govt has been mounting undue pressure on the Chief Justice of the Federation and indeed the entire court to accept a handpicked panel and jettison the age-long tradition of the Court of selecting the most senior justices of the Supreme Court to sit on the panel.
“The Opposition and Most Nigerians will not accept a handpicked panel neither will the pronouncement of such panel command the requite respect and confidence of the people of Nigeria and we in the Opposition.
“The Supreme Court is for the people the last hope of the judiciary. The actions of the Supreme Court must inspire national confidence and deliver not just judgment but justice and that path to justice is not only about the law but about the ordinary man believing that justice has been done. The Supreme Court is Supreme and its words must be for the protection of the society and the people and the law.
“A grave error was done at Appeal Court and the nation is waiting to see how a man who violated the Electoral Act and was supposed to have been disqualified managed to survive at the Appeal Court. That Court failed in both the issues of law and issues of national interest.
“Today corruption has been permeated in the highest levels of the Presidency, today Nigeria is indebted more than ever before, today suffering citizens are being taxed to death, today there is a craze to generate revenue even at the risk of stripping citizens of their minimal purchasing power which has almost lost all its value due to mismanagement by this incompetent administration. Today public funds are spent without appropriation and proper accountability.
” Today they have increased VAT to 7.2%. Today they tax citizens to deposit their money in banks; today they tax citizens for withdrawal of their money.
“Today they ask citizens to pay stamp duty and the money is not accounted for. Today citizens pay increased electricity tariff with no reciprocal electricity supply.
“Today they have borrowed money both locally and internationally more than any other government in our history yet they cannot pay workers minimum wage. Beyond these obnoxious policies, citizens are daily denied their basic right to freedom of expression. The Government has failed in its basic duty which is protection of lives and property. Today all parts of the country are insecure with bandits and terrorist raping and destroying.
“The economy is bad because the leader has no capacity to govern and has surrendered his functions to unelected people. Citizens are charged to Court for terrorism for merely speaking out against this misrule, while his supporters are asking for 3rd term and working assiduously to achieve such unconstitutional ambition.
“This administration failed on electoral reform, it failed on security, it failed on economy, it failed on the fight against corruption, it has failed to make any worthy investment in the health sector, it has failed to record any success in education, foreign investments is lower than it used to be and Nigeria is daily sinking deeper into the poverty gully and our once growing economy is now the centre of poverty in the world. The judiciary is daily being emasculated. Judges are petitioned against if they rule against Government interest, this attack on judges was carried out to silence the judiciary and use it as clearing house. Disobedience to lawful orders of court by the government is now the order of the day.”
It, however, said all hope was not lost if the PDP candidate wins at the Supreme Court.
“The way out is in the hands of the Supreme Court justices who will be called upon to rule in the interest of the law, National Interest, unification and enthronement of a competent leadership and that journey starts with the composition of the membership of the presidential election appeal panel that will hear Atiku’s Appeal at the Supreme court,” it said.
It added: “We are back on this matter because we have received reinforced intelligence that the age long tradition of composition of a panel made of up of experienced justices based on their seniority is about to be breached. This complaint is a painful road we would have avoided for the image of the Supreme Court but knowing the desperation of the people and their hate for decency and order we cannot keep quiet knowing they regard the people with disdain.
“We hereby alert the nation once again and in a loud voice that there is still ongoing plot engineered and being pushed by allies of the ruling APC who know that it will be difficult if not impossible in law for the president to escape a fair and neutral adjudication of the Appeal without consequences and hence the desperation to breach the age long tradition of most senior justices sitting in the appeal at the Supreme Court.
” Let us say it here, all the justices of the Supreme Court are eminently qualified but in view of the trying times where lawlessness and breach of procedure are now common and with rampaging power mongers willing to capture all state institutions of governance in a bid to sustain a tainted presidential mandate, the opposition rejects and will not support any move to tamper with the age long order of seniority which have been in practice since 1979 till date and used in selecting most senior justices of supreme court who sits on election dispute panels at the supreme court.
“We say these knowing that we were all here when we screamed few days to the election about the military styled forceful removal of the former Chief Justice of Nigeria and installation of another against express orders of Court that restrained him and that it was for a day like this. The Buhari APC knew that it will rig the election and worked ahead to attempt to destabilize and intimidate our courts.
“The Opposition wants these age long tradition of composing presidential election dispute panel in order of seniority maintained because we do not trust the altering of the seniority list under a Buhari led APC Federal Government. They and some institutions have not earned our trust in this dispute to reclaim our mandate. The method the APC government used in clamping down on the judiciary and the circumstance surrounding the installation of a new CJN is the reason our confidence level is low and the only way is to allow this tradition to help instil confidence on all parties and ensure not only the delivery of judgment but also the delivery of Justice and for the people to accept and feel that justice has been done. A handpicked panel at this tensed period will rob the Supreme Court the confidence, impartiality and trust of the citizens to hear this matter.
“All over the world and even in Africa it is always the most senior justices that handle such matters. Even Article 3 and Article 6 of the International Criminal Justice Statute/rule, expressly provides for seniority in handling matters. Also at the Nigerian bar and bench, seniority is highly recognized and respected.
“From 1979 to the return to democracy in 1999, the journey has been about seniority of justices when composing Presidential election appeal panel at the Supreme Court, from Kenya to Ghana to many parts of Europe it is about seniority. In the recent Kenyan Presidential election Petition, The Kenyan Chief Justice David Maraga along with his deputy Lady Justice Philomena Mbete Mwilu led other eminent senior justices of the Kenyan Supreme Court and despite all shenanigans/manipulation to force him out of office for failing to compose a handpicked panel, he still presided and did justice in the election dispute.
“The question we will ask those pushing for handpicking is why now? Is there something they are afraid of? Why the agitation by the APC? Why the pressure to alter the tradition and handpick justices? Why? Why? Why?
“The Supreme Court winner will require the support of the citizens to govern and that support can only be gotten if the judgment is seen to have been delivered fairly and not judgment that its outcome will be seen to have been designed from beginning to achieve the desired result. That will still leave the nation in a sour post-election mood. This is the reason why we keep shouting; APC removes politics from the Supreme Court! The list of the entire justices of the Supreme Court showing also the most senior justices are hereby reproduced for those who are in doubt.”
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Air Quality – Vaper’s Homes Same as Non-Vaper’s
Smoking, Not Vaping, Proven to be a Major Home Pollutant
A study into the air quality of people's homes has shown that the air in a vaper’s home is just the same quality as that of a non-vaper's home. But smoking did prove to be a major source of pollution, according to the study.
Scientists at the University of San Diego looked at 300 family homes in San Diego, all of which had at least one smoker and one child under age 14. Particle monitors were installed in two locations within each home. For three months, the monitors continuously scanned the household air for fine particles between 0.5 and 2.5 micrometres. The monitors then transmitted data to the scientists.
Twice as Many Dangerous Particles
Particles such as dust pollen, fungi and smoke are small enough to be inhaled deeply into the lungs causing respiratory problems. In houses where there were smokers twice the levels of dangerous particulates were discovered during the study. Cigarettes were the biggest contributor to high particulate levels, but marijuana, candles, incense and household cleaners were also contributing factors.
But the scientists reported: “We observed no apparent difference in the weekly mean particle distribution between 43 homes reporting any electronic cigarette usage and those reporting none.”
It's good news for vapers who are arguing for vaping to be allowed in public places.
The issue seems to have come full circle too.
Complete Ban on Ecigarettes
Back in 2014, in a report on vaping, the World Health Organisation called for a complete ban on ecigarettes indoors over fears about passive vaping.
"The fact that ENDS exhaled aerosol contains on average lower levels of toxicants than the emissions from combusted tobacco does not mean that these levels are acceptable to involuntarily exposed bystanders,” said the report.
However, in its recent Tobacco Control Plan the UK government has said that ecigarettes should be promoted as a means to quit smoking. There were also suggestions of a possible relaxing of the recently introduced EU's Tobacco Products Directive to allow vaping inside offices.
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Bavaria Towers
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In 2006 Von der Heyden Group purchased three functional office and warehouse buildings in the top strategic location in Munich, on the border to Bogenhausen and Steinhausen, at the beginning of the highway A94, providing access to the Munich Fair, with the aim to change the master plan of the city.
Bavaria Towers: the White Tower and the Blue Tower (investment value: Euro 154 million) form part of the most spectacular development projects in the Bavarian capital in a strategic location in Munich. Situated in the Bogenhausen district on the eastern edge of Munich, Bavaria Towers Project create a stunning new gateway to the city – offering businesses a unique opportunity to claim a spot on one of the major thoroughfares into the regional capital.
The Bavaria Towers building complex is designed by star duo from Madrid, Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos, and will be comprised in total of four pentagonal high-rises that makes 77.651 sqm of total gross rental area, two central underground car parks with a total of 960 spaces for cars, including places for electric cars and places for bicycles with changing rooms and showers.
Bavaria Towers complex consists of: Blue Tower (72.3m high, 24,347sqm, 300 parking spaces), White Tower (53.6m high, 15.150sqm, 140 parking spaces), Sky Tower (83.6m high) and Star Tower (46.1m high). Covering a total area of app. 11,000sqm, the plot is the property of Bogenhausener Tor Immobilien GmbH, initiated by the Von der Heyden Group and co-owned with Luxembourg based Atlant Capital. The Munich-based Bayern Projekt GmbH is tasked with project development and representing the interests of the owners and also representing Zurich Insurance, the owners of the future Sky Tower and Star Tower.
The White Tower and Blue Tower are currently being constructed and are to gain certification in accordance with the LEED Gold sustainability standard. The General Contractor is PORR Germany. The fixtures and fittings in Bavaria Towers combine leading-edge materials, minimalist design and state-of-the-art building systems. The ensemble offers the perfect environment for innovative enterprises, supporting tomorrow’s world of work.
The 54m high White Tower building was already rented before construction to H-Hotels AG that will operate a four star Ramada Hotel for 20 years with 345 state-of-the art rooms and panorama suites with a large spa and fitness area on the 14th floor. Furthermore, in December 2015 shortly after the start of construction, the White Tower building was sold to Swiss Life Insurance Group and is one of the company’s largest hotel transactions.
Bavaria Towers will offer an impressive panorama view and breath-taking views over Munich and the Alps beyond.
Planned end of construction for the White and Blue Towers is December 2018.
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Investment Value: Euro 180 million
Completion: December 2018
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Veracode is the premier provider of application security solutions, transforming the way companies secure applications in today’s software driven world. We provide our customers with a solid foundation on which to build security into their modern agile development processes. Our Integrations Team is passionate about helping developers build and deploy secure code faster and creates the tools developers need for easily integrating application security testing with their existing software development tools and processes.
We seek an enthusiastic, motivated Software Engineer who shares our vision to secure the world’s software and who has the passion to be a strong contributor on a high-performance team. As a member of the team, you will play a key role in the evolution and expansion of our portfolio of integrations with software development tools including IDEs, build servers, and ticketing systems. You will participate in agile processes and leverage multiple languages, frameworks, and AWS cloud services.
Develop, test, deliver, and maintain Veracode integrations with SDLC tools and systems
Develop APIs and libraries enabling developer community to easily build their own integrations
Implement automated unit tests to ensure high quality deliverables
Work closely with other engineers and cross functional team members following principles of Agile software development and CI/CD practices
Navigate and learn the integration frameworks and APIs within 3rd party ecosystems
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Communicate with project stakeholders and the management team regarding status/direction of projects
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Acquire knowledge necessary to perform job assignments (technology, product and process)
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Science, Engineering or relevant field
2 or more years working in Java development
Experience with scripting languages like JavaScript, Python, Groovy
Experience writing automated unit tests (Junit)
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Veracode serves more than 1,400 customers across a wide range of industries, including nearly one-third of the Fortune 100, three of the top four U.S. commercial banks and more than 20 of Forbes’ 100 Most Valuable Brands. Learn more at www.veracode.com, on the Veracode blog, on Twitter and in the Veracode Community.
At Veracode you’ll have the opportunity to eliminate barriers for our customers and earn a competitive compensation and total rewards package – all while pushing the boundaries of what’s possible by collaborating with a diverse team of global innovators. In short, Veracode’s fun, diverse, and fast-paced culture has put us on the map as one of the best employers in Information Technology.
We offer competitive salary, company-sponsored premium Medical/Prescription & Dental Plans, company-paid Holidays, Vacation, Anniversary Service and Sick Days, 401(k) Plan, Education/Training Reimbursement, Charitable Gift Program, Adoption Assistance Program.
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Travel | 11 Apr 2011 | By by Daven Wu
Singapore revealed
An aerial map view of Singapore. Cut from the apron strings of Mother England in 1965, this former colonial outpost has leapfrogged into first world status in barely a generation.
In geo-political terms, Singapore has always struggled a little with its underdog status: a tiny dot of a rock at the foot of the Malayan Peninsula teeming with lush vegetation, a tough mix of Chinese, Indian, Malay and European settlers, and not much else by way of natural resources.
The thing about underdogs, of course, is how they always seem to sneak up from behind and surprise you. Which is why most first-timers to Singapore are invariably nonplussed by the extraordinary spectacle before them.
Cut from the apron strings of Mother England in 1965, this former colonial outpost - so quaintly remembered by Somerset Maugham and scratchy Movietone newsreels - has leapfrogged into first world status in barely a generation.
A new cohort of young, professional expats and returning diaspora now call the city home. And why not? Today, Singapore is a heaving tropical metropolis where sparkling skyscrapers are framed by emerald swathes of incredibly fecund vegetation. Its GDP figures, treasury reserves, quality of life, standard of living indices and tourism numbers are the envy of the world. The financial crisis that stormed through London and New York was a localised squall.
If this were a movie, Singapore would be a blockbuster starring Tom Cruise.
But the most compelling subplot has been the city-state’s dalliance with its creative side. With great energy and determination, both the public and private sectors have -- almost overnight, it seems -- transformed a once staid artistic backwater into a powerhouse.
This explains why Wallpaper* has long championed Singapore, and why we felt the time was ripe for an updated, in-depth look at its creative prowess, and the talented people who work so hard behind the scenes.
The muscular skyline is sprinkled with eye-catching silhouettes. Centuries-old shop-houses are being sensitively made over into offices, boutiques and bijou hotels. The concert halls thrum with first-rate concerts, while daring film-makers are making the kind of socially conscious movies that would have been unheard of a decade ago. On the gourmet front, local tastemakers stand proud alongside the likes of Mario Batali, Guy Savoy and Wolfgang Puck.
As the Wallpaper* team of reporters and photographers scoured the island, dipping in and out of ateliers and art galleries, we took notes and found plenty to admire. What struck us most, though, was not how far Singapore has come in so short a time, but rather how much untapped potential there is. A thrilling sense of potential hangs in the air.
Punching way above its weight category, Singapore’s plucky determination to mix it up with the best of the best is, we think, the biggest story out there. Stay tuned for the sequel.
A new cohort of young, professional expats and returning diaspora now call the city home.
A view of the singapore skyline from the Marina Bay Golf Course.
Housed in a former Methodist girls’ school, the Old School on Mount Sophia is a new mixed-use complex incorporating a cinema, artists’ studios, galleries and café spaces.
Singapore’s old Supreme Court building (replaced by a Foster + Partners design in 2005, just visible in the background) and City Hall are being transformed into the city’s first national art gallery by French practice Studio Milou. The project, which will link the two historic buildings with a giant glass canopy, is due to be completed in 2013.
Designed by award-winning local practice WoHa, Singapore’s School of the Arts is training the city’s next generation of bright young creatives.
Singapore’s top talents, pictured under the Henderson Waves pedestrian bridge in the Southern Ridges park.
A spread of creative work by film-maker Boo Junfeng, singer / songwriter Inch Chua, Silnt designer Felix Ng, design organisation The Design Society, Commonground creative director Darren Lee, design studio and art organisation Farm, photographer Stefan Khoo, and &Larry creative director Larry Peh.
Singapore’s next design tricks
On Singapore’s Tanjong Pagar Road, traditional shop-houses are dwarfed by the new apartment blocks of the Pinnacle on Duxton Plain. Designed by ARC studio for 100,000 residents, the public housing scheme comprises of seven slim towers and two communal sky gardens.
This picture, the Singapore offices of advertising agency BHH Global are located in an old riverside warehouse transformed by local practice Ministry of Design.
Restaurant André, located in a 1920s shop-house in the Bukit Pasoh conservation district.
The Club boutique hotel, designed by Ministry of Design, in a 1900s building on fashionable Ann Siang Road.
An island of just 700 sq km, Singapore still makes space for innovative new builds, from eco-friendly homes and horizontal skyscrapers to a ’floating’ luxury store.
One of Ole Scheeren’s last designs for OMA before his departure, The Interlace apartment complex is framed by the greenery of the Southern Ridges and bears all the hallmarks of the architect, not least his Escher-like love for interlocking blocks. Eschewing the traditional high-rise, the design tips 31 towers onto their sides and stacks the six-storey blocks up in a hexagon around terraced sky gardens and private garden courtyards.
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Louis Vuitton crystal pavilion
Singapore’s retail experience is moving from its ubiquitous mall setting out onto the water. Set to open later in the year, Louis Vuitton’s extravagant new flagship store – a glass-sheathed pavilion built to appear to float on the waters of Marina Bay, as part of the Marina Bay Sands resort – is another feather in the cap for designer Peter Marino.
Maximum Garden House
As its name suggests, this project makes the most of the limited outdoor space that exists around it. As is typical in Singapore, the house is built on a tight plot that allowed no room for a garden at ground level. So architects Formwerkz embarked on a mission to reclaim greenery wherever possible. The result is a house with a grass roof on the first floor, a screen of plants that shields the master bedroom from the street, and a huge, wooden roof deck – the perfect place to eat, play, chat and look at the stars. Eco-elements feature heavily in Formwerkz’ architecture, and the practice is shaping up to be a central player in recasting Singapore as a ‘garden city’.
www.formwerkz.com
Park Royal on Pickering
When it opens next year, this will be Singapore’s greenest hotel. Described by its architects WoHa as a ‘hotel in a garden’, it has four floors designed around sky-parks that bring nature up to all 363 rooms. Corridors, lobbies and washrooms have been designed as garden spaces, with stepping stones, reflecting pools, waterfalls, planter terraces and green walls. Cleverly, these features echo nearby Hong Lim Park and give the property the feel of a resort, rather than a business hotel. Its zero-energy sky-garden is one of Singapore’s first, and uses solar cells to power hotel lighting, while rainwater collected from the upper floors irrigates planters and water features throughout.
www.wohadesigns.com
Radiator House
In Singapore, plots usually have a small street presence but extend a long way back. An architectural challenge, you might think. But not for Lekker Design. The practice’s latest private residence, the Radiator House, in the upscale neighbourhood of Bukit Timah, is a deceptively spacious home. With four pitched roofs, it looks like a row of futuristic semis, but is actually one four-bedroom family home with three garden courtyards providing mini oases of green. The house takes its name from the steel ‘chain mail’ mesh that partially covers the façade and serves to shade the building and heat water simultaneously.
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From Indian rotis to Indonesian rice, Singapore’s hawker food offers a winning pan-Asian feast.
Clockwise from top, small bowl; mixing bowl, prices on request, both by Albano Daminato, www.studiodaminato.com. ‘China White’ soup bowl, S$25.50 (£12); sauce dish, S$6.50 (£3), both by Luzerne, from Landex, www.landex.com.sg. ‘Contempo’ plate, S$22.90 (£11); ‘China White’ soup bowl, S$28.50 (£14), both by Luzerne, as before. Chopsticks, S$14.90 (£7), by Muji, www.muji.com. Small bowl, by Albano Daminato, as before. ‘Objects Around The Tablescape 2’, small cup; S$460 (£223); cup, S$670 (£325); ‘Objects Around The Tablescape 4’ aluminium carafe, S$2,090 (£1,013); cup, S$1,320 (£640); bowl, S$2,210 (1,071), all by Design Incubation Centre, www.designincubationcentre.com. ‘Setcast Dune’ hors d’oeuvre dishes, S$638 (£309) each, by VW+BS, from Space Furniture, www.spacefurniture.com.sg. ‘Tea Time’ plate, price on request, by Orcadesign, www.orcadesign.net. ‘Concord’ round bowl, S$4.50 (£2), by Luzerne, as before
Food prepared by chef John See of Fork and Chopsticks restaurant, Block 26 Sin Ming Lane, Midview City, #01-121, tel: 65.6659 4657
In Singapore’s restaurants, talented and adventurous young chefs are reinventing its culinary scene. Wild Rocket’s Willin Low’s culinary trajectory is almost cinematic: homesick student in London learns to recreate homey favourites by improvising with ingredients and flavours; works the corporate ladder but decides to pack it all in to open his own restaurant; wins fans for his homespun but defiantly modern and imaginative cooking. Already at the helm of four restaurants, Low continues to mine traditional local flavours for what he describes as modern Singaporean cuisine. Anyone with the chutzpah to pair teriyaki pork belly with spaghetti deserves a sequel.
www.wildrocket.com.sg
The first recipient of The Miele Guide’s At-Sunrice Culinary Scholarship Programme, Malcolm Lee of Candlenut Kitchen is bent on taking Peranakan food into the 21st century. His modus operandi is to refine his treasured family recipes by using the modern techniques he learned in cooking school. Lee’s rendition of ayam siow, a stew of spiced chicken in dark soy sauce, is first seared, then passed through a sous-vide machine to keep the mix uniformly tender and succulent. And to ensure that his food retains its authenticity, family matriarchs are roped in to provide the final stamp of approval.
www.candlenutkitchen.com
Janice Wong has come a long way from mopping floors at Will Goldfarb’s New York restaurant Room 4 Dessert. These days, she trades ideas with New Basque-cuisine master Juan Mari Arzak and top patissier Pierre Hermé. At just 28, Wong is firmly plugged into the upper echelons of the pastry world, yet her desserts never stray far from her Singaporean roots. Woven into her beautifully constructed sweets are the flavours of her childhood: hawthorn, seaweed and malted milk powder. In the works is 2am:lab, her own test kitchen, workshop and photography space.
www.2amdessertbar.com
Iskander Latiff’s prosaic resumé doesn’t boast fêted names from the culinary world. In fact, he cut his teeth working with his Malay mother, selling nasi padang at her coffee shop stall. Yet, thanks to his innate talent for taking classic Malay and Indonesian flavours and turning them into modern Southeast Asian bistro fare, the charmingly unassuming Latiff has become one of the country’s most exciting chefs. Unsurprisingly, his Malay-inflected contemporary dishes – from laksa croquettes to duck rendang – have turned The Tiffin Club into a magnet for adventurous diners.
www.thetiffinclub.com
Taiwan-born chef André Chiang has opened his eponymous restaurant in a beautiful white shop-house along a quiet street in Chinatown. A meal at Restaurant André is as much a feast for the eyes as it is for the taste buds: there is artistry in every aspect of the space, from the eggshell-thin handmade plates to the eight-course tasting menu. Based on Chiang’s Octaphilosophy, it is a sort of delicious French nouvelle cuisine that includes dishes such as a shimmering oyster swathed in gelée, a pale lavender broth flecked with flower petals, or carefully rumpled coal crackers.
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West Palm Beach Criminal & Family Lawyer > West Palm Beach Criminal Lawyer > West Palm Beach Property Crimes Lawyer > West Palm Beach Dealing in Stolen Property Lawyer
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In Florida, not only is it a crime to steal property, it is also a crime to deal or traffic in property that is known to be stolen. Dealing in stolen property, also known as fencing, is a felony offense in Florida and carries with it serious penalties. If you have been charged with dealing in stolen property, it is essential to retain the services of an attorney who understands the possible defenses to the crime and can help you prepare a well-crafted defense.
In order to show that a defendant has committed the offense of dealing in stolen property, the prosecution must show that the defendant sold, distributed, transferred, dispensed, or otherwise disposed of property, or attempted to do so, and knew or should have known that the property was stolen.
Additionally, it is an even more serious crime in Florida to initiate, organize, plan, finance, direct, manage, or supervise the theft of property and then later to deal in that property.
To show that a defendant has dealt in stolen property, it is not sufficient to show merely that he or she has purchased the property. In order to deal in stolen property, the defendant must have an intent to resell or redistribute the property. Defendants are not required, however, to actually distribute the property—they simply must possess the property with the intent to do so.
Property means anything of value. This includes real property, meaning anything affixed to or growing on land, and both tangible and intangible personal property, such as goods, services, intellectual property, interests, or claims. Stolen property includes any property that has been wrongfully and criminally taken.
Knowledge that property is stolen can be inferred, unless the defendant can provide a reasonable explanation otherwise. Some situations that lead to an inference of knowledge include:
Buying or selling property at a price substantially below market value;
Buying it from or selling it to a property dealer out of the ordinary course of business, without any proof of ownership;
If another’s name or contact information appears on the property; or
For a vehicle, evidence of bypassing the ignition mechanism or the steering lock.
Dealing in stolen property is a second degree felony in Florida, no matter how much the property was worth. Second degree felonies are punishable by any combination of imprisonment of up to fifteen years, probation of up to fifteen years, and a fine of up to $10,000.
If the defendant has first planned the theft and then trafficked in the property, he or she has committed a first degree felony, punishable by imprisonment of up to thirty years, probation of up to thirty years, and a fine of up to $10,000.
If you have been charged with dealing in stolen property, you face severe penalties, and so it is essential to hire an experienced attorney as soon as possible. Please call the West Palm Beach criminal defense attorney William Wallshein for a free consultation.
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Chicago Nabisco Workers Continue Fight to Preserve Local Jobs
A beige apartment building at 73rd and Kedzie is ground zero of the Nabisco workers fight to keep their jobs.
They’ve set up this empty apartment with a long table for meetings and keeping colleagues in the loop. From the front window, the massive Nabisco plant is right across the street--it’s where Oreo cookies and other brand favorites are baked.
Last July, parent company Mondelez said it was investing in new manufacturing lines--but not here. The lines -- and 600 jobs -- would be in Salinas, Mexico. The bakery union, BCTGM Local 300, is pushing back.
On the wall of the union’s campaign office is a banner, a replica of the famous Edvard Munch painting “Scream” and wordplay off of the name Mondelez -- it’s called Scream-delez International.
It all part of a strategy to bring attention to the disappearing jobs. Long-time workers have shown up at union protests and later plan to communicate with Mondelez leaders.
“All they’re worried about is making extra money. They don’t want to pay the American people,” said Barbara Cimbalista.
“They want to pay people in another country that they can take advantage of. We made them famous -- the Oreos, the Chips Ahoy, the premium crackers, the Ritz. They started here,” said Deborah Vargas.
Sabrina Pope added: “They want them to make it and bring it back here to sell it to us. This is an American job. It’s always been an American job.”
Manufacturing jobs leaving the U.S., and Chicago, is nothing new. But as pink slips become a reality, mobilization is ramping up.
Local 300 union in Chicago filed in court for arbitration around Mondelez contract violations. And the union filed an EEOC complaint against the company for race and age discrimination.
Elce Redmond is an organizer with the union, and he ticks off union actions:
“We have the legal angle in terms of lawsuits and injunctions, EEOC complaints, charges to the National Labor Relations Board. We have our international angle working with our brothers and sisters from around the world. All those irons in the fire and all of them are directed in terms of one thing: saving all of these jobs and keeping these jobs here in the city of Chicago because these jobs have created the middle class,” Redmond said.
The workers say they know they are taking on a multinational food company. But they are banking on the familiarity of their baked goods to garner support...to differentiate this from becoming just another David-Goliath fight. One of their messages to the public is to read the labels on products -- don’t purchase products made out of the U.S.
Mondelez doesn’t appear fazed by the organizing. The company declined to go on tape. In a statement, officials say they don’t discriminate and will defend the EEOC allegations.
And the planned investments in Salinas, Mexico, are underway and expected to be completed later this year. Layoff warnings to some employees have gone out.
The Nabisco plant is in Ald. Derrick Curtis’ 18th ward. He said he stands with the union but doesn’t have any solutions on hand.
“I do feel that sooner or later if they moving these lines they’ll eventually move the entire company,” Curtis said, adding that he’s not sure of a strategy. “I’m talking to different people, talking to unions, I’m talking to my colleagues, I'm just trying to come up with some answers.
Worker Sabrina Pope said the answer is just to remain steadfast:
“Just keep the faith. The faith of a mustard seed. That’s all we need. And if all of us got it and we all come together in solidarity, we can’t ask for anything else.”
For Pope, this fight is about future generations of workers being able to stay on the city’s Southwest Side...baking those familiar cookie treats.
Natalie Moore is WBEZ’s South Side Bureau reporter. You can follow her on Twitter.
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In Mass., Health Insurance Rates Continue Sharp Rise05:28
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The cost of many goods and services in Boston is expected to rise a little more than 1 percent next year. But the cost of health coverage will be in a league of its own.
The state’s top three insurers say they are negotiating plans for large employers that range from a 4 to 14 percent increase. This dramatic difference between health care and the cost of other basic needs forces the question, again...how are we going to slow health care spending?
WBUR's Martha Bebinger and Bob Oakes discuss what’s going on with health insurance and the politics around this issue.
Q: Blue Cross Blue Shield is projecting the lowest increases, isn’t that unusual?
Yes, Blue Cross, the state’s largest insurer, is typically a bit higher than Harvard Pilgrim or the Tufts health plan. But for the beginning of 2011, Blue Cross says its rate of increase will be lower than usual, in the 4 to 7 percent range.
Blue Cross says it's doing a better job of managing patients — the 5 percent of patients who consume 50 percent of the health care dollar. It also points to new budget-based contracts with hospitals and insurance plans with incentives for patients to use hospitals with the best balance of cost and quality. Next year, insurance through Tufts will rise, on average, 10 percent and plans through Harvard Pilgrim will go up 8 to 14 percent.
Q: These rates are for large employers with 50 or more workers, not for small businesses, right?
Yes, these rates apply to about 70 percent of residents who have private insurance. The rate increases for small employers, which prompted lawsuits and a new law earlier this year, are going up again even faster than the rates for large employers.
Q: We've had a decade of rate hikes in health insurance at 10 percent or higher, what's driving this?
The insurers say that it's how often we get care, what kind of tests and treatment we receive and where we go for that care. Some providers can and do demand much higher prices. We as patients get tests that are more expensive than others and most of us, doctors included, have no idea how much anything costs, so we don't think about whether, or where we go makes any financial sense.
Medical programs like Medicare and Medicaid do limit their spending, so the doctors and the hospitals make up the losses on those patients on other people, the private insurance members.
There are also some people who think the insurance companies are the problem because they spend too much money on administration — there's lots of things going on.
Q: Given the higher rates, what kind of changes might consumers see?
In order to keep the rates from going up even higher, we will see higher deductibles: $1,000 had been the accepted rate in Massachusetts, but it could go up to $1,500 or $2,000. We're going to see higher co-pays, we're going to see tiering for doctors and hospitals; you know the way we pay different co-pays for prescription drugs now, you'll see that for doctors and hospitals as well.
Q:Right, some drugs you pay more for, so now some doctors and hospitals you'll pay more for?
Based on their rating, exactly. And in that prescription drug tiering, Harvard Pilgrim is rolling out a fourth tier, where the really common antibiotics and common generics will be just a $5 co-pay, similar to what we see for Walmart.
Q: So cheaper drugs?
Much cheaper drugs.
We're also going to see an emphasis on wellness programs, you know, they're trying to get your employees healthy so that they won't be sick as often and won't use as much medical care. Employers have been reluctant to do that, but Harvard Pilgrim Senior Vice President for Sales Vin Capozzi says employers have to get more involved.
"If you have more engaged employees, healthier employees, you'll have a better workforce and a better outcome. It's in everybody's interest to go in this direction and we're certainly, as an employer, we're doing the same," Capozzi says.
So, there's Harvard Pilgrim employees, we here at BU fill out a health risk questionnaire. Tufts says it's holding its health care cost increases at 3 percent, in part by keeping employees healthier.
Q: Nationally, the average increase for a family plan is expected to be around 3 percent. Why is the increase in Massachusetts higher?
In general, nationally, employers are shifting more of the cost increases to workers across the board with higher co-pays and deductibles. They're doing that because they, in this recession, have been trying to preserve jobs and the health benefit is shrinking. And health care costs are higher here: we go to high-end hospitals for fairly routine tests and procedures and we have, for the most part very good insurance, its pays for lots of care.
Q: Given all of this, what's on the horizon in terms of holding health care costs down?
The focus is on setting budgets, not really per patient, but for a group of patients. The doctors and hospitals get bonuses if the patient does well, so the incentive is on primary care, to keep people from getting sick. But this would be a big change for everyone in the system and Senate President Therese Murray is not pledging to get something done next year.
She said last week that she's been pushing this issue for many years and isn't sure when the state will begin any significant payment reform. It has not been a top priority in the House and we don’t know who will be in the Corner Office.
Q: Is there a discussion of at what point patients will be made more responsible for their own health? If some of the responsibility for patients' health might shift to doctors, under these plans to help hold health care costs down, might at some point patients be held more responsible too?
I think insurers would say that we're seeing that now, as more of the costs shift to the patient, so that if they become more cost conscious they might shop more for better quality care at the best cost — that's where we're seeing patients being more involved.
Can you still afford health insurance? Are you changing where or when you get care based on the cost? What are your suggestions for lowering the cost of health care? Martha Bebinger and Brian Rosman, with Health Care For All, held a live chat Tuesday.
This program aired on October 5, 2010.
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Is this the doctor who first diagnosed Houdini?
An original photo of a man identified as Leo Dretzka has appeared on eBay. The seller speculates that this might be Dr. Leo Dretzka, the doctor who first examined the ailing Houdini when he arrived in Detroit in October 1926 for what would be his final performance.
Dretzka examined Houdini on the floor of his dressing room at the Garrick Theater. Houdini's obituary would later record that Dr. Dretzka diagnosed the magician as suffering from appendicitis and gave him the choice of performing that evening or going to the hospital. I've always thought it odd that a doctor would let a patient experiencing symptoms of acute appendicitis for several days decide if he wanted to go to the hospital or not, but that's what the record says.
Dretzka was actually the first of several doctors to attend to Houdini that tragic day. After Houdini struggled through his performance at the Garrick, he still refused to go to the hospital and instead returned to the Statler Hotel. There he was examined by the hotel physician, Dr. Daniel Cohn, who was substituting for the regular hotel doctor at the time. The young Cohn called staff surgeon at Grace Hospital, Dr. Charles Kennedy, who arrived at the hotel at 3AM and actually misdiagnosed Houdini with either a "ruptured intestine or a clot in the large blood vessel feeding it" (this according to Houdini!!! The Career of Ehrich Weiss). This was partially based on the information that Houdini had been punched in the stomach in Montreal.
Only after Houdini spoke on the phone with his own physician in New York, Dr. William Stone, did he finally agree to go to the hospital. The next day Kennedy and his team of surgeons discovered that Dretzka's diagnosis had been the correct one. Nevertheless, it was too late as Houdini's appendix had already ruptured, most likely on the train ride to Detroit.
I can't say with any certainly that this is a photo of the Dr. Dretzka. But I guess it could be! The auction starts at $25 and can be found HERE.
UPDATE: Our good friend melbo (Silly Tart) has uncovered another photo of Dr. Dretzka in The Milwaukee Journal. Certainly looks like it could be the same man! She has also discovered via ancestry.com that he worked at St Mary's and the Detroit Receiving Hospital and died in 1930. Good work melbo!
Written by John Cox at 11:39 AM
Tags: [History], 1926, Auction, Death, Detroit, Grace Hospital, Photographs, Punch
melbo November 11, 2011 at 12:06 PM
Good find - interesting too if anyone could confirm for sure that that is him.
John Cox November 11, 2011 at 2:12 PM
You know, I wonder if Dretzka really diagnosed appendicitis in the dressing room or if he, like Kennedy, was thrown by the punch information and diagnosed something less urgent and life threatening. You'd think Houdini would have gone to the hospital instead of performing if he knew how urgent it was. He certainly would have gone after the show. Of course Dretzka would tell the papers later that he gave Houdini the correct diagnosis, but did anyone besides Houdini hear it? Bess was probably three sheets by then. It's curious.
Very interesting stuff. Only one correction: this is not a cabinet card. It is an albumen paper print. Cabinet cards were stiff because they were backed with cardboard and of a different standard size than this image.
John Cox November 12, 2011 at 7:53 AM
Ah, thank you, lisby. I called it a cabinet photo because the seller did. I should have known better. I'll zap the word. Thanks.
Everything about Houdini's death is strange, not least his own behavior. It's not as if he never went to doctors or missed engagements earlier in his life. Why would you have to talk someone who is in excruciating pain into going to a hospital?
Maybe Dretzka was really a Margery agent who told him it was "gas, just gas." Quick! Write a book! :p
John Cox November 13, 2011 at 11:13 AM
I think we've done this seller a favor. It's already received 9 bids. It's going to be interesting to see what this sells for in the end.
Thank you so much, I will make the correction on ebay. I'm the seller of the photo. Quite a few years ago...20 or so..it had a very very old frame it was in that was professionally sealed shut with rusty wire hanging wire. The glass broke so I carefully took it out of the frame to uncover all that writing on the back...very interesting writing....ralph holmes and other stuff written on it. It's so wonderful to uncover all this wonderful history
SOLD for $46.99. :)
melbo November 18, 2011 at 12:58 AM
Cool - wondered how it went.
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How the Climate Plans of Presidential Hopefuls Stack Up
Emily Holden
Scientists warn that governments have about 11 years to enact large-scale changes to stop global warming. The next administration will have even less time.
Beto O'Rourke is one of two presidential candidates who want the US to be carbon neutral within the next three decades and have a detailed plan for how to get there.Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
This story originally appeared in The Guardian and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
Of the nearly two dozen Democrats running for president, only two campaigns have so far laid out deadlines for transforming American life to slash the pollution that is warming the planet’s climate.
The WIRED Guide to Climate Change
The world’s scientists warn that governments have about 11 years to put in place strategies to cut emissions from power plants, cars, buildings, factories, and land use. Once the next US president takes office, they will have nine years.
Passing large-scale climate legislation or writing new regulations for industry could take years, even if it is the next president’s primary priority. Any new administration will need to enter office with a detailed proposal and timeline to make a dent in the country’s share of climate pollution, experts agree.
What needs to be done and when?
“The more that we delay, the harder it will be,” said Sonia Aggarwal, vice president of the climate policy group Energy Innovation. “The sooner we get started, the more we’ll see deployment of new and increasingly very low-cost technologies that can reduce emissions.”
Aggarwal said the changes required are “nothing short of remaking our economy” at a “fundamental level.” Energy Innovation advocates for tackling the biggest and least complicated emissions cuts first. That includes switching to clean sources of electricity and scaling back super-polluting gases, including methane emissions from the oil and gas industry and fluorinated gases used in refrigeration and air conditioning.
But as Democrats cast Donald Trump and other Republicans as resistant to even acknowledging the crisis, most Democratic candidates have yet to reach that level of detail in their policy proposals.
Who is ahead of the pack?
Washington governor Jay Inslee and Texas congressman Beto O’Rourke want the US to be carbon neutral within the next three decades. Both have unveiled detailed climate policy plans. Inslee would set milestones for three sectors that could drive major reductions: power, transportation, and buildings. He has earned praise for his specificity. O’Rourke would also spend $5 trillion on green infrastructure.
Senator Elizabeth Warren has proposed banning new coalmining and oil drilling on public lands, which could cut US emissions but fall short of what scientists say is needed. A House climate committee will consider the idea.
Some advocates say it is too soon to judge Democratic candidates on climate, with the 2020 election season starting earlier than ever.
“At this early stage in the campaign, the most important thing is that the candidates get the policy right and commit to making climate change a top priority,” said Varshini Prakash, the leader of the youth-run Sunrise Movement. She said the group is looking for candidates who will “put the full weight of the government behind a transformation of our economy and society.”
Lynn Scarlett, a vice president for policy at the Nature Conservancy, said, “Regardless of the details, it is encouraging to see how elevated this issue has become.
“We recognize that successfully getting policy across any finish line often means going in with some broad principles and some broad paradigm but using the legislative process in a give-and-take to work out the devilish details,” Scarlett continued.
Who doesn’t have a comprehensive plan?
Vermont senator Bernie Sanders speaks frequently about the urgency of the climate change problem and supports a Green New Deal to fight global warming while making life more equitable for the poor and people of color. In 2015, Sanders unveiled a plan to cut US carbon emissions 80 percent by 2050, but so far this campaign season he has not laid out a timeline for the broad strategies he supports.
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Technology has a questionable reputation.
Look around. A simple Google search using “technology” and “language” brings up a variety of debates over how technology could be the ultimate downfall of the English language.
Texting, autocorrect, spell check, emojis. Each of these technology advances are contributing to the delinquency of students, many experts claim.
Are these the mortal enemies of our written communication? Or, is technology the victim of some bad PR?
Technology as a tool, not replacement
One of the biggest complaints about technology and spelling is how the advent of spell check/autocorrect and texting has helped create a generation of sloppy spellers.
But, is technology truly the culprit in the imminent destruction of our language?
In a March 2016 “ Wired ” magazine article, author David Pierce wrote, “Autocorrect allows us to type quickly and sloppily and let the software figure it out…” He cited a recent study of 2000 people that found one-third of the respondents could not spell ‘necessary’, and nearly 90 percent of them admitted they rely on spellcheck “to some degree.”
In this case, the problem lies with how people allow the tool to override their responsibility and common sense when it comes to their writing.
When used appropriately as a way to educate the reader or writer, these technology tools can improve users’ literacy skills.
Jill Duffy of “ PC Magazine ” emphasized this point in her March 7, 2016 article “I improved my writing with Grammarly, and so can you.”
The real trick to getting the most out of Grammarly is knowing when to have confidence in your word choices and ignore its suggestions. For example, Grammarly loves to point out when the passive voice is used (see what I did there?), but skilled writers use passives for style or to put emphasis on one part of speech over another.
In other words, writers must use the technology as a guide, not a substitute, for their work. This is especially true for students, who are still learning the nuances of the English language.
What are some of the tools students can use to tap into their technology passion? Here are a few suggestions:
E-readers increase students’ word exposure
2015 Scripps National Spelling Bee co-champions Vanya Shivashankar and Gokul Venkatachalam both cite reading as a way they boosted their spelling prowess. The more books they read, they said, the more exposure they had to new words. Both students were able to add these new words to their growing vocabulary and spelling word lists, which helped prepare them for the competition.
E-readers such as the Amazon Kindle make reading easier than ever because of their portability and wide variety of books it gives students access to in one, convenient device.
The ability to interact with words on an e-reader also helps students engage with them on a deeper level; they can look up definitions, discover the word’s history, part of speech and more. By increasing the ways in which students connect with a word, e-readers assist students in making new words a permanent addition to their everyday lives.
Technology creates interactive study options
Need to improve your spelling or reading? Yes, there is an app for that.
Actually, there are too many to count for students of all ages. Not only are they helpful for native English speakers, but also for English Language Learners. There are a variety of apps that provide the ability to play with the language, listen to the language or find more efficient ways to study spelling techniques, definitions and word origins.
Here are a few that elevate the traditional language lessons to a new level:
Spelling Monster by Desire Life Software. Recommended by Today’s Parent magazine, this app allows parents and students to create their own lists, adjusting the difficulty of the words along the way (up to 13-letter words, if desired). Multiple mini games keep the player interested, and parents and teachers have direct access to user statistics through a special parent page.
Spelling City by SpellingCity.com. This free app brings together audio and visual technology to inspire the player to learn new words. The SpellingTestMe game reads each word aloud, uses it in a sentence and repeats the word, just like a spelling bee. Users get instant feedback once they submit the test. There are other games that include a version of hangman, a word scramble, and a way to build a monument with correct spelling.
Quizzard Lite by GabySoft. Moving away from the game-centric apps for a moment to look at one geared for older students. Quizzard Lite makes the traditional index cards used for memorizing obsolete. Students create their own flashcards they can carry with them on their smartphone or tablet: a perfect option for short study sessions on the bus, waiting in line or hanging out with friends.
CoffeeStrap: Language Exchange by CofeeStrap: A truly immersive way to learn a new language. This app connects users with others around the world who are native speakers in the selected language and provides the opportunity to text and speak in that language. Developers even included a way for the app to detect which language users speak and track their improvement along the way.
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What are the best remedies for seasickness? We find out in our transatlantic survey
Elaine Bunting
What are the most effective cures for seasickness? Josh Arnold cites a survey of crews in the ARC transatlantic rally last year and Elaine Bunting reports first hand
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Seasickness is an age-old problem, but how common is it and how can we prevent or treat it? We conducted a survey among 450 sailors taking part in the ARC rally last year, to find out how people coped with this dreaded affliction.
The 2015 ARC provided participants with an exciting start to their ocean passage. During the first few days there were 25-40-knot winds, with large seas around the wind acceleration zones to the south of the Canary Islands and bumpy seas.
With only a few days of calm conditions for most amid the downwind rolling of a typical transatlantic crossing, the chances of feeling seasick at some point was high. At the end of the rally, participants were invited to complete our survey on seasickness, asking whether they had suffered, for how long and the remedies they had used.
An age-old affliction
There are references to seasickness as far back as Ancient Greece. Briefly, seasickness will arise when the body experiences a mismatch between the information received from our vision, balance (sensed via the ear) and the anticipated model of sensory behaviour that the body has built up from normal and previous experiences.
For example, when at sea our ears tell us that we are moving, however our sight (when focused on something within the boat) suggests that we are stationary.
As so many of us know all too well, symptoms include pale skin, cold sweat, dizziness, increased saliva, vomiting, headaches and drowsiness.
Evidence suggests that given the appropriate provocative conditions, almost all healthy individuals can develop seasickness. Indeed, it is estimated that as many as 90 per cent of seafarers have suffered at least once, if not several times from seasickness. This is despite many people’s reluctance to admit it.
Despite the apparently level playing field among individuals, susceptibility to seasickness may depend more on your threshold. This can also vary across different conditions for each individual – ie with changes in sailing angles or sea states – making it hard to predict.
Data from ARC 2015 suggests that 119 (26 per cent) of 456 survey respondents experienced seasickness to some degree during their 2015 Atlantic crossing. Some 67 (57 per cent) of those who did suffer from seasickness during the rally used some form of prevention strategy or remedy and 52 (43 per cent) did not.
Photo: Mahina Expeditions
Other factors not addressed by the survey, yet of potential interest include the conclusion in a 2012 report that motion sickness is considered to have a heritability of around 57-70 per cent, and racial differences in sensitivity appear to exist. For instance, Chinese populations were observed in a study in 2002 to be more sensitive than Caucasians.
Gender differences also appear to exist, with women more sensitive than men. And finally, fitness and anxiety are also known to influence sensitivity to seasickness.
How long does seasickness last?
Something that should provide a degree of comfort to those who are susceptible to seasickness, only 58 per cent of sailors on the ARC experienced symptoms for a maximum of one or two days. A further 27 experienced symptoms for three to four days, 9 per cent for five to seven days, and only 7 per cent for longer than one week.
Furthermore, the majority (60 per cent) of those who experienced seasickness said that it did not prevent them from taking part in any activities on board. These results would suggest that seasickness is relatively short-lived, and there is potential to work around it.
There is now a wide range of countermeasures available to aid in the battle against seasickness. Some are founded on good practice and evidence, while others are more controversial. Some 162 people on the ARC took some kind of action to combat seasickness, and 78 per cent rated their chosen methods as effective and helpful to them in some form.
Here is a brief breakdown of various remedies they took, how they align with evidence from other studies and how popular they were across the fleet as a whole:
There are at least nine different drug types available for use against seasickness. Anticholinergics (scopolamine) and antihistamines (dimenhydrinate, cinnarizine, betahistine) appear to be the most effective, evidence-based pharmacological agents. These have all been found in scientific studies to be more effective than a placebo.
Our survey showed ARC sailors had a heavy preference for pharmacological agents over any other kind of remedy, and the most common were Stugeron (cinnarizine) and scopolamine patches.
Though effective, these drugs are not without potential side effects such as drowsiness and dry mouth. One recent scientific case study from 2015 even described one individual who experienced withdrawal-type symptoms after consistent use of scopolamine patches.
In our survey, crews made clear references to side effects, particularly drowsiness.
Nutritional countermeasures
Caffeine intake alongside the drugs described above may provide a means of combating side effects such as drowsiness, although that was suggested by only a few ARC respondents.
Grapefruit juice can also be used to increase the absorption of oral scopolamine and there are a number of clinical studies that suggest ginger might reduce the nausea and vomiting caused by seasickness, though the means by which it actually works are not yet fully understood.
Finally, recent scientific evidence suggests vitamin C can be an effective tool for use in seasickness, though this does not appear to be recognised by the sailing community and was barely mentioned in our survey.
Getting over it
Put scientifically, habituation to seasickness can be induced in humans – that is, repeated exposures to seasickness may reduce someone’s susceptibility to it. Short repeated exposures to motion rather than a single extended exposure is thought to be more effective.
But it’s worth noting that evidence suggests habituation may only last for several weeks at a time, and is thought to be highly specific to the original conditions. So extensive downwind sailing may not stop someone experiencing seasickness while sailing upwind.
We must not forget the importance of distractions to counteract many seasickness symptoms. A large number of anecdotal accounts from the survey addressed the need to ‘keep busy’, find things to do such as helming, trimming, cleaning or cooking. Scientific evidence suggests that controlled breathing can help, as can viewing a distant horizon.
Evidence supporting the use of acupressure bands is controversial and this seems to be recognised by ARC sailors – there were few references to these in our survey.
Seasickness is an unavoidable hurdle that many sailors continue to have to overcome. But on a positive note, the survey shows that symptoms do ease with time and are often short-lived.
Seasickness round the world
In a previous survey we conducted in 2004, we found broadly similar results, writes Elaine Bunting
We surveyed 223 crew in the final stages of the Global Challenge round the world race, who had sailed over 27,000 miles.
We found that 62 per cent had suffered from seasickness at some stage, compared with 38 per cent who had never been sick, distributed fairly evenly among the boats.
Our results indicated that the incidence of seasickness might decrease with age because the percentage of seasick crew declined markedly after a peak between the ages of 20 and 24.
As with the ARC survey, we found most people who reported being sick (84 per cent) were able to carry on working, but 16 per cent reported such severe vomiting that they were not able to stand a watch.
Race doctors recommended a ‘multi-modal’ approach to medication, whereby two or more different types were taken simultaneously. A number of crewmembers on one yacht took cinnarizine (Stugeron) and domperidone (Motilium) in combination. On another yacht, domperidone (Motilium) was widely favoured, on another cyclizine (Dramamine II), on a third promethazine (Avomine).
But most crews stuck to cinnarizine or hyoscine patches (Scopoderm). The latter appeared to be the most effective – half of the 20 users said it ‘helped a lot’. Cinnarizine was more evenly split between ‘helps a little’ (35 per cent) and ‘helps a lot’ (35 per cent), though drowsiness was said in one case to be ‘totally debilitating’. Hyoscine patches caused blurred vision, skin reaction or a dry mouth and one medic noted dry eyes with contact lenses.
Other drugs used for the most severe cases were ondansetron (Zofran), which was reported as ‘the only drug that was able to retrieve people who had started vomiting’, and prochlorperazine (Buccastem).
Expert’s guide to seasickness
by Elaine Bunting
I don’t claim to be an expert at many things, but when it comes to seasickness I’m an authority, in a league of my own. I have ‘talked to god on the great white telephone’ and ‘done the technicolour yawn’ more times than I care to remember, in times of calm (peculiarly) as well as storms, and it is never fun.
Sometimes you get over it reasonably quickly; other times you don’t. I’m usually fine after three days, which I always think of as the magic amount of time for stomach, crew and routine to settle down on a long passage. But not always. My worst experience was being seasick for 12 continuous days while pounding north up the Red Sea. The upwind motion floored me. I lost 8kg. It is not a crash diet I’d recommend.
I had tried all sorts of remedies. I won’t touch Stugeron any more; it is like a cosh and makes me too drowsy to stand a watch safely. I find the dry mouth side-effects of Scopoderm patches insufferable – they are much nastier than they sound – and if you touch the patch and get any of the drug in your eyes, your pupils dilate. It also makes me feel weird (or, my husband puts it: “go mad”).
Acupressure bands are the sailor’s equivalent of lucky heather or hare’s feet charms. Ginger? Possibly it helps a little bit, but against that it stings nastily on the way back up.
I had resigned myself to self-management: cans of Coke to help quell nausea, pockets full of barley sugar sweets and dry crackers, spending as little time below deck as possible unless sleeping, and waiting it out for the magic three days. You suffer, but this works OK.
But then in Chile three years ago, while waiting to sail round Cape Horn, I met Keri Pashuk. Although a vastly experienced and famous Antarctic sailor, Keri confessed to being a terrible sufferer too. She gave me some of the tablets she used. Regrettably, I didn’t take them and so, of course, heaved miserably past the Horn.
While preparing for a rough passage from Harris out to St Kilda the summer before last, I found Keri’s tablets in my foulweather trouser pocket. I popped a couple. To my amazement, they worked. Most of the crew was seasick, but I was able to go below to make food and edit video. Unheard of.
When I got ashore I looked up Keri’s magic pink pills. Meclizine hydrochloride. Good, old-fashioned Sea Legs, the tablets they sell on cross-Channel ferries but, at 25mg, twice the dose. Unbelievable.
The problem with seasickness remedies of any kind, it seems to me, is that each person is different in what they can tolerate and what works for them. I had given up trying to find a panacea, so my advice now is: try everything. The chances are you will find something that at least makes those first few days tolerable. If you can get past that, the brain works it out and most people get over it.
And bear in mind, too, that one of the best therapies available is an understanding and sympathetic skipper and crewmates.
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Why I gave my FlipCam to a couple high school baseball players
John Clayton explains why he decided to give his FlipCam to a couple West York baseball players during last week's...
Why I gave my FlipCam to a couple high school baseball players John Clayton explains why he decided to give his FlipCam to a couple West York baseball players during last week's... Check out this story on ydr.com: https://www.ydr.com/story/news/local/blogs/ydr-insider/2012/07/18/why-i-gave-my-flipcam-to-a-couple-high-school-baseball-players/31765605/
Throughout the past year or so, one of our big goals in the sports department has been to ramp up our video coverage of events. It makes too much sense, really. Sports lend themselves perfectly to video.
And let's face it: While we as writers try as hard as possible to capture game action in our stories, nothing beats actually seeing a home run or touchdown happen.
But what about a parade, like the one held last week to honor the state-champion West York baseball team? I decided to bring along my FlipCam, even though I knew multimedia journalist Chris Dunn planned on shooting her own (far more polished) video.
Then, I had an idea.
Why not give my FlipCam to a couple players, and let them film an inside look at the celebration? A video diary, of sorts.
I ran the idea by West York coach Roger Czerwinski, who recruited one of the team's seniors -- catcher Jesse Bortner -- to help me out. I told Jesse to have fun and shoot whatever he wanted. There was only one rule: Bring back the FlipCam in one piece.
Throughout the parade, I watched Bortner and his teammate and co-documentarian, Brandon Kinneman, takes turns pointing the camera in every which direction. At the crowd. At each other. Back to the crowd.
By the time I got my FlipCam back after the ceremony, the battery was almost dead. They had filmed 37 minutes of video.
It was a lot to sift through. Once I had filed my story from the parade, I disappeared into a back room and began whittling down the footage. I tried to pick out the best parts, then edited them and added the proper transitions. There was a ton of good video, much of which didn't make the final cut.
After almost four hours of editing, I emerged with the finished product:
The result provided a fun, inside look at the event. Just as importantly, it gave us the opportunity the engage with the players -- and, by extension, the West York community -- in a unique manner.
I hope they had as much fun shooting the video as I did editing it.
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Night of Joy 2017 – Hurricane Irma Dampens Crowds, Not Spirits
Herb Leibacher September 9, 2017
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This was the 35th year for Disney’s Night of Joy, a music festival that features contemporary Christian artists. The event normally bring in huge crowds. In 2017, however, Hurricane Irma changed the game.
The first night, on Friday, September 8, took place as planned. I had a chance to attend and I’ll share some thoughts here. The second night, on Saturday, September 9, was cancelled due to the hurricane. Disney invited people holding tickets for the second night (Saturday) to attend the Friday performances, or get a refund.
Crowds were low, but spirits were high. Let’s take a look at how things went on Friday.
Venue – ESPN Wide World of Sports
In past years the Night of Joy has taken place at the Magic Kingdom (1983 – 2007) at Disney’s Hollywood Studios (2008 – 2009), and back at the Magic Kingdom (2010 – 2016). In 2016 and 2017, the event moved to the ESPN Wide World of Sports.
I’m not sure exactly why Disney is trying out different locations. It could be that the logistics of putting on a concert in the middle of Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party season has become more logistically challenging. It could be that Disney is trying to get more use out of the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex.
If you haven’t been there, the Wide World of Sports complex sports world-class athletic fields and facilities. It feels a bit removed from the rest of Walt Disney World, but it is a very nice place to visit.
Welcome to Night of Joy 2017.
The even features top contemporary Christian artists presenting in two different location – Champion Stadium and the HP Field House.
The ESPN Wide World of Sport facility is beautiful.
The artists who perform on the main stages are all seasoned and talented professionals. Even with very low crowd levels, as people stayed away due to the impending hurricane, everyone seemed engaged and enjoyed the event.
Champion Stadium had lots of empty seats.
Normally the Night of Joy would bring in huge crowds, but Hurricane Irma had different plans.
FanFest
For those who wanted a break from the concerts, Disney offered a FanFest with free-play arcade games (perhaps refugee machines from the now-closed Disney Quest?), interactive games, and a chance to meet Mickey, Minnie, Donald, and Goofy – all decked out in their sports attire.
Due to low crowd levels, FanFest had plenty of space.
It’s not often you can meet Mickey and Minnie with almost no wait, but it happened here.
Interactive games were fun – including a challenge to stack three golf balls on top of one another.
Stacking three golf balls on top of one another – impossible? Nope! The Cast Member did it – after two hours of practice with limited crowds to manage.
Other games had no waits, but were still plenty of fun.
If you are a fan of contemporary Christian music, the Night of Joy is a premier event and one to check out.
While crowd levels were low this year, I really enjoyed the event. The artists were amazing, even with so many empty seats. The FanFast was surprising a lot of fun.
Overall, it felt like one of those dreams where you have the Magic Kingdom all to yourself and you can see and do whatever you want with no crowds. It was just like that – except with Christian music.
Have you been to Disney’s Night of Joy?
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"Community Connection" to feature George Morrison-inspired arbor
An architectural drawing of the proposed Morrison Arbor at the Rec Park. Photo courtesy of Creative Economy Collaborative
Another view of the proposed Morrison Arbor to be installed at the Grand Marais Recreation Park. Photo courtesy of CEC
A preliminary drawing of the Morrison Arbor to be installed on the east side of the Grand Marais Recreation Park. Photo from CEC
The stairs of the proposed Morrison Arbor, which are in addition to the blacktop path. Photo courtesy of CEC
Another angle of the architectural drawing of the proposed Morrison Arbor at the Grand Marais Recreation Park. Photo from CEC
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A “community connection” in the unused space between the Grand Marais Recreation Park and North House Folk School has been in the works for many years. Community feedback during the Recreation Park’s 2013 master plan process raised the idea of an entryway of sorts to the campground, marina, waterfront area. That community connection may be coming to fruition as the Highway 61 road construction gets underway. And it may include a unique piece of public art in recognition of the late George Morrison.
WTIP’s Rhonda Silence sat down with two of the people that have been involved in this planning process, Dave Tersteeg, Grand Marais Parks and Recreation Manager, and Mary Somnis, executive director Cook County/Grand Marais Economic Development Authority.
Somnis is also a member of the Creative Economy Collaborative (CEC), which has been tasked by the City of Grand Marais to advise on public art projects.
This project has received support from George Morrison’s family—musician Briand Morrison and his mother, artist Hazel Belvo.
There have also been numerous letters of support from community businesses, organizations and individuals, such as the Cook County Historical Society and the Grand Marais Art Colony and more.
The price of the project is not yet known, as it will include excavation and landscaping, a stone retaining wall and steps, as well as the Morrison-inspired arbor. The price will not be known until bids have been let, but some funding has already been secured.
The CEC, through the Cook County/Grand Marais Economic Development Authority, has received a $50,000 streetscape improvement grant from the Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation Board (IRRRB). The remainder of the funding will come from the city’s Parks Department, which has money earmarked for this project.
Here’s more on the project.
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Two lives, a police shooting and Laramie torn asunder
A 1999 photo captures both a young Robert Ramirez (back right in backwards hat) and Derek Colling (front in striped shirt). Colling, a Sheriff’s Deputy, shot and killed Ramirez following a traffic stop. (Photo provided by Debbie Hinkel)
December 18, 2018 by Andrew Graham 14 Comments
The two boys pose a row apart in a 1999 photograph of the Laramie High School Choir at Carnegie Hall.
Robert “Robbie” Ramirez stands in the back row in a black T-shirt and backward ball cap, dressed like the skater he was and always in part would be. Derek Colling dominates the foreground of the photograph, a football player kneeling in a striped polo shirt with his ball cap worn brim-forward. The picture captures no sign of the troubles that would dog each of their lives or the violent way they’d collide 19 years later.
“The memory will live with me for the rest of my life,” Ramirez wrote of their trip to the Big Apple for the Laramie High School News Bureau. If the young writer’s prediction was true, his memory of Carnegie Hall lasted until Nov. 4, 2018.
That was the day Colling, by then an Albany County Sheriff’s Deputy with a checkered law-enforcement career, shot and killed him.
The shooting, which followed a traffic stop, shook this quiet University town, sparking demands for police accountability, raising questions about Colling’s hiring and conduct, and launching a raft of angry social media posts. Letters hurled at law enforcement flowed to the editor at the Laramie Boomerang. Around town, residents formed opinions and entrenched them.
In Colling, Ramirez’s family and friends see an overly aggressive officer with a history of violence who pushed Ramirez into a corner and then killed him. “If he didn’t have a badge it would be considered a murder,” Ramirez’s sister said. “If anybody else shot an unarmed person it would be considered murder.”
Defenders of Colling say he was doing his job as a police officer — a job they say he excelled at. They point to Ramirez’s erratic behavior during the traffic stop and his history of mental illness that resulted at least once in aggression.
“I regret what happened on Nov. 4 with every fiber of my being,” said Sheriff Dave O’Malley, who has been under fire from the public for hiring Colling. “I knew Robbie, I know Derek, I know their families. As for hiring Derek I don’t regret that at all.”
Tom Jubin, a Cheyenne defense attorney representing Colling, said the deputy learned only afterward who he had shot. “[Colling] learned afterwards it was somebody he’d been in high school with and played baseball with,” Jubin said. “Given the circumstances, whether he knew the person or not, he did what he had to do.”
An investigation into the shooting continues. In it officials will chart the final intersection of two lives on an early Sunday afternoon outside Ramirez’s Garfield Street apartment. But the investigation won’t chart the paths those lives took since diverging decades earlier.
This is the story of those disparate and sometimes tortured routes.
Two strivers
As classmates, the two boys traveled in different circles in high school despite overlapping extracurricular activities, friends of each said. Ramirez was lighthearted and at times a class clown, smart but unconcerned about grades, popular and kind.
“He was a goofball,” said Robyn Ramirez, Robbie’s sister who was in the same grade. “He was really playful.”
A photograph in the 1999 Laramie High School Plainsmen yearbook shows Derek Colling going for a tackle his senior year. (Plainsmen)
Colling was more reserved, acquaintances said. “When he laughed it was because he really thought it was funny and when he spoke it was because he had something to say,” said Trent Covington, a friend and classmate.
Colling played linebacker and running back their senior year. A yearbook photo captured him mid-tackle.
Ramirez rooted from the sidelines or the stands, whipping up the crowd with a posse of boys who called themselves “The Poss” and painted letters on their bare chests even on cold Laramie nights.
Both boys showed a zest for life, particularly through athletic pursuits.
Ramirez built a reputation as a crack skateboarder and a mosh-pit rowdy at house shows for a local punk band, the Homeless Wonders. “He was pretty much at every show getting rad,” said Ray Carlisle, a singer in the band and later a founder of the band Teenage Bottlerocket, a contemporary Laramie music success story.
Ramirez threw his whole heart into anything he took on, his sister said. “Why would you even do it if you’re not going to give it 100 percent?” is how she described his attitude.
A photograph in the 1999 Laramie High School Plainsmen shows the “poss,” a group of highschool rowdies who took their shirts off and painted their chests for football games, even in the snow. Robbie Ramirez is in the top right of this photograph. (Plainsmen)
Colling, too, was “a guy who was always like ‘I want to be the best at whatever I do,’” said a lifelong friend who agreed to speak with WyoFile on condition that he not be named. Laramie has grown tense since the shooting and as the investigation proceeds, he said.
Colling was loyal to friends and wanted to help people, the friend said.
If the two boys traveled different paths in high school, following graduation their paths diverged far more sharply.
Ramirez battled mental illness
Ramirez’s family first realized something might be wrong with Ramirez’s mental health shortly after high school. In 1999 or 2000, during a visit to Costa Rica where his older brother Randy was learning Spanish and guiding whitewater rafting trips, Robbie began speaking gibberish.
Then he began to have paranoid delusions, his brother said. “He had a freak-out and thought he was being poisoned by the food we were eating,” Randy said. They had to medicate him to get him on a plane home. He was diagnosed with a form of schizophrenia, Randy said.
There had been earlier signs too, his mother said, but until the Costa Rica trip the extent of the issue wasn’t clear. “Senior year it seemed like there was some depression there,” his mother, Debbie Hinkel said. She attributed it at the time to a breakup with his girlfriend or perhaps the lingering effects of a heavy blow to the head during a hockey game.
Ramirez had a history of head injuries, his mother said.
He took a beer bottle to the skull during a scrap in Casper while enrolled at Casper College. He suffered a concussion while snowboarding at Snowy Range Ski Area, and another while playing hockey. There was a fight outside of a party in Laramie when Ramirez was still a drinker — a tussle he lost.
Hinkel estimates Ramirez may have had more than 15 concussions. He also lost an eye to a hockey puck. He would use a prosthetic for the rest of his life.
Robert “Robbie” Ramirez. Friends and family say he kept on top of his mental illness, but often struggled to stay social because of it. (Photo provided by Debbie Hinkel)
Around 2005, his mother sent him to a holistic healing center. The treatment seemed to help. He worked in the center’s kitchen and earned enough to buy himself a guitar, Hinkel said.
“His instructor thought ‘heavy metal’ … but Robbie bought a classical guitar,” she recalled.
After he returned home, Ramirez lived in an apartment on Garfield Street, an end unit tucked into the back corner of a low building with log walls and a white door. He worked in the Ranger — a bar, motel and liquor store combination and a Laramie institution then owned by Hinkel.
It was easier for Ramirez to work for family, Hinkel said, where he could opt out of work when he was going through a tough spell and no one would ask questions or fire him.
“Colling’s calling”
Colling went to the South Dakota School of Mines, where he majored in interdisciplinary studies. He then moved briefly back to Laramie to run a ski school at the Snowy Range Ski Area, owned then by his family. While working there he applied to become a police officer in the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. He was inspired in part by his father, according to a 2012 court deposition. Colling’s father Rick Colling had been a police officer in Nebraska. Rick Colling is now a Wyoming highway patrolman.
Rick Colling declined to be interviewed for this story, citing the ongoing investigation of the Ramirez shooting. Derek Colling’s attorney advised his client not to give an interview before the investigation concludes. Public records, court filings and news accounts, however, document Derek Colling’s career. In an interview, Sheriff O’Malley described an exemplary officer.
It sounds like a pun, O’Malley said, but “law enforcement was Colling’s calling.”
Albany County Sheriff David O’Malley
In Las Vegas, Colling graduated at the top of his police academy class, O’Malley said. Court documents show he ultimately joined the Problem Solving Unit, which focused on more complex policing than that undertaken by normal patrolmen.
Colling was a member of the SWAT team in Las Vegas, as well as later in Laramie’s Albany County, where his high performance on policing metrics continued, O’Malley said. Colling got a top score on his SWAT entrance exam in Wyoming. He won awards in all the categories at the training academy in Wyoming — from shooting and fitness to academics. “This young man came in and blew away the tests,” O’Malley said. “There was nobody even close to him.”
Colling trained outside law enforcement classes as well. A city of Laramie parks and recreation guide lists him as an instructor in Kav Maga — a form of self-defense martial arts developed by the Israeli military. A promotional video on a website for the practice calls it “instinctive reality-based training for the streets. No rules. No rituals. No nonsense. No excuses.”
The friend who asked not to be named attended Colling’s wedding in Las Vegas and met some of his fellow officers. “They really appreciated Derek,” the friend said. “He’s the kind of guy who has your back,” his fellow officers told the friend.
Of the young officer from Wyoming, “there wasn’t a single person who said ‘he’s a cowboy,’” the friend said.
But Colling’s career there would be dogged by violence.
In July, 2006, nine months after joining the force, he was one of five police officers who fired 29 rounds at a domestic-violence suspect. Police said the suspect pulled a gun on them outside a gas station, according to news reports. Officials ruled that shooting as justified.
In 2009 Colling shot and killed a 15-year-old boy with bipolar disorder who was brandishing a knife outside his mother’s apartment. Officials ruled that shooting justified as well.
Then in 2011 he beat and arrested a bystander who attempted to film police officers from his own property.
Video of the latter incident went viral, and led to Colling’s firing from the department later that year.
Handling it
Family and friends recall one violent incident resulting directly from Ramirez’s illness. In a fit of delusion, he punched his uncle, David Bunn, in the face while Bunn slept on a couch. Ramirez believed in the moment that his uncle was a hitman sent to kill his family, Bunn told WyoFile. Law enforcement officers showed up and took Ramirez to the hospital, Bunn said.
But that was early in Ramirez’s illness, Bunn said: “He hadn’t been in those places for years and years.”
Those who know him say Ramirez handled his mental illness as well and as carefully later in life as he could. He meticulously budgeted his money and talked often about staying hydrated, well-fed and safe — his apartment in particular became his safe space. When he felt uncomfortable, he would walk away from family gatherings or social events and return home.
“Robbie was able to maintain,” his mother said. “It wasn’t a lifestyle any of us would want.”
His uncle said he could identify Ramirez’s mental state quickly. “I could go in [to a gathering] and say ‘hey Robbie, what’s up?’” Bunn recalled. “If he said ‘hi’ I’d have a conversation with him and if he scowled at me I’d keep walking.”
Ramirez talked openly about his illness with people in or entering his life, alerting them that at times he may check out. “It wasn’t something he was ashamed of,” said Anna Groose, a friend who knew him for more than a decade.
Music was another refuge for Ramirez. He would play guitar or record Casio Beats on an electronic keyboard. He posted videos to social media of himself playing the guitar.
Robert Ramirez plays the guitar for his young nephew. Ramirez enjoyed interacting with children, friends and family say, and taught kids to skate at a community skate park before his death. (Photo provided by Debbie Hinkel)
Working on his pickup truck was another passion. His white Ford — “Maximum Hostility” was painted across the tailgate — was recognizable around town. “He would talk about it forever,” Robyn said. “He would tinker with it so much that he would break it.”
Once after a crash an insurance company sold his rig to a salvage yard instead of paying to repair the damage. Ramirez bought it back within a week, his mother said.
Ramirez had avoided drugs and alcohol for years, his family and friends say. Law enforcement has not released the result of Ramirez’s postmortem toxicology tests.
Though early in life a partier, mosh-pitter and lighthearted rebel, Ramirez started toeing the line after his diagnosis, sister Robyn said. “He became more conservative,” she said, not politically, “but like a rule-follower.”
Ultimately, he became far more reclusive. It wasn’t an easy transition for the former class darling, Robyn said.
“He tried really hard to continue his normal life, going and partying with people and being social,” she said. “You can imagine anybody when you’re in your early 20s you don’t want to admit you can’t drink, you can’t hang and do those things.”
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Ramirez’s medication lowered his tolerance for alcohol. Drinking brought on bad vibes. “Eventually he admitted to himself that he couldn’t drink,” Robyn said.
He learned to go into the Buckhorn Bar or the Ranger Bar and drink Red Bull energy drinks while those around him drank alcohol.
Though media coverage since the shooting has focused on Colling’s police background as much as Ramirez’s illness, his friend Groose said she is tired of the emphasis on the latter.
“We’re looking at Robbie and that disability he had,” she said, “but now I’m like we should start examining the other person because this shouldn’t have happened and neither should the other things in Las Vegas.”
What happened in Vegas
On the evening of Sept. 29, 2009, Colling and his partner were on patrol. He carried pepper spray, an expandable police baton, a taser, a Glock 21C pistol with laser and flashlight attachments (a personal sidearm, not department-issued) and two extra magazines, according to an interview he gave investigators later that night.
The officers were making vehicle stops when a radio call came in. “A 15 year old, uh, bipolar male subject was threatening his mother with a knife,” Colling told the interviewing officers. Colling and his partner responded to the call at an apartment complex. They were the second and third officers to arrive. A Crisis Intervention Team, trained to confront those in mental health crises, was enroute.
The responding officers found a mother struggling with her son. The boy held a knife. At the sight of the approaching officers, Colling said, the boy spun his mother around, positioned her between them like a shield and put the knife to her throat. The mother later contested that characterization in court, saying the knife was not held against her throat but instead pointed down.
The other officers called for the boy to drop the knife and calm down.
Colling fired a single shot that hit the boy in the head and killed him.
A camera mounted on a police officer’s taser captured the scene moments before Derek Colling shot and killed Tanner Chamberlain. Derek Colling described the way Chamberlain held his mother as a “classic” hostage situation type of hold. (Screenshot of KTNV Las Vegas broadcast of Las Vegas Metropolitan Police footage)
When he fired the boy was holding the knife to her throat, he told investigators. “I felt there was … no other answer to the situation,” a transcript of the interview reads.
The interviewing officers asked Colling how much time passed from when the boy, Tanner Chamberlain, first saw him to the time Colling shot him.
“I would say it’s less than ten seconds,” Colling said. Court documents later put the interval between officers arriving and Chamberlain’s death at less than a minute. During that time, the CIT-trained officer arrived and began trying to talk to Chamberlain. Colling took his shot when the boy looked toward that officer, according to court documents.
Asked if either Chamberlain or his mother said anything, Colling said the boy did not. The mother did.
An excerpt of Derek Colling’s interview with Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department investigators on the day he killed Tanner Chamberlain. Colling maintained that he believes he saved Chamberlain’s mother’s life.
“What’d she say?” the interviewer asked him.
“She was saying, ‘Don’t shoot him. Don’t shoot him. Don’t shoot him.’”
Officials ruled the shooting as justified.
Chamberlain’s mother, Evie Oquendo, sued both Colling and the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department for what she and her attorney called the wrongful death of her son. They argued her son had been trying to hide behind his mother, not take her hostage. A friend had called 911 after learning Chamberlain had taken 10 of his mom’s sedatives, they alleged in court filings.
Oquendo’s lawyer, Brent Bryson, said Colling impressed him as a “cocky son of a gun” when Bryson deposed him for the lawsuit. “It was almost like a game to him, his deposition,” Bryson told WyoFile.
“His first mindset is to take the person out,” Bryson said. “He had a clear shot and he took the shot instead of waiting for other officers to de-escalate the situation.”
Colling told investigators that other officers had Tasers out. “I didn’t go to any other weapons,” he said when asked if he had considered less-lethal options.
“I think just because of the time, the time frame and the situation happening so quickly, and the fact that he had a knife, uh, my initial response was to go to the gun,” he said. “Some other officers may have gone to taser, but, ah, that was my initial response was to go to the gun,” the transcript reads.
Colling believed he saved Oquendo’s life, according to his interview.
An excerpt of Derek Colling’s interview with Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department investigators on the day he killed Tanner Chamberlain in which Colling describes his thinking before taking the shot.
“Based on his actions and how agitated he was,” Colling said, “I thought he was going to kill his mother, that he was going to cut her throat with a knife, and, ah, my other thought … was that he may let his mother go and come after one of the officers… My whole thought process was that I had to stop that chain of events from happening.”
A federal district court in Nevada ruled that Oquendo’s wrongful death and excessive-force claims against Colling could go to trial. But the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department appealed to the Ninth Circuit Court in San Francisco. The circuit court ruled Colling had “reasonable cause” to believe the threat was true and to use deadly force. The ruling sought to protect the discretion of police officers from undue vulnerability to future lawsuits, Oquendo’s attorney said.
Asked if he wanted to add anything at the end of his post-shooting interview, Colling described a “classic hostage situation.”
“I just wanna say real quick it was, it was, ah, the manner that he had her held was like your classic hostage situation … type of hold,” Colling said.
Footage of the incident from cameras on the officer’s Tasers shows Chamberlain, bigger than his mother at 15, holding her in front of him by her arms as he backs away from police. The scene resembled something from an action movie.
But Colling is no hero to Oquendo.
“That totally destroyed my life”
Though Colling was cleared from the Chamberlain shooting, he would lose his job in Las Vegas two years later. Video and audio footage of Colling beating and arresting a videographer who was attempting to film police from his driveway went viral. Colling was fired after an investigation.
The Albany County Sheriff’s Department hired him in 2012, initially as a corrections officer and then moving him to patrol as a sheriff’s deputy.
A five-person panel hired Colling, O’Malley said. It included officials from his office, the Laramie Police Department and the University of Wyoming campus police force. The panel looked at the incidents in Las Vegas and interviewed a number of Colling’s colleagues, O’Malley said.
Las Vegas officials said Colling was terminated after an investigation showed him violating various department policies during the beating and arrest of the videographer. But supporters of Colling there “felt his termination was media- and politically generated,” O’Malley said. “Everyone we talked to said they would work with Derek any day of the week and it was good he would be in law enforcement.”
O’Malley has agreed to a review of his department’s hiring practices since Ramirez’s death. The two shooting deaths Colling had been involved with in Nevada didn’t disqualify him from further law enforcement work, O’Malley said. Las Vegas is a tough city to work in and two shootings is not as rare as critics have portrayed it, he said, particularly if the officer is “very proactive” in crime-stopping as Colling was.
Oquendo learned of Colling’s new position in 2015. She was shocked to hear Colling would be on the streets with a gun again, she told WyoFile.
She called local reporters but none picked up her story, she said. A September, 2015 Laramie Boomerang story does quote her, however, and describes her legal defeat in the Ninth Circuit.
She tried to call Sheriff O’Malley, but he wouldn’t speak to her, Oquendo said. “He backed Derek Colling 100 percent,” she said.
O’Malley did not recall any attempt by Oquendo to contact him, he said.
“I did everything I could,” Oquendo said. She did not want Colling to carry a gun again. “There really is deep concern that he would do this again,” she told a Nevada news outlet.
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Doing everything she could included placing a call to the local head of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, a group that advocates for the mentally ill. “I wanted people with mental illness [in Laramie] to know what he had done,” she said.
The head of NAMI in Laramie who took Oquendo’s 2015 call was Debbie Hinkel. Debbie too had a son who struggled with mental illness: Robbie Ramirez.
Oquendo did not know of Colling’s third shooting before interviewing with WyoFile for this story. She let out a sharp gasp when told, and a sharper gasp still when told whose son was killed.
“Oh my God,” she said. “Oh my God that poor woman. Oh my God my heart breaks for her right now because I was in the same position.”
The shared phone call three years ago is little solace to either mother now.
“I’m going to pray for that woman because that totally destroyed my life,” Oquendo said.
Hinkel remembers when her son learned his old high school classmate had returned to Laramie. He found out from news articles that documented Colling’s past. Hinkel and Rameriz were at the Ranger, she said, when he broached the subject.
“He’ll probably shoot me some day,” her son told her, Hinkel said.
Other members of the family also mentioned Ramirez’s fear of Colling, as well as his general fear of the police. None besides Hinkel recalled Ramirez’s prediction — the account came to them secondhand.
But family and friends don’t doubt that Ramirez was aware of his classmate’s past once Colling came back to Laramie. The hiring was high-profile and something Ramirez would have tracked, family members said.
Records show several of Ramirez’s interactions with police — one as recent as seven months before his death — ended without major incident. In Albany County, police reports are public record but police logs that would document a person’s record of interaction with police — their “rap sheet” — are not. WyoFile was only able to request and review reports it was aware existed through newspaper police blotters or learned of in interviews.
Hinkel had alerted police to her son’s illness. Ramirez was in a database intended to flag him as a likely recipient for a Crisis Intervention Team during police interactions.
The system worked in January 2017, when Officer Louis Cirillo of the Laramie Police Department ticketed Ramirez for a hit-and-run accident. Ramirez had struck a Toyota Camry the night before. Cirillo found him walking the street. Ramirez admitted to the accident and claimed to be looking for the owner of the car, according to the police report.
“It should be noted that when I ran RAMIREZ’s information through dispatch he came back as a CIT contact,” Cirillo wrote in his report.
As part of her work with NAMI, Hinkel helped train police how to approach the mentally ill. She gave 40-hour classes to both the Laramie police and Albany County Sheriff’s departments. She hadn’t done the trainings in five years, however, she said. Colling had never been in one of her classes.
An excerpt from a police report documenting Robbie Ramirez’s second to last known interaction with police.
The penultimate interaction between Ramirez and Laramie law enforcement that WyoFile was able to document was on April 20. Hinkel called the police and requested they check on her son, fearing he was off his medicine.
“She was concerned about her son’s welfare as he is Schizophrenic and told her he believed people were out to kill him and there was bombing in Cheyenne,” Laramie Police Department Officer Ocean Spisak wrote in the report. Ramirez let the officers into his apartment. “Ramirez did inform me that he had been hearing explosions to the east and believed bombs had gone off in Cheyenne and was concerned about that,” Spisak wrote.
Ramirez admitted he had not been taking his medication as prescribed and took a pill in front of the officers. He told the officers he didn’t feel suicidal or homicidal and showed them he was supplied with food and water. They left without further incident.
Golden years, rough months
In his younger years, Ramirez was known as a skilled skateboarder who would take big chances. “He was an animal on a skateboard,” said Ray Carlisle, the musician.
In the last years of his life, he returned to the pursuit. Josh Kaffer met Ramirez sometime in 2015. Kaffer was part of a group called Friends of the Laramie Skatepark, which was working to rebuild Laramie’s skating facility.
Kaffer found a helping hand in Ramirez, who was no longer able to hold regular work even with family. The two clicked quickly, Kaffer said.
“Big smile. Easy laugh. This is a solid dude,” Kaffer said of his first impressions.
Ramirez told Kaffer about his mental illness early on, so that he’d understand if Ramirez didn’t show up or suddenly left, he said. But Ramirez showed up.
“He was just like ‘OK here’s my phone number call me whenever you need me,’” Kaffer said. Ramirez put in hours of work on the park each week. A 2017 photo taken by Kaffer shows Ramirez in the bottom of a skating bowl, one hand on a steel-working tool, just before they poured the concrete. He wears dark glasses and a hovering grin.
The two often skated together. It was Ramirez’s escape. “As long as you’re rolling you don’t have to worry about anything else,” Kaffer said.
Ramirez’s pride in the park was evident to those who knew him. “He was playful again and he was smiling and he had that twinkle in his eyes,” Ramirez’s sister said. “He was the best that he had been in years.”
Robert Ramirez stands in the bottom of a construction project that would become a sunken concrete bowl for skaters to do tricks in. A vigil was held for Ramirez at the skatepark following his death. The years skating and building the park were “golden” for Ramirez, his friend Josh Kaffer said. (Josh Kaffer)
Ramirez volunteered to teach his friends’ kids to skate. Ramirez had always enjoyed interacting with and teaching children, Hinkel said. He gave Kaffer’s son a homemade, beaded necklace.
But in the last four months of his life people noticed a change. “He was avoiding me,” Kaffer said. “When I saw him I could see the meds weren’t working… he was talking about things that didn’t exist.”
Ramirez would skate more when he was in a good place mentally. In the last few months, he was showing up less, the musician Carlisle said. The family wondered if his medication was still working, or if he was still taking it.
Ramirez’s birthday was Oct. 16. On that day, Hinkel had arrived at the apartment to pick her son up for lunch with his father, who was in town from Encampment. Ramirez’s apartment was a mess, and Hinkel made some “dumb” comment about it, she said. Ramirez declined to go to lunch.
“I’ll just stay here where I’m safe,” Hinkel said he told her. For over a decade, the apartment had been Ramirez’s refuge.
The last time Hinkel saw her son alive was Oct. 19, she said. She and her mother, Ramirez’s grandmother, visited him at his apartment to deliver toiletries she’d seen he needed. “At least we got a hug and an ‘I love you,’” Hinkel said.
His condition was worrying, but not unlike episodes he had pulled out of before, Ramirez’s family said. He would not have the chance to pull out of this one.
Traffic stop gone way wrong
Ramirez and Colling’s lives reconverged Nov. 4, 2018 in the afternoon of a cold clear day.
Their final encounter was captured by Colling’s patrol car dashboard camera and body camera. Video of the incident was shown to local journalists from television, newspaper and radio in Laramie. Undersheriff Josh Debree walked reporters through the footage. WyoFile was not present at the press conference. Albany County District Attorney Peggy Trent denied a subsequent records request to view the footage, citing concerns about jeopardizing the ongoing investigation.
A television reporter provided WyoFile with a viewing of the full unedited video and audio as presented in the press conference.
The following description of Ramirez’s last hour alive is drawn from that video record as well as police dispatch audio recordings. Colling’s body camera came unplugged during a struggle between the two, law enforcement officials have said. It cuts out before the fatal shots.
Colling begins following Ramirez, who is driving a yellow Ford truck slowly down Grand Avenue at 16-17 miles per hour, half the posted speed limit. The body camera video begins with Colling pulling on a black North Face watch cap. Dispatch radio channels are busy as Colling calls in Ramirez’s registration.
“According to radio logs,” Debree said, “he never got a return on the registration he requested.”
Colling does not hear his old classmate’s name, or get the CIT message Officer Cirillo received in 2017. Ramirez turns off Grand, heading toward his apartment, without using his turn signal. Colling hits the lights. Ramirez pulls to the curb. On the body camera, Colling appears to open the door of the car well before he stops. After briefly looking down the driver’s side of Ramirez’s car, Colling approaches the vehicle from the passenger side.
Colling taps on the front passenger window. “Roll your window down sir,” he asks Ramirez repeatedly. Ramirez does not comply and yells from inside, asking why he is being pulled over. Colling asks for backup on his radio.
Ramirez pulls away from the standing deputy and drives across the street. He stops in front of his apartment. Colling runs back to his Sheriff’s Department SUV, making calls on his radio. Ramirez drives less than a block in what officials later called a pursuit.
Ramirez’s family and police officials have diverging views of the events. To Debree, Ramirez’s slow driving drew Colling’s attention because it could have indicated a medical emergency or intoxicated driver. To the family, Ramirez was driving slowly because he was intimidated by the Sheriff’s car behind him and was afraid of being pulled over. When Ramirez didn’t roll the window down, Debree said that alerted Colling that this wasn’t just a traffic stop. The family said Ramirez would have been scared when he saw who was at his passenger’s window.
To the police, Ramirez’s move across the street and into his driveway was “technically a pursuit that’s ending in a high-risk stop,” Debree said. To Ramirez’s family, he was trying to get home — to his apartment, his safe zone.
“I can guarantee when he saw who pulled him over Robbie was terrified,” Bunn, the uncle, said. “He wanted to get there [to the apartment]. He wanted to go hide in his fucking cave.”
Jubin argued what happened next was the result of Colling doing what he’d been trained to do. “If an officer is going to do his job he can’t very well just let the guy run off,” Jubin said. “He can’t very well let the guy go into his house.”
Colling blocks Ramirez’s yellow truck in with his patrol car. Ramirez’s beloved white Ford is parked and visible in the video from Colling’s dash camera. Ramirez gets out of his truck with both hands in front of him, a winter hat pulled down nearly over his eyes, one good and one glass. He appears unarmed. He is yelling at Colling.
“You can hear some threatening statements being made,” Debree said. The yelling was largely unintelligible to this reporter after several replays of that section of video. The word arrest is audible in Ramirez’s yelling. What is clear is that Colling repeatedly yells for Ramirez to put his hands up as they advance toward one another.
Ramirez does not put his hands up. Colling comes out of his car with a Taser visible in his right hand. He is left-handed.
Officials have not said when his gun came out of his holster. In the body-camera footage it appears his left hand, which later in the footage can be seen holding his gun, is up from the start of the confrontation.
“He did nothing to deescalate the situation,” Hinkel said. “Zero.”
Ramirez comes around the side of his truck. Colling fires his taser. Ramirez waves his arms, apparently trying to remove the taser wires.
The taser connection appeared to fail, Debree said.
Ramirez comes toward Colling, flailing his arms. The fight moves out of sight of the dashboard camera.
This is the point where Colling’s body camera comes unplugged, Debree said.
According to Jubin, Ramirez knocked the taser from Colling’s hand while off camera and clenched a key in his hand as a weapon. Colling kicked at Ramirez, Jubin said, but it didn’t slow him down. The kick is not visible in the video.
The two men return to the dash-cam’s field of view. Colling is backing away from Ramirez, gun leveled at him. As they cross in front of the Sheriff car’s, Ramirez falls to the ground. With the body camera unplugged, there is no audio from the final seconds — no sound of the gunshots. Colling’s aim tracks Ramirez as he falls forward to the ground. Colling is backing away as Ramirez falls.
One shot struck the log wall of the apartment building. Today, there is a square chunk of wood cut out where the bullet hole was removed.
Two shots hit Ramirez, Hinkel said. She claims they entered through his back below his right shoulder.
Jubin declined to confirm whether Ramirez was shot in the back. In the heat of the moment, “sometimes officers empty their entire gun and don’t even know they’ve done it,” he said. “As far as ‘what hits where,’ sometimes it’s really a function of that … unless somebody is running down the street and gets shot in the back. That’s quite different than what happened here.”
The autopsy report has not yet been released.
At the video’s end, Ramirez lies on the ground out of the camera’s view. The sheriff’s deputy kneels over him. Colling raises his head into view numerous times, looking perhaps for his backup, or an ambulance.
Ramirez lay shot within a yard or two of the door of his apartment, his safe place. He lay within yards of his broken white pickup truck “Maximum Hostility.”
Correction: WyoFile originally reported a key which Derek Colling’s attorney claimed Robert Ramirez held in his hand as a weapon was not visible in the video. A reader provided a screenshot that showed what appears to be a key visible in Ramirez’s right hand. WyoFile independently replicated the reader’s screenshot and updated the story accordingly. –Ed.
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Andrew Graham is reporting for WyoFile from Laramie. He covers state government, energy and the economy. Reach him at 443-848-8756 or at [email protected], follow him @AndrewGraham88
Heather Rayburn says
Wow. This article is one of the most bias I have read in a long time.
City: Wellsville
State of Residence: Ohio
Robert Palmer says
I’ve watched all available video related to this guy, and would have to say, the beating of the journalist wannabe should be enough to keep this guy from carrying a gun. Just look at the government’s numbers on police shootings. About 5% of officers ever discharge their weapon. Of those, about 5% have a fatal result. This guy is either 1/100,000,000 unlucky, (statistical reality, not hyperbole) or a danger to the community. Beating the reporter tells me the latter is by far the most likely option. Once is bad luck. Twice is a coincidence. 3 times means it’s time to investigate a possible serial killer in uniform. I’ll give the benefit of the doubt to law enforcement, but at some point, you have to restore reasonable skepticism.
City: Thermopolis
Nancy Debevoise says
This is a frightening and heartbreaking story. This bad cop should have been permanently banned from police work to save lives after his alarming actions in Las Vegas.. Great reporting and compelling writing. One of WyoFile’s best pieces yet.
City: Lander
Amy Nagler says
When Collings was hired and I was having my morning coffee, reading about his track record as a police officer in the Boomerang, I remember saying, this man is going to kill someone in our town. And Dave O’Malley has no regrets about hiring him? What did he think the outcome would be? As my friend Roger would have said, this ain’t rocket surgery.
City: Laramie
Zach Mueller says
This story breaks my heart. I knew Robbie from high school – we hung out with many of the same people. I wouldn’t go so far as to call us friends but I knew him well enough and this article accurately describes him. To hear of his murder is terrible news.
On a side note, this article has a great between the lines story running within it that described the relationship many of us – young males who grew up in Laramie – have with law enforcement.
I was pulled over approx 20 times between 1998 and 2000 in Laramie – I was never issued a ticket. The Laramie Police, Albany County Sheriff’s office, WYO Highway Patrol, and UW Police all patrol Laramie’s streets and tend to be overly aggressive in pursuing traffic violations as a pretext to stop and search your vehicle. I was pulled over for violations of changing lanes to abruptly (with using my indicator), entering the incorrect lane on a left turn, entering the incorrect lane from a right turn, and my personal favorite not turning on my indicator 100 yards prior to turning (I had turned it on too soon). So when I read that Robbie was going well under the speed limit on Grand and then turned without using a turn signal as the reason for being pulled over – I know that feeling all too well.
I have been in that driver’s seat and been interrogated through my window for a minor (occasionally contrived) infraction in the hopes of finding a reason to pull me out – happened 4 times BTW – to search my car. I literally changed everything about myself when I would drive in Laramie. Take off the baseball hat while behind the wheel. Know every traffic law like the back of my hand. Know which questions to ask when you are pulled over. Don’t drive on Grand or 3rd Ave after 10pm. Don’t drive on 15th to cut trough campus – the speed zones change and they sit on Garfield waiting for you. It was an act of survival and I knew that if I got mouthy, I was getting fucked up – simple as that.
So if you ask me if I ever saw this coming – yes. Maybe not the people but definitely the result.
State of Residence: California
Susan Lasher says
Mr, Mueller, thank you for sharing your really important perspective. From families to law enforcement administrators, we should all be having conversations about what you describe — the issues of policing, young men, and the legal system — in order to prevent future tragedies.
Nathan Nordin says
I am truly saddened by this Story. I knew Robbie we were teammates on a baseball team when we where in 8th grade. He was a short stop and I 3rd base. I remember him as a fun loving kid who enjoyed baseball and was a kick ass skater. We were never close friends but he was a kid that others gravitated to. I have not seen Robbie for at least 20 years, but I can say the world will be a lesser place with out him no matter what becomes of this case. I would like to remind Mr. Jones of one thing. This officer was trained and apparently an instructor in Krav Maga, so why the gun? Knowing Robbie’s family Robbie probably did not grow into a large man so why go to the gun with a “suspect” with a “house key” for a weapon especially if there was a struggle as indicated in the article? The self defense (hand to hand) should have kicked in at that point. Also I would be interested to know the history of these two from high school.. I do have to say it is very interesting that you would hire an officer who was terminated for excessive force especial in this day and age, If nothing else it is bad optics for the sheriffs office But then again maybe the sheriff feels a bit untouchable after his high profile case from yesteryear. Now to Mr. Jones’s point it does appear that the officer tired non lethal force first, A struggle short struggle with the suspect ensues which makes the gun even more curious, you have hands on the suspect and don’t use your take down training or the martial art you know to subdue the suspect? Seems very peculiar to me.
City: Rock Springs
Keith Collins says
Two previous killings. And he beat a person attempting to film police actions. And ACSD hired him anyway.
Richard Jones says
Regardless of the mostly irrelevant historical background, it seems that an officer who was doing his job, following procedures, showing restraint was confronting a fast developing situation with a subject not responding in a rational manner. After attempting to use non-lethal means to stop the aggressive, irrational behavior of the subject, the officer, while under attack and attempting to retreat resorted to using lethal force to stop the attack. Everything else about this article reads like a made for TV movie to the predictable end. The truth is, there is very little predictable is a sudden violent encounter. The officer feared bodily harm or even loss of his life and acted accordingly. A tragic ending but not one the officer initiated.
Irrational behavior should not result in an improptu death sentence, especially with an un-armed person. Police are there to enforce the law, not to hand out death. Excellent reporting and writing.
Jackson Bailey says
Why is Collings historical background irrelevant? In my opinion, it couldn’t be more relevant.
Dona Becker says
I agree with you. Everyone needs to do the police simulator I saw some officers do with some leaders from Black Lives Matter. Split second decisions need to be made in the middle of high stress situations. Running through those simulators help civilians understand a little more about the stress involved. Yes, police officers are trained but they are human and still make mistakes. I wouldn’t be in their shoes for anything. Their job is very important and we take them too much for granted. I wouldn’t like to live in a place where they aren’t there to uphold the law. We need to think about what it’s like to be in their shoes and give them a break. I do understand that they need to be held accountable but Mental Illness really clouds the issue. People with mental illness are capable of things they would never think of doing when they aren’t in the middle of an episode or if they didn’t have the illness. Tragedies happen that no one wants. It’s an unavoidable situation.
City: Powell
Michael Downey says
The victim was shot while on the ground. We have deputized officers with the authority to commit murder which they do in every community across the country with more and more regularity. Most police academies offer no training in de-escalation. Police officers are performing exacly the duty they were trained for and then everyone is surpised by the results.
City: Helena
State of Residence: Montana
Kim Viner says
The title of this article is a gross overstatement. While there is wide concern and even disagreement, I can assure you that our community is not “torn asunder.” From Collins Dictionary, “If something tears or is torn asunder, it is violently separated into two or more parts or pieces.” That is not what has happened to our community. Words matter, let’s use them correctly.
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When Modern Brewing Meets Ancient Ales, Strange Things Happen
By Rae Ellen Bichell • Feb 28, 2019
'Beer archaeologist' Travis Rupp inspects the latest ale of antiquity, George Washington Porter, surrounded by the oak barrels it fermented in at Avery Brewing Company in Boulder, Colo.
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Originally published on March 1, 2019 9:06 am
The closest that Travis Rupp came to getting fired, he says, was the time he tried to make chicha. The recipe for the Peruvian corn-based beer, cobbled together from bits of pre-Incan archaeological evidence, called for chewed corn partially fermented in spit. So, Rupp’s first task had been to convince his colleagues to gather round a bucket and offer up their chompers for the cause.
Once he got to brewing, the corn-quinoa-spit mixture gelatinized in a stainless steel tank, creating a dense blob equivalent in volume and texture to about seven bathtubs of polenta. In another go, Rupp managed to avoid the brew’s gelatinous fate, but encountered a new problem when it came time to drain the tank.
“It literally turned into cement in the pipes because the corn was so finely ground,” says Rupp. “People were a little cranky.”
These are the kinds of sticky situations that come with trying to bring ancient flavors into modern times.
A self-proclaimed beer archaeologist, Rupp has traveled the world in search of clues to how ancient civilizations made and consumed beer. With Avery Brewing Company, he’s concocted eight of them in a series called Ales of Antiquity.
“The one thing that we've been really quite surprised by is not a single one of them is undrinkable,” he says. “Every one of them has gotten done and we're like, ‘That is so weird. That is just so cool.’”
There’s the Viking-inspired beer based on information gleaned from sagas and the debris of ancient shipwrecks. It’s made with juniper branches and baker’s yeast, which gives it a slight but surprising whiff of banana. (Rupp regrets that he had to ferment it in regular brewing equipment rather than a more historically accurate trough made from a freshly cut and hollowed out juniper tree).
There’s Beersheba, a beer based on references and artifacts primarily from Israel. It involves three types of grain and pomegranate juice, in the style of King Zimri-Lim, who, Rupp read, was known to send slaves into the mountains to get snow for his icehouse so that his beer could be served cold. It’s one of Rupp’s personal favorites, despite smelling a little like baby spit-up and tasting like a funky fruit roll-up.
A beer called ‘Benedictus’ came about when Rupp teamed up with a couple of Italian monks to recreate a monastic recipe calling for wormwood and lavender and dating to 825 C.E. It smells like a spicy men’s shampoo and feels like drinking an herb garden. The Peruvian chicha, on the other hand is a sour, summery fare.
The brewery just released its latest, a porter meant to show what George Washington would have been cracking open at Mount Vernon in his retirement years.
Rupp is the first to admit that perfectly resurrecting old brews is an impossible task.
“I can't recreate what was on the individual's clothes the day that they were producing that beer that could have fallen into it. I can't recreate the yeast that’s in the air, the yeast that’s in some guy's beard as he's, you know, working over a brewing vat or something like that. I'll never be able to do that,” says Rupp. “But I can get as close as I can. I will do my damndest to get as close as I can.”
Rupp is now gearing up to tackle a controversial question among brewers: What did the original India Pale Ale really taste like? He’s also planning trips to investigate the brewing traditions of Kazakhstan and Uruguay, and exploring whether it might be possible to resurrect a beer that sunk aboard a Swedish ship almost 400 years ago.
Some day, just for fun and if technology would allow it, he’d love to resurrect ancient yeast from Antarctic ice cores and brew something with it.
“It’d be awesome to do,” he says. “You know, to try to see what Saccharomyces strains were there.”
All of this started in 2010, when Rupp finished graduate school in classical history and started lecturing part-time at the University of Colorado Boulder.
“Of course, that's not going to cut it paying the bills, so I was looking for other work,” he says. Eventually, he wound up as a bartender at Avery Brewing Company in Boulder, Colorado, where he now oversees research and development and the wood barrel aging program, all the while continuing to teach classes at the University of Colorado Boulder on topics like Pompeii and ancient sports.
Through his escapades into beer history, Rupp has come to conclude that we have beer history all wrong. First off, he says, “There's a perception that ancient or historic beers were just undrinkable and crap and thick and just bleh.”
But Rupp maintains that the ancients wouldn’t settle for “mundane gruel” any more than we would.
“We know the Egyptians didn't do that. They actually record putting fruits and things into their beer to sweeten it and to literally varietize the beer,” he says. And the Romans were quick to trash Egyptian brews.
“They really stomp all over Egyptian beer. It was the cheap stuff that if you couldn't afford anything else, that's what you drank,” says Rupp. “This idea of literally value-izing beer based on quality? They were doing that!”
Then, there’s another assumption: that if a culture’s records and art don’t frequently and obviously reference beer, then they probably didn’t make or drink it.
But, Rupp asks, “How many books have you read on milk? Do you know the history of the paperclip? No.”
In some seemingly beer-less societies, he says, it’s possible the drink was so common it didn’t seem worth writing about. Or at least, didn’t seem worth writing about to the high-falutin’ sliver of the population that could actually write.
The ancient Greeks, for example, aren’t widely considered to have been beer drinkers because it doesn’t come up in their written records — not the way wine and olives do.
Scholars studying ancient Greece concluded, Rupp says, “that they didn't necessarily know what it was because they talk about it in a very strange way or that it was relegated to ‘the barbarians.’”
But after a two-year scavenger hunt through records and across archaeological sites, Rupp has come to believe that the Greeks were, indeed, brewers — at least during the Bronze Age. For example, decades-old excavation reports written by archaeologists working at the prehistoric settlement of Akrotiri mention vases containing “imperfectly ground flour,” including bits of seed husks.
“Yet they were finding it right next to vases that had perfectly ground flower,” says Rupp. “Well, I know what that is because I work with it every day and that’s spent grain.”
Combined with recent finds, it stands to reason then that the ancient Greeks might have been downing beer just like the Egyptians, Mesopotamians, Scandinavians, Romans and Babylonians.
And how about us? A thousand years from now, if beer archaeologists look back on our time, what beer might they assume current Americans loved the most?
“The craft beer industry is such a small blip on the historical radar right now,” says Rupp. “They're going to look at those most regularly and largely produced and it's going to be lagers, would be my guess.”
This story was produced by the Mountain West News Bureau, a collaboration between Wyoming Public Media, Boise State Public Radio in Idaho, KUER in Salt Lake City and KRCC and KUNC in Colorado.
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Archeology Detectives Follow Clues To Solve Mystery Of Missing Mammoth
By Melodie Edwards • Aug 24, 2018
Todd A. Surovell
University of Wyoming anthropologists are putting out a call out for help looking for a lost mammoth. How do you lose a six-ton extinct animal that lived 13,000 years ago? Well, you find a few of its bones but lose track over the decades of exactly where they were found. But now some clues have come to the surface. Wyoming Public Radio’s Melodie Edwards sat down with the University of Wyoming anthropology professor Todd Surovell, the detective trying to put all the clues together.
Wyoming Researchers Contribute To Study Of Human Populations
By London Homer-Wambeam • Oct 9, 2018
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Two researchers at the University of Wyoming have contributed to a study that paints a picture of human population over the last 10,000 years.
Artifacts And Human Remains Collected Years Ago To Be Returned To Tribes
By Rae Ellen Bichell • Sep 11, 2018
The National Park Service is giving museums and universities across the country grants to return ancestral artifacts and human remains taken from Native American tribes over the years.
Dubois Outfitter Eats Paleo Diet, Creates Replicas Of Prehistoric Tools
By Melodie Edwards • Jul 21, 2017
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Dubois author and wilderness outfitter Tory Taylor has released a new book called On The Trail Of The Mountain Shoshone Sheep Eaters: A High Altitude Archaeological Odyssey. The book is a gripping read about Taylor’s personal role in the discoveries of how this prehistoric tribe thrived in Wyoming’s highest elevations, and on how Taylor experimented with a Mountain Shoshone lifestyle.
Government Shutdown Throws A Wrench In The Release Of Some Seasonal Craft Brews
By Nate Hegyi • Jan 8, 2019
If the impasse over President Trump’s proposed border wall makes it to Saturday morning, this will be the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. And it has an unlikely victim — craft beer.
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UBM secures major project with over 300 residential units in Prague
Vienna, 16 January 2020 – UBM Development, the leading hotel developer in Europe, has acquired a new residential project in the Czech capital of Prague. This project, which will be named “Arcus City“, covers a development site of approximately 80,000m² for the creation of roughly 300 modern housing units in one of Prague’s booming districts by 2023.
The demand for housing remains unbroken in top European cities like Prague, and UBM is therefore now expanding its well-filled residential pipeline to include the “Arcus City“ project. “At the present time, our development pipeline contains nearly 3,500 apartments in Europe’s most popular cities“, explains Thomas G. Winkler, CEO of UBM Development. The “Arcus City“ project will include 284 apartments and 26 single-family houses. Construction is scheduled to start by the end of 2020, and the apartments should be completed in 2023.
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Films at the Embassy of Japan: Tokyo Story 東京物語
Open 18:00, Film starts at 18:30, No admittance after 19:00
Embassy of Japan 101-104 Piccadilly London W1J 7JT
https://www.uk.emb-japan.go.jp/itpr_en/1906film.html
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Open 18:00 / Film starts at 18:30 / No admittance after 19:00
Directed by Yasujiro Ozu / 1953 / 135 mins
(Japanese language with English subtitles)
An enduring masterpiece created in 1953 by Japan’s legendary film director, Yasujiro Ozu. An elderly couple, Shukichi and Tomi, living in a small fishing village in Hiroshima, visit Tokyo to see their children and grandchildren. Their married children, a local doctor and a hairdresser, are too busy with their own lives to take care of their parents who have travelled such a long way. Shukichi and Tomi are soon sent to Atami, a famous hot-spring resort. On their return from Atami earlier than scheduled, a heartless attitude awaits them. In fact, it is their daughter-in-law, the widow of their second son who went missing in action during the war eight years previously, who welcomes and extends cordial hospitality to them.
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Contracts & Authority to Sign Regulation 109
Regulation 109 Approved: December 11, 2017
Contracts & Authority to Sign Regulation
Source of Authority: N.C.G.S. § 14-234;
N.C.G.S. § 116-34(a);
UNC Code § 502(A)
First Issued: February 17, 2011
Revised: August 28, 2017
Revised December 11, 2017
Related Policies and Regulations: Conflicts of Interest (Employees) Policy 603;
Purchasing Regulation 308
Responsible Offices: Chancellor
This regulation establishes general guidelines for the creation, review, and signature authority for contracts at UNCSA. It also addresses signature authority for other documents which may or may not technically be contracts but which may purport to establish legal obligations on the part of UNCSA.
This regulation applies to all school contracts, whatever called, and other documents of purported legal effect, purporting to bind UNCSA, its employees, or its agents. This regulation does not apply to contracts purporting to bind The University of North Carolina School of the Arts Foundation or any other entity affiliated with UNCSA.
A. “School Contract” means an agreement between UNCSA (“School”) and one or more other parties that is intended to bind the School and have legal effect. Examples of School contracts include, but are not limited to:
1. agreements for the purchase or rental of goods or services;
2. nondisclosure agreements;
3. faculty contracts;
4. agreements that set terms for acceptance for gifts;
5. a sale, lease, or donation of School goods or services;
6. liability waivers;
7. settlement of disputes;
8. licenses;
9. student or faculty exchange agreements;
10. memoranda/letters of understanding or cooperation;
11. contracts with hotels, convention centers or other facilities which require a written agreement;
12. instructional agreements;
13. assignment of the right of a person, group, or agency to use the School’s name, logo or resources; and
14. contracts with lecturers, artists, performers, etc.
IV. Regulations
A. Contract Creation and Review
The UNCSA employee or agent initiating the contract for the School is responsible for reading the contract entirely and determining that:
1. the contract language accurately reflects the purpose and all of the details of the agreement between the parties (e.g. price, term, date, place of performance, etc.);
2. the contract is in the best interest of the School; and
3. (s)he can ensure compliance with the obligations the School assumes pursuant to the contract.
The Purchasing Office is responsible for reviewing the contract and the following:
1. identifying and advising the initiating department and appropriate University officials of significant potential liability of risk.
2. determining that the terms of the contract comply with Board of Trustees and UNC System Office policies and applicable federal, state and local laws, rules and regulations.
The University official executing a contract is responsible for determining, prior to signing a contract, the following:
1. All appropriate reviews and approvals are documented.
B. Authorized Signatures
1. Only the Chancellor or his/her designee has the authority to bind UNCSA by contract. The Chancellor’s delegations of authority are set forth in the procedures associated with this regulation. All delegations of signature authority must be in writing and filed with the Chancellor, General Counsel, and Purchasing offices.
2. The Provost, Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration, and Vice Chancellor of Advancement may delegate signature authority for limited periods during absences from the office. All delegations should be for a limited time, must be in writing, and shall be filed in the delegating officer’s office and Purchasing office.
C. Template Agreements
1. Departments should use standard template contract agreements whenever possible.
2. Standard template agreements should be reviewed by the Purchasing office prior to use and reviewed annually for necessary changes.
D. Retention of Contracts
1. The department or office out of which the school contract arose must retain an original fully executed contract for the period required by UNCSA’s Document Retention Policy.
2. Contracts may be signed in duplicate if the other party to the contract also desires an original.
E. Prohibited Clauses. In the event that a school contract contains a clause which is prohibited by law, that provision is void.
F. Unauthorized Contracts
1. Contracts signed by UNCSA employees or agents are not binding on UNCSA unless the individual who signed the contract has signatory authority pursuant to this regulation.
2. Individuals who sign contracts purporting to bind UNCSA without authorization under this regulation may be personally liable for the fees and obligations under the contract and may be subject to disciplinary action.
G. Conflicts of Interest. Pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 14-234, UNCSA employees may be subject to criminal liability if the employee receives a direct benefit from making, signing, or administering a university contract.
B. August 28, 2017 - Revised to clarify the role of the Purchasing Office in processing contracts.
C. December 11, 2017 - Revised to further clarify the contract creation and review process.
Contracts & Authority to Sign Procedures
Procedure #109
I. Delegated Authority to Sign School Contracts
A. Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration and Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost. All procurement contracts over $10,000 and below $50,000; faculty contracts, exchange agreements, intellectual property agreements, and appointment letters; rental and license agreements; and all lease agreements.
B. Vice Chancellor of Advancement. All agreements relating to gifts to the State, bequests to the State, grant proposals relating to scholarships or endowed funds, and letters and other documents regarding personnel matters relating to employees in the Vice Chancellor of Advancement's division;
C. Associate Vice Provost and Dean of Students. Contracts and agreements below $2,500 for entertainment, professional services, and other activities funded by student fees; contracts relating to services provided by the Student Health Center.
D. Director of Human Resources. Letters and other documents regarding personnel matters.
E. Academic & Arts Deans. Professional Services Agreements (using the standard template agreement) for their respective schools with a total dollar amount of $500 or less which do not fall into any of the above categories (e.g., an agreement for a purchase of $500 or less, with no lease aspects, etc.).
F. Director of Purchasing, Contracting, and Auxiliary Services. All procurement related contracts below $10,000; copier agreements; insurance agreements and renewals.
G. Associate Director of Purchasing. All Purchase Orders, requests and invitations for quotes, proposals and bids.
H. Associate Vice Chancellor of Facilities Management. All design, construction, repair, and renovation contracts.
II. Signature Authority Retained by the Chancellor
A. Offer and appointment letters relating to positions directly reporting to the Chancellor.
B. Personnel actions which explicitly require action by the Chancellor (e.g., appeal of non-reappointment by a faculty member, final agency decisions in personnel appeals, etc.)
C. All contracts over $50,000.
III. Review, Routing, & Execution Procedures
A. Except as otherwise permitted in this regulation or its procedures, all school procurement contracts must be submitted to the Director of Purchasing, Contracting, and Auxiliary Services for review and approval prior to obtaining signatures for the contract. The following procedure shall be used:
a. The initiating department will complete the Contract Routing Form and attach a copy to the original contract that requires review and execution.
b. The Contract Routing Form and original contract will be forwarded to the Director of Purchasing, Contracting, and Auxiliary Services for initial review. The Director of Purchasing, Contracting, and Auxiliary Services will sign the Contract Routing Form and forward as required.
c. If the contract is over $100,000, the Director of Purchasing, Contracting, and Auxiliary Services will forward it to General Counsel for legal review. The General Counsel will sign the Contract Routing Form and forward as required.
d. If the contract is for IT related services, the Director of Purchasing, Contracting, and Auxiliary Services will forward it to the Chief Information Officer for review. The Chief Information Officer will sign the Contract Routing Form and forward as required.
e. All contracts will be routed through the Budget Office and reviewed for fund availability. The Director of Budget will sign the Contract Routing Form and forward as required.
f. Once all reviews have been completed, the Director of Purchasing, Contracting, and Auxiliary Services will execute the contract (if under $10,000) or will forward to the appropriate individual for execution.
g. Once executed, the contract will be returned to the initiating department.
B. If a person with signature authority is involved in the initial contracting process, or the contract is housed in their department, they cannot execute the final contract. Another individual with signature authority will need to execute the contract.
C. A Purchase Order should be keyed prior to the date of service listed on the contract in order to encumber the funds to support the payment of a procurement contract. In most cases, the UNCSA Purchase Order is our binding contract with the vendor.
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Turla Mosquito: A shift towards more generic tools
ESET researchers have observed a significant change in the campaign of the infamous espionage group
ESET Research 22 May 2018 - 02:58PM
Turla is a notorious espionage group, and has been active for at least ten years. It came to light in 2008, when Turla breached the US Department of Defense [1]. Since then, there have been numerous security incidents involving Turla targeting several governments and sensitive businesses such as the defense industry [2].
Our January 2018 white paper [3] was the first public analysis of a Turla campaign called Mosquito. We have also published indicators of compromise [4]. Since then, the campaign has remained very active and attackers have been busy changing their tactics to remain as stealthy as possible.
Starting in March 2018, we observed a significant change in the campaign: it now leverages the open source exploitation framework Metasploit before dropping the custom Mosquito backdoor. It is not the first time Turla has used generic tools. In the past, we have seen the group using open-source password dumpers such as Mimikatz. However, to our knowledge, this is the first time Turla has used Metasploit as a first stage backdoor, instead of relying on one of its own tools such as Skipper [5].
As described in our earlier analysis [3], the typical vector of compromise of the Mosquito campaign is still a fake Flash installer, in reality installing both the Turla backdoor and the legitimate Adobe Flash Player. The typical targets are still embassies and consulates in Eastern Europe.
We showed that the compromise happens when the user downloads a Flash installer from get.adobe.com through HTTP. Traffic was intercepted on a node between the end machine and the Adobe servers, allowing Turla’s operators to replace the legitimate Flash executable with a trojanized version. The following image shows the different points where the traffic could, in theory, be intercepted. Please note that we believe the fifth possibility to be excluded, as, to the best of our knowledge, Adobe/Akamai was not compromised.
Even though we were not able to spot traffic interception subsequently, we found a new executable that is still impersonating the Flash installer and is named flashplayer28_xa_install.exe. Thus, we believe the same method of initial compromise is still being used.
At the beginning of March 2018, as part of our regular tracking of Turla’s activities, we observed some changes in the Mosquito campaign. Even though they did not make use of groundbreaking techniques, this is a significant shift in Turla’s Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTPs).
Previously, the chain of compromise was a fake Flash installer dropping a loader and the main backdoor. The following figure summarizes the process.
Recently, we observed a change in the way in which the final backdoor is dropped. Turla’s campaign still relies on a fake Flash installer but, instead of directly dropping the two malicious DLLs, it executes a Metasploit shellcode and drops, or downloads from Google Drive, a legitimate Flash installer. Then, the shellcode downloads a Meterpreter, which is a typical Metasploit payload [6], allowing the attacker to control the compromised machine. Finally, the machine may receive the typical Mosquito backdoor. The figure below summarizes the new process.
Because Metasploit is being used, we might also guess that an operator controls the exploitation process manually. The time frame of the attack was relatively short as the final backdoor was dropped within thirty minutes of the start of the compromise attempt.
The shellcode is a typical Metasploit shellcode, protected using the shikata_ga_nai encoder [7] with seven iterations. The following screenshots show the encoded and the decoded payload.
Once the shellcode is decoded, it contacts its C&C at https://209.239.115[.]91/6OHEJ, which directs the download of an additional shellcode. Based on our telemetry, we identified the next stage to be a Meterpreter. That IP address is already known as a previously-seen Mosquito C&C domain, psychology-blog.ezua[.]com, was resolving to it in October 2017.
Finally, the fake Flash installer downloads a legitimate Adobe installer, from a Google Drive URL, and executes it to lull the user into thinking all went correctly.
In addition to the new fake Flash installer and Meterpreter, we observed the use of several other tools.
A custom executable that only contains the Metasploit shellcode. This is used to maintain access to a Meterpreter session. It is saved to C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\msupdateconf.exe, granting the executable persistence.
Another custom executable used to execute PowerShell scripts.
The Mosquito JScript backdoor that uses Google Apps Script as its C&C server.
Privilege escalation using the Metasploit module ext_server_priv.x86.dll [8].
In this post, we have presented the evolutions of the Turla Mosquito campaign over the last few months. The major change we observed was the use of Metasploit, an open-source penetration testing project, as a first stage for the custom Mosquito backdoor. This might be useful information for defenders performing incident response on attacks involving Turla.
For any inquiries, or to make sample submissions related to the subject, contact us at threatintel@eset.com.
https://209.239.115[.]91/6OHEJ
https://70.32.39[.]219/n2DE3
Link to the legitimate Flash installer
https://drive.google[.]com/uc?authuser=0&id=1s4kyrwa7gCH8I5Z1EU1IZ_JaR48A7UeP&export=download
ESET detection name
flashplayer28_xa_install.exe 33d3b0ec31bfc16dcb1b1ff82550aa17fa4c07c5 f9b83eff6d705c214993be9575f8990aa8150128a815e849c6faee90df14a0ea Win32/TrojanDownloader.Agent.DWY trojan
msupdateconf.exe 114c1585f1ca2878a187f1ce7079154cc60db7f5 1193033d6526416e07a5f20022cd3c5c79b73e8a33e80f29f9b06cdc3cb12e26 Win32/Turla.DH trojan
msupdatesmal.exe 994c8920180d0395c4b4eb6e7737961be6108f64 6868cdac0f06232608178b101ca3a8afda7f31538a165a045b439edf9dadf048 Win32/Turla.DH trojan
[1] B. KNOWLTON, “Military Computer Attack Confirmed,” New York Times, 25 08 2010. [Online]. Available: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/26/technology/26cyber.html?_r=1&ref=technology. [Accessed 09 04 2018].
[2] MELANI, ” Technical Report about the Malware used in the Cyberespionage against RUAG,” 23 05 2016. [Online]. Available: https://www.melani.admin.ch/melani/en/home/dokumentation/reports/technical-reports/technical-report_apt_case_ruag.html.
[3] ESET, “Diplomats in Eastern Europe bitten by a Turla mosquito,” ESET, 01 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.welivesecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/ESET_Turla_Mosquito.pdf.
[4] ESET, “Mosquito Indicators of Compromise,” ESET, 09 01 2018. [Online]. Available: https://github.com/eset/malware-ioc/tree/master/turla#mosquito-indicators-of-compromise.
[5] M. Tivadar, C. Istrate, I. Muntean and A. Ardelean, “Pacifier APT,” 01 07 2016. [Online]. Available: https://labs.bitdefender.com/wp-content/uploads/downloads/pacifier-apt/.
[6] “About the Metasploit Meterpreter,” [Online]. Available: https://www.offensive-security.com/metasploit-unleashed/about-meterpreter/.
[7] “Unpacking shikata-ga-nai by scripting radare2,” 08 12 2015. [Online]. Available: http://radare.today/posts/unpacking-shikata-ga-nai-by-scripting-radare2/.
[8] “meterpreter/source/extensions/priv/server/elevate/,” Rapid7, 26 11 2013. [Online]. Available: https://github.com/rapid7/meterpreter/tree/master/source/extensions/priv/server/elevate.
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The owner’s cabin is on the main deck forward and features his and hers bathrooms. Moreover, the owner’s office. Behind the owners’ area is the dining and living room. This area is extended by a Wintergarden with a bar and seatings. By opening the floor-to-ceiling sliding windows, it can transform into an outdoor part of the yacht. The total outdoor space of the main deck is 120 square meters.
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A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary by Carey A. Moore
192 pages, 6 x 9
Esther, the biblical book named after the beautiful Jewish woman chosen by the Persian King Xerxes to be queen, is a story of love, political intrigue, and religious faithfulness. Carey A. Moore combines his treatment of scholarly issues with an engaging explanation of the popular Jewish festival of Purim.
One of three biblical books named after women (Esther, Ruth, Judith), Esther reads like a novel, with its fast-paced, action-packed story. Drawing on ancient tales of court intrigue and midrashic sources, the author captivates the reader with the story of Queen Esther, her uncle Mordecai, King Xerxes, and the the royal court's villain, Haman. The story not only entertains, it also explains the origins of the Jewish festival of Purim.
Moore deftly deals with the scholarly issues peculiar to this book without sacrificing his sensitivity to its literary quality. The uncertainty that Esther should be included in sacred Scripture stems from its apparent lack of religious elements, its absence at Qumran, and its questionable historicity. Moore takes up these issues, carefully explaining and weighing prevailing scholarly theories before registering his own conclusions on the origin, date, and purpose of the book of Esther.
Carey A. Moore is Chairman of the Department of Religion at Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania.
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Goff, Key stand firm on section 59
The Herald reports that organisers of the recent referendum on the smacking law confronted the leaders of both major parties yesterday – but failed to win a single concession to review the law. Furthermore, questions from smacking supporters actually pushed Mr Key into a stronger defence of the law than he has given before, saying the 2007 ban on any use of force against children for “correction” was important to “send a message” that violence against children was unacceptable.
Read the full article at The Herald.
Tags: bob mccoskrie ,john key ,larry baldock ,NZ Herald ,phil goff
A wooden spoon for Larry Baldock
Smacking isn’t enough for Larry Baldock, the man who collected thousands of signatures for the referendum.
He wants to bring back the ruler and wooden spoon. He was quoted in the Herald as saying,
“I’m not opposed to the wooden spoon or ruler because you can control things with that better than you can with an open hand.”
We’d like to thank Larry for showing his true colours. And evidently Bob McCoskrie agrees with him. But where will it stop?
Tags: larry baldock ,open hand ,ruler ,smacking ,wooden spoon
Dr Seuss referendum question clearly confused some people
John Key said in June that the referendum question could have been written by Dr Seuss.
Now, we’re used to hate mail here at The Yes Vote headquarters – we’ve received plenty over the last few months, and it’s not unexpected given the nature of the question that there are a at least a few hateful people in the in the ranks of the pro-smackers.
What was our surprise then, when we received the following item yesterday:
Email: [address removed]
It is a very sad week when a little 3 year old dies in our country from abuse that may have started with ‘a little tap’ and at the same time we have people like your group supporting the notion the violence towards our most vulnerable is ok. I don’t think you understand what good parenting is and as for one of your representatives saying to his little girl ‘daddy loves you’ as he abuses her – how sick is that. Shame on you
Time: Sunday August 23, 2009 at 4:04 am
IP Address: 125.237.176.[deleted]
This poor fellow obviously got the wrong end of the stick. Some people are very confused about what YES and what NO meant on the referendum question.
We tried to be kind to this well-intentioned individual, and responded as follows.
You got it the wrong way around my friend … The YES Vote are the people who are against smacking!
Please take out your wrath on the VOTE NO people …
Undeterred, he responded:
Your response confirms for me that your organisation has got no idea about what you actually stand for and why the referendum was a waste of time. By voting, anyone would have supported your contention that smaking is a part of good parenting – how sad. By doing your homework and visiting hospitals etc, you’d see that the level of child abuse is appaling in this country and people who voted yes have been sucked into turning a blind eye to this and in effect supporting it’s continuation. I’m pleased to say that I’m not one of these people! I know heaps of people who are doing a great job of raising their kids without resorting to violence.
Thankfully, less than an hour later, he sent us the following apology:
Please accept my sincere apologies – I was so fired up I thought that I was emailing that lot wishing to over turn the current law – Baldock etc!!
I am sorry for directing my frustration at the wrong group. I just can’t believe how naive people can be believing that smacking kids is ok.
I will do what you say. All the best with your work – I wish you luck and again sincere apologies!!
Phew! It just goes to show how devious and confusing the referendum wording was, and that good triumphs over evil in the end. But we’re left wondering how many people were as confused as Richard when they voted.
Tags: hate mail ,john key ,larry baldock ,referendum wording
Three days left to call referendum off
Media Statement 30 June 2009
Promoters of the child discipline referendum are increasingly damaging their own cause by failing to take the opportunity to call it off.
“With just three days left until the Governor-General issues a writ for the referendum, its organisers are coming off as arrogant, inflexible and unconcerned at the massive and unnecessary expense they are responsible for,” said Yes Vote spokesperson, Deborah Morris-Travers.
“Even among those who support their question, there is an overwhelming belief that the whole exercise is a terrible waste of money.
“Demanding an amendment to the child discipline law in return for calling off the referendum is outrageous. The law grants children the same legal protections as all other citizens have. This is fair and reasonable, especially when law is being administered sensibly and sensitively.
“By trying to place responsibility for the referendum’s cancellation in anyone’s hands other than their own, its promoters are dodging their responsibilities as its creators. Sheryl Saville, Larry Baldock and Bob McCoskrie started this farce and they are the only people with the power to withdraw it.
“The leaders of the two main parties have shown remarkable courage as leaders in standing by the current child discipline.
“They are not doing so to be popular, but because they know from their constant exposure to the reality of New Zealand’s high rates of family violence that this law is an important step towards creating safe, loving environments for our children to grow up in the 21st century.
“The Yes Vote coalition repeats its call for the referendum organisers to do the right thing, call off the poll before this Friday, and save the country at least $6 million,” concluded Ms Morris-Travers.
Contact: Deborah Morris-Travers, Tel 0274 544 299
Tags: anti-smacking referendum ,bob mccoskrie ,child discipline law ,deborah morris-travers ,larry baldock ,sheryl savill
Referendum instigators called on to withdraw their petition
Media Statement June 25, 2009
If the instigators of the citizens initiated referendum are serious about making life better for children in New Zealand, they should exercise their ability to stop the referendum and save some of the $9 million committed to this futile PR stunt. This is money that could be applied to making a real difference for New Zealand’s children and their families.
“The promoters of the petition forcing the referendum, Sheryl Saville, Larry Baldock and Bob McCoskrie, have a short window of time in which they could demonstrate some common sense and commitment to New Zealand families in these hard economic times, by withdrawing their petition,” said Yes Vote spokesperson Deborah Morris-Travers.
Legally, the petition can be withdrawn by its promoters before the Governor-General issues the writ for the referendum, which must be done by Friday 3 July 2009.
The Yes Vote coalition is calling upon them to act responsibly in this matter. It is clear from the referendum debate over the last two weeks that the question is misleading, many people remain confused about the application of the law, and there is no political will to change the law when it is working effectively. The outcome from the referendum therefore will be of little value.
The Yes Vote Coalition represents the major agencies working with communities to support parents and families. We support the child discipline law and we support parents. We see and understand the challenges faced by families throughout New Zealand and we know those families don’t want precious government resources being wasted on a referendum that will add little to the future well-being of their children.
“We call on the petition promoters to withdraw their petition while it is still possible to do so,” concluded Ms Morris-Travers.
Contact: Deborah Morris-Travers. Tel 0274 544 299
Tags: anti-smacking referendum ,bob mccoskrie ,deborah morris-travers ,larry baldock
Baldock balks when asked for proof
Recently Napier City Councillor Maxine Boag was a guest on Newstalk ZB following commentator Dr Robin Gwynn the previous day on the same topic. This is a transcript of her two-minute thought for the day.
“Good morning, I’m Napier City Councillor Maxine Boag.
This week I received a flyer with a figure looking like an orange plastic ginger-bread man asking the question “Should a smack as part of good parental correction be a criminal offence in New Zealand?”
My first reaction was: “What a dumb question!”
It’s like that old set-up question: “Have you stopped beating your wife?” In which case a “yes” answer shows you have been beating her, and a “no” is an admission that you are still beating her.
But this dumb question is what we’re being asked to vote on in a postal ballot in July. It has been prompted by a nationwide petition that was launched in response to the 2007 [changes to the] Child Discipline law. At the cost of $9 million to taxpayers, this poorly-worded referendum has been criticised by both the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition, both of whom saying that they will not be voting in it, with the National-led government saying they will not be changing the law regardless of the outcome.
The question is very misleading.
First of all, many of us believe that a smack is not part of good parental correction. So if you say ‘yes’ or ‘no’ you are still agreeing that a smack is good parental correction. A recent study of pre-schoolers’ parents in Otago showed that only a tiny minority of parents actually thought smacking was a good thing for them to do, and just 9 per cent thought smacking was effective in disciplining their children. Most parents said that smacking was more to do with their own state of mind, their tiredness and frustration, than the child’s behaviour.
Secondly, since the 2007 child discipline law, the use of a “smack” has not made any parents criminals. No parents who occasionally smack lightly are being prosecuted. So if you say ‘yes’, you are saying anyone smacking their child will be considered criminals, when they’re not. If you say ‘no’ you again buy into this lie.
I heard the organiser of the petition, Larry Baldock on the radio just yesterday being asked if he could give a single example of where a parent has been criminalised for smacking a child and he couldn’t!
It made me think back to my own primary school days, when I was strapped often, always for talking.
Did it shut me up?
I’ll leave the answer for you to decide.
I’m Maxine Boag, and that’s my thought for today.”
Tags: child discipline law ,larry baldock ,Maxine Boag ,referendum ,research
Campbell Live: Larry Baldock issues ransom letter to John Key
Tonight’s Campbell Live asks the question, “What would you do with $9 million?” A txt poll taken by Campbell Live shows that 61% of respondents believe that $9m on a referendum is a waste of money. Larry Baldock, the person who organised the referendum, seems confused about how best to spend $9m of taxpayer money. But not too confused to try to take advantage of the situation.
Baldock has issued a ransom letter to John Key stating that he’d withdraw the referendum if the government removes subclause 2 and subclause 3 from Section 59 of the Crimes Act… in other words, reintroduces “reasonable force” as a defence against assaulting a child.
That’s unlikely. We the taxpayers get to pay the price for Larry’s Folly.
Tags: campbell live ,john campbell ,john key ,larry baldock ,ransom ,section 59
Larry Baldock can’t name a single example of smacking being criminalised
Larry Baldock, the organiser of the referendum,was comprehensively owned by Sean Plunket on National Radio’s Morning Report programme today.
The referendum organiser cannot come up with a single example where a parent has been criminalised for smacking a child.
http://podcast.radionz.co.nz/mnr/mnr-20090617-0712-Smacking_petition_organiser_defends_referendum-048.mp3
Baldock: It is absolutely clear that if a parent uses any reasonable force right now to correct their child right now they are breaking the law…
Plunket: Can you give us an example of that having happened?
Baldock: There are examples that we’ll have available…
Plunket: Can you give us a single example of that having happened, please?
Baldock: There was a grandfather for example, who tipped his grandson out of a chair because the grandson refused to obey his grandfather to turn down the television and so on.
Plunket: Was he convicted and was that a smack?
Baldock: He plead guilty …
Plunket: Was that a smack?
Baldock: No, he tipped him out of a chair….
Plunket: Can you point to anyone who has been criminalised for smacking a child?
Baldock: Yes we can.
Plunket: Please, could you give me an example?
Baldock: Well, I’ll have to go to my list of examples.
Plunket: Can you give me a single example off the top of your head?
Baldock: No, not off the top of my head, I can’t.
… and so on.
Wouldn’t it be nice to send Baldock a bill for $9m?
Tags: larry baldock ,morning report ,radio nz ,sean plunket
Audio: Morning Report story on the referendum
National Radio ran a story on Morning Report today on the referendum, with guest spots by Deborah Morris-Travers, Sue Bradford, Larry Baldock, and Bob McCoskrie.
http://podcast.radionz.co.nz/mnr/mnr-20090615-0755-New_smacking_referendum_galvanises_campaigners-048.mp3
Tags: audio ,bob mccoskrie ,deborah morris-travers ,larry baldock ,morning report ,radio nz ,sue bradford
Gordon Campbell: Why the citizens referendum in July is a futile way to spend $10 million
By now, the so called ’smacking’ debate is one of those issues that has been aired so thoroughly that its arrival back on the political agenda is like having an argumentative uncle turn up for Christmas dinner. He’s here again, there’s going to be a fight – and how long will it be before he goes away again ?
Next month, in the middle of a recession, New Zealand is set to spend something close to $10 million on a citizens initiated referendum (CIR) on the subject. The result will not be binding on the government and – judging by our previous track record on CIR that are NOT held at election time – the turnout can be expected to be low. The 1995 firefighters CIR attracted a turnout of only 28%.
This year’s referendum is being held nearly two years after the legislation that amended S59 of the Crimes Act – thus removing the defence of ‘reasonable force’ in cases involving parental violence against children – was passed by Parliament by a majority of 113 votes to 8. This year, in a classic case of putting the cart before the horse, the country will be holding its postal vote on the CIR before the Ministry of Social Development has finished its review of how the new legislation has been working. That review is not due to be released until September or October.
So far, the Act – and with it, the operational discretion available to Police on whether it is in the public interest to prosecute – appears to be working exactly as the law makers intended. Parents are not being criminalised en masse by the law change, as some had feared. In the one headline case where a Police prosecution was mounted, the jury agreed with the prosecution that the 50 year old parent involved had indeed committed an assault when he flicked his four year old child’s ear, pulled his hair and punched him in the face.
In July though, the public will not be asked to deliver a verdict on the law that was passed in 2007, or on how that the Police have administered it since. The referendum question is :“Should a smack as part of good parental correction be a criminal offence in New Zealand?” With the best will in the world, it is hard to see how any MP – or any citizen – who supported the verdict of Parliament could wholeheartedly answer either “Yes” or “No” to such a formulation, since it begs the question in at least two important respects.
One, It contains a value judgment about the context (“ good parental correction”) and secondly, it assumes the question of whether, under current Police procedures, such a smack can ever be a criminal offence. Essentially, the public is being asked to pass a judgement on a scenario that two years down the track, has not eventuated.
Still, that is the question that has been accepted by the Clerk of the House for the vote, and freedom of speech factors should carry a great deal of weight. After all, this is a procedure initiated by citizens, and official intrusion has to be kept to the absolute minimum. On the other hand, some $10 million of public money is likely to be spent on this process. For that reason alone, the procedures for CIR deserve closer scrutiny.
For answers, I consulted Dr John Parkinson of York University in the United Kingdom. Parkinson, a New Zealander, has written extensively on issues of direct democracy, With good reason in the past, Parkinson has criticised the high hurdle that any citizens initiated referendum in New Zealand has to meet before it can trigger a ballot. The organizers are given only one year ( plus a brief extension in extenuating circumstances) to collect supportive signatures from ten per cent of the voting population.
In this case, that meant Larry Baldock and the other organizers of the ‘anti-smacking’ CIR had to gather about 285,000 signatures – which boils down to a requirement to gather on average, 781 signatures each day, every day, for an entire year. No wonder very few CIR ever manage to make the signature target. When taken together with the high 5% threshold for MMP, it is another reason why politicians should never be trusted to write the checks (or cheques) and balances on how democracy should operate. Compare the New Zealand situation with Switzerland, which gives campaigners 18 months to gather 100,000 signatures – or just 1.75% of registered voters, at a rate of only 182 a day.
On the other hand, Baldock may care to rethink his previously stated enthusiasm for California’s citizens initiated measures. As I pointed out a year ago, the threshold for initiatives in California may be only 5% of voters registered for the previous elections for governor, but these must be gathered in only 150 days, at a rate of 2,492 a day – and while the result is binding, such statutes can be (and regularly are) struck down subsequently by the courts, on constitutional grounds.
First, I asked Parkinson this question : How do other countries manage, if at all, the issue of leading or loaded questions in CIR ? “The New Zealand CIR institution,” Parkinson replied, “ is unique, because there is no draft law being voted on. In those US states which use the device, CIR are not “questions” but complete laws or constitutional amendments. You have to have a legal team to draft a complete Bill, and that’s what gets sent to a vote. In Switzerland, initiatives take the form of constitutional amendments. Thus, Swiss and US voters have a lot more to go on than New Zealand voters do. The latter have just a vague statement of intent which Parliament (which is sovereign, remember, not ‘the people’) has to interpret, consider and respond to.”
Also, Parkinson adds, no one else in the world operates an ‘acceptability’ test for CIR questions. “In the US, any such requirement would breach the First Amendment. Instead, they leave it up to other groups to come up with competing propositions, and put all the competing ones on the same ballot. It’s a ferociously expensive process, which means only the very well-funded have any chance. In Switzerland, they handle it by means of (a) delaying tactics. The Federal Council can choose any time it likes to hold the vote – and (b) government counter-proposals which go to a vote at the same time as the citizen’s initiative. Counter-proposals almost always win. In other words, no-one tries to filter out bad ideas in advance. They trust to the competitive democratic process to reveal the flaws in proposals. Having options [counter-proposals] helps.”
Thirdly, he says, questions are vetted in New Zealand, once they have passed the signature target. The precise question has to be agreed between the Clerk of the House of Representatives and the proposer, so that it meets the requirements of the CIR Act 1993. “ The ‘leading question’ issue has not come up in the three previous CIR that went to a vote,” Parkinson says, “but one, the Withers referendum [on crime, held in 1999] clearly breached the requirements of the Act in that it asked at least four separate questions. Mr Withers was extraordinarily resistant to the Clerk telling him to simplify it, and my interpretation of the correspondence between them is that the Clerk thought there was no point continuing an unpleasant fight when the vote would not make a difference anyway. That is my interpretation, not the Clerk’s. I don’t know what the process was in this case.”
Should loaded questions be ruled out? Well, in defence of the organizers of this year’s referendum, it is certainly not unknown for even government–initiated referendums, much less CIRs, to ask value-loaded questions. John Howard’s Australian republic referendum in 1999 for instance, was not shy about assuming the outcome that it sought, and nor was Augusto Pinochet’s ‘defence of the dignity of Chile’ referendum in 1988. Only those who didn’t care about Chile’s dignity – or who were too gutless to defend it – could disagree with El General, and his modus operandi.
The second question posed to Parkinson was : Given the track record of low turnout in New Zealand on non-binding postal CIR held outside the context of an election, what sort of majority can fairly compel a government to pay heed – and does overseas practice on non-binding referenda give us any guidance?
In other words, if ten per cent of voters seek a CIR, and only 30 % of the public respond, and 80% of those that respond express the same opinion, what weight – if any – should be given to that result by the government ?
There are three camps on the “what weight” question, Parkinson replies. “One, ‘pure majoritarianism’ says that 50%+1 is the only justifiable decision rule, and turnout has nothing to do with it. The second “consensus” camp says that there’s no hard and fast rule, but the higher the winning margin and the higher the turnout, the more legitimate the outcome.
The third is a “super-majority rule” which says you need 50%+1 of total votes, plus a majority in most or all states, or among ethnic groups, or religions, or whatever the major cleavage in society is. The point of super-majorities is to ensure that small states or groups don’t get steamrollered by the big ones all the time.” The examples, he says, include:
– Australian constitutional referendums that require an overall majority of voters, plus a majority in EVERY state;
– Swiss CIR that require an overall majority of the vote, plus a majority in more than half the cantons.
Other examples ? “There are two kinds of turnout restriction,” Parkinson concludes. “In Italy, so called “abrogative referendums”, allow citizens to challenge laws, but they require a turnout of 50%+1.” Otherwise, compulsion can always settle the question of turnout. Australia, Belgium, Brazil, and 27 other countries have compulsory voting, and that effectively settles any legitimacy question about the turnout.
Overall, Parkinson comes down on the side of the obvious. “ My view is that, given the non-binding nature of the vote, a big majority on a low turnout is not as compelling as a big majority on a big turnout. If it’s binding, then I like the double-majority system – it forces people to try to persuade each other rather than just bully each other. The decision rule should still be 50%+1 though. I don’t have a considered view on the turnout requirement, but my gut reaction is to prefer compulsory voting – it becomes a badge of citizenship, and not a burden.”
Plainly, compulsory voting – especially on some lobby group’s pet CIR topic – is not a runner in New Zealand, Perhaps it should be, when a highly organized 10 % of the population can compel the wider public to spend $10 million on a process that Parliament, in its considered wisdom, is then free to ignore.
At the very least, the Key government will be wanting to wait and hear from the MSD review of the current law – and how it is operating – before reaching any decision. Unfortunately, the public will not be able to do likewise
by Gordon Campbell at Werewolf
Republished with permission
Tags: anti-smacking referendum ,gordon campbell ,john parkinson ,larry baldock ,referendum ,york university
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Title: Wasilla cannabis festival investigated for allowing pot consumption
Source: Anchorage Daily News
URL Source: https://www.adn.com/alaska-marijuan ... -for-allowing-pot-consumption/
Author: AP
Post Date: 2018-07-26 06:42:57 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Organizers of an Alaska cannabis festival who allowed adult participants to consume pot in public are facing an investigation and possible fine.
The director of the Alaska Alcohol and Marijuana Control Office will recommend a penalty for Alaska Hempfest, a free event over three days in Wasilla, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported .
An estimated 1,500 people attended the event that began June 22. Among them were representatives of the Alaska Alcohol and Marijuana Control Office, who took photographs.
Nordica Friedrich, communication and music director for Alaska Hempfest, was notified by email that an investigation was underway and that the marijuana control office would recommend a fine.
Friedrich hosted the event, which is in its third year, with her mother, Niki Raapana, of Fairbanks.
Alaska Hempfest was held on private property and featured live music, vendors and speakers. An enclosed tent was offered to attendees older than 21 who wanted to consume marijuana, Friedrich said.
State law and industry regulations prohibit public consumption of marijuana.
Friedrich compared the tent to a beer garden at Alaska fairs and other public gatherings.
"Alaskans voted to regulate cannabis like alcohol," Friedrich said.
Erika McConnell, director of the Alaska Alcohol and Marijuana Control Office, said in an email that she has not determined the amount of a recommended fine. A report on the investigation of Alaska Hempfest will be available before the next meeting of the Alaska Marijuana Control Board, which begins Aug. 15 in Fairbanks.
"I will be asking the board to assess a civil fine similar to what they did about the Cannabis Classic," McConnell said.
In that case, the Marijuana Control Board imposed two fines totaling $20,000 and suspended $15,000. In criminal cases, fines are suspended on the condition that an offender does not reoffend. The penalties were based on allegations of illegal sales and public consumption.
The Cannabis Classic was in May in Anchorage at a former social club. Participants paid a fee of $350 for a cannabis class and samples of weed that they judged.
Organizers of the Cannabis Classic have not paid the fine, McConnell said, but also have not received an official letter notifying them of the board's decision in June.
Friedrich said she does not believe she did anything wrong. She said regulatory officials should bring marijuana industry rules in line with alcohol rules.
“People would never go to a beer and barley wine festival and just talk about beer and barley wine and just look at pictures of it,” she said.
Poster Comment:
It was on private property - not "in public"
This is no different than having a party in your back yard.
No word yet if Sarah Palin was in attendance - the festival was in her home town and we all know that she has toked up in the past.
Sarah Palin admits having tried cannabis and isn’t too worried about it
We've got that libertarian streak in us, and I grew up in Alaska when pot was legal anyway. It was absolutely no big deal. I mean, you didn't smoke it because your parents would strangle you. And if you were a jock and you were, you know, a Christian going to youth group, you just didn't do it, right? I still believe that.
But when it comes to picking our battles, for many of us in Alaska, legalization of marijuana just was never really a bright blip on the radar screen, so it didn't surprise me when the voters of Alaska went back to legalizing it. For some years there, it had not been legalized....
I look on the national scene and think, "Wow, of all things to be fighting over and battling over." Especially when it comes to medical marijuana, I think, "Hmm. It's just not my baby."
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#1. To: Deckard (#0)
I doubt the arrests will hold up through the highest court decisions... I personally wouldn’t have made the arrest. Petty bullshit by bias officers who can’t unprogram their thinking when it comes to a substance they’ve policed for years.
However, expect new ordnance’s that will dictate events on private property, of certain size (like Woodstock or even this event), viewable from public property (a roadway) would be prohibited to treat as private... especially if there is some sort of cover charge to enter. Not sure if the USSC would uphold such a local law... I’d rule in the property owners favor If I was Chief Justice Gandisland.
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GrandIsland posted on 2018-07-26 7:55:47 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
What happened to the pro-marijuana argument, "Why can't I smoke pot in the privacy of my own home"?
Well, this is what happened. We all knew that it wouldn't stay "in the privacy of your own home". So we wrote a law saying you can't smoke in public.
But you did anyways, didn't you? Now you're pissing and moaning about THAT. You have to wonder what's next.
misterwhite posted on 2018-07-26 9:39:59 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
Alaska law, Sec. 17.38.040.
Public consumption banned, penalty.
It is unlawful to consume marijuana in public. A person who violates this section is guilty of a violation punishable by a fine of up to $100.
The law does not say it is unlawful to consume marijuana on public land. It says "in public". Meaning it's only legal in private.
Which is exactly what the marijuana advocates wanted. Right? Right?
#4. To: misterwhite (#3)
Meaning it's only legal in private.
What part of "...held on private property" is so difficult for you to understand?
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Deckard posted on 2018-07-26 9:58:21 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
What part of "it's illegal to smoke in public" don't YOU understand? The law says nothing about the nature of the property.
misterwhite posted on 2018-07-26 10:11:23 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#6. To: Deckard, GrandIsland, misterwhite (#0)
The Alaska Hempfest appears to have been a public event, regardless of whether it was held at a privately owned venue. "A public place is generally an indoor or outdoor area, whether privately or publicly owned, to which the public have access by right or by invitation, expressed or implied, whether by payment of money or not...."
"Alaska marijuana regulators have fined the operator of a pot competition, the Alaska Cannabis Classic, saying the event illegally sold marijuana and promoted public consumption."
Encouraging public pot consumption at a public event violated state law and industry regulations.
Saying they were selling a judging kit for $350, which kit contained a t-shirt and event tickets, as well as an ounce of marijuana flower and concentrates, and denying they were selling the marijuana does not pass the giggle test.
https://www.adn.com/alaska-marijuana/2018/06/15/alaska-marijuana-board-fines-cannabis-competition-for-illegal-sales/
Alaska marijuana board fines cannabis competition for illegal sales
Author: Laurel Andrews
Updated: June 15 calendar Published June 15
Alaska marijuana regulators have fined the operator of a pot competition, the Alaska Cannabis Classic, saying the event illegally sold marijuana and promoted public consumption.
The Cannabis Classic, which took place May 19 in Anchorage, was fined $20,000, with $15,000 suspended. That means the operator will have to pay only $5,000 so long as the event does not violate Alaska law going forward, Alcohol and Marijuana Control Board director Erika McConnell said in an email.
McConnell had asked the board to levy a fine of $10,000 for each of two violations: Selling marijuana without a license in the form of $350 marijuana judging kits; and "allowing and encouraging" public consumption of cannabis.
The Cannabis Classic is run by husband and wife Cory and Kendra Wray, who organize similar events across west coast states.
As part of the event, "judgeships" are sold for $350, McConnell wrote to the board. People who want to judge marijuana submitted for the competition pay the fee and are given a kit that includes a ounce of marijuana flower and concentrates.
"Essentially, the Wrays are selling marijuana to individuals through their website," McConnell's memo says.
Wray said Friday that the event does not sell marijuana, but instead offers an educational course, which he said was an extension of his mission of cannabis education.
To receive the kit, a potential judge takes a class, Wray said. If they pass the exam, "Then they're given the cannabis for free to apply their skills," he said, along with t-shirts and tickets to the event.
"They're purchasing an experience and education," Wray said.
In Alaska, it's legal to give away up to an ounce of marijuana.
In terms of the second violation, Wray said that all people at the event were given a program which outlined the state's public consumption law. In Alaska, anyone who is found publicly smoking marijuana can be fined up to $100, which is a civil citation, akin to a traffic ticket.
"If people were consuming … they should be the ones that are liable for that," Wray said.
Starting in 2015, May's event was the fourth time the Cannabis Classic has been held in Alaska. The competition used to be held at Anchorage's Dena'ina Center, and in 2016, the event organizers and building organizers got into a conflict about free samples, ADN reported at the time.
This year, the event was held downtown, in the same building that housed the now-defunct Pot Luck club, a marijuana social club that the state said was illegal, and which was shut down in April of last year.
Robinson Garcia owns the building, and McConnell recommended to the board that he also be fined for knowingly allowing public consumption of marijuana on his property.
The board voted against any fines for Garcia, McConnell said in an email Friday.
Wray said that the Cannabis Classic was planning to return to Alaska next year.
"We just want to better understand the rules so that we can comply and add value to the industry," Wray said.
Laurel Andrews
Laurel Andrews was born in Bethel and grew up in Fairbanks. She covers breaking news, general assignments and the Alaska cannabis industry. Reach her at laurel@adn.com or 907-257-4382.
https://www.commerce.alaska.gov/web/Portals/9/pub/MCB/StatutesAndRegulations/AS17.38.pdf
Chapter 17.38 THE REGULATION OF MARIJUANA
Sec. 17.38.040.
Sec. 17.38.020. Personal use of marijuana.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, except as otherwise provided in this chapter, the following acts, by persons 21 years of age or older, are lawful and are not criminal or civil offenses under Alaska law or the law of any political subdivision of Alaska or bases for seizure or forfeiture of assets under Alaska law:
(1) possessing, using, displaying, purchasing, or transporting marijuana accessories or one ounce or less of marijuana;
(2) possessing, growing, processing, or transporting not more than six marijuana plants, with three or fewer being mature, flowering plants, and possession of the marijuana produced by the plants on the premises where the plants were grown, except that not more than 12 marijuana plants, with six or fewer being mature, flowering plants, may be present in a single dwelling regardless of the number of persons 21 years of age or older residing in the dwelling;
(3) transferring one ounce or less of marijuana and up to six immature marijuana plants to a person who is 21 years of age or older without remuneration;
(4) consumption of marijuana, except that nothing in this chapter permits the consumption of marijuana in public; and
(5) assisting, aiding, or supporting another person who is 21 years of age or older in any of the acts described in (1) - (4) of this section.
https://www.commerce.alaska.gov/web/Portals/9/pub/MCB/StatutesAndRegulations/MarijuanaRegulations.pdf
3 AAC 306
REGULATIONS FOR THE MARIJUANA CONTROL BOARD
3 AAC 306.305. Retail marijuana store privileges
(a) A licensed retail marijuana store is authorized to
(1) sell marijuana purchased from a licensed marijuana cultivation facility, packaged and labeled as required under 3 AAC 306.345, 3 AAC 306.470, and 3 AAC 306.475 in an amount not exceeding the limit set out in 3 AAC 306.355, to an individual on the licensed premises for consumption off the licensed premises;
(2) sell a marijuana product purchased from a licensed marijuana product manufacturing facility, packaged and labeled as required under 3 AAC 306.345, 3 AAC 306.565, and 3 AAC 306.570, in a quantity not exceeding the limit set out in 3 AAC 306.355, to an individual on the licensed premises for consumption off the licensed premises;
(3) store marijuana and marijuana products on the licensed premises in a manner consistent with 3 AAC 306.710 - 3 AAC 306.720;
(4) with prior approval of the board, permit consumption of marijuana or a marijuana product purchased on the licensed premises, in a designated area on the licensed premises.
(b) This section does not prohibit a licensed retail marijuana store from refusing to sell marijuana or a marijuana product to a consumer.
https://definitions.uslegal.com/p/public-event/
Public Event Law and Legal Definition
A public event, as the name suggests, could refer to any event open for the general public. Exhibitions, expositions, fairs, festivals, entertainment, cause-related, fundraising, and leisure events are all examples of a public event. Any event that is a one-time or periodic, free or ticketed, cultural, charitable or cause-related, and conducted for the purpose of attracting revenue, support, awareness, and/or for entertainment purposes, and created by and/or for the general public is generally referred to as a public event.
In Home Builders Ass'n v. L & L Exhibition Mgmt., 1999 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 23525 (E.D. Mo. Aug. 13, 1999), the court held that a public event is one where people can go see a wide variety of individuals and firms selling goods and services.
https://definitions.uslegal.com/p/public-place/
Public Place Law and Legal Definition
A public place is generally an indoor or outdoor area, whether privately or publicly owned, to which the public have access by right or by invitation, expressed or implied, whether by payment of money or not, but not a place when used exclusively by one or more individuals for a private gathering or other personal purpose. The following is an example of a state law defining public places for smoking laws:
"Public place" means any enclosed indoor area used by the general public or serving as a place of work containing two hundred fifty or more square feet of floor space, including, but not limited to, all restaurants with a seating capacity greater than fifty, all retail stores, lobbies and malls, offices, including waiting rooms, and other commercial establishments; public conveyances with departures, travel, and destination entirely within this state; educational facilities; hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, and other health care and medical facilities; and auditoriums, elevators, theaters, libraries, art museums, concert halls, indoor arenas, and meeting rooms. "Public place" does not include a retail store at which fifty percent or more of the sales result from the sale of tobacco or tobacco products, the portion of a retail store where tobacco or tobacco products are sold, a private, enclosed office occupied exclusively by smokers even though the office may be visited by nonsmokers, a room used primarily as the residence of students or other persons at an educational facility, a sleeping room in a motel or hotel, or each resident's room in a health care facility. The person in custody or control of the facility shall provide a sufficient number of rooms in which smoking is not permitted to accommodate all persons who desire such rooms.
nolu chan posted on 2018-07-26 11:10:06 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#7. To: nolu chan (#6)
Uh-huh. And who provided the enclosed tent for "consuming"?
The Alaska Hempfest appears to have been a public event, regardless of whether it was held at a privately owned venue. "A public place is generally an indoor or outdoor area,
My definition of private and public differ. I feel any property bought by other than a government entity and maintained financially with non tax funds... is private property. Anything bought, owned or subsidized by tax collected funds, is public property.
So, I’m not a huge fan of arresting a property owner for PUBLIC weed smoking, while on their own property... by twisting the definition of private and public. If the state is going to do that, then why make something legal only on private property?
GrandIsland posted on 2018-07-26 22:48:00 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#9. To: GrandIsland (#8)
My definition of private and public differ. I feel any property bought by other than a government entity and maintained financially with non tax funds... is private property.
You are conflating a private venue with a private event. A public event can be held on private property. Open the event to the public and it is a public event, whether it is held in a public or private venue.
So, I’m not a huge fan of arresting a property owner for PUBLIC weed smoking, while on their own property... by twisting the definition of private and public.
Where did you read somebody got arrrested or any action was taken against the owner of the building?
Robinson Garcia owns the building. The Board voted against any fine for Garcia.
Nordica Friedrich hosted the event with her mother, Niki Raapana, of Fairbanks. She was not the one fined.
Cory and Kendra Wray ran The Cannibis Classic, a marijuana competition at the Alaska venue, and organize similar events across the western states. They were fined for illegal sales of marijuana, and allowing and encouraging public consumption of marijuana.
#10. To: nolu chan (#9) (Edited)
The article... “Organizers of an Alaska cannabis festival who allowed adult participants to consume pot in public are facing an investigation and possible fine”
Now, I realize Dicktards articles are poorly written, drama filled, agenda oriented, bias, slanted and YELLA... but my take on the incident was a state with legal pot use on private property... a person hosting a large event on private property, and event goers might get fined for being potheads on private property because the event is seen as a public event on private property?
Is the article different?
#11. To: nolu chan (#6)
They were selling a "judging kit", not marijuana. See?
Also, they were not smoking marijuana. They were "consuming" it.
And they're not smoking it to get high. They're smoking it to relax.
And when they drive home high as a kite, they're actually safer drivers because shut up.
#12. To: GrandIsland (#8)
So, I’m not a huge fan of arresting a property owner for PUBLIC weed smoking, while on their own property
Can he run around naked on his property?
Although it's private property, it's public behavior. The marijuana law was written to prohibit the behavior, no matter where. It says "no smoking in public", not "no smoking on public land".
#13. To: Deckard (#0)
I was wondering when Palin's name was going to be mentioned/exploited. You didn't disappoint.
Liberator posted on 2018-07-27 15:56:02 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#14. To: Liberator (#13)
I was wondering when Palin's name was going to be mentioned/exploited.
She must have been out of town that day.
Deckard posted on 2018-07-27 15:58:29 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#15. To: misterwhite (#12)
Hey, I wasn’t the dipshit legislators that conjured up a law that allows weed smoking, as long as it’s not in public.
Big difference between showing nudity and someone getting high. Little kids can watch folk getting high on afternoon TV.
Do you think anyone ever was told they failed the exam and would not be getting the "free" marijuana to apply their skills?
#17. To: GrandIsland (#10)
It wasn't the cops investigating and fining. Some members of the Alaska Marijuana Control Board attended the event, recorded the activity, reported the activity to the Board, and the Board voted to fine the gentleman who expressed his innocence:
It seems the Board found his explanation unpersuasive. Unless it was not a sale at all, it was an illegal sale not at an authorized sale location.
#18. To: nolu chan (#16)
After paying $350? You're funny.
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Defiant Lives
DEFIANT LIVES is a triumphant film that traces the origins of the world-wide disability rights movement.
Shadow Girl
SHADOW GIRL is the extraordinary story of a filmmaker struggling with the prospect of losing her vision.
From Emmy®-nominated IN THE FAMILY filmmaker Joanna Rudnick and Chicago’s Kartemquin Films comes a story about challenging norms and redefining beauty. ON BEAUTY follows fashion photographer Rick Guidotti, who left the fashion world when he grew frustrated with having to work within the restrictive parameters of the industry’s standard of beauty. After a chance encounter with a young woman who had the genetic condition albinism, Rick re-focused his lens on those too often relegated to the shadows to change the way we see and experience beauty. At the center of ON BEAUTY are two of Rick's photo subjects: Sarah and Jayne. In eighth grade Sarah left public school because she was bullied so harshly for the birthmark on her face and brain. Jayne lives with albinism in Eastern Africa where society is blind to her unique health and safety needs and where witch doctors hunt people with her condition to sell their body parts. We follow Rick as he uses his lens to challenge convention and media’s narrow scope of with the help of two extraordinary women.
Service: When Women Come Marching Home
Women make up 15 percent of today's military. That number is expected to double in 10 years. SERVICE highlights the resourcefulness of seven amazing women who represent the first wave of mothers, daughters and sisters returning home from the frontless wars of Iraq and Afghanistan. Portraying the courage of women veterans as they transition from active duty to their civilian lives, this powerful film describes the horrific traumas they have faced, the inadequate care they often receive on return, and the large and small accomplishments they work mightily to achieve. These are the stories we hear about from men returning from war, but rarely from women veterans. Through compelling portraits, we watch these women wrestle with prostheses, homelessness, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Military Sexual Trauma. The documentary takes the audience on a journey from the deserts of Afghanistan and Iraq to rural Tennessee and urban New York City, from coping with amputations, to flashbacks, triggers and depression to ways to support other vets. An eye-opening look at the specific challenges facing women veterans with a special focus on the disabled, SERVICE can be used for courses in military studies, women’s studies, peace and conflict courses and veteran support groups.
Scarlet Road
Impassioned about freedom of sexual expression, Australian sex worker Rachel Wotton specializes in a long overlooked clientele— people with disabilities. Working in New South Wales—where prostitution is legal— Rachel’s philosophy is that human touch and sexual intimacy can be the most therapeutic aspects to our existence. Indeed, she is making a dramatic impact on the lives of her customers, many of whom are confined to wheelchairs or cannot speak or move unaided. Through her graduate studies and her nonprofit group Touching Base, Rachel both fights for the rights of sex workers and promotes awareness and access to sexual expression for the disabled through sex work—and brings together these two often marginalized groups. We follow her from conducting sex and disability workshops to speaking to the World Congress on Sexual Health about her mission to observing her overnight stays with severely disabled clients who blossom under her attention—with one man even gaining back lost movement and sensation thanks to his time spent with her. Rachel has made it her life’s work to end the stigma surrounding these populations; the depth, humor and passion in this positive and pro-active documentary will transform the way we see sex workers and people with disabilities forever.
COMPENSATION the first feature by award-winning filmmaker Zeinabu irene Davis (CYCLES and A POWERFUL THANG), presents two unique African-American love stories between a deaf woman and a hearing man. Inspired by a poem written by Paul Laurence Dunbar, this moving narrative shares their struggle to overcome racism, disability and discrimination. An important film on African-American deaf culture, Davis innovatively incorporates silent film techniques (such as title cards and vintage photos) to make the piece accessible to hearing and deaf viewers alike, and to share the vast possibilities of language and communication.
Voices Heard Sisters Unseen
VOICES HEARD SISTERS UNSEEN is a powerful and inspirational film showing how survivors of domestic violence are working to change the way the system treats battered women in search of justice and safety. Interviews, poetry, dance and music combine to present a feminist analysis about how courts, police and social services 're-victimize' battered women who are deaf, disabled, lesbians, prostitutes, HIV-positive or without official immigrant status. VOICES HEARD SISTERS UNSEEN is an important call for multi-issue activism and an integrated response to services for battered women.
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A rare and lively examination of disability and homosexuality as it affects both women and men, DOUBLE THE TROUBLE, TWICE THE FUN, advocates for acceptance rather than pity for the participants in this film. Interviews with a wide range of disabled lesbian and gay people are intercut with dramatic recreations and performances. Made for Channel Four Television by Pratibha Parmar (A PLACE OF RAGE, WARRIOR MASKS), this enlightening film dispels the myth that all disabled people are unhappy or have no sexual identity. It also looks at the difficulties of enduring prejudice as both a disabled and gay person.
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People with disabilities constitute nearly twenty percent of the American population. Sexism and often racism compound discrimination based on disability. Designed to provide positive, realistic pictures of the lives of women with disabilities and the social, economic, and political issues they face, POSITIVE IMAGES focuses on three strong and articulate women. Offering crucial role models for women and girls with disabilities, this powerful film also locates disability as a women's issue of concern to us all by discussing education, employment and careers, sexuality, family life and parenting, and societal attitudes.
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See Statement on Religious Freedom
I. The Scriptures.
We believe that the Holy Bible was written by men divinely inspired, and is a perfect treasure of heavenly instruction; that it has God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture of error for its matter; that it reveals the principles by which God will judge us, and therefore is, and shall remain to the end of the world, the true center of Christian union, and the supreme standard by which all human conduct, creeds, and opinions shall be tried.
II. The True God.
We believe the Scriptures teach that there is one, and only one, living and true God, an infinite, intelligent Spirit, whose name is Jehovah, the Maker and Supreme Ruler of heaven and earth; inexpressibly glorious in holiness, and worthy of all possible honor confidence and love; that in the unity of the Godhead there are three persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost; equal in every divine perfection, and executing distinct but harmonious offices in the great work of redemption.
III. The Fall of Man.
We believe the Scriptures teach that Man was created in holiness, under the law of his Maker; but by voluntary transgressions fell from that holy and happy state; in consequence of which all mankind are now sinners, not by constraint but choice; being by nature utterly void of that holiness required by the law of God, positively inclined to evil; and therefore under just condemnation to eternal ruin, without defense or excuse.
IV. The Way of Salvation.
We believe that the Scriptures teach that the salvation of sinners is wholly of grace; through the mediatorial offices of the Son of God; who by the appointment of the Father, freely took upon him our nature, yet without sin; honored the divine law by his personal obedience, and by his death made a full atonement for our sins; that having risen from the dead, he is now enthroned in heaven; and uniting in his wonderful person the tenderest sympathies with divine perfections, he is in every way qualified to be a suitable, a compassionate, and an all-sufficient Savior.
V. Justification.
We believe the Scriptures teach that the great Gospel blessing which Christ secures to such as believe in him is justification; that justification includes the pardon of sin, and the promise of eternal life on principles of righteousness; that it is bestowed, not in consideration of any works of righteousness which we have done, but solely through faith in the Redeemer's blood; by virtue of which faith his perfect righteousness is freely imputed to us of God; that it brings us into a state of most blessed peace and favor with God, and secures every other blessing needful for time and eternity.
VI. The Freeness of Salvation.
We believe that the Scriptures teach that the blessings of salvation are made free to all by the Gospel; that it is the immediate duty of all to accept them by cordial, penitent and obedient faith; and that nothing prevents the salvation of the greatest sinner on earth, but his own determined depravity and voluntary rejection of the Gospel; which rejection involves him in an aggravated condemnation.
VII. Regeneration.
We believe that the Scriptures teach that in order to be saved, sinners must be regenerated, or born again; that regeneration consists in giving a holy disposition to the mind that it is effected in a manner above our comprehension by the power of the Holy Spirit in connection with divine truth, so as to secure our voluntary obedience to the Gospel; and that its proper evidence appears in the holy fruits of repentance and faith, and newness of life.
VIII. Repentance and Faith.
We believe the Scriptures teach that repentance and faith are sacred duties, and also inseparable graces, wrought in our souls by the regenerating Spirit of God; whereby being deeply convinced of our guilt, danger and helplessness and of the way of salvation by Christ, we turn to God with unfeigned contrition, confession, and supplication for mercy; at the same time heartily receiving the Lord Jesus Christ as our prophet, priest and king, and relying on him alone as the only and all-sufficient Savior.
IX. God's Purpose of Grace.
We believe the Scriptures teach that election is the eternal purpose of God, according to which he graciously regenerates, sanctifies and saves sinners; that being perfectly consistent with the free agency of man, it comprehends all the means in connection with the end; that it is a most glorious display of God's sovereign goodness, being infinitely free, wise, holy and unchangeable; that it utterly excludes boasting and promotes humility, love, prayer, praise, trust in God, and active imitation of his free mercy; that it encourages the use of means in the highest degree; that it may be ascertained by its effects in all who truly believe the Gospel; that it is the foundation of Christian assurance; and that to ascertain it with regard to ourselves demands and deserves the utmost diligence.
X. Sanctification.
We believe the Scriptures teach that Sanctification is the process by which, according to the will of God, we are made partakers of his holiness; that it is a progressive work; that it is begun in regeneration; and that it is carried on in the hearts of believers by the presence and power of the Holy Spirit, the Sealer and Comforter, in the continual use of the appointed means especially the word of God, self-examination, self-denial, watchfulness, and prayer.
XI. Perseverance of the Saints.
We believe the Scriptures teach that such only are real believers as endure to the end; that their persevering attachment to Christ is the grand mark which distinguishes them from superficial professors; that a special Providence watches over their welfare; and they are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation.
XII. The Law and Gospel.
We believe the Scriptures teach that the Law of God is the eternal and unchangeable rule of his moral government; that it is holy, just and good; and that the inability which the Scriptures ascribe to fallen men to fulfill its precepts, arise entirely from their love of sin; to deliver them from which, and to restore them through a Mediator to unfeigned obedience to the holy Law, is one great end of the Gospel, and of the Means of Grace connected with the establishment of the visible church.
XIII. A Gospel Church.
We believe the Scriptures teach that a visible church of Christ is a congregation of baptized believers, associated by covenant in the faith and fellowship of the Gospel; observing the ordinances of Christ; governed by his laws; and exercising the gifts, rights, and privileges invested in them by His Word; that its only scriptural officers are Bishops or Pastors, and Deacons whose Qualifications, claims and duties are defined in the Epistles to Timothy and Titus.
XIV. Baptism and the Lord's Supper.
We believe the Scriptures teach that Christian baptism is the immersion in water of a believer, into the name of the Father, and Son, and Holy Ghost; to show forth in a solemn and beautiful emblem, our faith in the crucified, buried, and risen Savior, with its effect, in our death to sin and resurrection to a new life; that it is prerequisite to the privileges of a church relation; and to the Lord's Supper, in which the members of the church, by the sacred use of bread and wine, are to commemorate together the dying love of Christ; preceded always by solemn self-examination.
XV. The Christian Sabbath.
We believe the Scriptures teach that the first day of the week is the Lord's Day, or Christian Sabbath, and is to be kept sacred to religious purposes, by abstaining from all secular labor and sinful recreations, by the devout observance of all the means of grace, both private and public, and by preparation for that rest that remaineth for the people of God.
XVI. Civil Government.
We believe the Scriptures teach that civil government is of divine appointment, for the interest and good order of human society; and that magistrates are to be prayed for, conscientiously honored and obeyed; except only in things opposed to the will of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is the only Lord of the conscience, and the Prince of the Kings of the earth.
XVII. Righteous and Wicked.
We believe the Scriptures teach that there is a radical and essential difference between the righteous and the wicked; that such only as through faith are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and sanctified by the Spirit of our God, are truly righteous in his esteem; while all such as continue in impenitence and unbelief are in his sight wicked, and under the curse; and this distinction holds among men both in and after death.
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We believe the Scriptures teach that the end of the world is approaching; that at the last day, Christ will descend from heaven, and raise the dead from the grave for final retribution; that a solemn separation will then take place; that the wicked will be adjudged to endless punishment, and the righteous to endless joy; and that this judgment will fix forever the final state of men in heaven or hell, on principles of righteousness.
Statement of Religious Freedom
The National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. believes that religious liberty is a gift from God. We support the freedom of the individual conscience to choose to worship God according to the dictates of one’s heart. And while we celebrate our own liberty to embrace biblical truth without compromise, we also support the first amendment to the Constitution which guarantees freedom of religion for all Americans. In this light, as Americans, we join with other faith communities in supporting the right of Islamic and other religious bodies to worship according to the dictates and mandates of their faith expressions.
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New Low Power FM Radio Station Approved for Downtown Sacramento
Posted by AccessLocal.TV | Feb 10, 2014 | 1
Long time free-speech and diversity public access cable TV broadcaster Access Sacramento will add a new Low-Power FM (LPFM) radio station to its outreach later this year.
Radio programmers work from two radio production and broadcast studios at Access Sacramento inside the Coloma Community Center.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted a license and construction permit Friday for non-commercial non-profit Access Sacramento to operate on frequency 96.5 FM.
“This will be such an important opportunity for our radio producers to be heard by an even larger audience,” said JoAnn Fuller, Access Sacramento’s Chair of the Board of Directors. “For more than two decades we’ve been heard on cable radio or the website, but now here’s a way for an even greater connection to the community.”
LPFM station applications were accepted by the FCC last November after a call by Congress to the FCC to provide more hyper-local community content.
Listen to Access Sacramento’s “The Voice” HERE.
“Access Sacramento’s television public access content has always promoted local programs,” said Gary Martin, Access Sacramento Executive Director. “Now our radio programmers’ music, talk, public affairs and election information that will be heard in cars all over Sacramento.”
Access Sacramento already operates cable television channels 17 and 18 on Comcast and SureWest Cable and can be seen on Channel 99 on AT&T U-verse, with audio streaming on cable radio, the Second Audio Program (SAP) and the Internet.
The station will operate from the radio studios housed in the Access Sacramento offices at the Coloma Community Center in East Sacramento. The transmitter and antenna will be positioned in midtown off the top of a six story office complex.
The low-power station will be hear from approximately Sleep Train Arena in the north to Florin Road in the South, and in the east from about Cal State, Sacramento through West Sacramento.
Access Sacramento would use the top of an existing mast in downtown Sacramento for its antenna.
“We have 18 months to get the transmitter up and operating,” said Shane Carpenter, Access Sacramento’s radio coordinator. “There is so much extra energy about Access Sacramento right now. Our radio announcers are hoping for big things: more remotes from downtown, more election and candidate discussion, and maybe even a chance to broadcast city council meetings.”
Access Sacramento is just one of 13 LPFM applications filed for the Sacramento area. Two applications have been dismissed, and one other application was granted a week ago: The Williams Memorial Church of God in Christ was approved for FM 99.1 Mhz. Three applications have been “Accepted for Filing” which means all of the engineering is correct and a license is very likely. Six other application have been ‘received’ but many of these applied for identical frequencies and they’re negotiating to determine if partnerships can be built before the FCC acts.
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Congratulations on your new LPFM license!!! Would you need broadcasters, specifically a former broadcaster with a LPFM station? If you do, I offer three years and more of experience as a LPFM broadcaster. I would be honored if you would accept a CD of one of my shows. I played music and provided some talk with guests regarding the music being played. My show was titled “Tutti Fruitti”, which is translated in Italian as all mixes of music.
A response would be very much appreciated. Again, congratulations on your successfully LPFM application.
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Circa Projects & Giles Bailey: Festival of the Not Art Monthly #424, March 2019
Eschewing the headed notepaper, marketing department and regular funding invariably associated with successful arts organisations in favour of what might be described as a studio-based curatorial practice founded on peer-led dialogue, Circa Projects doesn’t suffer the relative precarity of its situation as survivor but rather wills it as an essential condition for activity which is inquisitive and porous. For the past two years, this has assumed form via a relationship with artist Giles Bailey in which the terms of each other’s practice have encircled one another; a relationship for which the three-day ‘Festival of the Not,’ its curious title pointing as much to a resistance as to a celebration, stands as coda.
The festival, taking in performance, screenings, talks and workshops, was hosted by the Star and Shadow Cinema, a co-operative cinema and music venue which reopened in new self-built form in 2018. Truly an exemplar for equable, non-hierarchical models of organising and programming, and a spirited riposte to fatter, lazier institutions, the Star and Shadow is proof of the viability of those models in the face of the ‘no alternative’ imposed by dominant structures; the ‘not’ here rather an ‘or’.
Kim Coleman’s performance OHMMG opened the festival. A lone computer-controlled stage lamp rotated slowly, lighthouse-like, a greenish light casting a narrow beam across the space and illuminating a portion of the audience – seated in a circle – at a time. Faces, many familiar, some not, appeared briefly: eyes blinded and shut, heads inclined; or else a confrontation, lids narrowed into the light; preparing a face to meet the faces that you meet, as Eliot had it. Here was a masquerade; a reflexive introduction which set up an exchange between viewer and apparatus, revelation and obscuration, framing its audience not as observers but protagonists – and indeed, as it played out, the lamps themselves as agents; lonely dancing robots high on digital affect. And in many ways, though the weekend was rich and nourishing, it never transcended this moment, which depended as much on its position in the programme as on a certain brilliance in Coleman’s schema.
An affective current also charged Deborah Bower and Janina Sabaliauskaite’s 16mm film Your Body is a Wave, though in an entirely different register. A quietly transcendental achievement in its treatment of both subject and material, the film stood as an affirmation, via the particular qualities of its regard, of the possibilities presented by a union between two different artistic backgrounds. Sensual, oneiric, it summoned a rich chiaroscuro from its black and white ground, abstracting form and tone in a manner not unlike the work of Imogen Cunningham or Edward Weston.
Then, in a feat of choreography which came to be a leitmotif for the thoughtfulness with which the weekend as a whole was structured, the audience were rounded up by Christo Wallers, here a shamanic figure incanting a elusive, syncretic narrative fusing Bertolt Brecht and Fluxus artist George Brecht – and followed promenade-style as he led them to the sanctum of the cinema room, where five projectors clattered, for Film Bee’s performance Light Angles Right Angles.
While in form it had antecedents in Expanded Cinema, it shrugged off what might elsewhere have felt canonical to claim as its own a sense of anarchy and carnival, and indeed to push the multiple-projection format beyond its usual terms. Letraset characters, appearing at random via each projector, at points graciously formed words, and learning afterwards that the performance was entirely unrehearsed lent these aleatory moments a sense of magic which, as with much of the events, suffused the rest of the festival to the extent that its temporary community became a living archive of the sum of its activities.
A shift of key again, set against an ever-mounting typology of images of furniture, and involving a brief but beautifully precise partita for performer and chair, Katy Bentham’s Song for Charles Rennie Mackintosh, or The Secrets of Swedish Contentment, was taut, determined and meticulously choreographed. As with Anti-Muse, Bentham’s performance at Newcastle University’s Fine Art degree show, the success of the piece stemmed from employing an internal logic which enjoins the viewer to trust it to make associative leaps, its sense of form and poise balanced by a wryness that saw off any would-be descent into the austere.
Among the films which screened, Morgan Quaintance’s Letter From Tokyo, 2018, a reflective essay on forms of resistance, was particularly resonant in the Star and Shadow, formed as it was from interviews with countercultural groups in Tokyo in the descent towards the 2020 Olympic Games. It is no leap to move from the foreclosure of alternative culture, gentrification and the proscription of public space in Japan to the same in the UK, given identical global forces, but Quaintance’s generosity of approach guarantees the integrity of his original enquiry; that metaphor is secondary to source material and not the reason for it.
The presentations given by Dutch writer and artist Louwrien Wijers, while thematically perfect for the Fluxus-inspired programme, in practice felt at odds with the festival as a whole. If there were a central message to Wijers’ career as she recounted it, it was that to enjoy a senior position in the art world as a woman, one must hang on the coat-tails of prominent men, which as note-taker and interviewer for Beuys, Warhol and others she did, going on to organise the colloquium Art Meets Science and Spirituality in a Changing Economy, in which important men talked to other important men about the destiny of the planet: not so very different to the political structures Fluxus argued that it was in defiance of.
However, Festival of the Not was big-hearted enough to contain histories and presents alike, with the gentle framework afforded by the legacies of Fluxus in most instances only enhancing the experience, not to mention underlining the diversity of, the many exemplary performances that unfolded over its course. Where Circa Projects travels to next; the means it might employ to counter, supplement or dissolve institutional structures; and how and with whom it aligns itself, is a trajectory worth watching.
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Filed under: Commentary,Opinion — Tags: 2008 election, Biden, Bush, economy, GOP, Infomercial, Karl Rove, Larry King, McCain, Obama, Palin, Polling, Polls, Republicans, RS Janes, Tattlesnake, Television, TV — RS Janes @ 5:41 am
While the Tattler doesn’t usually like the kind of wan-music-in-the-background soft emotional porn of the ‘Oprah-ized’ infomercial, Obama’s half-hour spot Wednesday night avoided most of the worst aggravations of this TV cliché, especially the forlorn solo piano music sound track with flourishes of swelling strings redolent of tacky video matchmaking and cancer treatment center ads.
It featured battleground-state stereotypes – a laid-off white male Ford Motors worker, a Latina woman trying to make ends meet, an elderly black couple hampered by chronic illness and worried about the future, et al — struggling with life in Bush’s downsized economy, but at least the people were real and their stories didn’t sink into cheesy Lifetime-channel melodrama; Obama’s interspersions in office surroundings reminiscent of Camp David were obviously intended to make the Low-and-Slow-Information-Voters of Middle America, awaiting the ballgame, feel comfortable with him as president, which was the main point of this smart $4 million investment.
Obama laid out his economic plans clearly, appeared mature and confident, and didn’t, as I recall, mention Sen. McMoribund or the Ice Princess even once. Contrast this with tone-deaf McCain’s free hour on Larry King following Obama’s spot – in a country thirsting for unity and a different direction, he mostly griped about Obama and reprised the half-baked GOP themes of the past four election cycles, although he finally admitted he really didn’t believe his Democratic opponent was a socialist, negating all of the frantic rhetoric emanating from his campaign to the contrary. (Incidentally, if you know anyone who supports McCain, ask them exactly what he plans to do about the economy that is fundamentally any different from what Bush has done.)
Bill McInturff, McCain’s lead pollster, claims he has internal numbers that contradict the national polls showing Obama way ahead – he proclaimed that McCain was “functionally tied” with Obama (whatever that means), but didn’t comment on why, if that’s true, McCain has been forced to spend money defending states that have safely been in the Republican column for decades, including his home state of Arizona. (Perhaps McInturff has been consulting the same secret figures Karl Rove used in 2006 when he boasted to an NPR reporter that the Republicans would hold Congress – “You may end up with a different math, but you’re entitled to your math, I’m entitled to the math.” Two weeks later, the GOP was blown out by the Dems in the off-year election. Following the drubbing, it leaked that Rove’s fatuous optimism was merely a ‘job requirement’ and not based on any inside information – in other words, ‘the math’ was entirely in his head.)
McInturff’s private polls notwithstanding, and barring a monumental screw-up by Obama or Biden, or some sort of, at this point, impractical and impracticable mass voting treachery by the GOP, you can get used to saying ‘President Obama’ after next Tuesday.
Wednesday night’s well-produced infomercial sealed the deal.
RSJ,
Barry kept the usual smarminess down to a dull roar,probably being cynical but older voters seize on that old Fred Astaire,Ginger Rogers schtick.
Come to think of it if they had spent some SFX
money and digitally put Barry’s countenance
on Gene Kelly’s Singin’ in the Rain clip,it might have jarred loose some votes from the chronically undecided Hoozier style Senior Citizens.
Maybe one for the younger crowd with Obama versus McCain grafted into the original StarWars flick where Obama struggles to send a Nukkular missle down the vent of the Death Star as McCain strafes the tail of Obama’s x-wing and swears “I have You now!” only to spin off into space .
Too late now,the production company put Me on the Do not receive calls list years ago;).
Speaking,I saw this little story and got a tingle of warm patriotism and pride at the actions of these unfortunate red-state workers:
http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/10/dozens_of_call_center_workers.php
These People reflect the America that I remember as a boy growing up in Tobacco Row Oklahoma.
Cheers,Rain.
Comment by Rainlander — October 30, 2008 @ 7:57 am
Yeah, Rain, back when Americans workers knew what side they were on and who was doing the screwing. That is a heartwarming tale of the kind of walk-out you don’t hear about much these days.
I hope things are changing for the better and we’ll hear much more of this kind of thing going on. My theory is that the GOP will have a tough time cheating this election since, unlike Gore and Kerry, Obama’s challenging them in so many states that they’d need a vast number of techie tools to change the votes. That means more people to go to the media and turn them in, more indictments and lawsuits, and judges are more likely these days to clamp down on this nonsense than in the past. The question is: How many goofball Repubs are willing to risk jail to put McCain in office?
Maybe we’ll get our country back after all, Constitution restored.
Comment by RS Janes — October 30, 2008 @ 6:54 pm
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3 American Miniature Portraits
This is part of the Artists and Ancestors collection of miniature portraits. This Gallery holds American miniatures from 18C to 20C acquired for the collection from January 2008.
Dodge, John Wood - portrait of Mrs Eliza M Eastman
Miniature portraits by John Wood Dodge feature in many public collections of American art. They include The National Portrait Gallery, The Metropolitan Museum, The Cincinnati Art Museum, and the Cheekwood Museum of Art in Nashville.
This collection has been fortunate to acquire a further miniature portrait by Dodge, to make a total of three in the collection.
This miniature portrait of Mrs E M Eastman was painted by John Wood Dodge (4 Nov 1807-17 Dec 1893). He was one of the best New York miniature painters of the second quarter of the 19C, until he was recommended to move to live in the South for the sake of his health where he continued his career.
Two of Dodge's uncles were Generals in the American Army and on 19 Dec 1831 he married the daughter of one of them; Miss Mary Louise Dodge (1 Jun 1811-?), who was the daughter of Ezekiel Dodge (1767-1839) and Jane Power (1780-1837).
The eldest daughter of John Wood and Mary Louise Dodge was Mary Louise Dodge (28 Oct 1832-23 Aug 1833) who died in infancy. They then had another seven children, only one of who seems to have outlived her father.
For his New York Times obituary, see DEATH OF JOHN WOOD DODGE.; An Artist Who Years Ago Gained fame an ...
The miniature is inscribed on the reverse; "Painted by John W Dodge - Miniature Painter - No 42 Franklin St - New York - Sept 30th 1836 - Mrs E M Eastman".
Unfortunately, to date it has not been possible to identify the sitter more closely and so I would be very grateful for any clues that would help to identify her.
At this time, Dodge seemed to identify his sitters with their husband's initials. Thus it would appear that she is the wife of a Mr E M Eastman.
Normally this would be sufficient to identify him and hence, then his wife's maiden name and their families.
However, there are an number of men from around that date named Eastman and with a first name beginning with "E", who lived in the general area of New York and the surrounding states.
They include; Ebenezer Eastman, Edmund Eastman, Edward Eastman, Enoch Eastman, Eli Eastman, Enos Eastman, Elijah Eastman, Ezra Eastman, and Ezekiel Eastman. With some of those first names appearing more than once.
But for none of those can I find one with a second initial "M".
An Exciting Coincidence
Later note - November 2008 - Doyle Auctions offered a miniature (showing below) which must be the husband of the above sitter.
It is described as; "Portrait of Mr. Eastman - Inscribed on the reverse Painted by/John W. Dodge/42 Franklin St./New York/Sept. 30th 1836/Mr. Eastman - Watercolor on ivory 2 7/8 x 2 1/4 inches - The account book of miniature portraits maintained by John Wood Dodge has been microfilmed by the Archives of American Art. On September 30, 1836, the date inscribed on the reverse of the present work, Wood recorded in his logbook payment in cash of $60 each for likenesses of W. M. Eastman and Mrs. Eliza Eastman. [John Wood Dodge Papers, 1828-1934; reel 960, Archives of American Art.]
As the date is identical, Sept 30, 1836 the miniature must be of Mrs Eliza M Eastman and her husband must be Mr W M Eastman, not Mr E M Eastman as I had assumed.
It may not be possible to reunite the miniature portraits, but at least they can be seen together here, over 170 years after they were painted. [Later, Mr Eastman unfortunately sold for more than I could afford, which was a little sad, but at least the images are reunited here.]
Although not confirmed, I am inclined to believe Mr W M Eastman is the William Eastman (1792-?) of Homer, Cortland, NY who married Elizabeth ....? in 1832. They appear to have had five children; Philena, Daniel, Jennie, Ellen, and Henrietta. Philena possibly being the Eliza Philena Eastman (17 May 1836-1907) who married Samuel Rice.
The year 1836 the miniature was painted by Dodge marked one of several high points in his career, as in the previous year, 1835, a miniature portrait by him of his brother Edward S Dodge, had been described by "the City News papers to be the best miniature in the Academy this year".
For reasons that are not clear, Dodge worked from a number of different addresses while he worked in New York.
This can be seen from the following signed and dated examples.
Feb 29, 1832 - 82 Franklin St - A Gentleman
Nov ??, 1832 - 82 Franklin St - James O Owens
Sep ??, 1832 - 37 Lis(?) St - Edward Shotwell
Oct 23, 1834 - 485 Pearl St - Rev W L Jupson
Feb 7, 1835 - 485 Pearl St - Miss Major
Apr ??, 1835 - 42 Franklin St - Mrs E Mead
Oct 14, 1835 - 42 Franklin St - Isaac F Tysen
Sep 30, 1836 - 42 Franklin St - Mrs E M Eastman
Jul 31, 1838 - 52 White St NY - Mr A L Clements
Oct 18, 1838 - 52 White St NY - Mrs A L Clements
Perhaps, as his reputation improved and he could charge higher prices, he moved to better premises.
The photographic quality of his best work is well illustrated in the close up of this miniature. It is hard to realise it was painted several years before photography was introduced to America via the daguerreotype.
Apparent in the Eastman miniature is a characteristic "thumb-print" shadow which is found on many, but not all of his miniatures.
For two other miniatures by John Wood Dodge in this collection, one of Eliza Jane Moffit Budd and one of Reuben Kreider which is unfortunately cracked, see American Miniature Portraits - 1: Dodge, John Wood - portrait of ...
and American Miniature Portraits - 1: Dodge, John Wood - portrait of ...
Raymond White has written two excellent articles on John Wood Dodge, particularly with regard to his later career in Tennessee. One can be seen at John Wood Dodge: and the portrait miniature. - The Magazine ...
The other is in the Spring 2000 edition of the Tennessee Historical Quarterly. The latter article includes the names of around 270 Tennesseans painted by Dodge between 1828 and 1854. 1335
Posted by Don Shelton at 1:57 PM
Andora Smith said...
I have a miniature painting by him of my Ancestor John Kirkman signed from 1847 in mint condition. How do I find out what it's value is?
Eudora Pierce MacNair at andorasmith@yahoo.com
I have a painting with a lady from Nahville Tn he wrote on back it says April 1857 and it says likelness of Mary and cant read rest..
Don Shelton
The term "historical detective" may sound a little strange, but is the easiest way to express the intent of this research. Seeking information to expand historical knowledge and finding, surprisingly often, "conventional wisdom" needs revision
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x'1E' (30): Hackers, Wild Ducks, and Skunk Works: Timesharing and Virtualization from 1959 to 1968
posted Nov 19, 2014, 7:32 PM by Jeff Ogden [ updated Nov 19, 2014, 7:34 PM ]
Hackers, Wild Ducks, and Skunk Works: Timesharing and Virtualization from 1959 to 1968
By Sean P. McBride, 30 March 2013
For Itm 554: Operating System Virtualization, Jeremy Hajek
http://www.slideshare.net/spmcbride1201/mc-bride-hackers-wild-ducks-and-skunk-works
https://googledrive.com/host/0B4t_NX-QeWDYMmpkSFVseEpLZGM/mcbride-hackerswildducksandskunkworks-130330172810-phpapp02.pdf
pages 13 and 14:
While Norm Rasmussen and Bob Creasy began planning their timesharing project,
another part of IBM discovered a possible reprieve from the MIT fiasco. The University of
Michigan had long been a flagship IBM campus, second only to the MIT Computation Center.
After MIT’s snubbing of IBM for Project MAC, Professors Bernard Galler and Bruce Arden
sensed an opportunity to overcome IBM’s traditional predilection for elite East Coast universities
and position the University of Michigan as IBM’s new flagship campus (Akera 2008).
Contacting IBM and the National Science Foundation, these professors suggested that they could
build a System/360 timesharing system, as long as IBM followed their specifications for
hardware changes to enable dynamic addressing. IBM tentatively accepted to this proposal, but
soon changed course after reaching out to customers to help the professors gather a list of
requirements. Because customer demand for timesharing far exceeded their expectations, IBM
decided to instead develop the timesharing system internally as an official supported product
released alongside a new System/360 model with DAT capabilities. However, the University of
Michigan and five other clients under non-disclosure agreements would form the “Inner Six” and
help IBM steer the direction of the product via SHARE user group committee (Varian 1997).
In August 1966, the TSS development team informed the ‘Inner Six’ that it was unlikely
that the Model 67 would be released before December or that TSS would be released before
April 1967. Even worse, the first release of TSS would only be for “experimental,
developmental, or instructional use” (Pugh, Johnson and Palmer 1991, 362). The reasons for this
were myriad. According to a member of the TSS architecture group, “OS/360 hadn't settled town
sufficiently when TSS began, and there was too much of a rush to completion” (Goodwin 2009).
Out of the ‘Inner Six,’ the University of Michigan was especially frustrated by these delays, as
they had promised that that timesharing services would be available by the fall semester of 1966.
Professor Bernard Galler accused IBM of “attempt[ing] from the beginning to build a system
and included everything except the kitchen sink” (Akera 2008). Having obediently cast aside
their aspirations to develop a timesharing system in-house to support TSS two years earlier, the
Michigan Computer Center now believed that they had misplaced their faith in the abilities of
IBM development, leading them to resume development of their own Michigan Terminal System
for the System/360.17 These adverse announcements rocked the company similar to the loss of
Project MAC, leading IBM CEO Tom Watson Jr. to admit in the 1966 Annual Report that IBM
had “experienced delays in meeting our original objectives for… time-sharing systems” (Pugh,
Johnson and Palmer 1991, 362).
17 This system became the Michigan Terminal System, which was operational six months after delivery of their
Model 67, fully developed by late 1968, and run across a consortium of several universities by 1969. (Akera 2008).
Akera, Atsushi. "The Life and Work of Bernard A. Galler (1928 - 2006) ." IEEE Annals of the
History of Computing (IEEE Computer Society) 30 (2008): 4-14.
Pugh, Emerson W., Lyle R. Johnson, and John H. Palmer. IBM's 360 and Early 370 Systems.
Cambridge: MIT Press, 1991.
Varian, Melinda. VM and the VM Community: Past, Present, and Future. Office of Computing
and Information Technology, Princeton University, SHARE Inc., 1997.
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Different qualities aren't limited only to wild pets—many rare World drops and special non-wild companions have had their stats boosted. For example, the world-drop dragon whelps (Azure Whelpling, Crimson Whelpling, Dark Whelpling, and Emerald Whelpling) are of [rare] quality. Check your Pet Journal to see the color-coded rarity of your non-wild pets.
The closed beta for Blizzard’s upcoming World of Warcraft vanilla server option launched on May 15th, and Blizzard has now listed some of the apparent issues that the development team is aware of, including class and combat related issues alongside missing textures and more. Blizzard mentions that this list is not a complete depiction of what they’re aware of, but a sampling of issues they believe players may encounter on regular basis.
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Only really to expand on Gráinne's comment as regards the 'collecting' and 'roster development' sections - which are, as said 'distinct' although they are intrinsically linked - I would like to point you in the direction of the in-game Achievements > Battle Pets > Collect tab. There are a series of achievements called Raiding With Leashes, pretty much all of which can be completed via the auction house - if you have the gold/inclination - or by completing old raids.
This past BlizzCon, Blizzard announced thatWoW Classic would be coming out in the Summer of 2019. Along with it came a demo of the early leveling zones and several panels worth of information that assured the eager public that Classic would indeed be as faithful and ‘blizzlike’ as possible. Having played through the entire demo I can agree that the game is almost exactly as I remember Vanilla being 14 years ago. The only difference in design being the implementation of ‘sharding’, a process which splits up the player base in different instances of the same zone to alleviate some of the overcrowding in early zones. Blizzard has also gone on the record to say that sharding would only be in the game for the first couple weeks after the launch of Classic and that they would then disable it once the player base had spread out more. However, sharding isn’t the only thing thatVanilla players might find different about their experience. In this article, I am going to go through each of the aspects that will most likely change inClassic WoW, whether Blizzard likes it or not.
Nov 9 Maximizing Movement Speed in 8.0 So I find it difficult to find solid sources of current content ways of maximizing movement speed on a character. I'm hoping some of you can help me figure it out. In a way to maximize movement, I don't know if Blizzard has a hard or soft cap on movement speed for a character. I want to use a 110 since it would be reliable in farming most older content and materials. Sephuz Secret = 3% Passive w/ 15% whenever you use a CC effect. Viridium gems = 3% movement speed boost, but can they stack? Longstrider = A 110 still has access to limited azerite gear so you can get another 3% here I'm guessing with scaling helping you get that secondary bonus easier. Using the Leather Legendary BoE boots you get 5% movement speed per enemy killed for 1 minute. Stacking up to 5 times you can get 25% there. What else can you use? That's 34% movement passive by the looks of it. According to the toon you use that can go up and down according to character. Maybe some of the experts on the topic can help break down how to maximize speed.Jaszunn0 Nov 9
If a companion dies during the battle, it will need to be resurrected before it can participate in another encounter or be summoned as a traveling companion. Get that pet a medic! Or in this case, a Stable Master. Stable Master NPCs can heal and revive your pets for a small fee, and there is no cooldown on the Stable Master's heal. You’ll find Stable Masters in major towns and cities across Azeroth.
Apr 2, 2018 [Guide] WoW Game Tokens *****UPDATE TO WOW TOKENS***** Effective: February, 6th, 2017 You can now use WoW Tokens for Battle.net Balance when you purchase one off of the AH. You may find further information on this new update to the WoW Token System here! Trade a WoW Token for Battle.net Balance: https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/20542016 *****Original Version of this Guide***** Hello to all new and veteran World of Warcraft Players! Welcome to my extensive guide regarding the new World of Warcraft Game Tokens! :-) Which Patch did World of Warcraft Game Tokens launch?: The World of Warcraft Game Tokens were launched in World of Warcraft on April, 7th, 2015. When will the Game Tokens be available to World of Warcraft Players?: Game Tokens started to roll out first on realms that are serving (North America, Oceania, and Latin America). After this it had become expanding to other regions in weeks after the release of Game Tokens on North American Realms. What is the cost for World of Warcraft Game Tokens?: For Canadians the price is $25.00 CAD For New Zealand residents the price is $32 NZD ($23 USD) here, which includes 15% GST For U.S. Residents the price is $20.00 USD Where can I purchase the World of Warcraft Game Token?: You can purchase the WoW Game Token from the in-game shop. If you choose to purchase it for usage on your Battle.net Account from the Auction House there will be a new tab called "Game Time". WoW Tokens will be listed at a base price of 30,000 gold. However note though that the price for WoW Tokens can go below 30,000 gold or climb up in price. Prices are based on demand for these tokens. How much times may you use the WoW Game Token?: You may use the token ONLY on the Auction House! Once it's sold it is Soul Bound to the buyer and can only be used (1) time to redeem for game time for your World of Warcraft account. Once sold as well the seller will receive the gold they sold it for! Can I set my own price for the token when selling on the Auction House?: At this time, Blizzard has stated upon listing it onto the Auction House, A pre-set price determined by Blizzard will be the listing price. This price may go up or down pending on the sale(s) of the WoW Token in each region. You cannot at this time set your own personal price for the WoW Token! The current price you sell the WoW Game Token for in the Auction House is set at 30,000 gold. However note though that the price for WoW Tokens can go below 30,000 gold or climb up in price. Prices are based on demand for these tokens. May I buy the token if my account is inactive?: YES! The option to purchase the token will additionally be on the character select menu if your character has the gold to purchase them. May I purchase the WoW Token with my local currency?: Tokens can only be purchased in US currency at the moment. If the system is trying to use Euros, For example, it's not going to go through - or indeed, give you that option. Will Recruit a Friend Work with these tokens?: YES! They will count just like game cards for your friend you recruited! I'm getting a grey button that states "Not enough Gold", But I'm certain I got the correct amount. What does this mean?: You would get this error in question if you have enough gold if there is not enough World of Warcraft Tokens for sale on the market. In this case, Please try again later when more are in-stock. Is there a limit of WoW Tokens I may purchase per month to sell?: Yup. The limit you may sell is capped at (10) tokens every (7) days. I spent the correct amount of gold, But did not receive the token? What do I do?: Blizzard is aware of this bug and the developers have announced that the gold spent would be returned to the person(s) that purchased the token off the Auction House! You should expect it to return via in-game mail. When buying a token can I use gold from both factions?: Yes. You may purchase the token using gold from both your Alliance and Horde characters! Please note though that the gold pulled from your character(s) all come from the same realm the character(s) are on. You cannot pull gold from multiple realms at this time! May I purchase tokens using my Battle.net Balance?: Yes, If you have the sufficient funds you will be able to! Xanlorash [The Insane] Looking for more World of Warcraft Token information - Please refer to post below! Thank-you!Xanlorash3 Apr 2, 2018
2. Achieving. There are many pet battling achievements in game, and following the natural trail through the Taming [Continent] achievements up to Pandaria, and then on to the Spirit Tamers, Beasts of Fable and the Celestial Tournament was an epic journey for me and for many others. It's well worth doing. The Celestial Tournament is still, IMO, the pinnacle of PvE pet battling. However, WoD and Legion and BfA have added more battling achievements.
I now have a Patreon Page where you guys can support me while I work on Vanilla WoW leveling guides every day. I appreciate all of you who support me on there, it means a lot to me right now. Doing this full time is taxing on my financial situation. My goal is to make the best Vanilla WoW leveling guides on the web and the donations keep me going at it healthfully. There is also cool rewards you get in return for donating. Thanks!
Expected More That WoW Classic Will Resurrect That Hardcore Breed Of MMO That So Many Players Originally Fell In Love With. In World Of Warcraft Classic, It's Built Using Patch 1.12, Titled Drums Of War, Released On August 22, 2006, Equipment And Abilities Will Remain Stable In Order To Reflect The Minor Adjustment That Blizzard Made With Each Path While Dungeons, Raids, And PVP Features Will Constantly Change.
However, after a while the novelty of it wears off and you do start getting a little bored of all the eating and drinking (and wondering why your character isn't getting to Kul Tiran levels of fat), especially if you hop on to BfA for a bit in between. The difference is huge and once you're used to just slamming into 5 mobs and downing them quickly it can get a bit boring to just pull 1 mob at a time and then wait and wait. The really low levels aren't that different between live and Classic in terms of gameplay however, as the small amount of abilities means combat isn't exactly the most exciting thing in either. On live you get past that pretty quickly, but it takes a while longer in Classic (especially if you're playing solo).
Logging in for the first time, being welcomed by THAT login screen and THAT music... You can't not be taken back if you've played Vanilla, and especially if you've played 2 years of it non-stop all day every day. I probably stayed 10 minutes in character creation just because of the music alone (and trying to get my character looking exactly as it did back then - although I wasn't a shaman then). The whole intro experience was especially amazing for me since the Tauren starting zone was my first encounter with WoW in the EU beta, and a little bit of that spark did return. But is that all Classic has to offer? A trip back in time when we were wowed by the game for the very first time?
Aug 26 Welcome to Warcraft - Frequent Questions Hello all, and welcome to World of Warcraft! This can be a very rewarding game and offers a variety of cool experiences with the chance to meet some interesting folks. We'd all like to extend a hearty welcome to the newest members of our ever-growing community and wish you the best of luck in your gaming experience. Before we get started, one of the first questions you might be asking is why the text of certain posters is in green or blue. Green is because those posters are forum MVPs. They have no special privileges or powers and, besides the text, are in no way different from many posters you might meet on these forums. MVPs are recognized by Blizzard for providing consistently accurate information and helping to maintain a positive atmosphere on the forums. This, of course, does not preclude some of them from being a little snarky and sarcastic at times! You will also notice posters that represent themselves with blue font. These are official representatives that work for Blizzard. They do have the ability to answer many questions and offer some bans when the situation warrants it. More information about these two can be found in the first sticky on the General Forums, as well as links to the forum Guidelines and Code of Conduct: https://us.battle.net/forums/en/wow/topic/20749397405 Moving on! While Warcraft can be a very exciting experience, there are likely many questions you will ask along the way and a few problems you might run into. Fear not, for all the people who post in these forums (whether they'd like to admit it or not!) were in the same boat at one point or another. In fact, you might even see some of them come in here and ask questions of their own! Take this as a sign that not everyone knows everything about the game! For your reading ease, the most asked questions will be highlighted in this thread. Refer to the Categories and list below to easily navigate your way through the posts (you can also do a ctrl+f search for any important terms). As always, have fun while playing Warcraft and happy hunting! Categories: Rules of the Game a. Buying Characters b. Buying Gold c. Private Servers d. Reporting Others/Being Reported The Game a. Order/Content of Expansions b. Server Transfers (What are they, where can I transfer to?) Character Information a. How to repair b. Level requirements for Helms/Shoulders c. Armor/Weapons for Classes d. Professions: What level, How to Unlearn e. Talent Points: What are they, How to Change f. Glyphs: General Information g. Mounts: Level/Training/Cost h. Spells: Where are they, how to change action bar Zones. etc. a. Levels of Zones b. Levels of Dungeons c. Levels of Raids d. Levels of Battlegrounds e. Scenarios Auction House a. How to Place Items b. How to Buy Items/Bid on Items c. How to Cancel Auctions d. Black Market Auction House User Interface a. Coordinates b. Chat Channels c. Add Ons Basic Mechanics a. How to Swim b. How to Unstack Items c. Other Keyboard commands d. Mouse (basic) Common Problems a. Destroyed Hearthstone b. Cannot return to corpse after death c. Failing Quests d. GM Tickets Useful Links a. General Information b. RAF FAQ c. Guild Recruitment d. Choosing a Server (How to)Frejya262 Aug 26
As you level, you will buy new ranks of spells. If you splurge out on an item upgrade, you will not have enough gold readily available to upgrade to the latest ranks of spells: placing you behind. Moreover, you can buy gear upgrades from the Auction House (AH) or vendors. Furthermore, you may have large investments that need to be paid for professors. You will need to purchase reagents and items such as leather, bolts of cloth, alchemy supplies – unless you have a charitable friend or another high-level alt.
Instead of sharding the zones, their plan is to shard the entire continent at launch. In Classic WoW, there are no dynamic spawns and questing in starting zones would quickly become annoying, so it's understandable that the game is all but fun when there are no mobs to kill, but layering will also cause you to see new players, every time you sign in to the game, which is a clear downside of the tech.
I consider myself a purist in that I would prefer classic to be released as close as possible to the original. Where that is on the spectrum of patch content will be up to blizz. I'm also not vane enough to believe that any single state of the game is the "Ideal" location we should be aiming for. There is common ground that we can agree on, and I would welcome more than a few changes as long as they are made in the spirit of keeping classic on the vanilla rails.
The original WoW was painful. Mobs took forever to die; one additional enemy in a fight was a pain, two probably meant death. There was a ton of running. Most buffs lasted two minutes, many took reagents, abilities were trained and often out of reach if you lacked the necessary gold. Warlocks had to farm shards, hunters had to carry ammo -- even my warrior did, since in vanilla WoW she can carry a bow and fire arrows herself.
This is another one that will most likely be a boon rather than a bane to the player base, though time will tell just how 14years of experience will affect the economy of Classic WoW. There has been no concrete word on just how AddOns will work in Classic, but if the infrastructure of the game works the same as it does in retail, there is a good chance that most of the mods that work in retail will work in Classic. This means that quite a few people will be running around with a whole host of gathering, crafting, auctioning, and gold making mods. Now, those mods did exist back in Vanilla, but not in the same way they do now, and not as many people had them back then as will in Classic. This will drastically affect how effective the auction house will be, and hopefully will affect the economy as a whole in a positive way. Another thing that will most likely see a large increase in popularity is carry runs. These have steadily grown in popularity since Vanilla, and rest assured with the old 40 man raid size that there will be quite a few “Molten Core full carry master loot ON PST for prices GOLD ONLY” being spammed in trade chat. Whether tokens will be available in Classic has yet to be discussed, but if so it will have an enormous impact on the economy of Classic. This, in addition to the differences I will cover in the next section, will have a pretty large impact on the endgame of WoW Classic.
Combat is turn-based and there is no time limit on each round in a PVE Pet Battle. You can take your time to determine which spell to use next. Some pet abilities have multiple round cooldowns, while others can do extra damage if certain conditions are met. Be creative and have fun testing which combination of attacks works best against different wild pets!
It was the first time in a decade that I wasn't gunning for the end game, pillaging the beta test to determine the fastest way to level and get to the "good stuff," and tweaking my add-ons to skip as much content as I could to get there. I even read a quest or two, though I admit to using the option (still available, even in vanilla) to turn off the line-by-line scrolling of quest text.
A demo of the game was available at BlizzCon 2018, and was downloadable on home computers for anyone who purchased a BlizzCon ticket or virtual ticket. The servers became available when Opening Ceremony started at BlizzCon 2018 and was set to end on November 8, but was extended until November 12.[4] Players started at level 15, and the only available zones were Westfall and the Barrens.[5] It was based on patch 1.13.0, essentially patch 1.12.0 ported to a modern infrastructure. The first day of the demo, there was a playtime limit of a cumulative 60 minutes with a cooldown of 90 minutes, applied through the BlizzCon Exhaustion debuff.[6] The debuff was removed on the second day of BlizzCon 2018.[7]
The leveling guides on my site are essentially speed leveling guides. My leveling guides are the same guides I use myself to speedrun to 60 on new servers to get 60 server first. I list many occasions where I tell the player to "die on purpose" to go faster. I tell the player to skip certain quests, because some quests are just not worth the time/XP. I list tricks and shortcuts to go faster so you can reach level 60 much quicker. I am still constantly going through them over and over again perfecting the guides to make them faster and easier to follow. For the most part, the guide can be followed without the need from other player's help, as the whole guide was made from a solo run anyways. Although I do list quests that can optionally be done if you have a group.
This is definitely why we do a beta test. We can also do things like reset the realm at a busy time like 4:30pm PDT to try and find the source of a certain issue where a crocolisk is losing it’s brain due to how multiple processes are interacting and mirroring code to form a cohesive world. There were similar types of issues like this back in 2004 but we wanted to try and resolve this one before the weekend for the folks who are testing. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Earlier this week, Blizzard finally announced a release date for World of Warcraft Classic, a barebones re-release of World of Warcraft long before it was filled with countless expansions. WoW Classic promises a pure, vanilla experience, one that a portion of the World of Warcraft playerbase has been chasing through unsanctioned vanilla servers stripped of various expansions. The game releases on August 27, which, while still a few months away, is still somewhat exciting, seeing as now most fans have an actual date to look forward to.
World of Warcraft: Classic might be just around the corner, so it’s about time to start preparing. We’ve already published a class selection guide, and today we’re focusing on the most important resource of the game, of course, it is gold. Many players who played World of Warcraft back in the day might remember the times when you needed to count every spent penny and the times when gold farmers roamed the Azeroth on their super expensive epic mounts. In vanilla WoW, gold was everything. And we’re here to help you save as much of it as possible. So, without further due, let’s dive in our World of Warcraft: Classic gold making guide.
Leatherworking has three specializations: Elemental, Tribal and Dragonscale. I’d pick up Tribal one. It allows to craft Devilsaur set items. Hunters, Rogues, Warriors, Feral Druids, even Enhancement Shamans and Retribution Paladins are among your potential clients. On any realm there is Un’Goro Mafia on Horde and Alliance, they control whole Un’Goro Crater zone and farm Devilsaurs 24/7. They are making thousands of gold. With Dragonscale Spec you are able to craft Black Dragon Mail set. Good demand as well among DPS classes Warriors, Hunters, Shamans, Paladins, for those who wants Bis Pre-Raid items fast and easy.
The priest was considered the best overall healer in vanilla WoW. Priests had the biggest selection of healing and defensive spells which could be used in various different situations. Due to this fact, Priests had an easy time finding groups and guilds. If you’ll embark on leveling priest, expect some random whispers from other players inviting you to join their group as a healer. Shadow Priests were also considered as one of the best duelists in the game boasting with serious damage and healing.
There are more passive methods to gain wow classic gold, but these are slower. For example, many people choose to fish in places like Tanaris, or kill Harpies in Feralas and loot items such as mageweaves. These are rather AFK-able, but again, not as rewarding. Some people choose to favour fun over anything, and like in any MMO (massively multiplayer online game), the best way to have fun is playing games with friends or your guild. Dungeon runs with your friends provide social interaction and are definitely helpful over the long-term for your gold stack!
Through out the game, the quest log will be capped to 20 many times. The guide makes use of maximizing the total amount of quests you can accept at once. Because of this it is important to follow the guide exactly and only accept quests if the guide tells you to so you won't run into issues not being able to accept a quest. If you do accept a quest that is not listed in the guide, write it down because you may need to abandon it in order to keep following the guide if your quest log is full.
There are two parts of the quest chain for each continent. The first part involves defeating numerous Master Pet Tamers, and the second requires you to triumph over the Grand Master Tamer. After you've bested the Grand Master Tamer, dailies from each Tamer will unlock for that continent. All the dailies continue to reward experience for your companions, however only the Grand Master daily quest will reward the Sack of Pet Supplies.
I recreated my very first character -- a human warrior, because in the last-push alpha test I joined in 2004, there was no Horde -- and logged in. Immediately, I was surprised by how good the graphics actually looked, for being 15 year old textures-on-polygons. Warcraft's bright colors and cartoony aesthetic continue to this day, so all the increased resolution and better-contoured characters in Lordaeron don't really change the game's visual aesthetic.
In order to save up gold quickly, you must be mindful of your character’s professions. According to various sources, the most profitable profession back in the day used to be herbalism. Mining and skinning are right up there as well. Gathering-oriented professions have an advantage compared to the crafting ones in the early levels because gathering doesn’t require you to spend gold in order to make some coins. You can find plenty of herbs to collect, ores to mine and beasts to skin, all while you’re levelling. Everything you manage to gather can then be sold in the auction house fairly quickly.
If the end game feels miles away, and min-maxing is difficult because frankly, you're gonna take what you get and like it, then the focus of the game changes completely. Suddenly it's about the experience of leveling again, and hanging out with friends, and chatting with people in Goldshire (well, for purely innocent reasons anyway -- the Moon Guard server's Goldshire crew still does plenty of chatting).
Players should stick as close to the level range that we provide below to make sure to maximize the amount of XP they gain. We detail location when it start to get tough to level up after about level 20, this will make it easier to get levels 1-60 with the Warrior class. List of each Location and the Level Range is to the left in a Blue Color for Alliance [Lvl 35-39] and the Orange Color for Horde [Lvl 35-39]. The Mobs you are looking for in that specific area names are Bolded [Mob Name].
This is the first faction exclusive class available only for the Alliance players. Paladins in World of Warcraft: Classic end-game were considered as one of the best single target healers around. However, other Paladin specs were not that popular. While Protection Paladins found their spot with tanking groups of mobs across the dungeons, Retribution Paladins weren’t very popular in the end-game. However, Paladins were amazing levelers and World PvP participants due to their amazing utility skills and ‘oh shit’ buttons such as Lay on Hands or Bubble.
When it comes to levelling the Priest Class from 1-60 fast, XP grinding locations is only half the battle. You will need to make sure your weapon does enough DPS so that you can clear these mobs fast enough, it should also be noted that monster should be around your level to make sure to gain the 100% XP Reward. The Level your character should be before you start that specific location will be indicated to left in a Blue Color for Alliance [Lvl 35-39] and the Orange Color for Horde [Lvl 35-39]. The Mobs you are looking for in that specific area names are Bolded [Mob Name].
My main plan will be to focus on raw gold in the beginning. Then I will spend my gold on leveling tailoring and enchanting so I can shuffle enchanting materials which is likely to be very profitable. I already have some shuffle ideas, and I will look for more. Then I’ll work on obtaining the rare enchanting and tailoring recipes to craft those for gold.
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Big Burns Supper Moulin Rouge Immersive Experience
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A jukebox-musical-theatrical-extravaganza immersive experience that will transport you to the underworld of the Parisian cabaret, served on a silver platter of complete decadence. A young Englishman in the Paris of 1899 becomes infatuated with Satine, a signer at the Moulin Rouge. However, she has been promised by the manager to a Duke in return for funding his next production. As the young lovers meet in secret, Satine’s wedding day draws closer but she hides a fatal secret from both Christian and the Duke.
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President Yudhoyono leads Taufiq`s funeral ceremony
JAKARTA - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono led the funeral ceremony of Chairman of the People`s Consultative Assembly Taufiq Kiemas at the Kalibata Heroes` Cemetery in South Jakarta on Sunday.
"On behalf of the state and nation, we hereby present the services of the Late (Taufiq Kiemas) to the Motherland," the President in his capacity as the inspector of ceremony said when reading the `Apel Persada` (Motherland roll-call) text.
The funeral ceremony was also attended by state officials, retired state officials, politicians, national figures and thousands of other mourners. The president also delivered a speech at a state ceremony organized as a form of appreciation of the state to the services and dedication of Taufiq Kiemas during his life.
The president mentioned that the Late Taufiq Kiemas as a best politician and a consistent figure in fighting for democracy and a true statesman and nationalist. "The Late Taufiq has contributed a lot of services to the state and nation," he said.
Born in Jakarta on December 31, 1942, Taufiq Kiemas died of heart failure at the age of 70 at Singapore General Hospital at 7.05 pm local time or 6.05 pm Western Indonesia Time on Saturday. Earlier, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono praised the Late Taufiq as a true statesman.
"The Late Taufiq Kiemas is a true statesman who continues to think for advancement of the nation based on the state ideology Pancasila (five principles), the 1945 Constitutions, the Unitary State of Indonesia (NKRI) and the Bhineka Tunggal Ika (unity in diversity)," President Yudhoyono said on his Twitter account.
The president said that to respect the services of Taufiq, who is the husband of Indonesia`s former president Megawati Soekarnoputri, the people were requested to raise the flag at half-mast for two days. "Let us pray for the Late Taufiq so that God Almighty would double His reward for his deeds, service and dedication to the nation," he said.
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09 June 2013 · National flag half-mast at state palace for Taufiq Kiemas
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05 June 2013 · Govt prepares Rp6 tln for basic infrastructures
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Hawaii at Stanford Thursday
Sorry for the late post. Gametracker not working and radio was with baseball until late in Game 2.
Stanford is ahead 30-22, 30-23. Radio man Scott Robbs said the Warriors look flat and showing little emotion.
UH offers Billy Ray Stutzmann
If you like tall, fast receivers, you like Billy Ray Stutzmann.
Greg McMackin and Ron Lee do. UH offered the Saint Louis School junior a scholarship today, according to Stutzmann’s dad, Bill.
It was the second offer of the day for Billy Ray, who also got one from Washington State.
“Coach McMackin was really cool about it,” said Bill Stutzmann, the father. “He said he didn’t want an answer right away. He told Billy Ray to go home and think about it, talk it over with the family.”
Stutzmann is the first known UH offer for the graduating class of 2009. Last fall he was a second-team Star-Bulletin all-state selection.
He is around 6-1, 160. Having watched him run track, I think his listed 4.45 time in the 40 is legit.
Oh, and Billy Ray’s brother, Craig, is a former UH standout receiver who is now a grad assistant at UH working with … you guessed it, receivers.
TV rules: At Boise State on Friday, Oct. 17
The Warriors will have a short week to prepare for their game at Boise State.
For TV purposes, the game is going to be Friday, Oct. 17 instead of Saturday, Oct. 18, commisioner Karl Benson said today.
It’s less than ideal, but UH coach Greg McMackin said he’ll deal with it.
“You have to accommodate television,” he said today when asked about playing the Broncos on the road six days after hosting Louisiana Tech.
Benson said the Warriors will also be televised at least once more on ESPN: the Cincinnati and/or Washington State games will be picked up.
Fresno State’s also a possibility, which could cause another Saturday to Friday move.
Hawaii will play its first Western Athletic Conference football game of the 2008 season at home against San Jose State on Sept. 27.
The other WAC home games will be Oct. 11 (Louisiana Tech), Oct. 25 (Nevada) and Nov. 22 (Idaho).
The conference road games are Oct. 4 (at Fresno State), Oct. 17 (at Boise State), Nov. 1 (at Utah State) and Nov. 8 (at New Mexico State).
McMackin said he would like the team to stay on the mainland between the back-to-back road games.
UH also has two nonconference road games, at Florida on Aug.30 and at Oregon State on Sept. 13. Home nonconference games are Sept. 6 (Weber State), Nov. 29 (Washington State) and Dec.6 (Cincinnati).
Sept. 20 and Nov. 15 are open dates.
Hawaii at Stanford Wednesday
Hawaii wins Game 1 30-26. Close until 16-16. UH scored three straight to take the lead for good at 19-16. Sounds like an ILH match with UH’s Carney (Iolani) and Frank (Kamehameha) against Stanford’s Shoji (Iolani), McLachlin (Punahou) and Inafuku (Kamehameha). McLachlin had seven kills in Game 1, five kills for Clar.
Tom Shoji hired at Willamette
From the Statesman-Journal
Willamette University has hired Tom Shoji as its women’s volleyball coach.
Shoji, younger brother of Hawaii coach Dave Shoji, has a long career as a collegiate volleyball coach. His head coaching experience in women’s volleyball totals 24 seasons, including six years each at New Mexico State and Indiana, plus 11 years at Colorado State-Pueblo and one year at Westmar (Iowa) University.
“Tom’s nationally respected teaching skills and his proven track record of success will provide our program with a boost almost immediately,” Willamette athletic director Mark Majeski said.
“I’m kind of excited about it,” said Shoji, currently the associate athletic director-compliance and student services at UC San Diego. “I’m coming into a conference with a lot of experienced coaches. It’s going to be a challenge getting Willamette competing for that conference title in the future. That’s our ultimate goal for now.”
Willamette has been 4-22 each of the past two seasons and has lost 43 Northwest Conference matches in a row.
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National Agricultural Census 2009
Fiji, 2009
Economic Planning and Statistics Division
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FJI_2009_AgC_v01_M
Fiji FJI
Agricultural Census [ag/census]
The Fiji National Agricultural Census 2009 is the fourth agricultural census. After a lapse of 18 years, National Agricultural Census 2009 was carried out in Fiji beginning in October 2009; data collection was interrupted by two cyclones and not completed until March of 2010.
The Agriculture Census is a national obligation conducted by the country to provide benchmark data for planning and policy decisions in sustainable agricultural and rural development; and to strengthen and improve the ongoing Fiji Agriculture Statistics System (FASS) to generate key agricultural data on a regular basis using the results of the 2009 NAC as the benchmark and the dissemination of this statistical information in the form of regular reports.
The 2009 National Agriculture Census (NAC) is the first census programme to be conducted in the country using Multiple Sample Frame (MSF) as the main methodology. Given the experiences of the previous census programmes in terms of funding and availability of resources, the 2009 agriculture census programme provides a platform for more diversification and improvement programmes within the agriculture sector thus ensuring compatible foreign exchange earnings as well as uplifting the living standards of rural populace.
Census/enumeration data [cen]
- Agricultural Holding and Holders
The scope of Agricultural Census 2009 includes:
i. General Characteristics of the Farm
ii. Information on Farm Household Members
iii. Distribution of Land Use
iv. Temporary Cops
v. Permanent Crops
vi. Sugarcane
vii. Scattered Plants
viii. Types of Pastures
ix. Floriculture
x. Livestock and Poultry; Other livestock, Apiculture; Poultry, Aquaculture
xi. Milk Production
xii. Employment in the Total Farm
xiii. Machinery and Farm Equipment
xiv. Farm Management in the Total Farm
Economic Planning and Statistics Division Department of Agriculture
Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations FAO
The survey design used the multiple sampling frame methodology. This methodology combines the advantages of an area frame (complete coverage) and a list frame (rare commodities and large and special farms). In the 2009 NAC, it was expected to provide reliable results at district level for most tables, although results for smaller districts might not be possible. In addition, a small island strategy (SIS) was used where complete enumeration of villages occurred within some districts.
The underlying basis for an area frame sample is to select small areas (in this case, one square kilometer - 100 hectares) that represent the entire area of interest. To improve the efficiency of the sample, the entire country was stratified (or characterized) by the intensity of agriculture. The stratification split the country into areas of high intensity agriculture, medium intensity agriculture, low intensity agriculture, forest areas, peri-urban areas and urban areas/non agricultural areas. The overall sample size was limited by the resources available; it was determined to use a ten percent sample of "agricultural land" as determined during the stratification process.
Initially the Fiji Bureau of Statistics (FIBOS) enumeration areas (EAs) for the 2007 Population and Housing Census were used for stratum identification. Subsequently it was determined that re- stratification of whole EAs and subdivision of other EAs would be more efficient. In many of the FIBOS EAs, farms were present only in small pockets; the uniformity of agriculture in the EA, one of the strengths of the stratification, did not exist. These EAs were, first, reviewed for the presence of natural pine forest and natural reserves. After these areas were removed, the remainder of the EA was divided into one square kilometer grids before the sampling process occurred. After the grids were selected, the Land Use Section of the DOA prepared maps using detectable boundaries "around the grid". It was not possible for segments to retain the gridlines as boundaries because they seldom were along recognizable boundaries; however, it was possible to approximate 100 hectares in that general area.
A farm can consist of land areas that are separated by physical boundaries or by land use patterns; these are called tracts. The method of data collection was to account for each tract inside the segment, but, also to collect information about areas outside the segment for farms with tracts both inside and outside. If a segment boundary splits an existing tract, it is divided into one tract inside the segment and one tract outside the segment. The percentage of the farmland inside the segment is used as a weighting factor for the farm in the expansions.
One of the limitations of area frame samples is the accurate expansion of rare or concentrated (non- uniform) variables - such as poultry houses or large dairy or beef farms. The list frame sample, developed from the knowledge and experience of DOA Animal Health and Production Division and Extension Division staff, was expanded as data collection occurred and there was better awareness of large and specialized farms. Data were collected from all of these farms. It should be noted that shortly before the beginning of data collection, a severe outbreak of brucellosis occurred and some culling took place.
Three levels of data presentation were identified for tabulation of the data of the National Agriculture Census 2009 (NAC 2009). The first is tables and expansions at district level; the second is tables and expansions at provincial and national level; the third is tables and (estimates) for special variables.
The census data were collected at farm level, at tract level, at crop level and at animal/poultry level. Information about households and their demographics were also collected. One priority area has been the role of gender in agriculture in Fiji. A special section of the census questionnaire was targeted at identifying these roles and highlighting any special differences. These data also have been broken out by age group.
Accurate land stratification for the 2009 NAC was essential; it was necessary to estimate the percentage of agriculture land use. Initially the stratification was made for each of the Fiji Islands Bureau of Statistics (FIBOS) enumeration areas (EAs).
The census estimates were requested at national, divisional, provincial and also tikina levels. The 15 provinces including Rotuma Island were the main focus of the tabulation. Consequently, the entire country was divided into strata according to the intensity of land use for agriculture. They were further subdivided into sub-strata according to specific land use. This sub-stratification technique guaranteed the sample allocation for priority and special crops. Another stratum was created for special farms including large commercial and freehold farms.
A total of 1,602 existing EAs from the 2007 population census were overlaid on the ASF topographic maps scale 1:50,000 in preparation for stratification activities according to land use. Each EA was classified into one of the strata keeping the same geographical identification codes as those used in the population census. The percentage of area under crops, pastures, forest, etc. (land use) of each EA was estimated by field observation to check that each EA was classified in the right stratum and sub-stratum.
The sampling procedures are more fully described in "National Agricultural Census 2009 - Final Report" pp.7-13.
The percentage of the farmland inside the segment is used as a weighting factor for the farm in the expansions.
2009-10-06 2009-12
Data Collection Notes
The publicity to promote the 2009 NAC started in February 2009. The Information and Communication Division of the Department of Agriculture conducted the census promotion through TV interviews and radio broadcasts in three languages: English, Fijian (iTaukei), and Hindustani. In addition to the brochure on the census objectives, a second brochure described the census methodology, farm activities, data requirements and uses were printed and distributed at Government offices in all provinces in the country. Other census news was published in all newspapers in different languages. A census poster was also printed in three languages and distributed around the country. The cooperation of the farmers was exceptional.
The field operation was undertaken at division level. A total of 129 Enumerators were placed in 26 field teams (9 in Central Division, 8 in Western Division, 4 in Northern Division and 5 in Eastern Division). Each field team had 4 or 5 enumerators, one field supervisor, one vehicle and one driver. A fleet of 30 vehicles from the Department of Agriculture was used where possible; most of the transportation in Eastern Division was provided by a Fiji Navy vessel, a Fisheries Division vessel and by Inter island ferries. The Principal Agricultural Officer (PAO) of each division was responsible for overall management together with the support of divisional administrative and finance personnel. The technical coordination and quality control activities were conducted by the supervisors and project counterparts. Ten photo interpreters played an important role in the field organization helping the enumerators to locate the SMs and to identify their physical boundaries on the field.
Data collection started on 6th October, 2009 with 119 fulltime enumerators. It was expected that data collection would be completed within two months; however only one division [Central] managed to achieve this timeline. The other three divisions encountered difficult field situations, including Cyclone Tomas, which further extended data collection until the 3rd week of December 2009. However, data collection in the Yasawa Group [Western Division] was not completed until February 2010 due to the impact of Cyclone Mick. Three different versions of the National Agricultural Census 2009 questionnaire were used for collection of information about agricultural farms. The first version was circulated and used during the first month of data collection. Typographical errors were corrected and additional codes were inserted in the subsequent versions, although the content of the questionnaire remained the same.
Census data collection was conducted more or less within the allocated time frame (45 working days). The massive participation of all Department of Agriculture technical and administrative divisions, assured the success of census field work. More than 120 personnel, 30 vehicles and boats worked full time during three calendar months. It is the first time that all Divisions in the Department of Agriculture had participated in the census data collection.
Two questionnaires, NAC 1 and NAC 3, were used to record information about the segments from the sample. The NAC 1 itemized all tracts inside the segment and all associated farm tracts outside the segments. The NAC 3 documented the nonfarm tracts inside the segment. Enumerators were required to fill out these questionnaires; during the interview process the main questionnaire (NAC 2) was used. Neither the NAC 1 nor NAC 3 was necessary for List Frame farms.
The questionnaire was designed and tested by the staff of the Agricultural Statistics Unit and training manuals were prepared for supervisors and enumerators. A Pilot Census was carried out in several locations to evaluate the content and layout of the questionnaires and the completeness of the census documents. The questionnaire and training materials were updated as the result of the Pilot Census.
Data Editing
After a prioritized order of data collection from the provinces, the questionnaires were received at the Agricultural Statistics Unit in batches. Unique questionnaire numbers were assigned by the data processing administrator and recorded in a management system designed to prevent duplicate numbers and to coordinate the collection and processing of the three types of questionnaires. The questionnaire numbers consisted of province, district and a sequence number starting with an initial value assigned previously to each of the segments.
The editing and coding process for a total of 9,341 NAC 2 questionnaires containing farm data started in mid November 2009. Four persons managed the archives of census materials (questionnaires, cartography and photo-enlargements, etc.). Eleven coders were contracted and trained using the Field Team Manual and the Coding, Editing and Data Processing Manual. One table head checked the manual editing and coding. Data entry activities were conducted by ten data entry operators beginning in early December.
Consistency checks were also carried out in the ACCESS databases. Queries were designed to identify data entry and coding errors. Data were entered into 15 provincial databases (including Rotuma Island) which were combined into four divisional databases. The LSF database was kept separate, but combined in SPSS for tabulation and analysis.
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Economic Planning and Statistics Division Department of Agriculture agrihelp@govnet.gov.fj http://www.agriculture.org.fj
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A working list of organizations related to environmental issues created by the [[ENVS 560/L Watershed Systems]] class at [[CSUMB]]. == Summary == Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) are citizen founded organizations that are independent of governments and international governmental organizations <ref>[https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/ngo English Oxford Living Dictionaries - NGO definition. https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/ngo]</ref>. The term NGO is an informal phrase for organizations that are usually non-profit, or tax exempt, and can be organized at a local (city or county), state, national, or international level <ref>[https://www.britannica.com/topic/nongovernmental-organization Encyclopaedia Britannica - Nongovernmental organization definition. https://www.britannica.com/topic/nongovernmental-organization]</ref>. 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Some are locally focused while others strive for global action. {| class="wikitable" | !Organizataion !Location and area of operation !Scale !Status !Main Focus !Year Founded !Website |---- |Bike Santa Cruz County (Formerly People Power) |[[Santa Cruz]] |[[Santa Cruz County]] |[[501(c)(4) non-profit]] |Promotes bicycling through advocacy, education and community building. |1991 |http://www.bikesantacruzcounty.org/ |---- |[[California Native Plant Society]] |[[Monterey]] and [[Santa Cruz]] chapters |Statewide |[[501(c)(3) non-profit]] |Conservation of California native plants through science, education, conservation, and gardening. Find solutions for invasive species such as ''[[Arudo donax]]''. |1965 |https://www.cnps.org/ |---- |Carmel River Watershed Conservancy |[[Carmel]] headquarters |[[Carmel River Watershed]] |[[501(c)(3) non-profit]] |Protect the [[Carmel River]] through outreach, advocacy, and education |2000 |https://www.carmelriverwatershed.org/ |---- |[[Clean Oceans International]] |[[Santa Cruz]] headquarters |Global |[[501(c)(3) non-profit]] |Developing practical solutions to plastic pollution through innovation education, and direct action. |2008 |https://cleanoceansinternational.org/ |---- |[[Coastal Watershed Council]] |[[Santa Cruz]] headquarters |[[Santa Cruz County]] |[[501(c)(3) non-profit]] |Preserves and protect coastal [[watersheds]] through community stewardship, education and monitoring |1995 |https://coastal-watershed.org/ |---- |[[Communities for Sustainable Monterey County]] |[[Monterey]] |[[Monterey County]] |[[501(c)(3) non-profit]] |Meet the challenge of declining resources and climate change by helping our communities transition to sustainable practices |2005 |http://www.sustainablemontereycounty.org/ |---- |[[Ecology Action]] |[[Santa Cruz]] headquarters |Statewide |[[501(c)(3) non-profit]] |Work with utilities, local and federal government, foundations, and communities to influence policy and create effective programs to reduce green house gas emissions. |1970 |https://ecoact.org/ |---- |Farm Discovery |[[Watsonville]] |Santa Cruz County |[[501(c)(3) non-profit]] |Transform personal and community health and improve our impact on earth by building and sustaining collaborative agricultural, ecological and social systems. | |http://farmdiscovery.org/ |---- |MEarth |[[Carmel-By-The-Sea]] |Greater [[Carmel]] Community |[[501(c)(3) non-profit]] |Building an interconnected community of engaged citizens and future leaders by promoting analytical thinking through experience-based learning at the Hilton Bialek Habitat |1995 |http://mearthcarmel.org/ |---- |[[Monterey Audubon Society]] |Monterey region |National |[[501(c)(3) non-profit]] |Dedicated to conserving and celebrating the birds and wildlife of the greater [[Monterey Bay]] region. Currently engage in an array of educational, citizen-science, and advocacy initiatives geared toward protecting the region's birds and its biological diversity. |1905 |https://www.montereyaudubon.org/ |---- |Mountain Parks Foundation |[[Felton]] headquarters |[[Santa Cruz County]] |[[501(c)(3) non-profit]] |Supports the nature education and enrichment programs offered at Henry Cowell and Big Basin Redwoods [[State Parks]]. |1973 |http://www.mountainparks.org/ |---- |[[Monterey Coast Keepers]] |[[Monterey]] chapter |Global |[[501(c)(3) non-profit]] |Fights for every community's right to drinkable, fishable, swimmable water |1999 |https://waterkeeper.org/ |---- |[[The Nature Conservancy]] |[[Monterey]] |United States |[[501(c)(3) non-profit]] |Combining land protection with community-based conservation and a sustained effort to introduce good conservation principles into public policy and land-use planning. |1951 |https://www.nature.org/ |---- |[[O'Neil Sea Odyssey]] |[[Santa Cruz]] headquarters |[[Central California]] |[[501(c)(3) non-profit]] |Provide school programs to educate youth about ocean science and how human actions in a [[watershed]] impact the sea. |1996 |http://oneillseaodyssey.org/ |--- |[[Save Our Shores]] |[[Santa Cruz]] headquarters |[[Monterey Bay]] |[[501(c)(3) non-profit]] |Keeping coastal areas clean by organizing beach clean-ups, monitoring and restoring coastal habitat, and combating [[Ocean Acidification]] and [[Hypoxia]] by encouraging community members to alter behaviors that can contribute to climate change. |1978 |http://saveourshores.org/ |---- |[[Save the Whales]] |[[Seaside]] headquarters |Local, state, national |[[501(c)(3) non-profit]] |Preserve and protect the ocean and its inhabitants through educating the public and influencing policy. |1977 |https://savethewhales.org/ |---- |[[Sierra Club]] |Ventana Chapter, [[Santa Cruz]] Chapter |[[Santa Cruz]] and [[Monterey]] Counties |[[501(c)(4) non-profit]] |To explore, enjoy, and protect the wild places of the earth; To practice and promote the responsible use of the earth's ecosystems and resources; To educate and enlist humanity to protect and restore the quality of the natural and human environment; and to use all lawful means to carry out these objectives. |1892 |https://ventana2.sierraclub.org/santacruz/ http://www.ventanasierraclub.org |---- |[[Surfrider Foundation]] |[[Monterey]] and [[Santa Cruz]] Chapters |Global |[[501(c)(3) non-profit]] |Project beaches and coastal surf through beach clean-ups, water testing, and education. Take action to prevent [[Coastal Erosion]] by eliminating [[Sand Mining]]. |1991 |https://monterey.surfrider.org/ https://santacruz.surfrider.org/ |---- |[[Trout Unlimited (Steinbeck Country Chapter)]] |[[Monterey]], San Jose, [[Central Coast]] to [[San Luis Obispo]] |National |[[501(c)(3) non-profit]] |Conserve, protect and restore North America's coldwater fisheries and their [[watersheds]]. |1959 |https://www.californiatu.org/ |---- |[[Ventana Wilderness Alliance]] |Santa Cruz/Ventana Wilderness |[[Monterey County]] |[[501(c)(3) non-profit]] |Protect, preserve, and restore the wilderness qualities and biodiversity of the public lands within California's northern Santa Lucia Mountains and Big Sur coast. Advocate for [[CEQA]] and [[NEPA]] related issues and incorporate [[Wildfire]] planning. |1998 |http://www.ventanawild.org/ |---- |[[Ventana Wildlife Society]] |Monterey/Ventana Wilderness |[[Monterey County]] |[[501(c)(3) non-profit]] |Conserving native wildlife and their habitats through education, species recovery, ecological services, and research. Provide consulting services for [[Special Status Animals in the Central Coast Region]]. |1977 |http://www.ventanaws.org/ |---- |Wild Farm Alliance |[[Watsonville]] headquarters |[[Monterey]] and [[Santa Cruz]] counties |[[501(c)(3) non-profit]] ||Protect biological diversity by diversifying farms, food, and the wider landscapes by empowering farmers, connecting consumers, and protecting wild nature. |2000 |https://www.wildfarmalliance.org/ |---- |} == Links == *[[Land Trusts and Conservancies in California's Central Coast Region]] *[[Big Sur Land Trust (BSLT)]] == References == ===Cited=== <references/> == Disclaimer == This page may contain student work completed as part of assigned coursework. It may not be accurate. It does not necessary reflect the opinion or policy of [[CSUMB]], its staff, or students.
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Back when visual effects were created by magicians and not programmers…
By Chris Jones on March 5, 2012 in SFX, VFX 7
Following the tragic news over the weekend, about the passing of Ralph McQuarrie, I thought I would repost this documentary about the genesis of ILM (Horizon – How To Film The Impossible) – I posted this a year or so ago but at the time I didn’t have a YouTube account that could upload clips over 15 mins – and now I do – so here it is in its entirety.
While this Horizon is not about McQuarrie himself, it is about the ILM / Lucas heyday, a world in which McQuarrie was hugely influential. It’s about a time when innovation was made in a machineshop and not via lines of computer code. In many ways it’s a love letter to a bygone era when visual effects were more akin to a stage illusionist tricks or the slight of hand of a magician.
Anyhow, it was a seminal moment for me. I hope it brings back fond memories for you.
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7 Responses to Back when visual effects were created by magicians and not programmers…
Robert Grant March 5, 2012 at 11:58 am #
I love this! We’re showing a documentary called “Sense of Scale” at this years SCI-FI-LONDON about exactly this with Q&A from some of the participants. This kind of modelmaking is such a dying art. If you’re interested there’s a trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1GeC1aqNmE
dd_opco March 5, 2012 at 12:22 pm #
Hi Chris.
Absolutely loved this programme but worried about the sentiment expressed in the text. Constantly hearing VFX folk disparagingly described as nerds or here as programmers because they work with PCs as opposed to hand crafting. We don’t apply that criteria to editors who now almost exclusively cut with PCs.
Having tried my hand at modelling, lighting and animation I’d have to say it’s as far from programming as playing farmville.
As is the case in practical FX you are required to be artist, architect, scientist, Production, editor in four dimensions!, Designer and DoP. The PC can only output what it’s given (research and time being the most important) and If you look at the best (seamless) effects in film they are always the ones where the director, practical and CG effects teams / companies are there working together from the start.
If filmmakers treat CG VFX as alien concept separate from filmmaking or an afterthought then that’s how the VFX will look. When you work with VFX companies from minute one, they can and do produce the amazing.
Chris March 5, 2012 at 12:38 pm #
Forme its simple – back in the day, VFX were created with smoke and mirrors. Innovation, when it happened, be it The Thing and gooey prosthetics, stunning matte paintings, stunts, Blade Runner etc. All were crafted by hand with an illusionists mentality – we tfilm it this way, hiding this from the audience, so they think ‘that’… Now if you can imagine it, you can create it. There is no invention in that way, and audiences know it. When I was younger, one question I always heard was ‘how did they do that?’ I havent; heard that phrase in years. Nostalgia? Sure. Not about right or wrong, good or bad, just how it is. And yes Digital VFX people are artists, though I feel they have less in line with magicicans than old school VFX and stunt folk.
dd_opco March 5, 2012 at 1:40 pm #
I am with you on the magic of practical VFX and stunts. I watch a old school martial arts flick at least once a month because there is nothing, absolutely nothing that comes close to matching the level of physical skill and mastery of a medium. (except maybe Gene Kelly dance numbers)
There will never be a time where kids watch Hollywood’s Greatest Rag Doll Dynamics and say “look at the way they accurately simulated a 2 story fall”
However, I don’t think the romance of practical should lead us to dismiss what is being done by some VFX companies now and to remember that the best effects are still the ones we don’t notice. Practical or Digital..
Don McVey March 5, 2012 at 1:02 pm #
I remember getting up close to the spaceship from 2001, on a trip to Universal Studios when I was 10. Realising that this simple plastic model had created such stunning images on screen. Really felt like I was in the presence of magic!
Andy March 5, 2012 at 1:08 pm #
An artist is an Artist whatever the medium. Regarding smoke and mirrors, The fact that we as Audience are more sophisticated and know more about the process is more to do with DVD Extras than anything else. Before DVD’s you would have to see the rare documentary like this or seek out Cinefex magazine to know how things were achieved.
And because you have not asked that question doesn’t mean that many others don’t. My own girlfriend and many other friends not in the industry still have no idea how things are done. They just say things are CG whatever – although a lot of the time they are completely wrong.
Prosthetics are still used a lot and models are often sculpted and 3D models takend from that. Models are often used for minitures – Quite a lot of the transformers movies were miniatures Original Matte painters have moved to digital and wouldn’t go back. The opportunity to revise and edit invaluable. And again most Digital artists still start on paper.
Practical VFX are always used where possible as the term ‘we can fix that in post’ is normally the producers worst nightmare as Digital effects are not cheap.
Also a massive amount of of digital effects are invisible to people – wire removals – set extensions etc.
If you went back 50 years and showed one of the innovators of Effects what they could do now they would drop their glue and stop motion cameras in a second as as you say they are innovators and will always go with the best option.
I think the most important thing is to know what to go digital with or keep practical – a skill that is sometimes completely ignored. Jabba the hut in Star Wars for example the original worked as a model and the completely broke it but Lucas seems to have a knack for that. But the Ship sequences are fantastic in CG. Other time CG is just so badly executed it looks like it’s just stuck on the frame – most SyFy channel movies of the week.
The key is to be subtle.
Oh and and I love the way the clearly ‘paid to speak, has no idea about the subject’ VO guy says Darth VaRder at the start.
Jon Walker March 6, 2012 at 9:06 pm #
Great doc, thanks for sharing.
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Myka 9 - Flamingo Cantina - February 8, 2010
From the tough questions department... Myka 9 @ Flamingo Cantina tomorrow night, Feb 8th! Early show!
Myka 9 (born Michael Troy) is a rapper from Los Angeles.
Originally known as Microphone Mike, in the 80s he was a member of the MC Aces with Aceyalone and Spoon Iodine. As one of the founding members of Freestyle Fellowship, Myka 9 was instrumental in the scene at the Good Life Cafe in the early 90s. (Timetable contains some of his live recordings from the Good Life Cafe open-mic.) As one of the most stylistically advanced rappers at the Good Life, Myka 9 has had a profound influence on L.A. underground hip hop and freestyle rapping in general. Discussing the influence of Myka 9's song "7th Seal," released in 1991 on Freestyle Fellowship's To Whom It May Concern, Ellay Khule said, " '7th Seal' blew everybody's mind for at least 2 years straight. People studied that shit backwards and forwards -- even we don't know all those words. That made everybody say like 'I gotta get a tape out' or 'I can't rap like so-and-so no more. I can't be in 80s, now we movin' to the 90s.' That totally transferred our musical thought." Drummer and producer JMD said, "Mike was like the Charlie Parker of all these motherfuckers."
He is known for rapid-fire, jazz-influenced, melodic rapping, often incorporating singing and occasionally scatting into his songs. Myka has said of his style, “My rhymes take the direction of a jazz trumpet or sax solo, like Miles or Trane, if I was to rhyme in the same meter as those notes . . . that’s my concept.”
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Convert 2 Channel Image To 3 Channel Python
Method #6, which I wrote from scratch for this project, allows the user to specify how many shades of gray the resulting image will use. This problem is clearly underconstrained, so previous approaches have either relied on significant user interaction or resulted in desaturated colorizations. These are based on lib2to3 and use fixers from 2to3, 3to2, and python-modernize. This is the way it works with the files I have, which are ripped from dts-encoded CDs. X-Icon Editor is an HTML5 application (based on ) that allows you to create high resolution icons that lets your sites shine with IE9 and above. For the higher-resolution ADS1115, the scaling factor would be 188uV/bit. The NVX XFLOC2 Premium line-out converter is the perfect solution for adding an aftermarket amplifier to your stock or aftermarket stereo system. x 系でところどころ異なるため参考にされる際は各記事の対象バージョンにご注意ください。 There should be one -- and preferably only one -- obvious way to do it. Well you should not connect speaker outputs in parallel. An alpha channel can make areas of the layer to appear partially transparent. qxd 3/27/07 12:57 PM Page 82. 0 gives the original image, and a factor of 2. 2014 Oct;171(19):4413-24. """ Creates a version of the (3-channel color) input image in which each of the (4) channels is normalized. 0 Channel Soundbar with Bluetooth - Enjoy Stellar Sound Effects Watch movies and listen to songs with the top quality sound of the JBL 2. A grayscale image has 1 channel where a color image has 3 channels (for an RGB). Because of the halved rate the bits in the I and Q paths are stretched to twice the input sequence bit clock period. Some of the resources mentioned here require Python >3. @tzutalin I'll create a pull request. Step 3 Convert YouTube to FLAC. Dolby Digital, also known as Dolby AC-3, is the name for audio compression technologies developed by Dolby Laboratories. 1 for V ds = 1. Most efficient copying of a single channel to multi channel image. Great for offices. Read more in the User Guide. I usually do as well, but for fun I thought I would … Continue reading How to Resize a Photo with Python →. Questions about Direct Boxes? Sweetwater's Sales Engineers are regarded as the most experienced and knowledgeable professionals in the music industry, with extensive music backgrounds and intense training on the latest products and technologies. The NDArray library in Apache MXNet defines the core data structure for all mathematical computations. 18, which were released on 3 December 2004. When I try to place it in indesign, it says "Cannot place this file. OpenCV is used for all sorts of image and video analysis, like facial recognition and detection, license plate reading, photo editing, advanced robotic vision. Max input resolution at 2048×2160. Several calcium channel blockers are available. With X-Icon Editor you can quickly get your site ready with a large icon which will be available for pinned sites and the new tab page. See Wekipedia:. Return type. 5) are expressed in the nervous system. If it is configured with right options, the IMB feature can significantly reduce database recovery time. But img2pdf will always be lossless and thus, input images must not carry transparency information. tomono (fragment, width, lfactor, rfactor) ¶ Convert a stereo fragment to a mono fragment. See also Fox Business Network. The two-channel line-output converter features removable set-screw Phoenix terminals for quick connection. Of course this can't be done in a 1 channel matrix, a. The OG-FIBER-2R is a state of the art, openGear compatible, 2-channel Fiber to 3G-SDI converter, enabling 3G-SDI signals to be extended up to 10 km (32,808 ft) over standard single-mode fiber optic cable. 1 Channel Surround Sound A/V Receiver € € Key Features Optimized for Blu -ray Disc(tm) and Other Compatible HD Sources 7. The ReSpeaker Mic Array v2. Image Module¶. And we load the image of interest: a 3-color channel image of the first instar Drosophila larval brain. Ideal for use with amplifiers that have high-level input capability, but no speaker wire input connections. If you are interest in using Image<,> class, you can checkout the Emgu CV 2. PyMOL allows you to save movies you've created, too. write('x50') needed to be fd. 3:2 pull-down This is the process of converting a 24 frames/sec image into a 30 frames/sec image. In this, the algorithm calculate the threshold for a small regions of the image. Briefly, a 3:1 solution of H 2 SO 4 (97%): H 2 O 2 (30%) to which the glass substrates were submerged for 30 min at 85 °C. if num_output_channels = 1 : returned image is single channel. This chapter is an introduction to handling and processing images. Turn mobile data usage on or off. Click "Convert Now!". The Python Imaging Library, or PIL in short, is one of the core libraries for image manipulation in Python. array(img) # Convert array to Image img = PIL. Four of these (Kv7. inpaintRadius - Radius of a circular neighborhood of each point inpainted that is considered by the algorithm. Convert image to grayscale version of image. 18, which were released on 3 December 2004. mkv)" from "General Video" Category. The image buffer contains all of the work that After Effects has completed so far. ; Click the project drop-down and select the project created for you when you purchased the Premium Plan. Disk performance issues can be hard to track down but can also cause a wide variety of issues. The Python Imaging Library, or PIL for short, is one of the core libraries for image manipulation in Python. Stereo applications using the OutCast System Application Diagram OUTCAST-S #4 Using 2 OutCasts with 1 single iCast Transmitter * Drawing is not to scale iCast Transmitter Set to Channel 1 OutCast Wireless Speaker #1 Set to Channel 1 iPOD OutCast Wireless Speaker #2 Set to Channel 1 The iCast Transmitter accepts iPOD or any line level audio source. I usually want to do this for photos that I want to email or post on a website since some of my images can be quite large. 4, and at this time Python 3. To convert a color image into a grayscale image, use the BGR2GRAY attribute of the cv2 module. To make an image list directly, use "imlist" or as. 1 Channel Converter reviews, ratings, features, specifications and more at Amazon. Today I will be demonstrating how to use the Arduino and a software, which will be developed with Python, to build a low cost, 4-channel Arduino oscilloscope capable of performing the tasks for which some of the cheap oscilloscope are deployed like the display of waveforms and determination of voltage levels for signals. We could visualize one filter as a plot with three images, one for each channel, or compress all three down to a single color image, or even just look at the first channel and assume the other channels will look the same. The driver can be configured to use any four consecutive addresses across the full 512 channel address range. Layer Masks An introduction to using layer masks to modify the opacity of a layer. You can use the original image size or select "Change width and height" option and enter your image size. Image: final_image = bpy. wim(cfgWim,cfgLayout) also returns the path delays for all links. Whether you are a Digi customer, channel partner, distributor, or solution partner, Digi Technical Services is at the ready to offer an exceptionally broad range of support services to help you resolve issues, create innovative products, and get to market faster with higher-quality solutions. 1 channel configuration, Mono, 2-channel stereo, 3-channel stereo, 2-channel stereo with mono surround, 3-channel stereo with mono surround, 4-channel quadraphonic or 5-channel surround to AAC with the highest output audio quality. From the details provided (now in a comment), your problem is that the only 5. You can change this by using the context menu that you get by right-clicking on the channel. Inputs are the signals or data received by the system and outputs are the signals or data sent from it. A wide variety of 2 channel video multiplexer options are available to you, There are 236 2 channel video multiplexer suppliers, mainly located in Asia. And see what channels are included with each cable TV package. It's a 24-bit RGB PNG image (8 bits for each of R, G, B). 15 Catalina: The Ars Technica review iPad apps come to the Mac and old 32-bit apps go away in a wide-ranging update. 3V to 5V at the same time. 0b3 In beta 3, the flag disable_coreml_rank5_mapping (which was part of beta 2) has been removed and instead replaced by the generic argument target_ios which can be used to target different versions of Core ML/iOS. The parent element is ‘rss’. The brain MRI 3T and 7T dataset consists of 3D volumes each volume has in total 207 slices/images of brain MRI's taken at different slices of the brain. It accepts voltage levels of 3. The two-channel line-output converter features removable set-screw Phoenix terminals for quick connection. Luckily for you, there's an actively-developed fork of PIL called Pillow - it's easier to install, runs on all major operating systems, and supports Python 3. N-Channel 33 A 250 V MOSFET, TO-220-3 1 Channel MOSFET, Through Hole 1 Channel N-Channel 2. The above example for a virtual multi channel device uses bindings to make the connections work. The receiver is built for 4K Ultra HD video with HDCP 2. Some AD/DA converters also have an integrated preamplifier for recording simplicity. Pillow for enterprise is available via the Tidelift Subscription. Each level converter has the capability of converting 4 pins on the high side to 4 pins on the low side with two inputs and two outputs provided for each side. asked 2012-11-21 15:19:22 -0500 converting 3-channel BGR pic to grayscale. Learn more. For a more advanced drawing library for PIL, see the aggdraw module. At the same time MH110 supports up to 7th Gen. The image has to be loaded in to a range of [0, 1] and then normalized using mean = [0. 001386484 2 x 2 1 1 0. Numpy / OpenCV image BGR to RGB 1 October, 2019. Supports Analogue Video output up to UXGA and 1080P witch 10-bit DAC. 1 Channel Surround Sound A/V Receiver € € € € Key Features Xross Media Bar ® inspired graphic user interface Faroudja® DCDi Cinema ™ Up Scaling Technology BRAVIA® Theatre Sync ™ iPod® Ready with DIGITAL MEDIA PORT (TDM -IP1 Sold Separately) 120 Watts X 7 Power Amplifier (8 ohms, 20Hz - 20kHz, 0. PIL does not support the file depth as they are 16-bit files with 11-bit values. The QS4A210 is a high-performance CMOS two-channel SP4T multiplexer/ demultiplexer with individual enables. def ten_crop (img, size, vertical_flip = False): r """Crop the given PIL Image into four corners and the central crop plus the flipped version of these (horizontal flipping is used by default). ,3); % Blue channel. It is 2D vector field where each vector is a displacement vector showing the movement of points from first frame to second. Here's some example code on how to do this with PIL, but the general idea is the same. Learn how to connect an nRF24L01+, two Arduinos, and a joystick to create your own two-channel wireless remote controller. For example, with a Sobel kernel, the normalization factor is 1/8, for Prewitt, it is 1/6, and for Roberts it is 1/2. The following python code convolves an image with the sharpen kernel and plots. A binary-to-text encoding is encoding of data in plain text. Comment on the forum With the Sigma Fp it is definitely worth shooting 12bit RAW to a USB C SSD drive to make full use of the dynamic range. colorspace_settings. Create a Demo Image Set. OpenCV Python - Read and Display Image In Computer Vision applications, images are an integral part of the development process. Depending on the audio format, if you select [DIRECT] and play a 5. Choose any DTH packages, plans and channels as per your region. It the index of channel for which we calculate histogram. There are many other edit functions that wait for explore. 3v and 5v processors. Step 3 Convert YouTube to FLAC. In addition to a general overview of the various function categories and code samples, I have included many interactive examples of the functions, allowing viewers to experiment with the parameters, and seeing the results in real time. Create a Demo Image Set. 406] and std = [0. Reason is imshow can handle only 1-channel gray-scale and 3-4 channel BRG/BGRA images. You can change this by using the context menu that you get by right-clicking on the channel. The window automatically fits to the image size. array(img) # Convert array to Image img = PIL. Channel 12 reports that two more of Netanyahu’s aides have been questioned on suspicion that they harassed Shlomo Filber, who is a state witness in one of the cases against the premier. It is also useful as a stand-alone invocation script to tesseract, as it can read all image types supported by the Pillow and. image = cv2. Image manipulation You can modify the pixels and pixel channels (r,g,b) directly. 2 East channel list and access to online channel list and firmware updates (this will be the popular choice for most UK users). qxd 3/27/07 12:57 PM Page 82. This project will use an nRF24L01+ to wirelessly connect a joystick to. Python for Computer Vision with OpenCV and Deep Learning; Master Computer Vision OpenCV3 in Python & Machine Learning; Histogram example Given an image we can generate a histogram for the blue, green and red values. 4x 3G-SDI and 4x HDMI digital video inputs with flexible channel assignments provides connections to the latest video. The result is saved on a specified output channel (DBOC). If CDs are recorded using PCM, which mode would I chose to hear it in for best results: analog 2-channel "by-pass" (a pre-amp option) or PCM-stereo (another pre-amp optiion). 04_Jelen_ch03. Google has many special features to help you find exactly what you're looking for. The first 1024 entries (of an image) contain the red channel values, the next 1024 the green, and the final 1024 the blue. You can save images to disk, through the command line, by using the Png command. For Python scripts, use: 'python scriptName. Hasan introduces the Python Imaging Library and Pillow, showing how to read and resize images, convert to grayscale and change image file formats. 2) Convert to grayscale. 3 or 4 depending on your image ignore_mask_color = (255,) * channel_count else: ignore_mask_color = 255 # filling pixels. It can convert pretty much everything, including documents, videos, images, ebooks, and a laundry list of other types of content. Barring the time, budget, or available developers: Future can do the conversion. We will not be able to cancel any orders that have already been processed. You can create as many windows as you wish, but with different window names. I just cannot get the rear outputs to receive sound through Speaker Setup. You can save in Png, VRML-2 and the POVRay formats. xyz) file and create point cloud in Recap, then create surface within Civil 3d from that point cloud (no filtering) Method 2 - take same (. grey2grey4 (image, width, height) ¶ Convert an 8-bit greyscale image to a 4-bit greyscale image without dithering. Making a Circle-Shaped Image How to create a circular-shaped image. Brainstorm is a collaborative, open-source application dedicated to the analysis of brain recordings: MEG, EEG, fNIRS, ECoG, depth electrodes and animal invasive neurophysiology. 1, and Matplotlib 2. 1 outputs you have (optical, HDMI) are in digital format but there is no digital input on your budget stereo. Avdshare Audio Converter can Convert AC3 with 5. The lightness method averages the most. For use in aircrafts, the circuit features power filtering to avoid brown-outs and protection against flipped servo connectors. As the datatype of this array is 8 bit unsigned integers. Return values: 0 Channel is down and available 1 Channel is down, but reserved 2 Channel is off hook 3 Digits (or equivalent) have been dialed 4 Line is ringing 5 Remote end is. Each original channel can be kept as 16-bit. Here is a picture of Quadraphonic audio channel showing up in my other Windows 7 PC: NOTE: I want to note that the stereo speakers, front left & right, both are working fine. You can use this module to create new images, annotate or retouch existing images, and to generate graphics on the fly for web use. Check out SmartPro Digital AC3/DTS To Analog 5. The puck drops for the 2019 Heritage Classic between the Calgary Flames and Winnipeg Jets on Saturday, marking the fifth Canadian outdoor game in NHL history. With RSL’s a la carte model, you can go for a two-channel, 5. More precisely, it is an encoding of binary data in a sequence of printable characters. Step 3 Convert YouTube to FLAC. Now, we will see how to use actual data files. Do you only want the U,V grayscale versions? Do you want all 3 grayscale version, or do you want somehow to false colorize each channel? This works fine for me to get the grayscale U,V channels only. This is a lower level way of working - it refers to the channel numbers on the Broadcom SOC. Mind you, it's still far better than the standard controls of most subs. Note [MULTI ST. Seven discrete channels of direct energy amplification deliver 130 Watts (8 ohms, 1kHz, THD 0. How to Convert Dictionary Values to a List in Python Published: Tuesday 16 th May 2017 In Python, a dictionary is a built-in data type that can be used to store data in a way thats different from lists or arrays. To re-enable it repeat this operation. 2-channel surround. Luckily for you, there's an actively-developed fork of PIL called Pillow - it's easier to install, runs on all major operating systems, and supports Python 3. This mini module comes with I2C communications so you can interface with all major micro controllers with I2C communications. That is because one term describes the number of bits per channel, while the other describes the number of bits per pixel. 7) Often a large Z stack or time-lapse will only have a few images that you need or want. Here is an RGB image which for demonstration purposes will be converted into a single channel Greyscale image. MLT Multimedia Framework Author, manage, and run multitrack audio/video compositions. "CMYK" for four-channel images (which would be interpreted as "RGBA" if the color space is not specified). Return the root-mean-square of the fragment, i. Hello! I am processing a 16-bit 3D CT Scan image formatted as. If you haven't yet installed OpenCV, you can check here how to do it. In our case, most images will be uploaded to our website. channel 1 image file to convert character in open cv. I still cannot. Shop for 2 channel preamp at Best Buy. A green border around the image means that the image was recognized by the software. else: if len (input_pixel) < 3: output_pixel = input_pixel [0] else: print ("WARNING: Requested channel 'I' cannot be found. Arrange Channels. 2-channel ir remote transmitter Compare All registered trademarks and trade names are properties of their respective owners and are used only for the clarification of the compatibility of our products with the products of the different manufacturers. These modules can be loaded with the @use rule like any user-defined stylesheet, and their functions can be called like any other module member. S12 E24 Patriot. Comment on the forum With the Sigma Fp it is definitely worth shooting 12bit RAW to a USB C SSD drive to make full use of the dynamic range. convert image. audiotools — the Base Python Audio Tools Module¶ The audiotools module contains a number of useful base classes and functions upon which all of the other modules depend. It accepts voltage levels of 3. As only channel values are being adjusted, they are best demonstrated on a gray-scale image, rather than a color image. This is your place to network, ask questions, and collaborate on code with users all over the world. ImageEnhance. More precisely, it is an encoding of binary data in a sequence of printable characters. 2-channel speaker system using front Dolby Atmos enabled speakers; Connecting 7. Factory workers making Lululemon activewear in Bangladesh say they are being physically and verbally abused Tue 15 Oct. Best way to convert your MP3 to WAV file in seconds. A binary-to-text encoding is encoding of data in plain text. It enables the connection of an aftermarket amp to a factory radio and works with most radio models with 2W to 50W on each channel. imagePoints - Array of corresponding image points, 2xN/Nx2 1-channel or 1xN/Nx1 2-channel, where N is the number of points. 65Gbps per channel(6. This allows for even more fluorochromes and fast, efficient image acquisition, including z. Append the percent symbol '%' to specify a value as a percentage of the QuantumRange. Customize User Interface colors with Splash themes With Splash 2. In particular, the submodule scipy. Implements color opponencies as per Itti et al. 75 mOhms MOSFET, TO-92-3 Si 1 Channel P-Channel MOSFET, Through Hole 500 W MOSFET, P-Channel 210 A MOSFET Get the Latest News. In LabVIEW you can use the System Exec. InRange result merged with RGBA frame. Channel 1 (color) ==> (2) Channel 2 (color) ==> (3) Channel 3 (opacity) ==> (whole image) It’s easiest to take the existing jp2 jacket and just add the channel definition box in the appropriate spot. Now you can use FTP to transfer IPTV channel list to the folder /var/etc/enigma2/. This is your place to network, ask questions, and collaborate on code with users all over the world. Here is our collection of 2-channel dash cams that come with great features including wifi & GPS, parking mode, night vision and more. The receiver is built for 4K Ultra HD video with HDCP 2. You have to always work with a diagram of which channel number goes to which pin on the RPi board. 3-7, you can also "-combine" channel images that represent other colorspaces, but you need to tell IM what colorspace the resulting image should be. Channel Ordering. inSSIDer may display two numbers in the channel column, which indicates that a network is using “channel bonding”. transpose(x, (2, 1, 0)) [/code]Then [code ]y. [chanCoef,pathDelays] = winner2. If you have layers, you’re prompted for whether you want to merge your layers. Return type. Several calcium channel blockers are available. Introduction. However, if you need transparency use either TIF or EPS format, with either alpha channel or a vector cutout path. convert('RGBA'). Convert a grayscale image to RGB. With RSL’s a la carte model, you can go for a two-channel, 5. There is another way to select the needed channel for editing. help me Each one of those channel. Not only is the center current lower but the full-scale peak-peak current is also proportionally lower. The Elite SC-72 is an audiophile’s dream, delivering 7 channels of cutting-edge Class D 3 amplification designed to reproduce music and soundtracks with uncompromising realism. hbezlls, Currently overlaying depth information into RGB stream is a little complicated, but doing the opposite is not too bad, the most complicated part being synchronizing the depth and RGB image streams so that we render together information that corresponds to the same logical frame (since depth frames that match RGB frames don't arrive at the same time). Channel Master is a leader in over-the-air broadcast entertainment products & solutions, providing the highest quality and value for consumers since 1949. Follow the latest stories Live on channelstv. I found that all of the fd. You can save in Png, VRML-2 and the POVRay formats. In OpenCV, we need to create an 8-bit color image of size 256 x 1 to store the 256 color values. Hi, I have had the ADC16 datalogger for quite some time, just recently I wrote a python program that pulls the data from the ADC, currently I'm only using a single channel, but adding other channels is very easy. I load an image. Enhance %extend to support template functions. Get it today with Same Day Delivery, Order Pickup or Drive Up. For other related logos and images, see: /Other. The core image library is designed for fast access to data stored in a few basic pixel formats. Creating an XStream Instance. Overview: The JL Audio RCA-to-Speaker Wire Adapters (XD-CLRAIC2-SW) allow high level speaker outputs to be connected via RCA plugs. Converting graphics Note. Download : Download full-size image; Figure 6. """ # defining a blank mask to start with mask = np. Dolby Digital, also known as Dolby AC-3, is the name for audio compression technologies developed by Dolby Laboratories. For instance, an image from a standard digital camera will have a red, green and blue channel. Basics of Image Processing in Python Tavish Srivastava , December 30, 2014 Writing today's article was a fascinating experience for me and would also be for the readers of this blog. 06 Nov 2014 There are more than 150 color-space conversion methods available in OpenCV. 1 day ago · Microsoft made a ton of Office 365-related announcements at their Ignite conference in Orlando. Law & Order. audiotools. The ReSpeaker Mic Array v2. MTS) containing 5. ones((640, 480, 3)) y = np. There are many reasons to crop an image; for example, fitting an image to fill a frame, removing a portion of the background to emphasize the subject, etc. Patriot: Powerful American drama series about lawyers and police. 1, and Matplotlib 2. 7) and bindings for OpenCV 2. 98 input - and when 1080i 59. imread('image. Choose target image size and image format. Ad Description. Order Item # HGLND-CL1-12 Now! Complete Documentation and Tech Specs. 9 version of OpenCV? which splits multi-channel image into several single. Processing RAW images in Python. These are based on lib2to3 and use fixers from 2to3, 3to2, and python-modernize. Here's how to convert FLAC to MP3. 10 Channel Analog to Digital Converter (ADC) I2C. The ‘Save as RGB Tiff’ macro will save a single image as grayscale by default. If you'd like more detailed instructions, I'd be happy to provide them. You can vote up the examples you like or vote down the ones you don't like. The servos jittered to beat all, and the range was lucky to go as far as 1,000 feet. Check if your Python environment is already configured: Requires Python > 3. The receiver is built for 4K Ultra HD video with HDCP 2. Read reviews and buy Sony 2 Channel HiFi Receiver - Black (STRDH190) at Target. In Python, data is almost universally represented as NumPy arrays. We could visualize one filter as a plot with three images, one for each channel, or compress all three down to a single color image, or even just look at the first channel and assume the other channels will look the same. If you want to add a caption and let LaTeX keep track of the numbering, have a look at the floats section. audiotools. It returns a tuple of number of rows, columns and channels. However, it is very easy to write and analyze programs to process this format, and that is the point. Java normally uses signed values but images are generally not signed (for 8 bit, 16 bit images). This project is a 4 channel DMX512 driver board. Lets start with the 2 channel: 2 channel amplifiers We will start with the most common, the two channel amplifier. High-Converting Landing Page Examples. Connecting to your Hikvision IP camera* Try the following connection options in iSpy or Agent to connect to your Hikvision IP camera. To make an image list directly, use "imlist" or as. Note that in this case, we are passing cost in the session. Many workers prefer to use multiband filter sets for multi-channel imaging. jpg") arr = numpy. Easy online o. Whether you are a Digi customer, channel partner, distributor, or solution partner, Digi Technical Services is at the ready to offer an exceptionally broad range of support services to help you resolve issues, create innovative products, and get to market faster with higher-quality solutions. We'll learn how we can write a matrix to an image file, however, for debugging purposes it's much more convenient to see the actual values. For plotting the image alone, matplotlib will be used. This articles uses OpenCV 3. The NI Community is part of the vibrant NI Ecosystem. Image processing in Python. Correct me if I’m wrong…so in demonstrating with images the advantage of a 16 bit bit image over 8 bit, the author is having to do that by essentially showing an 8 bit per channel image to show how much better a 16 bit image looks. Optical flow is the pattern of apparent motion of image objects between two consecutive frames caused by the movemement of object or camera. If you are interest in using Image<,> class, you can checkout the Emgu CV 2. What you must understand is that this does not convert a grayscale image to color. audiotools. MLT is an open source multimedia framework, designed and developed for television broadcasting. 1 Channel Converter online at low price in India on Amazon. 0b Video Upgrade Board. More specifically, FIO is a concept of how to join the methods dealing with the protocol buffers that write data to the TF. ↩ If you are not too familiar with Python, you might not be comfortable with the dna // 2 notation. The work is done with a for-loop, but there must be a neat way. Your destination for all real estate listings and rental properties. The concept of Channel capacity is discussed first followed by an in-depth treatment of Shannon’s capacity for various channels. The following examples assume an ADS1015 and use a 3 mV/bit scaling factor.
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Alpha Dog Week - Characters Exerting Control
Continuing the series on the currently popular character attributes - Wealth, Dominance and Jackassery. First Post, Index of the Whole Series. This week we're talking about Dominance, or Alpha Dog characters.
This series started with some musings by another blogger on the fad for dominators (as in BDSM bondage "doms") in romantic heroes these days. But I'm taking this subject to a broader level. It's something all writers have to consider and deal with; that protagonists have to take control of something -- themselves, the situation, the bad guy, something.
But I'm talking, in particular, about characters for whom taking control is an actual skill set.
For some it's also a personality trait, but not for all. And because I write mostly in the genres surrounding mystery and adventure, my characters are sometimes called upon to be downright dominant, whether that's in their nature or not.
And in these genres, this kind of dominance is aslo more than just a character trait or a skill set. It's a part of the plot. It's an important theme that runs through such stories: the ethics of dominance, resisting dominance, the social uses of it, etc. (Even in a cozy mystery -- the killer is someone who used unacceptable force, and the point of the detective work is ultimately to take the killer into custody.)
So instead of starting with my own characters, I'm going to kick this off with a movie that really illuminates those things -- the skills, the themes, the ethics.
Pulp Fiction - The Epilogue
This is a movie many of you may never want to see, and I am not recommending that you do. (Though it is brilliant if you like the kind of movie it is. I can't really watch any other Tarantino movie, though I admire his work.) I just think that everybody -- every writer, certainly -- can benefit from the lessons of one scene, the epilogue ending. And so I'm going to talk about that and offer a clip for those who haven't seen it.
Pulp Fiction is a violent crime movie about dominance and bullying, but also about chivalry, and honor and characters with a personal code. It's full of extreme contrasts. For instance the opening scene is a pair of sweet young lovers -- Pumpkin (Tim Roth) and Honey-Bunny (Amanda Plummer) having coffee in a diner. They're sweet, they love each other, they call each other cute names ... and they are also professional armed robbers. They are discussing a change in their career -- from robbing liquor stores to robbing banks -- but decide, in the end, to rob the diner they're in instead.
Then the movie cuts away and tells the story of other characters -- criminals and gangsters all -- until the very end, when it cuts back to that scene in the diner, where we see that among the customers in the diner are a pair of hit men. We've seen them throughout the movie, and they're really dangerous guys. Mean, uncompromising, highly competent, and they've had a really bad day.
However, the meanest, baddest one of all, Jules (Samuel L. Jackson) has just revealed that he's rethinking what he wants out of life. And just then the young robbers leap to their feet and start waving around guns and screaming. They're terrifying, abusive -- screaming, waving guns, shoving people, threatening them personally -- until they have complete control of the diner.
And then they face Jules. Jules would just let them take his wallet and leave, but they want the briefcase he has with him, which belongs to his boss and he is honor-bound to deliver it safely.
So Jules has to take control back. And it's not something he can do by just pulling out his gun. There are two of them, armed and on edge, and determined to keep control -- and when they realize he's a threat, they are even more determined to keep control. Jules is alone, since his partner had gone off to the men's room. And worse yet, the partner comes back, gun out and ready to shoot, just as Jules is getting things calmed down.
So at any moment, everybody's going to start shooting. Jules must dominate all of them. And he does so mainly with his voice. (Yes he has a gun, but they all have guns.)
I want you to see this for two reasons -- one is because I want you to see how he does it. The other is because I want you to hear what he says as he explains why he doesn't kill them. This speech is about dominance, and defining the weak and the strong and the protector and the tyrant.
It's all about what we have to think about when we have characters take control.
There is only half the scene here (the clip's about four minutes) and it starts after he's got everybody calm. But he uses the same techniques in the clip as he used before it. (Especially when his partner returns just a moment into this, and things get a little crazy again.) Jules shouts and uses expletives and points his gun like everybody, but notice what his real main tools are:
He focuses -- he looks only where he needs to look (mainly keeping control of Pumpkin, whom he calls "Ringo" because of the English accent), he gives simple and reasonable orders. He talks like a parent, "point the gun at me, honey, you're doing great." He frequently uses names -- and one of the first things he did to take control was to get Pumpkin to give him Honey-Bunny's real name, Yolanda, because he does not have physical control of her, and she's getting hysterical. And that's exactly what anybody would do if you have to get control of a frightened child: ask the name, use it to establish familiarity. It is a professional technique.
But most of his energy if focused on Pumpkin/Ringo. It's Control 101. He keeps eye contact, he frequently demands responses -- though he is not bullying (not saying "I can't hear you!"). He keeps it on a practical level. Pumpkin must calm Yolanda down, he must indicate that he understands. Jules doesn't have to rush him -- he's rushing himself. And that's a part of control too, to be doing the opposite of what the victim expects.
And watch what Jules does with the gun and his face as he comes to the conclusion of his speech about the Bible verse and righteous and evil men. As he reaches his final point, his manner is more intimate. He moves the gun closer, which is scarier, even as his face becomes more expressive and his point more benign, and it seems like this whole thing is to be sure Pumpkin doesn't miss the point. He relents only when he's done. And everybody is so dominated, they are afraid to move. Jules has to say "go" very softly and gently.
Here's the scene. It's full of bad language. Cover the cat's ears....
For this series, I'm not going to talk about villains -- even reforming villains like Jules -- I'm going to talk about heroes (and impact characters) and how they take control. I'll break them down in to three types which my characters fall into. I call them Paladins, Public Servants and Rogues.
I'll start tomorrow with the Paladins (who I am defining slightly differently than they do in gaming and history; I'm making a specific reference to Wire Palladin, the hired gun from Have Gun, Will Travel). Paladins, in this case, are champions: hired guns and private eyes who are hired to be Alpha Dogs for people who are too weak to protect themselves.
I'll talk mainly about Sam Spade, of The Maltese Falcon (and maybe a little about Wire Paladin) and then my own characters George Starling and Mick and Casey McKee. (Link to Paladins - Dicks, Saints and Saddlebums)
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This is the complete opposite of the type of movie I usually watch (which is ordinarily costume dramas), but I did watch this when it came out in the early 90s. And (although I covered my eyes through parts of it), I enjoyed it. You're right...it's the contrasts there. The range of emotions. Great movie.
I also tried to watch Tarantino's Django Unchained, which was very difficult for me to watch, (and disturbing) although I thought it was well-done, too. Wish he'd tame his violent material a bit, but I guess that would mess up his vision. I guess.
Yeah, I've got Django Unchained and Inglourious Basterds on my watch list, but I just haven't been able to get around to it.
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Auburn Softball (Auborn, AL) NCAA Div. I / Southeast Conference
Huntingdon College (Montgomery, Alabama) NAIA moving to NCAA Division III
UAB Softball (Birmingham, AL) NCAA Division I Fastpitch team....Conference USA...first season of intercollegiate play (2000).
Arizona Western College - We play in the Arizona Community College Athletic Conference and we play NJCAA Division I.
University of Arizona - Official web site Division I/Pacific-10 Conference. The Wildcats have been in the College World Series title game for seven consecutive seasons and won NCAA Championships in 1991, 1993, 1994, 1996 and 1997. And UA has made 10 consecutive trips to the World Series.
North Arkansas College Lady Pioneers (Harrison, AR) We are the first and only fastpitch junior college team in Arkansas. We are a Division II program and share a Region with Oklahoma. Northark is located in the community of Harrison. We are located in the north centeal area of Arkansas just a few minutes from Branson MO.
Southern Arkansas University Softball (Magnolia, Arkansas) Southern Arkansas University Women's Fastpitch Softball team 1999-2000... Interested in Southern Arkansas University (scholarships offered)
University of Arkansas Womens Softball (Fayetteville, Arkansas) NCAA Div. I / Southeastern Conference. Official web site for the University of Arkansas women's fastpitch softball team. We are a fourth -year (1999-00) Division I team that competes in the Southeastern Conference.
Cal Poly 'Mustang' Softball (San Luis Obispo, CA) NCAA Division I / Big West Conference
Cal State Fullerton (Fullerton, California) NCAA Division I / Big West Conference
Fresno State 'Bulldogs' Fans Only Site
Fresno State 'Bulldog' Softball (Fresno, California) NCAA Division I / Western Athletic Conference. Fans homepage of Fresno State Softball. The site features almost daily updates of game reports and news.
Humboldt State University NCAA Division II /Northern California Athletic Conference
Laney College Women's Softball (Oakland, CA) The Lady Eagles are members of California Community College division and compete in the Bay Valley Conference - Gold Division. Team contact Linda Thompson at CoachLT@pacbell.net
Long Beach State 49er's Softball (Long Beach, CA) NCAA Division I / Big West Conference
Occidental College (Los Angeles, CA) NCAA Division III / Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
UC Santa Barbara 'Gaucho' Softball (Santa Barbara, CA) NCAA Division I / Big West Conference
UCLA Bruins Softball (Los Angeles, CA) Official UCLA Softball Athletic Site
University of the Pacific 'Tigers' (Stockton, CA) NCAA Division I / Big West Conference
Eastern Connecticut State University (Willimantic, CT 06226) Eastern Connecticut State University is a member of of the Little East Conference and a member of the NCAA III. The softball team has won five national championships.Team contact: Tom York-Head Coach
Quinnipiac (Hamden, CT) NCAA Division II / Northeast-10 Conference. Quinnipiac Sofball - visit our web site for up-to-date information including schedule, scores, box scores and statistics. The Braves will move up to Division I and the Northeast Conference in the fall of 1998. The team is in its final year of competition in Division II and the Northeast-10 Conference. Frank Kafka (Head Coach)
http://nutmeg.ctstateu.edu/depts/athletics/softball.html
United States Coast Guard Academy (New London, CT) The USCGA participates in NCAA Division III athletics. We belong to the NEWMAC conference.
University of Connecticut at Avery Point Softball
University of Hartford Softball (West Hartford, CT) This website provides comprehensive information on University of Hartford Softball, including roster, player bios, coaches bios, outlooks, stats, box scores, pictures, current schedule and up to date press releases. We are in the Division I, AMERICA EAST Conference.
University of New Haven Softball (New Haven, CT) University of New Haven is a highly competitive Div. II school which competes in the Northeast Region. Presently a member of the New England Collegiate Conf. Criminal justice, sports management, communications,dental hygiene, and education,are just a few of our majors.
Univerisity of Delaware 'Fightin Blue Hens' Softball / NCAA Div I/ America East Conference
Barry University-Softball Home Page (Miami Shores, FL) NCAA Division II, A member of the Sunshine State Conference.
Florida State Lady Seminoles Fastpitch Softball (Tallahassee, FL) / NCAA Div I / Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC)
Lake City Community College (Lake City, Florida) View the nation"s winningest team and coach over the past five years. We are NJCAA, division I and a member of the Mid-Florida Conference, the nation's strongest jr college conference. Record for the past five years is 281-37 with 16 All-Americans.
Pasco Hernando Community College (New Port Richey, Florida) Pasco Hernado Community College is located in New Port Richey, Florida. We are members of the Suncoast Conference of the FJCAA. At this site you can get scores and updates of the Lady Quista's.
Santa Fe Community College Fastpitch (Gainesville, FL) Mascot: Saints / Conference: Mid Florida / Division: NJCAA Region 8B
St. Petersburg Junior College (St. Petersburg, FL) To get the best start in Pre-Med, Criminology, Nursing, Technology, Education and Business, contact SPJC to see if we can meet your needs. We are a member of the Suncoast FL Conference, NJCAA - Division I.
University of Florida Softball NCAA Div. I / Southeast Conference
Augusta State Univeristy Athletics (Augusta, GA) NCAA Division II, competes in the competitive Peach Belt Athletic Conference
Georgia Southern University Fastpitch Softball (Stateboro, GA) NCAA Division I
Georgia State Lady Panthers Fastpitch (Atlanta, GA)
Georgia Tech Lady Jackets Fastpitch (Atlanta, GA) NCAA Division I / Atlantic Coast Conf. (ACC)
South Gerogia Jr. College Lady Tigers (Douglas, Georgia) Homepage of the South Georgia College Lady Tigers who play in Region XVII of the NJCAA (National Junior College Athletic Association). This the final year of slow pitch softball at the Junior College level in Georgia. In the fall of 1999, all slow pitch teams will move into Division I Fastpitch of the NJCAA. Team contact: Wes Brown (Head Coach)
Savannah College of Art & Design (Savannah, Georgia ) NCAA Division III, independent, Atlantic Region.
Thomas College (Thomasville, GA) Division II Thomas College is a private, small four year school located 40 miles of Tallahassee, FL.
University of Georgia 'Lady Bulldogs' Fastpitch Softball (Athens, GA) NCAA Div I / Southeast Conference
Brigham Young University-Hawaii (Laie, Hawaii) NCAA Division II/Pacific West Conference
University of Hawaii at Hilo 'Vulcans' Softball (Hilo, Hawaii) /NCAA Div II
De Paul University 'Blue Demons' (Chicago, IL) /NCAA Div I/
Lewis University Softball (Northern Illinois) NCAA Div. II/Great Lakes Valley Conferece
Northern Illinois 'Huskies' Softball (DeKalb, IL) NCAA Div. I/ Mid-America Conference
Quincy College 'Lady Hawks' (Quincy, IL) NCAA Div. II/Great Lakes Valley Conferece
Southern Illinois University Cougars (Edwardsville, IL) NCAA Div. II/Great Lakes Valley Conferece
Ball State 'Cardinals' Softball (Muncie, IN) NCAA Div. I/ Mid-America Conference
IUPUI Jaguars (Indianapolis, IN) IUPUI is Indiana University Purdue Univeristy at Indianapolis. IUPUI is a distinctive combination of the best of Indiana's two major universities. A student- athlete will receive a degree from either Purdue or Indiana, depending on her major. IUPUI is a NCAA Division I institution and competes in the Mid-Continent Conference.
Indiana Purdue Fort Wayne University (IPFW) NCAA Div. II/Great Lakes Valley Conferece
Indiana Tech 'Lady Warriors' Softball (Fort Wayne, Indiana) We are an NAIA, scholarship, private, co-ed, residential university. (We DO have on-campus residence halls.)
Notre Dame "Fighting Irish Softball"
Oakland City Unuversity Softball (Oakland City, Indiana) Independent NCAA Division II and NCCAA
Purdue Softball (West Lafayette, Indiana) Purdue is a Division I University located in the heart of Indiana. Purdue is a member of the Big Ten Conference.
St. Joseph's College 'Puma' Softball (Rensselaer, IN) NCAA Div. II/Great Lakes Valley Conferece
University of Indianapolis 'Lady Greyhounds' Softball (Indianapolis, IN) NCAA Div. II/Great Lakes Valley Conferece
Iowa State 'Cyclones' Softball NCAA Division I/Big 12 Conference
University of Dubuque (Dubuque, IA) We are a Division III school, which competes in the Iowa Intercoll. Athletic Conference which consists of eleven NCAA Division III schools. We are located in a city of 60,000 on the beautiful Mississippi River. Our program has a new softball facility finished in 1997. Call Toll free 1-800-7-CALL-UD
University of Iowa 'Hawkeye' Softball / NCAA Div I / Big 10 Conference
Hesston College (Hesston, Kansas) NJCAA Division III 2 year college
Neosho County Community College (Chanute, Kansas) This is a scholarship community college college program in southeast Kansas. Many of our players are Division 1 material who are striving to move on after two years at a community college. Our web page provides information on the college and you can access the softball program from the athletics button on the main page.
University of Kansas Softball (Lawrence, KS) NCAA Division I / Big XII Conference
Bellarmine University (Louisville, KY) NCAA Div. II/Great Lakes Valley Conferece
Eastern Kentucky University Softball (Kentucky) NCAA Division I / Ohio Valley Conference
Kentucky Wesleyan College (Owensboro, KY) NCAA Div. II/Great Lakes Valley Conferece
Northern Kentucky University 'Norse' Softball (Highland Heights, KY) NCAA Div. II/Great Lakes Valley Conferece
University of Kentucky "Wildcat" Softball (Lexington, KY) We are an NCAA Division I program from the (SEC) Southeastern Conference
Western Kentucky "Lady Toppers" Softball (Bowling Green, KY) Division I - Independent New Program in 1999-2000
LSU Lady Tigers Softball (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) NCAA Division I / South Eastern Conference. This is the site to Louisiana State University. In this site you will find the Lady Tigers softball team. The Tigers are members of the South Eastern Conference and are a Division I team.
Louisiana Tech University Lady Techster Softball (Ruston, LA) Division I
Tulane University Softball (New Orleans, LA)
University of Southwestern Louisiana (USL) Lady Cajun Softball (Lafayette, LA) Division I independent. The USL Lady Cajuns play at Lady Cajun Park in Lafayette, LA. They are independent and don not belong to any conference. They play in the South Division.
University of Maine 'Black Bears' Softball / NCAA Div. I/ America East Conference
Hagerstown Junior College Hawks Softball (Hagerstown, Md) Maryland JUCO Region XX / Division I Junior College. This site will introduce all of the players on the team to anyone interested and hopefully allow 4-year college coaches to take an interest in them.
Montgomery College Softball (Rockville, Maryland) Montgomery College Softball is a Div III program in the NJCAA and Maryland JUCO. We are a varsity sport, which means our players must be full-time and meet academic criteria.
UMBC Softball (University of Maryland Baltimore County)
United States Naval Academy Women's Softball (Annapolis, MD)WE are a Club level team in a four year college. Currently we are not in any conference because of our unique situation. The site gives our schedule and team roster. It also give Points of Contact for the players, coaches and Officer Reps.
University of Maryland 'Terrapins' Softball (College Park, MD) / NCAA Div. I / ACC
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Tufts University Softball (Medford, MA) Top 25 Division III softball program at a Top 25 academic institution. All program info, stats, rosters and contact information available. Tufts is a member of both the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III and the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC).
University of Massachusettes 'Minutewomen' Softball (Amhurst, MA) / NCAA Div. I / Atlantic 10 Conference
Wheaton College Women's Softball (Norton, MA) NCAA Division 3/NewMac Conference. Wheaton Athletics will soon be online with schedules, team reports and much more!
Albion College (Albion, Michigan) NCAA Division III program; member of the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association
Central Michigan State 'Chippewas' Softball NCAA Div. I/ Mid-America Conference
Eastern Michigan 'Eagles' Softball (Ypsilanti, MI) NCAA Div. I/ Mid-America Conference
Olivet College Softball (Olivet, Michigan) MIAA - Michigan Interscholastic Athletic Association / NCAA Division III
Siena Heights University (Adrian, Michigan) An NAIA Catholic coeducational, North Central accredited institution founded in the liberal arts tradition. Participating in the Wolverine/Hoosier Athletic Conference.
Smith College (Northampton, MA) Pariticpate in NCAA Division III, NEWMAC Conference
Spring Arbor College Softball (Spring Arbor, Michigan) An NAIA Christian Liberal Arts College participating in the Wolerine/Hoosier Athletic Conference
University of Michigan 'Wolverines' Softball Homepage (Ann Arbor, MI) NCAA Division I / Big Ten Conference. This website gives fans an inside look at the current University of Michigan women's softball team. It includes stats, bios, pictures, features, and the latest news.
Western Michigan 'Broncos' Softball NCAA Div. I/ Mid-America Conference
St. Cloud State University Softball (St. Cloud, MN) North Central Conference, North Central Region, Division II
Delta State 'Lady Statesmen' Softball NCAA Division II/Gulf South Conference. The 1998 Gulf South Conference West Division Champs.
Mississippi State Bulldog Softball (Mississippi State, MS) NCAA Div. I/ Southeastern Conference
University of Mississippi 'Ole Miss Rebels Fastpitch' - NCAA Division I/Southeast Conference (SEC)
Southern Miss Eagles Nest (Ocean Springs, MS) The Source for Southern Miss Softball You can also visit our message board
Forest Park Community College - Lady Highlanders Fastpitch (St. Louis, MO)
Lindenwood College "Lady Lions" Softball (St. Charles, MO)
Southeast Missouri State University-5 time OVC Champs (Cape Girardeau, Missouri) Southeast Missouri State University Otahkians play in the Division 1 Ohio Valley Conference. We have won the conference title 5 times and 3 years in a row. We have participated in the NCAA Play-In series the last 3 years.
University of Missouri Tiger Softball Web Site (Columbia, MO) The Missouri Tiger Softball web site is a comprehensive site. The Tigers are a Division I softball program who play in the Big XII Conference.
University of Missouri (UMSL)- St. Louis 'Riverwomen' Softball (St. Louis, MO) NCAA Div. II/Great Lakes Valley Conferece
Montana State-Billings (Billings, Montana ) PacWest, NCAA Division II)
Nebraska Huskers Softball (Lincoln, Nebraska) NCAA Division I/Big 12 Conference
Dartmouth College BIG GREEN Softball (Hanover, NH) Ivy League (Division I) 3rd Fully funded Varsity Season. Coached by Steffany Bender (Princeton). Site contains our schedule, statistics, records, player bios, info on Dartmouth College and Dartmouth Softball Clothing Sales. Please Come visit! Go BIG GREEN!
College of New Jersey Softball (Ewing, NJ) Not your typical softball page. See for yourself. Division III, New Jersey Athletic Conference
New Jersey City University (Jersey City, NJ)
Army "Black Knights" Softball (West Point, NY) The United States Military Academy plays Division I softball and participate in the Patriot League. We were 2000 champions and qualified for the NCAA regional tournament.
Canisius College (Buffalo, NY) - Canisius College of Buffalo NY's Softball Team. A competitive Division I school in the MAAC Conference. This site includes thier schedule, highlights, player profiles, season preview, roster, and pictures.
Fordham University 'Lady Rams' Softball (New York City, NY) / NCAA Div. I / America East Conf.
Hoffstra University Softball
Rensselaer University (Troy, NY)
St. Bonaventure University 'Bonnies' Softball Team (Bonaventure, NY) / NCAA Div. I / Atlanic 10 Conf.
Syracuse University Softball (Syracuse, NY) Syracuse University will begin Div. I competition fall of 1999/spring of 2000 and will officially compete in the Big East Conference the spring of 2001.
Chowan College (NC) Softball (Murfreesboro, NC) Division III/Independent Program has posted five straight winning seasons, including last season's trip to NCAA Regionals
Duke University Softball (Durham, NC) NCAA Associate Club Softball Team playing Div2, Div3 and other club teams
Methodist College (Fayetteville, NC) In the Dixie Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, Methodist made a showing at the NCAA Regionals in 1999 and had a record of 32-12 overall, while posting a 10-0 record in the conference.
Queens College (N.C.) Fast-Pitch Softball (Charlotte, N.C) Carolinas-Virginia Athletic Conference (CVAC) NCAA Division II
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC) / NCCA Div I/ Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) and Southern Atlantic Alliance. Team name 'Tar Heels".
Mayville State University 'Lady Comets' Fastpitch (Mayville, North Dakota) Lady Comet Fastpitch. Member of the NDCAC. NAIA Division II. We are in the Great Plains region. This web site has our season's schedule, team roster (with pictures), and a season outlook.
North Dakota State University 'Bison' Softball (Fargo, North Dakota) North Dakota State competes in the North Central Conference and NCAA Division II.
Bowling Green State University 'Falcons' Fastpitch Softball (Bowling Green, OH) NCAA Div. I/ Mid-America Conference
Miami University 'Redhawks' Fastpitch Softball (Miami, OH) NCAA Div. I/ Mid-America Conference
Ohio University 'Bobcats' Fastpitch Softball (Athens, OH) NCAA Div. I/ Mid-America Conference
Owens Community College (Toledo, OH)
University of Akron 'Zips' Softball (Akron, OH) NCAA Div. I/ Mid-American Conference
University of Toledo 'Rocket' Fastpitch Softball (Toledo, OH) NCAA Div. I/ Mid-America Conference
Wright State University 'Raiders Fastpitch Softball' We are a NCAA Division I AAA institution. Last year we finished 3rd in the Midwestern Collegiate Conference. The University of Illinios-Chicago and Cleveland State finished ahead of us.
Conners State College Cowgirls Softball (Warner, OK) NJCAA REGION II
Eastern Oklahoma State College Lady Mountaineers Softball (Wilburton, Oklahoma) We are a junior college team in the Bi-State conference that finished last year as the #5 team in the country. We also have 3 All Americans last year.
Oklahoma University 'Sooner Softball' NCAA Division I/Big 12 Conference
University of Oklahoma 'Sooner Softball' NCAA Division I/Big 12 Conference
University of Tulsa Softball (Tulsa, Oklahoma) The University of Tulsa is a Division 1-A school and a member of the Western Athletic Conference.
Western Baptist College - Western Warrior Softball (Salem Oregon) New/season New/program .. Paticipate in the NAIA Cascade Conference. Christian Liberal arts College Located in Salem Oregon.
Wolf Pack Softball "The Pack is Back" - Blue Mountain Community College - (Pendleton Oregon) Wolf Pack Fastpitch participates in the Eastern Division of the Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges (NWAACC). Blue Mountain offers a competitive environment for athletes looking to continue their playing career. BMCC Softball is a member of the National Fastpitch Coaches Association, and offer athletic scholarships. If you are interested in becoming a member of Wolf Pack softball please contact Todd Bradley by email tbradley@bmcc.cc.or.us ... See You At The Top!!
Clarion University of Penn. / NCAA Div. II /PSAC-West Conference. This is a Div. II softball team that is in the rebuilding phase of the program. Althought we had a bad year last year will have all but two players return and look to finish strong next season. We played teams like California of PA. that went on to win the national title to games that ended 4-1 or so.
Eastern College Softball (St. Davids, PA) Eastern College is a member of the Pennsylvania Athletic Conference and an NCAA Division III institution. Eastern is a Christian College of the Arts and Sciences and is committed to fielding athletic teams which compete at the highest level of the NCAA Division III and represent our faith on and off the field of play.
Edinboro University 'Fighting Scots' Softball (Edinboro, PA) / NCAA Div. II /PSAC-West Conference.
Indiana University of Pennsylvania (Indiana, PA) / NCAA Div. II /PSAC-West Conference.
King's College (Wilkes Barre, PA) King's is an NCAA Division III institution. The King's College Lady Monarchs had an incredible season, winning both the Freedom & Middle Atlantic Conference 2000 championships. Their record of 38-6 ranked them 4th in the nation in winning percentage. With the nations stolen base leader, and the 2nd highest team slugging percentage in the country, the team capped off the season with a trip to the NCAA tournament.
Lasalle University 'Explorers' Softball (Philadelphia, PA) / NCAA Div. I / Atlantic 10 Conf.
Lock Haven University 'Bald Eagle' Softball (Lock Haven, PA) / NCAA Div. II /PSAC-West Conference.
Pittsburgh at Bradford (Bradford, PA) Pitt-Bradford Panther Softball is a Member of the NCAA/ Div. III, ECAC,s and Alleghaney Mountain Collegiate Conference (AMCC). Team contact: Fred Wallace (Head Coach)
Saint Francis College
Slippery Rock University (Slippery Rock, PA) / NCAA Div. II /PSAC-West Conference
St. Joseph's University 'Hawks' Softball (Philadelphia, PA) / NCAA Div. I / Atlantic 10 Conf.
Susquehanna University 'Crusaders' (Selinsgrove, PA) Susquehanna is a member of the Division III Middle Atlantic Conference.
Johnson & Wales Wildcat Softball (Providence, RI 02903) At this time, our website has no softball information, but we play in the Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) Division III. For furthur information about our softball program, please contact Asst. Coach Bob Nikolian at: bnikolian@jwu.edu
University of Rhode Island 'Rams' Softball Team (Kingston, RI) /NCAA Div. I/ Atlantic 10 Conf.
Charleston Southern - CSU "Buccaneers Softball" (Charleston, SC) NCAA Div I/Big South Conference
Coastal Carolina University - CCU Lady Chanticleer Softball (Conway, S.C.) NCAA Div I/Big South Conference
Coker College (Hartsville, SC) Division II/Carolinas-Virginia Athletics Conference. Coker College "Cobras" finished fifth in the nation in the 1998 NCAA Division II Softball National Finals. The URL listed is the address for Coker's main athletics page with links to softball and all of Coker's intercollegiate athletics teams.
Francis Marion Unviersity-Divsion II (Florence, SC) Francis Marion University is a member of the Peach Belt Athletic Conference and the NCAA Division II. Bill Gray is the head softball coach of the Patriots.
Presbyterian College Softball (Clinton, South Carolina) South Atlantic Conference
Southern Wesleyan University (Central, South Carolina) Southern Wesleyan University is a member of the NAIA, NCCAA and the Georgia-Alabama-Carolina Conference. Nickname Warriors, colors royal/gold, Head Coach Dave Seamans.
University of South Carolina Lady Gamecocks Fastpitch Softball NCAA Div I/Southeast Conference (SEC)
Winthrop University Softball (Rock Hill, SC) NCAA Div I/Big South Conference Team roster, stats, and pictures
Belmont University (Nashville, Tennessee) Belmont University is located in Nashville, Tennesee and currently plays as an independent at the NCAA division I level.
Lincoln Memorial University Lady Railsplitter Softball (Harrogate, TN) NCAA Div. II/Gulf South Conference. Coach Dan Burns is entering his sixth year as head of the LMU program that strives for athletic and academic excellence.
Tennessee Tech Lady Eaglettes Fastpitch Softball (Cooksville, TN) NCAA Division I / Ohio Valley Conference.
University of Tennessee The Lady Vols compete at the NCAA Division I level/ Southeastern Conference.
Texas Tech Red Raiders (Lubbuck, TX) NCAA Div. I / Big 12 Conference
Vernon Regional Junior College 'Lady Chaparrals' Softball We are a NJCAA Div. I school. Our conf. is the North Texas Junior College Athletic Conf. (NTJCAC) And we are in Region V of the NJCAA. Team contact: John Blair ( Head Coach)
Bringham Young University (Provo, Utah 84602) In 2001, the BYU softball team win its first-ever Mountain West Conference championship to advance to postseason play for the first time in school history
Southern Utah University Softball (Cedar City, UT) This site represents Southern Utah University's softball program. We are in the Mid-Continent Conference and we are a Division I program.
Utah State 'Aggies' Softball (Logan, UT) NCAA Division I / Big West Conference
Utah Valley State College - This is the official site of Utah Valley State College softball (UVSC). UVSC competes as a junior college in the Scenic West Athletic Conference. This site includes player profiles, rosters, schedule, team and individual statistics, as well as a link to the SWAC conference and NJCAA sites.
Weber State University Women's Fastpitch Softball Club (Ogden, Utah) WSU fastpitch club team/plays other club teams and Jr. College teams/are in 3rd season/web page has information on players and coaches, schedule, results, and National Club Tournament.
University of Vermont Softball (this link will work during softball season) / NCAA Div. I / America East Conference
Liberty University "Flames" Softball (Lynchburg, VA) NCAA Div I/Big South Conference
Radford University "Highlander" Softball (Radford, VA) NCAA Div I/Big South Conference
Randolph Macon College Softball (Ashland, VA) NCAA Division III School, Old Dominion Athletic Conference. Building a new competitive program. Second year as varsity sport. School, resident life, and athletic information available through this site.
University of Virginia Fastpitch Softball (Charlottesville, VA) NCAA Div I/ Atlantic Coast Conf. (ACC)
Virginia Tech 'Hokies' Softball - (Blacksburg, VA) NCCA Division I / Atlantic 10 Conference for all sports except football & wrestling which are in the Big East Conference
Virginia Wesleyan Softball (Norfolk, VA) Division III
BBCC Softball - Big Bend Community College (Moses Lake, WA) 2nd year program in the Northwest Athletic Associtation of Community Colleges(NWAACC). Successful 1st year program at 21-18 overall and 16-10 in the region. Resident life, school, athletic information available through this site.
Pacific Lutheran University Softball (Tacoma, WA) Pacific Lutheran is a member of the NCAA III and is a member of the Northwest Conference. This softball site provides team schedule, roster, statistics, clinics, etc.
Western Washington University (Bellingham, WA) NCAA Div. I / Pacific Northwest Conference
College of West Virginia Lady Cougar Softball (Beckley, West Virginia) College of West Virginia is an NAIA College competing in the Great Lakes Region as an Independent. The 1998-99 season is our second in competition
Ripon College Softball - The Redhawks (Ripon, Wisconsin) /NCAA Division III/Midwest Conference
St. Norbert College Softball (De Pere, WI) /NCAA Division III/Midwest Conference
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire 'Blugolds'Fastpitch Softball (Eau Claire, WI) Division III/Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) Our site will have a current schedule, head coach biography, along with links to general information about athletics and academics at UWEC.
University of Wisconsin-Parkside This is the links to the main athletic page. There's no softball site yet. NCAA Div. II/Great Lakes Valley Conference
University of Wisconsin-River Falls (River Falls, WI) Division III/Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) Come visit our website to meet the UW-RF Falcons' players and Head Coach. UW-RF boasts a competitive softball program and strong academic programs with over 50 different majors from which to choose. Check us out!
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Women's 'Pointers' Fastpitch (Stevens Point, WI) / NCAA Div. III /Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC). Come visit the 1998 NCAA Division III National Champions! Our site has information about our fastpitch team at UWSP. We have a roster listing, and information on our coaches. Our spring schedule is included as well as our fall schedule
Wisconsin Lutheran College Warriors Fastpitch (Milwaukee, WI) WLC, located in Milwaukee, WI, is a NCAA III school, competing in the Lake Michigan conference. Schedules, results, profiles, photos and links are all part of this site which is regularly updated.
NCAA Division I Universities (by Conference)
AMERICA EAST CONFERENCE
Univerisity of Delaware 'Fightin Blue Hens' Softball / NCAA Div I
Drexel University Softball (no homepage yet)
Hoftstra University 'Flying Dutchwomen' Softball / NCAA Div. I
University of Hartford Softball (West Hartford, CT) This website provides comprehensive information on University of Hartford Softball, including roster, player bios, coaches bios, outlooks, stats, box scores, pictures, current schedule and up to date press releases. / NCAA Div. I
Towson University 'Tiger' Softball / NCAA Div. I
University of Maine 'Black Bears' Softball / NCAA Div. I
University of Vermont Softball (this link will work during softball season) / NCAA Div. I
Atlantic 10 Conference Home Page
St. Bonaventure University 'Bonnies' Softball Team (Bonaventure, NY) / NCAA Div. I
Fordham University 'Lady Rams' Softball (New York City, NY) / NCAA Div. I
Lasalle University 'Explorers' Softball (Philadelphia, PA) / NCAA Div. I
St. Joseph's University 'Hawks' Softball (Philadelphia, PA) / NCAA Div. I
Univerisity of Dayton 'Flyers' Softball (Dayton, OH) NCAA Div. I
University of Massachusettes 'Minutewomen' Softball (Amhurst, MA) / NCAA Div. I
Virginia Tech 'Hokies' Softball - (Blacksburg, VA) NCCA Division I / Atlantic 10 Conf.
ATLANTIC COAST CONFERENCE TEAMS (ACC)
Florida State Lady Seminoles Fastpitch Softball (Tallahassee, FL) / NCAA Div.I
Georgia Tech Lady Jackets Fastpitch (Atlanta, GA) NCAA Division I
Georgia Tech Softball Roster (Atlanta, GA) / NCAA Div. I
University of Maryland 'Terrapins' Softball (College Park, MD) / NCAA Div. I
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC) / NCCA Div I /Team name 'Tar Heels". Also a member of the Southern Athletic Alliance.
University of Virginia Fastpitch Softball (Charlottesville, VA) NCAA Div I
Big 10 Conference Home Page
University of Iowa - Hawkeye Softball NCAA Division I
Oklahome State University 'Cowgirl Softball' NCAA Division I/Big 12 Conference
Texas Tech Red Raiders (Lubbuck, TX) / Big 12 Conference
Big East Conference Home Page
BIG SOUTH CONFERENCE
Big South Conference Home Page
Elon College Softball Page (Elon, N.C.) NCAA Div I/Big South Conference
BIG WEST CONFERENCE
Big West Conference Web Site
Big West Conference Stats for Softball Teams
Softball Sites of Member Teams
Cal State Fullerton 'Titans' Softball (Fullerton, California) NCAA Division I / Big West Conference
Mid-American Conference Home Page
Mid-American Conference Softball Page
Mid-American Softball Team Statistics
Mid-America Conference Member Schools
West Teams
Ball State 'Cardinals' Softball (Muncie, IN) NCAA Div. I/ Mid-America Conference the 1998 MAC Champions.
Central Michigan State 'Chippewas' Fastpitch Softball NCAA Div. I/ Mid-America Conference
Eastern Michigan 'Eagles' Fastpitch Softball (Ypsilanti, MI) NCAA Div. I/ Mid-America Conference
Northern Illinois 'Huskies' Fastpitch Softball (DeKalb, IL) NCAA Div. I/ Mid-America Conference
East Teams
Bowling Green State University 'Golden Flashes' Softball (Bowling Green, OH) NCAA Div. I/ Mid-America Conference
Marshall University 'Herd' Fastpitch Softball NCAA Div. I/ Mid-America Conference
University of Akron 'Zips' Fastpitch Softball (Akron, OH) NCAA Div. I/ Mid-America Conference
METRO ATLANTIC ATHLETIC CONFERENCE (MAAC)
MID-CONTINENT CONFERENCE
Mid-Continent Conference Web site
MIDWESTERN COLLEGIATE CONFERENCE
Mountain West Conference Home Page
Eastern Kentucky University Softball (Kentucky) NCAA Division I
Tennessee Tech Lady Eaglettes Fastpitch Softball (Cooksville, TN) NCAA Division I
PACIFIC NORTHWEST CONFERENCE
Western Washington University (Bellingham, WA)
SOUTHEAST CONFERENCE (SEC)
Sotheast Conference Home Page
Auburn Softball (Auborn, AL) NCAA Division I
University of Arkansas 'Lady Razorbacks' Softball (Fayetteville, Arkansas) NCAA Div. I / Southeastern Conference. Official web site for the University of Arkansas women's fastpitch softball team. We are a third-year (1998-99) Division I team that competes in the Southeastern Conference.
University of Florida Softball NCAA Division I
University of Georgia 'Lady Bulldogs' Fastpitch Softball (Athens, GA) NCAA Div I
University of South Carolina 'Lady Gamecocks' Fastpitch Softball NCAA Division I
TRANS AMERICA ATHLETIC CONFERENCE
Trans Americal Athletic Conference Web Site
Fresno State 'Bulldog' Softball (Fresno, California) NCAA Division I. Fans homepage of Fresno State Softball, an NCAA Division I member school with membership in the Western Athletic Conference. The site features almost daily updates of game reports and news.
NCAA Division II Universities (by Conference)
CAROLINAS-VIRGINIA ATHLETIC CONFERENCE
GREAT LAKES VALLEY CONFERENCE
GLVC Home Page
Southern Indiana University 'Screaming Eagles' Softball Team NCAA Div. II/Great Lakes Valley Conferece
University of Missouri - St. Louis 'Riverwomen' Softball (St. Louis, MO) NCAA Div. II/Great Lakes Valley Conferece
University of Wisconsin-Parkside Link to main athletic page. There's no softball site yet. NCAA Div. II/Great Lakes Valley Conference
GULF SOUTH CONFERENCE
Gulf South Conference Web Site
Lincoln Memorial University Lady Railsplitter Softball (Harrogate, TN) NCAA Div. II/Gulf South Conference. Coach Dan Burns is entering his six year as head of the LMU program that strives for athletic and academic excellence.
NEW ENGLAND COLLEGIATE CONFERENCE
NORTH CENTRAL CONFERENCE
NORTHEAST - 10 CONFERENCE
PACIFIC WEST CONFERENCE
PEACH BELT ATHLETIC CONFERENCE
PSAC-WEST CONFERENCE (Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference)
Clarion University of Penn. / NCAA Div. II /PSAC-West Conference. This is a Div. II softball team that is in the rebuilding phase of the program. Althought we had a bad year last year will have all but two players return and look to finish strong next season. We played teams like California of PA. that went on to win the national title to games that ended 4-1 or so. Team contact: Amy Varoli (player)
Edinboro University Fighting Scots Softball (Edinboro, PA) / NCAA Div. II /PSAC-West Conference.
NCAA Division III Universities (by Conference)
GREAT NORTHEAST ATHLETIC CONFERENCE (GNAC)
INDEPENDENT PROGRAMS
LAKE MICHIGAN CONFERENCE
MICHIGAN INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION
Albion College (Albion, Michigan) NCAA Division III program
MIDDLE ATHLETIC CONFERENCE
King's College (Wilkes Barre, PA) King's is an NCAA Division III institution. The King's softball team won the 1999 Eastern College Athletic Conference South Championship. The Lady Monarchs play a competitive schedule starting with a spring trip to Florida. We have several Regional All-Americans on the team, and were ranked 19th in the nation in team GPA for the 99' season. We are a member of the Middle Atlantic Conference and the ECAC.
MIDDLE ATLANTIC CONFERENCE
NESCAC (NEW ENGLAND SMALL COLLEGE ATHLETIC CONFERENCE)
NEW/MAC CONFERENCE
NORTHWEST ATHLETIC CONFERENCE
OLD DOMINION ATHLETIC CONFERENCE
OWA INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETIC CONFERENCE
PENNSYLVANIA ATHLETIC CONFERENCE
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INTERCOLLEGIATE CONFERENCE
WISCONSIN INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETIC CONFERENCE (WIAC)
NAIA Division I Universities (by Conference)
PACIFIC NORTHWEST ATHLETIC CONFERENCE (PNWAC) until the spring of 1999 when we will combine with the PAC WEST NCAA Division II Schools.
Central Washington University (Ellensburg, WA.)
Simon Frasier University (Canada-near Vancouver, BC) Simon Fraser competes in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (N.A.I.A.), competing solely against American opponents. The Simon Fraser University Women's Softball Program is the only Varsity softball program in Canada and the only Canadian University team amongst over 240 softball teams in the N.A.I.A. The SFU 'Clan' wears their National colours proudly.
St. Martin's College (Lacey, WA.) The softball program doesn't have a web page yet, but to reach the fastpitch coach, you can phone (360) 438-4372 or send e-mail to athletics@stmartin.edu and address it to fastpitch coach.
NAIA Division II Universities (by Conference)
NORTH DAKOTA COLLEGE ATHLETIC CONFERENCE
Mayville State University 'Lady Comets' Fastpitch (Mayville, North Dakota) Mayville State University is NAIA II. We are in the Great Plains region. This web site has our season's schedule, team roster (with pictures), and a season outlook.
Wolerine/Hoosier Athletic Conference
Junior Colleges - NJCAA Division I
ARIZONA COMMUNITY COLLEGE ATHLETIC CONFERENCE
BAY VALLEY CONFERENCE - GOLD DIVISION
Laney College Women's Softball (Oakland, CA) The Lady Eagles are members of California Community College division and compete in the Bay Valley Conference - Gold Division. Team contact Linda Thompson at CoachLT4ME@aol.com
MARYLAND JUCO REGION XX
MID FLORIDA CONFERENCE
NWAACC Eastern division
BBCC Softball - Big Bend Community College (Moses Lake, WA) 2nd year program in the Northwest Athletic Associtation of Community Colleges (NWAACC). Successful 1st year program at 21-18 overall and 16-10 in the region. Resident life, school, athletic information available through this site.
BMCC "TimberWolves" Softball (Pendleton Oregon) Blue Mountain Community College participates in the Eastern Division of the Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges (NWAACC). TimberWolves FastPitch offers a challenging environment which will not only prepare an athlete for furthering their playing career, but will also prepare them for life. If you are interested in Blue Mountain Community College and the softball program, please contact Head Coach Todd Bradley by EMAIL at tbradley@bmcc.cc.or.us
NORTH TEXAS JR. COLLEGE ATHLETIC CONFERENCE (NTJCAC)
Vernon Regional Junior College 'Lady Chaparrals' Softball We are a NJCAA Div. I school. Our conf. is the North Texas Junior College Athletic Conf. (NTJCAC) And we are in Region V of the NJCAA.
REGION XVII
South Gerogia Jr. College Lady Tigers (Douglas, Georgia) Homepage of the South Georgia College Lady Tigers who play SLOWPITCH in Region XVII of the NJCAA (National Junior College Athletic Association) Team contact: Wes Brown
SCENIC WEST ATHLETIC CONFERENCE
SUNCOAST FLORIDA CONFERENCE
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Chinese scientists urged to develop new thorium nuclear reactors by 2024
"The problem of coal has become clear. If the average energy consumption per person doubles, this country will be choked to death by polluted air"
Chinese scientists urged to develop new thorium nuclear reactors by 2024 | South China Morning Post:
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The deadline to develop a new design of nuclear power plant has been brought forward by 15 years as the central government tries to reduce the nation's reliance on smog-producing coal-fired power stations.
A team of scientists in Shanghai had originally been given 25 years to try to develop the world's first nuclear plant using the radioactive element thorium as fuel rather than uranium, but they have now been told they have 10, the researchers said.
"In the past the government was interested in nuclear power because of the energy shortage. Now they are more interested because of smog," said Professor Li Zhong, a scientist working on the project.
Premier Li Keqiang told the national legislature in Beijing on March 5 that the government had declared "war on pollution", and measures to tackle the problem included closing coal-fired power stations. About 70 per cent of China's electricity was produced by coal-fired plants last year, according to government figures. Nuclear power stations generated just over 1 per cent.
The Chinese Academy of Sciences set up an advanced research centre in Shanghai in January with the aim of developing the world's first industrial reactor using thorium molten-salt technology, according to a statement from the academy's Bureau of Major Research and Development Programmes.
...Professor Li, director of the project's molten salt chemistry and engineering technology division, said the smog crisis had provided huge impetus for their research.
"The problem of coal has become clear. If the average energy consumption per person doubles, this country will be choked to death by polluted air," he said. "Nuclear power provides the only solution for massive coal replacement and thorium carries much hope."
Researchers working on the project said they were under unprecedented "war-like" pressure to succeed and some of the technical challenges they faced were difficult, if not impossible to solve in such a short period.
Read the entire article at the South China Morning Post:
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WHAT IS PASTORAL PSYCHOTHERAPY?
A More in Depth Description
Pastoral Psychotherapy is a form of therapy in which the therapist is conversant with and expert in both worlds, spirituality and psychotherapy, and utilizes both disciplines in the practice of the art of healing. Whether the one seeking wholeness is an individual, couple, family, group, or institution, the pastoral therapist acknowledges and honors the role of Spirit in the movement toward health and wholeness. The pastoral therapist tries to help in the healing process and is not focused on conversion, or teaching dogma or getting people to believe or to agree theologically. The therapeutic task is to struggle with and resolve problems, so that people can live happier and more meaningful lives. The pastoral therapist affirms that a person's spirituality can be a real help in the struggle to overcome poor self-image and to come to love oneself, that spirituality can be a vital part of the search for integrity and meaning in living, and an important dimension of working on better relatedness and community. Since a seeker's spirituality can help immensely in psychological healing, a focus of pastoral counseling is the integration of spirituality and psychotherapy.
The pastoral therapist also is a part of and represents a community of seekers that affirms the importance of one's spirituality on the therapeutic journey and that affirms the pastoral therapist as a healer and pastoral therapy as a pilgrimage of growth.
The Client as Colleague in Pastoral Psychotherapy
In pastoral psychotherapy, the therapist views the client as a colleague on the therapeutic journey. While there are clear differences in roles and responsibilities, there are ways in which these two are fellow pilgrims, together on a journey of self-confrontation and healing. It can be a journey of mutual respect with a covenant that the client is in charge of one's life and the therapist is in charge of the therapeutic process. They will work together only as long as and to the depth that the client wishes.
The client in pastoral psychotherapy is a colleague because both therapist and client are wounded. Neither has escaped woundedness, but the therapist has already taken responsibility for his or her wounds by working in therapy on them and thus has become a wounded healer. Respect for the wounds of the client is essential, yet the pastoral therapist cannot give them too much power. Wounds can be healed and one's life must go on without being defined by the past. Both are called to grow as the wounds of the client are uncovered, felt, and as the healing happens.
It is also in the telling of the story that both therapist and client know that they are fellow seekers on a spiritual as well as a psychological quest. In the client's story, in the mix of the ordinary and the extraordinary, with all its pain, betrayal, anger, joy, love and sorrow, lies the hope of pushing through to new life, for in the telling comes a collegiality, a relationship, a trust that is mutual, and a recognition of the healing power of the relationship. When appropriate and useful, the therapist can share his or her own story as a recognition of their common humanity and pain.
The colleagueship of the client in pastoral therapy is also revealed in the emphasis upon shared power versus power over. Power over the client has no place on the collegial and companionate journey and the therapist must be vigilant in the responsible use of power so that it can be healing, not destructive. The therapist tries to help the client claim one's own power, feelings, responsibility and life. Shared power is a spiritual endeavor that each client in therapy needs to experience and Martin Buber's I-Thou relationship is a good model for this healing alliance between wounded healer and wounded seeker. This kind of relationship makes of therapy a spiritual discipline for both persons. BPI's logo: two equal persons facing each other, connected, yet separate, is our effort to visualize such an I-Thou therapeutic relationship.
To be sure, the pastoral psychotherapist takes full responsibility for maintaining healthy boundaries, keeping clear roles, and being professionally ethical in the helping relationship. But being professionally responsible does not mean that the therapist is remote, unfeeling, uncaring. It does not mean that the client is anything less than a fellow pilgrim and colleague.
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Casting Call for New Indie Horror “The Hazed”
Clifford K | 15 December 2011 | Indie News, The News Room | Indie, Indie News, The News Room. News. Indie | 0 Comments
One of the worst things about joining a fraternity or sorority is the hazing that comes with the territory of pledging. Yeah it’s commonly known that hazing is highly unethical then alone illegal in today’s age, but just because something is deemed wrong doesn’t mean it stopped. But what if some took hazing to a whole new level of humiliation? What if some elevated it to a whole new level of horrors? From the creators of Echo Lake and Sick Flick Productions comes “The Hazed” a psychological thriller that explores the unforgiving and vindictive nature of sorority life. Once you’re in you’re in for life, and the only way to leave this sorority is through death!
The Hazed is set to begin filmming summer 2012 in the Chicago area. The film is written and produced and will also star Jonathan Moody and Kelsey Zukowski. The Hazed will also be Kelsey Zukowski’s directorial debut! Currently they doing a full casting call for both male and female actors and of various age brackets that range from age groups of 20’s, 30’s and 40’s. scroll down to read the synopsis and to get a full detail of the roles up for casting. And when you’re done be sure to drop by the official Hazed Facebook Page and click “Like” to keep up to date on all things regarding the project.
Synopsis: When Kate tries to pledge a sorority, she learns that a mistake from years ago is still haunting her. The sorority sisters are completely unforgiving, deciding to have their fun with Kate by torturing her and the other girls to no ends. Kate is determined not to let her win. She has her friends, Tyler and Hailey by her side to help her stay strong. The deeper Kate gets in though the more she realizes that these are not your typical hazing pranks. There is something much darker that lies within these girls, setting up a brutal cycle of jealousy, revenge, and a very twisted perception of reality.
The Hazed Character Breakdown
Kate: Female (18-25). Independent, determined, and spunky. Kate has always been an outsider, but isn’t going to let that get in the way of what she wants. She made a mistake years ago that Melissa isn’t willing to let her forget. Kate refuses to be a weak person though and is ready to take everything she throws her way. Role requires nudity, limited or implied is negotiable.
Melissa: Female (18-25). The head sorority sister. She loves being in charge and is used to everything going her way, blaming her problems on others when they do arise. She’s unforgiving and has a very dark nature, far beyond the bitchy façade that lies on the outside. Role requires nudity, limited or implied is negotiable.
Courtney: Female (18-25). One of Melissa’s best friend’s, runs the sorority house under her. She sticks by Melissa no matter how merciless the hazing becomes.
Kelly: Female (18-25). Melissa and Courtney’s other best friend. She is loyal to her sisters and is determined to get vengeance on Kate for Melissa’s sake.
Jenna: Female (18-25). The only reasonable sorority sister. She isn’t out to humiliate and torment the pledges and isn’t interested in getting revenge on Kate. She goes along with it to an extent, but she wants to just get through this year more than anything. She’s far more concerned with school and her long distance boyfriend who she hopes to be with when she goes to graduate school next year.
Brittany: Female (18-25). As she gets deeper in to the sorority and sees the consequence of Melissa’s jealousy her enthusiasm for the sorority quickly falls. She has a lot to deal with, but refuses to let Melissa and the other sisters run all over her. Limited clothing is required.
Lexy: Female (18-25). Almost connected at the hip to Anna. Both of the girls put all of their energy and hopes in to getting in to the sorority. They have more shallow reasons than the other girls. No matter how twisted things get the price is never too high to get what they want. Limited clothing is required.
Anna: Female (18-25). Lexy’s best friend. It quickly becomes them against the other girls. They intend to do whatever they can to get in to the sorority even when things turn morbid. It’s shocking to them at first, but they put their better judgment aside when their own desires blind them. Limited clothing is required.
Brad: Male (18-25). Head of one of the school’s fraternity’s. He treats woman horribly, especially his girlfriend, Melissa. He has been cheating on her for years and really has no qualms or guilt about it. He comes from a wealthy family in the same social circle as Melissa’s; part of the reason their parents want them to be together. Nudity is required.
Chase: Male (18-25). Sexist and objectifies woman. He’s Brad’s best friend and one of the brothers, but cannot stand Melissa. He’s a good friend to him regardless. Chase is one of the only people to really reject Melissa and show his interest elsewhere.
Chris: Male (18-25). School football star and one of Chase and Brad’s brothers. He’s crude and violent towards others.
Jennifer: Female (22-35) Jack’s wife. She loves her husband, but is going through a very hard time in her life. She hasn’t really been happy in a long time and acts on this unhappiness. She desperately wants to put that all behind them and learn to be happy with Jack again.
Jack: Male (25-40) Jennifer’s husband. She’s broken his heart and he can never be the same again. We begin to see him breaking before us, unable to hold on any longer.
Bryan: Male (20-30) Jenna’s long distance boyfriend. He is very caring and sincere, doing everything he can to try to be there for her. He tries to keep her rational and focused amongst all of the mayhem that ensues in the house.
Dr. Lucas: Male or Female (Min. age 25, but could preferably middle aged). The psychiatrist who tries to piece everything together in the aftermath. (S)he is desperate to reach his/her patient so they can accept what they’ve done and have hope for recovery so nothing like this ever happens again.
Lauren: Female (20-30). Kate’s Resident Advisor. Once she realizes Kate is going through something serious she steps in.
Delivery Man: Male. (Min. age 20, but preferably middle aged) Once he’s in the house he lets his curiosity and imagination get the best of him. He never would have expected what lies within this house.
Waitress: (Min. 18, but can be any age). Waitress at a steak/seafood restaurant that serves Hailey and Tyler.
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There is an increasingly hazardous tendency in Armenia – to obtain wildlife animals and to keep them in capture. Not only rare animals are in demand, but also predators, including red-listed ones
Dilijan Resort To Be Poisoned with Soap Production Stink
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It’s planned to develop chemical industry in Dilijan National Park. The Armenian Government has reached a decision on developing chemical industry in Dilijan town in the form of soap plant and an enterprise
Government Doesn't Refuse From Idea to Develop Tourism im Vayots Dzor Caves
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Despite the objections of the environmental society the Government doesn’t refuse from the idea to develop tourism in specially protected
Hunting Case of Red-Listed Bezoar Goat in Vayots Dzor
The policemen in Vayots Dzor Region have caught a poacher who had hunted red-listed Bezoar goat: he lives in
Ecotourism Festival Held in Gomq and Martiros Communities (Photos)
On 4-5 June the ecotourism festival was held in Gomq and Martiros Communities, Vayors Dzor Region. During the festival information campaigns were
June 5 – Demonstrating Intolerance to Illegal Trade of Wild Species
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The World Environment Day is marked on 5 June: the theme for 2016 is the policy of absolute intolerance to illegal trade of wild animal and plant
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Official Announcements of Stakeholders on Karmir Sar
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Newly Founded "Red Mountain" Foundation Undertook Supervision over Buffer Zone of Khosrov Reserve (Photos)
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Martin Weiss – “Big bank profits are bogus!”
Martin Weiss has been tracking bank health for years and has his own ranking/ratings business. His assessment below is valid.
Big bank profits are bogus!
Massive public deception!
by Martin D. Weiss, Ph.D.
A big bank CEO on a mission to deceive the public doesn't have to tell outright lies. He can con people just as easily by using "perfectly legal" tricks, shams, and accounting ruses.
First, I'll give you the big-picture facts. Then, I'll show you how big U.S. banks are painting lipstick on some of the fattest pigs ever raised.
Six of America's Largest
Banks at Risk of Failure
As we have written here so often ... as we documented in our recent white paper ... as we showed in our presentation to the National Press Club ... and as we explained again with new data in our follow-up press conference, the nation's banking troubles are many times more severe than the authorities are admitting.
First, look at the megabanks: The authorities SAY that all of the 14 largest banks have earned a "passing" grade in their just-completed "stress tests." But just six months ago, the authorities swore that, without a massive injection of taxpayer funds, those same banks would suffer a fatal meltdown.
Was the bad-debt disease magically cured? Did the economy miraculously turn around? Not quite. In fact, we have overwhelming evidence that the condition of the nation's banks has deteriorated massively since then.
How can our trusted authorities be so blatantly deceptive and still keep their jobs? Perhaps you should ask Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke. Not long ago, for example, he declared that the total losses from the debt crisis would not exceed $100 billion, while conveying the hope that most of those losses could be soon written off. Also around that time, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) estimated the losses would be $1 trillion, with only a small percentage written off.
The IMF's latest estimate: $4 trillion in losses, with only one-third of those written off so far. Bernanke's error factor: He was 4,000 percent off the mark, in a world where 50 percent errors can be lethal.
Meanwhile, based on fourth quarter Fed data, we find that, among the nation's megabanks, six are at risk of failure in our opinion (seven if you count Wachovia and Wells Fargo as separate institutions).
• JPMorgan Chase is the nation's largest, with $1.7 trillion in assets in its primary banking unit. It's massively exposed to defaults by its trading partners in derivatives — to the tune of 382 percent (almost four times) its risk-based capital. Plus, since it holds HALF of ALL the derivatives in the U.S. banking industry, JPMorgan is at ground zero in the debt crisis.
• Citibank is the nation's third largest, with assets of $1.2 trillion in its main banking unit. Its total credit exposure to derivatives is a bit lower than Morgan's, at 278 percent, but still extremely high. Plus, it has other troubles, especially the surging default rates in its sprawling global portfolio of credit cards and other consumer loans. (More on these in a moment.)
• Wells Fargo and Wachovia now make up the nation's fourth largest bank with combined assets of $1.17 trillion. But in the fourth quarter, they still reported separately, which is illuminating: Even without Wachovia's troubled assets, TheStreet.com Ratings has downgraded Wells Fargo to a D+. Wachovia, meanwhile, got a D. This tells you that Wells Fargo wasn't exactly the best merger partner, unless you believe in some bizarre math wherein adding two negatives somehow gives you a positive result.
• SunTrust, with $185 billion in assets, is getting hit hard by the collapse in the commercial real estate. Its Financial Strength Rating is D+.
• HSBC Bank USA has massive credit exposure to derivatives that's even greater than Morgan's: 550 percent of risk-based capital. We're not looking at its larger foreign operations. But the U.S. numbers are ugly enough, meriting a rating of D+.
• Goldman Sachs, which reported for the first time as a commercial bank in the fourth quarter, seems to be taking the biggest risks of all in derivatives. Its total credit exposure is 1,056 percent of capital. Bottom line: It debuts as a bank with a rating of D, on par with Wachovia.
Regional banks: Banking regulators have been largely mute regarding major regional banks. But several are also at risk of failure, including Compass Bank (Alabama), Fifth Third (Michigan), Huntington (Ohio), and E*Trade Bank (Virginia). Primary reason: Massive losses in commercial real estate loans.
Smaller banks: On its "Problem List," the FDIC reports only 252 institutions with assets of $159 billion. In contrast, our list of at-risk institutions includes 1,816 banks and thrifts with $4.67 trillion in assets. That's seven times the number of institutions and 29 times more assets at risk than the FDIC admits.
What Explains the Huge Gap Between
Official Declarations and Our Analysis?
We all use essentially the same data. And conceptually, the analytical approach is also similar.
The primary difference is that the regulators have an agenda: Instead of protecting the people from bank failures, they're trying harder than ever to protect failed banks from the people. Specifically ...
• They have forever hidden the names of the banks on the FDIC's "Problem List," making it almost impossible for average consumers to get prior warnings of troubles.
• They have never disclosed their own official ratings of the banks — the CAMELS ratings — making it difficult for the public to find safe institutions they can trust.
• They have religiously underestimated — or understated — the depth and breadth of the debt crisis.
• And as I explained a moment ago, they have rigged their recent stress tests to give passing grades to all of the nation's 14 largest banks, sending the false signal that even the most dangerous among them are somehow "safe."
Legal Cover-Ups, Flim-Flam and Sham
In the Big Bank's "Glowing"
First-Quarter Earnings Reports
Wall Street is aglow with the latest "better-than-expected" earnings reports by major banks. But take one look below the surface, and you'll see three of the most egregious accounting gimmicks in recent history.
Gimmick #1. Toxic asset cover-up. In their infinite wisdom, global banking regulators have now agreed to let banks cover up their toxic assets by booking them at fluffy-high values, bearing little resemblance to actual market prices. Like magic, the bad assets are suddenly worth more, as hundreds of billions in losses are defined away.
Gimmick #2. Reserve flim-flam. Every quarter, banks are required to estimate their losses and decide how much to set aside in loss reserves. If they deliberately guess too much in one quarter and too little in the next, they can shove all their bad earnings into earlier P&Ls and make future P&Ls look rosy by comparison.
Gimmick #3. The great debt sham. Consider this scenario: A financially distressed real estate developer owes the bank $4 million. His revenues have plunged. He's lost a fortune in his properties. And he's on the brink of bankruptcy.
Therefore, in the secondary market, traders recognize that loans like his are worth, say, only half their face value, or about $2 million. So far, a very common situation, right?
But now imagine this: He walks into the bank one morning and claims that he really owes only $2 million. Why? Because, in theory, he says, he could buy back his own loan for that price, thereby reducing his debt in half.
In practice, of course, that's a pipedream. If he actually had the cash to buy back his own loans on the market, then he wouldn't be financially distressed in the first place. And if he weren't financially distressed, his loans wouldn't be selling on the market for half price.
The reality is that he can't buy back his own debt and never will. And even if he could someday, he will still be on the hook for the full $4 million unless and until he files for bankruptcy and the bankruptcy judge decides otherwise.
That's why the government would never let real estate developers — or hardly anyone else, for that matter — mark down the debts on their books and still stay in business. But guess what? The government lets banks do precisely that!
It's the ultimate double standard: The banks get away with inflating their toxic assets. But at the same time, they're allowed to mark to market their own debts, which happen to be trading at huge discounts on the open market precisely because of their toxic assets.
Accountants call it a "credit value adjustment." I call it cheating.
Finding all of this hard to believe? Then consider ...
How Citigroup Mobilized ALL THREE of These
Gimmicks to Create One of the Greatest Accounting
Shams of All Time in Its First-Quarter Earnings Report
I'm outraged. But I'm glad to see that someone besides us is speaking out:
• Meredith Whitney, one of the few no-nonsense analysts in the industry, says that the banks' latest reports are, in essence, "a great whitewash."
• Jack T. Ciesielski, publisher of an accounting advisory service, calls it "junk income."
• And Saturday's New York Times, picking up from their research, lays out precisely how Citigroup has transformed a massive loss into what appears to be a fat profit...
First, Citigroup deployed the Toxic Asset Cover-Up. By inflating the value of the bad assets on its books, it was able to beef up its after-tax profits by $413 million.
Second, Citigroup used the Reserve Flim-Flam gimmick: By (a) shoving most of its bad-debt losses into last year's fourth quarter and (b) greatly understating its likely losses in the first quarter, the bank legally rigged its books to look like it had made major improvements. Even assuming no further deterioration in its loan portfolio, I estimate this gimmick alone bloated profits by at least another $1 billion.
Third, Citigroup went all out with the Great Debt Sham, marking down its own debt and creating an additional $2.7 billion in purely bogus profits from this maneuver alone.
So here's Citigroup's true math for the first quarter:
So-called "profit" $1.6 billion
Gimmick #1 $0.4 billion
Total gimmicks $4.1 billion
Actual result: $2.5 billion LOSS!
And all this despite the fact that Citigroup's loan portfolios actually deteriorated further in the first quarter. Based on its Q1 2009 Quarterly Financial Data Supplement, we find that:
1. Net credit losses in Citi's global credit card business surged from $1.67 billion at year-end 2008 to $1.94 billion by March 31. And compared to March 2008, they surged by a whopping 56 percent! (Page 9 of its data supplement.)
2. Foretelling future credit card losses, the delinquency rate (90+ days past due) on those credit cards jumped from 2.62 percent at year-end to 3.16 percent on March 31 (page 10).
3. Credit losses on consumer banking operations jumped from $3.442 billion on December 31 to $3.786 billion on March 31. And compared to the year-earlier period, they surged 66 percent (page 12).
By almost every measure, Citigroup's first-quarter numbers are worse than they were just three months earlier and far worse than they were 12 months before.
My forecast: Citigroup's effort last week to twist this into an "improvement" will go down in history as one of the greatest banking deceptions of all time.
But Citigroup is not the only one. Nearly all other major banks are suffering similar surges in their credit losses and delinquency rates. Nearly all are using at least one of the same gimmicks to bloat their first-quarter profits. And every single one is destined to see massive new losses, driving their shares to new lows and the banking system as a whole into a far more severe crisis.
Bottom line: Rather than the private-public partnership the government has called for to address the nation's banking woes, we see little more than private-public collusion to hide the truth from the public, paper over the problems and, ultimately, sink the banks into an even deeper hole.
In my book, The Ultimate Depression Survival Guide, I give you very detailed, step-by-step instructions on what to do immediately. Here's a quick summary:
Step 1. Get away from risky stocks. Use the recent stock market rally as a selling opportunity — your second chance to get out of danger before it's too late.
Step 2. Get out of sinking real estate. If there's a temporary improvement in the market, grab it to sell the properties you've been wanting to sell all along.
Step 3. Raise as much cash as you possibly can — not only by selling stocks and real estate, but also by cutting expenses and selling other things you own.
Step 4. Make sure you keep your cash in one of the safe banks on the list we provide on the book's resource page. Or better yet, follow my instructions on how to buy Treasury bills. They're safer than any bank, with no limit on the Treasury's direct guarantee.
Step 5. For assets you cannot sell, buy protection using exchange-traded funds that are designed to go UP when stocks fall. The more the market goes down, the more you make; and those profits can offset any losses you suffer in the stocks or real estate that you cannot sell.
Step 6. Later, get ready for the big bottom in nearly all markets. That's when you should be able to lock in relatively safe interest rates of 10 percent or more for years to come ... buy shares in our country's best companies for pennies on the dollar ... buy a dream home in a great location that's practically being given away.
Good luck and God bless!
This type of assessment is gaining credibility, but now we have Hal Turner, who is not nearly as credible, but has broken inside stories before, coming out with what he says are leaked results of the “Stress Test.” His article is SHOCKING. If true, and that’s a big IF, then they are admitting what I’ve been saying about these institutions all along. READ IT.
If nothing else, this will pressure the government to release their lies and spin.
And that’s exactly what they have doing – non-stop.
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Mazda Motorsports Ready For First Home Weekend of 2015
By: Fernando Cruz
Categories: Blog, News
MONTEREY, Calif. (April 29, 2015) – While every race counts, races close to home are special. For Mazda Motorsports, the home track is Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. The May 1-3 Continental Tire Monterey Grand Prix Powered by Mazda weekend kicks off the 2015 season at Camp Zoom-Zoom.
The weekend includes three series with significant Mazda content. The Sunday headliner is for the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship, while Saturday will feature the Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge. The SCCA Pro Racing Battery Tender Mazda MX-5 Cup Presented by BFGoodrich Tires will have a doubleheader with races on both Saturday and Sunday.
Mazda highlights for the weekend will include:
· Mazda SKYACTIV Prototype Progress – Now in its second season in the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship, the production-based Mazda SKYACTIV prototype continues its remarkable development. In 2014, the car had its strongest performance at Mazda Raceway and expectations are high for this weekend.
· Ride along with Mazda — Mazda will stream onboard footage during the TUDOR race, along with commentary from Radio Le Mans, on MazdaLIVE.com on Sunday at 12:40 pm (Pacific).
· Freedom Autosport Mazda Raceway Win Streak in Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge (CTSCC) – The Freedom Autosport Mazda MX-5s have been undefeated in the past four years at Mazda Raceway. Can they make it five? The team has two cars entered.
· U.S. Marine Staff Sergeant Liam Dwyer, now racing in his first full-season, continues to inspire. Dwyer lost his leg in Afghanistan in 2011. He made headlines in 2014, co-driving the Freedom Autosport MX-5 to the win at Lime Rock Park. The Marine who helped save Liam in Afghanistan will be a guest at the track this weekend.
· The Sunday MX-5 Cup race will include a class for 20 National Auto Sport Association (NASA) champions competing for the title of Mazda NASA Champion. With a total entry of 48 cars, this will be the largest MX-5 Cup race in the ten-year history of the series.
· The weekend will include the first ever public on-track appearance of the 2016 Mazda MX-5 Cup racecar. Tom Long will test the car on Thursday, April 30 and Friday, May 1. Highlights from the test will be included in the MazdaLIVE.com broadcast on Sunday.
· Announcement of the 2015 Project Yellow Light Hunter Garner Scholarship winners – Mazda Motorsports has partnered with Project Yellow Light since 2012 to help educate young drivers on the dangers of distracted driving with Mazda racers acting as safety ambassadors. There will be a press conference on Saturday, May 2 at 10:00 am to announce the winners.
· There will be over a dozen brands competing in four distinct series during the three-day race weekend. Mazda will have more cars, competing in more races, than any other car company.
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NEW DELHI:Expect rain on Wednesday in the city and isolated heavy rain on Thursday and Friday, Met officials have said.
“On Wednesday, a generally cloudy sky is expected and light to moderate rain or thundershowers are likely to occur. The maximum and minimum temperatures will be around 37 and 28 degrees Celsius, respectively,” an official said.
Delhi recorded 156.5mm rain from July 1to July 23, which is 4% more than the 30-year average of 149.8mm, officials said. Overall, it has received 167.7mm precipitation against the longterm average of 215.3mm since June 1, when the monsoon season starts, a deficiency of 22%, according to IMD data.
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Christian group tries to ban naked Joan of Arc oratorio
A Christian group is trying to prevent the La Monnaie opera house in Brussels from staging a production of Arthur Honegger's oratorio "Joan of Arc at the Stake" in which the heroine appears dressed in men's clothes and at one point naked
NY band cancels China tour over ban of South Korean members
An upstate New York orchestra has cancelled plans to tour China this winter after China refused to allow the group's three South Korean musicians to perform
"Seinfeld" star Alexander, Southside Johnny in NJ fame hall
"Seinfeld" star Jason Alexander, rocker Southside Johnny Lyon and the authors of "Jaws" and "Game Of Thrones" are among those being inducted to the New Jersey Hall of Fame
After son's death, Craig Morgan finds God's purpose in song
Craig Morgan says it was God's plan to write a song about grief, pain and faith that has comforted so many others
Felicity Huffman released 11 days into 14-day prison term
Authorities say actress Felicity Huffman has been released from a federal prison in California on the 11th day of a 14-day sentence for her role in the college admissions scandal
Queen Elizabeth honors Booker Prize winner Margaret Atwood
Shortly after winning her second Booker Prize, Margaret Atwood has received a rare honor from Queen Elizabeth II for her services to literature
Astros executive apologizes, MLB to conduct interviews
The assistant general manager of the Houston Astros has apologized for using "inappropriate language" after a Sports Illustrated report said he repeatedly yelled toward a group of female reporters about closer Roberto Osuna during a clubhouse celebration
Nicki Minaj indicates she's now a married woman
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Queen Latifah to receive Harvard black culture award
Music artist and actress Queen Latifah is among the honorees being recognized by Harvard University for their contributions to black history and culture
'Spirited Away,' other Studio Ghibli films head to HBO Max
The vast catalog of storied Japanese animation house Studio Ghibli, including 'Spirited Away' and 'Princess Mononoke,' is heading to the new HBO Max streaming service
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Caithness Courier headlines for February 15
A PROPOSED £7 million luxury hotel complex overlooking Thurso Bay, suffered what could be fatal blow yesterday when local Highland councillors again opted to preserve the site from development. It is the latest in a series of official knockbacks for local businessman Raymond Taylor has suffered over the past couple of decades.
TWO Caithness rivers were officially opened at the weekend with sights set on another productive fishing season after both recorded high catches last year. Studies on Forss and Wick rivers have been carried out using the technique of electro-fishing and they have shown both to be in fine condition with high numbers of young fish in them.
THE new base for the records of the UK's civil nuclear industry, officially opened in Wick yesterday. Nucleus is to be home to a vast wealth of material from all 17 Nuclear Decommissioning Authority sites across the UK, dating back to the 1940s.
A LOCAL lifeboat coxswain is pleading with the public to let the emergency services know, if they have launched sky lanterns in their area after volunteers were called out to an oversight false alarm in north Sutherland at the weekend. Thurso RNLI made the marathon 60 mile haul to Loch Eriboll after receiving a report of something floating in the water which appeared to be a lifejacket that lit up in the dark.
A NEW air weapons club has been launched in Caithness and is open to all abilities with a special section catering for blind shooters. The club, which is the first of its kind in the county, is the idea of Stirkoke Rifle club secretary, Donald Henderson, who is keen to provide opportunities to everyone to get involved in shooting.
A CAMPAIGN has been launched to stop NHS Highland closing a centre for heart patients across the region. Highland Heartbeat Centre offers cardiac rehabilitation at Raigmore Hospital but the health body says the space is needed for other clinical services so the centre will have to close.
A dedicated response unit for emergency services in the Highland and Islands has not been ruled out, fire bosses have said. Calls have been made for one centre to take 999 calls for police, fire and ambulance following the centralisation of the Inverness fire control room in December.
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Waiver Wire Report: DL Replacements and Stashes
June 6, 2014 December 25, 2016 Jim Finch
This is a great time of year. The weather is warming up (and drying out) along with some bats, minor league players are getting the call and trades season is in full effect (since most owners know what their needs are now). It’s a Zen like state in fantasy land…except for all the damn injuries. Just when you think you’re safe, someone else goes down (Curse you A.J. Pollock). It seems like a never-ending cycle of players continue to rotate in and out of your DL slots with no end in sight. I have one team with 5 players on the DL which is down from 6 (welcome back Ryan Zimmerman) so I feel your pain when it comes to injuries. Nothing you can do but suck it up and find the best plug and play option available.
Corey Dickerson (Rockies): I pumped up Dickerson during the first week of the season but Charlie Blackmon stepped in and stole his thunder. He’s been fighting for playing time, but Carlos Gonzalez was nice enough to hit the DL and give him some time to shine. For the season, Dickerson is batting .348 with 7 home runs and 16 RBIs in only 92 at bats. On Wednesday he was batting second sandwiched between Blackmon and Tulowitzki, something about that gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling. Ownership is sure to spike over the next few days but if Dickerson is available in your league (even a 10 team league), go get him.
Available in 66% of CBS and 84% of Yahoo leagues
Brock Holt (Red Sox): Everyone assumed diminished playing time once Drew was promoted, but the Sox are keeping the hot Holt in the lineup at first. Holt is similar to Casey McGehee in the fact that he’s not your prototypical third baseman. There isn’t much power or speed here, but Holt can hit and has implanted himself in the top half of the Boston lineup. For the year, Holt is batting .323 and should score a good number of runs batting in front of Xander Bogaerts and Dustin Pedroia. Third base hasn’t been kind to fantasy owners this season which is where Holt plays best in fantasy, but he also makes an excellent CI player. Some say this won’t last, but I’m willing to ride this one until the wheels fall off.
Geraldo Parra (Diamondbacks): The Diamondbacks had high expectations for their outfield coming into the season. 2 months in and Parra is the last man standing with A.J. Pollock joining Mark Trumbo on the DL. Parra isn’t the flashy name brand people think of when looking for an outfielder, but he fills up the stat sheets. He currently ranks in the top 25 for runs scored with 34 (tied with Mike Trout). The .279 batting average isn’t anything special, but he’s batting .311 against right-handed pitchers. If you’re in a daily league and can sit him against left-handed pitchers (something Arizona can’t do with all their injuries) you’ve got a pretty good fourth outfielder capable of delivering double-digit numbers in the power and speed department.
Denard Span (Nationals): The Nationals leadoff man has very similar numbers to Parra, except he has less power, more speed and does better (but not great) against lefties. Span is also in the top 25 for runs scored, tied with Parra at 34. He could see a bump in that category with Ryan Zimmerman back in the active lineup. Span is also on a little hot streak batting .333 over the past two weeks with 2 steals. You won’t see any power here and RBI production is minimal, but he will help you out in the other 3 categories. Span makes a decent injury fill in or spare bat off your bench.
Michael Saunders (Mariners): Another member of the HoHum outfield club. Saunders has always had a nice power speed combo, but his batting average has always held him back. This year he’s batting .284 (.342 the past 14 days) and while he could use some work at home, his lefty/righty splits are both playable. Saunders has been hitting near the top of the order recently so a spike in runs and RBIs could be in order. He is 27 years old so a breakout could be in order, but I think we’d all be happy with a solid season after years of disappointment. Saunders has more risk than Span and Parra, but he also has more upside.
C.J. Cron (Angels): Josh Hamilton is off the DL, and for now it looks like Cron will continue to see at bats over Grant Green. Raul Ibanez is still stealing at bats; with a batting average of .140, you would think even Mike Scioscia has a limit. Cron has hit .300 since his arrival and his power potential is well documented at this point. He’s still not walking much but he’s not striking out either (13 in 82 at bats). Don’t wait for him to start receiving full-time at bats, make the move and grab him in advance. You’re dealing with Scioscia here so anything is possible. but I like Cron’s chances of regular playing time. Thanks for all you’ve done for baseball Mr. Ibanez, now step aside and let the kid have his chance to shine.
Jacob deGrom (Mets): Some of you were waiting to see who would emerge between deGrom and Rafael Montero. Well Montero was sent down and the 5th starting pitchers job is all deGrom’s. He wasn’t one of the top pitching prospects coming into the year, but after 4 starts he’s looking like an ace (well, an ace for the Mets at least). He does need to work on his control (4.15 BB/9 compared to 2.28 in the minors) and keeping the ball in the park, but a friendly home park should help keep his ERA in check. With the exception of a game @STL in another week, deGrom has a somewhat favorable schedule coming up. Wins may be tough to come by, but deGrom will make up for that in strikeouts (11 in his last start vs. Philly). Some see him as a streaming option, I see him as a little more than that.
Lonnie Chisenhall (Indians): After batting .361 through the first 2 months, I think Chisenhall has entered the circle of trust. He does take a seat vs. left handed pitchers but he is 10-20 against them this season. His ownership in CBS jumped 19% since last week and 8% in the past day on yahoo so your window of opportunity is closing fast. If you haven’t taken advantage of his services yet, do so now before the average corrects itself.
B.J. Upton (Braves): Just a quick update here, over the past 2 weeks Upton has batted .275 with 2 home runs and 2 stolen bases. That’s 5 home runs and 9 steals for the year so there is a pulse worth monitoring, just not rostering (yet). Do what you will here.
DL Specials that should be On Your Radar
Jeremy Hellickson (Rays): Hellickson is expected to go on a rehab assignment Saturday so he’s about 3 weeks away. Last year was a bad year for Hellboy, but there were some positive signs. His strikeouts went up slightly while his walk rate decreased. He lost a little velocity but it was almost in line with his 2012 speeds. As of now his elbow is pain-free, but monitor his status after each start. I’m cautiously optimistic he can come close to his 2012 numbers, although maybe with a slightly higher ERA. If you’re in need of pitching and have an empty DL slot (not many of us have that luxury), you may want to stash Hellickson now in advance of his rehab. You lose nothing by stashing him early but you could gain a nice arm for the back-end of your rotation if all goes well.
Taijuan Walker (Mariners): Another DL stash, but more for those of you in Yahoo leagues. Walker showed some rust in his first rehab start walking 4 in 2 innings of work. He still has some work to do and even then, there is no guarantee he will have a spot in the rotation when he’s ready. The talent is there though so even if he does start out in the bullpen or AAA, it shouldn’t be long before he’s starting in the majors again. Those in CBS leagues have been patiently waiting with Walker stashed away, but he could easily be out there for those in Yahoo leagues.
Johan Santana (SP Orioles): I jokingly mentioned Santana a month ago, but I’m not laughing now. He’s reaching the upper 80’s in his rehab starts. Santana can be a very good pitcher even without heat, remember he had an ERA below 3.0 for the first 3 months of 2012 throwing between 84 and 88 MPH. His secondary pitches are still plus and if healthy, Santana could be a useful pitcher for the back-end of your rotation. You may get some laughs from some of your league mates, but they were probably the same one’s that laughed last year when someone picked up Raul Ibanez. If you’re in a casual league you can probably wait, but more aggressive leagues may want to act sooner.
Edit 6/6 7:21 PM Santana suffered a torn Achilles tendon and is done for the season (or possibly his career)
Clay Buchholz (Red Sox): He’s had a horrible season so far so the “hyperextended knee” injury couldn’t have come at a better time. It wouldn’t surprise me if it was just a story and they told him to limp around for a few weeks just to get him out of the lineup. Whatever the case, something had to happen and maybe the time off to clear his head is what was needed. Buchholz is an average pitcher who can produce above average results at times and in stretches and is much better than the mess we saw the first few months. This isn’t someone you want to run out and stash now, but if you see him pitching well in his bullpen sessions or first rehab start, this is someone worth gambling on.
C.C. Sabathia (Yankees): I know, he’s lost some velocity and was pitching like crap before he went on the DL. Still, C.C. was getting a strikeout an inning with low walks and can still eat innings and generate wins thanks to his team. His ownership rate is down to 50% in Yahoo and 63% in CBS so owners aren’t completely giving up hope, but there are some doubters out there. Normally a player sways me one way or the other, but I’m on the fence with this one. I’d probably feel more comfortable stashing one of the pitchers above if I had the room, and I think your own personal comfort level is what you should use with C.C. If you’re a believer and he’s available then roll the dice, but if you have doubts then don’t beat yourself up about it and move on.
Finding their way back to the waiver wire
Seth Smith (Padres): After hitting .354 in May, it seems the luck is running out on the 31-year-old outfielder. Smith has hit .182 over the past few weeks and while his .306 batting average still looks good, it’s headed back down (career .268 hitter). His ownership has dropped 16% in the past week on CBS and is down 8% on Yahoo since yesterday. If you’ve been riding Smith’s hot streak, you might want to start looking for a replacement Now.
Garrett Jones (Marlins). His .264 average is almost in line with his career numbers and the power is still there, but Jones has hit .189 with only 3 RBIs over the past 14 days. His ownership is dropping but still high enough to suggest you bench him for now as opposed to release him.
Adam Eaton (White Sox): He may have long-term value but Eaton has been an utter disappointment this season. He batted .224 in May with 1 RBI and 3 stolen bases. B.J. Upton has produced better numbers and owners won’t touch him with a 10 foot stick. Try again next year, there are more productive options on waivers.
Nick Castellanos (Tigers): With a .237 average and only 3 runs and 2 RBI in the last 30 days, I think Castellanos can be tucked away on waivers next to Will Middlebrooks. You can keep tabs on him if you’d like, but keeping him on your team is pointless unless you’re in a keeper league.
Alfonso Soriano (Yankees): He wasn’t a waiver wire pickup, but he is becoming available on waivers. Soriano had a terrific season last year, but this year he’s not drawing walks and is hitting like a 38-year-old who’s lost his stuff. I wouldn’t tell you to release him as he could turn things around, but nobody would fault you for it if you did. With a .253 OBP and .226 batting average (.195 against righties), Soriano should not be active anywhere unless facing a lefty (and I question even that).
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Socialism – way towards autocratic capitalism
Pradosh Nath
‘Marx, who?’ Fearing this would be the counter question I decided not to explore any further to avoid embarrassment. About ten years back I spent a few days in Moscow before arriving at Sraratov by train. At the station there were a group of young university girls waiting to receive us to be escorted to the Hotel. On the way to the hotel, from the bus window we could see a park adorned with a statue of Lenin in the middle in his famous posture - a hand raised pointing towards the sky, giving a call for revolution. Wanting to be a bit chatty with beautiful young girls around, I asked the one sharing the seat with me – whose statue was it? The girl looked a bit perplexed, consulted her other friends. After some time, they arrived at an agreement to communicate back to me – Lenin (actually told me the full Russian name). I sensed the discomfort among the university students, and wanted to explore further – who was he? Came the reply – this time, time taken was much less – he was a great social reformer.
This was about 11 years back. I had the opportunities to visit Vietnam a number of times before my visits to Russia. These were official trips, so people I had to interact with were mostly government officials, who quite candidly educated me about the level of corruption in government offices. I found the only difference with our country is that we are hypocritical, not open about it. The experience was a bit disappointing. Over romanticised stories of Russian revolution shaped our dreams. Mao and his China convinced us about the possibilities of the changes in our country. We were out in the street shouting, ‘Amar NaamTomarNaam; VietnaamVietnaam’ (My name, your name – Vietnam – name is ‘naam’ in Bengali). I remember a lesser-known Bengali poet expressed his frustration with shame that he was watching like a bystander (like the role of Pitamah Bhishma during the battle of Kurukshetra) when Mekong Duhita (the daughter of the river Mekong) was being disrobed.
A few trips to China before my trips to Vietnam prepared me for the realities in Russia and Vietnam. In India I did not have the luck to share social gatherings with ministers. But I had seen communist Zila Shabhapatis, behaving like local satraps, and in competition with the district magistrates for appropriating largesse using government exchequer. It was no different in China – local party leaders appearing like kings. The worst was still waiting in Mao’s mausoleum at Tiananmen Square. We were in a queue to visit the mausoleum. There were different rates of entry fee; depending up on how close a look you wanted to have. I bought the cheapest one that allowed me to lay the plastic flower bouquet (came along with the entry fee) a long distance away from our beloved Mao. These are three most talked about nations in the history of socialist revolution. These are the three communist countries – the neo rightist, totalitarian regimes.
So, when I read Santosh Rana’s autobiographical account of Naxalite movement, I could easily relate to his concern about the autocracy/ bureaucracy in the party. We have experienced the arrogance of the CPI(M) cadres and leaders during their ruling days in West Bengal. We now don’t have to split hair for finding the reasons behind decimation of left in India. In the above-mentioned three countries, left was decimated by the respective communist parties. In India we did not have to wait that long. Till the other day, the party that used to boast of strong cadre base, strong organisation etc. and strongest communist party in India, their leaders are now jostling around all political parties (irrespective of colours) seeking visibility in public domain. They are not choosy any more, except TMC in Bengal, and BJP in general, at least for the time being. They are seen everywhere jostling for space in front of TV camera; in Kumaraswami’s swearing in, Chandra Babu Naidu’s melodrama, Rahul Gandhi’s angry outburst, upset Akhilesh, or even TMC’s tirades (if it is outside Bengal). All of them are lefts, except the left themselves. They have their own agenda; left parties do not have theirs. Leftists are generally gracious enough to share platform with the others. Tripura ex-chief minister Manik Sarkar once rued that the status of the left is like a goat’s third kid that dances around when the other two suckle the mother’s milk.
What is the future of socialism? This question pretends as if there was a past for socialism. Was there? Was Soviet Union a socialist country, or China, Vietnam? I had the opportunity to visit Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. The Mongols consider themselves emancipated from the clutches of socialist Soviet (as were the cases for most of the East European countries), which was out to demolish anything Mongolian (for example language) to be replaced with everything Russian. They hate both China and Russia; feel friendly to Germany, instead. Were these self-proclaimed socialist countries really socialist? How were they different from a capitalist system? Private property has been abolished, means of production are owned by the state (?), or by party (?), or by party satraps? One of the learned friends suggested a better expression – ‘partyarchy’. Party is the new mechanism of surplus appropriation; blessings of party satraps make equals and more than equals in the Orwellian world of socialism.
We were taught and tutored by our socialist parents and their socialist friends that any negatives about ‘socialist countries’ are anti progress, anti revolution and anti change, and for exploitation and its edifice the capitalist system. Even ‘Frontier’ would not have published this essay a decade back. Those, who are alive among them, I am sure, will feel cheated by the massive ideological fraud the mayhem which would shame the votaries of crony capitalism. One such person, now in his late 80’s, a firebrand communist in his younger days, raised an uncanny question referring to state perpetrated repression and violence on Uighur Muslim minorities in Xinjiang province of China, - what is the difference between majoritarian parties in India and Chinese Communist Party? Or for that matter between Nazi concentration camp and the detention camps, covered up as vocational training centres, in Xinjiang?
An unabashed autocratic capitalism – such volte-face of the socialist countries – dialectics of which begs extension/revision of Marx. Capitalism, as opposed to what Marx tried to make all of us believe, has reinvented itself as eternal. Socialism, as its supposed to be anti-thesis, appears to be a process of making ways for worst form of capitalism in its autocratic avatar. Party as omnipotent and omniscient agency subsumes the social and economic conflicts to lend credence and stability of Orwellian world. A world the classical capitalism would have never arrived at sans so called socialism.
Pradosh Nath pradoshnath@gmail.com
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Mall of America West Boulevard
The new West Boulevard at Mall of America is conceived as a vibrant marketplace with a central skylight, carved along the entire length of the existing, corrugated-metal, barrel-vaulted roof. This emphasizes the unique spatial volume of West Boulevard, recalling the industrial grandness of historic train stations. New glass and metal railings, backlit gridded glass block along pedestrian bridges, and rhythmic celebration of the existing roof trusses, now accented in white against a beige painted ceiling vault, all blend to reinforce the design aesthetic of the renovated Boulevard. Excessive ornamentation on the columns replaced by cast resin light tubes enhance the austere elegance and ambient luminosity within the promenade. Up lit end walls dematerialize the limits of the space.
The West Boulevard construction project required enormous orchestration and cooperation between the Mall of America staff, Retail Tenants, and Contractor as it had to remain fully operational during business hours. Over 80 tenants remained open during this extensive renovation effort. High quality standards for materials and construction detailing were required to achieve the desired function and aesthetic, as well as Mall of America’s elevated expectations for a finished public environment for its West Boulevard Retail Tenants.
Following the course of Mall of America’s expansive and on-going renovation of its public promenades, preceded by South Avenue, South East Court, and East Boulevard, the West Boulevard had fallen far behind with its dark, dated and over-decorated environmental identity. Maintaining retail tenants is as important as attracting new ones, and the West Boulevard existing tenants were anxious to see an equivalent positive, yet distinctive transformation of their sector. Indeed, their newly renovated, vibrant, and light-filled marketplace attracts shoppers to explore this dynamic merchant arcade.
Mall of America West Boulevard, Bloomington
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Inside the Koran
by Islamic_Science2 » Fri Oct 09, 2009 1:14 am
There is on Youtube a 10 part series of a video National Geographic documentary named Inside the Koran. What I found interesting is the 9 of 10 part.
I'll be back later with some comments.
Last edited by Islamic_Science2 on Fri Nov 06, 2009 2:21 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: Inside the Koran
by abdullahinislam » Fri Oct 09, 2009 2:01 am
Islamic_Science2 wrote: There is on Youtube a 10 part series of a video National Geographic documentary named Inside the Koran. What I found interesting is the 9 of 10 part.
Nice video, it is interesting indeed.
Comment I have is that like your math book in School, you make a mistake and erase it and replace it with a better version of what you had intended.
It is also possible that the paper was left behind or found, seen to be wrong and fixed.
Maybe even someone was trying to write it from memory and had found mistakes after showing it to another knowledgable person.
It is also possible that none of these things happened.
Either way, it had Quraan recited in the video, so I pray you recieve blessing for that, even if you are non Muslim.
Thanks and I look forward to watching the other parts and reading your comments.
Knowing the true purpose of life is the first great step toward living it.
abdullahinislam
by crazymonkie_ » Fri Oct 09, 2009 3:49 am
I've seen that part of the series before.
Abdullah: Pay very close attention to 1:40 to about a minute further along. What Dr. Puin is saying is in *direct contradiction* to Islamic claims of perfect transliteration of the Quran. The mere existence of radically different readings underneath the "final" versions that were found in Sanaa — and which were NOT due to local dialect — completely annihilates the claim that the Quran that we have today is precisely the same that was finalized after Muhammad's death. The Quran was *not* given to humans and transmitted, without a modicum of change, for centuries; rather, the earliest copies were RADICALLY different than the later copies. Once the Cairo text was finalized, sure, things settled down. But you're really not giving credence to how much this changes your religion, and how much the evidence undercuts orthodox beliefs about perfect transmission.
There is hope: http://freedomdefense.typepad.com/leave-islam/
crazymonkie_
by expozIslam » Fri Oct 09, 2009 7:15 am
crazymonkie_ wrote: But you're really not giving credence to how much this changes your religion,.
Crazy, you are being very generous here. It does not just change but destroys the cult called islam.
“The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false.”
expozIslam
Yeah, I was being generous. Also assuming that Islam can be as flexible to change as Christianity. Which is truly doubtful. So... yeah, I wasn't really thinking about Islam when I wrote that.
Still looking forward to that Puin edited book- I contacted Prometheus Books and they said it's going to be released November. Woo!!!
by piscohot » Fri Oct 09, 2009 2:49 pm
a fifth of the koran contain words which have been misunderstood or words that may no sense.......
aren't muslims interested to find out what they were?
obviously not! and for very good reasons!
More than 15,000 sheets of the Yemeni Qur'ans have been flattened, cleaned, treated, sorted, and assembled. They await further examination in Yemen's House of Manuscripts. Yet that is something Islamic authorities seem unwilling to allow. Puin suggests, "They want to keep this thing low-profile, as we do, although for different reasons."
Puin, and his colleague Graf von Bothmer, an Islamic historian, have published short essays on what they discovered. They felt that when the Yemeni authorities realize the implications of the find, they would refuse further access - a prediction that soon came through. Von Bothmer, however, in 1997 shot 35,000 microfilm pictures of the fragments, and has brought the pictures back to Germany. The texts will soon be scrutinized and the findings published freely - a prospect that pleases Puin. "So many Muslims have this belief that everything between the two covers of the Qur'an is Allah's unaltered word. They like to quote the textual work that shows that the Bible has a history and did not fall straight out of the sky, but until now the Qur'an has been out of this discussion. The only way to break through this wall is to prove that the Qur'an has a history too. The Sana'a fragments will help us accomplish this."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sana'a_manuscripts
Quran miracle (16:69) : Bees eat ALL fruits
Quran miracle (27:18) : an ant SAID, "O ants, enter your dwellings that you not be crushed by Solomon and his soldiers while they perceive not."
piscohot
by Islamic_Science2 » Fri Oct 09, 2009 8:00 pm
Fanatical Muslims don't want to know the truth. Any research be it archeology or textual criticism of the Qur'an is dismissed. After all the Qur'an is the final authority and the absolute truth. Science and any reality contridicting the Qur'an must be dismissed.
I started doubting the Islamic tradition which includes the hadiths, Ahadith is plural for hadith in Arabic. The ahadith about Uthman commisioning the collection of Qur'anic verses and standardization of the Qur'an is false. There is no manuscript evidence for the existance of the Qur'an before 690 CE. The oldest Qur'ans in existance today are the Sana'a manuscripts. They show that the Qur'an was an evolving text at least decades into a century after Uthman.
I don't believe that the Qur'an or Islam originated in Mecca and Medina but much further north in Palestine. or Jordan. The earliest pre-Islamic Classical Arabic texts, as in Qur'anic Arabic, were discovered in Syria. Now I have a problem. Why is it that these early Qur'ans were discovered far south in Yemen where the pre-Islamic language was South Arabian and not Classical Arabic?
Christoph Luxenburg's theory about Syriac origins of the Qur'an fits very well with the revisionist model that I find most plausible. If the Classical Arabic of the Qur'an originated in Syria then most certainly Syriac words will be found in the Qur'an. Much of the video above is about Luxenburg's Syro-Aramaic reading of the Qur'an.
by crazymonkie_ » Fri Oct 09, 2009 11:51 pm
It really does feel to me like Islam is in a place now very similar to Christianity a thousand years ago: The majority of adherents are horrifically close-minded and ignorant (and often the ignorance is cultivated, for many reasons); and yet... there is a small, gradually growing (or at least it seems- and unfortunately not growing at the same rate as the orthodoxy) group, or movement, toward reassessment of the Quran and how Islam itself is approached. It's based, as the Christian change was, on new methods of human relating and new technologies: In Christianity's case, it was the gradual revival of learning, at least for the wealthy, and the influx of rediscovered ideas from the slow Reconquista and the Crusades.
In Islam's case, it's the efforts of (mostly) non-believing Arabic experts, historians and etymologists to figure out whether the stories are true; not based on the handed-down traditions, but on empirical methodologies. The information is spread via the Internet, the new technology that makes it much more difficult to silence the differences. At least when it gets out; the places and people who still have power over the documents can simply hold on to them and keep them from ever getting out.
Though maybe this is just a cyclical thing. Maybe this has all happened before and I'm not aware of it. I won't pretend to know anything much at all about Islamic history, let alone any dissident opinions.
by expozIslam » Sat Oct 10, 2009 12:16 am
crazymonkie_ wrote: It really does feel to me like Islam is in a place now very similar to Christianity a thousand years ago: The majority of adherents are horrifically close-minded and ignorant (and often the ignorance is cultivated, for many reasons); and yet... there is a small, gradually growing (or at least it seems- and unfortunately not growing at the same rate as the orthodoxy) group, or movement, toward reassessment of the Quran and how Islam itself is approached. It's based, as the Christian change was, on new methods of human relating and new technologies: In Christianity's case, it was the gradual revival of learning, at least for the wealthy, and the influx of rediscovered ideas from the slow Reconquista and the Crusades.
islam is so fragile that muslims are unwilling to allow any excavations in ME. It is like a bubble and they know it. A slight prick and it will burst and that is why muslims leave no opportunity to silence anyone who criticized islam.
by Ibn Rushd » Sat Oct 10, 2009 11:53 pm
Excellent video.
by crazymonkie_ » Sat Oct 10, 2009 11:56 pm
That part, yeah. But parts 1-3.... oy.
I had to stop watching.
They were good for a lot of laughs, but only in that "I have to laugh, or else I'll cry" sorts of ways.
by Islamic_Science2 » Sun Oct 11, 2009 1:06 am
Archaeology and critical examination of ancient texts and manuscripts do not have the same effect on Judaism and Christianity as they have on Islam. Jews and Christians are not as offended when the history of their religions is examined as Muslims are when the histories of Islam and the Qur'an are examined. For example there are ancient copies of the Qur'an, one in Egypt and one in Istanbul and no one has permission to examine them. Now the same is true for the Sana'a manuscripts because the Yemeni authorities stopped any further examinations. Orthodox Muslims do not want to find out if their tradition is wrong and they don't want the rest of the world to find out.
At least Puin and his associate took tens of thousands of photographs. The rest of the world knows that what we have of the standard text of the Qur'an is not what was in existence in the 7th and 8th centuries.
by Ibn Rushd » Sun Oct 11, 2009 7:30 pm
I am currently reading the book by Mohendar Sfar about the original purpose of the Koran: early muslims said that there were thousands of interpretations because of the points on the letters, and only as long as you didn't change the word to mean the opposite, then any reading was fine. I think the "Koran as Book in Heaven" is a 18th-20th century view, it was not there from 7th-16th centuries. They viewed the Koran as the reading/lectionary acceptable for humans while there was an unchanging Book in Heaven that the Angels guarded.
by Islamic_Science2 » Fri Oct 30, 2009 11:40 pm
Here is 10/10 of the National Geographic "Inside the Quran".
I will be back later for comments.
by debunker » Sat Oct 31, 2009 3:50 am
recycling the same old stories:
1- Quran is not written in Arabic (very funny),
2- Quran can mean a million things because of the lack of dots (a ridiculous lie) and finally
3- the conspiracy theory about other versions of the Quran.
Well, at least the claim of different versions (SAME meanings, *slightly* different words) is endorsed by Islamic history (and some quite laughable Hadiths). In other words, Puin's claims might actually match historians/Hadith claims. I personally could locate Islamic web pages discussing some Quranic text of different version. Tradition has it that there were 7 versions of the Quran, all with the same meaning but slightly different words-- which matches Puin's claim... In other words, Puin won't be surprising Muslims with his findings (well, at least not the Muslim scholars).
viewtopic.php?f=18&t=4626&start=0#p76199
And "Koran is a book in heaven" is merely a speculation of Tafsir writers.
The phrase: guarded tablet is
لَوْحٍ مَّحْفُوظٍ
without the dots, this can still have only one meaning: guarded tablet.
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by Islamic_Science2 » Sun Nov 01, 2009 4:02 am
Guarded tablet is another tradition copied from the Torah. The ten commandments were carved on a stone tablet. Then the ten commandments were on 2 stone tablets kept or guarded in the ark of the covenant.
by Islamic_Science2 » Sun Nov 01, 2009 7:08 pm
From the video 3:44, 10/10 Inside the Quran:
We Muslims have been ordered to do brainwashing.
Equality of women is a bunch of foolishness.
The summit of Islam is Jihad.
by Ibn Rushd » Sun Nov 01, 2009 8:53 pm
Yes I found that odd too.
PS. The youtubes don't seem to show up on my screen anymore. I'll go to the source and check them again.
by piscohot » Mon Nov 02, 2009 3:13 am
Well, Christoph Luxemburg certainly gave a better and more rational translation of the quran in 'Inside the koran part 9'. (at 6.27mins of the video)
by Islamic_Science2 » Mon Nov 02, 2009 11:49 am
piscohot wrote: Well, Christoph Luxemburg certainly gave a better and more rational translation of the quran in 'Inside the koran part 9'. (at 6.27mins of the video)
Not only that. But it appears as if Christoph Luxenberg may have resolved a contradiction. About 8:00 min. into the video the commentator stated that its Luxenberg's reference to paradise that causes the greatest offense. Its offensive to traditional Muslims that instead of being wedded to wide eyed maidens called houris the faithful will be made comfortable with white crystal clear grapes. There are verses in the Qur'an stating that the faithful will enter the garden and rejoice with their wives. See inside the spoiler. The traditional Islamic interpretation of being paired with houris may contradict these verses.
YUSUFALI: They and their associates will be in groves of (cool) shade, reclining on Thrones (of dignity);
PICKTHAL: They and their wives, in pleasant shade, on thrones reclining;
SHAKIR: They and their wives shall be in shades, reclining on raised couches.
YUSUFALI: Enter ye the Garden, ye and your wives, in (beauty and) rejoicing.
PICKTHAL: Enter the Garden, ye and your wives, to be made glad.
SHAKIR: Enter the garden, you and your wives; you shall be made happy.
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Thread starter ahpadt
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MacGuffin said:
That's the very thing that ruined it for me, you know: I simply cannot admire their achievements anymore.
Everytime I see someone climb up that hill in front of all others, I cannot help but think "Yeah, right... surely he's full of drugs to be able to do that".
I think sport, as in sport is pretty much dead. None of those competitions are about athletic performance anymore, the sport has been turned into a business and as with any such venture the important thing is the bottom line. Oh sure, sponsors might get on their high moral ground every now and again, but that's only when the cat's out of the bag. Otherwise, they prefer to ignore it because all they care about is the end result. I hardly even blame the riders, the pressure to perform is beyond enormous, I'm sure.
That said, I don't really care. I'm rarely following these things to admire achievements, I do so for the spectacle and excitement of a fight. Professional athletes at the top are not heroes, they're employees. If one wants/can race "clean" more power to him, but it make no difference to me. When I want to watch actual sports, I go see the amateurs who do it just because.
ahpadt
Armstrong quits cycling - Americans don't care about cycling any more? :lol:
Awesomelahoma
Ummm some of still follow cycling...hell there is what 3 American teams in the top ten of the team competition?
"bangle for president"
belgium!!
Volvo V40 & Yamaha Banshee
i don't see Andy Shleck winning a single tour de france. he's the button of cycling. can keep up with the best, but isn't aggressive enough to be a winner...
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bone said:
If he is the Button of cycling then surely he will win a Tour?
Skoda Octavia & Fabia
It's Crash de France so far this year! I catch only the last 50ish km when I get home from work, but there's always a crash of some sort!
A.Schleck is my favourite too, but we'll see.
Yes, as in the airport.
1995 BMW 325i SE
Saw the last 35km live today, exciting finish. Rain, wind and the climbs made that a tough stage. I didn't hear of any crashes today.
Hushovd is fantastic. Certainly looks like the green will be won by one of the all-rounder type sprinter, i.e. Gilbert, Hagen or Hushovd.
Buktu
What the hell is Contador doing. He's crashing all over the place. He just did a solo crash.
And it doesn't seem like any of his team mates are helping him out..
Buktu said:
Supposedly someone knocked him over to the side.
5 cars + 8 motorcycles
I hope they ban the driver from all future cycling events.
Well, he has gotten kicked out of the tour at least.
That was a horrific crash. The driver was/is a complete jackass.
What's funny about it, Danish television kept showing the incident over and over, you know how many times it was shown on French television? Once.
And just in clarification, the car belongs to the TV station.
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How did Cowboy get to drive in Tour de France? :lol:
Interesting stage today. Right now the Schleck brothers are alone for the final climb, they've used up their team basically. Meanwhile, Contador has still got a few SaxoBank riders with him.
Cold Fussion
A small island off the coast of New Zealand
1988 Ford Laser Ghia
Contador doesn't look like a winner this year.
Fantastic performance by Voeckler, keeping the yellow jersey.
Contador certainly wasn't impressive. They're saying his knee is giving him trouble. I wouldn't count him out yet, but he has to improve a lot. Andy Schleck didn't look fantastic either. Frank Schleck did
We'll see over the next few days.
Voeckler's been fantastic so far. He well deserves the yellow getting it by actually racing and on his own merits. I am getting seriously tired of this team mentality. Even the sprinters fail to impress me these days with all those stupid lead out trains. Meh.
Neither Contador nor A.Schleck impressed today, and I honestly hope they both go home empty-handed from this one.
Andy was playing the team game to setup Frank, he finished right on the wheel of Cadel and Ivan Basso, where as Contador couldn't take the pressure from Cadal and Basso.
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"The Poopsmith, for 500 points..."
On more than one occasion The Brothers Chaps have made reference to plenty of television game shows on the Homestar Runner website. Homestar Runner's own show, The Show, spoofs many of these shows, especially those made in the 1970s. However, this article also explains other references to game shows beyond just The Show.
1 The Dating Game
2 Family Feud
3 Hollywood Squares
4 Jeopardy!
5 Match Game
6 Press Your Luck and Whammy!
7 The Price Is Right
8 Wheel of Fortune
[edit] The Dating Game
Punkin Show — Homestar refers to the "next bachelor".
[edit] Family Feud
Email invisibility — While invisible, Strong Bad is watching TV, which is apparently showing a game show, and he says, "Survey says... you're an idiot!"
Homestar Ruiner — When Strong Bad is about to delete an email message, he says, "Survey says... deleted!"
He also references this show in the same way on later SBCG4AP games, including Baddest of the Bands and 8-Bit Is Enough.
Email dictionary — The answer board from the Fast Money round appears in one scene and an Easter egg.
Punkin Show — Homestar asks for a result by saying, "Ding board says."
[edit] Hollywood Squares
Email the show — Homestar says, "Pom Pom, for the block..." The term "block" refers to preventing one from getting three X's or O's in a row.
Email geddup noise — Homestar refers to the center square. On this show, this is where famous comics would often sit for long periods at a time.
[edit] Jeopardy!
Email 12:00 — Strong Bad's email intro goes thus: "I'll take Strong Bad Email for a thousand, please."
Email dictionary — As he begins to answer the email, Strong Bad mentions "quotient quotables", most likely a parody of a common category on this show, "Potent Potables".
Punkin Show — "Please phrase your pumpkin in the form of" is a reference to the show's format, where contestants must phrase their response in the form of a question.
[edit] Match Game
Email the show — The commercial bumper music is partly lifted from this show's theme music.
Email 4 branches — The name of "The Show AM" alludes to a version of Match Game intended for evening syndication as Match Game PM.
[edit] Press Your Luck and Whammy!
Email the bet — Strong Bad's introduction ("Come on, big money! Big money! And.....email!") is in the spirit of a typical contestant's excited screams during play.
Email redesign — When Strong Bad is cycling through different color schemes for his redesigned No Loafing Sign, he says, "No Whammies, no Whammies!"
Homestar Ruiner — When Homestar is in the shower at the locker room, he occasionally says, "No Whammies, no Whammies, no Whammies..."
Punkin Show — The Fadey Screen is in the same style as the Big Board slides.
[edit] The Price Is Right
Email the show — Homestar's microphone resembles the one used by Bob Barker on this show.
Strong Badia the Free — When Coach Z is chosen for the draft, he remarks, "I think they've all overbid! One dollar! One dollar!"
Main Page 19 — There are several allusions:
The Trip to Hawaii board is styled like ones in long-time use on The Price is Right.
The Gremlin is revealed and announced in a style similar to the show.
The chair has a "$??" sign, implying that its price must be guessed like on any of numerous pricing games.
The sound effect after the wrong answer was apparently guessed was styled after Price's "losing horns".
[edit] Wheel of Fortune
Main Page 19 — The golden The Cheat statue brings to mind the ceramic dog statues common as prizes in the early years of the show's run.
Email redesign — The wheel on the box for the "Color Wheel Roulette" board game resembles the titular wheel from this show.
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A surprise email in our inbox on December 22 informed us that we have to vacate our work site by the first of the New Year. We’re moving. Not far, but it’s enough to make us change course for about a month. Four nights worth of valuable Thursday volunteer hours will now be diverted to shoring up and moving the Eleanor who, with her stripped down hull and without a deck, is not in any condition to travel, even at a crawl, into the bay south of us at our restoration site. We’ve got a plan, and hopefully we will be able to use the new, improved crib on wheels to help us move Eleanor to the Hudson River when she is ready.
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Kurt Schwenk
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Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley)
1.2 EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
1.3 LINKS AND DOWNLOADS
1.4 COURSE LINKS
1.5 PUBLIC INFORMATION PAGE SERIES (LINKS)
1.6 MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS
1.7 INFORMATION FOR PROSPECTIVE GRADUATE STUDENTS
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Kurt with two black racers, Coluber constrictor (photo by S. von Eicken)
Kurt with 3 black racers (photo by K. Hurme)
Kurt with 6 black racers... and multiple bites (photo by L. Jones)
Kurt with copperhead (photo by Chuck Smith)
Kurt with western ringneck snake (Diadophis) in Calif. (photo by well known photographer, William Campbell)
EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
Former grad student Diego Sustaita (Rubega lab), now Brown postdoc, and lab iguana, Buster, during weekly 'beermorph' discussion
Kurt in 1977 as Bronx Zoo mammal keeper, with juvenile guanaco (and hair!)
1976: Zookeeper (intern): Bronx Zoo (Herpetology)
1977: B.A. (high honors) Oberlin College, studied with Warren F. Walker, Jr., and Jim Stewart
1977-78: Zookeeper: Bronx Zoo (Mammalogy)
1984: Ph.D. Dept. of Zoology (now within Integrative Biology), University of California, Berkeley, with Marvalee H. Wake
1984-87: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Instructor in Anatomy: Dept. of Oral Anatomy (now within Biology), University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry with Karen Hiiemae (deceased, 2007)
1987-89: NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, Lecturer on Biology: Museum of Comparative Zoology, Dept. of Organismic Biology, Harvard University with Fuzz Crompton
1989-present: Assistant, Associate and Full Professor: Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut
2007-09: Chair, Division of Vertebrate Morphology (DVM), Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB)
2004-06: Associate Editor, Evolution
2006-10: Associate Editor, Journal of Comparative Zoology Part A: Ecological Genetics and Physiology
2006-present: Editorial Board, Journal of Anatomy
2010-present: Editorial Board, Journal of Comparative Zoology Part A: Ecological Genetics and Physiology.
Transverse section of the tongue in an iguanid lizard
Sagittal section of a cat tongue close to the median septum
Schwenk Lab Page (under construction)
My Classic Works in Evolutionary Biology pages: Introduction and Annotated List
My student guide to proper scientific citation: Faculty appearance and faculty quality: is there a connection?
My student guide to writing: How to write really good (in preparation)
PhD student Bill Ryerson's page
Former PhD student Dr. Tobias Landberg's page (Asst. Prof., Arcadia Univ., PA)
Former PhD student Dr. Nirvana Filoramo's page (Asst. Prof,, Worcester State Univ., MA)
Former PhD student Dr. Chuck Smith's page (Asst. Prof., Wofford College, SC)
Chuck's Copperhead Institute
Collaborator Gunter Wagner's page (Yale Univ., CT)
My brother John Schwenk's page (follow link to view some of my father's [George Schwenk] paintings)
Schwenk the World (too weird to explain—you have to see for yourself...)
COURSE LINKS
Kurt demonstrates proper strangulation technique to comparative anatomy students
Kurt with mammalogy class in the field, 2013 (photo by Sean Flynn)
Mammalogy class at the Bronx Zoo, 10 Nov. 2011
Eastern hognose snake (Heterodon platyrhinos) tongue-flicking. Photo by K. Schwenk.
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PUBLIC INFORMATION PAGE SERIES (LINKS)
The list below represents a series of public information pages I will be creating to address commonly asked questions about biological issues—particularly issues and questions about vertebrate animals that I have direct or personal knowledge of. I have been motivated to create these pages because of running across web pages that purport to provide 'answers' to people's questions about animals, evolution and biology generally. While some of the information available on the web is reasonably accurate, I have found that most of it is misleading or downright erroneous. The 'answers' are usually written by people who, although good-intentioned, are mostly ignorant about the topics they address. In any case, the information is nearly always cobbled together from secondary and tertiary sources of information—or worse—rather than direct knowledge of the science or the primary literature on the topic. The aim of these pages, therefore, is to provide accurate, scientifically validated information on some topics in my areas of expertise that come to my attention as being of general interest. I was motivated to do this mostly because of the widespread misinformation being propagated on the web about the first question, below. Since the information used to 'answer' this question is almost always based on a distorted or misunderstood representation of my own research, it seems appropriate for me to set the record straight.
1. Why do snakes have forked tongues?
2. Why do snakes flick their tongues? [in preparation]
3. How do snakes eat? [in preparation]
4. How do lizards eat? [in preparation]
5. Can snakes hear? [in preparation]
MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS
Former student, Dr. Nirvana Filoramo, celebrates getting the hell out of the lab. She is an Assistant Professor at Worcester State University.
Copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix) tongue-flicking. Photo by K. Schwenk and C. Smith
Phenotypic evolution
Evolutionary constraint
Evolutionary and functional morphology of vertebrates
Evolutionary and functional morphology of feeding in tetrapod vertebrates, especially lizards
Evolutionary and functional morphology of chemoreception in lizards and snakes
Evolutionary and functional morphology of the vertebrate tongue
My research program is three-pronged: I pursue empirical studies related to the functional and evolutionary morphology of squamate feeding and chemoreception, and theoretical work related to phenotypic evolution and evolutionary constraint. Feeding and chemoreception are functionally and evolutionarily related in squamates owing to their shared use of a single, complex organ, the tongue. From a biomechanical point of view, optimization of the tongue for feeding function makes it less effective in (vomeronasal) chemoreception and vice versa. Thus, there is a classic functional (and evolutionary) trade-off between the two principal functions of the tongue. Phylogenetic character analysis reveals how each major clade of squamates has found a unique 'solution' to the problem of this trade-off. The dynamic nature of the evolutionary tension created by competing sources of selection pressure has led to my theoretical work on internal selection, functional integration, phenotypic stability and evolutionary constraint. Much of this work has been done in collaboration with Günter Wagner at Yale University. Although theoretical, the work is firmly grounded in my empirical work on squamate feeding and chemosensory systems, which have proven to be compelling model systems for approaching these broader issues.
INFORMATION FOR PROSPECTIVE GRADUATE STUDENTS
Lab grad students Sara Horwitz, Lauren Jones and Bill Ryerson after recent snake hunt.
Kurt ponders the fate of a grad student who refused to bend to his will...
Former student, Dr. Chuck Smith, is an Assistant Professor at Wofford College, SC
Happy graduate student, Tobias Landberg, in the field (with copperhead, Agkistrodon contortrix). Tobias is now an Assistant Professor at Arcadia Univ.
Students in my laboratory develop their own, independent research programs under my supervision. Although I expect there to be some overlap or mutual interest in student projects, I do not require students to work in my specific research areas. Ideally students will incorporate elements of morphology, evolution and/or function into their projects. Ecological or conservation-related projects are discouraged (because they lie outside my areas of expertise), although these can be elements of a research program centered on the former topics. Although I am best able to supervise work on squamate reptiles, I am open to projects dealing with any vertebrate group. I principally do laboratory-based work, but recent graduate students have included significant field components in their research. Applications from potential doctoral students are preferred, but doing a Masters is possible in some circumstances.
The Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UConn is very integrative and interactive, and there is a great deal of cross-fertilization among labs. The department comprises 30 full-time faculty, all of whom work in the general area of organismal biology. There are an additional 60+ biologists in our sister departments of Physiology and Neurobiology, and Molecular and Cell Biology - and this is not to mention a variety of wildlife biologists in the School of Agriculture, biomedical researchers in the School of Medicine, etc. Thus, there is virtually no area of expertise unavailable to students when they assemble their research advisory committees.
There are eight vertebrate biology faculty in the department (4 herpetology, 2 ornithology, 1 ichthyology, 1 mammalogy), and along with postdocs, graduate and undergraduate students, they constitute a very active and interactive research group. We have informal weekly meetings called Vertlunch in which we read and critique recent papers (and laugh a lot) and every Friday at 4:00 the Schwenk and Rubega labs (and others) meet for Beermorph in which - well, it's pretty self-explanatory. For those morphologists with a developmental bent, we also have sporadic meetings of an Evo-Devo Journal Club in which we read and discuss current literature. And this is not to mention, of course, the frequent graduate seminars on various topics offered by faculty in the department, as well as weekly departmental seminars and occasional 'Tuesday Evening Seminars' run by the EEB graduate students. All-in-all, a very active place where you can be intellectually challenged and exposed to a variety of viewpoints - often while drinking at the same time.
Before applying directly to the department for admission into the graduate program, you should contact me by email and describe your research interests and goals so that we can determine if there is an appropriate match. You should also explore the departmental web page to get as much information about EEB as you can. If you have any questions at all about the department or the University, don't hesitate to email me. I can also put you in touch with current graduate students if you would like to hear about the program from their perspectives.
Students accepted into the doctoral program are guaranteed 5 years of support (mostly by means of Teaching Assistantships). Support beyond 5 years is usually possible for students making good progress, but is not guaranteed. Masters students are guaranteed 2 years of support. The support package includes a tuition waiver and full health benefits.
Whole-issue copies available - email a request
Email for reprints not available here as pdfs: kurt.schwenk@uconn.edu
Schwenk, K. (editor) (2000) Feeding: Form, Function and Evolution in Tetrapod Vertebrates. Academic Press, San Diego. xv + 537 pp.
REVIEWS Of FEEDING:
Quarterly Review of Biology by T. H. Frazzetta
Copeia by Al Savitzky
Ibis by Paul M. Barrett
Palaeontology Newsletter by Ian Jenkins
Schwenk, K. and G. P. Wagner. Evolutionary Constraint (in preparation)
EDITED COMPILATION:
Bill on his bike (although my grad students are not required to ride a motorcycle, it helps…
Biking to snake collecting sites!
Schwenk, K., and J. M. Starck (eds.) (2005) Integrative organismal biology: papers in honor of Professor Marvalee H. Wake. Zoology 108(4):261-356. LINK [email me for a copy of the entire issue]
PAPERS, BOOK CHAPTERS AND REVIEWS:
(names in bold are current or former students)
Ryerson, W., and K. Schwenk. Kinematics of chemosensory tongue-flicking in garter snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis) (in prep).
Schwenk, K., and W. Ryerson. Biomechanics of chemosensory tongue-flicking in garter snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis) (in prep).
Ryerson, W., and K. Schwenk. Kinematics of terrestrial versus aquatic chemosensory tongue-flicking in water snakes (Nerodia sipedon) (in prep).
Ryerson, W., and K. Schwenk. Why snakes flick their tongues. (in prep)
SOME PRE-PUBLICATION PUBLICITY ON THIS TOPIC:
UConn Today—Snakes, Lizards, and Tongues
UConn Magazine—Studying Snakes
'Super Slo-Mo Tuesdays', Daily Planet, Discovery Channel, Canada
New Scientist, on Bill's SICB presentation on aquatic tongue-flicking in Nerodia
Filoramo, N., and K. Schwenk. Tongue tips, tropotaxis and the mechanism of chemical delivery to the vomeronasal organs in fork-tongued squamates (Reptilia) (in prep)
Ryerson and Schwenk (2012)
Ryerson, W., and K. Schwenk (2012) A simple, inexpensive system for digital particle image velocimetry (DPIV) in biomechanics. J. Exp. Zool. 317A:127-140. (JEZA featured paper)
Schwenk, K. (2011) Letter to the Editor, Oberlin Alumni Magazine (in response to an article suggesting that social media, e.g., 'tweeting', provide good training for writing).
Schwenk, K. (2010) Implementing the organismal agenda . BioScience 60:673-674.
Ryerson, W. and S. Deban (2010) Buccal pumping mechanics of Xenopus laevis tadpoles: effects of biotic and abiotic factors. J. Exp. Biol. 213:2444-2452.
Schwenk, K., and G. P. Wagner (2010) Visualizing vertebrates: new methods in functional morphology (editorial). J. Exp. Zool. 313A:241-243.
Flores-Villela, O., C. A. Ríos-Muñoz, K. Schwenk, G. Zamudio-Varela and G. Magaña-Cota (2010) An unpublished manuscript of Alfredo Dugès related to the classification of lizards according to tongue morphology, c. 1898-1899. Archives of Natural History 37:246-254.
Smith C. F., G. W. Schuett and K. Schwenk (2010) Plasma sex sterioids and mating season in wild-living copperheads (Agkistrodon contortrix) at the northeastern extreme of their range. Journal of Zoology 280:362-370.
Smith C. F., G. W. Schuett, R. L. Earley, and K. Schwenk. (2009) The spatial and reproductive ecology of copperheads, Agkistrodon contortrix (Serpentes: Viperidae), at the northeastern extreme of their range. Herpetological Monographs 23:43-73.
Schwenk et al. (2009)
Schwenk, K.*, D. Padilla*, G. Bakken* and R. Full* (2009) Grand challenges in organismal biology. Integrative and Comparative Biology 49:7-14. (*authorship equally shared)
Editorial introduction to Grand Challenges by ICB editor, Harold Heatwole, with GC schematic figure
Filoramo, N., and K. Schwenk (2009) The mechanism of chemical delivery to the vomeronasal organs in squamate reptiles: a comparative morphological approach. J. Exp. Zool. 311A:20-34.
Schwenk, K. (2008) Aristotle’s ghost. Wild River Review. October 2008. [Online reprint of Schwenk (2002)], Wild River Review home page
Sherbrooke, W. C.,* and K. Schwenk.* (2008) Horned lizards (Phrynosoma) incapacitate dangerous ant prey with mucus. J. Exp. Zool. 309A:447-459. (*authorship equally shared) (JEZA featured paper)
SOME PRESS ON SHERBROOKE & SCHWENK (2008):
Journal of Experimental Biology, 'Lizards incapacitate ants with mucus', by Stefan Pulver (see last page of pdf)
ScienceNOW, 'How to eat a nasty ant', by Greg Miller LINK or pdf
Natural History (12/08-1/09), 'How to Harvest a Harvester', by Graciela Flores
The Daily Planet television segment, Discovery Channel (Canada). First broadcast 25 March 2009, approx. 6 min. (working on getting a clip posted)
Smith, C. F., K. Schwenk, R. L. Earley and G. W. Schuett (2008) Sexual size dimorphism of the tongue in a North American pitviper. Journal of Zoology 274:367-374.
Schwenk, K. (2008) Comparative anatomy and physiology of chemical senses in non-avian aquatic reptiles. In: Sensory Evolution on the Threshold. Adaptations in Secondarily Aquatic Vertebrates. J. G. M. Thewissen and S. Nummela (eds.). Univ. of California Press, Berkeley. Pp. 65-81.
Schwenk, K., and J. G. M. Thewissen (2008) Aquatic and semi-aquatic reptiles. In: Sensory Evolution on the Threshold. Adaptations in Secondarily Aquatic Vertebrates. J. G. M. Thewissen and S. Nummela (eds.). Univ. of California Press, Berkeley. Pp. 7-23.
Eisthen, H., and Schwenk, K. (2008) The chemical stimulus and its detection. In: Sensory Evolution on the Threshold. Adaptations in Secondarily Aquatic Vertebrates. J. G. M. Thewissen and S. Nummela (eds.). Univ. of California Press, Berkeley. Pp. 35-41.
Schwenk, K. (2006) Evolution illustrated (Letter to the Editor). The Hartford Courant, 4 March:A9.
Schwenk, K.,and M. Rubega (2005) Diversity of vertebrate feeding systems. Pp. 1-41. In: Physiological and Ecological Adaptations to Feeding in Vertebrates. J. M. Starck and T. Wang (eds.). Science Publishers, Enfield, NH.
Schulp, A. S., E. W. A. Mulder and K. Schwenk (2005) Did mosasaurs have forked tongues? Neth. J. Geosci. 84:359-371.
Schwenk, K. , W. Korff and J. M. Starck (2005) Preface. Integrative organismal biology: papers in honor of Professor Marvalee H. Wake. Zoology 108:261-267.
Schwenk, K., and G. P. Wagner (2004) The relativism of constraints on phenotypic evolution. Pp. 390-408. In: Phenotypic Integration: Studying the Ecology and Evolution of Complex Phenotypes. M. Pigliucci & K. Preston (eds.). Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford.
Schwenk, K. (2004) REVIEWS OF: Introduction to Horned Lizards of North America, by Wade C. Sherbrooke, and Horned Lizards: The Book of Horny Toads, by Jane Manaster. Copeia 2004:190-192.
Schwenk, K. (2004) Leapin’ non-ophidian squamates! REVIEW OF: Lizards. Windows to the Evolution of Diversity, by E. R. Pianka and L. J. Vitt. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 19:357-358.
Vitt, L. J., E. R. Pianka, W. E. Cooper and K. Schwenk (2003) History and the global ecology of squamate reptiles. American Naturalist 162:44-60.
Schwenk, K., and G. P. Wagner. (2003) Constraint. Pp. 52-61. In: Key Words and Concepts in Evolutionary Developmental Biology. B. K. Hall & W. M. Olson (eds.). Harvard University Press, Cambridge.
Schwenk, K. (2002) Constraint. Pp. 196-199. In: Encyclopedia of Evolution, M. Pagel (ed.). Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford.
Schwenk, K. (2002) Aristotle’s ghost. Creative Nonfiction No.19:32-40 (Special Issue: “Diversity Dialogues”).
SOME PRESS ON SCHWENK (2002):
Chronical of Higher Education, 'Thoughts on Prejudice, Diversity, and Evolution'
Schwenk, K. (2001) Extrinsic vs. intrinsic lingual muscles: a false dichotomy? Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. (Harvard) 156:219-235.
Schwenk, K., and G. P. Wagner (2001) Function and the evolution of phenotypic stability: connecting pattern to process. American Zoologist 41:552-563.
Schwenk, K. (2001) Functional units and their evolution. Pp. 165-198. In: The Character Concept in Evolutionary Biology. G. P. Wagner (ed.). Academic Press, San Diego.
Nishikawa, K. C., and K. Schwenk (2001) Ingestion in amphibians and reptiles. In: Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester [doi:10.1038/npg.els.0001835] (pdf = 7 pp) LINK TO ELS SITE
Schwenk, K. (2000) The apian way: from beehives to burrows, animal building sheds new light on biology. REVIEW OF: The Extended Organism. The Physiology of Animal-Built Structures, by J. Scott Turner. The New York Times Book Review, 10 Dec., p. 37. OR SEE IT ONLINE HERE
Schwenk, K. (2000) Preface. Pp. xiii-xv. In: Feeding: Form, Function and Evolution in Tetrapod Vertebrates. K. Schwenk (ed.). Academic Press, San Diego.
Schwenk, K. (2000) Tetrapod feeding in the context of vertebrate morphology. Pp. 3-20. In: Feeding: Form, Function and Evolution in Tetrapod Vertebrates. K. Schwenk (ed.). Academic Press, San Diego.
Schwenk, K. (2000) An introduction to tetrapod feeding. Pp. 21-61. In: Feeding: Form, Function and Evolution in Tetrapod Vertebrates. K. Schwenk (ed.). Academic Press, San Diego.
Schwenk, K. (2000) Feeding in lepidosaurs. Pp. 175-291. In: Feeding: Form, Function and Evolution in Tetrapod Vertebrates. K. Schwenk (ed.). Academic Press, San Diego.
Schwenk, K. (2000) A bibliography of turtle feeding. Pp. 169-171. In: Feeding: Form, Function and Evolution in Tetrapod Vertebrates. K. Schwenk (ed.). Academic Press, San Diego.
Wagner, G. P.,* and K. Schwenk* (2000) Evolutionarily Stable Configurations: functional integration and the evolution of phenotypic stability. Pp. 155-217. In: Evolutionary Biology, vol. 31. M. K. Hecht, R. J. MacIntyre & M. T. Clegg (eds.). Kluwer Academic/Plenum Press, New York. (*authorship equally shared). YOU CAN DOWNLOAD A PDF OF THIS PAPER HERE
Schwenk, K. (1998) REVIEW OF: Lizards, Vols. 1 & 2. By M. Rogner. Copeia 1998:1114-1116.
Schwenk, K. (1998) REVIEW OF: Comparative Osteological Examinations of Geckonids, Eublepharids and Uroplatids, by V. Wellborn (translated by A. P. Russell, A. M. Bauer & A. Deufel). Herpetological Translations No. 1. Breck Bartholomew, Bibliomania, Logan, Utah. Copeia 1998:259-260.
Schwenk, K. (1997) Snakes and the evolution of Harry Greene. REVIEW OF: Snakes. The Evolution of Mystery in Nature, by H. W. Greene. Natural History 106:8-9 (July/August).
Dial, B. E., and K. Schwenk (1996) Olfaction and predator detection in Coleonyx brevis (Squamata: Eublepharidae) with comments on the functional significance of buccal pulsing in geckos. J. Exp. Zool. 276:415-424.
Pigliucci, M., C. D. Schlichting, C. S. Jones and K. Schwenk (1996) Developmental reaction norms: the interactions among allometry, ontogeny and plasticity. Plant Species Biology 11:69-85.
Schwenk (1995)
Schwenk, K. (1996) REVIEW OF: Vertebrate Life, 4th ed., by F. H. Pough et al., Quart. Rev. Biol. 71:581-582.
Schwenk, K. (1995) REVIEW OF: The Lizard Man Speaks, by E. R. Pianka. Quart. Rev. Biol. 70:328-329.
Schwenk, K. (1995) Of tongues and noses: chemoreception in lizards and snakes. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 10:7-12.
Schwenk, K. (1995) A utilitarian approach to evolutionary constraint. Zoology 98:251-262.
Schwenk, K., and H. W. Greene (1995) No electrostatic sense in snakes. Nature 373:26.
Schwenk, K. (1995) The serpent's tongue. Natural History 104:48-55 (April).
Letter to the Editor re: The serpent's tongue and Schwenk response
Schwenk, K. (1994) Why snakes have forked tongues. Science 263:1573-1577.
National Public Radio (All Things Considered) (see The NPR Interviews, 1995. R. Siegel, ed.)
BBC World News Service
BBC-4
CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corp.)
AAAS Science Update (Mutual Radio Network)
WFIU Radio (Indiana Univ., ‘'A Moment of Science'’)
ABC news, New Haven, with Geoff Fox (television)
TV Ontario (segment for children's show)
Associated Press (newspapers throughout North America and Europe) Example:
Chronical of Higher Education
National Geographic Magazine
Australia Nature
Readers' Digest
Omni Magazine
Weekly Reader Magazine
Scholastic Super Science"
International Wildlife
Wilson Quarterly
USA Today (front page: )
Daily Telegraph (London)
La Guardia (Spain)
New Haven Register''
Manchester Journal Inquirer
Willimantic Chronicle
College and University Dialogue (Adventist journal)
Encyclopaedia Britanica Yearbook of Science and the Future (1995)
Blue Genes and Polyester Plants, by S. McGrayne (1997)
The NPR Interviews, 1995, edited by Robert Siegel (1995)
Schwenk, K. (1994) Craniology: getting a head. REVIEW OF: The Skull, 3 vols. J. Hanken & B. K. Hall (eds.). Science 263:1779-1780.
Schwenk, K. (1994) Comparative biology and the importance of cladistic classification: a case study from the sensory biology of squamate reptiles. Biological J. Linnean Soc. 52:69-82.
Schwenk, K. (1994) Systematics and subjectivity: the phylogeny and classification of iguanian lizards reconsidered. Herpetological Review 25:53-57.
Schwenk, K., and D. B. Wake (1993) Prey processing in Leurognathus marmoratus and the evolution of form and function in desmognathine salamanders (Plethodontidae). Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 49:141-162.
Schwenk, K. (1993) Are geckos olfactory specialists? J. Zool., Lond. 229:289-302.
Schwenk, K. (1993) The evolution of chemoreception in squamate reptiles: a phylogenetic approach. Brain, Behavior and Evolution 41:124-137.
Schwenk, K. and G. C. Mayer (1991) Tongue display in anoles and its evolutionary basis. 4th Anolis Newsletter. J. Losos & G. Mayer (eds.). National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian), Division of Amphibians and Reptiles, Washington, DC.
Schwenk, K. (1989) REVIEW OF: The Evolution of Vertebrate Design, by L. B. Radinsky. American Scientist 77:84.
Schwenk, K. and G. S Throckmorton (1989) Functional and evolutionary morphology of lingual feeding in squamate reptiles: phylogenetics and kinematics. J. Zool., Lond. 219:153-175.
Schwenk, K. and D. A. Bell (1988) A cryptic intermediate in the evolution of chameleon tongue projection. Experientia 44:697-700.
Schwenk, K. (1988) Comparative morphology of the lepidosaur tongue and its relevance to squamate phylogeny. In: R. Estes & G. Pregill (eds.). Phylogenetic Relationships of the Lizard Families. Stanford Univ. Press, Stanford, 569-598.
Schwenk, K. and H. W. Greene (1987) Water collection and drinking in Phrynocephalus helioscopus: a possible condensation mechanism. J. Herpetology 21:134-139.
Schwenk, K. (1986) Morphology of the tongue in the tuatara, Sphenodon punctatus (Reptilia: Lepidosauria), with comments on function and phylogeny. J. Morphology 188:129-156.
Wake, M. H. and K. Schwenk (1986) A preliminary report on the morphology and distribution of taste buds in gymnophiones, with comparison to other amphibians. J. Herpetology 20:254-256.
Schwenk, K. (1985) Occurrence, distribution and functional significance of taste buds in lizards. Copeia 1985:91-101.
Good, D. A., and K. Schwenk (1985) A new species of Abronia (Lacertilia: Anguidae) from Oaxaca, Mexico. Copeia 1985:135-141.
Schwenk, K. (1984) Evolutionary Morphology of the Lepidosaur Tongue. Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Berkeley.
Houck, L., and K. Schwenk (1984) The potential for long-term sperm competition in a plethodontid salamander. Herpetologica 40:410-415.
Jaksic, F. M., and K. Schwenk (1983) Natural history observations on Liolaemus magellanicus, the southernmost lizard in the world. Herpetologica 39:457-461.
Bemis, W., K. Schwenk and M. H. Wake (1983) Morphology and function of the feeding apparatus in Dermophis mexicanus (Amphibia: Gymnophiona). Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 77:75-96.
Jaksic, F. M., H. W. Greene, K. Schwenk and R. L. Seib (1982) Predation upon reptiles in Mediterranean habitats of Chile, California, and Spain: a comparative analysis. Oecologia 53:152-159.
Schwenk, K., S. K. Sessions and D. M. Peccinini-Seale (1982) Karyotypes of the basiliscine lizards Corytophanes cristatus and Corytophanes hernandesii, with comments on the relationship between chromosomal and morphological evolution in lizards. Herpetologica 38:493-501.
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Covered in graffiti, the Five Star Internet Cafe on Talbot Street is an interesting building to look at from outside. Inside it is taken over by computers, telephones and pool tables, which give no real hint of the former life of this building.
This building was once a church – a Welsh Presbyterian Church to be precise. The foundation stone of the church was laid in 1838, and as Howell Evans has written “its original intention was not for the Welsh in Dublin, but mainly for the Welsh visiting the city.” Its proximity to the docks of Dublin ensured that visiting Welsh seamen would avail of the church. A contemporary sailors magazine noted that “In Dublin, English and Welsh seamen hear the Gospel preached to them several times a week, in their respective languages.” Another article in a sailors magazine noted that “the inhabitants [of Dublin] are friends of seamen, as evinced by the lofty column erected to the memory of Nelson, with its colossal statue of that hero on its summit, which stands in the centre of one of the finest streets in Europe.”
While very little has been written on this Dublin church, Einion Thomas has described how the background of the men who visited the church greatly influenced customs within it:
“The gallery was called the ‘Quarter?Deck’ and only sailors were allowed to sit there. On the ground floor (or the ‘Main Deck’ as it was called) the men sat on the ‘starboard side’ (the right) and the women on the ‘port side’ (the left). It also included some surprising accessories such as spittoons near some of the men’s seats and in the early years smoking was permitted!”
The church attracted some Irish language advocates owing to the fact services were conducted in Welsh, and Thomas has noted that Ernest Blythe was one such visitor. Blythe was born into a Presbyterian and Unionist family near Lisburn, and over the course of a long and colourful political career he would later become a key figure in the Army Comrades Association, or Blueshirt movement. Of the Welsh church he remembered:
When I joined the Gaelic League and began to learn Irish, one of my fellow members told me, almost with bated breath, that the Welsh community in Dublin had its own church in which services were conducted in Welsh. I went there one Sunday morning to revel in the sound of a language closely related to Irish.
What became of the building between church and internet cafe? For many years it served as a shoe shop, operating under the name Griffiths. A ‘ghost sign’ remains today in the form of the tiling leading into the internet cafe which still says Griffiths.
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Quinnipiac Assignment 10 – ICM501 – Television and the Internet
by Janet October 30, 2014 No Comments
Television and the Internet
Nielsen estimates that there are some 115.6 million television households in the United States. According to the US Census, over ¾ of all households have at least one computer, and about 95% of those households use it to connect to the Internet. That’s about 122 million households. It’s clear that many American households have both.
English: Primetime television ratings for 2008 in the Philippines: Blue = GMA Red = ABS-CBN The charted points represented the TV program that had the highest rating for that station for that day. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Nielsen has had some issues in counting Internet viewing in its ratings systems. A part of this is due to differences in the advertisements delivered (if any), and part is due to pirating. However, Nielsen appears to be, if not getting the details and minutiae quite right, is at least getting the essence correct. What it lists as popular really is popular (although the degree of popularity might not be perfectly represented). As Engler, C. (2011, January 20). The truth about TV ratings, online viewing and sci-fi shows. Blastr. [Link] says, “…highly rated shows are streamed more frequently online, sell more DVDs, have higher sales on Amazon and, yes, are pirated more often. When you account for variables that impact all these metrics (e.g., some movies bomb in theaters but later sell well on DVD, younger viewers are more apt to watch things online than older viewers, etc.), we don’t see the crazy variances that you’d expect if ratings weren’t very accurate.”
Adding Online Streaming
As recently as 2013, Nielsen began making the effort to better include online streaming and other means of television content consumption. As Kelly, H. (2013, October 28). Nielsen adds web viewers to its TV ratings. CNN.com. [Link] says, “Shows that don’t include the same ads online as on TV will be counted as part of separate Nielsen Digital Ratings. Shows streamed directly by networks through their own sites and apps typically include the same set of ads, and those viewers are counted towards the traditional Nielsen totals.”
Nielsen’s main purpose is to count program viewership for the purposes of understanding advertising potential. E. g. the more viewers, and the more sustained viewers, the more a content provider can charge for commercials. Hence the need for a connection between online and offline delivery that includes the same advertisements. The networks and other content providers need to, as closely as possible, compare apples to apples. Comparing the delivery of different commercials makes it that much more difficult to achieve a reasonable comparison.
If Nielsen’s purpose were purely to measure viewership without wedding it to advertising, counting clicks and downloads would be easier, and it would not matter what was advertised during any delivery of the content.
Piracy also wouldn’t matter quite so much, at least not vis a vis counting an audience. But speaking of piracy …
For networks and other content providers, piracy was and is a huge issue. When we talked about copyright and copyleft, the question arose about the grabbing of content. Who enforces copyright? Who pays when it’s violated? And are the punishments excessive at all?
The uneasy marriage of television and the Internet has spawned an interesting child – Hulu. After all, why were people pirating televised content in the first place? Perhaps, as DVRs made time shifting possible, it was just to allow for platform-shifting. Hulu arose as a response to that, and a way to monetize a far better version and offer it to a paying customer. The thinking was that quality would be its own advertisement, and that most people just wanted a platform shift. They didn’t want to steal from artists or cheat networks. As Braun, J.A. (2013). Going over the top: Online television distribution as socio-technical system. Communication, Culture & Critique 6(3), 432–458. [Library Link] says, “With Hulu, the networks decided they would instead attempt to draw viewers away from pirated content by hosting higher quality versions of the same videos themselves, while selling advertising against them in an attempt to reclaim some of the revenue they believed they were losing to other sites.”
Most People Are Honest
Many users are more than happy to receive a better quality product and pay a commensurate fee for it. But there are still some who insist on pirating, practically seeing it as a right. As Newman, M. Z. (2012). Free TV: File-sharing and the value of television. Television & New Media 13(6), 463–479. [Library Link] says, “Sharers [also] insist that DVR recordings and downloads are ethically equivalent. The difference between recording a show oneself using a VCR or DVR and skipping commercials and downloading a commercial-free file via BitTorrent is regarded as ethically insignificant.” (Page 469)
So, what is it? Theft? Sticking it to ‘the man’? Platform-shifting by (more or less) innocents? As the debate continues, it shifts away from ethics and morals and into monetization. If content providers can make a little cash even from peer to peer networks, and pay artists, can they continue to claim that they’re being harmed?
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Accidental Poisoning of Children Presenting to Emergency Departments in Khartoum State
Title: Accidental Poisoning of Children Presenting to Emergency Departments in Khartoum State
Author: Nuha Abdel Gha ffar M. Ali Nimeri
Abstract: Accidental poisoning remains an important cause of morbidity and mortality in children world wide. Its importance lies in its nature of being preventable. The objectives of this descriptive and prospective hospitalbased study were to: (a) determine the magnitude of accidental poisoning among children presenting to some emergency departments in Khartoum State, (b) study the types, clinical patterns, short term complications and outcome of accidental poisoning in children, (c) assess the associated circumstances that predisposes to accidental poisoning and (d) study the different treatment protocols used in different hospitals. During a one- year period a total of 120 patients were admitted to the emergency units suffering from accidental poisoning. The most (74%) affected age group was 1-5 years. The male: female ratio was 2:1. Eighty one (67.5%) cases were coming from semi urban areas. The majority (93.3%) were preschool children. The highest rate of poisoning was found in families with small number of children; this relationship was found to be statically significant (p<0.0001). Parents illiteracy was also found to be a significant factor (p<0.001).Drug poisoning constituted 58.3%, tricyclic antidepressant (6.6%) topped the drug list followed by anticonvulsants (5.8%). Kerosene was the most common (43.3%) causative substance encountered in poisoning. Eighty three percent of the children witnessed another family member taking drugs and in 91.6% of cases the drug was belonging to a family member in the same household. Ninety percent of the substances encountered were kept within reach of children. Parents Knowledge, attitude and practice of drug management was deficient in 60% of cases. The peak times of the events were 10.00 a.m and 14.00p.m. Sixty nine (57.5%) patients arrived at hospital within the first two hours of poisoning .Upon arrival 71.7% were symptomatic. The most commonly presenting symptoms and signs were those of respiratory (n=84, 70%) and neurological (n=72, 60%).Vomiting was the presenting symptom in 45(37.5%) cases, while 24 (20%) presented with fever. Gastric lavage was performed in 41 (35%) children, while the remainder received supportive treatment in form of IV antibiotics and fluids. Recovery was uneventful in all cases with the exception of 5(3%) deaths. The need for structured health education programs as well as a National Poisoning Bureau can not be over emphasized. Large scale community – based research is needed to reveal the real magnitude of the problem.
Description: 120 Pages
URI: http://khartoumspace.uofk.edu/handle/123456789/8340
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RECORD BREAKERS Success!
RECORD BREAKERS Success! Peter takes the V20E to 88.6mph, setting a new world speed record for an electric watercraft sure everything was safe, compliant with regulations, and that the integrity of the craft was intact. None of it was an exact science; much of it had not been tried before.” Another issue was finding suitably long stretches of water to run the systems enough to confirm the cooling systems could deal with the great heat that needed to be dissipated. Components failed, and lessons had to be unpicked. But as the learning curve accelerated, the performance data started to improve strongly, and the teams grew confident in their ability to break the record. Meanwhile, another challenge was being steadily overcome – the Lake District has strict bye-laws limiting boat speeds to 10mph, and it takes many months to process the multitudes of paperwork needed to get special dispensation to attempt a speed record. The logistics were nothing to sneeze at either; a feat like this requires timekeepers, safety crews, and other kinds of officials. But finally, requisite permissions in hand, the stage was set. The weather forecast was good, and everyone involved was raring to go. Cue fog. But eventually, and dramatically, like a curtain in a stage play, it lifts, magically revealing Coniston’s still waters ringed by hills. Peter lowers himself into the snug cockpit, and the V20E is gently backed in near the pier. In near-silence, save the splash of parting water, the dart-like craft accelerates away – slowly at first, then rapidly gaining speed, driveline hum resonating over the lake – until it is just a white fantail receding into the distance. I get my chance to nurse a cappuccino, but out on the water, Peter is running on adrenaline. Everything is precise THE SUN PEAKS, THEN STARTS TO DROP. AND THEN: TRIUMPH and practiced. Data evaluated; radio chatter with safety and tech crews; turnaround time; the return pass made within a stipulated time; average run speed calculated. As an experienced racer and record breaker, Peter is mentally in the zone, breaking down everything into small and simple actions. It’s a fine line between success and failure. So he stays in the cockpit and in the zone, even as laptops are plugged in and parts checked, tuned and tweaked or replaced between runs. A chance to stretch his legs comes only when the boat is taken out of the water, for the battery to be recharged. The sun peaks, then starts to drop. And then: triumph. An afternoon run produces a two-way average of 84.8mph, smashing the record. Three runs later, Peter and the crew push the V20E all the way up to 88.6mph, which, as the permitted sessions end, stands as the new world record*. “My first reaction? Relief!” laughs Peter. “Relief that everyone’s time and effort over 15 months has paid off. And next, excitement for the future. I can tell you, this record won’t last long. We’ve already got big plans.” *Record held at the time of going to print 68 THE JAGUAR
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The Resource Hearing on S. 512, the Nuclear Energy Innovation and Modernization Act : hearing before the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate, One Hundred Fifteenth Congress, first session, March 8, 2017
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Hearing on S. 512, the Nuclear Energy Innovation and Modernization Act
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Josh Heinrichs and SkillinJah Play Guanabanas May 31
Josh Heinrichs and SkillinJah Celebrate the Release of Joint EP Made in California at Guanabanas May 31
Songwriting partners and former Jah Roots bandmates perform together and with special guests Artikal Sound System
Jupiter, FL – May 21, 2018 – If the popularity of Jah Roots is any indication, the combination of Josh Heinrichs and SkillinJah is a winning one. The two reggae solo artists who were once bandmates in the legendary outfit put out several full-lengths together in Jah Roots, and have since collaborated on three other releases. Issued May 20, 2018, the new EP called Made in California also features appearances by Inna Vision and Preston Lee (Ezzrah). Josh and SkilliJah will perform live at Guanabanas Island Restaurant & Bar (960 N Hwy A1A, Jupiter, FL 33477) with special guests Artikal Sound System May 31, 2018, beginning at 8 p.m. No cover, 21 and over welcome.
“We usually reserve Thursday nights for special occasions and this certainly is one of them,” says Guanabanas talent buyer Matt Cahur. “Josh and Skillinjah together is pure musical fire – add the guys from Artikal to this explosive combination and we have the makings of a very special night indeed.” Cahur owns and operates Roots Music, Inc., a Jupiter-based, 20+ year music management and promotions company that handles the live music bookings at Guanabanas; he’s also the venue’s lead sound engineer.
Creating reggae music since 2001, Springfield, Missouri-based Josh Heinrichs is not only a successful reggae singer / songwriter, but he’s also a music label head (GanJah Records which he runs along with wife Kaytee), an in-demand touring musician, having toured the entire U.S. multiple times, and hosts is own annual music festival in Springfield called Reggae Fest. Josh has shared the stage with legends such as Ziggy, Stephen, and Damian Marley, George Clinton, The Wailers, 311, Slightly Stoopid and many more. Heinrichs has been featured at California Roots, TX Reggae Fest, Chicago Reggae Fest as well as Wakarusa, Summercamp, Gathering of the Vibes and many others. His release Good Vibes 2016 topped the Billboard Reggae album chart.
Born Kyle Bell in Houston, TX, SkillinJah is also known as Baddaflexx. He became hooked on reggae soon after discovering Peter Tosh’s Equal Rights record at age 11. By the spring of 2000, he had begun performing on the Jamaican dancehall circuit, eventually releasing a single on VP Records. Not long after exiting Jah Roots in 2006, he founded the NYC reggae band 45 Shootout. He’s recorded more than 200 singles and worked with the notable producers Dean Frasier and Donahue Baker. SkillinJah is a regular on the reggae touring circuit from Jamaica to New York to Hawaii.
South Florida-based Artikal Sound System is a multicultural group unites American, Jamaican and Hispanic reggae culture. The perform nationally and internationally and have already collaborated with Redlyte, The Abbysinians, Apple Gabriel of Israel Vibration, and Biggz General, and shared the stage with Pepper, Dirty Heads, The Wailers, Steel Pulse, Yellowman, Less Than Jake, The Aggrolites, and Jesse Royal. Their last three released have hit the #2 position on Billboard’s Reggae chart.
For more information, please call 561.747.8878 or visit www.Guanabanas.com.
Guanabanas is an open air restaurant and bar with woven tiki huts and banyan trees towering overhead and hand-chiseled coquina stone pathways underfoot. The team maintains a laid-back, island atmosphere where everyone is welcome. The award-winning menu features a fusion of Mexican, fresh Florida seafood and traditional fare; an all-new brunch menu is available Saturdays and Sundays. Guanabanas offers a custom catering menu and signature cocktails. Executive Chef Vinny Trupia oversees the culinary operations and also manages a community garden at the neighborhood resource center El Sol.
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Aikatsu! Nerawareta Mahou no Aikatsu Card & Aikatsu Stars! The Movie
Posted on March 5, 2017 by Akatsukin
Turn the heat up and imagine it’s summer
We are proud to present the double feature of Aikatsu and Aikatsu Stars movies! The Aikatsu movie can be watched after the series, and the Aikatsu Stars movie should be watched immediately after episode 18. Of course, most of us had to wait in any case, but for those of you catching up that’s where it goes in the timeline. Enjoy.
Aikatsu! Nerawareta Card: 720 Torrent | 720 Magnet | 1080 Torrent | 1080 Magnet
Aikatsu Stars! The Movie: 720 Torrent | 720 Magnet | 1080 Torrent | 1080 Magnet
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21 thoughts on “Aikatsu! Nerawareta Mahou no Aikatsu Card & Aikatsu Stars! The Movie”
jaa81102423 on March 5, 2017 at 7:11 pm said:
Thank you very much for the Aikatsu movies!
Jason on March 5, 2017 at 7:14 pm said:
Thanks so much! Looking forward to watching both of these.
YHee on March 5, 2017 at 7:15 pm said:
Thanks, finally I can watch this movie with subs.
ahriven on March 5, 2017 at 7:20 pm said:
When you said the movie can be watched after the series, is it refering to the ep18 or this Nerawareta Card ep?
Sunlith on March 5, 2017 at 8:45 pm said:
They meant what they said- for the Aikatsu! movie *not the Stars!*, you can watch it because takes place after the series ended.
For the Aikatsu Stars! Movie, it takes place right after episode 18 happened, so you should watch episode 18 before the Stars! Movie.
I’m not sure which movie you are talking about so I explained both.
ahriven on March 5, 2017 at 10:16 pm said:
Oh my bad..didnt notice its not Stars..so it doesnt related to the Stars! movie. Thanks
Yusril Izhar on March 5, 2017 at 7:55 pm said:
Melo on March 5, 2017 at 8:12 pm said:
Those months of waiting will be worth it now!
Yesss! Thanks for the subs! <3
Anonnallama on March 5, 2017 at 8:58 pm said:
Oh my god, I missed the original Aikatsu cast so bad. That movie was a wild ride, but I loved it. It’s pretty silly, but I think I might be crying just a little. (I cry at literally everything, tho, so this isn’t a surprise.)
Nina was there for all of 20 seconds, but it was the best 20 seconds of the movie. (Nina bias activated.)
CMD on March 5, 2017 at 9:37 pm said:
kyudoka on March 5, 2017 at 10:39 pm said:
In the Magic Aikatsu Card episode, I like the calligraphy banner on Otome’s wall. 🙂
gar on March 11, 2017 at 11:51 pm said:
I am pretty sure that banner came with the special edition of the bluray. Someone on twitter uploaded a picture of it on their wall.
FwJave on March 6, 2017 at 1:13 am said:
Thanks for the movies!!
The movie was amazinga nd the short movie made my remember the joy of the first series.
Ps. It was great to see Koharu animated again, only to remember that she is gone :c
YHee on March 6, 2017 at 5:53 am said:
Koharu not gone yet, I believe BANDAI will bring her back for sure!
lucio on March 6, 2017 at 10:29 am said:
In venus ark…..well i will not give the spoilers here ( will be deleted) but you will like for what is comming.
CrimsonDX on March 8, 2017 at 1:07 am said:
That was an awesome movie. Thank you for subbing this!
A on March 10, 2017 at 9:21 pm said:
Was great as expected, thanks a lot.
makoto1983 on March 26, 2017 at 8:58 pm said:
Certain moments in movie heavily imply “special” relationship between Yume and Rola. I love it.
Like those at ~ 43:30 or ~06:30.
Dream on April 27, 2018 at 1:35 am said:
I have both downloaded but
For some reason I can’t load the video
Akatsukin on April 27, 2018 at 10:58 am said:
First check the CRC. If you’re on Windows, I suggest CCCP with the newest version of mpc-hc. If Mac, I’ll have to get back to you.
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Posted on 15th April 2019 by Tim Cundle
ALIEN DAY Resurrects April 26th Spawning More Anniversary Celebration Thrills!
Forty years ago, a terrifying film burst from the mind of Ridley Scott, “xeno-morphing” into one of the most iconic franchises of all time. From the first menacing Chestburster shock to the last acid-drooling extraterrestrial kill, ALIEN became the definitive sci-fi horror film, winning fans, critics, and an Academy Award® along the way.
To commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the film that spawned a global franchise of record-breaking hit movies, video games, graphic novels, consumer products, and more, 20th Century Fox launched an otherworldly tribute with thrilling new stories, exclusive exhibits, and other one-of-a-kind experiences for fans.
Culminating on April 26th, ALIEN DAY devotees will rally for the fourth year in a row for 24 hours of worldwide fanfare. Fans eager to participate early can share their own personal memories or recreations of their favourite moments for a chance to become part of the 40 Year legacy! Click HERE for more information.
Over the next two weeks, fans can continue to experience the Alien 40th Anniversary Shorts, a series of frightening new narratives from six emerging filmmakers selected from over 550 entries through a 20th Century Fox partnership with creator community Tongal. These terrifying tales have been shocking viewers on IGN since the first short debuted on March 29th, and the final two thrillers will be unearthed on ALIEN DAY, April 26th. The short films will also be added onto the iTunes extra features.
Descending into orbit on April 22nd is the ALIEN 40th ANNIVERSARY 4K ULTRA HD®, courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment and available for pre-order HERE.
Launching into ALIEN Day, the biggest name brands have created exclusive collections in honour of the franchise. All-new figures, merchandise, apparel, publications, mobile game promotions, comics and collectibles will be unveiled from NECA, Funko, Diamond Select, Dark Horse, Audible, Weta Workshop, Zen Studios, D3 Go!, The Loyal Subjects, Upper Deck, Changes, Loot Crate, Super 7, Acme Archives, Wonderdice, Mondo, Fanattik, Pyramid America, Medicom, Sideshow, Mezco, Rubies, Gale Force Nine, and Macmillan to name a few. Highlights include a comprehensive and definitive volume on the making of ALIEN from Titan Books, a new line of Alien Pop! Figures from Funko, limited edition giclée prints from Acme Archives & Dark Ink, and a selection of apparel and merchandise sure to please the most discriminating Alien collector. A full list of what is shuttling in for Alien Day can be found HERE.
Watch the horror unfold every day by plugging into www.AlienUniverse.com.
Participate in the worldwide Alien Day celebration by following #ALIENDAY and #Alien40th on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook
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