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Driver follows sat-nav into lake
A Polish driver steered his mini bus straight into a lake - after his sat-nav told him to.
Police got a frantic call from the bus driver as he called from the Mercedes van screaming that he and his two passengers were drowning. He managed to say that he had driven into a lake and he was sinking fast.
"He said he had two passengers but he couldn't open the doors - and then he got cut off."
Police, fire and ambulance services rushed to the lake and found the driver and his passengers perched on the top of the mini-bus's roof.
"There used to be a road there until last year until the local water company flooded the valley to build a new reservoir lake," said one police source.
"It seems that the GPS hadn't been updated and was still showing a usable road running through where the lake now is. It's a huge lake and it's hard to imagine how you could ignore or not see it, but he certainly managed it.
"The driver had such faith in his sat-nav that he didn't even notice all the traffic signs saying the road had been closed," they added.
Police seek more pay for using computers
Their union says police officers in Framingham, Mass., need to be paid more for filing their reports on laptop computers given them by the city.
The union is asking for $41,000 to settle its claim that a new requirement to file reports on the computers represents an unlawful change in working conditions.
Union officials said the new filing requirement means increased training and record-keeping, all of which mean police should be paid a stipend for the extra work.
Michael Widmer, president of the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, disagrees.
"Police officers have a critical job and they get paid for that," Widmer said. "But these extra creative ways of padding the paycheck really are not appropriate, and undercut the bond with the taxpayers."
The chef who is allergic to water
So, after 23 years in the kitchen, he has hung up his apron for good.
Andy Laughton has been forced to wash his hands of his job as a chef after discovering he is allergic to water.
Mr Laughton started getting itchy hands whenever he was working and soon the itching broke into hives.
The five-star hotel chef started using latex gloves - only to discover he was also allergic to the lanoline and nickel used in their manufacture.
After a battery of hospital tests, the 39-year-old was diagnosed with the rare condition aquagenic urticaria.
Croatian women taken to court for falling off bike
A elderly Croatian women has been ordered to pay court and police fees and received an official warning after she fell off her bicycle.
The 69-year-old woman admitted causing a traffic accident before a court at Zabok, near Zagreb, although no-one else was involved in the incident.
The court did not fine the woman since she pleaded guilty but said that she had failed to "adjust the speed to road condition," and ordered her to pay 440 kunas in fees out of her 2,300 kuna (318 euro, 407 dollar) pension.
The accident, in which the woman suffered minor injuries, happened last July but the court only sent out its verdict earlier this month.
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About Hungary beta
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Record Hungarian GDP growth far higher than EU neighbors
Hungarian GDP growth has by far surpassed the rates measured in Romania (4.4 percent), in Slovakia (1.9 percent), and in the Czech Republic (2.7 percent).
GDP growth Economy
Péter Virovácz, a leading analyst at ING Bank, has highlighted that the Hungarian economy has shown growth on an unprecedented scale in the second quarter of this year, the highest recorded since 2004.
In an analysis published yesterday by Mandiner, analyst Gergely Suppan lists the following driving factors behind the growth: industrial development, the construction industry, and market-based services.
The biggest threat to the current success lies in external factors: the possibility of trade wars, the plummeting German industry and the uncertainties triggered by Brexit are bound to have an impact on the Hungarian economy. However, Suppan emphasizes that despite the negative factors, the Hungarian economy is only expected to experience further improvements.
“The family protection plan and the economic action plan will take effect in the third and fourth quarters of the year, counter-balancing the negative impacts of the broader, European environment. While the scale of growth might become moderate within this period, the GDP growth is expected to reach 4.8 percent on the annual average," he said.
Suppan also emphasized that Hungarian GDP growth has by far surpassed the rates measured in Romania (4.4 percent), in Slovakia (1.9 percent), and in the Czech Republic (2.7 percent).
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The Press Has More Freedom in Eastern Europe than in the Continent’s Western Half
Reacting to a statement by Sweden’s foreign minister on Monday, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó told Hungarian news agency MTI in a statement that recently it has become obvious that the press has more freedom in Eastern Europe than in the continent’s western half.
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On Facebook Prime Minister Viktor Orbán Congratulates the Creators of Son of Saul
On Monday Prime Minister Viktor Orbán congratulated the creators and actors of Son of Saul for winning the Golden Globe Award in Los Angeles for best foreign language film.
Reinstating Military Conscription is not Necessary
In response to a statement by Sweden’s foreign minister, on Sunday Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister György Bakondi told public television channel M1 that the Government of Hungary does not see the necessity for reintroduction of military conscription. Keeping the manpower of the reserve force at appropriate levels is important however, he stressed.
János Lázár to Have Talks in Brussels
János Lázár, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office will pay a visit to Brussels on Tuesday where he will have talks with EU Commissioners and Hungarian diplomats.
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Title: Mr
Official Last Name: Lyons
Official First Name: Gordon
Usual First Name: Gordon
Party: Democratic Unionist Party
Constituency: East Antrim
Democratic Unionist Party Party Member 02/03/2017 - Present
Democratic Unionist Party Party Member 05/05/2016 - 25/01/2017
MLA History
Date Constituency Designation
19/08/2015 East Antrim Unionist, Replaced Mr S Wilson
12/05/2016 East Antrim Unionist, elected following substitution
13/03/2017 East Antrim Unionist, Re-elected
Office/Committee History
Office/Committee
11/01/2020 - Present junior Minister The Executive Office
11/01/2020 - Present Committee Member Business Committee
31/05/2016 - 25/01/2017 Committee Member Committee for the Economy
31/05/2016 - 25/01/2017 Committee Member Business Committee
25/05/2016 - 25/01/2017 Committee Chair Committee on Procedures
25/05/2016 - 25/01/2017 Committee Member Chairpersons' Liaison Group
05/10/2015 - 30/03/2016 Committee Member Committee for the Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister
05/10/2015 - 30/03/2016 Committee Member Committee for Finance and Personnel
07/09/2015 - 05/10/2015 Committee Member Committee for Social Development
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All Party Group
11/07/2017 - Present Assembly Party Group Member All Party Group on Cancer
09/05/2017 - Present Assembly Party Group Treasurer All Party Group on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
08/05/2017 - Present Assembly Party Group Member All Party Group on Learning Disability
24/10/2016 - 25/01/2017 Assembly Party Group Member All Party Group on Students
09/09/2016 - 25/01/2017 Assembly Party Group Member All Party Group on Learning Disability
21/06/2016 - 25/01/2017 Assembly Party Group Member All Party Group on Tackling Educational Underachievement And Promoting Educational Excellence For All
20/06/2016 - 25/01/2017 Assembly Party Group Treasurer All Party Group on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
20/06/2016 - 25/01/2017 Assembly Party Group Member All Party Group on Epilepsy
20/06/2016 - 25/01/2017 Assembly Party Group Member All Party Group on Multiple Sclerosis
Parliamentary Contact Details
Room: Room 359B
Address: Parliament Buildings
Townland: Ballymiscaw
Ward: Stormont
Town: Belfast
Post Code: BT4 3XX
Email: gordon.lyons@mla.niassembly.gov.uk
Constituency Contact Details
Address 1: 116 Main Street
Townland: Town Parks
Town: Larne
Post Code: BT40 1RG
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None. (Registered 4 April 2017)
2. Donations and other support
3. Gifts, benefits and hospitality
4. Visits
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6. Land and Property
8. Unremunerated interests
Elder, Presbyterian Church in Ireland. (Registered 4 April 2017)
Member, Committee - Millbrook Community Association. (Registered 4 April 2017)
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Assembly Questions
Session: 2016-2017 2015-2016
36 Questions, Page 1 of 4
AQO 932/16-21 Mr Gordon Lyons
(DUP - East Antrim) To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister for an assessment of the Together: Building a United Community strategy.
12/01/2017 Question Withdrawn
(DUP - East Antrim) To ask the Minister for the Economy how he intends to increase international trade.
+ Display Answer 10/11/2016 Answered on 24/11/2016
(DUP - East Antrim) To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister to outline the actions they plan to take to promote Northern Ireland overseas.
AQW 7222/16-21 Mr Gordon Lyons
(DUP - East Antrim) To ask the Minister of Education to detail the total number of pupils in East Antrim enrolled in (i) controlled schools; (ii) maintained schools; and (iii) integrated schools.
(DUP - East Antrim) To ask the Minister of Education to detail his Department’s spend on Special Educational Needs provision in each of the last five years.
(DUP - East Antrim) To ask the Minister of Education to detail the average spend by his Department per pupil in (i) controlled schools; (ii) maintained schools; (iii) integrated schools; and (iv) Irish-medium schools.
(DUP - East Antrim) To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail his Department’s total capital expenditure over the last five years, broken down by constituency.
(DUP - East Antrim) To ask the Minister of Education whether he plans to reform the Entitlement Framework.
View Official Report for AQO 716/16-21 10/11/2016 Answered on 22/11/2016
(DUP - East Antrim) To ask the Minister of Education to outline his Department's capital spend in East Antrim since 2011.
(DUP - East Antrim) To ask the Minister of Health following the introduction of the national living wage, to outline the estimated additional costs for the social care sector.
Plenary Business
Session: 2019-2020 2017-2018 2016-2017 2015-2016
13 Motions, Page 1 of 1
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Tabled As
Tabled Date
Plenary Date
Membership of Standing Committees Motion MLA - East Antrim 17/01/2020 20/01/2020
Membership of Statutory Committees Motion MLA - East Antrim 17/01/2020 20/01/2020
Suspension of Standing Order 49(2)(a) and Standing Order 52(2)(a) Motion MLA - East Antrim 17/01/2020 20/01/2020
Suspension of Standing Order 20(1) Motion MLA - East Antrim 17/01/2020 20/01/2020
Election of Principal Deputy Speaker Nomination 1 - Mr Christopher Stalford Motion MLA - East Antrim 14/01/2020 14/01/2020
Business Committee Membership Motion MLA - East Antrim 14/01/2020 20/01/2020
Appointments to the Assembly Commission Motion MLA - East Antrim 11/01/2020 14/01/2020
Establishment of Statutory Committees Motion MLA - East Antrim 11/01/2020 14/01/2020
Election of Deputy Speaker Nomination 1 - Mr Christopher Stalford Motion MLA - East Antrim 11/01/2020 11/01/2020
Legislative position on abortion in Northern Ireland Motion MLA - East Antrim 17/10/2019 21/10/2019
Election of Speaker and Deputy Speakers, Fill Ministerial Offices and Debate on the Legislative Position on Abortion in Northern Ireland Earlier Meeting MLA - East Antrim 17/10/2019 21/10/2019
Session: 2019-2020 2016-2017 2015-2016
2 Votes On Division, Page 1 of 1
Vote Subject
Division Date
Member Voted
Election of Principal Deputy Speaker Nomination 1 - Mr Christopher Stalford [Mr G Lyons] 14/01/2020 AYE
Election of Speaker Nomination 1 - Mr Alex Maskey [Mrs M O'Neill] 11/01/2020 AYE
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Van Williams Steve Andrews
Niki Dantine Kate Andrews
Kimberly Beck Robin Andrews
Steve Burns Tom Andrews
Air Dates: On NBC, from 9/6/75 - 9/4/76
Plot Synopsis:
The show chronicled the adventures of the Andrews family as they sailed in and around Hawaii on their boat, the Westwind. Steve was a photographer that specialized in underwater photos, Kate was a marine biologists, and Robin and Tom were their two teenage kids. Filmed on location in Hawaii, the show utilized the local scenery (both in the water and on land) and most episodes featured underwater footage. Notable guest stars included John Carradine and Joanna Cameron (Isis).
According to an early review, the show was originally called Westwind to Hawaii. Airing later in the Saturday morning schedule, the show had more action and violence than your average Saturday morning schedule. The more adult nature of the show, along with increased production values, might be one of the the reasons that Westwind has been syndicated, and other more youthful shows haven't.
Van Williams is probably best known for playing the title character on The Green Hornet series from the 60s.
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No episodes of the series have been officially released on video. Since the series has aired infrequently on the American Independent Network (AIN), a cable network, over the years, episodes are circulating among collectors.
For more info on how to find this and other old Saturday morning shows, check out this page.
Westwind at IMDB
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APIs Are Establishing New And Useful Processes Faster Than Patents Can Keep Pace With
I’m spending a lot of time reading API related patents lately. I downloaded all of the patent applications between 2005 and 2015, filtered for all patents that mention “application programming interface” in the title, abstract, or description of the API, resulting in a database of 16,485 patents. Currently I’m reading the 700+ that just mention API in title or abstract, and once done I’ll take a look at the rest.
First, let me state that patents are not a concept I subscribe to. Personally, I do not believe in defining, and locking up ideas, but I do not live in the world I’d like, and after beginning my patent API search, I see patents are a concept that like API copyright, will be increasingly wielded across many industries where APIs are being put to use. For this reason, I engage in my research, and overall patent awareness journey, not because I’m a believer in the patent system, or am looking to submit any patents--I want to better understand how patents are being used to define API processes, and help see the evolving role APIs are playing in the larger patent story over the last 20 years.
First, What Exactly Is An API Patent?
There are many incarnations of API, and making sense of whether a patent directly describes a specific API, or is more API adjacent can be very difficult to do. I’m operating under the assumption that if “application programming Interface” is present in title or abstract, it is likely that the patent describes an API fueled process, and my initial review of the 700+ patents support this. This realization moved the conversation in my head from “will patents affect APIs” to “APIs are being patented”, and we need to better understand what is going on, regardless of the precise definition of what an API is. Whether an API is more hardware related, system or specifically a web API as we know it today, becomes somewhat blurred on the current Internet landscape.
Precise vs. Broad Stroke Patents
One thing that really stands out as I read these API patents, is the varying scope of the API definition. Some are very precise, talking about a specific API call, to accomplish a very specific, granular task. While others are very broad, talking about using APIs, for an industry-wide use. This distance, represents the rapid expansion of the API space, and how the vision from technologist to technologist will vary widely on how aware of change they are in their specific domain. Some companies seem to just cast a wide net, claiming a whole region of cyberspace, as operating under their patented idea, with little or no regard for many iterations that have evolved within this very space, in just the time they've submitted the patent.
Internet of Things Blurring The Landscape
As I read through patents, it is easy to dismiss some of the application because they are very hardware focused, but when you consider the bigger Internet of Things (IoT) picture, where everyday, common devices are being connected to the Internet, using APIs—things get very blurry. A hardware API in the 1990s was definitely something that was pretty novel, and useful, but in 2015 these concepts are rapidly expanding, becoming commonplace, with the iterations and variations of process occurring at a staggering rate. I’m considering pulling patents all the back to 1995, to evaluate telecommunication era APIs, for re-use, and applying in the IoT era, in hopes of bringing more focus to this blurry portion of the API patent landscape(or quite possibly confusing myself further). What was once a pretty specific hardware specific API in 1998, could have thousands of uses, in an IoT crazy 2015.
The Pace of Change — New & Useful Processes At A Breakneck Speed
After reading the handful of patents that I have, as an API architect, my brain immediately sees the variances in their patent ideas, that when actually applied as an API would become the programmatic points where I can add variety, and iterate on the process being defined. If it's a new and useful way for analyzing network traffic using an API, I can immediately define hundreds of network scenarios with software defined networking, and then exponentially augment with different user and device scenarios on different ends of this patented process. At what point do all my variations fall prey to this patent, requiring me to cut a deal with patent owners, and at which point do my variations begin breaking the established patent idea, as the world that the definition applies to continues its rapid expansion. The automobile patent was new and novel until Henry Ford came long, and the automobile became ubiquitous, Amazon Web Services implementation of compute and storage was new and novel when it came out, at what point does is it just become the way things are done. The Internet is just escalating this process, which each passing moment—something the patent process doesn’t acknowledge.
How Does US Patent Office Maintain The Army Of Domain Experts To Determine What Is New & Useful?
As I read a patent about a specific API analytics patent, something I’d consider myself a domain expert in, I’m thinking this isn’t that novel or new, and is something that has been going on a while, and then I find several more variations on the same subject, with varying scopes, muting each patent along the way. As I read through some of the networking based API patents, which I probably do not consider myself a domain expert, I think WOW, that is pretty new and novel idea, to almost each one, with very little awareness of scope of each idea. I have to ask myself, how does the US patent office maintain the army of domain experts needed to keep pace with what is truly new and useful in this digital age? There is no way this can occur under a single government or institutional entity anymore, it has to be done openly on the Internet, in real-time.
APIs Are All About Re-Use, Remix, And Defining New & Useful Processes
As an API architect, I can confidently say that APIs are all about establishing definitions of new and useful processes, that if you do properly, allows you to re-use, remix, and redefine a sometimes dizzying amount of variants in that new and useful process. Each API or microservice is a single, potentially well defined process, and when you start daisy chaining, stacking and remixing with APIs, you can rapidly rethink legacy processes, with an agility that is seldom seen in the physical world, or earlier evolutions in software development. Ultimately I feel that the patent process is the antithesis of an API, but at the very least, I would make the argument that it is a very antiquated way to look at how we operate in a digital world.
1000LB Gorillas Are Filing Patents — Not The Doers, Defining Next Generation Processes
Another thing that stood out to me, when evaluating the 16K API patents I’ve targeted, is exactly who the characters are that apply for API patents. The two leading the charge are Microsoft and IBM, with a who’s who of enterprise dominating the list after that. The companies and individuals doing patents, are not the doers, at the forefront of each business sector, who are actually defining the next generation of new and useful processes using APIs, that are increasingly spanning both our virtual, and physical worlds. While I don’t have the research done to back this claim, at first glance at the areas in which API patents are being defined, this world does not reflect the API space I’ve been mapping the expansion of. Which tells me that there are two distinct layers to this API expansion, those that are defining and moving almost every industry being touched by APIs forward, and those that are filing definitions with the patent office to define, make bets on, and ultimately lay claim to what might be.
Doing Patents As A Defensive Measure — Its How You Play The Game!
I am sure there are numerous motivations for filing a patent on an API, and the popular claim is to say you are doing it as a defensive measure. Clearly software patents is a game of hardball, where companies can make or break your cool new startup, by burying you in legal woes—I’ve been there myself. Companies like Tesla, and Google are making an open patent pledge, stating that they only do patents as a defensive maneuver. I get this. I can’t argue with companies defending what they’ve built against the more aggressive corporate personalities in the space. I guess this is why I am building, and curating my database of API related patents, and the companies behind them, so that I can eventually connect it to actual litigation by these companies—only time will tell which open patent pledges actually hold out to be true.
Patents Are Rich Person’s Game — We Don’t All Have The Resources To Play!
To play in the patent game, you need money. You have to be able to afford to file your patents, and you need to be able to afford to defend them in court. This is not a doers game, it is a rich person’s game. My everyday world would be an extremely fertile environment for the defining of patents, as I spend my days playing with thousands of API resources, and deeply thinking how these APIs could be used in new an novel ways in our personal and business lives. However without the resource ($$) to be able to file the patents, and defend these virtual, API driven spaces, in a court of law, patents are a game I will never participate in. I can guarantee there are thousands of patentable ideas laying around my workbench, but because patents aren’t a concept I subscribe to, and I don’t have the resources to play in the game, you will never see a patent with my name on it.
Still Not Convinced You Can Define And Lock Up Ideas, Let Alone API Driven Ones
Even after about 60+ hours of patent API research, I’m still not convinced the patent process is something that is applicable in the API space. I’m barely sold on the concept when it involves the assembly of gears, conveyer belts, and physical elements, let alone with the new and useful process is algorithmic, allowing me to orchestrate infinite number of processes using APIs. I’m preparing a keynote talk in Sydney Australia next week, about the opportunities for orchestration with microservices and docker containers, using machine readable definitions like APIs.json and Swagger. As part of my work, I defined 18 specific processes that I depend on to operate as a business, and as soon as those were defined and deployed, I quickly define 8 new iterations on top of the existing processes. I’m still defining my overall approach to API orchestration with virtualized containers, but once ready, I will be able to define a new node on my network in seconds, and remix with other resources instantly, reworking existing processes and defining entirely new ones each day—why would I want to lock these up, I need these ideas to flow to be successful. Execution trumps definition.
If We Are Going To Apply Patents To APIs, We Need A Process That Will Keep Pace
Ok, say patents are even a thing we should be considering applying in the API space. At the very least we need a process that will keep pace with the world of APIs, and acknowledge not just the accelerated pace of change and iterations, but also the exponential variations that can occur, and the potential change of scope, in near real-time. I do not manually apply copyright to all my writing in 2015, because of the Creative Commons I can apply copyright across all of my digital exhaust—why are processes and workflows any different?
I strongly believe the concept of patents is counter to the essence of what an API is, but if we insist on defining our new and useful processes in this way, we need a real-time way of capturing the intellectual exhaust from processes we execute, map out the new and useful processes that exist, in a way that requires them to have to actually be useful and implemented, while also having a way to share and vet these definitions with the public audience, whether it be industry, government or both. I’m just getting started with my API patent research, and as with my other research in the API space, I’m sure my awareness will continue to expand rapidly, something I doubt I will also see with the patent process itself.
Ultimately I’m left thinking what my friend, and fellow API Evangelist Mehdi Medjaoui (@medjawii) said in his very forward thinking post, that APIs are the new software patent.
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In Memory: Honoring Hannah Thomas
"Pure Love....Pure Grace...Pure Beauty...Totally Pure...
That was my precious Hannah"
-Jude Meyers Thomas
Hannah O'Hara Thomas
February 3, 1997 - March 27, 2015
Condolences and cards may be sent to:
The Eden Alternative, P.O. Box 18369, Rochester, New York 14618
Project Update: Morris Hall Meadows Slated to Open Late Summer
While cold temperatures and snow undoubtedly create challenges for construction crews...the Green House homes being developed in Lawrenceville, New Jersey are still set to open within the next four to five months.
Morris Hall Meadows will include six skilled nursing Green House homes. Ten Elders will live in each home, which will include their own private bedroom and bath, a central hearth area with a fireplace, full kitchen with home cooked meals and a dining area.
The project is being developed by Morris Hall/St. Lawrence, Inc. Morris Hall and St. Lawrence are both not-for-profit agencies sponsored by the diocese.
Joint Provider Surveyor Training:
Building Vital Relationships
A mutual goal of providers and regulators is for elders to experience high-quality lives, enjoying choice, freedom and dignity. The Green House Project understands this, and supports dialogue and education to build strong relationships among all stakeholders. The Joint Provider Surveyor Training, recently held in Grand Rapids, Michigan, provided an opportunity to spread our message about the importance of partnership, and its necessity to achieve positive outcomes for the future of aging.
As Senior Director of The Green House Project, I joined Renee Cunningham, Director of Nursing for Kalkaska Memorial Health Center, to present the latest research on The Green House model. Renee shared her organization's journey to adopt The Green House trademark, and the value that they believe it will bring to help them achieve their goal of opening two Green House homes in 2015.
Spring Has Sprung at the Green House Homes in Sheridan, Wyoming
The weather has warmed and melted away the white of winter. We honor and love our elders while we welcome the new life of spring with open arms. Spring can mean baby season around here!
Our MDS Coordinator, Shelly Jelly, brought in two motherless day old lambs. You can see our Social Services coordinator holding them at her desk.
A Shahbaz from Whitney cottage came up on her time-off to bring her Clydesdale to meet the elders of GHL. Elders from all four cottages stood out in the sunshine to see and pet the gentle giant of a horse.
Our own Dietary Mentor, Emily, brought in her three new baby chicks of this spring. They were a hit with their happy peeping that brought spring sounds indoors.
Two brand new baby calves enjoyed the warm weather on the other side of our ranch neighbor's fence. Our Elders enjoy walks outdoors with our Shahbazim, as can be see with elder Lois Brandjord and Shahbaz Itealya. They got to see the mother cows and the brand new babies.
Dr. Bill Thomas, Talks to Provider Magazine about Person-Centered Care
In an exclusive interview with Provider, Dr. Thomas casts the vision of living in a world where the ageist slur, "elderly" is no longer a part of polite conversation. He says, "Think back in memory to the last time an older person referred to themselves as 'elderly.' People don't introduce themselves by saying, 'Hi, I'm Bob's elderly mother.' That's put onto them. That's the definition of a slur." Dr. Bill Thomas believes that to change long term care, we need to change the larger societal attitudes toward getting old.
In pursuit of this reality, Dr. Thomas is hitting the road for the Age of Disruption Tour, "I'm going on tour again, starting in April," [Dr. Bill Thomas] tells Provider. "I feel a responsibility to have an impact on not just long term care, but how our country views aging and how our country thinks about older people. I think that many of the issues we deal with in long term care are driven by deep, cultural misunderstandings about aging."
Joint Provider Surveyor Training: Building Vital Relationships
Kris Angevine, Living The Green House Model
Reposted from:
www.stjohnsliving.org
When it comes to long-term care, Kris Angevine strongly believes smaller is better.
"It's better for relationships with the residents and it's better for the teams who take such good care of them," Kris, who serves as the Guide at the Penfield Green House homes, said on a mild March day in 2015. "You get to know the residents so well. And if anything changes, you can respond immediately. This leads to a better quality of life."
The Value Of Short Stay Rehab In The Green House Home
Delivering The Highest Quality Care At The Best Operating Cost
The Green House Overview Webinar
The Winnipeg Free Press publishes article that mentions the Green House model's success in caring for elders with memory loss
The Ithaca Journal interviews Dr. Bill Thomas about abolishing nursing homes and valuing elders
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The Mother of Invention
In Essence | Spring 2010
THE SOURCE: “The Industrial Revolution in Miniature: The Spinning Jenny in Britain, France, and India” by Robert C. Allen, in The Journal of Economic History, Dec. 2009.
The Industrial Revolution, the hinge joining our modern world to our agricultural history, began in late-18th-century England. But why England? Why not France or, for that matter, India?
Scholars have long debated the question. One popular theory is that the Glorious Revolution of 1688 led to a secure property-rights system, which encouraged investment, which in turn spurred innovation. Others going back to Max Weber have argued that culture was responsible—specifically, that Calvinist-flavored Protestantism made people “particularly rational and oriented towards economic achievement.” A third possibility is that the gains of the Scientific Revolution a century earlier gave tinkerers the tools to improve production.
Robert C. Allen, an economic historian at Oxford University, doesn’t dispute these theories. “Good law and good culture may have been necessary conditions for the Industrial Revolution,” he writes, “but they were not sufficient.” These features of British society were the supply that fed innovation. But without demand (on the part of producers), no one would have toiled away at the exhausting process of innovation. In England at the time, wages were relatively high, especially in relation to the cost of capital. That meant that new technologies, even costly ones up to a point, were cost-effective for producers if they reduced the need for labor. And thus it was England’s high wages—not its legal system or religion or scientific knowledge—that drove inventors to their workshops.
The history of the spinning jenny (a machine that allows one person to spin multiple spools of thread at once) illustrates Allen’s point. Invented in the 1760s by James Hargreaves, an illiterate weaver from Lancashire, and improved upon in England and America for several decades thereafter, the spinning jenny was rapidly adopted throughout England, but not in France and India. In those two countries, Allen explains, labor was cheap enough and capital expensive enough that investing in the machine didn’t pay. It would be years before it made economic sense for producers in India and France to invest in industrial technologies.
Allen says the same story plays out around the world today: Technologies that are a good investment in wealthy countries often are not adopted in the developing world, where labor is cheap and capital improvements cost many times the average wage. In such places, choosing not to invest in newfangled equipment isn’t the result of some sort of cultural deficit or institutional failure, but a rational response to economic considerations.
What Good Old Days?
Hail, Divided Government
Saffron Sorrows
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Home Child of the Sun- Florida Southern College's Digital Papers Collection [Letter] 1942 May 26, Spring Green, Wis. [to] Dr. Ludd M. Spivey, [Lakeland, Fla.]
[Letter] 1942 May 26, Spring Green, Wis. [to] Dr. Ludd M. Spivey, [Lakeland, Fla.]
Dear Dr. Spivey: We arrived home worn out, but recuperative, after a f«w
hours stop-over at Yemaasee. I went to see Mrs. Pfeiffer and met her son-
in-law as you suggested. Both were very considerate and we talked about an
hour. It was an inopportune time they said to give money but they looked with
favor upon the idea of the small chapel as a child of the larger one bearing
her name. I suggested we call it after her husband, etc. I think they will
come in on time when the sketohes are suitably presented. The sketches are usually
"winning"?
"Eleanor" (Mrs. Whitney) was also kind but was engaged in producing a concert that
very evening. She invited me to stay over but instead we had a telephone conversation in which she said she would like to see the sketches of the music building
as soon as I could make them and seemed willing to provide that unit
herself. As I left it with her, "we would send her preliminary studies for her
consideration."
And now, my dear friend and client Dr. Ludd M. Spivey: here are a few
essential observations concerning ways-and-means for your consideration which,
translated baldly into hard facts, concern money paid and now to be paid.
Architect's fees may seem troublesome to you, less pressing than materials to
build with and skilled laborers working down there on the job. The $15,000.00
we have received to date may seem to you in the circumstances a substantial
sum of money to get along with the plans. But really it is not adequate or fair,
even in the circumstances. I think you have only a faint idea of the work
already done - not to mention that which we must now undertake.
To particularise: The sum of $10,000.00 was agreed upon for the preliminary
site-plan of the entire college. This sum has now been paid.
For the buildings erected according to this plan we were to be compensated at
the nominated fee of 7 1/2% of construction cost (although muoh of the labor was
free labor) allowing the $10,000.00 preliminary fee to be absorbed pro-rata
in the subsequent buildings as erected.
The chapel cost, as near as we can estimate it, about $72,000.00. (Your
figures which probably include expenditures we are not entitled to reckon our
fees upon you say is $100,000.00) . The three seminars, in the circumstances of
cheap labor, probably cost $3,500.00 each - or say about $10,000.00, The
Library for which complete plans have been made will cost (say) $75,000.00.
The Home Economies unit, you have the plans, will cost about $35,000.00 to
$40,000.00.
Title [Letter] 1942 May 26, Spring Green, Wis. [to] Dr. Ludd M. Spivey, [Lakeland, Fla.]
Notes Robert D. Wehr was a member of the faculty and the construction superintendent of Florida Southern College. Page three does not appear to have been sent with the original letter, but it was found with the letter. It may have been used for office filing purposes, but this is unknown. There are small holes in the top left corner of pages one and two of this letter that were caused by staples that have been removed.
Yemassee (S.C.)
Pfeiffer, Annie Merner, 1860-1946
William H. Danforth Chapel (Lakeland, Fla.)
Whitney, Eleanor Searle
Music Building (Lakeland, Fla.)
Unbuilt architectural projects -- Florida -- Lakeland
Seminar Buildings (Lakeland, Fla.)
E. T. Roux Library (Lakeland, Fla.)
J. William Horsey Building (Lakeland, Fla.)
Florida Southern College -- Faculty housing
Unbuilt architectural projects -- Florida -- Fort Lauderdale
Dormitories -- Florida
Florida Southern College -- Student housing
Polk County Science Building (Lakeland, Fla.)
Original Item Size 27 x 21 cm. or smaller
Transcript (Indexed) Dear Dr. Spivey: We arrived home worn out, but recuperative, after a f«w hours stop-over at Yemaasee. I went to see Mrs. Pfeiffer and met her son- in-law as you suggested. Both were very considerate and we talked about an hour. It was an inopportune time they said to give money but they looked with favor upon the idea of the small chapel as a child of the larger one bearing her name. I suggested we call it after her husband, etc. I think they will come in on time when the sketohes are suitably presented. The sketches are usually "winning"? "Eleanor" (Mrs. Whitney) was also kind but was engaged in producing a concert that very evening. She invited me to stay over but instead we had a telephone conversation in which she said she would like to see the sketches of the music building as soon as I could make them and seemed willing to provide that unit herself. As I left it with her, "we would send her preliminary studies for her consideration." And now, my dear friend and client Dr. Ludd M. Spivey: here are a few essential observations concerning ways-and-means for your consideration which, translated baldly into hard facts, concern money paid and now to be paid. Architect's fees may seem troublesome to you, less pressing than materials to build with and skilled laborers working down there on the job. The $15,000.00 we have received to date may seem to you in the circumstances a substantial sum of money to get along with the plans. But really it is not adequate or fair, even in the circumstances. I think you have only a faint idea of the work already done - not to mention that which we must now undertake. To particularise: The sum of $10,000.00 was agreed upon for the preliminary site-plan of the entire college. This sum has now been paid. For the buildings erected according to this plan we were to be compensated at the nominated fee of 7 1/2% of construction cost (although muoh of the labor was free labor) allowing the $10,000.00 preliminary fee to be absorbed pro-rata in the subsequent buildings as erected. The chapel cost, as near as we can estimate it, about $72,000.00. (Your figures which probably include expenditures we are not entitled to reckon our fees upon you say is $100,000.00) . The three seminars, in the circumstances of cheap labor, probably cost $3,500.00 each - or say about $10,000.00, The Library for which complete plans have been made will cost (say) $75,000.00. The Home Economies unit, you have the plans, will cost about $35,000.00 to $40,000.00.
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Secondary Students
Irish Traditional Music Feature
Antiquity and Origins
Éamonn Ceannt
A member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, and later a founding member of the Irish Volunteers Éamonn Ceannt was a master of the uilleann pipes. He even put on a performance for Pope Pius X.
Although the words 'ancient' and 'old' were frequently employed in relation to Irish traditional music, it is not enormously old. The earliest items are harp pieces and airs connected with songs of an early date but these do not go back beyond the sixteenth century.
The earliest mention of an Irish song is contained in Shakespeare's Henry V (1599) where the character Pistol uses the expression 'callen o custure me' as a piece of gibberish. This has been shown to be a reference to the song 'Cailín Ó Cois tSiúire Mé'. The air of the song has survived from the same period.
The bulk of our repertoire was created in the last three centuries, and the hundred years leading up to the Famine is generally considered to have been a particularly fruitful period. The present is also fruitful, and new songs, tunes and dance are again being made in the style of the older material.
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A showcase of video games and the creative people who make them.
Location: 1915 Maryland Ave., Baltimore, MD 21218
The Baltimore Office of Promotion & the Arts (BOPA) and the Baltimore Chapter of the International Game Developers Association (IGDA Baltimore) are proud to present Gamescape 2019. We'll be featuring a full selection of games from talented students, individuals, and full teams of indie game developers. This year will also feature a rotating selection of games in our Quick Play area, so be sure to check back in over the course of the event to see what new games are rotating in and out. Cast your vote for the 2019 Gamescape People's Choice Award and see who wins Sunday afternoon.
Our list of exhibiting games includes:
Beard of War is about using a variety of spells to gain control of an arena and knock
your opponents out of it. It focuses on using environmental elements, such as lava to
deal damage to enemies, rather than the player directly damaging their opponents.
Spells are focused on different forms of crowd control, such as knockback, status
effects, teleportation, etc. Customizable spells and character loadouts let the players
play their way. The player’s objective is to be the last survivor in each round. The player
can use their abilities to knock enemy players out of the arena, damaging and killing
them. Each match has five rounds, and the player wins the match by being the last
survivor in more rounds than their opponent. After each round, players get a fixed
amount of points that can be used to upgrade or change their abilities for the future
Captain Trash vs The Evil Dudes is a 2D platform adventure game built on the Godot
engine. The story begins when Captain Trash returns from his local coffee shop to find his front door smashed and his hoard of awesome junk pilfered. Trash had spent his career directing the preeminent galactic clean-up crew. Each day he would find at least a truck full of strange and wondrous items. Over his career he built a museum worthy collection. After, the fist of shock loosened its grip Trash took stock of his remaining items. To his surprise, the valuable art still hung on the walls. The meteor debris, Neptunesian masks and the copper wire were gone. Journey out from the streets of Slabtown across the world to chase down the thieves and reclaim your treasures before they end up in a pawn shop or as a volcanic sacrifice.
Grab It and Go is a game with a protagonist that is an alien named Bopp. His mission is to collect artifacts from Earth. These artifacts are things that we see in our everyday life - water bottles, soda cans, etc. While collecting the various artifacts on your list, make sure to avoid Conspiracy Theorists - NPCs wearing green hats. If they spot you they will chase after you and try to capture you.
Miracle Mia is a cute action-adventure platformer where the main heroine must fend off against an invading horde of extradimensional beings. Mia, with the aid of her tennis racket, must jump, defend and reflect the enemy's attacks right back at them, for her skills in tennis allows her to withstand and channel their projectiles against them. As well as reflecting their attacks, Mia can also harness her own power to create magic orbs that can aid her in battle. Along the way she is accompanied by a mysterious cat who can heal Mia if she falls. Using the skills of tennis, will Mia be able to overcome the trials ahead?
Spark Defence is a science fiction tower defense game set in the near future where the player must strategize on how to defend their power generators from an alien invasion by choosing from different types of defenses and placing them in strategic locations to stop the waves of attacks.
Squirrely Roo Rabbit is an in-development puzzle-platformer game relying on color
theory to solve environmental challenges. It features a visual style reminiscent of hand- drawn and watercolored pop-up storybooks. The game’s story begins with a gang of chameleons on a coloring spree swap the colors of all the animals in their wake, causing confusion and upset. Squirrely Roo Rabbit, who is unaffected due to her not being a traditional animal, teams up with an outcast chameleon, Cammy, to track down Leon, the Chameleon king, and return the forest to normal. They do this by solving environmental puzzles with the help of animals she meets along if Squirrely Roo feeds them fruit matching the color they’ve become. Because fruit only naturally grows in primary colors—and animals come secondary colors as well—Cammy must use her chameleon color-mix ability to solve puzzles and fight.
The UMBC Game Developers Club is a student-run club at the University of Maryland,
Baltimore County whose members develop games in interdisciplinary teams over the
course of each academic year. This year they have 10 new student-created games to
present across a range of different genres and styles.
Underground Arcade is a collection of short alternative games from the Underground
Arcade Collective, consisting of designers Alex Higgins, Stephen Thomas, and John D. Moore. Through this collection, the designers hope to expose general audiences to
game making's democratized underground – experimental works, jam games, garage games, and their ilk. Altogether, the collection features over a dozen games and counting, all of which will be accessed from a single launcher program. New to
Gamescape this year are the games Koi Puncher MMXVIII, Soul Eater, and Monster Hug. Returning favorites include Monster Truck Power Fantasy, Digital Toilet World,
Bloodjak, Mutant Highway, Diablow, and Fungilluminati.
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UPS APPOINTS NEW CHINA HEAD
UPS has announced the appointment of Michelle Ho as new President of UPS China, succeeding Harld Peters, who moved to a regional president role with ManpowerGroup.
In a statement, the global parcel delivery firm said Ho is a UPS veteran with 26 years of logistics experience. She will spearhead UPS’s small package and strategic business planning operations in China.
“UPS has had an established presence in China for more than three decades now, and our broad portfolio of services and global network puts us in a prime position to help Chinese businesses with their cross-border connectivity needs,” said Ross McCullough, president of UPS Asia Pacific.
“Michelle is no stranger to the China market, having previously served as Financial Controller for UPS China. In that role, she was instrumental in driving UPS’s transition to a wholly-owned operation. I am certain that Michelle’s extensive experience and leadership will serve UPS well as she leads more than 6,000 employees to deliver the best-in-class logistics experience for customers inside and outside of China,” he added.
Prior to her appointment, Ho served as President for the South Asia District of UPS Asia Pacific, where she focused on driving strategic growth for UPS’s express operations across a diverse range of 28 emerging and mature markets in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands.
Ho also served as Vice President of Intra-Asia Strategy, where she led several service enhancements and network utilisation improvements in UPS Asia Pacific network.
UPS has served businesses in China for more than 30 years. This year, UPS renewed its ten-year cooperation agreement for operations at the UPS International Hub in Shanghai Pudong International Airport through 2028. With sorting capacity of up to 17,000 pieces hourly, the hub sees 44 weekly flights that connect to more than 200 countries and territories in Europe, the Americas and Asia.
UPS has also increased its Shenzhen Asia Pacific Air Hub’s processing capacity by nearly 50% in preparation for volume gains in the coming three years. Early this year, the company introduced the UPS eFulfillment program, offering Chinese businesses an innovative way to seamlessly manage fulfilment across multiple marketplaces. With the addition of the program, UPS further augments its suite of custom e-commerce solutions that support SMEs’ global business.
“In the course of my journey with UPS, I have witnessed the evolution of the Chinese economy, which has evolved from a low-cost production model to one that is driven by value-added manufacturing, high-tech production, and a growing consumer base,” said Ho.
“UPS has remained focused on enabling the success of Chinese businesses at each stage of development by transforming with the shifts in the global and Chinese economies ... I am excited to be able to lead UPS’s efforts in this key market, in providing Chinese businesses – big and small – with comprehensive logistics solutions that will enable them to trade more efficiently around the world,” she added.
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Frictions with Alonso one of the reasons for Domenicali's early departure.
It's useful to look at different sources when the UK centric ones seem to be stuck on surprise, football coach metaphors and national stereotyping when trying to describe what happened last week at Ferrari.
Autosprint is Italy's oldest motorsport publication and historically very close to Ferrari. Usually they get it right.
Domenicali was going to retire at the end of 2014.
According to Autosprint editor in chief Alberto Sabbatini, Stefano Domenicali was planning on retiring at the end of 2014, regardless of how the season would turn out. The pressure apparently too much along with the frustration of not having been able to get the team he had assembled to go in the direction he had wanted.
It was Domenicali who had pushed for hiring Alonso in '09 despite Alonso having been "banned" from the Scuderia by Jean Todt who never forgave the Spaniard for choosing a Flavio in the hand rather than two ponies in the bush at the start of his F1 career.
So Domenicali and Alonso were close until some point last season when things boiled over and the relationship was never quite patched. Interestingly it was the same Domenicali who then pushed for Raikkonen in order to keep Ferrari from becoming too "Alonso-centric".
Domenicali saw the writing on the wall at the first Bahrain tests, The F14T showed high top speeds but only when it had no downforce. Adding load showed how the new Ferrari power unit was lacking not just power but the ability to properly manage its energy recovery. It could not recharge its stores as efficiently as the Mercedes. Add to this issues of drivability which further stressed the tires and you had a recipe for disaster.
The first races confirmed what Ferrari feared and when Luca di Montezemolo was publicly humiliated in Bahrain, storming out halfway through the race, something had to give.
Here is where it gets interesting. Domenicali could have served up some technician's head, it had been done before with Aldo Costa (now happy at Mercedes) and Chris Dyer. But this would have caused more chaos at a time when techs need double down on their work to solve issues plaguing the F14T. In any case there are no available proven engine and chassis designers free on the market currently.
So Domenicali decided to sacrifice himself and allow the team to keep working with minimal disruption while satisfying the demands from the higher ups the corporate family.
Another interesting point is the involvement of FIAT in the replacement decision. Marco Mattiacci has the approval of both John Elkann and Sergio Marchionne as well as Montezemolo. FIAT is looking to keep a lid on Ferrari's budget so blank check contracts to the likes of a Ross Brawn were nixed early on in discussions.
You have to applaud Ferrari's decision to push for a company man rather than just reach for the checkbook, you have to applaud Domenicali's courage and clarity. Mattiacci will reap the benefits of his predecessor's work and be challenged by some of his failings. The results of the first sessions for the Chinese GP with new parts installed on the red cars show how quickly fortunes can change in F1.
And Domenicali? According to friend and commentator, Leo Turrini, Stefano will be in front of the TV on Sunday cheering Ferrari and planning a new future.
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John Legend Reveals His Father's Day Plans
Time to celebrate! John Legend and Chrissy Teigen are planning to have a busy Father’s Day with their brood.
“We’re actually going to Cannes Sunday afternoon,” the EGOT winner, 40, told Us Weekly exclusively on Thursday, June 13. “Chrissy and I are both doing things for Cannes Lions, so it’s not a bad way to spend the week. We’ll spend half of Father’s Day flying there.”
While the singer admitted the flight to France would take up “most of” his special day, Legend added: “Maybe we’ll do a brunch or something beforehand.”
He and the model, 33, tied the knot in 2013 and welcomed their daughter, Luna, 3, three years later. Son Miles, 12 months, arrived in May 2018.
“He’s going to walk soon,” Legend told Us of his baby boy. “He’s, like, flirting with it every day, but he hasn’t fully taken a step on his own.”
As far as his looks, the little one is the Voice judge’s mini-me — but he doesn’t think that will always be the case. “He looks a lot like me, but I feel like I still see aspects of Chrissy in him,” the Ohio native told Us on Thursday. “Then, everyone thought Luna looked like just like me when she was a baby, but I think she’s evolved into looking more like Chrissy as she’s gotten older. We’ll see what happens as he gets older.”
The couple celebrated their baby boy’s first birthday with a “Bear-BQ-“-themed bash in May. The party featured a petting zoo with a mini horse, a bouncy slide, pool time and a teddy bear cake.
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The Best Indoor Play Spaces in LA
October 12, 2018 March 7, 2019 by B_and_T
Red Tricycle by Shahrzad Warkentin.
This rainy winter continues (sob sob) and what feels like weeks of inclement weather has us all getting a little cabin fever. Thankfully we have some super cool indoor playspaces for kids that let them run, jump, play, and give their imaginations a workout (without driving you crazy). There are even a few spots that will keep you keep your sanity with coffee bars, workspaces as well as wine and beer options. Scroll below to check out our favorite indoor play space picks.
photo: Big and Tiny via Yelp
Big and Tiny – Santa Monica
This gorgeously-designed play space in Santa Monica not only offers a creative playground for kids 6 months to 6 years old to climb, swing and jump but they’ve also partnered with the School of Wonder to offer enrichment classes that will keep your kids happily engaged.
In addition to the play space, they have an on-site cafe plus the flexibility for working parents to get some work done while their kids are pre-occupied.
Open Play: Mon.-Fri. 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sat-Sun. 9 a.m.-1 p.m. (check the schedule on weekends as they sometimes close for private events.
Rate: Two-hour open play is $18; play passes are also available $80 for 5; $140 for 10
Insider Tip: There are various co-working plans that will give working parents access to a workspace, printers, WiFi, etc. while kids enjoy enrichment classes and activities.
Online: bigandtiny.com
photo: Wild Child Gym via Facebook
Wild Child Gym – Culver City
Wild Child Gym, mixes chill Hawaiian vibes with California cool that results in a fun, interactive, eco-friendly space complete with a “grassy” hill that feels more at like natural playspace than a busy metropolitan city storefront.
Daily classes are available for “Droolers” (newborn-5 months) all the way up to “Advanced Skill and Development” (5-7 year-olds), along with free play options, birthday parties, camps for kids and workshops for kids and for the whole family. But what we really love are their extended hours—perfect for working parents or those tricky school holidays.
Open Play: Mon.-Fri. 9:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m.; Sat.-Sun. 8 a.m.-7 p.m.
Rate: Per class price is $30 (based on availability) or choose a four-week session which includes one “Wild Play” drop-in class for $100. Become a member for $25 and receive discounts on parties, events and more.
9715 Washington Blvd.
Online: wildchildgym.com
The Tree House – Tarzana
This indoor jungle gym lets your little monkeys climb and play like they’re outside all within four window-lit walls. The fully-padded structure features tunnels, and a winding slide that drops into a ball pit. There is also a pint-size merry-go-round and a separate play area for toddlers. The space is small, but there are plenty of cozy spots to sit back and relax while still getting a bird’s eye view of the entire play area.
The space also has an indoor picnic area where you can bring in your own food and snacks to eat. Coffee, juice, and water are also available for purchase.
Open Play: Mon. 10-5 p.m., Tues.-Thurs. 10-7 p.m., Fri. 10-5 p.m.
Rate: Open play is $10 per child
Insider Tip: There are tons of great restaurants within walking distance along Ventura, like D’Amores Pizza, The Carving Board, and Wanderlust Creamery so you can grab a bite or sweet treat after play time.
Online: thetreehousetarzana.com
photo: Adventureplex
Adventureplex – Manhattan Beach
There’s adventure to spare here with a ton of energy burners including a basketball court, mazes, tunnels, climbing bouncy houses, gymnastic mats and plenty of playrooms. There’s not a ton of supervision happening, but that’s ok, as you’ll want to get in there and play, too. With a ropes course and rock wall for bigger kids (note: both cost extra), Toddler Town for wee ones and even a café when need to refuel, you just might be here all day.
Open Play: Hours vary for the play structures and Toddler Town, so make sure to check the website.
Rate: Admission is $12. You can also sign up for a Flex Membership and get unlimited drop-in play for $29 per month, $19 per month for siblings
Insider Tip: Adventureplex offers Parents’ Night Out every Fri. and Sat., 5:30 – 9 p.m. for kids 3 and up if you want to get an evening away the kids will be begging for. Cost is $30, and $20 for siblings and includes dinner.
1701 Marine Ave.
Online: adventureplex.org
Maddie’s Playhouse – Northridge
Dress up, painting, building with blocks, utilizing motor skills through soft play and storytelling-the name of the game here is child-initiated play in all its many forms. It’s filled with bounceable, slideable and jumpable inflatables, an obstacle course, playhouses, dress up and more. We love it because it caters to a mix of ages, and at over 4,000 square feet has room for the jumping the bigger kids (up through about age 7) need and also a toddler area where small fry won’t get run over. With so much stuff to do and play with and explore, kids won’t get bored, and they will be eager to come back.
Open Play: Tues.-Fri.; 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Rate: $12 per child, $9 for siblings, (under 2s are $8). Multi-visit passes and memberships are available that will save you money
Insider Tip: Brent’s Deli is a few doors down for lunch. It’s one of the best and most authentic delis in town, with pickles that will live on in your memory. There are four kinds of fries for kids to pick from, a kids menu for B, L or D, and don’t leave without sampling a black & white cookie.
19559 Parthenia St.
Online: m.maddiesplayhouse.com
photo: The Coop via Facebook
The Coop – Multiple Locations
A play space for kids…and adults? The Coop is the place that doesn’t sacrifice the sanity and patience of parents for their kids to romp around in a gritty and overly cutesy play space. Free wifi and a cappuccino bar are just some of the perks for adults in this modernized play space that looks like an ad for Phillipe Starck for IKEA. Kids will love sliding into the ball pit, the touch-sensitive, luminescent dance floor, and dress-up play. There are three locations in Studio City, Redondo Beach, and the newest spot in Woodland Hills.
Open Play: Each location has different hours but all are open Mon. – Fri.
Rate: $12 per child
Insider Tip: The Woodland Hills location has a full cappuccino bar and free parking.
Locations: Woodland Hills, Studio City & Redondo Beach
Online: thecoop-la.com
Snooknuk – Larchmont
This colorful play space showcases an enchanting mural and life-size tree that transports tots to a magical landscape usually found in fairy tales. Artwork is filled with positive images families will appreciate, and music exclusively scored for Snooknuk sets the perfect tone for a happy day of fun. Many parents bring kiddos in just for a simple afternoon of play or play dates, while others come for classes but still love the convenience of having a play area to entertain siblings while they wait. Don’t forget to indulge in their on-site Caffe Luxxe gourmet coffee, pastries or paninis while the kids enjoy the play area.
Snooknuk offers a supervised play option so you can sit on the patio and get work done while the kids play. This space also offers loads of classes, plenty o’ snacks and is on the Larch. Your whole inclement day is now planned. While most of the activities are ideal for the 6 and under crew there are some classes available for older kids, up to 12 years old.
Open: Mon.-Fri. 9-6 p.m.; Sat. 9-5 p.m.
Rate: Day passes are $8, or $5 per sibling
Insider Tip: You’re on Larchmont Blvd., which means you have approximately 6 coffee options, a retail shop for kids, a resale shop for tots, a vegan and raw food spot, a vegan and GF bakery plus bookstore and two toy stores all in walking distance. Welcome to parenting paradise.
506 N. Larchmont Blvd.
Mid-City Los Angeles
Online: snooknuk.com
photo: Peekaboo Playland
Peekaboo Playland – Eagle Rock & Bel Air
Who says your kids can’t play and learn? Peekaboo Playland is the progressive and artistic indoor play space for your kids’ creative energy to flourish and grow. Let your little one explore the boundlessness of their imagination in the 3,300 square feet building. One of our favorite things is the separate baby space upstairs, where crawlers can explore without getting trampled.
Open Play: Mon. – Thurs. 10-6 p.m., Fri. 10-5 p.m.
Rate: $10 per child over 12 months, $8 for siblings and babies 6-12 months. The Bel Air location is $11 and $9 respectively
Insider Tip: Oinkster, Swork, and Four Cafe are all right nearby so you can get tasty lunch and coffee to go and eat at picnic tables here when kids need to refuel. There’s a second location in Bel Air.
Online: peekabooplayland.com
photo: Pamper & Play
Pamper & Play – Westwood
The unique twist here is that they understand that kids need to play, but parents need some pampering too. So you get a break while the kids (ages 18 months and up) can enjoy some supervised play (parents or caregivers have to stay on the premises). They also have Parents Time Out sessions for 4 hours on Sat.
Open Play: Make an appointment or walk-in Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Rate: $13; Supervised play cost $25 for two hours for kids under 3 and $20 for kids over 3
Insider Tip: During supervised sessions, free coffee and wi-fi are available so you can relax, work, or catch up on browsing your favorite parenting website.
Online: squareup.com/store/pamper-and-play
photo: Giggles N’ Hugs via Yelp
Giggles N’ Hugs – Multiple Locations
This children’s restaurant and play space have spots in Glendale and Woodland Hills full of castles, pirate ships and dragons – oh my! Kids can have loads of fun here running, jumping and playing, and there’s even plenty o’ live entertainment on tap. Play all day and pay based on mobility. Unlike most other spots, this one is open on weekends for free play, although they do host parties then as well so it can get crowded.
Open Play: Mon. – Thurs. 10:30 a.m.-8 p.m., Fri. 10:30 a.m.-9 p.m., Sat. 10 a.m.-9 p.m., Sun. 10 a.m.-7 p.m.
Rates: Big kids are $14, $11 for sibs and $8 for non-walkers
Insider Tip: It’s a restaurant (with organic, kid-friendly food). So lunch doesn’t have to be pre-packed or cobbled together out of chips and pastries. And did we mention the wine and beer?
Locations: Topanga & Glendale
Online: gigglesnhugs.com
Jump ‘n Jammin – Arcadia
Tube crawls, web crawls, barrel rolls and giant slides are just a few features of Jump ‘n Jammin’s multilevel play structure. This is a spot that is as much fun for the 3-year-old as for the 13-year-old (and Mom and Dad, too). And the best part? They don’t automatically close all weekend for parties and have other locations in Mission Viejo and West Covina.
Open: Mon.-Thurs. 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; Fri.-Sat. 10 a.m.-8 p.m.; Sun. 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Rate: $14.95 for the first child (plus adult); toddlers are $6.49 plus adult. Additional adults are $3.95
400 S. Baldwin Ave.
Online: jumpnjammin.com
photo: The Awesome Playground
The Awesome Playground – Highland Park
The aptly named spot offers a vast array of indoor and outdoor fun for the little ones up to 10 years of age, featuring a 60-foot inflatable obstacle course, a giant slide, an indoor crooked house and even a race track for the aspiring Andrettis. They also offer Parent’s Night Out at $25 for the first two hours; $10 per each additional hour.
Open Play: Mon.-Fri. 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Rates: $10 per child. Monthly memberships are $39 or you can purchase a 10 play pass for $60 that never expires
Insider Tip: If you’re here because it’s too hot to play outside (not too cold), they often break out an inflated water slide to cool kids down on broiling days. So don’t forget the change of clothes!
Online: theawesomeplayground.com
photo: The Great Escape Club
The Great Escape Club – Atwater
It’s not just a clever name. Here the monkeys can go bananas and the mommies can get down to business, each with their own dedicated space to do so. With a sweet little courtyard connecting the two diametrically different havens, arrive with a potty trained independent walker, kiss them good-bye, and off you go. The “Escape Artists” (aka awesome kid watchers) will take it from there. You leave for the land of low voices and lattes. This space is best for the under 5 crowd.
Open Play: Mon., Wed., Fri., 10 a.m.-6 p.m. and Tues., Thurs., 11 a.m.-6 p.m.
Rate: $12 for kids; $10 for additional sibling
Insider Tip: Hit Proof Bakery afterward for outstanding treats on the way home. Win-win.
Online: thegreatescapeclub.squarespace.com
photo: Kids World Family Fun Center via Yelp
Kids World Family Fun Center – Simi Valley
Even big kids who think they’re too cool for indoor playspaces will beg to spend the day here. This entertainment spot raises the standards with virtual games, climbing tubes, slides, foam ball launchers, zip lines, basketball court, American Gladiator style arena, a video game floor with motion activated games and old-school arcade. But it’s not just for big kids, there’s also a Toddler Corner designed for children newborn–3 years old for the little ones to learn and play in their own gated space.
Open: Tues.-Sun. at 10 a.m.-8 p.m.; Sat. 10 a.m.-9 p.m.; Sun 10 a.m.-7 p.m.
Rates: $11.99 admission for kids 24 months-15 years; kids under 2 are $5.99; siblings are $10.99 (weekdays only). Grip socks and arcade games are extra.
Insider Tip: Ahem, with beer (did we not mention that the café serves beer?) and video games, it satisfies everyone and is why we say it’s worth the drive for a rainy day excursion.
618 Lindero Canyon Rd.
Online: kidsworldla.com
We Rock the Spectrum Kid’s Gym – Multiple Locations
We love this unique gym that caters to children with autism and special needs creating a safe and warm environment where they can play and strengthen their muscles and skills. While kids can just have fun, you’ll know that everything here actually serves a positive purpose: swings promote balance, the zip line is for stress release and joint and body relaxation, the trampoline builds core strength and play structures, sensory-based toys and arts & crafts areas all work on motor, social and eye-hand skills. It’s for kids at every spot of the spectrum, and kids of all ages and abilities will have a ball. Rates and hours vary by location. Some spots also offer drop-off care.
Open Play: Mon.-Sun. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. (Call ahead on weekends to confirm openings)
Rate: $14 per child (siblings $12)
Insider Tip: The whole place is cleaned top to bottom daily with only green products, so the planet will stay as healthy as our kids.
Locations: Tarzana, Redondo Beach, Studio City, Woodland Hills, Glendale, Santa Monica & Lawndale
Online: werockthespectrumkidsgym.com
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Santa Monica’s new Big and Tiny is play are for kids, co-working space for parents
September 14, 2018 March 7, 2019 by B_and_T
By Abc7 News.
A new business that is both a children’s learning spot and a co-working space for parents has opened up shop in the neighborhood. Located at 1731 Ocean Park Blvd. in Santa Monica, the new arrival is called Big and Tiny.
Founded by a working mom and entrepreneur, this newcomer strives “to support and empower” parents and guardians so they can better balance personal and professional lives, explains the business on its website.
An assortment of developmental and educational classes are on offer, from preschool prep and after-school programs to enrichment classes such as Tiny Islanders — a 13-week course designed to introduce little ones to the Polynesian Islands through dance, song, children’s literature and play. (You can view a full listing of classes and programs here.)
A dedicated co-working area is available as well, for parents in need of some quiet working space or much-needed time off.
The fresh arrival has proven popular thus far, with a five-star rating out of seven reviews on Yelp.
Gina A., who was among the first Yelpers to review the new spot on Aug. 14, wrote, “I signed my daughter up for summer camp and she had a blast! Some days I stayed and got some work done in the co-working area or hung out in the quiet back patio just reading a book. The space is exquisitely decorated and is perfect for either work or just relax.”
“My 3.5-year-old goes here and it’s honestly been a game-changer for us!” shared Yelper Aaron I. “She does yoga, learns music, gets to play with other little ones and is sharpening her skills as a thoughtful member of society, all in one brilliantly designed space with great people leading the charge.”
Intrigued? Stop in to check it out for yourself. Big and Tiny is open from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. on weekdays.
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Growing Opioid Crisis Tests Limits Of Methadone Clinics; Advocates Favor Expansion
By Steve Hamm | October 16, 2019
Jose DeJesus pulls his silver minivan out of a parking lot in back of a row of historic houses on New Haven’s Congress Avenue. He points with pride to the flowers he planted around the lot. Then he grimly spins a commentary as he gives a tour of the surrounding Hill neighborhood. • There’s the John C. Daniels School, where parents are dropping off kids and where a man overdosed and died near a rear stairwell over the summer. • Across the street, there’s the APT Foundation clinic, where clients in recovery from opioid use come every morning for methadone.
By Steve Hamm | July 30, 2019
In 2018, Dean and Paula Palozej found their son, Spencer, on the floor of his home in Manchester. Spencer was one day shy of his 30th birthday and he was found dead of a fentanyl overdose. Spencer, who worked as a landscaper, started taking oxycodone for pain after two surgeries in his early 20s. A friend told his father that he took a fentanyl pill thinking it was oxycodone. Palozej unloaded on the pharmaceutical industry, which is blamed by many for the explosion in prescription opioid use and abuse nationwide over the past two decades. “I’m disgusted with what they did—the greed they had,” he said.
Fentanyl Crisis Prompts Change In Treatment Strategies
By Steve Hamm | June 26, 2019
Joseph Deane had been drug free for months before he overdosed in the bathroom of a restaurant in New Haven last December. He couldn’t resist when his dealer offered drugs. Unfortunately, the dope turned out to be fentanyl. Deane, just 23 years old, had been fighting addiction for years, but fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, took his life because it’s 50 to 100 times more powerful than heroin. After months without drugs, his body couldn’t handle it.
Filling The Primary Care Gap: Nurse Practitioners
By Steve Hamm | February 11, 2019
Alison McGrory-Watson, a private cook who lives in Deep River, had serious medical problems, including Hepatitis C and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), when she was assigned Nichole Mitchell as her primary care provider at Community Health Center Inc. (CHC) in Middletown. McCrory-Watson was uninsured, and Mitchell went to great lengths to get financial assistance for two new drugs aimed at addressing her medical problems. As a result, McGrory-Watson is now Hep C-free, and she hopes a drug she’s taking for PTSD will quell the lingering effects of being gang-raped as a teenager and witnessing a brutal stabbing as an adult.
There’s something about Mitchell that might surprise you. She’s not a doctor; she’s a nurse. A nurse practitioner (NP), to be precise. But McGrory-Watson insists that the care Mitchell provides is every bit as good as she would get from a physician.
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Outreach Programs Target Asthma Hot Spots, But More Help Is Needed
By Steve Hamm | November 14, 2018
Robert Carmon had a rough start to life. Shortly after birth he developed asthma, a chronic disease that causes inflammation in the lungs and difficulty breathing. His attacks were so severe as an infant that his parents rushed him to the emergency room practically every week. They were terrified he might die. Today, at age 7, Robert’s asthma has stabilized.
Street Medicine: Helping The Homeless Where They Live
By Steve Hamm | April 25, 2018
Homeless people tend to have trust issues, but when Phil Costello approaches they typically greet him like family. That’s because Costello, the clinical director for homeless care at Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center in New Haven, puts effort into building relationships and trust so he can get people the medical care they need. Quentin Staggers, homeless for nearly a decade, credits Costello with saving his life. He awoke one day on a bench on the New Haven Green with a blinding headache. He saw Costello and asked for help.
Easing Of Federal Nursing Home Regulations Raises Concerns In Connecticut
Three years ago, Meredith Phillips’ mother, Georgia Svolos, fell and broke her kneecap, setting off a downward spiral that landed her in nursing homes on and off for a year. In one facility, she fell and broke her knee again, necessitating more surgery. All of the facilities were noisy and chaotic, and one smelled of feces. So, when Phillips learned recently about moves by the Trump administration to ease regulations and fines on nursing homes, she was alarmed. “I’m horrified and frightened,” says Phillips, who lives in Westbrook.
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Twin Cities Books with Mary Ann Grossmann
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Pioneer Press and TwinCities.com books editor Mary Ann Grossmann discusses and reads from the following books:
“Deadly Harvest,” by Michael Stanley (Bourbon Street Books, $14.99)
“Silken Prey,” by John Sandford (Putnam, $27.95)
“Z,” by Therese Anne Fowler (St. Martin’s Press, $25.99)
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Playlist Podcast: Things to do the weekend of April 26
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Pioneer Press entertainment writers Amy Carlson Gustafson, Chris Hewitt and Ross Raihala discuss things to do this weekend, including the St. Paul Art Crawl; comedy shows by Tom Papa and Anthony Jeselnik; the movies “Mud” (Chris’ favorite of the year), “Blancanieves” and “Pain and Gain”; Cloud Cult’s CD release show; and other music shows by Diana Krall and Fleetwood Mac.
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Pioneer Press and TwinCities.com books editor Mary Ann Grossmann discusses and reads from “Sinners and the Sea: The Untold Story of Noah’s Wife” by Rebecca Kanner (Howard Books/Simon& Schuster, $24.99), “Being Esther” by Miriam Karmel (Milkweed Editions, $22), and “Vacationland” by Sarah Stonich (University of Minnesota Press, $16.95).
Pioneer Press entertainment writers Amy Carlson Gustafson, Chris Hewitt and Ross Raihala discuss things to do this weekend, including the Minneapolis Print and Drawing Fair; the Valley Meadow Comedy Show; the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival and the new movies “Give Me the Loot,” “Disconnect,” “Oblivion” and “The Company You Keep”; an EP release show by Joey Ryan and the Inks; actress Katey Sagal in a “Sons of Anarchy” music show; and concerts by the Black Angels, the Warlocks, Jim James, Johnny Marr and REO Speedwagon with Styx and Ted Nugent.
Support Your Local Filmmaker
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On the movies page on this website, you’ll find my guides to the first couple weeks of the ongoing Minneapolis/St. Paul Film Festival. But I also wanted to point out that many films with local ties are part of the festival (and many of the local filmmakers will be at their screenings). All screenings are at St Anthony Main in Minneapolis:
“American Heart” — Health troubles add another degree of difficulty for refugees, who meet up with dedicated physicians at a primary care clinic in Minnesota. April 18, 6:30 p.m.
“Persistence of Vision” — Breck school alum Kevin Schreck takes a look at what’s billed as the greatest animated film never completed. April 19, 6:30 p.m.
“With Impunity: Men and Gender Violence” — Documentarian Dan Bergin will attend. April 21, 6:15 p.m.
“Camelina: Seed to Oil” — Southern Minnesota farmers show how they farm camelina seeds. April 22, 5:10 p.m.
“Living With the Land” — Minnesotans and others talk about simpler lifestyles, including living off the grid. April 22, 5:10
“The Price of Sand” — Presented on Earth Day, the documentary looks at fracking in Minnesota and surrounding state. April 22, 7:30 p.m.
“Too Cold Out There Without You” — Christopher Fike began life as a woman but now identifies as a man, who is also a minister. April 24, 7:15 p.m.
“Girl With a Bike” — Eric Tretbar’s feature is about a woman whose purchase of a motorcycle leads her to a walk on the wild side. April 26, 6:30 p.m.
“Making Light in Terezin” — A Minnesota theatrical troupe travels to the Czech Republic to perform a cabaret piece that was created in the CR’s Terezin ghetto during World War II. April 28, 4 p.m.
Pioneer Press and TwinCities.com entertainment writers Amy Carlson Gustafson and Chris Hewitt discuss things to do this weekend, including checking out their Spring Arts Guide, out this weekend, and the movies “Trance” by director Danny Boyle and Terrence Malick’s “To the Wonder.” Music from the Strokes’ new album “Comedown Machine.”
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Many people who actually knew Roger Ebert will do a better job of memorializing him, but I think it’s worth noting that you didn’t need to know him well to know what a good egg he was.
The Chicago Sun Times movie critic, whose cancer recurred and ended his life this week, was the dean of the profession and he was widely beloved. My two, brief encounters with him showed me why. The first encounter was at the Oscars in 1995. I was new to this job and intimidated by the hugeness and unfamiliarity of the event, as well as by the then-new technology of filing a story remotely on a laptop. But I lucked out: In the backstage tent where Oscar reporters are stashed, I was sitting across a big table from Ebert, who kindly helped me with the connections and explained how the q/a’s worked when winners zipped into our tent for a few minutes. Without his help, I’d probably still be searching for an electrical outlet and would certainly never have figured out how to get noticed so I could ask winner Jessica Lange a question about her best actress trophy.
The second encounter was at the Walker Art Center in, I think, 1999. He was there with his pal, director, Werner Herzog, for a tribute to Herzog’s work. That time, what came through more than anything was Ebert’s passion for his work and for movies. He had already been doing his job for more than two decades but it was inspiring to hear him rave about the movies he was jazzed about and to see the teasing relationship between him and Herzog. Both of those things come through in this lovely little note Ebert later wrote Herzog, after seeing his latest documentary:
Dear Werner, You have done me the astonishing honor of dedicating your new film, “Encounters at the End of the World,” to me. Since I have admired your work beyond measure for the almost 40 years since we first met, I do not need to explain how much this kindness means to me. When I saw the film at the Toronto Film Festival and wrote to thank you, I said I wondered if it would be a conflict of interest for me to review the film, even though of course you have made a film I could not possibly dislike. I said I thought perhaps the solution was to simply write you a letter. But I will review the film, my friend, when it arrives in theaters on its way to airing on the Discovery Channel. I will review it, and I will challenge anyone to describe my praise as inaccurate. I will review it because I love great films and must share my enthusiasm.
That was written in the midst of Ebert’s many battles with cancer but he kept coming back to work, even when cancer took his jaw and forced him to “speak” via a computer that constructed sentences from his many TV appearances on “At the Movies.” So it’s no surprise that, when his latest illness was announced just two days ago on his Twitter feed (@ChicagoEbert), he closed with, “I’ll see you at the movies.” We got to know him through his reviews and, even though I would love to have known him, I feel like I kinda did.
Playlist Podcast: Things to do the weekend of April 5
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Pioneer Press entertainment writers Chris Hewitt and Ross Raihala discuss things to do this weekend, including Twin Cities band 4 On The Floor’s CD release party (for their new album “Spirit of Minneapolis”) on Saturday night at First Avenue. Hewitt talks about the remake of “Evil Dead,” and professes his undying love for Jurassic Park and what he thinks of the new 3D version. He also talks about “A Place Beyond the Pines,” starring Ryan Gosling, and featuring some crazy motorcycles and tattoos. Ross talks about the band Garbage, who are playing Friday night at Mill City Nights, a certain someone from The Monkees, and the Cold War Kids, who have just announced a joint show with The Lumineers at the Target Center in May. And, of course, Bon Jovi will grace Twin Citians with his presence on Sunday, April 7.
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Welch Paper says Salmon Delayed Mortality
Happens Farther Out in Ocean
by Rocky Barker
Idaho Statesman, June 30, 2009
Canadian scientist David Welch has moderated his conclusions about the effects of eight dams on the Columbia and Snake rivers on migrating Idaho salmon.
But he still thinks the evidence shows the problems for Idaho's fish lie in the ocean, not the rivers. Welch has a new peer reviewed study in the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences that shows salmon in the Snake and Salmon in the Yakima, which only have to go through four dams, survive the trip to his first acoustic monitor in the ocean at about the same rate.
That suggests, he said, the delayed mortality clearly documented in the Snake River fish, must be happening further out in the ocean. This challenges the prevailing idea that the delayed mortality happens in the estuary and as the fish leave the Columbia because of stress and timing issues from negotiating the dams.
What Welch says the new study demonstrates is that his Pacific Ocean Shelf Tracking System, is a reliable tool for studying salmon in the ocean.
Two years ago he said the Idaho fish that have to swim through eight dams survive the first part of the ocean trip as well as Washington salmon that only must negotiate four dams. But scientists questioned whether he had enough sample and also raised questions about how the transmitters placed in larger fish leave smaller, more vulnerable salmon out of the sample.
Welch's paper in 2008 said survival of salmon migrating from Idaho to the Pacific through the Snake and the Columbia was the same for spring chinook and actually higher for steelhead than salmon migrating out of the Fraser River in British Columbia.
Welch's research is highly controversial, especially in Canada, but the Bonneville Power Administration has been a major funder of his work.
His latest results are certain to keep his work controversial. His first issue amongst scientists is the small size of his samples.
This time Welch addresses the delayed mortality issue he has not tackled in the past. It gives his work more credibility but still doesn't overcome the sample issues that are huge. The fish transmitters were installed at the Kooskia hatchery in North Idaho.
"It remains unclear whether the entire size range of these two populations, as well as wild smolts, have similar survival and behavior as the smolts reported here," Welch and his coauthors wrote.
Overall Welch hypothesizes that since salmon return to their same rivers to spawn there is at least some logic in the idea they may return to the same places in the ocean. His latest study adds to his evidence but still falls short of the proof he continues to seek.
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Arbitration News - It May Be Going to Court
By RJChicago, August 17, 2019 in International Wrestling
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Here is some Yianni/Zain legal proceedings news - forgive me if this has already been posted. Allow me to first say that while I believe this is accurate as of now based on the party that told this to me - this could change - I heard this from someone in the legal community who is purportedly involved in this upcoming legal challenge - and he is obviously very reliable.
With that said, here is the news: the parties who lost the arbitration are taking this to court to challenge the overturning of Match 2. Or really what they are challenging is the arbitrator's after-the-fact correction of an on-the-mat ruling. I was almost reluctant to post this because this could change. This is accurate as of now, but the situation is fluid and the legal challenge could be dropped or changed at any time. The thing is - and I'm not sure about this - but to any lawyers out there this is an interesting wrinkle in this - I'm interested to see who the party that challenges it is. There are numerous parties who could have standing due to being adversely affected by the arbitrator's ruling. Obviously, Zain himself (though I doubt he will be the legal challenging party - though Keith Sieracki was indeed directly the party in his legal case (at least according to that lawyer) - or it could be NWLC or it could be like USA Wrestling or whatever group put on Finals X and had their call overturned in arbitration (though that would be weird too for other reasons). In any event, it is just an interesting wrinkle for those legally minded folks to see who the party to this challenge will be.
Edited August 17, 2019 by RJChicago
4 hours ago, RJChicago said:
Fascinating. Now I really want to see the arbitrator’s award.
Very doubtful they could even get a potential lawsuit resolved before worlds begin in five weeks.
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headache 100
15 minutes ago, Katie said:
I wonder if they could even get a potential lawsuit resolved in court before worlds begin in five weeks. It would certainly take some sort of expedited process.
A temporary restraining order is the only possibility. But since the world are coming up so quick, a TRO would essentially just hand it to Zain with no recourse for Yianni. Bottom line - no judge is going to mess with this.
NJDan 457
The problem is not standing -- Zain has standing. And it's not timing-- a TRO can be awarded in one day. The problem is that it's almost impossible to overturn an arbitration award and there are no grounds to do so.
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"Bad for the sport"?
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7 minutes ago, headache said:
I don’t believe a TRO would resolve the lawsuit. It would simply require some status quo until the actual resolution.
I think you’re right that it would be difficult to actually overturn an arbitrators award.
But with time being an issue, filing a lawsuit — even if it proves unsuccessful in the end — could prove to affect the timeline of the wrestle-off (or perhaps even prevent one altogether).
of course I have no inside information and this is not a subject I’m very knowledgeable about
There is not enough time to litigate this except on a TRO basis. So technically a lawsuit would remain but it would be tried after the worlds. There is no point in that. Zain better win it on the mat.
Crotalus 252
Cael would never get lawyers involved, so we can rule out Zain or NLWC being the ones filing anything.
Also, given the arbiters ruling, I'm not sure how any sort of additional legal action that delayed a wrestle-off would give Zain the spot as opposed to leaving us without a representative. Giving Zain the spot while awaiting further legal action would leave USA wrestling open to a lawsuit with damages from Yianni. I feel they would have to hold the spot open until a wrestle-off occurs.
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32 minutes ago, jon said:
not nearly as bad as incoherent officiating.
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DanGerMan 18
Wasn't this binding arbitration? I was of the belief that all parties agree to accept the arbitrator's decision as final and cannot take further
legal action after the ruling is made.
Cael has to get his way.
5 minutes ago, DanGerMan said:
Arbitration awards can be challenged on a few narrow grounds, I believe. I don’t think they are often overturned. (Again, I am no expert on the subject.)
What interests me about a potential legal challenge is what it does to the timing of a wrestle off.
Good points everyone. Just had another conversation about this and a TRO of course is the only option. It seems that in situations like this they will have a sort of mini-trial even though no one calls it that, in which Zain/USAW/NLWC/whoever the litigant is has to basically show that they would have a good chance of prevailing on the merits if there were a full trial - which is a fairly high bar. Most/many courts now are apparently using something called a sort of modified Hand formula where they weigh the need for immediate relief (TRO), the harm caused by not granting that immediate relief if their side were to prevail (but then have no remedy because they didn't get relief in time).
So it is a fairly high bar, but what is working on the side of the side trying to overturn the arbiter's decision and go back to the call on the mat, is that these TROs have apparently become much easier to obtain in the recent legal environment. Apparently, courts are granting them more easily in recent years (and some courts apparently are granting them especially easily) (kind of like the hundreds of nationwide injunctions that have been granted in the last few years by federal courts, even though previously those were an extraordinary remedy) - and with forum shopping (which is a major thing in TROs because if they get a sympathetic court, that court maybe shouldn't have jurisdiction and the defendants could get the case moved - but it would take some time for that side to prevail - and the whole point of Zain's side is to just to push this thing a couple weeks or whatever so that the wrestle-off doesn't happen before acclimation and Zain is by default on the team at that point) and courts who are sometimes reducing the bar for these types of what used to be extraordinary remedy situations - it is much easier to get these in today's legal milieu, but by no means simple. Using the modified Hand formula they will clearly show the need for immediately relief and the harm from not getting if they ultimately prevailed - so the whole thing will come down to that side showing they are quite likely to prevail on the merits in this sort of mini-trial.
So I gather that Zain has a great shot of getting a TRO if Trump comes out for Yainni. Otherwise not.
Fake news. Sad!
38 minutes ago, RJChicago said:
You have no idea what you are talking about. The more you say, the less we know.
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10 minutes ago, NJDan said:
Break it down for us NJDan. I certainly don't know.
NJDan - I agree with you, I do not know anything about this subject. But these are the words of a litigator - not involved in this matter - who has litigated many high-profile TRO matters in federal courts. I literally just asked him about this and tried to write down his response on here. I also read about the Hand formula, though not in the context of TROs, and I kind of see how this has influenced courts on TRO matters. I'll post some interesting articles I just read about it below. I believe what this litigator was saying is that courts are doing more of these sorts of balancing tests - the magnitude of harm versus probability of succeeding harm-utility tests - and that though courts don't actually discuss the Hand formula in TRO cases - this sort of equation - multiplying the likelihood of success in a full-trial by the magnitude of harm if a TRO/emergency relief is not granted - has begun to be used and that partly explains why many more of these TRO/emergency relief orders have been granted in the last decade or so. Like you said, I do not know much about this though and have to rely on others who do and am trying to report that.
My own prediction, not being an expert, is that it is very unlikely that a court would ever grant a TRO/emergency relief on this, unless they somehow ended up in (picked) the perfect forum that is much more friendly towards these type of claims then most courts are.
https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1150&context=penn_law_review_online
https://academic.oup.com/lpr/article/5/1/1/990799
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I was about to give you kudos for the best troll job in recent memory until I realized you are actually serious.
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As credible as the OP's info is (and it sounds very credible), I doubt the NLWC or Zain is pursuing this, and I doubt the matter will actually end up in court.
Zain knows he needs to focus solely on winning one match; anything else is a distraction.
1 hour ago, RJChicago said:
Either your friend is also ignorant or you mangled what he said. For one thing, you cannot just "pick" a forum. The forum would be determined by where the arbitration was held or the arbitration agreement.
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It’s going to peoples court
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You sound like you definitely know what you are talking about - so I'm sure your right. I'm enjoying learning about this - so I again just dug into this a little and I just asked someone who knows a lot more about this than me and he said that what you described is absolutely true in the letter of the law but there are more federal judges who are ruling in cases that technically should not be under their jurisdiction and this is a major area of contention. Sometimes the battle about which court a case should be in or whether it is justiciable at all are sometimes fought over for a year or more at the trial court level - with hearings, rulings, appeals, etc. - with both sides spending tons of time fighting about whether a particular court is the proper forum, or whether or
If it were as cut and dried as their only one proper forum, then their wouldn't be major supreme court cases like the one below that directly weigh in on forum shopping fights, or thousands of pages of law review articles like the one below. Nor would their be a multi-billion dollar industry, patent trolling, which many legal minds say would not have existed (at least in the magnitude that it did) if the plaintiffs couldn't forum shop. Apparently, again maybe this is wrong but this is what I was told, that patent trolls, no matter where they were in the country and regardless of where the corporate entities were and were the relevant conduct occurred that probably should have dictated which court those proceedings would be in - regardless of all of that stuff - apparently patent troll cases all ended up in the same district court in Texas due to forum shopping by the plaintiffs. Its kind of wild apparently the small town of Marshall, Texas (24,000 people according to the article below) ended up deciding tens of billions of dollars worth of patent cases from all over the country and even all over the world.
https://www.nutter.com/ip-law-bulletin/forum-shopping-in-the-eastern-district-of-texas
https://www.wsj.com/articles/supreme-court-further-curbs-plaintiffs-venue-shopping-with-bristol-myers-ruling-1497913350
https://www.law360.com/articles/1135930/venue-ruling-invites-forum-shopping-pa-appeals-court-told
https://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3195&context=clr
https://www.yalelawjournal.org/forum/nationwide-injunctions-venue-considerations
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Hook, line and sinker...lol
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Can I sue for the mental anguish this process is causing me via the ridiculous posts I’m being subjected to just to find out any useful information related to the decision.
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Radiofrequency power disinfects and disinfests food, soils and wastewater
California Agriculture > Volume 60 > Number 4 > review article
Manuel C. Lagunas-Solar, Department of Chemical Engineering and Material Sciences, UC Davis
Nolan X. Zeng, Department of Chemical Engineering and Material Sciences, UC Davis
Timothy K. Essert, Department of Chemical Engineering and Material Sciences, UC Davis
Tin D. Truong, Department of Chemical Engineering and Material Sciences, UC Davis
U. Cecilia Piña, Department of Chemical Engineering and Material Sciences, UC Davis
California Agriculture 60(4):192-199. https://doi.org/10.3733/ca.v060n04p192
California, disinfection, food safety, foods
Radiofrequency (RF) is an advanced telecommunication technology first invented in the early 1900s, which is in use today for wireless communication worldwide. Because of its ability to penetrate and heat various materials, RF has the potential to disinfect and/or disinfest food, agricultural and environmental materials. However, research to validate this approach has been restricted by limited understanding of how RF photons interact with materials, and by limited access to and the high cost of its source electronics. Since the early 1990s, we have conducted research at UC Davis on continuous RF power applications using nonconventional RF systems and new operational concepts. Laboratory tests have successfully demonstrated the effectiveness of RF power to disinfect and/or disinfest fresh produce, rice, soils, agricultural wastewater, and other foods and materials. Likewise, rapid pulses of RF are lethal to arthropod pests and may provide a nonthermal disinfestation process for fresh, temperature-sensitive commodities, as well as a promising alternative to the fumigant methyl bromide.
A major challenge in producing and distributing disease- and insect-free foods is the need to maintain their sensory and nutritional attributes while minimizing the adverse impacts of treatment. This challenge emerged because of consumer attitudes and market expectations concerning the safety, quality and condition of foods; the adverse environmental impacts of agricultural practices; and expanding global markets, which impose logistical demands on regional, national and international trade.
UC Davis researchers have developed a prototype for automatic, computer-controlled batch and conveyorized applications of radiofrequency power. The system can disinfect and/or disinfest fresh produce, ready-to-eat foods, milk and juices, as well as agricultural products such as rice and wastewater.
To a large extent, food safety depends on the use of adequate disinfection and disinfestation techniques, while quality is maintained by integrating multiple handling, packaging, and storage and distribution practices. Disinfection is aimed at eliminating spoilage and pathogenic organisms to reduce storage losses and prevent food-related illnesses. The disinfection of nonfood agricultural commodities such as soils, feeds and waste materials is also needed, either because they are recycled or used in food production, or to protect the environment. Disinfestation (control of insect pests) is needed mostly to comply with trade barriers aimed at preventing the spread of nonnative arthropod pests. Pesticides, refrigeration, packaging and modified atmosphere storage are the technologies most often used today for disinfection and disinfestation. New, noninvasive, user-friendly and economically viable processing technologies are needed to meet evolving consumer expectations and trade standards.
A research project was established at UC Davis to study, evaluate and demonstrate new radiofrequency (RF) processing applications for food, agricultural and environmental materials. We review laboratory-scale results for several RF processes with potential commercial applications, and provide preliminary economic estimates for their installation and operation. Our experimental methods are described briefly and generally; the scientific and technical details of many of these results have been or are being reported elsewhere.
How radiofrequency power works
RF is an advanced telecommunication technology first invented in the early 1900s, which is in use today for wireless communication worldwide. Traditionally, RF energy refers to nonionizing electromagnetic radiation with frequencies ranging from approximately 30 megahertz (MHz) (wavelength = 11 yards [10 meters]) to 300 MHz (wavelength = 1.1 yards [1 meter]). However, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) allows other frequencies to be utilized for industrial, scientific and medical applications (e.g., 13.56 and 27.12 MHz) (Kasevich 1998). Our studies focused on the use of lower frequencies outside the FCC domain, ranging from 300 kilohertz (kHz) (wavelength = 1,094 yards [1,000 meters]) to 10 MHz (wavelength = 36.1 yards [33 meters]). Early tests demonstrated the potential advantages of lower frequencies, in terms of the type and efficiency of RF interactions with different materials. Within the lower frequency range, very high (> 80%) overall energy-use efficiencies are achievable with modern design and engineering systems. These novel RF systems can be manufactured and operated with significant savings, and increased ruggedness and reliability as compared with conventional RF systems.
Unprocessed (left) and processed (right) apple juice; the photo shows no microbial growth on the RF-processed sample, even after both samples were stored for 19 months at room temperature.
An Angoumois grain moth larva emerges from a rice kernel. In laboratory experiments, RF processing achieved 100% disinfestation of the moth with no effects on rice quality.Unprocessed (left) and processed (right) apple juice; the photo shows no microbial growth on the RF-processed sample, even after both samples were stored for 19 months at room temperature.
RF power is produced when electricity is applied to an RF generator whose signal is amplified and delivered to a parallel electrode system (RF cavity), in which a selected material is placed (fig. 1). Within the RF cavity, an oscillating electric field is created, and energy is transferred to the treated material through electronic-field interactions with dipole or induced dipole molecules (those formed by the polarization of neutral molecules). These dipole molecules are forced to reorient within the changing electronic field, which results in movement or drifting that causes internal friction and creates thermal energy (heat). The process is known as “RF thermal processing” or simply “RF heating.”
At certain frequencies or frequency bands, some foods and nonfood materials can be heated preferentially and faster, creating rapid thermal effects on pests but minimal interactions with the host material. This is due to the difference in electrical conductivity between arthropod pests (high) and the host commodity (low). This process is called “selective or differential RF heating” and could provide an alternative disinfestation process for thermally sensitive fruit and vegetable products. In general, complex organisms such as arthropod pests are more severely and easily affected by heat. The higher response of pests and lesser sensitivity of host commodities offer a window of opportunity for disinfestation with minimal or no impact on the commodity (fig. 2).
The differential effect is generally less effective with microbial contaminants, since microbes are significantly smaller in mass and are usually well attached to a much larger volume (and mass) host, thus being rapidly and effectively cooled. For disinfection to occur, the microbe must reach lethal temperatures, which are usually also deleterious to the host commodity. However, RF heating induces the thermal inactivation of biological organisms (such as fungi, bacteria, protozoa, parasites and nematodes), viruses and enzymes, as well as arthropod pests present in heat-tolerant commodities (such as dried fruits, grains, nuts, seeds, wastewater and soils).
RF thermal power formula
The thermal power induced by RF is given by the following formula: P = 55.61 x 10–14 E2 v ∊″ (1) where P is the thermal power generated (W/cm3); E is the electric field strength in (V/cm); v is the RF frequency in (Hz); and ∊” is the dielectric loss factor of the material (intrinsic property). The dielectric loss factor (∊“) largely depends on the material's chemical composition and is essentially the ease by which molecules can be heated by an RF field.
Unlike traditional surface heating, RF penetrates deeply into foods and agricultural materials (see formula 1). The surfaces of the treated materials are slightly colder because of radiation losses, and the insides are heated homogeneously and at controllable rates. In general, RF heating eliminates surface overheating, reducing thermal loads and allowing a food's quality and nutritional attributes to be maintained.
Dielectrics: material (isolator) that does not conduct electricity
Dipole: material having two equal but opposite charges or magnetic poles
Gram-negative: not forming a color precipitate when treated with alcohol (Gram's staining method for bacteria identification)
Gram-positive: forming color when treated with Gram's method
cfu: colony-forming units
Hz: hertz
kV: kilovolts
kW: kilowatts
kWh: kilowatt hour
MAP: Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis
MHz: megahertz
RF: radiofrequency
W: watts
Types of RF treatments
Capacitive heating
Common materials such as water (a major component of most foods), and most cellulose-based and plastic materials used in packaging, are generally inactive or transparent to RF. Other materials such as soils, wood, dried foods, grains, and nut products absorb RF readily and can be heated rapidly. RF photons easily penetrate these commodities, allowing them to be processed in large masses while heating the material thoroughly. This process is known as “capacitive heating.”
Conductive heating is utilized for moist materials such as foods (fresh fruit, vegetables, juices), and agricultural (animal feeds, fishmeal) and environmental (soil, wastewater) materials. The electrical conductivity of these materials is high, promoting the interaction of electrical current in the material to generate heat. Conductive heating can be optimized over a low-frequency band (e.g., 150 kHz to 5 MHz), with high energy absorption and energy-use efficiencies (> 90%). When complex mixtures of materials having different RF properties are processed, each component can be heated directly at different rates and a threshold temperature reached to assure efficacy (Lagunas-Solar et al. 2003).
Ultra-short pulses
RF energy can also be delivered in ultra-short pulses (micro to milliseconds) (μs to ms), creating very high peak (instant) RF power levels. When energy is delivered in ultra-short time pulses, biological targets such as insects and mites are subjected to instantaneous high thermal levels without compromising the host material. Pulsed RF generates mostly nonthermal effects in the host. During the pulse, intense electrical fields induce molecular polarization, which forms dipoles; realignment of dipoles with the RF field becomes the major mechanism for energy transfer. These polarization effects can disinfect some biological materials, because it causes cellular changes including modifications in membrane potential, permeability and structural properties (electroporation).
In the laboratory, pulsed RF has induced lethal biological effects on arthropod pests without thermal effects on the host (Lagunas-Solar and Essert 2004). However, for pulsed RF systems to operate reliably with high pulse-repetition rates (pulses per second), further system design and engineering is needed. The potential for nonthermal disinfestation of fresh produce in conveyorized operations, with high energy-use efficiency, promises a nonchemical alternative to pesticides that merits further investigation.
Selective RF heating effects were suggested as a potential insect control for grains several decades ago (Nelson and Charity 1972), but no demonstrations with fresh produce have been reported.
We exposed fresh fruits and vegetables individually and identically in a RF research cavity (840 watts [W] input power, 6 kilovolts per centimeter [kV/cm], 1 MHz, 4 minutes) and the results were normalized for comparison purposes. Because RF heating effects are mostly determined by the material's chemical composition ( see formula, page 193 ), powdered yeast was used to represent microbes (e.g., fungi, bacteria, protozoa) while ants (Pogonomyrmex subdentatus) were chosen as surrogates for insect and mite pests. We also studied materials commonly used to package fresh produce, such as foam board, wood (Douglas fir, pine and redwood) and polyethylene.
Fig. 1 Components of an RF cavity. Permanent and induced dipoles within the cavity are forced to realign to the changing electronic field, creating friction that generates thermal energy (heat). Molecules that are not permanent dipoles (transparent mass) and cannot be polarized are inactive or transparent within the RF cavity. Insect pests (conductive/absorbent mass) absorb RF, rapidly heating up and dying (disinfestation).
Fig. 2 Differential (selective) heating effects for samples individually treated with 840 W at 1 MHz for 4 minutes, with an electric field of 6 kV/cm. Temperatures were measured with nonmetallic (alcohol) thermometers during RF processing; the change in temperature is shown. Similar results were obtained with fresh vegetables (asparagus, carrot, cucumber, eggplant, garlic, onion, pepper, potato) (data not shown).
Significantly different heating rates and temperatures were observed between the commodities (lowest heating rates), packaging materials (medium) and particularly model pest contaminants (highest) (fig. 2). Minor heating (~ 54°F [~ 12°C] maximum for cranberries) was observed in fresh commodities with a range of 39°F to 46°F (4°C to 8°C) for all others, indicating that a low thermal load (temperature x time) was well tolerated by fresh commodities. Increased temperatures were rapidly lowered by heat losses reaching ambient temperature (~ 72°F [~ 22°C]) in a few minutes. Insects reached a level lethal to all arthropod pests (> 194°F [90°C]). Yeasts heated faster with lower levels of moisture (e.g., dried commodities), suggesting that microbial disinfection in moist products is unlikely. All plastic packaging materials heated at levels similar to the fruits, while wood materials heated faster, suggesting the potential use of RF processing for disinfestation.
Hot water immersion is currently a common practice to disinfest fresh commodities. Selective RF heating for dry thermal disinfestation appears possible and may provide an easily adapted alternative for conveyorized operations with single fruits or fruit packages. If developed, it would be especially useful for organic products. Challenges to developing this process include measuring the RF properties of fresh produce over a frequency band useful to optimize process efficiencies and minimize uneven heating due to the often-irregular shapes of fruits and vegetables. Our operational cost estimates appear to be competitive at $0.0024 per pound ($0.0054 per kg) and comparable to other RF processes. Prototyping for small-scale field demonstrations will be needed to evaluate the efficacy of RF processing and confirm its economics and logistics.
TABLE 1 RF thermal disinfection of foods and nonfoods inoculated with human pathogens⋆
Processed or partially processed foods often contain pathogens from natural or humanmade sources (IFT 2002). For effective disinfection, a threshold temperature must be reached in all of the food's components. With conventional surface heating, the food surface must be overheated, since heat must be conducted throughout its entire volume. We tested RF thermal disinfection in two types of freshly prepared Japanese bento boxes (n = 30 each). Samples of each component were inoculated with Escherichia coli O157:H7 and/or Salmonella thyphimurium, both important food pathogens.
Closed plastic packages were treated with the goal of reaching a minimum temperature of 158°F (70°C) in every component. After processing, the treated and control samples were assayed using standard microbiology procedures at the UC Davis Dairy Food Safety Laboratory in the School of Veterinary Medicine. Treated samples in standard Petri dishes were also incubated using selective media for about 21 days and showed no colony formation. Overall, the RF treatments caused no sensory changes, and only minor cosmetic damage occurred to fresh lettuce used in some boxes as a decorative item (table 1).
A panel of Japanese scientists and visitors (Ishida Ltd. Co., Kyoto, Japan) conducted sensory tests and concluded that there were no detectable differences in marketing quality between the RF-treated and untreated boxes. Clearly, RF processing through the package is possible for many foods, reaching disinfection levels without the deterioration of sensory and nutritional properties.
A conveyorized RF process could disinfect ready-to-eat foods quickly, in less than 1 minute. With proper design of the RF cavity, multiple packages could be processed continuously. Based on operational costs (mostly electric power) and without capital cost amortization, the costs would be an estimated $0.0034 per pound ($0.0074 per kg) or approximately $0.0037 per box. This RF process would be applicable to similar packaged products for disinfection in a production line, such as grains, dried foods, nut products, cereals, animal feeds and fishmeal. Furthermore, disinfecting or disinfesting food products in the package would help prevent recontamination.
Fresh fruit juices and liquid milk
Fresh, unprocessed fruit juices are potential sources of human pathogens, particularly those containing several different natural, unprocessed (including organic) ingredients. Contamination can result from field conditions and handling as well as poor hygienic practices during manufacturing. This is why juices, and particularly liquid milk, are heat-pasteurized, but the process can lower nutritional and sensory properties, mostly due to surface overheating. (Nonpasteurized fruit juices are available in some segments of the market.) A homogeneous and less energy-intense thermal process would improve and preserve quality.
Samples (100 milliliters [mL]) of fresh orange juice (Sunkist Growers), apple juice and cider (Martinelli, Apple-a-Day), were innoculated with E. coli O157:H7 and S. typhimurium at about 106 colony-forming-units per milliliter [cfu/mL] and treated with RF (200 W, 13.3 MHz, 1 kV/cm, 1 minute). Samples of liquid milk inoculated with Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP), a bacterium believed to be resistant to conventional heat pasteurization, were also RF processed. In addition, nearly a dozen freshly made unpasteurized fruit smoothies were prepared from raw fruits, processed with RF and tested for differences in sensory properties.
Because of their mixed composition (including apple, berries, carrots and oranges), these smoothies and fruit juices heated rapidly and homogeneously in less than 1 minute (table 1). RF processing was reproducible and achieved total destruction of the pathogens, as shown by the absence of colonies after thermal incubation (~ 7 days, 98.6°F [37°C]). Panels of industry experts determined that RF processing did not affect the sensory properties of either smoothies or fruit juices.
TABLE 2 Quality attributes of RF-processed paddy rice⋆
Fig. 3 RF thermal disinfestation effects on naturally infested (Angoumois grain moth) paddy rice. Triplicate samples (155 grams each; 465 grams total) were treated at 95°F to 158°F (35°C to 70°C) using 100 W of 385 kHz RF photons, for 5 minutes. Emerging adults were observed for up to 100 days to include overall emergence (survival) from eggs, larva and pupa stages, and compared to controls (not treated). Emergence was controlled at 122°F to 158°F (50°C to 70°C).
A conveyorized RF system for fresh juices, smoothies and milk could provide processing capabilities in the production line (on-line), and achieve disinfection in-the-package in less than 1 minute, while meeting design and engineering challenges similar to those of ready-to-eat foods. Operational costs, mostly for electric power, were an estimated $0.0031 per pound, or $0.0016 per gallon ($0.0060 per liter). RF systems for disinfecting fruit juices could be built with a range of processing capacities, allowing its use by small operators or those demanding larger throughput.
Disinfestation of paddy rice
We tested commercial samples of paddy rice naturally infested with Angoumois grain moth (Sitotroga cerealella), whose larvae and pupae live entirely inside the grain. Chemical fumigation with pesticides such as methyl bromide and phosphine is inefficient because the dispensed gases cannot break through naturally occurring air locks, preventing the fumigant from penetrating or diffusing inside the hollowed grain.
A well-insulated paddy-rice sample holder (polyethylene and foam board) was designed and constructed to contain up to 170 grams of paddy rice and maintain a homogeneous temperature ($pT 1.8°F; $pT 1°C) during processing. After treatment, all samples (in triplicate) were transferred to plastic containers with secure lids containing small mesh screens, which maintained moisture and oxygen supply and allowed the surviving insects to grow. Samples were incubated at 82.4°F to 86°F (28°C to 30°C) and 35% to 43% relative humidity for up to 100 days (approximately three to four complete insect life cycles). Every 2 to 3 days, the surviving or emerging adult moth populations were determined and compared to the controls. After each observation, all live adults were removed to allow other life cycles (from eggs, larvae, pupae) to emerge and be assayed. In addition, the quality attributes of all treated and control samples were analyzed by the California rice industry using standard analysis methods.
Disinfestation levels reached 100% control of all Angoumois grain moth life cycles (fig. 3), and the milling and quality of the rice were not affected (table 2). RF processing appears to be a promising alternative to fumigation for rice and similar dried commodities such as seeds, nuts and dried fruits. Further research to optimize this process and evaluate sublethal effects on infesting insects is under way with beetles and moths.
Researchers are investigating the application of RF power to disinfest and disinfect carpets. Specific frequencies were used to rapidly heat insects; ants were killed in a few seconds.
An RF conveyorized system could operate commercially with large processing capacity, because rice and other grains are handled at rates of many tons per hour. The logistics of such operations must be further evaluated, but they could offer an effective nonchemical alternative to fumigants at operational costs of $2.20 per ton.
Plant seed treatment
RF processing can disinfect, disinfest and induce favorable biological activation effects (such as increased rate, vigor, and synchronization of germination) in plant seeds without affecting their ability to germinate. We demonstrated RF disinfection with various seeds including tomato, carrot, pepper, cantaloupe, peas and cauliflower. In contrast to hot-water treatments (~ 131°F [55°C] for 15 minutes), RF processing allows higher temperatures because heat distribution is better and occurs quickly, in less than 1 minute.
We demonstrated and validated the kinetics of activation in the germination of various types of seed, in collaboration with private industry (Campbell Soup Research Institute, Davis, Calif.). The preliminary data indicates that overall germination is not affected, but its rate (vigor) and timing (synchronization) are greatly improved at thermal loads (temperature and time) capable of simultaneous disinfection and disinfestation. The application of RF to process plant seeds would decrease the risk of recontamination in packaged seed products. Batch or conveyorized operations are also feasible. The operational cost of this treatment is estimated at $2.20 per ton. Because seeds are not a high-volume commodity, less-expensive RF systems with relatively low power capacity can be used.
Treating agricultural wastewater
We investigated the disinfection of agricultural wastes using wastewater from dairy and animal farms in Tulare County. Wastewater samples (100 mL) were inoculated with S. thyphimurium, E. coli O157:H7 and MAP, then treated with temperatures between 113°F and 194°F (45°C to 90°C). Standard biological procedures (diluting, plating, incubating and counting) with appropriate selective media were used to assay in duplicate all treated and control samples.
TABLE 3 Economic estimates for RF processing at 2,205 pounds/hr (1,000 kg/hr)⋆
Measured disinfection effects (percentage reduction) included corrections for the assay's detection limit (400 cfu/mL), while the extrapolated values were calculated from the initial inoculum levels since no colony growth was detected after 21 days of incubation (table 1). In addition, microorganisms present in the original wastewater samples — including gram-positive (data not shown) and other gram-negative bacteria — were reduced by about 99%. RF processing also effectively controlled MAP bacteria, which appears to resist conventional heat pasteurization at similar thermal levels.
RF processing could be technically and economically competitive with chemical (chlorination, ozonation) and UV processing to disinfect wastewater in concentrated animal feeding operations (Lagunas-Solar et al. 2005). The operational costs for wastewater disinfection at a rate of 1 ton per hour would be about $6 per ton. Lacking in chemical residues, treated wastewater could be recycled as animal feed or for soil fertilization without having detrimental effects on soil chemistry or transferring known plant and human pathogens (Lagunas-Solar et al. 2005).
Fishmeal disinfection
Fishmeal is used worldwide as a high-protein feed ingredient in aqua-culture and animal/poultry production. However, it must be disinfected because contamination with microbial pathogens can occur during storage, transportation and distribution. The market demands Salmonella-free fishmeal to avoid recontamination in the animal-human food cycle.
We investigated RF disinfection at temperatures ranging from 122°F to 194°F (50°C to 90°C) with commercial fishmeal samples (Corpesca, Santiago, Chile) inoculated with Salmonella sp. and E. coli O157:H7. Between 158°F and 194°F (70°C to 90°C), no colonies were detected in plated samples after 21 days of observation (table 1), with greater than 99.999% reduction in microbial pathogens compared to the controls. Simultaneously, the natural flora present was reduced by more than 99.9%, adding further quality assurances to the treated product.
By industry standards, the fishmeal maintained its quality (e.g., protein and lipid contents, moisture) and in vivo digestibility (Lagunas-Solar et al. 2005a) (fig. 4). In addition, due to improved thermal energy distribution and volume heating properties, RF allows a lower thermal load (~ 662°F per minute [350°C per minute]) than conventional [surface] heating (~ 2,462°F to 3,272°F per minute [1,350°C to 1,800°C per minute]). The process has been licensed to private industry, which is evaluating its commercial deployment. Operational costs are estimated at about $3.20 per ton (table 3), much lower than chemical alternatives (about $15 to $20 per ton) or conventional heating (about $25 per ton).
Agricultural soils and pests
If implemented successfully, RF techniques could provide a rapid, residue-free and cost-effective alternative to soil fumigation with methyl bromide, which is being phased out globally due to its contribution to ozone depletion. Research on soil disinfection with RF has focused on containerized and nursery soils (Lagunas-Solar et al. 2005b). Microwaves, hot water and steam applications are also being investigated as alternatives to methyl bromide to disinfest and sterilize soils.
Because soils are good dielectrics and RF can easily penetrate them, RF power offers many advantages; but the use of conventional, continuous RF power systems for soils is currently limited due to high startup (capitalization), logistical barriers and somewhat higher operational costs than methyl bromide. To improve commercial applicability, newly designed and constructed pulsed RF systems are being tested for disinfestation and soil processing (Lagunas-Solar and Essert 2004).
Fig. 4 Percentage of commercially packaged fishmeal samples that retained quality attributes (protein and lipid content, moisture, and protein digestibility) following thermal disinfection at different processing temperatures. Disinfection reached 99.9% at 140°F (60°C) and 100% at 158°F (70°C) and above. Animal feeding studies were conducted at the Norwegian Institute of Fisheries and Aquaculture Research, Fyllingsdalen, Norway.
Nematode control
We demonstrated nematode (Panagrellus and Cephalobus sp.) control in agricultural soils in the laboratory using continuous and pulsed RF power applied with high energy-use efficiency (> 90%). Previously, the lethal temperature for nematodes was experimentally determined as greater than 131°F (55°C), requiring that soils be heated to increase their ambient temperature by 86°F to 104°F (30°C to 40°C). Control of Fusarium sp. was also demonstrated during the same experimentation.
A newly designed, pulsed RF system was also tested. The system is capable of generating about 200 MW pulses with kHz-level repetition rates using 10 kW of electric power. Nematode-infested soil samples were treated for 5 to 15 minutes using 400 pulses per second. The soil temperature increased from 73.4°F to 113°F (23°C to 45°C), indicating that part of the pulsed RF energy was converted to heat. After the treatment, nematodes in treated soil samples were extracted into water overnight and then collected using the Tyler standard screen filter. Nematode mortality was more than 90% compared with the control. However, 90% control can also be reached with continuous RF power when heating reaches more than 131°F (55°C). Further studies are under way.
Pulsed (nonthermal) RF experiments with adult fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) and all life cycles of mites (Amblyseius cucumeris, Tyrophagus putrescientae) in fresh table grapes showed 100% mortality in less than 10 seconds, while inducing negligible temperature changes in the grape (≤ 1.8°F; ≤ 1°C) (unpublished results). This is due to the high electrical conductivity of arthropods, which allows enhanced, pulsed, RF-induced electric effects at the expense of thermal effects.
Finally, applications of continuous RF power are being developed for the home, particularly to disinfest carpet and garden pests. This application utilizes specific frequencies or narrow bands to induce the rapid heating of insects and mites in RF-transparent (non-absorbing) materials such as carpets or other home materials, thus providing rapid, nonchemical pest control.
Ultra-short pulses of RF power were used to treat adult flies on the surface of a ‘Red Flame’ seedless grape berry. No heating effects were detected in the grape, but microscopic observations indicated acute dryness and charring of the fly's integument, wing ruptures and deformed abdomens, all effects related to rapid heating.
Economics of RF processing
Our preliminary cost estimates for RF processing included the specific heat of materials; the thermal load requirements to achieve effects, the cost of electricity ($0.10/kWh) and process efficiencies (table 3). They did not include the cost of designing and purchasing RF equipment for specific applications. These estimates are based on the operation of UC Davis laboratory prototype systems, which achieve high energy-use efficiencies (electric-to-RF > 90% and RF-to-thermal > 90%).
Although commercial systems currently cost from $1,500 to $2,500 per kW, we were unable to obtain estimates for newly designed, lower-frequency RF systems. However, we anticipate considerable cost reductions (10 to 20 times) to about $100 to $200 per kW for manufacturing systems using solid-state electronics and lower single or narrow non-FCC-approved frequency bands (≤ 10 MHz). These new systems are currently being designed and tested by our laboratory.
Pulsed RF systems offer the potential for even larger energy savings, since intermittent pulses only demand about 10% of energy consumption. If high energy efficiency and reduced consumption are achieved, RF processing is competitive with conventional heat processing (10% to 15% energy-use efficiencies). No regulatory intervention is expected because RF processes are based on either thermal inactivation (continuous RF), or a combination of thermal inactivation with electronic-field effects (pulsed RF). While RF processes would operate outside the allowed FCC frequencies, their operation is fully shielded to prevent RF emissions to personnel and the environment.
Despite experimental demonstrations of its effectiveness and low operational costs, there is no evidence that RF is currently being used commercially to disinfect or disinfest foods or nonfood products in the United States or globally, nor have any such uses been published in the scientific literature. This is believed to be due to the lack of understanding on the mechanisms of interaction between RF photons with foods and nonfood materials, especially in the low-frequency range (≤ 100 MHz), coupled with the challenges associated with designing and operating RF research prototype systems. Nevertheless, a few commercial food (baking and drying) and nonfood (wood drying and disinfestation) applications are known, and medical research is being conducted for thermal tumor ablation treatments. However, these applications have limited impact and have not reached wide acceptance, despite the absence of regulatory barriers.
While RF has tremendous potential, commercial input from the targeted industries is needed to focus and prioritize research and development into problems, as defined by industry interests, regulatory demands, and marketing conditions and opportunities.
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Manuel C. Lagunas-Solar, Nolan X. Zeng, Timothy K. Essert, Tin D. Truong, U. Cecilia Piña
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Tiphanie Yanique is the author of the novel Land of Love and Drowning, which won the 2014 Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Award from the Center for Fiction, a 2015 Rosenthal Family Foundation Award for fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the 2015 Phillis Wheatley Award in Fiction, and was listed by NPR as one of the Best Book of 2014. Land of Love and Drowning was also a finalist for the Orion Award in Environmental Literature and the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award.
Yanique is also the author of a collection of stories, How to Escape from a Leper Colony, which won her a listing as one of the National Book Foundation’s 5Under35. BookPage listed her as one of the 14 Women to watch out for in 2014. Her writing has won the 2011 Bocas Award for Caribbean Fiction, Boston Review Prize in Fiction, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award, a Pushcart Prize, a Fulbright Scholarship and an Academy of American Poet’s Prize. She has been listed by the Boston Globe as one of the sixteen cultural figures to watch out for and her writing has been published in the New York Times, Best African American Fiction, The Wall Street Journal, American Short Fiction and other places.
Her collection of poems, Wife, was published in October 2015.
Her book Monster in the Middle: Fictions is forthcoming from Riverhead.
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Category: Genre: Satire
Opening Line Prompt #8
If I could change one thing, it would be hiring that lawyer. But to put it in perspective, if the lawyer was a mistake, filing that lawsuit was a disaster. You’ve read all the stories – who am I kidding? You’ve read the tweets, watched the auto tunes. I’ve done countless interviews where I’ve bullshitted about what made me sue Brittney for breach of promise. I’ve never, not once, answered that question honestly.
I was asked the same questions over and over:
“How did you meet?”
“How did you know she was The One?”
“How did it all go wrong?”
I granted all of the interviews, smirked my way through every lie. No reporter ever asked me if I was telling the truth. That would have brought the interview to a screeching halt and they needed their clicks and views and ad revenue.
I’ve watched my own face smirk as I lie about Brittney breaking my heart. About how I was there for her when she was going through her breakdowns. The truth is that I went to a few of her concerts as my little sister’s escort and my sister would drag me into pictures with her and the superstar – photos that I later used as evidence of the beginning of our relationship.
Of all entities, it was the paparazzi that backed Brittney up. If our relationship had been real, there would have been other photos. Photos of her and I alone. It wouldn’t matter if it was illegal to purchase those photos; they’d still exist. Multiple prominent and less prominent paparazzi testified on Brittney’s behalf. I lost track at 18 but we were there for days.
Then the questions changed, asked by the same glory-hungry reporters, now acting self-righteously injured not only on Brittney’s behalf, but on their own:
“Why did you lie?”
“Did you really think you’d get away with it?”
It was that last question that slapped the smirk off of my face. Because I was just a guy. Just this dude who woke up every day, to get ready to spend the next 12 hours getting ready for, working at, and getting home from a job that he despised. That morning, Facebook reminded him of that first concert he ever took his sister to, and he got a crazy idea.
He laughed at that idea in the mirror as he shaved. He laughed at it some more in the shower, and then again over breakfast. Then he took one step out of his front door, and he was paralyzed by the thought of going back to that place for one more day. So, he told himself, it was do this crazy thing, or go back to that job.
“So why tell the truth now,” yet another reporter asks. This one is from Rolling Stone and I can tell believes that he’s more real than anyone else I’ve ever spoken to. Then again, so has every other reporter I’ve ever spoken to.
The truth is that I wanted to get money from suing Brittney but that didn’t work out. However, granting interviews did. I’m not interesting because I lied about having my heart broken by a celebrity or because I got caught lying about having my heart broken by a celebrity. I’m interesting because most people wouldn’t have the balls. And my lies have gotten old, so I’ve had to change tactics, in order to sell my tell-all book.
I pause meaningfully before I answer the Rolling Stone reporter’s question. “I finally realized that what I did was wrong, and I just wanted Brittney to know how sorry I am.”
Opening Line Prompt taken from here: https://www.plot-generator.org.uk/opening-line/
The Wise Princess
“I would have defeated the aliens if it weren’t for Lyla,” Princess Katrina said in an interview on one of the intergalactic news shows. Actually, she’d told the story a thousand times over the millennia, to anyone who would listen.
“A wall is a stupid idea, Princess,” Lyla had said. “Aliens can go over it, under it, around it. You can’t make a big enough wall to keep everybody out. Don’t waste your time.”
“What do you suggest,” the Princess had asked, annoyed at having had her most brilliant idea ever questioned by this – this — brunette.
“I mean, you could invite them in, show them grace and magnanimity,” Lyla said, with the confidence of a woman who didn’t know that her hair was brown.
“Treat them like they’re friends? But how would that defeat them?” The Princess demanded.
Lyla shrugged. “They’d stop being enemies if you stopped treating them as though they are. Then you wouldn’t need to defeat them.”
The Princess was sure it wouldn’t work, and had only really done it to spitefully prove how dumb the idea was.
A couple of millennia later, the Princess’ own little corner of the universe was thriving and Lyla was the Princess’ most trusted advisor. Lyla was really just a head in a jar at this point, but that had always been the best part of her, aside from her heart, which the Princess kept in a separate jar.
At the moment, the Princess needed Lyla’s chilled head more than ever before. The doors to the jar room opened with a friendly whoosh. Her high heels clicked purposely against the metal floors as she walked past the jarred heads of her friends, advisors, enemies – anyone she’d wanted to keep around for sentimental reasons. Or to taunt when she was bored.
The Princess found Lyla snoozing, her forehead resting against the glass. Her snores were loud enough to rattle the jar she was in. Tiny bubbles flow out of her nose, as she breathed out the serum that kept her alive. She’d been sleeping more and more lately. The Princess feared that someday soon, she was going to have to grant the request Lyla had been asking of the Princess for centuries – to finally let her die.
But that day was not this day. The Princess tapped rapidly on the glass until Lyla’s milky eyes fluttered open.
“Lyla!” Sometimes Lyla didn’t recognize the Princess, but this day was a lucky day. The Princess was so overjoyed to see Lyla’s face settle into a wry smile, that she didn’t even mock the other woman’s horrific snoring. Though, she did make a mental note to do so, later. “I’m sorry to bother you,” the Princess said. “But I need your help. This may be the most important issue I’ve ever asked your advice on.”
“Alright,” Lyla said, with a gentle exhalation of bubbles.
“Okay.” The Princess backed up and twirled, letting the skirt of her ruby red dress float up. She lost herself in the movement but before she got too dizzy, she stopped, letting her dress settle in graceful swirls around her legs.
Lyla frowned. “What is it you need help with, Princess?”
“My shoes, of course!” The Princess said, pointing to her feet. “Black to contrast, or red to match?”
Lyla’s head hit the glass again as she angled her head to try to see the Princess’ feet. Everything about the Princess was a blur, but Lyla knew that the Princess wouldn’t stop asking until Lyla chose one of the colors. “I like the red?” she asked.
The Princess let out a contented sigh. “Thank you, Lyla. You have never steered me wrong.” The Princess turned to leave, and then spun back, the hem of her dress hitting her shapely calves. She’d chosen this body for that particular feature, after her last one had gotten too old to be attractive.
“Oh, one more thing, Lyla,” the Princess said. “I have a diplomatic mission first thing tomorrow morning. The fates of billions of people and aliens rest on the result of this mission. I need to know if, to open, I should compliment the super fat duke of Argona on his massive collection of chins, or if I shouldn’t bring them up at all. I know you’ve already answered this a bunch of times, but I keep forgetting!”
But Lyla’s eyelids had drifted closed again. The Princess frowned. No snoring noises shook the jar; no bubbles flowed from Lyla’s nose. Even though the Princess hadn’t given her permission to die, Lyla had stopped breathing.
“Oh no,” the Princess said, sorrow welling up in her eyes. She shook her head, shudders of grief impeding her own breathing. “I didn’t even ask her about my nail polish, and now I’ll never have the chance!”
Shout out to dude at the hardware store who understood that, "Do you work here?" was code for, "I can tell you don't work here but will you help me anyway?"
That awkward moment when you realize that it's not just an angry hand slamming against a desk that can trigger your PTSD but also the smell of dry dog food or the sound of your own name. Or a momentary sense of peace. Lol.
You know, you can THINK that a woman is beautiful at a bus stop at midnight but maybe you don't have to SHOUT it at her.
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Disney Sees Red Over Ruling on Download Codes
Ever since sales of DVDs and Blu-ray Discs began their long eclipse behind the rise of more convenient digital alternatives the Hollywood studios have sought ways to extend the life of the high-margin disc business by finding ways to integrate disc sales with the broader digital economy.
The most systematic effort was the UltraViolet initiative. By creating an UltraViolet account, consumers could register their purchase of a DVD or Blu-ray Disc and obtain access to a digital version of the same movie, which they could then stream to connected devices without a DVD or Blu-ray drive, via participating streaming services.
Disney, which never joined the UltraViolet consortium, had its own version it called Disney Movies Anywhere (now re-christened simply Movies Anywhere and incorporating most of the former UltraViolet studios). Disney packaged its discs with an insert containing a code, which, when entered by the consumer in her online Movies Anywhere account allowed her to stream the movie through participating online services, or to download the movie onto up to eight registered devices.
DVD rental kiosk operator Redbox has likewise struggled with consumers’ declining appetite for DVDs and Blu-rays. It’s main strategy has been to keep its rental prices extremely low, which has often put it at odds with the studios, who by and large would prefer to see the low-end rental market wither away. But Redbox, too, has sought ways to make itself digitally relevant. Read More »
Read More »BlogBlu-ray, Copyright, Disney, downloads, DVDs, Redbox0 Comments
Disney’s Split UI Personality
Walt Disney Co. CEO Bob Iger this week said he is “very excited” about the user interface Hulu has designed for its planned virtual-pay-TV service launching next year.
“We’ve seen the interface because we’re partners [in Hulu]” Iger said Wednesday at the MoffettNathanson Media & Communications Summit. “It’s a great interface, a tremendous user experience, and we’re in discussions with them about our channels and about prices.”
He also used the opportunity to take a swipe at traditional pay-TV operators for the lack of innovation in their UIs over the years.
“I’ve been frustrated over the years by the UI” of cable and satellite TV services Iger said. “Maybe because I’m getting older I don’t have the patience anymore, but we’re all getting more and more spoiled by what technology makes possible,” in terms of surfacing, discovering and accessing content.
According to Iger, consumers raised on digital platforms today simply won’t tolerate any glitches or difficulty in access the content they want when they want it, and the traditional pay-TV industry simply hasn’t kept up with the times. Read More »
Read More »BlogDisney, FCC, Hulu, pay-TV, set-top boxes, TV UIs0 Comments
What UI Voodoo Will Hulu Do In Linear Debut?
May 2, 2016 By Paul SweetingBlog0 Comments
One of the more interesting subplots to Hulu’s apparently pending rollout of an over-the-top bundle of linear channels will be what it does with the user interface.
As I’ve noted here previously, the traditional programming grid that still drives navigation on most pay-TV systems today is at the core of the current tussle over Federal Communications Commission chairman Tom Wheeler’s proposal to “unlock” the set-top box to allow third-party devices and applications to interoperate with pay-TV services. And apart from pay-TV operators themselves, the loudest objections to Wheeler’s proposal have come from programmers, who fear those third parties will not honor the agreements networks have with operators concerning their position within the traditional pay-TV UI.
“Arm ’s length agreements between MVPDs and programmers provide the necessary licenses to transmit the content, and in exchange the MVPDs agree to a range of license terms, including security requirements, advertising rules, [electronic programming guide] channel placement obligations, and tier placement requirements,” the Motion Picture Association of America wrote in comments submitted to the FCC. “These terms are material to the grant of the copyright license, and to copyright holders’ ability to direct the exploitation of their works in a manner that enables them to continue to invest in the high-quality programming that viewers expect. ..The only terms the proposal would explicitly recognize are copy, output, and streaming limitations. Extensively negotiated terms on matters including “service presentation (such as agreed-upon channel lineups and neighborhoods), replac[ing] or alter[ing] advertising, or improperly manipulat[ing] content,” are all left unaddressed by the FCC’s proposal.” Read More »
Read More »Blogbundle, Disney, FCC, Fox, Hulu, linear channels, navigation, NBCUniversal, pay-TV, set-top boxes, UIs0 Comments
AT&T Prepares To Flex Its OTT Muscles
March 3, 2016 By Paul SweetingBlog0 Comments
AT&T announced this week that it plans to take DirecTV over-the-top later this year through a multi-tiered streaming service that will be available to wireline and wireless broadband subscribers regardless of provider.
The top tier, to be called DirecTV Now, will feature “on-demand and live programming from many networks, plus premium add-on options,” which sounds more or less like Dish Network’s Sling TV OTT service. A mid-level tier, called DirecTV Mobile, will offer a stripped down video lineup and a “mobile-first experience.” A third, ad-supported free tier, called DirecTV Preview, will offer a “millennial focused” grab bag of digital-native content along the lines of Verizon’s Go90 service.
The announcement itself was no big surprise. AT&T obviously didn’t spend $48 billion to acquire DirecTV just to be in the satellite TV business — a business with little if any organic growth left in it — and extending DirecTV’s business onto broadband and wireless platforms is an obvious strategy. What is a bit surprising is the timing of the announcement.
As of now, AT&T has no programming lineups to announce for any of the tiers, no pricing information and no exact start date. And according to a Wall Street Journal report, negotiations with the networks to secure streaming rights have just begun. Read More »
Read More »BlogAT&T, DirecTV, Disney, ESPN, MTV, OTT, Paramount, pay-TV, skinny bundles, Sling TV, Viacom0 Comments
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Broadway: Smelling a Rat
Friday, Feb. 25, 1966
Said Mr. Taubman, the outgoing drama critic of the New York Times, to Mr. Kauffmann, the incoming drama critic of the New York Times: "Mr. Kauffmann, I'd like you to meet David Merrick—the enemy." Positively, Mr. Taubman? Absolutely, Mr. K.
Little did they know. Stanley Kauffmann, 49, fresh off the New Republic, came to the Times in January, after Howard Taubman was promoted out of his aisle seat. Kauffmann must have been warned about Merrick, who is the adulte terrible of Broadway producers and who, because he complained so frequently about the Times's churlish commentaries on Merrick productions, might like to...
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